Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671987

by jjoe • 13 years ago

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omnisci• 13 years ago

I'm always surprised how long it takes for someone to post this question :-) the notices tend to go out around 8-10pm est. Good luck everyone!

srbtyagi2• 13 years ago

2 more hours to go! Fingers crossed

PatrickAdiaheno4• 13 years ago

Thanks!

jbarrec• 13 years ago

Good luck everyone!! :fingers crossed:

Jamurai• 13 years ago

Is it correct to assume that teams are notified one way or the other?

srbtyagi2• 13 years ago

Yap. Atleast that's what it says on YC site.

soneca2• 13 years ago

Yes, last batch I got a very nicely written email beginning with "We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding..." about this time.

keithwarren4• 13 years ago

Been hitting refresh on the inbox all day!

Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline.

Anyone else look at their stats?

anubhav_iim2• 13 years ago

Did not send the link to anyone else except YC. We got one view from US the next day (after the deadline). Being from India, we believe that should have been the YC team.

jpjodoin• 13 years ago

In our case, we had 1 view from California, but it lasted 22 seconds (our video was 1:37), so it doesn't look too good...

soneca2• 13 years ago

YC watch from a embedded player, so check the traffic source also to know how many from YC.

sjtgraham• 13 years ago

Are they embedded views or from the YT view page?

I'm not sure whether 7 views from YC is good or bad. If they were all from YC, I'd say that means they might be on the fence about inviting your team to interview. When they're sure either way there is little point in watching the video repeatedly, especially when they have another 50 to get through that day.

Good luck to everyone.

keithwarren4• 13 years ago

5 different views from embedded players in California.

Oct 24, 27, 29 and twice on the 31st. average view durations are odd though, 1:09 and 1:02 for the 24th and 27th; :23 and :22 for the others.

Lots of ways I could analyze this but I choose to view it as positive sign.

agibsonccc• 13 years ago

1 minute out of 2 for me. Meh just applied for fun anyways. I'm still staying in SF on my own with product revenue anyways. Location is all that matters to me.

shuppent2• 13 years ago

I had three views from the embedded player, but they were all for about 55 seconds, when our video was about two minutes long... I don't know what this means, but I guess I'll find out soon!

Cookingboy2• 13 years ago

To be fair, the application specifically asked the video to be 1 minute long...

bicknergseng2• 13 years ago

Now I'm really interested in the correlation between video hits and interview invites.

pritianka• 13 years ago

Hahah me too!!

sfrechtling• 13 years ago

I don't really think there is much to look into, and if there was a relationship it is probably spurious. You don't know the reasons why they are looking at any particular video, nor do you know if they are using auto-play (which might not show on stats).

Possibly you can see whether you make it past the alumni filter (http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Do-all-YC-partners-read-ea...), but beyond that I am not sure.

ivv• 13 years ago

Why not submit a unique link, the clicks on which you could track?

shawnreilly• 13 years ago

I didn't realize they were still working on it, saw no E-mail so I deleted the Video without looking at the stats. Oops!

winterchil• 13 years ago

Yes, we got 7 views spread over 5 days that were probably all from YC reviewers (embedded player). They watched an average of just over 1 minute of the video which was just under 2 minutes long. We were not invited to the interview.

There was some very cool discussion at the end of the video and I'm guessing none of them saw it. Elsewhere in this thread is the speculation that high views = application that was on the fence and I guess I take comfort in that.

Anyway, if we were to apply in the future I'd ensure we had a shorter video. On the other hand, we were highly unusual candidates so it's possible we were just a bad match.

sumit_psp• 13 years ago

Good luck to everyone. Remember regardless of what the response is, YC is only a nitro boost.

Everybody is racing to create the future and don't slow down just because you didn't get into YC.

nchatterji2• 13 years ago

Good luck everyone! Either way- our team will be celebrating or drinking our sorrows away tonight at Rye Bar in San Francisco (http://www.ryesf.com/). Feel free to stop by...would love to connect either way! Feel free to reach out nirav(at)requext.com

Who knows maybe PG will be cool enough to show up and grab a few drinks too!

avree• 13 years ago

SFO is an airport; I thought you were going to a bar in the airport!

nchatterji2• 13 years ago

Sorry, I meant in the city. The bar is on Geary and Leavenworth.

imd23• 13 years ago

My god, this waiting is killing us :D

In our case (loovin.com), we've got 7 views to the demo site and 4 views in the video (this are views we know that are from them only, yeah... we check this all day long :)).

Good luck everyone!

PatrickAdiaheno4• 13 years ago

Awesome! I hope it works out for you!

samlavery2• 13 years ago

I just heard notices will be sent out 'late this evening'. And I'm assuming that's late this evening, PST. Also we got 4 views. 1 was me, 3 had to be from YC.

keithwarren4• 13 years ago

Curious if you heard this from a first party source?

samlavery2• 13 years ago

Yeah, I emailed info@yc

anamecheverri2• 13 years ago

My video was watched 6 times the day after the deadline. But I sent the link to 2 friends so I am guessing 4 views came from YC. I am going crazy waiting though....

richardv• 13 years ago

Why...

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

tonydiv• 13 years ago

5 views from the embeddable YT player for us.

te_chris• 13 years ago

PG just tweeted midnight PST. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/397537535452131329 this is already agony, we're 21hrs ahead of PST here in NZ so technically I've been waiting 2 days now since the 4th was yesterday!

xdite• 13 years ago

does anyone get questions from YC during the time?

anubhav_iim2• 13 years ago

PG just posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672578

keithwarren4• 13 years ago

Dear God that is a long time to be this nervous. I must take this time to add a feature that will forever be code named the 'nervously waiting' feature

anamecheverri2• 13 years ago

i just got my rejection letter :-(

thriftjunction• 13 years ago

My 4 yr old has access to my phone and hopefully it was not him who watched me pitch 5 times

abgupta• 13 years ago

Got that dreaded email. Rejected. Now back to work.

Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?

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