Have people started receiving their YC invitations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522288

by aliakhtar • 12 years ago

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Also, if you're not accepted for interview, do you get a rejection email or is it just radio silence = rejection?

Edit: Feel free to share results, thoughts, and your startups.

bgentry• 12 years ago

You should get an email either way. They may not show up until late this evening PDT.

gault8121• 12 years ago

For the last batch they arrived around 11 pm PST.

byoung25• 12 years ago

Even if we don't get an interview, going through the application process was a good exercise for us (https://www.morphmail.com/). From the analytics report, it looks like 4 people from YC viewed our demo (YC-specific URL) and 1 actually sent a test message. YouTube says that the 1 minute video was viewed 8 times for 8 minutes total. So far good signs, but the real question is how many great applicants were at the top of the list. We'll keep our fingers crossed!

penguin_gab• 12 years ago

Wow! Your app looks impressive.. I think your team stands a good chance of being invited for an interview. How long have you been hacking on it?

byoung25• 12 years ago

Thanks! I came up with the idea back in January, but we started working on the prototype around August. We had a rough demo put together for our YC app, and a more polished demo we're hoping to beta test in the next few weeks. Join our beta list to be one of the first to try it out!

byoung25• 12 years ago

UPDATE: We just got an email at 3:49pm, and we were not invited to interview. Not a complete surprise, given the estimated 3% acceptance rate for YC I've seen floating around. We'll keep working on our product and hopefully we can show some progress in the next few months and apply again for the S15 cycle!

aliakhtar3• 12 years ago

Sorry to hear that. Its surprising, given how many times your video was viewed and usage of your demo, I'd have thought they were interested.

aaronz8• 12 years ago

We just got ours:

Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshold ends up getting accepted to YC. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold.

Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/

We sincerely hope and encourage you to reapply for the next batch. Applying multiple times in no way counts against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

-- YC

aliakhtar3• 12 years ago

Sorry to hear that. What was your start up?

Have people started receiving their YC invitations?

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