This is a bit of a tangent, but if you don't get in, don't read into it too much. The rejection could be due to many factors. It could very well be that you were rejected by the stage of your company. You may not have built out enough, or haven't had enough validation yet. I know a solo founder who didn't get in, but went on to raise 20m plus for his company (tuition.io). The fact that he was a solo founder and that he was still developing the product could have been the issue of why he was rejected. He went along to create a company that has 50+ employees. This is all to say you really have to develop the idea and see where your traction is to validate your idea. YC is a great organization to have backing you, but it's not always perfect in selecting great companies. Learn from the rejection, and apply those lessons, but commit to building a company.
An authoring platform enabling authors/journalists to "open source" their fact checking. That is, making their fact checking reviewable and reusable.<p>Here's a demo article on net neutrality! <a href="https://sourcedfact.com/a/net-neutrality-how-we-got-here" rel="nofollow">https://sourcedfact.com/a/net-neutrality-how-we-got-here</a><p>When it comes to media, trust by brand is breaking down. Media outlets can't expect their audience to just trust their assertions because of their big name anymore. That used to work when there were only a handful of outlets that any given person would be exposed to, making it possible to assign mental trust values to these outlets.<p>To re-earn their audience's trust, outlets have to start "showing their work", in other words making their fact-checking openly and collaboratively reviewable.<p>Good luck all!
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We're building the world's first bank that is a true fiduciary. Our mission is to enable the 70% of Americans who have less than 5k in savings, and the 76% who can't pass a financial literacy exam achieve financial independence.<p>How?<p>We only offer one product - a smart checking account that acts as a financial advisor + planner. (Think of your finances on autopilot).<p>For every other product or financial service, we refer you to the best in class offerings by other companies.<p>Need a loan? We'll find a new loan at the cheapest terms possible, or automatically look for refinancing opportunities as your financial condition improves. Need to plan for retirement? We'll find the best retirement service providers that suit your needs.<p>Check us out on fixbanking.com.<p>Goodluck everyone!
A professional network for developers. LinkedIn minus the bad parts.<p>Our goal for developers is to help them better manage their careers. Developers will be able to use this tool to build their professional brand, network more effectively, and when they're open to it, get compensated for engaging in phone screens about highly targeted job opportunities.<p>Our goal for tech companies is to completely replace recruiting agencies (who charge up to 25% of the salary of a landed hire) by providing hiring managers with the tools to connect directly with the right developers.<p>Here's an early prototype of our profile product: <a href="https://www.fizbuz.com/u/jesswest" rel="nofollow">https://www.fizbuz.com/u/jesswest</a><p>We're pretty early, but already have 150+ developers signed-up on our wait list and are onboarding new folks every day. Feel free to check us out!<p><a href="https://www.fizbuz.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.fizbuz.com</a>
Anima App: <a href="https://www.animaapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.animaapp.com</a> - We empower UI/UX designers.<p>Why is it important to empower designers?<p>We believe that user experience creates revolutions. There were smartphones before the iPhone, yet the mobile revolution started by the innovative user experience that Apple invented.<p>In our mind, more power to designers will lead to better and better digital products, which will result in more revolutionary products.<p>Our tools empower designers to express their vision in their language, rather than communicate their vision via mock-ups.<p>Today we provide tools for Sketch like Auto-Layout, Launchpad, and Timeline. Each of these gives designers more power to own their creations, we automate the front-end work.<p>Our toolkit is used by more than 70,000 designers and in well-known teams in Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix and more.<p>If you use Sketch and haven't heard about us, try us out :)
OpenSports: <a href="https://opensports.net" rel="nofollow">https://opensports.net</a> - we make it really easy for sports organizers to run their organizations, collect money, handle waitlists, waivers etc.<p>If people in the Bay Area want to go to SPIN tonight and drink and play ping pong while we wait for the results to come in please comment and we'll see if we can setup a last minute event.<p>Also, if you want to see our hack from the YC Hackathon last weekend here is a link (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpenSportsInc/videos/2141465782753440/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/OpenSportsInc/videos/21414657827534...</a>) to Sequel Dan (we made an Alexa app that wrote SQL to query questions against our staging database almost as fast as we thought of them)<p>Good luck to everyone!!
An online web service that greatly automates and improve the renting process for both sides, the business and the user, for the end result of stop wasting everyone's time of searching from half thought filters and incomplete results (on the user side) and make businesses work for the user\client by providing potential candidates for their offerings.
I applied the idea of "stop wasting everyone's time" from a long and nauseant experience of researching for a living place in a big city.<p>Thought:
Nowadays many business models are kind of lame, they just wait for the end user to find their offerings and get in touch with them (often to even get further basic info about the offer that wasn't available on the offer page). But because the amount of information is growing really quickly nowadays(plus duplication of it in different places), you can't really expect a single human being with limited brain memory getting able (in a sane and stress-free way) to go through every single business of interest to find what you're searching for, especially when the data is updated/added day by day. Simple and stress-free platforms(mostly about research for goods or services) for the end user and engaging businesses on the other side at the service of the client will be in great demand in the near future, in my appealing.
Good luck everyone :)<p>As a solo founder this time around, I built Rap Genius for movies & TV shows: <a href="https://www.spoiled.tv" rel="nofollow">https://www.spoiled.tv</a>
I applied with Shaxpir (pronounced exactly like "Shakespeare"). It's an online writing platform for fiction authors. I like to describe it as a "Github for Literature".<p><a href="https://shaxpir.com" rel="nofollow">https://shaxpir.com</a><p>Besides the basic text-editing, cloud-sync, and ebook publishing tools you'd expect in a platform like this, there's also a big linguistic model of literary prose, which helps authors analyze the vividness of their writing, and make meaningful comparisons against the authors they admire.<p>Anyone online can explore the public version of that model, at <a href="http://prosecraft.io" rel="nofollow">http://prosecraft.io</a>, but subscribers of Shaxpir can actually analyze their own writing according to the exact same model, getting realtime feedback on the linguistic metrics of their prose.<p>I launched my beta about 3 years ago, and this is the 3rd time I've applied to YC... I applied to the original Fellowship, in the fall of 2015, and then to Winter 2016 class.<p>Fingers crossed!<p>And best of luck to everyone else who applied!!<p>But even if you don't get accepted this time around, just KEEP WORKING! Eventually, you'll find a way!
We're building a MacOS app that helps you stay focused and beat procrastination.<p>The app holds your to-do list and automatically adds a timer function. The timer is activated when your to-do item has a number at the end. As in: "Get to zero inbox 30" That means the task is "Get to zero inbox" and the allotted time is 30 minutes.
If that's the top item on the list, the timer starts instantly and automatically, with the full task appearing on your menu bar (This description comes from Mike Elgan 1)<p>You can check us out at <a href="http://www.tryeffortless.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tryeffortless.com</a>.<p>Wishing you all good luck!<p>1: <a href="https://elgan.com/blog/two-free-apps-that-take-productivity-to-the-next-level" rel="nofollow">https://elgan.com/blog/two-free-apps-that-take-productivity-...</a>
KloudTrader. <a href="https://KloudTrader.com" rel="nofollow">https://KloudTrader.com</a><p>We are trying to build a better trading platform. Our platform allows non-programmers to do algorithmic trading. We are bringing sentiment analysis, machine learning and a smarter portfolio manager to the masses.
Has anybody heard from YC yet?<p>In the past, I've gotten a rejection email midday (2pm pacific), but now it's after 9pm pacific, and I still haven't heard one way or another...
Sterblue: <a href="http://www.sterblue.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sterblue.com/</a> - We automate inspections of industrial infrastructure (Power grid, Wind turbines, solar panels and so on) using drones and AI.<p>One integrated automatic solution for data collection and data analysis, using off-the-shelf-drones, with 98% detection precision, and 200% productivity as compared to other drone inspection solutions. Purely software.<p>Good luck to all !
Out of curiousity, does the number of views on your unlisted YC video matter? Youtube analytics tells me there was just 1 view from California on 02-Apr, and that could be "this guy is a totally awesome, just call him for an interview" or "wtf is this, straight reject" lol.<p>Guess I'll find out in 24 hours.
Buy Me A Coffee (<a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/</a>) - helping thousands of creators receive tips/donations and to share exclusive content with their audience.<p>Good luck all!
www.tothetens.com We are building a marketplace, where users can share and buy products from the photos and videos. We are starting with fashion and beauty sector.
How do i submit my post over ycombinator.when ever i post something it says "Sorry, your account is too new to submit this site." plz help.
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