We did.<p>We look forward to writing a lisp REPL Facebook app that will provide millions of users the ability to be the next generation of YC's. We plan on monetizing it by taking 0.5% of each company who uses our app and gets through YC, we are calling it meta-meta-entrepreneurship.<p>We celebrated by stealing some laptops in the parking lot while other teams drank their sorrows away.<p>(OK, I didn't apply)
the people who got in are on <i>easy</i> street now. all they have to do is make a product that will survive the scrutiny of users, investors, pundits like mike arrington, and the rest of the YC community in a few months.
If my team had gotten in, we wouldn't say anything. There's no point. The first thing we would do would be to buy a beer on the plane ride home and start coding. See ya in 5 months.
We didn't get in.<p>I don't want to spill too many beans, but I will give some advice.<p>YC is nice. They are not necessarily going to be nice to you during the interview.<p>We expected YC to have remembered more of our written application, and that threw us off. We wound up explaining things we hadn't prepared for, and not explaining what we should have.<p>Ten minutes is nothing.<p>In other words, everything went wrong!<p>And a tremendously valuable experience.<p>Congratulations to everyone who got funded.