My team and I got rejected in 2010. We're still working together and we're generating mid 8 figure revenues now. So it's definitely not the end of the world and the silicon valley network is so vast these days that no one should let a YC rejection stop them from doing amazing things.<p>Keep on truckin!
Got rejected. No big deal. Will continue as planned. Good luck to everyone who got selected and double of that to fellow rejectees.<p>Launched a medical tourism startup-- prepre-alpha. Just nothing to show on url really (OTOH I also wonder if radical honesty would be the path to take?)<p>If huge or uncertain costs, or the fear & uncertainty of fighting your insurance/Dr/hospital over surprise billings post-hospitalisation is holding you back from any, and I mean ANY, elective treatments - let's talk.<p>In most cases, for a fraction of cost of copay+deductibles, apples-to-apples less than 10% what it would cost you in USA, you can get yourself treated & pampered at top-class facilities in India. Including return airfares. We have docs/hospitals/nurses with solid repute.<p>Here to help you navigate and arrive at right choices.<p>Happy to answer any queries or concerns that a potential patient has. My email is in my profile. Can chat/Skype/Hangout whatever. No time-limit, no-obligation, no fake-guilt selling. Will keep answering queries as much as I can. At the end of it if you decide against it that's perfectly ok.<p>So yeah, email me?
One positive data point here. We got invited for an interview [1]!<p>It's at least the 4th time I've applied, 2nd time with this company, and the 1st time I've been invited for an interview.<p>Good luck to everyone, and as I always tell myself: YC is not the goal, making something people want is not the goal, making something good that people want is the goal.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.openlistings.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.openlistings.co/</a>
I think the mindset to have here is that YC is so popular and the number of YC partners are so small, that you have a very small chance to get in the first place.<p>I wouldn't burn too many candles hoping to get in or trying to figure out a reason why you did not. There is a benefit to applying in that it makes your commitment to your startup even stronger.<p>Focus on what is important and that is your business. I truly believe building something sustainable is better for YOU, than trying to make the next Dropbox, Facebook etc. But if you already gaining Facebook like traction I am sure YC will already have heard of you.<p>Worry about your startup and just focus on making it sustainable. Becoming popular with customers and maintaining that relationship. has more benefits for more people than getting into YC. Focus on what is important.
Getting into YC is not the goal of a startup. The goal is to make something people want. YC certainly helps you achieve that goal, but it is by no means the only way!
Here's a curious data point: we were invited for an interview last time, but we didn't get in. We had no paying customers yet. The feedback was that we should get 10 customers and apply again. So we did. But no interview this time :/
\o/ for rejection!<p>Launched a turbo tax, but for PCI Compliance.<p>Managing PCI Compliance is an unsolved real (big) problem, even bigger than HIPAA. There's been headline breaches in the news (e.g. Target, Kmart, Staples) and companies fear PCI because of its vague language and cost. With my relevant domain expertise in the security field, I'm bringing new tech to an old-school market.<p><a href="http://www.ComplianceChimp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ComplianceChimp.com</a><p>Instead of completing a PCI Requirement that looks like this: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZW0PzBd.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/ZW0PzBd.png</a><p>You can complete one that looks like this:
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Got rejected, but we will keep working hard!<p>Our Startup is Cronus Audio Technology.<p>The main purpose of Cronus is to enable the musicians to extract the most from their performance, simple, elegant and versatile way, offering innovative tools that cover expressive artistic interactions, excellence in audio effects and social connectivity.<p>Our first product will be the Cronus-Z, an innovative proposal for equipment that mixes the functionality of a multi-effect pedal with the power and versatility of an audio workstation, in a compact and portable format. The Cronus-Z will have numerous resources, to effectively meet the demands of various user profiles.<p>More information can be found at: <a href="http://www.cronus-audio.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cronus-audio.com</a>
Rejected. Sucks. The idea was very solid and the team was solid (between the 3 of us we have 2 artists, 2 computer science degrees, 2 computer engineering degrees, and an established viral content marketer). The only two issues were that<p>a) We are planning to build a hardware product and are at the mock-ups/renderings stage so we do not have a prototype, and
b) One of the team members hasn't physically met the other two (although we've worked on projects before and have a ~4 year friendship).<p>I had some correspondence with some of the partners about the second point-- PG told me it would be a problem, but Garry Tan said its not really a deal breaker. So I'll put it off to the lack of prototype which is what killed us.
Got rejected. Will continue as planned.
Getting into YC is not the goal, it is what it is - an accelerator. I am sure if I had gotten in, I would be able to take my company further faster, but with the slim chance of 3% interview invitation rate this definitely wasn't something to count on.
I did have an extra glimpse of hope when I saw my founder introduction video had a view on ycombinator.com on oct-26th (amazing how google tell you these things).
The company:
infiniRoom - Never run out of storage space on your smartphone.
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Just remember: "YC is an option. Not a barrier."<p>Real entrepreneurs might WANT to get into YC, but do not NEED to get into YC.<p>If you really "need" YC then I think you're doing it wrong. Usually the types of people who are devastated by their YC rejection (like me my first time) are the kind that have everything riding on YC. As if it's the only way to get anything built or started. It's a terrible mindset to have. Once I opened up my options and had a plan B, C, D, etc... my business improved, my startup ideas changed and got better, I built more things and got more experience.
Got rejected. We are working on an Answering (Analytics) system that works with Natural Language and voice. <a href="http://numahub.com" rel="nofollow">http://numahub.com</a>. Our product is cool and we are very positively moving ahead. YC acceptance would have been great but not being accepted motivates us to push harder.
Wow...there are some amazing companies out there. Kudos to those who got the interview, but for those who didn't, don't give up!<p>My team (www.stempaks.com) was really fortunate enough to get an interview. But like rgbrgb said, our goal isn't to get into YC; it's to create a good product that people will want.
Also rejected but that's fine, our project is quite new (<a href="http://stackeo.me" rel="nofollow">http://stackeo.me</a> - A Product Hunt for developers) so we have a lot to go.<p>Good luck for those who got an interview!
Can you share how many applications there were for this batch?<p>Might make some of us feel like all these years grinding on startups isn't for nothing and is just a simple matter of volume.
Didn't get in, no worries though. Good team, great product moving forward. It would have removed some obstacles, that's all.<p>Good luck to everyone, and keep at it; we are.
Rejected. Working on a time tracking solution for google platform: <a href="https://whathaveidone.today" rel="nofollow">https://whathaveidone.today</a>.
Also got rejected, but just applying was a valuable experience because of the sort of questions it forced us to tackle.<p>getpartake.com - Expense Sharing for Couples
Our team got rejected.<p><a href="http://doshh.com" rel="nofollow">http://doshh.com</a><p>We were creating a mobile payment system to be used in Myanmar.
Interesting that there's no feedback. If there's a process of online application, review and automated email with a standard response then surely some simple stock answer fitting to the application wouldn't be much effort. I guess if a certain number are just rejected because of sheer volume then I can understand.