Keep on grinding. Getting rejected from YC is in no way a reflection of the quality of your startup. As they say in the rejection emails, sometimes they miss out too.<p>Here's are two stories that should give you some inspiration hopefully:<p>https://45m.ph/overnight-success-it-s-possible-4ce22f618787<p>https://medium.com/@imjonathanlee/how-fear-of-embarrassment-turned-into-a-11-billion-dollar-valuation-c17fae86f7a3<p>Keep up the good work and don't let this bring you down!
'Getting rejected from YC is in no way a reflection of the quality of your startup'<p>Yes it is a reflection on quality. They no doubt get it wrong but they have a pretty good track record so it does have some reflection on quality. They are not just randomly picking people. If you have applied 10 times in a row then stop, just stop and get on with building your business.<p>Getting into YC is a bonus but stop obsessing on it. Facebook and Google didn't go through YC and they seem to have done well. Concentrate on building your business.
It would have been nice for them to spend more than 10 seconds (literally) evaluating our demo. Also, YC specifically requires you to have a password-less login so most types of authentication system will have to be retooled or deliberately broken for them. Just my 2c