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Here is my YC application. No interview

29 点作者 pacifi30超过 11 年前

15 条评论

mlyang超过 11 年前
Feedback:<p>1) I feel like including in your limited app space&#x2F;pitch &quot;finding people of your class&quot; is a poor indicator of your ability to market the product. While there is some way to spin the whole &quot;find people with similar intellectual interests&#x2F;career aspirations&#x2F;etc.), referring to &quot;class&quot; specifically seems elitist, and would be poor marketing IMO.<p>2) In the &quot;impressive things,&quot; Nishant wrote &quot;getting scholarship&quot; though it should&#x27;ve said &quot;getting a scholarship.&quot;<p>3) The tone of the app seems childish at points (references to &quot;fat little boy,&quot; &quot;I want to spread love&quot;). While it&#x27;s good to not take yourself too seriously, it might&#x27;ve been a little too much perhaps?<p>4) I don&#x27;t think you explained&#x2F;framed very well what exactly is the problem that people are facing that you are solving. If you can draw upon some references to people really preferring to date others with similar educational&#x2F;professional background or something, that would&#x27;ve probably helped.<p>Just wanted to give some constructive (but conjectural) feedback. Good luck guys! :)
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waterside81超过 11 年前
I&#x27;ll say this, I feel for the YC partners reading through submission after submission. After reading the few that have been posted on HN the past few days, I&#x27;m exhausted. It&#x27;s hard to give a lot of attention to each of these without skimming through and just saying &quot;meh, next&quot;.<p>Much like an English teacher reading through 30 essays.
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sannabonner超过 11 年前
I would use Truffle if it were in my locale (British Columbia).<p>I like how you wrote the application answers. You come across as smart (but not cocky), engaged, and enthusiastic.
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wellboy超过 11 年前
I think if you want to get into YC you have to fulfill one of the three criteria:<p>1. You are hugely changing the world<p>2. You can completely disrupt an existing industry<p>3. You can be a billion dollar company<p>Good apps do fulfill all the three, however I think yours wouldn&#x27;t be able to fulfill one of these unfortunately.<p>Let look at the points:<p>1. It looks like you have a cool app, but it&#x27;s not much different to other dating sites. You will probably be a good dating website, but not &quot;change the world&quot;<p>2. You are not specifically in an industry like taxis, golf or cars. You are in the dating industry, which has 1000s of established competitors<p>3. I&#x27;m confident you probably can be a $50M company, but not &quot;billion-dollar&quot; company. There are 1000s of established competitors already in the market and it will be very hard to be 10x better than everyone else. It&#x27;s also hard, because dating websites were competitive 10 years ago. Nowadays you might get a market share in the super competitive Dating-space as a viral mobile app like Tinder, however as a website it is just impossible.<p>Didn&#x27;t want to shoot you guys down, but hope I could give you useful feedback so that you know what is important to focus on.
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physcab超过 11 年前
I met my girlfriend on an online dating site and being able to send messages was essential. I know it&#x27;s a drag for guys to constantly send messages without a response, but for women it&#x27;s a critical safety filter. Tinder strikes a good balance where you get to message only of there is a match, but if there were no chat, then I&#x27;m positive no one would use it for dating.
Cookingboy超过 11 年前
Seems like the quality of application really is sky high if something like this didn&#x27;t even get an interview.<p>The team sounds smart and accomplished, and objectively interesting. You guys have done a lot of data driven user research as well, which shows maturity when compared to a lot of the other startups out there.<p>I wish you guys the best of luck, don&#x27;t give up and keep working on that :)
nilkn超过 11 年前
Please keep your chins up on this one. I think this is a great concept and it could legitimately solve the one major beef I&#x27;ve always had with dating sites like OkCupid (for long-term relationships, I&#x27;m only interested in working professionals, and it&#x27;s quite a hassle to filter out the right profiles sometimes; I also generally find the messaging phase to be worthless, as most people decide whether they want to meet someone based only on the profile).
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dsrguru超过 11 年前
Given that the YC partners have a ton of applications to read, and given that your second sentence (&quot;It simple.&quot;) suggests you didn&#x27;t proofread your application, it&#x27;s possible they didn&#x27;t continue reading it.
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pacifi30超过 11 年前
OP here. This is great, YC doesn&#x27;t give you feedback on the rejection but the HN community does. Thank you guys so much for reading through our application and giving us some very useful feedback.
barce超过 11 年前
The grammar was atrocious. There were too many grammatical errors to list here, but for God&#x27;s sake please use a grammar check. Paul Graham&#x27;s grammar is perfect and yours should be, too.
austenallred超过 11 年前
You only have 57 users? That&#x27;s not enough traction for a dating site with <i>a lot</i> of assumptions regarding what users want to garner any attention from the likes of YC.
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wehadfun超过 11 年前
Dating meets Groupon meet Uber.<p>Guy and Girl both pay for a date<p>Site matches Guy, Girl selects 1 activity and 1 dinner a driver and autopays for everything. The two people just show up and enjoy there date.
kamilszybalski超过 11 年前
1) Can you elaborate on the &#x27;no messaging&#x27; logic?<p>2) I hope you have a rockstar marketing&#x2F;leadgen guru.
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pacifi30超过 11 年前
OP here, would love to get comments from the HN community.
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ddevan超过 11 年前
Maybe because this isn&#x27;t an original idea at all.