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Ask HN: YC applications are up. Did you submit?

21 points| davidedicillo | 14 years ago | reply

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[+] taskstrike|14 years ago|reply
Submitted our app. Hope they look at our demo more than our video, lol. We're not telegenic people.
[+] magnusgraviti|14 years ago|reply
I have submitted but found that people I started with aren't so interested in something other than just work. So I am one of those submitting as a 1 man behind the project.

So I decided to work alone for now.

Simplify -> Amplify was really great to improve my project.

[+] euskode|14 years ago|reply
Sure did. Got ours in a couple of days ago. So excited! And I agree, our video could have been so much better. There are three of us and unfortunately we couldn't be together for the filming, which makes it look even funkier.
[+] baruag|14 years ago|reply
Submitted :) As someone mentioned on this thread. It definitely helped us think through our idea and communicate it in a concise manner. The biggest take-away for us was : Simplify + Simplify + Simplify = Amplify
[+] tylermenezes|14 years ago|reply
Submitted early yesterday, after revising it in a Google Doc for a while. Then spent the last day continuing to work on our web app. This is going to happen; whether YC is a part of it is now out of our hands.
[+] ryanjodonnell|14 years ago|reply
Submitted a few days ago, video took way to long to make! My co-founders and I are all in different locations across the world so we had to use a screen recorder to capture a Google+ Hangout lol
[+] brianmac|14 years ago|reply
Yup! Was a great process trying to cut the thing down (easy when your excited to blabber on). Also died laughing making the video. See what happens next, "IF YOUR GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO..."
[+] fiyamanabq|14 years ago|reply
Just got mine in today. Had a crazy problem with submitting the video, hope we made the deadline. Just glad I finally found the stones to actually apply.
[+] badboyblue1|14 years ago|reply
We held off submitting for W12 as we would have submitted late and instead submitted early for S12 hopefully we make it this round...
[+] somecola|14 years ago|reply
Just decided to apply 40 minutes ago. Submitted with 2 minutes to spare. Liberating to not over think it. Good practice in any case.
[+] helen842000|14 years ago|reply
I wanted to, but I didn't. I didn't want to add an average application to the pile. I'll keep working on it for next time :)
[+] davidedicillo|14 years ago|reply
I was very tempted, but since the idea is still so fresh (1 week old) we decided to hold it until next round :)
[+] jerryji|14 years ago|reply
Why did so many people submit literally at the last minute? Did you choose to do so or was forced?
[+] collint|14 years ago|reply
Yes. We just decided to submit today, and finished our video about 7 minutes before the deadline.
[+] somecola|14 years ago|reply
I find making videos brutal! We get so focused on not screwing it up that we screw it up!
[+] pg_bot|14 years ago|reply
Yep submitted the final version today and saved a copy to google docs for reference.
[+] raulandrisan|14 years ago|reply
Submitted ours last week. Thought we'd make changes but guess it's perfect now :)
[+] aDemoUzer|14 years ago|reply
Submitted as a lone founder with no-idea - I probably have like 2.3% chance :p
[+] Achshar|14 years ago|reply
I skipped this time. had some other job at hand. But i will next time :)
[+] BobertK|14 years ago|reply
Yep. Two weeks ago. Had a great time making the video.