I just heard notices will be sent out 'late this evening'. And I'm assuming that's late this evening, PST. Also we got 4 views. 1 was me, 3 had to be from YC.
Good luck everyone! Either way- our team will be celebrating or drinking our sorrows away tonight at Rye Bar in San Francisco (http://www.ryesf.com/). Feel free to stop by...would love to connect either way! Feel free to reach out nirav(at)requext.com
Who knows maybe PG will be cool enough to show up and grab a few drinks too!
Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline.
Yes, we got 7 views spread over 5 days that were probably all from YC reviewers (embedded player). They watched an average of just over 1 minute of the video which was just under 2 minutes long. We were not invited to the interview.
There was some very cool discussion at the end of the video and I'm guessing none of them saw it. Elsewhere in this thread is the speculation that high views = application that was on the fence and I guess I take comfort in that.
Anyway, if we were to apply in the future I'd ensure we had a shorter video. On the other hand, we were highly unusual candidates so it's possible we were just a bad match.
I had three views from the embedded player, but they were all for about 55 seconds, when our video was about two minutes long... I don't know what this means, but I guess I'll find out soon!
I'm not sure whether 7 views from YC is good or bad. If they were all from YC, I'd say that means they might be on the fence about inviting your team to interview. When they're sure either way there is little point in watching the video repeatedly, especially when they have another 50 to get through that day.
Did not send the link to anyone else except YC. We got one view from US the next day (after the deadline). Being from India, we believe that should have been the YC team.
1 minute out of 2 for me. Meh just applied for fun anyways. I'm still staying in SF on my own with product revenue anyways. Location is all that matters to me.
Dear God that is a long time to be this nervous. I must take this time to add a feature that will forever be code named the 'nervously waiting' feature
PG just tweeted midnight PST. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/397537535452131329 this is already agony, we're 21hrs ahead of PST here in NZ so technically I've been waiting 2 days now since the 4th was yesterday!
In our case (loovin.com), we've got 7 views to the demo site and 4 views in the video (this are views we know that are from them only, yeah... we check this all day long :)).
My video was watched 6 times the day after the deadline. But I sent the link to 2 friends so I am guessing 4 views came from YC. I am going crazy waiting though....
[+] [-] sumit_psp|12 years ago|reply
Everybody is racing to create the future and don't slow down just because you didn't get into YC.
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Who knows maybe PG will be cool enough to show up and grab a few drinks too!
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[+] [-] keithwarren|12 years ago|reply
Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline.
Anyone else look at their stats?
[+] [-] winterchil|12 years ago|reply
There was some very cool discussion at the end of the video and I'm guessing none of them saw it. Elsewhere in this thread is the speculation that high views = application that was on the fence and I guess I take comfort in that.
Anyway, if we were to apply in the future I'd ensure we had a shorter video. On the other hand, we were highly unusual candidates so it's possible we were just a bad match.
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I'm not sure whether 7 views from YC is good or bad. If they were all from YC, I'd say that means they might be on the fence about inviting your team to interview. When they're sure either way there is little point in watching the video repeatedly, especially when they have another 50 to get through that day.
Good luck to everyone.
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http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
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In our case (loovin.com), we've got 7 views to the demo site and 4 views in the video (this are views we know that are from them only, yeah... we check this all day long :)).
Good luck everyone!
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