1. How many questions did YC ask your team?
2. How many views did you get on your video?
3. How many unique visits to your prototype from YC?
4. How many hours before the rejection email did they last visit your site?
Ours:
1. 2 questions
2. 3 or 4 video views
3. 3 prototype visits I think
4. 2.5 hours
Somehow I'm kind of relieved that I got rejected, as the real fund raising process is kind of distracting the building of the product and business. I sort of used the YC deadline as an external event to set milestone for finishing up the website, which was mostly done now.
Don't skimp on the video next time... Its the one external thing PG says he'll (definately) look at. If they like your vid, they'll probably visit your site. I put links on the vid page to my site, I'd have to check my logs to see if they clicked them from there.
Anyways, I wanted to sell this to MS / Google, or make it bootstrapped and keep the profits myself. Only thing that kind of got me a little too hopeful is seeing a question from Rtm. Well, other ways it is then.
1) 0 ; 2) at least 3 ; 3) 3 (we think) ; 4) unclear
2. 7 views
3. we didn't send them a prototype
4. no idea