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I'm a girl (and an engineer), and I applied for the summer round this year with http://wordchuck.com. I never got a response from YC after submitting my application, which was a bit disappointing.

I haven't had any trouble launching and getting traction on my own, so don't get discouraged, no matter what happens with YC :)

That said, WeddingType looks like a terrific idea, and I hope you do get accepted!

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I just investigated. You submitted a late application, and with late applications we didn't reply individually; we just posted a notice in late May saying we'd contacted everyone we were going to.

Summer 2010 was the first time we accepted late applications, so we were still figuring out the procedure. We'll probably email all the late applicants from now on, in case they miss an announcement. Sorry if we kept you hanging.

I assumed that was the case, but it's good to hear you might change the response process for future applicants.

Thanks for checking!

I'm pretty sure YC make a point of responding to all the applications, so this was likely a technical glitch. For example, I distinctly recall that the response we got ended up in my Spam folder.

Because of this post I jumped to my spam filter immediately (applied this round).

No updates from YC, but I could have been a millionaire in Hong Kong, Nigeria, and Costa Rica :)

Unless they've changed it, you'll only receive the invitation/rejection via email, questions and other feedback before this are delivered via the HN UI (in the coloured bar at the top).

That seems really odd, they seem to take pride in responding to everyone, even if it's a nicely worded negative response.

Thank you!

It's something that a lot of tech companies do and honestly, it's courtesy. Even a simple copy and pasted email would be better than nothing for the person on the other end waiting.

Love the idea of wordchuck as a stand alone business. How's it going?

Thanks! It's been incredible so far.

I just opened up the beta last week, and have enough people using it that I can be confident I'm not wasting my time. The trickiest part has been having to juggle the biz dev and the coding. And finding time to sleep :)

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