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Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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to Enter your Info: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZkT2QxZXFFRWlYUWoyUG4zRVBIZGc6MQ

View the Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ataf_IejHzNydFZkT2QxZXFFRWlYUWoyUG4zRVBIZGc&output=html

Thanks @kellyreid for the updated links

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Enter your Info: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZkT2QxZXF...

View the Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ataf_IejHzNydFZkT2Q...

This is the harder-to-troll version, which i'll be posting on HN shortly.

Yeah please use this version, I was wondering how long it would take trolls to destroy the page, less than 1 hour ;p

See, we non-technical co founders can make a difference. Just give us the right tools!

YC applicants: In case there needs to be some explanation as to why to allow or discourage this, maybe we can give some explicit rationale here. Why did some of you guys share your submissions and how does it benefit you as a YC applicant? What problem is this solving? I could guess some of the reasons, satisfy curiosity, inspire, a sense of community, relieving some anxiety, exposing some common valuable information ( no one got a YC response yet), etc. danielsiders: what is the story in setting this up?

We were curious about the field at large, independent of being applicants. Tired of relying on pg/yc to share aggregate data. We're hackers, we like raw data.

we're curious, and it helps alleviate the stress and anxiety by having people to commiserate with

Why not disclose it ?

Assuming you're not in stealth, it seems a reasonable way to get additional feedback and publicity for your startup.

Exactly. Especially since the vast majority of investors I asked replied "No! No! No! I can't... la la-la-la-la-la-la laa-laa la-la-la"

Just like in Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill, if I may :)

there are about 50 users on it now...seems to be working okay

Well I know what I'm gonna apply with next year... Google spreadsheets absolutely suck for this type of collaboration.

has anyone tried the zoho one? I know it is not free though

I'm upvoting partly because it seems a cool idea, but partly because I'm scientifically interested in what'll happen to goog docs with multiple concurrent users; valuable for knowing how it responds re using in live environments for user feedback.

The answer is "badly"

Around 50 or so active concurrent users it really starts to fail. No doubt some of the others can better quantify/qualify my general remark.

We should rename this "Google Docs Scaling Performance Test" and watch the upvotes grow.

Google Docs feature request: Lock formatting, fonts, colors, sizes.

Sweet, I am sure in the next cycle/batch, someone is now going to apply as the Justin.tv of spreadsheets :-p

I watched in semi-real-time as it switched into simple-viewing mode due to high traffic; the threshold appeared to be roughly 120 to 125.

Not sure if this is kosher, but lots of people were curious. Please don't hurt us.

This reminds me of the other thread where pg wants to moderate more strongly RMS posts ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577 ).

Maybe have RMS implemented in a way similar to the Ask HN section: they get a penalty, but also a dedicated namespace where people can up-vote them inside the HN voting system.

This is as close you will get to using HN as an online interface in order to rank the entries in this spreadsheet.

The submissions are missing the most important part - founder bios.

I highly encourage sharing your ideas. The YC application deadline is well past us, and I'm curious about who and what was submitted. I really like the transparancy of this idea, and after the hours we all put into our applications, it's nice to see the outcome, wether you get accepted to YC11 or not.

We should totally have done a video of this. Like was said in the chatroom, it's like watching Hacker Ants at work.

Ooops. Sorry about making a reaaaaaally really tall table cell there. I actually used the same texts I used for the Ycombinator submission. If you could make the cells slightly wider, please, the text would fit better and not make the entry all over people's screens.

Awaiting the collective wave of terror when a 'Yes' appears in column M.

Has anybody received the rejection letter very soon after posting their submission in that table? I got it the next day. I don't even know if there were 24 hours between the two events :)

Sorry, seems there are too many destructive people. If you can find a way to control input, please let us know. We would be more than happy to provide input.

look at my comment above - the form version i put up should handle the destructive edit problem

Thanks. That worked.

Shopobot looks sweet

Is another similar service - http://camelcamelcamel.com/

There always is! LOL

I'm afraid I like Shopobot more. Camel is waaaaay too crowded, just like the myriad of other price aggregators. Just too much on the same page.

We're about to launch a new design that I hope solves this problem:

New product page: http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/262877/new... http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/262881/new...

Camel was one of the first for Amazon shopobot just looks to be a copy of the same idea. Look at how much price history camel has. It goes back over 3 years for some stuff.

Agreed, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to keep at it

I looked at building something similar a while back but found most of the big retailers (Amazon, eBay) prohibited you from storing historical price data. Unless that's changed I'm not sure their approach is going to be feasible in the long term.

That should be easy - store just the graph, not the actual values :)

Thanks! blush

We put a lot of time into the design. We've held off any sort of "rate my startup" to see if we make it to the next round.

it seems that people have a lot of fun in that list. I'm thinking that idea is not bad, and writing down your startup there is open you up to people "in same boat", allow you to collaborate and gang up to make combined projects. Therefore it is not relevant to YC W11.

Crap. For some reason my submission got on row 118. Really like the idea though!

How about a column for Intro Videos? Was that purposefully left off?

Purely to avoid the humiliation in my case ;p I'll probably add it soon.

Please add any columns you see fit

here's hoping this isn't against some rule or guideline. good idea, though!

Rules? I don't understand.

YC might not love us making public a list of applicants. Less so promoting it on HN.

if anything it showcases the hacker/startup spirit. i'm sure if it's a problem we'll find out somehow

The line seems blurry. On the one hand, I'm all for people who want to share their information being able to throw it up - the more feedback the better, right? And it builds a sense of community that can last long past this YC decision. On the other hand, there's no real way of "opting out" of an unmoderated list like this; someone could easily post your application without your permission, and once that information is public, there's no real way to keep someone from putting it back on the list once you delete it.

It almost feels like there should be a "make public" option on the application itself, where applications who opt in can push their application onto HN somewhere, and people are free to comment on it in a sanctioned way. I've seen that done with grant programs with some success. Just thinking aloud here.

It was kind of a rhetorical question. The process clearly encouraged rebellious behavior. Though I don't think this really qualifies as such. We're entrepreneurs. We network. We promote. This is what we do.

genius!

This could be interesting!

I upvoted you to get your attention, but comments like these are usually frowned upon here on HN. The general rule is that a comment should have some kind of substance to it, rather than simple agreement.

Check out the site guidelines(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), good luck, and welcome!

All we need now is the ability to vote on submissions and see if we can make better picks than YC.

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