Will rejected applicants also receive emails?
We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.
Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.
We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Y Combinator Staff
"I have always been very interested in the startup scene. I have been to startup school twice and applied to YC once with Docley (I didn't get in).
I was working on something cool: http://docley.com.
I am now working on something cooler: http://tabtrick.com/
"It will be simple and easily to do."
You might want to fix that -- typos on the front page aren't flattering!
Still excited to continue working on it, though