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Rejected Y Combinator Company, Bandsintown now in private beta! Sign up For your Invite Code

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Whatever the reason was for your rejection from YCombinator, I commend you guys for at least pushing through with the project and not letting it hinder your progress.

I'm still awaiting my beta invitation.

Good luck with it.

Why would I have to confirm my email to get an invite code? If I receive an invite code and use it I've effectively confirmed my email. Further, I just got an email and followed a link back to your site so I could... ...do nothing. Not sure that makes me too excited to click on the next link you send me.

Worth rethinking.

Thank you for pointing the annoyance of this out to me. I will remove the email confirmation step.

The invite codes will be sent out personally that is why you did not receive it instantly with the confirmation.

Thanks for the help, We will adjust this.

Why have invite codes at all? Just let people in the site.

We still have some major features we want in place before we open it to the public. But the people on ycombinator are probably some of the most critical we will find so we decided to give an early sneak peak to you guys.

We will be sending out a second batch of codes today. But as we have noticed that some of our emails are going straight to junk.

So if you applied for an invite code last week please type your email address in as the invite code to gain full access. Let me know if anyone has questions. Thanks

Frankly, I'd see why they rejected the site. It's an excellent idea, and I'm sure it will work if you guys really exploit the entire social thing - i.e, force people to invite other people. But it's an idea that is already out there, which is why I'd assume that ycomb did not want you.

Thank you... As I had mentioned in one of my previous posts to all the startups, I think rejection should be more motivation for all of you than acceptance. It should push you harder to prove yourself and your idea.

Also invitations will be sent out in batches over the next week or so... But I am looking forward to everyones comments and help.

We have alot in the works, but are very very happy with what we have put together for you.

The anti-aliasing is ugly... you should redo the graphic design with different anti-aliasing settings.

I see you use verticalresponse.com for your mailing list. I don't get the pricing structure - do you pay per email to one subscriber or do you pay per email to ALL subscribers?

And are their services worth it at all when email marketing is more of a side thing?

hi, yeah this used to be a mailing list signup that i restructured for the beta invites. It has some quirks, such as the required confirmation email. But the service is free to capture emails until you use them to actually send out emails. So no this is not the best solution for a beta signup, but it does the trick.

See SonicLiving.com, a great site that is somewhat similar and I use daily.

Yeah this is also my personal favorite of what I have seen so far.

Why define yourself as "rejected YCombinator company"? It seems like something that does not deserve mention except maybe on the "Company History" page.

Yeah, seriously... I was rejected at YC like 8 months ago (didn't want single founder) and we are doing just fine. I really respect all the advice and connections that YC has, but just because you are rejected doesn't mean anything.

My company is ClassOwl (classowl.com), we are in Alpha right now. And no, we're not another cliche Web 2.0 company.

Make sure you check your junk mail folder for your invite code. We sent them out to about half the list today.

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