Are there any past applicants who have know if they do indeed contact groups who are uninvited?
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We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, 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.
http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
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
Good luck to everybody. You all feel like a classmate to me ;-)
Interesting to think that the decisions have already been made, we're just waiting on that information.
Regardless, good luck today!
If you trust your idea, you just need to go, you don't need someone to validate your idea. However YC is definitly an opportunity for any start-up with a good product to have enought attention to get started.
Again finger crossed.