Actually, it was a pretty sweet demo of the product. It would totally make the YC application process so much smoother from YC's side and (most importantly) allow YC to provide feedback to rejects (that feature alone would be amazing!).
Unfortunately, it looks like YC will (at best) only be a customer, instead of them being an investor.
I realize you don't have to answer this, but I am just curious:
It seems on the surface that our company is much closer to what you say YC is looking for, than many companies you had in W10, S10, etc. Let me just illustrate a couple points:
1. You emphasize resilience: we got rejected by YC in the past and went ahead and raised funding, launched and already have 70k (and counting) users since 3 months ago. The vast majority of our reviews are 5 stars.
2. You care about companies with huge potential. We're building a next-generation, distributed social network which gives users control over their data, and helps their social lives in the real world instead of online.
3. You want to see founders who did extraordinary things: I went to college at 14, played in Carnegie hall when I was 7 years old. (http://magarshak.com/piano) My co founder can father a small child just by looking at a woman... (http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7203877/fundraising)
4. You care about a capable team that has been together for a long time: http://qbix.com/about . We have made websites such as this: http://blurts.com which is now worth over $5 mil.
etc.
So I am curious why YC didn't even want to interview us, but then again, your rejection letter doesn't leave many clues :)
Hilarious.
With great power comes great responsibility...
One of the Y Combinator questions asked you to name one non-computer system that you’d hacked in some interesting way. My answer concerned a man-in-the-middle attack I once did on Craigslist personals. I placed an ad as a woman seeking a man, and as a man seeking a woman, and then simply crossed the email streams by forwarding mail from one to the other, and vice versa. Most Craigslist personals didn’t even have photos back then, so the switch went undetected, even after the couples had met. I handed off the relationship by telling one that the other’s email address had changed, from my fake one to the real one, and likewise vice versa. For all I know, those couples are still together and having kids. They probably don’t know to this day what happened or what brought them together.
I know this because I use to do this all the time in college over skype , record long awkward conversations between distant aquaintences and roll on the floor laughing daiwa try to figure out who called whom and who they are. This was actually a lot of fun, it was an exercise in psychology, we would try to predict how crazy explosive weird conversations could get and see what happens based on people's personality profiles.
My point is that they would have to be really really stupid to not know that somebody else connected them...
> My co founder can father a small child just by looking at a woman
Hilarious! I'm going to have to remember this.
</none of my business>
If the goal is to create something that people want. He has to be just as customer focused.
Can you let me know the status?
Thank you,
Ted
a couple of days sound good