I'm changing the deadline now in the various places where it appears.
Do I just need to submit the application before midnight on the 29th? Still frantically trying to get a demo up of the application! I'm assuming the form gets taken down immediately after midnight.
(This reminds me of University again! Finding out the professor is ill and the paper submission date gets pushed back a day! Get well soon Paul - chuckles).
I had bad experience with editing anything online in the past (hello Blogger, GMail and others). So, I first prepared everything in a .txt file before filling it out. It took us two days to write down and check it all.
Still, we already used re-submit twice after that ;)
http://ycombinator.com/apply.html, point #1.
Also this link for videos.
The "no idea" track makes total sense to me for several reasons:
1. Many YC participants changed their idea in the course of the program, some of them multiple times. As an extreme example, the founder of Greplin started working on his final idea three days before demo day.
2. The YC selection process has already been biased towards the team vs the idea.
3. YC is all about experimenting. They like to try and see what happens – this is how the whole thing evolved. Based on the above two, this seems like a logical experiment.
I actually believe the "no idea" track will be a success. Though a major disadvantage is that an idea helps evaluate the quality of the team, even if they end up pivoting. But PG and the rest of the YC team are smart; they’ll figure it out...