Hacker News Reader

Comment by sfrechtling | Hacker News Reader

Just curiously - how many video views did everybody get? We had 5 views for a total of ~4 minutes.

We had 4 views from the west coast the day after we applied. Another 4 this week. Last time we applied, we got over 20. PG says they only look at the videos if the application seems promising. So I guess my application got worse?

Don't put too much thought into this. We had ~1 view when I applied a year back and we got called in for interviews.

1 view, 30 seconds. They didn't even get to the actual proposal.

The viewing happens "embedded" usually, which I think doesn't report view count or timing as accurately. (I've seen different behavior on what seem like the same configuration)

I was thinking that must have been the case. That or I didn't spit out what made it revolutionary quickly enough.

We had like 15 from 5 different cities with 4 of 5 in SV and Boston including a SV view this morning. All views were for the full 2 minute video. Maybe we were on the cut-line, not sure. The competition is stiff...congrats to the people that got interviews.

We didn't have a prototype at all and I think even with a really strong team, it certainly has to hurt the chances.

Links to one public, embeddable youtube video (like the directions asked) were presented inline during review and were much easier to watch.

If your video wasn't on youtube, or it wasn't embeddable, or you used a third party link shortener (not youtu.be) - reviewers had to do extra work to view your video.

0 views. Which is weird because last batch we got 4 views and we feel this was a much better application.

Same here. Analytics say the only views came from our flyover state.

8 views total here. No idea how many minutes. 2 pr 3 might have been ourselves by accident.

2 views in total. One view 20 secs, the other the whole duration (1:29)

1 view 16 seconds 2 days after application was sent. :(

4 views, average of ~ 55 seconds

we had 15 views, and 5 demo views. rejected.

We had 10.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com