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Ask YC: Did you wait until the last day too?

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I just submitted my application to YC today. Just wondering, how many others waited until the last minute!

Haha, no offense, but you guys sound like high school teenagers that just got done with their big exam, and the application for entrance for college.

If you don't get accepeted, move on and finish your idea yourself. If it is good, and the execution is good, it shouldn't matter if you get accepted at yc or not.

So, no matter what happens, don't get discouraged, but keep going.

I submitted weeks ago, but I was up most of last night finishing getting our demo ready.

Ditto. We had a draft in about a week ago, but without a demo. Didn't finish that until about 6:00 PM today.

Did you worry about them looking at your demo before it was ready? We were pretty much done with the written app awhile ago, but worked until the end on the demo.

We certainly haven't looked at any demos yet. We occasionally skim applications early to take the pulse of this cycle's applicant pool. But basically, seriously evaluating applications is a huge amount of work that we tend to put off till it's unavoidable. Which is why I'm writing such long comments today...

I didn't give them the demo URL until yesterday.

Usually about a third of applications are submitted on the last day.

I applied to YC once before. It's kind of funny, the idea I submitted this time is something I included in the "What cool things have you built?" question last go around. Anyone else end up doing the same?

As an aside, Media Temple is screwing us over right now. We submitted our application last night around 9 PM EST. Around 4 AM MT took their service down for upgrades and our site has been down since. We're freaking out and still waiting to hear back from them.

Another MT customer here, and they indeed have been screwing the pooch for the past couple of days. SSH is constantly down, FTP is slow, and email got knocked out for a whole day. First they say it was a service overload so they fixed it by adding more RAM, then they say they had a DOS attack, now they say it's just a service upgrade. All the while my website is slow and inaccessible and I can barely get to it to fix things.

I'm jumping ship as soon as I can.

It's really frustrating to have spent all this time polishing and refining our site for the last 2 weeks nearly non-stop to have them poop out on us like this. Literally hours after submitting our application for review, and more than likely, seriously affecting our prospects of being accepted.

If I were a more religious man, I might think it to be divine.

I submitted my app today too. I had my idea two days ago.

I waited until the last day to finish it and resubmit a final version.

I submitted my rough draft early because I did not want my idea to be overlooked or not given a fair chance.

I wounder how they handle the resubmissions! If you resubmit, do they do a 'compare' with the older version to see what's new, or do they not start reviewing until the deadline passes.

my guess is an over write.

I meant that, if you submitted your application two weeks ago, and they had already reviewed it (and probably made a decision about it); and then you resubmit today. How would the re-review happen? Do they compare with your old application to see if you changed something important, or do they review it again as if it was submitted for the first time? Not that it's important; but just wondering.

I submitted last night, but I just heard about Y-Comb two weeks ago. My founders and I have been working on our project for a few months already.

Our initial idea launched (by someone else) this past weekend. Luckily it forced us to come up with something a lot better by the deadline.

I was hoping to get a cofounder's commitment by today, but I submitted it anyway last minute.

We submitted our final version late last night.

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