Ask HN: Are you applying to YC's next round?

2 points·bgnm2000··7 comments

Hey guys,

Just interested to know how many people are applying to the next round or have already started?

http://ycombinator.com/w2010.html

On a realted note, any word when startup school will be this year?

This: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html suggests about 1,000 applications per round.

Yea, I was kind of going for the HNer's though. Not the actual number.

Interesting question you've got there, the intersection of the sets of applicants to YC and the users of HN. I'd expect that to be very close to 100%.

Not a good idea to apply to a VC that runs a board this well stocked without being a member and scoping out the situation, that would give you a much better chance at success.

I think it's more accurate to say that the set of YC applicants is close to 100% included by HN users, but I suspect that the set of HN users is much larger.

Does anyone have an idea of how many HN users there are? I know several users (in person) who have been around for several years, but have never applied to YC.

HN gets about 30K visitors / day I believe, and I think that most of those are 'repeat' visitors.

There are a significant number of 'lurkers' though, plenty of them have never logged in.

A good rule of thumb is 90/10, 10% of your users creates 90% of the content. If HN follows that then there should be about 3K active members logged in and at a minimum voting once every day.

You can apply the 90/10 rule recursively, and the leaderboard seems to confirm that.

Yeah, will give it a shot...

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