sabathmt

What still blows my mind is how email has not changed for the last 15 years. Sure, Gmail has risen to the top with awesome UX and features such as labels and priority emails. But once something comes out to revolutionize email, that would be the day

Pain point - plain and simple. Startups take note: this looks very promising

50-75% of stories on TC are one way or another originated from hacker news...

It's an attention grabber, sheesh.

Great presentation, for anyone that hasen't checked out Drew's application to Y-Combinator, here it is:

http://sulemanali.com/blog/2010/11/29/drew-houstons-y-combin...

*On a side note, one thing (if you can) is to add a little humor/personality in your application:

Q:Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

A:The ridiculous things people name their documents to do versioning, like "proposal v2 good revised NEW 11-15-06.doc", continue to crack me up :)

You are absolutely correct sir. I am (21 y/o) going to be a senior in college. I notice (among my friends/fraternity) is that not many kids post statuses too often. the main sticking point is to see new photos your friends are tagged in (imho). Facebook's height was 2-3 years ago honestly