Ask HN: Have you received a response for YC Winter 2018 application?
- Or will all invites/rejects be send out on October 24th itself ?
- Do the late applications start getting looked at after October 24th - or only after first round interviews are complete ?
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Last batch the emails went out pretty late on the day. However, the one before that came out a day earlier if I recall correctly.
We applied to YCW18 and wanted something that aggregated news about it and gave us the opportunity to chat with other people who have applied. If you would login, you would see there is quite some activity. I'm sure there are many areas of improvement to be found.
To come back to your list of critiques: 1) We are not affiliated with YC, nor do we claim to be. @vinaipay already pointed out your misunderstanding about the company's domain owner. 2) Registration is a standard Laravel component that hashes your password. 3) We are loading external images from rss feeds which are not over https. Maybe that is what you are referring to.
Things we will do: 1) We are putting a disclaimer on the website that we are not affiliated with YC 2) When and if this side project becomes something more than a side project, we will invest time and money to store the images and send them to you over https
Note: I was tempted to write this entire post in all caps :)
Have a great day!
We applied to YCW18 and wanted something that aggregated news about it and gave us the opportunity to chat with other people who have applied. If you would login, you would see there is quite some activity. I'm sure there are many areas of improvement to be found.
To come back to your list of critiques: 1) We are not affiliated with YC, nor do we claim to be. @vinaipay already pointed out your misunderstanding about the company's domain owner. 2) Registration is a standard Laravel component that hashes your password. 3) We are loading external images from rss feeds which are not over https. Maybe that is what you are referring to.
Things we will do: 1) We are putting a disclaimer on the website that we are not affiliated with YC 2) When and if this side project becomes something more than a side project, we will invest time and money to store the images and send them to you over https
Note: I was tempted to write this entire post in all caps :)
Have a great day!
1. Nowhere do they claim to be affiliated with YCombinator. I'm not sure why do you think YC would be the owner of the domain.
2. The company registered in the Cayman Islands is not the owner of metachat.com but the Whois Privacy company owned by the domain registrar.
3. Where do you see a "YC login" on that page? They have their own registration and login page. If you put your YC username and password in there... let's just it's pretty ironic for you to be calling someone else "very dumb".
False.
If you go to the security tab in Chrome it says:
* Valid certificate (Let's Encrypt)
* Secure connection (TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA with P-256, AES_128_GCM)
* Mixed content (The site includes HTTP resources. Reload the page to record requests for HTTP resources.)