RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut.

Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @07:41AM (#16288)

"Rejected" is a bit harsh; you might want to re-position it along the lines of "startups not in the YC mold" -- which is all that rejection by YC means (you don't fit their profile, but that doesn't mean you won't succeed).

Also, lose that red "no"/"anti" logo -- you're not going to get people in the right mood when they visit (that logo is really for sites looking to rip YC, which, from what I gather is not your intention).

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by nostrademons on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @09:07AM (#16307)

I likely will re-brand/re-position it based on feedback here. Different domain too. Unfortunately, my graphic design skills kinda suck (as I'm sure you noticed) - my cofounders usually handle that, but this was a bit of a pet project, and they've been working on our main idea while I tried to get this out without spending too much time on it.

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @09:14AM (#16311)

Maybe it should be called "WhyCombinator?" -- position it as an open community of startups which compete (in a serious but friendly manner) to the official YCombinator companies.

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by nostrademons on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @09:22AM (#16313)

That's probably better, but I'm thinking it may be better off with a name that doesn't derive from yCombinator at all. After all, there's YEurope too, which got similarly panned for ripping off the name.

Unless it were a name with an obscure wordplay in it. For example, we could call it Ackermen.com because the Y-combinator is a function that lets you bootstrap recursive functions, while the Ackermann function is one of the simplest examples of a function that is not primitive recursive. ;-)

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by dpapathanasiou on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @09:32AM (#16320)

But unlike YEurope, which is just a copy-cat, your source of members (at least initially) are those whom YC didn't accept.

And in terms of fostering a (again, friendly) rivalry with YC, it's a neat conceit (especially if any of the YC rejects outshine those that got accepted).

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by nostrademons on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @03:26PM (#16422)

So, I was talking with my cofounder, and we came up with Bootstrapacitor.com. It has "bootstrap" in the name and also has the capacitor connotations of storing energy and letting it build up until it escapes like a lightning bolt. Also, there're tons of flux-capacitor jokes we could include (we - meaning the site users - are collectively inventing the future, after all), and the flux capacitor is even shaped like a Y!

What do you think?

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by dpapathanasiou on Thursday April 26, 2007 @09:10AM (#16946)

Sounds good; remember to announce when it's up and running.

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by russ on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @06:33PM (#16458)

If you want to call it WhyCombinator, you're going to have to buy the domain off me ;-) Also, the red logo reads that you were not rejected.

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Re:RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut. by dpapathanasiou on Thursday April 26, 2007 @09:10AM (#16947)

If you want to call it WhyCombinator, you're going to have to buy the domain off me ;-)

Ha!

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