Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by lugg on Monday August 20, 2018 @11:06PM (#17806592)

Wild Speculation: typo in a limit clause. Probably only a few extra thousand got accepted but instead of weed them out they figured fuck it.

I'm going to also guess and say user accounts were created in a not easily rolled back way after the fact.

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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by kcorbitt on Monday August 20, 2018 @11:10PM (#17806611)

Actually, we just literally reversed the SQL queries for the emails we sent out for accepted/rejected companies – and then didn't immediately realize our mistake.

It's been a pretty tough day here at YC but we're all really happy with the final decision we came to!

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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by rezultant on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:15AM (#17808165)

Looks like you do mailing old (hackers) way - via SQL queries :)

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