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Re:Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding by whacked_new on Monday February 09, 2009 @07:45PM (#474482)
Please keep and release a tally of "creative" videos and how they were "creative": time lapse, blue screen, animated overlays...

Higher bandwidth indeed, but you're giving out an open canvas. Could be good, could be extreme. The restrictions of "traditional" submission mechanisms are like the "traditional" formats for resumes, preventing every resume from becoming a tabloid magazine.

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Re:Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding by pg on Monday February 09, 2009 @07:59PM (#474493)
We explicitly ask people not to do that:

http://ycombinator.com/video.html

If they ignore us and put in a bunch of fancy stuff anyway, we'll just click on "next." We have a lot of applications to read.

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