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Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by sfrechtling on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:21PM (#5562020)
Just curiously - how many video views did everybody get? We had 5 views for a total of ~4 minutes.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by boringkyle on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @10:39PM (#5562327)
We had 4 views from the west coast the day after we applied. Another 4 this week. Last time we applied, we got over 20. PG says they only look at the videos if the application seems promising. So I guess my application got worse?
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by CaveTech on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:33PM (#5562086)
Don't put too much thought into this. We had ~1 view when I applied a year back and we got called in for interviews.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by basch on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:23PM (#5562029)
1 view, 30 seconds. They didn't even get to the actual proposal.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by rdl on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:32PM (#5562084)
The viewing happens "embedded" usually, which I think doesn't report view count or timing as accurately. (I've seen different behavior on what seem like the same configuration)
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by basch on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:37PM (#5562096)
I was thinking that must have been the case. That or I didn't spit out what made it revolutionary quickly enough.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by timhargis on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:45PM (#5562140)
We had like 15 from 5 different cities with 4 of 5 in SV and Boston including a SV view this morning. All views were for the full 2 minute video. Maybe we were on the cut-line, not sure. The competition is stiff...congrats to the people that got interviews.

We didn't have a prototype at all and I think even with a really strong team, it certainly has to hurt the chances.

Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by kogir on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:20AM (#5562994)
Links to one public, embeddable youtube video (like the directions asked) were presented inline during review and were much easier to watch.

If your video wasn't on youtube, or it wasn't embeddable, or you used a third party link shortener (not youtu.be) - reviewers had to do extra work to view your video.

Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by hiddenstage on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:30PM (#5562074)
0 views. Which is weird because last batch we got 4 views and we feel this was a much better application.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by thetrumanshow on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:33PM (#5562087)
Same here. Analytics say the only views came from our flyover state.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by clittle on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:37PM (#5562101)
8 views total here. No idea how many minutes. 2 pr 3 might have been ourselves by accident.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by patforna on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:23AM (#5563001)
2 views in total. One view 20 secs, the other the whole duration (1:29)
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by victormier on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:33AM (#5563373)
1 view 16 seconds 2 days after application was sent. :(
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by frankdenbow on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:31PM (#5562075)
4 views, average of ~ 55 seconds
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by Y_Not on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:16PM (#5579428)
we had 15 views, and 5 demo views. rejected.
Re:Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out by garydarna on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:42PM (#5562128)
We had 10.