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I just started using this, so I can't say how effective it is yet. But it captures notes in NValt and syncs via Dropbox.

Or even more interesting to me, how about the distribution of education level and background?

Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshold ends up getting accepted to YC. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold.

Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/

We sincerely hope and encourage you to reapply for the next batch. Applying multiple times in no way counts against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

-- YC

Almost all innovation management and feature-request platforms are like this.

For example: http://www.ideastorm.com/ https://ideas.sap.com/ https://success.salesforce.com/ideaSearch http://engagetacoma.mindmixer.com/activity

Maybe so, but the first step of problem solving is identifying the problem. And problems come from people.

(from that comment you referenced) > So maybe if this were to be adjusted so that it was more of a place to talk about problems you wish people would solve. > Why not structure it as a place for people to complain about inefficiencies.

This is what "Issues" on Thinkerous are. We'll make it more clear. Thanks!

By filtering out some of the noise, the ideas that could solve widespread issues can get more resources put behind them and hopefully a greater chance of succeeding.

This might make more sense in the enterprise software realm, but we saw some interest in the startup community as well so we wanted to test it out.

Regarding Pull Requests - we're in the process of adding a "team" functionality, but maybe an intermediate level of involvement (between joining the team and just commenting) would be useful. Thanks again!

> When is my work protected?

> Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

You can also remove the reflective sticker on the back of the black and white LCD, to make it transparent where it was previously reflective. That's how I made my calculator work with our classroom's overhead projector. (and some really interesting pranks)

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

One of the motivating factors for Thinkerous was that in the beginning, I had an idea that I thought was interesting. But... I had no clue how to start. Would people laugh at me if I revealed my idea? What kind of people do I need to get started? Wtf is Node.js?

All in all, we're not going to solve hard problems for our users. But we'd really like to make it easier to start, to GO FOR IT instead of "nah it probably won't even work anyways."

Thanks for your feedback!

Edit: We've also upped the password max to 100 characters.

We're hoping that with a little less friction and a lot more diversity, some incredible things can me made.

Thanks so much!

"Could not get anyone to help on the website design" is a HUGE problem for so many startups, even this one when we just started. Hopefully we'll be able to help you find some help on your next project!