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Ask HN: Have you received a response for YC Winter 2018 application?

21 points by asnyc ↗ HN
- Or will all invites/rejects be send out on October 24th itself ?

- Do the late applications start getting looked at after October 24th - or only after first round interviews are complete ?

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[dead] jbyks
Some people have gotten video interviews. There is a chat about it here: https://yc.metachat.com/
alanspower
FAKE ALERT! Guys DO NOT enter this link. It's from DISGUSTING and very dumb THIEVES. (i won't even call them hackers because i hacked them in less than 30 seconds) 1) The YCombinator is not the owner of the domain. It's a fake company registered in the Cayman Islands. 2) They are trying to rob your passwords to steal your businesses. The YC login in that page is fake. 3) They couldn't even set up a https server LMFAO. Spread the word fellows.
vinaypai
I'm not sure if you're a troll or just ignorant, but my startup is all about fake news, so I'll take this on.

1. Nowhere do they claim to be affiliated with YCombinator. I'm not sure why do you think YC would be the owner of the domain.

2. The company registered in the Cayman Islands is not the owner of metachat.com but the Whois Privacy company owned by the domain registrar.

3. Where do you see a "YC login" on that page? They have their own registration and login page. If you put your YC username and password in there... let's just it's pretty ironic for you to be calling someone else "very dumb".

alanspower
1) the first page was pretty “smooth” on “YC Alumni Community” chat. 2) i know all about that privacy company. Pretty choice for crooks 3) your website try to fool the user claiming it has a secure HTTPS when in fact your server isn’t secure having no https encryption at all. Very common tactics in fake and “fishing“ sites It’s fake or for the very least poorly done (actually not done) 4) i didn’t login at all. I’m not a fool. The homepage is clearly amateurish and very similar with other suspicious and fake sites.
jaredsohn
>your website try to fool the user claiming it has a secure HTTPS when in fact your server isn’t secure having no https encryption at all.

False.

If you go to the security tab in Chrome it says:

* Valid certificate (Let's Encrypt)

* Secure connection (TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA with P-256, AES_128_GCM)

* Mixed content (The site includes HTTP resources. Reload the page to record requests for HTTP resources.)

jaredsohn
In other news, "Crypto" is not the owner of https://crypto.metachat.com/. (If you go to metachat.com they have a link where you can 'start your own community' and get your own subdomain.
jbyks
Hi, I always like to read user feedback, especially if they make me smile. I created yc.metachat.com with 2 friends as a side project.

We applied to YCW18 and wanted something that aggregated news about it and gave us the opportunity to chat with other people who have applied. If you would login, you would see there is quite some activity. I'm sure there are many areas of improvement to be found.

To come back to your list of critiques: 1) We are not affiliated with YC, nor do we claim to be. @vinaipay already pointed out your misunderstanding about the company's domain owner. 2) Registration is a standard Laravel component that hashes your password. 3) We are loading external images from rss feeds which are not over https. Maybe that is what you are referring to.

Things we will do: 1) We are putting a disclaimer on the website that we are not affiliated with YC 2) When and if this side project becomes something more than a side project, we will invest time and money to store the images and send them to you over https

Note: I was tempted to write this entire post in all caps :)

Have a great day!

matdehaast
Let the hater hate. I really like the concept of the site and think there is room for this type of system in other areas. We are exploring a similar concept to this to integrate within our live tracking/timing for Sports. It is a nice way to aggregate updates with conversation.
matdehaast
Nope haven't got anything yet, also patiently waiting!

Last batch the emails went out pretty late on the day. However, the one before that came out a day earlier if I recall correctly.

bryanchappell
I just asked in https://yc.metachat.com/ about the timeline for invites / rejections and learned that they should be sent out around 8pm PST
[dead] alanspower
FAKE ALERT! Guys DO NOT enter this link. It's from DISGUSTING and very dumb THIEVES. (i won't even call them hackers because i hacked them in less than 30 seconds) 1) The YCombinator is not the owner of the domain. It's a fake company registered in the Cayman Islands. 2) They are trying to rob your passwords to steal your businesses. The YC login in that page is fake. 3) They couldn't even set up a https server LMFAO. Spread the word fellows.
jbyks
Hi, I always like to read user feedback, especially if they make me smile. I created yc.metachat.com with 2 friends as a side project.

We applied to YCW18 and wanted something that aggregated news about it and gave us the opportunity to chat with other people who have applied. If you would login, you would see there is quite some activity. I'm sure there are many areas of improvement to be found.

To come back to your list of critiques: 1) We are not affiliated with YC, nor do we claim to be. @vinaipay already pointed out your misunderstanding about the company's domain owner. 2) Registration is a standard Laravel component that hashes your password. 3) We are loading external images from rss feeds which are not over https. Maybe that is what you are referring to.

Things we will do: 1) We are putting a disclaimer on the website that we are not affiliated with YC 2) When and if this side project becomes something more than a side project, we will invest time and money to store the images and send them to you over https

Note: I was tempted to write this entire post in all caps :)

Have a great day!

kunalrd2000
so far i dont see any views on youtube so more curious.
asnyc
Read somewhere that having more views is not necessarily a good thing :) It might imply that they could not take decision right away
top256
AFAIK they send "yes" and "video interview" before the flat "maybe next time".
nurkhz
last time we've got an invitation from YC. Now I've checked once again to mail and around 1 pm (PST) they send it. I suppose we have to wait few more hours to get invitations. :) good luck all.
asnyc
Congratulations, you must be one of the first ones :) Makes sense to give re-applicants preference if they have developed well since last time.
nurkhz
3x time or so growth. we'll see. more excited than anyone else actually :)
nurkhz
oh i thought today is 24th btw lol
asnyc
Your company is interesting, found it from your submissions history
nurkhz
thanks man. will see. fingers crossed!
nurkhz
btw we didn't get an invitation btw , it just happened to last (summer) batch :) good luck all!!
veonax
We had a video interview on Oct 19, and we haven't got any news afterwards (outside of the US, FYI). A little bit anxious to be honest.
Morbax_HR
please join to t.me/ycombinator_winter2018 and lets make live discussion like it was previous batch
top256
so :) Any update? News?
karma1
I'm curious too, any updates if anyone has gotten an acceptance/rejection email yet? Good luck to everyone with their ideas regardless!