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YC Winter 2011 Web Chat : The Eve of Anxiety

28 points by 619Cloud ↗ HN
Tomorrow is the big day, where some fortunate applicants find out they have been given perhaps the opportunity of a life time to build their company with some of the smartest and well connected people in the valley.

Let's live chat about our anxiety, questions, and fears for tomorrow. Have you gotten any questions from staffers on your application?

Look forward to seeing everybody there.

http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001

If your looking to spam, troll, prove you can break the chat, please don't bother. I will just add you to iptables deny, and it hurts everybody trying to talk with other applicants. Thanks.

18 comments

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joeteplow
Having trouble getting in... Im using chrome. I would love to join in on the conversation!
619Cloud
Humm, working for me. Make sure you put the port, so:

http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001

joeteplow
I got it...it was glitchy connection. Thanks although it looks like after 25 members joined the chat it just broke down
619Cloud
Sorry about that, had to restart the application.
speek
why not #startups on irc.freenode.net? (thanks for setting this up, though)
dbingham
Bah, I got kicked out. My connection here at school is really bad.
Xuzz
As someone there pointed out, how about some HN username validation?
yesimahuman
Interesting. I applied and I know that if we don't get in it is far from the end of the world. We didn't get in last year and our business has grown tenfold since then. It would be an amazing opportunity but not the golden ticket.

Do yourself a favor: stop worrying and get back to working on your startup.

Mudblood
You got the point! Winter YC is not a fairy tale. It just (maybe?) makes things easier from the start. E.g. I'm currently busy with other projects.
greglockwood
I don't know if you can edit the submission title, but the upcoming YC cycle is actually Winter 2011. I don't say this to be nitpicky, but when I first saw the title I was confused, and thought others might be as well.
TonyPuryear
Working on many fronts, but with fingers crossed about tomorrow, cause it sounds like fun. Good luck to everyone. No seriously.
robryan
I think those who don't make it should use it as motivation to take that extra step, be it from YC next time, or bootstrapped/ the many other funding roots. I guess you can look at it as a come back even stronger next time, prove them wrong type way.

Even the act of filling out the application is beneficial, makes you focus and evaluate where your business is currently and the road ahead.

pshapiro
Thanks for the chat, guys. It was great to meet some of you and get to hear about your startups.
borski
This is actually pretty fun even just for sharing real-time feedback on startups. Is it a terrible idea to have an always-on YC chat? Or maybe something like this already exists and I'm simply behind the times...
nirajr
We (http://grexit.com) are an India based start-up, and just being in the valley is going to be a big boost for us. Being in the valley and with YC is going to be, well, massive.
[dead] addoway
Up working like always. The adrenaline is pumping and need to take advantage of it to get some more work completed as this is another important week for us. Good luck everyone. Don't be discouraged if you don't get in. Just keep pushing yourself and your team and all will work itself out.
GDH
Hey Justin, good to see the chat lighting up again. Thanks for the post. Good luck guys, but don't let YC consume you, get back to your startup!

GDH