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Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application.

21 points by thorax ↗ HN
Just a friendly reminder that you have about a week to fill out your applications for Winter 2009.

http://ycombinator.com/w2009.html

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pxlpshr
Innovation is recession proof!!

Good luck to all those entering their product/business, wish you the best. Now go show wall-street who MAKES the market.

pclark
Innovation is most definitely not recession proof, quite the opposite in fact.
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opal
No time for no return.
thorax
I don't know what that means, but it might be interesting to note that you're one of the first people to mention this phrase on the internet: http://ri.ms/notime

(Edit: HN didn't like quotes in the URL, so used URL shrinker)

davidu
Indeed, it's a decent line.
ntoshev
Tomorrow it will be seven days, but the link will probably stay on the front page and you won't be able to change the title.
thorax
Good point! Let's hope they read the "posted X hours ago" part. :)
Prrometheus
Is this for the summer session?
unalone
Nope. Winter 09, which is January.

Applying for the summer I'd guess gets sent in around April, if it's exactly 6 months apart. Meaning people like you and me still have time to polish up the plans.

maxklein
I've not got the stuff for Y Combinator. I've come to accept my own mediocrity. Just the same way I'm not going to go run a marathon against people who have trained for years.

Someday, you guys should try accepting that you are not extraordinarily clever. It's very liberating.

fallentimes
I agree that it shouldn't be a "life goal" or something equally ridiculous. But honestly, I applied on a whim. If I hadn't, I most likely would have been laid off from my job last week.
alex_c
shrug

I don't think I'm extraordinarily clever (not compared to some of my friends from university, or to many of the posters here).

I do try to challenge and improve myself. Just like with the marathon, training does make a difference.

alecco
Dude, don't condition yourself. And the answer is right there in your words, you picked a great analogy. Start now training for next year! Make a plan. Have a progress log. Make a mockup. Make a prototype.

- A marathon runner

fallentimes
If I could give four words of advice (I was in YC08), outside the most common advice, it's this:

Make your application interesting.

Good luck!

rantfoil
Good luck to all the new YC applicants. As it mentions on the YC site, you should definitely bounce your applications off YC alums. Email us-- it can only help.
AlexTheFounder
Do you mean that Posterous is "a place to post everything. just email us" your YC application? (a joke)
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siong1987
To all the ex-ycombinator,

If I have a proper beta product, do I have higher chance to get in?

rantfoil
Of course -- a beta is infinitely better than a powerpoint slide. Lots of real users are infinitely better than a beta site. Etc.

We're in the business of turning ideas into reality. The farther you get, the better off you are.

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