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The YC Application Deadline is Now March 29 (1 day later)

84 points by pg ↗ HN
Demo Day this year is March 27, and we just realized we'll all be too tired to read a lot of applications the next day anyway, so we might as well give everyone another day to work on their application.

I'm changing the deadline now in the various places where it appears.

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chrisacky
What happens on the deadline. This is the first cycle that I'm submitting an application.

Do I just need to submit the application before midnight on the 29th? Still frantically trying to get a demo up of the application! I'm assuming the form gets taken down immediately after midnight.

(This reminds me of University again! Finding out the professor is ill and the paper submission date gets pushed back a day! Get well soon Paul - chuckles).

seeingfurther
That college reference is funny! I have almost the opposite problem. I can't stop editing and submitting every time I think of a change I want to include or something on our project evolves. I just want the deadline to come already! Good luck with your demo!
ddariod
That REsubmit button is a curse, always evolving :)
hellokhoaphan
I think I've clicked that re-submit button more times than I have clicked a "like" button on Facebook!
ddariod
Seriously, REsubmit is a great feature!
Vusaladu
If the applications are read on the daily basis, what's the point of editing and REsubmitting your application?
kenrikm
Same here, I have added/tweaked a bunch of times since I first submitted back in February. I had a lot I needed to fit into a small amount of space so they don't have to read a mountain of text. I hope PG and the gang understand that I'm normally very good at english however I cut out all of the words that make english sound "nice" ;)
babuskov
LOL :)

I had bad experience with editing anything online in the past (hello Blogger, GMail and others). So, I first prepared everything in a .txt file before filling it out. It took us two days to write down and check it all.

Still, we already used re-submit twice after that ;)

palish
Keep in mind: the demo matters less than the way you present yourself (confidence + intelligence).
Paskulin
More time, better application.
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RuggeroAltair
It would be interesting to know the distribution of submissions versus time.
axjal
Hmm.. This and the "no idea" stream opening for more people to be able to apply makes me wonder if YC is indicating a lack of applications this time around.
motti_s
I don’t think so. Actually I can’t believe they only need one day to rest after what must have been three months of hectic work...

The "no idea" track makes total sense to me for several reasons:

1. Many YC participants changed their idea in the course of the program, some of them multiple times. As an extreme example, the founder of Greplin started working on his final idea three days before demo day.

2. The YC selection process has already been biased towards the team vs the idea.

3. YC is all about experimenting. They like to try and see what happens – this is how the whole thing evolved. Based on the above two, this seems like a logical experiment.

I actually believe the "no idea" track will be a success. Though a major disadvantage is that an idea helps evaluate the quality of the team, even if they end up pivoting. But PG and the rest of the YC team are smart; they’ll figure it out...