YC W15 invites will be sent out today

58 points by mamoriamohit ↗ HN
As the invites (or rejections) will land in 1000s of inboxes today, 3% will be seen packing their bags for the interview and others will get back to building their startups.

Let's do one thing - the 97% who won't get the chance of interview will post their product's homepage and demo URL in this thread so that we all can provide crowd-feedback to them.

The happier 3% are also invited to share their products/demo as well.

Let's do it, then?

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Any idea when they would send out invites?
It is my understanding that everyone gets an email, whether it is an invite or decline. Is that correct, or do they just send invites?
They send out emails with both invitations and rejections. Based on previous batches around 1AM GMT time ?

At least that's what I found.

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Looks cool. I'll try it out
Thanks! I'd appreciate any brutal and honest feedback :)
I keep seeing that template where the header stays fixed and the page animates as you scroll. What's it called? Is it part of foundation?
Sure! Let me preempt the thread by sharing a product that most likely did not even get to Mr. Graham's desk:

PyEDA is a Python library for electronic design automation.

PyEDA is another option that we could work on but I had to send the idea over to Mr. Graham's public email address just a few days ago. Since it was not mentioned on our application but briefly talked about (by me and most likely to myself), is PyEDA still a legitimate candidate for this forum?

Of course, sharing the beautiful things you have put hard work in deserves this thread.
Great!! The docs are very well written. Lots of time and care spent on presenting the information effectively to benefit the users.

Python EDA Documentation Release: 0.25.0 Date: October 21, 2014

http://pyeda.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I know it's hard to focus on anything right now on what seems like the judgement day... Maybe reading PyEDA will help make time fly faster? Anything feedback is greatly appreciated.

This round is not over. We can help each other!!

I have written EDA software, including some stuff that your library has. One thing that is key for EDA: tool performance. I can't imagine using Python for any of the intensive stuff like synthesis. What is your view on this?
PyEDA author here. I agree.
Does anyone know what time the invites/rejections are usually sent out?
If we go by the time for last several invites, you shiuld expect it to reach in your inbox at about 6pm PDT.

Please convert the time to your timezone accordingly.

Best of luck to everyone...
Sounds good. I'll come back with results later. Good luck to everyone!
Everyone will wait for you! We wish you all the best. :)
MemGrid - https://www.memgrid.com/

CDN for web developers --- process and host static assets the easiest and fastest way possible.

Just keep the files in your Dropbox folder and we automatically receive, version and invoke any file generators in the pipeline. Builds CoffeeScript, LESS, SASS, compressed JavaScript, CSS, image manipulations etc. There's also handlebars templating for full-blown static website generation.

All assets are hosted at either your custom domain or at ultra-short //yourname.m7.io

CDN meets real-time upload meets asset pipeline meets git meets devops :)

Nice idea, I could see myself using the compressed javascript / css feature. Wouldn't this be better done by focusing on git commits rather than dropbox, though?

Edit: I'd rather it just minified and gzipped the files, and uploaded them to my existing storage (e.g S3) rather than setup a new CDN.

Synaptitude: http://synaptitude.me/

Do not know if my team is accepted or not, but either way we are going forward with our idea.

A way to help everyone focus and improve, especially, ADHD, depression, and anxiety without any negative side effects.

Further, we accomplish this via an improved method of reviewing EEG data, which we intend to patent this winter. Hopefully, this can improve medicine overall.

Great initiative!

I tried to do somewhat similar as a hobby project -- connecting Zeo (now bankrypt) product (brain sensor) with a serial port to the computer and processing the real-time feed with python in order to provide feedback guiding to better focus or whatever the expected brainwave frequency was (deeper meditation was the other goal).

In the end it was working quite well so as a technology this can work great! Working well as in being able to transition my brain state easily. In terms of focusing better -- not sure, I'm quite well focused most of the time and I wasn't sure which targets to hit with my brain :)

My real goal with my hobby was more ambitious -- to use brainwave hemisphere sync technology (binaural beats) to guide brain to the expected state while monitoring the actual brain state with the sensors. Unfortunately, as with hobbies, time ran out and currently not working on it.

BUT -- it could be a fun thing to think about --- using brainwave entertainment/binaural beats in sync with your sensors for maximum effect! Thoughts?

Paywhirl - https://www.paywhirl.com/

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Great idea, but seems like there's a bug on your demo page - if I click "Add Extras" before selecting a plan, I can't go back to "Select Your Plan" (clicking it doesn't work)
Thanks for spotting that! Its fixed now!
From what I understand X-cart and Magento already address this with PayPal and quite possibly Stripe. And if you're coding your own website you might as well use Stripe's API.
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DraftingSPACE is a website that can automatically design your next home renovation http://draftingspace.com/. We're currently running a private beta of our bathroom designer, you can sign up on our homepage.

Good luck everyone :).

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May the odds be ever in your favor...or whatever that quote is. Good luck!
I wonder all those startups have 90% the same website. Are you guys using WP themes you customize? Or does anyone try to style home page very well? I am curious why all those startups even without 2 cofounders being technical always look so smooth and styled properly. I didn't see ugly wp home page in a while..
do you have examples?
well, even in this thread all people have smooth made websites, and they didn't even apply for YC yet. Also all those companies from YC14 batch(http://yclist.com/) - they all have websites well done even for the mobile apps. I wonder why\how. Not a single team has an ugly home page
There are a bunch of beautiful landing page/single page Wordpress templates specifically gear toward this stuff. http://themeforest.net has a bunch among many other places
CSS frameworks like Zurb Foundation's and Twitter Bootstrap are pretty popular now and make it tougher to make your site look ugly. I bet that has some influence.
Today is easier to get a beautiful template and customize it than building something ugly from scratch.
To give a decent look for the outside look, we usually buy some HTML template and customize it our way, and keep focussing on the real product that lies behind the curtain.

Of course, with time the homepage evolves and changes accordingly.

Autosend - http://autosend.io

Behavior-driven lifecycle messaging for SaaS companies. Basically, automatically send personalized SMS, email, or push notifications to users based on what they do in your app.

I'm not sure yet if we've been invited or not but either way we're still full steam ahead!

well, that's the first application (finally!) i see that it doesn't have a home page all fancy yet. Nothing's wrong with it of course. Just shocked when all other founders have time and skills to make their WP pages look so nice
We'll get fancy soon, but currently our focus is making the admin panel fancy and the product solid. :) For now... you're looking at developer art.
how do I integrate your service into my app? do I have to use API calls & is there an admin panel that's exposed?
A few different ways: we have no-code integration, as well as a copy & paste JavaScript snippet, and a full fledged API.

There is an exposed admin panel. We are currently rebuilding the service to make it even more easier to use and robust than our previous iteration. We are just a few weeks out from reopening the doors but we'll be letting a bunch of folks use it while we build it.

Our first iteration, while somewhat successful, left a lot on the table as far as the potential for the product. So we went back to the drawing board to make it even better.

can I obtain user responses trough sms? in which countries?
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Very cool! I've been interested in this area for quite some time. Here's one guy to built a hedge fund around the quantification of investor sentiment using online data (http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-02/money-minded-h...)

"MarketPsych ran an audited hedge fund (MarketPsy Long-Short Fund LP) from 2008 through 2010, which beat the S&P benchmark by 25% during its lifetime."

Thanks so much!

I know the MarketPsych founder Richard. Great guy, super forward thinking and definitely someone we respect. He sells exclusively through TR now I believe.

Under the hood we are very different cos in terms of our data and what we aim to do with it. Time will tell ;-)

Did you get accepted? I liked your product concept and am working on something similar.

I'd like to see you succeed, one way or another.

We didn't get an invite.
Wow. I'm honestly surprised. If I had been a YC guy, I'd have wanted to at least speak with you.

On the surface, I think you guys look awesome. We should network somehow.

Sure... would love to. Shoot me an email. james@psychsignal.com
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Tambero.com - http://www.tambero.com

Helping farmers worldwide to improve their production yields based on best practices, data analytics and science information with a free cloud SaaS app.

I'd be surprised if you don't get an interview. Nice product.
Thank you! I received it!
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Looks like a promising product. I think you'll get the invite. Good luck!
Thank you! I received the invitation! :)
About our own product, we are building something to help web and mobile business grow their revenue.

Horntell - http://horntell.com Demo - http://demo.horntell.com

We allow businesses to automatically engage their users and turn them into champions. I think, demo should give you a fair piece of idea.

What do you think about the demo, guys? Awesome? Good? Or just Eh? :)

TIA

I closed the tab when the demo asked for a name / email. Why should I give my name / email before I know whether or not I want to use something?

Nice design, though.

Oh, we didn't think it that way.

But we need your name to show the personalisation capabilities and email to demonstrate you the off-site engagement.

I know everyone says it, but we truly mean it when we say that we will not spam you. It is the need of demo that it requires some information to personalise the demo your way.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback. We will definitely brainstorm something around it this week.

I agree in that I would rather not give my name and email before even starting the demo. I did take the demo though by quickly putting in fake information. I'd suggest to allow the user to go through the first step or two in the demo first, and then ask for the name and email as part of the demo to demonstrate the personalization capabilities.
This is exactly what we are doing now. Thanks for the feedback though. In case you liked the demo and would like to share the real info about yourself, feel free to mail me about it. hello at horntell dot com. :)