Siva Surendira

YC Rejection - Share your YC application and get a YC rejection email

Hey YC Aspirants, This a fun experiment. But also useful as we used 100+ real YC application data for the core analysis. The bot analyses your YC application on 13 key parameters and will share 3 key reasons for rejection.

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Siva Surendira
Hey YC Aspirants, Here is a fun project. Get a rejection email for your YC application. While you all wait with abated breadth for the acceptance/rejection of your YC application, use this fun tool to get an early rejection. :-) We did analyze 100+ real YC applications (both accepted and rejected ones). While there may be many explained and unexplained reasons why YC might reject your application, we found 13 key aspects that were most common across all these applications. So, we built a prompt-based decision engine that will give you 3 reasons why you are (or may get) rejected by YC. Try and have fun. And some learning, too. -Siva
Pranjal
@siva_surendira this seems really cool, is there any platform where the previously accepted applications get a review on what they did right?
Johan Steneros
Interesting. I would love to see everyone else's anonymized rejection analysis or letter.
Siva Surendira
@jsteneros If the user decides to share, will list them for sure. Thanks for the suggestion.
Jacob Choi
Congratulations on your launch! 🎉 This seems like a fun way to make 'failing' more palatable and less personal- as self reflection only goes so far, and personal bias can get in the way from meaningful take away. 🥲 Are you thinking of adding a community aspect to this as well? I think a lot of users could connect over rejection and maybe a forum type of "share" feature would fit well here.
Siva Surendira
@jacob_boston Discord server up. https://discord.gg/VpQQTJ9d Please feel free to join.
Oleg Naumenko
I had been working in fintech for a while, and one of our partner banks advertised their new API as being able to return mortgage loan approval just in 5 minutes. Well, upon integration, the first results were more like "decline in 30 seconds". So it's like a flashback for me: get a rejection, fast! Jokes aside, feedback is crucial, many thanks to you for releasing this
Rami
Good idea, it will help founders hone their application so they can save on opportunity cost!
Siva Surendira
@kingromstar That’s the whole purpose. Thanks.
Amit Mirgal
Trust me this one is super awesome for the folks like me to get early feedback about their idea… awesome… congratulations on your launch 😀
André J
No MMR no YC. 😅
Siva Surendira
@sentry_co mostly it’s the founders’ profile and pedigree that matters
Siva Surendira
@sentry_co could be. but I see enough comments on Reddit that says otherwise. And I know a few who have MRR but couldn’t get thru.
André J
@siva_surendira Okay let me be more succinct. You have to have a non-fleeting MRR that is growing. Non-fleeting meaning, there is a moat built in that won't be easily toppled. A moat that if fuelled with funding, outgrows challengers. And sure. A strong background helps. But I also see people out of high school getting funded, sometimes they spent their life hustling. TBH I think we are shifting away from auto-funding people that once worked at FAANG companies working one a very small piece in a very big team. The same people doesn't have what it takes to build companies. They might have had it one day, but 4-5 years of working on a very small module doesn't make you equipped to build startups, on the contrary. IMO. As a side note. I went through 1000s of YC companies last year, to figure out what ingredients they had. Usually, they had strong customer traction already, and a solid start of a product. More often than not, they had a strong business case, and not so much a tech case. Some had great tech cases as well, but usually it was 1 out of 10.
Siva Surendira
@sentry_co You make valid points. Nothing beats traction. And your observation fits most of the folks who got thru. My POV comes from folks who could not inspite of checking most of the boxes. Whenever MOAT and Potential becomes a ?, Founders’ profile and pedigree takes precedence. Given the fact most YC companies in any batch are idea or pre-customer stage, the latter scenario gets amplified a lot.
Viswanatha Reddy
Great idea, should be very helpful for the founders who is going after the funding. All the best.
Victor Aris
Wow, gread idea!
Awais Younas
Impressive! YC Rejection is here to help YC aspirants make better applications. How does it work? What data did you use? I'm excited to learn more!
Baraa Al-Masri
congratulations on the launch, and love the reverse psychology behind it. keep up the good work!
Julien Ergan
Useful, thanks for sharing!
Jake B (Launched 11.20)
Fantastic idea, should make iterating for YC acceptance faster and more effective
ROHAN BALKONDEKAR
This is the kind of Constructive Criticism that everyone needs!
Shahmir Faisal
Wow this so cool. Congrats on the launch!
Magna Ding
Congrats on the launch! Impressive Tool!
M James K
Finally AI is being used for saving Humanity. Jokes ahead! incredibly useful for YC aspirants
Aditya Chavan
brilliant idea 💡👍🏼. Kudos to coming up with this.
Dmitry Chulkov
Congratulations on the launch! Looks very interesting and fun! Will check it out!
Congratulations on the launch of this insightful and innovative experiment for YC aspirants!