Has anyone applied to YCombinator before?

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Have you submitted your startup to YC before? If so, what was your experience.

Just submitted my startup for the Summer 22 batch :)

Ivan Ralic · Accepted Answer

Yes, but still not successfully 😅

For winter batch we were probably to late (we submitted it on 31st Dec.), but we'll try not to do that again 😂

I wish you all the luck with S22 batch! 🚀

Ivan Ralic · Answer

@solomon_bush I appreciate you coming back and clarifying this after figuring out the stats were wrong 😄

Yeah 50% is not bad at all 😄🚀

Solomon Bush · Answer

@ralic Actually, ~70% was a little generous. I just looked it up and they say "In a typical YC batch, about the half companies applied multiple times before being accepted." But ~50% is still really good, and statistically significant enough to favor applicants applying multiple times. So honestly it may work out for the best that you missed the W22 batch lol

Nabeel Amir · Answer

Nope, best of luck with your startup-proposal though!

Konstantin · Answer

Good luck Solomon!! Hopefully you'll get the results you are aiming for!

Konstantin · Answer

@ralic Same thing here! Identical 😅 
We will be applying next year too. Are you planning to try again?

Solomon Bush · Answer

@nabeel_amir Thanks Nabeel! I will post an update here when I get feedback.

Solomon Bush · Answer

@konstantin_sharespace Thanks! Fingers-crossed!

Has anyone applied to YCombinator before?

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