For those with less experience, the disappointment will pass. Take a day if you need to reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it and how you could do it better.
Rejection is fuel for the fire, use it to burn brighter going forward.
Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that.
Team has changed, name has changed, product has changed, vision has been refined.
10/30 marks my 4 year anniversary for coming up with the core ideas behind Tinj. We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information starting with video ratings.
More than anything, I've grown enormously as an entrepreneur, as a developer and as a person.
You've spent 4 years working on a product that lets you draw a line on a time graph?
I mean, I see that it's synced to a video, and that's a small bit of interesting functionality, but...this is not a product. This is a feature of a product, maybe. It's a less-useful imitation of those "+/-" knobs that you see the results of during political debates on CNN.
I'm sorry, I really do like to see people succeed, but I think you need to move on from this idea.
If you're a fan of websites that mess around with scrolling functionality you're in for a treat!
Holy damn that site is all over the place if you try to scroll a bit too fast
as someone working on a video-based site I am interested in this concept but I just cannot use this website without irritation. Also there's barely any "Now you've seen that it's pretty, this is what it does" information.
You'll get there, with or without them. That kind of persistence will eventually pay off because you're not letting outside factors determine your success as much as you can. Kudos!
Persistence isn't always a virtue. If you've been rejected 7 times, please stop expending your time and emotional energy on YC.
Redirect that energy to building your business. Build your product and get customers/users, which is the real endgame, not getting into YC or getting a check from a fancy Sandhill VC.
> If you've been rejected 7 times, please stop expending your time and emotional energy on YC.
I'm not OP but your comment makes it sound like he or she is spending significant time on applications and neglecting business. Granted the application isn't a really quick thing to fill out but it's also not something that takes so long that it can impact your business negatively.
For those with less experience, the disappointment will pass. Take a day if you need to reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it and how you could do it better.
Rejection is fuel for the fire, use it to burn brighter going forward.
Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that.