Today I can not stop thinking why not people got rejected start a network and help each other.
At least we could get feedback from each other, which we could not get from rejection.
Any thoughts?
You're proposing to create a group of people who YC has decided are not likely to succeed. That doesn't make any sense.
YC alumni might want to be in a network so they can collaborate, make deals with each other, or find new jobs when their own company fails.
Why would you want to do that with the rejected group? Why not try to do that with other companies in general? There are lots of opportunities to meet other founders in any city with a decent level of entrepreneurship.
So why not...
If they've been rejected from YC, they're not failures. They're still working on their idea. You can't learn from their failure until they actually fail.
It's also really hard to learn from the failures of others. Most people only learn the hard way. I'm one of them, so I don't meant that in a judgmental way at all.
This article is probably a reasonable way to look at not getting accepted: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/09/30/why-ive-stopped-do...
To put it another way, even though asshole founders can succeed, YC purportedly selects against possible asshole founders when they are identifable. Part of this I suspect is general principle. Part, I suspect, is that asshole founders create additional work.
Finally, most entrepreneurs in most cities are not founding the sort of businesses that YC and the rest of Silicon Valley would classify as startups. Outside the bubble, an LLC that opens a restaurant gets called "a startup". While there are people in most markets doing businesses that take rocket fuel and either blow up or reach orbit, that model is much rarer out in the regular world.
If we're not your target, you might not get the feedback you need.
Edit: there are lots of other networks available too. Getting into YC is extremely hard due to the sheer amount of applications they get, but they're not the only mentorship opportunity you can get.
In my case, we're being mentored by a local university, they don't have YC's pedigree but they helped several very succesful companies by local standards.
The analogy to YC's alumni network would be that YC alumni from different initial companies sometimes join together to form new companies or go to work for successful YC companies based on network effects.
That said, I don't at all disagree that product and customers are in general much more important than networking with other entrepreneurs. That doesn't mean that for some people finding a cofounder isn't a priority or that expanding a professional network could not be more important "right now" for long term success. Logistics also matter...so long as they don't displace head down determination to work like a rented mule.
This is the kind of thing where the answer is you write emo poetry or watch tear jerk movies or something until you have an actual answer in hand.
My actual purpose is I want to see rest of them.
I have a sandbox website that I have long neglected where I want to talk about the architecture of ideas. Execution reveals assumptions you did not know you had. To have a successful start up, you need a density of value in your concepts.
I think most failed start ups have serious errors in their ideas, kind of like early pregnancies that miscarry because they aren't viable.
Unlike pregnancy, a startup has opportunities to become aware that it doesn't work and to self correct -- to pivot, for example.
You might learn something from seeing all the demos, but a "rejection club" is not a great way to reach out to people and ask for access to that information. You aren't even yet rejected. This is just seriously not the way to approach this.
Many applicants may not like to show failed application to unknown people. But to a group of peers who experienced same thing, we could possibly share and learn from each other's application.
Best of luck.
But since already prepared the application, why not show it to more people?
Because most people will have strong opinions about it, and those opinions will be wrong. The only people who have the right opinions are your prospective customers. Go show it to them.