We also got rejected, from my experience it’s pretty pointless to ask for feedback as well as we applied several times in the past (to YC) and never got anything beyond “sorry just try again”. I mean that’s fine and they don’t owe us an explanation, I will just not apply again as it seems to be a waste of time and without useful feedback there’s not much I/we can learn from this. This time we were even explicitly asked to apply as we were a “promising candidate” with our YC application, which probably was just another mass e-mailing though.

Looking at the current batches it’s pretty difficult to say what exactly they’re looking for, as there are some ideas that I consider quite reasonable and others that seem completely ridiculous to me.

In general I get the (personal) impression that most of their grandiose talk changing the world is just marketing, in the end it’s just about what has a good chance to make decent money.

Sorry this is probably the disappointment speaking but my impression is that we’re mostly building unnecessary garbage and diversions while the real problems don’t get tackled. Just my 2 Cents anyway, good luck getting in next time :)