If the front page story yesterday is anything to by, wait a couple more hours.

Applied yesterday. I have a feeling that was a big day for submissions. Hope they get past our video. It was pretty ridiculous.

Applied about 2 weeks ago. Hoping the early application gave us some type of advantage ;) Good luck to all who applied!

I'm thinking of making a business to deploy ubiquitous services with the help of collaborative wiki-tagging products. Or maybe generate Facebook-driven architectures using leading-edge ROI. Or maybe deploy frictionless services accurately via venture-backed cloud-funded models.

Do you think YC will like these ideas? ;)

My brain just shifted paradigms without a clutch.

Startup generator, nice.

any guess on number of applicants this years ?

I'm sure there are hundreds, but I really want to know how many are serious and what their motivations are.

I applied this cycle because I need to be somewhere where big ideas + execution are considered the norm rather than where I am now, where web apps seem like a thing to put on your resume to get work at a bland company writing Crystal Reports on business development ROI.

sounds like you should just move to the valley irrespective of yc.

I'm strongly considering it, it's a lot more difficult for a non-american though. If I was from Portland or Tuscon, I'd be there already.

Think I could find that in say... Seattle? Who should I talk to then?

I'm not ready to pick up and move to the Valley. Yet.

Amazon and Microsoft are headquartered near Seattle, and other well-known companies (eg Google) have offices in the area. Plus I am sure there are lots of smaller companies around.

no, go to SF or stay where you are till you're ready to move to SF.

36 companies last batch rumored 3% acceptance rate = ~1200 applications?

probably majority of the 1200 applications submitted on the last 2 days.

Just submitted ours yesterday too...pretty pumped to hear more. Thanks for what you do!

We applied yesterday and we are so excited! Go YCombinator!

how do you save your current application? After I edit and submit, there is no link to save a local copy of the application.

Just use your browser. File --> Save Page.