besides having an advisor, is there any difference between those who were supposed to be accepted originally vs the rejected ones?

Looks like Jared answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17807241

Got accepted in the follow up email (were rejected in the original email) with https://skillmint.com - One-stop shop for people to learn and improve their skills in sport, music and art

We've got a rejection email and then a couple of hours later a follow up email saying that there was an error and we were accepted! Super stoked about this opportunity. If anyone is interested, we're here - https://skillmint.com

We got a rejection mail too and then an acceptance email...hope this is legit now and no more changes.

We've just recently launched a feature to be able to book private lessons from local teachers and coaches through our platform (that's in addition to what our platform already allowed to do which was to be able to find local activity partners on the same level to practice your skills with).

We've already got a few dozens of private teachers signed up, but now it's time to turn to demand side and start bringing clients to them. We're kind of trying different things now with not much success. Any input on the recommended approach is much appreciated!

Count me in as well.

see ShowYC.com

that's great! Thanks!

yeah, that was for 2016... but I did hear that they still do it, it's just not formal and you have to follow their Twitter account to find out, not sure if that's true...

So I tried copying the site with fixed header and it broke the layout of your site - http://imgur.com/a/OADih

Otherwise, I like it for its simplicity.

Heh thanks yeah the nature of content editable. If you can still submit (use keyboard to tab-enter), it'll hopefully preserve that fixed hleader in the paste.

I completely agree with this article. In fact, I believe everyone who is in tech department, no matter the seniority (manager, director, even VP sometimes) should still be able to code. Really depends on the size of the company, obviously in a big company VP wouldn't be able to code just because he or she wouldn't have much time to do it with other day to day tasks.

I am Director of Engineering in a small company and I still code a lot. Our CTO codes as well.

I've seen some engineering managers who not only do not have CS degree but never coded and were hired just to manage engineers which I will never understand.

Agree with you. Ability to code and moreover an ability to contribute to the company codebase is something that should be present even at senior levels for a tech focused company.

At the same time, IMHO, somebody in a techno-managerial role with responsibilities of one or more tech teams may find it hard to devote more than 20% of their time to coding.

I was having a hard time finding tennis and ping-pong partners with the skill level that would match mine in my area. Every single service or platform that I've found was either too old or not too compelling to use it. That's when SkillMint was born. It allows you to find a partner for any sports or music skills you have.

Any feedback is welcome. And hopefully you'll like it so much that you'd want to use it yourself :)