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by vlad 7009 days ago
If you honestly think PG rejected people based on their idea, I think you're wrong. That's probably the last criteria he used. So, work on the idea. I would reject 90% of submissions, too, if I was running something like this.

For example, with Google, Google AdSense was the glue that made everything work (profitability, great product, many users, good reputation, ability to have free food.) You might say their demo and pagerank was actually important, but they couldn't even sell that for $1 million dollars. Heck, even right now, nobody would buy their original technology as Yahoo! and MSN must have already surpassed the original PageRank in quality.

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yep vlad. As i told you, we know why we were rejected. so its not the idea
I think what's important is to do some preliminary user testing to see if people can even understand what the application is all about.

Of course, if you are trying to keep your idea secret, then this could be difficult to do.

Well its ok. We would dare to go ahead and see how users take our model
mukund, why don't u ping me: theoutlander at gmail....
The problem isn't when you have an idea and get rejected it's when you have a really good idea and still get rejected.

That's when it hurts.