[winterplace]

How recent was recently?

> https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/new-year-new-company

> What if I already applied to W24?

> Unfortunately, you won’t be eligible. This is only for founders who did not already apply for W24, since we already sent out notifications for our regular application cycle.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572504

> we know there are founders that haven't already applied

> This is for founders that did not already apply for the W24 batch at some point in the past.

Looks very explicit. Did you not find those explicit rules when you were looking?

Also looked at the number of times they mentioned founder and the number of times they mentioned different idea.