[flipside]

7th rejection, doesn't even phase me anymore. :P

For those with less experience, the disappointment will pass. Take a day if you need to reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it and how you could do it better.

Rejection is fuel for the fire, use it to burn brighter going forward.

Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that.

[paul]

"Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that."

Exactly right!

[aliakhtar]

7 times is a lot. Has it always been with the same product, or different ideas?

[flipside]

Team has changed, name has changed, product has changed, vision has been refined.

10/30 marks my 4 year anniversary for coming up with the core ideas behind Tinj. We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information starting with video ratings.

More than anything, I've grown enormously as an entrepreneur, as a developer and as a person.

[bobbles]

"We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information..."

reaction: cool!

"...starting with video ratings"

reaction: meh

[flipside]

I know, right?

One of these days I'll figure out the right way to explain things in writing...

[wernerb]

"Have you wondered what honest video feedback aligned to your own movie watching taste looks like? Check us out at tinj.com"

Haven't looked at your site yet, but this is what I would relate to. Good luck!

[corobo]

If you're a fan of websites that mess around with scrolling functionality you're in for a treat!

Holy damn that site is all over the place if you try to scroll a bit too fast

as someone working on a video-based site I am interested in this concept but I just cannot use this website without irritation. Also there's barely any "Now you've seen that it's pretty, this is what it does" information.

Document! document! document!

[SnacksOnAPlane]

Why is the product called "curve" in the demo video but "curv" on the site?

[flipside]

A misguided attempt at rebranding... Probably gonna change it again eventually.

[SnacksOnAPlane]

OK, this is me being a jerk, but:

You've spent 4 years working on a product that lets you draw a line on a time graph?

I mean, I see that it's synced to a video, and that's a small bit of interesting functionality, but...this is not a product. This is a feature of a product, maybe. It's a less-useful imitation of those "+/-" knobs that you see the results of during political debates on CNN.

I'm sorry, I really do like to see people succeed, but I think you need to move on from this idea.

[flipside]

4 years in the company, 10 months on this product.

It absolutely looks like a "bad idea", but all its deficiencies can be compensated and its strengths are unmatched.

[aliakhtar]

sorry to tell you this, but he's right, i wouldn't ever tug on a line while i'm watching a video. clicking a smiley / angry face, may be.

[flipside]

neither would i ;)

[ttty]

video, like movies or what? youtubes?

[flipside]

We'll start with YouTube but the original application was TV.

[tpae]

4th one for me. Thanks for the words of encouragement!

[jacquesm]

You'll get there, with or without them. That kind of persistence will eventually pay off because you're not letting outside factors determine your success as much as you can. Kudos!

[stevephillips]

You should blog about what you learnt at each iteration

[flipside]

I absolutely should, but I haven't figured out a system for blogging that doesn't take too much time.

[aliakhtar]

Just start posting it in self posts here or on reddit. I'd read it.

[DevX101]

Persistence isn't always a virtue. If you've been rejected 7 times, please stop expending your time and emotional energy on YC.

Redirect that energy to building your business. Build your product and get customers/users, which is the real endgame, not getting into YC or getting a check from a fancy Sandhill VC.

[flipside]

Applying to YC is a straightforward decision every time:

1. YC would definitely be helpful and worth the equity.

2. The application process is a helpful reality check for the status of my startup regardless of outcome.

3. I still believe we have crazy amounts of untapped potential.

I focus just fine on my startup the rest of the time.

[BinaryIdiot]

> If you've been rejected 7 times, please stop expending your time and emotional energy on YC.

I'm not OP but your comment makes it sound like he or she is spending significant time on applications and neglecting business. Granted the application isn't a really quick thing to fill out but it's also not something that takes so long that it can impact your business negatively.

[bosie]

Your website doesn't work on osx with chrome 38.0.2125.104.

clicking on 'contact' scrolls down and when it reaches the bottom it just snaps back to the top.