Get into Y Combinator
Learn from over 50 Y Combinator applications
My goal is to help people get into Y Combinator and I've created a website for past YC applicants to pay it forward and future YC applicants to learn from their experience. I've gathered over 50 YC applications so far.
@unamashana is the solo founder of MagicBell. Find out how she successfully applied to @ycombinator and got into the W21 batch.
https://getintoyc.com/company/magicbell/
Very excited to be adding the 54th application to the website. I'm waiting on 3 more applications!
- Announcing on Y Combinator Startup School forums got me some high quality traffic (▲ duration ▼bounce rate )
- Overall a slow week, with very little marketing
- In the process of obtaining 3 new applications this week
Didn't get a chance to announce on IH last week.
Great start to the week. I announced getintoyc.com on YC SUS and the post got featured – https://www.startupschool.org/posts/44572
Going to do the Indie Hackers announcement later today 🤞
Only about 1 month away from S22 applications opening, and I'm guessing people are already prepping!
- My LinkedIn post on Wed got some amazing engagement
- Also did an announcement on a YC Discord group
- Not sure how visitors are coming from PH, I haven't posted there yet
This week, I'll be announcing on Indie Hackers, a Slack group called Founderopedia, YC Startup School forum and FB group.
There are a few unofficial YC group chats on both Discord and Telegram. They aren't the most active but no harm spreading the word far and wide!
Also created a new promotional image which now shows the top few companies which have an application on the site. Hopefully this entices more people to check it out 🤞
The website got almost 200 new visitors in the past 24 hours. It's a new all time high!
The quality of visitors from LinkedIn have definitely been better with more pageviews per visitor and a lower bounce rate.
I've got a few more places to announce over the next few days!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markleehq_get-into-y-combinator-activity-6868921638990307328-jX1i
Been waiting for Black Friday deals to move getintoyc.com to a faster server. And the day has finally come!
I migrated from SiteGround to WPX 24 hours ago and my GTmetrix scores are off the charts! (View my tweet for a screenshot)
And yup, the website is built on WordPress. Everyone I've told has been very surprised 😂
It's the last full week of November!
I'll be officially announcing Get into YC on multiple channels this week and reaching out to a few more high profile YC alumni.
YC S22 applications should be opening mid January, so that gives me a comfortable amount of time to generate awareness for the website. People should already be preparing for their applications now.
Here are the website stats thanks to @ukutaht and @markosaric's Plausible Analytics
169 visitors & 501 pageviews
Indie Hackers is the top traffic source
with most visitors coming from the US
and mobile making being the most popular device
Really wish I could post images here, but you can check out my Twitter for a screenshot of the full stats – https://twitter.com/markleehq/status/1461367118117552138
Created a company page and shared the first post 24 hours ago. LinkedIn is now only 2nd to IndieHackers in terms of Get into YC's traffic sources. Initially I was surprised at how much traffic it brought, but I suppose the way LinkedIn builds everyone's feed encourages more virality. E.g. If I like a post, my connection's feed will show that "Mark has liked this post" and show the post even if that connection doesnt follow the author of that post.
p.s. I was going to share an image of the breakdown of all my top traffic sources to date, but it seems there is no way to upload an image here?