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I've often seen other applicants wish YC rejection letters came with feedback. Clearly writing such feedback would well surpass the pervasive constraints of YC, but could revealing the order in which rejection were made be helpful feedback to applicants?

From the YC Why Not page:

"We can only interview the top 70-80 groups, no matter how many good ones apply. From that cutoff down to about 350 or 400, the applications are pretty good."

So what do you think HN?

Would a rejection letter numbered 2530 of 2755 be cause to celebrate?

And likewise, would a rejection letter numbered 250 help push you to redefine your product?

http://loudly.com

Was it worth it?

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BTW, we aren't publicly revealing what we're up to yet, but if you email me asking for details, I'll likely spill the beans confidentially.

My girlfriend does fashion blogging on the side and had been wanting to tag her blog photos for a while. Eventually, she decided it'd make a good service and asked if I could help her code up a site for it. In the past few weekends, we've put this up:

http://tag.loudly.com

For a demo, here's a blog entry where she's using it:

http://www.phosphenefashion.com/2011/02/today.html

Want to try out the actual site? Just use the invite code HACKER or follow this link:

http://tag.loudly.com/welcome?invite_code=HACKER

Anyway, I know the HN community is always ridiculously insightful when asked for its advice, so here I am.

* What do you like and dislike about the service? * How might you extend upon it? * How would you promote it?