YCombinator Fellowship Fake Acceptance Letter

kurt braget
1 min readAug 19, 2015

22 days ago we turned in a application to YCombinator Fellowship for our startup www.topchart.io. As you can imagine, we were pretty excited and optimistic.

Today, I got an acceptance letter, saying they would call me to set up a meeting. I was laughing. I called everybody to tell them. My friends, family, investors.

Then I realized the email was fake.

Whoever this guy/girl is that sent this out probably scraped them from somewhere, since YC assured me they weren’t hacked. Either way it’s pretty fucked up, although I admit it’s kinda funny too.

If you feel really bad for us, come use our site and help us keep pretending we got in.

Sincerely,

TopChart Team

Here is the letter :(

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Responses (3)

Congratu-oh wait. Kidding. You took it well, my friend.

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Yesterday during sunset I was hiking back from Mt. Lee (Hollywood Sign) when I received a text from my wingman, my friend Kurt Braget. We met at an accelerator in Venice, CA three years ago. We’ve been through a lot and have supported each other…

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Sorry to hear that — the way you set up charts for founder videos was a neat trick to get you noticed and I really thought would take you to the interview round.
Oh well, that just means both of us will get accepted next time! ;)
All the best from your fellow applicant Team Q4U!

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