See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290

I got rejected, but I was expecting it - we didn't do ourselves any favors with our video, and we were way too early in the cycle (we didn't even have an english version of our webpage).

The YC Fellowship would have been a better fit for us, I really hope the experiment works and they do it again! :)

In case you didn't know about it: https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/