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		csomar on March 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with... Well, if you are in the SaaS business, I expect that you have a beautiful and functional interface. If you are providing me something not related to the interface, then I don't care. (e.g. I'm using prgmr.com but I don't really care about the interface, their site design or an admin back-end; all I need is the shell).

alagu on March 20, 2012 [–]

I understand interface is important.

What I'm trying to understand is, if a team of amazing hackers don't understand site design, html and css - should they be rejected at YC?

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