Did you interview? Presumably you spoke to previous interviewees. Any difference in questions that you noticed?

Yes, I did and unfortunately I didn't get in. The interview was nothing like I expected, i.e. it was just PG and I talking about the idea. I intend to write a few blog posts covering the different stages of the application process as long as PG doesn't mind.

That would be awesome.

Is there anyone that wasn't accepted? Pretty much everyone I know and talked to got in. Maybe because of the increase to 1715 seats https://qht.co/item?id=4477283

My roommate wasn't accepted. He's a software engineer.

You mentioned in the comments "But in the end we made some bad decisions and Fate didn’t forgive us for it."

What were those bad decisions ? And were the reasons you made them choices or circumstance?

And if someone is relatively new in the fitness app market what would your advice/suggestions/cautions be to them?

I've posted a few things about this in reply to others, but my advice would be; don't make an app.

That sounds really jaded, but if you look at the massive players in the fitness space (e.g. BodyBuilding.com, CrossFit, LA Fitness, QVC ;) ) they are all either selling a dream or selling a sport/lifestyle... and all with large recurring revenues. At the other end, you've got millions of exercise trackers and exercise videos fighting over scraps in the app store...

I don't know what the next big opportunity is in fitness - or I'd be doing that - but I'm pretty sure it's not apps or quantified self or stuff like that. I've not yet seen anything that strikes me as "big". FitnessKeeper might get a great exit though - hope they do :)

I'm not sure that's such a great advice... I have some friends who ARE doing a fitness app (gympact) and they seem to be doing pretty well there (it's an exercise tracking/incentive app)

For the record, I've been in your shoes before. Started a mobile games company back in 2002, struggled for 3 years with almost no sales at all and had to shut down. Met a first-time founder in 2009 who had this idea of "opening a mobile gamung company" and advised him wholeheartedly about not going there. He's now hiring his 30th employee, making millions every month (and didn't even take VC money to start)...

TL;DR: it didn't work for you, but it CAN work for someone else...

You're totally right of course. I should clarify this (as I mentioned somewhere else on this page I think) by saying "I personally can't see a billion dollar opportunity in this space, but it doesn't mean there isn't one".

Could you elaborate on why not QS?

I'd love to have a really long debate with QS leaders because I'm uncertain of my views just yet. But here's a few thoughts:

1) Medical apps only track vital signs. Tells you nothing about chronic/progressing diseases yet

2) We don't need to obsess about stats to improve our lives. We don't need these kind of distractions.

3) Measurement is still highly manual for many cases. Won't hit the mainstream until people don't notice it.

4) What problems does it solve exactly? Withings is useful though, but only as a luxury/fun item.

It's too early. That's my only sure opinion. Far, far too early. But as this thread proves, I'm quite poor at predicting the future ;)

Could you give any examples from your portfolio of such young founders? What do you consider accomplishments? ( Might be subjective?)

Anyone know what the two YC companies Ben from Pinterest was a part of?

Audiobeta and MightyQuiz.

Is there a reason one must update to the latest editor or the latest version of the editor. I have been using Textmate for the past 5 years. It has served me really well. If it continues to work as it always does, upgrading is for better productivity?

You mean, no regex incremental search, single character undo and no split views? Yeah, works beautifully.

There are too many alternatives that overtook TM quite a while ago. Look at Chocolat for kinda Textmate-done-right, or Sublime Text 2 for something that goes well beyond Textmate.

But then, if you are happy with it, more power to you. It's not like it is broken...

Nah, Textmate 1.x is exactly as good as it was 5 years ago. Actually it's a bit better, the community has been releasing more bundles for it. TextMate 2 seems to have some better underlying architecture, but nothing better for productivity. Oh, except it's the new thing ;)

The danger with using an application that is not current like Textmate 1 is that an OS update could majorly break it and you would be stuck between keeping the tool you know or upgrading and losing access to it.

If an OS update breaks a text editor, pretty sure that a sign of an OS failure.

I'm happy I switched to cars even though horses served my ancestors quite well ;-) Still, I'll agree with you that not all releases are better. Let's hope that Textmate 2 will live up to its potential.

Back when I used textmate a year or two ago, it would crash and hang frequently, especially when dealing with large files or folders.

TM 1 and 2 can be installed side by side. It's not like you have to switch immediately. So you can just try it out for yourself.

Honest question: Why do startups continue to setup their own infrastructure on AWS with ops? Scaling? Cost?