Post your submission on HN. We'd love to tear it apart :)

Would the feedback really matter much?

What really matters is your determination and team. A few hundred words hardly puts them in a position to provide you valuable feedback on those factors.

Sure, other things matter more, but getting feedback certainly wouldn't hurt. Especially feedback coming from YC, because I respect their opinion and tend to think they know what they are talking about.

And, obviously, if I got feedback, I could always ignore it and be in the same position as I am now. I'd rather have more information than less.

A rejection doesn't mean there was anything wrong with your application / start-up / you personally at all.

All it means is that there were other start-ups that caught their attention more.

You have to remember that they look at this as a business process, and a huge part of that process is "can we make money off of this as well"; it's tough to ascertain that over a video.

Keep on trucking, and I'm sure you'll do fine. It's 90% perspiration anyways.

All valid points, but really has nothing to do with what I said ;)

I was just hoping they could provide feedback, since I assume they make a conscientious decision about each application.

They don't have to go through the list to figure out who they're saying "no" to, they go through the list to figure out who they say "yes" to.

They don't provide reasons, because there probably isn't a specific reason, other than the application wasn't one that wanted to make them say yes.

Feedback wouldn't necessarily be very useful. The feedback might be a meaningless number such as '42' in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Deep Thought (which doesn't really explain the result of the question).

At which case, I could ignore the feedback.

I don't see any room for argument here: the lack of feedback is a loss of information.

True.