u/Darknath78

Is anyone else stuck in an endless loop with the Claude for Startups application, or is their vetting process just completely broken?

​I’ve now tried to apply 5 times. On my first submission, I waited over 48 hours only to find out the system essentially silent-rejected or reset the form with zero explanation, no email, and no error message. The exact same thing happened on every subsequent attempt: submit everything, wait, and get bounced straight back to an empty application page.

​What makes this genuinely infuriating is scrolling through social media and seeing people openly brag about getting approved with fake business names, disposable domains, and literally zero legitimate infrastructure.

​Meanwhile:

​I run a legally registered, incorporated business with official government registration.

​Everything is legitimate: active domain (even for the email), verified founder profile, and real operations.

​Yet an automated filter or broken form logic just silently bins the application every single time.

​If an application is rejected, at least send a automated rejection email. Silently resetting the form and forcing legitimate applicants to guess whether it's a technical bug, a regional block, or an automated blacklist is terrible UX for a company building cutting-edge tech.

​Has anyone actually managed to get a manual review or reached someone on the startup team, or is this program just completely unmonitored at this point?

I’ve got a really weird story that happened 3 or 4 years ago when I was 16/17, and I still can't wrap my head around it.

​To give some context: I am completely of sound mind, I have no history of memory issues or lost time, and I am very meticulous about my pockets. I always keep my keys, my wallet, and my transit card grouped together in my front left pocket. It's a hardwired habit.

​One morning, I took the bus to school as usual. When I got off the bus and sat down in my computer science class, I reached into my pocket and noticed my keys were missing. My wallet and transit card were still there, but the keys were gone.

I spent the entire day looking for them. I retraced every single step of my day. I completely emptied my backpack, and I literally turned my pockets completely inside out in front of my friend and my teachers. They all witnessed that my pockets were 100% empty. I even called the school's front desk and the transit system's lost and found.

​And just to preempt the most logical explanation: I checked thoroughly, and there was absolutely no hole or tear in the lining of my pocket where the keys could have slipped and hidden temporarily. Besides, my keychain is massive and covered in random trinkets, so there is absolutely no way it could have just hidden in a tiny fold or gone unnoticed.

​By the evening, I had lost all hope of finding them. I walked back to the bus stop to head home. I plunged my hand into my left pocket to grab my transit card for the bus... and my fingers immediately wrapped around my keys.

​They were sitting right there, in the exact same spot they were supposed to be that morning. I had physically turned that specific pocket inside out hours before. There is absolutely zero physical or logical way they were in there all day.

​Has anyone else experienced an object "respawning" like this?

​TL;DR: Keys vanished from my left pocket on the way to high school. I turned my pockets completely inside out and emptied my bag in front of multiple witnesses (friends and teachers) to look for them. Found nothing, no holes in the pocket either. Reached into the exact same left pocket at the end of the day to get my bus card, and the keys were right there.

Alors qu'en pensez vous ???