Something that I've noticed is that there's a pretty reliable series of events that take place before you're rejected.

Rejection seems to go something like this:

First, you'll notice that someone is reading your application. It'll trigger one of your alerts and you'll switch to watching your logs in real-time. You see what they're clicking on and groan in horror: "Oh no! They didn't look at the wireframes!!?!"

And then it's over. Silence.

BUT! About 2-4 hours later you get another alert! Someone else is reading the app!

You think: "Neat! We must have impressed someone enough to make it to the next round of review! This will change our lives! I need to get ready to move to San Francisco! I just bought two dozen eggs at Costco today, how am I going to get all of those chickens out to California?"

And then it's over. Silence.

An hour passes, two, three, four.

You spend the rest of the night sifting though your logs with the enthusiasm of an FAA crash investigator. The next day you wake up and immediately check your logs and analytics again.

Silence. It's over. Back to work.

It leaves me wondering, what kind of activity do you see before an application is accepted? Is there a calm before the storm as they make their way through all of the applications or is it a steady stream of activity?

What have others experienced this round?