1000Memories YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

1000Memories went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2010
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Rudy AdlerFounder
Jonathan GoodFounder
Brett HuneycuttFounder

What 1000Memories does

1000memories is the new shoebox for your old photos. 1000Memories allows people to organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and set up family trees.

1000Memories's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

1000Memories, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

1000Memories

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Memorial sites

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built 1000memories as a way to organize, share, and discover old photos and memories. It lets users create memorial sites and family trees to preserve history digitally. Our product works like a new shoebox for old photos, making it simple to upload and connect stories with images.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where all three of us are based now and where our early community and tech talent are. Staying here makes it easier to build and grow the product quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real 1000Memories YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from 1000Memories's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like 1000Memories would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.