Aidy YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Aidy went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a Healthcare 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: Winter 2024
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Max WilliamsonFounder
Peter CrockerFounder
Greg MillerFounder

What Aidy does

Aidy is a mobile app that helps people live fuller lives with chronic health conditions, beginning with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis). Our app lets users easily log their symptoms, diet, and treatments, then uses clinical indices to track disease severity and trends over time. Aidy excels at identifying patterns between diet, treatment adherence, and symptoms, giving our users a much more comprehensive and up-to-date picture of their condition to supplement clinician care. Previously in our careers, both Max and Peter worked in health in different capacities. At the Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Senate, Max worked in public health policy and COVID-19 response, while Peter worked as an ML researcher for a number of biotech companies. After a lengthy “pivot hell” we decided to finally listen to a friend with IBD who insisted that there weren’t any decent apps to help people live with the disease. Pretty quickly, we discovered how LLMs and regular structured questionnaire responses could provide a level of patient empowerment not possible before for chronic diseases. From there, Aidy was (re)born!

Aidy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aidy, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aidy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile app for managing chronic health conditions

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

We built a mobile app that helps people with chronic conditions, starting with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, track symptoms, diet, and treatments. It uses clinical indices to measure disease severity and finds patterns between lifestyle, meds, and symptoms to give users better insight into their health beyond what clinicians provide.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here, and will continue to be after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco because of its tech ecosystem and healthcare talent. It makes it easier to find early users, partners, and engineers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aidy YC application?

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