Auctomatic YC Application

Winter 2007Acquired

Auctomatic went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2007 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: Winter 2007
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Harj TaggarFounder
Kulveer TaggarFounder
Patrick CollisonFounder

What Auctomatic does

Auctomatic, a Y Combinator company, offers an auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others. The application lets you list your items as well as manage your sales, but it also helps you understand how to best optimize your selling and maximize profits. The company also received an investment from Paul Buchheit, the lead developer of Gmail.

Auctomatic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Auctomatic, Winter 2007 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Auctomatic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Auction and marketplace management for individual sellers

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

We built an application that helps individual sellers on platforms like eBay, Amazon, and Overstock manage their listings and sales. It also provides tools for optimizing how they sell to maximize profits, saving them time and making selling more profitable.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our customers are active. Staying here keeps us close to the market and helps us recruit talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Auctomatic YC application?

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