BiteSight YC Application

Winter 2024Active

BiteSight went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Lucious McDaniel IVFounder
Zac SchulwolfFounder

What BiteSight does

BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. Zac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19.. UberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. They've created a $30B opportunity for a delivery app that puts the customer experience first by combining high-quality videos, recommendations, and social proof from your most trusted food critics - your friends.

BiteSight's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

BiteSight

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The video-first food delivery app

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

We built BiteSight, an app that shows users short videos of food from nearby restaurants tailored to their tastes, then delivers the food to their door. Our approach is like TikTok meets DoorDash, focusing on discovery through video and social proof from friends rather than just menus or grids of options.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based here now and will remain so after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in New York because it's a huge food city with diverse restaurants and a vibrant delivery market. This gives us direct access to both users and restaurants for testing and growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real BiteSight YC application?

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