Brushes YC Application

Summer 2010Inactive

Brushes went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 batch as a B2B 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Kurt RevisFounder
Steve SprangFounder

Brushes's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Brushes

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

iPad drawing software

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

We built Brushes, an iPad app for digital drawing and painting. It lets designers, product teams, and engineers sketch and create visuals with the precision and feel of a real brush, but optimized for the iPad's touchscreen. Our goal is to replace clumsy desktop tools and physical sketches with something fast, tactile, and intuitive on mobile.

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

We don't have a fixed location currently. After YC, we would base the company wherever makes the most sense to build the product and work closely together, likely in the Bay Area.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We picked no fixed location yet because we wanted to stay flexible and focus first on product development. Post-YC, being near the Bay Area startup ecosystem seems important for growth and partnerships.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Brushes YC application?

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