Chillabit YC Application

Winter 2016Inactive

Chillabit went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Kyle KaiserFounder/CEO
Sabby ChoudharyFounder/CMO
Tamara BainFounder/CTO
Mark GallowayFounder/Technical
Benjamin LavinFounder

What Chillabit does

On Chillabit, students share everything from interesting thoughts and questions to hilarious stories. It’s a collection of what’s important to the people around you.

Chillabit's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Chillabit, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Chillabit

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Chillabit is the best way to procrastinate!

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

We built Chillabit as a live feed where students share funny stories, interesting thoughts, and questions. It's a stream of what's important to the people around you, designed to keep users entertained and connected during downtime.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and plan to keep Chillabit based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto puts us close to the heart of the startup ecosystem and our users, most of whom are students around the area. It also makes logistics and networking simpler for us.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Chillabit YC application?

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