Collections YC Application

Summer 2012Inactive

Collections went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 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: Summer 2012
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Jordan LeeFounder/CEO
Tony XiaoFounder/CEO

What Collections does

Collections is a cross-platform personal content manager built for the age of cloud computing. It gives you access to everything you have stored in cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive and in web apps like Facebook and Instagram, as well as your local files. As a universal finder for the cloud, Collections lets you bring together all of your most important digital content, helping you to regain control over your online presence. What would Apple's Finder look like if it were invented today, rather than in 1983? Collections is an Internet-age personal content manager, a fundamental reinvention of the file manager that lets you easily access and organize all of the digital content you have that's currently scattered across a dizzying array of cloud storage providers and web apps. It's a file system for the web.

Collections's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Collections, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Collections

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Finder for the Cloud

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

Collections is a personal content manager that connects to your cloud services and web apps like Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, and Instagram, along with your local files. It lets you search and organize all your digital stuff in one place, acting as a universal finder for the cloud.

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

We live in Mountain View, CA and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mountain View is where we both live and offers proximity to engineering talent and potential partners. Staying here keeps us focused and close to the tech ecosystem.

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 Collections YC application?

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