Crowdery YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

Crowdery went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Maran NelsonFounder
Aditya ViswanathanFounder

What Crowdery does

Crowdery is an online platform, allowing its users to vote on their favorite product design out of a set. It then builds its users a personalized marketplace of their top picks, and top products are opened for them to pre-order at a discount. Crowdery was launched in 2013 by Maran Nelson and Aditya Viswanathan. It is based in Mountain View, C.A.

Crowdery's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Crowdery, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Crowdery

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Vote on products, create personalized marketplaces

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

We built an online platform where users vote on their favorite product designs from curated sets. Based on their votes, we generate personalized marketplaces with their top picks, offering the chance to pre-order popular products at a discount.

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

We live in San Francisco and are based here. After YC, the company would remain based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it's where we currently live and it's a natural place to build this type of e-commerce and design-driven product with access to users and potential partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Crowdery YC application?

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