Curious Fictions YC Application

Winter 2018Inactive

Curious Fictions went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Tanya BreshearsFounder

What Curious Fictions does

Read short stories on the go, tip authors for stories you love.

Curious Fictions's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Curious Fictions, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Curious Fictions

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Patreon for professional authors

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

We built a platform where readers can access short stories on the go and tip the authors directly. It's designed for professional authors to connect with readers and get paid for their work through subscriptions and tips.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is central to the literary and tech communities we need to engage with. It lets us tap into a dense network of writers and early adopters.

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 Curious Fictions YC application?

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