DailyBooth YC Application

Summer 2009Acquired

DailyBooth went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2009 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 2009
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Ryan AmosFounder
Jon WheatleyFounder

What DailyBooth does

DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

DailyBooth's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DailyBooth, Summer 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DailyBooth

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time photo status updates with friends

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

DailyBooth lets users post pictures and status updates to share what they're doing in real time. Friends can follow each other's streams to keep up with daily moments, blending photo sharing with status updates.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and the center of the startup and tech community we want to be part of; it makes sense to keep the company here to tap into that ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real DailyBooth YC application?

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