Directed Edge YC Application

Summer 2009Active

Directed Edge 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: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Scott WheelerFounder

What Directed Edge does

Directed Edge delivers Amazon-like "People who bought this also bought..." and "We think you'd also like"-style recommendations to other sites, using existing data being collected such as purchase or click histories. Recommendations are served in real-time via a REST API, with language bindings in several programming languages to make integration easy.

Directed Edge's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Directed Edge

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Product recommendations

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

We build real-time product recommendation APIs that sites use to show 'People who bought this also bought...' or 'We think you'd also like' suggestions, based on the customer's existing purchase and click data.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're both in San Francisco already, which is where our early users and integrators are. Staying here lets us move fast and meet partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Directed Edge YC application?

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