Fridge YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

Fridge went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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 2010
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Austin ChangFounder/CEO
Alex ChungFounder

What Fridge does

The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook. The Fridge makes private conversation, media, and event sharing dead simple. The Fridge is like Tumblr for social networks. Anyone can easily create shared spaces, invite their friends and socialize/share photos, videos, music, and more. The Fridge reinvents how groups interact online allowing users to cut through the clutter of their social graph and create lightweight targeted spaces for personal and private relationships, special interest groups or clubs, or any temporary network around events, gatherings or nights out on the town...

Fridge's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Fridge, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fridge

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Disposable social networks

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

We built Fridge to create lightweight, temporary social networks that let people share privately with just the right group. It's like Tumblr but for private social spaces where users can share photos, videos, music, and events without the clutter of their full social graph or needing Facebook.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the early tech and social startup community is. Staying here keeps us close to potential users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Fridge YC application?

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