GiveAway YC Application

Winter 2020Active

GiveAway went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Sergei LepchenkovFounder

What GiveAway does

We help to get rid of the things in your house that are no longer needed without spending any time or money. Our users bid on your items with virtual coins and can often find great products up to 95% off.

GiveAway's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GiveAway, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GiveAway

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Community driven marketplace for used things

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

We built a marketplace where people can get rid of things they no longer need without spending time or money. Instead of traditional selling, users bid with virtual coins to win items, often getting products at big discounts. It's a mix of a social network and marketplace focused on circulation of used stuff.

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

We live in San Francisco, Minsk, and remote locations. After YC, we plan to base the company in San Francisco to be close to investors and partners while keeping engineering distributed.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are located where we built the product and have local connections - San Francisco and Minsk. We keep remote work because it fits our team's strengths and cost-effectiveness. YC would speed up our network and help us scale from SF.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GiveAway YC application?

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