GlassMap YC Application

Summer 2011Acquired

GlassMap went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 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 2011
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Geoffrey WooFounder/CEO
Jono ChangFounder
Jon ZhangFounder

What GlassMap does

Glassmap was acquired by Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) in January 2013. Glassmap is a simple, beautiful way to show your friends where you are and what you are up to! Use it to coordinate meetings and hangouts, keep up with loved ones, and serendipitously discover who and what is around you. Available for iOS and Android phones. Our mission is to make a clearer world and help people find life via Glassmap! Glassmap is backed by YCombinator and other top investors.

GlassMap's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GlassMap, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GlassMap

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Location sharing with friends

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

We built GlassMap to let people share their location and activities with friends in a clean, simple way. It helps users find each other spontaneously, coordinate meetups, and discover what's happening nearby. It's a social location-sharing app for iOS and Android focused on real-time presence and serendipity.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our users and the tech community are, so it makes sense to build and operate GlassMap from here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GlassMap YC application?

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