Hotspots YC Application

Winter 2011Acquired

Hotspots went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 batch as a B2B 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 2011
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Matt HuangFounder/CEO
Alexander SpicerFounder

What Hotspots does

Moki.TV is a directory of all paid and free content included on Amazon's streaming service, Netlfix, Hulu, iTunes, and others.

Hotspots's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hotspots, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hotspots

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time analytics for streaming content

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

We built Moki.TV, a real-time directory and analytics platform tracking paid and free content on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and others. It helps marketers and content providers understand distribution and availability in one place.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the tech and media industries intersect, which is crucial for our product focused on streaming content analytics. Being here lets us be close to partners and early customers.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hotspots YC application?

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