Hyperpad YC Application

Summer 2014Active

Hyperpad went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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 2014
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Murtaza SaadatFounder/CEO
Hamed SaadatFounder

What Hyperpad does

Hypercard for iPad. Allows non-technical people to create media rich interactive apps like mobile games then publish them to the App store as native apps with out writing a single line of code.

Hyperpad's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hyperpad, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hyperpad

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Create, Share, Play Mobile Games on the iPad.

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

We built Hyperpad, an iPad app that lets non-technical users create media-rich interactive apps, mainly mobile games, without writing any code. Users can then publish their creations as native apps on the App Store. It's like Hypercard for the iPad, focused on ease of use and game creation.

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

We currently live in London, Ontario, Canada, and after YC we plan to base the company here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We picked London, ON because it's where we live and work as a small team of four. We want to keep the team together and stay close to our early users and community rather than relocate after YC.

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 Hyperpad YC application?

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