iJigg/Top440 YC Application

Summer 2007Inactive

iJigg/Top440 went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2007 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 2007
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Bilal FarooquiFounder
Shadab FarooquiFounder
Zaid FarooquiFounder

What iJigg/Top440 does

iJigg is a social music site that lets users vote on submitted singles using Digg-like voting. The site's home page shows what popular or recent singles the iJigg community is "jigging." Users can rate songs, embed songs on MySpace or find similar music fans. Competitors include Contrastream. Social music competitors include FineTune, Last.fm, Pandora and iLike.

iJigg/Top440's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

iJigg/Top440, Summer 2007 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

iJigg/Top440

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Social music site with digg-style voting for singles

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

We built a site where users submit singles and vote on them like Digg. The homepage shows popular and recent songs the iJigg community is "jigging." Users can rate tracks, embed them on MySpace, and find others with similar tastes. It's a social way to discover music through community voting rather than algorithmic recommendation.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live now and is the center of startup activity and early adopters for music and social tech. It's the right place to build a social music community and network with artists and fans.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real iJigg/Top440 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from iJigg/Top440's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like iJigg/Top440 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.