Lawn Love YC Application

Summer 2014Acquired

Lawn Love 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: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 150
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Jeremy YamaguchiFounder/CEO

What Lawn Love does

We're Lawn Love, a new type of lawn care service. We’re building a software layer on top of the very large and largely low-tech lawn care market. We solve two core problems: For consumers: Lawn Love is a modern, seamless lawn care experience. Gone are the days of physical, in-person estimates, payments left under the doormat, and spotty service. We use a combination of high-resolution satellite imagery, public and private data sets, and human review to generate a personalized quote for your yard - all in under two minutes and without ever setting foot on your property. From there, you are paired with a skilled lawn pro who will show up and complete the work. You can coordinate everything from your smartphone or web browser, and the entire experience is streamlined and delightful. For lawn pros: We start by bringing a pipeline of new customers straight to your door. No more spending hours hanging door hangers or dealing with snake-oil SEO salespeople. Just pick up whatever jobs you want, fill out your schedule, and you’re good to go. We also handle all the customer service, accounting, and collections; freeing you up to spend less time on the back-office work and more time in the field earning money. And that’s just the start: Our advanced job clustering and routing algorithms help build you much denser routes, allowing you to do up to twice as many jobs per day while slashing your fuel expenses and idle time. In short, we’re democratizing software that was previously only available to large companies in the space, and giving small business owners tools to operate more efficiently and better compete with the big guys.

Lawn Love's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lawn Love

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern, on-demand lawn care service.

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

We built a software platform that lets customers get an instant, personalized quote for lawn care using satellite imagery and data, then book local lawn professionals through the platform. On the pros' side, we provide tools that simplify scheduling, payments, and routing to help them serve more customers efficiently.

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

We live and operate out of San Diego, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Diego has a strong market for lawn care and access to local lawn professionals. It also offers a good tech talent pool and a cost environment better than the Bay Area for early-stage growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lawn Love YC application?

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