Minefold YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

Minefold went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Dave NewmanFounder
Chris LloydFounder

What Minefold does

Simple to set up, on demand game servers. Minefold runs game servers for popular games such as Minecraft and Team Fortress 2. Servers can be created and running in under 30 seconds and players pay by the hour.

Minefold's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Minefold, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Minefold

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Simple multiplayer game servers.

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

We run game servers for popular multiplayer games like Minecraft and Team Fortress 2. Our service lets players spin up servers in under 30 seconds and pay by the hour, making multiplayer gaming easy to host and scale on demand.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the best place to build a startup focused on infrastructure and gaming, with access to talent, investors, and peers.

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 Minefold YC application?

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