Mixwit YC Application

Winter 2008Inactive

Mixwit went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2008 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: Winter 2008
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Radley MarxFounder

What Mixwit does

Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skreamr.

Mixwit's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mixwit, Winter 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mixwit

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online mixtape service to create and share mixtapes

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

Mixwit combines the simplicity of Slide with the appeal of iTunes by letting users create and share mixtapes easily. It pulls in songs found through MP3 search engines like Seeqpod and Skreamr to let people assemble playlists they can share with friends.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the tech community we want to work with is concentrated. Being here helps us move fast and stay close to early users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mixwit YC application?

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