Nasdisc YC Application

Summer 2021Acquired

Nasdisc went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Cam KorzeckeFounder
Simeon GoolsbyFounder
Christian WhiteFounder

What Nasdisc does

Nasdisc is a marketplace for the $4B worth of records purchased every year. The vinyl market has seen exponential growth in the past decade - the first 6 months of this year has already seen an increase of 108% in sales. Our platform takes a 12% cut, making this a $400mm opportunity that is more than doubling every year. Pressing plants are backed up years out, bots buy limited releases in seconds, and record prices are skyrocketing in both retail and aftermarket sales. Despite this growth, the only dedicated marketplace is difficult to use, doesn’t process transactions, yet facilitates over $600mm in vinyl exchanges per year. This is why I finally decided to quit my job at Google and recruit my best friends from college to fix it. We’re all software engineers and have been passionate about music and vinyl since we were kids, and have $50k in records ourselves. We started building a marketplace in July and launched our website 4 weeks ago. We now have $1k / week in sales, and $50k in listings.

Nasdisc's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nasdisc, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nasdisc

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A marketplace for vinyl, cassettes and cds

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

We're building an online marketplace focused on vinyl records, cassettes, and CDs. Users can list and buy physical music media securely with payments processed through our platform, solving the problem of a fragmented, inefficient secondary market.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent pool and community to support building Nasdisc, especially since we are all local and connected to the tech and music scenes here.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nasdisc YC application?

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