OSIMple YC Application

Winter 2018Inactive

OSIMple went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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 2018
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionConstruction
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Amanda ChanFounder
Mike MillerFounder/CTO

What OSIMple does

OSIMple automates data entry for inspectors by replacing stacks of paper with tablets and by generating completed inspection forms. This saves inspectors almost half of their inspection time. Founder Amanda Chan and Michael Miller came across the idea while talking to friends and professors in the civil engineering department at their university. They started building better software for bridge inspectors who were using very manual processes, and it’s been used on over 400 bridges so far. They’ve recently expanded to service home inspectors as well. Robust, easy to use software and committed team of self-starters providing fast and reliable customer service. We are chalk full of Software Engineering expertise and ready to automate routine inspection tasks to let you focus on meaningful work.

OSIMple's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

OSIMple, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

OSIMple

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Software for inspectors to automate their paper workflow.

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

We are building software that replaces paper forms for inspectors with tablet-based data entry. The product automates data entry and generates completed inspection reports, cutting inspection times by about half. We started with bridge inspectors and are expanding into home inspections.

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

We live in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Kitchener because it's where both founders live and where we have direct access to civil engineering contacts and early users in construction inspection.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real OSIMple YC application?

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