PadMapper YC Application

Summer 2010Acquired

PadMapper went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2010 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: Summer 2010
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Eric DeMenthonFounder/PadMapper, Inc

What PadMapper does

PadMapper is a location-based apartment rental search engine with real-time filtering. PadMapper's entire browsing interface is taken up by a full-screen map, and listings are loaded as the user moves around the map. Zooming into the map loads more listings in that area, zooming out broadens the search. Listings are filtered out or allowed back into the results as filter sliders are moved. Apartment listings from hundreds of sites are included, including Craigslist, Apartments.com, ForRent.com, and Oodle.

PadMapper's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PadMapper, Summer 2010 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PadMapper

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Map-based apartment search

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

We built a location-based apartment rental search engine where the entire interface is a full-screen map. Listings update in real time as you move or zoom the map, and you can filter listings dynamically with sliders. We aggregate apartment listings from hundreds of sources like Craigslist and Apartments.com to give users a unified search experience that helps them find rentals visually and quickly.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company would be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the tech and real estate markets intersect, making it the natural place for PadMapper to grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PadMapper YC application?

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