Pixelapse YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

Pixelapse 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Min Ming LoFounder
Shravan ReddyFounder

What Pixelapse does

Pixelapse is the best place to share designs and work together. We build tools to improve the design process and make collaboration easier. Pixelapse simplifies version control and makes it accessible for designers to share and discuss their work with their friends, colleagues and the world.

Pixelapse's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pixelapse

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Github for designers; design version control

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

We are building Pixelapse, a tool that automatically tracks revisions of design files and makes version control accessible to designers. It lets designers share work, compare changes, and collaborate with teammates without the technical overhead of traditional developer tools.

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

We live in Palo Alto, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live here and want to stay here because the community and access to designers and engineers are strongest in Palo Alto.

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 Pixelapse YC application?

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