Plurchase YC Application

Summer 2009Inactive

Plurchase went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2009 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 2009
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Jeff FerberFounder/software developer
Dean MaoFounder
Tom SaffellFounder

What Plurchase does

Plurchase is an online social shopping site. From it, you can visit online shopping sites like Zappos with the additional of a social toolbar on the right hand side of the page. You can chat with other friends online and see what they are looking at on other shopping sites as well.

Plurchase's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Plurchase, Summer 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Plurchase

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Social shopping toolbar for online stores

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

We built an online social shopping platform that adds a toolbar to sites like Zappos. It lets users chat with friends and see what they're browsing in real-time while shopping online.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco because it's where we live and the center of tech and startups, so it's natural to base the company here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Plurchase YC application?

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