Recurious YC Application

Winter 2009Inactive

Recurious went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2009
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Samuel HsiungFounder

What Recurious does

thesixtyone is Digg for new music, a social filter for the tsunami of indie creativity hitting the web. Like Digg, the homepage is community driven. Listeners who sign up are given a daily number of "hearts" they can use to vote on songs they like. If songs you heart become popular, you earn reputation points, level up, and unlock community abilities. Listeners can also earn achievement badges for various activities, like hearting songs in under-explored genres or reaching a playcount milestone. All tracks are fully streamable and can be organized in tag-based playlists. To lubricate the experience, they've invented an ajax navigation system that allows listeners to enjoy seamless audio playback across pageviews.

Recurious's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Recurious, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Recurious

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digg for discovering new independent music.

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

We built thesixtyone, a community-driven music site where listeners get daily 'hearts' to vote on tracks they like. As songs become popular, users gain reputation and unlock features. It organizes indie music discovery through social filtering and playlists with uninterrupted audio playback as you navigate pages.

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

We live in Mountain View, CA, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Mountain View because that's where we live and work. It puts us close to resources and talent we need to build and grow the product.

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 Recurious YC application?

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