ReelSurfer YC Application

Summer 2012Inactive

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

Founders

Neil JoglekarFounder
Christian YangFounder

What ReelSurfer does

ReelSurfer lets anyone clip and share any video from any website. The vision is to build the most valuable content network on the planet - created by personal libraries of short, relevant videos that are saved, watched and shared with friends.

ReelSurfer's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ReelSurfer, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ReelSurfer

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Clip and share any video from any website.

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

We have built a tool that lets people clip any portion of a video from any website and share those clips with friends. It's a lightweight way to create personal video libraries of relevant moments, making video content more social and easy to share.

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

We both live in Menlo Park, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Menlo Park puts us close to the people building the platforms we interact with and other startups working on social and video tech. Being here gives us faster feedback and better access to partners and early users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ReelSurfer YC application?

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