Rhythmm YC Application

Winter 2018Inactive

Rhythmm went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Raymond (George) KennedyFounder
Zachary Waleed SarafFounder

What Rhythmm does

Rhythmm is a social app that enables its users to share interesting thoughts and conversations. Users can follow awesome channels and tap through each thought, finding their Rhythmm. They can also create their own channel, invite others to contribute or rock it solo, and the app help with the rest. Rhythmm wants to take live chat conversations from experts and interesting people and let others follow along. The startup wants to take the insights people are getting from chat groups on Telegram and remove all the noise with their own platform. Only people who have been invited by the chat creator can participate, everybody else just follows the conversations.

Rhythmm's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rhythmm, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rhythmm

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Read interesting conversations

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

Rhythmm is a social app that lets users follow and share interesting conversations and thoughts. Users can create channels, invite people to participate, or run them solo. The product removes noise found in chat groups by letting only invited participants contribute, while others follow along.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

We have the team and early users locally here in Mountain View, making it the natural place to operate from.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rhythmm YC application?

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