Sixty YC Application

Summer 2017Inactive

Sixty went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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: Summer 2017
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Andrew King
Alex Tapper

What Sixty does

Sixty is the fastest way to get on demand web app help. Hire an expert by-the-minute to jump on a screenshare for help with your web design, development, software implementations, and more. Starting at $1/min.

Sixty's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sixty, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sixty

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

On demand web app help

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

We built a platform where users can instantly hire experts by-the-minute to jump on a screenshare and get help with web design, development, software implementations, and related web app tasks. Our product connects customers needing hands-on assistance with vetted specialists in real time, starting at $1 per minute.

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

We're currently in San Francisco, CA, and plan to stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right talent and access to the early users we want to serve in web product engineering and design.

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 Sixty YC application?

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