Slinkset YC Application

Summer 2008Inactive

Slinkset went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2008 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 2008
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Brett GibsonFounder
John BaunachFounder

What Slinkset does

Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.

Slinkset's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Slinkset, Summer 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Slinkset

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Votable lists

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

We built a white label social news platform that lets anyone launch a social news site and embed it on their existing website. It lets users create, vote on, and share lists. Essentially, we open up social news publishing to people who want to run it under their own brand instead of relying on centralized sites.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and the center of the startup community, so it makes sense to base Slinkset here for access to talent and investors.

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 Slinkset YC application?

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