Snapjoy YC Application

Summer 2011Inactive

Snapjoy went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 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 2011
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Michael DwanFounder/CEO
JP RenFounder

What Snapjoy does

Snapjoy is an online photo storage service that imports photos from anywhere and organizes them in a meaningful way. After uploading some photos, the app categorizes the photos for its user, using metadata to try to intelligently place the correct photos in each album. If the user uploads the same photo multiple times, Snapjoy ignores the duplicates. By default, everything uploaded to Snapjoy is private but users can still share photos with specific groups of friends, and if the users grant permission, friends can actually copy users’ photos into their own Snapjoy album. Snapjoy was launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Boulder, C.O.

Snapjoy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Snapjoy, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Snapjoy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Photo library

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

We built Snapjoy, an online photo storage service that imports photos from anywhere and organizes them automatically. It categorizes photos using metadata to put the right photos in albums and ignores duplicates. Users keep photos private but can share selectively and friends can copy photos into their own albums if allowed.

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

We live in Boulder, CO and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boulder is where the founding team lives and works. It's a convenient location for our team and fits our current size and needs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Snapjoy YC application?

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