Snappr YC Application

Winter 2017Active

Snappr went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2017
Industry: B2B
Team size: 250
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Matt SchillerFounder/CEO

What Snappr does

Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, backed by the largest marketplace for on-demand photography and photo editing services. Snappr Shoots is a self-service product for anyone to book a photoshoot in as little as 60 seconds. Snappr Workflows is a SaaS solution for brands for automating visual content pipelines.

Snappr's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Snappr, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Snappr

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation

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

We provide two main products. Snappr Shoots lets anyone book a professional photoshoot in under 60 seconds through our marketplace of photographers. Snappr Workflows is a SaaS tool that helps brands automate their entire visual content creation pipeline, from shoot requests to delivery.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right tech talent and access to customers for both our marketplace and SaaS business. It's where we built our network and product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Snappr YC application?

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