Snipshot YC Application

Winter 2006Inactive

Snipshot went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2006 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 2006
Industry: ConsumerContent
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Beau HartshorneFounder
Greg DingleFounder

What Snipshot does

Snipshot is a photo editor that lets you start editing any photo with one click of a bookmarklet. You can use Snipshot to crop, resize, adjust colors, an automatically enhance you photos within your browser and then save it back to the web. There are a couple other photo editors in this category and Photoshop plans to get in as well.

Snipshot's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Snipshot, Winter 2006 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Snipshot

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Browser-based photo editor with one-click access

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

We built Snipshot, a photo editor you can open from any page with one click of a bookmarklet. It lets users crop, resize, adjust colors, and enhance photos right in their browser, then save them back to the web. It's for anyone who wants quick photo edits without opening heavy software.

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

We don't have a fixed location now and would base the company anywhere YC suggests.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Since Snipshot is a web product, location is flexible. We'll move wherever makes the most sense to grow and connect to users and partners.

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 Snipshot YC application?

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