Trigger YC Application

Winter 2008Inactive

Trigger went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2008 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 2008
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

James BradyFounder
Patrick BuckleyFounder

What Trigger does

Trigger makes the $15Bn mobile application market accessible by web developers. It's the simplest way to build amazing mobile apps using the best of HTML5 and native. Trigger has raised $1.8M in seed funding from top Silicon Valley investors including Y Combinator and SV Angel.

Trigger's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Trigger, Winter 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Trigger

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile app development platform for web developers

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

We are building a platform that lets web developers build mobile apps using HTML5 combined with native capabilities. It simplifies creating cross-platform mobile applications that work like native apps but are much easier to develop and maintain than traditional native codebases.

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

We live in San Francisco and would keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the engineering talent and mobile developer community we need. Being here puts us close to partners, investors, and users who shape the mobile app market.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Trigger YC application?

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