Watchsend YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

Watchsend went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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: Summer 2013
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Ishaan GulrajaniFounder

What Watchsend does

Watchsend (YC S13) makes actionable software analytics that tells you where problems are and how to fix them by recording an entire app's state to extract behaviors, actionable analytics and visualize ordinary metrics in the context of the application's appearance, all in the familiar form of video.

Watchsend's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Watchsend, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Watchsend

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Videos of your iOS apps

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

We make actionable software analytics for iOS apps by recording the entire app state as video. Our product extracts user behaviors and analytics tied directly to what the user saw, helping developers spot and fix problems faster by seeing ordinary metrics in the exact visual context of the app.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco because it's where the engineering and product communities we engage with are strongest. It's also where we can connect to YC and the Silicon Valley network most directly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Watchsend YC application?

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