Wundrbar YC Application

Winter 2008Inactive

Wundrbar 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Andrew DudleyFounder
Nicholas GrandyFounder

What Wundrbar does

Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar strives to appeal to a larger audience and to incorporate functionality that helps people manage their personal online accounts in addition to searching the web.

Wundrbar's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wundrbar

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Search bar with powerful inline commands

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

We are building a search bar replacement that lets users execute inline commands to do more than just search the web. It also helps users manage their personal online accounts directly from the bar. Our product is like YubNub but designed for a larger audience and broader functionality.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the technical talent and network we need to build and grow Wundrbar, so it makes sense to stay here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Wundrbar YC application?

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