Candidature YC de GraffitiGeo

Summer 2009Acquired

GraffitiGeo a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2009 en tant qu'entreprise Consumer. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2009
Secteur d'activité: ConsumerContent
Taille de l'équipe: 2
Statut: Acquired
Lancé: 2012

Fondateurs

Nikhil PanditFounder
Jared TameFounder

Ce que fait GraffitiGeo

At its core GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" - it's like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a "Digg for the world". These reviews and votes can be cast from the site's iPhone app or from the service's homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There's also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town. The gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare, but doesn't really let you do anything with them. With GraffitiGeo, you earn points for every action you take, be it voting on a restaurant or leaving a brief comment. Once you've reached a certain point threshold, you can use those points to start a "mob", which you can invite your friends to join. Mobs allow friends to pool their points, which can then be used to acquire territory, which corresponds to actual city blocks. Whenever someone votes on one of the restaurants on the block, the mob gets some street cred too. It's definitely going to be confusing at first, but it also brings a team element to gameplay.

Candidature YC de GraffitiGeo, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

GraffitiGeo, promotion Summer 2009. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GraffitiGeo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We tell you where to go and what to get once you get there.

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

We built a location-based app and website where users can quickly vote up or down and leave brief reviews of restaurants. Users see a live stream of nearby comments and a heatmap highlighting hot spots. We add a game layer with points for actions and let groups of friends form mobs that pool points to claim city blocks. This combines real recommendations with social gameplay around places.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and the company would be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work here already. Palo Alto is close to where we built the product and early users, making it easy to iterate fast.

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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de GraffitiGeo ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de GraffitiGeo (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme GraffitiGeo se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC GraffitiGeo appartenait-il ?

GraffitiGeo faisait partie du batch Summer 2009 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé GraffitiGeo ?

GraffitiGeo a été fondé par Nikhil Pandit, Jared Tame.

Que fait GraffitiGeo ?

We let you know where to go and what to get once you get there.…

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

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