GraffitiGeo YC 지원서

Summer 2009Acquired

GraffitiGeo은(는) Summer 2009 배치에서 Consumer 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Summer 2009
산업: ConsumerContent
팀 규모: 2
상태: Acquired
출시됨: 2012

창업자

Nikhil PanditFounder
Jared TameFounder

GraffitiGeo의 사업 내용

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.

GraffitiGeo의 YC 지원서, 재구성됨

Y Combinator 지원

GraffitiGeo, Summer 2009 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

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.

전체 지원서에서 21개의 추가 답변

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GraffitiGeo의 실제 YC 지원서인가요?

아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 GraffitiGeo의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. GraffitiGeo과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.