Candle YC Başvurusu

Fall 2024Active

Candle, Consumer şirketi olarak Fall 2024 grubunda Y Combinator'dan geçti. Aşağıda: şirketin ne yaptığı, kimin kurduğu ve gerçek YC formunda yeniden yapılandırılmış YC başvurusu.

YC grubu: Fall 2024
Sektör: Consumer
Ekip büyüklüğü: 2
Durum: Active
Lansmanı Yapıldı: 2024

Kurucular

Alex RuberCo-Founder and CEO
Parth ChopraCo-Founder and CTO

Candle ne yapar

Most relationships, romantic or platonic, don’t end in one moment, they drift apart over time. Missed check-ins, surface-level conversations, busy lives, and routines replace real connection. Candle helps couples and friends stay close through 1-minute daily rituals that bring back presence, play, and curiosity. Candle gives couples and friends a daily, low-pressure game designed to create emotional momentum: the most essential, and often most neglected, ingredient in long-term connection. What started as a swipeable questions game has grown into a full platform and private space for your relationship: - Daily Prompts & Games: Thoughtful, funny, and unexpected questions, couple quizzes, audio and photo challenges that update and adapt monthly - Shared Canvas Widget: Leave notes, doodles, or drawings right on each other’s home screen - Now in beta: Date Ideas Swiping**: Get 60 curated date ideas based on your area (yes, even San Francisco:)), updated weekly. Swipe to match on what you both want to try. From pop-up events to hidden gems, it’s the easiest way to try something new together or even with friends or family! We’d love feedback here! - Streaks & Shared Progress - Build accountability and a shared rhythm - Adaptive Decks: Smarter, more relevant questions over time - Shared Photo Albums & Memories: Keep track of all your photos and logged memories

Candle'in YC başvurusu, yeniden yapılandırılmış

Y Combinator başvurusu

Candle, Fall 2024 dönemi. Gerçek form soruları, herkese açık verilerden yanıtlandı.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Candle

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helps friends and couples grow closer daily in 5 minutes

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

We make Candle, a platform that helps couples and friends stay emotionally close through daily 1-minute rituals. It started as a swipeable questions game and evolved into a richer space with daily prompts, games, shared notes and doodles, adaptive question decks, streaks, and curated date ideas. Our product focuses on building emotional momentum through low-pressure, daily interactions that many relationships miss.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and work now. It's also where our initial users are and where we can best build and test new features in real life.

Tam başvuruda 21 ek cevap

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference tam sürümde. YC Insights'ta, diğer her YC grubu yanında açmak için ücretsiz bir hesap oluşturun.

Tüm başvuruyu gör

Sıkça Sorulan Sorular

Bu, Candle şirketinin gerçek YC başvurusu mu?

Hayır. Y Combinator gönderilen başvuruları gizli tutar. Bu bir yeniden yapılandırmadır: gerçek YC form soruları, Candle'in kamuya açık verilerinden (lansman notları, kurucu geçmişleri, ürün açıklaması) yanıtlanmıştır. Candle gibi bir şirketin YC'ye kendisini nasıl sunacağını gösterir, gönderdikleri metni değil.