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YC 2021 edits

YC 2021 edits

by Joe · 131 things on Twos

COMPANY
Company name:
Twos Technologies Incorporated
Company url, if any:
https://www.twosapp.com/home
If you have a demo, what's the URL? The demo can be anything that shows us how the product works. Usually, that's a video or screen recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOY9pmuom2U&t
Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
Twos is the best place to write anything down. Record, remember, and share your things for life.
Twos is the best place record, remember, and share information for life.
Twos is the best place to capture, remember, and share any piece of your life.
What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
Twos will be the biggest network of private and social information in the world. By making the process of writing things down quick, easy, and organized - people will write their important things in Twos.
Twos is an app and website focused on providing the best experience to record, remember, and share any piece of information. By making it quick, easy, and organized, Twos will become the biggest network of private and social information.
Twos will be the biggest network of private and social information. We combine a system of days, lists, & things which makes writing things in Twos quick, easy, and organized. Our vision is to expand on the types of things people can capture, while also relaunching the social half of Twos, which will redefine how people connect over shared interests, memories, and the things that matter most to them.
Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?
Tampa, United States / Austin, United States
Tampa. And wherever we need to be.
CONTACT
Personal email address of the founder who is filling out this application:
joe@twosapp.com
Phone number(s):
9046543924
FOUNDERS
Please provide the personal email addresses of the other cofounders in the startup. No need to add yours again. Founders must have at least 10% equity in the company. We will send an email to each founder to fill out additional information about themselves.
Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founder(s). This video is an important part of the application. (Follow the Video Guidelines.)
http://
How many founders are on the team?
2
CATEGORY
Which category best applies to your company?
Community (I think)
PROGRESS
How far along are you?
Twos is available on the app store and web at TwosApp.com - we have over one hundred and fifty MAUs and growing exponentially as we improve the product/marketing.
Twos is available on the app store and web at TwosApp.com - we have over 30 DAUs and over 150 MAUs. We are growing as we learn from our users and other founders to improve our product/marketing.
Twos is available on the app store and web at TwosApp.com - we have over 40 DAUs and over 160 MAUs. We are growing exponentially as we talk to users and other founders to improve the product/marketing.
How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.
Parker left his job with Google in March of 2021 to work on Twos full-time. Joe followed his lead in May 2021 and the two intend on keeping course until they change the world through the power of writing things down.
Parker started in 2015 and has been working part-time until he left his job with Google in March of 2021 to work on Twos full-time. Joe started in 2020 and went full-time in May 2021.
Parker taught himself JavaScript in 2015 and launched v1 of Twos in 2016. He has been working part-time until he left his job with Google in March of 2021 to work on Twos full-time. Joe started in 2020 and went full-time in May 2021.
Are people using your product?
Yes
Do you have revenue?
No
How many active users or customers do you have? If you have some particularly valuable customers, who are they? If you're building hardware, how many units have you shipped?
We have an average of forty daily active users and one hundred and fifty monthly active users. A user is only considered active when they have used the app more than five times in a given period. Mothers, musicians, and high-net worth individuals are all using our app.
We have an average of 36 DAUs and 150 MAUs. Most of our users are young business professionals and mothers. Our most valuable customer is a self proclaimed “notes nerd” who has tried every notes solution and said “Twos is the best notes app in the App Store”
We have an average of 45 DAUs and 160 MAUs. Most of our users are young professionals and mothers. Our most valuable customers are a self-proclaimed “notes nerd” who has tried every notes solution and chooses Twos; as well as a top producing real estate agent in Florida.
Anything else you would like us to know regarding your revenue or growth rate?
We are not currently focused on generating revenue. Twos is currently focused on the product, growing the user base, and finding the right product-market fit.
We are not currently focused on generating revenue as we believe Twos will always be free to the base user. We have recently started marketing the application, are focused on finding product market fit, and have experience good word of mouth organic growth.
We are not currently focused on generating revenue as we believe Twos will always be free to use. We have just started marketing the application, are focusing on problem-solving marketing, but have experienced good word of mouth organic growth.
If you are applying with the same idea as a previous batch, did anything change? If you applied with a different idea, why did you pivot and what did you learn from the last idea?
We are on v3 of the product and submit an update to the app store nearly every day. We were initially launched with a social platform which we have removed to focus on becoming the best place to write things down.
We temporarily removed the social feed to focus on recording information.
Twos has been available on the app store since April 2016. It has been rebuilt three times and just now what we believe to be a MVP. Our goal is to create the biggest network of private and social information by relaunching social in the near future.
If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please tell us about it.
We have not but think partnering with an accelerator will be extremely valuable for the stage we are in.
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IDEA
Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making?
Parker initially had the idea to combat his depression during his freshman year of college. He set out to create the best place to put your thoughts, needs, and memories. In our experience, most people we have spoken to are less than satisfied with the place they write things down and desire a more seamless experience. Which Twos offers, unlike any other application.
Parker has experienced many benefits from writing, including overcoming depression and finding out his personal mission. Parker saw a flaw in how we record and share information which stops us from writing in the first place. We’ve talked to people to validate they have the same issues and have received confirmation that Twos helps people record, remember, and share any piece of information.
Parker has experienced many benefits from writing, including overcoming depression and realizing his life's mission. Parker saw an opportunity to change how we capture and share information to empower people to write more things. We’ve spoken to many people who validate they have the same issues and seek a better place to capture, remember, and share any piece of their busy lives.
Ask yourself if your current tool for writing things down is quick, easy, and organized?
What's new about what you're making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)?
Twos stores pieces of information individually of the list it is on which allows users to write anything down quickly and organize it seamlessly. It allows us to be the quickest and easiest place to record and store any piece of information. In the future, we will expand on our private notes to allow sharing of days, lists, and things to improve people's connection with one another and to become the biggest personal and social network of information.
Twos is based on our daily lives and the pieces of information we come across. It stores information in pieces, which allows Twos to be the fastest way for users to record and organize their information. In the future, we will expand on private notes and allow sharing to improve human connection and knowledge in the biggest network of personal and social information. Currently, people use daily planners, post it notes, Apple notes, text messages, and emails which all lack in at least one aspect that Twos provides—longevity, memory, speed, accessibility, sharing, and organization
Twos is based around our daily lives and the things we come across and try to remember. It stores information in pieces, which makes it the quickest way for users to capture and organize their information. Twos will expand on private notes and relaunch Twos Social to redefine human connections and disrupt current social media outlets which simply share personal updates. Currently, people use daily planners, post-it notes, Apple notes, texting/emailing themselves, which all lack at least one aspect that Twos provides—longevity, memory, speed, accessibility, sharing, and organization.
Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?
Some of our competitors are Notion, Apple Notes, Evernote, notebooks, paper, sticky notes, and other productivity/task apps. We do not fear any of our competitors because they are not designed to store any piece of information. Mostly productivity-based.
Notion, Apple Notes, Evernote, Roam, notebooks, paper, sticky notes, email, and other productivity/task apps. Twitter and Facebook could become competitors if they incorporated private recording. We fear Notion the most, but don’t think they are not considering storing any piece of information like we are or with the social side we envision.
Notion, Apple Notes, Evernote, Roam, notebooks, paper, sticky notes, email, and other productivity/task apps. Twitter, Facebook, and Google could become competitors if they incorporated private capturing of information. We fear Notion the most, but their model is more focused around enterprises instead of the consumer. They also lack many features that makes Twos the quickest, easiest, and best place to write things down.
What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?
People have many more thoughts then just tasks. There is immense value in being able to write down your thoughts, memories, dreams, goals, along with tasks. Our user retention is so high because once people start writing things in Twos they are not willing to let go of that information and want to be reminded of their favorite life moments.
People have more thoughts than tasks. There is value in recording thoughts, experiences, dreams, and goals, along with tasks. And once people record information privately, they should be able to share that information, or pieces of it, quickly and easily to connect with and teach others.
People are constantly bombarded with new information and have more thoughts than just tasks. There is value in recording thoughts, experiences, dreams, and goals, along with to-dos. Once people capture their lives privately, they should be able to share those experiences, or pieces of it, to teach and connect with others.
How do or will you make money? How much could you make?
(We realize you can't know precisely, but give your best estimate.)
We will make money through advertising, acquisition, pro-feature subscriptions, sales lead generation and taking a percentage of people selling their lists within Twos. We feel like the revenue potential Twos has is exponential. We are focused on creating the biggest network of private and social information which creates a community of brand-loyal customers who will want to improve their experience using Twos with pro features or by acquiring new information. We would like to be acquired for no less than $2 billion USD.
We will make money through advertising (on the social side), pro-feature subscriptions, sales lead generation, taking a percentage of people selling their lists within Twos, and eventually acquisition. The revenue potential of the biggest network of private and social information is exponential, but we predict it will be billions per year.
We will make money through advertising (on the social side), pro-feature subscriptions, sales lead generation, taking a percentage of people monetizing their lists within Twos, and eventual acquisition. The revenue potential of Twos is exponential, but we predict it will be billions per year.
How will you get users? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be attractive to users till it has a lot of users (e.g. a marketplace, a dating site, an ad network), how will you overcome that?
We want to target our customers by educating them on all the problems they can solve in their personal lives by using Twos. We will accomplish this through advertisements, word-of-mouth, and leveraging influencers with big networks to show how much value they get out of using Twos and wanting to spread the word to their followers.
We will target customers with the problems they can solve with Twos. We will accomplish this through advertisements, word-of-mouth, and influencers with big audiences to show the value they receive from Twos. Once we find our product market fit we will blast that channel and improve the product to meet their needs while opening up the product to the majority
Target customers with explanations of the problems they can solve with Twos. We will accomplish this through advertisements, word-of-mouth, and influencers with big audiences to show the value they receive from using Twos. Once we find our product market fit we will target that channel and improve the product to meet their needs while opening up the product to the majority.
EQUITY
Have you incorporated, or formed any legal entity (like an LLC) yet?
Yes
Have you taken any investment yet?
No
If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees, and any other proposed stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the proposed equity ownership of each founder.
(This question is as much for you as us.)
Parker - 58%
Joe - 22%
Unvested - 20%
Please provide any other relevant information about the structure or formation of the company.
LEGAL
Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? If so, please explain.
No
Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.
Parker - who writes all of the code (and is the best programmer in the world).
Parker
Is there anything else we should know about your company?
(Pending lawsuits, co founders who have left, etc.)
Twos is a very strong brand, we believe it will become similar to Apple or Nike, as it is a positive celebration of people's experiences and the hand peace sign is a positive, global hand gesture.
I think we should leave this blank. I understand what we’re going for, but they always strive less is more and I think this could take away from the application, as crazy as that may seem because ✌️🚀 🌚
OTHERS
If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.
Muse: daily reflections
7 Levels Deep: find your why
Tens: the best party game in the world
Aware: daily habit tracker
Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.
I have nothing for this @Parker
How much of our reality is made up of our thoughts and perceptions and writing them down has a profound impact on our understanding of ourselves and the world.
How many fleeting pieces of information we do not have the ability to capture in a quick and easy place. The value that capturing that information brings and how many things we forget without even realizing we forgot them.
(The answer need not be related to your project.)
CURIOUS
What convinced you to apply to Y Combinator? Did someone encourage you to apply?
The name recognition of Y Combinator is unprecedented. We want to be part of the biggest and best community available and believe YC is that organization. We were referred by a former YC alum who's name I will input here when we have the information we need.
We want to be part of the biggest and best community available and believe YC is that. We were referred by a former YC alum who's name I will input here when we have the information we need.
From ritz - he has not made it into YC yet but apparently has some strings he can pull.
How did you hear about Y Combinator?
Parker has applied to YC in the past and we have also been referred by...
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