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Consumer apps

Applications from companies selling to individual people: apps, marketplaces and networks.

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Everything in Consumer apps

  1. 02The MuseW12

    They told YC they wanted to corner careers for women. Eleven years later they bought that market back.

    10 Sept 2026

    The Muse's W12 application names one wedge: a community of job-seeking women, built to rival The Ladders.

  2. 01Dropbox

    Dropbox — YC Application (S07)

    28 May 2026

    Drew Houston got into YC with a screencast and a few paragraphs — and most of the company is already visible in the answers.

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