iJigg/Top440
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
iJigg (later Top440) was a San Francisco social-music site from Y Combinator's Summer 2007 batch, founded by brothers Bilal, Shadab and Zaid Farooqui. It was 'Digg for music': users voted on submitted singles using Digg-like voting, rated songs, embedded them on MySpace and found similar music fans.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded; YC batch
iJigg launched in January 2007 and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2007 batch as a social music site.
- Inactive
By 2010 iJigg had faded: it could not break out against social-music competitors like Last.fm, Pandora and iLike, and Y Combinator now lists it as Inactive.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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