Watchsend
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Watchsend was a Y Combinator Summer 2013 startup founded by Ishaan Gulrajani and Zain Shah, billed as 'Clicktale for mobile'. It let app developers remotely record users' mobile screen interactions - taps, swipes, presses and full action timelines - so they could watch users in action and refine their apps. Sensitive pages like credit-card entry could be marked private and pixelated; the service was priced at $19 per month for 100-500 recordings and $69 for 500-3,000.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launched
Watchsend joins Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch and launches, with early users including SmugMug, Directr and Streak.
- Winds down
No public record of a shutdown announcement exists; the company quietly disappears from public view after 2013.
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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