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Portal Entryways

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

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01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Portal Entryways was a Provo, Utah hardware startup founded by Josh Horne and Sam Lew and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch. It built batteryless IoT sensors that upgraded disabled-accessible doors, enabling hands-free operation without wiring or batteries.

02 / FAILURE REASONS

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03 / EVENT HISTORY

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  1. Founded and YC

    Portal Entryways was founded (record year 2019; Y Combinator lists 2018) and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch as a 4-person team building batteryless IoT door sensors.

  2. Inactive

    Y Combinator now lists Portal Entryways as Inactive; no public shutdown announcement or post-mortem was found.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH

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