ReSchedule Med
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
ReSchedule Med was a New York healthcare-IT startup founded in 2014 by Taylor Fairbank, accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch. It built an end-to-end scheduling platform specifically for medical residency programs: managing the complex logistics of graduate medical education — creating, adjusting and communicating resident rotation and shift schedules, which is one of the largest logistics pain points in hospitals. YC now lists it as inactive.
02 / ReSchedule Med FAILURE REASONS
Failure factors supported by the current evidence
No postmortem or shutdown record for ReSchedule Med was ever published, so the evidence is thin. The public record shows a solo-founded, niche healthcare scheduling product that went through YC's Winter 2015 batch on about $120,000 in funding and then quietly went inactive. Hospital software is a slow, sales-heavy market: residency scheduling tools sell to administrators through long procurement cycles, a hard climb for a one-founder team. Beyond that, no documented account of the company's end exists.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Taylor Fairbank founds ReSchedule Med in New York for medical residency scheduling.
- Product launch
ReSchedule Med joins Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch with about $120,000 in funding.
- Operations ended
The company goes inactive; no public shutdown record exists.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Hospital software is a slow, sales-heavy market — a one-founder team cannot wait out procurement cycles
- 02
Niche scheduling tools compete with the EHR giants that already live inside hospitals
- 03
$120K of runway buys a demo, not a healthcare sales cycle
- 04
No shutdown record means the market simply never noticed it was gone