Wundrbar
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Wundrbar was a Y Combinator Winter 2008 startup from San Francisco, founded by Andrew Dudley and Nicholas Grandy. It built a smart search bar with inline commands: instead of typing plain keywords, users could prefix searches with commands that routed them to specific services - typing 'fly sfo to new york next tuesday' would show flight results from the user's favorite search site, and commands covered car rentals, hotels, movies and online retail. It later released a $1.99 iPhone app bundling one-tap access to dozens of web services. Y Combinator lists it as Inactive.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Launch
Wundrbar launches in 2008 out of Y Combinator Winter 2008 with a command-line-style smart search bar; it presents at Spring 2008 Demo Day.
- iPhone app
Wundrbar releases a $1.99 iPhone app bundling one-tap access to dozens of web services.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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