BarSense
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
BarSense was a Y Combinator Winter 2012 company based in Mountain View, California, that pitched itself as the 'kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls.' Its app, called Kyte, could be installed on any Android phone and locked the child into an approved environment: pre-approved calls, authorized games only, and no way to leave the app to reach the rest of the phone. Parents controlled everything from a browser - turning off SMS and social media during school hours, banning apps at bedtime, monitoring internet usage, setting game time limits, checking call history and tracking GPS location in real time.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and Y Combinator
BarSense was founded in 2012 and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch with its Kyte parental-control app for Android; the company is marked as dead in the Y Combinator startup database.
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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