MessageParty
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
MessageParty was a Y Combinator Summer 2010 startup founded by Amanda Peyton and Jason Gavris. It began as location-based chat with people nearby, then relaunched in 2011 as a location-based blogging service - geo-blogging - in New York City.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Amanda Peyton and Jason Gavris found MessageParty and join Y Combinator's Summer 2010 batch with a location-based chat product: chat rooms with people within 1,000 feet.
- Pivot
Outside a few events, user density never got high enough for real interaction, so the company relaunches as location-based blogging - geo-blogging - starting in New York City.
- Operations ended
The company becomes inactive; its latest funding round is marked dead and Y Combinator lists it as inactive, with no public post-mortem released.
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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