Snipshot
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Snipshot was an online photo editor founded in 2006 by Beau Hartshorne and backed by Y Combinator's Winter 2006 batch. It let users edit photos directly in the web browser with a click of a bookmarklet: upload an image from a computer or paste the web address of any online photo, then crop, resize and enhance it. Paid tiers unlocked more advanced features.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Beau Hartshorne founded Snipshot in 2006 as one of Y Combinator's Winter 2006 companies, building an in-browser photo editor at a time when people said it could not be done.
- Acquisition
Snipshot was sold to Ansa in 2013, according to the company's Y Combinator profile; it is now listed as inactive.
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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