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The Ionic team applied to YC before we were Ionic (back w/ Codiqa, our visual design tool for jQuery Mobile apps). I was freaking out since they didn't email us
by yesimahuman 12y ago
The Ionic team applied to YC before we were Ionic (back w/ Codiqa, our visual design tool for jQuery Mobile apps). I was freaking out since they didn't email us until the day after the interview! I guess we were right on the edge.
Oh well, was a fun experience and we've been successful w/o it.
(for reference: http://ionicframework.com/ http://ionicframework.com/)
- sgt 12y agoSomehow I missed this. At first sight I figured Ionic was Yet Another Framework, but this looks potentially amazing. Will check it out.
- tindrlabs 12y agoIonic really is amazing. Their development pipeline is really smart and makes the whole process a lot more enjoyable then most other "mobile" frameworks.
- beermann 12y agoPacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com http://thinkpacifica.com) is built on Ionic. We're also featured in iTunes right now, just a note that it's very possible to build beautiful hybrid applications. While the company isn't a success quite yet, we've been rejected from YC twice as well.
- anon3_ 12y agoDid you find other investors, or did you bootstrap yourselves?
- yesimahuman 12y agoA mix of both. After the rejection we bootstrapped for a while and were able to go full time (we're bootstrappers at heart). Later we applied to TechStars and did that. Four months after TechStars though we started working on Ionic and then raised a $1M seed round quickly since we felt we were on to something big and wanted to get to work.