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I have been rejected each and every time I have applied, and have submitted with various ideas/projects. However, the most recent project is patent-pending sof

I have been rejected each and every time I have applied, and have submitted with various ideas/projects. However, the most recent project is patent-pending software that allows drivers to hire ticket defense law firms without the need for human involvement. The proverbial...Rocket Lawyer for Ticket Defense. Our software has been live since September with a Florida Ticket Defense Firm we have seen great traction and growth (400 clients in the last 90 days), and we appear to be on schedule to offer our software to law firms nationwide starting next month. I am not sure to date this could be defined as a success in the YC sense, we have had no funding, we have had no media coverage, no VCs on the board...but there has been local market adoption of our product and the potential to scale this seems attainable even if boot-strapping. Edit: To be clear I am not saying YC defines success as funding, or media coverage...but show me a YC company that has achieved anyones definition of success without getting Funding and media coverage as a step along the way.

FlyingAvatar 12y ago
For curiosity's sake, what exactly is patentable about what you describe?
Shorel 12y ago
The only one I know (Platzi), achieved those before applying for YC.
biot 12y ago
How are you different from Fixed? http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-tickets/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-... In terms of traction, you got 400 people in a quarter (and how many of those routinely get tickets?) vs. Fixed's waiting list of 25000 signups from more than a year ago.
- will_brown 12y ago
  Everything...Fixed is an App that facilitates the resolution of parking tickets fought by in-house staff (I think non-attorneys). Our software is for a driver who gets a traffic ticket and our software connects drivers with law firms licensed to fight the ticket and offer transparent pricing. The transparent/automated pricing is the basis for our pending patent and what differentiates our software. On the business side Fixed's 25k waiting list...none of them are paying customers, of those who are not on the waiting list and using the app, Fixed gets nothing when they challenge a ticket and lose (which appears to be 80% [1]), but when Fixed wins I think they get 25% of the original fine. I think more generally Fixed wants to offer "Justice as a Service" and start challenging all kinds of quasi-legal problems that do not require a licensed lawyer, which is a tremendous space and I look forward to seeing them grow. Of our 400 in the last 90 days, they are paying clients of our partner law firm, and the relationship is between the client and law firm, not us and the client. [1] http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/fixed-parking-ticket-app-not-so-great http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/fixed-parking-ticket-ap...
  - andrewchambers 12y ago
    I hate patents, good thing my country got rid of software patents.

FlyingAvatar 12y ago

For curiosity's sake, what exactly is patentable about what you describe?

Shorel 12y ago

The only one I know (Platzi), achieved those before applying for YC.

biot 12y ago

How are you different from Fixed? http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-tickets/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-... In terms of traction, you got 400 people in a quarter (and how many of those routinely get tickets?) vs. Fixed's waiting list of 25000 signups from more than a year ago.

will_brown 12y ago
Everything...Fixed is an App that facilitates the resolution of parking tickets fought by in-house staff (I think non-attorneys). Our software is for a driver who gets a traffic ticket and our software connects drivers with law firms licensed to fight the ticket and offer transparent pricing. The transparent/automated pricing is the basis for our pending patent and what differentiates our software. On the business side Fixed's 25k waiting list...none of them are paying customers, of those who are not on the waiting list and using the app, Fixed gets nothing when they challenge a ticket and lose (which appears to be 80% [1]), but when Fixed wins I think they get 25% of the original fine. I think more generally Fixed wants to offer "Justice as a Service" and start challenging all kinds of quasi-legal problems that do not require a licensed lawyer, which is a tremendous space and I look forward to seeing them grow. Of our 400 in the last 90 days, they are paying clients of our partner law firm, and the relationship is between the client and law firm, not us and the client. [1] http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/fixed-parking-ticket-app-not-so-great http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/fixed-parking-ticket-ap...
- andrewchambers 12y ago
  I hate patents, good thing my country got rid of software patents.