Y Combinator Gave Us $10k for Our Mobile App
Here’s the Story of How We Built “Uber for Photographers”
In late November 2017, I met up with an old school friend, Ali Sarraf, for dinner in London. We’d both studied Computer Science at university and had been working on different startups.
I’d recently stopped working on Tripr, a social app to connect travelers crossing paths on their trips. And Ali had recently stopped working on his startup too.
Idea
Although I was working full-time at Facebook and he was working at Google, we thought it would be fun to work on a side project together.
One idea I had wanted to explore for a while was an app to book photographers on-demand, similar in functionality to Uber.
We did a bit of googling and discovered that no app like this existed. The idea grew on us, and after a couple of weeks, we started working on it.
Market
First, we thought about who our target market was. My initial hunch was that Instagram bloggers would love an app like this. We brainstormed a few more potential customers, and wrote up detailed personas for each one.
We quickly realized that the photography market was fragmented. Couples wanted wedding photos…
