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W24Developer Tools2024✓ VERIFIEDBOOTSTRAPPED
Papermark
Open-source document sharing platform with analytics — a self-hostable alternative to DocSend, built in public after a YC rejection.
/ STORY
Iuliia Shnai applied to YC with Papermark and got rejected. She open-sourced the entire codebase and shipped it publicly.
The repo hit 4,000 GitHub stars in the first week. Papermark became one of the fastest-growing open-source projects of 2024 — proof that community beats accelerator batch.
/ DETAILS
Founder
Iuliia Shnai
YC Batch Applied
W24
Rejected
2024
Category
Developer Tools
Bootstrapped
Yes
Verified
Yes
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