Spoil
Spoil is a YC Winter 2015 (W15) company. Based in Berkeley, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Spoil
Summary
Spoil builds a food product scanner that tells consumers what is actually inside packaged goods. Users scan a barcode or search a product name and receive a scored breakdown across nutrition, additives, and processing level, with each additive weighted by how much of it can legally be present, not just whether it appears on the label. The tool replaces manual label reading and opaque third-party ratings with a transparent, open-source scoring method users can audit and reconfigure.
Go-to-market
Individual consumers use it self-serve via a browser-based barcode scanner, with no app install required; the additive register and scoring methodology are published openly to build trust and drive organic discovery.
From the Y Combinator listing
Spoil is gifting for the Snapchat generation.
Spoil fundamentally changes the way people interact with each other. Spoil brings people closer to on another through genuine gestures that are fueled by technology. With a tool that empowers its users to engage in positive human interaction, Spoil inspire them to give, and enhances how they receive. Using technology, Spoil predicts what makes someone happy and leverages on-demand logistics to make it happen. With Spoil you can make anyone happy as easily as calling an Uber. Spoil is all about the experience we provides to both the sender and the recipient. Focusing on how we want the recipient to feel, each step of the process leverages the right emotions and builds a story around the Spoil being received. This makes sending a Spoil a thoughtful gesture as opposed to just an exchange of items. Spoil help individuals and corporations acknowledge people around them through genuine gestures. It is the only medium accessible to everyone that builds simple, contagious and ubiquitous happiness. Because, we believe that everyone should be Spoiled.
Facts
- Consumer / Consumer -> Home and Personal
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- 2
- Inactive
- Early
Founders (3)
- Charlie Gascon
- Cristian Asenjo
- Mikhail Levkovsky
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