Binary Thumbs

Binary Thumbs (operating name "Binary Thumb", Y Combinator Summer 2012) was a San Francisco startup founded in 2012 by Josh Leong, Michael Lin, and Matt Monson to reinvent the spreadsheet for touch devices. Its single product, Grid, was a collaborative grid-based spreadsheet and organizational app for iPad and iPhone that let people keep notes, pictures, people, and places in a freeform grid rather than rigid rows and columns. The company raised roughly $2.15M across a 2012 YC round and a 2013 seed, with participation from angel and institutional investors, and appears on the Andreessen Horowitz public investment list. Y Combinator now lists the company as inactive; Josh Leong led it as CEO from 2012 to 2016. Binary Thumb never shipped a public API, developer portal, or documentation surface -- it was a consumer iOS product company. Its lasting public technical footprint is the BinaryThumb GitHub organization and a handful of open-source React and JavaScript utility libraries published to npm.

Binary Thumbs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Inactive, Y Combinator, Productivity, and Spreadsheets.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyInactiveY CombinatorProductivitySpreadsheetsMobileiOSConsumer SoftwareOpen Source

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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aid: binary-thumbs
name: Binary Thumbs
description: Binary Thumbs (operating name "Binary Thumb", Y Combinator Summer 2012) was a San Francisco startup founded in
  2012 by Josh Leong, Michael Lin, and Matt Monson to reinvent the spreadsheet for touch devices. Its single product, Grid,
  was a collaborative grid-based spreadsheet and organizational app for iPad and iPhone that let people keep notes, pictures,
  people, and places in a freeform grid rather than rigid rows and columns. The company raised roughly $2.15M across a 2012
  YC round and a 2013 seed, with participation from angel and institutional investors, and appears on the Andreessen Horowitz
  public investment list. Y Combinator now lists the company as inactive; Josh Leong led it as CEO from 2012 to 2016. Binary
  Thumb never shipped a public API, developer portal, or documentation surface -- it was a consumer iOS product company. Its
  lasting public technical footprint is the BinaryThumb GitHub organization and a handful of open-source React and JavaScript
  utility libraries published to npm.
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x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: inactive
x-status-source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/binary-thumb
x-status-note: 'Y Combinator lists the company (batch S12, product "Grid") as Inactive. The Grid iOS App Store listing returns
  404 and the historical binarythumb.com domain now serves unrelated affiliate/gambling SEO content, so it is NOT wired as
  a Website or DeveloperPortal property. No API surface exists: no OpenAPI, docs, auth, sandbox, changelog, status page, or
  event surface were found, so no artifact pointers are emitted for those types.'
x-founded: '2012'
x-founders:
- Josh Leong
- Michael Lin
- Matt Monson
x-location: San Francisco, CA, United States
x-yc-batch: S12
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  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
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- Company
- Inactive
- Y Combinator
- Productivity
- Spreadsheets
- Mobile
- iOS
- Consumer Software
- Open Source
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- type: Packages
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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