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Techstars '15Austin, US · 2 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Clyp is an audio hosting platform that allows creators to upload high-quality audio files, collaborate with others through feedback mechanisms, and share their work across the web. It serves professional audio creators and musicians seeking a simple hosting solution with lossless streaming capabilities.
Also known as Clyp.it
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Clyp is an online audio hosting and sharing service operated at clyp.it. Users can upload an audio file or record directly in the browser, then share the resulting "Clyp" via a link or embed it on a website or blog. Uploading and recording do not require an account, though registration is needed for features such as making clips private, downloading clips, and syncing clips between the mobile apps and the web. The service accepts mp3, ogg, m4a, wav, aiff, aif and 3gpp files and automatically produces mp3 and ogg renditions of each upload.
The platform combines hosting with discovery and collaboration: uploads can carry a title, description, hashtags and optional recording coordinates, and the site surfaces category lists and featured lists such as popular, recent, random and location-based "nearby" clips. Creators can solicit feedback on tracks from selected collaborators or from the wider Clyp community. Paid tiers add professional-oriented capabilities including preserved WAV quality for streaming and download, larger per-file upload limits, ad-free listening, custom profile and Clyp links, embeddable unlisted clips, a customizable player widget, direct MP3 file access and priority support.
Early coverage described Clyp as a sound-clip sharing service positioned as "the Imgur of Audio," focused on the creation and sharing of original audio content, with use cases spanning music ideas, spoken word such as podcasts, speeches, comedy, politics and religion, and educational recording of lectures or language practice.
Founding story
Co-founder Jordan Patapoff, a guitarist, created a guitar riff and looked for an online way to record and publish it. Finding no viable option, he decided to build one, which became Clyp.
Business model
Clyp offers free audio uploading, hosting, playback and embedding, monetized through advertising on the free tier and recurring premium subscriptions. Three paid plans — basic, plus and pro — are sold monthly or yearly, with the yearly option advertised as saving 33%; plans are billed in USD until cancelled and refundable within the first 14 days.
Subscription revenue from monthly or annual premium plans (basic, plus, pro) that raise upload quotas and per-file size limits (25MB, 250MB and 500MB respectively) and unlock lossless WAV streaming and downloads, ad-free use, custom links and widgets, and priority support; the free tier carries ads.
Traction
Clyp operates a web platform, iOS and Android apps, and a developer API, and hosts user-contributed clips surfaced through popular, recent, random, featured, nearby and category listings. Premium subscription tiers are live on the site.
Latest developments
The site now sells three premium subscription tiers (basic, plus, pro) on monthly or annual billing, delivering the paid model the founders had described as in development, alongside embeddable player and recorder widgets and a developer API available on request.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
A niche audio hosting and clip-sharing service aimed at creators who want lightweight uploading, embedding and feedback rather than a full-scale music streaming catalog.
Positioning as a simple, quality-preserving audio host: WAV quality is retained for both streaming and download on paid plans, clips can be uploaded and shared without creating an account, and the embeddable player and browser-based recorder can be placed on any site. The service was framed early on as "the Imgur of Audio," focused solely on original audio content rather than a full music catalog.
Technology
Clyp runs on a JSON-based RESTful API that powers the clyp.it website via CORS as well as the company's mobile apps, and is offered to third-party developers on request. The API covers uploads to upload.clyp.it, retrieval of metadata (mp3/ogg file locations, title, description, duration, player URL, latitude/longitude), authenticated updates and deletion, status controls (Public, Private, Deleted, DownloadDisabled, PrivateDownloadDisabled), and MP3 (44,100 Hz, 128 kb/s) and OGG (44,100 Hz, 112 kb/s) renditions. A soundwave endpoint returns 4,000 equidistant amplitude data points scaled 0-100 regardless of clip length, and category and featured list endpoints support browsing. Embeddable iframe widgets provide both a player and an online voice recorder that work without an account.
Go-to-market
Distribution is self-serve through the website and mobile apps, with no-signup uploading and recording lowering the barrier to first use, one-click sharing to Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, and embeddable player and recorder widgets that spread the service across third-party sites and blogs. A developer API extends reach to third-party applications, and the company maintains Facebook, Twitter, blog and subreddit channels.
Professional audio creators and musicians, plus general users sharing spoken-word content such as podcasts, speeches, comedy and religious or political talks, and students or language learners recording lectures and practice sessions.
Geography
Austin-based company operating a web service available globally; uploads may carry optional latitude/longitude, and a "nearby" feature returns clips recorded near a given location or the requester's geocoded IP address.
History
Clyp was built by co-founders Jordan Patapoff, who leads engineering, and Tyson Ferguson, who leads product design and marketing. At the time of Built In Austin's coverage the team consisted of the two co-founders plus two developers covering iOS, Android and front-end work; the company was self-funded and bootstrapped and the founders said they were seeking investors to raise a round, grow the team and accelerate development. They also said Clyp would remain free to use while they built infrastructure for a premium subscription tier, which the site now offers as basic, plus and pro plans.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsClyp publishes a JSON RESTful API, available on request, that powers clyp.it and its mobile apps, plus embeddable player and voice-recorder iframe widgets usable without an account.
Clyp offers three paid plans, billed monthly or yearly with a 33% saving on annual billing, adding unlimited or expanded upload quotas, larger per-file limits, ad-free use, lossless WAV streaming and downloads, custom profile and Clyp links, unlisted embeds, customizable player widgets, direct MP3 access and priority support.
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▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Clypclyp.it · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Clyp do?
- Clyp is an audio hosting service for uploading, sharing and embedding audio, with lossless streaming on paid plans.
- Who are Clyp's investors?
- Clyp's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Clyp headquartered?
- Clyp is headquartered in Austin, US.