Aesthetic YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Aesthetic went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2018
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Nate SmithFounder/CEO
Matthew TrostFounder/CTO

What Aesthetic does

Trained on your unique style, Aesthetic generates high-quality visuals that match your aesthetic in seconds.

Aesthetic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aesthetic, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aesthetic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your AI-powered creative apprentice 🪄

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Aesthetic to generate visuals matched to each user's unique style. You train our AI on your creative preferences, and in seconds it creates high-quality images that fit your aesthetic. This helps designers, product teams, and engineers speed up creative work without losing personal style.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York, NY and the company is based there and also operates remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because that's where our team is, and the mix of local and remote lets us hire the best people. It also puts us close to product and design customers who benefit from our service.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aesthetic YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Aesthetic's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Aesthetic would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.