Alex YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Alex went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 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: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Daniel EdrisianFounder

What Alex does

Tired of switching tabs to cursor every time you're building your iOS app in Xcode? Worry not! Alex is a sidebar app that works directly with Xcode, and has the same Cmd+L, Cmd+K, and Apply Code commands as Cursor. And, it's super fast. Check it out:

Alex's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Alex, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Alex

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Cursor for Xcode

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

We built Alex, a sidebar app that integrates directly with Xcode for iOS developers. It lets developers run the same core Cursor commands - Cmd+L, Cmd+K, Apply Code - without switching tabs. Alex speeds up their workflow by keeping them in context within Xcode.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep Alex based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the largest concentration of iOS developers and potential users are. It connects us to the engineering and startup community we interact with.

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 Alex YC application?

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