Bitrise YC Application

Winter 2017Active

Bitrise went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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: Winter 2017
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 243
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Barnabas BirmacherFounder/CEO
Viktor BeneiFounder/CTO
Daniel BallaFounder

What Bitrise does

Bitrise helps you automate your daily app development tasks from building through testing to deployment. With Bitrise you can configure these tasks with a unique, visual workflow editor, with dozens of service integrations ready to roll. We call these steps, and they are all open source! If the step you need is not in our collection you can create your own and share it with others. Project Managers can get a clear picture of the development and testing of apps, testers get regular notifications about available, testable builds, and clients are able to collaborate with the rest of the team. Bitrise is free to get started and takes just 50 seconds to setup your first project.

Bitrise's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bitrise, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bitrise

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery for mobile apps

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

We built Bitrise to automate developers' daily tasks for mobile app builds, tests, and deployment. Users configure workflows visually using our open source step system with integrations to many services. It helps project managers, testers, and clients stay in sync during development. Setting up a project takes under a minute.

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

We live and work primarily in Budapest, Hungary, with some team members remote. After YC, we plan to remain based here but also accommodate remote work to access talent globally.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Budapest provides access to great engineering talent and a lower cost base. Our initial experience and network are here. We want to stay flexible to remote work but keep Budapest as our core to build the company efficiently.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bitrise YC application?

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