BuildBuddy YC Application

Winter 2020Active

BuildBuddy went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Siggi SimonarsonFounder
Tyler WilliamsFounder

BuildBuddy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

BuildBuddy, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

BuildBuddy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Enterprise features for Bazel build system

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

We are building BuildBuddy, a developer tool that adds enterprise features to Bazel, the open source build system. Our product helps engineering teams manage, monitor, and scale Bazel builds with analytics, caching, and remote execution support. We make Bazel easier to use at scale for teams that want faster, more reliable builds.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA and the company is based in Palo Alto, with a distributed, partially remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We built BuildBuddy here because this area has a dense concentration of companies using Bazel and a large pool of engineers familiar with it. Being in Palo Alto gives us access to talent and users with relevant needs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real BuildBuddy YC application?

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