Cakework YC Application

Winter 2023Inactive

Cakework went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2023

Founders

Eric ChenFounder
Jessie YoungFounder

What Cakework does

We make it possible to build a serverless cloud platform that hosts custom user code with just APIs and no infrastructure team. For example, an open source framework can build a cloud offering that deploys their users code from Github or local dev environments in days instead of months.

Cakework's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cakework, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cakework

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API that adds cloud hosting to developer platforms

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

We've built an API that lets developer platforms add cloud hosting directly. Instead of building infrastructure themselves, platforms like open source frameworks can deploy user code from GitHub or local environments in days, with no dedicated infra team. Basically, we turn any dev platform into a serverless cloud host via APIs.

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

We live in Seattle, WA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle has been our home and where we started the product. We want to keep close to our network and the talent here while building remotely connected.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cakework YC application?

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