CodeCanary YC Application

Summer 2022Active

CodeCanary went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Michael EganFounder
Brendan AshworthFounder

What CodeCanary does

CodeCanary is an AI product engineer that proactively finds and fixes bugs, improves conversion rate, and gathers insights about your product. CodeCanary runs regularly and connects directly to Slack, GitHub, and PostHog.

CodeCanary's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CodeCanary, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CodeCanary

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Find and fix bugs from session replays with AI

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

We built CodeCanary, an AI product engineer that scans session replay data to identify bugs, suggest fixes, and improve conversion rates automatically. It integrates with Slack, GitHub, and PostHog so product teams get actionable insights and code alerts without digging through logs or running manual tests.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco keeps us close to our network in B2B SaaS and AI, and lets us hire and meet customers in tech hubs where product engineering teams congregate.

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 CodeCanary YC application?

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