CodeCrafters YC Application

Summer 2022Active

CodeCrafters went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a Consumer 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: ConsumerJob and Career Services
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Sarup BanskotaFounder
Paul KuruvillaFounder

What CodeCrafters does

Build your own Git, Redis, SQLite - in Go, Rust, Python, etc.

CodeCrafters's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CodeCrafters

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Programming courses for experienced engineers

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

We build programming courses that teach experienced engineers how to build their own core tools like Git, Redis, and SQLite in popular languages like Go, Rust, and Python. Our product guides users step-by-step to deepen their understanding by reconstructing these fundamental tools from scratch.

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

We live in San Francisco and have a remote team. After YC, the company will stay based in San Francisco with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the technical and hiring ecosystem we need. Being remote lets us tap talent globally while maintaining access to YC and local investors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CodeCrafters YC application?

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