Coderhouse YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Coderhouse went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch as a Education 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 2021
Industry: Education
Team size: 225
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Christian PatiñoFounder
Nahuel LemaCo-Founder

What Coderhouse does

A web app that offers live online courses in programming, design, data, online marketing and more. Our courses are nearly as affordable as online Moocs (~$40 a month) and as effective as Bootcamps. We achieve this by running 100 person live classes with one expert professor and one mentor per 15 students. Every class, students need to turn in assignments that are corrected by their mentors and at the end of the course they need to turn in and approve a final project. We also help our selected students with careers services such as mockup interviews, Linkedin enhancement, and more. All of this creates a level of accountability that allows us to achieve really low churn levels (<9%). Our career tracks last between 9-11 months and we give our selected students their money back in case they don't get a job 6 months after they are done with the course.

Coderhouse's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Coderhouse, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Coderhouse

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Effective and accessible online live education

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

We built a web app that delivers live online courses in programming, design, data, and marketing. We run large live classes with one expert professor and mentors to correct assignments and help students through the course. The model combines affordability close to MOOCs with accountability and effectiveness like bootcamps.

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

We live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Buenos Aires is where we built the business and where our team and early users are. It's a strong base for Spanish-speaking markets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Coderhouse YC application?

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