CoderWall YC Application

Winter 2012Acquired

CoderWall went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Matthew DeitersFounder
Dave NewmanFounder

What CoderWall does

Coderwall is a collaborative learning platform for software developers to improve their programming knowledge. It is based in San Francisco, California.

CoderWall's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CoderWall, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CoderWall

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Collaborative platform to improve programming skills

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

We built a platform where software developers share and acquire programming knowledge through peer-driven contributions and feedback. It's focused on helping devs improve by learning from each other's real-world experience, not from generic tutorials.

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.

San Francisco has the density of developers and tech talent we need. It's where our users are and where we can hire and grow effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CoderWall YC application?

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