Courier YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Courier went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 35
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Troy GoodeFounder

What Courier does

Courier is the fastest way for developers to build notifications for their app. Our APIs take the tedium out of integrating various notification channels, while our visual designer lets anyone design a message template and deliver their notifications to the best channel for each user with a single API call. Email, Push, In-App, Slack, SMS, you name it. Think "Stripe, for notifications."

Courier's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Courier, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Courier

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fastest way for developers to build app notifications

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

We built an API and visual designer that lets developers deliver notifications across multiple channels - email, SMS, push, Slack - without integrating each one separately. Our product handles routing and templates so teams save time and reduce complexity.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Courier is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the best engineering and developer communities, which lets us recruit talent and engage directly with our early users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Courier YC application?

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