Dayflow YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Dayflow went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Jerry LiuCofounder, CEO

What Dayflow does

Dayflow is building open-source productivity tools that help founders and engineers make the most of their time.

Dayflow's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Dayflow, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dayflow

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Generate a detailed log of your work automatically

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

We are building Dayflow, an open-source tool that automatically tracks everything you work on throughout the day and generates a detailed activity log. It's designed for founders and engineers who want to understand where their time goes without manual tracking.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong startup culture and proximity to a network of early users and collaborators that suits our work and product development pace.

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 Dayflow YC application?

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