Depot YC Application
Depot went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 8
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
Founders
Kyle GalbraithFounder
Jacob GillespieFounder
What Depot does
Depot is a build acceleration platform making builds up to 40x faster for Docker containers and GitHub Actions. Companies like PostHog, Wistia, Appsmith, and Secoda use Depot to save tens of hours of build time every day. We offer a remote container build service for building Intel & Arm Docker images, from your CI or local machine, up to 40x faster. Our container builds come with in-depth build insights, ephemeral registries, and instant cache sharing across your team. Finally, we also offer our own Depot GitHub Actions Runners that brings all the speed of Depot to your entire GitHub Actions workflow at half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners, and up to 10x faster builds. Simply change the runs-on label of your existing workflow to route jobs to Depot runners. Kyle and Jacob worked together as staff engineers for 4.5 years at Thorn and Era Software, before founding Depot. Depot is their solution to the wildly inefficient container build tooling and non-performant CI systems they encountered throughout their careers.
Depot's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Depot, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Depot
Build faster. Waste less time.
Depot is a build acceleration platform that makes Docker container builds and GitHub Actions workflows up to 40x faster. We offer a remote container build service that supports Intel and Arm builds, instant cache sharing, ephemeral registries, and detailed build insights. Our Depot GitHub Actions Runners bring that speed to entire GitHub workflows at half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners.
We all work remotely, and the company is a remote-first team.
We stay remote because our team is distributed, and the product targets developers everywhere. This flexibility lets us hire the best engineers regardless of location.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Depot YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Depot's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Depot would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Depot in?
Depot was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.
Who founded Depot?
Depot was founded by Kyle Galbraith, Jacob Gillespie.
What does Depot do?
Build faster. Waste less time.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Depot's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
