Designbase YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Designbase 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: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Alexandru AntihiFounder
Ryan XieFounder

What Designbase does

Designbase is the interface design tool that gives early teams design and development superpowers. Create stunning interfaces, immediately available as code, regardless of resources.

Designbase's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Designbase, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Designbase

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Design and build great interfaces

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

We are building Designbase, a tool for early product teams to design interfaces and get production-ready code immediately. It removes the handoff delay between designers and engineers by generating code from designs automatically. The product is targeted at startups and small engineering teams who don't want to waste resources on manual UI implementation.

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

We all live remote and the company will remain fully remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to be remote because our team is distributed and early users are also remote early-stage startups. It lets us hire talent flexibly and focus on building the product without relocating.

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 Designbase YC application?

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