Dialect YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

Dialect went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2B
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Chris OsbornFounder

What Dialect does

Dialect is on a mission to organize the internet’s experiences and make them distributable and actionable everywhere. We’re doing this with blockchain links, or blinks, a new technology that lets businesses unbundle their product experiences from their apps and sites, allowing users to take instant, no-redirect actions wherever they are. This technology is unique to blockchain today, but as the world moves onchain, it will redefine how we interact with the internet - everywhere.

Dialect's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Dialect, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dialect

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Making internet experiences distributable and actionable

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

We build a platform that lets businesses create blockchain links, or blinks, which unbundle product experiences from their native apps and sites. These blinks let users take actions instantly without redirects, anywhere they are on the internet, making interactions more immediate and interoperable as things move onchain.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York has strong ties to finance and tech, which aligns with our crypto and B2B focus. We're embedded in this community and can find early customers and partners locally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Dialect YC application?

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