Ellipsis YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Ellipsis went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Hunter BrooksCo-founder & CEO

What Ellipsis does

Ellipsis will help your team merge code 13% faster. Ellipsis is an AI developer tool that automatically reviews code and fixes bugs on pull requests. It uses LLM agents to catch logical errors, security issues, and can even enforce a team's style guide. The coolest part is that after Ellipsis identifies an issue, developers can tag @ellipsis-dev to have Ellipsis implement the fix. Internally, Ellipsis actually executes the code it generates, just like a human does. As a result, we allow developers to generate working, tested code directly from GitHub/GitLab.

Ellipsis's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ellipsis, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ellipsis

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI code reviews & bug fixes

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

We built Ellipsis to automatically review code on pull requests and fix bugs using LLM agents. It catches logical errors, security issues, and enforces style guides. Developers can tag @ellipsis-dev to have it implement fixes that run and test code just like a human would.

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

We're based in New York City now and plan to remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work in New York City, where our small team is established. We plan to keep the company here since that's where we have our network and infrastructure.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ellipsis YC application?

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