Engines YC Application

Winter 2024Inactive

Engines 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: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2024

Founders

Josh ValdezFounder
Jet ZhouFounder

What Engines does

Engines is an AI platform engineer that containerizes codebases, debugs Terraform code, and helps you get complex monorepos setup.

Engines's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Engines

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Setup any repo with one command

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

We built Engines, an AI platform engineer that automates onboarding complex codebases. It containerizes code, debugs tricky Terraform setups, and configures monorepos so engineers can start working immediately without manual plumbing.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Engines would be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are already in San Francisco, close to other dev tools companies and early users. Staying here means access to talent, customers, and YC's network.

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 Engines YC application?

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