Flightcontrol YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Flightcontrol went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Brandon BayerFounder
Mina AbadirFounder

What Flightcontrol does

The most reliable, powerful, and flexible PaaS, because we deploy to your AWS. No black box, lock-in, or AWS markups.

Flightcontrol's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Flightcontrol, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Flightcontrol

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Deploy apps with utmost reliability, flexibility, and performance

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

Flightcontrol is a platform as a service that deploys applications directly on your AWS infrastructure. It avoids black boxes, vendor lock-in, and AWS markups by giving companies full control over their deployment while improving reliability, flexibility, and performance.

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

We live in Dayton, OH and work remotely. The company is based in Dayton, OH with remote contributors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Dayton offers an affordable base with remote flexibility. We don't need to relocate because our product targets AWS users globally and our team can work efficiently from here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Flightcontrol YC application?

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