Flow YC Application

Summer 2019Inactive

Flow went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Aparna DhinakaranFounder
Eswar DhinakaranFounder

What Flow does

Flow is building products to improve your browsing experience. The web browser is an indispensable part of our daily lives - we use it for work, shopping, entertainment, research, sharing memes, procrastinating, connecting with friends and family. Yet it remains tough to be organized and intentful when using it. We’re building products to dramatically improve your browsing experience, and Flow is our foray into intentful browsing.

Flow's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Flow, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Flow

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Improve your browsing experience by staying organized and intentful

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

We're building a product that helps users stay organized when browsing the web. Browsers are essential in daily life but don't make it easy to keep browsing focused or organized across tabs and sessions. Flow is our attempt to create intentful browsing tools that let people work, research, and browse without losing track or wasting time.

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

We currently live in San Francisco and operate mostly remote with a small team. After YC, we'd continue to be based out of San Francisco but maintain remote flexibility.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for developer tools and infrastructure startups and gives us access to the talent and network crucial to growing Flow. Remote work lets us work efficiently and tap people outside the immediate area.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Flow YC application?

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