Freestyle YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Freestyle went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Bۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫enjamin SwerdlowFounder
Jacob ZwangFounder/CTO

What Freestyle does

Ben and Jacob met in Calculus class in 10th grade, and tried founding a startup in high school - it didn’t go anywhere. During high school, Ben lead the frontend team for the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 App Team. After high school, Jacob went to Apple and Ben went to college. When there was an opening on his team, Jacob had Ben apply, and Ben left UChicago to go work at Apple. They spent about 2 years at Apple as Senior Engineers in the Conversational Engineering Department, before leaving to found Freestyle. Freestyle is directly inspired by what they saw as their failures of the tech they worked with at Apple.

Freestyle's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Freestyle, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Freestyle

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We run and deploy code your AI wrote

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

We built a platform that runs and deploys code generated by AI, making it usable in production. Instead of leaving developers stuck fixing AI's output manually, we automate deploying AI-written code reliably.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because it's where we live and where our early network is strongest. Being close to YC and Silicon Valley's engineering talent also helps.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Freestyle YC application?

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