Duckly YC Application

Summer 2020Inactive

Duckly went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Dragos FotescuFounder

What Duckly does

Duckly enables teams to talk and collaborate in real-time. Teams can use a simple URL that is easy to join and remember. You can share a website and allow your colleagues to click, type, and browse with you. You can share your code directly from your IDE or even share a terminal session that your team can interact with. All with high-quality audio and video chat. We are building tools for real-time remote collaboration that makes it easy for teams to work as if they were side by side and share what they know.

Duckly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Duckly, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Duckly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Video chat with real-time collaboration

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

We built Duckly to help engineering and design teams collaborate remotely with video chat and shared interactive sessions. You can share a URL that lets teammates browse, type, or interact with your code or terminal in real-time while talking. Unlike other tools, we integrate directly with your IDE and provide a high-quality audio/video experience that's easy to join and remember.

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

We are based in San Francisco but work remotely as well. After YC, we'll continue from San Francisco and our remote team members' locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to the developer and startup ecosystem we serve and YC itself. Remote work gives us flexibility while keeping the core in a tech hub.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Duckly YC application?

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