GitStart YC Application

Summer 2019Active

GitStart 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 19
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Hamza ZiaFounder

What GitStart does

GitStart accelerates software engineers with Pull Requests as a Service. Assign tickets to GitStart Bot, go to sleep, and wake up with PRs. GitStart Bot automatically manages thousands of AI models and full-time engineers and runs peer reviews until PRs are ready to be merged. It’s scalable, flexible, and quality is guaranteed: you only pay for merged PRs.

GitStart's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GitStart

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Pull Requests as a Service

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

We built GitStart to automatically handle engineering tickets by producing ready-to-merge pull requests. Users assign tasks to our GitStart Bot, which runs AI models and full-time engineers to deliver code changes reviewed and quality-checked. This removes bottlenecks in engineering teams and scales code delivery without growing headcount.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here with a remote team worldwide.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the developer ecosystem and talent pool we need. Our team operates remotely to access diverse engineers but the company headquarters remain in SF for access to investors and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GitStart YC application?

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