Glasskube YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Glasskube 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: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Louis WestonFounder/President
Philip MiglinciFounder

What Glasskube does

Managing enterprise software deployments shouldn’t feel like a balancing act. At Glasskube, we make deploying, managing, and updating software in on-premises, VPC, and air-gapped environments easier than ever. Our Mission: We empower software vendors to deliver exceptional customer experiences with less complexity. Whether you’re onboarding new clients, rolling out updates, or troubleshooting issues, our Software Distribution Platform streamlines every step. The founders have been best friends for over 15 years, lived together in college, and even had a startup together. Philip was the CTO of a European Kubernetes-based company that was acquired in 2022.

Glasskube's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Glasskube

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Ship self-hosted software with Distr

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

We build Distr, a platform that makes deploying, managing, and updating software in on-premises, VPC, and air-gapped environments easier. Our product targets software vendors who need to distribute their software reliably without relying on cloud access, especially in complex enterprise setups where updates and troubleshooting can be slow and fragile.

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

We have not specified a location publicly; the founders have worked remotely and intend to keep it flexible after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We haven't chosen a fixed base and value flexibility. Our users and the infrastructure we target are distributed, so a physical location is less relevant.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Glasskube YC application?

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