Glide YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Glide went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 46
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Mark ProbstFounder
David SiegelFounder
Jason SmithFounder

What Glide does

Glide is a web-based app builder that allows non-programmers to quickly create powerful and beautiful internal business apps by starting from scratch, starting with a prompt, or starting with a spreadsheet. For 30 years, app development had barely changed. When Glide launched, we brought app development out of the Dark Ages, making it web-based, collaborative, accessible, and fun. Today, the influence of AI on coding has propelled app development even further. And Glide has risen to the occasion. The next generation of Glide gives users an AI-first method for building internal business software without worrying about granular-level control, security, authentication, database infrastructure, or deployment woes. Our mission is to become the operating system for your business by helping you turn all of your operational spreadsheets and data into beautiful, intelligent apps. We're three technical founders with expertise in native mobile frameworks, developer tools, and product design. We've worked together for 5-10 years, and were all early employees at Xamarin, a mobile developer tools startup acquired by Microsoft in 2016.

Glide's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Glide, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Glide

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turns spreadsheets into intelligent apps

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

We build a web-based app builder that lets non-programmers create internal business apps quickly and easily. Users start from spreadsheets, a blank slate, or an AI-generated prompt. The product handles all the backend complexity - security, authentication, database, deployment - so customers can focus on building useful workflows, not infrastructure.

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

We live in San Francisco with a remote team distributed elsewhere. The company is based in San Francisco, CA after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all live and have built our network and team. Remote helps us grow the team globally, but our core remains here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Glide YC application?

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