Hatchet YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Hatchet went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Alexander BelangerFounder
Gabe RuttnerFounder

What Hatchet does

Hatchet is an orchestration platform for managing and observing AI agents, background tasks, and mission-critical workflows. Our mission is to provide developers with a simple, powerful, and reliable orchestration layer, enabling them to focus on building great applications.

Hatchet's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hatchet, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hatchet

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Orchestration platform for teams who ship

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

We built Hatchet to orchestrate and observe AI agents, background tasks, and mission-critical workflows. It provides teams a reliable layer that handles the complexity of running these pipelines at scale, so developers can focus on building their core applications instead of infrastructure.

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

We live and build the company in New York, NY, USA. After YC, we'll continue to base the company here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York has a vibrant tech scene with strong developer communities. Being here helps us connect with early users and talent. We don't need to relocate to Silicon Valley since our product is purely developer-focused and remote-friendly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hatchet YC application?

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