hoop.dev YC Application

Winter 2021Active

hoop.dev went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Andrios RobertFounder

What hoop.dev does

hoop.dev prevents developers from blocking on Devops tasks. We do this by enabling any engineer do Devops work under the supervision of the Devops team. You can think of us as code review for Devops tasks.

hoop.dev's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

hoop.dev, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

hoop.dev

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Code review for DevOps tasks

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

We built hoop.dev to let any engineer perform DevOps tasks without blocking on the DevOps team. It works like code review for DevOps: changes are proposed as code and the DevOps team supervises and approves them. This reduces bottlenecks and keeps control centralized.

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

I live in São Paulo, Brazil, and the company is based there with remote team members. After YC, we'll remain based in São Paulo but continue remote collaboration.

Explain your decision regarding location.

São Paulo is our home and where our team is located. The city has a growing tech scene and good access to Brazilian customers. We can stay global and remote but keep roots here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real hoop.dev YC application?

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