Hudu

Hudu YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Hudu 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
B2BOperations
Team size
26
Status
Active
Launched
2021

Founders

  • Jacob Hart
    Jacob HartFounder
  • John Hart
    John HartFounder

What Hudu does

We help IT departments collaborate, simplify their operations, and organize their information. Users can share passwords, network documentation, business processes, and other technical information in one secure, customizable, and easy interface. Instead of multiple, complex services to manage their businesses, companies can now use one, unified solution.

Hudu's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hudu

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

IT documentation platform

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

We've built a platform for IT teams to store and share documentation, passwords, network diagrams, and business processes all in one place. It's secured, customizable, and structured to replace the messy collection of tools most IT departments use today.

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

We live in Fort Collins, CO and will continue to base the company here and support our largely remote team after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Fort Collins lets us build a distributed team in an affordable, quality-of-life city. We want to keep that while growing, instead of moving to a high-cost valley city.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hudu YC application?

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

What YC batch was Hudu in?

Hudu was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2021 batch.

Who founded Hudu?

Hudu was founded by Jacob Hart, John Hart.

What does Hudu do?

The Most-Loved IT Documentation Platform

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Hudu's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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