Instant Labs YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Instant Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Beau HartshorneFounder
Dirkjan OchtmanFounder

What Instant Labs does

Instant Labs started in 2005 by building the fastest domain search engine on the internet: People have performed over 2.5M searches and purchased 250K domains with our free tool.

Instant Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Instant Labs, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Instant Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tools to find and buy domain names

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

We build Instant Domain Search, a domain search engine that instantly shows available domain names to help people find and buy them fast. It's designed to be faster and more user-friendly than existing tools, showing results as you type.

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

We live in Victoria, BC, Canada, and the company remains based here but operates remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We work remotely from Victoria because that's where we live and have built the product organically here since 2005. There's no need to relocate given our online SaaS model.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Instant Labs YC application?

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