KubeSail YC Application

Summer 2019Active

KubeSail went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 batch as a Consumer 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: Summer 2019
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Dan PastusekFounder

What KubeSail does

KubeSail is the home hosting company. We make it easy to take back your privacy, fix the internet, and de-google all at once: host apps at home! Plug in a spare PC or buy our custom home-hosting hardware install apps like PhotoPrism, NocoDB, and Minecraft, and enjoy complete ownership of your data. We build everything you need to make hosting at home viable and fun. For companies, we make it easy to deploy software on-demand for your customers (either in the cloud, or by physically shipping them pre-configured hardware) to your users. Companies like ChatWoot use KubeSail Platform to deploy instances of their software dynamically, the moment a user pays.

KubeSail's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

KubeSail, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

KubeSail

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Self-Hosting Company

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

We build a platform and hardware that makes it simple to self-host apps at home. You can plug in a spare PC or use our custom hardware and run apps like PhotoPrism, NocoDB, and Minecraft with full data ownership. We also enable companies to deploy software on-demand for their customers either in the cloud or via pre-configured hardware shipped directly to users.

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

We live in Pasadena, CA, and work remotely. We'd base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're here because it's home for us and the tech community is strong. Remote lets us tap wider talent without relocating.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real KubeSail YC application?

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