Light Table/Eve YC Application

Summer 2012Inactive

Light Table/Eve went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 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: Summer 2012
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Rob AttorriFounder
Chris GrangerFounder

What Light Table/Eve does

Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

Light Table/Eve's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Light Table/Eve, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Light Table/Eve

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Interactive IDE with real-time code feedback

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

We are building Light Table, an interactive development environment that lets programmers modify running programs and see real-time feedback. It helps answer questions about code and understand how programs really work by embedding anything from websites to games directly inside the IDE.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work; it's the center of the developer tooling community and where we have our team and users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Light Table/Eve YC application?

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