Lunatic YC Application
Lunatic 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
- 2
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2021
Founders
Bernard KolobaraFounder
Hrvoje BandovFounder
What Lunatic does
At the core of the company there is Lunatic, a runtime for developing low latency, robust and distributed networking applications. It can be used for web applications, game servers, video and voice chat, or other apps requiring low latency runtimes. Lunatic borrows many proven ideas from Go and Erlang, but also uses WebAssembly to make it easier targetable from existing languages, allowing teams to leverage already existing code and libraries.
Lunatic's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Lunatic, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Lunatic
Operating System for server-side apps
We are building Lunatic, a runtime designed for low latency, robust, distributed networking applications. It combines ideas from Go and Erlang but runs code as WebAssembly modules, making it easier to write safe concurrent apps that handle real-time workloads like game servers, video and voice chat. It targets engineers wanting more reliability and lower latency than traditional runtimes.
We live in Vienna, Austria and plan to keep the company based here after YC.
We founded the company here and build the product remotely from Vienna. There's a strong developer community here and the location suits our work style and network.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Lunatic YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Lunatic's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Lunatic would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Lunatic in?
Lunatic was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2021 batch.
Who founded Lunatic?
Lunatic was founded by Bernard Kolobara, Hrvoje Bandov.
What does Lunatic do?
Operating System for server-side apps
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Lunatic's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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