Magic Hour YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Magic Hour went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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: Winter 2024
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Runbo LiFounder
David HuFounder

What Magic Hour does

Magic Hour is a professional video creation tool. It takes the best AI video models, puts them in one workflow, and makes creating an amazing video as easy as selecting a template and customizing it. You can use the product at

Magic Hour's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Magic Hour, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Magic Hour

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform for AI video generation

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

We built Magic Hour to let creators make professional videos driven by AI. It combines various AI video models into one workflow so users can select a template and customize it easily, cutting down the complexity of video production.

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

We live in San Francisco, and we plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are based because it's where we live and where the creator and tech communities we target are located.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Magic Hour YC application?

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