MagicBell YC Application

Winter 2021Active

MagicBell 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: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Hana MohanFounder

What MagicBell does

MagicBell is the notification inbox for web & mobile apps. As consumers of many apps, we have personally experienced the growing volume of notifications - many of which add to our anxiety instead of helping us manage it. MagicBell is on a mission to end this chaos and help every app deliver a stellar notification experience. We do this by offering a beautifully designed notification inbox that apps can embed in their products in minutes. We do all the heavy lifting related to real-time delivery & syncing, web & mobile push notifications, email notifications, and even notification preference management. We sit at an interesting intersection of a dev tool & a productivity tool for end-users. We are helping every app make its users more productive!

MagicBell's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MagicBell, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MagicBell

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The notification inbox for web/mobile apps

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

We built MagicBell, a notification inbox that web and mobile apps can embed to handle all notifications in one place. It manages real-time delivery, syncing, push notifications, emails, and user preferences, so app developers don't have to build or maintain this infrastructure themselves.

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

We live in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and the company is based remotely from there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are remote but anchored in Barcelona, which keeps us connected and allows us to work with a small dedicated team without relocating. We can recruit worldwide without geographic limits.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MagicBell YC application?

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