MagnaPlay YC Application

Winter 2023Active

MagnaPlay went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Pedro EstevesFounder
Paulo RodriguesFounder
Eugenio Sánchez RabiellaFounder

What MagnaPlay does

MagnaPlay is game translation simplified into SAAS. Every game needs to be translated - a process which currently consists of finding freelancers, verifying their quality, negotiating prices, building contracts and waiting months for them to deliver. With MagnaPlay, game developers cut out the middleman and get results 5x faster, at half the price and with more reliable quality. Our combination of AI, expert translators and SAAS fully integrates translation into the gamedev workflow, ensuring games are translated and reach the worldwide audiences that love them so much.

MagnaPlay's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MagnaPlay, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MagnaPlay

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered game translation

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

We're building a SaaS product that integrates AI and expert human translators to deliver fast, reliable game translations. MagnaPlay replaces the usual freelancer hustle - finding people, quality checks, negotiations, contracts, and months of delays - with a streamlined service that plugs directly into game development workflows. The result is translations delivered 5x faster, at half the cost, and with better quality.

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

We live and work remotely, and after YC the company will remain fully remote to keep flexibility and tap into global talent.

Explain your decision regarding location.

All three founders are remote now and we prefer remote work for better access to experts in both AI and game localization. The product itself is digital and serves users worldwide, so remote makes sense for us.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MagnaPlay YC application?

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