Markupwand YC Application

Summer 2012Inactive

Markupwand 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: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Rajagopal NatarajanFounder/CEO
Alagu MFounder
Surendran MahendranFounder

What Markupwand does

A product that takes PSD files and generates HTML / CSS automatically, and asks a few questions to generate the view templates with a few simple inputs from a backend developer.

Markupwand's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Markupwand, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Markupwand

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Convert Design files to working websites automagically

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

Markupwand takes PSD design files and converts them into HTML and CSS automatically. It asks backend developers a few simple questions to generate view templates, cutting down manual coding time when implementing a design.

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

We live and work in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and the company is based here before and after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Bengaluru because the founders live here and this is where we built the product and first users. There's local engineering talent here, and it keeps operating costs manageable.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Markupwand YC application?

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