Massdriver YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Massdriver went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Cory O'DanielFounder
Chris HillFounder

What Massdriver does

Massdriver helps engineering and operations teams build secure, production-ready internal developer platforms in minutes. With over 50+ infrastructure components engineering teams can build golden paths quickly on Kubernetes, serverless, or VMs. Get the flexibility product engineers need, with the auditing and security operations teams’ demand. We handle all the boring parts of cloud operations like IAM, secrets, continuous deployment, alerting, and monitoring so your team can focus on the product. Massdriver supports anti-lockin, by running in your cloud, and open-sourcing all of our infrastructure components.

Massdriver's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Massdriver, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Massdriver

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Deploy secure, scalable cloud infrastructure fast

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

We build a platform that lets engineering and operations teams deploy secure, production-ready internal developer platforms within minutes instead of days. Our tool offers over 50 infrastructure components so teams can create golden paths on Kubernetes, serverless, or VMs. It automates cloud ops tasks like IAM, secrets, deployment, alerting, and monitoring, while running fully in your cloud and open-sourcing the components to avoid vendor lock-in.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, USA, with a remote team distributed. After YC, the company will remain based in Los Angeles and remote-friendly.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles is where the founding team is based. We value building here and supporting a distributed team while staying connected to YC's network remotely.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Massdriver YC application?

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