Memberstack YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Memberstack went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 batch as a Fintech 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 2020
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Duncan HamraFounder
Tyler BellFounder

What Memberstack does

3,000 companies have generate over 130 million dollars in recurring revenue. Companies like American Airlines, Slack, Entreprenuer.com, Webflow, and reddit use Memberstack to serve millions of members every single day. No code if you need it, tons of APIs if you need those, and 100% design control so that you can build any frontend.

Memberstack's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Memberstack, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Memberstack

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build custom SaaS or membership sites

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

We build a tool that lets companies create SaaS or membership sites on top of Webflow or Wordpress without sacrificing design control. Our product handles user accounts, payments, and member management through no-code tools or APIs so developers can customize or scale however they want.

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

We live primarily in Williamsburg, VA, but the team works remote across the US. The company will remain remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We choose to be remote to access talent from different locations and keep flexible. Williamsburg is where we are based now, but we don't require a single physical office.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Memberstack YC application?

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