MobileBoost YC Application

Summer 2021Active

MobileBoost went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Christian SchillerFounder
Christian HartungFounder

What MobileBoost does

*Achieve Mobile App Test Coverage 10x Faster with AI-Powered Automation* Struggling with low E2E test coverage for your mobile app? Short on QA resources? Our GPT Driver uses AI to automate your mobile app testing, freeing up your team and providing reliable, consistent results. Eliminate tedious maintenance, accelerate release cycles, and ship higher-quality apps with GPT Driver. Trusted by mobile industry leaders like Duolingo, Spotify, Netflix, Salesforce and Groupon. Check out Duolingo's case study about their partnership with GPT Driver and how they reduced manual regression testing by 70%:

MobileBoost's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MobileBoost, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MobileBoost

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI native mobile testing

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

We build GPT Driver, an AI-powered automated testing tool for mobile apps. It generates and runs end-to-end tests, cutting test coverage time by 10x and reducing manual QA effort. Our tool helps mobile teams ship apps faster and with fewer bugs by automating repetitive testing and maintenance.

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

We live in San Francisco and the company is based there with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco lets us recruit deeply technical engineers familiar with mobile testing challenges. Remote adds flexibility but SF is our base to stay connected to mobile tech hubs and customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MobileBoost YC application?

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