moonrepo YC Application

Winter 2023Inactive

moonrepo 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2023

Founders

Miles JohnsonFounder
James PozdenaFounder

What moonrepo does

moonrepo is a developer tool that reduces build/test/deploy times, and maintenance costs for companies. We’ve achieved this through moon, our open source build system and repository management tool. moon can be paired with moonbase, our paid service that provides cloud caching, CI insights, code ownership, and health score related metrics. The company is founded by Miles Johnson and James Pozdena who have a combined 25+ years in the software development industry with tenure at Airbnb and Coinbase.

moonrepo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

moonrepo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source build tool for monorepos

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

We built moon, an open source build system and repo management tool that reduces build, test, and deploy times for large monorepos. We also offer moonbase, a paid service adding cloud caching, CI insights, and code health metrics.

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

We live in Portland, OR, and the company is remote. After YC, we'd remain remote but headquartered in Portland.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Both founders are based in Portland but work remotely. Staying remote allows us to hire broadly and keep overhead low.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real moonrepo YC application?

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