Nullstone YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Nullstone 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: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Brad SicklesFounder
Scott SicklesFounder

What Nullstone does

Nullstone is a suite of tools delivered as a single product that enables developer self-service while accommodating flexibility and control that platform engineers need to maintain secure, compliant, performant, and reliable infrastructure. Nullstone provides a simple developer experience that guides developers through the architecture and release of cloud apps. By default, infrastructure launched through Nullstone is compliance-certified and vetted for security best practices. The software delivery process can be customized per app through external CI/CD tools or IaC tools like Terraform to meet the specific needs of customers or to optimize developer workflow. Nullstone comes with many quality-of-life features that are hard to build with an in-house DevOps/Platform team: Auto-Build/Deploy, Preview Environments, GitOps, and Automatic Secrets Management.

Nullstone's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nullstone

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

An easier way to deploy and manage cloud apps

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

We built Nullstone, a suite of developer tools that simplify deploying and managing cloud applications. It guides developers through app architecture and release, while platform engineers retain control over security and compliance. Our product handles tasks like auto-building, preview environments, GitOps, and automatic secrets management - all features that would be too costly or complex for most teams to build in-house.

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

We live in Atlanta, GA, and the company is based here with remote work as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Atlanta because that's where we live and work. We operate remotely to attract talent beyond our city while keeping our base stable.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nullstone YC application?

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