Omniref YC Application

Winter 2015Inactive

Omniref went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Tim RobertsonFounder/CEO
Montana LowFounder/CTO

What Omniref does

Omniref is a code-based reference, maintained by and for the programming community. Find questions, comments, links and documentation on the code that you're already using.

Omniref's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Omniref, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Omniref

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sticky notes for code.

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

We are building Omniref, a code-based reference platform maintained by the programming community. It lets developers attach questions, comments, links, and documentation directly to code they use, creating a shared context beyond traditional static docs.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We both live here already, and most of our early users and collaborators are in the Bay Area; staying in San Francisco keeps us close to the developer community we serve and potential partners.

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 Omniref YC application?

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