Porter YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Porter went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 18
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Justin RheeFounder

What Porter does

Porter is the easiest way to deploy and scale your applications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Connect your own cloud account, and Porter will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you - simply point at your repository and Porter will handle the rest, from building your application to autoscaling it. Under the hood, Porter manages the same kind of infrastructure that growth-stage companies use and allows you to scale without DevOps overhead.

Porter's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Porter

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Easiest way to deploy on AWS/GCP/Azure

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

We built a platform that lets companies deploy and scale their apps on AWS, Azure, and GCP without managing infrastructure themselves. You connect your cloud account, point to your repo, and we handle building, provisioning, and autoscaling the app.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York because that's where we started and built our early product and customer relationships. Staying here keeps us close to our team and users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Porter YC application?

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