ProhostAI YC Application

Summer 2024Active

ProhostAI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Bill UlammandakhFounder
Andrew LawsonCo-Founder

What ProhostAI does

ProhostAI is building an AI Property Manager for short-term rental hosts on Airbnb and other platforms. Our team consists of an ex-Airbnb Staff Data Scientist and Dropbox Sr Software Engineer who are also Superhosts with 9 properties worth $15M making $1.5M/yr.

ProhostAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ProhostAI, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ProhostAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Property Manager for Airbnb hosts

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

We are building an AI Property Manager tailored for short-term rental hosts on Airbnb and similar platforms. Our product automates tasks like guest communication, pricing updates, and booking management to save hosts time and improve profitability. It combines AI with data science insights from operating multiple short-term rental properties ourselves.

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

We live in New York City and plan to base the company there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We picked New York City because it's where we live and have access to our network. It also has a strong short-term rental market to validate product-market fit.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ProhostAI YC application?

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