PullRequest YC Application

Summer 2017Acquired

PullRequest went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Lyal AveryFounder/CEO

What PullRequest does

Code Review as a Service PullRequest is passionate about code quality. From static analysis to an on-demand network of code review experts, we help development teams ship code faster, with improved quality and lower costs.

PullRequest's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PullRequest, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PullRequest

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Code review as a service combining automation and experts

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

We provide code review as a service by blending automated static analysis tools with a vetted network of expert code reviewers. Our product integrates directly into development workflows to help engineering teams ship code faster, with better quality and less overhead than doing reviews entirely in-house.

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

We are based in Austin, TX and would keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Austin gives us access to a strong engineering talent pool and a lower cost base than Silicon Valley. It's where we've built our early product and team, so staying here maintains momentum and keeps our core team focused.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PullRequest YC application?

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