Random Labs YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Random Labs 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Kiran (Random Labs)Founder
Mihir ChintawarFounder

What Random Labs does

Random Labs is building Slate. Slate is a coding agent designed to work with you for long hours on hard problems.

Random Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Random Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Long running autonomous coding agents

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

We're building Slate, a coding agent that works alongside developers for long hours on tough problems. It's designed to stick with you through complex tasks that require sustained focus and collaboration, not just quick snippets or one-off answers.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work in San Francisco, which is ideal for connecting with engineering teams, early users, and the AI community. Staying here keeps us close to potential customers and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Random Labs YC application?

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