RecipeUI YC Application

Summer 2023Active

RecipeUI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Samuel SanFounder

What RecipeUI does

The first version of RecipeUI was a viral project at Robinhood that reached 100% adoption from all engineering and QA teams. When an API broke, anyone from Frontend to QA to PMs could debug without relying on backend engineers

RecipeUI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

RecipeUI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

RecipeUI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The open source Postman alternative

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

We are building RecipeUI, an open source API client that replaces Postman. It helps engineering teams debug APIs quickly without relying on backend engineers. At Robinhood, the first version hit 100% adoption by all engineering and QA teams because it made debugging accessible across frontend, QA, and PMs when APIs break.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to a large concentration of engineering teams working on APIs and to investors familiar with developer tools. It's where our early traction happened.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real RecipeUI YC application?

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