Repaint YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Repaint 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

Ben ShumakerFounder
Izak FritzFounder

What Repaint does

Repaint lets you build professional websites by chatting with AI. It interviews you, researches you online, and generates a custom websites. Then you can edit anything by asking the AI. Our vision is to merge traditional website builders with AI coding tools, creating a new way for anyone to make more advanced software.

Repaint's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Repaint

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build a website by chatting with AI

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

We built Repaint to let anyone create a professional website by simply chatting with our AI. It interviews users, researches their online presence, then generates a custom website. Users can then edit their site by just asking the AI to change anything. We're blending classic website builders with AI coding tools to make building more advanced software easy for non-technical people.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and Repaint would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and have access to early users and talent. Staying local keeps us agile and close to AI and web dev ecosystems.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Repaint YC application?

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