Replit YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Replit went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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: Winter 2018
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 65
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Haya AbdallaFounder
Amjad MasadFounder

What Replit does

Replit is the world-leading collaborative browser-based development environment -- learn, create & deploy! Join a community of 20m+ developers.

Replit's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Replit, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Replit

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Collaborative in-browser IDE

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

We are building Replit, a browser-based development environment that lets developers write, run, and share code collaboratively without needing to setup software or manage infrastructure. It works entirely in-browser, so anyone can start coding instantly and work with others in real-time.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the network, talent, and resources we need to build a developer tool company. Being here keeps us close to early adopters and the broader startup ecosystem.

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 Replit YC application?

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