Requestly YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Requestly went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 19
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Sachin JainFounder
Sagar SoniFounder

What Requestly does

Requestly helps developers build faster by intercepting, mocking, and testing API responses. No more waiting for backend developers, struggling with flaky staging environments, or fighting over API contracts. With 200,000+ active installs, Requestly is trusted by Google, Amazon, Workday, Indeed, and many other Fortune 500 companies.

Requestly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Requestly, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Requestly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

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

Requestly is a developer tool that intercepts, mocks, and tests API responses so frontend teams don't have to wait for backend developers or rely on flaky staging environments. It lets engineers control API behavior locally to speed up development and testing without fighting over API contracts.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here as well as remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to top engineering teams and our customers in Silicon Valley, while remote allows us to hire talented engineers globally and stay flexible.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Requestly YC application?

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