RevenueCat YC Application

Summer 2018Active

RevenueCat went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2018
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 70
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Jacob EitingFounder

What RevenueCat does

RevenueCat is a mobile SDK and API for managing in-app subscriptions We take the sting out of supporting the complicated subscription systems of the App Store and Google Play Store, and help you focus on running your business.

RevenueCat's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

RevenueCat, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

RevenueCat

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A simple API for managing in-app subscriptions

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

We built a mobile SDK and API that manages in-app subscriptions for iOS and Android apps. It handles the complexities of Apple and Google subscription systems so developers can spend less time on billing and more on their product.

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

We live in San Francisco but the team is remote-first. After YC, we plan to keep being based in SF and distributed globally.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to many developer-heavy startups and platforms integrating subscriptions. Remote work lets us scale quickly without geographical limits.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real RevenueCat YC application?

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