Rune YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Rune went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a Consumer 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 2019
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Sanjay GuruprasadFounder

What Rune does

Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform. Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code. They launch their game on Rune and instantly, thousands of passionate friend groups play it together on voice chat right inside the Rune app! Rune's beta has grown rapidly, with over 50 games built for the platform ranging from multiplayer mini-golf to real-time 3D racing games. The SDK supercharges game creation, with many of our games built in under a week! And these games are played like crazy too - friends have spent over 50 million minutes hanging out and playing our new games together already.

Rune's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rune, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rune

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Talk & play multiplayer games with your friends!

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

We've built a mobile app where friends can voice chat and play indie multiplayer games together. Developers use our SDK to build multiplayer games without backend coding and launch them on Rune, where thousands of friend groups quickly start playing together inside our app.

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

We live in New York City and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in New York because that's where we live and build the product. It helps us stay close to our early users and developers who use our SDK.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rune YC application?

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