Sails Co. YC Application

Winter 2015Active

Sails Co. went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Mike McNeilFounder/CEO
Scott GressFounder
Cody StoltmanFounder

What Sails Co. does

The Sails Company was founded by the original author and maintainers of the Sails framework. In addition to free and open-source software, The Sails Company offers a full-service web & mobile studio and professional support for the tools we maintain.

Sails Co.'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sails Co., Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sails Co.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Web, mobile, and cloud studio with professional support

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

We maintain the Sails.js framework, an open-source MVC framework for Node.js focused on modern web, mobile, and cloud apps. Alongside that, we provide professional services building apps and offering support to companies using our tools.

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

We live in Austin, Texas, and the company is based here and will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Austin has a growing tech community and is where we all live and work. It's been our home for building Sails and running the studio, so staying here keeps us close to our roots and users.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sails Co. YC application?

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