SolidStage YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

SolidStage went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Tom BrownFounder
Kevin KelleyFounder

SolidStage's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SolidStage, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SolidStage

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sysadmin as a service

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

We provide sysadmin as a service. Our product makes deploying, configuring, and monitoring infrastructure easier for small engineering teams that can't afford dedicated sysadmins. Instead of managing servers themselves, users send us their requirements and we handle the setup and ongoing maintenance.

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

n/a

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are not tied to a specific location because our work is entirely remote and service-based, allowing flexibility to serve customers wherever they are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SolidStage YC application?

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