Stably AI YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Stably AI 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: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Jinjing LiangCo-founder & CEO
Neil ParkerFounder

What Stably AI does

We build devtools. Orca is an open-source Cursor - a local-first AI coding environment. Stably is our AI testing platform that writes, runs, and maintains E2E tests in CI. Developers use Orca and Stably to ship faster with more control - coding with their own AI setup and merging with confidence in minutes.

Stably AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Stably AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Makers of Orca and Stably, AI devtools

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

We build developer tools. Orca is an open-source Cursor - a local-first AI coding environment that helps developers code with their own AI setup locally. Stably is an AI testing platform that writes, runs, and maintains end-to-end tests continuously in CI. Together, they help engineering teams ship faster with more control and confidence.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here and would continue to be after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to the engineering and AI communities we serve. It's where we meet early users, get feedback, and recruit talent who understand developer tools and AI workflows.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Stably AI YC application?

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