StackMachine YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

StackMachine went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Kyle GrayFounder
Brandon LiuFounder

What StackMachine does

Stack Machine is a developer tools company based in San Francisco, CA since May 2013. We enable a full-stack understanding of an organizations's codebases and developer environments. Our founders have years of experience running large-scale web services.

StackMachine's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

StackMachine, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

StackMachine

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Instant sandboxed server environments

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

We build instant sandboxed server environments that let developers spin up full-stack environments quickly. Our product helps dev teams understand codebases and developer environments at scale, making onboarding and experimentation faster without breaking shared infrastructure.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our engineering network and potential customers are. It gives us access to both talent and early users in developer tools and DevOps.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real StackMachine YC application?

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