StatusPage YC Application

Summer 2013Acquired

StatusPage 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2013

Founders

Steve KleinFounder
Scott KleinFounder
Danny OlinskyFounder

What StatusPage does

Statuspage is the #1 status and incident communication tool, acquired by Atlassian in 2016. For more information, check out our new LinkedIn page:

StatusPage's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

StatusPage

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The best way to communicate with users around downtime.

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

We built StatusPage, a tool that helps companies communicate their system status and incidents to users clearly and reliably. It solves the problem of keeping customers informed during downtime or outages, reducing support load and improving transparency.

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 too.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We all live in San Francisco and want to stay close to our users and the tech ecosystem. Being here helps us move fast and connect with other startups and customers.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real StatusPage YC application?

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