Supernova YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Supernova went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Oskar KoristkaFounder
Jiri TrecakFounder

What Supernova does

Supernova connects to popular design editors and interprets design systems into data. These data can then be transformed in powerful ways to create code for product development, for literally any coding stack or platform imaginable. These transformations can be fully automated so that when design changes occur, the code is automatically updated to reflect the changes. Developers can fully control how the code is rendered, literally down to the individual code characters. An ecosystem of Supernova-developed and community-maintained code export packages is available for popular stacks and platforms via the Supernova Store, or teams can choose to create their own - for instance, to support proprietary frameworks or to customize code output to meet any company guidelines.

Supernova's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Supernova, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Supernova

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Design system platform joins developers and designers together

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

We built a platform that connects to popular design editors and turns design systems into structured data. This data can then be transformed automatically into production-ready code for any platform or tech stack. When designs update, the code updates too, and developers can control the output down to individual characters. We support creating custom code exporters and have an ecosystem of community and Supernova-built packages.

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

We live and work in Prague, Czechia. After YC, the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are rooted in Prague because that's where we know the talent and ecosystem best. We want to keep building locally and use YC to gain global connections and grow our market reach, not relocate.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Supernova YC application?

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