SuperTokens YC Application

Summer 2020Active

SuperTokens went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Advait RuiaFounder

What SuperTokens does

SuperTokens is building open source authentication (as an alternative to Auth0, Firebase and AWS Cognito). Add secure, hassle free authentication to your app in 1 day. We enable startups to launch quicker and focus on their core product offering 1. We're easier to implement as we take a modular approach - making it possible to pick only the features you need for your use case. This means you need not worry about complications associated with other features (eg: SSO and OAuth if you don’t need it) and this in turn makes it easier to implement and manage SuperTokens. 2. Developer's can own and manage their user's data. 3. SuperTokens can be run on your premise for free and also has a generous hosted tier for those who dont want to manage it themselves. SuperTokens is being used by hundreds of developers across the globe.

SuperTokens's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SuperTokens, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SuperTokens

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source alternative to Auth0 / AWS Cognito

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

We build an open source authentication system that developers can add to their apps in a day. Our product lets startups implement only the auth features they need without excess complexity. Unlike existing solutions, we make it easy to self-host and own user data while also offering a hosted tier.

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.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most of our network and potential customers are, so it makes sense to operate from here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SuperTokens YC application?

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