Svbtle YC Application

Summer 2012Active

Svbtle went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 batch as a Consumer 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 2012
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Dustin CurtisFounder

What Svbtle does

A publishing platform designed to work the same way your brain does.

Svbtle's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Svbtle, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Svbtle

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A publishing platform.

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

We are building Svbtle, a publishing platform designed to work the same way your brain does. It helps writers and thinkers focus on the mechanics of publishing without distractions, organizing ideas naturally as they form.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based there with some remote work as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Francisco because it's where we live and the community of builders and users we want to reach is here. Remote work allows us to collaborate flexibly.

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 Svbtle YC application?

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