Tempo YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Tempo went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Peter Gokhshteyn
Kevin Michael

What Tempo does

Tempo is a visual editor for react that gives PMs, designers, and engineers the ability to collaborate visually on code. It offers the familiar UX of a design tool but functions like an IDE under the hood. Tempo is optimized for Vite and Tailwind.

Tempo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tempo, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tempo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Visual Editor for React, powered by AI

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

Tempo is a visual editor built specifically for React projects. It lets PMs, designers, and engineers collaborate directly on code with a familiar design tool interface that operates like an IDE under the hood. We optimize for frameworks like Vite and Tailwind to fit modern front-end stacks.

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

We live in Toronto, ON, Canada, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Toronto is where we and most of our team are located, so it's practical for us to keep building Tempo from here.

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 Tempo YC application?

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