Text Blaze YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Text Blaze went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Dan BarakFounder
Scott Fortmann-RoeFounder

What Text Blaze does

Text Blaze saves time and increases comms quality by automating repeated tasks. Users save smart templates and insert them anywhere on the web using keyboard shortcuts. Templates can include placeholders, logic, dynamic fields, integrations with other apps, and more.

Text Blaze's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Text Blaze, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Text Blaze

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Slash commands anywhere

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

We built Text Blaze, a tool that saves users time by letting them create smart text templates they can insert anywhere on the web with keyboard shortcuts. These templates support placeholders, logic, dynamic fields, and integrations, so users automate repetitive communication tasks across apps without switching tools.

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 here and operates fully remote with a team of nine.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco connects us to the tech ecosystem and talent while remote work lets us operate flexibly and scale our team globally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Text Blaze YC application?

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