ToDesktop YC Application

Winter 2020Active

ToDesktop went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Dave JefferyFounder

What ToDesktop does

ToDesktop is an all-in-one platform for building and releasing desktop apps. We save companies months of development time by handling code signing, auto-updates, and native installers for Windows, Mac and Linux.

ToDesktop's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ToDesktop, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ToDesktop

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

All-in-one platform for building & releasing desktop apps

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

We built ToDesktop to handle the painful parts of shipping desktop apps - code signing, auto-updates, and native installers across Windows, Mac, and Linux. It saves companies months of development time by replacing complex, error-prone scripts and manual processes with a single platform where they can build, sign, package, and release their apps.

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

We are based in Cork, Ireland, and the team works remote. After YC, we'll remain remote but official company operations will continue from Cork.

Explain your decision regarding location.

All three founders live in or near Cork, so it makes sense to base the company here. Remote work lets us hire flexibly and focus on product instead of location.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ToDesktop YC application?

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