Visly YC Application

Winter 2019Acquired

Visly went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 6
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2018

Founders

Emil SjölanderFounder
Karl PeterssonFounder

What Visly does

Visly is building a next generation design tool initially aimed at front-end engineers. We believe that with the proliferation if component driven software design and popularity of universal design systems it is the perfect time to build a tool like Visly. We enable engineers and designers to collaborate in a single tool and create high quality components that can be directly imported into code using existing tooling developers are used to. Compared to many other design tools we know that the secret to getting this to work well is building a tool engineers will love and building trust with the engineering community. Otherwise these components will never make it into a production code base.

Visly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Visly, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Visly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build React components visually

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

We are building Visly, a visual design tool for front-end engineers to create React components. It lets developers and designers collaborate in one place and export components directly into code that fits existing workflows. The tool solves the problem that most design systems and component-driven workflows don't have good tools engineers trust enough to ship production code from.

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

We live remote and plan to remain remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to be remote since our team is distributed and our users are engineers and designers who work anywhere. Building a product for developers globally fits a remote-first approach.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Visly YC application?

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