WebCake YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

WebCake went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Nathan SpellerFounder

WebCake's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

WebCake, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

WebCake

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Marketing people modify site

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

We are building a tool that lets marketers make website changes without needing engineers. It lets non-technical users edit content and design directly on the site, removing bottlenecks and speeding up marketing campaigns.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco, where the largest concentration of tech and marketing teams overlap. It's where our customers and potential partners are located.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real WebCake YC application?

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