Aplicación YC de Blacksmith
Blacksmith pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Winter 2024 como una empresa de B2B. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.
- Batch YC
- Winter 2024
- Industria
- B2BInfrastructure
- Tamaño del equipo
- 3
- Estado
- Active
- Lanzado
- 2024
Fundadores
Aditya (JP) JayaprakashFounder
Aditya MaruFounder
Aayush ShahFounder
Lo que hace Blacksmith
Blacksmith helps companies run their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as fast, at half the cost. We do this by running their CI on high performance gaming CPUs. - Engineering productivity is often marred by slow CI that grows quadratically with the size of the engineering organization. - On top of this, companies pay high markups to run CI on the hyperscalers. - Consequently, companies have to run their CI on spot instances to keep costs in check. Since spot instances can get pre-empted at any point, running CI reliably on them requires [significant engineering investment]( Blacksmith offers CI compute that is more performant, cheaper, and reliable. With Blacksmith, companies do not have to think about CI as they scale. We are starting with GitHub Actions - today's most popular and fastest-growing CI system. With a one-line change, companies can run their CI up to twice as fast on our high-performance hardware. In addition to this, Blacksmith provides colocated warm caches along with optimizations for common CI workloads (like building and pushing Docker images). Aayush, JP and Aditya have gained deep systems and product knowledge from their time at Cockroach Labs and Faire respectively. Both these companies, with several hundred engineers, were spending in the order of millions of dollars on their CI. Yet they were riddled with slow CI and actively seeking out cheaper and faster alternatives. Blacksmith offers exactly this alternative, at a time where being lean is table-stakes for most companies.
Aplicación YC de Blacksmith, reconstruida
Solicitud de Y Combinator
Blacksmith, batch Winter 2024. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Blacksmith
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
We run continuous integration workloads, starting with GitHub Actions, on high-performance gaming CPUs. Our product cuts CI run times by up to half and reduces costs by around 2x. Rather than relying on spot instances on cloud providers, we provide faster, cheaper, and more reliable CI compute with colocated warm caches and workload-specific optimizations like Docker builds.
We are currently remote and the company remains remote post-YC.
We prioritize hiring and working remotely because our founders and early team members are distributed. This allows us to tap into top talent wherever they are and move fast without relocation overheads.
21 respuestas más en la aplicación completa
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Preguntas Frecuentes
¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Blacksmith?
No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Blacksmith (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Blacksmith se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.
¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Blacksmith?
Blacksmith formó parte del batch Winter 2024 de Y Combinator.
¿Quién fundó Blacksmith?
Blacksmith fue fundado por Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash, Aditya Maru, Aayush Shah.
¿A qué se dedica Blacksmith?
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?
Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Blacksmith, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.
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