Inscrição YC de Blacksmith
Blacksmith passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2024 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.
- Batch YC
- Winter 2024
- Indústria
- B2BInfrastructure
- Tamanho da equipe
- 3
- Status
- Active
- Lançada
- 2024
Fundadores
Aditya (JP) JayaprakashFounder
Aditya MaruFounder
Aayush ShahFounder
O que Blacksmith faz
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.
Inscrição YC de Blacksmith, reconstruída
Inscrição Y Combinator
Blacksmith, lote Winter 2024. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados 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 respostas a mais na inscrição completa
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Perguntas Frequentes
Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Blacksmith?
Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Blacksmith (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Blacksmith se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.
Em qual batch da YC Blacksmith esteve?
Blacksmith fez parte do batch Winter 2024 da Y Combinator.
Quem fundou o Blacksmith?
O Blacksmith foi fundado por Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash, Aditya Maru, Aayush Shah.
O que o Blacksmith faz?
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?
Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Blacksmith, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.
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