Company name:
Page Canary
Company url, if any:
http://pagecanary.com (opens in a new tab)
If you have a demo, what's the url? Demo can be anything that shows us how the product works. Usually that's a video or screen recording.
Video: https://pagecanary.com/intro (opens in a new tab) Live demo: https://pagecanary.com/demo (opens in a new tab)
Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
Page Canary is a one-step AI-powered testing and monitoring service for any website. It will crawl your website, create test plans and execute them in any environment.
What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?
Now: Palo Alto, CA After YC: Remote
CONTACT Personal email address of the founder who is filling out this application:
Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.
Evan Marsland, primary founder and currently Software Engineer at Google
How many founders are on the team? 1
Are you looking for a cofounder? No
PROGRESS
How far along are you?
Released sibling product https://pageauditor.com (opens in a new tab), several customers and Closed-beta for primary features of https://pagecanary.com (opens in a new tab)
How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.
2 years outside of work hours, 0% has been full-time.
Are people using your product?
Yes, we have several users of https://pagecanary.com (opens in a new tab)
Do you have revenue?
We have some initial customers paying a trival amount.
If you are applying with the same idea as a previous batch, did anything change? If you applied with a different idea, why did you pivot and what did you learn from the last idea?
No
If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please tell us about it.
N/A
IDEA
Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making?
I have experienced numerous production issues in my time at companies for which this tooling would have caught it and saved the company millions of dollars. It would not be cost efficient to build this tooling inside of these companies.
Who are your competitors? What do you understand about your business that they don't?
Other testing companies. Understand: how to keep a headless browser stable.
How do or will you make money? How much could you make?
Subscripiton services on https://pagecanary.com (opens in a new tab) Websites will pay a fee based on AI uptime.
Where will most of your initial users be located?
World-wide
Which category best applies to your company?
Software SaaS for testing
EQUITY
Have you formed ANY legal entity yet?
No
Have you taken any investment yet?
No
Are you currently fundraising?
Yes
Please provide any relevant details about your current fundraise. If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees and any other proposed stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the proposed equity ownership of each founder and founder title (e.g. CEO). (This question is as much for you as us.)
CEO Evan Marsland 100%
OTHERS
If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.
https://synth.n34t.com (opens in a new tab) - Educational videos generated based on wikipedia content using AI tooling https://music.n34t.com (opens in a new tab) - Collaborative realtime music application for learning https://treedo.xyz (opens in a new tab) - Team based productivity app based on checklisting https://guessword.xyz (opens in a new tab) - Multiplayer online word games (starting with wordle clone) https://thelogowizard.com (opens in a new tab) - AI based branding generator
CURIOUS
What convinced you to apply to Y Combinator? Did someone encourage you to apply? Have you been to any YC events?
- I have been a long-time reader of Hacker News.
- I am currently located in the Palo Alto which is convient.
- I am interested in meeting people in the YC network.
How did you hear about Y Combinator?
I am a daily reader of Hacker News.