What we learned from Enterprise Software YC applications

“Three free pilots with no revenue and vague pricing is not a business, it's a feature waiting to be absorbed by Komodor.”

6.6/10·Strong technical team hunting for product-market fit in a crowded space. Prove one pilot converts to paid, or this stays a science project.

“Two active users and zero revenue after eight months is not traction, it is friends and family testing at best.”

6.2/10·Strong builders with a smart insight, but pre-traction and no GTM plan in a PowerPoint-dominated world.

“June for a deployable prototype is late when one founder is part-time until July and you have zero users.”

6.9/10·Strong problem and wedge, but execution velocity is too slow to matter without dramatic acceleration.

“This is not a real application, it contains no substantive information about the product, team, market, or progress.”

0.0/10·You need to go back and fill out the entire application with detailed, specific answers before we can evaluate anything.

“15 users and zero revenue after 3 months full time means you either haven't tried to charge or nobody will pay, both are fatal.”

6.7/10·You can clearly ship product, but until someone pays you real money, this is just an impressive demo with no business model.

“You built real traction off personal pain, but your entire business model rests on unproven Year 2 AUA conversions that don't activate until Q3 2026.”

8.3/10·Strong early pull and smart economics, but prove the AUA transition works and that sales scale beyond Devin before calling this repeatable.