Building Y Combinator startups in an hour or two

As you may know, it was Y Combinator’s “Demo Day” this week. Every six months, the famous startup incubator shows off a new batch of of startups. But how much does it take to build a working startup prototype?

To find out, we’re building some previous YC startups using Anvil. Here’s the first one, “Meter Feeder” from last summer’s batch. We put ourselves into their founders’ shoes, and built a fully functional “e-parking” system in just an hour and a half:

2 Likes