Collaborate on your YC Application with CRDT-powered forms
Hi HN, Like many of you here, this is not my first time applying to YC. Each time, my co-founder and I would copy the YC application to google docs to collaborate on it, then we copy it back to submit. This got us thinking - why can't we just collaborate on the YC application in the YC application? At one point I went down the CRDT rabbit hole and realized collaborative forms would be a great use of CRDTs, so I decided to build this out to an MVP. If you're curious about CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types) and how they differ from OT (Operational transformation, which is what powers…
Collaborate on your YC Application with CRDT-powered forms launched on February 21, 2024 with 22 votes, #1,016 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
In plain words
Together Form is a collaborative application platform using CRDT technology to enable real-time co-editing of forms without copying between tools. Built specifically to address the friction of YC application collaboration, it allows co-founders to work simultaneously on form submissions with automatic conflict resolution. The tool uses Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types instead of traditional operational transformation, eliminating the need for a central server to merge concurrent edits while ensuring all users reach the same final state automatically.
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Hi HN, Like many of you here, this is not my first time applying to YC. Each time, my co-founder and I would copy the YC application to google docs to collaborate on it, then we copy it back to submit. This got us thinking - why can't we just collaborate on the YC application in the YC application? At one point I…
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