Hey, we’re Art and George, the founders of Revnu. Here’s our YC application, founder intro, and product demo — shared for anyone putting their own application together.
An archive of our 2026 application, not a current company update. The form was labelled Spring 2026; our selected batch was Summer 2026. Figures and plans reflect the application at the time. Private contact details and administrative form fields have been omitted; formatting and minor typos have been cleaned up.
Art and I have known each other for 7 years. We met in secondary school geography class when we were 14 years old. Ever since then, we've been best friends, working together on a load of projects.
Art is technical lead for the product, but we both work and contribute to the code. No one else has contributed to the codebase but us.
No
Manchester, England, GB. Technical co-founder. 50% equity. Currently in school; will not have graduated by the batch start. Committed to working exclusively on the project for the next year if accepted.
The University of Manchester · Sep 2024 – Jun 2027
BA, Planning and Real Estate
Marling Grammar School Sixth Form · Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Vinta.app · Co-Founder · Jan 2025 – Present
Launched a Vinted accounting software, fully bootstrapped, over 1000+ paid users and used all across Europe.
Resold · Co-Founder · Sep 2024 – Present
CEO at resold.app/ which was a Vinted marketplace sniping tool. In just 6 months we reached $10K MRR, fully bootstrapped as students with minimal operating costs and all growth via organic TikTok videos.
Iterate · Intern · Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
Worked at iterate.com on scalable and customizable AI agents with the co-founder of Monzo.
ginger.sh
www.linkedin.com/in/georgejeffers/
x.com/GeorgeJeffersn
github.com/georgejeffers
In secondary school, lunch queues were extremely long but there was a “queue skip” system where you could bypass the line if you had a small orange pass with the school logo, some text, and a teacher’s signature. You were only awarded these passes if you demonstrated good behaviour, academic ability, etc.
I managed to get 1 legitimate pass, went home and recreated it in Photoshop, printed copies, and signed them myself. The staff only checked visually, so it worked indefinitely. From that point on, my friends and I never queued for lunch again.
I won the xAI Grokathon in London, which was awesome.
Vinta — Vinted accounting software, 1000+ paying users, fully bootstrapped and natural PMF + growth through SEO. vinta.app/
Resold — Vinted sniping tool built for resellers. $10k MRR in 6 months with growth through organic TikTok videos. resold.app/
Artomate — AI poster tool for Etsy sellers, $5k MRR through organic TikTok videos. artomate.app/
Case Law MCP Server — Accessing case law in the UK should not be difficult so I made an MCP server to make it easy for people. github.com/georgejeffers/uk-case-law-mcp-server
1st — xAI Grokathon London Hackathon
1st — Cursor Hackathon London
London, England, GB. Technical co-founder. 50% equity. Currently in school; will not have graduated by the batch start. Committed to working exclusively on the project for the next year if accepted.
If accepted to YC I would drop out of university to go full time on our business and move to SF.
Swansea University · Sep 2024 – Jun 2027
BA, Computer Science
Vinta · Co-Founder · Jan 2025 – Present
Vinted accounting software used by thousands of paying customers all over Europe to manage their finances for the top vintage sellers.
Resold · CTO · Sep 2024 – Present
CTO at resold.app where I specialised in antibot research and reverse engineering. In just 6 months reached $10K MRR with practically no operating costs.
Iterate · Software Engineer Intern · Jun 2025 – Sep 2025
Worked at iterate.com on scalable and customisable AI agents with the cofounder of Monzo.
freebrey.art/
www.linkedin.com/in/artfreebrey
x.com/artfreebrey
github.com/ctrl-cheeb-del
I figured out when buying sought after / hype items they wouldn’t let you ship multiple parcels to the same address. So with DPD I would send parcels to lots of houses in my village but once they had dispatched on the day I could call DPD and get them redirected to my address since it was in the same shipping area for maximum parcels.
For my work with my Vinted software I had to develop comprehensive bypasses for multiple antibots like Cloudflare and Datadome. This involved reverse engineering both their antibot systems and captchas whilst maintaining them.
Built resold.app/ which is a Vinted sniping bot / toolkit that facilitated over £5M spent on the platform and hit 10K MRR.
Built vinta.app/ an accounting software for vintage sellers managing the biggest sellers in Europe with thousands of paying users.
Built github.com/ctrl-cheeb-del/playwright-extension which allows people to run Playwright in their local browser bypassing CSP.
Revnu
From localhost to revenue in one click
Revnu is the all-in-one platform that lets people ship and sell software without building business infrastructure.
Tools like Claude Code and Cursor make it easy to build software, but they don't help you run a business. Builders get stuck on taxes, auth, billing, a/b testing and legal. These are the boring necessary parts which kill momentum.
Revnu handles all of it. Connect a GitHub repo, merge our auto-generated PR, and you're selling. It's the Shopify for selling software.
Manchester, United Kingdom / San Francisco, United States
SF is the best place for tech startups, talent and innovation.
MVP completed, onboarded first beta users, preparing for launch and first paid users.
We've both been working on this for one month, part-time.
Next.js
Convex
Vercel for Platforms
BetterAuth
E2B
Claude Code
Yes
5 free beta testers
No
We picked this idea because we kept feeling the same pain ourselves. My cofounder and I have shipped multiple SaaS products profitably and every time the pattern was identical. You build the core product fast with Claude/Cursor, but getting it “prod ready” was slow and painful. Implementing Stripe, auth, landing pages, A/B tests, session replays, legal docs, SEO blogs, etc is boring BUT it's the essential stuff which makes the business function.
Initially, we built this as an internal tool so we could make new apps fast, but then we realised it should exist as its own product as a “Shopify for selling software”.
We have strong domain expertise from:
• Repeatedly bootstrapping apps to meaningful revenue with minimal costs.
• Working with early founders and indie hackers (through hackathons + Iterate internship).
We know people need this because:
• Every builder who uses AI wants to ship code, not build business infra.
Our closest competitors are Lemon Squeezy/Gumroad/Paddle/Whop which are designed to accept payments and issue license keys.
These companies fail to understand the mindset of the new gen-AI builder:
• Entrepreneurs want to have full-stack ownership with a branded storefront, not a marketplace listing.
• Entrepreneurs want to customise everything and have bespoke branding.
• The new-gen understands the value of data and having access to as much as possible about their site.
Revnu charges creators a monthly subscription (£9–£299/mo) + 2–6% fee on every sale.
Any piece of software can be sold through Revnu. The global software market is $700B+. We're aiming to be as big as Shopify so every dev can monetize their software the way Shopify lets every merchant sell physical goods.
B2B SaaS
No
50/50 equity split between co-founders: George Jefferson (CEO) and Art Freebrey (CTO). No other stockholders or employees at this stage.
No
No
We worked for Jonas Templestein, co-founder of Monzo, over the summer and he encouraged us to YC.
X, friends and co-workers
Future batch
Summer 2026
We are currently university students in the UK and our final exams are in May 2026. The Summer 2026 batch perfectly aligns with our timeline.