[yingw787]

I'm blown away by the website itself. It looks like you guys really know what you're doing (or at least place product first, which opens up a lot of doors)! I wish I could invest.

How has your experience been going through Y Combinator?

EDIT: I just looked at Crunchbase and it says Sqreen went through an $14M Series A and YC was involved in both seed and Series A rounds (which I'm guessing is why it looks more polished). I'm guessing this is the Series A launch then (?)

[bastijn]

I'm blown away as well. I actually know a company here in NL that runs the same product (more or less) but their website landing page [1] would make me choose sqreen. Their product page [2] is somewhat better but on mobile still not much compared to sqreen. Shows the power of a proper landing page.

[1] https://bitsensor.io/

[2] https://bitsensor.io/product/

[pierrebetouin]

Thanks! Being as transparent and open as we can is a big slice of who we are. Tbh, both dev and security folks are tired of having to talk to 3 sales people to understand if a product is a good fit or not (btw, average NPS of security industry is below 25). We have a free and open signup and our documentation is open.

[bitsensor]

Thanks, great feedback and correct analysis! We're also protecting a few hundred organisations and a few thousand applications, BitSensor has spread mainly by word-of-mouth. I think it's time to update the website now ;)

I think any product is fine, as long as you have a kind of operational security monitoring in place covering the OWASP A7. Whether it is Apache/Nginx & ModSecurity (comes by default in K8s), Akamai, F5, Sqreen, Imperva... we all strive for that goal.

The goal of these security solutions is to enable developers to be creative, automating the daily chore of mitigation of attacks, and the compliance burden.

[kaushikt]

I actually like BitSensor's website. What specifically would you say makes you choose Sqreen over Bitsensor?

[bastijn]

The very first thing I see on the Sqreen landing page is an animation that gives me an idea of what the product looks like. When I scroll down I see the supported languages that tell me if my environment is supported. Images are large enough to understand, even on my phone. When I browse to their product page I get more screenshots of the product annotated with the functionality Sqreen brings. Again images are properly sized.

When I land on Bitsensor I see a bunch of text so I have to start actually parsing and understanding that text. Everything is very bright and images don't say a lot. When I browse to their product page I see a lot of white space and only a tiny actual product image that is hard to see. The remainder are not product images which make it harder for me to parse how this content is offered to me, which is a big deal when choosing a product.

[pierrebetouin]

Thank you! The team will love these comments :) Y Combinator was one of the most defining periods for Sqreen. We joined at a pretty unusual stage, with about 20 people in our team, and something like 50 paying customers). So we were one of the most advanced teams of our batch when we joined. YC was an amazing opportunity for us to learn and progress like crazy. The value that YC brings is incredible, no matter what your stage is.