Celest
DefunctYC W24San Francisco, US · Founded 2023 · 1 employees · 1 known investors
Celest provides a backend development framework that lets developers write serverless functions and manage databases using Dart, the same language used in Flutter. It deploys applications to cloud infrastructure with a single command.
Also known as Teo
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSB2BInfrastructureUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W24)
Celest was founded in 2023 by Dillon Nys.
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Dillon NysinFounderDillon Nys previously worked at AWS, where he contributed to the Amplify Flutter framework. He is now founder and CEO of Celest.
Investors · 1
The YC application· Winter 2024 batch
Alumni Q&A
- How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
- Founder Dillon joined the Flutter community in 2018 and spent two and a half years at AWS working on Amplify Flutter, where he built the first comprehensive Dart SDK for connecting Flutter apps to AWS. Observing that Flutter developers still struggled to build backends because doing so required multiple toolchains and languages, he left AWS to create a platform for building full apps in Dart. He applied to Y Combinator an hour before the deadline and was accepted into the Winter 2024 batch.
- What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
- The founders aim to extend Dart into a full-stack language by enabling backend development in it, positioning Dart as an alternative to JavaScript/TypeScript given its strong typing and design patterns. Their longer-term goal is to make Flutter and Celest a standard approach to app development across platforms and devices.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Celest do?
- Celest provides a backend development framework that lets developers write serverless functions and manage databases using Dart, the same language used in Flutter. It deploys applications to cloud infrastructure with a single command.
- Who founded Celest?
- Celest was founded by Dillon Nys in 2023.
- Who are Celest's investors?
- Celest's investors include Y Combinator.
- Where is Celest headquartered?
- Celest is headquartered in San Francisco, US.