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I just came across this essay I wrote in 2012 predicting that hard tech startups would become a big thing. Not for the last time, YC applications turned out to be a good predictor of future trends. The Hardware Renaissance: paulgraham.com/hw.html - Y Combinator reposted
Ploy (@ployai) turns your website into a complete marketing platform. It's built by the former co-founder of Webflow, and the founders in the current YC batch swear by it. Now everyone has access. Congrats on the launch @bryantchou!AI is making marketers lazy. So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching @ployai: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee. And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by @ycombinator and
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Founders spend too much time optimizing for the perfect startup idea. Yet most startups suffer from shallow conviction, not bad ideas. The best founders I know pick an idea they’re genuinely curious about, then burn the other boats. Here’s a simple rubric for how to do itMany founders get stuck trying to find the perfect startup idea before they commit. But the perfect idea doesn't exist in the abstract. The only way to find what works is to pick one, go deep, and get feedback from real customers. In this episode of Startup School, YC's @xuster
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Announcing: Goose Ad Remixer Making ads is unnecessarily painful. We asked a bunch of growth teams how they make high-performing ad creatives. Some pay an agency, some hire a designer, and some make the creatives themselves by hand. It sucked for everyone - expensive, slow,
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my cofounder @maebert did yc at age 39 with a wife and a kid, as his 4th company he has a young family and still works 10x harder than anyone else i’ve ever met yc is for builders of any ageYC is absolutely YC for 35+ founders. We fund many founders in that bracket every batch and will continue to. If you want to build a huge fast-growing company alongside a peer group of the most ambitious people in the planet, you should apply to YC regardless of age. If your - Y Combinator reposted
Autosana now supports physical device testing in the cloud mix and match real devices across ios and android in to run your flows. samsung, xiaomi, pixel, iphone, ipad, you name it... different os versions, different screen sizes, real hardware. no device lab. no
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Yesterday, we announced that we closed our Series C. Hear from our CEO, Isaiah Granet, about what this means for the team:
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Today, we’re launching Finn, the world’s first AI Wealth Manager. Managing money is exhausting. You have to figure out taxes, invest your cash, plan for retirement, and somehow know when something important changes. And even when you know what to do, you still have to go do it.
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We did @ycombinator 2 years ago with an average founding team age of 41 and became YC’s fastest unicorn 💪🏻👴🏻💪🏻 YC is the YC for 35+ founder 👌YC is absolutely YC for 35+ founders. We fund many founders in that bracket every batch and will continue to. If you want to build a huge fast-growing company alongside a peer group of the most ambitious people in the planet, you should apply to YC regardless of age. If your - Y Combinator reposted
At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to solve the AI slop code problem. In 2025 we open-sourced our Research, Plan, Implement framework, now deployed inside fortune 500s like Block and Uber - places where shipping slop is just not an option And that was just the beginning. Today,
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today we're launching @Palmier_io, a video editor Claude can edit. use AI to edit, organize, and generate footage directly in the timeline. finally, a video editor built for AI. open-source. mac native. available now.
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