Y Combinator

Unofficial, machine-generated summaries, as of 2026-11-09.

↗How AI Is Changing Enterprise
↗How Blake Scholl Built The First Independent Supersonic Jet
↗Former OpenAI CRO Bob McGrew thinks that two jobs of the future will be genius and manager.
↗The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup
↗How To Get AI Startup Ideas
↗The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek | YC Decoded
↗The Future of Software Engineering
↗B2A: Software Where the Customers Will All Be Agents
↗AI Coding Agent for Hardware-Optimized Code
↗Vertical AI Agents
↗Devtools for AI Agents
↗Inference AI Infra in the World of Test-Time Compute
↗Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI
↗AI Personal Staff for Everyone
↗Browser/Computer Automation
↗Compliance and Audit
↗Datacenters
↗A Secure AI App Store
↗America’s First Civil Supersonic Jet to Break the Sound Barrier
↗AI Revolution: What Nobody Else Is Seeing
↗How Scaling Laws Will Determine AI's Future | YC Decoded
↗How To Use AI In Your Startup
↗How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad
↗Zip co-founder Rujul Zaparde on going from 0 to 1 with enterprise sales
↗Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder
↗How do OpenAI’s o1 and o3 models perform complex reasoning?
↗Jared predicts that in 2025, we’ll be able to have Zoom calls with AI
↗The Lightcone 2025 Forecast
↗Astranis just successfully launched 4 high-orbit satellites aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9
↗YC Partner and Algolia co-founder Nicolas Dessaigne’s advice for founders starting out.
↗What David Lieb and his team built eventually became the foundation for Google Photos.
↗How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory
↗2024: The Year the GPT Wrapper Myth Proved Wrong
↗Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use Is A Game Changer | YC Decoded
↗How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School
↗Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS
↗Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders
↗Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling
↗LLMs for Chip Design
↗AI-Aided Engineering Tools
↗Stablecoins 2.0
↗Public Safety Technology
↗Government Software
↗How To Build The Future: Sam Altman
↗The Winter 2025 application deadline is in less than a week! Apply at ycombinator.com/apply.
↗The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ
↗You Don’t Have To Be A Billionaire To Launch Satellites
↗Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal | YC Decoded
↗Starting A Company? The Key Terms You Should Know | Startup School
↗Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
↗Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb
↗How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?
↗The best consumer companies incorporate both virality and network effect to grow organically.
↗Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
↗Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites
↗How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School
↗Once you identify the problem and fix it, you can always launch again.
↗Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model
↗Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston on the beginnings of YC.
↗New Defense Technology
↗How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails | Startup School
↗How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
↗Over-complicated pricing could kill a sales process.
↗We’re still in the early innings with AI.
↗How To Keep Your Users | Startup School
↗Gmail creator Paul Buchheit on the very first version of Google’s “Did you mean?” feature
↗Sales pre-PMF should be done by the founders.
↗Are We In An AI Hype Cycle?
↗How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years
↗Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
↗How To Price For B2B | Startup School
↗Tarpit Ideas: The Sequel
↗Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think
↗When you’re pre-product market fit, sales is a job for the founders.
↗Enterprise Sales | Startup School
↗The artistry is actually in that interface between the human and the technology itself.
↗You should probably still learn how to code.
↗10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
↗Better models, better startups.
↗It only really matters if you can find a handful of users that use your product habitually.
↗Standing Up For Startups - YC Goes To D.C.
↗RFS: AI to build enterprise software
↗Better AI Models, Better Startups
↗Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale
↗How New Technology Creates New Businesses
↗Great founders actually build.
↗Probably not.
↗Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup
↗Focusing on data quality over quantity, Metalware built a foundation model with less compute.
↗To be able to create something different, you have to be somewhat contrarian.
↗Does Your Startup Website Pass The First Impression Test? | Design Review
↗Find the one narrow thing that you can do well, and carve out something that's great.
↗Lightcone: Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, The vibes immaculate
↗RFS: Machine learning to simulate the physical world
↗When Should You Trust Your Gut?
↗Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality
↗RFS: Better Enterprise glue
↗How to Survive the Crypto Boom & Bust Cycle
↗RFS: Climate Tech
↗How To Build Generative AI Models Like OpenAI's Sora