talked to a YC founder who asked Sam Altman straight up "will OpenAI compete in my space / kill my startup"
the answer: behavioral health requires knowing if users are actually improving. OpenAI doesn't have that data, the wrapper startups do. v bullish for consumer AI
YC Demo Day for W26 is in full swing
The craziest stat: 3X more companies in this batch reached $1M annualized revenue than W25
Also crazy: the fastest revenue growth rate of YC history at 14% week on week growth *on average* across the whole set of nearly 200 startups
YC Demo Day is not “picked over”
You could have funded DoorDash or Coinbase at their demo days
What is hot is not always good and what is good is not always hot
🌕@GRU_Space built the world's first Moon factory in just 6 weeks—patent-pending hardware turning lunar dirt into bricks and inflates habitats on the Moon.
It's landing as early as next year to lay the foundation for lunar hotels and base infra.
Congrats on the launch, @skyler_chan_!
https://t.co/M9jQWSZVTO
Parker from Perfectly is your AI career super-connector on iMessage and WhatsApp. It connects you to the right people at top companies and brings opportunities to you — no more applying everywhere.
Congrats on the launch, @victorluo00, @GaryLuo1994 & @WeymanX15075!
https://t.co/H99WlmPPZa
Parker from Perfectly is your AI career super-connector on iMessage and WhatsApp. It connects you to the right people at top companies and brings opportunities to you — no more applying everywhere.
Congrats on the launch, @victorluo00, @GaryLuo1994 & @WeymanX15075!
https://t.co/H99WlmPPZa
.@KytenTech is building a factory to manufacture aerospace-grade battery packs.
At Starlink, the co-founders put 5,000+ battery packs into space. Now they're powering the 100K+ autonomous vehicles coming to the air, sea, and space.
Congrats on the launch @CooperKMcBride & @maddox_lucas!
https://t.co/onMxc2mpfI
When we started Asteroid, I didn’t expect prior authorization to be one of the most meaningful problems we’d work on.
For years, automation couldn’t handle the edge cases of complex healthcare flows. Now browser AI agents can.
We wrote about how frontier AI agents can automate prior auth end-to-end. Link in the thread!
If prior auth is what you do, we can help!
We’re committed to creating the best developer experience in prediction markets.
Building a world class experience requires world class talent…
Welcome to Polymarket, @GetDomeAPI.
Only half way through November and Active Subs is already up 25% MoM 👀
A user recently told us "I flushed my dope 2 times because of this app"
We abstract the humans in data ... but every number on this graph is a person struggling with addiction ... finding success with 🌻
Sunflower has now raised a total of $6.5M, with our most recent valuation being a $60M post 🥳
We stumbled upon magic, AI has the power to convince us to stop doing drugs & not kill ourselves
We're going to create 1 trillion days sober, 1 day at a time 🌻
Tempo (@Tempo_Labs) has raised $5M to build the best design tool for design engineers.
Unlike other vibecoding tools, Tempo integrates with any React codebase and allows designers to control every pixel by hand. Congrats to the team!
https://t.co/GmPMka8o0H
Trading idea: Easy. Execution: Nearly impossible.
You can't track every indicator and time every potential trade. So we spent 5 years building an AI to help do it for you.
Just describe your strategy in plain English. It helps you do the rest.
Y Combinator has 9 new alums to work with us to find, fund, and advise tomorrow's best founders
I am blown away at how smart, talented, giving, and experienced this set of all-star people are.
welcome to our 4 month old startup: @noxmetals
>finished up yc a few months ago
>detroit wartime factory revitalized
>4 employees factory deployed (soon to be 5)
>writing code, internal software called NOX NEST
>cutting and slinging metal
>one customer is on their 9th order
>deploying automation (soon)
>supplying americas industrial base
>building the fastest metal service center to ever exist
>reindustrializing
>making friends with local machinists