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@ycombinator "Herdora (@herdora_ai) is the Cursor for CUDA. It automatically turns your PyTorch code into optimized GPU kernels so you don't have to write CUDA. Congrats on the launch @technoabsurdist & @gpusteve"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 00:00:02 UTC 1.5M followers, 20.2K engagements

"Stratify is building an AI user researcher that helps companies recruit participants conduct customer interviews and provide actionable insights to discover the 'why' behind every customer behavior. Congrats on the launch @PrathamHombal & @sidjavvaji"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-27 20:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 99.3K engagements

"Pangolin (@digpangolin) is a self-hostable alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels Zscaler ZPA and Ngrok. Securely expose apps on private networks with identity-aware access control and high availability while retaining data sovereignty. Congrats on the launch @miloschwartz_ & @oschwartz10612"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-18 16:00:02 UTC 1.5M followers, 10.9K engagements

"Embedder (@embedderdev) is building the Cursor for embedded: upload data sheets chat with agents and generate production-level driver code in seconds. Congrats on the launch @ethanmgibbs and @imbobwei"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-14 21:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 49.3K engagements

"Dash (@usedashai) transforms knowledge work. It takes context across Gmail Slack Notion and more to search & complete tasks. From planning to lead qualification Dash handles busywork to make you 10x. Congrats on the launch @raidingAI @GaddipatiHarsha and @DhruvRoongta"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-09 13:00:03 UTC 1.5M followers, 45.5K engagements

"Michael Truell (@mntruell) co-founder and CEO of Anysphere the company behind @Cursor_ai joined @garrytan to talk about building one of the fastest-growing startups of all timeand why he's betting everything on a world beyond code. He walks through the early insights that led him and his co-founders to leave a promising AI-powered CAD project and instead chase a bigger dream: reinventing how software is written. From the hard years of false starts and rewrites to Cursor's breakthrough moment Michael explains what it really takes to build a tool that could eventually replace programming as we"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-06-11 14:05:39 UTC 1.5M followers, 315.2K engagements

"Orange Slice (@orangesliceai) uses AI agents to find companies that already want to buy your product. Their agents scan the entire web 24/7 to deliver qualified leads with clear details to help you close deals faster. Congrats on the launch @kishansripada & @vihaarnandigala"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-14 17:06:32 UTC 1.5M followers, 93.5K engagements

"Andrej Karpathy's (@karpathy) keynote yesterday at AI Startup School in San Francisco"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-06-19 00:33:26 UTC 1.5M followers, 2M engagements

"Bland (@usebland) just unveiled a big leap in text-to-speech: voice AI that sounds incredibly realistic. Unlike traditional TTS Bland predicts audio holistically capturing nuance emotion and style not just words. With millions of hours of high-fidelity multi-speaker data and a novel audio tokenization approach it can generate incredibly lifelike speech. Style transfer emotional range and even non-speech effects (like barking) can be applied to a voice from a single MP3"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-06-04 19:00:44 UTC 1.5M followers, 75.6K engagements

"Opennote (@opennote_me) is the interactive AI tutor that knows you. It creates personalized video lessons practice problems and drawingsadapting to your learning style and goals so every session feels tailored and engaging. Congrats on the launch @abh1a0 @rishi_srihari and @_vedantvyas"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-10 17:00:44 UTC 1.5M followers, 46.2K engagements

"Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) on the race to build the AI browser of the future. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 00:48 - Perplexity's Current Status and Challenges 01:16 - Future Plans: The Browser Bet 03:18 - Competition and Market Dynamics 04:43 - The Importance of Speed and Innovation 05:51 - Founding Perplexity: The Early Days 09:18 - Product Evolution and User Experience 19:44 - Running the Company and Future Outlook 20:15 - AI Tools in Software Engineering 20:31 - Adoption and Implementation of AI Coding Tools 21:11 - Challenges and Benefits of AI"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-11 14:38:16 UTC 1.5M followers, 233.4K engagements

"Amjad Massad (@amasad) started Replit to make programming accessible to anyone anywhere. What began as a tool for learning to code has grown into a platform pushing the limits of AI-assisted software creation and recently surpassed $100M in ARR. On The Breakdown with @t_blom and @dflieb Amjad shares the journey from his early days in Jordan working on open-source projects to leading Replit through major pivots from "teach a billion people to code" to "let anyone build software." He discusses the evolving nature of programming the future of work and the next generation of human-computer"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 14:01:40 UTC 1.5M followers, 262.7K engagements

"In collaboration with @reindsummit and @newindustrials we are releasing a request for startups motivated by a simple belief: America needs better physical technology and startups are the best way to build and scale it. We are looking for founders interested in applying modern software capabilities to the entire stack of industrial production - energy production materials CAD manufacturing and biotech. Reindustrialization is a matter of national survival. This is your invitation to build the future"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-06-26 21:31:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 643.4K engagements

"PARES is the all-in-one AI platform for commercial real estate brokers to prospect close deals and grow their business"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-16 17:14:53 UTC 1.5M followers, 15.8K engagements

"Dr. Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) the Godmother of AI on the origin of computer vision and why spatial intelligence is the next frontier. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 01:00 - Origins of ImageNet 02:15 - The Dream to Make Machines See 03:28 - A paradigm shift in AI 05:50 - AlexNet and Deep Learning 08:00 - Evolving Computer Vision 12:20 - Building World Labs 13:00 - The next frontier in AI 14:20 - Why Spatial Intelligence Is Harder Than Language 18:40 - Technical Barriers for Vision-Based AI 20:00 - AI is more than LLMs 25:50 - Fei Feis Journey 29:30 - Mentoring some of the legends of AI"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-01 14:01:17 UTC 1.5M followers, 193.1K engagements

"At first prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large language models. But over time it's become critical to the way we interact with AI. On the @LightconePod Garry Harj Diana and Jared break down what they've learned from working with hundreds of founders building with LLMs: why prompting still matters where it breaks down and how teams are making it more reliable in production. They share real examples of prompts that failed how companies are testing for quality and what the best teams are doing to make LLM outputs useful and predictable. 0:58 - Parahelps"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-30 14:00:42 UTC 1.5M followers, 347.4K engagements

"Welcome to YC @DevishiJha @jianna_liu and @getleafpress Leafpress (YC S23) simplifies ESG for real estate portfolios. They use AI to collect and analyze millions of utility data at once saving firms thousands of dollars in fines per property"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2023-07-14 17:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.4K engagements

"🏠@SyntheticFi_SF built a XXXX% APR home Hybrid Mortgage. Hundreds of families have benefited now SyntheticFi is expanding their program nationwide. Plus uncapped tax write-off on interest. Congrats @tonyyanga and @Joseph_YZ_Wang on the launch"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-16 21:15:51 UTC 1.5M followers, 20.4K engagements

"Congrats to the @BlaxelAI team on their $7.3M seed Blaxel is building the foundational infrastructure for the next generation of software: AI Agents"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 21:58:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 13.9K engagements

"Riff (@rifflab) is Cursor for music production. Its a superpowered music editorexperienced producers can be 10x more productive and hobbyists can enjoy making music without needing technical chops. Congrats on the launch @adithreddi & @Zerkka0819"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-15 19:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 91.2K engagements

"YC Partners @koomen and @GuptaAnkitV are hosting 1:1 office hours for founders attending ICML next week If youre considering starting a startup or are in the early stages of building a company wed love to meet you. Sign up at"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-10 16:20:45 UTC 1.5M followers, 164.7K engagements

"100 hackers. XXX pairs of camera smart glasses. At the @MentraLabs Live smart glasses hackathon this weekend at the YC office in San Francisco"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-10 21:02:22 UTC 1.5M followers, 27.7K engagements

"dScribe AI (@dscribeai) uses autonomous drones and 3D vision to track bulk inventory that lives outside boxes and barcodes. They're starting by helping the agriculture and mining industry track stockpiles of grain and gravel. Congrats on the launch @warrenwang_1 @Cole__Robertson and @Jordan_Mryyan"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-18 17:00:39 UTC 1.5M followers, 9675 engagements

"Join us in NYC next week for an inside look at YC with General Partner @aaron_epstein Whether youre actively building a startup or just considering taking the leap come to learn more about how we support founders what we look for in startups and ask questions. Expect honest insights practical advice and real talk about startup life"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-10 19:04:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 34.5K engagements

"Firmware development is broken. Hardware companies spend months finding engineers months reading datasheets and months debugging. @BootLoopAI built an AI agent that writes tests and debugs firmware on real hardware in minutes - not months. Congrats on the launch @noahpaciknelson & @chrism4rkus"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-11 19:00:38 UTC 1.5M followers, 16.5K engagements

"Luminal is creating PyTorch for Production an ML compiler that generates blazingly fast CUDA kernels and makes deploying to production one line of code. Congrats on the launch @stake_jevens @joefioti and @matthewjgunton"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-20 18:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 67.4K engagements

"Kirsten Green (@kirstenagreen) founder of Forerunner Ventures has backed some of the most iconic consumer brands of the past two decades from Warby Parker to Chime to Dollar Shave Club. She sat down with @garrytan to share how great products (not marketing tricks) still win why AI is unlocking a new kind of emotional relationship between consumers and technology and what founders can learn from the messy creative stage we're in right now. Kirsten also breaks down how shifts in distribution wellness and digital behavior are reshaping what it means to build for real human needs. 01:05 - What"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-06-27 14:04:33 UTC 1.5M followers, 179.7K engagements

"Atlog (@atlogai) is building an AI employee for furniture stores to collect on payments market the store and help buy new furniture so that one good manager can oversee 20+ stores at once. Congrats on the launch @just_vraj @skarakkattu and @johnbettinger33"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-26 20:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 547.2K engagements

"Async (@async_build) builds coding agents to do the gruntwork. Don't spend time fixing bugs and papercuts delegate it to Async. Congrats on the launch @pybbae & @mikkel_kim92"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 16:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 8763 engagements

"Async builds coding agents to do the gruntwork. Don't spend time fixing bugs and papercuts delegate it to Async. Congrats on the launch @pybbae & @mikkel_kim92"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 16:37:11 UTC 1.5M followers, 10.4K engagements

"SigmanticAI is the Cursor for Hardware Description Language (HDL) design. It automates the entire RTL design flow from natural language to synthesizable HDL and testbenches. SigmanticAI has already been used to make a RISC-V CPU from start to finish and gets 90%+ accuracy on the VerilogEval benchmark"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 18:00:02 UTC 1.5M followers, 9943 engagements

"AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path. New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time small focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months. In a special Lightcone Live at AI Startup School Garry Diana Harj and Jared discuss why it's now more important than ever to focus on building real skills domain expertise and agency rather than just chasing credentials. 04:18 - The Inverted Career Risk Paradigm 05:16 - AI's Impact on Education and Skills 07:08 - Agency vs."
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-08 14:00:48 UTC 1.5M followers, 253.6K engagements

"Autosana is an AI QA agent that tests iOS and Android apps like a real user. It plugs into your CI/CD replacing flaky test scripts and manual QA saving hours per release. Congrats on the launch @yuvansundrani & @JSteinberg54132"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-08 19:01:40 UTC 1.5M followers, 27.8K engagements

"2025 is shaping up to be the "year of AI agents". We've put together a list of startup ideas that we think are especially promising some draw attention to trends that are already in full swing and some of them are where we think things are going next"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-07 16:03:41 UTC 1.5M followers, 816.7K engagements

"Stably (@stably_ai) helps dev teams merge code XX faster by auto-writing running and self-healing Playwright tests in minutes eliminating flaky suites and hidden bugs. Congrats on the launch @jinjingliang @nparker2450 and @raines1220"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-09 15:00:02 UTC 1.5M followers, 16.7K engagements

"Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) on how startups can build faster with AI. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 00:31 - The Importance of Speed in Startups 01:13 - Opportunities in the AI Stack 02:06 - The Rise of Agent AI 04:52 - Concrete Ideas for Faster Execution 08:56 - Rapid Prototyping and Engineering 17:06 - The Role of Product Management 21:23 - The Value of Understanding AI 22:33 - Technical Decisions in AI Development 23:26 - Leveraging Gen AI Tools for Startups 24:05 - Building with AI Building Blocks 25:26 - The Importance of Speed in Startups 26:41 - Addressing AI Hype and Misconceptions"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-10 14:02:24 UTC 1.5M followers, 819.5K engagements

"Tecto (@TectoAI) is building a platform to monitor the evaluations and qualifications needed to employ agentic AI toolslike an HR system for AI employees. Congrats on the launch @busyceo & @busycto"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-15 00:30:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 16.5K engagements

"Magnetic (@magnetictax) is building the AI Tax Preparer for CPA firms saving hours of tedious data entry by entering client docs into legacy tax engines automatically. Congrats on the launch @tsh3ll and Patrick"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 17:00:02 UTC 1.5M followers, 15.8K engagements

"is building full-stack data science AI agents that turn raw data into insights and answers in minutes not days. Putting the power of data-driven decisions into anyone's hands. Congrats on the launch @Matin__G and @whyispaper"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-14 16:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 29.9K engagements

"Congrats to the Ekho team on their $17.3M Seed and Series A Ekho is building the infrastructure layer for compliant end-to-end digital vehicle sales powering everything from financing to registration across all XX U.S. states"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-09 20:15:09 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.8K engagements

"Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on digital superintelligence multiplanetary life and how to be useful this week at AI Startup School"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-06-19 20:22:10 UTC 1.5M followers, 20.1M engagements

"Finlens (@finlenshq) is your AI co-pilot for accounting. Built for founders and accountants who use QuickBooks and other legacy tools but still find themselves buried in receipts spreadsheets and slow month-end closes"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-15 23:56:23 UTC 1.5M followers, 24.9K engagements

"Reducto (@reductoai) just launched Edit an endpoint that fills out your PDFs automatically. Reducto understands your documents layout and intelligently maps your data to its corresponding form fields and returns a fully filled out PDF"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-16 15:00:02 UTC 1.5M followers, 54.5K engagements

"Pond (@pond_messages) is building Superhuman for iMessage. Salespeople real estate agents recruiters and more use Pond to sort read and send texts at lightning speed. Congrats on the launch @aagdalal and @bewilliams111"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-15 18:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 12.9K engagements

"Nobel laureate John Jumper (@JohnJumperSci) on AlphaFold and the future of science. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 01:02 - Journey from Physics to Computational Biology 02:01 - Transition to Machine Learning and AI 02:59 - Joining Google DeepMind 03:47 - The Mission: Accelerating Scientific Discovery 04:54 - Understanding Protein Structures 07:44 - Challenges in Protein Structure Determination 11:21 - The Role of Data Compute and Research 13:28 - AlphaFold: A Breakthrough in Protein Prediction 14:09 - The Importance of Research and Ideas 17:48 - Real-World Applications and Impact"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-15 14:00:41 UTC 1.5M followers, 148.4K engagements

"Simplex (@usesimplex) builds developer-first web agents that companies use to integrate with legacy portals. They're already in production dispatching freight shipments downloading customers invoices and fetching websites internal APIs. Congrats on the launch @skarpoor12 & @marcon680"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-28 16:00:04 UTC 1.5M followers, 27K engagements

"Oki AI tells you everything you need to know to run your company. By reading your teams code tickets messages and more Oki delivers personalized and interactive updates daily. Congrats on the launch @Luofei_Chen & @aayush_oki_ai"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-09 17:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 19K engagements

"Emergent (@EmergentLabsHQ) is the agentic vibe-coding platform your AI-powered CTO that transforms ideas into full-stack production-ready products. No developers needed. Just pure system-level thinking. Congrats on the launch @mukundjha & @madhavjha"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-05-27 17:00:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 310.2K engagements

"Congrats to the @SubstackInc team on their $100M Series C Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting creators in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-17 18:30:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 12.5K engagements

"Franois Chollet (@fchollet) on the ARC Prize and how we get to AGI. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 00:00 - The Falling Cost of Compute 00:57 - Deep-Learnings Scaling Era & Benchmarks 01:59 - The ARC Benchmark 03:02 - The 2024 Shift to Test-Time Adaptation 05:01 - What Is Intelligence 07:12 - Why Benchmarks Matter (and Mislead) 08:57 - ARC X Exposes Scaling Limits 10:58 - ARC 2: Compositional Reasoning Arrives 12:55 - Humans vs. Models on ARC2 14:58 - Previewing ARC3 & Interactive Agency 17:00 - Kaleidoscopic Hypothesis and Abstractions 22:00 - Type X vs. Type X Abstractions 26:00 -"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-03 14:01:01 UTC 1.5M followers, 229K engagements

"Wisp AI (@WispAIapp) is a personalized AI executive assistant powered by what you've said or heard. It captures your conversations calls and meetings in detailed notes then uses the context to answer questions draft replies and set reminders. Congrats on the launch @adityamahn89778 & @mahnaayush"
@ycombinator Avatar @ycombinator on X 2025-07-16 18:00:00 UTC 1.5M followers, 17.8K engagements