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# ![@ycombinator Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::113130846.png) @ycombinator Y Combinator

Y Combinator (YC) has announced that applications for the Winter 2026 batch are now open, with a deadline of November XX. Meanwhile, several YC-backed startups have recently launched innovative AI-powered products and services, including AI-driven content pipelines, conversational AI search analytics, and automation platforms for various industries. These startups are making significant strides in AI technology, from AI-powered healthcare and financial analysis to autonomous commerce and language learning.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::113130846/interactions)
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### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::113130846/posts_active)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #3 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [products](/list/products)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai) #2858, [y combinator](/topic/y-combinator) #1, [the first](/topic/the-first) 4.17%, [ceo](/topic/ceo) #2378, [worlds largest](/topic/worlds-largest) #309, [products](/topic/products) 3.13%, [agentic](/topic/agentic) #26, [$spot](/topic/$spot) 2.08%, [youtube](/topic/youtube) 2.08%, [apple](/topic/apple) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@grok](/creator/undefined) [@alphaseeker21](/creator/undefined) [@johntheadman_](/creator/undefined) [@salmanso_](/creator/undefined) [@garrytan](/creator/undefined) [@conor_ai](/creator/undefined) [@skygodkingdom](/creator/undefined) [@philipjohnston](/creator/undefined) [@houseofchimera](/creator/undefined) [@vatsalpandya333](/creator/undefined) [@sir4k_zen](/creator/undefined) [@sovereigngtp](/creator/undefined) [@agrillz](/creator/undefined) [@startuparchive_](/creator/undefined) [@arlanr](/creator/undefined) [@solanalegend](/creator/undefined) [@xan_ps](/creator/undefined) [@datachaz](/creator/undefined) [@binvnese2303](/creator/undefined) [@itachischatten](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [DoorDash, Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) [Duolingo, Inc. Class A Common Stock (DUOL)](/topic/$duol) [PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP)](/topic/$pep)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Starcloud (@Starcloud_Inc1) recently made history by launching a satellite with an NVIDIA H100 into orbit the first time a GPU that powerful has ever operated in space. It's the first step toward building AI data centers in orbit powered by continuous sunlight and cooled by radiating heat into deep space. Their approach could one day rival the world's biggest data centers while using less energy zero fresh water and far lower emissions. YC's @aaron_epstein visited Starcloud's HQ where co-founders @PhilipJohnst0n @EzraFeilden and @Adi_Oltean explained how they built a working prototype in just"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1989020242270646386)  2025-11-13T17:19Z 1.5M followers, 177.9K engagements


"Your product ships fast. Your videos should too. @goClueso turns any rough screen recording document or slide deck into a stunning video in minutes. 1000+ startups and enterprises already use Clueso for product demos onboarding training product marketing support documentation sales enablement L&D and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995493093869596905)  2025-12-01T14:00Z 1.5M followers, 33.8K engagements


"Happy Alumni Demo Day to all who celebrate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995614024986468785)  2025-12-01T22:00Z 1.5M followers, 102.4K engagements


"YouTube: Apple Podcasts: Spotify:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996233133721555367)  2025-12-03T15:00Z 1.5M followers, 4445 engagements


"Congrats to @phindsearch on their $10.4M round Walls of text are so 2022. On Phind every answer is now an interactive mini-app. Its a step towards their vision of creating a personal internet just for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996330414487822528)  2025-12-03T21:27Z 1.5M followers, 37.2K engagements


"From dorm rooms to million-dollar companies. You can just do things. And YC can help. Apply to W26 by November 10:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1985404199937720665)  2025-11-03T17:50Z 1.5M followers, 405.4K engagements


"Every major shift in consumer tech has a moment when it suddenly becomes accessible to millions. Michael Mignano (@mignano) helped spark one of those moments with Anchor making podcast creation something anyone could do with a tap. Now at Lightspeed he sees AI bringing a similar leap to music media and everyday apps. In this conversation Michael and @garrytan trace the arc from the early days of social audio to today's consumer AI boomand dig into what founders should focus on as the next generation of creative tools takes shape. 00:51 - Michaels founder experience 06:43 - Consumer landscape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1994421738676080832)  2025-11-28T15:02Z 1.5M followers, 133.9K engagements


"DoorDash CEO @t_xu's philosophy: "If you're in technology and you are not making improvements you are actually decaying. Until it's over all of a sudden." The key wasn't strategy. It was relentless execution and obsession over tiny details that save seconds per delivery. Today DoorDash has an $85B market cap with XX% US market share 2x Uber Eats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995601140776620432)  2025-12-01T21:09Z 1.5M followers, 43.4K engagements


"If youve ever needed to get precise data from charts in documents @reductoai just changed the game. Some of the world's largest financial institutions have already adopted their new chart extraction in production to derive insights perform research and build AI products. Congrats to the team on the launch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996661442960060773)  2025-12-04T19:22Z 1.5M followers, 16.2K engagements


"Andrej Karpathy's (@karpathy) keynote yesterday at AI Startup School in San Francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1935496106957488566)  2025-06-19T00:33Z 1.5M followers, 2.1M engagements


"Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on digital superintelligence multiplanetary life and how to be useful this week at AI Startup School"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1935795261126889944)  2025-06-19T20:22Z 1.5M followers, 20.1M 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1943309837351424222)  2025-07-10T14:02Z 1.5M followers, 847.2K engagements


"Sorce (@sorcejobs) is building Tinder for Jobs. When you swipe right AI navigates to the companys website and applies on your behalf. It writes cover letters too. Congrats @marvy_101 @davidaladee & @therealdajayi on the launch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1975224529002844516)  2025-10-06T15:40Z 1.5M followers, 2.8M engagements


"Applications for the YC Winter 2026 batch are now open Apply by November 10:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1982885010534277308)  2025-10-27T19:00Z 1.5M followers, 1.6M engagements


"Tornyol (@tornyolsystems) is building micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. They use smartphone microphones car park assist sensors and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1986917284561207783)  2025-11-07T22:02Z 1.5M followers, 1.9M engagements


"Automax is the fastest way to appraise a home- accurate compliant and in just XX minutes. Their mobile app analyzes 150+ features from a quick scan and AI agents turn it into a complete valuation report signed & verified by a certified appraiser"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1989045661854232854)  2025-11-13T19:00Z 1.5M followers, 38.4K engagements


"hillclimb (@hillclimbai) is the human superintelligence community dedicated to building golden datasets for AGI. Starting with math their team of IMO medalists lean experts PhDs is designing RL environments for @NousResearch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1990178460929843688)  2025-11-16T22:01Z 1.5M followers, 884.5K engagements


"Bluma (@getBluma) is building the Canva for short-form video ads. They automate your entire consumer marketing strategy with content templates generating on-brand videos on autopilot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1991587191806697917)  2025-11-20T19:19Z 1.5M followers, 106.9K engagements


"Deep Search from @yuma_dot_ai is a new way to access Customer Voice. Brands struggle to find patterns in thousands of support tickets so critical issues go unnoticed for days. Deep Search uses a ChatGPT-like interface to scan the entire ticket cloud in minutes and surface insights like product defects refund spikes or checkout blockers with real ticket evidence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993409358190068202)  2025-11-25T20:00Z 1.5M followers, 8985 engagements


"Design Meets Analytics AtlasGrid (@AtlasGridAI) is the new source of truth for mobile apps. It maps your UI connects your analytics and gives your product team a clear picture of what people do in your app. Accelerate your product iteration: Congrats on the launch @OlegKostour Aram and Anton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1994889108431556885)  2025-11-29T22:00Z 1.5M followers, 155.8K engagements


".@SpenserSkates has spent more than a decade building Amplitude from a YC startup into a public company and in that time he's had to reinvent himself just as much as the product. Joining the @LightconePod he talks through the shift from founder to large-company CEO the skepticism his team initially had toward AI and the moment they realized the next wave of analytics would require a full reset. He walks through the hard reorgs the bottom-up experiments and the mindset changes that let Amplitude move fast again. 03:40 - Embracing AI at Amplitude 11:00 - Product roadmap AI native priorities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996233129305182587)  2025-12-03T15:00Z 1.5M followers, 82.5K engagements


"Congrats to @besimple_ai on their $3M seed They're building the data layer for AI starting with audio. Besimple licenses and processes diverse conversational audio so teams can ship better voice models faster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996982409238343713)  2025-12-05T16:38Z 1.5M followers, 21K engagements


"Congrats to @EloqAI on their $7.4M seed Traditional agentic systems require engineering teams to build APIswork that sits in long IT backlogs. Eloquent's AI operators learn from screen recordings and then execute complex financial workflows without APIs or engineering lift resulting in XX% automation of regulated workflows 5x lower cost and minutes instead of hours for multi-party processes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998467685047538124)  2025-12-09T19:00Z 1.5M followers, 15.2K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1938599333680807982)  2025-06-27T14:04Z 1.5M followers, 180.8K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1981031108168007780)  2025-10-22T16:13Z 1.5M followers, 170.3K engagements


"Congrats to @Whatnot on raising $225M at an $11.5B valuationdoubling their valuation in less than a year. Whatnot has built the leading US livestream shopping platform with $6B+ in goods sold (2x 2024's total). Users now spend 80+ min daily on the app"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1983224744108535907)  2025-10-28T17:30Z 1.5M followers, 196.9K engagements


"🦜Parrot is taking down Duolingo. Parrot is the TikTok for language learning - $715K ARR doubling every two months. They're turning scrolling into learning. Congrats on the launch @byAmirHanna @TheErikDahl and @JuliAndreeaH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1983232297487757690)  2025-10-28T18:00Z 1.5M followers, 65.1K engagements


"The path to great work: "Choose a field learn enough to get to the frontier notice gaps explore promising ones.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1984682110251385056)  2025-11-01T18:01Z 1.5M followers, 220.2K engagements


"Giga (@gigaml) is building the next generation of customer support real-time AI agents that can understand emotion resolve issues instantly and scale across the worlds largest enterprises. The team recently raised $61M to power emotionally intelligent human-quality conversations at enterprise speed and scale. In this interview with YC's @harjtaggar co-founders @varunvummadi and @eshamanideep share how theyre reimagining enterprise support from the ground up what it takes to build AI for high-compliance industries and why emotionally intelligent agents are the future of customer experience."  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1986453397260644713)  2025-11-06T15:19Z 1.5M followers, 165.8K engagements


"Congrats to @Pibit_ai on their $7M Series A The insurance industry is facing a talent crisis. Underwriters spend a third of their time on manual data entry while submission volumes continue to soar. Pibit automates underwriting workflows with explainable AI automating data entry triage and risk analysis while keeping humans in control driving XX% faster underwriting XX% higher GWP per underwriter and up to XXX bps improvement in loss ratios"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1991929716337770694)  2025-11-21T18:00Z 1.5M followers, 18.7K engagements


".@Combinely is building an AI coworker for tax teams. It uses firms existing tools to proactively handle inboxes client questions and return reviews saving accountants XX minutes every day. Congrats @Tom_inv & @ArthurGranacher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993012991629897953)  2025-11-24T17:45Z 1.5M followers, 12.2K engagements


"Anto (@anto_f25) is building a foundation model for microbial communities that predicts how drugs work across diverse populations. By uncovering how the microbiome drives drug response and failure they're optimizing molecules for broader efficacy and reduced toxicity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993032583777861832)  2025-11-24T19:02Z 1.5M followers, 20.9K engagements


"Congrats to @maritimefusion on their $4.5M seed Most fusion companies aim for the grid but Maritime Fusion is targeting ships and off-grid applications firstwhere commercial viability requires 10x less power. Founded by ex-Tesla engineers their SHIELD HTS cable can carry 5000 amps in a diameter smaller than a quarter. Now they're partnering with Columbia University and the DOE's DIII-D facility to advance their tokamak reactor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993056895284953179)  2025-11-24T20:39Z 1.5M followers, 34.1K engagements


".@PiggyRobotics is building mass-producible humanoid robots that can do your chores at iPhone prices. They're full-size and complete with custom muscles valves and pumps for less than $1000. Congrats on the launch @RichardGong17 & @Chenny_Deng33"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993108451057336393)  2025-11-25T00:04Z 1.5M followers, 14.5K engagements


"Congrats to Cerrion on their $18M Series A Factory downtime costs manufacturers $1.4T annually (up XXX% since 2019). Cerrion's AI video agents monitor production lines in real time detecting quality issues safety risks and process deviationsthen intervene automatically. Manufacturers like Unilever and suppliers to Pepsi Coca-Cola and Pfizer are seeing up to XX% faster problem resolution cutting downtime and scrap losses in half"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993351853686636666)  2025-11-25T16:11Z 1.5M followers, 27.9K engagements


"Building video detection models used to take months. With @DragoneyeAI's interactive playground you can now build and deploy custom video models in minutes - simply describe what you want to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993382536823947597)  2025-11-25T18:13Z 1.5M followers, 13.6K engagements


"Beam (@beam_cloud) is an open source serverless platform for AI apps. Run GPU inference background jobs and sandboxes with ultrafast boot times and no vendor lock-in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1993393740837535777)  2025-11-25T18:57Z 1.5M followers, 10.4K engagements


"happy thanksgiving fam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1994080649393918429)  2025-11-27T16:27Z 1.5M followers, 50.3K engagements


"YouTube: Apple Podcasts: Spotify:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1994421742987833618)  2025-11-28T15:02Z 1.5M followers, 7337 engagements


"Congrats to @benhylak @alexisgauba @snarkyzk and @raindrop_ai on their $15M seed Raindrop is the monitoring platform for AI agents. They're trusted by some of the fastest-growing AI companies including Replit Speak Clay Framer and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995572012790809078)  2025-12-01T19:13Z 1.5M followers, 9256 engagements


".@inspectmind's AI agent reviews construction drawings specs and building codes to catch issues before they turn into rework delays or lawsuits. It flags dimension errors materials mismatches code violations and coordination gaps across architectural structural civil and MEP drawings. On one $100M job it caught a materials mismatch that saved the general contractor $2M"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995584718994362646)  2025-12-01T20:04Z 1.5M followers, 19K engagements


"Congrats to @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara and @Kalshi on their $1B Series E at an $11B valuation Kalshi is the world's largest federally regulated prediction market where millions of users trade on real-world eventselections sports cultural moments and more. They're now processing $1B+ in weekly trading volume (up 1000%+ from 2024) across 3500+ markets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995941035269374149)  2025-12-02T19:40Z 1.5M followers, 14K engagements


"Congrats to @fthumpasery @Samuelklam and @PermitFlow on their $54M Series B One of the biggest roadblocks in construction is the gnarly permitting processdealing with hundreds of documents thousands of details and hyper-localized rules that aren't easily accessible. PermitFlow's AI automates the process: searching municipal websites confirming requirements preparing applications and submitting permits. They've built a database of XX million data points on permitting requirements and building codes serving customers like Amazon Ikea and Lennar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995954876648751159)  2025-12-02T20:35Z 1.5M followers, 32.8K engagements


"Nova from @peopleboxai is a human-like AI that makes sourcing calls screens resumes conducts two-way video interviews and runs live coding rounds in a single automated workflow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995976275924496586)  2025-12-02T22:00Z 1.5M followers, 10.4K engagements


"@Winterrose @paulg Air PGs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996340508944449957)  2025-12-03T22:07Z 1.5M followers, 2644 engagements


"@tbpn @jesslivingston @paulg 🐐🐐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996377711003201907)  2025-12-04T00:35Z 1.5M followers, 1683 engagements


"Welcome to YC @AaronLCannon @mchlhess & @OutsetAI Outset (YC S23) offers AI-powered user interviews AI conducts + synthesizes research interviews for you turning weeks of work into (almost) instant insights. Learn more:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1668694728668225565)  2023-06-13T19:00Z 1.5M followers, 229.3K engagements


"Introducing Early Decision. For students who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first. Apply now get funded the moment you're accepted and do YC after you graduate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1970902199036514488)  2025-09-24T17:24Z 1.5M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Absurd (@trydune) makes absurd AI launch videos turning raw authenticity into absurdity that actually spreads. Their autonomous agents plan generate and edit every scene for clients in a live Figma-like canvas. Their first launch video hit 450K+ views on X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1978176112740950504)  2025-10-14T19:08Z 1.5M followers, 172.4K engagements


"Lapis (@trylapis) is building the fastest most accurate AI search analytics platform. Today every business is asking "How do we rank in AI search" Lapis analyzes millions of user prompts daily changes content in real-time and links to external sites for visibility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1978838639531393342)  2025-10-16T15:01Z 1.5M followers, 347.8K engagements


"Aside (@AsideAI) shows live suggestions during sales calls helping sales reps answer technical questions. Connect your docs Slack and past winning calls Aside surfaces the right answer in 0.8s. No more Let me get back to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1984289282543247665)  2025-10-31T16:00Z 1.5M followers, 612.6K engagements


"Parse lets you build APIs for any website 100x cheaper and faster than browser automation. Parse makes deterministic APIs that use direct network requests that cost fractions of a cent and return in milliseconds. Congrats on the launch @alexscraping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1987263866129023044)  2025-11-08T21:00Z 1.5M followers, 326.1K engagements


"Frigade (@FrigadeHQ) learns how your product works and creates in-product guidance from simple prompts. No flows. No selector tagging. No stale docs. Guidance stays up to date as your UI evolves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995930972211347504)  2025-12-02T19:00Z 1.5M followers, 9852 engagements


"PGs X principles for making new things:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1974503860992684252)  2025-10-04T15:56Z 1.5M followers, 449.4K engagements


"Zavo (@zavopay) is building the first agentic point of sale for restaurants and retail. Payments POS and AI agents in one platform to build the future of autonomous commerce. Over XXX businesses already use Zavo to accept payments and manage operations. Congrats on the launch @canz101 and @ilkangzr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1978158867499331586)  2025-10-14T18:00Z 1.5M followers, 696.7K engagements


"Crunched (@usecrunched) is the first Excel AI built by and for Excel power users - tailored for consulting and finance workflows. The team has 10k+ hrs in Excel. Crunched is live with firms across Europe & US with users report being 2x faster on modeling tasks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1980287243156877470)  2025-10-20T14:57Z 1.5M followers, 2M engagements


"Imagine AI (@imagineagi) builds your B2B content pipeline. They clone you your expertise your voice your insights into high-fidelity personas. 10M driven across clients. $5M deal landed from a single optimized post. Congrats on the launch @skygodkingdom & @neo_lky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1981435536381530599)  2025-10-23T19:00Z 1.5M followers, 157.4K engagements


"Most founders think hiring is about interviewing. But it's actually about selling. For Startup School @juicebox_work co-founder & CEO @davepaffenholz joins YC's @harjtaggar to share how early-stage founders can find pitch and close top engineering and sales talent from crafting better outreach to winning great hires from Big Tech even when you're an unknown startup. 0:00 Why your first hires matter 1:17 What great candidates actually want 4:38 How to sell your startup to top talent 7:49 Finding and sourcing great engineers 13:17 Writing outreach that gets replies 20:58 Interviewing: sell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1986879488068886730)  2025-11-07T19:32Z 1.5M followers, 233.3K engagements


"Chad IDE (@cladlabs) is the brainrotcode editor. AI coding takes XX min between promptstoo long to ignore too short to start something new. Chad integrates your brainrot(X IG Stake Tinder etc)into your agentic coding workflow and helps to manage your context-switching. Less doom-scrolling. More shipping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1988366241460089118)  2025-11-11T22:00Z 1.5M followers, 3.4M engagements


"Inspector (@tryinspector) is an AI IDE for front-end that connects browser and codebase. It lets you select elements visually and prompt changes giving coding agents access to the same runtime context developers have: visuals elements and logs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1988744778905960642)  2025-11-12T23:04Z 1.5M followers, 105.9K engagements


"Cursor Head of Design Ryo Lu (@ryolu_) has spent his career at the intersection of design and engineeringfrom building fan sites as a kid to designing products at Stripe Asana and Notion. Now he's rethinking how software itself gets made. On this episode of Design Review Ryo joins YC's @aaron_epstein to break down how great product websites communicate what a company does. They walk through sites from early-stage startups calling out the small choices in structure clarity and brand that help users understand a product instantly and the ones that get in the way. 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - Crunched"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1991522340547563981)  2025-11-20T15:01Z 1.5M followers, 155.5K engagements


"The intersection of seems like a bad idea and is actually a good idea is the sweet spot for startups. "If a good idea were obviously good someone else would already have done it. So the most successful founders tend to work on ideas that few beside them realize are good.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1992021994616041498)  2025-11-22T00:07Z 1.5M followers, 40.7K engagements


"Congrats to @ModelML_ on their $75M Series A Model ML automates investment banking's grunt work with AI workflows that generate client-ready pitch decks investment memos and due diligence reports directly from trusted data. In tests against McKinsey and Bain consultants Model ML was more accurate and 20x faster. Just XX months after launch they're already deployed at major banks asset managers and two of the Big Four accounting firms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1992997700435075117)  2025-11-24T16:44Z 1.5M followers, 69.8K engagements


"🚀@SpaceiumInc just launched its first orbital refueling demo on SpaceX's Transporter-15. Mission teams have been saying the same thing: fuel constraints are forcing real compromises in capability and mission design. Operators know where they want to go but fuel limits cap maneuver profiles and reduce reach. Spaceium's precision robotic actuator now in orbit aboard D-Orbit's ION is the first step toward solving this. Built in X months it's engineered for real operational environments and designed to evolve into a complete fuel logistics architecture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995554530520633503)  2025-12-01T18:04Z 1.5M followers, 10.9K engagements


"Brickwise (@brickwise_ai) is an AI property manager that fully automates maintenance for landlords and real estate agents. Tenants can send a photo describe the issue and Brickwise diagnoses troubleshoots schedules contractors and resolves the problem automatically"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1995870045117853752)  2025-12-02T14:57Z 1.5M followers, 17K engagements


"F25 Demo Day in the books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996371041166524588)  2025-12-04T00:08Z 1.5M followers, 65.8K engagements


"Lark (@uselark_ai) is a modern billing platform with the flexibility to support any pricing model at any scale. Whether youre building an AI-powered API or a B2B SaaS product Lark provides the tools you need to implement complex billing logic without the hassle. Built by former Stripes @VijitDhingra1 and @jackbr513"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1996721923435483353)  2025-12-04T23:22Z 1.5M followers, 14.6K engagements


"Max from @medi_search is the most advanced medical AI available. Max scores XXXX% on HealthBench Hard OpenAI's new benchmark for difficult medical cases beating both GPT-5 and GPT-4o. Available on web iOS and Android:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998022249488454041)  2025-12-08T13:30Z 1.5M followers, 18.4K engagements


"Solve Intelligence (@SolveIntel) has raised a $40M Series B to build the AI platform for patents and launch Charts a new product for patent claims charts. Since last year theyve grown ARR more than 10x to reach X figures are profitable and theyre used by 400+ IP teams across X continents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998407513809748027)  2025-12-09T15:00Z 1.5M followers, 21.8K engagements


"Congrats to @bscholl and @boomsupersonic on their $300M round and launch of Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters built on their supersonic technology They've also secured a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI a leader in energy-driven AI infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998418610994217350)  2025-12-09T15:45Z 1.5M followers, 30.6K engagements


"Browser agents used to be for engineers only. Not anymore. Astro from @asteroid_inc is an AI agent builder for the hardest legacy portals letting anyone automate them in minutes. Proven in healthcare insurance and finance. Congrats on the launch @MlcochDavid & @simulated_land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998452588581138881)  2025-12-09T18:00Z 1.5M followers, 15.6K engagements


".@Veriff is the identity layer for the internet: matching people to government-issued IDs with a selfie so companies can verify users instantly and stop fraud at global scale. What began in Estonia has grown into one of the worlds leading identity verification systems processing hundreds of millions of checks and analyzing thousands of signals per user. Founder @kaarelkotkas joined YCs @gustaf to share how he went from a high-school prototype to serving global fintechs and marketplaces why identity is an infrastructure problem and why he sees a future where your digital passport might be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998489881048502659)  2025-12-09T20:28Z 1.5M followers, 6887 engagements


"Questom builds AI agents that answer inbound B2B calls emails chat and SMS collect order details and generate quotes and updates so customers get faster answers and teams close more deals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1998499681194881178)  2025-12-09T21:07Z 1.5M followers, 20.9K engagements