PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery
Article URL: https://jobs.lever.co/postera/c7d50a36-db0a-4574-bfe4-8700b74a22c0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078686 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 (https://agent37.com). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox.You can view a video walkthrough of the product here: https://youtu.be/DK5ISR2tbNoWe started…
Hacker News22 min read
Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042330 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineers in Canada (Remote)
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/agEqBYD-product-engineer-ai-full-stack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943524 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad Join YC as General Partners
We’re thrilled to announce that Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad are joining Y Combinator as our newest General Partners.
Y Combinator Blog3 min read
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring a GTM Founder's Associate
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/THLEzXI-gtm-founder-s-associate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919680 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
Hey HN, Anders and Tom here. We're building Magnitude, an inference engine for agents that optimizes itself to run as fast as possible on your hardware.
Hacker News3 min read
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dAbC3Gd-founding-product-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911531 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Their YC application hoped Google would buy them. HackerRank did, and Google was already using Mimir.
Three Purdue students applied to YC in 2015 to put automated CS courses into high schools. They feared Google and hoped it would buy them. Colleges bought the grader instead, HackerRank bought the company in 2019, and the product shut down in 2022. The form is below.
MakersClaw Blog11 min read
Her YC application called Softcup a competitor to watch. By August she owned it.
Flex applied to YC in 2016 with one founder, $225,000 raised and nothing shipped. The form named Softcup, the only other menstrual disc, as a rival to watch. By August Flex owned it. Then came 30,000 stores, a bank collapse and 185 million discs. The form is below.
MakersClaw Blog17 min read
He got into YC solo with 70 users and an open-source Roam. Within four years he had sold a beet-meal business to Bryan Johnson.
Athens Research got into YC W21 as a one-person, open-source Roam alternative: 1,800 GitHub stars, 70 users, $800 in a good month. It raised about $2M, hit 6,300 stars, and was shut down in 2023. A later company of his was a longevity meal service Bryan Johnson bought. The form is below.
MakersClaw Blog9 min read
They applied to YC as a game publisher. The thing they actually built was idea number six on the 'other ideas' list, and it became a college.
MakeGamesWithUs got into YC W12 to match coders with artists and publish their games. The 'other ideas' answer lists an app academy for high-school developers as #6. That became Make School: a $15M Series B, an accredited degree, $10M a year, and a July 2021 shutdown. The form is below.
MakersClaw Blog13 min read
They applied to YC with $320 of monthly revenue and a video call that never connected. Seven years later they dropped the word “phone” from the name.
OpenPhone's S18 application shows 1,500 users, 32 paying customers and $320 of revenue in the last month. In September 2025 the company renamed itself Quo, raised $105M and reported nearly 90,000 businesses. The thesis that got them there is in the application.
MakersClaw Blog13 min read
They told YC they wanted to corner careers for women. Eleven years later they bought that market back.
The Muse's W12 application names one wedge: a community of job-seeking women, built to rival The Ladders. The company outgrew it, reached a peak Minshew puts at 70 million annual users, then in 2022 paid cash and stock to buy that market back.
MakersClaw Blog16 min read
Together AI and Y Combinator partner to launch the first dedicated GPU cluster for the YC community
No more two-year compute contracts. Together AI and YC just gave YC startups a faster way to get GPUs.
Together AI Blog3 min read
Christopher Golda and Grey Baker Join YC as General Partners
We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining YC as General Partners.
Y Combinator Blog2 min read
Diana Hu Is YC's Newest Managing Partner
We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator. Few people have built a startup from zero and also shipped tech to 100 million people. Diana has done both.
Y Combinator Blog2 min read
Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner
We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. She brings deep fintech and infrastructure experience, a founder's instinct for product, and the perspective of someone who's been building companies since she was a teenager.
Y Combinator Blog2 min read
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