🚀 Why Founders Should Launch Sooner Than They Think

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July 29th, 2024

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Startup School is in session!

This past weekend, we brought Startup School back in person and the energy was incredible. Over 500 students and recent grads gathered at our office to network, learn about startups, and hear from speakers like Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Christina Caccioppo, and more. To quote YC Group Partner David Lieb, "The startup energy in SF sure feels more than back."

Why founders should launch sooner than they think

Launching a company is often pictured as a big splashy event with lots of media attention and hype. This can be scary! It also often results in founders delaying their launches, which then stalls the crucial lessons they could be learning.

Meetup: Ruby & Rails powering YC startups in 2024

YC is co-hosting a Ruby Meetup with Evil Martians to bring together fellow rubyists in SF! We’ll have tech talks from YC founders sharing their novel uses of Ruby in the wild — and how it’s not the Ruby you tried 10+ years ago.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Christina Cacioppo’s software startup just raised new funds at a $2.5B valuation
Forbes
Astranis (W16) is set to build Omega constellation after $200M Series D
John Gedmark
"I’m not sure if optimism or energy comes first but I know they fuel each other and you need both to do great things."

- Harj Taggar on X/Twitter
After AgentGPT’s success, Reworkd (S23) pivots to web-scraping AI agents
TechCrunch 

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Laminar — Developer platform to ship reliable LLM agents 10x faster
Combining orchestration, evals, data, and observability into a single platform.
S2024
Manaflow — Build and manage your dream AI operations team
Automate workflows involving data analysis, API calls, and business actions.
S2024
ZeroPath — Autonomous vulnerability patching
Detect and fix your web application's exploitable security issues without config.
S2024
Passage — Clearing goods just got easier
AI co-pilot for clearing goods through customs.
S2024
Remade — GenAI product photography for businesses
Generate studio-quality product photoshoots from your smartphone.
S2024
Oway — Ridesharing freight to cut SMB shipping costs by 50%
Making freight shipping significantly cheaper + faster by selling unused truck space that's already on the road.
S2024
Mito Health — Measure over 100 biomarkers to prevent disease and achieve peak health
Go beyond your traditional physical with in-depth health insights.
S2024
mdhub — Clinical AI assistant for mental health clinicians
We power mental health clinicians with our clinical AI assistant to efficiently run their clinics.
S2024
⚡ Pulse AI — Supercharge ERPs with LLMs
An inference layer that automates and analyzes data from legacy supply chain systems with AI.
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Open source AI is the path forward (about.fb.com)
    2353 points by atgctg | 889 comments

  2. AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level (deepmind.google)
    1346 points by ocfnash | 521 comments

  3. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript (github.com)
    1183 points by magnio | 547 comments

  4. Every company should be owned by its employees (www.elysian.press)
    966 points by ellegriffin | 1043 comments

  5. An experiment in UI density created with Svelte (cybernetic.dev)
    829 points by 11001100 | 249 comments

  6. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii (bitbuilt.net)
    745 points by realslimjd | 215 comments

  7. Copying is the way design works (2020) (matthewstrom.com)
    739 points by innerzeal | 238 comments

  8. A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow (www.bloomberg.com)
    648 points by toomuchtodo | 588 comments

  9. Large Enough (mistral.ai)
    633 points by davidbarker | 496 comments

  10. Reverse Engineering for Everyone (0xinfection.github.io)
    605 points by udev4096 | 66 comments

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