🟧 Applications are now open for the new YC Fall 2024 batch

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August 11th, 2024

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The first-ever YC fall batch!

This is a special moment to start a startup, and we want to be here to serve founders who are ready to take the plunge. Applications are now open for YC's first-ever fall batch, which will begin in San Francisco on August 29thβ€” with Demo Day in early December.

Apply by Tuesday, August 27th!

B2B Pricing for Startups

How much should you charge for your product or service? What number should you pick? In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Tom Blomfield guides you on how to come up with a price and then justify that number to customers.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
J.P. Morgan Payments backs B2B payments platform Slope (S21)
TechCrunch
Stempad (S24) tackles challenges in scientific note-taking
R&D World
It's fun to watch founders who are new at sales have the magic moment when they realize that sales is about listening, not talking.
Jared Friedman
Boom Supersonic accelerates Overture aircraft and engine development
Boom (W16)

πŸš€ The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Moonglow - Colab on your cloud
We let you run local Jupyter notebooks using your cloud compute.
S2024
Genie β€” The best AI sidekick for kids
A conversational AI companion that can create generative art, play games, write stories and talk with kids in a safe & age-appropriate way.
S2024
Offstream - Streamlined carbon compliance for project developers
Less time on paperwork, more time scaling decarbonization
S2024
Quetzal 🦜 A modern internationalization platform
Say hello to Quetzal, your all-in-one solution for software internationalization
S2024
⚑FINNY - Supercharge organic growth for Financial Advisors
We help independent financial advisors find and convert new clients, using AI.
S2024
Opslane – Making on-call suck less
We reduce alert fatigue for on-call teams.
S2024
🧬🦠 ACX – Therapeutics inspired by bacteria's natural killing abilities
We are recreating the killer compounds naturally made by bacteria to combat everything from crop production to cancer.
S2024
πŸš€ Firstwork - Rippling for frontline workers
The all-in-one HR and compliance platform cutting onboarding time >75%
S2024
Lilac Labs: Drive-thru Order Taking with Voice AI
We automate the person taking orders at the drive-thru with voice AI.
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

πŸ”₯ Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Medieval (teenage.engineering)
    871 points by beefman | 319 comments

  2. Structured Outputs in the API (openai.com)
    759 points by davidbarker | 266 comments

  3. How French Drains Work (practical.engineering)
    749 points by chmaynard | 208 comments

  4. Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy (icode4.coffee)
    717 points by ndiddy | 97 comments

  5. I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350 (dmitry.gr)
    684 points by elipsitz | 335 comments

  6. Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments (roometron.com)
    678 points by streakolay | 196 comments

  7. Prevention of HIV (www.science.org)
    646 points by etiam | 302 comments

  8. LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime (github.com)
    634 points by rrampage | 138 comments

  9. Do quests, not goals (www.raptitude.com)
    606 points by zdw | 171 comments

  10. Moments in Chromecast's history (blog.google)
    593 points by sibellavia | 577 comments

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