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This Week at YC

October 21st, 2024

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How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App

Thanks to rapid development in LLM’s, we are now at the point where AI is able to follow prompts and generate code to build functional custom software. Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, joined us to explore anyone can now tap into the power of coding.

Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb

Stripe, Airbnb and Lyft are a few of the most successful companies of the past decade. And there are at least two things they all have in common - great design, and Katie Dill. Katie was Head of Experience Design at Airbnb, led the design team at Lyft and is now Head of Design at Stripe. We spoke with Katie about her design philosophy and how important it is to instill a culture of design in your startup from day one.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup
TechCrunch
Super-simplified aircraft promises pilots a car-like flying experience
New Atlas
Keep’s AIOps platform helps ops teams reduce alert fatigue
TechCrunch
More designers should be founders. They already have so many of the skills needed to be great – strong user empathy, a focus on solving problems, a high bar for quality, and taste.
Aaron Epstein
Career Karma founders launch OutRival to help companies build AI agents
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Gecko Security: Your AI Security Engineer
Gecko finds and fixes security vulnerabilities in your codebase, just like having a security engineer making your code secure.
F2024
VectorShift: No-Code AI Automations Platform
Build AI assistants and workflow automations in no-code.
S2023
SSOReady: Open source developer tools for enterprise single sign-on
SSOReady makes it safe and easy for developers to offer SAML SSO and SCIM directory sync in their software.
W2024
Ember Copilot: The AI medical assistant that actually works
We’re bringing the state-of-the-art language model to every clinic in the world.
F2024
gait - The open-source collaboration layer for AI coding assistants
Share AI codegen chats, continue off of coworker's conversations, and view analytics on AI codegen use.
F2024
🚗 Sandra AI – The first multilingual AI receptionist for car dealerships
📞 Voice AI that manages all dealership calls, 🌟 boosting customer experience and 💸 driving revenue growth.
F2024
Manicode: Make your terminal write code for you
"Very f****** cool" CLI for AI code generation
F2024
Curo: Electric fleets lease EV charging spots from owners
Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo.
F2024
Replexica – Automated AI localization for multilingual software
Replexica helps dev teams do perfect software localization in minutes instead of weeks.
F2024
Dropback: Moneyball SaaS for college sports 🏆
We power front offices of elite college sports programs to help teams win off the field.
W2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions (www.ftc.gov)
    1722 points by pseudolus | 756 comments

  2. Busy Status Bar (busy.bar)
    1361 points by aleksi | 461 comments

  3. Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen (www.creativebloq.com)
    889 points by ralusek | 265 comments

  4. Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator (emoji.build)
    821 points by klimeryk | 147 comments

  5. Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app (graphite.rs)
    778 points by Keavon | 127 comments

  6. Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court (cosmowenman.substack.com)
    769 points by abetusk | 285 comments

  7. Web Browser Engineering (2021) (browser.engineering)
    767 points by MrVandemar | 131 comments

  8. Sqlite3 WebAssembly (sqlite.org)
    638 points by whatever3 | 190 comments

  9. Crokinole (pudding.cool)
    610 points by Tomte | 164 comments

  10. Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power (www.wsj.com)
    588 points by atomic128 | 540 comments
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