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December 1st, 2024

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Dev Tools Company

YC's Nicolas Dessaigne was the co-founder and CEO of Algolia, a Search API used by millions of developers to build great search experiences into their apps and websites. Today it powers over 1.75 trillion searches annually for 17,000+ customers worldwide. In this episode of Startup School, Nicolas shares his advice for founders building a dev tools company from the ground up— covering everything from team and idea to GTM and sales.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
R2 Raises $59 Million in Equity, Debt for Lending
Bloomberg
Circleback is out to become the best meeting note-taker
TechCrunch
PlayAI's $21M Funding and The Release of a New Multi-Turn Speech Model
Play.AI

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Write queries, build pipelines, and automate workflows faster
F2024
AI collection agents that recover 2X as much debt at a fraction of the cost
F2024
Offload all of your emails to your AI virtual assistant.
F2024
Figma for Video Editing using Webcodecs Browser Acceleration
F2024
Get registered and sending text messages faster than ever before.
F2024
Kura scores a breakthrough 87% on WebVoyager Benchmark, outperforming Claude's Computer Use demo by 31% and the previous SOTA by 14%.
S2024
Relvy looks at application logs and metrics to detect and debug issues, so engineers don’t have to.
F2024
Catch errors in your manual processes before they cost you big
F2024
we find bugs in your voice agents so you don't have to
F2024
AI personalized learning for K-12                                  
F2024
Fast, reliable legal infrastructure as a no-code platform and API.
F2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter (ContinueAndPersist.org)
    1352 points by adnanaga | 220 comments

  2. Model Context Protocol (www.anthropic.com)
    866 points by benocodes | 257 comments

  3. RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023) (www.5snb.club)
    805 points by zkldi | 210 comments

  4. This website is hosted on Bluesky (danielmangum.com)
    710 points by hasheddan | 168 comments

  5. What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch (blog.koenvh.nl)
    665 points by Koenvh | 480 comments

  6. The two factions of C++ (herecomesthemoon.net)
    551 points by cyclopeanutopia | 653 comments

  7. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers (news.alvaroduran.com)
    547 points by fagnerbrack | 525 comments

  8. The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) (interactionmagic.com)
    545 points by rcdemski | 46 comments

  9. Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
    538 points by thinkingemote | 196 comments

  10. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
    531 points by zdw | 256 comments

  11. You can use C-Reduce for any language (bernsteinbear.com)
    468 points by Tomte | 108 comments

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