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This Week at YC

March 2nd, 2025

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Design Review: AI Interfaces Of The Future

AI is dramatically changing the way we interact with software. So for this episode, YC's Aaron Epstein sat down with Raphael Schaad, the founder and designer of Cron (now Notion Calendar), to critique some groundbreaking AI user interfaces.

They’ll review a wide variety of examples, from agents and adaptive UI to video prompts and realistic voice APIs, all in an effort to get a glimpse of how AI is changing the future of software.

What Young Founders Should Focus On

More and more people in their 20s are taking the leap and starting their own companies. Dalton & Michael share their advice on how young founders can get a head start and hit the ground running in their startup journey.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Lumen Orbit changes its name to Starcloud and raises $10M for space data centers
GeekWire
Taktile helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows
TechCrunch
Camber gets $30M for medical claims automation
Axios
Continue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistants
TechCrunch
Deepnight nabs $5.5M for AI night vision software that disrupts a multi-billion-dollar industry
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
PAX makes high frequency faster and every trade cost less.
W2025
AI voice agents that call insurance on your behalf
W2025
Extract meaningful data from biopharma research and patents at scale
W2025
Replay real production calls against your latest agent changes, catch failures, and track sentiment.
W2025
An LLM testing platform for engineering teams to pinpoint which iteration of their app to put in production.
W2025
The First AI Native Email Client                                      
W2025
The UX of ChatGPT in your own app, connected to your own AI agents.
W2025
Dalus helps engineers create system models of complex hardware in a day instead of weeks.
W2025
Monitor and Take Action on Your GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)
W2025
Pickle joins Zoom calls on your behalf and makes you look great.
W2025
Forge Automation runs software enabled factories that deliver quickturn on-demand CNC parts.
W2025
Cut AI agent debugging time from days to minutes with visual workflows and simulations
W2025
Your accounting firm's next 10x associate, working 24/7
W2025
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code (www.anthropic.com)
    2121 points by bakugo | 952 comments

  2. TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1314 points by franky47 | 355 comments

  3. EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games (github.com)
    1220 points by Klaster_1 | 316 comments

  4. I Went to SQL Injection Court (sockpuppet.org)
    1219 points by mrkurt | 433 comments

  5. Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass (touchgrass.now)
    1195 points by risquer | 267 comments

  6. GPT-4.5 (openai.com)
    1120 points by meetpateltech | 979 comments

  7. How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps (kibty.town)
    1106 points by xyzeva | 277 comments

  8. A Letter to the American People (18f.org)
    969 points by erentz | 482 comments

  9. Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser (github.com)
    950 points by goplayoutside | 322 comments

  10. Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)
    838 points by tobr | 449 comments
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