📺 How YC Companies Beat Amazon and Google
This week, inside the Group Partner Lounge, Harj, Michael, and Brad identify the types of companies you should watch out for — and the many more you're wasting your time worrying about.
 

How to Make Your Co-founder Matching Profile Stand Out
To date, over 30,000 founders have used YC's Co-founder Matching platform to send nearly 300,000 matching invites — resulting in over 65,000 potential co-founder matches made so far. YC's Katherine Bernstein shares ways you can make your profile more compelling to help you get the best matches, and avoid potential missed connections.
 

🚀 The Launchpad

🔥 Top Posts on Hacker News

• The Joy of Small Projects (schroer.ca)
• An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email (empty.coffee)
• I need to find an apartment (mattrighetti.com)
• Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5 (eightcolors.net)
• Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios (twitter.com/nickcammarata)
• You can do a lot with an empty file (rachelbythebay.com)
• One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine (nrk.no)
• Are you a baby? A litmus test (haleynahman.substack.com)

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

• Curry (YC S19) is hiring a VP, Sales
• Litnerd (YC S21) is hiring a Senior Full Stack Developer
• Fathom (YC W21) is hiring their 5th Senior Full-stack Engineer (Rails, remote)
• Enso (YC S21) is hiring a Senior Rust Cloud Engineer

 🌎 From the YC Community

• Astranis is contracting an entire Falcon 9 rocket to launch four satellites next year || Astranis (YC W16)
• This startup designed an electric cargo ship to cross the ocean  || Fleetzero (YC W22)
• Tandem sketches out a remote-friendly hybrid work future || Tandem (YC S19)
• This trio of Asian American twentysomethings wants to teach Gen Z how to invest || Bloom (YC W21)
• A newcomer to AI data labeling, Encord looks to ride a rising tidal wave || Encord (YC W21)

📈 The Bar