Y Combinator

In this special episode of Design Review, YC General Partner @aaron_epstein and YC Product Designer @eve_bouff break down how they went about redesigning the YC homepage from the ground up. They’ll discuss the motivations for the redesign, the unconventional process they took and lessons for founders building their own sites. 00:00 — Designing A New Website 01:00 — The Old Homepage 02:30 — Centering the Story on Founders 04:00 — The New Vision: Inspire, Don’t Sell 05:30 — Visualizing Founder Transformation 07:00 — Letting Founders Speak for Themselves 08:45 — Bringing YC’s Network to Life 12:00 — Minimal Design 17:00 — The Future of Interactive Web Design

In this episode of Founder Firesides, @snowmaker talks to the founders of @artie_labs, @JacquelineSYC19 and Robin Tang, who have just announced their Series A. Artie is a data streaming platform for cutting edge companies, streaming up-to-date and reliable data between systems in real time.

Congrats to @triggerdotdev on their $16M Series A! Prototyping AI is easy, but building production-grade agents is hard. http://Trigger.dev handles reliability, scaling, orchestration, and observability—already powering hundreds of millions of agent executions per month for 30K+ developers. https://trigger.dev/blog/series-a

F25 Demo Day in the books

In this episode of Design Review, YC’s @aaron_epstein sat down with @framer CEO and co-founder, @jornvandijk, to review user-submitted websites built using Framer. They'll share practical advice on how to clearly communicate what your product does, when animation helps (and when it hurts), and how to use Framer’s powerful tools without ending up with a site that feels generic or overly templatized. 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Lumari 07:20 - Alai 15:00 - Juicebox 24:00 - LeapingAI 30:10 - The Hog

Today, we're excited to launch a newly redesigned http://ycombinator.com! Our new site puts founders front and center and we want it to reflect what YC is really about: helping talented builders become great founders.

Head of Design @ryolu_ helped transform Cursor from a feature-layer on top of VS Code into one of the world's leading AI code editors. He joins YC's @aaron_epstein on Design Review to talk about the path that brought him to Cursor, how rapid prototyping reshaped the core product, and how he's on a mission to break down the barriers that once separated designers and coders. 00:00 — Designers Becoming Builders 04:11 — Learning by Building, Not Studying 08:39 — Inside Cursor’s Design Team 13:30 — Designing Systems, Not Features 17:40 — Rebuilding Cursor Around Agents 23:15 — Prototyping With “Baby Cursor” 30:52 — Design as Sculpting 36:10 — The Future of Designers and Engineers

.@eigenpal is AGI for backoffice paperwork: describe a process to automate, give it test data, and the AI agent iterates until the workflow is perfect. Try on http://eigenpal.com. Congrats on the launch @jedr_blaszyk & @novakmatej1! https://ycombinator.com/launches/PHm-eigenpal-ai-document-workflows…

2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. On the @LightconePod, @garrytan, @harjtaggar, @sdianahu, and @snowmaker break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the real opportunity is moving back to the application layer, and why the next wave of AI startups may be just getting started. 00:50 - Anthropic models are most preferred in the latest YC batch 05:36 - Why aren’t there more AI consumer apps? 07:01 - Swapping models in and out is becoming the norm 09:08 - The big AI bubble question 14:37 - Space as the solve for data centers and energy 17:29 - Interest in starting model companies 21:01 - Vibe coding became a big category 22:23 - AI economy has stabilized 23:38 - The AI 2027 piece 25:49 - Founders still need to hire teams

Congrats to Channel3 on their $6M seed! Channel3 is building the connected database of every product on the internet. They provide developers and merchants with a real-time, universal product graph, enabling new AI-driven shopping experiences across the web. https://trychannel3.com/blog/channel3-raises-6m…