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Y Combinator

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Everything Y personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.

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OpenClaw uses software
"I have non-technical CEO friends who are going all in on OpenClaw. They're automating entire parts of their businesses"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 0:46 Feb 2026
Perplexity uses software
"I go on, you know, Perplexity and it's like, you know what, like you shouldn't be using that model"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 6:26 Feb 2026
Moltbook uses software
"I've been really addicted to this new site called Moltbook, where people have unleashed their AIs to interact in the first ever AI agent-only online community"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 0:17 Feb 2026
Claude Code uses software
"I'm up till 2 3:00 a.m. every single night running four conductor simultaneous workers with Claude Code"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 1:06 Feb 2026
Sentry uses software
"Bug fixing is just going to Sentry copy markdown."
Magic Patterns uses software
"We've actually avoided hiring a design person at the company so far by just leveraging Magic Patterns and our engineering team uses that to build all front-end designs."
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 7:12 Feb 2026
Whisper uses negative software
"it chose Whisper V1, which is a model from several years ago. Like, the API is practically deprecated... It was like literally takes an hour to process an hour of video"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 6:02 Feb 2026
Y Combinator recommends other
"If you're excited about building the frontier of finance, apply to YC"
From: AI Native Hedge Funds ▶ 0:52 Feb 2026
Mintlify recommends software
"Mintlify actually powers the Resend documentation... documentation is sort of shifting from a hey like some companies it's like they'll pay attention to it if they're especially like design developer experience focused but now it's becoming like a must have for everybody"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 9:50 Feb 2026
Groq recommends product
"You should be using Groq with a Q. It's literally 200 times faster... and it's also 10x cheaper"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 6:30 Feb 2026
Supabase recommends software
"Supabase has just seen like an explosion the demand for databases right and the agents are choosing Supabase as a default tool to like set up and host their PostgreSQL database"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 4:35 Feb 2026
Resend recommends software
"when you ask a question on ChatGPT or Claude or pretty much all of the major LLMs you ask how do I connect my web app to send emails the default answer is actually Resend"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 7:37 Feb 2026
Agent Mail recommends software
"There's a YC company called Agent Mail that makes inboxes for AI agents... once OpenClaw got big is just like exploded"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 11:14 Feb 2026
Claude recommends software
"If you haven't tried Claude Code in the last month, it's time to give it another shot. And if you have, you know what I'm talking about. It feels like AGI is here."
From: The New Way To Build A Startup Feb 2026
Tesla mentions product
"Is this similar to the Tesla super secret plan the three-step plan to go from like the Roadster to the like Model 3?"
PCR mentions technique
"Every molecular diagnostics approach here requires in the lab using a process called PCR to amplify this DNA billions of fold."
NDIA mentions other
"His latest project is NDIA, a lab exploring a new paradigm in frontier AI research"
Poetic mentions software
"we actually at the founders of poetic that came and spoke about the approach"
ARC Prize mentions other
"founder of the ARK Prize, a global competition to solve the ARC AGI benchmark"
ARC AGI V3 mentions software
"congrats on the launch of Arc AGI V3"
Keras mentions software
"You were the creative at KAS before even all the other frameworks became very popular"
Confluence Labs mentions other
"I worked with a company in the winter 26 batch called Confluence Labs which actually ended up saturating the V2 results with 97%"
Starcraft mentions other
"Tom Brown had to write like the harness code to allow like the preGPT AI at OpenAI to play Starcraft"
Psyc mentions software
"that second thing sounds like Douglas Lenat's like psyc project"
Meesho mentions software
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay, Meesho"
Groww mentions software
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay, Meesho, Groww"
Emergent mentions software
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay, Meesho, Groww, and Emergent"
Razorpay mentions software
"the founders of incredible Indian companies backed by YC including Razorpay"
AI coding tools mentions software
"we've got a bunch of YC companies that have submitted their websites that were all built with AI coding tools"
Notion mentions software
"which you sold to Notion a while back"
Cron mentions software
"Raphael was the co-founder of Kron, a modern calendar tool, which you sold to Notion a while back"
ARC-AGI mentions software
"I remember when you first came out with your paper in December of last year, uh you shot to the top of ARC-AGI V2 and then you've done this a bunch of times for other benchmarks too."
Humanity's Last Exam mentions software
"So recently you guys just announced some incredible results for humanity's last exam. Can you tell us more about those?"
Cursor mentions software
"I think what will happen is coding will be generally solved for everyone."
ChatGPT mentions software
"when you ask a question on ChatGPT or Claude or pretty much all of the major LLMs"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 7:29 Feb 2026
WindSurf mentions software
"if you think back a year ago, we were talking about Cursor versus WindSurf and like that product experience was essentially like advanced autocomplete"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 2:18 Feb 2026
Twilio mentions software
"Has anybody built like Twilio for agents yet? Or like phone numbers for agents?"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 12:16 Feb 2026
Anthropic mentions software
"At Anthropic, the way that we thought about it is we don't build for the model of today, we build for the model 6 months from now."
React mentions software
"The terminal is actually one of the most beautiful terminal apps out there and is actually written with React terminal."
Rippling mentions software
"Several years ago, my friend Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling and Zenefits, coined the term compound startup"
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 1:14 Feb 2026
Giga ML mentions software
"The phrase 20x company was actually coined by the founders of Giga ML, which builds voice-based customer service agents for enterprise"
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 2:33 Feb 2026
Atlas mentions software
"So Atlas can basically do anything within the product which you want to do. So it can use browsers, it can edit the policies, it can write code, it can do anything within the product."
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 3:15 Feb 2026
Legion Health mentions software
"Legion Health, which is building an AI native psychiatry network, is one example of how to do this."
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 4:46 Feb 2026
Phase Shift mentions software
"Phase Shift, which is building agents to automate accounts receivable, took this approach."
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 6:25 Feb 2026
Door Dash mentions software
"When we got DoorDash as a customer, we were approximately like four to five engineers going against players who had 100x engineers."
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 2:50 Feb 2026
Zenefits mentions software
"Several years ago, my friend Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling and Zenefits, coined the term compound startup"
From: The New Way To Build A Startup ▶ 1:14 Feb 2026
Sonos mentions product
"You it can just connect to your oven or your Tesla or your lights, your Sonos, my bed."
From: Why OpenClaw Broke The Internet ▶ 0:22 Feb 2026
OpenAI mentions software
"A company that succeeds in building this capability could define the next AI foundation model on the scale of OpenAI or Anthropic."
From: Large Spatial Models ▶ 0:33 Feb 2026
"We've seen hints of this digital government in places like Estonia, but we need to spread it to the rest of the world."
From: AI for Government ▶ 0:31 Feb 2026
SendGrid mentions negative software
"if you compare it to like SendGrid which is the old school I suppose web 2.0 example SendGrid example is not great. It it's just like it puts you through customer support"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 9:13 Feb 2026