Juan Woodroffe

I'm guessing many of you have seen it already.

Pretty much every consumer company that markets itself as some version of "helping you spend time with friends in the real world" is becoming an event discovery app. I thought event discovery was a tarpit idea and we can't just have 13 different places to discover things to do.

The Y Combinator has posted the topics (products) it wants to cover and support.

Here is a list of them:

• The Primer  AI education with personalised learning

• The Future of American Defense (Drones, sensors, interceptors,...)

• A Cloud for Small Software

• Multiplayer AI (Teams collaborating with shared AI agents)

• Compute at Sea (Offshore data centres)

• AI-Powered Consumer Products for 1 Billion People

• AI for the Ageing Population

• New Operating Systems for the Physical World

• The Best Time to Build in Crypto (stablecoins, agentic commerce)

• Data for the Real World

• Proving You're Human

• AI-Native Compliance Infrastructure

• Self-Maintaining APIs

Because building products has become much more accessible thanks to AI, the bar has had to rise a bit, or at least the expectations have become stricter.

I built my own tool  SafeLimit, but personally, I wouldn t launch it on Product Hunt yet because it s still very basic and doesn t even have a website.