The Leaderboard
Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
gm legends, happy Monday.
Google finally shipped Snapseed 4.0 after years of near-silence — free, non-destructive, with a built-in camera; MiroMiro v2 lets you inspect and edit any live website like a Figma file; The Pitch by Deel lands in Singapore tonight; and we teamed up with Vercel to make this Friday a launch day worth showing up for.
gm legends, happy Friday.
77 builders launched this morning for a shot at YC S26 — Gustaf Alströmer is reviewing the top ones on the special leaderboard; one wants to replace the resume with your GitHub commits; one breaks AI agents on purpose before users do; and forum founders are sharing their wildest launch horror stories.
gm legends, happy Thursday.
Luma's new reasoning model says it understands what you want before it generates anything; reMarkable shipped a $399 tablet with fewer features than its own Pro on purpose; OpenAI swapped ChatGPT's default model again.
P.S. Don't forget to schedule your launch by midnight tonight for a chance to nab a YC interview
gm legends, happy Wednesday.
Agents have their own wallets now; two Stanford dropouts — one came from NASA, one from McKinsey — are fixing recruiting; OpenAI is running ads; and we teamed up with YC to give builders who missed the deadline one more shot.
gm legends, happy Tuesday.
Sid Sijbrandij — who ran GitLab — forked a coding agent and now has 2M users; ex-UiPath founders who left to fix the part UiPath never solved; Valve shipped new controller hardware; and The Pitch by Deel hits New York today.
gm legends, happy Monday.
An agent platform betting that human oversight is the actual product, a comic store paying 80% to creators without asking for exclusivity, 20,000 AI coding sessions turned into trading cards, and a thread on whether self-hosting is a tax or just something your particular brain enjoys.
gm legends, happy Friday.
A decade-long code editor hit 1.0, AI agents are publicly arguing about stocks, your phone can be a subwoofer now, and our resident forums queen, Nika, wants to know how to spot the human-made content in a hay-stack of AI slop.
gm legends, happy Thursday.
OpenAI open-sourced how they actually run Codex agents; four cryptographers launched the private AI chat you can audit yourself; there's a flyable universe in a browser with no login; and the final two regional events for The Pitch by Deel are coming up. Want your chance at winning $1M+? Apply below.
Gm legends, happy Wednesday.
A Polish agency open-sourced the wearable health layer — including the scoring algorithms your Oura ring won't explain. A 4-person startup has Microsoft doing its AI evals. Netlify shipped a Postgres database that branches with your code. And Orhan (@orhan_kilic) got 16% App Store conversions by making his app more boring.
gm legends, happy Tuesday.
Jet AI Agents lets you build business agents in minutes. Orange Slice automates your entire sales workflow from a plain English description. and there's a thread asking how you'd launch a product that isn't AI — which today's leaderboard makes feel increasingly urgent.
P.S. The Pitch by Deel London is happening today — go check the leaderboard. Rolling applications still open for New York, Tel Aviv, Singapore, and Dubai.
