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Founder Tools inside ExploreYC - Paul Graham's Essays with better UI

you can get a random read of one of Paul Graham's essays (founder of Y Combinator) ! Or browse through them from this UI

not like the original Paul Graham UI that still sits for this essays, but a new modern one inside https://exploreyc.com/founders

ExploreYC - Your data layer for Y Combinator's startup ecosystem

Explore 5,773+ Y Combinator companies with powerful search, interactive maps, AI-powered company intelligence, hiring insights, funding data, and batch analytics. Find co-founders, validate startup ideas, and discover patterns across 20 years of YC history.

Open Sourcing The Project πŸš€πŸš€πŸš€

searchable companies, a live hiring board, an idea-validator that finds similar YC bets to whatever you're working on, a gamified success-prediction tool, and email digests for new batches.
all of it is live at https://github.com/KonstantinMB/...
all of it is now in the repo, MIT-licensed: React 19 + FastAPI + Supabase, OpenAI embeddings, Perplexity for research, deployed on Vercel and Render.
why open it up: the PH launch made it clear there's an audience of YC-curious builders who want to dig deeper than what the hosted site shows them.
some of you want different filters. others want a CLI.. others want to plug in their own data sources or fork it for a different accelerator.
I can't build all of those but you can.
got a feature in mind? open an issue. want to ship it? Open a PR

Y Combinator Hiring & Recruitment Analytics

The YC Hiring Market Intelligence is getting daily async updates with new jobs popping up as we pull the companies every single day!

You can view pretty cool things here - average alary, equity, remote %, total companies searching for talent and a lot more..

Validator of StartUp Ideas Based On Y Combinator's Dataset

i play around with a lot of my ideas and see if YC already accepted people with similar ones.

the vector search on the dataset of YC companies is something I build to help me validate 10x faster and better!

check it out: https://www.exploreyc.com/validator

open-sourcing the project

would someone want to contribute?