Y Bombinator
We Bombed 7 times, you shouldn't
295 followers
We Bombed 7 times, you shouldn't
295 followers
Y-Bombinator is an agent built with 100x Bot by experienced founders. We built YB to help newer YC applicants to find confidence in their merits and internally check where their strengths and weaknesses lie.
Hatable
Hey PH!
We've all spent more time looking at the YC "Submit" button than at our own reflection.
To be honest, between our team members, we've got a combined 7 rejections under our belts.
We’ve made every mistake in the no-no-book: over-indexing on jargon, failing to prove "Why Us?", and ignoring the market math that YC partners care about.
We got in eventually, but the trauma of those "No's" stayed with us.
With the S26 deadline on Feb 9th, we built Y-Bombinator on 100x.bot to give you the "insider" audit we wish we had 5 years ago.
The agent doesn't just read your pitch; it scrapes your GitHub for technical depth and your LinkedIn for "Founder DNA" to see if you actually fit the YC pattern.
We want you to iterate until you’re ready. To get extra credits:
1. Screenshot your result card from our landing page,
2. Post it on X.com/ LinkedIn and mention @100xbot (Use the share buttons).
3. We’ll verify the tag and load an extra 1000 credits instantly!
We're in the comments all day. Drop your story, share your results, let's exchange war stories and inspire the future cohorts!
@100xbot @shardul_lavekar Hey Shardul and Samarth, I remember someone reached out to me for their YC application review, and I redirected them to you. Now you're scaling that brilliantly with this new tool, perfect for helping tons of people get the support they need. It's fantastic.
I love how every 100xbot launch bursts with personality. That's something which has been missing with many PH launches, and it's so refreshing to hunt your launches! :)
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@100xbot @rohanrecommends thanks rohan, as always!
PicWish
@100xbot @shardul_lavekar congrats team! time saver for sure! does it support custom prompts for the audit or just the standard workflow?
Hi folks: quick question: why do I need to install the 100x Bot browser extension to use this?
From the outside, it feels like unnecessary bloat and more like a way to drive extension installs than something required for the product’s core purpose. That comes across as a bit shady, which is disappointing because this looked great at first.
If I’m misunderstanding the rationale, can you explain what the extension is needed for (and whether there’s an option to use the product without it)?
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@whyafan hi. As a part of the application review, we want to take a look at your website content, what's on your linkedin, and on your github. (Founder pedigree would be decided on these factors, hence.)
This meant that we needed a crawler to scrape the content and evaluate. In our case, we have a chrome extension that acts as this crawler and takes a look at website content, linkedin and github pages along with the application itself.
Hope that clarifies why an extension is needed.
Thanks!
Tech To The Rescue
@whyafan Same feelings from me :/
Congrats on the launch! Love how Y Bombinator turns real YC scar tissue into a focused, founder-friendly prep agent.
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@zeiki_yu thanks Zeiki!
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The founder community pulled us through our rejections, so we’re opening up our week to help you get through yours. If you want a human perspective, email us at: ybombinator.help@gmail.com
Please make sure your email subject contains "Application Help" if you're yet to apply, or "Mock Interview" if you're preparing for the interview (Helps us prioritize)
Dokably
wow congrats! I will try it with my next YCombinator application)
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So glad you found it useful @sasha_dikan ! You never have to wait to use 100x.bot by the way! Fire it up for any task you find boring on the browser: Outreach/ Followup/ Scraping, even research for your next disruptor idea :D
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@sasha_dikan sure, thanks sasha!
minimalist phone: creating folders
Cool idea, for sure, I bookmarked it! :D
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@busmark_w_nika thanks nika!
Guys, I just love your daring to come up with something like this! Hehe...
But yeah, I like the intent even more. Helping others through lessons learnt by you.
Just a minor feedback, typo in 'weaknesse' and of course the blank hyphenated promo code (it's not mandatory on PH)
Upvoted already. Make it big! All the very best for your launch.
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Thanks a bunch ashok_nayak :D Glad you loved it!
But on a serious note:
Please accept our humble apology regarding the missing consonant, and as for the hyphen, our CFO darted in last minute and told us we can't give everyone a bazillion credits to use the agent to their heart's content :[ , we do give 5000 for free on signup though :]
You seem to have fixed it already! Thanks
You probably won't believe the no. of times we add suggestions only to find out much later that none were incorporated.
I am glad Product Hunt has makers like you, @samarth_r_s