Launched this week
YC has it
Describe your problem, get the YC startup that solves it
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Describe your problem, get the YC startup that solves it
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Describe your problem in plain English. ychasit searches 4,000+ active YC companies and finds the startups that solve it, with reasoning, pricing, and integrations. 100% Free forever. No login. No signup.
This is interesting. Does it rank results by company stage or funding level for the best fit?
YC has it
@dhiraj_patel5 Unfortunately not! Maybe we can add it as V2
how fresh is the underlying company data kept? YC's directory has a fair number of companies that quietly shut down or got acqui-hired but the listing never gets pulled, and if the search surfaces one of those with confident pricing/reasoning it could send someone chasing a dead lead. is there any dead-company filtering or is it purely matching against whatever's in the directory at scrape time?
This is useful and congrats on the launch. I’ve looked through the YC directory before and usually gave up after a few pages because finding something specific is harder than it should be. Keeping the results to 1 to 3 companies is a good call too. I don’t need another list of 50 tools to sort through. How are you keeping the information current when companies pivot, change pricing, or quietly shut down? That seems like the tricky part, especially if the recommendation is based on an old YC description. The no-login part is appreciated. Makes it easy to just try a few searches and see what comes back.
YC has it
@st0rm_27 Thanks for the question, Mohith. I'm not sure if I'm able to get your question. Can you please elaborate?
As the tool has no ads*
YC has it
@st0rm_27 Currently, monetization is not in the plan. It is made to be 100%free forever
clever use of the YC dataset, feels like something that should have existed already. one thing I didn't see covered - when it returns the 1-3 matches, are those always presented as competing alternatives to pick between, or does it ever recognize that a problem actually needs two of them together as a stack rather than one winner?
Really like that you didn't gate it behind a login. That makes it easy to test with real problems instead of asking people to commit first.
One thing I'd be curious about is whether you'll eventually expose why a startup wasn't recommended. Sometimes "we looked at X and rejected it because..." builds more trust than the final answer itself.
Congrats on the launch!
curious how ranking works when a problem matches several overlapping YC companies - is it embedding similarity on the description, or do you weight by stage/traction too so the sharper match doesn't get buried under the bigger name?