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r/ycombinator is a subreddit with 137k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has high activity.
News and discussion around Y Combinator and Y Combinator companies.
In 2005, Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. We invest $500,000 in every startup and work intensively with the founders for three months. For the life of their company, founders have access to the most powerful community in the world, essential advice, later-stage funding and programs, recruiting resources, and exclusive deals.
Popular Themes in r/ycombinator
#1
Advice Requests
: "Just won the world's largest hackathon ($100k, 130k participants) with an AI video editor. Growing 25% week-over-week but need advice on raising $1.5M pre-seed FAST"
28 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I’m a SaaS founder trying to crack SEO, any tools or methods that actually work?"
13 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "I got rejected by 15 VCs this month..."
11 posts
#4
Ideas
: "What was your approach to finding the "best" idea?"
4 posts
#5
Opportunities
: "Startup Founders: What’s stopping your growth? What’s keeping you from scaling smoothly?"
3 posts
#6
Self-Promotion
: "YC founders, I’d love to promote your startup"
3 posts
#7
Money Talk
: "How much does your team spend on ai api costs per month?"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/ycombinator
#1
Startup
: "Looks like another open an killed my Startup wave is coming"
77 posts
#2
Yc
: "How we got into Yc S25 with just an Idea"
26 posts
#3
Ai
: "Just won the world's largest hackathon ($100k, 130k participants) with an Ai video editor. Growing 25% week-over-week but need advice on rAising $1.5M pre-seed FAST"
24 posts
#4
Founder
: "Is it okay if I don’t really like my coFounder but work well with them and are able to be very productive and build a successful company with them?"
16 posts
#5
Interview
: "Received YC Fall 25 Interview Invite – Questions"
10 posts
#6
Marketing
: "Marketing update: 9 tactics that helped us get more clients and 5 that didn't"
5 posts
#7
Vc
: "I got rejected by 15 Vcs this month..."
5 posts
#8
Tech
: "how many Tech ceos are on adderall?"
5 posts
#9
Mvp
: "Is the best way to validate build a Mvp and get it in front of users?"
5 posts
#10
Founders
: "How do we “sell” our non-technical Founders to YC?"
4 posts
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