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24 alternatives to I travelled cross-country to Startup School only using YC apps
This is a personal travel documentation project from 2012 where someone journeyed across the country to attend Y Combinator's Startup School using only applications built by YC-funded companies. It serves as a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I travelled cross-country to Startup School only using YC apps launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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YC Library▲810The new hub for YC's startup videos, essays, podcasts & more
2023 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to start a startup with YC for free
2019 · startupschool.org · its alternatives →
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Learn how to start a startup with YC for free
2019 · startupschool.org · its alternatives →
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YC World▲396Explore Y Combinator companies by country
2017 · world.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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YC's free 6-week program for aspiring founders
2020 · startupschool.org · its alternatives →
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Curated collection of resources for founders applying to YC.
2017 · its alternatives →
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2012 · guidetoyc.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to start a startup, with help from Y Combinator
2022 · startupschool.org · its alternatives →
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YC Companies Map▲180A map of YC companies around the world. Discover YC startups by city, batch, and industry. Powered by FoundersAround.
2025 · yc.foundersaround.com · its alternatives →
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StartupClass.co▲300YC's How to Start a Startup packaged as an online course
2014 · startupclass.co · its alternatives →
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The definitive database of YC companies with all the metrics
2017 · ycdb.co · its alternatives →
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Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas Today I had a bit of fun with Claude. Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that. I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look! Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :) Merry christmas
2024 · yc-map.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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YC Students▲181Browse student jobs & internships at Y Combinator companies
2019 · entryleveljobs.me · its alternatives →
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YC’s free online platform to help you find your co-founder
2021 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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I made TripGeeks, a website where you create and share travel itineraries. Would love to hear any feedback you might have. Thanks!
2024 · tripgeeks.app · its alternatives →
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Y Combinators new podcast on starting a startup
2017 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive list of all 1000+ YC companies
2016 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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ExploreYC▲565Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data
Jul 2026 · exploreyc.com · its alternatives →
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YC Stanford Class as an Audio Podcast Available on iTunes
2014 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by PG’s tweet about a chain of 4 YC startups where the founder worked at a YC startup, I vibe coded and generated these genealogy chains for all ~6k YC startups. And to make these trees easily accessible I packaged them into a hosted webapp. Few noteworthy YC startups which have had huge impact in YC ecosystem Airbnb - 83 YC startups spawned Stripe - 67 YC startups spawned Dropbox - 50 YC startups spawned Justin.tv/Twitch - 47 YC startups spawned More recently founded YC startups which have spawned a lot more YC startups Rappi - 21 YC startups spawned Brex - 20 YC startups…
Jan 2026 · foundertrace.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built this tool that maps out every YC company worldwide. You can zoom into cities, explore clusters, and click to see details like batch, location, and website. Why I made it? I thought it’d be fun to visualise it, using the same infrastructure I already use in my other project: FoundersAround Some things I’m still improving: • Improve performance • More filters (industries, stages, etc). Would love your feedback. https://yc.foundersaround.com
2025 · its alternatives →
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