A visualization of YC Startups

In plain words

A visualization of YC Startups is a tool that displays Y Combinator startup data in visual form. It allows users to explore and understand patterns among YC-funded companies. The product targets startup enthusiasts, investors, and anyone interested in learning about the YC ecosystem. It presents startup information through interactive visualizations rather than traditional lists or tables.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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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

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