... some of it's who you'd expect - the Collison brothers and the Airbnb crew up top. Some of it's a rabbit hole: the same names keep resurfacing across batches. Kyle Vogt (Twitch Cruise), Justin Kan, and Parker Conrad have each done YC more than once, and 160+ founders here are behind billion-dollar companies. and since we're an open-data project, the whole thing is also a free API: GET/ https://api.exploreyc.com/api/v1... what do you think ... ... Konstantin Borimechkov(@konstantimb): @galdayan of course.. but who doesn t like looking at numbers and is in the tech startup world haha Comment from vmonome(@taskrelayhq): This is a fun rabbit hole the repeat-founder pattern (Vogt, Kan, Conrad

... galdayan): our setup ended up being a Slack webhook per agent session, posted to a channel only that agent writes to. sounds basic but the key part was making the notification say WHY it's waiting (needs approval vs finished vs

... skepticism, follow-ups, and the emotional side of evaluation. Maybe I'm early. Maybe I'm wrong. But some ideas are difficult to let go of once you've seen the problem clearly. Comment from hira siddiqui(@hira_siddiqui1): @conrad_n yes I ve worked extensively on portability of credentials too.. a lot of work is being done in this area in EU. Comment from hira siddiqui(@hira_siddiqui1): @harithavijayakumar true that it s hard to unsee problems once ... ... really sure if the market would shift but I'm not complaining that it did :D We just thought we'd build something and open source it if nobody pays for it. But we wanted to put this alternative

... those early conversations with investors, do you lead with the "resolution moments" metric upfront, or is there still a version of DAU you have to show alongside it to get them comfortable? Comment from Mona Truong(@monatruong_murror): @conrad_n  This is exactly how we think about it. The therapist analogy is one we use internally all the time the goal is to help someone build the skills to eventually not need you. Software that measures success ... ... three times a year during real moments those are the ones who tell their friends about us. That's the pattern we're designing for. Thanks for the pushback, it's sharpening how we talk about this. Comment from Conrad

... Podcast best product/growth content. His interviews with founders who actually built things (not just raised money) are gold. Latent Space if you're in the AI/ML space, this is required listening. Deep technical conversations about what's actually working vs. what's hype. The Changelog open source and developer ecosystem. Great for understanding where the industry is heading. Indie Hackers Podcast real numbers, real struggles, real revenue. No vanity metrics. The pattern I've noticed: the best podcasts for builders ... ... from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @byalexai  I rather listen to them while exercising, so if I have 1 hour long workout, I can consume all of them every time they publish something :D Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @conrad