Launch tomorrow and you could get a YC interview
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If you’re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.
YC made a special exception for this community: one or more companies that launch tomorrow will get a YC interview—and potentially funding. A YC partner will review every eligible launch.
So if you’ve been waiting to feel more ready, don’t.
Launch on Product Hunt by midnight tonight, schedule it for tomorrow, and add the tag “YC application.”
You can keep polishing in private, or you can put it in the world and give yourself a real shot.
Someone launching tomorrow is getting that opportunity. Go be one of them.
Submission Deadline: March 11, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
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curious to know how you observed this? any data you saw regarding this?
@aaronoleary Looks like we missed an amazing opportunity. We weren’t quite ready to pull the trigger yet, still doing a bit of polishing before launching but it’s great to see YC doing things like this with the Product Hunt community.
I'm new here but excited to be a part of it!
Hopefully it goes well and they run something like this again soon.
This is the kind of push founders need! You can polish forever, but real signal only starts once you launch.
We’re preparing Ovren too, so this definitely hits home.
Just scheduled our launch for Vibe Weather! This post was exactly the push I needed. Thanks for making it happen.
My launch is planned for 13th. Can we add YC Application tag even if we have not applied for YC yet ?
Exciting opportunity!
Hi Team, I added the tag “YC application.” to my launch - https://www.producthunt.com/products/genmb. However, I am unable to see GenMB appear in https://www.producthunt.com/contests/yc-application-day
@aaronoleary
Hey Aaron — We've been trying to update our listing for hours. It won't let us.
We rebuilt BackFeed from scratch — new product, new domain voice zero dot ai, 12 new features, 10 live deployments. Product Hunt locked our URL to /backfeed-4, company info still says backfeed dot xyz, gallery won't update. The edit page is broken for relaunches.
You're telling founders to ship and launch for a YC interview. We shipped. We have real customers and real data. But your platform won't let us present what we actually built.
That's not a founder problem. That's a Product Hunt problem.
Fix the tooling or help us manually. We're launching tomorrow either way.
Voice Zero dot AI — go look at it. The product speaks for itself even if PH won't let us.
My product is not appearing in YC Application even after I launched with YC tag. Why is that?
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