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The YC meta-game distilled from 4000+ funded companies. Demo day prep, batch dynamics, investor updates, "launch now" mentality, talking to users obsessively. This is the playbook that turned $125K checks into trillion-dollar companies. Use when "yc, y combinator, demo day, batch, investor update, office hours, launch now, talk to users, do things that don't scale, make something people want, startup school, yc application, series a prep, post-yc, yc, startup, accelerator, demo-day, fundraising, launch, users, growth" mentioned.
Builds feedback collection systems using Superhuman's PMF framework and YC's "talk to users" methodology. Use when implementing NPS surveys, scheduling user interviews, or measuring product-market fit.
Decision-making framework for software development, Y Combinator / Silicon Valley style. Based on real principles from Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Michael Seibel, Patrick Collison, and Brian Chesky. Use when: - Developing features or products - Making technical decisions (what to do, how, when) - Prioritizing work (P0, P1, P2) - Evaluating whether to refactor or patch - Deciding on technical debt - Evaluating whether to add tests, CI/CD, or automation - Any architecture or engineering decision Triggers: development, code, feature, refactor, architecture, prioritize, technical decision, what to do first, technical debt, tests, CI/CD, sprint, backlog
Startup and life advice channeling Paul Graham's essays, YC experience, and Twitter wisdom. Use this skill when: (1) Evaluating startup ideas or finding new ones (2) Early-stage strategy and user acquisition (3) Growth and survival decisions (default alive?) (4) Fundraising and investor relations (5) Founder leadership and team building (6) Avoiding common startup mistakes (7) Career and life decisions Invoke with /paul-graham or auto-triggers for startup advice topics.
YC SAFE Agreement review and advisory skill for startup founders and lawyers. Use when user (1) uploads a SAFE agreement for review/comparison, (2) asks questions about how SAFEs work, or (3) requests to draft a standard YC SAFE. Triggers on keywords like SAFE, Simple Agreement for Future Equity, YC SAFE, valuation cap, discount, MFN, pro rata, convertible instrument.
Create a compelling startup pitch deck that follows the structure proven to raise billions from top investors. Master the YC and Sequoia formats that get founders funded. Use when: **Fundraising** to create investor pitch decks; **YC application** to structure your narrative; **Demo Day prep** to craft your 2-minute pitch; **Angel investors** to communicate your opportunity; **Partnership pitches** to structure compelling asks
Generate high-converting startup landing page copy inspired by top YC companies. Use when the user asks to write, improve, or critique a startup landing page, hero section, tagline, value proposition, CTA, or any above-the-fold copy.
Know the metrics that matter at each stage and what investors actually look for. Master the A16Z and YC frameworks for measuring startup progress. Use when: **Fundraising prep** to know which metrics to highlight; **Board meetings** to report on the right KPIs; **Strategic planning** to set goals that matter; **Product decisions** to understand what to optimize; **Diagnosing problems** to find what's broken
Fetch the current top Hacker News stories and return agent-friendly structured results. Use this whenever the user explicitly asks about Hacker News or HN, and also when they ask for today's developer, startup, YC, or tech-community hot stories where Hacker News is a strong default source.
Systematically validate your business hypotheses before building anything. Master Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology that became the foundation of Lean Startup and YC's approach. Use when: **Starting a new venture** to avoid building something nobody wants; **Before writing a line of code** to validate problem-solution fit; **Pivoting decisions** to systematically test new directions; **Early-stage fundraising** to prove market validation; **Product roadmap planning** to prioritiz...
Look up Y Combinator companies, batches, and startup ecosystem data using the yc-oss API (read-only). Use this skill whenever the user wants to research YC-backed startups, find companies in a specific batch or industry, check which YC companies are hiring, explore top YC companies, or analyze startup trends by sector or tag. Triggers include: "YC companies in fintech", "who's in the latest YC batch", "YC startups hiring", "top Y Combinator companies", "find YC companies tagged AI", "W25 batch", "S24 companies", "YC stats", "Y Combinator portfolio", "startup research", "which YC companies do X", "venture research on YC", any mention of Y Combinator, YC batch, or YC-backed companies in the context of startup research, venture analysis, or market intelligence. This is a read-only data source — the API is a static JSON dataset updated daily.
Generic read-only fallback for any source opencli covers but this repo has no dedicated reader for — Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barchart, Eastmoney, Xueqiu, Sinafinance, Reddit, HackerNews, Substack, Medium, Weibo, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, arXiv, Google Scholar, Apple Podcasts, Xiaoyuzhou, Spotify, YouTube, Weixin, Amazon, and more. Triggers: "use opencli to read", "grab the frontpage from hackernews", "read reddit r/wallstreetbets", "fetch Eastmoney hot stocks", "pull Xueqiu feed", "get Bloomberg markets headlines", "search arXiv for", any request to read from a site where a specialized skill does not exist but opencli does. FALLBACK — prefer twitter-reader, linkedin-reader, discord-reader, telegram-reader, or yc-reader when the source matches. READ-ONLY — never invoke write operations.