The most Y Combinator YC application: it applied itself
Details
- External ID
- 48661445
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- June 24, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
So I applied to YC a few times...this time I thought I'd use assistance. And I went all out. The thing I'm applying with did my application. I didn't touch a knob or a dial...didn't type a key. I just prompted the agent and it used the tool. You can see the insane 3 min video - sped up 21x here (link in its description to the full slow video too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udwuE1PrM_0&feature=youtu.beTo me this is the ultimate YC application - one i didn't have to stress over, had someone to help me with, and was a showcase of itself. This Show is for the receipts.Also, the most Y Combinator thing a YC application could do was recursively submit itself.If you want to know what this dank magic is that crafted this insanity it lives here: https://fuckui.comGood luck out there
Enrichment
- Theme
- calculators and financial estimation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
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- Audience
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- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- yc application that applied itself
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Using an AI agent to fill out web forms or draft application questions is a standard browser automation and LLM prompt chaining workflow.
Discussion
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