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This is useful and congrats on the launch. I’ve looked through the YC directory before and usually gave up after a few pages because finding something specific is harder than it should be. Keeping the results to 1 to 3 companies is a good call too. I don’t need another list of 50 tools to sort through. How are you keeping the information current when companies pivot, change pricing, or quietly shut down? That seems like the tricky part, especially if the recommendation is based on an old YC description. The no-login part is appreciated. Makes it easy to just try a few searches and see what comes back.

curious how ranking works when a problem matches several overlapping YC companies - is it embedding similarity on the description, or do you weight by stage/traction too so the sharper match doesn't get buried under the bigger name?

Really like that you didn't gate it behind a login. That makes it easy to test with real problems instead of asking people to commit first.

One thing I'd be curious about is whether you'll eventually expose why a startup wasn't recommended. Sometimes "we looked at X and rejected it because..." builds more trust than the final answer itself.

Congrats on the launch!

Cool concept. How do you rank startups when several solve the same problem?

Neat idea, good luck on the launch @raghav2

clever use of the YC dataset, feels like something that should have existed already. one thing I didn't see covered - when it returns the 1-3 matches, are those always presented as competing alternatives to pick between, or does it ever recognize that a problem actually needs two of them together as a stack rather than one winner?

honestly love how clean the experience is here. no login, no signup, just type and get answers. whoever decided to skip the gatekeeping made it feel genuinely useful instead of just another tool trying to capture leads

@raghav2 Love the India-first approach. One thing I'm wondering: have you found that product selection or ad having a bigger impact on whether sellers succeedor not? As I imagine both are tightly connected.

This is interesting. Does it rank results by company stage or funding level for the best fit?

I enjoy that ther is no signup because it encourages quick exploration. How do you explain why one startup ranks above another? A transparent scoring summary would increase trust.

@raghav2 Will users be able to filter results by industry or company stage later? That could improve relevance.

I can see myself using this instead of digging through directories. Simple idea, but really practical. Congrats on the launch!

This would save me time looking into the YC directory every once in a while

Raghav, the premise rests on the user stating the real problem, and that is the part I would stress.

I ran 50 customer interviews for my company. Almost everyone named the same pain out loud, clinical notes, but the budget was sitting somewhere else entirely, insurance reimbursement. If I had typed my stated problem into this, it would have confidently routed me to a notes tool and missed where I would actually spend. The match can be perfect and still point at the wrong category, because the weak link is the self-diagnosis, not the search.

So the question: does it only solve the literal problem I type, or can it surface the adjacent one, the "people who ask for X usually end up needing Y"? A tool that gently widens a misdiagnosed query is worth far more than one that nails a well-phrased one.

When it shows reasoning alongside each result, is that reasoning generated from the same rewritten description it used to match, or is it a separate pass? Asking because if it's the same pass, the explanation will always sound convincing even when the match is bad, and I won't be able to tell a strong hit from a stretch.

if two yc companies solve this differently, like enterprise vs solo founder, does it explain that or just pick one.

as someone who's tried 5 outbound tools this year, curious if it would've saved me the trial and error.

feels like this could replace scrolling through the yc directory by batch.