Experience realistic YC interviews through AI conversations with iconic YC partners! They will challenge your answers, push back on vague claims and adopt dynamically to your responses across 12 topics. Get valuable feedback & Improve your pitch- NOW!
👨🏾🚀 Thrilled to be back with YC Interview Simulator 2.0 - a major upgrade shaped by hundreds of founder conversations and feedback of YC founders.
🚀 What's new? We rebuilt the entire experience:
- Choose your YC partner personality (each with their unique style)
- Timed 10-minute sessions (just like the real deal!)
- Detailed evaluation cards after each session
- Track your progress across different topics
- Completely revamped UI that feels natural and intuitive
🤖 The core is still what you loved: Dynamic conversations that adapt to your answers, catch vague claims, and push for specifics. But now you can actually see your improvement over time, save your best responses, and practice with different YC partners.
🎁 Launch Deal:
- Start with 3 FREE sessions
- Get 50% off any package with code "PRODUCTHUNT"
- All packages include the full feature set
No need to wonder anymore how you'd do in an Interview!
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@johannesdanielmeyer love the idea to iterate and re-launch so quickly! Keep crushing.
Are you considering a temperature style slider to increase scrutiny vs. Decrease scrutiny? Is there some sort of passing grade on weighted variables you can manipulate?
Almost gamified, like Easy Mode, Hard Mode, Insane Mode, Real Life Mode (hahahaha)
Congrats on the launch! This sounds super cool. How do you think the AI adapts to different responses?
Congrats on the launch! 🚀 I can definitely see the potential of using AI to emulate these interviews. However, I’m curious, how can I trust that the system emulates YC partners with a high level of quality? Have you trained the AI on examples of real interviews or other publicly available information?
It needs more delay. And bad connection simulation. EU <-> SF over Teams is paaaaaain 😂 Timing interruptions, jokes, and quick hocks to make the convo flow is half the job, if not even more 😅
Great way to beat anxiety through productivity:) I'm sure many will find it helpful to reassure and calm down before a real interview
Assuming that we want the very best founders to get capital, is this product a good thing or a negative thing for the world?
The ideal is that YC (and any other VC) get perfect information about the startup's prospects and assign capital accordingly.
Using tools like this to prepare for YC means that people may present themselves much better, presenting information in a clearer way to YC.
But, then what if the best founders don't prepare that much? Those who have prepared may present information much better, making a more compelling case for YC to invest, and taking capital that would have been better allocated probabilistically to the less prepared but better founders.
If that happens with tools like this, to counter the more polished but less good founders, the better founders also need to prepare much more. This means that such interview prep tools would just impose a tax on the whole system, requiring all founders to use the tool to allow YC to assess them in a way that is less distorted by some founders having higher preparation.
YC's (and other VCs) main purpose is to detect the best founders. An unequal spread of interview prep across better founders could just add more noise, and make capital allocation more inefficient. Causing worse outcomes for the world.
This would mean that any interview prep tool is a bad thing for the whole system. Am I wrong here?
Interesting idea and the detailed report looks like you have cared about a lot of aspects of applying YC!
