Y Combinator Resources for Developers

Should this list filter companies that are shutdown or have been acquired and no longer have an active product? Many of the links are "our incredible journey" acquihire announcements or just 404. I understand and appreciate the value of having a list of all developer services companies that have gone through YC, but as a developer resource page it's annoying to see a product that might fit my needs but is long shutdown.

Is Paul Graham and Robert Morris&#x27;s Arc language[a] being used for anything <i>in production</i> other than Y Combinator websites?<p>[a] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arclanguage.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arclanguage.org&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;d love to scan down the relevant YC companies list, but it&#x27;s really hard for a human to visually parse: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1u457oA.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1u457oA.jpg</a><p>A little white space would be helpful.

&gt; Beating the Averages<p>&gt; A classic article on using powerful programming languages as a secret weapon<p>I&#x27;m surprised this is included given that it&#x27;s been more or less been proven to be false. Almost every valuable company in the past 2 decades was built on a blub language. Facebook even used PHP! Java and C++ are at the core of most Amazon and Google services. There basically haven&#x27;t been any big companies build on a lisp-like language unless you consider Scala, but even the most companies adopted that later.<p>edit: blub

I just noticed that clicking on &#x27;About YC&#x27; (top, next to YC logo), results in a 404. Looks like the link contains a &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27; too much: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;&#x2F;about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a>

Wish they didn&#x27;t use the .dev extension.<p>It should be developers.ycombinator.com

I guess we finally found out who paid early access for the .dev TLD.

I thought that the .dev extension had mandatory HTTPS due to HSTS preload. Yet, this loads as &quot;Not Secure&quot; HTTP for me.

I wonder how many of the YC companies use the other YC companies. And which are the most &#x2F; least used. How much effort do you reckon is put in trying to &quot;align&quot; them and keep them aligned? As in there&#x27;s a consistency in (e.g.) docs, APIs, etc.

Under the “<i>Ask a Female Engineer</i>” heading, I wish they would include a link to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;communequation.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;05&#x2F;im-not-a-woman-in-tech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;communequation.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;05&#x2F;im-not-a-wom...</a> for an alternate viewpoint, in order to reduce the echo chamber effect.

Is &quot;Beating the Averages&quot; still relevant in 2019?<p>I see it pretty high up on the site, and I thought the consensus is that nowadays most languages have enough lispy and functional features to give similar productivity.<p><i>Is there any benefit from hyperflexible languages high enough to outweigh the benefits of readily available libraries?</i>

The <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scaphold.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scaphold.io&#x2F;</a> URL is down.

Link is plain http for me. I thought all .dev domains were https?

Had no idea Heroku went through YC, also shouldn&#x27;t this include OpenAI? (edit: Thanks, missed it)

Pardon the criticism, but I&#x27;ve got text running far off the screen on mobile.<p>Somewhat shocking to see a brand new 2019 website that isn&#x27;t responsive, especially when it&#x27;s not super difficult.

Does anyone know I can still reach this &#x27;real&#x27; website if you&#x27;re running Valet locally? I get &#x27;Valet - 404 - Not Found&#x27; error, since Valet thinks &#x27;yc&#x27; is a known Link or Address.<p>:(

What a half-assed website. Seems quite rushed. I&#x27;d expect higher-quality information from YC.

&gt; Docker s2010 App store for server configurations.<p>it seems a little bit outdated

Why isn’t Mixpanel in this list ? It’s a developer tool right?

Wow, it looks like they paid $11,500 for the yc.dev and ycombinator.dev domains [1]. (I guess that&#x27;s a pretty small amount of money for YC.)<p>I have my eye on some short .dev domains too, but I&#x27;m hoping to get one for $350.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domains.google&#x2F;tld&#x2F;dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;domains.google&#x2F;tld&#x2F;dev&#x2F;</a>

That site looks quite ugly because of the weird alignment (or lack thereof) of text elements.

Nice advertisement.