YC startup launches on X

Launching in this vertical

Every launch here comes from an account that states a Y Combinator batch, in its bio or in the post itself.

Alumni who list YC as a past employer, and companies that raised from YC years after their batch, are left out, because the question this page answers is what a launch from inside a batch does on X.

The honest headline is that these launches sit well under the directory median, and the reason is account size. The typical YC launch here goes out from an account with a few thousand followers or fewer, often a founder's, often opened for the batch.

Read against accounts of the same size the picture is ordinary: some launches travel a long way past their following and most do not, which is the same distribution as everywhere else in the directory.

What YC adds is a demo day, a batch hashtag and a crowd of peers posting the same week, and none of those change the first hour of a post.

The ones that broke out did it the way launches from small accounts break out anywhere: a demo a stranger can understand in the first three seconds, an opening line that makes a checkable claim, and accounts outside the company carrying it early.

How I would launch if I were a YC company works through that in detail, with the YC account's own numbers against a W24 company that beat them from 1,504 followers. The launches on this page are the evidence for it.

If you are in a batch and about to launch, the useful comparison is the row nearest your follower count, and the useful question is what the ones above it led with.