2025 is shaping up to be the "year of AI agents". We've put together a list of startup ideas that we think are especially promising— some draw attention to trends that are already in full swing, and some of them are where we think things are going next. ycombinator.com/rfs
Full-stack AI companies @snowmaker If you build a great AI accountant, why sell it to legacy accounting firms when you could start an AI accounting firm and beat them? We think founders will increasingly choose to do just that, and we're excited to fund more of these full-stack AI companies.
@ycombinator Exciting to see AI agents taking center stage in 2025! This is going to drive some innovative startups.
How about an LLM that reads a copyrighted book, writes a new, entirely original, not at all copyrighted book with all the knowledge in the original, expressed in a different way? Then the new copyright-free book can be read into regular LLMs like Grok. Grok and other LLMs could have knowledge that’s in textbooks, not just knowledge on web pages. (Obviously you’d erase the LLM that read the original book so you don’t violate someone’s copyright.)
@ycombinator 2025's AI agent boom is inevitable. Our tests show self-optimizing systems can triple engagement without human tweaks. Curious how YC's list aligns with real-time data from 100+ campaigns.
@ycombinator The personal finance one is going to be interesting. I want to see someone who can actually change consumer spending behavior. Mint failed at this.
@ycombinator 👋 Design founder built an autonomous AI companion. No prompting needed, just tap and Kaida autonomously generates ideas, images and introspection. It even has vision 👀 and reacts to your physical world with just a tap!
I'm building iphone of vibe coding. Ex google and worked on billion dollar startups as well. Spent lot of time in building my product full time, I'm sure lacking some skills as required by YC. But the product is super notch, would anyone be interested in helping me out with funding
@ycombinator @snowmaker when you look at past versions of these lists I’m curious: what percent of companies you fund fit into one of these boxes, and how do they do? It would be interesting to see the impact of request for startups
In order to build these asks, there needs to be a master agent platform that 'connects the pieces.' N8N, CrewAI and others are nice for local workflow dev but not even close to scalable for what you are asking for - an AI native business. Where would you point founders? ChatGPT says Vertex AI
@ycombinator The perfect open source complement for your AI agent's memory: open source vector database, Milvus! milvus.io/docs
@ycombinator Ever considered ideas that will succeed by eliminating the wishful thinking that made other ideas failures or bottomless money pits?
@ycombinator Very aligned!! We’re working on @planorapp an AI copilot/agent for Personal Trainers
@ycombinator @grok make a curated list that identifies the niche wit the type of application shared by YC.
@ycombinator hehehe I’m going to go do all of these before everybody who bookmarked the tweet
@ycombinator trypointer.com built the agent and the IDE already 😁
