--- title: "ExploreYC : Your data layer for Y Combinator's startup ecosystem" url: https://daily.dev/posts/exploreyc-your-data-layer-for-y-combinator-s-startup-ecosystem-jqfv9fz6t source_url: https://www.producthunt.com/products/yc-company-explorer type: article source: "Product Hunt" published: 2026-07-08T07:05:41.123Z updated: 2026-07-08T07:06:06.235Z tags: ["github-actions", "algolia", "y-combinator"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ExploreYC : Your data layer for Y Combinator's startup ecosystem **[Product Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/ph)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ExploreYC is a data platform aggregating information on 5,773+ Y Combinator companies, built by scraping YC's Algolia-powered search nightly via GitHub Actions. It offers search, interactive maps, AI-powered company intelligence, hiring insights, funding data, and batch analytics. The creator originally built it to validate startup ideas during a YC application, and the project is open source with plans to expand to other VC/incubator datasets like A16z. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Where YC Founders Went Next: OpenAI and Anthropic](https://daily.dev/posts/where-yc-founders-went-next-openai-and-anthropic-mrwgwor4c) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [YCOMBINATOR.FYI — The Unofficial YC Record](https://daily.dev/posts/ycombinator-fyi-the-unofficial-yc-record-ymog57e7c) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#github-actions](https://daily.dev/tags/github-actions), [#algolia](https://daily.dev/tags/algolia), [#y-combinator](https://daily.dev/tags/y-combinator) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/exploreyc-your-data-layer-for-y-combinator-s-startup-ecosystem-jqfv9fz6t)