Not sure formidable founders getting whatever they want whatever the obstacle (sure market obstacles but what about laws, morality, etc) is a good thing to be honest.

Sometimes folks need to be stopped. Sometimes those walls are there for a reason.

And after IPO, maybe a founder should consider the good of the world instead of what you think you want next for yourself and just bashing down more walls.

But I dunno… I’m just a rando.

Really love the new site and how it highlights founders so well.

Only minor tweak I'd make is for the desktop viewport size - make it so you can also click the company names instead of needing to precisely scroll for the images to show up for that company. With notched mouse wheels it's all too easy to skip one even with a regular scroll. Or increase the scroll distance.

Also might suggest using a gradient mask to fade out the company logos as you scroll the primary text block up. Some of them get very close to the text and the one-by-one removal feels a tad distracting.

And really minor but kept finding myself trying to click the photos to see things larger. Would be nice if they could come up in a media viewer with a small caption, and let me arrow key or swipe through.

Looks cool, though I have to be honest that I'm not a big fan of showing only the survivor stories.

Impressive collection of embarrassingly young founder pictures :-)

I love that the founders are so prominently featured on this new version.

Interesting pattern to see how many IPO photos on the right are missing an original founder or two.

What stood out to me more than how impressive the carousel of companies was, was the order of them. Wild that they have OpenAI and Stripe second and third to Airbnb.

I think I was on HN for at least three years before I realized they even had a homepage. I might check this one out in the next couple of years.

some of the design interactions are really polished. the section written with the quotes from founders is really cool. the hover effect with the before and after of the YC partners is a great touch too!

The "Be in the room with …" image hover effects triggering the video are neat.

the "Be in the room with..." hover videos are cool but seem AI-generated.

Crazy talented people. Crazy good products. I really like the redesign, I am a bit old now, but I can see how inspiring it might be for people coming into tech.

Love the emphasis on people behind successful companies and humble beginnings that all of them have!

It's a nice website. I still despise ycombinator. They make a hell of a forum though!

This looks good. Almost makes me want to apply...but nah. Maybe, idk.

Looks good.

A minor piece of feedback, though: might be just me, not sure if anyone else has this pavlovian conditioning, but seeing the black banner/bar on top with the YC logo/color below and HN background color immediately makes me think someone passed away.

Impressive! Seeing all the before and after photos is a nice touch. With regards to the actual web page, white text on light background (partners part) makes it nice easily readable.

There's a homepage? Kidding aside, it looks like a good landing page highlighting the top success stories and the purpose of YC.

“A formidable founder is one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way.”

Yeah, especially laws and regulations.

Visiting HN brings me back when to when I just started my career as a entrepreneur, I look forward to the nostalgic design it has. Have been familiar w/ YC's & HN design since 2008.

New YC page looks great – but it just doesn't feel "yc" to me.

Redo the co-founder match sub-site next!

That thing hasn't been updated in years, and could really use some love. If they don't want to do it themselves, just open source the sub-site and I'm sure a bunch of tech founders will happily do it for them (if only to be able to say they contributed to YC itself).

The implication that OpenAI is a YC company in the same sense as the other listed companies is somewhere between misleading and dishonest. Even more distasteful to show founding teams for all the others, then just Sam for OpenAI.

The “YC/Now” timer starts (and sometimes flips) before the image actually loads.

Very cool!

There’s something that bothers me about reducing achievement to stock price and exit valuations. Yet, it is sobering to witness the machinery laid bare.

The whole aesthetic of startup success—those triumphant IPO bell-ringing moments—celebrates money, not wisdom or authentic progress. I’m aware this is the dominant framework, but that doesn’t make it feel less hollow. Welcome to Heartbreak.

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Doesn't seem to display anything with JS disabled so it's a fail in my book, but I accept that I'll be in the minority here.

Displays a blank page unless scripts are allowed. :(

I mean trying to insinuate oai is a yc company is just shady right?

I get that the subtext isn’t dishonest, but cmon, you know what you’re doing

I found the switch of focus from startups/businesses to founders/CEOs particularly strange. Looks like a political campaign to me.

Gary Tan shows up in a photo at the bottom but nowhere by name. Gotta hand it to YC, whoever handles their PR needs a raise.

YC updates their homepage to align with the design language of the companies they fund: 2020s-era hypermodern slop. It's smooth, modern, and going to rip you off.

didnt know they had a website. Do lobsters have a website too ?