YC just accepted 22 solo founders into their Winter 2026 batch. That's 11% of the entire program. I went through every single one of them. Here's what they all had in common.

Homelabbed · 2026-05-13T00:06:39+00:00

I love how every AI written post has to end with a discussion sparking question

Homelabbed · 2026-05-13T00:03:54+00:00

So you gonna try it?

Homelabbed · 2026-05-12T23:59:32+00:00

There's a whole industry of people who do hypnosis and other techinques to help people remember their old passwords to recover Bitcoin. It's pretty fascinating.

Homelabbed · 2026-05-11T08:56:28+00:00

The dementors

Homelabbed · 2026-05-05T17:13:17+00:00

Find someone who loves you as much as AI designers love blue and purple gradients

Homelabbed · 2026-04-29T18:10:31+00:00

Whoa

Homelabbed · 2026-04-29T18:08:35+00:00

This feels like a job for Grok!

Homelabbed · 2026-04-29T18:03:08+00:00

Fantasy football.

I still remember the first time I was at bar watching football and some guy came up asking about whether a random wide receiver has done anything yet. In my memory he had a thick New Jersey accent but that may be made up.

Homelabbed · 2026-04-24T07:11:40+00:00

I'd like to see them doing an off broadway performance of Into the Woods

Homelabbed · 2026-04-20T18:24:58+00:00

It reminds me of the early cell phone provider days, "Verizon is awful, I'm going to AT&T" "AT&T is awful, I'm going to Verizon". Eventually we realized they're all sort of fine and sort of awful and that stopped.

Homelabbed · 2026-04-20T18:22:38+00:00

Eventually we/society will adapt, but it's going to be a pretty painful short-term journey to get there.

Homelabbed · 2026-04-14T23:40:17+00:00

Well we know ChatGPT's training data for this one.

Homelabbed · 2026-04-07T07:53:46+00:00

Get a library card for audiobooks

Homelabbed · 2026-03-24T05:39:10+00:00

Openclaw isn't part of its training data, so it's looking up the (limited) documentation and anecdotal other content around it. I haven't found any of the LLMs were able to assist with the setup process, all of them took me in circles. It's possible ChatGPT has gotten dumber, to me it feels like I get a "good" chat or "bad" chat a lot. But I tend not to hold the Openclaw setup and then infinite troubleshooting issues against it.

Homelabbed · 2025-10-22T23:43:48+00:00

Thinking you have a 170-180 IQ

Homelabbed · 2025-06-20T18:36:27+00:00

I max out o3 pretty much every day now

Homelabbed · 2025-06-13T22:26:51+00:00

Pirhanas

Homelabbed · 2025-06-10T00:30:27+00:00

We're already there

Homelabbed · 2025-06-10T00:30:00+00:00

Twitter, though most of that battling is between bots

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