Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
Common data model mistakes made by startups
Data modeling is hard. Here are some missteps to avoid when you're developing your models.
Requests for Startups Refreshed
We’ve refreshed the Requests for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/]. Here are the additions: Food and Farming An estimated 40% of the world’s workforce works in agriculture. Better food and farming could increase the world’s health, unlock the potential of numerous workers, and improve living conditions for…
Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps
Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database
A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay
Wade Foster [https://twitter.com/wadefoster] is the CEO of Zapier [https://zapier.com/] (YC S12). Read Zapier’s de-location post here [https://zapier.com/blog/move-away-from-sf-get-remote-job/]. If you are interested in remote work, you can also check out our interview with Gitlab…
Brex layoffs
Our co-founder and co-CEO sent an email to the Brex team today to share a difficult message.
Backblaze online backup almost acquired
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.
Sequoia Capital memo to their portfolio founders on Coronavirus
Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
Later Stage Advice for Startups
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
Last minute tips for YC Interviewees
Essays, investment announcements and news from the Initialized team and the founders we back.
From Fusion to Octopart and Back
Stay up to date with all the latest news and information through our blogs, guides, podcasts, articles, interviews and much more.
Manus will return to operating as an independent company
Visit the Manus blog to learn more about our thoughts on the future.
You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange…
A New Standard Deal
We are making two changes to our standard deal in conjunction with a recent fundraise. Starting with the Winter 2021 batch, our deal will be $125,000 for 7% equity on a post-money safe, and we will reduce the amount of our pro rata [https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/] right to 4% of subsequent rounds. In the…
Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.