r/ycombinator

Updated Aug 25

News and discussion around startups and applying to Y Combinator. In 2005, Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. We invest $500,000 in every startup and work intensively with the founders for three months. For the life of their company, founders have access to the most powerful community in the world, essential advice, later-stage funding and programs, recruiting resources, and exclusive deals.

Members

202,004

202K

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

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Growth · 30d

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Promo tolerance

low

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Last post

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Distinct posters

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Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/ycombinator — frequently asked

How many members does r/ycombinator have?

r/ycombinator has 202,004 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 25. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/ycombinator growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/ycombinator yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 7; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/ycombinator?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/ycombinator yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

Can I promote my product in r/ycombinator?

Our read on r/ycombinator is low promo tolerance. Links and product mentions tend to get removed on sight — earn standing by being useful in threads where you have nothing to gain. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/ycombinator for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/ycombinator into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/ycombinator's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/ycombinator's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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