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In this week's article, we're excited to unveil 10 trending YC companies to look out for (and ones you should consider contributing to)!
Launched in March 2005, Y Combinator (YC) is inarguably the most successful pre-seed fund in the world.
In its nearly 20-year run, it has backed legendary companies such as Gitlab, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Twitch, and more. 🚀
With open-source continuing to be a desirable investment sector, Runa Capital, recently shared a list of the top trending OS startups from Q4-2023. 👇
Interestingly, and perhaps unsurprisingly, a non-trivial amount of those were YC-backed startups.
With this in mind, let's explore the 10 trending YC-backed open-source companies (and those you should consider contributing to). 🧑💻👇
Note: We have added a Contributor’s Corner for readers interested in a high-level view of each repo.
Pythagora 🐍
- Pythagora is a VS Code extension that builds apps from scratch by talking to you.
- Its repo, gpt-pilot, is designed to write full features, debug, and interact with developers to create production-ready apps.
- It supports setup via a straightforward VS Code extension for ease of use and a CLI approach for customisation.
🏗️ Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2023 in Zagreb
- ~24,500 stars
- ~70% reply rate
- ~1 hour median merge time
- ~200 issues
- Repo mainly written in Python
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Ollama 📝
- Ollama provides a framework for running and interacting with various LLMs locally.
- It lets users download, customise, and run models for specific tasks or prompts.
- Ollama's integration includes Python and JavaScript libraries, CLI model management tools, and a REST API for developing applications.
🧱 Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2023 in Toronto
- ~48,900 stars
- ~85% reply rate
- ~6 hours median merge time
- ~512 issues
- Repo mainly written in C++ (~71%) and Go (~24%)
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
AnythingLLM 🦾
- AnythingLLM is your ultimate AI business intelligence tool.
- It transforms any document into a chatbot, utilising a variety of LLMs and vector databases.
- It features multi-user support, embeddable chat widgets, cost-efficient document management, dual chat modes (for dynamic conversation or direct queries), and full API support for custom integrations.
👷 Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2023
- ~9,300 stars
- ~74% reply rate
- <1 hour median merge time
- ~79 issues
- Repo written in JS (~95%) and CSS (~5%)
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Wasp 🐝
- Wasp is a Rails-like framework for React, Node.js, and Prisma.
- Wasp enables rapid development and deployment of full-stack web apps with minimal code.
- It eliminates boilerplate and offers features like full-stack Auth and RPC.
🌟 Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2020 in Zagreb
- ~10,600 stars
- ~45% reply rate
- ~20 hours median merge time
- ~410 issues
- repo written in TS (~55%) and JS (~35%)
- Raised $1.5M
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Twenty 🤝
- Twenty is an open-source CRM platform for managing your customer relationships.
- It features an interface inspired by Notion and supports various tasks, such as adding, filtering, sorting, editing, and tracking customers.
- Twenty wants to challenge traditional CRMs and allow enterprises to gain complete control and customisation, emphasising user-driven development and data flexibility.
🛠️ Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2023 in San Francisco
- ~8,900 stars
- ~75% reply rate
- ~15 hours median merge time
- ~315 issues
- Repo mainly written in TS
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Active Pieces 🧩
- Active Pieces is an open-source, no-code business automation that helps users automate their internal marketing, sales and operations.
- It offers over 80 integrations, including Google Sheets, OpenAI, Discord, and RSS.
- It features a user-friendly workflow builder with support for branches, loops, and drag-and-drop.
🧰 Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2022 in San Francisco
- ~6,700 stars
- ~80% reply rate
- ~1 hour median merge time
- ~110 issues
- Repo written in TS (~90%) and HTML (~10%).
- Raised $1.6M
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Roboflow 🤖
- Roboflow helps you with everything needed to build and deploy computer vision models.
- Roboflow is used to create datasets, train models, and deploy to production.
- Its main repo, Supervision, offers a suite of computer vision tools designed to be versatile and reusable across various projects. It supports operations like dataset handling, detection annotation, and object counting within images or videos.
⚙️ Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2019 in Des Moines
- ~11,000 stars
- ~90% reply rate
- ~8 hours median merge time
- ~50 issues
- Repo written in Python
- Raised $22.2M
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Danswer 🗂️
Danswer is the AI assistant that connects all your company tools and docs.
Access your company's documents and efficiently query anything you want.
Danswer is self-hosted and enables you to set it up in your VPC in less than 30 minutes.
🧑💻 Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2023 in San Francisco
- ~8,800 stars
- ~55% reply rate
- ~1 hour median merge time
- ~170 issues
- Repo written in Python (~60%) and TS (~40%).
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Trigger.dev 🚀
- Trigger.dev simplifies creating and managing long-running jobs in serverless architectures.
- It offers features like auto-resume, scheduling up to a year, and built-in delays, all within your existing codebase environment.
- The platform provides complete job run visibility, integrates with various third-party APIs, supports self-hosting, and develops capabilities such as background tasks, long-running servers, and expanded integrations.
🏗️ Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2022 in London
- ~6,800 stars
- ~50% reply rate
- ~2 hours median merge time
- ~100 issues
- Repo mainly written in TS
- Raised $3M
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
Continue 🏎️
- Continue is an open-source VS Code and JetBrains autopilot, simplifying coding with LLMs.
- It allows editing in natural language, enabling code refactoring or generating files from scratch.
- Continue enhances coding efficiency and integrates with most providers.
📝 Contributors Corner:
- Founded in 2023 in San Francisco
- ~9,000 stars
- ~85% reply rate
- ~20 hours median merge time
- ~120 issues
- Repo written in TS (~75%) and Kotlin (~10%).
- Raised $2.1M
You can find their repo on GitHub here.
That's it for this one. 🌟
I hope you enjoyed discovering these projects. If you liked reading this piece, please feel free to share this article with your friends and colleagues!
Also, please consider staring the above repos. We are not associated with them, we simply think great projects deserve great recognition!
See you next week,
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Top comments (7)
This is a really nice list. Some of them might be hiring. Keep checking the Hacker News for who is hiring post.
Nice work @fernandezbaptiste
I appreciate the comment, Saurabh - and yes, good stuff on the hiring point! 🙏
Thanks for the mention! Appreciate all the cool projects mentioned here :)
Wow, I didn't know Zagreb was such a tech hub 😄
This comment is spot on! 👏
It seems like this is still a relatively unknown fact, but the trend will soon catch on. Maybe what is missing is that Zagreb's native startups (including, hopefully, the ones above) need to reach their next growth stage. Once achieved, the wider public will recognise Zagreb as a real tech epicentre.
Great list!
Thanks a lot Uli!