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Starting a company? Take the YC stack challenge.

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The YC Stack for Starting a Startup 
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Starting a company? Take the YC stack challenge.

*Runs Your Company on the Blood of YC Founders*

### First stage

Wake up and make it to your desk with [WakeMate](http://www.wakemate.com/) (S09).

Open up your soul and record the struggles with [OhLife](http://ohlife.com/) (S10), or [Everday.me](http://everyday.me/) (S12).

Don't let your files get destroyed with [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/) (S07).

Reduce your time reading Hacker News with [RescueTime](https://www.rescuetime.com/) (W08).

Write your world domination outlines on [Workflowy](https://workflowy.com/) (S10).

Save your short notes with [Simplenote](http://simplenote.com/) (S10).

Or host your notes on [Hackpad](https://hackpad.com/) (W12).

Work out what customers want with [Wufoo](http://www.wufoo.com/) (W06).

Search for more answers on what to build with [Survata](http://survata.com/home/) (S12).

Whip up a site with [Weebly](http://www.weebly.com/) (W07).

Alternatively, easily create a site with [Easel](https://www.easel.io/) (S12).

Too few animations on your site? Try [Tumult Hype](http://tumult.com/hype/) (W11).

Or just make your site in Photoshop with the help of [Markupwand](http://www.markupwand.com/) (S12).

Or simply create a single page site with [Strikingly](https://www.strikingly.com/) (W13).

Coding? What's that? Become a CTO in no time on [Codecademy](http://www.codecademy.com/) (S11).

Write your code in [Light Table](http://www.lighttable.com/) (S12).

And then make an interactive Javascript app with [Meteor.js](http://www.meteor.com/) (S11).

Include a file picker with [Ink File Picker](https://www.inkfilepicker.com/) (S12).

Host your own with [Heroku](https://www.heroku.com/) (W08).

And manage your MongoDB with [MongoHQ](https://www.mongohq.com/home) (S11).

Or deploy anything on [dotCloud](https://www.dotcloud.com/) (S10).

Or forget the backend, and just use [Firebase](https://www.firebase.com/) (S11).

Research your contacts with [Rapportive](http://rapportive.com/) (S10).

Compare code and text with [Kaleidoscope](http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/) (W11).

Have your struggle published for all to read, or just find some readings to pass the time with [Hyperink](http://www.hyperink.com/) (W11).

Make someone else do your work with [MobileWorks](https://www.mobileworks.com/) (S11).

Learn to be lean with the [Lean Startup Machine](http://leanstartupmachine.com/) (S12).

Instantly receive your groceries, so you really _never_ have to leave the house. Thanks to [Instacart](https://www.instacart.com/store) (S12).

### We launched.

Discover who dislikes you with [Disqus](http://www.disqus.com/) (S07).

Produce real time polls with [Poll Everywher](http://www.polleverywhere.com/) (S08).

Create a contest with [ContestMachine](http://www.contestmachine.com/) (S08).

Welcome your customers dollars with [WePay](https://www.wepay.com/) (S09).

Open your ears to customers with [Olark](http://www.olark.com/) (S09).

Magically discover insights from your site with [Mixpanel](https://mixpanel.com/) (S09).

Deal out recommendations with [DirectedEdge](http://www.directededge.com/) (S09).

Find loyal customers with [500friends](http://www.500friends.com/) (W10).

Start selling with [Stripe](https://stripe.com/) (S10).

Telephones are still used for calling. Get a phone system with [TellFi](https://tellfi.com/) (W11) or [SendHub](https://www.sendhub.com/) (W12).

Manage mail servers for your company with [Mailgun](http://www.mailgun.com/) (W11).

Put your mobile app backend on [Parse](https://www.parse.com/) (S11).

Monitor the competitions marketing with [MixRank](http://mixrank.com/) (S11).

B2B SaaS company? Find customers with [Zillabyte](http://www.zillabyte.com/) (W12).

Collect credit cards now and charge later with [Celery](https://www.trycelery.com/) (S12).

### Serious business

Seek out seriously skilled hackers with [Startuply](http://www.startuply.com/) (S08).

Arrange your offsites with [Airbnb](https://www.airbnb.com/) (W09).

Optimize your site with [Optimizely](https://www.optimizely.com/) (W10).

Instantly track your accounting with [inDinero](https://indinero.com/) (S10).

Get to the top of Google with [GinzaMetrics](http://www.ginzametrics.com/) (S10).

Manage meetings online with [Meetings.io](https://meetings.io/) (W11).

Capture your customers for life with [Custora](https://www.custora.com/) (W11).

Coerce your customers into becoming your marketing team with [Curebit](http://www.curebit.com/) (W11).

Build a Facebook store with [Beetailer](http://www.beetailer.com/) (W11).

Scare your customers with your knowledge of them, thanks to [Zenbox](http://www.zenboxapp.com/) (S11).

Synchronize your team with [Siasto](https://www.siasto.com/) (S11).

Produce an awesome video with [Videopixie](https://www.videopixie.com/) (S11).

Be privy to client-side Javascript errors with [Proxino](https://www.proxino.com/) (S11).

Interview intelligently with [Interviewstreet](https://www.interviewstreet.com/) (S11).

Involve users in the future of your product with [Interstate](http://interstateapp.com/) (S11).

Find office space with [42floors](http://42floors.com/) (W12).

Simplify paying your staff with [ZenPayroll](https://zenpayroll.com/) (W12).

Add sweet search to your site with [Swiftype](https://swiftype.com/) (W12).

Hire marketers, busdev people, customer service reps and more with [HireArt](https://www.hireart.com/) (W12).

Explore business automation possibilities with [Zapier](https://zapier.com/) (S12).

Make your video viral with [Virool](https://www.virool.com/) (S12).

Receive and manage submissions of content (e.g. applications, blog posts, compeition entries) with [Submittable](http://www.submittable.com/) (S12).

Start analyzing data like a pro with [Statwing](https://www.statwing.com/) (S12) or [Fivetran](http://fivetran.com/) (W13).

Plug voice and SMS into your apps with [Plivio](http://plivo.com/) (S12).

Start insuring your employees with [SimplyInsured](https://www.simplyinsured.com/) (W13).

Manage logins to all of your business apps and tools with [Meldium](https://www.meldium.com/) (W13).

Laws suck, so talk to a lawyer with [Lawdingo](https://www.lawdingo.com/) (W13).

Go analytics-happy and record every data point with [Heap](https://heapanalytics.com/) (W13).

Begin downloading apps and tools for your server. No, they don't have Angry Birds. [BitNami](http://bitnami.com/) (W13).

### Now I'm a big boy.

Scale your SQL databases with [Clustrix](http://www.clustrix.com/) (W06).

Distribute your databases with [Cloudant](https://cloudant.com/) (S07).

Re-engineer your databases with [RethinkDB](http://www.rethinkdb.com/) (S09).

And then arrange a vacation with your new found welath with [Adioso](http://adioso.com/) (W09).

Or how about [Hipmunk](http://www.hipmunk.com/) (S10)?

Find out if you have a delay with [FlightCaster](http://www.flightcaster.com/) (S09).

Protect your servers with [PagerDuty](http://www.pagerduty.com/) (S10).

Learn from the data to make decisions with [Leftronic](https://www.leftronic.com/) (S10).

Find out where to invest your money with [FutureAdvisor](https://www.futureadvisor.com/) (S10).

Control and optimize your social media marketing with [Crowdbooster](http://crowdbooster.com/) (S10).

Chart your big numbers with [Chartio](http://chartio.com/) (S10).

Simplify feeding your employees with [ZeroCater](http://www.zerocater.com/) (W11).

Start managing your team with [Siasto](https://www.siasto.com/) (W11).

Manage huge databases for analytics with [MemSQL](http://www.memsql.com/) (W11).

Learn about conferences where you can start spending your accumulated cash with [Lanyrd](http://lanyrd.com/) (W11).

Have clients in the old ages? Fax with [HelloFax](https://www.hellofax.com/) (W11).

Achieve enterprise agility (oxymoronic?) with [Acunote](http://www.acunote.com/) (W11).

Videos are cool, but video analytics make you money. With [Vidyard](http://www.vidyard.com/) (S11).

Procure smart data on your social media marketing with [PageLever](http://pagelever.com/) (S11).

Monitor press releases, SEC filings, patents and trademarks with [MarketBrief](http://marketbrief.com/) (S11).

Find all the conversions possible with [Freshplum](http://www.freshplum.com/) (S11).

Easily get your errands done with [Exec](https://iamexec.com/) (W12).

Create a job posting that attracts engineers with [coderwall](https://coderwall.com/welcome) (W12).

Appeal to your employees wishes with [AnyPerk](https://anyperk.com/) (W12).

Perfect your Facebook marketing strategy and retarget with [Perfect Audience](https://www.perfectaudience.com/) (S12).

Manage mobile advertising with [mth sense](http://www.mthsense.com/) (S12).

Add two factor authentication with [Authy](https://www.authy.com/) (S12).

Outsouce benefits, payroll and HR with [Zenefits](http://www.zenefits.com/) (W13).

Time to make some swag with [Teespring](http://teespring.com/) (W13).

Easily record errors and performance with [Errplane](https://errplane.com/) (W13).

### Lastly.

Building a startup is hard. I was amazed how many of Y Combinators companies were dead.

So, in lieu of that:
Generate a resume, and find a job with [JobSpice](http://www.jobspice.com/home) (S09).

Don't have any skills after all of that? Hack for a few months at [Hacker School](https://www.hackerschool.com/) (S10).

Did you work too hard and ignore your partner? Wed again in no time after you go through [Wevorce](http://wevorce.com/) (W13).

On the chance everything went well, put your new cash to use in other companies with [Wefunder](https://wefunder.com/) (W13).

## What did I learn building this.

YC has funded *a lot* of companies.

Companies targeting consumers (as opposed to businesses) definitely had a lower chance of still being alive. Why is everyone still attacking the consumer web?

## I'm going to take this and expand it.

Firstly - I wasn't in a very serious mood when I built this, hence some of the taglines. These are all awesome companies.

### My next steps.

## Learn from the dead startups

Interview the failed. [Sign up to tell me that you want to get these emails at some point in the future.](http://signup.deadpool.io/) (if you want to read the emails, you should sign up - I won't put them online straight away)

I'm going to build this out.

## Make a better listing

* A proper, easier to navigate directory of services relevant to starting companies (not just YC)

## Interview YC companies for super-short insights

* Interviews with the companies on extremely short and actionable insights at a few different stages of startups (e.g. naming, incorporating, promoting via word of mouth, promoting on twitter, etc). No long form BS. Just actions and to-do items.

*If either of those sound appealing, [be the first to learn when this cool stuff comes into existence](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-404EqBBW0GM_I2FbDZe2q9KYiNtjBulxQaXpLRMNzw/viewform).*

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