AI-powered lead intelligence for the YC ecosystem

Never miss a lead
from the YC ecosystem

AI monitors Hacker News and Bookface for founders actively looking for what you sell. Every lead is scored and delivered to Slack — you just close the deal.

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Today's Leads3 new
🔥 HotLooking for a data labeling vendorBookface2h ago
🔥 HotBest annotation services for RLHF?HN4h ago
🌡️ WarmHow are you handling training data?Bookface6h ago
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Sources: Bookface + HN

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Avg. post to Slack

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Setup time

Free forever

How it works

Three steps to your first lead

1

Connect your sources

Connect your Slack channel to start monitoring HN instantly. Have Bookface access? Add your YC login to unlock private YC signals too.

2

Define what you sell

Tell us your product context. AI suggests optimal search queries for your market.

3

Receive scored leads

Hot and warm leads arrive in Slack every day, scored and ready to close.

Features

Everything you need to
capture YC leads

Dual source monitoring

Search both Bookface (the private YC forum) and Hacker News simultaneously. Catch buying signals wherever YC founders post.

Hacker News

Public, free to monitor

Bookface

YC founders only

AI-powered scoring

Two-pass AI: fast pre-filter with Haiku, then deep analysis with Sonnet. Every lead gets a confidence score and reasoning.

HOT — 92%Just now
WARM — 67%2h ago
WARM — 58%4h ago

Slack delivery

Leads arrive formatted and ready to act on. Click straight through to the original post.

Smart dedup

Never see the same lead twice. Cross-source deduplication, always clean.

Cross-source|History tracking

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Start free with 5 queries. Upgrade when you need more coverage and faster scans.

Free

Start monitoring with 5 queries

$0
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5 search queries
Daily scans
50 scored posts/day
Slack alerts
Bookface (with your YC login)
Hourly scans
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Pro

10x more queries + real-time scanning

$49/mo
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50 search queries
Up to hourly scans
500 scored leads/day
Slack alerts
Bookface (with your YC login)
Priority support

Team

Maximum coverage for sales teams

$149/mo
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200 search queries
Hourly scans
1,500 scored leads/day
5 Slack channels
Bookface (with your YC login)
Priority support

Bookface monitoring is available on all plans if you have your own YC login. We never provide or share account access — use at your own discretion.

See it in action

This is what your Slack
looks like

A daily digest of scored leads, grouped by source, delivered straight to your team's Slack channel.

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YC RadarAPPToday at 9:00 AM

📡 Daily Digest — 3 leads found

Bookface

🔥 Looking for a data labeling vendor

by Sarah Chen (W24, Nexus AI) · Matched: "data labeling vendor"

🌡️ How are you handling training data?

by Alex Rivera (S23, DataFlow) · Matched: "training data"

Hacker News

🔥 Ask HN: Best annotation services for RLHF?

by ml_engineer · 47 points · Matched: "annotation services"

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from the YC ecosystem

Built for anyone selling into the YC network — founders, sales teams, and VCs. Start free with Hacker News, add Bookface if you have access.

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