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YC Summer 2026 RFS — building in public

Sixteen YC Summer 2026 Requests for Startups.
One working demo at a time.

Solo developer. Shipping in public. No pitch decks, no waitlists — just the working thing you can actually click on the live ones. Ten RFS demos are live so far.

#01
Live demo

AI for Low-Pesticide Agriculture

AI vision for plant health — fewer blanket pesticide sprays.

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#02
Live demo

AI-Native Discovery Engines

Closed-loop AI verification: every claim grounded against the live web.

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#03
Live demo

AI-Native Service Companies

AI accountants, lawyers, and analysts that beat the human version on cost and speed.

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#04
Soon

AI Personalized Medicine

Off-limits for me — day-job non-compete. Listed verbatim from YC's RFS for completeness.

#05
Live demo

Company Brain

Ask one question. Cross Slack, Linear, GitHub, Notion, meetings.

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#06
Live demo

Counter-Swarm Defense

Cheap, software-first sensors against drone swarms — Cloudflare, not Raytheon.

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#07
Live demo

Dynamic Software Interfaces

Vague feature request in. Claude-Code-ready brief out — the new craft is engineering the brief.

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#08
Soon

Electronics in Space

Inference chips that survive mass, thermal, and radiation budgets.

#09
Live demo

Hardware Supply Chain

Paste a Bill of Materials. AI estimates the US-vs-China cost delta + your CAPE tariff refund.

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#10
Live demo

Industrial Capabilities in Space

Type a space idea, get a real mission brief — instrument, orbit, spacecraft, cost, timeline.

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#11
Soon

Inference Chips for Agent Workflows

Silicon designed for agent loops, not single-prompt inference.

#12
Live demo

SaaS Challengers

Score how much of your closed-API AI bill could move to OSS — pricing transparency for the AI substrate.

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#13
Live demo

Software for Agents

Give an AI agent a USDC wallet and a hard spend cap. Watch x402 do the rest.

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#14
Soon

Startups That Want to Sell to Huge Companies

Two-person teams shipping things F100s actually buy.

#15
Soon

Supply Chain 2.0 for Semiconductors

Visibility for the 1,400-step, 12-country chip pipeline.

#16
Soon

The AI Operating System for Companies

Make every meeting and ticket queryable. Closed-loop optimization for the org.

Each demo is a real working product, not a mockup. The code, the API calls, the AI — all live. Built by Patrick Hughes in Tennessee.

Get The One-Person Holdco (free PDF)

How one human plus twenty-two AI agents runs a seven-pillar portfolio with no employees.