YC Operating System
Launch now. Talk to users. Don't die.
YC’s pocket operating system: short chapters, named cases, this-week steps, and practices you run — not a lecture series and not an essay anthology.
From YC Essential Advice + Library. Habit-first. When a chapter cites an essay, extract the one idea in the source note, then do the practice.
Chapters
- 01Launch NowOpen →
- 02Do Things That Don't ScaleOpen →
- 03Write Code, Talk to UsersOpen →
- 04Find the 90/10 SolutionOpen →
- 0510-100 Customers Who Love YouOpen →
- 06Growth Follows Product, Not the Other Way AroundOpen →
- 07Fundraising HygieneOpen →
- 08Founder Sanity & Being NiceOpen →
Source library
- YC's essential startup advice
- Do Things That Don't Scale — Paul Graham
- Startups in 13 Sentences — Paul Graham
- How to Talk to Users — YC Library
- Default Alive or Default Dead? — Paul Graham
- Startup = Growth — Paul Graham
- A Fundraising Survival Guide — Paul Graham
- A guide to seed fundraising — YC Library
- How to build your seed round pitch deck — YC Library
- How Not to Die — Paul Graham
- Be Good — Paul Graham
- Relentlessly Resourceful — Paul Graham