Golden Age of Building
Now is the best time in history to be a builder. We just watched giant robotic chopsticks pluck a falling skyscraper out of the sky. AI is transforming how we all work — particularly builders — faster than any technology in history. It feels like we are entering a golden age of building and we can use it to build things to make the country better. Below are some of the ideas we think will be especially cool to build in this golden age.
Please don’t feel that you need to work on one of these ideas in order to apply to Y Combinator. We expect the ideas on this list will only be a small fraction of the ideas we actually fund - but if an idea on this list is something you'd be excited to work on anyway, we hope the fact that we think it's especially promising will give you extra encouragement to do it.
Selling software to the government is notoriously hard and not something most builders would even think about doing. Still, the prize is huge if you can figure it out. Palantir is one of the only startups that managed to figure it out and their market cap today is $125 billion.
