👨🏾‍🚀 Thrilled to be back with YC Interview Simulator 2.0 - a major upgrade shaped by hundreds of founder conversations and feedback of YC founders. 🚀 What's new? We rebuilt the entire experience: - Choose your YC partner personality (each with their unique style) - Timed 10-minute sessions (just like the real deal!) - Detailed evaluation cards after each session - Track your progress across different topics - Completely revamped UI that feels natural and intuitive 🤖 The core is still what you loved: Dynamic conversations that adapt to your answers, catch vague claims, and push for specifics. But now you can actually see your improvement over time, save your best responses, and practice with different YC partners. 🎁 Launch Deal: - Start with 3 FREE sessions - Get 50% off any package with code "PRODUCTHUNT" - All packages include the full feature set No need to wonder anymore how you'd do in an Interview! 📈 Perfect your pitch, strengthen your narrative, and walk into that YC interview knowing you've practiced with the best simulator out there. 🔜 Coming soon: This simulator is just the beginning of Mentara - your comprehensive founder support system. We're building THE coaching, training, and mentoring ecosystem we wish existed when we started our first companies. 🎮 Get the unfair advantage: Start practicing now and join hundreds of founders elevating their pitch game. Cut through the fluff, sharpen your metrics, and truly understand your business. No buzzwords allowed - just clear, compelling answers that stand up to scrutiny. Not affiliated with Y Combinator. @YCombinator @mwseibel

It needs more delay. And bad connection simulation. EU <-> SF over Teams is paaaaaain 😂 Timing interruptions, jokes, and quick hocks to make the convo flow is half the job, if not even more 😅

Very useful for prospective YC companies, great use case of AI!

Interesting idea and the detailed report looks like you have cared about a lot of aspects of applying YC!

After practicing with this, YC : Shut up and take my money!

very helpful idea man, Are you building it alone or you have a team?

@johannesdanielmeyer love the idea to iterate and re-launch so quickly! Keep crushing.

Me pareció muy útil! Si estás en proceso de fundraising o aplicando a una aceleradora te lo recomiendo.

Congrats on the launch! Love audio/realtime experiences

Congrats, Johannes, it's really interesting app, very mature!

looks sleek! Great interview UX

Absolutely love this! Shared it with our university start-up incubator program faculty and they're checking it out to incorporate in classes potentially.

Congrats on the launch! 🚀 I can definitely see the potential of using AI to emulate these interviews. However, I’m curious, how can I trust that the system emulates YC partners with a high level of quality? Have you trained the AI on examples of real interviews or other publicly available information?

Love this idea., Will try it out.

Really interesting concept. Will sure check it out in the coming days.

woo! hopefully I'll be able to use it in the future.

Congrats on your team! All the best with the product.

are you an alumni?

Congrats on the launch! This sounds super cool. How do you think the AI adapts to different responses?

Congrats @johannesdanielmeyer A very useful project!