Y Combinator Startup School

Free route community

Researched from public pages — no submission was run · sources read 2026-09-26. Rules change — recheck the platform's own pages before submitting.

Requirements

Not a launch directory — Startup School is a free YC course/community; there is no public product-listing surface
Free signup at startupschool.org (single YC-family account)
Members get: the course curriculum, a weekly progress-update tool, and Co-Founder Matching (100k+ matches claimed)
Historically Startup School had a 'companies' browse of participating startups, but the current public site does not expose a browsable directory — community surfaces are login-gated

Just an account — the course is self-paced and free
If using co-founder matching: a founder profile with interests, skills, location preferences

Sign up at startupschool.org
Work through the YC curriculum and use the weekly update tool
Optionally create a co-founder-matching profile
Visibility to other founders happens inside the login-gated community — there is no public listing to claim

Weak catalog fit — this is an education/community product; the 'launch' value is indirect (accountability, co-founder search, YC-application prep)
No public-facing listing is generated — don't count it as a backlink/launch-post destination
The community surfaces require login — nothing is indexed publicly

An active Startup School account with a founder profile — but no public listing is produced