As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:
1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train
Monitor Instagram and TikTok for emerging trends in real-time, get auto-generated content briefs with hooks and creative angles, adapt viral formats to match your brand voice, track competitor content strategies, and build content calendars backed by actual trending data.
Our trend detection helped our first paying customer achieve 3-5x engagement improvements.
Getting roasted on Jimmy Kimmel wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, but that's what happened when a side project I started as a joke went viral. I started PickleMatch because dating apps are broken. The average dating app funnel looks like 100 swipes > 10 chats > 1 actual date. Instead, we get people off their phones and onto pickleball courts. And it's working. In the last 5 months, we've been covered on every major news channel, grew to 1000s of subscribers, & threw 8 pickleball ragers. No babies or weddings yet, but that's on the 2026 OKRs. Then I hit a wall. Growing organically on social is genuinely dark arts. You either get sucked into influencer collabs, buying followers, 'engagement pods' or earnestly trying to make good content that gets ~100 views. It's soul sucking. So we built a new feature in ShowStop to helps detect trends and turn them into ready-to-use briefs for your brand. It's already helped PickleMatch go viral 3x in the last 2 weeks. Posts are getting 5x the engagement and reaching 80% more new people. ShowStop surfaces trends as they're emerging, turns them into templates you can repurpose, and generates content briefs that live in one collaborative calendar. It's basically a creative strategist for your social team. Check it out at our website, it's free to try :)
