Requests for Startups

kept by eddie jul 23

Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 Request for Startups outlines areas they want founders to tackle, ranging from AI tutors and defense tech to offshore compute and trust infrastructure.

ClawCard.sh — Give your agent some claws
ClawCard gives AI agents isolated identities with email, phone, virtual cards, and spend controls, enabling autonomous payments without sharing human credentials.
also on Coinbase, Stripe, #developer-tools
Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced a 14% layoff, attributing the cuts to AI-driven productivity gains and a need for leaner operations.
also on Coinbase, #ai, #developer-tools
Google's 52x AI Growth
Google's Gemini now processes 10 billion tokens per minute (52x YoY) while reducing serving costs by 78%, driving cloud revenue up 48% to $17.7 billion.
also on Azure, #cloud-computing, #ai
AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate - Last Week in AWS Blog
AWS is fine but faces real challenges: the AI gap is closing, talent attrition threatens operational excellence, and 2026 will test execution.
also on Azure, #cloud-computing, #ai
S2, the durable stream API
S2 is a serverless API for unlimited, durable, real-time streams, treating streams as a cloud storage primitive with strong consistency and low latency.
also on Y Combinator, #cloud-computing, #developer-tools