After an accidental encounter at a thrift store, former Apple engineer Alex Ruber and former Twitter and Asana engineer Parth Chopra joined forces to establish the second-hand goods search engine Encore, aimed at addressing the challenges consumers face in finding desired items within the vast second-hand market. This emerging startup has successfully been selected as one of the inaugural fall startups in Y Combinator's history. The two initially met on Y Combinator's founder matching platform, and later at an event.

Patched, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2023, offers revolutionary solutions for developers through AI automation of code reviews, documentation generation, and maintenance tasks. Utilizing large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic Claude and Microsoft Copilot, Patched provides customizable workflows for automating post-code submission processes such as bug fixes and code formatting. Its drag-and-drop interface allows users to create ....