Engineering is being conquered. What's left is taste and business. This plugin turns YC's entire startup curriculum into interactive AI-guided workbooks.

You watch YC lectures. You take notes. You forget them. You never apply the frameworks to your startup. The gap between knowing and doing stays wide.

You type /yc-4 and Claude reads the full transcript of "How to Talk to Users", analyzes your project, and asks you the hard questions — one at a time — that Gustaf Alstromer would ask. Then saves your answers as a structured assessment.

56 full transcripts from YC's official library and AI Native Company lectures. Not summaries. Not notes. The actual words.

Each skill has its own references/ folder with the full transcripts co-located. The skill reads its references → presents frameworks → analyzes your project → interactive workbook with AskUserQuestion → saves assessment.

Paste this into Claude Code:

Install the yc-startup-school plugin from /path/to/yc-startup-school

Or via marketplace:

claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/team-attention/yc-startup-school
claude plugin install yc-startup-school

You: /yc-2
Claude: [reads full transcript of "How to Get Startup Ideas" by Jared Friedman]
 [reads PG's "How to Get Startup Ideas" essay]
 [reads your CLAUDE.md to understand your project]
 Part 1: Here are the 4 filters Jared teaches...
 Part 2: Applying to your project — you're strong on X, missing Y...
 Part 3: Let me ask you question 1 of 7...
 Q: "What problem are you solving, and did you discover it
 from personal experience or brainstorming?"
 a) Personal experience — I lived this problem
 b) Observed others struggling with it
 c) Brainstormed / market research
 d) Someone told me about it
You: a
Claude: Good — that matches Jared's "founder-market fit" pattern.
 Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox all started this way.
 Next question...

After all questions, you get a synthesis with a readiness score, strengths, gaps, and one action item. Saved to knowledge/yc-startup-school/.

Ask Paul Graham anything. Claude reads all 14 essays and channels PG's voice:

You: /pg 우리 비즈니스 모델이 좀 복잡한데 괜찮을까?
Claude: [reads all 14 PG essays]
 PG would say: "If you can't explain your business model
 in one sentence, you don't have one yet. The most valuable
 truths are the ones most people don't believe. Stop trying
 to be clever about revenue — make something people want,
 and the money follows. 100% of startups that make something
 popular manage to make money from it."
 Let me diagnose your situation...

skills/
 yc-1-deciding-to-start-a-startup/
 SKILL.md ← skill definition
 references/ ← co-located transcripts
 yc-2-getting-and-evaluating-startup-ideas/
 SKILL.md
 references/
 ...
 ai-startup-school/
 SKILL.md
 references/ ← 17 AI leader / AI Native Company transcripts
 guru-paul-graham/
 SKILL.md
 references/ ← 14 PG essays
references/bonus/ ← extra lectures not in official curriculum
scripts/ ← scraper

Most transcripts extracted from ycombinator.com/library server-rendered JSON; the two AI Native Company additions come from YouTube transcripts. Paul Graham essays from paulgraham.com. Scraper included: scripts/scrape_yc_library.py.

# Re-scrape to update
python3 scripts/scrape_yc_library.py all

Engineering is getting solved. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot — the gap between idea and code is collapsing. But the gap between idea and good idea? Between building and building the right thing? That's widening.

I wanted to vibe-code my business decisions the way I vibe-code my software. Not by asking ChatGPT generic questions, but by having the actual YC curriculum — the specific words of Harj Taggar, Jared Friedman, Gustaf Alstromer, Paul Graham — loaded into context and applied to my real situation.

This is v1. I'm experimenting. If you use it, break it, improve it — PRs welcome.

• Y Combinator — transcript content, used for educational purposes
• Paul Graham — original essays
• Inspired by ofou/graham-essays and garrytan/gstack

MIT — Transcript content remains property of respective authors/Y Combinator.

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