Suchit Dubey

I got into @ycombinator in my mid-30s, a decade after walking past their office as an intern and thinking "someday, I'll start my own company." But instead of going for it, I took job after job and ended up working at Palantir, Thumbtack, Crew and Uber Freight. At 35 I ran out of excuses and built Narrative, a workflow tool. GOAT, SKIMS, and others ran their business on it, which meant every bug we shipped hit my phone at 10pm on a weekend (customers were catching them before we were, which humbles you fast). Testing was the one problem I'd circled my whole career. So we pivoted and rebuilt around it. Now Narrative catches bugs before your customers do, every time your engineers ship. Starting today, expect more posts about Narrative, and some about me. I've been told the algorithm wants both.

Founders ask me for YC application advice all the time, and it's almost always the same question: "is my idea good enough?" I usually just tell them what happened to me. I got into YC in 2023 and on the very day they accepted me, they told me they didn't like my idea and that I should pivot. The idea you apply with will most likely die anyway. So they don't spend much time judging it. What they're really checking is whether you can talk to users, get people to try your product, and explain what you're building without confusing everyone in the room. If you can do all that, the idea can always be fixed later.

@ionleu new fear unlocked - my cold DMs are too formal

you can just do things..

@FoxRick01 sure. would love to

@SuchitDubey_ Nice, can I test my app with you testing process. Lets connect Suchit

Hi, I'm a YC founder building Narrative, an AI testing tool. New to X, 13k followers on LinkedIn. Looking to connect with people interested in: - QA and software testing - AI testing and evals - Building in public - Non-technical founders building in tech - Design - Fellow YC Founders I'll be posting about building my company and whatever goes on behind the scenes. If you're building something, or still figuring it out, let's connect :)

@mirandanover as someone on the receiving end, this is absolutely true. also, 3. get to the point, fast.

cold email works if (1) it's a problem we actually need solved (2) you have a portfolio of work that backs your ability to solve it

@DanielleMorrill damn. I automated the one thing that counted as taste. for myself and everyone else

What if taste is just how many times a day you file and fix bugs on your own startup?

@ti_morse congrats man, 200k is huge

Just had our first interview break 200k views on YT! LFG I sincerely appreciate all 203.4k lads, and 7 ladies, who watch relentless. Step by step, ferociously 🏴‍☠️

@wh0sumit @ycombinator @rightfitso Whatever happens, this is a cool milestone. Good luck 🤞

5 years ago, i remember thinking, one day, i'll apply to @ycombinator 🟧 and here we are. i got the opportunity to work at a YC startup as a founding design engineer. i worked closely with founders building relentlessly and learned what it really takes to build a company. later, i started @rightfitso 🏴 over the last year, we've bootstrapped @rightfitso from scratch. no funding. just conviction, 10k+ conversations with founders and candidates, and an obsession with making hiring better through proof of work. along the way, we had the opportunity to work with some incredible YC startups + along with startups across bangalore, san francisco, and new york, helping them assemble their founding teams by hiring engineers, designers, and other early hires. every founder conversation, every hiring decision, and every role we helped close taught us a little more about what it takes to build an enduring company. today, we're no longer watching from the sidelines. we're applying with our own company. YC application: submitted 🤞 whether we get in or not, i'm already grateful for the journey. 5 years ago, applying to YC was just an idea i carried around. today, we finally hit submit. whatever happens next, we'll keep building 🖤

@sxmawl Yeah, this feels inevitable.

Demand for content is expected to grow 5x by 2027. The video editing workforce? Just 3% over the ENTIRE DECADE. You cannot solve that by hiring 5x more editors. The marketer + editor duo needs to become what PM + Eng became with AI: able to ship far more without lowering the quality. That is what we are building Cardboard for.

@kushbhuwalka @conductor_build @greptile @vercel @supabase @agentmail @triggerdotdev @nozomioai @kushbhuwalka Let's catch bugs!

my ai tech stack + devtools going into april 2026 - conductor @conductor_build - greptile @greptile - vercel with nextJS @vercel - supabase @supabase - agentmail @agentmail - trigger dev @triggerdotdev honourable mentions, packages, CLIs etc. - nia @nozomioai - svix webhooks - thecontextcompany @thecontextco - openrouter @OpenRouter - vercel ai sdk @aisdk - railway @Railway moving off of mcps and onto skills heavily exploring openclaw agents that trigger on PR reviews. services i want to / will try soon: - posthog - supermemory - narrative ai services i need / in market for - agents for e2e testing - light-weight deterministic observability (modern sentry vibes)