yname

Generate a YC startup name before someone else does.

yc.mp4

Each name is generated by a tiny character-level neural network trained from scratch on 6,194 YC company names. The dataset was scraped with Context.dev.

The model runs locally in your browser. No LLM and no backend.

Run locally

cd web
npm install
npm run dev

Train the models

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r model/requirements.txt

python model/train.py \
  --data data/yc_name_training_corpus.csv \
  --output-dir model/artifacts

cd web
npm run export-models

This is an unofficial project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Y Combinator.