research · stack · 2026-09-28
What YC startups build their websites with
Site builders, frameworks and hosts detected across 705 YC 2026 homepages.
| Builder / framework | sites | share |
|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 346 | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 124 | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 91 | 12.9% |
| Astro | 58 | 8.2% |
| Framer | 40 | 5.7% |
| Webflow | 14 | 2.0% |
| Mintlify | 10 | 1.4% |
| SvelteKit | 9 | 1.3% |
| Hosting | sites | share |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 365 | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 183 | 26.0% |
| Other | 69 | 9.8% |
| AWS | 41 | 5.8% |
| Framer | 32 | 4.5% |
| Netlify | 15 | 2.1% |
What it means for hiring a design agency
Half the batch builds its marketing site the way it builds its product. Framer and Webflow — the tools most agencies sell — together account for under 8% of YC 2026 homepages. If you're a YC company hiring design, ask how the studio hands off to engineers: a design system in Figma with tokens, or a Next.js build, beats a Framer file you'll rebuild in three months. See our lists of Next.js-capable studios, Framer agencies and Webflow agencies.
Method
From the YC 2026 homepage dataset. Builder inferred from markup signatures (Next.js chunks, Framer/Webflow asset hosts, Astro islands, etc.); host from response headers. "Other/unknown" is mostly custom static sites.
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