research · YC 2026 · Summer 2026 · 2026-09-28
How YC Summer 2026 startups design their websites
231 Summer 2026 companies from YC's 2026 batches, compared with all 705 sites in the main report. Same method: served HTML only, one fetch per homepage.
What's different about Summer 2026
Summer 2026 companies lead with AI less often than the batch average (54.5% vs 60.7%). Fewer of them show pricing (16.9% vs 18.0%), which fits a sales-led motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 48.5%; the top call to action is "Book a demo" (26.8% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (35 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 112 | 48.5% | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 49 | 21.2% | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 30 | 13.0% | 12.9% |
| Astro | 20 | 8.7% | 8.2% |
| Framer | 10 | 4.3% | 5.7% |
| Webflow | 3 | 1.3% | 2.0% |
| SvelteKit | 2 | 0.9% | 1.3% |
| HubSpot | 1 | 0.4% | —% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 114 | 49.4% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 67 | 29.0% | 26.0% |
| Other | 23 | 10.0% | 9.8% |
| AWS | 15 | 6.5% | 5.8% |
| Framer | 7 | 3.0% | 4.5% |
| Netlify | 5 | 2.2% | 2.1% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book a demo | 62 | 26.8% | 32.5% |
| Talk to sales/us | 47 | 20.3% | 23.7% |
| Get started | 45 | 19.5% | 23.0% |
| Try free / sign up | 25 | 10.8% | 12.8% |
| Get early access | 11 | 4.8% | 4.4% |
| Join waitlist | 9 | 3.9% | 3.0% |
| Download | 5 | 2.2% | 2.7% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 35 | 15.2% | 17.0% |
| Geist Mono | 12 | 5.2% | 4.0% |
| IBM Plex Mono | 9 | 3.9% | 3.1% |
| JetBrains Mono | 9 | 3.9% | 5.0% |
| Geist | 9 | 3.9% | 4.3% |
| Instrument Sans | 5 | 2.2% | 1.4% |
| Instrument Serif | 5 | 2.2% | 2.8% |
| Archivo | 5 | 2.2% | —% |
| i-monospace | 4 | 1.7% | —% |
| Fragment Mono | 4 | 1.7% | 2.4% |
| Montserrat | 4 | 1.7% | —% |
| Figtree | 3 | 1.3% | —% |
Headlines from the set
- Advance The Frontier — Baud
- Run your business with AI agents — Async
- AI with intellectual curiosity — Induction Labs
- US-built semi-humanoid robots Video-trained intelligence — OS3
- From intake to initial eval in minutes, not days. — Evergrove
- Build More Robots — Tensr
- Online therapy & medication for addiction treatment — Sunflower
- growing brain systems that learn — Frontier Computing
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own batch label "Summer 2026". Fetched 2026-09-28; served HTML only, so client-rendered text can be under-counted. "AI in hero" = AI, agent(s) or LLM in the title, H1 or meta description. Re-run after each Demo Day.
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