research · YC 2026 · Winter 2026 · 2026-09-28
How YC Winter 2026 startups design their websites
192 Winter 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 Winter 2026
Winter 2026 companies lead with AI more often than the batch average (62.5% vs 60.7%). Fewer of them show pricing (17.2% vs 18.0%), which fits a sales-led motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 50.0%; the top call to action is "Book a demo" (38.0% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (32 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 96 | 50.0% | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 32 | 16.7% | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 26 | 13.5% | 12.9% |
| Framer | 14 | 7.3% | 5.7% |
| Astro | 10 | 5.2% | 8.2% |
| Webflow | 4 | 2.1% | 2.0% |
| Mintlify | 4 | 2.1% | 1.4% |
| HubSpot | 2 | 1.0% | —% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 104 | 54.2% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 49 | 25.5% | 26.0% |
| Other | 15 | 7.8% | 9.8% |
| Framer | 12 | 6.2% | 4.5% |
| AWS | 10 | 5.2% | 5.8% |
| Netlify | 2 | 1.0% | 2.1% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book a demo | 73 | 38.0% | 32.5% |
| Talk to sales/us | 52 | 27.1% | 23.7% |
| Get started | 51 | 26.6% | 23.0% |
| Try free / sign up | 26 | 13.5% | 12.8% |
| Get early access | 9 | 4.7% | 4.4% |
| Download | 5 | 2.6% | 2.7% |
| Join waitlist | 4 | 2.1% | 3.0% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 32 | 16.7% | 17.0% |
| JetBrains Mono | 10 | 5.2% | 5.0% |
| Instrument Serif | 8 | 4.2% | 2.8% |
| DM Sans | 8 | 4.2% | 2.6% |
| Geist | 7 | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Space Mono | 7 | 3.6% | —% |
| Geist Mono | 5 | 2.6% | 4.0% |
| Fragment Mono | 5 | 2.6% | 2.4% |
| Space Grotesk | 5 | 2.6% | 1.8% |
| Cormorant Garamond | 4 | 2.1% | —% |
| Outfit | 4 | 2.1% | 1.3% |
| IBM Plex Mono | 4 | 2.1% | 3.1% |
Headlines from the set
- Less counting. More bidding. — Bidflow
- The AI store associate that turns buyers into regulars — Signals
- No more worrying about — Overdrive Health
- Everything you need to know about anyone — Autumn AI
- Email Paul your work. Get it done, your way. Email Paul your work. Get it done, your way. — Pollen
- The fastest way to get things done with voice AI — Button Computer
- Own your intelligence. No single lab owns the frontier . — Velum Labs
- Let your agents move freely. Within bounds. — Agentic Fabriq
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own batch label "Winter 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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