research · YC 2026 · Infrastructure · 2026-09-28
How YC Infrastructure startups design their websites
39 Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure
Infrastructure companies lead with AI less often than the batch average (56.4% vs 60.7%). More of them show pricing (28.2% vs 18.0%), which suggests a self-serve motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 51.3%; the top call to action is "Book a demo" (28.2% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (4 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 20 | 51.3% | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 8 | 20.5% | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 7 | 17.9% | 12.9% |
| Astro | 3 | 7.7% | 8.2% |
| SvelteKit | 1 | 2.6% | 1.3% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 17 | 43.6% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 11 | 28.2% | 26.0% |
| AWS | 7 | 17.9% | 5.8% |
| Other | 4 | 10.3% | 9.8% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book a demo | 11 | 28.2% | 32.5% |
| Get started | 9 | 23.1% | 23.0% |
| Talk to sales/us | 6 | 15.4% | 23.7% |
| Try free / sign up | 5 | 12.8% | 12.8% |
| Get early access | 3 | 7.7% | 4.4% |
| Join waitlist | 3 | 7.7% | 3.0% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 4 | 10.3% | 17.0% |
| JetBrains Mono | 3 | 7.7% | 5.0% |
| Instrument Serif | 2 | 5.1% | 2.8% |
| Outfit | 1 | 2.6% | 1.3% |
| DM Sans | 1 | 2.6% | 2.6% |
| Playfair Display | 1 | 2.6% | —% |
| Inter Tight | 1 | 2.6% | —% |
| Geist Variable | 1 | 2.6% | —% |
| Domine | 1 | 2.6% | —% |
| Figtree | 1 | 2.6% | —% |
| IBM Plex Mono | 1 | 2.6% | 3.1% |
| SFMono-Regular | 1 | 2.6% | —% |
Headlines from the set
- Less counting. More bidding. — Bidflow
- Retrieval your agents can trust. — Captain
- Agents that act, safely. — Salus
- Enabling physical AI at scale — Fern
- The World's Largest Video Library — Shofo
- Capturing Physical Experience for Embodied AI — Hub
- Expanse gets you more out of the GPUs you already have. — Expanse
- The Agent-Native Cloud Infrastructure Platform — InsForge (InstaCloud)
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own tag label "Infrastructure". 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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