research · YC 2026 · Manufacturing · 2026-09-28
How YC Manufacturing startups design their websites
26 Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies lead with AI less often than the batch average (42.3% vs 60.7%). Fewer of them show pricing (0.0% vs 18.0%), which fits a sales-led motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 42.3%; the top call to action is "Talk to sales/us" (23.1% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (9 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 11 | 42.3% | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 8 | 30.8% | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 5 | 19.2% | 12.9% |
| Lovable | 1 | 3.8% | —% |
| SvelteKit | 1 | 3.8% | 1.3% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 11 | 42.3% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 9 | 34.6% | 26.0% |
| Other | 3 | 11.5% | 9.8% |
| Netlify | 2 | 7.7% | 2.1% |
| AWS | 1 | 3.8% | 5.8% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talk to sales/us | 6 | 23.1% | 23.7% |
| Book a demo | 3 | 11.5% | 32.5% |
| Get early access | 1 | 3.8% | 4.4% |
| Get started | 1 | 3.8% | 23.0% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 9 | 34.6% | 17.0% |
| JetBrains Mono | 3 | 11.5% | 5.0% |
| CameraPlainVariable | 1 | 3.8% | —% |
| Archivo | 1 | 3.8% | —% |
| IBM Plex Mono | 1 | 3.8% | 3.1% |
| Inter Tight | 1 | 3.8% | —% |
| Fraunces | 1 | 3.8% | 1.6% |
| Geist | 1 | 3.8% | 4.3% |
| Geist Mono | 1 | 3.8% | 4.0% |
Headlines from the set
- Fast custom PCBA, at any scale — Tenet Industries
- A new kind of camera — Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.
- Sidekick The AI agent that manages frontline operations over text. — Sidekick
- Factory prices, delivered, one number. — Donkey
- HERA does your engineering team’s busywork. — HERA
- Domestic Rare Earth Magnets — Mass Magnetics
- Systems of Applied Intelligence — Bizmark
- Industrial chemicals. Designed with AI. — Rasyn
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own tag label "Manufacturing". 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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