research · YC 2026 · SaaS · 2026-09-28
How YC SaaS startups design their websites
42 SaaS 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 SaaS
SaaS companies lead with AI more often than the batch average (76.2% vs 60.7%). More of them show pricing (26.2% vs 18.0%), which suggests a self-serve motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 47.6%; the top call to action is "Book a demo" (47.6% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (9 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 20 | 47.6% | 49.1% |
| Astro | 6 | 14.3% | 8.2% |
| Vite/React SPA | 5 | 11.9% | 12.9% |
| Other/unknown | 5 | 11.9% | 17.6% |
| Framer | 2 | 4.8% | 5.7% |
| SvelteKit | 1 | 2.4% | 1.3% |
| Mintlify | 1 | 2.4% | 1.4% |
| HubSpot | 1 | 2.4% | —% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 24 | 57.1% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 11 | 26.2% | 26.0% |
| Other | 4 | 9.5% | 9.8% |
| Framer | 1 | 2.4% | 4.5% |
| Netlify | 1 | 2.4% | 2.1% |
| AWS | 1 | 2.4% | 5.8% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book a demo | 20 | 47.6% | 32.5% |
| Get started | 13 | 31.0% | 23.0% |
| Talk to sales/us | 9 | 21.4% | 23.7% |
| Try free / sign up | 4 | 9.5% | 12.8% |
| Download | 3 | 7.1% | 2.7% |
| Join waitlist | 1 | 2.4% | 3.0% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 9 | 21.4% | 17.0% |
| JetBrains Mono | 3 | 7.1% | 5.0% |
| Geist | 3 | 7.1% | 4.3% |
| Instrument Serif | 2 | 4.8% | 2.8% |
| Archivo | 2 | 4.8% | —% |
| Inter Tight | 1 | 2.4% | —% |
| DM Sans | 1 | 2.4% | 2.6% |
| Fragment Mono | 1 | 2.4% | 2.4% |
| Instrument Sans Variable | 1 | 2.4% | —% |
| PP Neue Montreal | 1 | 2.4% | —% |
| Instrument Sans | 1 | 2.4% | 1.4% |
| Satoshi | 1 | 2.4% | —% |
Headlines from the set
- Less counting. More bidding. — Bidflow
- The sales intelligence engine for CPG brands. — Corvera
- Cut your Claude Code bill by 34–51% , without changing your models or workflow. — Quotient Labs
- AI Deal Sourcing Engine That — Q2Q
- The AI data warehouse that builds and maintains itself. — o11
- The AI assistant your whole company will actually use — Korso
- Good code is easy now. Good engineers aren’t. — Saffron
- AI accelerators for ERP implementations — Lab0
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own tag label "SaaS". 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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