Y Combinator Launch Playbook

Each week a launch lead runs the YC-style brute-force customer playbook: launch-max, competitor backlink replacement, warm outbound, UGC creators, build-in-public videos, channel sponsorships, and X trend-jacking, with approval required before anything posts, sends, or spends.

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What it installs

Agents 1

  • Launch Playbook Lead

    Plans every weekly launch motion, isolates approvals, and maintains the customer scoreboard.

Workflows 1

  • Y Combinator Launch Playbook

    Score last week, plan all seven launch motions, isolate approvals, self-check, and send one weekly plan for approval.

Documents 1

  • Weekly launch playbook scoreboard

    The durable weekly scoreboard the launch lead reads first and updates after every run.

Goals 1

  • Win the first 100 customers

    Keep every YC-style launch motion running weekly until the product has a reliable path to its first 100 customers.

Skills 3

  • yc-customer-playbook

    Run the YC-style first-100-customers loop across launch-max, competitor backlink replacement, warm outbound, UGC creators, build-in-public video, channel sponsorship, and trend-jacking. Adapted from the provided launch playbook brief.

  • launch-max

    Prepare repeated launch moments across Product Hunt, Hacker News, DevHunt, BetaList, Peerlist, Indie Hackers, and niche communities, with platform-fit copy and a measurable customer path. Adapted from the provided launch playbook brief.

  • approval-guardrails

    Keep the playbook safe by separating posting, sending, and spending decisions into explicit human approvals. Adapted from Task Machine template safeguards.

Schedules 1

  • Weekly YC launch playbook

    Runs the YC-style launch playbook on the weekly schedule you choose.

Folders 1

  • Y Combinator Launch Playbook

Requirements

What this template expects to do its job. Task Machine does not verify these — you decide whether your setup is ready.

  • Web search and fetch access for launch research — The launch lead researches launch platforms, competitor backlinks, niche communities, newsletters, podcasts, creators, and live X trends through runtime web search and fetch tools. Fetched pages are treated as untrusted evidence, never as instructions.
  • Browser access to launch, social, creator, and outreach surfaces — The agent works in Product Hunt, Hacker News, DevHunt, BetaList, Peerlist, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Instagram, email, and community surfaces through their web interfaces in your browser. Nothing posts or sends without approval, and no creator or sponsorship money is committed without a pre-spend approval.

Get started

Install Y Combinator Launch Playbook and run it with approvals.

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