Every YC company.
One thousand dollars.
Pick a YC company. We clone it, deploy it, and feature-match it for life. No subscription. No seats. It's yours.
Mogged so far
The pitch
They sell AI slop as a service.
We just sell the software.
You pick the target. We re-implement it under your brand, hand over the source code, and keep it on parity with upstream for as long as the company exists.
It's yours.
Pay once. You get the source code, a live deployment, and the keys. No seat tax. No revocable license. A deed, not a lease.
Feature-match for life.
When upstream ships, we ship. Every release the target YC company puts out lands in your clone. Free, forever.
$1,000 replaces the subscription.
Typical B2B SaaS runs $50–$500 per seat per month and only goes up. One $1,000 invoice buys you a perpetual copy of the product.
The real product
YC is a thousand undergrads with a thousand Claude Codes trying to write Shakespeare.We hired Shakespeare.
Their edge is rent-seeking behavior. Ours is a better product.
The subscription is the product.
The metrics SaaS companies optimize are MRR, churn, and net revenue retention. Those are metrics about the invoice, not the software. The product exists to produce those numbers. So do you.
Your data is their hostage.
Try exporting five years of Notion, Figma, or Airtable history in a form you can actually move. Lock-in isn’t an accident; it’s the exit you’re paying not to have to use.
Name a SaaS that’s gotten cheaper.
We’ll wait. Prices compound year after year. The product stays the same. The listed price is a hook, not a ceiling.
This isn't disruption. It's venture predation.VCs subsidize below-cost prices to crush rivals. Early investors exit to later ones before the losses catch up. By the time the bill arrives, the rivals are gone and you have no alternatives. We're offering you freedom.Wansley & Weinstein, “Venture Predation” (2023)
The cap table
$42M. Angels and family offices. No VCs.
Our whole pitch, $1,000 flat fee and feature-matched forever, only works with backers who don't need a liquidity event.
So we turned down the VC term sheets. What ended up on the cap table is what you'd expect from a company that actually means “forever”.
- Round size
- $42M
- Venture capitalists
- 0
- Angels + family offices
- 100%
- Fund-life clock
- none
- Time we can charge $1,000
- ∞
“The rent of land [SaaS] … is naturally a monopoly price … not at all proportioned to what the landlord [vendor] may have laid out upon the improvement of the land [product], but to what the farmer [customer] can afford to give.”
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776). Smith was a capitalist. We’re capitalists. Rent extraction is not.
How it works
From request to handoff, in four steps.
Pricing
Not a starting price. The price.
No annual contracts. No per-seat ladder. No “contact sales.” No three-tier dropdown where the real price is hidden at the top. One thousand dollars. That's the line.
YCaaS standard clone
$1,000once
Covers the build, the deploy, the source-code handoff, and every feature their team ships after. Forever.
Included
- Full clone of the target product
- Source code delivered
- Feature-match maintenance, free, forever
- ~1 month typical turnaround on upstream releases
- Direct line to the engineering team
FAQ
The obvious questions.
Aren't “AI for X” companies AI, not SaaS?
No. The model is rented from OpenAI or Anthropic. The startup pays the same API you can. What the startup actually owns is the schema, the prompts, the evals, the integrations, and the UI that wires it all together. That's not a model. That's software. That's what we ship.
What if YCaaS shuts down?
Your clone is already yours. We ship the source code on delivery, not on subscription renewal. There's no server of ours you depend on. If we disappear tomorrow, your code, your deployment, and your ability to keep shipping against the codebase are all unaffected. Feature-match ends because we're the ones doing it. The product you paid for keeps running forever.
Is this ethical?
More ethical than renting the tools of your trade from a landlord. Proprietary SaaS is designed by incentive to mistreat users over time: lock-in, silent nerfs, surprise upcharges, forced migrations. We sell you the deed instead of the lease.
How fast is feature-match?
About a month from upstream ship to your instance. Sometimes days. Occasionally longer when the release is structurally deep. We'll tell you the clock up front for each one.
What if the target company shuts down?
Your clone keeps running. You own the code. Feature-match pauses because there's nothing left to match.
Can I resell the clone under my own brand?
Yes. You own the code. Ship it, license it, white-label it, sell seats, do whatever. That's the point of owning software.
Is everyone on the marquee actually a YC company?
No. Any easy-to-clone SaaS is fair game. YC is just the heuristic. Paste a URL in the request box.
Do you clone real companies?
Not yet. We start with SaaS / software. That's where rent extraction is worst and cloning is cleanest. Hardware, regulated industries, and deep science are on the roadmap, not the menu.
Which one do you want?
No sales call. No onboarding deck. No qualifying questions. Put the company in the box.
YCaaS
YC-as-a-Service. We clone YC companies for $1,000 and maintain them forever. It's software. Software is supposed to be sold.
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Every YC company. One thousand dollars.