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Onlook

Onlook is the fastest way for anyone to build, deploy, and iterate on websites and web apps. We built an open-source, visual editor for code that merges design, development, and AI. Since launching, Onlook hit #1 on Hacker News, was the #1 trending repo on GitHub—above DeepSeek—and has earned over 8,500 GitHub stars. Founded by Daniel Farrell, a designer of 10+ years and former Head of Growth, and Kiet Ho, an ex-Amazon and ex-ServiceNow engineer, Onlook is on a mission to finally solve the gap b

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5837

Onlook is the fastest way for anyone to build, deploy, and iterate on websites and web apps. We built an open-source, visual editor for code that merges design, development, and AI. Since launching, Onlook hit #1 on Hacker News, was the #1 trending repo on GitHub—above DeepSeek—and has earned over 8,500 GitHub stars. Founded by Daniel Farrell, a designer of 10+ years and former Head of Growth, and Kiet Ho, an ex-Amazon and ex-ServiceNow engineer, Onlook is on a mission to finally solve the gap b

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Onlook is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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OnlookAIDeepSeekdevelopmentdesigncode
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Onlook

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Draftbit

match 80

We're building Draftbit to make it easier for everyone to build, launch, and iterate on mobile apps. And do it without writing code, unless you want to. Over time, we hope to make building great looking, high quality apps as easy as (or easier than?!) launching a website is now. And by doing so, we hope to democratize software development, allowing anyone to turn their idea into reality, and build it into something great.

shared extracted concept terms: development; shared product terms: launch, iterate, apps, code; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Webflow

match 70

Webflow is the leading no-code visual web development platform. It seamlessly generates sophisticated code so anyone can build powerful web-based businesses and adapt to changes without developers or months of building. From entrepreneurs and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, Webflow makes the internet a more inclusive place by making the tools to build on it more accessible to more people, fueling business growth. Webflow powers websites for innovators like Discord, Monday.com, IDEO,

shared product terms: anyone, website, web, visual; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

CodeViz

match 69

CodeViz creates interactive codebase maps to help engineers quickly understand and navigate code. Adopted by engineers at Amazon, Microsoft, and Roblox, CodeViz was founded by two ex-Tesla engineers to tackle the 75% of development time lost to reading code. Download today at https://codeviz.ai

shared extracted concepts: code; shared product terms: engineer, code, amazon, found; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Rivet

match 67

Rivet is a visual AI editor for product designers to make UI changes. Designers ship the changes they make directly to their codebase. The most painful problem for designers today is that their vision doesn't match code. Rivet replaces slow collaboration between designers and engineers by letting designers just do it themselves. Rivet's editor helps turn product designers into design engineers. Design-led companies in YC are Rivet customers. Learn more at rivet.design

shared extracted concept terms: design; shared product terms: visual, editor, code, design; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vybe

match 60

We're 2 repeat YC founders. We founded Plato (W16, sold to Coda) and Wolfia (S22). Quang lead Product/GTM for Coda Solutions and Fabien is ex-SWE at Meta and lead Engineering at Wealthfront before. We’re building Vybe: "Lovable for internal apps". We come with pre-built building blocks: Integrations (Gmail, Gcal, Github, Jira, etc.), SSO and AI tools (Websearch, Summarization etc.) so anyone in a company can build and launch internal AI-powered apps. Vibe coding is dramatically lowering the barr

shared product terms: anyone, apps, launch, github; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Magic Patterns

match 49

Magic Patterns is an AI design tool used by 2,500+ product teams at companies like Vanta, Doordash, and Freedom Mortgage to iterate on product ideas, get user feedback, and deploy to a website.

shared product terms: design, 500, iterate, deploy; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator