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1 category · Named, not ranked

Y Combinator's Work at a Startup

1Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
1 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Y Combinator's Work at a Startup was named 1 time in Job advertising, where JobTarget led with 21%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market75 of 109
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In job advertising · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Y Combinator's Work at a Startup for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Job advertising and distributionTalent acquisition0%75 of 1090%1under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Y Combinator's Work at a Startup yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Y Combinator's Work at a Startup across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Y Combinator's Work at a Startup, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Y Combinator's Work at a Startup was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Indeed1 of 11Not in the top three
LinkedIn1 of 11Not in the top three
Built In1 of 10Not in the top three
Dice1 of 10Not in the top three
Fiverr1 of 10Not in the top three
FlexJobs1 of 10Not in the top three
Glassdoor1 of 10Not in the top three
Handshake1 of 10Not in the top three
Ladders1 of 10Not in the top three
Snagajob1 of 10Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Y Combinator's Work at a Startup. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 1 answers that named Y Combinator's Work at a Startup and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bestjobsearchapps.com1
blog.theinterviewguys.com1
builtin.com1
business.com1
careerbldr.com1
coderpad.io1
connectsafely.ai1
finance.yahoo.com1
forbes.com1
g2.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Y Combinator's Work at a Startup came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bestjobsearchapps.com/articles/en/best-job-posting-sites-2026-ultimate-comparison-for-us-e1
bestjobsearchapps.com/articles/en/best-job-search-mobile-apps-in-2026-indeed-linkedin-zipr1
blog.theinterviewguys.com/niche-job-boards-20251
builtin.com/articles/tech-job-boards1
business.com/categories/best-job-posting-sites1
careerbldr.com/blog/job-boards-comparison-guide1
coderpad.io/blog/hiring-developers/niche-job-boards-find-software-developers1
connectsafely.ai/articles/indeed-vs-linkedin-job-search-comparison-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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