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YC S25 founder raised $6.3M seed in 4 days, the only signal at application: a GitHub repo with 10k stars.

Luigi (Manufact) built mcp-use, an open-source MCP SDK, from a bedroom with no revenue, no customers. Full timeline with screenshots in the blog post. Three mechanics: real devs using it beats a polished application; launch again and again (most growth came from announcing each ship); apply when you would keep going regardless. The open-source repo doubled as the distribution channel.

The part most founders skip: sending YC growth updates even after submission.

https://manufact.com/blog/10000-github-stars
Manufact The road to 10,000 stars The history of mcp-use, told as a pull request, from the first commit to 10,000 GitHub stars. Commits are what we shipped; comments are what happened.
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