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Meteoric launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Drones that clear clouds over solar farms and weaken hurricanes

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

meteoric.earth ↗

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Meteoric on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Meteoric is building drones that clear clouds over solar farms and ultimately weaken severe storms and hurricanes. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Meteoric builds drones that fly into low and mid-altitude clouds to reduce their reflectivity and recover sunlight to utility-scale solar plants." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Mete Karslioglu, Founder/CEO: Building drones that clear clouds over solar farms and ultimately weaken severe storms and hurricanes. Previously developed spray nozzles to brighten clouds (MCB) at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair. Cambridge MEng in Aerospace, Energy & Mechanical Engineering (source)
  • Eric Nilsson, Founder/CTO: Co-founder and CTO at Meteoric (S26). We build drones that clear clouds over solar farms and ultimately weaken hurricanes. Previously worked on capacitive sensing for digital microfluidics at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge MEng in Engineering, specialised in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Information & Computer Engineering, Instrumentation & Control. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-08-22: "Meteoric – Drones that clear clouds over solar farms" posted to Hacker News by porridgeraisin, 13 points and 6 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch Meteoric

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • BetaList ↗
    Self-promotion allowedPaid
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • CoFoundersLab ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Invincible Product Hunters (Global) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Telegram channel readers; URL-first, attention-light
  • Launching Next ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • LaunchPedia ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • MicroLaunch ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories

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