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Our first product is a **novel iron drug** in a **wearable skin patch** with significantly improved safety, efficacy and tolerability to treat **Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA).** When approved, Keylika’s proprietary transdermal iron will be the **world's first** prescription iron patch.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) is a hugely understated, highly prevalent problem with subpar treatments.**\n\nIron deficiency (ID) affects **30 million** people in the US alone and about **1.6 billion** worldwide. Current treatments include oral iron supplements which are typically associated with low bioavailability and poor tolerability due to mild to severe gastrointestinal (GI) side-effects (constipation, nausea, stomach discomfort, diarrhea, etc.) often leading to patient non-compliance. Also, a significant number of patients just do not absorb iron taken orally.  The second line of treatment with intravenous (IV) iron infusions is more invasive, riskier, costlier and requires hospitalization due to the risk of anaphylactic shocks.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nOur first product is a **new small molecule (new molecular entity)**, an **iron-containing drug** designed for **transdermal** delivery by a wearable skin patch: **NistuFe**. It is a safe, highly bioavailable iron complex with higher efficacy. A therapeutically relevant dosage is administered through the skin directly into the systemic circulation, thereby circumventing the gastrointestinal tract and all associated adverse effects. Thus, we combine the benefits of both orals and IV iron, and without their respective downsides: a drug suitable for self-administration with no GI side effects and no required hospitalization that yields a superior treatment outcome from the convenience of a patient’s home. 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Clara started as an AI skin analysis product, and today it has evolved into a **full-stack AI assistant for dermatology**; combining analysis, guidance, product discovery, routine building, and prescription support in one experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90878&key=user_uploads/480320/ca033475-82fe-42d1-a02f-c81449db06f5)\n\n## 🤕 The Problem\n\n**The global challenge:** 3 billion people face skin issues, yet 90% can't access dermatologists due to cost and availability barriers.\n\nSkin and hair care decisions are still fragmented. Users jump between social media advice, search results, product catalogs, prescriptions they don’t fully understand, and doctor visits that are too expensive or too hard to access regularly.\n\n**India's crisis:**\n\n* 1 [dermatologist](https://clinikally.com/products/video-consult-with-a-skin-hair-specialist?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=290525+yc_launch_post) per 100,000 people\n* Consultations often require long journeys + weeks of waiting + month's skincare budget in fees\n* 70% of Indians live with untreated chronic skin concerns\n\nEven when people know they need help, they usually don’t know where to begin: What is this concern? Which products are right for me? How do I build a routine? What does my prescription actually do? **Clara is built for that exact gap.**\n\n## 💡 Our Solution\n\nClara is your **AI assistant for skin and hair health**. You can start with a face or hair analysis, ask Clara questions in chat, get tailored routines, receive product recommendations, and even upload a prescription to understand what it means and which products match it.\n\nInstead of giving users a static report and leaving them there, Clara helps them move all the way from confusion to clarity to action. That makes Clara useful not just once, but every time someone has a skincare or haircare decision to make.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90878&key=user_uploads/480320/9c355c2d-b7dd-4382-a40e-9f99ee36597d)\n\n**What Clara can do:**\n\n* Analyze face and hair concerns with AI-powered flows.\n* Recommend personalized routines based on user concerns.\n* Suggest relevant products with dermatology-backed guidance.\n* Explain prescriptions and match them to useful products.\n* Answer ongoing skin and hair questions in a conversational interface\n\n## 💡 How Clara Works\n\n1. Start with your concern. Scan your face, choose hair/scalp analysis, upload a prescription, or just ask a question in chat.\n2. Clara understands the context and gives you structured guidance instead of generic internet advice.\n3. You get personalized recommendations across routines, products, and next steps.\n4. When needed, Clara can work as the intelligent layer connecting users to Clinikally’s broader dermatology ecosystem.\n\n## **Why this matters**\n\nMost skincare tools do one thing well: analysis, product discovery, or consultation intake. Clara is designed to unify those moments into one assistant experience. The result is a product that feels less like a calculator and more like an always-available dermatologist copilot.\n\nFor users, that means faster decisions and better clarity. For us, it means Clara can become the highest-intent entry point into personalized dermatology journeys across Clinikally.\n\n## **Try Clara**\n\nYou can now use Clara to:\n\n* Analyze your skin or hair\n* Ask dermatology questions\n* Build a customized routine\n* Get product suggestions\n* Upload a prescription for instant guidance\n\n**⭐⭐ Try Clara here:** [clara.clinikally.com](https://clara.clinikally.com) **⭐⭐**\\\n**Open the assistant directly:** [clara.clinikally.com/chat](https://clara.clinikally.com/chat)\n\n**More exciting features are coming**: Scalp scanning and cross-platform mobile apps for our full-stack e-pharmacy and [dermatologist consult](https://clinikally.com/products/video-consult-with-a-skin-hair-specialist?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=290525+yc_launch_post) platform launching later this year. Stay tuned!\n\n_— Arjun & the Clinikally Team_\n\n## 🚀 Our Ask\n\nWe’d love feedback on where Clara feels most valuable: analysis, routine generation, product guidance, prescription understanding, or conversational support. 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While large numbers of patients often visit major dermatology clinics in cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru from far and wide, it becomes cost-prohibitive and inconvenient to consistently follow up in-person.\n\nMoreover, the acceleration of digital health driven by COVID lockdowns has further demonstrated to physicians and patients alike that a growing number of derma conditions can be treated through a combination of telehealth and a preset number of dermatologist-recommended products.\n\nWe are democratizing dermatology in India like never before, condition by condition, and shipping solutions that actually work.\n\n👋 **Team**\n\nFounder is a **Stanford CS Grad + Stanford Med Researcher**; Chief Medical Officer is a **Cambridge-trained dermatologist** who runs one of India’s largest dermatology practices; Head of Ops has 15+ years at **Allergan.**\n\nWe are approaching this problem with extensive experience from the multi-faceted angles of digital health, clinical dermatology, and pharma.\n\n**🤝 Quick Ask**\n\n* Follow us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/clinikallyofficial/?hl=en) & [Twitter](https://twitter.com/weareclinikally), where we constantly disseminate highly informational & scientific content.\n* Conditions or products that you’d like us to expand coverage for?\n* Feedback on the [www.clinikally.com](http://www.clinikally.com) UI/UX is always welcome!\n\n**Talk to us** - Interested in working, learning more, researching or collaborating? 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Starting with MX we’re going after a market with a potential in AUM of >$60B and 40M accounts", "one_liner": "First LatAm W3 WealthTech for AutoInvesting in securities & crypto", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Asset Management", "launched_at": 1657547591, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Crypto / Web3", "Investing", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Asset Management" ], "regions": [ "Mexico", "Latin America", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weltio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/weltio.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Mexico City", "country": "MX", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/weltio/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/WeltioApp", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/weltioapp", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7bb7c309bff6f12dbf8b78ad14581d2fc53495f8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1007350, "full_name": "David Abusaid", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "David Abusaid holds a BS Civil Engineering from Tec de Monterrey and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona. He has more than 12 years of experience providing consulting services to financial institutions, working in more than 15 countries globally with McKinsey & Company and Oliver Wyman in Mexico and Miami. David is one of the co-founders of Weltio, where he has been working for the last 9 months, leading the areas of Administration, Legal, Partnerships, Human Capital and Accounting.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-abusaid/", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/90f139859c56aa48bcf349fda30ad0f4334f77eb.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1013260, "full_name": "George Marvin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "George has over 4 years of product managment experience in fintech, working for Klarna and Wayfair in Berlin, previously he helped tradicional financial institutions embark on their digital transformations during his 8 years of consulting at McKinsey. He holds an MBA from London Business School, and BS in mechatronics engineering from Tec de Monterrey.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gcookmarvin/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/georgecook", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/abfbfd7505780a63349dea5a8d5cfab302220375.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64327, "title": "Weltio - Wealth Management platform designed for Latin America", "tagline": "Providing access to global financial assets to grow wealth in Latin America ", "body": "Hey everyone! We are excited to launch [Weltio](https://weltio.com/) - a low cost platform designed for Latam users to open a brokerage account in US dollars for investment in US equities and 20+ cryptocurrencies. Weltio is built on an API first model that allows us to focus on the user experience by building features for the middleware and front end.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nThere is a historical challenge to create and transfer wealth through generations in Latin America.  There is a lack of access to world-class assets for the middle and middle-upper classes, costs are high, education is low, and customer experience is lagging behind advanced economies.  In the past 30 years, investing in the US markets has yielded a 5x benefit (adjusted for inflation), while in Mexico, as an example, yields negative returns.  \n\nThe chart below summarizes how big the overall disparity of investment outcomes between the investing in local assets vs. global assets:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64327&key=user_uploads/1007350/c3c8fb28-46bf-4251-abc6-1f397e15bd0a)\n\n**The Solution**\n\nWeltio allows users to open a brokerage account in the US in less than 5 minutes with a smooth onboarding process.  Once the account is open, users can fund their accounts with a domestic wire (in our initial geography Mexico, wires are made in MXN).  The user then receives a deposit in USD in their account in less than 30 minutes!  From their account they can invest in stocks and ETFs and buy/sell cryptocurrencies (20+ available) - we have zero cost for trading and have a very competitive commissions structure for crypto.  Additionally, we believe it is our duty to enable our users to make the best investment decisions by providing essential information and education modules for them to make the best decisions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64327&key=user_uploads/1007350/4b06e230-dfb5-401f-88d0-0913e7c64b0b)\n\n**Background on the Idea and Founders**\n\nWeltio started in fall 2021, but the desire to give access to high-quality financial services to people in Latin America started years before that.  David has spent most of his professional career as a consultant for McKinsey and Oliver Wyman, advising financial institutions in more than 15 countries in 4 continents, where he has seen, first-hand, the vast difference in financial products and services offered.  George spent several years as a consultant for McKinsey, also advising financial institutions.  After deciding to leave for tech, he joined Wayfair and Klarna in Berlin, where he developed expertise in product.  David and George met more than 10 years ago at McKinsey, where they worked together on several projects and have remained good friends since then. \n\n**Asks for the Community**\n\nDownload the platform and tell us your thoughts! Although the platform is for now only covering Mexico, feedback on the platform helps us build a world-class product, ping us directly and we can provide a test-user account.\n\nIf you or someone you know offers API based investing, or yield as a service please reach out! We’d love to connect and explore a potential partnership going forward. \n\n**Reach Out**\n\nFeel free to reach out to us on social media: Instagram (@weltioapp), Facebook (/weltioapp), twitter (@weltioapp), LinkedIn (Weltio) or at: [founders@weltio.com](mailto:founders@weltio.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjX-weltio-wealth-management-platform-designed-for-latin-america", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2022-07-05T14:43:32.891Z" } ] }, { "id": 26660, "name": "Chordio", "slug": "chordio", "former_names": [ "Concert" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b29418be152187b38ccc249652bf446728ba67bc.png", "website": "https://chordio.com", "all_locations": "Issaquah, WA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Designers and product managers are often locked out of prototyping on top of their existing product. Security policies, large code base, and complex build setup all stand between the promise of code-first front-end design and reality.\r\n\r\nThe Chordio Workbench helps non-technical team members prototype new experiences on top of their existing products even when they don’t have access to the source code.\r\n\r\nThe full workflow runs in Claude Code on your local machine. It starts with cloning the front-end of the product into the workbench repository directly from the browser and compiling it into code a coding agent can work with. This means anyone can start prototyping in minutes without having to worry about a complex environment setup.\r\n\r\nThe Workbench includes agent skills to help ensure prototypes meet team standards, are backed by research, and presented to stakeholders with clarity.", "one_liner": "Claude Code design workspace built for product teams", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1657219322, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chordio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/chordio.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Issaquah", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/chordio/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/chordioapp", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b29418be152187b38ccc249652bf446728ba67bc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1010497, "full_name": "Ehud Halberstam", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I'm the co-founder and CEO of Chordio. From 2014-2017 I was a co-founder and CEO of Brand.ai, where we built a platform that solved problems of design at scale at the enterprise. \nIn 2015 Brand.ai participated in the Techstars accelerator and raised financing from amazing investors. It was acquired by InVision in 2017. \nFrom 2017-2022 I helped build Brand.ai into InVision DSM, InVision's second commercial product.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/halberstam", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ehudhal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b8c0008c97acd1a307f0ae85cc3269ac49799896.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018980, "full_name": "Amit Bar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO - Chordio.\n\nPreviously co-founded Brand.ai - a platform for design system management. Sold to InVision in 2017, and stayed on as an engineering manager and director of engineering. Continued to scale and evolve the product into InVision's DSM (Design System Manager).\n\nMoved on in 2022 to lean into the project management space, where I see many familiar patterns and challenges waiting to be solved.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://il.linkedin.com/in/amithalb", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5e0f8946755dfb901df90ccf603e6855f8ecb88e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 96377, "title": "Design Rails: Generate an agent-ready brand identity in minutes", "tagline": "Chat with an AI Creative Director to craft a complete brand from logos to voice & tone. Export as a design system your coding agents use to build consistent, on-brand interfaces.", "body": "Hey everyone, Ehud here, CEO of Chordio, the company behind Design Rails.\n\nOver the last year, like everyone else, we've been building products with Claude, Cursor, and other coding agents. We wanted to ship a number of products rapidly to see what resonates most with customers.\n\nWe hit two separate problems:\n\n**Problem 1: The UI looked polished at first glance, but \"wrong\" in ways we couldn't unsee**\n\nThis went beyond the “purple gradient syndrome”. The agent would invent new components with inconsistent styles. It added static labels that looked like buttons. It embellished non-interactive cards with confusing hover states. It used emojis instead of elegant icons. Random choices everywhere.\n\n**Problem 2: We lacked a cohesive brand**\n\nWe were ready to launch a new product experiment within a week. The product worked, but it still felt like a prototype. We worried a “weekend project” look would distort our launch metrics and push us to the wrong conclusions. But we also were not willing to sink thousands of $ into branding before knowing anyone cared.\n\nAs ex-founders of Brand.ai (acquired by InVision), we believed there was a better way. Here’s what we built.\n\n**The solution**\n\nDesign Rails helps you craft your brand through chat, then export structured files your AI agent would use to stay on brand and generate polished UI.\n\nIn under 20 minutes, you get a design-context.zip package that includes a markdown spec, and design-tokens.json that specify:\n\n* Color palette\n* Typography system\n* Component guidelines\n* Voice & tone guide\n\nPlus\n\n* Logo assets in SVG and PNG with light & dark versions.\n\nIt works for new or existing products:\n\nYou drop the files into **/design-context** in your codebase, and tell your agent to\n\n```\nRead design-context/agent-instructions.md and create an integration plan for implementing this design system in our codebase.\n```\n\nThe agent will update your styles, move logos, configure components, and update your LLM instructions ([CLAUDE.md](http://claude.md/), .cursorrules, etc.) to reference the new design system.\n\nWe built this for AI builders who want to ship fast, iterate fast, and have their design look cohesive from day one.\n\nAlso, we’re trying something new (we’ll see how it goes!) - Outcome-based pricing. No token credits. No vendor lock-in. Use Design Rails for free, and only pay to download if you’re happy with the result.\n\nWould love your feedback, questions, and use cases you want us to support next.\n\nThanks for checking out Design Rails!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/204826ee-b53a-44f3-897f-f9947699012d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/7c5faacb-d99e-4a2f-bdff-45bb8586ba01)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/42b6af05-017a-4fba-bf7d-ba6af209ee58)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/df99fc11-2fe6-440b-b00d-c353337ea564)\n\nSee it in action: https://youtu.be/TZ3gPYrCLUQ \\[2:19 mins\\]", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P4T-design-rails-generate-an-agent-ready-brand-identity-in-minutes", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-12-27T15:41:38.795Z" }, { "id": 95564, "title": "Design Rails: Give your coding agent its own product design team", "tagline": "Ship better UX faster with specialized design agents", "body": "Hi everyone! We're excited to introduce a set of specialized AI agents that give your coding agent the design expertise it’s missing.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nYou ask Claude or Cursor to build a feature, and you get working code in 2 minutes, but you're stuck with prototype-level design:\n\n* **Visual glitches**: misaligned cards, text bleeding outside containers, buttons cut off\n* **Generic \"AI-feel\" style**: yet another purple gradient that doesn't fit your brand\n* **Flawed UX**: ignored existing navigation pattern, unlabeled icon buttons, missing loading states\n\nYou end up iterating for hours to reach production quality, if you get there at all.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nDesign Rails is an MCP server that connects to AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, …) and unlocks production-ready design through three key capabilities:\n\n**1. Design foundation setup** - Design Rails first establishes a strong design foundation to understand your product like a senior designer would:\n\n* Brand & Design System (extracted from your codebase, or built from scratch)\n* Product Context (what you're building, user personas, key workflows)\n\nThis foundation is captured as .md files in your project. You own the files, version them, and can edit them.\n\n**2. Spec-driven design** - Your coding agent consults Design Rails when facing design decisions. Design Rails orchestrates specialist AI agents including a UX Designer, UI Designer, Accessibility Specialist, and UX Copywriter. Each agent has deep context of your brand, unique design domain expertise, and access to a library of proven patterns from top products.. They work in parallel to produce comprehensive design specs. Your agent gets a detailed blueprint to implement.\n\n**3. Automatic design reviews** - Design Rails spins up a browser to see the rendered results, validating implementation against the spec to catch visual glitches and design inconsistencies before you even see them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95564&key=user_uploads/1010497/4aa73593-8ee3-481f-bcf8-2aaf25f9842c)\n\nSee live before and after examples here: https://designrails.com/#examples\n\n# **Transform glitchy prototypes into production-ready experiences**\n\nTry it out on your existing project, or give it a quick try using an example project we provide as a playground. We’d love to hear your feedback and question- get in touch at [hello@designrails.com](mailto:hello@designrails.com).\n\nTry it now for free at [designrails.com](http://designrails.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OrM-design-rails-give-your-coding-agent-its-own-product-design-team", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-11-17T17:46:13.194Z" }, { "id": 92765, "title": "Chordio - AI-powered design reviews that guard your standards", "tagline": "Remove QA grunt work, catch issues early, and ship polished interfaces with confidence.", "body": "👋 We’re excited to introduce [Chordio](https://chordio.com), an AI-powered design review tool for designers.\n\n# The Problem\n\nAs generative AI increases the pace of design work, maintaining quality through manual review is quickly becoming impossible. Manual review is slow, inconsistent, and costly. Mistakes slip through, standards drift, and QA turns into a painful bottleneck.\n\nTeams need a better way to answer, “Is this good?” for every design, every time.\n\n# The Solution\n\n**Chordio** is an AI-powered design review tool purpose-built to help product teams raise the quality bar and reduce overhead as they scale up their output. Here’s how it helps:\n\n* **Enforces Quality and Standards**: Chordio checks your designs against your organization’s unique standards, not just generic best practices. You get actionable, relevant feedback that aligns with your team’s guidelines.\n* **Scales Best Practices**: By automating reviews and surfacing helpful resources, Chordio makes it easy for teams of any size to consistently apply best practices and grow design maturity.\n* **Shifts Review Left**: With our Figma plugin, designers can catch and fix issues early—when changes are cheap and easy.\n* **Reduces Friction**: Chordio proactively flags issues before hand-off, so designers, developers, and QA don’t need to play “catch up” later. Fewer last-minute surprises mean less frustration and less design debt.\n* **Broad Review Capabilities**: Our Chrome extension lets you review _any_ webpage, in Staging or Production, so you get broader test coverage.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92765&key=user_uploads/1010497/bf4fd533-cc44-45e2-bb2f-35c4bea089bf)\n\n# The Backstory\n\nWhile building a design assistant, we realized how much teams view QA as a burdensome overhead. We noticed that as AI-generated designs become the norm, the gap between design and QA capacity grows wider. The need for a smarter, faster way to review designs became urgent.\n\nThat’s why we built Chordio. Our goal is to help every product team answer “Is this good?” confidently and at scale.\n\n# Try Chordio\n\nIf you’re a designer, product manager, or engineer who cares about quality and wants to keep moving fast, we’d love for you to give Chordio a try. Your feedback will help us shape the future of automated design review.\n\n# Free consulting\n\nIf you’re looking to establish team or company standards or connect your existing ones to an automated QA workflow, let’s get on a call.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92765&key=user_uploads/1010497/82027ecc-ee92-4b4f-bc34-4a82d9609f91)\n\n— The Chordio Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8D-chordio-ai-powered-design-reviews-that-guard-your-standards", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-08-06T16:06:30.835Z" }, { "id": 90093, "title": "PRDKit: AI-powered PRDs and supporting GTM artifacts in one place", "tagline": "Turn fuzzy feature ideas into clear specs — then auto‑generate the wireframes, user flows & GTM assets that follow.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90093&key=user_uploads/1010497/cb87b05b-b9dc-4021-9428-9092d8176677)\n\n👋 Excited to introduce [PRDKit](https://prdkit.ai) - an AI-powered PRD workbench (web + Slack) for product managers and builders.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nWriting great product requirement documents (PRDs) is hard. These documents lay the foundation for a product or feature, yet they’re often bloated, confusing, and missing edge cases.\n\nThis leads to expensive downstream problems from a lack of team alignment to unnecessary work that gets thrown away.\n\nWrangling ChatGPT to write PRDs _works_, but it returns lots of fluff and quickly feels like running a sprint board in a spreadsheet—powerful yet awkward.\n\n**Solution**:\n\nPRDKit is a focused AI tool that captures rough ideas, structures them into clear, lightweight PRDs, and—at the click of a button—spins up the follow‑ups you always need:\n\n* Wireframes & user‑flow diagrams\n* Modular instructions for a dev AI‑agent like Bolt or Loveable for faster prototyping\n* GTM copy snippets\n\nFurther, it’s contextual. It helps you quickly capture the essence of your existing product (enter the homepage URL) to craft PRDs that cater to your personas and existing workflows.\\\n\\\nHere’s a [2-mins demo video]( https://youtu.be/QKNcrOjpUrQ) where you can see it in action. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90093&key=user_uploads/1010497/7b05811f-7e8b-478a-8b4a-9f30b40c112e)\n\n**Back story:**\n\nWe were deep into building a UX assistant when we found that product specs were slowing us down. Even with the aid of ChatGPT and Claude, requirements were bloated and disorganized.\n\nSo we spun up a quick internal project on the same AI infrastructure we’ve built, aimed solely at turning fuzz into structure. The team loved it; specs got sharper, hand‑offs got quieter.\n\nThat side project has now been packaged for public use. We want to learn where it shines—or breaks—outside our walls.\n\nProduct managers and builders: [take it for a spin](https://prdkit.ai)! We’ll top off your credits for feedback.\n\nThe PRDKit team\\\n[hello@prdkit.ai](mailto:hello@prdkit.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90093&key=user_uploads/1010497/2d54b5da-4c61-492d-9951-eff6893615a4)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NR7-prdkit-ai-powered-prds-and-supporting-gtm-artifacts-in-one-place", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-05-06T19:11:11.772Z" }, { "id": 80115, "title": "Chordio: Your generative UX assistant", "tagline": "Go from a product idea to screen wireframes 10x faster.", "body": "**TLDR;**\n\nChordio is a generative UX assistant that designs screen wireframes based on their description to help product teams increase their product iteration velocity.\n\nAs a founder, you can use Chordio to visualize a new concept quickly, speed up the customer feedback loop, and save time and money building the right solution.\n\n[Here’s a 1-min video](https://youtu.be/eKQ_YJazFZs):\n\n**Problem**\n\nUX design is expensive. Visualizing and prototyping new concepts manually is a laborious task for designers and agonizingly slow for non-designers. This limits the number of designs a product team is able to vet early and leads to expensive redesigns of features down the road.\n\n**Solution**\n\nChordio helps founders and product managers run faster user feedback loops, improve communication clarity, facilitate faster team alignment, and reduce design costs.\n\nYou can think of it as a ChatGPT that’s pre-built for generating product wireframes. With it, you can:\n\n* Generate multiple screen wireframes at a time based on text description.\n* Refine the generated designs with text feedback.\n* Co-create effective copy and UI. Think of Chordio not only as a design assistant but also as a UX writer assistant.\n\n**Backstory**\n\nOur previous startup, [Brand.ai](http://Brand.ai), which helped designers and developers work better together, was acquired by InVision. We’ve been building software to support product teams since.\n\nThese days, AI is reshaping how products get built. GitHub Copilot and similar assistants speed up the development phase. Yet, the design phase is largely left unassisted, creating a new bottleneck in the product development lifecycle.\n\nWe’re building Chordio to remove this bottleneck and help teams build the right products faster.\n\nGet started for free at [chordio.com](https://chordio.com)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n**Contact us to customize Chordio for your team’s existing product and design system.**\n\n\\- Ehud & Amit", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KqB-chordio-your-generative-ux-assistant", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-04-11T19:21:38.063Z" }, { "id": 65037, "title": "Chordio - Lightweight sprint planner for remote development teams", "tagline": "Planning made easy. Accurately reflect workload and give everyone a voice to quickly align on a plan forward.", "body": "👋 Hi everyone! Ehud and Amit, co-founders of [Chordio](https://chordio.com) here. We previously co-founded [Brand.ai](https://Brand.ai) to help designers and developers work better together. We sold the company to InVision in 2017 and worked on improving product team collaboration since. With Chordio, we’re looking to help teams at any size plan their work better.\n\n### **Why we’re building Chordio**\n\nExisting tools focus on issue tracking, and underserve the upfront project planning needs. Prioritization, estimation, and capacity planning are commonly problems teams are left to struggle with. The transition to remote work made planning harder still, as planning had often started with a whiteboard huddle. The average project management tool doesn’t speak casual. It’s built for an official plan, due dates, and commitments.\n\nThat’s why over 80% of the teams we’ve talked with reach for a general-purpose solution like a spreadsheet for their planning activities. They then face a different set of problems: sweating over manual work, getting formulas wrong, dealing with random editors breaking fragile automations, accumulating massive backlogs, and losing sight of the source of truth among a sea of documents.\n\nSo, we’re building Chordio as the best of both worlds. A lightweight, collaborative tool with key planning features built-in.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65037&key=user_uploads/1010497/73819665-290c-41d1-9d44-5cfe67e9ba8b)\n\n\n### **How it works**\n\nChordio lets you work at the right planning fidelity. Go from a casual brainstorm to evaluating rough plan outlines, to an official release plan. When you’re done, export the work to Jira or your issue tracking tool of choice. - Integrations are coming soon.\n\nYou can create any number of planning boards where you can specify a focus for the sprint, list features, provide estimates, and assign to people. As you assign tasks you’ll see the capacity graph of individuals getting updated so you can protect people’s time and ensure an optimal sprint scope.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65037&key=user_uploads/1010497/68d67d7e-1ce9-4713-a9c9-9e4eaf8d69ed)\n\n\n### **Partner with us?**\n\nWe’re looking for design partners. That is, companies that will pilot Chordio’s next major release and provide early feedback to guide our roadmap. **If you’re running multiple projects and interested in improving upfront planning, and ongoing visibility into teams’ work at any level, let’s talk.** Here’s a [Calendly link](https://calendly.com/ehud-chordio/design-partnership) to book some time.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guz-chordio-lightweight-sprint-planner-for-remote-development-teams", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2022-08-01T07:05:06.639Z" } ] }, { "id": 26661, "name": "Stream", "slug": "stream", "former_names": [ "Beam" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4afa12f148d4692ca9eb6839e409ffa30655b470.png", "website": "http://www.stream.claims", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Stream, we’re on a mission to modernize the insurance industry. Our product—the Stream AI Claims Workbench—uses custom AI agents to turn a constant stream of PDFs into automated workflows and high-value signals. 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At Stream we automate the high-touch workflows workers’ comp claims adjusters do on a daily basis. Our platform saves adjuster time spent on repetitive tasks like calling and faxing, allowing the adjuster to focus on the high-value claim activities that improve the injured workers’ claim experience and optimize financial outcomes for insurance companies.\n\n**The Problem** 🤕\n\nWorkers’ Compensation (WC) insurance is a government-mandated program that provides benefits to workers who get hurt on the job. When a workplace injury occurs, a claim is filed on behalf of the injured worker. This claim pays out for the wages and medical treatment needed to get the employee back to work.\n\nToday, claim adjudication is a grossly manual process which involves adjusters spending the majority of their day either on the phone tracking down information or entering unstructured notes into legacy systems. The average adjuster handles 140 cases at any single time and takes 5 business days to respond to inquiries from injured workers.\n\nConsequently, the Injured worker is left alone to navigate an unfamiliar and complex claims process. Imagine feeling vulnerable with no clue how your bills will be paid. This pushes injured workers to the brink and inevitably to the front door of their local injury lawyer. In states like CA & FL, over one third of all WC claims are litigated - and the moment an attorney gets involved, that claim balloons 5x in cost.\n\n**\\~ Stream**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65582&key=user_uploads/986387/9172c9b2-5a9e-4064-80b6-d180a335c129)\n\nThe two of us met at Next Insurance, where Eric led WC product and Eilam led Risk Engineering. Eric also previously worked at Liberty Mutual as a WC claims adjuster for 5 years. At Next, we realized nothing has changed since Eric’s days as an adjuster and none of the automation we were building for the underwriting side exists in claims management today. That’s why we left to build Stream.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65582&key=user_uploads/986387/9c055997-8925-4c23-b75b-7117213d6550)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65582&key=user_uploads/986387/b33699f2-0c61-43aa-a3fc-a98ddeca5c3f)\n\nStream saves up to 40% of an adjuster’s time spent on the phone, sending faxes, and manually typing notes into their claim system. Moreover, we also improve the claim experience for the injured worker by providing real-time information such as claim status and financial updates, and help facilitate services such as transportation to doctors offices - all via text.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nKnow anyone working in commercial insurance or with experience in claims processing? We’d love an intro!\n\n\\\nFeel free to reach out to us - [founders@stream.claims](mailto:founders@stream.claims)\n\n\\\nThanks,\n\nEric & Eilam\n\n[www.stream.claims](http://www.stream.claims)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H3m-stream-modernizing-the-workers-comp-claim-process", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2022-08-23T19:30:31.281Z" } ] }, { "id": 26662, "name": "Paces", "slug": "paces", "former_names": [ "Paces AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a92cafe33d123a85f38886d7af1f5aa33cbfd033.png", "website": "https://paces.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Energy demand is skyrocketing, and renewable energy is the most scalable path forward. But today’s development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals.\r\n\r\nPaces exists to change that. 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Siting and Due Diligence of Green Projects", "tagline": "Paces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects", "body": "### **The Problem**\n\n[80% of](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/lbnls-nationwide-interconnection-survey-has-good-news-and-bad-news-for-clean-energy) clean energy projects **developers** start never actually get built because most projects are started without deep due diligence on zoning and interconnection due to the cost of collecting that data. This means $17B worth of cancelled projects per year.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nPaces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects.\n\nFirst we collect environmental, permitting, zoning, energy grid data from various different sources; then we analyze the data and use AI to identify the best places for developers to build their next projects. \n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nOur long term vision for Paces is for it to be the **go-to software platform to enable the climate positive development of every piece of land on earth**. With Paces:\n\n* Solar developers can find and track all the sites for their projects.\n* EV charging developers can easily get a ranked list of the best nearby sites to deploy their next 20 charging stations\n* Heavy energy users like Data Centers, Direct Air Capture and Hydrogen plants can find locations with excess electricity\n* Financial firms can evaluate the value and risks of green assets around the world\n\n### **About Us**\n\nPaces was founded by Charles and James in early 2022.\n\n* James is our CEO! He grew up on an organic farm in Ireland and across a 15 year tech career he was employee 1 at an Google acquired AI startup and has millions in career SaaS sales.\n* Charles is our CTO! He grew up in Beijing and completed a CS degree at Cornell. Before Paces, he led AI efficiency at Facebook AI and built [metrics to track power/carbon cost of AI models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00364.pdf).\n\n### **Contact Us**\n\nIf you are building in the physical worlds, such as solar, wind, battery storage, hydrogen, EV charging, real estate and data centers, please reach out to us at [team@paces.com!](mailto:team@paces.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gfq-paces-siting-and-due-diligence-of-green-projects", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2022-06-27T16:38:09.514Z" } ] }, { "id": 26663, "name": "Denormalized", "slug": "denormalized", "former_names": [ "Probably Nothing Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b63e1460304048d366b7e3939ef213373a7766f2.png", "website": "https://www.denormalized.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Denormalized is a serverless real-time data platform that allows users to query data quickly while eliminating the need to manage complex infrastructure. 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I can nerd out about pricing algorithms and marketplace optimizations till kingdom come.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameychaugule/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/54b9fb4c7224819d06fcba138730d3e1a8c7da88.jpg" }, { "user_id": 9674, "full_name": "Matt Green", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Data things.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgreen9", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/IAmMattGreen", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fa894df0a424af40b0b1ffd5873da1acccb76b08.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64973, "title": "Probably Nothing Labs - Databricks for Web3", "tagline": "Real-time Indexer-as-a-Service to help Web3 teams power data backends for their apps in days", "body": "**🤔 The Problem**\n\nIndexing public blockchains is a major pain!\n\nEngineers need to build resilient poll loops around chain specific validators that request, parse, and track raw blocks, transactions and event logs as they arrive. This work requires in-depth knowledge of specific protocols, smart contract ABIs, and stateful stream processing (not to mention handling chain re-org or tracking the mempool). All of this work just to build a backend for your Uniswap position tracking dashboard or that Instagram for NFTs app.\n\nNevermind having to build systems to monitor individual positions for collateral drops in DeFi lending protocols. \n\n**🤌 Our Solution**\n\nWe built **Gigabrain**, a best-in-class blockchain indexer with support for Ethereum and Solana. Using advanced stateful streaming techniques, Gigabrain is able to parse, index, and store transactions within seconds of blocks being confirmed. In addition, we’ve created a versioned registry of all smart contracts on Ethereum as well its L2s.\n\nWith Gigabrain you can —\n\n* Run **complex stateful aggregations** for **on-chain events** as soon as - or before - they show up on the blockchain.\n* Never have to worry about keeping track of contract specific ABIs with our **Smart Contract Registry**.\n* **Run live SQL** against the **Ethereum mempool** (we use a globally distributed set of nodes that we manage ourselves).\n* Run **large scale analytics** against our datalake as well as **power robust data backends** for your own Web3 apps.\n\n[🎬](https://emojipedia.org/clapper-board/) **The Demo**\n\nCheck out our [short demo on Loom](https://www.loom.com/share/d4784d7e2a9f4503bd2beab5e070e840).\n\n**📞 Our Ask**\n\nIf you or anyone else in your network -\n\n* Need to work with on-chain data at scale or in real-time\n* Parse a wide array of smart contract specific on-chain events\n* Have the need to build sophisticated on-chain monitoring solutions for DeFi protocols or NFT Marketplaces\n\nPlease get in touch with us!\n\n**Amey**: [amey@probablynothinglabs.xyz](mailto:amey@probablynothinglabs.xyz) , **Telegram**: @ambrood, **Discord**: ambrood#9366\n\n**Matt**: [matt@probablynothinglabs.xyz](mailto:matt@probablynothinglabs.xyz), **Telegram**: @mgreenn, **Discord**: mattt#2076", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gtx-probably-nothing-labs-databricks-for-web3", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-07-28T14:40:55.685Z" } ] }, { "id": 26666, "name": "Airtrain AI", "slug": "airtrain-ai", "former_names": [ "Sematic AI", "Sematic" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/75317513ffcf6008b389c1e9fada5072394a8511.png", "website": "https://airtrain.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Airtrain AI is a no-code data platform for Large Language Models.\r\n\r\nProprietary AI models such as GPT-4 are very powerful but also very costly, slow, unreliable, and unsecured.\r\n\r\nAs businesses look to scale their AI prototypes into production-grade products, they struggle with large AI bills, slow APIs and large failure rates.\r\nOn the other hand, smaller language models have been proven to be able to perform on-part with large ones with fine-tuned on high-quality datasets.\r\n\r\nAirtrain AI lets AI practitioners explore alternatives to proprietary models, build up training datasets, evaluate, fine-tune, and serve a large selection of open-source LLMs.", "one_liner": "No-code data curation for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1657048120, "tags": [ "AIOps", "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Cloud Computing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airtrain-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/airtrain-ai.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/airtrain-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AirtrainAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/sematic-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/75317513ffcf6008b389c1e9fada5072394a8511.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1014902, "full_name": "Emmanuel Turlay", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hi, I am Emmanuel.\n\nI spent my foundational years in academia (particle physics research at CERN) then branched out into tech. I built the order and payment infrastructure at Instacart, and lead ML platform at Cruise.\n\nI am the CEO and co-founder of Sematic (S22).\n\nReach out and say hello.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelturlay/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/neutralino1", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/69cdd805022f44e70ed65f68b182f02ab503f7ab.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Sematic Blog – Sematic Raises $3M to Build an Open-Source Continuous Machine Learning Platform", "url": "https://www.sematic.dev/blog/sematic-raises-3m-to-build-an-open-source-continuous-machine-learning-platform", "date": "Nov 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64701, "title": "Sematic – Prototype-to-production ML in days not weeks", "tagline": "Build and productionize arbitrary end-to-end ML/DS pipelines with only Python in a few hours.", "body": "**TL;DR –** [**Sematic**](https://sematic.dev) **is an** [**open-source**](https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic) **framework to build and run arbitrary end-to-end ML/DS pipelines developed by two ex-Cruisers.**\n\nWhen COVID hit and restaurant parklets popped up around San Francisco, the Cruise robotaxis needed to update their ML models in a matter of days.\n\nThis fast turnaround in data processing > model training > evaluation > simulation > metrics generation > deployment was enabled by talented ML Engineers using **state-of-the-art pipelining tools**.\n\n## Your problem\n\nIf you are an **ML/DS developer** 🧑‍💻, you likely spend a lot of time battling obscure infrastructure instead of leveraging your core competency: extracting insights and predictions from data.\n\nIf you are a **business leader** 🧑‍💼, you likely want more models to grow and optimize your business; and retrain them frequently to adapt to ever-changing world conditions (hello COVID!).\n\nExisting solutions (e.g. Kubeflow, Argo, Airflow, Prefect) are still too low-level and not usable by ML/DS developers.\n\nTools such as Ruby on Rails and Heroku enabled generations of web developers to build prototypes into unicorns. **Where is that experience for ML/DS development?**\n\n## Our solution\n\n[Sematic Beta Launch Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Hj0T-bbiY)\n\n[Sematic](https://sematic.dev/) is **a lightweight** [**open-source**](https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic) **ML/DS pipeline development and execution framework based on learnings from working at Cruise**.\n\nWith easy-as-pie onboarding, simply **use native Python** to develop and run arbitrary end-to-end pipelines that track and version all your assets and artifacts (models, datasets, plots, metrics, etc.), and visualize them in a slick UI.\n\nRun locally or **leverage your cloud resources** (GPUs!!) seamlessly without infrastructure work.\n\n**Collaborate with your team** in Sematic to keep the conversation close to the data context.\n\n**Sematic aims to facilitate the journey from Notebook prototypes to automated production-grade pipelines.**\n\n## Our ask\n\n⭐ [Star our Github repo](https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic)\n\nTry us out:\n\n```\n$ pip install sematic\n$ sematic start\n```\n\nJoin our [Discord](https://discord.gg/4KZJ6kYVax) **and give us your feedback to make the product more useful to you and your company**.\n\n## Early Bird offer\n\nWe offer a white-glove onboarding service and dedicated support to build out your end-to-end pipelines.\n\n[Try us out](https://sematic.dev/), reach out on [Discord](https://discord.gg/4KZJ6kYVax), or email us at [emmanuel@sematic.dev](mailto:emmanuel@sematic.dev).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GpZ-sematic-prototype-to-production-ml-in-days-not-weeks", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2022-07-18T17:06:21.384Z" } ] }, { "id": 26667, "name": "Star", "slug": "star", "former_names": [ "SolStar", "Star", "SolStar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/967b50f500638e1217a027ad53fa0c2fd82dd532.png", "website": "https://buildwithstar.com", "all_locations": "Springfield, MO, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Star makes game development accessible to anyone with an idea. 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He loves building community tools, and is the creator of solfaucet.com.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-endacott-26786255/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/RyanEndacott", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e8b3bcb5543192e46af86bf5dc3d6f05bbec96e8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 90596, "title": "Content & Game Builder Intern", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/star/jobs/S0eyAOW-content-game-builder-intern", "location": "Remote", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$20 / hourly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Growth design", "Marketing design" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65578, "title": "🌟SolStar - Venmo for Discord - The easiest way to send crypto in a community", "tagline": "Our tech makes it easy, free, and secure to send crypto to your friends - no wallet required.", "body": "Hey YC community! 👋 We’re Ryan and Drew, and we’re building SolStar 🌟\n\nSolStar builds easy-to-use crypto tools for Discord communities. Our first product, SolStar Tip Bot, is like Venmo for Discord: send crypto to your friends with just a few clicks.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wIoPpjcf2tmVmuPZyaImGkOiYAZ7lQe8CzbPV8lArJdlQekgqnL8nkvZFru0Gf6PDT2FKH-R3_TNgh-ZEBvgwPmE4MYIP3pLSNe_J0FKMPS5CuDW2irjeyj9UhBrIaABn0okVds-gmfSEKKPCt8ZLsI)\n\n**The problem with crypto**\n\nCrypto is confusing and intimidating, with no clear entry point for beginners. To purchase crypto from scratch, a new user needs to:\n\n* Know what a crypto wallet is\n* Know where to sign up for one\n* Understand KYC and buy crypto on an exchange\n* Transfer from exchange to wallet\n* Manage to not lose their seed phrase\n\nIf these steps confuse you, you’re not alone. It’s even confusing to experts. This is ridiculous, and it leaves out 99.9% of internet users who aren’t heavy technical adopters. \n\n**SolStar makes crypto easy 🌟**\n\nSolStar makes it possible for anyone to use crypto—even your grandpa!\n\nAll you need to get started is a credit card. Skip the confusing steps above and dive in right away with a secure, approachable tool that makes crypto fun. You can add SolStar Tip Bot to your Discord, check your balance, and send a tip to a friend all within a few minutes.\n\nWhen you use SolStar, you’ll get a secure custodial wallet and easy access to your balance on our site.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tsVnxrqhqXvhpCffMLIPy_AlF4LSxutr3E2X8kfxEQ8VxrDdNdAae4fq5po1GycpQ5NclXNcsZxPxS04BBY7CAD6xYyGAS1YVFDT-wL7xR8JwHnvXx3fzhP0CSIi8YZNuPp5BVp1BS-w-_AyUvfWtVo)\n\nAnother feature we’re excited about - you can now buy tokens directly in Discord! Make it easy to join your community - no crypto experience required.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/CWak0ftirYZiVuZrqzSW_gaVtLibcCt2VAqVeHgkX4c14K1dTMJkF3cg_OI56KzVNmD55j-mM9VkBJWypGC7CuLNtjikFmBSCzQ_Q-QpTpok8G-43LAOg4P8be0yqRxOltCzWvQG9HOzcVg-NAJjTg8)\n\nAs an added bonus, you can interact with our Ask an AI tool, which features various personalities, including Antagonistic Viking, Honorable Julius Caesar, or Confused Isaac Newton.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IwDm6-BbUGw3_hccj_gJ7CGyOtYOAIrL1iiffZYehQL94uU1w-B_OtvSIQsQhJDfsKayaL_tkHtLxlnUyZhM-xEWTNDTUNzQ73Cxm0j5aOK0EnJ4e6mQEcrTywU1jl7lpstok9QpF2YJiKsKUq_ik8w)\n\n**How It All Began ✨**\n\nWe’re a couple of software engineers who love crypto and gaming. We’ve spent more all-nighters than we can count hanging out in Discord, and we’re big fans of how it’s a user-friendly space to build community.\n\nWe wanted crypto to be more accessible and fun. There’s no better way to onboard people to crypto than to create a simple way for them to start using it in their own communities.\n\nWe wished we had something like SolStar, so we built it ourselves. \n\n**How you can help 💗**\n\n1. If you have a Discord Community, add SolStar for free:  \n2. If you belong to a Discord Community, tell your admin or community manager to check out SolStar:  \n3. Follow us on Twitter to see our dank memes [@SolStarFinance](https://twitter.com/SolStarFinance)\n4. We love feedback! Let us know what you think below or hit us up at [founders@solstar.finance](mailto:founders@solstar.finance) :)\n5. Join our Discord Community and stay updated on our latest features:  \n6. 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Founders and sales reps waste TONS of time manually searching, qualifying, and engaging leads on the platform.\n\nCiro makes prospecting on LinkedIn 10x easier:\n\n* **Ciro Autopilot** scans profiles (in Sales Navigator), qualifies them against your ideal customer profile, and builds a ready-to-contact list in minutes\n* **Ciro Enrich** instantly reveals phone numbers and emails on profiles — whether you’re on a free or paid LinkedIn account (from our network of 13 high-quality data providers)\n\n[Here’s a video](https://youtu.be/z0dYm46MfsM) of me using Ciro & watching Netflix with Ciro’s CEO, Richard.\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n1. **A huge time commitment.** Sales reps (and Founders!) lose hours each week sifting through Sales Navigator searches, poking around profiles for the right fit\n2. **Hard to filter out unqualified leads.** A great title alone doesn’t always mean they’re a great prospect — context matters, and double checking is a chore\n3. **Zero contact info.** You’ll find the perfect lead, then pay for yet another tool just to get their email or phone\n4. **Expensive integrations + data providers.** Connecting to LinkedIn so you can push to CRM? 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Push contacts directly to your CRM or download CSV\n\nWe’re excited to see how much you’ll accomplish with Ciro Autopilot at your side — and how many more deals you close!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87107&key=user_uploads/928465/b390a939-694c-48b6-8276-6a7cf8e1e96d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mex-ciro-10x-your-prospecting-on-linkedin-sales-navigator", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-01-23T19:02:27.063Z" }, { "id": 64232, "title": "Ciro 🚀 The GTM Platform for companies selling to SMB and Local businesses", "tagline": "Ciro helps companies selling to SMB and Local businesses close more revenue by making it easy to find good leads for their business.", "body": "### **What’s the Problem?**\n\nIf you run a business selling to an SMB vertical, you’ve probably found it **impossible to** **find rich data on the prospects in your market…** and that existing data solutions are rife with missing records, infrequent updates, and incorrect contact information.\n\n### **What’s the Solution?**\n\nCiro handles prospect list building so you don’t have to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64232&key=user_uploads/928465/3ca9d271-95f9-45da-80ce-a085a8052544)\n\nOur solution combines hundreds of vertical-specific web crawlers that run every day, plus a data ingestion engine that joins dozens of public and proprietary data sources. 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We’re [James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-thomas-b713b15/), [Tony](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyginart/), and [Tejas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejassundaresan/) from [Dialect](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dialect-2).\n\n**_TL;DR_** [_Dialect_](https://www.usedialect.com/) is an AI copilot that auto-drafts responses to vendor questionnaires. Using generative AI grounded in your best content, we help you respond to RFPs and security questionnaires in a fraction of the time.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nCompanies today face customer questionnaires in all shapes, sizes, and formats. Security questionnaires, DDQs, and RFPs are critical gates within the sales process. Companies want to put their best foot forward and [map their solutions to customer requirements](https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/solution-selling). \n\nHowever, doing so can take **days** of rote copying & pasting, searching through old documents, and answering the same question over and over again.\n\n* **Every questionnaire comes in different formats** (sheets, docs, webforms) and every question is worded differently than before – making it time-consuming to port past answers into new questionnaires.\n* Finding the right answer to a question could **require searching across potentially dozens of files**, scanning question banks with thousands of entries, and involving multiple team members.\n\n### **Our solution**\n\n[Dialect](https://www.usedialect.com/) is a copilot that auto-drafts any vendor questionnaire. Our browser extension sits directly within your editors of choice, such as Google Sheets and Docs, and cuts the time needed to complete a questionnaire by >80%. Just highlight what you’re trying to complete, and Dialect will handle the rest!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75836&key=user_uploads/730164/8b0b73ae-26ff-4f45-8bb1-336fea7bcd22)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75836&key=user_uploads/730164/46868b14-14ae-46e1-9778-6779eb13a58b)\n\nDialect is fully grounded in the best of your enterprise content. It integrates natively with content sources like help centers, security reports, and website copy. 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Our high performance enzymes work as “molecular scissors'' at low temperatures to break down plastic polymers into monomer “building blocks,” which can be re-polymerized into high quality recycled plastic products. Birch recycling technology will:\n\n* **Reduce** **carbon emissions** associated with plastic recycling by > 70%.\n* Generate recycled plastic of **equivalent** **quality** **to new plastic**.\n* Produce recycled plastic at **equal or lower cost** than mechanically recycled plastic.\n* Increase the variety of plastic products that can be **effectively recycled**\n\nBirch’s recycling process enables a true ‘circular’ plastic economy where plastic products are continuously recycled into the same plastic products, rather than being manufactured from oil or gas.  This is especially important as consumers, brands, and our planet demand more sustainable products.\n\n**Our technology focus:**\n\nEnzymes as “molecular scissors” are the centerpiece of our recycling technology. 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Our powerful AI can:\n\n* Respond to frequently asked questions about products, orders, shipping, and returns.\n* Suggest personalized product recommendations based on individual customer preferences.\n* Create subscriptions on Recharge, cancel orders on Shopify, and tag tickets appropriately.\n* Close tickets automatically once the issue has been resolved.\n* Generate draft responses for human agents, saving them valuable time.\n* Learn from your Shopify store, past tickets, FAQs, and other data sources to ensure accurate and personalized support.\n\n**How does it work?**\n\n[Check out this short demo video](https://youtu.be/6RgqHcCJ5Ew?si=PuxtgQyPoGlIcsLm)\n\nSigmaMind AI works within helpdesk tools like Zendesk/Gorgias and needs to be linked to your Shopify store. It has 2 modes - Autopilot and Co-pilot.\n\n* In Autopilot mode, it will automatically send responses to customer tickets, take any action like creating a subscription on Recharge or cancel an order on Shopify, tag the ticket appropriately, and close it. You can set up this custom workflow on the SigmaMind AI dashboard.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76739&key=user_uploads/1016312/baebbd2a-79a9-440e-b611-993d3d991f01)\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76739&key=user_uploads/1016312/4b56ceae-2b59-4be4-b472-7cd3685374c5)\n\n* In Co-pilot mode, AI will suggest response drafts for any incoming ticket which can be used by the support agent to send a response.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76739&key=user_uploads/1016312/e2159a15-3bf2-4e93-a0c6-a313a26d82a5)\n\n\nYou can set up the AI brand voice and tone on the SigmaMind AI dashboard to customize the AI for your brand. This enables you you create a truly personalized AI for your brand.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76739&key=user_uploads/1016312/a3932108-9752-4e73-89be-e49bf4b2ec85)\n\nIt integrates with other tools like Recharge, Loop Returns, and Skio as well. It tackles frequently asked questions about products, orders, shipping, and returns, freeing up your team for more complex issues. SigmaMind AI learns from your Shopify store, past tickets, FAQs, help docs, and other third-party systems, ensuring accurate and personalized support.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n1. Refer any E-commerce brands, Shopify agencies, or Customer support managers in your network. Referral bonus 💰 for every lead converted. Email us at [hello@sigmamind.ai](mailto:founders@sigmamind.ai) to connect.\n2. If you own a Shopify store, please [book a demo](https://calendly.com/sigmaai/sigma-ai-demo-30-mins) with us to see SigmaMind AI in action. 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For free. Happier corporate customers == more corporate business for your startup.\n\n### The problem\n\nBig companies need receipts for everything they buy (every SaaS bill, every hotel folio, every Uber, every coffee). Because:\n\n* The IRS requires receipts for every transaction over $75.\n* They need the itemized details to enforce their expense policies.\n* In Europe, companies can reclaim 20% of their spend (VAT)... but only if they have receipts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82606&key=user_uploads/8725/eda8dbb3-503a-46c5-bda3-b8c4b5689350)\n\nBut despite this need, no system exists to aggregate this data. Finance teams rely on employees to photograph paper receipts, or forward emailed receipts to their expense management / AP systems. This creates a bunch of employee busywork, and compliance is still far below 100%. \n\nGreat tools like Brex streamline every other part of expense management, but not receipts.\n\n### Beautiful receipts, synced directly into your business customers’ expense management system. For free.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82606&key=user_uploads/8725/316a25c6-32cd-4bf9-b597-be017d34a872)\n\nWe built Versa to eliminate this manual process. Your encrypted receipt data is passed directly to your buyers. \n\nWe currently have several customers (including many YC companies) using it.\n\n### Do you use Stripe for billing?\n\nIf so, we have a founder request. We just launched a Stripe app that lets you try out Versa with just a couple of clicks: \n\nPlease test it out! It’s completely free, and for most people, it takes < 5min. Having more merchants on Versa helps us tremendously. \n\nLet us know if you have any feedback, or if we can return the favor. ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LUM-versa-smart-b2b-receipts", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-07-31T15:33:18.722Z" }, { "id": 71112, "title": "Bend - A corporate card built for climate-friendly businesses ($100 to try it)", "tagline": "Earn 4% yield on deposits and carbon removal rewards on your everyday card purchases. Free carbon accounting included.", "body": "TL;DR - Just by shifting some of your company spending to Bend, you’ll be helping to reduce climate-changing emissions, thanks to the carbon removal rewards you’ll automatically earn, and our embedded climate analytics.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71112&key=user_uploads/8725/dd74d8ed-b20a-4977-bd01-bdf196ce6ceb)\n\n### **How it works:**\n\n* Bend is a modern card and cash account, combined with free carbon accounting and climate rewards\n* Bend works similarly to how you’d use a business bank account. Send and receive ACH and wires, earn 4% yield on deposits, issue physical and virtual cards with budgets, etc.\n* Carbon accounting typically runs companies $40k/year and up. We make money off the card interchange (same as any bank), enabling us to offer the carbon accounting for free, and pass through carbon removal rewards.\n* The way we actually do the carbon accounting is laid out here — we always return a confidence score with every CO2e assessment: \n* We have awesome customers like Harmonic AI () and Fathom (). If you choose, you can create a report of your climate action through Bend like these ones, which you can share with customers, employees, investors, etc.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71112&key=user_uploads/8725/b8c15c5e-5e61-4646-b46d-b6480ff4ece1)\n\n### **Why tracking and reducing climate-changing emissions is worthwhile:**\n\n* It’s good for the planet (and free!)\n* It will help you sell your products to B2C customers who care about the climate, and B2B customers who have set net zero goals (64% of global market cap companies now report on climate data, and are increasingly asking their suppliers to do the same)\n\n### **How we got here:**\n\nWe [launched Bend](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32166140) last summer as an API. We’re now launching cards directly, because we’re able to offer the functionality for free, and it’s easier for startups to try it out. Prior to Bend, Thomas and I worked at [Abacus](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/572), where I was one of the co-founders — our background is in fintech, and our goal is to layer in climate insights on top of your financial stack.\n\nWe’d love it if you tried Bend out!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IUy-bend-a-corporate-card-built-for-climate-friendly-businesses-100-to-try-it", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2023-04-21T13:57:22.372Z" }, { "id": 64027, "title": "Bend ⚡ 1-click Carbon Accounting", "tagline": "Bend helps you close sales as a sustainable business", "body": "At Bend, we help companies develop an **affordable**, **automated**, and **credible** path to net zero using your spend data. And we help fintech companies **embed** sustainability into b2b tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64027&key=user_uploads/8725/de981465-da6b-4888-b0cd-3df01f8cdce6)\n\nThomas and I found our way to this project via our background in fintech. Prior to Bend, we worked together at Abacus (W14), a real time expense management company that I cofounded in 2014, serving small businesses. At Abacus, we noticed a pattern: finance teams are increasingly paying attention to the climate impact of their purchase decisions, from travel policies, to cloud hosting, and beyond. And better tooling and data is needed to drive pragmatic, effective climate action. \n\n### **From zero to net zero in 5 minutes**\n\nHere’s how Bend works:\n\n* Bend converts spend data into CO2e data.\n* For example: imagine a $1,000 bill from Atlassian. Bend aggregates corporate emissions disclosures; we know that for every $1,000 spent with Atlassian, there’s a 30.2 kg footprint.\n* For long-tail merchants, we have merchant category fallbacks, so you’re always guaranteed 100% coverage (e.g. for Starbucks, we use the Starbucks factor, for a mom-and-pop coffee shop, we use a benchmark ‘coffee shop’ factor).\n* Our methodology is developed and vetted by climate science PhDs (degrees from MIT, Columbia, etc.), and our team has years of fintech experience (Abacus, Emburse, Google, Venmo).\n* Once armed with a complete picture of your emissions, you can choose a course of action — you might consider switching to lower-carbon-intensity vendors, offsetting your remaining emissions, and then **closing sales as a sustainable business** (we can help!).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64027&key=user_uploads/8725/339c2757-2d8e-4721-9bdc-d3b996b98c44)\n\n### **Why now**\n\n* Companies (e.g. Salesforce, Apple, Walmart) now require their suppliers to measure emissions and set reductions targets. Bend can help you sell to these customers.\n* The SEC is expected to roll out new climate data disclosure requirements this year, applying to public companies, with downstream impacts.\n* Your company has a surprising amount of leverage to accelerate decarbonization. It’s a great thing to be a part of, and has positive brand benefits for your startup.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nTry Bend out! [**app.bend.green/sign-up**](http://app.bend.green/sign-up)\n\nAnd if you think we might be able to work together — [schedule time with us](https://calendly.com/ted-bend/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Geh-bend-1-click-carbon-accounting", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2022-06-23T19:47:32.624Z" } ] }, { "id": 26704, "name": "Two Dots", "slug": "two-dots", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/06c738449ceac7bc3068c3a0510a285b6078503d.png", "website": "https://www.twodots.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We're building an AI consumer underwriting automation agent. 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Dive in and test it using our [Playground](https://superpowered.ai/), [Python SDK](https://github.com/SuperpoweredAI/superpowered-python-sdk), or [clone these examples](https://github.com/SuperpoweredAI/superpowered-examples).\n\n### Problem 🤔\n\nMany uses for LLMs, including most customer support and employee productivity applications, require effectively connecting LLMs to external knowledge sources. Doing this well is very hard. Current retrieval augmented generation (RAG) methods just take existing information retrieval methods and stuff the results into an LLM prompt. This works for simple demos, but usually isn’t reliable enough for real-world production applications.\n\n### Solution 🧠\n\nSuperpowered AI offers a simple API that lets you connect external data sources (like product documentation, for example) to LLMs. We leverage proprietary RAG technology we’ve developed (we call it the [SuperStack](https://superpowered.ai/blog/the-superstack)) to dramatically improve performance and reliability for a wide variety of use cases.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76118&key=user_uploads/733585/063e897c-eaa8-4a3a-874c-f0bad5249909)\n\nOur solution is end-to-end, so you don’t have to worry about stringing together different APIs for different parts of the retrieval and generation pipeline. 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This is especially useful for more complex questions, where the answer isn’t contained in a single sentence or paragraph.\n\n[**AutoContext**](https://superpowered.ai/blog/introducing-auto-context) → Automatically inject descriptive context into text chunks and embeddings, to capture the full context of each chunk of text, reducing the likelihood of poor search results and hallucinations.\n\n### Chat Endpoint 💬\n\nGiven that LLM applications often involve conversational interactions, we recently launched our Chat endpoint to make it easy to configure and deploy chat applications that utilize our knowledge retrieval pipeline. We currently support GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4, with more models coming soon.\n\n\n\n### Custom Solutions 🌐\n\nFor companies that don’t have the resources or expertise to build their own LLM-based solutions, we’re here to help. 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We turn complex infrastructure into a few simple API calls, making it easy to retrieve the right information and deliver highly relevant responses to your users. \n\n### 🦉 Who is it for?\n\nWhether you’re using LLMs to improve your customer experience, increase efficiency within your company, or launch an LLM-based application for end-users, **Superpowered AI can provide your app with external knowledge and long-term memory without requiring you to be an AI expert** – all at a low cost. How low? We’ve set our pricing at half the cost of popular alternatives like OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone. Please note, our product is completely free for now, so feel free to query your heart out!\n\n### 💡 How does it work?\n\nSimply upload files (including audio) to a Knowledge Base, and then you can begin querying! 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This is step 1 for building a full-fledged running coach in your pocket, and we’re excited for you to try it.\n\nHere’s a short clip to give you an idea of what it’s like: \n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/e3lbyVgi6zBH2Akgptg67qtLjJGO25QTSXmXCOV61o6UassUPwqyPE4TI9q5mpfvTuxODqLHKE-UayDgI3ub9unhOLMzIsLLDOwJ-HN1C950aO6j1MmRuCkkCXXy2Tf7b7U9IIHLXyTHlpfyUEPUpWs)\n\n**How can I try it?**\n\n[Here’s a link to the testflight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/2y3aGPZC) (currently awaiting app store approval). \n\nCurrently, Cadence is only available on iOS.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nGo for a run and use our app and give us feedback & ideas on how to improve! 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SaaS companies in health, finance, education, and property management use Embedded Components to give their users the power to automate messaging.\n\n✋ Ask - If you are/know a **vertical SaaS founder, product manager, or engineering manager** who doesn’t want to spend a year developing workflow builders, user segmentation, SMS and email template editors, etc. reach out! [chandler@dittofeed.com](mailto:chandler@dittofeed.com)\\\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GrR1TtbDA\\\\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GrR1TtbDA%5C)\n\n**☣️ Problem**\n\nOn any given day, somewhere in the world, there’s an engineer reimplementing a low code messaging automation tool for the nth time.\n\nDrag and drop workflow builders, user segmentation engines, and email template editors are seemingly ubiquitous among SaaS.\n\nThis is especially true for vertical SaaS. Consider the example of an app for healthcare providers - the providers may want to automate SMS to patients when a prescription refill is available. Or you might have an app for property managers, and you need to let them email tenants when their lease is up for renewal. It’s a non-trivial lift to build this suite of tools, and it can end up taking engineering teams 6-12 months to implement, plus ongoing maintenance.\n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nDittofeed’s [Embedded Components](https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started) wrap up our existing open-source messaging automation so that they can be embedded within your own application.\n\nYou can consume these components using styled iframes, unstyled react components, or by using Dittofeed as a headless API to rebuild your own components from scratch.\n\nThese embedded components can be served by Dittofeed cloud, or by self-hosting Dittofeed. Self-hosting is great for highly regulated industries like health and finance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/fd063652-db40-41f5-aaa5-ca4096131e2b)\n\n**How to get Embedded Components**\n\nContact [**support@dittofeed.com**](mailto:support@dittofeed.com), and we’ll send you an admin API key. Check out our Embedded Components [documentation](https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started) to learn more.\\\n\\\n🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️ **The Founders**\\\nMax and Chandler have been friends since high school – 20 years and counting! 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Dittofeed’s streamlined developer experience allows growth engineers to send better-performing marketing messages. Additionally, self-hosting Dittofeed delivers large cost savings to power users who are constrained by existing providers’ volume-based pricing.\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re Max and Chandler, and we're equipping the next generation of technical growth teams with the tools they need to ensure their marketing messages look great and get delivered correctly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/2732dae6-eed4-4b8e-99b7-88266c3aa80e)\n\n### **The Problem**: Customer engagement platforms are expensive and error-prone.\n\nIf you’ve ever received marketing emails with broken links, or opted out of a company’s texts, only to receive an “exclusive offer” text the next day, there’s a reason. And it’s not (for the most part) because growth teams are bad at their job.\n\nCurrent customer engagement platforms give growth teams the low-code tools they need to automate marketing messages at scale, but none of the technical tools they need to make sure they’re sending the right messages, to the right customers, at the right time. This results in reduced customer conversion and retention rates, as well as frustrated growth engineers.\n\n### **The Solution**: An open-source customer engagement platform that empowers growth engineers.\n\nGrowth teams are becoming increasingly technical, and with that, comes a huge potential for fixing buggy marketing messages. 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When I’m not wrangling two kids or cats, I enjoy skiing and wine.\n\nMost of my career has involved C#, which I guess is what comes from working in finance in London.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-clayton-1b8b7b27/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8b3b17f5dc57e00a5b6e5eda15df7a3afbe1e612.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator-backed Devyce dials up $2.7 million - Tech.eu", "url": "https://tech.eu/2023/02/28/y-combinator-backed-devyce-dials-up-27-million/", "date": "Feb 27, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65611, "title": "Devyce - The business phone ☎️ in an app📱", "tagline": "We give your employees work numbers on their personal phone instantly", "body": "We’re [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-browne-a8a829147/) and [Ed](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-clayton-1b8b7b27/), and we’re building [Devyce](https://devyce.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=launchyc&utm_content=top) - the business phone system for hybrid workers across the UK, Europe and worldwide. Want to get started with a UK mobile number right now? Download us from the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devyce/id1504660924) or [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devyce.client&hl=en&gl=UK) and sign up in-app\n\n### The Problem 🚩 \n\nCompanies have three ways of getting phone calls to and from remote, hybrid, and offsite workers:\n\n* They can give their employees a **costly second handset** 📱📱\n* They can require that their employees use their **personal number for work** calls, hitting their privacy (and possibly regulatory requirements)🕵️\n* They can persevere with a **legacy office phone system**, with the configuration difficulties and poor quality mobile apps that come with it 📟 - on top of a 50% typical missed call rate.\n\nIn all of these cases, companies struggle to understand user behaviour and performance, and they risk customer loss if an employee leaves.\n\n### The Devyce Solution⚗️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65611&key=user_uploads/982968/87c27f9a-1901-4c85-9f59-269aa9e01ba8)\n\nDevyce customers use a portal to instantly allocate (and deallocate) numbers to employees, auto-attendants and call groups. They see calling stats and have the option to record calls and view a detailed call history.\n\n* Our monthly charge of around **$20 per user** is significantly lower than the price of a second handset.🪙\n* Users can be given **one or many mobile or landline numbers** instantly, from the UK, several European countries, and the US. 🌍\n* Our product is designed for **mobile first**, and our apps get fantastic [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devyce/id1504660924) and [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devyce.client&hl=en&gl=UK) reviews. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\n\n### Our Magic Beans 🪄\n\nDevyce has a close relationship with a UK mobile network operator. This not only gives us unbeatably low call costs (we’re paid to receive calls), but as we are expanding it lets us overcome regulatory issues in territories outside the UK.\n\nOur tech’s second to none. We’re not just building a phone system, we’re redefining what it does. With **automated call summarization, CRM integrations and smart call routing** all in development we’re delighting both our customers _and their customers_. We’re reducing the number of missed calls, which means our customers get more sales opportunities and win twice by switching to us.\n\n### Our Story 📖\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65611&key=user_uploads/982968/dc616887-712d-40c4-b296-cf41f714b9ca)\n\nNick’s background is in investment banking. However, while studying for his qualifications, he dabbled briefly in both real estate and recruitment. This gave him an insight into the pain points faced by both of those phone-intensive businesses, something that stayed with him until the opportunity to fix it arose.\n\nEd graduated from Cambridge with a Computer Science degree in 2004. He worked for some of the most selective London tech companies such as Softwire and G-Research, before moving to Vietnam for a few years and doing some freelance mobile development (as well as dabbling in VoIP).\n\nWe met through a mutual friend, Leo Bartle, who owns the aforementioned UK mobile network. Leo’s turned that network around from near bankruptcy, and it now supplies numbers to companies such as Salesforce and Google. He runs the mobile network day-to-day, and works closely with us through that as an increasingly active co-founder.\n\n# Get Devyce\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65611&key=user_uploads/982968/190c4b2c-2163-40ab-b94d-83c149522949)\n\nWe’ve been selling for a year and a half, so our core telephone offering is reasonably mature and stable. You can sign up via [our website](https://devyce.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=launchyc&utm_content=bottom) for our multi-user packages, but if you want a **second UK mobile number instantly** you can just get the app from the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devyce/id1504660924) or [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devyce.client&hl=en&gl=UK) and sign up through that.\n\nIf you’d like a European or other number then let us know at [founders@devyce.com](mailto:founders@devyce.com) and we’ll hook you up.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H4F-devyce-the-business-phone-in-an-app", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2022-08-25T07:05:43.516Z" } ] }, { "id": 26712, "name": "Bunting Labs", "slug": "bunting-labs", "former_names": [ "Bunting Labs", "Atonomo", "CodeCanary" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/56779177435211428fc3b60658c5b05d7288f710.png", "website": "https://buntinglabs.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bunting Labs researches and develops custom AI models for surveying and GIS.", "one_liner": "AI Models for GIS", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1659469853, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Geographic Information System", "B2B", "Web Development", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bunting-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/bunting-labs.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-canary/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/56779177435211428fc3b60658c5b05d7288f710.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 786838, "full_name": "Michael Egan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Bunting Labs, training custom AI models for GIS", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-egan-4941a4145/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/de1f5ca9527b98ffd46f3831e344b731c5337b55.jpg" }, { "user_id": 572884, "full_name": "Brendan Ashworth", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Brendan studied physics + AI at MIT ('22). Previously: Software @ IBM, Minio, Node.js core team.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanashworth/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/normconstant", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8f2b36903c21cccc6596ffebc13cc0dfc1a6b12f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 102299, "title": "GIS Technician ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bunting-labs/jobs/4LB2UmX-gis-technician", "location": "Remote", "type": "Contract", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$10K - $40K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99155, "title": "CodeCanary 🐤 Your AI Product Engineer", "tagline": "CodeCanary uses session replays to fix bugs, boost conversion, monitor leads and customers, and answer any question.", "body": "CodeCanary connects coding agents to your product analytics to find and fix bugs, improve conversion, track leads and customers, and answer anything about your product. CodeCanary runs autonomously and lives in Slack. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99155&key=user_uploads/786838/893e9400-0075-43e6-ae0b-f3fc42a3d1a6)\n\n# Problem\n\nYour product analytics are a rich source of information, but it’s hard to always be getting the most out of them. There are not enough hours in the day to watch every session replay, catch every bug your users face, and always be running experiments on your bottlenecks. \n\n# Solution\n\nCodeCanary is [always watching your product](https://www.codecanary.ai/blog/watching-session-replays-with-ai) to see where it can help. For example, CodeCanary:\n\n1\\. Spots users who interact with bugs, looks through your code for the cause, and submits a PR with a fix. It also can tell you who was impacted.\n\n\\\n2. Identifies conversion bottlenecks, creates A/B experiments, and submits the variant as a PR. CodeCanary can also run low-risk experiments on autopilot directly on your website without any human oversight, as desired.\n\n3\\. Tracks and reports back on high value prospects, however you define them.\n\n\\\n4. Answers any other questions you might have about your users and how they interact with your product (e.g. \"in the reduce landing page interactivity experiment can you please break down the demo booked results by device type?\").\n\n# Try CodeCanary\n\nYou can sign up for CodeCanary here! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99155&key=user_uploads/786838/424e65f8-a2a4-4871-b442-75d9f2b3ecbf)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PnH-codecanary-your-ai-product-engineer", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-03-28T16:11:44.647Z" }, { "id": 91491, "title": "Mundi 🗺️ The Open Source GIS Built for AI", "tagline": "Mundi is the first GIS designed for users to collaborate with an AI agent", "body": "# Mundi, the first open source, AI-native GIS\n\nMundi is an open source web GIS built to help people use LLMs in their geospatial work. In Mundi, you collaborate with Kue, our AI GIS agent, to edit your map, rather than physically interacting with tools as you would in a legacy GIS.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91491&key=user_uploads/786838/49388e35-2edf-4711-8aa7-f22aed832b08)\n\n# Here’s how Mundi is bringing AI to GIS:\n\n**Mundi makes PostGIS much more accessible 📂** \\\n\\\nWhen you connect a PostGIS database to your project, Kue digests it and builds you a wiki to better understand its contents and how everything relates together. Then, if you want to add some data, all you have to do is tell Kue what data you want and it will figure out what is best and add it to your project.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91491&key=user_uploads/786838/585270c1-b025-4ebf-953d-09a0aef2417f)\n\n\\\n**You can run QGIS geoprocessing in the cloud ⚙️**\\\n\\\nKue has access to all of the QGIS geoprocessing algorithms so you get the power of a desktop GIS with the power of cloud processing. All you have to do is tell Kue what you want done with your data and it will pick the right geoprocessing algorithm, run it, and give you the output. And, because it’s run in the cloud, it’s much faster and does not need a powerful computer.\\\n\\\n**Mundi can edit symbology for you 🎨** \\\n\\\nKue has the ability to change the symbology of your data in any way you want. If you have a specific request, it can handle it for you. Or, if you want Kue to decide how a layer should be styled, we’ve given it the ability to “see” symbology and iterate on what to improve. So, if you have a drought layer, Kue can understand that it should be a red gradient, see how it’s styled, and make improvements until Kue is satisfied.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91491&key=user_uploads/786838/7074999f-e6f5-42f0-9516-b5d07e176e94)\n\n**You can work with your whole team on Mundi 🤝** \\\n\\\nWe’re building Mundi to allow you to edit maps with your whole team and send viewable links to anyone who wants to see it. Since we built Mundi to make it easier for anyone to make maps, we wanted to make it easy for all these new mappers to work together.\n\n**We’ve made it open source 🐧** \\\n\\\nIn addition to hosted Mundi, we’re launching an open source version. If you want to try out AI locally or change Mundi to your exact needs (an exciting trend we saw at the QGIS user conference), we wanted to be sure that this was an option.\n\n### How to try mundi:\n\nYou can sign up for Mundi at [app.mundi.ai](http://app.mundi.ai) and read the docs at [docs.mundi.ai](http://docs.mundi.ai)!\n\nIf you want to see the open source version, you can find it here: https://github.com/BuntingLabs/mundi.ai", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nnf-mundi-the-open-source-gis-built-for-ai", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-06-21T01:04:41.033Z" }, { "id": 65769, "title": "Bunting Labs 🐦 No-code geospatial data pipelines", "tagline": "Meet Bunting, the easiest way to work with geospatial data", "body": "**TL;DR Bunting helps developers import, store, and analyze geospatial data. We replace months of writing Python scripts with our drag-and-drop data importer.**\n\nHi everyone! [Brendan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanashworth/) and [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-egan-4941a4145/) here to introduce [Bunting Labs](https://buntinglabs.com).\n\n🗺 **Problem**\n\nIf you want to implement spatial data into your software, you need to use a spatial database. But, because spatial data is heterogenous, creating the ETL scripts, cloud infrastructure, and analysis pipelines to use it takes months—something we saw ourselves.\n\nWe spent a year trying to analyze real estate with AI, and the first three months were dedicated to building these data pipelines. We realized every company that wants to use spatial databases suffers from the same problems.\n\n**🔧 Solution**\n\nWe handle the pipeline and the database for you. Behind the scenes we do all the leg work to work with spatial data so you can focus on building your product. For example, we automatically [convert addresses in CSVs into a PostGIS table via geocoding](https://buntinglabs.com/flows/import-csv-geocode-into-postgis). Here’s how managing spatial data on bunting would look like for you:\n\n1. Upload any data file, and we’ll automatically recognize how it relates to the Earth. We currently support [KML](https://buntinglabs.com/flows/import-csv-geocode-into-postgis), [CSV](https://buntinglabs.com/flows/import-csv-geocode-into-postgis), [GeoJSON](https://buntinglabs.com/flows/importing-geojson-files-into-postgis), [GeoPackage](https://buntinglabs.com/flows/upload-geopackage-contents-to-postgis), and [Excel](https://buntinglabs.com/flows/load-excel-file-into-postgis).\n2. We’ll save it to a managed PostGIS instance (on Amazon RDS) and give you SELECT permissions to your tables.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65769&key=user_uploads/786838/6daa1005-b597-472c-90ad-b16067886c47)\n\nComing soon: low-code spatial analysis tool and purpose-built spatial data labeling. Everything you need to build an app with spatial data.\n\n**👉 Ask**\n\nDo you work with spatial data and are willing to share your experiences? Shoot us an email at [founders@buntinglabs.com](mailto:founders@buntinglabs.com), we would love to talk.\n\nDo you work at a company that is working on implementing or wants to implement any spatial features? Email us at [founders@buntinglabs.com](mailto:founders@buntinglabs.com), we would love to work with you to do whatever it takes to make your vision a reality!\n\n**💻 Open Source**\n\nBunting is built on open source and sponsors development of [mundipy, a Python framework for geospatial data](https://docs.mundi.ai/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H6n-bunting-labs-no-code-geospatial-data-pipelines", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2022-09-01T14:38:28.498Z" } ] }, { "id": 26713, "name": "Pasito", "slug": "pasito", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/99d6144bd15df315cd76d735be86467d893d772a.png", "website": "https://pasito.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Pasito builds AI agents for insurance and benefits—transforming how benefits are built, delivered, and experienced.\r\n\r\nOur Core AI ingests and understands plan documents and employee census data to build structured benefit intelligence.\r\n\r\nOur Engagement AI Agents orchestrate complex workflows—powering decision support, plan comparisons, guides, highlight sheets, microsites, communications, claims reminders, RFP management, document audits, translations, and more—all from a single intelligent database.\r\n\r\nWith Pasito, carriers, brokers, and benefits vendors eliminate manual work, accelerate growth, and deliver the personalized benefits experiences employees deserve—all powered by compliant, scalable AI systems.\r\n\r\nBacked by Y Combinator, Core Innovation Capital, and other leading investors.", "one_liner": "AI agents for insurance and benefits", "team_size": 20, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Insurance", "launched_at": 1657142710, "tags": [ "Health Tech", "Insurance", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Insurance" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pasito", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/pasito.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pasitoinc/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pasito", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/99d6144bd15df315cd76d735be86467d893d772a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 685180, "full_name": "Pauline Roteta", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Pauline is the co-founder and CEO of Pasito (YC S22). Before Pasito, she was a Senior Investor & Portfolio Manager at BlackRock. Pauline is a Certified Financial Planner®, CFA, Fulbright Scholar, and holds a B.Eng. from Vanderbilt University. 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For companies, we drastically cut avoidable healthcare and payroll spending. For employees, we provide personalized guidance on their healthcare and benefits and save them time and money._ [_Connect with Pasito today._](https://joinpasito.com/)\n\n\\\nHi everyone, we are Pauline, Ignacio, and Julie and we're on a mission to improve financial and health outcomes for individuals and their families through smarter employee benefits elections and engagement.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7giIUNKO13jrLMyDx0uPrK4RUw-1oydIUD2hU9OKBjnmzA3uzPgvNQwBbwHEcanedgG8yBM3p_dO6c9USZ6rEfo6IipFoTHz0c1dL1hSu2tKXyxXL38uLZlB_q8q8aa_1rGz8Ks5say1sNxvJGsJOfkoyePM4h7xfJXO9bY6ZxoisJ7o065yFKY6ng)\n\n### **🧨 The Problem: Health and wealth benefits are a maze**\n\nEmployees blindly select their health and wealth benefits which means employees are often over-insured while under-saving for retirement. \n\nTake our client Sarah as an example. Sarah elects her company’s PPO health plan because she isn’t sure which option to choose. Based on her family’s income and health data, Sarah could have saved over $2,000 by electing and using an HSA-eligible health plan. These savings could have gone to paying for medical expenses, paying down debt, or saving for retirement.\n\nSince Sarah’s company pays 80% of health insurance premiums, they have also overspent $3,000+. \n\n### 🎉 **The Solution: Personalized benefits selection and engagement at scale**\n\nPasito saves companies money on healthcare and payroll by guiding their employees to make better and more efficient health and retirement benefits decisions. Our webapp uses company and personal data to optimize benefits coverage and help employees use their benefits year-round including: \n\n💼 Payroll data \n\n❤️ Health data \n\n🪙 Financial data \n\n👱🏽 Family data \n\n🏢 Benefits data \n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/030tk1g9d968V-120hXBe5m-jxZMg2LhKWbhIU7CpTjlr_liNMDTlpgYYk0ehI7u2RSS2Wb8vpT_LAetNf1xRUMT5W9RQ1FIH69eTw21Uf87dEBGqVsG3veqIy7X6E7emdnCUaO71M2Wh41Dvc05bkU)\n\nUsing Pasito, **employees**: \n\n✔️ Save $2,000+ on average \n\n✔️ Finallyyyy understand how to use their benefits \n\nAnd **companies**: \n\n✔️ Save thousands (if not millions) of dollars on premiums, healthcare expenses, and payroll taxes \n\n✔️ Show the value of their full benefits package to employees and candidates\n\n✔️ Reduce the personal questions received from employees \n\n### \n\n### 💲**Opportunity: The thrilling scope and impact of our market**\n\nThere are 300 Sarahs in every company of 1,000 employees. That’s almost $1m in wasted health and benefits spend for Sarah’s company. \n\nAcross the US there are 48 million Sarahs and a mind-shattering $200+ billion is wasted each year from poor health insurance and benefits elections. This capital could instead be invested to deliver better financial and health outcomes, and to reduce the $190+ billion in US medical debt. \n\n \n\n### **👋** **Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to CFOs and HR leaders in your network. [Click here](mailto:pauline@joinpasito.com?subject=Connecting%20you%20to%20Pauline%20at%20Pasito). \n* Connect us to your insurance broker. [Click here](mailto:pauline@joinpasito.com?subject=Connecting%20you%20to%20Pauline%20at%20Pasito). \n* Give us product feedback as an employee user. 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He earned a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/zhenghaotan", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/zhenghaooo", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7fdb7c1db3870a739802acaf47754d0739f12da2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65156, "title": "Ruleset - No-Code Decision Engine for Lenders", "tagline": "We empower risk and legal teams to set rules for who gets a loan, without requiring engineering.", "body": "Hey all, we’re Logan and Zheng building [Ruleset](https://ruleset.ai)!\n\n## **❌ The Problem and Why It Matters**\n\nFinancial firms have a decision process that determines who qualifies for a loan or not. Even firms using machine learning only have the ML model as one step.\n\nThe problem is that these rules are defined by Risk and Legal teams. However, they are implemented by engineers who don’t fully understand them, and getting them wrong costs companies millions.\n\n## **⚙️ How It Works**\n\nWe provide a drag-and-drop interface which makes it easy to create a decision workflow from a basic building blocks. These “rule” components can read/write from data sources, do calculations, and fork data paths for different outcomes. For our customer’s tech teams, integrating a Ruleset into their systems (to display the results on their website) should be as easy as plugging in Stripe.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65156&key=user_uploads/129850/0f7339ff-c5d5-45d7-a16c-050c4bc9af9f)\n\n## ❓**Why Are We Working on This?**\n\nThe idea clicked when I was recently at Regional Finance (NYSE: RM) launching new online lending products. I experienced this problem alongside our Risk and Legal teams, where an evaluation of existing vendors didn’t find one which could quickly and easily solve our issues. 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They end up using multiple tools to manage their shared finances, such as, Splitwise, WhatsApp groups, Google Sheets or Notion.\n\n**So – why don’t people just use traditional joint accounts?** \\\n**Because they’re cumbersome to open & expensive to maintain.**\n\n* They’re only accessible to **married couples**\n* It takes **days** to open the account\n* High chances you’d have to **physically** go the bank\n* Even if you’re married, you’d need **matching** addresses/last names on your IDs\n* They come with **high minimum balance** requirements\n* They come with **zero expense management** features\n* Extremely **outdated** user interface\n\n### \n\n### **💡 Solution:**\n\n### **We fixed the joint account!**\n\nUsing the Coupl: Shared Banking app, you can set up a **zero-balance joint account in under 60 seconds**, and start managing all your shared expenses from it! We offer **two linked RuPay cards** for payments, easy **in-app utility bill payments** and a host of **budgeting & expense categorisation features** that make sense when you’re playing ‘multi-player’ finance **💍**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Th5KLEre8BlwMIYmvKvbKvAcjE9FAiem4qGFf-MYiC5ZJKwI-f7YCegjKM33AzOGnxUidkKsay7gGXGES2XG-05dMgyI7LXgb04etFulYT6u9EOWmD4QmERmthvJOOq-XaxnNULQ-aH98kkGuMl0HRQ)\n\n🤺 **How we compare against traditional joint accounts:**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/xX6TRPbrReV95MrvdTaYcLP7oDwOgPvJ4WgJP1S6RbtSBetaBrG4iMnDS6XGYDyuqVMvijUlKE3yyMH5HdsiAuwGRYIK_SYN9ZqQbuuRKxyIHE02j-VONUs3S3pp6IygSKGG5Ym7UoJ57Kck-xZ1TE4)\n\n### \n\n### **🚀 Early Traction**\n\nWith over **10M weddings taking place in India each year**, and a growing consumer preference for digital payment products in India - we think we’re the right solution for a large market.\\\nSince our low-key launch in September 2023, we’ve opened **8,000 joint accounts** and processed transactions worth over **$400K**. With no advertising spend.\n\n### **👨‍💻 Meet the Team**\n\nKushagra & I founded [Coupl](https://coupl.money) in 2022.\n\nWe’re alums of **IIT Kanpur** and **BITS Pilani**, and have extensive experience in business, finance & technology – having worked at blue-chip management consulting firms and large technology companies.\n\nWe are also engaged & in a live-in relationship with our respective partners, and have spent countless hours in tracking and managing shared expenses. We soon learnt that managing money was the most cited pain-point in long term relationships. Today, our goal with Coupl is to bring the best of technology and banking to modern couples in India – to make shared payments easier.\n\n### 💜 **Want to try out Coupl?**\n\nThe Coupl: Shared Banking app is available across the App Store and Google Play. 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And when debugging, pinpoint the source of failures–fast.\n\n## 🤓 Who is it for?\n\nData teams in large organisations feeling the pain of scaling data teams: struggling with broken pipelines, or taking too long to make changes.\n\n## ❓The ask + can I try it?\n\nIf you fit this 👆category or know someone who does, we’d love to talk to you!\n\nEmail us at [founders@ilumadata.io](mailto:founders@ilumadata.io) or request a demo at [ilumadata.io](http://ilumadata.io)\n\n## 😩 The problem - why we built ilumadata\n\nAt Monzo, I experienced a growing number of pains as we scaled the data team:\n\n* Onboarding new team members took days to weeks\n* Debugging broken pipelines took hours to fix because information was hard to piece together\n* It was hard to know the impacts downstream of changes you made\n* Difficult to know who owns the data, who uses it or if it is even used at all\n\n## ✅ The solution\n\nilumadata is a single workspace for the modern data stack, enabling data teams to ship 3x more analytics code with less errors:\n\n* Onboard new team members in under 60 seconds with a cloud hosted environment.\n* Learn, manage, version control, validate and test your pipeline in one workspace.\n\n ![uploaded image](https://www.ilumadata.io/img/demos/modify-pipeline.gif)\n\n* Mock out pipeline architecture like you would in a flow chart tool, with code you can use!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64710&key=user_uploads/89898/8359ad36-b8a2-4985-9f4d-396a3b54062f)\n\n* Debug, optimise and resolve your pipelines issues, fast.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64710&key=user_uploads/89898/29a51ad9-2ba1-4ee0-b44d-9377c600eeba)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gpi-ilumadata-confidently-ship-analytics-code-faster-with-less-errors", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2022-07-18T21:37:33.587Z" } ] }, { "id": 26727, "name": "Moneco", "slug": "moneco", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f0b34817619a35bbf1da135af695c381b331b83a.png", "website": "https://moneco.app/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "Moneco is a neobank targeting the migrant communities in Europe, starting with the African diaspora. 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My team provides embedded GTM engineering service by YC founders and former sales leaders — designing and shipping the enrichment, campaigns, and CRM automation that turn manual busywork into predictable pipeline for revenue growth that compounds.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisismattsun/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ca93dcc2ce1d5985871bc4400fa2532ba9e8ff5b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1047794, "full_name": "Daniel Wasserlauf", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hacker, Software enthusiast. \n\nSend me cool projects or bits of code you like! \nhttps://github.com/twosdai ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-wasserlauf-b12681101/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2990083c1f545e2fcadc5ef6ba4a654dce568ff3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 98226, "title": "Mocke, Cold Email AI Agent", "tagline": "Cursor for cold email, with lead research and personalization at scale", "body": "Hey, it's Matt here. Really excited to launch Mocke today, because it has been a wow moment for ourselves and beta users. Can't wait to share it with everyone who writes cold email.\n\n# TLDR;\n\nMocke is an AI agent for cold email. It works like Cursor for development. Mocke collapses hours of cold email writing into seconds and conducts deep research on each lead to deliver completely personalized messaging at scale.\n\nTry Mocke here . No account is needed; just enter your website to see the cold email you are going to love in 60 seconds.\n\n# **The problems we are solving**\n\n### The 0.1 → 1 Problem\n\nEven though everyone now has access to ChatGPT, crafting effective cold emails still requires significant time and effort. Here's the typical experience of someone writing cold emails:\n\n1. ChatGPT provides a first draft in 5 seconds, which looks decent.\n2. The user then spends time refining the phrases, CTA, subject line, messaging, and final touches. This process can take an hour or even several hours until they feel comfortable sending out the emails.\n\nThe challenge is rather the effort needed to refine the draft for production, because no one feels comfortable taking the 1st drafted email from ChatGPT and send to real leads. Therefore, I refer to this problem as the 0.1 to 1 problem.\n\n### The personalization with deep research\n\nChatGPT is a commodity that everyone already has access to. So, writing a good cold email is no longer sufficient to get meaningful returns from campaigns. Relevance has already become the #1 indicator for a high reply rate. However, there are no effective tools available for conducting in-depth research on each lead and crafting personalized, unique emails for every individual.\n\nIn the market, many AI sales tools attempt to build rapport in cold emails by referencing LinkedIn activities, such as congratulating someone on a promotion or mentioning a recent post. However, leads can quickly recognize poorly generated personalization in these outreach efforts, which often lack genuine relevance. This undermines trust and reduces interest.\n\n# **The solution - Mocke: your cold email AI agent**\n\nMocke is a Cold Email AI agent that functions like Cursor. It reduces hours of cold email writing and deep personalization to just 60 seconds, delivering thousands of unique email messages that leads will love instantly. While it works alongside you, the AI agent handles most of the ideation, writing, polishing, personalization, and deep research, allowing you to achieve results without lifting a finger.\n\n### Step 1: Campaign idea\n\nMocke suggests campaign ideas. By simply entering your website, the AI agent identifies the ideal ICP, highlights the most suitable pain points for cold emailing (as not every pain point is effective for cold emailing), and provides a creative messaging angle designed to attract a lot of responses.\n\nYou can start not only with your website but also with your inbound website visitors, conference pre- and post-outreach, publishing a new case study, creating a new blog post, promoting a new AI feature, and more. Share any of these with Mocke, and the AI agent will develop a comprehensive outbound strategy for you.\n\nBelow is a basic example using [@Pylon](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/28069)’s website. (big fan of their product btw!)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98226&key=user_uploads/675671/216b3b61-dd14-41ca-9838-5acb958e8d04)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98226&key=user_uploads/675671/1595b949-d321-4eff-b84b-361df55b3934)\n\n### Step 2: Email template\n\nMocke writes email templates with embedded prompts. Refer to the Pylon example below.\n\nFor each email, AI agent may propose an engaging subject line, a creative value-based call to action (beyond a simple meeting request), and crucially, instructions for conducting deep research and personalization, presented as prompts in **\\[square brackets\\]**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98226&key=user_uploads/675671/dcad9216-12af-4494-ba86-d82f4cb52fee)\n\nWhat Mocke will do is to run deep research into a lead, the business behind, their department and teams, and all relevant information with regard to what AI agent is selling. Then with the targeted deep research, AI agent will generate a highly-relevant email for one lead.\n\n Just to highlight, in the Pylon example above, there are various prompts:\n\n* A paragraph prompt `[Write a short paragraph in 30 words or less. Ask the lead if their support team has experienced a large volume of support tickets in Q1 2026, and how they handle it. Must mention one specific technical product error message often asked by the lead's users. Must use deep technical terminology in the context of the lead's product. Must mention the lead's product name.]`\n* A phrase prompt `[describe the lead's team, in 3 words or less]`\n\n So you can choose from full delegation to AI to write content, or partially if you want to have finer control over customization.\n\n###  Step 3: Preview deep research and emails\n\nTo review the deep research and email writing, you can provide a lead's LinkedIn profile for the AI agent to conduct in-depth research and craft a personalized email in real-time. This ensures you feel confident about the dynamic content generated by the AI, based on the prompts embedded in the email templates.\n\n For this demo, I'm again using two potential leads of Pylon and have AI run deep research to write emails. You can compare them side-to-side to see the difference.\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98226&key=user_uploads/675671/4d2f6ca8-bda6-4264-bab1-295e51ba50c4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98226&key=user_uploads/675671/d773b48d-0501-4b35-83df-cb2364a6b508)\n\n### Ready to launch\n\nAfter completing the three steps in just 60 seconds, you can upload your list of leads. The AI agent will then conduct deep research and create personalized messages for each lead, one by one!\n\n# 🚀🚀🚀 **Ask**\n\nNo sign-up is required, and it's free to use. Simply visit our website and enter your website. In just 60 seconds, you'll receive a cold email that you'll truly like.\n\nMy ask: try it out with your website and share your honest feedback. Let us know whether you love it or not.\n\n \n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n— — — —\n\n---\n\n# How it works underneath\n\nIf you are still reading and interested to know a little more.\n\n### Email Writing Workflow\n\nFor each lead, Mocke would go through a few steps to write unique messaging per person and ensure it's relevant.\n\n1. Build a profile of the lead by scraping LinkedIn page\n2. Build a profile of the company of the lead by querying B2B databases\n3. Use [@Firecrawl](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27152) (shout out to the team, amazing product as well!) to crawl website and/or targeted information search using its agent\n4. Use agentic loop to finish email writing, polishing, reviewing, scoring, and delivering\n\n### What can be found in deep research?\n\n1. Anything mentioned on main marketing website\n2. Anything mentioned in documentation\n3. Google searchable content if the results come back in the first page of SERP\n4. Top reddit relevant threads (same reason as above, indexed by Google)\n5. Personal and company LinkedIn profiles activities\n\n### What if AI can't find information?\n\nMocke AI agent will not generate inaccurate information, as we have safeguards in place. In the case of information not found, AI will write generic content, rather than specific reference of information.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PYI-mocke-cold-email-ai-agent", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-03-02T17:52:17.660Z" }, { "id": 98225, "title": "Mocke, Cold Email AI Agent", "tagline": "Cursor for cold email, with lead research and personalization at scale", "body": "Hey, it's Matt here. Really excited to launch Mocke today, because it has been a wow moment for ourselves and beta users. Can't wait to share it with everyone who writes cold email.\n\n# TLDR;\n\nMocke is an AI agent for cold email. It works like Cursor for development. Mocke collapses hours of cold email writing into seconds and conducts deep research on each lead to deliver completely personalized messaging at scale.\n\nTry Mocke here . No account is needed; just enter your website to see the cold email you are going to love in 60 seconds.\n\n# **The problems we are solving**\n\n### The 0.1 → 1 Problem\n\nEven though everyone now has access to ChatGPT, crafting effective cold emails still requires significant time and effort. Here's the typical experience of someone writing cold emails:\n\n1. ChatGPT provides a first draft in 5 seconds, which looks decent.\n2. The user then spends time refining the phrases, CTA, subject line, messaging, and final touches. This process can take an hour or even several hours until they feel comfortable sending out the emails.\n\nThe challenge is rather the effort needed to refine the draft for production, because no one feels comfortable taking the 1st drafted email from ChatGPT and send to real leads. Therefore, I refer to this problem as the 0.1 to 1 problem.\n\n### The personalization with deep research\n\nChatGPT is a commodity that everyone already has access to. So, writing a good cold email is no longer sufficient to get meaningful returns from campaigns. Relevance has already become the #1 indicator for a high reply rate. However, there are no effective tools available for conducting in-depth research on each lead and crafting personalized, unique emails for every individual.\n\nIn the market, many AI sales tools attempt to build rapport in cold emails by referencing LinkedIn activities, such as congratulating someone on a promotion or mentioning a recent post. However, leads can quickly recognize poorly generated personalization in these outreach efforts, which often lack genuine relevance. This undermines trust and reduces interest.\n\n# **The solution - Mocke: your cold email AI agent**\n\nMocke is a Cold Email AI agent that functions like Cursor. It reduces hours of cold email writing and deep personalization to just 60 seconds, delivering thousands of unique email messages that leads will love instantly. While it works alongside you, the AI agent handles most of the ideation, writing, polishing, personalization, and deep research, allowing you to achieve results without lifting a finger.\n\n### Step 1: Campaign idea\n\nMocke suggests campaign ideas. By simply entering your website, the AI agent identifies the ideal ICP, highlights the most suitable pain points for cold emailing (as not every pain point is effective for cold emailing), and provides a creative messaging angle designed to attract a lot of responses.\n\nYou can start not only with your website but also with your inbound website visitors, conference pre- and post-outreach, publishing a new case study, creating a new blog post, promoting a new AI feature, and more. Share any of these with Mocke, and the AI agent will develop a comprehensive outbound strategy for you.\n\nBelow is a basic example using [@Pylon](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/28069)’s website. (big fan of their product btw!)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98225&key=user_uploads/675671/216b3b61-dd14-41ca-9838-5acb958e8d04)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98225&key=user_uploads/675671/1595b949-d321-4eff-b84b-361df55b3934)\n\n### Step 2: Email template\n\nMocke writes email templates with embedded prompts. Refer to the Pylon example below.\n\nFor each email, AI agent may propose an engaging subject line, a creative value-based call to action (beyond a simple meeting request), and crucially, instructions for conducting deep research and personalization, presented as prompts in **\\[square brackets\\]**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98225&key=user_uploads/675671/dcad9216-12af-4494-ba86-d82f4cb52fee)\n\nWhat Mocke will do is to run deep research into a lead, the business behind, their department and teams, and all relevant information with regard to what AI agent is selling. Then with the targeted deep research, AI agent will generate a highly-relevant email for one lead.\n\n Just to highlight, in the Pylon example above, there are various prompts:\n\n* A paragraph prompt `[Write a short paragraph in 30 words or less. Ask the lead if their support team has experienced a large volume of support tickets in Q1 2026, and how they handle it. Must mention one specific technical product error message often asked by the lead's users. Must use deep technical terminology in the context of the lead's product. Must mention the lead's product name.]`\n* A phrase prompt `[describe the lead's team, in 3 words or less]`\n\n So you can choose from full delegation to AI to write content, or partially if you want to have finer control over customization.\n\n###  Step 3: Preview deep research and emails\n\nTo review the deep research and email writing, you can provide a lead's LinkedIn profile for the AI agent to conduct in-depth research and craft a personalized email in real-time. This ensures you feel confident about the dynamic content generated by the AI, based on the prompts embedded in the email templates.\n\n For this demo, I'm again using two potential leads of Pylon and have AI run deep research to write emails. You can compare them side-to-side to see the difference.\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98225&key=user_uploads/675671/4d2f6ca8-bda6-4264-bab1-295e51ba50c4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98225&key=user_uploads/675671/d773b48d-0501-4b35-83df-cb2364a6b508)\n\n### Ready to launch\n\nAfter completing the three steps in just 60 seconds, you can upload your list of leads. The AI agent will then conduct deep research and create personalized messages for each lead, one by one!\n\n# 🚀🚀🚀 **Ask**\n\nNo sign-up is required, and it's free to use. Simply visit our website and enter your website. In just 60 seconds, you'll receive a cold email that you'll truly like.\n\nMy ask: try it out with your website and share your honest feedback. Let us know whether you love it or not.\n\n \n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n— — — —\n\n---\n\n# How it works underneath\n\nIf you are still reading and interested to know a little more.\n\n### Email Writing Workflow\n\nFor each lead, Mocke would go through a few steps to write unique messaging per person and ensure it's relevant.\n\n1. Build a profile of the lead by scraping LinkedIn page\n2. Build a profile of the company of the lead by querying B2B databases\n3. Use [@Firecrawl](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27152) (shout out to the team, amazing product as well!) to crawl website and/or targeted information search using its agent\n4. Use agentic loop to finish email writing, polishing, reviewing, scoring, and delivering\n\n### What can be found in deep research?\n\n1. Anything mentioned on main marketing website\n2. Anything mentioned in documentation\n3. Google searchable content if the results come back in the first page of SERP\n4. Top reddit relevant threads (same reason as above, indexed by Google)\n5. Personal and company LinkedIn profiles activities\n\n### What if AI can't find information?\n\nMocke AI agent will not generate inaccurate information, as we have safeguards in place. In the case of information not found, AI will write generic content, rather than specific reference of information.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PYH-mocke-cold-email-ai-agent", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-02-27T21:25:23.038Z" }, { "id": 93377, "title": "Mocke - Mock cold email campaigns", "tagline": "Know your reply rate in 1 min without launching", "body": "Hey, Matt and Daniel from Mocke (s22) here. We are beyond excited to launch a product that's never been seen before!\n\n# TLDR;\n\nMocke AI agent mocks running cold email campaigns. Get campaign results in 1 min, such as spam, open, reply, or unsubscribe. Mocke also reveals why each lead didn't open emails, ignore, or forward. Unlock insights of campaign failure (or success!) not even seen in real life.\n\nCompletely free to start.\n\n[Sign up here](https://mocke.co/)[ ](https://www.loom.com/share/3f83a2a5c8984bfe97a020843c29cb91)\n\n# **The problem, that we take personally** 😕\n\nAt Mocke, we send a huge amount of cold emails (for our startup journey, see it in the end). Our daily cold email sending volume is up to 1,000,000 per day to the entire world. And we've seen a wild range of performance outcomes: the best around 80% open / 25% reply / 10% interest, and the worst would be zero interest or replies. Granted, cold email is hard because of all factors driving the results: deliverability, messaging, cta, brand awareness, competition, PMF, etc. At our scale, we've built possibly all the tools and AI to maximize the performance, except for one thing:\n\n> _The messaging, or the message-market fit (MMF)_\n\nOn one day, we've seen a 10% interest rate for a given product, which easily generates 100 leads per day at our scale. The next day, we tried different messaging for the same product, just a minor tweak and prospect list, and got 0 replies. (Deliverability isn't our problem; our open rate never drops below 65% when we track it.)\n\n The problem is message-market fit. We cannot tell whether a message is going to resonate with this list of leads/personas/decision makers until we test it. We have to test it.\n\nSo here are the three core problems we are struggling with, and I'm sure you do as well:\n\n* 💔 **SLOW - Cold email takes a long time to test**. Every campaign with a multi-step sequence takes 2 weeks to 1 month to test.\n* 💔 **GUESSING GAME - Cold email gives no feedback**. If you have a 0% interest rate campaign sent to 1,000 people, why do people not respond? What's the problem? No one tells you, among those 1,000 people, why they don't care about your messaging. So you guess again and spend two weeks running another email copy.\n* 💔 **WASTE** - **You are burning through real people, real customers.** You can't test too hard on these real customers, as it's going to harm your reputation.\n\nThis is a real challenge that everyone has to go through. There is no solution so far. Until today.\n\n# **Meet Mocke**\n\nToday, we are introducing Mocke, the _world's first and only_ AI agent that mocks cold email campaigns exactly like real campaigns. Here is how Mocke works:\n\n1 - 📁 Upload your prepared campaign .csv file as usual to Mocke, 1-click to launch the (mocked) campaign\n\n![](https://t18036112.p.clickup-attachments.com/t18036112/a4771fab-65ac-40f1-85f5-23f299ef3b68/1.png)\n\n2 - ⏰ In as little as 1 minute, the emails are sent, and the campaign results are ready for you\n\n![](https://t18036112.p.clickup-attachments.com/t18036112/6efc67b5-1256-481a-9bd1-23a9bf65fb9e/2.png)\n\n3 - 📈 You can view all replies, positive or negative, forward, unsubscribe, out of office, etc., like a real campaign\n\n4 - 📊 Mocke **not only** reveals your predicted open rate, reply rate, interest rate, and unsubscribe rate, but you also get the following **critical** information:\n\n1. 🚯 How many people clicked Report SPAM\n2. 📨 How many people forwarded internally without letting you know\n3. 🗑️ How many people ignore/archive/delete\n4. 🤔 The leads' thoughts behind why people opened the email, why people read a 2nd time, why people reply, etc.\n\n![](https://t18036112.p.clickup-attachments.com/t18036112/905bc8f8-a621-4fdc-b24f-28b943ed813e/3.png)\n\n5 -💡 Based on visible campaign outcomes and hidden lead actions above, the AI agent analyzes the campaign to provide unseen insights in real campaigns instantly.\n\n![](https://t18036112.p.clickup-attachments.com/t18036112/7be52197-6573-45e3-818b-3dced14bd3fc/4.png)\n\nWith Mocke, the game with cold email has forever changed.\n\n* ❤️‍🔥 Instead of waiting for 2 weeks, **you get results in 1 min**\n* ❤️‍🔥 Instead of a guessing game \"why people didn't reply?\", **you know the exact reasons**\n* ❤️‍🔥 Instead of testing against real customers, **you test against them mocked, as many times as you wish**\n\nPersonally, I can't believe there is no such product in the world. We searched, but couldn't find any. So we made it for you, all of you looking at this comment now.\n\n![](https://t18036112.p.clickup-attachments.com/t18036112/9762737c-dcf8-47ef-9113-2a32dfb27ed7/image.png)\n\n# Ask\n\n* If you run cold email campaigns, please upvote this post!\n* If you find cold email hard, please give it a try! [Get started for free](https://mocke.co/)\n* We are running a launch promotion, 50% off any paid plan if you sign up before August 31st. 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Do you want to set a custom rate/spend-limit for each project/user?\n\n**Create a **[**free account**](https://www.trybricks.ai/sign-in)** and try us out today 😄**\n\nHey everyone, this is [**@Spike Lu**](http://linkedin.com/in/spike-lu-38227b105) and [**@Donovan So**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovanso/)! We're excited to share that we've launched [BricksAI Cloud](https://www.trybricks.ai/).\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nA lot of enterprise features are still missing from today's LLM providers, particularly:\n\n1. there isn't a good way of controlling LLM spendings in a granular way (e.g. per user/project/env/feature etc.)\n2. there isn't a good way of monitoring LLMs in a granular way\n\nBut building an LLM wrapper in-house takes away valuable engineering time from shipping features that actually drive business value.\n\n# **The solution**\n\nBricksAI Cloud is an [open-core](https://github.com/bricks-cloud/BricksLLM) SaaS solution that protects and monitors your LLM usage. We're a proxy, so instead of using API keys from your providers, you'd create and use Bricks API keys that come with custom limits (e.g. expiry date, rate-limit, or spend-limit).\n\n[**Demo video**](https://www.loom.com/share/fe0553312e8a4378b3467c12f22e8714?sid=39bbbec1-da60-4054-899a-9ce991b068a9) ⭐\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76778&key=user_uploads/1109574/8811f428-392d-4533-973d-516979be917d)\n\nWe currently have official support OpenAI and Anthropic, meaning you’ll be able to accurately track your token usage and cost without any configuration. We also support integrations with custom models.\n\nOver the past few months, we have streamlined LLM operations for a wide range of clients, including a late-stage sustainability tech startup, a major leadership training nonprofit, a top European travel agency, and multiple AI startups.\n\nNow, we're opening up our tool to the world with the launch of BricksAI Cloud. We'd love to see how it can transform your GenAI stack.\n\n# **The ask**\n\n1. Star us on [**Github**](https://github.com/bricks-cloud/BricksLLM) ⭐\n2. Create a [free account](https://www.trybricks.ai/sign-in) and try us out today. _Heads up: we require a 15-min account activation call, this helps us get to know your use case better. Don’t worry, it’s super quick and casual!_\n3. Questions? Feedback? Feature requests? [Book a call with us](https://calendly.com/spike-at-bricks/coffee-chat-with-spike) or email [founders@bricks-tech.com](mailto:founders@bricks-tech.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JyM-bricksai-cloud-simple-cost-control-monitoring-for-llms", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2023-12-11T21:19:06.212Z" }, { "id": 74841, "title": "BricksAI🔐: A simple OpenAI access manager for enterprises", "tagline": "BricksAI helps enterprises develop LLM apps more securely", "body": "**Tl;dr:** [BricksAI](https://www.trybricks.ai/) helps enterprises develop LLM apps more securely. We do this through an access manager that can set a spend limit, rate limit and expiration date on individual API keys. \n\n**The Problem: OpenAI does not provide enterprise level security features**\n\n> _“You wouldn’t believe how many organizations are building OpenAI wrappers.”_\n>\n> _\\- A machine learning director at a unicorn startup._\n\nOpenAI does not have enterprise-level security features. A lot of companies need to build enhanced security features on top of what OpenAI offers before using them.\n\n> “We simply assign each team an OpenAI key”\n>\n> \\- A senior engineer working at a public fintech company.\n\nDeveloping OpenAI applications often means that developers have to share OpenAI key credentials with each other to speed up development.\n\nThere are several risks and drawbacks associated with this approach:\n\n* **Increased likelihood of security breaches**: more than 50% of breaches happen due to shared secrets\n* **No cost visibility**: no way of knowing what constitutes a $20k OpenAI bill\n* **No access control**: no source of truth for OpenAI access\n* **Degraded production performance**: OpenAI has an organization-level rate limit. One team’s experimentation with OpenAI could impact the performance of production OpenAI applications if not properly rate limited.\n\nAzure OpenAI service helps fill some of the gaps but this product is simply not available to users of GCP and AWS for competitive reasons.\n\n**The Solution: A self-hosted OpenAI access manager**\n\n[BricksAI](https://www.trybricks.ai/) checks all requests between your applications and different LLMs. We ensure every call is authorized, and does not exceed any traffic and cost limits.\n\nYou can create a custom API key with a **rate-limit**, **spend-limit**, and **expiration date** either programmatically or through our UI:\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/2PBxx_RzNu9dsiySB2IXD4ySeziMayS-afN25SnUBofJEuRla9tBclCHbLg1OGdj_87mHcr3NSI4SMgTkEUtSRHIQr0yLgK1Ty0ZZWnvKSAi4tCEcktVTexY0RkVakz6krMl7mU2m2CO0tvGxJ3W_7g)\n\nThen use the API key to access an LLM like you normally would. When a key reaches its limit (e.g. has expired), our gateway blocks off your requests:\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nJ4yb431KR5fhWm-5SHhrxEddPFtRWb5kUD4z7Gw2i3gnn3IO4_p7a2aeIqPQhLyW2l1XOx_0J-nv_rVmPv8KHR7adRa3uVd6bzgBbYPPmlfCOhjUoIZe9qIOqrEX3Kd4A8kOmcH9zqcC9yonuZich8)\n\nIn addition, our enterprise offering includes \n\n* **SSO**: SSO integration\n* **Dashboard**: Dashboard view of the keys created\n* **Analytics**: Analytics on usage and cost by team and service\n* **Access Control**: Access control over who can view and create keys\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/B1ecI3KdyzeqrdPU6JRoYflPXpt-y3YiRGuf3wE0_n6gJZxKZX6bxnHCFXFvSh4Rf5MsCTXNWpZEEIsXnsSiEyBqCJ9_GIVaRyWb8BoT6xjITG2pN1SMtiuDLJCryMENyfbPY_Y-2vAfW0fgUjMRuZg)\n\n**Who are we?**\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QVEctbu3DQ5cZPDkK_P_-9KGBcMg64t7qzcFlEpbO_EpUefLvVcu5ApqHH6oZYx0x8hBDxZdX7PdngRjIkCXp_6ALUFsAn9ZCrB636TWAQ2o5pr1J7z-GVEoYgplvK__JBvVpVnXdnv7Fq5KQXqQJdI)\n\n[Spike](https://www.linkedin.com/in/spike-lu-38227b105/) (on the right) was a senior software engineer at Unity for three years. He worked on an internal API gateway used by hundreds of developers.\n\n[Donovan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovanso/) (on the left) was a software engineer at Credit Suisse, building internal tools dealing with financial instruments used by institutional investors.\n\nWhile working on our previous [AI powered Figma to code idea](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1178847414663679049/Bricks---AI-Powered-Design-to-TailwindCSS-Code), we realized that developing applications using OpenAI credentials is easy to get started but poses huge security risks. After constantly hearing news about [leaked OpenAI keys](https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/cybercrooks-scrape-openai-keys-pirate-gpt-4), we are inspired to create a solution that helps make OpenAI development safer at enterprises.  \\\n\\\n**Interested in learning more?**\n\n* 📅 [Book a call](https://calendly.com/spike-at-bricks/quick-chat?month=2023-09)\n* ✉️ Email us at [spike@bricks-tech.com](mailto:spike@bricks-tech.com)\n* 🤝 Connect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/spike-lu-38227b105/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JT7-bricksai-a-simple-openai-access-manager-for-enterprises", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2023-09-13T21:28:53.172Z" } ] }, { "id": 26733, "name": "Roxels", "slug": "roxels", "former_names": [ "Trebu", "trebu" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0cf53490864092dbff595fc62f53545226e16ac0.png", "website": "https://www.roxels.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Roxels is a vision-enabled voice agent that can handle complex flows for your users. 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Using the existing alternatives to underwrite is not enough as they are expensive and data is not recent enough to detect common risks. To change this, they partnered with Antonio to build Trebu.\n\n**Asks**\n\nIntros to anyone in risk and credit teams!! Head of Risk, Chief Risk Officer, VP of Risk of digital lending companies.\n\n**Offer**\n\nIf you are launching a lending product in Mexico we are happy to help you.\n\nLet's fight fraud and default: [www.trebu.io](http://www.trebu.io) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GzE-trebu-is-a-data-sharing-network-to-help-companies-in-latam-fight-fraud-and-default", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2022-08-11T16:33:12.780Z" } ] }, { "id": 26734, "name": "Serinus Biosciences", "slug": "serinus-biosciences", "former_names": [ "Serinus" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6e7bac94ec8bfc7378ed11602bae7ea50215536.png", "website": "http://www.serinus.bio", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Serinus Biosciences is tackling one of the toughest problems in cancer treatment: creating combination therapies to override treatment resistance. We leverage cutting edge technology to design a fully explainable AI platform primed with decades of system biology knowledge. Uniquely powered for biological inference, our AI engine uncovers how cancer cells evolve treatment resistance and identifies molecules to overcome resistance escape routes. We design combinations that are safer, more effective, and can get to patients quickly. Founded by MIT PhDs and supported by a scientific advisory board of top academics from the Broad Institute, Dana-Farber, and UCSD, Serinus is powered by Y Combinator and other top investors to revolutionize precision medicine.", "one_liner": "Combinations therapy by rational design", "team_size": 6, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Therapeutics", "launched_at": 1656454958, "tags": [ "Biotech", "Therapeutics", "Oncology" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Therapeutics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/serinus-biosciences", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/serinus-biosciences.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/serinus-biosciences", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6e7bac94ec8bfc7378ed11602bae7ea50215536.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 995566, "full_name": "Adam Yaari", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Prior to founding Serinus, Adam gained over 10 years of entrepreneurship experience including a Microsoft R&D Fellowship and Flagship Pioneering Ideation Fellowship. Adam is passionate about developing advanced AI models for biological research that will bring medicine to scale.\nAdam received his PhD and MS in computer science from MIT, MSc in computer science and mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and dual major BSc in computer science and neuroscience from Bar-Ilan University.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-yaari-b0192ab4/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/adamyaari", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/be559be7ab070663acd06da510435c67603327ef.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018692, "full_name": "Maxwell Sherman", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "After five years as a paramedic, Max left clinical medicine to develop new treatments for the millions of patients without access to effective medications. He studied applied math and biology at Brown University, statistics at Cambridge University, and is completing his PhD in computational biology at MIT. His research has appeared in prestigious journals including Science, Nature Biotechnology, and Nature Neuroscience and has been recognized with national and international awards.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellsh/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/m_a_sherman", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/55ef582cd6624db1323147e32a73d8b92ba0f26c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65562, "title": "Serinus Biosciences: Killing cancer with its own genetics 💪🏽", "tagline": "We develop drugs effective against multiple types of cancer... and we do it really fast! 🏃🏽", "body": "We're **Adam** and **Max**, the founders of **Serinus Biosciences** 💊💻🤓\n\nAt Serinus, we develop drugs that are effective against **multiple types of cancer**, and because cancer patients need solutions now, we do it in **months instead of years!**\n\n### **_Cancer: an insidious disease with insidious economics_** 💰💰💰\n\nCurrently, **more than 80% of cancer patients** are not eligible for targeted cancer therapies - the most efficient and least toxic cancer treatments. _Why?_ Because the proteins driving cancer in one patient are often different than those driving cancer in another patient.\n\nHere's where the economics comes in. The cost of bringing a new cancer drug to market is currently **>$2.5 BILLION**. Developing a drug against a protein that only causes cancer in a small number of patients each year is just not economically viable with traditional drug development.\n\n### **_The Serinus Strategy_** 💡\n\nWhile building AI tools to understand the causes of cancer during our PhDs at MIT, we had a realization: all the different cancer-causing proteins disrupt the same cellular systems. **We shut down these shared dysfunctional systems.**\n\n_How?_ We look for the support proteins that keep the system functioning. Think about a telephone system ☎️ If you want to bring it down, you should find the small number of relay stations that route messages across the network instead of hitting the individual phones. **We find the relay stations of cancer cells and bring them dow**n ☠️☠️☠️\n\nSince cancer systems are widely shared across patients, the relays that support those systems are widely shared across patients. Our current pipeline **could help more than 100K PATIENTS PER-YEAR!**\n\n### **_The knowledge (and stubbornness) to get it done_** 🤓 😎\n\nWe met on the very first day of our PhDs at MIT. It was a cancer-fighting match made in heaven. Adam comes from an AI/ML background, Max comes from a biology and statistics background, having given up his place in medical school so he could develop new treatments for patients in need by merging biology, mathematics, and computer science.\n\nOh, and did we mention that Adam is a former Navy SEALs commander and Max spent five years as a paramedic.\n\n**_How can you help?_**\n\nOur platform is churning out way more ways to kill cancer than we can pursue ourselves. If you or someone you know works at another therapeutics company that might be interested in co-developing a drug with us, give us a shout on [founders@serinus.bio](mailto:founders@serinus.bio)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H3S-serinus-biosciences-killing-cancer-with-its-own-genetics", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2022-08-23T01:28:16.522Z" } ] }, { "id": 26735, "name": "Dr. Treat", "slug": "dr-treat", "former_names": [ "Urban Pets Inc (DBA Dr. Treat)", "DBA Dr. Treat" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d32db90d7196c1ce3567ce75271b6314a38a8b22.png", "website": "https://www.drtreat.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Dr. Treat is a tech enabled modern veterinary care company offering virtual and in-clinic services to pet parents. We are building the largest pet health company powered by technology and driven by data to offer highly personalized & preventative care for every pet. 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This causes numerous problems including making deals difficult to review, handoffs impossible and forecasting inaccurate.\n\n## **The Solution?**\n\n**Stop relying on salespeople to take notes and update the CRM**.\n\nPilot is an AI assistant that generates detailed notes and structured data that call that updates the CRM for every call. The notes are easy to read and don’t include the rambling, small talk and pauses of the conversation but instead capture the most important points. \n\nForm every conversation, Pilot produces:\n\n1. A scannable summary\n2. Datapoints that map to CRM fields\n3. Every question asked by the rep and the most important parts of the prospect's answer\n4. Additional essential points that the prospect made during the call\n\n## **We'd love to hear from you!**\n\nIf you’re facing this problem in your organization - we’d love to show you our magic trick. [Schedule a demo!](https://calendly.com/max-pilot-ai/30min)\n\nIf you’re thinking of a sales leader that this would help, we’d love an intro! [max@getpilot.ai](mailto:max@getpilot.ai)\n\nWe’re always interested in talking to reps as well; send me an email if you’d like to use Pilot!\\\n\\\n\\\n[max@getpilot.ai](mailto:max@getpilot.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwc-pilot-ai-turns-your-sales-calls-into-crm-data-automatically", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2022-08-04T17:48:02.591Z" } ] }, { "id": 26742, "name": "Boostly", "slug": "boostly", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png", "website": "https://boostly.com", "all_locations": "Lehi, UT, USA", "long_description": "Boostly provides everything necessary for restaurants to attract new guests and turn them into regulars. From AI-powered SEO, paid ads, behavioral-based text marketing with gamified engagement, and AI driven reputation management, Boostly provides 10x greater guest engagement when compared to others in the industry. \r\n\r\nBoostly’s patented processes enables them to build opted-in subscriber lists bigger and faster than anyone on the market.", "one_liner": "Premier growth platform for restaurants", "team_size": 50, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1652482383, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Messaging", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boostly", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/boostly.json", "year_founded": 2017, "city": "Lehi", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goboostly", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/GoBoostly", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boostly", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/5e039700f2731963afc99ec46a1952f286752f9e.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/45c56c7a4899941a8d23de68a8eaaaddc6f36fbc.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 365280, "full_name": "Shane Murphy", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Shane is the Co-founder and CEO of Boostly. He previously ran sales for Jolt, a restaurant operations software company (acquired by Digi for $145M), and was a sales leader, early team member, and investor in American HealthCare Lending (acquired by Prosper Marketplace for $21M). 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We’re just getting warmed up and plan to grow our marketing channels during YC. \n\n## **Problems**\n\n* Restaurants live or die based on their ability to get their customers ordering regularly, but over 60% of a restaurant's customer base never make it in for a 2nd visit.\n* Customer data is notoriously hard for restaurant owners to access because it’s in several different systems with various accessibility challenges.\n* Restaurant owners are strapped for time and often lack any marketing know-how.\n* Most restaurant marketing lacks good tracking to know exactly how it’s working.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\n* We aggregate customer data from several data sources for the restaurant & get customers to opt in to receive texts from the store.\n* We put text marketing on autopilot with weekly offers, birthday deals, & relevant reminders.\n* While the customer eats, we solicit feedback via a 2 click survey and help to connect the restaurant with the guest if there was an issue or generate a 5 star review on Google.\n* We track the restaurant’s ROI across all of their sales channels (online, over the phone, or in-store).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gee-boostly-s22-text-marketing-feedback-on-autopilot-for-restaurants", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2022-06-23T19:13:00.409Z" } ] }, { "id": 26743, "name": "EthosX", "slug": "ethosx", "former_names": [ "Ethos" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/996567c41c2cfe38cba0451d132a3ac62a13e9ec.png", "website": "https://www.ethosx.finance/", "all_locations": "Claymont, DE, USA; Bengaluru, KA, India; Mumbai, MH, India; Remote", "long_description": "EthosX is a decentralized finance platform creating end-to-end financial derivatives on blockchains. No centralized exchanges, clearinghouses, depositories, clearing banks, CSD participants etc. required.\r\n\r\nWe are starting with cryptocurrency options first, with the intention to move towards other crypto derivatives and traditional finance derivatives eventually.\r\n\r\nFor example, one can buy a bitcoin hedging token directly from EthosX without involving any exchange or counterparty and earn profits when the bitcoin price is falling (similar to a put option). It is perpetual and is completely on-chain, end-to-end. It is held as a token in wallets and can be sold/transferred to anyone at any time.\r\n\r\nAt institutional level, using EthosX’s options infrastructure two hedge funds can trade high-value on-chain options with each other directly without involving any banks or brokers with zero counterparty risk and zero settlement risk.\r\n\r\nWe are also providing derivatives infrastructure to other crypto companies who want to use these products as a part of a larger package to their customers.\r\n\r\nGlobal derivatives ecosystem is broken. Derivatives trading in traditional finance has way too many gatekeepers and intermediaries. Crypto was supposed to be free of these issues and a solution to all of this, but it is itself getting more and more centralized with disastrous consequences.\r\n\r\nWe at EthosX intend to pick the best of both worlds and change the way retail and institutional financial derivatives are traded world over.", "one_liner": "The protocol for derivatives on blockchains", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1657620541, "tags": [ "DeFi", "Fintech", "Crypto / Web3", "Consumer", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "India", "America / Canada", "South Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ethosx", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/ethosx.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Claymont", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethosx/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ethosx_finance", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/996567c41c2cfe38cba0451d132a3ac62a13e9ec.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 626077, "full_name": "Deepanshu .", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Deepanshu is Co-founder and CEO of EthosX. He has been a quantitative finance professional for over 8 years. He is very passionate about using the blockchain technology generally and cryptocurrencies specifically to solve real world problems, especially problems related to financial markets. He was Vice President of Quantitative Research in the Global Derivatives Clearing business at JP Morgan Chase before EthosX . He studied engineering at IIT Kharagpur and obtained his MBA from IIM Calcutta.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/deepanshuiitkgp", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a46bbc8657e6b1f6d4db85c4c6f2938b998912a2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1010765, "full_name": "Smit Patoliya", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Smit did B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras. He has worked in quantitative finance most of his career and has keen interest in financial derivatives. At EthosX, he aims to build end-to-end derivatives solutions on blockchain.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/smit-patoliya", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Smit_Patoliya", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/241179272bc4cbb33dde06052094b1df00b1f51a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65269, "title": "EthosX: Decentralized finance platform for crypto & traditional derivatives", "tagline": "We make it unbelievably easy for financial institutions to trade derivatives and manage financial risk", "body": "Hi all, we are [Smit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smit-patoliya/) & [Deepanshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/) and we are super stoked to announce EthosX!\n\n### \n\n### 🚀TL;DR\n\n \n\nEthosX makes it easy for crypto companies and financial institutions to sell on-chain derivatives to their customers and trade with each other. For example, using EthosX’s options infrastructure two hedge funds can trade high-value on-chain options with each other directly without involving any banks or brokers with zero counterparty risk and zero settlement risk.\n\n \n\n### ❓Problem\n\n \n\n**Global derivatives ecosystem is broken.** Derivatives trading in traditional finance has way too many gatekeepers and intermediaries. This leads to inefficiencies and things falling apart every other day. As insiders, we have seen how much everything hangs by a thread. With **USD 600 Trillion dollars (notional value) at stake**, one would expect things to be better, but they aren’t.\n\nCrypto was supposed to be free of these issues and a solution to all of this, but it is itself getting more and more centralized with disastrous consequences, as was clearly evident in the last few months. With every other crypto exchange/bank running away with user’s funds, one can hardly blame the users/traders/investors if they don’t trust centralized entities for complex products like derivatives.\n\n### 🎯Solution\n\n \n\nWe are bringing the entire derivative trading lifecycle on blockchains end-to-end (trading, clearing and settlement).\n\nInstitutions can trade directly with each other on-chain via smart contracts created by us without involving any banks, brokers or exchanges. These trades have zero counterparty risk as the net payoffs are locked in the code. The settlement of these derivatives is automatic and done with the help of on-chain oracles and therefore the settlement risk is also zero. \n\nWe are also adding a Request-For-Quote system which will help bring more liquidity to these trades.\n\nNow, due to regulatory and technical reasons, this cannot be done yet for traditional finance derivatives, so we are starting with cryptocurrency derivatives first and will eventually go towards traditional finance as well.\n\nWe are providing derivatives infrastructure to other crypto companies as well who want to use these products as a part of a larger package to their customers. E.g. DeFi lending protocols can offer liquidation protection to their borrowers using our solutions.\n\nWe have also created perpetual options which are live (testnet) on our website and can be traded by retail traders and institutions alike. The instructions to trade them are [here](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7wovngMr1uo6ZpBB_1fSluC1bLJnq5DK). \n\n \n\n### 📒Backstory\n\nTogether we have spent nearly 15 years in quantitative finance and have seen, very closely, all the points where the derivatives ecosystem falls apart. Deepanshu was a Vice President at the Quantitative Research team of JP Morgan Chase and Smit was working at a quantitative hedge fund trading options before they came together again for EthosX. **It is kind of an open secret that blockchain tech can potentially eliminate many of the issues in derivatives life-cycle which have persisted for years/decades.**\n\n ‘\n\n# 💁How can you help\n\n \n\n1. If you are at a financial institution and want to understand how large derivative trades can be done on-chain with no settlement risk and zero counterparty risk, please reach out to us at [contact@ethosx.xyz](mailto:contact@ethosx.xyz) or directly [message us on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/)\n2. If you are at a crypto company/protocol and need to use crypto derivatives for hedging your treasury or offering some price-volatility-protection to your customers, we will be happy to help! ([email](http://contact@ethosx.xyz) / [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/))\n3. If you are a trader, please try out our (testnet) perpetual options at [www.ethosx.xyz](http://www.ethosx.xyz) (metamask required)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gyj-ethosx-decentralized-finance-platform-for-crypto-traditional-derivatives", "votes": 207, "created_at": "2022-08-10T14:31:41.732Z" } ] }, { "id": 26749, "name": "Ballerine", "slug": "ballerine", "former_names": [ "Whis" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/40c2e4d4f16e7f43d9fe9f060296b72b7d16de22.png", "website": "http://www.ballerine.com", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Ballerine is an AI-native risk intelligence platform built for financial institutions, acquirers, and payment providers that need to underwrite and monitor merchants at scale in real time.\r\n\r\nInstead of relying on fragmented point solutions, Ballerine unifies data from business registries, transaction patterns, sanctions lists, and web intelligence into one composable infrastructure. \r\n\r\nIts AI Agents continuously analyze these signals to deliver dynamic and explainable risk assessments across the merchant lifecycle.\r\nWith a modular architecture, teams can automate underwriting, detect emerging risks, and monitor merchant behavior while aligning to their own policies and compliance frameworks.\r\n\r\nUnlike traditional systems with static models, Ballerine’s AI Agents learn and adapt from live data, uncovering changes in merchant behavior that indicate fraud, laundering, or non-compliance.\r\n\r\nAlready deployed across multiple regions, Ballerine has enabled acquirers and fintechs to accelerate underwriting decisions, reduce manual reviews, and cut false positives, redefining how modern institutions manage merchant risk.\r\n", "one_liner": "Agentic Intelligence Layer for Merchant Risk Decisions", "team_size": 16, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1659913917, "tags": [ "Compliance", "Fraud Detection" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "Israel", "Middle East and North Africa" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ballerine", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/ballerine.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Tel Aviv-Yafo", "country": "IL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ballerine-inc", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Ballerine_io", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/40c2e4d4f16e7f43d9fe9f060296b72b7d16de22.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 401171, "full_name": "Noam Izhaki", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/noamizhaki/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c579c0b3b08b74017abe8932ade3b8edb58f4159.jpg" }, { "user_id": 996688, "full_name": "Nitzan Gelbard", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitzan-guy-63ba9142/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/382b0f2b170e6614de85751f93dd6d2403553057.jpg" }, { "user_id": 813430, "full_name": "Alon Peretz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alonp", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8da0d4f745c4bfc59a3cd15c37ecb6059add34e2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Ballerine brings open source to banks' risk and identity decision-making | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/ballerine-brings-open-source-to-banks-risk-and-identity-decision-making/", "date": "May 23, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 74539, "title": "Ballerine: Open-source & global KYB platform, now with LLM-based OCR!", "tagline": "LLM plugin with OCR capability that can scan various document types (e.g. bank statements, utility bills, etc.) in different formats and languages ", "body": "So, it’s not new that Ballerine is a global platform for KYB (Know Your Business), built on top of open source core. But — we’ve just released a new LLM OCR plugin 🚀\n\nOne big challenge of KYB is managing documents in different formats and languages. We’ve built a new LLM plugin with OCR capability that can scan various document types (e.g. bank statements, utility bills, etc.) in different formats and languages and map the information to the appropriate fields, which allows you to apply rules on top of it. \\\n\\\n[Watch the demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbCNExY4wzY) and let us know if you’d like access!\n\n[Founders@ballerine.com](mailto:Founders@ballerine.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JOF-ballerine-open-source-global-kyb-platform-now-with-llm-based-ocr", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2023-08-31T16:30:57.749Z" }, { "id": 65187, "title": "Ballerine: Open & self-served user risk decisioning platform", "tagline": "Automate your decisions for onboarding, transaction monitoring, credit underwriting, and more, without boundaries.", "body": "Ballerine is the first Open Source Infrastructure for Identity and Risk management.\n\n**TL;DR: Ballerine is an Open Source Infrastructure for Identity and Risk management.**\n\n**Use Ballerine to get:**\n\n* **KYC/KYB UI flows**\n* **A case management dashboard for manual user approval**\n* **Integrations with identity verification providers**\n* **A rule engine to automate your decisioning process.**\n\n**All are open for you to customize and extend to your needs.**\n\nCompanies offering financial services need to identify their customers and assess their risk to avoid fraud and money laundering.\n\nEach company has different audience types, services offered, geographies in which they operate, changing regulations, risk appetite, and more\n\nThis means every company needs to take different risk measures, and wants to provide different experiences to their customers.\n\n### Problem\n\nThe vendors in the market today offer solutions that are:\n\n1. **Closed** - The solutions in the market come with minimal customizability, you can’t change things to fit your changing needs, making it not future-proof.\n2. **Single point solutions** - to cover the whole range of a company’s specific needs it would need to put in extra work instead of focusing on its product.\n3. **Not white label** - The user experience and trust level of a company’s user is hurt by going through a flow that doesn’t look like the rest of the product.\n\n### Solution\n\nBallerine helps you build your KYC/KYB and risk workflows using open-source building blocks for user identity and risk management.\n\nAllowing any business to compose solutions for any vertical and geographical-specific use case.\n\n**Why Open Source?**\n\n* Future proof - modular and extendable building blocks\n* Global - Multiple vendors are accessible in one UI\n* White label - Customizable UX and UI\n* Strong and secure - Tested and maintained by the community\n\nAll of those provide a flexible, long-term solution that won't fail you along the way.\n\n**What is included**\n\n* KYC/KYB UI flows\n* A case management dashboard for manual user approval\n* Integrations with identity verification providers\n* A rule engine to automate your decisioning process\n\n**Examples**\n\nCompanies who already used Ballerine were able to create various solutions like:\n\n* Low-cost KYC solution made out of Identity verification building blocks\n* Multi-vendor KYC flow for users from multiple geographies\n* KYB document collection flow with UI and case management dashboard\n* Vendor-agnostic UI for a company where multiple bank partners that are approving their users\n* And more.\n\n### Build with Ballerine\n\nIn the upcoming weeks, we’ll be gradually releasing our code to our public repository for you to be able to start building with.\n\nLearn more about the project here: \n\nYou can already sign yourself up to get early access [here](https://ballerine.io/request-access)\n\nFeel free to reach out to us at [noam@ballerine.io](mailto:noam@ballerine.io).\n\nWe would love to talk to you and get your feedback regarding what we’re building.\n\nThank you,\n\nNoam, Alon, and Nitzan from Ballerine.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GxP-ballerine-open-self-served-user-risk-decisioning-platform", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2022-08-07T22:37:45.445Z" } ] }, { "id": 26750, "name": "NuMind", "slug": "numind", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a271d83ee825be78f44453963c65aea56395a341.png", "website": "https://www.numind.ai", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA", "long_description": "NuMind is a tool for data scientists, data analysts, but also software engineers to create custom NLP models. 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After a PhD (ENS) & postdoc (MIT) in statistical physics, Etienne joined Wolfram Research where he became the head of machine learning for 7 years. During this time, Etienne led the development of automatic learning tools, a user-friendly deep learning framework, and various machine learning applications. Etienne founded NuMind in 2022.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/etiennebcp/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/etiennebcp", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/243e2ea9be95bc503ba2d1eb595aef52d47385a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1013117, "full_name": "Samuel Bernard", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "After a PhD in Distributed Systems, Samuel was an early employee of Criteo, the Technology Innovation leader at S4M, co-founder & CTO at Make.org, and an independent coach/advisor of start-ups & data teams. Over the years he refined his skills and became an expert in DevOps/DataOps and at managing tech teams.\nHe is now founder & CTO at Numind.ai.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelbernardphd/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/TaXules", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a0bad7d23931a032c19234d3534578f089ced5a3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "NLP Startup NuMind Raises USD 3m in Seed Funding - Slator", "url": "https://slator.com/nlp-startup-numind-raises-usd-3m-seed-funding/", "date": "Mar 31, 2023" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 26751, "name": "Signatur Biosciences", "slug": "signatur-biosciences", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3bad55d9462a3252670af9b86ed4d9abc2a388f4.png", "website": "https://www.signatur.bio/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "We make precision diagnostics more accessible, starting with breast cancer prognosis. 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I teach machine learning to molecules to expand the range of diseases we can diagnose with PCR. NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellow in the the Stevens Group at Imperial College London; PhD Bioengineering from University of Maryland, College Park; BSc Physics and Cell & Molecular Biology from Seattle University. When I’m not programming DNA, I’m cooking, running, or doing martial arts (Danzan-Ryu Japanese Jujitsu).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngoertz/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/BioGoertz", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6cb661d1fc1b8e8930f1a1224ac10aa02075fbad.jpg" }, { "user_id": 924455, "full_name": "Celestin de Wergifosse", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Signatur Biosciences. Startups since the age of 14. First patent at 15. WIPO Best Young Inventor 2010. Twice TEDx speaker. Co-founded Young Change Maker, a social startup that highlights inspiring individuals. Co-founded and sold a company called Sauna en Bois. Bio-engineering from Imperial College London. When I don't work, I race motorcycles, climb or ski. My life-long goal is to develop biotech companies that address global issues.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/celestin-de-wergifosse-41b9823b/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/CelestindeWer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/21175fb3644f2f8fd7550c0996f6527758d38389.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 116867, "title": "Lab Officer (Liège, Belgium)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/signatur-biosciences/jobs/RCUUWfh-lab-officer-liege-belgium", "location": "Liège, Belgium", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Science", "role_type": "Laboratory", "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "A simple PCR to predict the effectiveness of chemotherapy (translated)", "url": "https://www.lecho.be/entreprises/pharma-biotechnologie/un-simple-pcr-pour-predire-l-efficacite-d-une-chimio/10497271.html", "date": "Oct 05, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64421, "title": "🧪 Signatur Biosciences diagnoses anything with a simple PCR test.", "tagline": "We expand PCR testing to a whole new range of diseases!", "body": "**tl;dr:** Signatur Biosciences is a B2B molecular diagnostics design company. Our technology expands PCR testing to a whole new range of conditions. We design smart PCR kits that can detect complex diseases as easily as a COVID test, using standard qPCR machines. Our tests seamlessly integrate into existing clinical workflows and ubiquitous laboratory instruments, empowering us to become _the_ enabling technology platform for a $20B industry.\n\n👋 Hey everyone! We’re Celestin and John. We are determined to transform the state of medical diagnostics. We set out to find a solution that delivers state-of-the art diagnosis on ubiquitous instrumentation to put cutting-edge healthcare within the reach of everyone, everywhere.\n\n### **The Problem.**\n\nRight now, PCR testing is limited to simple diseases. Covid is a good example. You take a sample from a patient and look for one biomarker. If the biomarker is there, the patient has the disease; no biomarker, no disease. Simple.\n\nBut most conditions aren't that simple. There’s a $20B industry using _patterns_ of multiple biomarkers that diagnose complex diseases, but to deploy their tests they’re relying on legacy technologies that are too slow and expensive to really help people, limiting their market reach.\n\n### **🧬 Signatur Biosciences’s solution.**\n\nOur platform expands PCR testing to a whole new range of conditions, beyond just infectious disease to include everything from chronic diseases, treatment selection, and disease monitoring.\n\nWe have re-engineered the molecular architecture of the polymerase chain reaction, empowering it to process the information from multiple biomarkers simultaneously. We combine the power of gene signature diagnosis with the **_ease and familiarity of a single PCR reaction._**\n\nEvery biomedical lab in the planet is equipped with PCR machines. This was true before the pandemic. But as a response to the pandemic, the PCR testing capacity in the US has increased by 5500% (3000% in the UK). We are giving those machines something new to do.\n\n### **🚀 How can Signatur Biosciences help me?**\n\nWe are partnering with companies to design our platform around their biomarker panels, offering broader market reach bringing such tests to more patients.\n\nIn parallel, we are building our own assay portfolio. We are developing our own internal pipeline of tests to tackle diseases that can only be interrogated by our technology.\n\n### **How you can help.**\n\nWe are looking for introductions to companies in the molecular diagnostics space. This could be companies developing portable hardware. Specifically developing genomic testing, or assays based on gene expression analysis.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gl3-signatur-biosciences-diagnoses-anything-with-a-simple-pcr-test", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2022-07-07T15:51:11.366Z" } ] }, { "id": 26752, "name": "Delegasi", "slug": "delegasi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/401f1712c75af775727056181128d235a71bb8e5.png", "website": "https://delegasi.co/", "all_locations": "Bandung, West Java, Indonesia", "long_description": "Financial statements are definitely a hassle for business owners. Many accounting software are available, yet not everyone has the capability to operate them.\r\n\r\nAmidst this problem, Delegasi dares to provide a solution. As the first virtual financial manager in Indonesia, we assist SMB owners in putting together their financial statements and business analysis. By simply uploading receipts and bank statements, owners will receive their financial statements and business analyses with guaranteed accuracy, allowing them to make well informed financial decisions.", "one_liner": "Automated accounting service for small businesses in Indonesia", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1659248138, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Indonesia", "Southeast Asia", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delegasi", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/delegasi.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bandung", "country": "ID", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/delegasi/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/401f1712c75af775727056181128d235a71bb8e5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c77a8acc3810d5c8dad14bd276b8bc750f1b356a.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 950917, "full_name": "Okky Pratama", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Okky has an MBA from MIT, and he was Senior VP of Business & Operations for Modal Rakyat (Fazz Financial Group) before starting Delegasi. He is passionate about finance and analytics, he even reads financial statements as a hobby.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudha-okky-pratama-84217331/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/okky_pratama", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f416946e36f2f2d51e9270dd359326d654bd20c0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 857522, "full_name": "Ans Syuhada", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Anshorimuslim (Ans) is technology and social cause enthusiast. Ans has wide range experiences from product development to data intensive system and leadership role. He also actives to nurture tech community and giving talks. His recent deck and writings can be seen on https://speakerdeck.com/ans4175 - https://ans4175.dev/\n\nHe is on quest helping Food and Beverages Industries understand their Finance Statement better for scaling their company better. Business Intelligence for everyone.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/anshorimuslim", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ans4175", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/20fbfe86d77240a5e5987586097951795f9cc65c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65034, "title": "Delegasi - The first automated accounting service for Small Businesses in Indonesia", "tagline": "An automated accounting service that connects to your POS data for small businesses in Indonesia, starting with restaurants and cafes.", "body": "👋 Hi we are Okky and Ans, founders of Delegasi.\n\nWe assist small business owners in putting together their financial statements and analysis automatically. To generate the financial statements, business owners can simply connect their POS and upload their receipts.\n\n—\n\n## ❓ The Problem\n\nAccounting is always a hassle for small business owners. As they need to handle lots of things (marketing, operations, purchasing, etc.), finding time for accounting is too hard. Not to mention, they need to learn accounting to do it properly.\n\nMany accounting software have claimed to help make the process faster and easier, yet many business owners we spoke with stop using them in the first 1-2 months, even after paying a one year subscription fee. Turns out, these software are still too complicated for users without accounting knowledge.\n\n## ✅ **Our Solution**\n\nIf you are a restaurant owner, you can simply:\n\n1. Connect your POS and food delivery service data;\n2. Upload your receipts, bank statements, and stock opname data; and\n3. Your financial statements and analysis are ready\n\nWith Delegasi, no manual input nor accounting knowledge are needed to generate your financial report. Additionally, you will get financial analysis that is catered to restaurants and cafes’ owners.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/d23ceef6-9399-4cc0-a253-0f93f3316faa)\n\nSeveral analysis that we provide\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/0f1fe63a-03c0-4ba8-b9b3-33faa52fb34a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/5533c32f-d4f2-41b7-a3aa-4bb3ce4d6294)\n\n### 🗒️ **Founders Backstory**\n\nWe have known each other for more than twelve years since college. In early 2021 we started to try finding solution for restaurant and cafe owners around staff hiring problems. Turned out, every businesses that we pitched always mentioned accounting as one of their most painful problems. Thus, we took major pivot and tried to find solution on this one. We helped our friends’ businesses and crafted our first products. After experimenting for a few months, we received positive feedback and realized that this could become huge 📈. That was how we started Delegasi 🚀\n\n### 🌐 **Visit Us**\n\nVisit our website (in Bahasa) at and our Instagram account 🙏🙏\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guw-delegasi-the-first-automated-accounting-service-for-small-businesses-in-indonesia", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2022-08-01T01:49:17.694Z" } ] }, { "id": 26753, "name": "Lyra", "slug": "lyra", "former_names": [ "NFT Access" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4950fc8f2e99716dad617535576e4ea17c9fb623.png", "website": "https://paywithlyra.com/", "all_locations": "Houston, TX, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Lyra is a crypto-native virtual card provider that allows users to easily create cards and fund them with cryptocurrency. Create virtual cards directly from your browser through our Chrome extension for all your purchases and subscriptions. 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Kadir and Griffin here to announce the launch of Lyra. 👋\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nLyra is a platform that makes spending Crypto every day possible. The platform provides an intuitive dashboard & chrome extension that allows you to create Visa cards on demand using the most popular crypto currencies.\n\n**Why we built Lyra? 🤔**\n\nThere’s currently only two methods to use your crypto what it was originally meant for, spending it. You have to send your crypto to an exchange and wait days for it to reach your bank account or hope to find a retailer that’s integrated a crypto payment processor. The reality is crypto users need an intuitive way to spend their crypto daily. Currently, there’s no way to spend crypto on the largest e-commerce platforms like eBay, Walmart, Target, etc without jumping through a bunch of hoops.\n\n**Solution - Lyra 💫**\n\nLyra provides a dashboard and chrome extension that makes spending crypto simple. Our chrome extension provides checkout assistance on top of all the functionality of the dashboard. At checkout on major retailers a Lyra checkout button will appear that displays all available cards to the user and auto fills their info with a single click! Lyra users don't have to expose their private keys or personal information. Your crypto, your keys. Choose any of the major cryptos, load up your balance, and generate your card. In three easy steps you’re ready to spend at any retailer of your choice. **_Check it out._** _👇_\n\n**Checkout**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65339&key=user_uploads/1005032/3fccb807-528a-4170-bc18-dd62b6225168)\n\n**Analytics**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65339&key=user_uploads/1005032/144dc451-0779-454f-a840-5bef91abacec)\n\n**Dashboard**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65339&key=user_uploads/1005032/831b6267-6ac1-4fcf-9ac4-bd45c11790c7)\n\n**Card Creation**\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/vYjyVMZ9EKGC8mMz7lB2GujsShPXQgWYCeywTxCHoVF560gUjgUMOjeta3kXeU0OdF21q4FkclkAuiqGctKddCHaduRwnw4NWR7Bf5YuCivAQKqMYpoMr1vTvYipit7iJloWC7RmTTcOxpARWCp5HHU)\n\n**Our Ask 🙏**\n\n1. We would love to hear your thoughts! Has this been a pain point for you? Let us know.\n2. Make sure to share Lyra with anyone you think could benefit from it.\n\n**Website:** \n\n**Email:** [founders@nftaccess.app](mailto:founders@nftaccess.app)\n\n**♾️ If you’re interested in getting in contact regarding our NFT ticketing platform (** [**https://nftaccess.app**](https://nftaccess.app) **) you can contact** **Griffin** **or myself through our personal emails.** 👇\n\n[griffin@nftaccess.app](mailto:griffin@nftaccess.app) & [s@nftaccess.app](mailto:s@nftaccess.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gzr-lyra-spend-your-crypto-anywhere", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2022-08-13T00:03:47.598Z" }, { "id": 64258, "title": "🎟️ NFT Access: Multi-Chain NFT Ticketing Platform", "tagline": "Discover, create, manage & attend events using NFTs 🪙", "body": "Hey everyone!\\\n\\\nKadir and Griffin here! 👋\n\n[NFT Access](https://nftaccess.app/) is a multi-chain NFT ticketing platform that allows anyone to discover, create, manage, and attend events using pre-existing NFTs or new NFTs issued directly from our website.\n\n**Why we built NFT Access**\n\nIn short, traditional ticketing systems are tangled with inherent problems. Fraud is rampant, attendees that purchase tickets on the resale market often can't separate authentic tickets from fake ones and if they're able to purchase from authorized issuers the fees can cost up to 30% - 40% of face value. A traditional ticket has no use past the original event. We believe NFTs should serve the purpose of reusable general access tokens.\n\nThe event hosts have no benefit from the resale of their tickets, have no way to get data of the attendee if the ticket was resold, and the costs associated with issuing tickets is high. NFTs serving as tickets brings more revenue to artists, creatives and event hosts in the form of royalties from sales on the resale market, reduced production cost ( event can be created, new NFTs issued and ready to sell in under 5 minutes ), and prevents fake tickets because the blockchain provides us a trusted decentralized source for authentication.\n\n**Solution - NFT Access**\n\nOn NFT Access anyone can create an event. 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Our specialized machine-learning models ensure the safety and quality of your AI app in real-time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79742&key=user_uploads/825709/1100f870-2ce1-44f4-a45f-2c1f640a2867)\n\n### What are AI risks?\n\nAI-powered interfaces such as chatbots emerge and pose **new AI risks:**\n\n* **Prompt Injection Attacks:** Attackers try to manipulate language models to execute unauthorized actions or access sensitive data. These attacks exploit the way AI interprets inputs as natural language text. Prompt injection attacks create a risk that spans from data exfiltration to influencing decision-making processes.\n* **PII Data Leakage:** Customers may include sensitive data in requests that are then sent to LLM providers. Companies must ensure that sensitive data is detected and redacted from requests.\n* **Hallucinations:** Chatbots in RAG applications use context retrieved from document stores, posing the risk of hallucinated, inaccurate, off-topic, or made-up information to users. IvyCheck evaluates whether chatbot answers are faithful to the provided context.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79742&key=user_uploads/825709/84a94c2d-9885-461e-a9f0-0724ccf1748a)\n\n### How does IvyCheck help?\n\nIvyCheck provides a library of checks for managing AI risks in your application. IvyCheck is:\n\n* **Flexible**: You can add checks to your LLM app with **just 2 lines of code** and protect your users and your data from prompt injection attacks, PII data leakage, and hallucinations. Works regardless of which LLM provider you use in your app.\n* **Secure**: We use customized, fine-tuned models for the checks. We self-host all our models and your data is not sent to third-party model providers.\n* **Fast**: Since the models are small and specialized, you can expect a latency under 100-200 ms. If you require even faster endpoints, please get in touch!\n\n### The founding team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79742&key=user_uploads/825709/6e2a1539-300a-4ab5-ac5a-46318b4e89d2)\n\nWe’re [Tammo](https://de.linkedin.com/in/tammo-rukat-34529471) (left) and [Dustin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin--lange/) (right). We met at Amazon, where we were part of the Core Machine Learning team in Berlin. We worked on systems for large-scale data quality checks, missing value imputation, and search filter optimization. We’re both obsessed with delighting our customers and solving their toughest challenges! Let’s create a safer world with AI.\n\n### How do I get started?\n\nVisit [https://ivycheck.com](https://ivycheck.com/) or [book a call](https://ivycheck.com/request-demo) directly with us. We’d love to get in touch and help you make your AI app safe today!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KkA-ivycheck-guard-against-ai-risks-with-real-time-checks", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2024-03-27T14:54:09.208Z" }, { "id": 74336, "title": "Deekard - Instant answers from your database with AI", "tagline": "Stop waiting on data teams, guessing at undocumented schemas, and debugging SQL. Start getting answers.", "body": "**TLDR:**\n\nDeekard is your one-stop shop for fast and easy data analysis. Just enter your database details, ask your burning questions, and let Deekard do the rest. Forget waiting on your data team - it’s time to get your answers fast.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nYou are collecting data about your business and want to become more data-driven in your decision-making. But you’re hitting some speed bumps:\n\n* **Waiting game:** You’re stuck in a queue, waiting for your data team to free up and handle your request. They can’t update the dashboards fast enough or don’t have time to work on your ad-hoc data requests.\n* **No time to write SQL**: You’ve got a business to run, not a course in SQL to take. It should be simple to run your database queries, not a guessing game.\n* **Documentation? What documentation?** You look at your team’s data warehouse and you don’t understand what’s in there. There’s no documentation and you have no idea if that column really contains the data you hope for.\n\n**Solution**\n\nDeekard gives you a powerful, integrated analytics experience - powered by AI. Connect your database and you’re ready to go.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74336&key=user_uploads/825709/f9b112f8-94be-4f61-a329-3ce789b49b53)\n\n* **Requests in plain English**: Get started with your request in natural language and Deekard takes care of translating it into a database query. Refine your request with a graphical query builder - or just edit the plain English request. You can also switch to SQL mode - _and back -_ whenever you like.\n* **Explore your database**: See what’s _inside_ your database. Deekard automatically profiles your data and creates that missing documentation for you. This helps with writing queries that actually work.\n* **Team effort**: Share the AI-powered query editor and unblock your whole team. They can instantly reuse your database connection and ask their own questions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74336&key=user_uploads/825709/3623b336-0a6f-44ec-a3f8-9c8d5babf861)\n\n**Ask:**\n\nTry Deekard! Start at [deekard.com](https://www.deekard.com). Tell us what you think at [founders@deekard.com](mailto:founders@deekard.com).\n\nIf you have a few min for a chat about Deekard, please book time with us [here](https://calendly.com/d/dxz-ddm-67k/deekard-call).\n\nThank you!\\\nDustin and Tammo", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JKy-deekard-instant-answers-from-your-database-with-ai", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2023-08-23T13:49:23.717Z" }, { "id": 71231, "title": "🤖 Deekard - Your autonomous assistant for data science and analytics", "tagline": "We use generative AI to make all data tasks effortless and accessible: extract, transform, analyze, and visualize data using only natural language.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Tammo and Dustin from [Deekard](https://www.deekard.com/).\n\n**_TL;DR:_** _Deekard is an all-in-one data science and analytics assistant. Connect your data source and get any question answered and any task executed, using only natural language. Powered by GPT-4, our AI model understands your intent, plans workflows, and executes them step-by-step._\n\n**The Problem**\n\nData science involves a wide range of skills, tools, and formats, which can be challenging to learn and manage. Tasks like extracting data with SQL, training machine learning pipelines with Python, and visualizing data using frameworks such as Vega are time-consuming, iterative, and error-prone.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nDeekard simplifies data science by offering a chat interface where you simply state what you want to do and watch the AI select the right tools in the right order. Like in a data science notebook, you can refer to previously created datasets and refine or combine them later in the conversation. Data science has never been easier or more approachable.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71231&key=user_uploads/825709/1d06fb3a-336e-4c6f-b93a-ce38f4a0a6f1)\n\n**Features**\n\n📚 Database: Write queries in natural language and let Deekard translate them into SQL for you! Simply state your query, and you'll receive the result table.\n\n🐍 Python: Transform data or apply machine learning models with ease. Just write your request, and Deekard translates it into Python code and executes it. You'll get the results in no time.\n\n📊 Visualization: Generate charts with natural language. Deekard translates your request into Vega-Lite specifications and creates beautiful visualizations. Apply changes to charts just by writing them down.\n\n🧠 Wikipedia: Enrich your datasets by retrieving tables from Wikipedia. Just write your request, and Deekard will access the world's greatest knowledge base for you.\n\n🎯 Task Organization: Write complex requests, and Deekard will split them into multiple tasks that are executed in the right order.\n\n**Start Today**\n\nYou can start using Deekard today at [deekard.com](http://deekard.com). \n\nThank you for your support, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on Deekard! 🎉", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IWt-deekard-your-autonomous-assistant-for-data-science-and-analytics", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2023-04-27T14:07:14.366Z" } ] }, { "id": 26763, "name": "Voltic", "slug": "voltic", "former_names": [ "Vault", "Sylva", "Clyent" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/10ff722eceb550e5d2356209069344867f3e3b39.png", "website": "https://volticshipping.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Voltic is launching US-built cargo ships that are 4x more profitable than diesel vessels. \r\n\r\nWe have $100M+ in sales to companies including the largest US shipping company and the largest global shipper by volume. 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He is excited to make the shipping industry greener and more efficient. Prosser grew up in Ligonier, PA, where he was the oldest of five siblings. He graduated from MIT in three years with multiple majors, winning a Fulbright upon graduation to study the auto industry's transition to EVs. He also rowed for MIT's D1 Heavyweight Crew team, with whom he won a Gold Medal at Head of the Charles. In his free time, he enjoys pizza, movies and skiing. 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This is Prosser from [Voltic](https://volticshipping.com/). We’re creating electric cargo ships that are greener and cheaper than current options. \n\n### 🚢 **THE PROBLEM**\n\nShipping is a massive industry that contributes **2\\.2%** of the world’s CO2 emissions, 15% of the world’s NOx emissions and 13% of the world’s SOx emissions ([Source](https://clearseas.org/en/air-pollution/)). In other words, approximately 816,640,000,000 kg (.8 gigatons) of carbon dioxide is emitted by ships every year ([Source](https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions)). There is currently no generally accepted path to full sustainability for the industry. \n\nAt the same time, fuel is an enormous operating cost for ships. Ranging from **50%** at shipping’s most efficient to **75%** on fast or heavy routes when fuel prices are high, cargo prices are highly dependent on fuel prices ([Source](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361920920306817)). This means our ships will not only be great for the environment but also sustainably cheaper than current alternatives. \n\n### **⚡ OUR SOLUTION**\n\nSupported by grants from the Department of Energy, we designed a solar and battery tech stack that can completely power a container ship at standard operating speeds. Unlike most hardware startups working on difficult engineering problems, we do not have a multi-year, multi-round path to profitability. We already have our first customer, and expect our first ship to be operational in the near future. This will be the first step towards building out a fleet of zero-emission vessels. Long term, we want to fully power the shipping industry via electricity, operating a fleet that can serve any route in the world. 🚢 🚢 🚢 \n\nEmail [contact@volticshipping.com](mailto:founders@volticshipping.com) for inquiries or contacts.\n\nAnd give our [LinkedIn page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/voltic-shipping/) a follow :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9U-voltic-electric-cargo-ships", "votes": 97, "created_at": "2023-07-31T23:07:33.095Z" } ] }, { "id": 26764, "name": "Tranch", "slug": "tranch", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b861c2c1bab1a070d8a629f1ffa13248ae51a6.png", "website": "https://tranch.com", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Tranch is the invoice to payments platform for enterprises who want to optimize cash flow by offering their business clients an unparalleled payment experience.\r\n\r\nBased out of New York City and London we enable Services firms, software and marketplaces to be paid faster via our automated invoice to payment solutions. Our frictionless payment methods include Pay Now via FedNow, Pay by Card, Pay by Crypto and Pay Later from 2 to 12 months up to $1M.\r\n\r\nFind out more about how we simplify and accelerate accounts receivables for enterprises with the most innovative workflows and payment solutions at www.tranch.com.\r\n\r\nTranch is backed by leading investors including: Global Founders Capital, TracVC, UpHonest Capital, Soma Capital, FoundersX and Y Combinator.", "one_liner": "Tranch is the invoice to payments platform for enterprises.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1652970732, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tranch", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/tranch.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tranch", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tranch", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b861c2c1bab1a070d8a629f1ffa13248ae51a6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1011313, "full_name": "Philip Kelvin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipkelvin", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/PKelvin7", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ad5d938309704bef472c5b4ef35a656a1da8346a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1014990, "full_name": "Beau Allison", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO and Co-Founder of Tranch (YC S22)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/beauallison/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63e888d326451cd91ec23f3a0fcc0b4924892518.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Elite Acquires Tranch to Streamline Payments for Law Practices", "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/acquisitions/2025/elite-acquires-tranch-to-streamline-payments-for-law-practices/", "date": "Jan 06, 2025" }, { "title": "Breef Adds Payment Infrastructure to B2B Marketplace for Agencies", "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2023/breef-adds-payment-infrastructure-to-b2b-marketplace-for-agencies/", "date": "Jun 05, 2023" }, { "title": "The 10 fastest growing startups in the UK | Sifted", "url": "https://sifted.eu/articles/10-fastest-growing-startups-uk", "date": "May 28, 2023" }, { "title": "B2B BNPL platform Tranch raises $100 million in debt and equity", "url": "https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41656/b2b-bnpl-platform-tranch-raises-100-million-in-debt-and-equity", "date": "Jan 24, 2023" }, { "title": "Tranch Offers BNPL for Goodwin Law Firm | PYMNTS.com", "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2022/tranch-offers-bnpl-for-law-firm-goodwin/", "date": "Nov 29, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64690, "title": "tranch - B2B Buy Now, Pay Later for Software and Services", "tagline": "Embedded payment flexibility from $10k - $250k for SaaS and Services", "body": "Tranch enables SaaS and Service providers to get paid upfront while offering their customers payment flexibility. Customers can spread invoices from $10k to $250k over 3 to 12 months.\\\n\\\n[tranch.com - launch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPApUN5HAI)\n\n## As startup execs, we dreaded large invoices\n\nPhilip’s time as a scale up CFO taught us\n\n1. Payment options are inflexible for crucial SaaS tools and professional services.\n2. Monthly repayments required lengthy negotiation and often a 20%+ premium.\n3. Large invoices are usually offline, email based journeys.\n\n## Payment options for the big stuff suck\n\n1. SaaS companies want recurring revenue upfront and Services have limited cash flow to defer payments. Customers want to spread large invoices. It’s always a negotiation.\n2. SaaS companies & Services can’t offer credit (risk, regulation, etc).\n3. Credit cards don’t work for larger items:\\\n \\- SaaS companies and Services won’t accept them due to high fees\\\n \\- They provide only short term improvement to a buyer’s cashflow\n\n## Collect revenue now & offer flexibility to your customers\n\n1. Using a Pay with tranch checkout, businesses can offer flexible terms for SaaS tools & Services - up to $250k - over 3 to 12 months.\n2. Businesses can use their tranch account to fund other large invoices with other suppliers (even those not on our platform).\n3. We handle the complexity: underwriting, payments, collections and regulatory obligations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64690&key=user_uploads/1014990/890855b0-bf16-4d83-8d03-6a153f966827)\n\nYou increase your revenue, reduce churn and collect payment upfront.\\\n\\\nWe’ve now expanded to the US - sign up at [tranch.com](http://tranch.com) and see what you could Pay with tranch.\n\nWant to offer Pay with tranch to your customers? No code required - sign up at [tranch.com/suppliers](http://tranch.com/suppliers)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GpO-tranch-b2b-buy-now-pay-later-for-software-and-services", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2022-07-18T06:27:57.826Z" } ] }, { "id": 26768, "name": "Disclo", "slug": "disclo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e168db75ab4f6e439a5dece49f30bdbbbedfd7f6.png", "website": "http://www.disclo.com", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Disclo is the first software for employers to collect, verify, and manage health disclosures and employee accommodation requests (HIPAA and SOC2 compliant, of course).\r\n\r\nWe help employees secure the enhancements and protections they need to succeed in their careers without having to disclose their underlying medical condition to their employer. 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Through working with leading employers such as Meta, Levi Strauss, Lululemon, and more, **we landed on a major pain-point in today’s workplace: health disclosures are complicated, messy, and come with risk for both employees and companies.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64946&key=user_uploads/1038798/3c6fec5f-786e-4dea-840f-98d2f0850031)\n\nWe are dedicated leaders in the disability community, and our co-founder Hannah experienced this pain-point herself when she entered the workforce after college and struggled to disclose her chronic illness. **We’re here to support over 60% of adults in the U.S. who live with some form of chronic health condition or disability.**\n\n### ❌ Managing employee health disclosures is extremely messy, risky, and expensive for employers\n\n1. It is illegal to store medical data inside of an HRIS (eg. Workday)\n2. Disability lawsuits now make up ⅓ of EEOC cases…and they’re on the rise!\n3. 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And [join us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/disclo/) too!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GtW-disclo-health-disclosure-and-accommodation-management-platform", "votes": 196, "created_at": "2022-07-27T20:24:29.340Z" } ] }, { "id": 26769, "name": "ALT TEX", "slug": "alt-tex", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6cf48f1bdd01fd17e94a2956a2f313bda002e407.png", "website": "https://thealttex.com/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "ALT TEX is a Toronto-based biomaterials startup that has developed the world’s first biodegradable and carbon neutral fabric, engineered from the world’s largest landfill contributor - food waste. Polyester alone makes up 60% of the $2.5 trillion fashion industry and is the biggest blocker preventing brands from meeting sustainability mandates. 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We’re [Myra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/myra4/) and [Avneet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avneet-ghotra-51284728/), co-founders of [ALT TEX](http://thealttex.com). We’ve created the world’s first polyester-alternative fabric, made from food waste.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65136&key=user_uploads/578199/71da3b57-6b33-4db2-a80f-becf0dd70065)\n\n🌍 **The problem: polyester is leading fashion’s GHG emissions, but has no circular alternative.**\n\nThe fashion industry’s heavy reliance on petroleum-derived polyester textiles is a major contributor to the 10% of global GHG emissions the industry generates annually. The plastic-based material, found in 60% of the clothes we wear, creates over 50 million tons of global annual landfill waste, generates 35% of all ocean micro-plastics, and consumes 70 million barrels of oil each year.\n\nDespite 1/3 of the fashion industry committing to 0 carbon emissions by 2050, polyester, the most widely used fabric, has no fully circular, carbon-neutral alternative.\n\nAt the same time, food waste is on the rise with 1 billion tons generated annually across the world. So, we’re using one problem 🍎 to fix the other 👕. Here’s how ⬇️\n\n👕 **The Solution: Fabric created from the world’s largest waste source - food waste.**\n\nALT TEX reduces the fashion industry’s dependence on fossil fuels through its biodegradable and carbon-neutral textiles engineered from food waste. The patent-pending fermentation technology plugs into the existing polyester supply chain to provide fashion brands with a cradle-to-cradle polyester alternative without sacrificing performance.\n\nThe product solves key problems for fashion brands, consumers, and the environment:\n\n1. Fashion brands: ALT TEX sells fabric to fashion brands, allowing them to differentiate via sustainable options (sustainable fashion growing 11% CAGR) and hit sustainability targets, without sacrificing performance or changing their current supply chain.\n2. Consumer: The ALT TEX fabric is projected to be half the price vs. other specialized sustainable alternatives (due to low-cost input and scalability), meaning greater accessibility.\n3. Environment: A single shirt produced with ALT TEX fabric can divert 1 kg of food waste from landfills, 9 kg of carbon emissions from the air, and 4 g of micro-plastics from our waterways.\n\n**The Story & Future:**\n\nMyra and Avneet have worked on every school project together since the 9th grade. With Myra’s background in corporate sales and family history in the textile sector, alongside Avneet’s background in environmental science and biochemistry, the two came together in 2020 to build ALT TEX. Today, ALT TEX has created its fabric prototype, raised $2,300,000 USD in funding, secured $1,000,000 in pilot LOIs and has grown the team to 10.\n\n**How you can help:**\n\nAs we scale out of the lab and into the market over the next year, we’re looking for:\n\n1. fashion brands interested in sourcing a sustainable polyester alternative\n2. food manufacturers looking for a sustainable way to re-purpose their waste\n\nIf you’re curious or have help/resources for us, please feel free to reach out!\n\n📩 [myra@thealttex.com](mailto:myra@thealttex.com)\n\n🌐 [thealttex.com](http://thealttex.com) | [linkedin.com/company/alt-tex/](http://linkedin.com/company/alt-tex/)\n\n👩‍💻 [@thealttex](https://twitter.com/thealttex)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwa-alt-tex-fabric-made-from-food-waste", "votes": 188, "created_at": "2022-08-04T17:08:53.742Z" } ] }, { "id": 26770, "name": "Bridgecard", "slug": "bridgecard", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c5e1b47cd7ecdbae56cbc14240cd9bee1aa76d22.png", "website": "https://bridgecard.cards", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "Bridgecard makes it easy for fintechs to issue MasterCard or Visa cards that work anywhere in the world. 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I love machine learning, recently trained an embedding model (SearchMap Preview) to outrank Gemini on the MTEB leaderboard with 5k+ downloads on Hugging Face.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tunde-adewole-b223729a/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/llm_money", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/81fe989052c10ab9182c83716fc711b7eca0582c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1008256, "full_name": "Festus Owumi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Festus is a Senior Software Engineer with experiences ranging from Mobile, Machine Learning and Backend Development. He has 5 years experience with companies offering financial services in Africa including TradeDepot, Kippa e.t.c. 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Local banks in Africa haven’t been able to support international transactions on the local currency cards.\n\nI traveled to the US for the first time 2 months ago and almost got stranded at the airport because I found out that Uber in SanFrancisco does not accept cash and my local bank card didn’t work. I was able to hack together a card, add it to the app, and Uber down to my location.\n\n**Our Solution 💳:**\n\n[Bridgecard](https://issuecards.bridgecard.co) makes it easy for any fintech company to issue their customers a card that will carry a MasterCard or Visa logo and work anywhere in the world.\n\nWe provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in 5 days or less.\n\nMy co-founder and I got into YC to build something different but our previous card issuer stopped supporting over 20 other companies and us in Nigeria alone so we couldn’t keep our product in the market.\n\nWe woke up one morning and decided to be the card issuer ourselves.\n\n**Ask 🤝:**\n\nIf you’re building a fintech product and you need to issue cards in Africa, check out [Bridgecard](https://issuecards.bridgecard.co) or send me a mail at [tunde@bridgecard.co](mailto:tunde@bridgecard.co).\n\nWe’ll be glad to work with you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0h-bridgecard-the-card-issuer-for-africa", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2022-08-16T07:56:19.887Z" } ] }, { "id": 26776, "name": "Overwatch", "slug": "overwatch", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1def1e618878c538c08d4635fb23a133ed14d476.png", "website": "http://www.overwatchdata.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Overwatch Data offers real-time AI agents to scale fraud, cyber, and security teams. 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Tad, Zara and I are excited to launch [Overwatch 🦉](http://www.overwatchdata.io)​ - to help automate global risk detection and analysis. Our tool allows enterprises to monitor data streams, including news and satellite imagery, for narratives and events that will impact their operations, supply chain, and reputation. Our tool can be used for live monitoring OR historic due-diligence on a location.\n\n**😠The Problem**\n\n* Businesses have many points of failure in their global operations and struggle to monitor all the locations and narratives that matter to them \n* Current event detection tools are often noisy and don't provide any context on why that event might be significant to a specific business.\n\n \n\n**🔨Our Solution**\n\nWe cut through the noise.\n\n* We help companies filter more accurately for events and narratives that matter to them.\n* We provide visualizations of how those events or narratives have changed over time and layer these events on top of other datasets, e.g. satellite imagery, shipping routes, trade data, commodity production sites, flood and fire maps, and other risk indices. \n* This helps draw connections and provide a holistic picture of how that event could impact their business.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/OdI55U0rZf6ZSicyHS8BtsJ-xIY54kVTVw4wAojwTV6qvKYY-ZIjOc3Ae8hyKLVyYCNhE7YhFupIv-x9poZABJ-d7F8Mq3h1cc_E4C-l0M5k4c0OZRZOloKzWBee6FSH0qjsF7NXv7qJZphCiWONUs8)\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dWmnLh1Pj0BJC39LrVN9R-j2u0hdrEbmj_qk_i5WcD0p9W0GGvU8a2sEWnwPjRTr_JaxqvavyJnCQtpkRgomQ018TbDsqPnT1Tlfe2J5ZgUDvgER0iIyrkai3_4FCHXU0IDwXOSWpOu7JQj-g05g2NU)\n\n**The Ask❓**\n\n* Do you (or anyone you know) struggle to detect, analyze, or predict events and narratives that could disrupt your business operations, brand, or supply chain? Then please reach out to ([founders@overwatchdata.io](mailto:founders@overwatchdata.io)) or [book a call](https://calendly.com/arjun-overwatch/30min) and we’d love to help.\n* Are you a data provider with interesting risk-related data? We’d love to discuss how we might incorporate it into our product.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GoW-overwatch-automating-global-risk-detection-and-analysis", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-07-14T20:09:34.423Z" } ] }, { "id": 26778, "name": "Blee", "slug": "blee", "former_names": [ "inReal" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b50abb1455badd5a7f2f1bbd879bfd105b4cf71a.png", "website": "https://www.blee.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Blee easily integrates across the content creation workflow, combining instant feedback and faster approvals with scalable review and recordkeeping. 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When a user creates their unique Notebook, they can prove their humanity and credentials to protocols across wallets and chains, without having to reveal any personal information.\n\nAnd they can do all of this with or without a wallet.\n\n**🕵🏽 The Identity Problem on Web3** \n\nOn blockchains, users identify themselves with wallet addresses, providing limited privacy or accountability. Malicious actors can easily re-identify themselves through new wallet addresses, making it difficult for protocols to prevent fraud or Sybil-attacks. Until accountability is brought to Web3, governments, banks, and other trusted systems have little incentive to put sensitive applications at risk for the sake of decentralization. \n\n**🧪 Where does Notebook fit in the identity space?** \n\nCurrently, Web3 identities are either non-accountable (e.g. wallet address, Polygon ID, Sign-in with Ethereum, Gitcoin Passport), where users can create multiple identities, or non-anonymized (e.g. Proof of Humanity, Bright ID, disco.xyz ). Powered by Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Notebook is decentralized, accountable, anonymous, and self-sovereign.\n\n**🪄 How does it work?** \n\nWhen creating their Notebook, users receive a mnemonic that they encrypt with a password through the Notebook app or chrome extension. They then have the option to enter personally identifying information like their SSN-4 or passport, what we call “Strong Proof-of-Humanity”, or authenticate with Twitter, “Weak Proof-of-Humanity.” With Weak PoH, user humanity can also be verified through an analysis of the user’s social graph. By using Zero-Knowledge proofs, neither Notebook Labs nor any other company knows the link between a user’s personal information and their Notebook. If a user chooses to not verify their humanity, they can still prove and develop on-chain credentials, but protocols can prevent them from accessing sensitive services.\n\nWith just a few lines of code, protocols can verify a user’s credentials and Proof-of-Humanity through their Notebook. Protocols can then record credentials, with the user’s permission, like credit scores, illicit content posting flags, and DAO engagement. Users can prove these credentials to protocols to gain entry to services.\n\n[🏭](https://emojipedia.org/factory/) **Can I integrate with Notebook in production?** \n\nYes! Check out our demo integration: .\n\nWe can work with you 1-on-1 to integrate Notebook authentication in a few lines of code. 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Before founding Stellar, she was a Product Design leader at LinkedIn where she grew and scaled the Career’s design team (Job seekers, Salary, Talent brand, and Equity team) for LinkedIn's $6B Talent Solutions business. She has also worked at Symphony, the Slack for bankers, where she launched the first mobile experience for financial bankers, enabling bankers to work from anywhere. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetnguyen/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f83a81c5d146fd4dae177bab8a695052d4ba9605.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1012066, "full_name": "Quan Zhou", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Quan is the technical cofounder of Stellar and is passionate about technology that makes teams more effective and collaborative. Prior to Stellar, he was an early engineer at an HR unicorn Pave (S20) and built the technology stack from the ground up. 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Stellar is launching an AI product to tackle the biggest obstacles startups face when implementing OKRs.\n\n### **Problem**\n\n* **Writing cascading goals is hard -** after defining topline lagging metrics (revenue, churn, LTV, etc), each team member might not know how to write SMART goals that ladder up to them.\n* **Operational best practices are a mystery -** it’s hard to know where to start when creating a goal management process.\n* **A hero is required to drive accountability** - someone needs to step up to implement and enforce the process throughout the quarter, in addition to their full time job.\n\nIntroducing Stellar AI – a copilot for every employee that simplifies writing SMART, cascading goals and derisks them throughout the quarter.\n\n### **How it works**\n\nAnswer 4 simple questions and Stellar spins up a customized OKR workspace. An integrated experience uses GenAI to write your unique inspiring top-line goals and cascading domain-specific goals at all levels.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/6097185e-9f26-4846-aaea-cdea8c355d6f)\n\nOnce goals are written, Stellar automates a recurring check-in process for your team throughout the quarter and year. These updates create an agenda for business reviews.\n\nStellar’s smart notification system drives accountability, resulting in an average of 85% of all goals being updated weekly. Additionally, If someone is stuck on a goal, Stellar AI recommends domain-specific next steps to help unblock them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/a2337bf7-ef1d-44d1-989d-d05a59590a07)\n\n### **Want to learn more?**\n\nBook [a demo](https://www.stellarapp.io) or reach out to [founders@stellarapp.io](mailto:founders@stellarapp.io), we’d love to show you what we’re building!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/445e9f52-6e46-4c50-9096-0a099bb32ab2)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Itp-stellar-ai-powered-okrs", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2023-06-29T17:35:17.450Z" }, { "id": 65966, "title": "Stellar - Don’t let your team’s OKRs slip in 2023! 📈🌟", "tagline": "A goal tracking platform that drives agile collaboration and accountability. ", "body": "👋 We’re [Angela](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeladao/), [Elise](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetnguyen/) and [Quan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quanzhou1/), the co-founders of [Stellar](https://www.stellarapp.io/)! We were early hires at multiple unicorns and saw OKRs both fail and succeed. The orgs that get it right are those that act quickly and adapt to new information consistently over time.\n\nStellar is a goal tracking platform focused on agile communication so your team has a fighting chance of hitting their OKRs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/a7331fc6-b81e-4306-90a5-15f1ff0d625f)\n\n### **The problem with OKRs**\n\nSetting business goals is easy, but iterative execution is hard.\n\nToo many companies set OKRs, forget them in an isolated document and then realize they haven’t made sufficient progress. When OKRs aren’t reassessed openly on a recurring basis, you miss the opportunity to motivate your team, collaborate and unblock progress together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/ed098364-c2e7-449f-9436-f637d0041fc2)\n\nThe designated responsible person (usually a founder or Chief of Staff) spends hours a week running this process, when they could be working on strategic work.\n\n### **Achieve your goals with confidence**\n\nIf you’re ready to embed OKRs and agile collaboration in your organization, Stellar will help you:\n\n1. Stay focused and organized by linking your goals in an OKR tree\n2. Raise and remove blockers quickly through effective, asynchronous check-ins\n3. Save time with scheduled notifications and automatic reminders about missing updates\n\n### **Interested?**\n\n**We’re offering 50% off for the next 20 companies!**\n\nIf you’d like a demo: grab time on our [Calendly](https://calendly.com/angdao/stellar-demo?month=2022-12) or reach out directly to [founders@stellarapp.io](mailto:founders@stellarapp.io)! We’re excited to learn more about your unique use case and help you crush your 2023 goals.\n\n### **Our Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/f5922eac-b00b-4274-9ce9-9e125fbf2136)\n\n**👐 Quan is our hands, building exceptional products:** founding software engineer at Pave (YC S20), tech lead at Affirm, and engineering degree from Princeton. \n\n**👁️ Angela is our eyes, looking toward the future:** early product manager at Affirm and Earnin. \n\n**👂 Elise is our ears, listening and designing for users:** product design leader at LinkedIn.\n\n\\- Angela, Elise & Quan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H9y-stellar-don-t-let-your-team-s-okrs-slip-in-2023", "votes": 89, "created_at": "2022-09-09T23:59:31.166Z" } ] }, { "id": 26781, "name": "CodeCrafters", "slug": "codecrafters", "former_names": [ "CodeCrafters", "Visafrog", "visafrog", "CodeCrafters", "Lobbyside" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fbe2f8faf8c91d41cd8099b3a53511fa45c4635.png", "website": "https://codecrafters.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Build your own Git, Redis, SQLite — in Go, Rust, Python, etc.", "one_liner": "Programming courses for experienced engineers", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Job and Career Services", "launched_at": 1656483075, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Education", "eLearning", "Careers" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Job and Career Services" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/codecrafters", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/codecrafters.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/codecraftersio", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/codecraftersio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fbe2f8faf8c91d41cd8099b3a53511fa45c4635.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 6782, "full_name": "Sarup Banskota", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ CodeCrafters. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarupbanskota/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sarupbanskota", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0a8a098c4062efd35bcf794bc3b8036e9ed6a604.jpg" }, { "user_id": 484990, "full_name": "Paul Kuruvilla", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO @ CodeCrafters.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitpaulk/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rohitpaulk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f2f6a08dc14d3a881e7df19e7cd95e60e4ff8a8f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "TechCrunch | CodeCrafters wants to challenge seasoned developers with hard-to-build projects ", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/codecrafters-wants-to-challenge-seasoned-developers-with-hard-to-build-projects/", "date": "Nov 19, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64173, "title": "🤯 CodeCrafters — Advanced code challenges for senior engineers →", "tagline": "We help engineers get really good at their craft. Build your own Redis, Git, Docker, SQLite from scratch. Become a top engineer.", "body": "> Hey everybody — it’s Sarup and Paul, the founders of [CodeCrafters.io](http://CodeCrafters.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/672fcd25-74e0-49e0-b93f-8111386d6840)\n\n# \n\n# We once built our own Git from scratch\n\nAnd ever since, we’ve been obsessed with how popular devtools work.\n\nWe’d binge on books, blogs, videos to learn the internals of Docker, Redis, SQLite… but it just never felt adequate. Nothing could really provide us with the same level of confidence as building an actual project.\n\n# \n\n# So we created the experience we wanted\n\nWe launched 4 hands-on challenges of the _Build-your-own-X_ format on our site, and had 1000s of engineers go through them. We also began maintaining GitHub’s 15th most ⭐️ repo, [build-your-own-x](https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x).\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/052818e0-2fab-4d57-8ed4-81dc336d4053)\n\n# Turns out, it’s a great way to master languages\n\nSenior engineers don’t come across many resources suitable for their skill level, so especially for them, CodeCrafters was a worthy investment of time. In addition to learning about how various devtools worked, they were:\n\n* Advancing their language skill (e.g idiomatic approaches)\n* Learning to design and refactor large code in a robust manner\n* Bonding with their teammates as they discussed approaches\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/dc589502-0ed5-4f1a-815f-5ce0069fa9de)\n\n# So we re-imagined the learning experience\n\nThe experience is now organised around languages. The challenges now come with recommended approaches from language experts. Once you implement a feature, you can ask — _how would a Pro do it?_\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/4a2972b2-654c-4696-8041-f8e5c489887a)\n\nEngineers at companies like GitHub take advantage of their L&D budget to pay for CodeCrafters. To support teams that care about investing in their growth, we’ve introduced Private Leaderboards, a Slack app, and expensing workflows.\n\n# Asks\n\nWe can’t wait to help teams bond and grow with [CodeCrafters](https://codecrafters.io).\n\n* **Engineer**? Give CodeCrafters a shot, in your [favorite language](https://app.codecrafters.io/tracks)!\n* **Work in Engineering Enablement**? I’d love to learn about the different education initiatives at your company\n* **Well-wisher /** **existing customer**? Please send us a hi! It’s what keeps us going.\n\nI can be reached at [sarup@codecrafters.io](mailto:sarup@codecrafters.io) and over Twitter.\n\n— [@sarupbanskota](https://twitter.com/sarupbanskota)\n\nP.S. Think we’re the only ones crazy to build our own Git for fun?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64173&key=user_uploads/286989/1c81f82a-7e46-4115-9d74-8230e6cd6207)\n\nWe asked Pete Koomen, co-founder of Optimizely, about [how he’s learning Rust](https://codecrafters.io/videos/pete).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gh3-codecrafters-advanced-code-challenges-for-senior-engineers", "votes": 152, "created_at": "2022-06-29T13:09:34.080Z" } ] }, { "id": 26782, "name": "Cashboard", "slug": "cashboard", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/546da2a54a34cd455b53d2395bcff96834f7fb53.png", "website": "https://www.cashboard.co", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Inventing the solo CFO.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1657562779, "tags": [ "FinOps", "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B", "Collaboration" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cashboard", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/cashboard.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cashboardhq", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/546da2a54a34cd455b53d2395bcff96834f7fb53.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 956080, "full_name": "Julian Rowlands", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Scruffy & kind. 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We do this by connecting 40+ providers like Twilio, SendGrid, Firebase with a single API and giving a central dashboard on top to design & monitor all notifications.\n\n```\n\n```\n\n**📝Book a demo** [**here**](https://calendly.com/priyanshs/platform-demo) **to learn more.**\n\nHey everyone - We’re Priyansh and Sriyansh (yes, we are brothers!) and we would love to tell you about [Raven](https://www.raven.dev).\n\n### 🚫THE PROBLEM\n\nBusinesses spend a lot of resources managing product notifications (think due-date reminders or verification codes). For example to send a payment reminder via SMS, Email & WhatsApp, you have to integrate multiple provider APIs like Twilio, SendGrid, then orchestrate channels basis user preferences and finally send the correct template on-time. The problem is -\n\n* Since each notification has it’s own set of templates & configurations, it becomes complex & time consuming to make any changes.\n* There’s no central visibility as the data is spread across multiple messaging providers. It is a pain for product teams to pull it from 5-6 diff sources, standardize and then analyze them.\n* Ensuring deliverability is a challenge. Some messages like OTPs are critical and their delivery failures lead to huge business losses.\n\n### 🎁OUR SOLUTION\n\nA central platform that brings all your messaging channels & providers in one place, where you can orchestrate and analyze them - all without engineering.\n\n* A single API to send notifications across channels via any of the 40+ providers like Twilio, SES, Firebase, Messagebird, Gupshup.\n* A dashboard gives central visibility on all templates, logs & delivery metrics allowing product teams to optimize CX by analyzing what works and what doesn’t, reduce redundant messages and thereby saving tons of money.\n* Reduces business risk by effectively managing delivery failures using failovers/retries across channels & providers.\n\n### \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65513&key=user_uploads/584996/91936c0b-0457-43f0-9746-5eee037fcebf)\n\n### 💡WHY WE BUILT THIS\n\nWe’ve previously built the notification infrastructure for Apna (India’s fastest unicorn) & OkCredit (YC S18), and didn’t want any other engineer to go through the same pain as we did. It was not only us, but companies like LinkedIn, Netflix, AirBnB spend $10s of millions/yr with a 10-30 member engineering & product team which just does notifications 🤯.\n\n### 🤑 OFFER + ASK✨\n\n50% off first 3 months for startup community - email [founders@ravenapp.dev](mailto:founders@ravenapp.dev) to redeem\n\n**🥳 We’d love to talk to you -**  [**book a demo**](https://calendly.com/priyanshs/platform-demo) **with us today!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H2f-raven-a-single-api-for-product-notifications-across-sms-email-push-whatsapp-slack-more", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2022-08-20T19:48:21.781Z" } ] }, { "id": 26784, "name": "Seaflight Technologies", "slug": "seaflight-technologies", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a03c035eb081cba9d31fbf5316b214d8d910584.png", "website": "https://www.seaflight.tech", "all_locations": "Sydney, NSW, Australia; Torrance, CA, USA", "long_description": "Seaflight Technologies has developed a new form of Aerodynamic Flow Control for electrified aircraft that increases range and payload by 30%. 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After 6 prototypes and a series of record-breaking flights in Australia, the performance and market data wasn’t adding up, **so the company undertook a pivot.** With backing from the National Science Foundation and the US Air Force we developed our Aerodynamic Flow Control and immediately felt stronger pull from customers for our ultra-efficient cargo drone - one that can operate from any short airfield, anywhere. The Australian Government has funded our $2m project to develop a full flight demonstrator of our cargo drone by 2026, which will also serve as our first saleable product to early adopters in Defense and commercial operators. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Imagine a world where literally all short distance flight is electrified, quiet, direct, and low cost. Taking advantage of cutting-edge high lift technologies that we have government funding to develop, a much broader range of applications is on the horizon as we aim to be a global leader in large capacity drones as well as a high-value developer of key tech that can be used by every company pursuing electrified flight. 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We developed an aerodynamic technology for any fixed-wing aircraft that makes it possible to carry more payload, over longer distances - perfect for electric aviation to overcome the limitations of today’s batteries. Our first product is a large cargo drone called AURAE. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65921&key=user_uploads/881099/5f0e8973-d450-4958-aff1-e4820d36eae7)\n\n\n### **BATTERIES ARE NOT VERY GOOD**\n\nAviation is incredibly hard to decarbonize, and first generation electric aircraft are proving to be heavy, expensive, complicated, and limited in range. That formula has never been successful in the history of aviation. Could we just wait for better batteries? Not great - emissions keep rising, and progress is incremental - a few % improvement each year means a few % more range... What about better motors, or lighter structures? There’s a few % still on the table there too, sure.\n\nBut if you could _double_ the aerodynamic efficiency, you could double the range that’s possible with today’s batteries. \n\nSeaflight uses Aerodynamic Flow Control. It’s tech that suits today’s operations, manufacturing approaches, and form factors, and we’ve de-risked it to the point where it’s ready to fly. \n\n### **CONTROL THE AIR**\n\n**Thanks to over $2m in backing from the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force, and the Australian Government**, we’ve been able to develop and test our Aerodynamic Flow Control - an active system that pulls more air over the wing when we need it (takeoff and landing), but otherwise adds almost no mass or drag to the aircraft (unlike adding extra propulsion). \n\nBecause we triple the lift only when we need it, we can have smaller wings. Smaller wings mean less drag in cruise, which means much less energy used. \n\n**This is key enabling technology to make electric flight viable.** \n\nOur upcoming large scale flight demonstrator will take to the skies over Australia in early 2026, with a production version to follow. \n\nBest of all, this is universal technology. Every plane has wings… Seaflight’s tech can go on every plane. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65921&key=user_uploads/881099/4b0649c0-2cb1-47d2-900d-a8b8791842cf)\n\n\n### **HOW DID WE GET HERE**\n\nWill Sutton and Graham Doig founded Seaflight Technologies heading into the S22 batch. We originally worked on ultra-low-altitude “ground effect” flight. After 6 prototypes and a series of world-first flight achievements, we realized the numbers didn’t add up to viable economics. After pivoting to aerodynamic flow control and developing the new IP, including a test campaign at Caltech, it’s time to make the AURAE flight demonstrator a reality and break some world records for electric flight. \n\n### **About the founder :**\n\nGraham Doig has a PhD in aerodynamics and has worked on electric mobility for 19 years, including 2 world land speed records. He led the aero/range team at EV startup Canoo, and was a Lockheed Martin-endowed professor of engineering in a past life, working on projects with the likes of Tesla and NASA. \n\n### **Lastly, Asks 🙏**\n\nDo you know anyone involved in **logistics** that has already been looking at or using drone technology?\n\nDo you know any **wizards in electric or autonomous mobility** who are looking for a bonkers new professional challenge?", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H9F-seaflight-we-make-the-world-s-most-efficient-airplanes", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2022-09-08T07:48:51.950Z" } ] }, { "id": 26792, "name": "Activepieces", "slug": "activepieces", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0e3da00ac0f6b66a7e896be53679d01b6fe5fd45.png", "website": "https://www.activepieces.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Activepieces is an open-source (MIT) business automation software.\r\nFor example, you can build automations to receive email and Slack notifications about new contacts add to your HubSpot CRM.", "one_liner": "Open-source, AI-first and no-code business automation tool", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1657116357, "tags": [ "Workflow Automation", "Open Source", "No-code", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/activepieces", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/activepieces.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/activepieces/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/activepieces", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/activepieces", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/activepieces", "github_url": "https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0e3da00ac0f6b66a7e896be53679d01b6fe5fd45.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 138932, "full_name": "Ashraf Samhouri", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Ended up responsible for growing our ARR so I guess I do sales from the perspective of a software engineer, on a mission to make AI a native part of enterprise through open source automation (aka Activepieces)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashrafsam", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e91e5e9ed7c7a1da6530ccd4dee552e196bbfe3d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 724168, "full_name": "Mohammad AbuAboud", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "I love building cool stuff. Started programming at 13 and never looked back—turns out, breaking things is the fastest way to learn.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-abuaboud/", "x_url": "https://mobile.twitter.com/mabuaboud", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b9a11f094d4568c74704be4223fe03b4eeeac74e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68665, "title": "Activepieces – Open source alternative to Zapier", "tagline": "No-code business automation that is open-source and can be self-hosted.", "body": "**tl;dr** You can now host an equivalent software to Zapier to automate your work. You can automate your sales process, marketing operations or back-office without writing code (or with, if you’d like to).\n\n—\n\nHi everyone!\n\nWe're [Mohammad](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-abuaboud/) (ex-Google) and [Ashraf](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashrafsam) (3x founder), and here is what we’re building 👇\n\n### 💔 **Problem**\n\nIt can quickly get **too expensive 💰** to use automation tools like Zapier, and if you can’t or hate to **send your data to 3rd parties** [**🔒**](https://emojipedia.org/locked/) it’s already challenging to use these tools.\n\n### 🕺 **Our Product**\n\nActivepieces is a no-code business automation tool. It’s open-source (MIT licensed) and can be self-hosted on your servers.\n\nHere is a 2-min video by our founding engineer Abdul, who’ll explain how to automate sending notifications about a new **Pipedrive** Person to **Slack** and **Email**.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4TI6jGBwM\n\n### ❇️ **Difference from Zapier**\n\nWhile Zapier offers a cloud service, Activepieces is:\n\n1. **Self-hosted:** You can keep your data on your servers (helpful for data privacy).\n2. **Open-source:** the platform and the connectors (don’t wait for us to build the connector).\n3. **Free** (helpful for .. your pocket).\n\n### 🖌️ **Use Cases**\n\nWe’re working with some users at companies to:\n\n* Automate lead flow: from blogs to MailChimp and CRMs.\n* Centralize notifications: from marketing/sales to Slack workspace.\n* Automate operations: a company is using us to convert pdfs to text, summarize them and submit them to their proofreading team.\n\n### 🟢 **Status**\n\nWe just launched with **15 apps** including OpenAI, HubSpot, MailChimp, Stripe, Pipedrive, Gmail, SendGrid — and adding more.\n\nOur focus is to build the free product and the community around it. Later, we’ll make money from enterprise features.\n\n### 🙏 **Our Ask**\n\nYou can try out Activepieces on the [Playground](https://demo.activepieces.com/sign-up?utm_source=launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc) and we’ll be happy if you give us a star ⭐ on our [GitHub repo](https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces)!\n\n### 🖇️ **All links**\n\n* Website: [www.activepieces.com](http://www.activepieces.com?utm_source=launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n* Github repo (star us maybe?😳❤️): [https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces](https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces?utm_source=launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n* Playground: [https://demo.activepieces.com](https://demo.activepieces.com/sign-up?utm_source=launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n* Community (Discord): https://discord.gg/2jUXBKDdP8\n\nI’ll be happy to help anyone get set up (or grow out of Zapier): [founders@activepieces.com](mailto:founders@activepieces.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HrV-activepieces-open-source-alternative-to-zapier", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2023-01-24T18:10:00.535Z" } ] }, { "id": 26793, "name": "Windmill", "slug": "windmill", "former_names": [ "Windmill.dev" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/65ba001ab4d9a51e57b2d599e1b3c910c0a39b01.png", "website": "https://windmill.dev", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Windmill is an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows, internal tools, and full-stack apps.\r\n\r\nWrite scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, Rust, SQL - Windmill auto-generates UIs from their parameters, handles dependencies, credentials, permissions, and scheduling so you focus on business logic, not infra.\r\n \r\nOpen-source alternative to Airflow, Temporal, Retool and n8n. Chain scripts into flows with branching, parallelism, retries. Build dashboards with the app builder. Trigger via cron, webhook, or UI. All-in-one runtime, editor, secret manager, and OAuth platform - enterprise-ready out of the box.\r\n \r\nStack: Rust / TypeScript + Svelte / PostgreSQL. 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Simplified Temporal with automatic app generation. Usable as a self-hosted AWS Lambda.\n\nSync your scripts from your GitHub repo or write them directly on Windmill, have them be converted to apps and no-code modules automatically. Use those apps as standalone (triggered on demand, by webhook or schedule) or build powerful flows using those scripts. The experience is similar to no-code tools except that at any point, any module can have its code inspected and tweaked. Leveraging the open-source community, we will build an exhaustive library of scripts for all APIs and generic tasks on [hub.windmill.dev](https://hub.windmill.dev/).\n\nYou may also wrap Windmill with your own frontend to provide automation as a feature on top of your own SaaS.\n\nFocus on your business logic for all kind of flows, Windmill is the platform to build, share and run them.\n\n## Active Founders\n\n**Ruben Fiszel**\n\nRuben was top of his class MSc in CS at EPFL, did research on compilers from Scala to Hardware at Stanford, built the first open-source library for reinforcement learning for Java, built distributed systems at scale at Palantir and ran the engineering team at a Multi-Party Computation startup. He is now building Windmill, an open-source alternative to Retool, Pipedream, Airplane that contains the infra to run it and that you can deploy at scale.\n\n### The sweet spot between low-code and code from scratch\n\n### Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Pipedream and Airplane. Simplified Temporal\n\nTo build internal apps for ops, integrations between services that cannot talk to each other directly, or to run background jobs that run your business logic and analytics, the two main options today are no-code solutions and old-fashioned, roll-your-own scripting. Both have problems, and our goal with Windmill is to find a new sweet spot between the two. No-code solutions are productive _if_ your problem matches the tool exactly - but if not, they are rigid, hard to extend and quickly become tech debt, annihilating their initial time advantage. Indeed, no-code is just code but made by an opinionated someone else and hidden as a blackbox with an UI.\n\nThe alternative is to do it the old-fashioned way, writing everything from scratch, both backend and frontend, perhaps deploying it on the latest flavor of serverless, and pray to never have to touch it again because that took way too much time and it has now became a burden that the ops and business team might poke you about regularly.\n\nFurthermore, the landscape of SaaS is specialized tools for everything—alerting, data analytics, administration panels, support management, integration between services—when it feels like a few scripts and some SQL would have been as good or even better and spared you the need of depending on one yet another tool. This could be even further facilitated if there was a way to import the right bunch of scripts from a fellow community of engineers, tweak it and deploy it like you can do in communities where automation can be shared as simple JSON files, for instance in the node-red or home assistant community… That’s the idea of Windmill: to bring back the power of scripting in an easy but high-scale production-grade way.\n\n## What are good use cases for Windmill\n\n1\\. The biggest pain we solve is to turn scripts that you would run on your own laptop as internal apps that you can share with your team.\n\n2\\. Avoid SQL queries to production in favor of templatized SQL made into apps instead (automatically!). Making live SQL queries is common in DevOps, support and ops in general. It can be very error-prone, stressful and inconvenient.\n\n3\\. Integrations between tools you already use but that are unable to talk to each other.\n\n4\\. Workflows, background jobs: code that runs very frequently to react to new events, transform data and run your business logic. Many companies are a frontend on top of a database, and that database is updated in the background. We make it possible to build those workflows from simple scripts so that you can build it faster, more reliable and easier to maintain.\n\n5\\. The last one only apply if you are a SaaS that wants to provide automation as a feature of your product, or a no-code tools yourself. Because we focused very much on the hard-engineering of orchestration and specs for workflows, you might simply want to wrap Windmill to offer it to your own clients.\n\n### Where is the catch, how do you make money\n\nWe make money from support, dual licensing of commercial licenses (for SaaS wrapping Windmill or for clients requiring it) and the hosted solution. On self-hosted, our Enterprise plan embedds:\n\n* SLA & Priority Support 24/7\n* Design partners for roadmap (priority on feature requests)\n* Enterprise-specific features (Audit logs, Distributed dependency cache backed by S3, SAML support etc.)\n\nWe are workflows experts and would be happy to support you to transition to clean code working on open-source software.\n\nYou can however self-host it for free forever as long as you do not go against the AGPL license (keep open-source or do not provide it as your service).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65264&key=user_uploads/229730/0fe6dab5-5378-4e2e-ad66-930378bbe8ac)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65264&key=user_uploads/229730/5d176de7-2303-49de-adb4-9bb98c559506)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65264&key=user_uploads/229730/e1d39016-bd36-4241-b0df-a5f7799ef4f5)\n\n**Docs:** [https://windmill.dev](https://windmill.dev/)\n\n**Hosted app:** [https://app.windmill.dev](https://app.windmill.dev/)\n\n**Self-host (star us!):** \n\n**Discord to chat with the team/community:** \n\n**Schedule a demo:** \n\n**Windmill on HackerNews:**\n\n* [Aug 9 2022, HN Launch](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400849)\n* [May 12 2023, Before v2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920082)\n* [Nov 22 2023, Why Windmill is the fastest self-hostable workflow engine?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383138)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gye-windmill-turn-scripts-into-internal-apps-and-workflows", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2022-08-10T13:00:24.836Z" } ] }, { "id": 26794, "name": "Capix", "slug": "capix", "former_names": [ "Supercool", "Blockfy", "Kubefy", "CapixAI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2790b307969e113fe655dd576fbc316e90c13310.png", "website": "http://capix.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Capix makes finding private equity firms fast and accurate by aggregating and enriching data from multiple sources into one customizable platform.", "one_liner": "AI-powered private equity intelligence.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1659418447, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Finance", "Sales Enablement" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/capix", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/capix.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/capixai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2790b307969e113fe655dd576fbc316e90c13310.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1006562, "full_name": "Bruno Jacob", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Capix. 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With Gullak, users can get started with auto saving just $1/day or with auto saving spare change. \n\nWe went from 200 to 30000 MTU in just 50 days & have hit an MRR of $2000. We are growing 25% Week on Week.\n\n**A little more about us:**\n\nManthan, Built ‘Visa Safe Click’ from scratch, the first one-click card authentication solution in India. Is a power house of ideas & loves experimenting\n\nDilip, In just the first 2 years of his career built India’s first large scale UPI app -  BHIM(10M users in 10 Days, launched by the PM of India). Does not stop till he solves the problem at hand\n\nNaimisha, having worked with 40+ brands comes with a rich experience in handcrafting Consumer Brands. 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They can then play with those designs and see how that home fits their needs and tastes.\\\n\\\nWe entered the market with a product that allows anyone to create virtual realistic interior designs for empty property images automatically.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64479&key=user_uploads/1014282/0c4976d5-00b5-45dd-85c0-decb4111d476)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nAn excellent online property listing can help you sell your property faster and for a higher price.\n\nBut property listing websites haven’t changed for the last 20 years and are very one-dimensional, although prospective buyers have different needs and tastes.\n\nBy using computer graphics and ML, Apply Design created a way to automatically create realistic virtual interior designs that enable the homeowner to easily create a website that showcases the home's potential in a way that is personalized to the buyer. A way that sells better than Zillow.\n\n### **About Us**\n\nYaniv Knoll and I are based in Tel Aviv and met in the IDF in a small intelligence unit specializing in 3D solutions for special operations. Our work was recognized with the highest intelligence award for 2015.\\\nFor the last 10 years, we’ve built 3D and computer vision-based solutions in military, HR, construction, and real estate.\n\nThe idea was born last year when my parents tried to sell the apartment that I grew up in. A month went by with no offers after the empty pictures sat on Zillow waiting for anyone to show interest, so I created a dedicated website showing how the home fits different family structures and purposes, using editable interior realistic designs for each room of the house. Within days of prospective buyers using our product, we went from no offers to three, and a 10% higher asking price than expected.\n\n### **I want it! How do I try it?**\n\nIn case you have or plan to publish a property listing (or if you just want to test it out, it's really fun! ), you can try our first product at [applydesign.io](http://applydesign.io), which allows you to upload an image and add realistic furniture to show the potential of your property.\\\nThe best part is that the first image is for free 💸!\n\n---\n\nIf you do try it out, make sure to **send me feedback** about the experience and the potential you see.\n\n**_If you know any realtors, property managers, or even friends and family who are about to sell or rent a property, please tell them about Apply Design. 🙂_**\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Glz-apply-design-shopify-for-property-listings", "votes": 108, "created_at": "2022-07-10T14:34:11.660Z" } ] }, { "id": 26803, "name": "Tank Payments", "slug": "tank-payments", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4db7a5077a335ed33cdb02645791bdc760dba1ca.png", "website": "https://www.tankpayments.com/", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. 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Prior to Tank, Dane managed product teams at Amazon. Before that, he worked at a startup building a semantic knowledge graph and a startup that sold data to hedge funds. Dane started his career at a Wall Street investment bank.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dane-cook-b8402922/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/danecooked", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77b7f0d48a431bc1443e57f1a0ded1b6a471ca48.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1086453, "full_name": "Jad Rahbany", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jad is a co-founder of Tank Payments. Prior to Tank, Jad was a Software Engineer at Amazon working on the Alexa AI team, and a Product Manager at Google and Graphiq (acq. by Amazon). Originally from Lebanon, Jad graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Business.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadrahbany/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/08edf98e6dfd34d9aae8d29b1fbcf81654799a93.jpg" }, { "user_id": 793427, "full_name": "Matthew Rybak", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Matthew Rybak is the co-founder of Tank Payments. Matthew heads factor business development and product at Tank. He started out in financial services (Citigroup), but quickly moved to a tech startup in Santa Barbara CA (FindTheBest/Graphiq), which was acquired by Amazon Alexa AI in 2017. Since departing Amazon, he has started a RE development firm, a website (Truckinfo.net), and Tank Payments. He earned a Bachelors and Masters in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrybak/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/captainrybak", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1eed17c86d493beb4042fed9177133676521db76.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 102422, "title": "Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tank-payments/jobs/AGM7jgV-software-engineer", "location": "Austin", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $165K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 102423, "title": "Senior Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tank-payments/jobs/ugnOzaS-senior-software-engineer", "location": "Austin", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Forbes 30 Under 30: Jad Rahbany", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/jad-rahbany/?list=30under30-manufacturing-industry/", "date": "Dec 02, 2024" }, { "title": "Trucking fintech company Tank Payments nets economic empowerment prize - FreightWaves", "url": "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-fintech-company-tank-payments-nets-economic-empowerment-prize", "date": "Oct 19, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65088, "title": "Tank Payments: The neobank built for trucking businesses", "tagline": "We get truckers paid faster.", "body": "We’re Dane, Jad, and Matt, and we’re excited to introduce Tank Payments.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nWhen truckers haul loads, shippers stipulate 30 to 90 day payment terms, which is too long for many trucking companies that operate on thin margins. To access cash faster (1-3 days), trucking companies sell their invoices to financing companies called “factors” for a 2-5% fee. Many truckers end up paying up to $40 in fees per invoice to wire money from their factors if they need cash from their factors immediately, meaning that **some truckers give up close to 10% of their income to get access to the money they’ve already earned.**\n\nMoney movement in freight is not efficient, causing truckers to stitch together a variety of tools (Cash App, local commercial banks, factoring, fuel cards, and more) to manage their businesses. Even the business that pay truckers (e.g. factors) use dated payments infrastructure, exacerbating delays. This leaves an opportunity for software that addresses these financial needs in a way that’s purpose-built for the freight industry.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65088&key=user_uploads/793427/be064c4e-46a5-4172-8c84-dd10830f6b9a)\n\n**Tank Payments is a banking experience specifically designed for the freight industry, and its first feature allows truckers to get paid faster.** We give truckers instant access to their money by putting factors and truckers on the same financial infrastructure. Factoring companies partner with Tank because our infrastructure reduces their time spent on accounts payable, and helps them retain customers by offering a better funding experience.\n\nOver time, the Tank Payments will become the finance department for trucking SMBs, supporting the many unique financial requirements of freight businesses. We’ve pinpointed payroll, expense management, insurance, and P2P payments as areas of priority that our neobank is well-positioned to serve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65088&key=user_uploads/793427/e85b3331-683f-4031-bd75-51747ce4bb4c)\n\nOur team worked together for the past 7 years, first at a startup (Graphiq, acq. 2017) and then at Amazon Alexa AI. We bring experience in financial services, data analytics, digital security, and natural language processing to a freight industry in the midst of a tech adoption boom.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. We would love to connect with founders and teams that have **experience embedding 1) payroll, 2) card rewards (e.g. fuel discounts), and 3) insurance into their software**.\n2. Tank wants to expand and distribute its neobank through entities that pay truckers, beyond factors. We want to learn more about how players like international freighters (e.g. Maersk), freight forwarding companies (e.g. Flexport), domestic shippers (e.g. Kroger’s Markets), and third-party logistics providers (e.g. C.H. 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Whether placing a screw in the spine, inserting a needle for a biopsy, or advancing a catheter, precision is critical. Yet surgeons still rely on outdated tools: fluoroscopy, “feel”, and mental reconstruction, leading to inefficiencies, complications, and billions in unnecessary healthcare costs.\n\nThis has serious consequences:\n\n* For patients – misplaced implants, vascular injuries, and nerve damage result in repeat procedures, extended hospital stays, and life-altering complications.\n* For hospitals – preventable surgical revisions cost tens of billions annually in unnecessary expenses\n* For surgeons – Cumbersome tools and methods that extend case time, increase cognitive load, and limit the number of patients they can treat.\n\nSpine surgery and interventional access are two of the fastest-growing segments and also among the most accuracy-dependent.\n\nIn the US alone:\n\n* 1.6 M spine surgeries where millimeters can mean the difference between mobility and disability.\n* 9.5 M interventional procedures that rely on accurate percutaneous access to treat and diagnose hundreds of different conditions and diseases.\n\n**This is a $10B+ unmet need.**\n\n**🔎 Our Solution: See Inside The Patient in Real Time, Directly On The Body**\n\nWe’ve built a new way of seeing inside the human body: Skylight is the first real-time anatomical projection system built to solve the problems with patient access. Instead of forcing doctors to look away at a screen, Skylight projects anatomy directly onto the patient, like an AR display—but without headsets, wearables, or extra steps.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65365&key=user_uploads/636938/8f98ebe8-aa8b-44e5-aac5-1b03d5105bfd)\n\nTo make this happen, we’ve developed a novel method of tracking the patient with sub-millimeter accuracy and we’ve built this system to be universally compatible with industry-standard tools and scanners to allow adoption without changing workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65365&key=user_uploads/636938/d4213fc6-0747-4211-8bc3-56a309fd14c9)\n\n**Just as fiber optics revolutionized how we do laparoscopy and minimally invasive surgeries, anatomical projection will become the new standard for patient access.**\n\n**Who We Are:**\n\nWe’re James and Eldrick, two Stanford engineers who first met as freshman dormmates and have now worked together for over a decade.\n\n💉James: MD, bioengineer, scientist, and medical device builder.\n\n⚙️ Eldrick: Experienced deep-tech founder. Built chips at Apple and led hardware-software teams at a lidar startup.\n\nWe’ve assembled a world-class team of engineers, clinicians, and medical device experts to solve tough problems at the intersection of medicine, computer vision, graphics, and hardware development.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65365&key=user_uploads/636938/f5a0197a-718d-45cf-b2bd-f71769312830)\n\n**We’re looking for:**\n\n🩺 Clinicians → If you do spine, pain management, or IR, let’s talk.\n\n🏥 Hospital Partners → Want to be at the forefront of procedural navigation? Reach out.\n\n📰 Media → We’re redefining how doctors see. Let’s get the word out.\n\nEmail us [founders@illuminant.ai](mailto:founders@illuminant.ai) 💡", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0H-illuminant-surgical-a-new-way-of-seeing-inside-the-human-body", "votes": 95, "created_at": "2022-08-15T12:19:47.391Z" } ] }, { "id": 26807, "name": "MaverickX", "slug": "maverickx", "former_names": [ "Maverick Bioworks", "Maverick BioMetals", "Maverick Metals" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/863f997124ddcf68b9b2129609f950b6485be63f.png", "website": "https://www.MaverickX.com", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "MaverickX is a chemical technology company advancing natural resource extraction. The company was founded by Eric Herrera, former Department of Defense scientist, and Jesse Evans, former startup operations manager. \r\n\r\nAs resources become more difficult to extract across the energy and mining sectors, new technologies are needed. 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For providers, we eliminate manual data entry, enable remote patient monitoring and reduce administrative burden. **Check out our** [**app**](https://malama.app.link/ls0jrjcQjrb) **on GooglePlay/iOS!**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Mika, Orlando, Shalmali and Daniela aka the team behind [Malama](https://www.heymalama.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64437&key=user_uploads/972065/4ecb7ffa-cfed-4ff5-a6b8-104967e166b2)\n\n_from left to right:_\n\n**🎯** [Orlando](https://www.linkedin.com/in/orlandoli/) keeps us on target: 10+ years as an engineer, 4+ years at Airbnb. Chat with me about #food #ruby-on-rails\n\n**👀** [Mika](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikawang/) acts as our eyes towards the future: 10+ years in healthcare, mom of a 21 month-old tyrant, previously Director of Clinical Product Innovation at Optum. Chat with me about #GDM #interoperability #digitalhealth #parenting\n\n**💖** [Daniela](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-bahamon-arango/) carries our creative heart: 10+ years designing beautiful products for women, previously founder of Maison Alma, ex-L’Oreal and LVMH. Chat with me about #branding #design #community\n\n**🧠** [Shalmali](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shalmalibane/) tends our inquisitive mind: 7+ years in research, currently all but the dissertation at Stanford Medical school getting a PhD in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology. Chat with me about #pregnancyresearch #studyinclusivity #trialdesign #bias\n\n# What is diabetes in pregnancy and why does it matter? 🧐\n\nRoughly [1 in 6 births](https://www.idf.org/our-activities/care-prevention/gdm) are affected by some sort of hyperglycemia - or high blood sugar - in pregnancy, with the average annual economic burden around [$6k per case](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30940641/). Further, [50% of women](https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/gestational.html) with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) will go on to develop type II diabetes, which costs 1 in 7 U.S. healthcare dollars today.\n\nWe started working on this after our cofounder, Mika, developed GDM in pregnancy and was told her son was in the 99th percentile growth range and would likely need a C-section to be delivered. Luckily, she was able to manage her GDM through diligent tracking, trigger identification and diet changes, and now we are bringing this knowledge to help millions of other women who experience the same anxiety, panic and isolation each year.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64437&key=user_uploads/972065/ede51043-7ada-46cf-8816-74861dcc7e4a)\n\nShort-term risks of GDM include a 1.5x greater likelihood of requiring an emergency C-section, and a 1.4x greater likelihood of preterm birth. 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Experts are alarmed by the [continued increase](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/08/gestational-diabetes-worrisome-increase-pregnancy/) and disproportionate effect on racial and ethnic minorities.\n\n# **Our ask 🙏**\n\n* **Download our** [**app**](https://malama.app.link/ls0jrjcQjrb) (_bonus_: share your feedback with us at [founders@heymalama.com](mailto:founders@heymalama.com))\n* **Share this post!** Please help spread the word, as you never know who it may help (_many women are not open about a sensitive diagnosis and are suffering in silence_)\n* Connect us with **Providers** (OBs and MFMs, Nutritionists, Certified Diabetes Experts), **Patients**, and **Payers** (particularly innovative Medicaid payers)\\*\n\n _\\* quick blurb to copy & paste:_ A team of Stanford students and researchers recently released an [app](https://malama.app.link/ls0jrjcQjrb) to reduce administrative burden and improve management of diabetes during pregnancy. 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[**Pre-order our snack pack**](https://tenlives.co) (20% off with YCMEOW) or [sign up](https://forms.gle/9z1dMmaXQRR3mGL49) for premium cat content (updates).\n\nHi friends! We’re [Ruby](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruby-yu-h3k9/), [Vicki](https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriamo/), Sera🐱, and Nori🐱, and we’re Ten Lives.\n\n**The problem:**\n\n* Animal meat is **unsustainable** for the planet. A fifth of the world’s meat is consumed by pets, contributing to both emissions and animal cruelty.\n* A plant-based diet is **unhealthy** for cats. Cats are obligate carnivores that eat more animal protein than almost any other mammal.\n* Alternative animal protein sources are currently **unaffordable**. Even at theoretical cost minimums, lab-grown meat is 10-100x more expensive than premium cat food.\n\n**Our solution:**\n\n* 🌎 Our **sustainable** animal protein is made without killing or harming a single animal, while at low impact to the planet.\n* 🦁 High-protein cat food **made for carnivores** (no plant protein!). Our protein is identical to what cats eat in the wild.\n* 💸 We update the millennia-old science of fermentation with machine learning to produce animal protein **at** **cat food prices**. _Our cost-optimizing platform technology can be seamlessly applied to any protein we produce in the future._\n\n**Why we care / the potential impact:**\n\n1 ton of animal protein replaced = 5,000 animal lives saved.\n\nHealthily replacing animal protein for all cats = CO2 equivalent of 27 million cars off the road.\n\nWe aim to undercut the price of chicken by 2027.\n\n**To support our cause:**\n\n* [**\\*\\*Pre-order\\*\\***](https://tenlives.co) to get earliest access to our first product - snacks for cats. Use the code YCMEOW to get 20% off of the snack pack (limited quantities available).\n* [Sign up](https://forms.gle/9z1dMmaXQRR3mGL49) for only-good-cat-content updates.\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GrD-ten-lives-sustainable-cat-food", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2022-07-21T21:18:52.105Z" } ] }, { "id": 26811, "name": "Payload", "slug": "payload", "former_names": [ "Payload CMS" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0f0a550c10525505849576c534b00a71c9d71c7e.png", "website": "https://payloadcms.com", "all_locations": "Grand Rapids, MI, USA", "long_description": "Payload is a developer-first headless CMS and application framework built to finally give developers a better choice in the world of CMS. 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We’re three full-stack TypeScript devs that got tired of feeling like second-class citizens when it comes to content management systems—so we built Payload.\n\n[**Payload**](https://payloadcms.com) is a truly dev-first, headless content management system aimed sharply at giving engineers the best development experience possible in a noisy ecosystem of tools that often disregard the importance of quality, clean, extensible code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64122&key=user_uploads/969037/ca9a0712-e89c-4aaa-b63b-7b325f8ffbbb)\n\n### The Problem\n\nTo developers, “content management system” is a swear word.\n\n* Devs want to build cutting-edge products that are structured effectively to deliver elegant solutions to their business needs.\n* Modern teams want to write code in modern languages like TypeScript and React, but most CMS are built with legacy tech and have lasted long past their shelf life.\n* You will often hit roadblocks with other CMS, and many SaaS options “black-box” functionality away, meaning developers can never truly own their own code.\n* Devs often undervalue the power that a good CMS _could_ represent. Even web and native apps generally need to manage “content”, like orders, requests, users, profiles, and more—but often, developers roll their own systems for these apps. Time is wasted and the wheel is reinvented from scratch every time.\n\nBuilding a project that needs a CMS shouldn’t be a dreaded task for modern developers.\n\n### Payload is...\n\n**A CMS that is obsessed with giving engineers the best developer experience possible to build out APIs and admin UI.** It catapults developers' efficiency and value by delivering an extensible REST and GraphQL API as well as a beautiful React admin panel for non-technical users to manage content—all in TypeScript.\n\nFrom docs to design, it's staunchly code-first, but uncompromising in admin experience. Developers finally have a tool to deliver their admins with a CMS that is beautiful, minimal, extensible, and usable. It can power the backend for websites of all sizes, ecommerce, SaaS, native apps, and more.\n\n**Tech specs:**\n\n* Completely open-source\n* [Fully self-hosted](https://payloadcms.com/docs/production/deployment)\n* [GraphQL](https://payloadcms.com/docs/graphql/overview), [REST](https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview), and [Local](https://payloadcms.com/docs/local-api/overview) APIs\n* [Customizable ReactJS Admin](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/overview)\n* [Extensible authentication](https://payloadcms.com/docs/authentication/overview)\n* [Local file storage & upload](https://payloadcms.com/docs/upload/overview)\n* [Field-based localization](https://payloadcms.com/docs/configuration/localization)\n* [Block-based layout builder](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/blocks)\n* [Extensible SlateJS rich text editor](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/rich-text)\n* [Array field type](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/array)\n* [Field conditional logic](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/overview#conditional-logic)\n* Extremely granular [Access control](https://payloadcms.com/docs/access-control/overview)\n* [Document and field-level hooks](https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/overview) for every action Payload provides\n* Built with Typescript & very Typescript-friendly\n* Highly secure thanks to HTTP-only cookies, CSRF protection, and more\n\n### What customers say\n\n* \"This product is a developer's dream come true in the world of CMS.\" - Developer, NYC, USA - 12 Oct 2021\n* \"CMS used to be something dreadful, now it's starting to feel right.\" - Developer, London, UK - 31 Mar 2021\n* “Started looking into headless CMS options... 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This is a very painful and arduous process for HR leaders and teams.\n\nCurrent attempts to simplify integrations have mostly failed because they are generally custom 1:1 solutions that do not scale, require enterprises to replace their existing HR systems, and are not specifically designed to handle HR data. HR leaders who adopt these integration platforms generally experience incremental costs and long implementation times (at least 3-months) per vendor.\n\n# **How it works**\n\nWe’ve built a [solution](https://www.aragorn.ai/) where enterprises transfer their HRIS data to [Aragorn’s platform](https://www.aragorn.ai/) through encrypted means, map out attributes of the data to specific vendor formats programmed in [Aragorn](https://www.aragorn.ai/) and automatically share authorized data required by their vendors in a few hours. 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For Real Estate. Now.", "body": "**tl;dr**: Real estate and mortgage brokerages lose billions in commissions yearly in missed opportunities with prospective home buyers and sellers. Flair lets any team deploy their own fleet of digital assistants - tailored to real estate workflows - that allows brokerages to multiply their active conversations.\n\n\n\n—\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Real estate and lending teams lack resources to properly manage client communications.**\n\nEvery day brokerages leave millions of dollars on the table. Why?\n\n* Communication in real estate quickly becomes overwhelming, especially when there aren’t enough hands to stay on top of every client\n* They, therefore, miss over half their phone calls and follow-ups\n* Today - 300,000+ loan officers and 1.6m+ realtors spend hours on the phone getting applicants to complete applications or gathering additional information before they churn to competitors.\n* 85% of the time when a call is missed, clients don’t call back; they often go with another realtor\n\n**Existing alternatives are either expensive or inefficient.** Even small to midsize brokerages can make and receive hundreds, if not thousands, of calls per day\n\n* Receptionists (both virtual & non-virtual) are costly, not 24/7 and operational on the weekend, require months of onboarding, and have high variance in terms of performance\n* Call centers are costly (few dollars / minute), inconsistent, and don’t integrate with business systems (e.g., CRMs)\n\n### **✨ Our Solution**\n\n[Flair Labs](https://flairlabs.ai) allows brokerages to set up their own **digital concierge** that automates client communication and relationship nurturing\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86082&key=user_uploads/986377/994c9276-0ffe-44b0-b080-5416a5dc294b)\n\n**Speed-to-lead**\n\n* 24/7 availability - automate follow-ups from inbound inquiries to nail down appointment times and collect necessary information\n* Pick up and reengage clients that dropped off online forms or applications\n* Multi-channel sequences through call, sms and email ensure to reach clients where they prefer most\n\n**Lead reactivation**\n\n* Booking confirmations to minimize cancellations / no-shows\n* Follow-ups with previous leads to gather updated information and changes in timelines\n\n**Live transfer & callback scheduling**\n\n* Warm transfer hot leads directly to realtors or mortgage brokers\n* Connect with calendar and CRM to set up times to call back\n\n### **🏆 Team**\n\n[Samir Sen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samir-sen-3a2b72123/) - Stanford BS/MS in Computer Science. 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Between 2015 to 2019, he co-founded and led product development at a groceries startup in SEA named Honestbee that grew to $108M in annual GMV across 8 markets.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanlowhy/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jonathanlowhy", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/70fa77f2771632c57fd205b0535ef996822bbd0b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 981080, "full_name": "Thomas Jiang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Thomas is the co-founder of Mistle.\n\nPrior, Thomas worked as engineer no. 2 in a B2B startup selling enterprise compliance software which was acquired.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-jiang/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thomasjiangcy", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/339a07bfc1167fa623aa0d9399e3d1c41affe155.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Honestbee co-founder’s new startup joins Y Combinator", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/honestbee-cofounder-excto-joins-combinator", "date": "Jun 07, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65425, "title": "🌊 Ajourney - Gusto for South East Asia (SEA)", "tagline": "Run payroll with one-click", "body": "Hi YC! We’re [Jonathan](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/878905), [Thomas](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/981080) and [Cayter](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1005416).\n\n[**Ajourney**](https://ajourney.io) **is building Gusto for South East Asia (SEA).**\n\n### The Problem\n\nRunning payroll is a very repetitive activity. We’ve identified 3 areas that can be better.\n\nFirst, most payroll software in SEA act as a calculator to calculate compliance contributions but do not automate the other aspects of running a payroll such as:\n\n* Collection of attendance or commissions data for salary computation\n* Handling payments through bank and government portals\n\nSecond, hiring of remote contractors in SEA is increasing with greater adoption of remote working tools for small businesses. Manual payments have to be made separately from payroll.\n\nThird, businesses growing regionally in SEA usually outsource payroll as they do not want to build internal competency in payroll compliance for every market.\n\n### Our Approach\n\nAjourney helps businesses to manage their payroll end-to-end from data collection to disbursements, compliance filings and payments.\n\nWe reduce repetitiveness and time spent on payroll through integrations and workflow automation.\n\nBesides software, we offer customer support to help companies on their payroll compliance needs. Customers can enjoy the benefits of both in-sourced payroll and outsourced payroll through a single offering.\n\nWe are currently building our product for the Singapore market and will expand to more markets at a later date.\n\n![](https://ajourney.io/images/landing-page-payroll-9b16a6258953508db851b28b694af76a.png?vsn=d)\n\n## Our Team\n\nWe are 3 technical co-founders and can relate to the problem well because of previous pains we have experienced.\n\nI previously co-founded a groceries delivery startup in SEA. 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It works across email, chat, WhatsApp and social, and is MCP-native.\r\n\r\nUntil now, that took a proper setup project, which is why it was mostly larger companies using it. Nova does the setup for you. You describe how you want things handled, in plain sentences:\r\n- \"Handle refunds under €50 yourself.\"\r\n- \"Anything about enterprise pricing goes to a human.\"\r\n- \"Turn bug reports into Linear issues and assign them to the Excellence team.\"\r\n\r\nNova connects the tools, configures the agents, tests them against your past conversations, and shows you what it got wrong before anything goes live. Nothing ships without your approval. First deployment takes 15 minutes. After that, it keeps going: it surfaces what customers keep complaining about, proposes fixes, and ships the ones you approve. We call it an AI Operator because it doesn't just answer customers; it keeps the entire operation working and improving. 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But staying on top of customer requests can quickly turn into a second job, and it takes time away from building and growing.\n\nWe're **Typewise (S22)** and we built Nova to remove that tradeoff. Typewise resolves customer requests end-to-end. Nova is the AI operator that sets up, runs, and improves that system for you. Your first deployment takes about 15 minutes.\n\nTell Nova how you want customer requests handled, in plain language:\n\n* \"Handle refunds under $50 automatically.\"\n* \"Send enterprise-pricing questions to Sales.\"\n* \"Create a Linear issue for every bug report and assign it to Engineering.\"\n\nNova connects the relevant tools, configures the agents and workflows, and tests them against your past conversations. It shows you what it got wrong before anything goes live. Nothing ships without your approval.\n\nOnce live, Typewise handles requests 24/7. It understands the message, looks up the information in your systems, takes approved actions, and replies. 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We build text prediction software, which is used in various customer service and sales teams of large enterprises.\n\nWe’re now making the underlying API accessible to other developers, in case you’d like to supercharge your software with text prediction and autocorrect.\n\n### Features\n\n* 🔮 Sentence Prediction\n* 🖋️ Autocorrect & Grammar Check\n* 🧠 Custom AI Models\n* 🌎 Language Detection (40+ languages)\n* 🕵️‍ Emoji Search\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67181&key=user_uploads/737174/60471b62-a6f4-40af-9ca8-4ac7fb0c01d8)\n\n### Try for free\n\nAccess the API: \n\n👉 The language models are fully customizable to your specific use case, [get in touch](https://mailto:info@typewise.app) to learn more.\n\nCheers,\\\nJanis & David", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HTZ-typewise-text-prediction-api", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2022-11-08T12:28:26.612Z" }, { "id": 64168, "title": "Typewise – 🔥 boosting customer service & sales productivity by 2-3x", "tagline": "AI writing solution for businesses to save cost, increase customer satisfaction and sales conversion.", "body": "[**Typewise**](https://typewise.app/) **is a powerful AI writing solution for customer service and sales teams.**\n\nTypewise helps customer service and sales teams to:\n\n* Increase writing efficiency by >20%\n* Eliminate >97% of mistakes\n* Ensure brand coherence & tone of voice\n* Improve customer satisfaction (CSAT, etc.) & sales conversion\n* Save >8 hours per employee per month\n* Get 3-4X ROI\n\nOur AI text prediction technology outperforms Google & Co and was initially developed through our smartphone app with >2 million downloads.\n\nWe already work with Fortune 500 companies (software, e-commerce, logistics, insurance, telco).\n\n**What can Typewise do?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64168&key=user_uploads/737174/1a0256c1-10b5-4def-a67d-40ac30271153)\n\n* Sentence prediction (autocomplete) and smart snippets\n* Proofreader (autocorrect and grammar check)\n* Auto replies\n* Real-time translation\n* Analytics & quality control\n\nOur AI language model gets trained on your company’s data to ensure consistent, on-brand communications across your business. We also incorporate your business metrics (CSAT, etc.) to surface what type of wording, phrases, etc. leads to better business outcomes, and suggest the most effective language automatically.\n\n**How does Typewise work?**\n\n💻 Browser extension + server-side API\\\n✅ Works with any CRM (e.g., Salesforce)\\\n🌐 Support for 40+ languages\\\n👍 No IT implementation effort / <8h setup time\\\n🔒 100% data privacy\n\n**Get a risk-free trial:**\n\nSchedule a 15-min live demo to discuss how we can boost your business!\n\n👉👉 [Get in touch with our CEO David](https://mailto:david.eberle@typewise.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ggy-typewise-boosting-customer-service-sales-productivity-by-2-3x", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2022-06-29T07:37:38.350Z" } ] }, { "id": 26860, "name": "NewsCatcher", "slug": "newscatcher", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4e6df1d33e5151e6b36a83a91e94b8bb2550c930.png", "website": "https://newscatcherapi.com/", "all_locations": "Kyiv, Ukraine; Remote", "long_description": "CatchAll by NewsCatcher is a recall-first web search API built for queries where the results are spread across hundreds or thousands of pages on the web. Instead of returning the top ranked links like traditional search engines, CatchAll retrieves a large candidate set from the web, validates which pages actually match the query, and extracts structured records of real-world events.\r\n\r\nDevelopers and data teams use CatchAll to answer “long-list” questions such as tracking regulatory actions, funding rounds, product launches, corporate expansions, or cybersecurity incidents. The output is not just links but clean, deduplicated datasets that can power AI agents, monitoring systems, analytics pipelines, and market intelligence workflows.\r\n\r\nCatchAll runs on the data infrastructure developed by NewsCatcher, which continuously indexes millions of articles and public web pages across a global network of sources.", "one_liner": "Turning the web into a structured database of real world events.", "team_size": 22, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1659698356, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Enterprise", "Big Data", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "Ukraine", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Me (Artem) and Maksym, childhood pals since school days and university companions, teamed up to launch NewsCatcher in February 2020. Both Data Engineers with a knack for problem-solving, we were fed up with the status quo but passionate about data, laying the groundwork for our startup. Embracing the ethos of rapid iteration, we wasted no time, kicking off our journey by creating a Telegram chat dubbed \"First million\".Following Y Combinator's mantra of swift action, we rolled out our beta in April 2020, fuelled by AWS credits from YC Startup School. Our early strides were apparent when a Python package we crafted gained traction on Reddit, attracting a flurry of sign-ups. By June 2020, we debuted our V1 product on RapidAPI, landing our first paying customer—a serendipitous encounter with a US student bound for YC W24 batch. Our trajectory continued with applications to accelerators like TinySeed and YC, ultimately opting for TinySeed's rapid application process, albeit declining YC's offer later on. With strategic hires and laser-focused growth, we had a revenue surge from $3,000 to $25,000 MRR within a year. We circled back to YC, securing entry in May 2022 with $300,000 ARR. Despite hurdles, like my temporary detour to aid the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we thrived, clinching enterprise contracts and elevating ARR to $450,000 by Demo Day. Post-YC, while grappling with revenue challenges hindering our progress, we gleaned valuable insights into customer alignment, reaffirming our dedication to efficient growth and customer-centricity." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Deciding to apply to Y Combinator was a big step for us. We wanted to take NewsCatcher to the next level, and YC seemed like the perfect fit with its reputation for helping startups succeed. In early 2021, we applied to TinySeed, Alchemist Accelerator, and YC for the third time. TinySeed offered us a spot, which we accepted, even though we also got an interview invitation from YC. We had a monthly revenue of $3,000 at that time. Over the next year, we hired Aditya, Aakash, and Ibrahim and grew our monthly revenue to $25,000. This encouraged us to apply to YC again. In May 2022, despite the challenges of the Ukraine conflict and Artem's temporary absence to help the Armed Forces, we decided to reapply to YC. Our dream came true when Michael Seibel interviewed us, and we got in. Joining YC with around $300,000 in yearly revenue, we embraced their focus on fast growth and solving real problems. Throughout the program, we learned a lot from mentors and other founders. By Demo Day, our yearly revenue had grown to $450,000. After YC, Artem spent two days fundraising and found a great investor in Uncommon Capital, led by Jamie Quint. We also got support from other YC alums." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "Staying connected with the YC community has been super important for us as we figure out life after our time in the batch with NewsCatcher. We've been using all the cool stuff YC offers to help us grow and get better. Their knowledge base has been a goldmine of tips and tricks that have really helped us make NewsCatcher bigger and better.We've also been talking to other folks in the YC community for advice on running our business and bouncing around ideas. It's been awesome to have a bunch of other founders and experienced mentors cheering us on and giving us advice as we tackle the challenges of starting up.Plus, we've been taking advantage of discounts YC offers for different services, which has been a huge help in making our operations smoother and saving us some money. The YC community has been super generous in sharing their resources and expertise, and we're really grateful for all the support and camaraderie. It's been a big part of our journey as founders, and we couldn't have done it without them!" }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "**February 2020:** me and Maksym, both Data Engineers, co-found NewsCatcher driven by a shared passion for data and dissatisfaction with existing solutions. **April 2020:** Launch of NewsCatcher's beta, followed by the release of V1 product on RapidAPI in June, attracting first paying customers. **January-February 2021:** Joining TinySeed accelerates growth, leading to rapid revenue increase and team expansion. **May 2022:** Reapplication and acceptance into Y Combinator highlight commitment to excellence and innovation. **2023:** NewsCatcher experiences significant growth, achieving an ARR of $1.13 million. **2024:** Setting ambitious goals, aiming to grow ARR to $3.7 million. Focus on building scalable customer success processes to maximize retention and upsells. Additionally, hiring first Account Executives to drive sales growth and expand market reach." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "NewsCatcher is all about tackling the big challenge of making real-time news data easy to access from a wide range of sources. Many businesses and researchers struggle to get up-to-date info for things like market analysis, trend tracking, and content creation. It's a pain to manually gather news from lots of places—it takes forever and isn't very efficient. We decided to tackle this problem because, as Data Engineers ourselves, we know the frustration of trying to get good news data for projects. We realized that making this info more accessible could have a huge impact, so we decided to use our skills to do something about it.With NewsCatcher, our goal is to make real-time news data available to everyone. We've gathered news from over 70,000 sources and made it easy and affordable for anyone who needs it. We believe that by solving this problem, we can help spark innovation and improve decision-making.We're all about prioritizing data quality, adaptability, great customer service, and keeping things simple. That way, our customers can always count on getting the news they need to succeed." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Our long-term vision for NewsCatcher is to change the game when it comes to how businesses get and use news data, making the business world more informed and connected. If we truly succeed:\\* Businesses of all sizes will have equal access to real-time news data.\\* Decision-making across industries will be more informed and agile.\\* Innovation will be accelerated, driving economic growth.\\* Transparency and accountability in business operations will be enhanced.\\* Global connectivity and collaboration among businesses will be strengthened.Basically, we want to give businesses the tools they need to succeed in today's fast-paced and interconnected global market." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/newscatcher", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/newscatcher.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Kyiv", "country": "UA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/newscatcherapi/?viewAsMember=true", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/newscatcherapi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4e6df1d33e5151e6b36a83a91e94b8bb2550c930.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 444913, "full_name": "Artem Bugara", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Artem Bugara is the co-founder, CEO of NewsCatcher. Artem works with data and risk teams to help them integrate actionable signals from online news. Previously he ran a team of data engineers for one of the largest underwriting companies within the aviation, energy, and space insurance sectors.\n\nHe earned a degree in Econometrics from Toulouse School of Economics. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/bugaralife", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/717c77848f35ff3f50a1978f5ec2430ab5b55273.jpg" }, { "user_id": 472880, "full_name": "Maksym Sugonyaka", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Maksym Sugonyaka is the co-founder and CTO of NewsCatcher. After one year of a stable job, Maksym understood that the only place where he could realize his potential was entrepreneurship. Now in NewsCatcher, Maksym is the one to take key strategic and technical decisions in order to make the best News API on the market. \n\nHe has a Master's Degree in Data Science and Finance from Paris Sorbonne. But then, he became a self-taught Data Engineer. \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/msugonyaka/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kizy625", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0d3748b7ed0c74799452205a4a62beb4d707d66b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 92394, "title": "Software Engineer (Backend & LLM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/newscatcher/jobs/cuGf2UW-software-engineer-backend-llm", "location": "LB / UA / PL / LT / RO / Remote (LB; UA; PL; LT; RO)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$60K - $85K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Kubernetes", "Python", "Docker" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99812, "title": "CatchAll: Recall-first web search API", "tagline": "Turning the web into a structured database of real-world events", "body": "Hello, hackers! We’re Artem and Maksym, founders of NewsCatcher.\\\n\\\nWe’re building a structured, event-centric index of what happens in the real world. Today, that starts with CatchAll — a recall-first search API that finds all relevant matches to a query, extracts structured facts, and delivers clean, ready-to-use datasets.\\\n\\\n\\\n\\\n**The problem**\\\nTraditional web search — and most search APIs — were designed for humans. They optimize for **speed and ranking**, which works well when one page contains the answer:\n\n* “Who is the CEO of a company?”\n* “What’s the latest acquisition in X?”\n\nBut many high-stakes questions don’t have a single answer:\n\n* _All_ regulatory actions affecting an industry\n* _Every_ cybersecurity incident in a given week\n* _All_ funding rounds, policy changes, or facility expansions\n\nIn these cases, **recall is everything**.\\\nIf 200 valid events exist and your system surfaces 5, your recall is 2.5%. No amount of prompting or post-processing fixes that.\n\nLLMs and “deep research agents” haven’t solved this. They still open and read pages one by one, hit context limits, and end up sampling rather than exhausting a topic.\n\n\\\n**The solution**\\\nCatchAll is a recall-first web search API built for long-list answers — answers distributed across the open web.\n\nCatchAll:\n\n* Pulls a large candidate set from NewsCatcher’s proprietary web index (often tens of thousands of pages)\n* Validates which pages actually match the criteria\n* Extracts structured fields (companies, dates, locations, actions, amounts — defined by the user)\n* Normalizes and deduplicates everything into clean records\n\nThe output isn’t links.\\\nIt’s a dataset that didn’t exist before — and can be kept up to date by turning the query into a **live monitor**.\n\nFor teams, the end result is fewer searches and more reliable alerts.\\\n\\\n**Backstory**\\\nMaksym and I have known each other for almost 20 years. NewsCatcher is our first startup — we've been building it since 2020. It started as a bootstrapped self-serve news API for startups, and then grew into custom enterprise solutions (powering the US Department of State, Transparency International, Samsung, 50+ enterprise clients). CatchAll is us coming back to self-serve: same infrastructure, now optimized for the AI agent ecosystem.\\\n\\\nSign up [here](https://platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Launch_YC_CatchAll&utm_id=catch_all_YC), test CatchAll (for free), and give us feedback (we’ll 5x your credits!).\\\n\\\nShare your use-cases:\\\n[artem@newscatcherapi.com](mailto:artem@newscatcherapi.com) or DM on [https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99812&key=user_uploads/444913/74de4236-76fc-4c2b-8ef4-d02248dd0837)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pxs-catchall-recall-first-web-search-api", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-16T15:13:11.193Z" }, { "id": 65153, "title": "NewsCatcher - News API for risk and data teams", "tagline": "We help data and risk enterprise teams get instant access to machine-readable news from over 40,000 online news sources", "body": "**tl;dr:** We make it easy for data, market research, and risk teams to integrate machine-readable news feed into their internal analytics system. \\\n\\\nHey Fam, we're [Artem](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara/) and [Maksym](https://www.linkedin.com/in/msugonyaka/) and we're building [NewsCatcher](https://newscatcherapi.com/). We're on a mission to empower data-driven organizations with the highest quality and easiest-to-use News API. \\\n\\\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nIt’s easy to consume news as a human: you open Google News and read.\n\nNow, imagine:\n\n* you work for a bank, and you have to perform negative news searches for all new & existing accounts for anti-money laundering & financial crime checks\n* you work for a PR firm that has to monitor news mentions on your clients and their competitors\n* you’re an analyst in an investment firm, and you need to calculate news sentiment for each company on the market over the past N years\n* you want to show relevant news to the users on your app to make them spend more time on it\n\n“Humans reading the news” is not a scalable way to resolve a problem anymore, and it’s expensive.\n\n**✨ Our Solution**\n\nSearch and integrate news with code. Find news articles by any topic, country, language, website, or keyword with REST JSON News API.\\\n**Go ahead, and make some API calls on our** [**demo page**](https://demo.newscatcherapi.com/)**.**\n\nWe’ve built a generic news crawler that automatically finds new articles, normalizes them, and indexes them. So, you can now automate the news consumption and analysis via an API.\n\nYou can read more over this [link](https://docs.newscatcherapi.com/knowledge-base/how-newscatcher-works) from our knowledge base.\n\nHere is how an article would look in our search:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65153&key=user_uploads/444913/1c4d6e37-3e46-4c2a-a864-a969a80279e4)\n\n\\\nTop 3 use cases from our clients:\n\n* **risk intelligence**: find insights in the news before they get visible in financial reports days or months later\n* **integrate news** into your app\n* **media monitoring** on millions of companies all around the world\n\n\\\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\n\n1. Try our News API: claim your [API key](https://app.newscatcherapi.com/auth/register), or/and [book a technical session with us](https://savvycal.com/newscatcher/chat)\n2. Are you experienced with extracting data from HTML, or you’re an NLP expert? 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Tokko was acquired by Navent / QuintoAndar when we have more than 20k paid active brokers, then I led Tokko launch and expansion in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador.\n\nIn 2020, I relocated to Mexico and become country manager of Inmuebles24.com (Zillow for Mexico).\n\nI come from a family of Real Estate Brokers. 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", "body": "We’re Brendan and Luigi and we’re the co-founders of Provision.\n\n**Problem**\\\nThe construction industry spends $500B annually (\\~4% of market value) on issues stemming from document complexity. Documents are becoming longer, harder to read, and contain obligations that go unchecked eroding profitability. Currently, people use CTRL+F to navigate thousands of pages and Excel to extract information, often resulting in missed obligations, and unexpected costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65358&key=user_uploads/280788/8f4cc15a-b090-4ac2-a0d5-a9eee38cc0eb)\n\n\n**Need**\\\nConstruction professionals need to understand and manage all of the requirements held within these documents, because missing them means delays, budget overruns and even failed projects.\n\n**Enter Provision**\\\nProvision ingests contracts, specs and drawings, and gives users tools to manage risks, obligations and compliance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65358&key=user_uploads/280788/edbcd4d6-2298-48c2-9025-edcd7959b3d4)\n\n\n**Backstory**\\\nBoth Luigi and Brendan worked in the construction industry for years before starting Provision. Brendan left the industry, and built two startups over a couple of years but always had aspirations to go back to construction. Luigi worked as a Director at an infrastructure developer for 6 years, where he saw even the most sophisticated constructors fail to understand their documents. We came together in December of 2021 through YC to build something impactful. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65358&key=user_uploads/280788/dc0bd0eb-5339-4efa-9159-cd50050156cb)\n\n\\\n**Ask**\\\nUpvote this post! :)\n\nAnd if anyone has any warm connections to GCs or subcontractors in North America who builds big projects (50M+), we would love an intro. [founders@getprovision.co](mailto:founders@getprovision.co)\n\nAlso, we’re hiring for Data Engineer and SWE roles. [careers@getprovision.co](mailto:careers@getprovision.co) \n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/86033411), and drop us a line if you want to chat.\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0A-provision-ironclad-for-construction", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2022-08-14T15:53:59.802Z" } ] }, { "id": 26869, "name": "Sytex", "slug": "sytex", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/911263357a6383968942bb9fe2d9288aa036b92e.png", "website": "https://www.sytex.io", "all_locations": "Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina; Remote", "long_description": "Sytex is a project management platform for Field Infrastructure, starting with Telecom.\r\nFor example, companies like Telefonica and Claro use Sytex to build and maintain their networks.", "one_liner": "Project management platform for Field Infrastructure.", "team_size": 22, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1652710127, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "Argentina", "Latin America", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sytex", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/sytex.json", "year_founded": 2019, "city": "Córdoba", "country": "AR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sytexpm", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SytexHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/911263357a6383968942bb9fe2d9288aa036b92e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 347622, "full_name": "Mariano Lisiotti", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Excited to simplify work for project teams worldwide.\nFather of 3. 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Previously co-founded VideoCrisp in Dublin - a cloud-based video creation platform recognised as one of the world's top 50 startups, featured in PBS and Silicon Republic. Also built Waybiz, a B2B trust marketplace spanning 80,000+ businesses across 110 countries. Holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from UCD Smurfit Business School. Invited to the U.S. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Passionate about AI, startups & building globally.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abhichugh", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6837d89fbaf16397dc902f9efc2a423a2ea983cb.jpg" }, { "user_id": 551, "full_name": "Alagu M", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Alagu is Co-Founder at Peoplebox. Previously co-founded Askmile, India's popular online relationship counseling platform, and Markupwand (YCS22) a PSD to HTML software. Before founding, he led product at Practo driving 1M+ app downloads and expansion to 10 countries. Holds an engineering degree from NIT Trichy. Passionate about AI, badminton, yoga and Sushi.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/alagu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/649a049547a0bb38bf536966a8e7be6e558807ac.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95916, "title": "Nova: The world’s most human-like AI interviewer", "tagline": "Never screen a resume or do a first-round interview manually", "body": "**TL;DR:** [Nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post) speeds up your hiring by automating resume screening, interviews, live coding, and instant decision-ready reports - with the most human-like AI.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6qJRYV2Qc\n\n---\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou open your ATS. 300 applicants.\n\nYou start screening. After 10 resumes, everything looks identical.\n\nYou move to interviews.\n\nNo-shows. Rambling candidates. Zero panel bandwidth.\n\nAnd when interviews _do_ happen, **90% get rejected**, wasting everyone’s time.\n\nHiring shouldn’t mean spending most of your time on candidates who are **not a fit**.\n\n---\n\n## **Meet Nova: the digital twin of your best recruiter & interviewer**\n\nNova is really the digital twin of your best recruiter and interviewer, available 24/7.\n\nShe -\n\n1. screens candidates,\n2. makes sourcing calls & outreach,\n3. runs full voice/video interviews (with advance proctoring)\n4. do interactive coding round like an expert engineer\n5. provide detailed report with recommendation\n\nHere’s a real snippet of her interviewing a tech candidate:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jNqugi34uOU?si=WyrdbA9V1gu9thF6\n\nNova takes over your **whole Level-1 process** so you can only focus on highly vetted candidates\n\nAnd she doesn’t stop there.\n\nShe also finds candidates for you, reaches out via InMails, email sequences, and even phone calls and books the first-round interview directly with herself 😉\n\nInbound, outbound, or referral, Nova owns everything until you receive a detailed, **decision-ready report** for every candidate, without spending a single minute. 👇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/784f0317-e896-4f96-87b1-fe4dfc08d939)\n\n\\\nAnd **candidates love it**. Here’s what they say 😄\n\n> I was immensely impressed with the kind of questions and the way the tool responded!\n\nLeo Parker, DevOps Engineer\n\n> The AI voice was quite friendly and human like, which really helped in setting the environment. For example, the pauses and use of ‘Uh’s made feel very natural.\n\nIsabella, Software Architect\n\n---\n\n## **How Nova screens like your best Interviewer?**\n\nAll you need to get started is give her the JD but **you control everything**:\n\n**Skills, depth, difficulty**, interview type, tone, and structure.\n\nNova makes the screening process exactly how you want it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/23d75b86-2360-4c0d-a7a6-95ba6a363884)\n\nAnd she gets smarter.\n\nNova learns from your company’s own data: job descriptions, past interviews, ATS notes, performance signals, employee lifecycle insights.\n\nShe turns all of that into **hiring insights** and screen with the judgment of your best people.\n\n## The Impact\n\nMost customers have reduced time-to-first-interview report from **4–5 weeks to under 48 hours**.\n\nHere’s what Sprinto, a hyper-growth SaaS startup had to say\n\n> Nova has been a game changer for our recruitment operations over the last six months. We initially started using it to automate resume screening and shortlisting, and the difference was visible almost immediately. \\\n> \\\n> What used to take hours of manual effort now happens with remarkable accuracy and consistency.\n>\n> Just for the first-round screening alone, we saved well over 100 hours of recruiter time, and that time was redirected toward more meaningful work.”\n>\n> **Shankar Singh, Head of Recruitment, Sprinto**\n\n## **Use Nova to hire your next best talent today**\n\nSee how human-like AI can speed up your hiring:\n\n[https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-12-02T15:44:19.920Z" }, { "id": 64863, "title": "🚀 Peoplebox - OKR & performance platform for hypergrowth companies", "tagline": "A single dashboard to track all strategic goals, initiatives and red-flags, in real-time", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Peoplebox**](https://peoplebox.ai/) **solves the biggest problems of scaling companies - Misaligned teams and Poor Execution Speed. We do this by integrating with all your work tools, bringing every cross-aligned goal in one single dashboard to identify red flags on time.**\n\nHowdy, Everyone!\n\nWe are [@Abhinav Chugh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/) and [@Alagu M](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/), founders of Peoplebox, an OKR platform that makes it easy for growing companies to align their teams and execute faster.\n\nIt serves as a source of truth for all your strategic goals and initiatives to align your teams and identify red flags early **without the friction of new software.**\n\nWe are currently helping many companies, including **Razorpay (W15), Disney, Postman, Exotel, Khatabook (S18), StayQrious (W20)** achieve faster business results.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nAs companies grow, they find it difficult to execute their strategy with the same speed as before due to misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility. OKRs solve this problem, but they are hard to implement.\n\nIn fact, 7 out of 10 OKRs implementations fail, and no 1 reason is: **Set and Forget**.\n\nToday,\n\n* OKRs are written in spreadsheets\n* Metrics are tracked in BI tools\n* But MBRs (Monthly Business Reviews)/ QBRs are done in Powerpoints.\n\n## **✨ What makes Peoplebox different?**\n\nPeoplebox integrates with all your work tools (SQL, Jira, Hubspot, Asana, Slack etc) to make real-time goal tracking and business reviews **magically easy**.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/4PtJRPu4p_gt7Jzwxsz_fZ_CxxnHy7ip2_uaUdDMzhgkEy2aU5YuPiz7RBsSTejZP01lVKw9fpPnEouw4KDiuv2AMcUz3u4q4qTMD0xUMcLHG8TFd50aoztjPcan8j1PxX1vxAGHGLibmjKGvxspvAw)\n\nIt aligns and tracks all your strategic priorities, goals & initiatives in one place. This help identifies red flags early and makes timely corrections.\n\nIn addition, your business reviews are structured and super effective, ensuring that\n\n1. It happens on the same place where OKRs are set so you never miss talking about it.\n2. Plug data, narratives, screenshots and media easily.\n3. Can run structured reviews through templates, notes, and action items\n4. Takes a few hours instead of days to prepare for reviews because of automated updates of goals and initiatives\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9P-49NV7lpW0inlxEhtDD8KeEA1tlMrN8ogGT9VyS18s-E0pYouj0RVwi97N1SUuOxLsDWvhlBT_RWGVWfN6ZSJapDgdbtDesIVTuEt1wceLgO_UJvBtou3OgrhRiEB4pgm3_AKZKCrr-VatmYcEbaw)\n\nIt is also deeply integrated with Slack to make it super easy for teams to update OKRs progress and tag people to start a conversation and fix the issues instead of waiting for review meetings.\n\n**In addition, Peoplebox also lets you**\n\n* Run your performance reviews cycle entirely only Slack\n* Do effective and actionable 1:1s to build high-performing teams\n* Run automated pulse and engagement surveys to be on top of your culture\n\n### **Who are we, and why are we building this?**\n\nWe are techies turned product guys, having built our first startups in Dublin, Ireland, and SF (YC S12) respectively. We joined [Practo](https://www.practo.com/), one of Asia’s largest health-tech startups, when it had 250 employees and saw it grow to 3,000 in just a couple of years.\n\nWe witnessed the challenges of hypergrowth companies first-hand. We realized as companies grow, the problems of misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility only becomes larger, resulting in poor execution speed, missed goals, high talent turnover, and sometimes death.\n\nOur vision at Peoplebox is to become the Operating System for strategy execution to help companies align and achieve moonshot goals.\n\n# **🎁 Let’s talk**\n\nIf you are using OKRs or planning to use them, please [check us out](https://www.peoplebox.ai/) and book a demo to see how Peoplebox can help you implement it successfully and accelerate your business growth.\n\nAbhi and Alagu\\\n[www.peoplebox.ai](http://www.peoplebox.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GsB-peoplebox-okr-performance-platform-for-hypergrowth-companies", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-07-25T17:02:31.738Z" } ] }, { "id": 26880, "name": "Airhart Aeronautics", "slug": "airhart-aeronautics", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8754b2c358df7ab9263e0a74ddf008cb7c8cee4d.png", "website": "https://www.airhartaero.com/", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Airhart is making airplanes anyone can fly. 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Nikita was an avionics systems engineer at SpaceX, where he worked on Falcon 9 Fairing recovery, Falcon 9 Payload design, Falcon 9 Stage 2 avionics, and several other projects. 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Our advanced flight control systems make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store.", "body": "At Airhart, we are building airplanes anyone can fly. We’ve been working on our vehicle for close to a year now and are thrilled to announce we are working with Sling Aircraft in developing our first fully fly-by-wire and easy-to-fly airplane: the **Airhart Sling**!\n\n![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/64085db05268829a421ce823/6462978da8bca97ce08640ac_OUTDOOR%20A%20RED.png)\n\n**Why are we building airplanes?**\n\nCommon small planes today look, feel, and fly the same way a car from the 1960’s looks, feels, and drives because they were designed and built in that same time. Today, many people don’t see themselves being able to drive a 1960’s manual transmission car, much less a plane from the same era.\n\nLearning the motor skills required to fly a plane today like this adds time, costs, and training complexity. Around [70 to 80%](https://download.aopa.org/epilot/2011/AOPA_Research-The_Flight_Training_Experience.pdf) of aspiring pilots drop out before getting their Private Pilot License citing these as reasons.\n\n**What is the Airhart Sling?**\n\nBased on the [Sling TSi](https://slingaircraft.com/aircraft/sling-tsi/), it will possess all the excellent features typical of a TSi:\n\n* capacity for four people (including the pilot)\n* a cruise speed of 148 KTAS,\n* a range of 800 nautical miles\n* only burning 7.4 gallons of fuel per hour.\n\nThe Airhart Sling will feature Airhart’s easy-to-fly controls, creating a safe and user-friendly airplane that anyone can fly.\n\nRead more about the Airhart Sling on our website: \n\n**Asks**\n\n* Interested in getting an Airhart Sling when it is released or know someone who would be? **Reserve your spot** with a deposit: \n* Just think airplanes are cool? **Sign up to receive updates** on our blog as we make progress: \n* **Share us** with your airplane-loving friends!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IdP-airhart-sling-the-first-fly-by-wire-personal-airplane", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-01-09T22:13:27.818Z" }, { "id": 64872, "title": "✈️ Airhart Aeronautics - Airplanes Anyone Can Fly", "tagline": "Airhart is making airplanes that anyone can fly. Our advanced flight control systems make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store.", "body": "We are [Nikita](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-ermoshkin-0727357b/) and [Brendan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjohnquinn/) and we are excited to launch [Airhart Aeronautics](https://www.airhartaero.com/). \n\nAirhart is making **airplanes that anyone can fly**. Our advanced flight control systems make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store. \n\n**Our Story** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64872&key=user_uploads/1013063/00953193-9c63-431f-a09f-165a2d6a2b4e)\n\nNikita worked at SpaceX on Falcon and Brendan worked at Apple on the M1. We met at Cornell and led a project team building small unmanned air systems capable of autonomous takeoff, navigation, landing, target recognition, and obstacle avoidance for an international competition. \n\nWhen we were learning how to fly, Brendan was flying the classic Cessna 172 and Nikita was flying a Cirrus SR20 with a glass cockpit. We had built advanced control systems before and knew what it could and should feel like – these were not it. \n\n**The Problem**\n\nCommon small planes today look, feel, and fly the same way a car from the 1960’s looks, feels, and drives because they were designed and built in that same time. Today, many people don’t see themselves being able to drive a 1960’s manual transmission car, much less a plane from the same era. \n\nLearning the motor skills required to fly a plane today like this adds time, costs, and training complexity. Around [70 to 80%](https://download.aopa.org/epilot/2011/AOPA_Research-The_Flight_Training_Experience.pdf) of aspiring pilots drop out before getting their Private Pilot License citing these as reasons.  \n\n**Our Product**\n\nAirhart is building modern airplanes with advanced flight controls that enable anyone to fly safely and with ease. Our aircraft are built with intuitive fly-by-wire controls to expertly fly your plane where you direct it to go. Safety features constantly monitor for the most common causes of accidents and stop issues before they start. Fault-tolerant electronics maintain functionality even if components fail. \n\nThis summer we are going to fly an experimental airplane equipped with our advanced flight controls and demonstrate what flying should be. We will be documenting our efforts on [our blog](https://www.airhartaero.com/post/the-airhart-promise).\n\n**Our Ask** \n\n1. **Share us** with your friends who are **pilots** and **those would want to fly a safer plane.** \n2. For **Investors**, reach out to us at [founders@airhartaero.com](mailto:founders@airhartaero.com)\n3. **Reserve your spot in line** to purchase an Airhart A1 at : ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GsK-airhart-aeronautics-airplanes-anyone-can-fly", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2022-07-25T19:00:18.825Z" } ] }, { "id": 26881, "name": "Bitstack", "slug": "bitstack", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6506d6d40e0fefed9444b740b5be015ee0d8f5a3.png", "website": "https://www.bitstack-app.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Bitstack is building a new neobank powered by crypto. 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Users can get started by rounding up their purchases and investing the spare change in bitcoin, and then use our app to buy, sell, earn and spend cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. We believe getting started with Bitcoin should be simple, fun and accessible to everyone. **Download the app 👉** \n\nHi YC! We’re [@Alexandre Roubaud](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/710971) & [@Kabir Sethi](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/711533), the founders of Bitstack.\n\n[**Bitstack**](https://bitstack-app.com/) **is the easiest way to save and invest in Bitcoin in Europe. 🇪🇺**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64459&key=user_uploads/710971/48d95d1b-f5d5-43b3-93f0-89bd95091a38)\n\nBitstack is the easiest way for people in Europe to get their first crypto wallet. Users can get started by turning their spare change into bitcoin and then use the app to buy, sell, earn and spend new digital currencies like bitcoin.\n\nSimply download the app, securely link your bank account and you’re all set. Bitstack will automatically round up your everyday purchases to the nearest euro and invest the spare change in Bitcoin.\n\nThere is no need to determine the right time to buy and no investment knowledge required.\n\n### **Why should you save in Bitcoin?**\n\nToday, 2 out of 3 people are worried about not achieving their financial goals, whether that’s buying a house, saving for retirement, a vacation, or their children’s future.\n\nUnfortunately, most people continue saving in low-interest savings accounts that are consistently outpaced over the years by rising inflation.\n\nBut Bitcoin fixes this. Bitcoin is the first open, global and permissionless monetary network with a fixed supply of 21 million bitcoins, ever, and protected by a distributed network of users all around the world.\n\n**So we built Bitstack to finally make it simple, fun and accessible for everyone to save and invest in Bitcoin.**\n\n### **What our users say**\n\nSince the launch of our Beta 3 months ago, we’ve already helped our users save **1.5+ billion satoshis**. Did you know? 1 Bitcoin = 100 million satoshis.\n\n* “Bitstack is a fun way to build up savings and get started with Bitcoin!”\n* “It’s the best app for me as I don’t know how to save.”\n* “Very convenient to dollar-cost-average without having to think about it.”\n\n### **How do I get started?**\n\n**Download the app now 👉** \n\n**Ask**: Give us feedback at [founders@bitstack-app.com](mailto:founders@bitstack-app.com) so we can make this product even better, and tell your family and friends in Europe to try us out!\n\nThanks! **🧡**\n\nThe Bitstack Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Glf-bitstack-the-easiest-way-to-save-and-invest-in-bitcoin-in-europe", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2022-07-08T13:51:07.154Z" } ] }, { "id": 26882, "name": "Coris", "slug": "coris", "former_names": [ "Coris Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f8d68f694a6b7f9bb0fb7015ac9814c591f45f5d.png", "website": "https://coris.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Coris is the AI platform for payments risk and operations. We work with the most ambitious companies around the globe such as GoFundMe, Kajabi, Clio and Cherry to automate merchant onboarding, monitoring, and payment operations. What risk teams only imagined two years ago, Coris is delivering today with our risk platform and AI agents.\r\n\r\nWe’re backed by Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Pathlight Ventures, and other world-class investors — and we’re just getting started !", "one_liner": "AI risk and ops platform for Payment Processors, Banks, SaaS…", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1659411610, "tags": [ "Fintech", "B2B", "Compliance", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/coris.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/corisinc/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/CorisInc", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f8d68f694a6b7f9bb0fb7015ac9814c591f45f5d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 808733, "full_name": "Vinodh Poyyapakkam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Payments Fraud, SMB, Risk & Compliance. 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We are super stoked to share with y’all what we are building.\n\n### **Background**\n\nShyam and I have spent last 20+ years at companies such as eBay, PayPal, WePay/JPMC (_YC S09_) and Google managing small business risk for payments and lending products. Two of the biggest problems we faced were in gaining a solid understanding of what a SMB does at the time of underwriting and continuing to keep a tab externally on how they operate.\n\n### **Problem**\n\n**Traditional bureaus hardly help** with small business credit risk assessment given their abysmal coverage of small businesses, lack of predictive data, painful integrations, and expensive products. Fintechs especially struggle to get the right data on quality of a small business to accurately assess credit exposure\n\nWhile payments data and bank-level financial data have helped somewhat in recent times to fill the void in SMB underwriting, they still miss some huge signals on how a business operates. Biggest problem is lot of **valuable data on a business remain unstructured** in the open internet for models/rules to consume\n\nAlso once a small business is approved for payments, lending or another credit product, **most companies are in dark about them** until they see chargebacks come in or see missed payments\n\n### **Solution**\n\nWe believe there is tremendous potential for alternative credit-relevant data in SMB risk management. With that said, we have two products to start with:\n\n1. **Alternative data on every SMB** in the US through one developer-first API - Licensing details, Website Professionalism signals, Online Reviews based signals, Business Incorporation details, and Local Inspection data\n2. **Monitoring of small businesses** across various online/offline surfaces and raise an alert for action when a business deterioration/failure is suspected, much before chargebacks or defaults start happening\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n1. If you are running a Fintech/Platform and serve SMBs in the US, we would love to get your direct feedback on what we are building. Even better, **sign up to our** [**beta here**](https://www.coris.ai/#contact_form) !\n2. **Connect us to platforms/companies** that might benefit from what we are building or for us to learn from\n3. **Feel free to say hi at** [founders@coris.ai](mailto:founders@coris.ai) ! We love riffing on SMB underwriting/fraud/KYB and talk shop on where the industry is heading\n4. Last but not the least, **please share this post** ! Please help spread the word on how we are looking to make life easier for Fintechs to serve their SMB customers !!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GvP-coris-manage-small-business-risk-thoughtfully", "votes": 71, "created_at": "2022-08-02T07:55:11.922Z" } ] }, { "id": 26883, "name": "Hedgehog", "slug": "hedgehog-2", "former_names": [ "Hedgehog Agriculture" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cefd49e2f001817fd856853325f328d68d72bfa7.png", "website": "http://hedgehogfoods.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Hedgehog builds robotic mushroom farms. Our robots eliminate labor and our AI optimizes grow conditions to increase yield. We’ll soon grow mushrooms and fungi for <1/3rd the cost of leading growers. \r\n\r\nFungi may address our food system’s biggest problems: they transform agricultural waste into protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. 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He has first author publications in multiple journals, including Science Robotics, and his work is featured in TechCrunch, Popular Science, and Spotify’s Soft Robotics podcast.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-ruotolo-679a6697/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/57aabf53f1d51058462c50a0b5e4664dc4cd9ebe.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65014, "title": "🍄 Hedgehog - Robotic mushroom farms", "tagline": "Growing mushrooms & fungi for 1/3rd cost.", "body": "**tl;dr** Hedgehog builds robotic farms that grow mushrooms and fungi for 1/3rd the cost. Fungi produce protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Our tech is unleashing them as our next major food source.\n\nHey everyone! We’re Jamie & Wilson, co-founders of Hedgehog.\n\n**Opportunity: Fungi - our next major food source?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65014&key=user_uploads/995535/6274e56c-e42e-41de-97aa-a0e6bc59c109)\n\nFungi are unique crops. They transform agricultural waste (corn husks, wheat straw, etc.) into protein-rich, meaty-tasting food. And they do it without arable land, irrigation, or energy intensive lighting. With 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from food, this is an opportunity we must seize. Fungi are our chance to produce quality food at scale with near-zero environmental impact.\n\n**Problem: They’re labor intensive** \\\nUnfortunately, producing mushrooms and fungi is labor intensive, limiting their scale and affordability. For even the most sophisticated mushroom and fungi farms, labor is the vast majority of cost. They require delicate handling and careful monitoring – difficult jobs to automate.\n\n**Solution: Robots** \\\nOh yeah. Robots. We’re building robotics and AI to automate each step of production. Autonomous dexterous manipulation harvests, breaks down, and packages the mushrooms. Computer vision and low-cost sensors power decisions like when to harvest. AI optimizes >60 dimensions to increase yield. Eliminating labor and increasing yield will reduce costs by 70%+.\n\n \n\n\\*\\*How you can help:\\*\\*\\\nWe aim to unleash fungi as our next major food source, making these healthy, sustainable foods affordable for anyone. If you’re interested in helping out, we’d love to meet:\n\n* A+ talent in robotics and ML\n* Mushroom growers\n\nReach out at [hello@hedgehogfoods.com](mailto:hello@hedgehogfoods.com)\n\nJamie & Wilson\\\n🦔", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guc-hedgehog-robotic-mushroom-farms", "votes": 272, "created_at": "2022-07-29T22:20:01.173Z" } ] }, { "id": 26885, "name": "AnythingLLM", "slug": "anythingllm", "former_names": [ "Rampp Labs Inc", "Rampp.xyz", "MintPlex", "Mintplex", "Mintplex Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/33d296040fb4ce26e9922ae20db732c90a4f11ce.png", "website": "https://anythingllm.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "AnythingLLM is the open-source AI platform people and enterprises run on hardware they control: laptops, phones, servers, or fully air-gapped networks. It works with any model and any provider, with no lock-in, and your data never has to leave the building.\r\n\r\nMore than 2.6M people use AnythingLLM every month across Desktop and Docker, and that’s a floor since most users turn telemetry off. It has 56K+ GitHub stars. Most of the tokens generated on AnythingLLM go to on-device or open-source models. People aren’t just trying local AI here, they’re doing real work with it.\r\n\r\nThat open-source footprint feeds our enterprise business. From small businesses to highly regulated enterprises in government, defense and financial services, teams deploy AnythingLLM where cloud AI isn’t an option. Our enterprise platform adds centralized control of desktop fleets, governance, SSO and SLAs on top of the same app their teams already use.\r\n\r\nWe work with every major hardware vendor and OEM across PC and mobile. As local AI hardware becomes standard, AnythingLLM is the software layer that makes it useful.\r\n\r\nSmall models handle small tasks on your device. Big models handle big tasks wherever you choose to run them. You decide where your intelligence lives.", "one_liner": "The open-source AI platform enterprises run on their own hardware", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1652840561, "tags": [ "Open Source", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/anythingllm", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/anythingllm.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/anythingllm", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/anythingllm", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/33d296040fb4ce26e9922ae20db732c90a4f11ce.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 223222, "full_name": "Timothy Carambat", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder of Mintplex Labs Inc", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-carambat-68855189/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tcarambat", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6f91d2d533055af5ee2ecf872208b0e0f978097e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Your Local AI Assistant, Powered by AMD & AnythingLLM ", "url": "https://www.amd.com/en/ecosystem/isv/consumer-partners/anythingllm.html", "date": "Sep 16, 2026" }, { "title": "Porting AnythingLLM to Windows on Snapdragon X Series", "url": "https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/01/porting-anythingllm-npu-windows-on-snapdragon", "date": "Jan 21, 2025" }, { "title": "RTX AI PCs Unlock AI Agents For Solving Problems | NVIDIA Blog", "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-decoded-agents-anythingllm-rtx-ai/", "date": "Nov 27, 2024" }, { "title": "Top trending open-source startups in Q1 2024 - Runa Capital", "url": "https://runacap.com/ross-index/q1-24/", "date": "Apr 29, 2024" }, { "title": "Top trending early-stage open-source startups by GitHub star growth in Q4 2023 - Runa Capital", "url": "https://runacap.com/ross-index/q4-2023/", "date": "Oct 01, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83788, "title": "AnythingLLM - The all-in-one desktop AI assistant", "tagline": "An all-in-one desktop assistant for RAG, AI agents, and more with privacy by default built for everyday people.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83788&key=user_uploads/223222/eb7f7465-98d9-4ad3-9186-0931eaee0de2)\n\n—\\\n**tldr;** AnythingLLM is an open-source all-in-one desktop assistant that includes RAG, agents, embedding, and more — all in one package. AnythingLLM desktop requires little or no setup and _just works_ out of the box, while also being highly customizable.\n\nAnythingLLM is also [open-source](https://github.com/anything-llm/anythingllm).\n\n—\n\n# The problem: Consumer AI needs to be the magic box\n\nThe problem is that there are no easy-to-use, privacy-preserving, and customizable desktop AI assistants for everyone. Many existing solutions are either too complex for a non-technical consumer, not privacy-minded, do not offer the needed customization for the consumer, or are point solutions - leaving the user to figure out how to connect the dots.\n\nWe figured out early on from our open-source \"Chat with your documents\" GitHub project that many consumers do not have a deep understanding of how AI works, nor should they have to just use any AI tool. They just want to chat with their documents or have a personal agent that can do things for them. They also want this to just work without having to setup a complex infrastructure. Starting a docker container, opening a term, or running a script is too high a technical barrier, but privacy is **non-negotiable**.\n\n# Our solution: AnythingLLM Desktop\n\nOur solution is AnythingLLM for desktop. It is an all-in-one desktop assistant that includes RAG, agents, embedding, and more all in one package. It is designed to be easy to use, privacy-preserving, and customizable. All of this is packaged in a way that is easy to understand and modify for even a consumer who only has a \"Newspaper headline\" understanding of AI could use it and get the outputs they were looking for without subscribing to a cloud service, installing any software, or having to setup any infrastructure.\n\nAnythingLLM Desktop is designed to be that magic box that just works. It is designed to be a personal assistant that can do things for you. It is designed to be a tool that you can use to chat with your documents, use for work-related tasks, or even use for personal tasks. It strikes the balance between ease of use and information overload on how to set any of this functionality up and get value out of it.\n\n# Why consumers use AnythingLLM Desktop\n\n\\- Installable native app with support for Mac, Windows, and Linux\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83788&key=user_uploads/223222/1471f232-d89b-4d2b-bf3a-e0cf88fced10)\n\n\\- Pre-bundled LLM provider to get started with any LLM quickly\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83788&key=user_uploads/223222/02f597cc-5d4c-462d-880c-f360b8044ff9)\n\n\\- Full RAG pipeline with support for any document type\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83788&key=user_uploads/223222/4ecf566c-a398-4f4f-91a5-f421f845f85b)\n\n\\- Built-in agents with support for any LLM - regardless of function-calling support.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83788&key=user_uploads/223222/5b8d6ef6-e807-4bc1-b934-4743c894c481)\n\n\\- Built-in embedding with support for any embedding model\n\n\\- Supports their preferred embedding model, vector database, and LLM provider - if they have one.\n\n\\- Ability to \"tune\" and \"tweak\" settings to get the best results as they become more familiar with the tool and what it is capable of\n\n\\- Extensible with a full Developer API for everything we didn’t build already.\n\n# Why we are doing this\n\nWe are building AnythingLLM because we believe that open-source AI is the future. We are also building AnythingLLM because we believe that the accessible consumer AI market is underserved and has too many technical hurdles. There are many great tools and projects, but piece-mealing them together is certainly not the ideal way for a consumer to experience AI or leverage it properly.\n\nWe also believe open-source LLMs will always be at par for consumer use cases, and adoption and integration of hardware into consumer devices will be commonplace. AnythingLLM will be able to leverage all of these advances as time goes on while remaining privacy-minded.\n\n# Our Asks\n\n[Today, we launched on Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/anythingllm) and are looking for feedback and support. We are also looking for feedback on what else we should add to AnythingLLM Desktop to really make it a one-stop shop for everyone to use.\n\nContact: [founders@mintplexlabs.com](https://mailto:founders@mintplexlabs.com) | Website: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LnQ-anythingllm-the-all-in-one-desktop-ai-assistant", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-09-05T15:44:15.017Z" } ] }, { "id": 26890, "name": "Latent Space", "slug": "latent-space", "former_names": [ "wagmi", "Payable" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c0b56165e84e87a8ef9fc8ec4eddc18beadea9d.png", "website": "https://latentspace.sh/", "all_locations": "Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia", "long_description": "Latent Space develops AI applications specifically designed to address the unique challenges and opportunities in emerging economies. 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We have been friends for almost 7 years and in early 2022, we started building Payable.\n\nPreviously, Faza worked at BCG helping enterprises to build their own digital ventures. Gery worked at Shopee Singapore as a Tech Lead, building robust systems at scale handling >1 million QPS. He even managed two PhDs in his team even though he is a bachelor’s graduate. Albert worked at L’Oreal, the biggest beauty company in the world to set up their social commerce business in Indonesia and grew it by 10x.\n\nDuring his time in L’Oreal, Albert realized how effective it is when beauty advisers sell products directly in WhatsApp, but it’s also very apparent how bad the payment infrastructure is (non-existent, actually). This led us to realize how massive the problem is, and how uniquely qualified we are to help solve it.\n\n### **❌** Problem\n\nIn Indonesia, online commerce is a really big thing, but almost half of those don’t happen on e-commerce sites, but rather they happen on apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Line, etc. Here, the payment infrastructure is basically non-existent. Everyone is still using bank transfers which create a huge pain for sellers because they have to spend hours manually reconciling hundreds of transfers every day. This also hurts the buyer’s experience since they have a very limited range of payment options.\n\n### ⚡️ Meet Payable\n\nThere are actually a number of existing online payment solutions in Indonesia, but all of them are too expensive and too hard to use for these small and medium sellers, hence they are stuck to doing manual bank transfers. 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[@Bryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-houlton/) and [@Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansdowning/) here, excited to share what we have been working on at [@Manatee](https://www.trymanatee.com/).\n\n# 🌟 Our North Star\n\nProspects leaving your demo should know exactly how your product helps them, and be excited to buy.\n\n### 😠 What’s the Problem?\n\n**Product demos should be personalized to each prospect** - and not just data. Often times the demo flow itself isn’t applicable to the user. Here’s how some of our users used to remedy this:\n\n* Pester your engineers to make a demo deployment (which then has to be maintained)\n* Photoshop/Figma to edit static images of the product Walk prospect through a flow and hope it’s useful for them\n\nIf you do any of these things, we could be a fit for you!\n\n### 🔨 The Solution\n\n* **Full fledged sandbox**. Don’t constrain your prospect to a flow, give them access to play with your full platform (without actually having access)\n* Customize these demo environments for each prospect\n* Send the link to the prospect to walk through the demo with them on call or asynchronously\n* Leave Figma-esque comments around the demo to ask questions\n* Replay the prospects interaction with the demo to see what they care about in your product\n* Embed the demo on your site with an email collection form to generate inbound leads\n\nWe put the demos in the hands of the sales team entirely, meaning **every part of the demo process can be done without code**.\n\n### 🤯 Why can’t we just use Walnut/Reprise?\n\nWalnut and Reprise are great products, but have limited use cases. 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We’ll give you 25% off for 6 months if you reach out to us before demo day and mention this post!\n\n[bryan@trymanatee.com](mailto:bryan@trymanatee.com)\n\n\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gz0-manatee-interactive-demos-for-your-saas-product", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2022-08-10T21:08:45.642Z" }, { "id": 64584, "title": "💻☁PreStacks: Create Cloud Infrastructure in Seconds", "tagline": "Stop wasting development time managing cloud.", "body": "### **_TL;DR - Quickly configure a templated cloud stack and deploy to your accounts._**\n\nHey everyone, we’re [Bryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-houlton/) and [Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansdowning/) and we’re building [PreStacks](https://www.prestacks.com/). We’re on a mission to reduce the time you spend deploying and managing your cloud.\n\n### **😠 What’s the Problem?**\n\n**Cloud engineering takes time away from building a solid product.** It’s a necessary evil, but let us deal with it.\n\n* Deploying servers, cluster, databases, and configuring pipelines, APIs, and auto-deployments shouldn’t be this hard.\n* Let’s face it. We all have our go-to stack that we deploy in the same way, every time. Why not automate it?\n\n### **🔨 Our Solution**\n\nPreStacks makes building proper cloud infrastructure an easy choice.\n\n* **We provision your infrastructure from the ground up**: GitLab/GitHub, Docker, PostgreSQL, AWS. All connected with PreStacks.\n* **You own the source.** We don’t lock you into a custom cloud or language. We deploy to all of your accounts, so if you need to make changes, you can.\n* **Ongoing monitoring** of your cloud resources.\n\n### **🔄 How It Works**\n\n1. Link your GitLab/GitHub and AWS accounts.\n2. Configure your Stack options (domain name, database size, staging environments, etc).\n3. Watch as a repository gets created in your GitLab/GitHub, resources are provisioned in your AWS, and your first pipeline auto-deployment is triggered.\n4. Within minutes, see **Django’s** `The install work successfully!` pop up at your domain.\n5. Push a change and watch it deploy!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64584&key=user_uploads/962236/1cc4aa4a-a516-4055-861f-8eb6442e9bd3)\n\n\n### **🤯 The PreStacks Impact**\n\nWe use [@PreStacks](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26899) to build and maintain [@PreStacks](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26899). We noticed that we were provisioning the same stuff for every new project. With [@PreStacks](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26899), we went **2 weeks → 30 minutes** on our initial cloud setup, and now use it to monitor and manage our own servers, freeing up >50% of our cloud development time.\n\n### **☁️ Asks**\n\nIf you are building **Django projects on AWS** (or want to migrate), we are ready to help you simplify your development workflow. Also, let us know **how we can best support your stack** and prioritize our roadmap.\n\nCheck out our demo [here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWBvF-eI3A&ab_channel=BryanHoulton)\n\nIf you have 10 minutes to chat about PreStacks, schedule a time with me [here.](https://calendly.com/quandry/30min) 😀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gng-prestacks-create-cloud-infrastructure-in-seconds", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2022-07-13T17:13:14.423Z" } ] }, { "id": 26900, "name": "Pluralith", "slug": "pluralith", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7957008ca3bafd61f38b146c1fef179229d84a4.png", "website": "https://www.pluralith.com", "all_locations": "Vienna, Vienna, Austria; New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pluralith automates compliance by documenting cloud infrastructure directly from the codebase. Companies like Jefferson Health pay us to automate their infrastructure compliance and save 5h a week per infrastructure engineer.\r\n\r\nMore simply put: We generate infrastructure diagrams directly from Terraform state.", "one_liner": "Automated infrastructure compliance and documentation", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1657804203, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "DevSecOps", "SaaS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "Austria", "United States of America", "Europe", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pluralith", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/pluralith.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Vienna", "country": "AT", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pluralith", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/PluralithApp", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pluralith", "github_url": "https://github.com/Pluralith", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7957008ca3bafd61f38b146c1fef179229d84a4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/603a5608ccc4a80b5b89729d00106eb942d1574f.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 690046, "full_name": "Daniel Putzer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "dev", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielputzer/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/danceladus", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4ac50a0c8e065d2f3de7f02a6d7c63fe0ab1e9b8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1012880, "full_name": "Philipp Weber", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Pluralith", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-weber-a8517b231/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9c679d454ea367a6d7598db186b1f76063d6e968.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65103, "title": "Pluralith - Automated Terraform Infrastructure Visualization & Documentation", "tagline": "Never spend a second drawing infra diagrams again. Completely automate your infra docs and compliance materials.", "body": "Hi we are Dan and Phi…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/00d3f03c-7be2-4245-be6a-b1ac5931d882)\n\n… and we are building Pluralith!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/f7d9a731-4769-423f-9dfd-7bdf920137e6)\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nTitle says it all. Pluralith lets you generate instant infrastructure diagrams from your Terraform codebase, locally (for development) and in CI (for documentation). [**Try it out here!**](https://docs.pluralith.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/9884a243-92d0-46ea-92f7-7dcd0cedb91c)\n\n### **Watching > Reading**\n\nSo here’s a [freshly baked demo](https://youtu.be/Jbbil9kA-EE) just for you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/42257960-a912-40f1-acb6-f089d4da1153)\n\n### **The Problem(s)**\n\n**Problem 1**: Infrastructure documentation is super important and often even required for proper compliance, but can be really time intensive and nobody wants to do it. So you’ve got two options:\n\n→ Stay compliant and have good docs **BUT** loads of dev hours spent on them\n\n→ No/few dev hours spent on docs **BUT** break compliance and no docs when you need them\n\n**Problem 2**: Terraform is awesome, but can become quite messy and intransparent at scale. Understanding what is actually going on requires digging through loads of code and terminal output. Again, lots of dev hours lost here.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/1fc7af56-e700-4227-bcb9-0fc872b49446)\n\n### **The Solution: Enter Pluralith**\n\n**_Pluralith completely automates problem 1 away._**\n\nRun it in CI, automate parts of your compliance process and always have up-to-date infra diagrams whenever you need them. We throw them into PR comments and have a dedicated markdown integration so you can plug it straight into your existing docs (ReadMes, Confluence etc.). We do change highlighting, drift detection, cost calculations and compliance checks (coming soon) and keep a history of all this stuff in your Dashboard for you so you have a perfect record on how your infra changes over time.\n\n**_Pluralith alleviates problem 2._**\n\nReplace miles of terminal output on a terraform plan with a comprehensive diagram that shows you what your infrastructure looks like, how it’ll change on apply, how much it’ll cost and wether it breaks compliance (coming soon). All you have to do is run `pluralith plan` instead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/079e25e0-225e-443b-b052-3eaab564aa50)\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n**Locally**: Download our desktop app and follow it’s setup guide. In a minute you should be able to run `pluralith plan` in any of your Terraform project directories and get a diagram instantly.\n\n**In CI**: The illustration below says it all. Set up Terraform in your pipeline, run Pluralith and there you go. Right now we have dedicated integrations for _GitHub Actions_ and _Gitlab CI._ (Many more to come)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/42ca4f68-1bff-48c5-a0c0-e9b1c3786746)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/0f6a5cbc-52d6-4a6c-bfdf-bb4672190d94)\n\n### **Help Us Out?**\n\n→ [**Give it a run**](https://docs.pluralith.com) (either in CI or locally) and let us know all the ways our stuff broke through the emails below!\n\n→ Our open source CLI is looking for some stars. [**Give it a star!**](https://github.com/Pluralith/pluralith-cli)\n\n→ If you are a DevOps professional → [**Pick any slot on here!**](https://calendly.com/dantheputzer/meet) We’d be stoked to chat about the infra landscape!\n\nIf there are any questions or anything else we can assist with, shoot us an email at [dan@pluralith.com](mailto:dan@pluralith.com) or [phi@pluralith.com](mailto:phi@pluralith.com)!\n\nCheers,\n\nDan and Phi\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/952c66c1-40c8-41b8-a31c-50dbbacb5c7b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gw3-pluralith-automated-terraform-infrastructure-visualization-documentation", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2022-08-03T16:42:45.345Z" } ] }, { "id": 26901, "name": "FlyCode", "slug": "flycode", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4cd904583699bd121334a407aea4c0921152f48a.png", "website": "https://www.flycode.com", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "FlyCode helps subscription merchants maximize revenue. We reduce involuntary churn by managing payment failures intelligently.\r\n\r\nWe’re Jake, Etai, and Tzachi and we’re building FlyCode.\r\n\r\nTL;DR: If you sell SaaS or B2C subscriptions, we’re here to help you recover lost revenue due to failed payments and involuntary churn.\r\n\r\n‘Involuntary’ or ‘Passive’ churn is a hidden Revenue Killer 💳 for Subscription Businesses\r\n\r\n❌ THE PROBLEM: Recovering Failed Payments is Complex\r\nInvoluntary churn refers to the loss of subscribers due to payment failures, not due to them actively canceling. While it is both possible and a worthwhile strategy to attempt to win back a customer during the cancellation process — involuntary churn is not intentional and in most cases, your customers aren’t even aware that their payment failed.\r\n\r\n💰 Bottom line?\r\nEffective payment optimization does reduce involuntary churn and will increase ARR by as much as 5-10%\r\n\r\nFLYCODE SOLUTION 💡\r\nFlyCode leverages ML and AI to provide Payment Optimization and smart payment retries to maximize subscription revenue and reduce churn. 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Netflix and Amazon do this—now every SaaS can too.", "body": "👋 Hey everyone, this is [Jake](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-p-vacovec/), [Etai](https://www.linkedin.com/in/etaia/) and [Tzachi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tzachidaviovich/). We’re the co-founders of [FlyCode](https://www.flycode.com/)\n\n**TL;DR:**  We’re launching a new product helping Stripe customers to boost revenue with backup payments method. Netflix and Amazon do this—now every SaaS can too.\n\n[FlyCode](https://www.flycode.com/) makes it easy for AI and SaaS companies to recover lost revenue due to failed payments and involuntary churn - a major hidden revenue killer.\n\n**❌ THE PROBLEM: no easy way to leverage backup cards**\n\nWhen a customer’s default card fails and you exhausted retries, the subscription will be cancelled (often after 30 days). It means lost revenue and churn.\n\n**FLYCODE SOLUTION 💡**\n\nFlyCode automatically attempts payment recovery using backup cards during that 30-day window, before the subscription gets cancelled.\n\n**The ask?** Get our Stripe app:\n\nhttps://marketplace.stripe.com/apps/flycode-payments\n\nFREE payment audit. No code changes. No manual workflows. No service disruption.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92902&key=user_uploads/506517/f39e78ef-0478-4193-b6ad-be71e8247777)\n\n**It’s the industry standard for large SaaS**\n\nWe’ve seen an 18%–20% increase in payment recovery rates with our recovery and with this new product. Companies like Netflix and Amazon have always done this internally, but it hasn’t been accessible to smaller SaaS companies until now.\n\n**Get the [Stripe app](https://marketplace.stripe.com/apps/flycode-payments) or Email us at [hello@flycode.com](mailto:hello@flycode.com) for feedback**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAQ-flycode-increase-stripe-revenue-by-leveraging-backup-cards", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-08-12T00:20:58.000Z" }, { "id": 77964, "title": "🪄 FlyCode: Recover failed payments with AI to increase ARR growth ✨", "tagline": "If you sell SaaS or B2C subscriptions, we’re here to help you recover lost revenue due to failed payments and involuntary churn.", "body": "**Hey YC Community 👋**\n\nWe’re Jake, Etai, and TD and we’re building [**FlyCode**](https://www.flycode.com/).\n\n**TL;DR:** If you sell SaaS or B2C subscriptions, we’re here to help you recover lost revenue due to failed payments and involuntary churn.\n\n‘Involuntary’ or ‘Passive’ churn is a hidden Revenue Killer 💳 for Subscription Businesses\n\n> **20%-40% of a Merchants ARR is lost due to payment failures, errors like insufficient funds or processing errors. Most rely on brute force or fixed-interval retry strategies, a legacy approach that ultimately reduces retry success rates and increases customer churn.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77964&key=user_uploads/506517/509fe9ac-1daf-4b13-b551-44c1c9240a1b)\n\n### **❌ THE PROBLEM: Recovering Failed Payments is Complex**\n\nInvoluntary churn refers to the loss of subscribers due to payment failures, not due to them actively canceling. While it is both possible and a worthwhile strategy to attempt to win back a customer during the cancellation process — involuntary churn is not intentional and in most cases, your customers aren’t even aware that their payment failed.\n\n### **💰 Bottom line?**\n\nEffective payment optimization does reduce involuntary churn and will increase ARR by as much as 5-10%\n\n### 🎟 **What causes payment failures and involuntary churn?**\n\nThere’s no single cause of this problem that can be isolated. In fact, there are dozens of reasons \\[insufficient funds, fraud, expired cards, AVS, SCA, invalid card, etc.\\], and solutions to each failure need to be applied individually. Let’s look at a few examples:\n\n1. **Batch Processing and Fixed-Interval Retries.** The majority of subscription payments and retries are processed in bulk during off-hours. If your customers are based in multiple time zones, this can increase payment failures and reduce the success rate of retries. Remember when you had to notify your bank when you were traveling? The concept is the same, a 3am charge is more likely to get flagged as fraud than a 9am charge.\n2. **Expired Cards or Invalid Card Numbers:** These are frustrating because you think you have to ask your customers to do something, surprisingly there are many cases when you don’t. When you lose a credit card and replace it, do you ever wonder how Netflix still manages to charge you? It’s all thanks to Card Account Updater and Network Tokenization — if you don’t have it implemented, it’s an easy win.\n3. **Customers with Insufficient Funds:** Timing is a critical factor, especially with these types of errors. If they don’t have funds, don’t force it. When retry attempts are spread out or targeted around periods of the month when cash inflow is expected, success rates will go up.\n4. **Payments that are incorrectly classified as fraud:** This can cause financial losses, as well as a negative impact on customer experience. It is important to prevent those legitimate payments from failing.\n\n\\-\n\n# **FLYCODE SOLUTION 💡**\n\n[**FlyCode**](https://www.flycode.com/) leverages ML and AI to provide Payment Optimization and smart payment retries to maximize subscription revenue and reduce churn. We apply a unique model tailored to each Merchant and their customers to ensure optimal results.\n\n⚡️**Automatically** recover failed subscription payments and reduce passive churn\n\n⚡️Use ML & AI based payment optimization to find the **best time** to charge your customers\n\n⚡️ Improve **customer experience** by coordinating payment retries with customer emails/SMS\n\n🛠️ We support **OOTB + Custom Integrations** for Merchants and White-Label for Platforms\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77964&key=user_uploads/506517/f44a3ddb-06e1-4e78-9bf5-b7fa76a555bf)\n\n### **We’d love your support 🍻**\n\n* **\\[FREE\\] 🎯** Let FlyCode analyze your payment health and show you how much revenue can be recovered \n* Email us for feedback and partnership [hello@flycode.com](mailto:hello@flycode.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KHU-flycode-recover-failed-payments-with-ai-to-increase-arr-growth", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2024-01-30T16:01:41.702Z" }, { "id": 65130, "title": "FlyCode: Recover failed payments with AI to increase ARR growth", "tagline": "🧑‍🚀 On a mission to help developers increase their teammate's autonomy", "body": "**Hey YC Community 👋**\n\nWe’re Jake, Etai, and TD and we’re building [**FlyCode**](https://www.flycode.com/).\n\n**TL;DR:** If you sell SaaS or B2C subscriptions, we’re here to help you recover lost revenue due to failed payments and involuntary churn.\n\n“Involuntary” churn is a hidden Revenue Killer 💳 for Subscription Businesses\n\n> **8%-10% of a Merchants ARR is lost due to payment failures, errors like insufficient funds or processing errors. Most rely on brute force or fixed-interval retry strategies, a legacy approach that ultimately reduces retry success rates and increases customer churn.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65130&key=user_uploads/506517/4591dae8-f05f-4314-b44a-c60d3e4e6d85)\n\n### **❌ THE PROBLEM: Recovering Failed Payments is Complex**\n\nInvoluntary churn refers to the loss of subscribers due to payment failures, not due to them actively canceling. While it is both possible and a worthwhile strategy to attempt to win back a customer during the cancellation process — involuntary churn is not intentional and in most cases, your customers aren’t even aware that their payment failed.\n\n### **💰 Bottom line?**\n\nEffective payment optimization does reduce involuntary churn and will increase ARR by as much as 8-10%\n\n### **🎟 What causes payment failures and involuntary churn?**\n\nThere’s no single cause of this problem that can be isolated. In fact, there are dozens of reasons \\[insufficient funds, fraud, expired cards, AVS, SCA, invalid card, etc.\\], and solutions to each failure need to be applied individually. Let’s look at a few examples:\n\n1. **Batch Processing and Fixed-Interval Retries.** The majority of subscription payments and retries are processed in bulk during off-hours. If your customers are based in multiple time zones, this can increase payment failures and reduce the success rate of retries. Remember when you had to notify your bank when you were traveling? The concept is the same, a 3am charge is more likely to get flagged as fraud than a 9am charge.\n2. **Expired Cards or Invalid Card Numbers:** These are frustrating because you think you have to ask your customers to do something, surprisingly there are many cases when you don’t. When you lose a credit card and replace it, do you ever wonder how Netflix still manages to charge you? It’s all thanks to Card Account Updater and Network Tokenization — if you don’t have it implemented, it’s an easy win.\n3. **Customers with Insufficient Funds:** Timing is a critical factor, especially with these types of errors. If they don’t have funds, don’t force it. When retry attempts are spread out or targeted around periods of the month when cash inflow is expected, success rates will go up.\n4. **Payments that are incorrectly classified as fraud:** This can cause financial losses, as well as a negative impact on customer experience. It is important to prevent those legitimate payments from failing.\n\n\\-\n\n# **FLYCODE SOLUTION 💡**\n\n[**FlyCode**](https://www.flycode.com/) leverages ML and AI to provide Payment Optimization and smart payment retries to maximize subscription revenue and reduce churn. We apply a unique model tailored to each Merchant and their customers to ensure optimal results.\n\n⚡️**Automatically** recover failed subscription payments and reduce passive churn\n\n⚡️Use ML & AI based payment optimization to find the **best time** to charge your customers\n\n⚡️ Improve **customer experience** by coordinating payment retries with customer emails/SMS\n\n🛠️ We support **OOTB + Custom Integrations** for Merchants and White-Label for Platforms\n\n### **We’d love your support 🍻**\n\n* **\\[FREE\\] 🎯** Let FlyCode analyze your payment health and show you how much revenue can be recovered https://www.flycode.com/churn-audit-failed-payments\n* Email us for feedback and partnership [hello@flycode.com](mailto:hello@flycode.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GwU-flycode-recover-failed-payments-with-ai-to-increase-arr-growth", "votes": 120, "created_at": "2022-08-04T12:23:08.639Z" } ] }, { "id": 26902, "name": "Maya Labs", "slug": "maya-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/93bc27dea8b2f9bdbb3b58f34271dadc324cdf6d.png", "website": "https://mayalabs.io", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Applied research lab on a mission to build machines which can program themselves to do any task.", "one_liner": "Building self-programming machines", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1657029012, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Robotic Process Automation", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maya-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/maya-labs.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/MayaLabsIO", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/mayahq", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/93bc27dea8b2f9bdbb3b58f34271dadc324cdf6d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 272578, "full_name": "Sibesh Kar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Trying to build machines which can program themselves to do any task. 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We are on a mission to teach machines how to code - starting off with a fast way to build internal tools in minutes using just natural language. Here’s an early look :\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65194&key=user_uploads/272578/a3e654bf-56a0-48e4-abeb-8922bc23b8b0)\n\nA longer 5-min demo [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPm0idKktzs) :\n\nToday, you can build one particular type of custom app well using Maya that let's you :\n\n1. **Fetch custom data** : Configure setup + query custom data from an external source (currently we do SQL, Gsheets, Notion, Airtable etc, but are expanding fast)\n2. **Visualize it** : Plot and visualize it in a custom table, line chart or bar graph\n3. **Perform actions** : Select and act on a particular data item (send a custom email, upload a file, trigger an API, update a DB item)\n\nMaya incrementally generates programs & shows results in response to steps you type in English, so the whole experience doesn’t feel like debugging someone else’s code. It’s possible to modify, delete & debug the natural language parts and Maya responds instantly - which makes it possible to hold and move around the _natural language program_ in your head. Checkout an early version of the docs [here](https://mayalabs.io/docs). We intend to keep it just one page long.\n\nThere’s still a lot to figure out and we’re trying to nail the experience for this one narrow use case first. When this works, we’ll try to extend it to just about any task you can think of - web navigation, connecting APIs, platform robots, RPA, home automation. Here’s a [show reel](https://mayalabs.io/library) of what else you can build manually with Maya today.\n\n**Who is this for?**\n\nMost internal tool builders are used by developers to build software for others on the product/ops/growth/sales/data teams, but we think this is a way for the user of the tool to also be the creator.\n\n**How does this work?**\n\nWe use a combination of conditional logic, neural search/classification, fine-tuned language models and template generation to make this work **predictably** and **reliably** in response to words you type/modify. We generate programs in a custom flow-based programming language that lets us express a wide range of behaviours with a smaller program length and visual DAGs. We also created our own benchmark to measure how well machines are at generating code (see our paper on this [here](https://blogs.mayalabs.io/benchmark)).\n\n**About us** :\n\nWe met in college many years back while starting Hyperloop India, the first Indian team at the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition - and have worked on-and-off on various projects since, sharing a common interest for hard engineering problems. Program synthesis is the hardest of them all - if software is eating the world, and you could build software that could build other software, why work on anything else?\n\nWe’ve been tinkering on this for years. Many Python libraries, papers, toy environments and product iterations later, we think we finally have an angle of attack that has a chance of working.\n\n**Ask** :\n\n1. Help us test our system! If you’d like to play around with or think someone in your team might benefit - send me a mail at sibesh\\[at\\]mayalabs\\[dot\\]io.\n2. Improve Maya with useful data - Let me know if you think a particular kind of program pattern we could teach Maya would be useful for you and a wide variety of other similar users.\n3. Introduce us to product/ops/growth/sales/data teams in your org who would like to build custom internal tools themselves without engineering effort\n4. Hit me up to learn more about our approach! Program synthesis, robot-run economies, programs that build other programs (including the YCombinator function haha)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GxW-maya-labs-build-custom-software-in-minutes-using-natural-language", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2022-08-08T10:17:18.639Z" } ] }, { "id": 26903, "name": "Chowdeck", "slug": "chowdeck", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1cb3611d48c9867e080282b7a0bbe6718d647fc6.png", "website": "https://chowdeck.com", "all_locations": "LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. \r\n\r\nChowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos.\r\n\r\nWe’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.", "one_liner": "On-demand food delivery for Africa", "team_size": 103, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1658177231, "tags": [ "Logistics" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chowdeck", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/chowdeck.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": null, "country": "NG", "linkedin_url": "https://ng.linkedin.com/company/chowdeck", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/chowdeck", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/chowdeck", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1cb3611d48c9867e080282b7a0bbe6718d647fc6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 503602, "full_name": "Femi Aluko", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Femi is the co-founder and CEO of Chowdeck. 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Our mission is to empower restaurants to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime.\n\nToday, we serve customers in two major neighbourhoods in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria and the most populous in Africa.\n\nIn the seven months since launch, we’ve achieved a record delivery time of under 30 minutes even as order volume increased from an average of 40 daily orders in January to an average of 650 daily orders in July. In addition, at least 88% of the 67 restaurants we partner with have recorded an increase in sales.\n\nAfrica’s biggest economic hub still doesn't have an efficient on-demand food delivery for restaurants. We’re on a mission to fix this, starting in Lagos and soon throughout Africa.\n\n**Milestones**\n\nIn the last six months, we’ve:\n\n* Done over 60,000 deliveries(did 17k in July)\n* processed over $500k in GMV($125k in July)\n* made $24k in monthly revenue in July\n* 3500+ active users (65% of whom have ordered more than once)\n\n**The Team**\n\n* Femi Aluko, former Backend Principal Engineer at Paystack (acquired by Stripe for over $200m)\n* Olumide Ojo, former Frontend Principal Engineer at Paystack (acquired by Stripe for over $200m)\n* Lanre Yusuf, former Engineering Lead at Crown Interactive.\n\n**Ask:**\n\n* If you live or work around Ikeja or Yaba in Lagos Nigeria, kindly try us out ❤️\n* If you don’t live in Lagos or Nigeria, kindly follow us and support us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/chowdeck) or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/chowdeck/). We’re building a community!\n* If you have some experience running operations for a delivery startup, please do reach out. We’d love to learn from you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H2v-chowdeck-the-easiest-and-fastest-way-to-deliver-food-in-africa", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2022-08-22T12:43:37.192Z" } ] }, { "id": 26907, "name": "Rima AI (formerly Garage)", "slug": "rima-ai", "former_names": [ "Garage Mobility Inc.", "Garage Mobility", "Garage" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/29768f3ec06f6ad6cbf8c250cca3501743daf869.png", "website": "https://www.getrima.ai", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Rima helps accountants automate document and spreadsheet work with accuracy and cell-level audit tracking.\r\n\r\nFor accountants that deal with messy docs and spend their time in Excel, Rima enables them to build workflows in natural language to extract and process financial data from PDFs or ERPs into their Excel templates and reconcile their spreadsheets in minutes. 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Cedric holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Concordia College and an MBA from Wharton.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-foudjet-0470064b/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/cedricfoudjet?lang=en", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4159a1432de9399df2fe5da1eb4dff514b49f731.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101608, "title": "Rima: AI agents for document work accountants hate", "tagline": "Rima interviews accountants, captures their edge cases, and automates the manual work", "body": "Hey everyone👋🏽,\n\nIt’s [Gana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggana/) & [Cedric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-foudjet-0470064b/) from [Rima ](https://www.getrima.ai/)\n\n**TL;DR** \n\nOver 50% of accountants still receive client documents as email attachments, scans, and paper. They spend hours on formatting, data entry, and Excel wrangling before anything ever touches the ERP. Rima interviews these accountants, understands their edge cases and builds custom document workflows to automate this manual work. \n\n**ASK**: If you know accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them - [founders@getrima.ai](mailto:founders@getrima.ai) \n\n**Launch Video** \n\n \n\n**_Problem_**\n\nWhen my mom's small business almost went bankrupt, it wasn't saved by software. It was saved by an accountant who used their brain to rescue the company. But today, these brilliant minds are stuck doing boring, repetitive work.\n\nOver 50% of accountants still get client files as emails, scans, and paper. They waste hours on data entry and broken spreadsheets. Generic AI only gets 55% of the way there because it was never trained on your client's edge cases. That's why accountants say AI is dumb. It's not. It just doesn't have their context yet. \n\nWe don't try to out-Claude Claude. We built Rima to solve the last mile: the library of edge cases (customer context) AI was never trained on so accountants can finally unlock its real value\n\n**_Our Solution_**\n\nRima **interviews accountants** until it understands exactly how they want things done and **captures their unique edge cases**. Then, it builds a custom workflow to handle that task. \\\n\\\nWe leverage what LLMs are good at - coding - and pair it with the **proprietary library of edge cases** that Rima collects across each client to build agentic workflows that are personalized and up to 99.7% accurate. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101608&key=user_uploads/533018/58582253-59ef-4bdd-b37e-7810d8c86ca5)\n\n\\\nRima learns from each client workflow and grows the library of edge cases over time. The end result is customers feel like Rima gets better and easier to use after every workflow. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101608&key=user_uploads/533018/eb9702ef-30bc-4604-ab86-033924c5b9f9)\n\n\\\nToday, accountants use Rima to automate workflows such as cleanups and catchups, bank and CC recon and data entry for tax workpapers among others. \n\nRima is best for accounting teams that still receive documents such as invoices, POs, statements and contracts via email attachments, scans or paper\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101608&key=user_uploads/533018/2d51ab0c-e331-4e20-926e-0c10dd86352f)\n\n\n**_Our team_**\n\nWe worked closely with over 4000 small businesses while building a wholesale distribution business and our accounting back-office was a mess. We know how messy the data from SMB operations can be and understand the manual work their accountants go through to help these businesses thrive. \n\nToday accounting firms and in-house accounting teams are automating manual document workflows on Rima. \n\n**_Where we are headed_**\n\nWe’re on a mission to build the deepest edge case library, powering automations everywhere for SMB accounting teams. \n\n**_Our ASK - How you can help us_** 📌\n\n→ If you know in-house accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them\n\nlearn more @ [www.getrima.ai](http://www.getrima.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QQq-rima-ai-agents-for-document-work-accountants-hate", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-05-20T01:26:05.918Z" }, { "id": 64499, "title": "Garage: Wholesale auto parts marketplace for Africa's 2M+ retailers", "tagline": "We're connecting the worlds largest parts distributors and manufacturers to retailers in Africa", "body": "Hello YC Family\n\nThis is Gana and Cedric, Co-founders at [Garage](https://www.garagemobility.com/).\n\n**At Garage, we are building the wholesale marketplace for auto parts in Africa**\n\n**Backstory**\n\nCedric and I are ex-founders with experience building, scaling and investing in startups in Africa. I used to buy and ship auto parts to my dad in Cameroon and realized that the landing cost once those parts arrived in Cameroon was still cheaper than buying locally. We realized that this issue was due to inefficiencies across the supply chain for parts distribution. Garage aims to solve this problem by building a wholesale marketplace that will power the $25B after sales market in Africa.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nOver $25B in auto parts sales in Africa occur at neighborhood retail shops. These retail shop owners are the backbone of the aftersales market yet they struggle to survive because\n\n* They have no visibility into which suppliers have which parts\n* Multiple layers of middle men and low buying power lead to inflated and volatile pricing\n* They don’t have enough working capital to grow their businesses\n\n**The Solution**\n\nGarage is a wholesale auto parts distributor for Africa, supporting these retailers. 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This can take weeks, only then to have a provider sift through hundreds of pages of unstructured docs, just to figure out basic things like your active medication list, what conditions you may have, latest lab results, etc. This not only delays care—it can cause improper treatment, since the medical history is critical for informing treatment decisions.\n\n### **One platform for every workflow**\n\nMetriport manages dozens of connections across all national HIEs and QHINs, state and regional HIEs, ADT networks, pharmacies, labs, and EHRs. It then matches, extracts, standardizes, deduplicates, and enriches records, and converts them into a unified data model, accessible through a single API, data warehouse, or apps directly within an EHR.\n\nIn addition to providing longitudinal patient clinical data at the point of care, Metriport offers ambient monitoring, alerting providers in real time as patients are moved through the healthcare system to assist with transitions of care. Metriport also delivers insights on top of the data, like AI medical record summarization, condition suspecting, and surfacing care gaps.\n\n### **Built for the scale of U.S. Healthcare**\n\nFounded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, Metriport processes 4.2 billion network requests a month and returns the first structured record in under 15 seconds. Teams across care delivery, value-based programs, and health tech platforms build on Metriport, including Amazon One Medical, Strive Health, Color, Sollis Health, and Canvas Medical.\n\n### **Getting Started**\n\n☎️ [Book a call with us](https://www.metriport.com/contact-us): interested in finding out how Metriport can support your use case? Grab a time to chat with us and we’ll figure out how we can work together.\\\n📚 [Our Developer Docs](https://docs.metriport.com/home/welcome): here you can follow our [Quickstart Guide](https://docs.metriport.com/medical-api/getting-started/quickstart). Our docs are the best way for you to familiarize yourself with our API’s core concepts.\\\n👨‍💻 [Public Github repo](https://github.com/metriport/metriport): view our source code, fork our repo, and give us a ⭐️ if you’re feeling generous!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ghx-metriport-healthcare-data-infrastructure-for-next-generation-care-delivery", "votes": 73, "created_at": "2022-06-30T14:14:31.078Z" } ] }, { "id": 27038, "name": "Fini", "slug": "fini", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b044a080c88a5aedab72016a60feff3dd053fc64.png", "website": "https://www.usefini.com", "all_locations": "Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands", "long_description": "Fini builds AI agents that autonomously resolve up to 80% of customer support tickets for enterprises specially in Fintech, E-commerce, Gaming and Fitness tech.\r\n\r\nOur agents understand complex workflows, take real actions (like refunds or KYC checks), and improve in real-time. Built on a proprietary knowledge engine, our agents deliver 98%+ accuracy and integrate deeply with tools like Zendesk, Salesforce, and internal APIs.\r\n\r\nEnterprises like Bitdefender and Training Peaks use Fini to slash support costs by 50% while boosting CSAT by 10%.", "one_liner": "Fini | Automate 80% of enterprise support with AI agents", "team_size": 14, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1656434795, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Machine Learning", "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "Netherlands", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fini", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/fini.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Amsterdam", "country": "NL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/usefini/", "x_url": "https://x.com/finichatAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fini-ea8a", "github_url": "https://github.com/ask-fini", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b044a080c88a5aedab72016a60feff3dd053fc64.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1010279, "full_name": "Deepak Singla", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Deepak Singla is the co-founder of Fini. 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But answering a ticket doesn’t fix the outdated help article or product issue that caused it. Someone still has to investigate, gather evidence and make the fix. That’s the work we built Scout to take on.\n\n**Scout lives in Slack and works across your support tickets, customer reviews and threads.** You can ask it:\n\n* “Why did CSAT drop last month, and has it recovered?”\n* “What are customers asking that our help center doesn’t cover?”\n* “Which product issues keep coming up, and who’s affected?”\n\nIt investigates and brings back answers with evidence and customers’ own words. It can then draft a knowledge update or file a Jira/Linear bug with the findings attached. Your team approves every change.\n\nIt also runs recurring reviews, so the work keeps moving without someone remembering to ask. Teach it a rule like “Always exclude our test tickets” and it remembers for future work.\n\n**What customers are seeing:**\n\nAt TrainingPeaks, weekly knowledge upkeep went from 6 hours to 1. At Snapdocs, the share of customer questions covered by approved knowledge grew from 44% to 72% in 11 weeks.\n\nScout works with your existing support stack. You don’t need to use Fini’s customer-facing agent.\n\n**We’d love feedback from YC founders and support teams.** Reply here or DM me and we’ll help you get set up.\n\n\n\nWhat’s one thing buried in your customer conversations that you wish your team had time to investigate?", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/W5J-scout-by-fini-an-ai-teammate-for-your-support-team", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-10-19T16:29:07.812Z" }, { "id": 96968, "title": "Fini: Accuracy-first AI for high-stakes support", "tagline": "AI customer support with 100% compliance and 0% hallucinations", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re Deepak and Hakim. Before founding Fini (YC W22), we led product and growth teams at Uber, operating at the scale of 200 million+ support tickets every year. We founded Fini believing that AI support can (and should!) be held to a higher standard than human support.\n\n**TL;DR** If you run support for a bank, fintech, insurance company, or any regulated industry, chances are you’ve tried your hand at generic AI support chatbots and realized they’re not a fit. A single hallucinated response can lead to lawsuits and PR disasters, destroying customer trust you’ve worked hard to build over decades. Fini AI was built specifically for these high-stakes environments, resolving 80% of support queries with full compliance and zero hallucinations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96968&key=user_uploads/1010279/fe000980-ba95-4470-9469-32c24fb5516a)\n\n\n### **Support in regulated industries is broken**\n\nCompanies in finance, insurance, and healthcare face a brutal trade-off:\n\n* **Scale support with humans:** Expensive, hard to hire, and training takes months.\n* **Scale it with generic AI:** High risk of hallucinations, compliance breaches, and protocol violations.\n\nIn regulated spaces, hallucinations or protocol violations aren’t just isolated bad user experiences; it’s a potential regulatory fine. A class-action lawsuit. A PR disaster waiting to happen. Because of this, most teams are forced to stick with slow, expensive manual support, leaving customers waiting even for straightforward queries.\n\n### **The (accuracy) problem**\n\nIf you lead a support team in a regulated industry, you can't just let an LLM loose on your knowledge base.\n\n* Generic models prioritize \"fluency\" over \"factuality.\"\n* They often make up policies or promise refunds that don't exist.\n* Audit trails are often non-existent or hard to parse.\n\nYou end up blind to what the AI is actually saying until it’s too late. This risk forces many companies to pull back on AI support entirely, leading to burnt-out agents and frustrated customers.\n\n### **Fini solves this**\n\nWe built Fini to be accuracy-first. We monitor every interaction to ensure compliance and use specialized AI agents that don’t just \"chat\" — they solve.\n\n* **98% Accuracy:** We hold our AI to even higher standards than human agents.\n* **Human-in-the-Loop:** We seamlessly loop in human experts for edge cases.\n* **Self-learning:** The AI learns from your best people whenever they intervene to solve a new problem.\n* **Proven Scale:** We already resolve over 1 million tickets monthly for customers like the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Atlas, Found, and Bitdefender.\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n* **Do you lead Support or CX** in a regulated industry (Fintech, Insurtech, Health) and want to automate tickets without the risk? **Let’s chat.**\n* **Know a great operator?** We’re hiring a Head of Growth, Product Marketing Lead, and an AI Product Manager. Please introduce them to us!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PE0-fini-accuracy-first-ai-for-high-stakes-support", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-01-20T18:12:08.355Z" }, { "id": 64064, "title": "Fini - ⚡️ Lightning ⚡️ quick Customer Contact Resolution", "tagline": "Fini helps companies collect, categorize and resolve customer issues using AI ", "body": "**Fini helps companies collect, categorize and resolve customer interactions.**\n\nHey all! We’re Deepak & Hakim, and we have worked on AI systems for customer interaction at companies like Uber, Accenture, and PwC.\n\nWe’ve seen **companies in multiple sectors lose millions of dollars** trying to solve various customer interactions manually through agents - spanning from healthcare claims for insurance companies to millions of customer inbound tickets for B2C enterprises.\n\nAt Fini we categorise and resolve all your customer inbounds in real-time across 50+ languages, and integrates with your CRM systems in less than a week.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nWhen a company tries to scale its operations, it often runs into the following roadblocks in terms of handling customer contact:\n\n1. Customer requests come from multiple channels (emails, CRM, typeform, chatbots, in-app)\n2. These requests are currently solved manually by agents. Actioning this feedback at scale is slow and expensive.\n3. Customer insights are not generated in real time\n\n**How can Fini help me?** \n\nWe can help you to:\n\n* **Integrate channels into one overview:** Collecting requests from across your systems.\n* **Product driven resolution:** Our software redirects customers to self-serve product integrations to solve their issues without any human touch.\n* **Get real-time product insights:** Dashboards tailored to your use-case precisely illuminating customer pain points.\n\n**Want us to help you?** Email [hello@usefini.com](https://mailto:hello@usefini.com) to get set up within a week!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GfI-fini-lightning-quick-customer-contact-resolution", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2022-06-25T00:31:19.513Z" } ] }, { "id": 27039, "name": "Cobbery", "slug": "cobbery", "former_names": [ "Ultimate Tournament", "Inc.", "Ultimate Tournament", "Tangia" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/77230af72102ed90cdbe2e9c55a7bb68f65b9b9b.png", "website": "https://cobbery.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Born out of 9-figure litigation, Cobbery AI agents are staffed on every matter to give your litigation teams superpowers", "one_liner": "For winning matters, when winning matters", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Legal", "launched_at": 1653598743, "tags": [ "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Legal" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cobbery", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/cobbery.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cobberyai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ultimate-tournament-inc", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/77230af72102ed90cdbe2e9c55a7bb68f65b9b9b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 565815, "full_name": "Dan Goodman", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "chronically nerd sniped", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-goodman-7a813214a/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Dan_The_Goodman", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5fb581cdf9e39a7aa7362b98c81cff39327b041b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 563474, "full_name": "Alex Pickett", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a computer engineer who is a huge fan of building cool things, freakonomics, and video games!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/alex-pickett-a5a268191/?challengeId=AQFbaqkPrDLb4wAAAXQrrdLy_bF25SuzrsCAIAXKfNO1PfMsPTtOImDHEICVdGdKrYdnt9Fj29MaOG0zXWxd9DQ-sjFL8yYI-w&submissionId=b0a32c0f-7ddf-2e16-0ba5-261e158d7121", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4aacf65a896bec6d46de24e6e49ea8091971fc70.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64139, "title": "Tangia 🕹 Toolset for gamers to monetize their live streams", "tagline": "Tangia enables viewers to buy interactions that affect the game being streamed in real time. For example, a viewer pays $15 to spawn a boss enemy and it instantly appears in the streamer’s minecraft world.", "body": "**What We Do**\n\nTangia enables streamers to sell real-time interactions to their viewers, boosting engagement, and recognizing real revenue without compromising on content quality. \n\n**What Problems are we Solving**\n\n* Ads don’t pay enough and most streamers can’t get sponsors\n* Streamers lose 28% to 65% of their revenue to the platform they stream on\n* Creator tools are complex and require multiple products to achieve simple outcomes\n\nTangia allows streamers to earn 200x more per stream over ads as viewers deeply enjoy being a part of the stream. Interactions sales allow creators to take agency over their revenue and connect with their community in an entertaining and engaging way. We enable creators to do this all at a lower rate than existing platforms. \\\n\\\nTangia prioritizes the user experience and simplicity. Having a low friction process to allow viewers to purchase interactions is core to Tangia's design and platform flow. Tangia also consolidates the best features of existing tools on top of the interactions giving the streamers the best of all worlds!\n\n**Want to Get Involved?** \n\nGreat! We would love to have you!\n\n_Investors_\n\nPlease shoot us an email → [**founders@ultimatetournament.io**](mailto:founders@ultimatetournament.io)\n\n_Game Developers / Content Creators / Other Inquiries_\n\nPlease shoot us an email → [**support@ultimatetournament.io**](mailto:support@ultimatetournament.io)\n\n**Check us out at** → ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GgV-tangia-toolset-for-gamers-to-monetize-their-live-streams", "votes": 102, "created_at": "2022-06-28T15:16:26.152Z" } ] }, { "id": 27040, "name": "Grai", "slug": "grai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/217dbf57c9649c7822bbee101a62b2d34a750a85.png", "website": "https://www.grai.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; St. Louis, MO, USA", "long_description": "Grai is open source version control for metadata. We can determine how database changes will affect deployed machine learning models, apis, and dashboards because we understand how data relates across systems which don’t otherwise talk to each other.", "one_liner": "Open source version control for metadata", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1660014966, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Analytics", "Open Source", "Data Engineering" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "United Kingdom", "America / Canada", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/grai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/grai.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/grai-io/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grai", "github_url": "https://github.com/grai-io", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/217dbf57c9649c7822bbee101a62b2d34a750a85.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 696649, "full_name": "Ian Eaves", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ian is a recovering ex-physicist turned machine learning engineer with experience building MLE teams everywhere from startups (Bellhops) to fortune 50 companies (Centene). An active open source contributor he's written software with over 11M downloads (Visions). Grai was born from the pain of working on distributed data particularly within enterprise settings.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ieaves/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a0e6ffe7f84a454640193fd1395f3940c644a5db.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65887, "title": "✨ Grai - Open-source version control for metadata", "tagline": "Grai knows how a database migration will impact deployed ML models, APIs, and more because it understands how data relates across systems.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65887&key=user_uploads/696649/b51bcf0a-5353-4db3-b9c4-8836f2ea423a)\n\n**TL;DR Grai makes developers smarter by bringing metadata from across their stack into their development tools. We make testing data flows between applications painless.**\n\nGo to 👉 [grai.io](http://grai.io)\n\n### 😭 **Problem**\n\nTracking (let alone testing) data once it leaves a production environment is challenging. Whether in a data engineers transformation pipeline, an ML model, or the CFO’s metrics dashboard, that data _will_ be used elsewhere. Without visibility on those use cases data changes remain risky and outage prone.\n\n### 🚀 **Solution**\n\nGrai is an open-source data management platform designed to help you better use your data.\n\n* **Automated data lineage** - Pre-built connectors to keep metadata fresh.\n* **Integrated with git** - Changing a column in your DB? Run data integration tests for all downstream users as part of your standard CI/CD process.\n* **One-stop-shop** - A unified model of your entire data stack.\n* **Your data belongs to you** - Grai is open-source & self-hosted with a cloud option coming soon.\n\n### 🎉 **Closing thoughts (and asks!)**\n\nMy ask: give it a shot!\n\n* Browse the [code](https://github.com/grai-io/grai-core)\n* Check out the [demo](https://github.com/grai-io/grai-core/tree/master/examples/quick_start_postgres)\n* Reach out! [ian@grai.io](mailto:ian@grai.io)\n\n\\~ Ian\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65887&key=user_uploads/696649/7ecc72b3-40f5-4473-ae0f-157159a139eb)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H8h-grai-open-source-version-control-for-metadata", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2022-09-07T00:00:00.601Z" } ] }, { "id": 27041, "name": "Feather", "slug": "feather-2", "former_names": [ "Feather Inc", "Feather", "Oneloop" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/52aec505ba1e2a0a09def589c38a477cc47ead33.png", "website": "https://featherhq.com", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "The platform powering human like phone calls at AI speed", "one_liner": "Voice AI", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1656542977, "tags": [ "SaaS", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/feather-2", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/feather-2.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Seattle", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/feather-hq/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/feather-7991", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/52aec505ba1e2a0a09def589c38a477cc47ead33.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1013865, "full_name": "Aahan Sawhney", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I am a co-founder @ Feather. 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Austin has an academic background developing and publishing computer graphics technology and machine learning models at Caltech's Aerospace Robotics and Control (ARCL) laboratory. Austin also has experience launching and selling several small technology businesses ($100k - $1M ARR) centered around developing and selling B2B and B2C software products.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-mccoy-833600229/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7e2b5d37a856a3a6ac6422a57220edd8c664fcaa.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018952, "full_name": "Manvir Singh", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Manvir is a self-taught software engineer who specializes in building robust and intuitive technology accessible to clients from all backgrounds. He has coordinated with his co-founder, Austin, on previous ventures and looks forward to bringing his experience to bear with Artemis.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/manvir-singh-abb298247/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5c1de568e5bc43f567f2cd40177ec5a5ca6092d6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 75378, "title": "Umbria: Get designer-grade docs fast", "tagline": "Join us for a 24-hour YouTube livestream!", "body": "### 🖥️ The Product\n\nUmbria is the fastest way to launch designer grade docs!\n\n**Here’s how it works:**\n\n1. Drag and drop components\n2. Add your text\n3. Publish\n\nSee our own site & docs built with Umbria here: [Umbriadocs.com](http://Umbriadocs.com)\n\n### 🚀 The Pitch\n\nYou can get started for free — or contact Kyle for a special deal! ([kyle@umbriadocs.com](mailto:kyle@umbriadocs.com))\n\n### 👀 24 Hour Docs Livestream\n\nWe’re going to build docs for 24 hours straight on a YouTube stream next Wednesday (the 11th)!\n\nWhy? Becuase we can. Reach out for a shoutout, we’ll feature your docs!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75378&key=user_uploads/1018852/37abfcf5-e64c-4b6b-b81f-aa9e7a213169)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jbm-umbria-get-designer-grade-docs-fast", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2023-10-04T20:27:51.119Z" }, { "id": 66800, "title": "Artemis: Data Science Project Management", "tagline": "Document, track and visualize every aspect of your workflow in one place", "body": "**tl;dr** Artemis is the best platform to document, track, and visualize complex data science projects. We help teams log when and how they use resources (scripts, models, databases, etc.) to create the through yet compensable documentation for their projects.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66800&key=user_uploads/1018852/4e301d6d-975c-4497-8692-91a0834cdaba)\n\n**❌ The Problem:** Data science teams employ a variety of resources often spread across platforms. The way these resources interact in a project is often poorly documented. Documentation systems that do exist rely on direct peer-to-peer collaboration and produce results that are difficult to understand.\n\n**✅ The Solution:** Artemis is a platform for organizations to document and map every time a resource is used and how it works so projects can be understood at a glance.\n\n🏆 **Two Steps To Success:**\n\n**First,** Artemis teams create archives to document every time they use a resource. The Archive helps users document their resource’s location(s), relationships to other resources, and functions in addition to recording how they’re employed in a specific project. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66800&key=user_uploads/1018852/718ed567-d130-450d-a425-e25dfdf7c8ee)\n\n**Second**, resource deployments archived with Artemis are automagically mapped out to create interactive visual networks. These networks offer a comprehensive, one of a kind perspective that informs leadership decisions and helps individuals understand their work and their peers’ work in context.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66800&key=user_uploads/1018852/188a66ae-e107-4524-b084-54d62a18eec3)\n\n**▶️  Price and Contact**\n\nArtemis free to try for 30 days and free to academic institutions forever. Enterprise seats cost $20/month.\n\nIf you’d like to try Artemis or are interested to learn more, please reach out: [austinmccoy@artemisar.com](mailto:austinmccoy@artemisar.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HNQ-artemis-data-science-project-management", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2022-10-18T22:04:26.831Z" }, { "id": 65058, "title": "Artemis: Retool for desktop applications", "tagline": "Drag-and-drop to make interfaces for any program", "body": "Hello, we’re [Austin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-mccoy-833600229/), [Manvir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manvir-singh-abb298247/) and [Kyle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-h-202515237/) — we founded [Artemis](https://artemisdevtool.com/). \n\n**_tl;dr_** _It takes too long to give desktop internal tools usable GUIs. Artemis fixes that._\n\n### **Problem:** \n\nArtemis was born in a Caltech robotics lab when our founder Austin realized too much time was spent giving internal tools usable GUIs. Building front-ends for internal tools written in programming languages like Python, C, C++ and Matlab is a tedious process that makes it slow and difficult to deploy even the simplest projects.\n\nExisting solutions aimed at solving this problem like Java’s Netbeans or Python’s QT only aid the user in designing how their interface will look, leaving the task of coding each element’s functionality. The complexity of these tools also present a high barrier to entry – especially for users who are just trying to make simple interfaces. These users don’t need all the bells and whistles of QT, they just need a simple solution they can learn and employ quickly.\n\n### **Artemis Solution:**\n\nArtemis’ drag and drop interface lets developers rapidly design front-ends comprised of elements that function out-of-box. 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You either get on a plane to sign in person, take your chances going through a maddening DMV-like experience at the nearest consulate, or pay thousands of dollars to (often questionable) foreign attorneys for signing in your name.\n\nThe risks, hassles, and costs of today’s cross-border document completion process drives many buyers to abandon their purchase halfway through, and forces many other would-be buyers to hold back. On top of stifling the homeownership dreams of buyers, today’s process also costs home sellers, real estate agents and mortgage lenders millions of dollars in lost sales every year.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/FpPiykbH8NQkTX3KxSy3oAlLOemXqafh-x66kcjUbyD_pEjzWMJlXEP52n0JR8RdR7bmcO9piJm_DJTlNu-qKSdV3UM1IImfwNaMq1gxl1gbA9tY4sS_hcgzrUztnA759US0RIXp9_2I1Rp4o7clYK0)\n\n\n😌 **The Solution**\n\nWe allow buyers to complete, sign and notarize foreign transaction documents from their computer or mobile phone in just minutes. Ruffo generates the relevant transaction documents and connects the buyer to a notary in the U.S. to sign and notarize online. Ruffo then obtains the required government certifications to ensure that the document is legally valid in the foreign country where it will be used. The end result is a seamless foreign document generation and signature experience that saves the buyer time and money, while helping home sellers, real estate agents and mortgage lenders close more sales in less time.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/8jFLBHCCeTIzLl_WorfdtCVagFyAHhQ1so48F_PnKiWNqP4WRGYqt3XfDytJJN3g24y0SrBsnHdoOHbA6lAurJT8zy6k8AtT7aV6V80DODrnooGLEvFFLSqONSZgBECBy1QIdspfRy-yWtYCs25XQQg)\n\n\n**In the words of one of our customers:**\n\n_“I’ve seen the difficulties other US buyers have gone through when trying to complete their documents \\[for the purchase of property abroad\\]. My experience has been completely different. Ruffo made the process quick and easy. I was able to complete it from my house, without having to go to a consulate or waste money.” -_ Rosa Parra, New York, NY.\n\n🙏🥺 **The Ask**\n\n1. **Introduce us to anyone you know who works (directly or indirectly) in real estate in Mexico, specially in areas frequented by tourists and expats like Cabo, Tulum, and etc.**. Real estate developers, agents, mortgage lenders, home marketplaces, mortgage marketplaces, appraisers, etc. Would love to chat with any of them!\n2. If you or anyone you know is trying to purchase real estate in Mexico or the Dominican Republic, let us know! We’ll make it a lot simpler :)\n3. If you know of anyone who has purchased real estate in a country they did not reside in, send them our way! We’ll pay them to tell us about their experience.\n4. If you have ever had to deal with cross-border paperwork, we’d love to hear about it! 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This was the answer we got from a fintech that got us to start Plutto right away.\n\n### **Hey YC!**\n\nWe’re Antonia, Ignacio, Felipe and Sebastián and we’re the co-founders of Plutto! **We help financial services to verify and validate their business customer in minutes for LatAm.**\n\n### **So, what’s the problem?**\n\nBusiness information is all over the place in LatAm.\n\nIf you’re a fintech, bank, payment company, or basically anyone who needs to onboard B2B clients, chances are you spend a lot of time gathering information to know who you are dealing with, and sometimes, to be compliant with the law. This process is called Know Your Business (KYB).\n\nThis a **time-consuming and expensive** process that usually involve lawyers and other people to be completed. **A business can wait up to 3 months to open a bank account in Chile** and other countries in LatAm.\n\nWe allow our clients to solve this problem in a fast and automated way.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\nThe only thing we need is your client’s company registration number (TIN equivalent) and we **gather the information for you**. This can be done using our dashboard or API. We also help our customers to request private documents that can’t be obtained from any source providing a white label on-boarding form. We also process and review the information of this documents so they don’t have to be manually reviewed.\n\nThe outcome is a company profile with all the information, documents and on-boarding steps our clients need **to make a solid decision.**\n\n### **This is something that had to be done!**\n\nIn previous experiences we struggled with this problem, paying up to $100 per customer on-boarding and waiting weeks until they were done. Some of our clients take less than 10 minutes to validate their users and we charge between 6-20 bucks for it.\n\nAs we hinted at the start, we once tried to invest our company’s money in a Chilean fintech and get rejected because they were not accepting business clients due to this issue. Absolute madness. We started on this idea the following day.\n\n# How can you help us?\n\nAt the moment we’re working with our first 6 clients in Chile and we’re looking to expand to other LatAm countries. Specially Perú, Colombia and Mexico so any of the following **introductions or meetings** will be much appreciated:\n\n* People who **work in the on-boarding or legal team** in a B2B LatAm fintech.\n* Someone who is **an expert in law and regulation for fintech**, banks or any other business that requires KYB (Know Your Business) in 🇵🇪, 🇨🇴, 🇨🇱 or 🇲🇽.\n* Any fintech or company that might need our services in the region.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gkt-plutto-business-background-checks-for-latam", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2022-07-07T14:34:17.524Z" } ] }, { "id": 27048, "name": "Payfura", "slug": "payfura", "former_names": [ "Rampay" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/63716659153a382d18dd3ed5667bcd754a6aa1c4.png", "website": "https://www.payfura.com", "all_locations": "Delaware City, DE, USA; Delhi, DL, India; Remote", "long_description": "Payfura is a fiat<>crypto on/off ramp payment gateway for web3 applications. 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We provide APIs, dashboard and regulatory support for developers to build, embed and launch banking products.**\n\nCheck out our documentation [here](https://docs.getanchor.co/reference/overview) & request invite [here](https://airtable.com/shr4yvnnM9obXKhVe).\n\nWe released our private beta in May. We’ve signed-on 30+ companies including the largest telco in Africa and YC companies like [Fingo](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/23986), [Pivo](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27262), [Tizeti](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1442), [Curacel](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/25684), etc.\n\n**Why we built this**\n\nAcross Africa today, businesses spend \\~$0.5m and wait 18months before they can go to market with simple banking products. \n\nThis is because they have to cross many hurdles including:\n\n1. rigorous licensing and compliance processes; \n2. build many integration layers; \n3. manage complex banking and third party relationships; and \n4. invest in complicated core-banking infrastructure\n\nAs founders, we witnessed these pain first-hand in our experience building and working with fintechs. \n\nWe built Anchor to abstract away the complexities, so businesses can get started in 5minutes with a few lines of code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65296&key=user_uploads/1013452/304627b7-0a38-43d9-a652-516420774395)\n\n**Who we are**\n\nWe are repeat founders with experience in the fintech space. 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After OneWeb, we built another operations center for an earth imaging constellation but today we are building a unified platform for every satellite owner.\n\n### **The Satellite Industry Problem**\n\nCurrent satellite mission software solutions are a mix of COTS products that was built over 20 years ago.\n\n* ☁️  Not cloud native\n* 🛰  Created for a handful of satellites\n* 🔐  Outdated security\n* 💽  Rarely web native\n\nThere are 4,500 active satellites in orbit today however **1,700 will be launched** **each year** through 2030. The space industry is shifting from companies launching a handful of satellites over a decade, to launching hundreds of satellites in just a few years.\n\n**The traditional model of many engineers operating a few satellites doesn’t scale.**\n\n### **The Quindar Solution**\n\nQuindar provides satellite mission management as a service. Our platform:\n\n* Allows only a single engineer to operate hundreds of satellites.\n* Includes the software to track, contact, and monitor satellites. No installation required.\n* Integrates seamlessly with AWS and Atlas antennas (more to come).\n* Aggregates and analyzes satellite, antenna, and infrastructure anomalies.\n* Accessible from any phone or computer.\n* Built on AWS GovCloud with the latest FedRAMP and NIST security controls.\n\n### **Why the world needs Quindar**\n\nOur mission is to democratize space. To be the IT for what are essentially flying servers. Customers need to focus on their mission - image collection and resolution, docking to another spacecraft, landing on an asteroid, or broadband from space and let us manage the infrastructure and software utility that supports it.\n\n### **How you can help**\n\n**If you, your friends, or colleagues are trying to launch a satellite please reach out to us at** [**founders@quindar.space**](mailto:founders@quindar.space)**.** We’d love to save them the pain of building and managing a software team and all the gotcha’s that come with satellite ops! Friends don’t let friends build their own mission ops 🙅.\n\nEmail: [founders@quindar.space](mailto:founders@quindar.space)\n\nWebsite: \n\nAd Astra,\n\n[@Nate Hamet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanhamet/), [@Matt Regan](https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-regan-a0a45238), [@David Lawrence](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lawrence-58663691/), [@Sunny Bhagavathula](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandilya-sunny-bhagavathula-13780b47/), [@Shaishav Parekh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaishavparekh), Zach Meza", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gk2-quindar-automated-satellite-operations", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2022-07-06T00:59:39.013Z" } ] }, { "id": 27054, "name": "Ekho", "slug": "ekho", "former_names": [ "Ekho", "AirDealer", "Airdealer", "Ekho Dealer" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ba6801f432e8bfe7e4b8428c160da89816133ee9.png", "website": "https://www.ekho.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Ekho's end-to-end vehicle commerce platform powers compliant, digital sales of titled vehicles. 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Stanford computer science grad.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-mockler-198218128/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ea056ef597e8dd2f59617ed3f56adb5d15144cbc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 69955, "title": "Solutions Architect", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ekho/jobs/oCLZbVi-solutions-architect", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $190K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 73383, "title": "Full-stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ekho/jobs/CWY25sq-full-stack-engineer", "location": "New York City HQ", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Ekho Raises $17.3M from Activant, JPMorgan Payments, Winnebago Industries, YC", "url": "https://www.ekho.com/case-studies/ekho-raises-17-3m-from-activant-jpmorgan-payments-winnebago-and-yc", "date": "Jul 09, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69887, "title": "Ekho Dealer: Enabling manufacturers to sell their vehicles online", "tagline": "A licensed dealership that manufacturers can integrate into their own website.", "body": "**TL;DR We’re a licensed, full-stack distribution solution enabling OEMs to compliantly sell vehicles in the U.S. through their websites, instantly unlocking market coverage.**\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Rowan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-mockler-198218128/) and [Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-g-howard/) - the team behind Ekho Dealer!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69887&key=user_uploads/772580/4558af4e-0b89-4496-93c6-51333867f0f9)\n\n# \n\n# **The problem ❌**\n\nIt's legally and logistically complex for vehicle manufacturers and distributors to sell their vehicles online:\n\n* **Franchise laws** mandate that new vehicle sales must be made through a licensed dealer\n* **Traditional dealers** lack online sales support and take 20-30%+ commission\n* **It is illegal** for manufacturers to sell vehicles directly to consumers in most states\n* **In states allowing direct sales**, it’s expensive and difficult to operate compliantly\n\n# **Our solution 🏁**\n\nEkho Dealer enables manufacturers to **compliantly sell their vehicles online** by making it **easy to integrate** our **licensed, full-stack distribution solution** into their websites.\n\nWith Ekho Dealer enabled, vehicle buyers are able to select a vehicle on a manufacturer’s website and complete the entire purchase process online in minutes. This includes financing, insurance, titling, registering, and scheduling the delivery of their new vehicle (all without visiting a physical dealership).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69887&key=user_uploads/772580/5063ac06-f7d3-48a1-8087-1a47418caa42)\n\n# **How it works 🛠️**\n\nOn the backend, we take care of all the complicated regulatory requirements that come with selling vehicles online. This includes calculating and collecting sales tax, filing registration/titling forms and fees with the DMV, maintaining a portfolio of licenses, and complying with lending regulations when providing financing. On the front end, our website integrations leverage our infrastructure to compliantly process vehicle sales.\n\n# **Our backstory 🪞**\n\n* Rowan and Chris met at Stanford where they both studied computer science\n* They built a bunch of fun stuff together while in college\n* Rowan is from South Africa, is a world champion public speaker, and previously worked on the product team at Duolingo\n* Chris is from Atlanta, is a published researcher, and previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69887&key=user_uploads/772580/355353b5-9c41-4e77-bd8d-cafabab91b78)\n\n# **Our ask 🙏**\n\n1. **If you know someone in vehicle manufacturing** (motorcycles, cars, RVs, trailers, ATVs, UTVs, LEVs, NEVs, golf carts, snowmobiles, etc.), ping us at [founders@ekhodealer.com](mailto:founders@ekhodealer.com) or direct them to our [inbound form](https://www.ekhodealer.com/#website-inbound) if you think they’ll find this interesting\n2. If you like what we are building, share and upvote!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IBD-ekho-dealer-enabling-manufacturers-to-sell-their-vehicles-online", "votes": 214, "created_at": "2023-03-02T21:40:12.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 27055, "name": "Vinci Games", "slug": "vinci-games", "former_names": [ "Vinci Games", "Blacktop Hoops by Vinci Games", "Vinci Games", "Blacktop Hoops (by Vinci Games)", "Blacktop Hoops by Vinci Games" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b8b2e08cc80100af4f7f9161d33c4a5f1a59e6dd.png", "website": "https://ruffnauts.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Vinci Games (YC S22) is building the next generation of social multiplayer VR games.\r\n\r\nOur first title, Blacktop Hoops, became one of the highest-rated sports games on Meta Quest with a passionate global community and critical acclaim.\r\n\r\nOur second title, Ruffnauts, is already one of the fastest growing F2P releases of 2025 on Meta Quest, with 30K+ reviews at 4.9 stars in its first month of Alpha Early Access. Ruffnauts combines creature catching, chaotic physics, and Gorilla Tag style locomotion into a groundbreaking VR adventure.\r\n\r\nThe company is led by CEO Nathaniel Ventura (ex-Oculus, Google, Meta) and CTO Maciej Szcześnik, former lead gameplay designer at CD Projekt Red for The Witcher series. 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", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80895&key=user_uploads/89898/e5538a15-e8ae-40a9-b9b3-088d1457c12f)\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nBlacktop Hoops is the ultimate VR basketball game and sports experience. Embark on a hoops journey in career mode, ball against bots, hang out with friends in online courts, or climb the rankings in competitive pickup games. Design your perfect avatar with millions of unique combinations. Do you have what it takes to become the GOAT? 🐐\n\n[**Blacktop Hoops has exited Beta and has launched**](https://www.meta.com/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/) launched on **Meta Quest**, **Pico**, and **Steam and is available for purchase for $29.99**!\\\n🥽 [**Play on Meta Quest:**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)\n\n[**🖥️**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)  [**Buy on Steam:**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1945250/Blacktop_Hoops/)\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/3SfRQBX5Ax-UbqsFUnWU8S5qv2Q3B0JkSsytyKD8uAxb3VjY9Pdm9HorEHfyZlLnP1X7GkmsiuKdcmBVOtATz0BtVYnS9iosJJE9bDykiopHvz8u_yU8rSXwHqIu8Lvx2optoJwRqoyfrSXeEIaC9f0)\n\n[**🏀WATCH THE BLACKTOP HOOPS TRAILER HERE**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)\n\n[**😩Problem**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)\n\nMeta Quest has a similar trajectory to the iPhone but has **60x less apps per user available**. There is a massive gap in high-quality games and application on the platform. \n\n[The most popula](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1945250/Blacktop_Hoops/)r and highest retention genres for VR currently on Quest are competitive first person shooters, social virtual reality experiences, and sports/fitness.\n\nNo one has built a truly all-in-one sports game like NBA 2K, Madden, or FIFA for VR with a career mode, casual lobbies, and ranked competitive play.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/TSn_kUARMCWrpee_nT52Zhf28KPmqiMIrsWWgwspJsFCit0JueFzqQ8iAYf4UivY-eDhR2w8RU8iFV8tFmgtwposkkj8vrqV8GnCVmCWmrH2bI0Ld6qsenweWZThn434DkTSnNZW-iJU48MqGLypC8k)\n\n⛹🏿‍♂️**Solution**⛹🏻‍♀️\n\nBlacktop Hoops was a breakout hit on Meta’s App Lab as the #1 rated App Lab title with over **16,000 reviews**, a **4\\.9 rating** and over **1 million players** across Steam and Quest pre-launch. \n\nIn Blacktop Hoops, players partake in an epic campaign mode featuring 12 unique streetball legends across four iconic streetball courts in Oakland, Los Angeles, New York and Athens. At the end of their journey to become the GOAT, players have a final showdown [against world dunk champion Jordan Kilganon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTEXh4lxfA&t=155s&pp=ygUPam9yZGFuIGtpbGdhbm9u). \n\nFor multiplayer fans, players can hit the courts in casual 1vs1, 2vs2, 3vs3 or 4vs4 matches or climb the rankings in skill-based matchmaking across 9 ranks and 21 divisions.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/sMARIlq83DjNfEYaDAghMSfOjmXt76LmQjeeKwrg3DwmJP1Tbn2aLYZqjMzep9vvbl8-_uAeGZT6iTQ29mZ3xW8eUj037Cs5TjkNb6qNGgq7ffSAY54C7GUTVNJylksMlEKNZteiIJYEUQruhB8Czks)\n\nOne of the biggest additions to Blacktop Hoops is its new customizable avatar system. Players have access to over 600 customizations including body type, faces, skin color, shirts, emotes,  sneakers, glasses, shirts and more. Players can mix and match cosmetics to build their perfect avatar with millions of possible combinations.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/79PAptBHjdfZrcQOJkRFY1-MyN2gi1DJkPspQt-hupQchpGyHVXji2HTgCqKkEWmRoAakdkQBoJzQ7mJhyJCDEHNyC1CYkpKOz7ZfUA8ndroRx3eXma6I1Sw1zyuklk_JttEBwL_87SQ6VkbdseH2zU)\n\nBlacktop Hoops will also be coming soon to Playstation VR 2 and Apple Vision pro. \n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/AFjzN7GkfZlKEPuqYZLtXIRK59QilOfbtbNM61ydvBuo6ByazUuE-2bXnWG9V1ErkDbygorlFJipuGKDuARQHNaMNRfqT4IB__N7RKpppnaguJJBLP1DLxZpyf3oXip3a5rXskTas80wTxRfJKOyC9I)\n\n**We need your help! Please reshare our trailer and announcements below.** \n\n1. [**📹Share Blacktop Hoops Launch trailer**](https://youtu.be/CsNGnDF5nfg?si=fNZ81Ut2FKShBz_r)\n2. 👨‍💼[**Share launch announcement on Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathanielventura_virtualreality-blacktophoopsvr-metaquest-activity-7196887160568905728-hT_W?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)\n3. [🐦**Share launch announcement on X/Twitter**](https://twitter.com/blacktophoopsVR/status/1791121677155221833)\n4. 👴[**Share launch announcement on Facebook**](https://www.facebook.com/BlacktopHoopsVR/videos/276253088816960/)\n5. 📷[**Share launch announcement on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7CJve7PS3q/)\n6. 😄[**Share launch announcement on TikTok**](https://www.tiktok.com/@blacktophoopsvr/video/7369643065579015467)\n\nIn addition, if you know of any consumer brands (i.e Nike, Adidas), location-based entertainment partners/arcades, or athletes that would be interested in partnership with the game please send me an email at [**n@vinci-games.com**](mailto:n@vinci-games.com). \\\n\\\nThank you for the support!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L2l-blacktop-hoops-2-0-nba-2k-for-ar-vr", "votes": 99, "created_at": "2024-05-16T17:53:47.347Z" }, { "id": 64750, "title": "🔥🏀 Blacktop Hoops - Multiplayer VR Basketball for the Metaverse", "tagline": "Blacktop Hoops is a competitive VR basketball game. Think NBA Jam meets NBA 2K in VR. ", "body": "**TL:DR** [Blacktop Hoops](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jBJ-Hnqp8) is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game with the most natural basketball mechanics ever designed for virtual reality. It’s built for VR with plans for full cross-platform play across console, mobile, and desktop. \n\nHi we’re Nathan and Maciej, founders of [Vinci Games](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/blacktop-hoops-by-vinci-games) and developer of Blacktop Hoops. We’re building the first AAA single player and multiplayer basketball game for VR. It’s built with intuitive mechanics so you can shoot just like Steph Curry and dunk like Lebron James.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nOver the last decade sports games have been monopolized across all major platforms with an extremely limited selection of games for players. Games like NBA 2K, FIFA, and Madden release games each year with extremely poor user reviews and limited innovation. With the rapid growth of VR adoption, no true AAA competitive sports franchises exist on VR. \n\n**Solution** \n\nBlacktop Hoops is designed with ultra-natural mechanics which allow players to chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI or real-world opponents in epic games of arcade basketball.\n\nWe’ve worked with pro streetball players and dunkers like [King Handles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkU86a4MUmo) and [Jordan Kilganon](https://www.instagram.com/jordankilganon/?hl=en) for mocap animations for the game so opponents feel realistic and respond dynamically to how you play.\n\nWe also brought on world-class voiceover talent including [Bobbito Garcia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbito_Garcia) (NBA Street), [Dante Basco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5o3NFV5OM) (Avatar the Last Airbender), and [Renee Montgomery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee_Montgomery) (ex-WNBA Allstar).\n\n### **Founders Backstory**\n\nLast year we had a crazy idea: could you build a VR basketball game that felt as natural as playing in real life? I spent my entire life playing basketball and previously worked at Oculus and Unity. Our CTO Maciej had spent 18 years at CD Projekt RED as the lead game designer on Witcher 1 - 3. Early last year we spent two months building a prototype of a VR streetball game. After we released it on Reddit, it hit the frontpage of every major VR subreddit including /r/Gaming, /r/Virtualreality /r/Oculus, /r/SteamVR, /r/PSVR, and /r/Playstation. From that point we knew we were onto something big.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n1. Download and play **Blacktop Hoops - Alpha** on Quest or Steam. Share your feedback with us at [founders@vinci-games.com](mailto:founders@vinci-games.com). \n 1. [**Play on Oculus**](https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4416817901687071/) or [**Play on Steam**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1945250/Blacktop_Hoops/)\n2. For **Investors** shoot us an email at [founders@vinci-games.com](mailto:founders@vinci-games.com).\n3. For **Collaborators** with ties to the NBA, sportswear brands (i.e. Nike, Adidas), games, VR, and the music industry send us an email at [n@vinci-games.com](mailto:n@vinci-games.com) if you’d like to partner. \n4. **Share this post!** Please help spread the word about Blacktop Hoops and [join our Discord community.](https://discord.com/invite/jggbR6QDUB)\n\n[Check out our most recent Alpha launch trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1d5vzLtjxs)\n\nLearn more at →  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64750&key=user_uploads/701640/33ac53e3-590a-43af-8216-6695641d39c1)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64750&key=user_uploads/701640/d23ea271-5846-4996-93c2-526fa66f848f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GqM-blacktop-hoops-multiplayer-vr-basketball-for-the-metaverse", "votes": 326, "created_at": "2022-07-20T03:28:21.596Z" } ] }, { "id": 27078, "name": "Wand Solar", "slug": "wand-solar", "former_names": [ "Allero.io", "Allero", "Wand" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d578cfd1e80bacd21b29dac7951d27cd195252dc.png", "website": "https://www.wandsolar.com", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Wand Solar enables Solar Revenue for Income Properties owners. By empowering landlords to sell solar energy directly to tenants, we make it a no-brainer for landlords to adopt solar energy.", "one_liner": "We enable landlords to generate income from solar panels.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Climate", "launched_at": 1658513576, "tags": [ "Solar Power", "Real Estate", "Climate", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Climate" ], "regions": [ "Israel", "Middle East and North Africa" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wand-solar", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/wand-solar.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Tel Aviv-Yafo", "country": "IL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandsolar/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d578cfd1e80bacd21b29dac7951d27cd195252dc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1014551, "full_name": "Idan Shahar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I always operate at the forefront of technology, curious about Kubernetes, App Innovations, Cloud Native, and OSS technologies.\nI enjoy partnering with developers and C-level executives to realize the value of Cloud Native through, public speaking, communities, and hackathons.\nI've been a backend developer most of my life, and in the last few years, I helped companies build and modernize Cloud Native applications.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sh_idan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/72d905a5a098b2ed28329a16eb8eb3e325efa0b8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018437, "full_name": "Itai Peri", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm super passionate about entrepreneurship, and have been in this area for the past 6 years.\nI come from a background of Software Engineering and Machine Learning, and love to solve complex problems using these two disciplines.\nIn the past I've been CTO of a B2C startup, and as a Data Scientist in another startup led a project for identifying diseases in trees using advanced Computer Vision algorithms.\nNowadays I'm working to help companies better manage their delivery pipelines.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1a61f264e74c8443fc4c1b0a0706e7c577c4c7b6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 89699, "title": "🚀 Wand Solar — Utility-style solar billing for landlords", "tagline": "Landlord with Solar? Start billing tenants like a utility.", "body": "# 🚀 Wand Solar — Bill Tenants for Solar Energy Like a Utility\n\n👋 Hi everyone! We’re Idan and Itai, co-founders of **Wand Solar**.\n\n## 🔥 The Problem\n\n**Solar wasn’t built for rentals.**\n\nToday, landlords invest in solar systems for their rental properties, but **tenants get all the savings**.\n\nLandlords pay tens of thousands upfront—and see no return. ❌\n\nWe spoke with dozens of landlords who installed solar on their house, but when they moved out and kept it as a rental, they had **no way to bill their tenants** and recoup their investment.\n\n\n\n## ⚡ What We’re Building\n\n**Wand lets landlords bill tenants for solar energy—just like a utility.**\n\n* 💰 Tenants pay what they normally would for electricity (or less)\n* 🏠 Landlords finally earn from the solar systems they paid for\n* ⚡ Same utility line items and tariffs. Full transparency\n* ✨ Want to offer a deal? Set your own discount (e.g., 10%, 15%)\n* 💳 Tenants pay by credit card—just like any other utility\n* 🏦 Landlords get paid via wire transfer\n\n**_No additional hardware. No tenant disruption. Just new income from the sun._**\n\n**_You earn first, we only earn when you do_** - we charge 10% of the solar revenue you collect.\n\n## 🔄 How It Works\n\n1. **Add your property and connect your solar system -** just enter basic property info and link your solar setup.\n2. **We track solar usage in 15-minute intervals -** we measure how much solar energy your tenants use—accurately, throughout the month.\n3. **We generate monthly solar bills using your utility’s rates -** the bills reflect the same line items and tariffs your utility company uses.\n4. **Tenants receive transparent, familiar-looking bills -** nothing confusing—just clear, itemized solar billing that looks like a standard utility bill.\n5. **Tenants pay, you get paid -** tenants pay by card, you receive automatic transfers. You keep 90%, we take 10%.\n\n## 💡 Why We Built This\n\nBefore Wand, we built a DevOps startup together. But we wanted to work on something with deeper impact—something that could actually move the needle on climate.\n\nThen we saw this stat:\n\n**55% of electricity in the U.S. is used in rental properties.**\n\nYet solar adoption in rentals is almost nonexistent—because of the **split incentive problem**: landlords pay for solar, but tenants get the savings.\n\nIt’s a broken system. And it’s a massive opportunity—both for reducing carbon emissions and unlocking billions in untapped properties across the entire value chain.\n\nWe built Wand to fix it. Now, landlords can finally earn from solar, and tenants still benefit from clean, affordable energy. Win-win.\n\n🚀 [Use Our Solar Income Calculator to See How Much You Could Earn—in Seconds.](https://www.wandsolar.com/real-estate)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89699&key=user_uploads/1014551/e1089a7c-f5b5-494e-ab45-6ef4458b85d4)\n\n## 🏁 Ready to Boost Your Income?\n\n☀️ **Already have solar?**\n\n[Sign up now](http://app.wandsolar.com/signup) and **get your first month free.**\n\n_shoot us an email at _[_founders@wandsolar.com_](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)_ after you sign up to claim it._\n\n🔧 **No solar yet?**\n\nWe’ll connect you with trusted installers—schedule a call or drop us a line \\*\\*[**here**](https://www.wandsolar.com/schedule-a-call).\n\n**Wand Solar — Utility-style billing for landlords with solar.**\n\nCheck us out → [www.wandsolar.com](http://www.wandsolar.com)\n\n📬 Questions? [founders@wandsolar.com](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NKl-wand-solar-utility-style-solar-billing-for-landlords", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2025-04-21T14:30:32.587Z" }, { "id": 65694, "title": "🛡 Allero - Open source project that protects your production CI/CD pipelines", "tagline": "We scanned many OSS project and found tons of CI/CD pipelines which are not protected. Allero is here to protect them all.", "body": "### **Hey Fam! 👋**\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io/).\n\n### **📣 TL;DR**\n\n**We scanned public repositories of FreeCodeCamp, Medium, Supabase, Posthog, and many more. Guess what we found out?!**\n\n[Allero](https://github.com/allero-io/allero) is an open source () CLI policy enforcement tool that protects your production CI/CD pipeline. CI/CD pipelines tend to be messy, and there are so many variations of pipeline manifests spread across different repositories. This makes it difficult to ensure security, code quality, and compliance standards are in place in every pipeline.\n\nBy running Allero, you can easily reveal and prevent problematic pipelines across multiple organizations and repositories.🏁\n\n### **👩🏽‍💻Who is it for**\n\nYou are a DevOps engineer or a platform engineer responsible for CI/CD pipelines in your company. You have at least a few dozen pipelines, and they are complex as hell! You obviously spend so much time managing and maintaining them, which is a total nightmare. Why? because you need to ensure that the code they deliver is bug-free, not vulnerable, scalable, and ready for production.\n\n**We already found many problematic pipelines in open-source projects, and we are 100% sure there are many of them out there!**\n\n* [Medium](https://github.com/Medium/jupyterhub/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml#L141) - When using npm in CI, in order to avoid surprises in dependencies’ versions, you should always use `npm ci` instead of `npm install`\n* [Supabase](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml#L42) - When using `npm ci` / `npm install` without `--ignore-scripts` - you risk running unknown scripts injected by your dependencies - which may be malicious.\n\n**Are you sure you don’t have them as well? Go ahead and see for yourself** **with** **our** [**CLI**](https://github.com/allero-io/allero#%EF%B8%8F-one-minute-installation-to-run-allero-validation-on-a-daily-basis-most-recommended)**!**\n\n**Wanna help us out?**\n\nWould love for you to run our tool, and to hear your thoughts! If you’re missing any rules, please reach out to us at [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io) or just create a [new issue](https://github.com/allero-io/allero/issues/new) in our repo!\n\nIf you found this helpful, would love you to share it with your friends. Also, a GitHub Star goes a long way in helping our journey. 🌟", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H5a-allero-open-source-project-that-protects-your-production-ci-cd-pipelines", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2022-08-29T17:35:55.185Z" }, { "id": 64859, "title": "Allero - Prevent Non-compliant Code from Reaching Production", "tagline": "With Allero, only high quality and secure code makes it to production.", "body": "### Hey Fam! 👋\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io).\n\n### 📣 TL;DR\n\n[Allero](https://allero.io) scans your code delivery processes (aka CI/CD pipelines) to verify that security, code quality, and compliance checks are in place and that only valid code reaches production. 🏁\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/711f2234-57e1-44b6-8dd5-c9e678973107)\n\n## 📖 Our Story\n\nItai and I both have been engineers for most of our careers. During my years at Microsoft, I worked with lots of companies who developed microservices in the cloud. While microservices bring lots of advantages, they also come with a lot of complexity - as there are so many of them, often by the hundreds.\n\nHundreds of microservices means hundreds of delivery processes - a significant bottleneck with DevOps engineers. I witnessed developers ending up developing their own delivery processes (CI/CD), while the DevOps team owns the process organization-wise and provides guidance to developers.\n\nThis poses a huge challenge for companies (and in particular DevOps and Platform Engineers) to ensure CI/CD pipelines are up to security, quality and compliance standards.\n\nAs a result, companies are forced to allocate significant engineering resources to deal with incidents like data breaches, complex rollbacks due to bugs, long delivery times, etc.\n\n## 🤯 We solve it with one simple CLI tool!\n\n**Manage your deployment risks with us!**\n\n* ✔️ Simply query pipelines to ensure they are up to security, compliance, and quality standards, across the entire organization.\n* 📊 Gain visibility into your pipelines across multiple SCM and CI/CD platforms in one single tool.\n* 🏃 Simplicity is our thing. Just download the CLI, generate a token, and start querying pipelines.\n\n**For example:**\n\n* Verify that every pipeline implements Snyk / SonarQube / unit/integration tests. (or any other tool!)\n* Make sure binaries are not being published to the wrong destinations.\n* Get the top 10 pipelines that fail the most / are the slowest.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/eae5776e-8ef1-4b8d-8b5c-49f1cda57bca)\n\n**Sounds interesting? Wanna try our alpha version? Check out our** [**Website**](https://allero.io)**,** [Sign Up,](https://www.allero.io/waiting-list) and start gaining trust in your code delivery processes again.\n\n## 🤝 Don’t have this problem but wanna help us out?\n\nWe would love to talk with Platform and DevOps Engineers\n\n* **Who work for companies that develop microservices.**\n* **With at least 150+ Engineering team.**\n* **Cares about having a healthy and secure production.**\n\nShoot us an intro email to [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gs7-allero-prevent-non-compliant-code-from-reaching-production", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2022-07-25T15:25:53.546Z" } ] }, { "id": 27085, "name": "Roforco", "slug": "roforco", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bc0dd9f83f734b13827ef88ada40e53958962df0.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "Kristiansand, Agder, Norway", "long_description": "Roforco is one of the top game studios on Roblox. The team has launched 7 original titles played by over 100 million users and reaching a peak of 10.2 million monthly active users. Top games include:\r\n\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/10975855395/Korrupt-Zombies-UPDATE\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/9746160797/Sunsilk-City\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/4983678402/Disney-World-Magic-Kingdom-Theme-Park\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/6497455705/UPDATE-Iron-Seas\r\n\r\nRoforco drives virality through social reach, with 100K+ TikTok followers, 64K+ Discord members, and tens of millions of views across TikTok and YouTube.\r\n\r\nFounded by two 17-year-old high school dropouts who’ve been building viral consumer products since they were 12. 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Say goodbye to cumbersome onboarding processes and welcome a streamlined approach to business verification.\n\n### **Why?**\n\nImagine you want to onboard a business on your platform. Here is what the traditional verification setup looks like - \n\n**Step 0:** Design a complicated Typeform (Requires 7-10 days)\n\n**Step 1:** Send a Google / Typeform link to the business/merchant to collect the following information about the company -\n\n* Name & Tax ID\n* Legal Information\n* UBO Information / Ownership Structure\n* Website Information\n* Registration documents \n* Address Proof\n* UBO Identity documents\n\n**Step 2:** Semi-automated validation of the above information (4-5 days)\n\n* Lookup business Tax ID and name in the local business registry\n* Order OFAC/AML/Sanctions/Adverse Media checks on the business\n* Document verification / KYC checks on each UBO + Legal Representative\n* Order OFAC/AML/Sanctions/Adverse Media checks on each UBO\n* Manually verify address proof\n* Follow up with customer for any missing information\n\n**Step 3:** Risk Analysis (0.5-1 hour)\n\n* Manually go through the website\n* Lookup business information and employee count on LinkedIn\n* Google search of the business to get insights on customer reviews/news articles, etc.\n* Manually go through provided documents and completely rely on intuition to spot fraudulent documents\n\n**Challenges of Traditional Verification:**\n\n* Time-consuming\n* Relies on inconsistent data sources\n* Difficulty scaling with diverse regulations across multiple geographies\n* Prone to fraud due to manual verification errors\n\n### **What is BusinessID?**\n\nBusinessID is a robust, comprehensive tool that drastically cuts down the time spent on verifying companies. This platform has a customizable onboarding UI, risk-based workflows, a case management tool, and country-specific templates.\n\n* **Customizable Onboarding Experience:** Tailored UI for efficient and brand-aligned verification.\n* **Comprehensive Verification Suite:** Streamlined business registry lookups, tax/VAT checks, and beneficial owner verification.\n* **Global Coverage with Local Precision:** Services in over 100 countries, ensuring compliance and thorough verification.\n* **Enhanced Risk Mitigation**: Advanced tools for fraud prevention and thorough due diligence.\n* **UBO Verification**: Seamless KYC on ultimate beneficial owners\n* **Access to Government Registries:** Where accessible, for authentic documentation\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n[Watch BusinessID in action](https://youtu.be/wv7gybUpR2s)\n\n🤖 **Automated Verification at Its Finest**\n\nBusinessID conducts thorough checks within minutes, including:\n\n* Business registry lookup\n* Tax/VAT number verification\n* Beneficial owner verification\n* Address, phone, email, and website verification\n* Online presence analysis\n* Registration document verification\n* Document extraction from government registries \n* Occupation/nature of business checks\n* Sanctions, PEP, and adverse media checks\n\n**🚀 Elevate Your Business with BusinessID**\n\nBusinessID is more than a tool – it's a transformative solution for businesses seeking efficiency, security, and compliance. Don't let outdated KYB processes hold you back.\n\n**👉 Ready to Experience the Future of KYB Checks?**\n\nVisit us at [AiPrise](https://aiprise.com) to schedule your demo and see how BusinessID can revolutionize your business verification process.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KEC-businessid-by-aiprise-onboarding-and-verifying-businesses-made-easy", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-01-23T15:00:37.955Z" }, { "id": 65290, "title": "AiPrise: Identity Verification Made Simple", "tagline": "Harness the power of all identity vendors through one platform", "body": "tl;dr We let you ensure that your users are really who they claim to be. We do this by integrating with multiple vendors and exposing them all through one single platform.\n\nHey everyone, Rushabh & Chaitanya here. We’re a team of enthusiastic product builders. Chaitanya brings 4+ years of experience in the Trust and Safety space as a tech lead from Google, while Rushabh brings an in-depth experience in building developer focussed products through his role as a Staff Engineer at Meta. We are super excited to publicly announce the launch of AiPrise. **We officially went live with our first few customers in just under 45 days!**\n\n### **⚠️ Problem**\n\nDoes your platform require you to know who your customers are (aka - KYC / identity verification)?\n\nPeople who have hunted for KYC/KYB providers in the past are probably already thinking - “Oh ok - here goes one more KYX provider”.\n\n_Hint: We aren’t yet another KYX provider_\n\nTrue identity verification is super challenging. **No one** provider is usually sufficient to meet all your needs. 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No more reading through the docs of 10 different vendors and integrating them one by one. **You only need to integrate with us once, and get access to all the APIs you need on the go!**\n\nWe already have 15+ vendors integrated on our platform - enabling not just the usual documentary checks, but also KYB and fraud detection.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=65290&key=user_uploads/991872/05cd0a28-d59c-41ed-bda5-673ef156fd3c)\n\n_Glimpse of how you can manage your identity stack with AiPrise_\n\n**What’s more?**\n\n1. We also provide a client-side SDK with completely customizable onboarding screens, that you can integrate with in less than a day.\n2. AiPrise also comes with a set of predefined templates to get you compliance ready super quickly!\n3. Don’t see the API you need? 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Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year.\n\nThe salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (**_\\~7% statistically_**) in the startup ecosystem.\n\nThis results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch.\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Solution**\n\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also **getting updated in real-time**.\n\n\\\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you **make the right offer** to the candidate. The platform allows you to communicate your offer to the candidate in the **most presentable and engaging manner**. It also uses behavior signals to **predict a potential dropout** in order to make course-correction to retain them.\n\n\\\nThis has the following advantages :\n\n* All the process of compensation **data submission is automatic** and needs no manual intervention\n* Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai)’s **real-time benchmarks** would be the most efficient\n* The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look **more appealing** and **explanatory** to the candidate\n* **Predicting a potential dropout** help companies put focused efforts into retaining the candidate\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65208&key=user_uploads/858890/d144ffa8-0f31-4014-b66a-4db7dd8c228c)\n\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Ask**\n\n* **Warm introductions to Indian startups** (above 100 employees ) for a product demo\n* If you wish to know more or have any feedback (especially negative), we would be very happy to get in touch [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai)\n\n### **😀 The Deal**\n\n* All Indian YC companies that sign up by Sep’22 shall be getting compensation benchmarks **for free** (make sure you have this data before appraisals [🤭](https://emojis.wiki/face-with-hand-over-mouth/)).\\\n Reach out to me at [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai) or [Sign Up Here](https://www.hiresure.ai/about/contact)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gxk-hiresure-ai-is-pave-for-india-to-benchmark-compensation", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-08-08T17:19:59.840Z" } ] }, { "id": 27091, "name": "Trendex - Connect with stars", "slug": "trendex-connect-with-stars", "former_names": [ "Trendex", "Trendex - Own the stars", "Trendex - We Tokenize Talent" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/50ca8d41b39a068d2cab43c4e9626ae1e0fe9966.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Trendex is the world leader in digital solutions for fans in the football ecosystem.\r\nWe partnered with Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema, Luis Suarez, Luka Modric, Blaise Matuidi and many other ballon d'or winners and superstars (1B+ followers on Instagram totalized).\r\nRecently, we opened NBA, F1 and Hollywood partnerships including names like Jean Claude Van Damme, Rudy Gobert (3x NBA All-Stars), Marcus Smart (Lakers) and many others.\r\nWe build digital experiences for fans and organize exclusive events for our most selected partners.", "one_liner": "Bringing fans closer to the world’s greatest athletes", "team_size": 9, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1661254012, "tags": [ "Sports Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trendex-connect-with-stars", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/trendex-connect-with-stars.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/50ca8d41b39a068d2cab43c4e9626ae1e0fe9966.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 720621, "full_name": "Andrea Bonapersona", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Tech x Sports. 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Amer from [nsave](https://www.nsave.com) here.\n\n[nsave](https://www.nsave.com) opens a trusted $€£ account abroad for people from unstable economies.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79615&key=user_uploads/794827/4e721169-1c41-4ff6-bfb8-c98bdce7309e)\n\n**Why?** 🔥\n\nI grew up in Syria and saw my family lose their life savings due to inflation and the inability to open a safe bank account abroad after the war.\n\nUnfortunately, when you come from a distressed country, banks label you as a \"high-risk\" client and, in most cases, refuse to provide banking services.\n\nI worked abroad in the black market for two years, and when I had to move again, I traveled with my savings in cash, literally strapped to my body.\n\nI had no choice. And like me, there are 700 million people globally who don't have access to safe banking purely because of their origin. This is wrong.\n\nThat's why we started nsave. Because everyone deserves the right to protect their hard-earned money in a safe place, regardless of where they come from.\n\n**Who are we?** 😃\n\n[Amer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amer-baroudi/) (CEO), and [Abdallah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aabuhash/) (CTO), two Rhodes Scholars who grew up in Damascus and Gaza and had destiny bring us to meet in Oxford. 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Check them out at _[_www.nsave.com_](http://www.nsave.com/)_._\n* Show some love on social media: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nsavecom/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nsavecom/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/withnsave), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/nsavecom).\n\nOur hope is to help as many people as possible. And if you are among the fortunate ones who don't need an nsave account, I hope you will support us in our endeavour.\n\nSincerely,\n\nAmer\n\nCo-Founder & CEO", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ki7-nsave-trusted-account-abroad-for-people-from-unstable-economies", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2024-03-22T16:10:20.869Z" } ] }, { "id": 27095, "name": "Relay Health", "slug": "relay-health", "former_names": [ "Relay" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/30d3e979e397be92cd1208bf6710469387ba0593.png", "website": "https://www.joinrelay.app", "all_locations": "Salt Lake City, UT, USA", "long_description": "Nearly 7 billion hours are spent on porn every year.\r\n\r\nRelay provides a modern solution to one of the most widespread yet hidden epidemics of our time: pornography. Despite being one of the biggest drains on focus, relationships, and mental health, it remains one of the most silent and stigmatized problems in society. 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The person might turn to friends and family, but they overreact or aren’t able to effectively support because they can’t relate. On top of that, professional help or in-person groups can be expensive, and it takes a lot of courage to get there.\n\n**Even those attending in-person groups (e.g. AA) feel isolated between weekly meetings**\n\nFor the minority who do join a group-based program, meetings are usually held only once a week — leaving participants largely on their own the other six days of the week.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nRelay helps users…\n\n* Get matched into a team of 5-8 peers\n* Experience meaningful connection and avoid slipping back into isolation\n* Find shame-free accountability\n* Train emotional awareness and understand patterns/triggers\n* Throw a red flag (i.e. SOS) with a single tap to let their team know they need help when feeling vulnerable\n\nSince launching in September 2021, 79% of our users have reported seeing improvement within their first month of using the app.\n\n## **Why we’re tackling this**\n\nMembers on our team have struggled personally with addiction and saw first-hand the power that comes from forming an effective team of peers for connection and accountability. 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Our customers kept asking for a simple email tool that works with our CRM.\n\nSo we built it. They loved it. Then we realized everyone wants simpler email sending. That’s why we made it a standalone product — Spread.\n\n**Spread.** **We're making email simple and easy.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88529&key=user_uploads/380923/68398109-cf5f-4980-bea5-1eb8c83b6d13)\n\n**tl;dr**\n\n* **Spread is an email sending platform that combines sales emails (cold), marketing, product, and transactional email together.**\n* Give it a try: [**www.spread.so**](http://www.spread.so)\n\nEmail is still the best way to reach customers. Unlike social media, emails wait in your customer's inbox until they're read. \\*\\*Write something worth reading, and engagement follows.\\*\\*\\\n\\\n**But sending emails is still painful.** Writing a simple oneoff campaign is too complicated. 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Before building Relate, we spent our [first four pivots](https://www.relate.so/blog/six-applications-y-combinator/) working on various B2B products. We needed a way to track our early sales and customer development activities, so we picked a CRM available on the market then — and we quickly found we were limited with old processes.\n\nOur sales motion, as a result, was very slow. We jumped around different CRM solutions, but none worked for us. Adding customer profiles was cumbersome and felt manual. Updating deals daily was taking longer than the selling itself.\n\nWhy isn't there a simple and easy-to-use CRM that just works out of the box?\n\nFor chat, we love using Slack. And for issue tracking, we love using Linear. But what about sales? 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Invite your developers, PMs, etc. as guests to share/discuss sales opportunities or customer inquiries together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64070&key=user_uploads/380923/b55bc706-7849-4472-b7a3-8fe61abece74)\n\n\\\n**Keep your sales notes, emails, customer data in one place:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64070&key=user_uploads/380923/25b3f56f-d824-4627-ba4b-0d87a07fe750)\n\n# **Who's it for?**\n\nEarly-stage B2B founders & sales teams that need easier way to track customers and sales.\n\n# **How does it compare vs. spreadsheets and/or Notion template?**\n\n\\- Relate is simple as spreadsheets, but it is a full-fledged CRM that integrates with your Gmail/Outlook. You can **send/reply to emails in Relate and view email history** for all your customers.\\\n\\- Relate links leads, customer lists, sales pipeline, and your sales notes together.\n\n# **Get early access**\n\nGet on our waitlist & sign up for early access onboarding call today!\\\n👉👉 [**Get Early Access**](https://www.relate.so/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GfO-relate-simple-crm-that-makes-sales-easy-for-startups", "votes": 129, "created_at": "2022-06-25T04:51:54.178Z" } ] }, { "id": 27097, "name": "Ad Army", "slug": "ad-army", "former_names": [ "Conversion Pattern", "Findly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aba1aa30f9ea19c4283a2cbd34673bd680b92532.png", "website": "https://ad.army/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Ad Army is an AI creative tool for brands that need a constant supply of ad creative.\r\n\r\nYou build your brand's world once — characters, products, locations — each with locked descriptors and reference images. 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Lourenço specializes in advertising, tracking, and attribution with a strategic focus on driving profitable advertising spend, having spent over 50M in ads throughout his career. In 2021, he taught himself to code and developed a system that kept his business attribution working and helped secure 35M in revenue.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/lourencomaciel", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_loumaciel", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77ee6509541d212b862a8b68093477e9a86ffb1e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 393383, "full_name": "Pedro Nascimento", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Pedro is passionate about creating functional teams, great culture and helping people to become the best version of themselves. He has deep interest in computer science, machine learning and math, having large experience on them in both academic and corporate environments. Pedro expertise is to use a strong theoretical framework to solve real world problems. He is a former Google and Twitter engineer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-paulo-nascimento-5792426b/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/pedromnasc", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/59b9ebb740deb88fb6d4a8b2a0c515d9ece6a07e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Conversion Pattern receives funding from Y Combinator - Swiss Trade", "url": "https://swisstrade.com/news/detail/news/conversion-pattern-erhaelt-foerderung-von-ycombinator/", "date": "Sep 03, 2022" }, { "title": "Conversion Pattern erhält Förderung von Y Combinator - punkt4", "url": "https://punkt4.info/social-news/news/conversion-pattern-erhaelt-foerderung-von-ycombinator.html", "date": "Sep 03, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65262, "title": "Findly.ai - Co-pilot for Business Intelligence 📊💯", "tagline": "Empower your decision-makers with 85.7x faster - accurate - insights while saving 97% of technical time", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) is the co-pilot for Business Intelligence that revolutionizes how businesses understand and interact with their data. By creating an engaging chat environment, it empowers decision-makers to gain insights, request reports, and generate visualizations based on their company's metrics. This seamless interaction is made possible by integrating a metric layer that comprehends all your company's metrics. The chat-based exploration simplifies complex data analysis, allowing users to generate comprehensive summaries with a single click, which can be exported to various formats. Furthermore, with the introduction of scheduled chats and action-triggered automations, [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) enhances the autonomy and efficiency of decision-makers. It's more than a tool; it's a decision-making operational system aiming to facilitate decision-makers in achieving their KPIs while spending less time waiting for data.\n\nHello everyone. We are the team behind [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc), an AI chatbot revolutionizing how you understand and interact with your data. Our aim is to facilitate decision-makers in making insightful, data-driven decisions.\n\n# **🧨 The Problem: Delayed Data Analysis**\n\nNon-data savvy users constantly require information, and data specialists, like developers and data analysts, are overwhelmed by data queries instead of focusing on enhancing the product. And even when reports and dashboards exist, these traditional data exploration methods have proven to be time-consuming and challenging to navigate.\n\n# 🎉 **The Solution:** [**Findly.ai**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) disrupts this paradigm by providing a conversational interface for your data. It's as if you're chatting with your business metrics, asking questions, requesting reports, and receiving visualizations that paint the complete picture of your internal business metrics.\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) expedites the process of data analysis by providing a single-click solution to generate a comprehensive written summary after your chat-based exploration. These summaries can be exported easily to document formats, emailed, sent to Slack, or even transformed into PowerPoint presentations.\n\nBut there's more to [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc). It introduces the concept of scheduled chats - pre-programmed interactions that happen automatically over time. This means decision-makers can automatically receive written reports on their company's results without someone manually preparing and sending them. It's like having a personal data analyst working for you around the clock.\n\nIn addition, [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) enables decision-makers to set up automated actions based on the results of these chats. For example, if your revenue sees a month-to-month increase of 20%, automation can be set up to create a Trello card for the revenue team to assess results further and uncover opportunities. The possibilities are endless.\n\n# **💲Opportunity: A Paradigm Shift in Data Analysis**\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) is redefining the data analysis landscape. By making data more accessible and interactive, it enables decision-makers to save time on complex data explorations and concentrate on strategic decision-making.\n\n# **👋 Ask: Unleash Your Data's Potential**\n\nIf you want to transform your decision-making process with quick access to data and automated insights, [**click here**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) ([**https://findly.ai/join**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc)) to get started.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gyc-findly-ai-co-pilot-for-business-intelligence", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2022-08-10T10:25:41.611Z" } ] }, { "id": 27108, "name": "Sanifu", "slug": "sanifu", "former_names": [ "Patika Technology Limited", "Patika" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc10943e14517d77a119ecad164eb2d76d6db52b.png", "website": "https://sanifu.ai", "all_locations": "Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya; Remote", "long_description": "Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, marketing, operations, and revenue simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records, preparing reports and moving data from emails, PDFs and Excel exports into dashboards and other systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs so the work is repeated reliably every time\r\n\r\nSome of these work never needed spreadsheets to begin with; the likes of data cleanup, bank reconciliations, report consolidation, payment allocations, channel attributions. Spreadsheets have become the standard workbench for handling these tasks and in the process, teams lose valuable time doing manual data entry, filling templates, formatting data, applying formulas, deleting rows or columns.\r\n\r\nSanifu is replacing the spreadsheet while maintaining the logic and processes behind the work, getting you from inputs to your desired outputs in seconds. This significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run.\r\n\r\nSanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native functions, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform", "one_liner": "Automate the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1655225496, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "Data Engineering", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "Kenya", "Africa", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sanifu", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/sanifu.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Nairobi", "country": "KE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/sanifu", "x_url": "https://x.com/SanifuAi", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Patika-Africa-103542242060777", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc10943e14517d77a119ecad164eb2d76d6db52b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/21096d7db5182ef9ab5248fc56a7e958ee819e84.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 747527, "full_name": "Sidney Rema", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO at Patika - helping finance, marketing, operations, and revenue teams automate the manual data processes they currently do across spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and disconnected systems.\n\nTrained as a Medical Doctor (Partly). 5 Years+ experience in Banking - Extending credit to micro & small businesses in Nairobi, Kenya. In my previous company, built payments systems with $10M+ monthly GTV across Kenya, Nigeria & Uganda. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidney-rema-90138658/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sidneyrema_?t=Xr0rdOT-gm2VdRYFbatHRg&s=09", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f20e08b1b2e80d24a7c4471aaa97390f5c8c5d36.jpg" }, { "user_id": 742381, "full_name": "Phelix Juma", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CTO at Sanifu - helping finance, marketing, operations, and revenue teams automate the repetitive work they spend hours doing manually in spreadsheets \n\nI previously helped 3 companies build payments systems that processed $10M in monthly GTV across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. \nI am an EE graduate from University of Nairobi with background in information systems, banking, payments integration and data science", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/phelix-juma-80877193/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jumaphelix", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b18e418314e77cd9e88fc431aa560d38311e408.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101295, "title": "Sanifu: Automate the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for", "tagline": "Describe your repetitive and manual work you currently do in spreadsheets and Sanifu turns them into autonomous data apps that run the same way every time.", "body": "Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, revenue, and operations simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records and moving data across systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs and runs it automatically and reliably every time.\n\nThis significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run.\n\n\n\n### **The problem**\n\nAnalysts and teams in finance, revenue, and operations spend a huge part of their day doing manual data work. Cleaning data, preparing reports, moving things across systems, tracking work. It's repetitive, boring, and takes time away from the parts of their job that actually matter. The same work gets done repeatedly because their data is scattered across systems, emails, PDFs, and files. Only a few people know the rules and exceptions. When they leave, the process breaks.\n\nExisting tools don't solve the whole problem. Spreadsheets, macros, and scripts are brittle and hard to maintain. General AI tools can help, but they reinvent the logic on every run, so outputs need constant checking and can't be trusted for critical workflows.\n\n### **How Sanifu solves this**\n\nAnyone can turn their manual data work into an autonomous data app—just by describing it.\n\n1.⁠ ⁠You describe the process.\n\nIn plain English, you walk Sanifu through what you do. It asks the right questions, handles edge cases, understands your rules, and works with your real data (files, emails, systems) to define the full workflow.\n\n2.⁠ ⁠Sanifu runs it with you.\n\nIt executes the process end-to-end, showing real-time progress and outputs. You review results, make changes, and refine the workflow until it matches exactly what you expect.\n\n3.⁠ ⁠It becomes a reliable operations platform.\n\nOnce approved, Sanifu saves the entire process and turns it into a data app. All future runs replay the exact steps whereby the same input plus same context equals same output. It’s more than a workflow tool: built-in data stores, dashboards, forms, integrations, scheduled and event triggers as well as audit trails.\n\nSanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native components, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many  other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform.\n\nSome of the fastest growing teams in various industries are already using Sanifu to save their team’s hundreds of hours per day of manual data handling.\n\n**Asks**\n\nIf you run a SaaS, finance, ops, or sales team and you have a workflow that involves cleaning, matching, moving data across systems or manual reporting, please reach out. We'll build your first data app with you, free, in exchange for honest feedback.\n\n* Get Free $25 Credits at  \n* Talk to us: [founders@sanifu.ai](mailto:founders@sanifu.ai) or WhatsApp +254 712 983 630\n* Intros welcome: anyone in finance, ops, RevOps, or biz ops at a YC company is exactly our ICP.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QLn-sanifu-automate-the-repetitive-work-spreadsheets-are-used-for", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-05-13T18:32:52.849Z" }, { "id": 64212, "title": "🚀 Patika - Receivable Automation & Payments for Africa’s SMBs", "tagline": "Enabling SMBs in Africa to track customer debt, facilitate the repayments and manage their cash flow", "body": "**Patika enables Africa’s SMBs to track customer debt, facilitate the repayments and manage their cash flow**\n\nMy mum runs a small shop and we saw her struggle with this problem. She was spending up to 3 hours a day doing phone call follow ups and reconciliations.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nSMBs in Africa are using pen and paper to record and track customer debt which is ineffective and time consuming. As a result, up to 60% is paid late and they lose as much as $2k a year to non-payments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64212&key=user_uploads/742381/aaeddd2a-247c-4173-bfcf-07ba02343ced)\n\n### **Solution**\n\nWe are automating previously manual processes like debt repayment reminders, billing, payments and reconciliations.\n\n1. A business on Patika adds their customer and the debt amount.\n2. Patika sends automated payment reminders directly via SMS or WhatsApp.\n3. The customer can pay them directly through the payment link they received or if paid in cash, they can record the repayment on the app and issue a receipt.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64212&key=user_uploads/742381/9aff975c-0730-4a97-9e40-a87d1b2fff2f)\n\n\n### **Want to join us?**\n\n1. 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All synced with your existing sales stack.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99611&key=user_uploads/185378/d34b49d3-f41b-4940-83da-11472e593ba8)\n\n**How it works**\n\nDescribe your ideal buyer or buying trigger in a single sentence:\n\n* _Selling usage-based billing?_ \"PLG companies that just launched an API in the last 3 months\"\n* _Selling compliance automation?_ \"Companies awarded a prime DoD contract in the last 30 days\"\n* _Selling cybersecurity?_ \"Healthcare companies that experienced a data breach in the last 6 months\"\n* _Selling voice AI?_ \"Mid-market home services companies with recent negative reviews mentioning 'long wait times' or 'understaffed'\"\n\nIt works for first-party intent too. Website visitor de-anonymization is built in (RB2B, Vector, and more), so you can act on inbound signals like \"prospects that visited our pricing page for more than 2 min.”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99611&key=user_uploads/185378/601dc08e-720f-4466-9deb-433c0902d7df)\n\nAvina takes it from there. Four agents handle the full pipeline:\n\n1. **Signals Agent** monitors the web 24/7 for matching companies: press releases, job posts, LinkedIn posts, technographics, inbound site visitors, and more\n2. **Qualification Agent** scores leads against your ICP, finds your target contact at the company, and enriches them with verified contact details.\n3. **Outbound Agent** researches each company, writes personalized emails tied to the specific trigger, and sends via your existing sequencer (Instantly, HubSpot, Lemlist, Smartlead) so you keep your warmed domains\n4. **Workflow Agent** syncs every lead to the rest of your stack: CRM lists, Slack, Clay, Zapier, and more\n\n**Try it free!**\n\nStart a 14-day free trial at [avina.io](http://avina.io).\n\nNot sure what signals to start with? Our in-product **Signal Recommender** analyzes your website and suggests high-impact buying triggers, and we have a[ library of 250+ examples for inspiration](https://avina.io/signals-library).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pud-avina-gtm-agents-to-reach-your-next-customer", "votes": 73, "created_at": "2026-04-09T19:01:26.818Z" }, { "id": 86233, "title": "Avina - X-ray vision for your sales team 🩻✨", "tagline": "See what your leads are reading on your site, and use AI to move those deals forward - fast.", "body": "# **⚡️ TL;DR**\n\nAvina is an AI sales companion for full-cycle sellers.\n\n* Use Avina’s advanced reasoning to get custom buying signals on your accounts. Don’t waste $$ on stale databases that aren’t tailored to your business!\n* Get x-ray alerts on **exactly what your prospects are reading** on your site to turn marketing engagement into booked meetings.\n* Use every insight to draft perfect messages using Avina’s in-context email and LinkedIn drafting.\n* Get pre and post-meeting briefs tailored to your business and playbooks so you never miss a deal-moving detail.\n* Avina fills out all your CRM fields after every call, saving you 5-10 hours a week.\n\nUsing Avina, sellers get help at every step of the journey to move deals forward - fast. \n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nThe predictable revenue model is dead, and AI SDRs are flooding channels with noise. Sellers need a better way to break through without wasting hours trying to comb through various systems to find the right insights to move a deal forward.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\n\n\n**AI isn’t here to replace you. It’s here to guide you to take the optimal action and free you of tedious, repetitive labor.**\n\nStep 1. Use Avina’s AI crawler to get the exact signals you need to prioritize accounts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/6c3dd813-590a-4f4a-9597-4939b6a6a4cf)\n\nStep 2. Draft the perfect email or LinkedIn message using Avina’s Chrome extension to get your target leads to notice you and drive them to your site!\n\nStep 3. Get real-time x-ray alerts on _exactly what they are reading or screenshotting on your site._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/654fbc30-d36f-4a97-b0ab-9aec38987e9a)\n\nStep 4. Use Avina’s Slack bot to research and craft messaging for accounts on the topics that matter most to them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/e7ef2eca-1eae-4af7-b480-d7f69c9c49be)\n\nStep 5. Get the meeting!\n\nStep 6. Get a pre-call brief from Avina with the full context about the account.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/e6daea04-a598-4c32-82b9-a4acc3c9477b)\n\nStep 7. Record, transcribe, and extract key information from the call using Avina’s call bot.\n\nStep 8. Get a post-call brief mapped to your playbook, tracking everything that moves your deals forward.\n\nStep 9. Push info that Avina captured on the call to your CRM right from Slack!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/dcedfb04-ce60-4f96-8896-a30f5d100ee3)\n\n\\\n**Avina is plug-and-play. Go live in as little as 30 minutes.**\n\n📈 Businesses see a 30% increase in opportunities created.\n\n⏳ Sellers save 5-10 hours of manual work a week.\n\n💡 Execs get the data they need to make the best decisions.\n\n**The Team** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/aac13df0-3550-4f0b-8d90-eb6bcc481b03)\n\nWe’re Mike, Vivek, and Ron, 2x co-founders who have seen how useful data there is for sellers, if only they had a little help making use of it. \n\nWant X-ray vision or your team? [Book time with us here](https://calendly.com/meshwithron/avina-x-ray-vision-for-your-sellers)\n\nOr reach out directly: [ron@avina.io](mailto:ron@avina.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MQr-avina-x-ray-vision-for-your-sales-team", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-12-11T18:46:22.133Z" } ] }, { "id": 27142, "name": "Invofox", "slug": "invofox", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f26d831f2c3961adfb05a98f923a285cd1aa50e.png", "website": "https://invofox.com?utm_source=yc", "all_locations": "Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain; Remote", "long_description": "Software teams in 150+ companies solve their document processing needs using Invofox.\r\nWe are a good option for you if:\r\n- Great accuracy is a requirement in your business (we guarantee +99% as part of our SLAs, written in our contracts)\r\n- You want a simple and easy to understand pricing (we charge per page, and any documents were you report back an error are completely free)\r\n- You want a system that just works, and that gets better over time (Invofox learns automatically with feedback)\r\n\r\nYou can try it with this link and get an extra 250 pages for free: https://go.invofox.com/ooVVIw", "one_liner": "Invofox is the document parsing and data extraction API for software…", "team_size": 12, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1660657383, "tags": [ "Fintech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Spain", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/invofox", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/invofox.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Madrid", "country": "ES", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/invofox/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/invofoxhq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f26d831f2c3961adfb05a98f923a285cd1aa50e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 842901, "full_name": "Alberto Gimeno", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Computer scientist and mathematician.\nWorked for years as a developer before discovering my true passion in sales.\nReach out if you're intested in literature, crossfit or baseball.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimenoalberto", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/517d57a26c22d77c1e1c32bd56198c19869bfcde.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1012426, "full_name": "Carmelo Juanes", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Computer scientist and mathematician. Former researcher at CSIC. Full stack developer focused on web technologies. Talk to me about parkour, bouldering and inline skating!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelojuanes/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/199e6f11f7ad23eeee6043adc634922155c50668.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1012489, "full_name": "Adrian Ramirez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Computer Engineer and Mathematician with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Highly skilled in many programming languages with extensive knowledge of ML and DL.\nHobbies include hiking, bouldering, soccer and beer brewing.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-ramirez-delrio/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fbbecad89ac6355c8de92feec4eafd2de6a8693e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 119173, "title": "Invofox – Turn any document into structured, validated JSON", "tagline": "Invofox is the document processing API for software teams: send us any PDF or image and get accurate, validated structured data back.", "body": "Hey everybody! 👋\n\nWe’re [Alberto](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimenoalberto/?isSelfProfile=true), [Carmelo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelojuanes/) and [Adrian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-ramirez-delrio/), the founders of [Invofox](https://www.invofox.com/en/).\n\nWhen we first launched on YC four years ago, Invofox extracted data from invoices.\n\nOver these past few years we expanded to all types of documents, grew to serve +150 software teams across Europa and the US, and processed tens of millions of documents for them.\n\nToday we're excited to launch something new: a fully self-serve API to turn virtually any business document into structured, validated data.\n\n\n\n## TL;DR\n\nSend Invofox a PDF or image. We handle the document processing pipeline and return clean, structured JSON.\n\nMortgage documents, Invoices, bank statements, payslips, receipts, bills of lading, insurance documents, healthcare documents, or your own custom document type.\n\nAnd starting today, anyone can sign up and try the entire product without talking to us first.\n\nUpload your own documents, see the results, define what you want to extract, and integrate the API.\n\nFor the launch, new users get 1,500 pages free.\n\n## The problem\n\nLLMs have made extracting information from a document look deceptively easy.\n\nUpload a PDF. Write a prompt. Get some JSON back.\n\nThe hard part starts when you need to do this reliably in production across thousands or millions of real-world documents.\n\nDocuments arrive rotated, scanned badly, bundled together, in different languages and layouts. You need to split them, classify them, extract nested fields and line items, validate the output, deal with edge cases, measure accuracy, handle failures and continuously improve the system.\n\nAnd one wrong field can be enough to break the workflow downstream.\n\nWe kept seeing software teams build increasingly complicated document-processing infrastructure around models that were supposed to eliminate that infrastructure in the first place.\n\n## We are extraction-first\n\nThere’s an important distinction in how we’ve built Invofox.\n\nMany document-processing products started with parsing: OCR, converting PDFs into text, understanding layout, or making documents searchable. Data extraction then became a natural extension of that product.\n\nWe came at the problem from the opposite direction.\n\nOur core problem has always been: **how do we get the exact data a customer needs out of a document, correctly, every time?**\n\nParsing is one component of that problem, but it isn’t the end product.\n\nThat difference has shaped almost everything about Invofox.\n\nOur technology is optimized around extraction accuracy, not simply producing a good representation of the document.\n\nOur validation layer is designed to catch extraction errors before they reach downstream systems.\n\nOur pricing is built around successfully processed documents rather than tokens, model calls, or pages of parsed text — in fact, if you use Invofox, **documents were we make any mistake are completely free**.\n\nAnd our operations are built around continuously finding and fixing the difficult edge cases that appear in production.\n\nThe goal is not to give you a cleaner PDF.\n\nThe goal is to give your software the right data.\n\nEspecially on the documents where extraction gets difficult.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/85693ce9-c948-4c52-b00f-bf70b1954104)\n\n## What we built\n\nInvofox gives developers one API for the entire document processing pipeline.\n\nSend us a document and we handle:\n\n* Parsing and OCR\n* Splitting files containing multiple documents\n* Document classification\n* Structured data extraction (with support for custom schemas)\n* Tables and line items\n* Validation and confidence checks\n* Production monitoring and continuous improvement\n* Delivery through our API and webhooks\n\nYou can use one of our pre-built document types or define exactly what you want returned.\n\nThe output is structured JSON that can go directly into the rest of your application.\n\nSend your documents to our API and don’t worry about the details: which models to use, how to prompt them, what OCR or parsing techniques will improve your results. You don’t really care about any of that: you just want to get the right data, reliably, at the right price.\n\nToday, 150+ companies use Invofox across accounting, financial services, mortgage, insurance, healthcare, logistics and other document-heavy industries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/3519832a-82b8-43c0-96cd-697a9611acc2)\n\n## Why we obsess over accuracy\n\nAfter processing tens of millions of real-world documents, we've learned that field-level accuracy alone is a misleading metric.\n\nIf you extract 50 fields from a document and get one important field wrong, that document may still require a human to review it.\n\nSo we measure whether the entire document is correct.\n\nOur production accuracy is above 99%, we guarantee this level of quality as part of our SLAs, and we back that up commercially: **if you report an incorrectly processed document, you don't pay for it**.\n\nWe want the incentive to be simple: we make money when the automation actually works.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/947b61ee-a20b-44e0-acf8-8a8858a67f42)\n\n## Why self-serve now?\n\nUntil today, trying Invofox generally meant talking to our team first.\n\nThat increasingly felt wrong.\n\nWe're infrastructure for software teams. The best way to evaluate infrastructure isn't to watch our sales deck or take our word for how accurate it is.\n\nIt's to throw your own data at it.\n\nSo now you can.\n\nCreate an account, upload the ugliest documents you have, inspect the output, and decide for yourself whether it's good enough to put into production.\n\nNo sales call required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/c34993ab-435d-4f29-8921-780561dbf701)\n\n## A little backstory\n\nThe three of us met studying mathematics and computer science in Spain.\n\nWe originally came across this problem while building software that needed to extract data from business documents. Like a lot of engineers today, our first reaction was essentially: surely this has already been solved.\n\nIt hadn't.\n\nWe joined YC in S22 with a product focused on invoice extraction.\n\nSince then, customers kept bringing us adjacent problems: bank statements, mortgage documents, payslips, insurance documents, logistics paperwork, healthcare documents and many others.\n\nThe document types changed, but the problem was always the same: reliably turning messy, unstructured documents into data that software could actually use.\n\nOver time, what started as an invoice extraction product became infrastructure for processing unstructured business documents in general.\n\nThis launch is the first time we're making that entire product available for anyone to try on their own.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/dec02fd5-b1cd-41ab-ab2f-199dd9b68a5d)\n\n## Our ask 🙏\n\nWe'd love two things from the YC community:\n\n1. Try Invofox on your hardest documents. We're giving new users 1,500 free pages for the launch. If you find something we can't handle well, I genuinely want to see it.\n2. If your company is building a workflow that involves humans reading PDFs or images and typing information into software, we'd love to talk. There's a good chance that workflow can now be automated.\n\nYou can get started at [invofox.com](http://invofox.com).\n\nAnd if you try it, please send us feedback, especially the bad stuff!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/V09-invofox-turn-any-document-into-structured-validated-json", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-10-05T16:32:42.567Z" }, { "id": 65399, "title": "Invofox - Automatically extract data from invoices 🧾", "tagline": "https://www.invofox.com", "body": "**tl;dr:** We help software companies automatically extract data from invoices, so they can fully automate processes for their customers, such as payments or accounting, without anyone having to review the data. **Reach out through** [**our website**](https://invofox.com) **to learn more!**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Adrian, Alberto and Carmelo, and we are the founders of [Invofox](https://www.invofox.com). We met at university, in Spain, while the three of us majored in math and computer science.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65399&key=user_uploads/842901/5f7a5f4b-3242-4c4b-88aa-a9c8fd8b5b1a)\n\nFrom left to right:\n\n[Adrian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-ramirez-delrio/) is our machine learning expert. He’s responsible for the deep tech side of Invofox. Chat with him about #machineLearning #artificialIntelligence #bouldering or #beerBrewing\n\n[Alberto](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimenoalberto/) is our CEO. He’s responsible for business development and investors relations. Chat with him about #b2bSales #outboundSales #literature or #crossfit\n\n[Carmelo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelojuanes/) is our CTO. He’s responsible for the productization of our technology, making it usable for our customers. Chat with him about #javaScript #mongoDB #boardGames or #parkour\n\n# Isn’t invoice digitization a solved problem? Why should I care about it?\n\nWell, no. The first time we approached this problem we thought the same thing, but it really isn’t.\n\nMost commercial solutions rely on one of two approaches:\n\n* Template based AI. Basically, you need to pre-configure how to extract information from every different invoice layout you might need to process. It clearly doesn’t scale, it is expensive to setup, and really expensive to maintain.\n* Outsourcing. Meaning someone, somewhere, is going to have to take a look at your invoices. Humans take a long time to do it, and on top of that they make mistakes.\n\nEvery year 100+ billion invoices are issued in the USA and EU, wasting tens of billions of dollars in errors and unproductive costs.\n\nInvofox allows you to automate all of the processes taking place around invoices, such as payments or accounting, without anyone having to review those documents.\n\nWe do this with an easy to use, stripe like, [API](https://prod.kinequo.com/backends/midas/api-docs/), that allows software companies to seemlessly integrate our technology into their product and provide the best possible service to their customers.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\n1. If you are interested in our technology, reach out to us through [our website](https://invofox.com) or email us at [founders@invofox.com](mailto:founders@invofox.com) and try it for free\n2. Share this post! Coming from Spain we do not have a network in the USA, so any notoriety is more than welcome =)\n3. Connect us with other startups or companies that could benefit from automating invoice processing\n\nOur quick blurb: Invofox helps software companies automatically extract data from invoices, so they can fully automate processes for their customers, such as payments or accounting, without anyone having to review the data. 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We’re Eric, Caleb, and Nick from Firecrawl (S22). Today, we’re launching **/extract** — an endpoint that turns entire websites into structured data with a prompt.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nWith Firecrawls' new /extract endpoint, any website can be turned into structured data with a simple API call and prompt. We handle the complexity so you can focus on building your company.\\\n\\\n**The Problem.**\n\nIf you need to pull data from websites - maybe to enrich your CRM, track competitors, or onboard users - you're stuck with:\n\n1. Manually researching and copy-pasting from multiple sources \\\\\n2. Building and maintaining scrapers that break at the slightest site change\n3. Stitching together scraping services and complex LLM pipelines with limited context windows\\\n \\\n Each approach wastes the engineering time you could spend shipping a product. :\n\n## **Our Solution:**\n\n/extract is an API that turns a prompt into structured web data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86973&key=user_uploads/1045172/62c44a11-9011-4ae0-82ac-8151a9c57c1b)\n\nHere's how to use it: \n\n1. **Give us URLs + Prompt**\\\n Write what data you want, and point us at websites. Use wildcards like [example.com/\\*](http://example.com/\\*) to scan entire sites.\n2. **We Find Relevant Content**\\\n Our crawler finds and ranks the pages that matter, automatically.\n3. **AI Extracts Data**\\\n Intelligent agents split, search and parallelize the work, handling sites of any size.\n4. **Get Clean JSON**\\\n Receive structured data ready to use - no post-processing needed.\n5. **Integrate anywhere via API**\\\n With our API, you can use firecrawl anywhere, whether its in your applications or no-code tools like Zapier\n\n## **Why It Works**\n\n* **Handle Any Website:** Built on proven scraping infrastructure that just works\n* **Natural Language Input:** Describe what you want in plain English - we figure out the schema\n* **No Size Limits:** Process massive sites by automatically splitting the work\n* **Use It Anywhere:** Full API + ready-made integrations for Python, Node, and Zapier\n\n## **Limitations - (and the road ahead)**\n\nLet's be honest - while /extract is pretty awesome at grabbing web data, it's not perfect yet. Here's what we're still working on:\n\n1. Big sites are tricky - It can't (yet!) grab every single product on Amazon in one go\n2. Complex searches need work - Things like \"find all posts posted after 2024\" aren't quite there\n3. Sometimes, it's a bit quirky - Results can vary between runs, though it usually gets what you need\n\nBut here's the exciting part: we're seeing the future of web scraping take shape. \n\n## **Get Started**\n\n1. **Try the Open Beta**\n * For a limited time, get **500,000 free** tokens to get you started\n * Explore the [www.firecrawl.dev/playground?mode=extract](http://www.firecrawl.dev/playground?mode=extract) \n * Read the docs => \n2. **Join Our Community**\n * Star us on [www.github.com/mendableai/firecrawl](http://www.github.com/mendableai/firecrawl) - we're open-source!\n * Share your use cases and feedback.\n\nReady to turn web data into your competitive advantage? 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Since launching in April we gained 8000 stars on GitHub ⭐️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82563&key=user_uploads/1045172/59b29329-b168-42b9-9642-0e11f99699de)\n\n\\\n**The Problem:** Our story began while building [Mendable.ai](http://Mendable.ai), one of the first managed RAG platforms used by companies like Coinbase, Snap, and MongoDB. We quickly discovered that web data was not only a popular source for AI applications but that its quality was crucial for successful deployments.\n\nBuilding a reliable stack that worked for almost any URL presented numerous challenges, and as we expanded, we encountered countless edge cases. While some great tools existed, none handled the entire process reliably. We envisioned an API that could take a URL, crawl its pages, and provide up-to-date, easy-to-use markdown.\n\nConversations with industry peers revealed that they were rebuilding similar infrastructure. This inspired us to create Firecrawl— a developer-friendly solution we wish we'd had from the start.\n\nWe launched a cloud offering over a weekend in April, and in just three months, we've garnered over 8,000 GitHub stars and empowered thousands of developers to transform web content into AI-ready data.\n\n**Our Solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82563&key=user_uploads/1045172/14099b5d-73e8-4661-8ce4-65bb4623852f)\n\nOur open-source, developer-focused platform simplifies scraping & crawling for AI apps by handling:\n\n* Bypassing JavaScript rendering\n* Enriching metadata\n* Crawling without consistent sitemaps\n* Parallel scraping jobs\n* Hosting headless browsers and managing proxies\n* Bot blocking\n* Formatting LLM-friendly markdown\n\nWith Firecrawl, developers at companies like [Gamma](https://gamma.app/), [StackAI](https://www.stack-ai.com/), and [Zapier](https://zapier.com/) are delegating scraping to us so they can focus on their core tasks - be it RAG, agents, or data processing.\\\n\\\nNow scraping a whole website and retrieving the markdown is as simple as this:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82563&key=user_uploads/1045172/0c55112e-cd7a-4420-bd79-cbb07e4acaf3)\n\n**Our Asks:**\n\n* Give [Firecrawl](https://www.firecrawl.dev/) a try 🧑‍💻\n* Explore our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/mendableai/firecrawl) and consider leaving a star ⭐️\n* Drop me a line at [eric@firecrawl.com](mailto:eric@firecrawl.com) if you want to chat (we are super excited about collaborations) 🔥", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LTf-firecrawl-open-source-crawling-and-scraping-for-ai-ready-web-data", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2024-07-30T17:47:16.926Z" }, { "id": 69730, "title": "🔍 Mendable - Embeddable chat powered search for your developer products", "tagline": "An easily embeddable search component that allows developers to search and chat, trained on your docs and resources. ", "body": "Hey YC!\n\nIt’s Garrett, Eric, Caleb, and Nick from SideGuide - Today we are launching Mendable, a chat-powered search tool embeddable in your docs, product, or community to answer developer questions and reduce their time to hello world. Check out our [live search demo with LangChain](https://hwchase17.github.io/langchainjs/docs/modules/indexes/document/) and shoot us a message at [garrett@sideguide.dev](mailto:garrett@sideguide.dev) if you want to chat! :)\n\n**Problem:**\n\nWe’ve spent over a year in the developer experience space, building tools to make the lives of founders and developer relations folks easier. During this journey, we learned developers have a hard time navigating documentation and understanding the capabilities of a product in an efficient way. In response, developer communities and support forums become overloaded with questions, and dropoffs and onboarding times grow.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nWe’re building [Mendable](https://www.mendable.ai/), a chat-powered search tool leveraging cutting edge LLM models to accelerate a developer’s time to hello world and improve developer experience. We ingest your company’s resources (documentation, support forums, community messages, etc.) and give developers custom responses to their questions with direct links to sources via a chat interface. This interface can be easily embedded anywhere via a javascript component or accessed via slack/discord, allowing our search to be put in your docs, product, community, or wherever else you see fit.\n\n**What does it look like?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69730&key=user_uploads/1045324/4b531b27-de01-4e68-abea-2014a4088e8c)\n\n* **Continuous Improvements -** With our intuitive thumbs-up and down rating system and the ability for admins to edit answers, Mendable's search functionality continually learns and improves.\n* **Integrates Everywhere -** Mendable offers a chat-powered search bar to add anywhere in your docs or website. Support for Discord, Slack, Github, and more is coming soon.\n* **Resources Condensed** - Mendable’s generations are based on your resources - including docs, support Q/A, and community messages - condensed into powerful answers.\n\n**The ask:**\n\nInterested? Shoot us a message at [garrett@sideguide.dev](mailto:garrett@sideguide.dev) or schedule a meeting with us [here](https://calendly.com/garrett-sideguide)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8g-mendable-embeddable-chat-powered-search-for-your-developer-products", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-02-27T21:51:26.203Z" }, { "id": 65638, "title": "🚀 SideGuide - Let developers test-drive your API with an online editor", "tagline": "Embeddable code editors designed to show developers why your product rocks", "body": "Hi YC!\n\nIt’s Eric, Caleb, Nick, and Garrett from SideGuide - We are building a lightweight, embeddable, online code environment that lets developers play with your API use cases and tutorials with zero setup. Interested? Check out our [live example with Hyperbeam here](https://app.sideguide.dev/hyperbeam/threejs/) and shoot us a note at [founders@sideguide.dev](mailto:founders@sideguide.dev) to chat :)\n\n**Problem:**\n\nDuring college, we started SideGuide as a B2C coding education platform, where we watched hundreds of developers struggle to learn from API documentation, then waste hours re-inventing the wheel instead of using an off-the-shelf solution. We found that API and SDK documentation is often, to be frank, not engaging. This leads to an incomplete understanding of the implementation process and product value, resulting in lost sales. Basically, developers forget your product instead of falling in love with it.\n\nIt’s 2022, developers and technical PMs should be able to quickly play with the real code before investing time and money in a product. That is why we built SideGuide.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nWe are building SideGuide: a lightweight, embeddable, online code editor that lets developers play with your API without **setup.** Our format integrates guides directly into the editor, giving users the context they need to understand your use-cases while experimenting immediately. We give developers and technical PMs an easy way to test, understand and evaluate your products. As a bonus, we also provide analytics and insights from sessions so you can improve the implementation process and understand your customers.\n\n**What does it look like?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65638&key=user_uploads/1045172/1e47388e-3f04-4540-b374-1d1bad6b1dc2)\n\n* **Fully interactive** - Our web-based sandbox makes it quick and easy for developers to try your examples out with minimal friction.\n* **Integrated tutorial - Step-by-step instructions for different sections of the code.**\n* **Trackable - See how users are interacting with your use-cases so you can identify avenues for improvement** \n* **Embed anywhere - Embed in your docs or send via link.**\n\nCheck out our updated website at and the live example using Hyperbeam’s amazing API here: \n\n**The Ask:**\n\nInterested? Shoot us a note at [founders@sideguide.dev](mailto:founders@sideguide.dev) or schedule a meeting with us [here](https://calendly.com/eric-ciarla)! We are looking for launch partners for demo day :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H4g-sideguide-let-developers-test-drive-your-api-with-an-online-editor", "votes": 217, "created_at": "2022-08-26T16:51:14.086Z" } ] }, { "id": 27153, "name": "UpLink", "slug": "uplink", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ea767a408cc57b55584c2042808e466cf2c64d6.png", "website": "https://www.uplinkapp.io", "all_locations": "Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA; Washington, DC, USA; Remote", "long_description": "UpLink's founding team worked as auditors and software engineers at PwC where they saw firsthand how difficult it was to collect thousands of documents from clients.\r\n\r\nAlex Maher and Alex Grant met working on PwC’s big data analytics platform, scaling it from 0 to 20k users globally. Brady and Nick met while studying CS at a top 5 public university, but still insist they were self-taught. 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So, he left the corporate world to join people who share his love for building something truly great.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brady-ochse", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6774d94bcda9b5475b1cf4b41163a273a75eaa1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1033890, "full_name": "Nicholas Yarmesch", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ever since he can remember, Nick has been interested in technology. His idea of fun includes reading technical manuals for microcontrollers and reverse engineering the barcodes on Nespresso capsules.\n\nIn college, he built the hardware and developed the software to retrofit his 2002 Lexus with a secure receiver that unlocked his car when he approached wearing his Apple Watch.\n\nYou’re most likely to run into Nick in his blue Cayman on the trip between his house and Starbucks.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-yarmesch", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3700dc941c229df7e49eb70ffd4b245fe2497aa8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64054, "title": "UpLink 📄 Manage Document Requests at Scale", "tagline": "UpLink helps professionals manage large volumes of document requests", "body": "### **What we do:**\n\nSimplify the process of managing document requests at scale.\n\n### **Who has this problem:**\n\n* Auditors (need hundreds of docs from each client)\n* Tax professionals (need lots of tax forms)\n* Lenders/Brokers (need dozens of docs from each loan applicant)\n* Certification programs (need docs from each applicant)\n* HR (need onboarding docs from new employees)\n\n### **How UpLink solves the problem:**\n\nUpLink is a SAAS application that associates a workflow (requested, in review, rejected, complete) with each request.\n\n![Workflow_V2.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28ce1d_44995060299d4371966945698cf092e0~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1255,h_245,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Workflow_V2.png)\n\nThis workflow allows you to easily track the status of individual document requests across hundreds or thousands of projects.\n\n**Automatic Notifications:**\n\n![Notifications.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28ce1d_bf43b94976c14c74ab1070b48f2587a8~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_850,h_473,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Notifications.png)\n\n**Helpful Reminders:**\n\n![Reminders.png](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28ce1d_70d53a764910420c8aeed0e2f1ee7b4b~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_850,h_473,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Reminders.png)\n\n**Backstory:**\n\n2 of our co-founders were auditors at PwC and had this problem firsthand. It took years for PwC to finally build a custom solution to address this, but it’s a common problem and most companies (especially auditors) don’t have access to a decent solution.\n\n# **Try it out:**\n\n[Interactive demo](https://demo.uplinkapp.io) (no sign-up, in-browser)\n\n[Check out our site](https://www.uplinkapp.io)\n\nEmail me ([alex@uplinkapp.io](mailto:alex@uplinkapp.io)) for a personal demo, any questions, or if you’d like to introduce me to anyone you think would find UpLink valuable =)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gf8-uplink-manage-document-requests-at-scale", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2022-06-24T18:07:02.817Z" } ] }, { "id": 27154, "name": "Superbar", "slug": "superbar", "former_names": [ "Caddie", "Caddie AI", "Superbar (Formerly Caddie)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/00fd47f91143cc8393a67e9aa539ee075762df08.png", "website": "http://www.superbar.ai", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote", "long_description": "Superbar instantly answers questions on your website and drives conversions 24/7.
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He took additional responsibilities as VP of Marketing and VP of Engineering Operations. \n\nHe started his career by building a web development company in the early 2000s while in high school.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alannowogrodski/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/595c768c02a79f3c835377da826ddd1916a9f51e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64194, "title": "🚀 Caddie - Schedule Meetings & Qualify Inbound Leads", "tagline": "Automate your inbound lead qualification and book more meetings!", "body": "# Book More Demos from Your Website\n\n[Watch a Demo](https://youtu.be/72TtCntEkac)\n\n### 😄 **About Us** → Our Customers Were Pissed Off, So We Did Something About It\n\nIn our past life, Marshall and I led sales and marketing teams. More recently, we asked ourselves:\n\n* Why does conversion in B2B websites suck (from Visitor to a Demo Booked)?\n* Why do we keep hearing complains that customer just “want a F\\*&!ng demo!”?\n\nWe explored solutions to fix this and Caddie hit us in the face.\n\n### **🤬** Problem → Too Much Friction to Request a Demo\n\n* **Friction is Killing Leads** → 83% of interested buyers never make it to a demo because there are too many steps to get a demo.\n* **Speed Matters →** 74% of buyers purchase from the first company they see a demo from.\n* **Have SDRs do Qualification Calls? →** Adding an SDR qualification step leads to 30% drop-off in pipeline. In addition, they are expensive and hard to hire.\n\n## 🚀 Solution → Make It Easy to Schedule & Qualify\n\n* Build a personalized **demo** **scheduling experience.**\n* **Qualify inbound** leads by asking simple questions.\n* Using logic and point scoring, **route** to the right Account Exec.\n* Finally, allow qualified prospects to **schedule a demo** on the spot.\n\nTry a demo by going to [trycaddie.com](http://trycaddie.com)\n\n**Using Calendly? →** We allow you to qualify prospects before bad leads jam your calendar. In addition, we shorten your contact form by getting key insights from a database of 200M+ records so you don’t need to ask for “First Name”, “Company”, “# of employees”. The result is 50%+ more qualified leads than with Calendly.\n\n## 💰 The Impact → 2X More Demos, Faster Deal Speed, No Need for SDRs to Qualify Manually.\n\n* Book 2X more demos by removing friction.\n* Improve speed from lead to opportunity by 50% by cutting steps.\n* Have SDRs qualifying leads? → Cut $100,000s in costs.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhO-caddie-schedule-meetings-qualify-inbound-leads", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2022-06-29T20:32:47.116Z" } ] }, { "id": 27155, "name": "Sonnet", "slug": "sonnet", "former_names": [ "Raven Analytics", "Polymer Inc", "Polymer" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b7aadf99efc36d06092a505cb38a1a4b1b68750a.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Sonnet is an end-to-end meeting assistant, combining a human-quality notetaker with an auto-updating CRM.\r\n\r\nOur AI notetaker uses the most powerful AI models to transcribe, summarize, and generate notes for your meeting recordings. 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", "body": "Hey 👋 We’re [**Ted Chai**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedchai/) and [**Dylan Feng**](https://linkedin.com/in/dylan-feng) from [**Sonnet**](https://sonnetai.com/)**!**\n\n**TLDR:** No one likes taking meeting notes or updating CRMs. Sonnet automates the entire process for you.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nWe all know the best practices for taking meetings: research the participants before the call, take notes, send a follow up email, update your CRM—but we usually don’t do any of it. These tasks are important but tedious.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nSonnet uses AI to do all your meeting work that can be automated (note taking, follow-up emails, CRM) and brings you all the information you need for tasks that can’t (pre-meeting research, meeting reminders).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79677&key=user_uploads/912744/2082970c-374f-49d2-9960-a4daeea7ee47)\n\n### **How is this different?**\n\n* Sonnet speeds up your pre-meeting research and post-meeting follow-ups, not just your during-meeting note-taking.\n* Meeting bots are distracting; Sonnet records without one.\n* Sonnet has a built-in CRM, auto-updated with your conversation data.\n* Existing AI notes tend to be too broad to replace human notetaking. You can instruct Sonnet on what to focus on, so it always captures the info you care about.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79677&key=user_uploads/912744/47fe97ec-f77c-49af-afaa-51fd66392b6e)\n\n### **The Team**\n\nTed and Dylan were college roommates at UC Berkeley before starting Sonnet. Ted left college early and has previously worked at Uber and the U.S. Department of State. Dylan graduated in 2 years and has conducted AI research at BAIR.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79677&key=user_uploads/912744/b0f1c3c6-7849-4014-b162-b9b84021a5ae)\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nGive it a try! Sonnet is [**free to get started**](https://sonnetai.com/) and available to download today. 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It took 50 years to reach 5 million installations—now that number will double to 10 million in just six. 97% of these are on residential and commercial rooftops, yet over 1.7 million homes are missing out on valuable Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) income. Why? Because REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) management is still manual, confusing, and built for utilities—not everyday solar owners. Jasmine Energy changes that. Our AI-powered asset manager puts registration, compliance, and sales on autopilot, making it easy to turn solar generation into recurring income—with just a few clicks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/1c122467-5767-4a4e-b073-e88acd17faf4)\n\n**TL;DR: Jasmine is the first end-to-end REC management platform built for residential and commercial solar. We automate common and confusing workflows—helping solar owners get paid extra for generating clean energy.** \n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Claiming RECs requires too much overhead for small or independent developers. (it works fine for the utility scale developers who designed it)**\n\nResidential and commercial solar generators lose time and money navigating an outdated, fragmented system for managing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).\n\nThe industry still relies on paper, pens, and people. There’s no single source of truth, no standardized documentation, and no digital infrastructure to support efficient operations.\n\n* **Complex registry compliance:** Each generator must register with one of several regional tracking systems, all with different rules, document requirements, and verification steps.\n* **Manual data reporting:** Uploading generation data, proving eligibility, and submitting documents are tedious, inconsistent, and prone to error.\n* **Inefficient monetization:** Selling RECs means navigating opaque markets, unclear pricing, and a maze of disconnected brokers and buyers—without a unified platform.\n\n### **Our Solution – AI-Powered Automation for the Solar Industry**\n\n**Use AI to “read” details from PDFs and to interact with legacy government websites.** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/c7d2bd40-b6eb-4064-b70f-120b3eeb1ea9)\n\nJasmine replaces the outdated, paper-based REC management process with an AI-powered platform purpose-built for residential and commercial solar generators.\n\nOur asset manager brings structure, standardization, and automation to an industry still running on spreadsheets and guesswork:\n\n* **Automated registration:** Jasmine handles the full lifecycle of registration, reporting, and verification across all major tracking systems—no paperwork, no confusion.\n* **Instant data processing:** Our AI ingests, validates, and submits generation data directly from inverters or utility portals to ensure RECs are accurately and efficiently issued.\n* **Transparent payouts:** Track your REC sales in real time and get paid faster, with full visibility into pricing, status, and transaction history.\n\nJasmine turns a fragmented, manual process into a seamless, digital experience—so solar owners can focus on generating power, not paperwork.\n\n### **Key Features**\n\n📝 **Automated Asset Registration** – Jasmine handles onboarding your residential or commercial solar system into the appropriate REC tracking registry, eliminating paperwork and manual errors.\n\n✅ **AI-Powered Data Validation** – Our platform connects to your inverter or utility portal to automatically validate and submit generation data in real time—ensuring fast, compliant REC issuance.\n\n📈 **Transparent Reporting & Analytics** – Get a clean, centralized view of your REC portfolio: generation history, earnings, sale status, and payout timelines—all in one dashboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/e3f34226-de05-4e49-a60f-b4b95d079cfc)\n\n### **Market Opportunity**\n\n* **5M+ solar systems in the U.S.** eligible for REC sales.\n* **$5B+ annual REC market** that is growing as corporations push for sustainability goals.\n* **85% of small-scale generators** don’t currently monetize their RECs due to complexity.\n\n### **Who We Are For**\n\n🏠 **Home Solar Owners** \\\nEarn passive income from your rooftop solar—no spreadsheets, no stress. Jasmine fully automates REC registration, reporting, and sales so you can **get paid fast** for the clean energy you’re already producing.\n\n🏢 \\*\\*Commercial Developers & Independent Power Producers (IPPs)\\*\\*\\\nManage RECs across portfolios of solar assets with zero friction. Jasmine scales with your business—automating multi-site registration, streamlining compliance, and optimizing REC monetization from start to finish.\n\n🤝 **Third Party Owners & Origination Teams** \\\nThird Party Owners (TPOs) own many thousands of small solar generators. Each site has the compliance overhead as a single utility scale facility. Jasmine helps  third party owners seamlessly register and track hundreds or even thousands of small distributed generators quickly and accurately.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n**If you have solar:**  \\\nUse the product!  You can upload your solar documents and claim your incentives TODAY ->  \n\n**If you don't have solar:**  \\\nIntroductions: Know a homeowner, business with solar, or a local solar installer? Refer them to Jasmine! Here’s a quick blurb you can share: \n\n_\"Jasmine Energy automates Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) management for residential and commercial solar. We handle registration, compliance, and REC sales using AI-powered automation—so solar owners can earn passive income without lifting a finger.\"_\n\n_📧:  _[_nathalie@jasmine.energy_](mailto:nathalie@jasmine.energy)\n\n🔗 [jasmine.energy](http://jasmine.energy)\n\nJoin us in simplifying and scaling REC management for the clean energy transition. 🚀\n\n**Nathalie, Dalton, and Matt**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/8d311047-fc85-4a85-9015-f05db3eb3b4f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H6v-jasmine-energy-claim-solar-incentives-with-ai", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2025-04-06T16:21:38.000Z" }, { "id": 73943, "title": "Jasmine Energy: Realtime climate asset trading", "tagline": "The easiest way to make your company 100% powered by renewables", "body": "**TL;DR:** Jasmine makes it easy to claim, buy, and sell renewable energy certificates.\n\nHi Everyone! [Nathalie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliecapati-energy/), [Dalton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdaltonc/), and [Matt](https://linkedin.com/in/matthewmayberry) here to (re)introduce [**Jasmine Energy**](https://jasmine.energy/) 🔋\n\nOn Jasmine, anyone can claim, sell, buy, and retire [energy attributes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_certificate) directly.\n\nEnergy attribute certificates (EACs) (sometimes called Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)  are a $10B market that is stuck in a time capsule from the fax machine era. Today's EAC market is confusing and time-consuming, taking weeks to register and days to trade.\\\n\\\nWe are on a mission to accelerate the net-zero transition by building climate asset markets that are accessible, transparent, and efficient.\n\n**💢 The Problem**\n\nRECs are a valuable source of revenue for renewable energy generators and are worth up to $500/MWh! The problem is EACs are still traded using phone calls and fax machines. The whole process is confusing and time-consuming, taking weeks to register and days to trade. Middlemen currently keep up to 30% of trade value. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73943&key=user_uploads/89898/29c68bd5-72fe-4072-86fc-e6d3b32cc819)\n\n**🤝 The Solution**\n\nOn Jasmine, anyone can buy and sell EACs at a posted price, permissionless, with settlement in seconds.  \n\nJasmine helps users manage their renewable energy assets by bridging RECs onto the blockchain and enabling DeFi transactions that are impossible in the existing markets. When a tokenized EAC is retired, Jasmine handles regulatory filings and auditing (filing paperwork, making phone calls, etc).\n\nJasmine provides the infrastructure to make every step of the buy and sell side process more efficient and transparent, allowing renewable energy generators to make more money, enabling commercial buyers to have a verifiable audit trail of their energy consumption, and giving energy traders the tools to operate more efficiently.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73943&key=user_uploads/89898/1700472b-a8b3-49b3-8eac-f0bb4076432b)\n\n**♻️ How does this directly help the climate?**\n\nUnder business as usual, we're not going to build enough global clean energy capacity to hit our 2050 goal of (1) electrifying the economy, (2) decarbonizing the electricity grid, and (3) improving people's quality of life by expanding access to affordable electricity. \n\nA more liquid EAC market will make renewable energy projects less risky to finance, attracting new investors to accelerate the grid’s decarbonization.  We’re bringing those EACs onto the blockchain not just for the transparency and liquidity benefits, but also because DeFi will quickly generate the financial derivatives to further incentivize project financing.\n\n🙏🏻 **Asks**\n\n* Engage with us on [ProductHunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jasmine-energy) today! 🐱\n* Use RECs to make your company 100% renewable\n* Intro us to large generators and/or large buyers\n * Utility and nonutility generators (NUGs)\n * Renewable energy builders\n * Climate asset traders & brokers\n * Builders in the climate and crypto space\n * ESG offices & officers\n\n**Come join our communities and use our dApp**\\\n\\\nHomepage:  \\\nDiscord:  \\\nTwitter: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JEd-jasmine-energy-realtime-climate-asset-trading", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-08-09T14:46:29.021Z" } ] }, { "id": 27159, "name": "Almond", "slug": "almond", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c35bd0b00b8f8b7f91cc07954a3f36515544f2e.png", "website": "https://www.almondobgyn.com/", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Almond is like One Medical but for women’s health: we make it easy to get great ObGyn care fast, both at our in-person offices and over telehealth.\r\n\r\nThe problem with traditional ObGyn practices is that physician time is misused, so patients get slow care. 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Her background is in marketing and entertainment. She was Head of Production for global campaigns for brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, Marriott, Chipotle, and Bonobos, among others. Her focus has been in building purpose driven brands, which is desperately needed in the ObGyn space. Her late father was an ObGyn so she is deeply connected to this space. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carly-allen-90a403130/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/68b6710407a51cdf34a7a4bd9f7e51a77fcb83f6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Meet Almond. 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Book an appointment at [www.almondobgyn.com](http://www.almondobgyn.com) or call 424-237-8406. Share with your friends and family to help the women in your life have a better option for ObGyn care. \n\n**Membership is affordable and we take all major insurance.**\n\n* Membership is $250 annually but our founding members can get their first year of membership for $150. \n* For visits, you can either use insurance or pay out of pocket. We accept Cigna, Aetna, Blue Shield, Anthem Blue Cross, and United HealthCare.\n\n### ObGyn today is broken\n\nAs women, we’ve had too many frustrating experiences with our ObGyn care. We may love our doctors but the process _around_ seeing the doctor can be terrible: long hold times to schedule, waiting a month or longer for an appointment, and often leaving an appointment with unclear next steps. Our modern world gives us so many great service experiences, yet when it comes to the most important aspect of our lives – our health – we are forced to put up with a slow, confusing process. \n\nBillions of dollars have been poured into modernizing primary care, yet women are still waiting for a better option for ObGyn care. The overturning of Roe is a harsh reminder that women still aren’t given the resources or the rights to be full decision makers over their own bodies. We are building Almond because women deserve better. \n\n### Why better ObGyn care matters\n\nThe impact of better ObGyn care is massive. There are 130M women in the US and they all need ObGyn care every year. On top of that, ObGyn is where women typically have their first intense, high stakes experiences with healthcare. We spend $200B a year on ObGyn care in the US; it is the second largest specialty by spend, after only primary care. Yet currently, women don’t have a brand they can trust and where they know they’ll have a great experience.\n\nAt Almond we believe women should have an extraordinary care experience: one that offers quality, transparent care, delivered faster. \n\n### We’re freeing up the ObGyn’s time so they can focus on what matters most\n\nOne of the first problems to tackle in ObGyn care is that doctor time is used inefficiently, wasting already limited ObGyn capacity. This makes access to care slow, and patients often feel their questions are unaddressed or they get unfit care.\n\nWe’re able to make care more convenient because we use doctor time better – we build software tools to take unnecessary tasks off their plates and we hire a wider range of care providers, not just doctors. By freeing up time for ObGyns they can spend more time on what matters most – delivering great care in every interaction, and seeing the patients that need their attention sooner.\n\nWe also believe getting [ObGyn](https://almondobgyn.com/) care should feel like a true-self care experience for patients, so our offices and software are designed to be convenient, reliable, and intuitive.\n\n### We would love your help\n\n1. We are hiring engineers. We’re particularly interested in meeting people who are passionate about what we are working on – e.g., they are women that have felt this pain themselves or are energized by the idea of building a better health system in the US. Here are our JDs for [backend](https://www.notion.so/Almond-Back-End-Engineer-423ff23660864e29be34fbd828ff0b6f) and [frontend](https://www.notion.so/Almond-Front-End-Engineer-7280fd76c3664dd1bb52864cc43f0126) eng roles. 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I’m Bryan Onel, the CEO of Oneleet. I co-founded Oneleet with my wife, Ora Onel, and my best friend, Erik Vogelzang, with one mission: to help startups build genuine security without the nonsense.\n\nAfter spending a decade as a penetration tester and security program manager, I grew frustrated with platforms that claimed to help with compliance but were really just about ticking boxes. They weren't helping businesses _become_ secure—they were just pretending.\n\nThat’s why we built Oneleet: to be the solution that truly focuses on security, not just compliance theater.\n\nㅤ\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nLet's be honest… most compliance platforms are all about security theater:\n\n* Ticking boxes instead of building actual security, making you waste time on useless things that are irrelevant to security\n* Dumping checklists on you and wishing you good luck\n* Making you juggle countless tools and vendors\n* Leaving you to deal with external auditors who don't understand real security\n* Hitting you with unpredictable pricing that keeps changing\n\nㅤ\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84326&key=user_uploads/233375/e8d1a05a-7731-463b-97f6-6dad7407b58e)\n\nOneleet is here to change the game:\n\n* We build real-world security controls that actually protect your business\n* We take ownership of the entire process, from start to finish\n* We provide everything you need in one place, no vendor juggling required. Even code scanning and attack surface management are built in\n* We deal with external auditors, so you don't have to, speaking their language when needed\n* We act as an extension of your team, providing ongoing expert security help\n\nㅤ\n\n# **How It Works**\n\n1. **Scoping** – We assess your infrastructure, security concerns, and compliance needs\n2. **Custom Program** – We craft security that fits your size and needs\n3. **Expert Setup** – Our team of security and compliance experts guides you through implementation minus the jargon\n4. **Penetration Testing** – OSCE-certified experts find your weak spots\n5. **Compliance Automation** – We streamline SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and more\n6. **Auditor Wrangling** – We battle incompetent external auditors so you don't have to\n7. **24/7 Protection** – Continuous monitoring keeps you secure, always\n\nㅤ\n\n# **What We Offer**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84326&key=user_uploads/233375/ddd8e80c-171f-45c2-a7bb-ce6baba122f5)\n\n* Compliance automation that actually works (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, & PCI)\n* OSCE-certified penetration testing\n* Third-party auditing with external auditors who get security\n* vCISO services\n* Employee Portal\n* Code security scanning\n* Attack surface monitoring\n* Mobile Device Management (MDM)\n\nㅤ\n\n## **Ready to Ditch Security Theater?**\n\nIf you're tired of pretending to be secure and want the real deal:\n\n* Book a call: https://calendly.com/d/cwr7-ztb-xxq/oneleet-introduction\n* Email us: [founders@oneleet.com](mailto:founders@oneleet.com)\n\nStuck with another platform? We can often help you get out of a contract and migrate everything to Oneleet. [Book a call with us to explore your options.](https://calendly.com/d/cwr7-ztb-xxq/oneleet-introduction)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lw6-oneleet-compliance-without-security-theater", "votes": 2097, "created_at": "2024-09-26T21:17:12.076Z" } ] }, { "id": 27164, "name": "autone", "slug": "autone", "former_names": [ "autone.io" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1265ce908f9437a3001af3e36bdbbfd9a00821ca.png", "website": "https://autone.io", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Today, Retailers have to make 1000s of complex operational decisions every day, all impacting their bottom line.This problem is being currently tackled with excel or legacy systems, both no longer fit for purpose.\r\n\r\nWe make a platform that lets retailers make optimal decisions, easily and quickly. 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This problem is being currently tackled with countless spreadsheets or legacy systems, no longer fit for purpose.\n\n**Solution**\n\nOur platform allows business users to make **optimal decisions, easily and quickly**. Autone acts as an intelligence layer on top of the company’s existing infrastructure, turning data into decisions at lightning speed.\n\n**Why we’ve built Autone?**\n\nAfter successfully growing McQueen's business, we kept getting requests from old colleagues to help them, at the new companies they have joined, solve the same problems. We quickly understood that this was a **pattern across the industry**, so we decided to solve these inefficiencies.\n\n**Let’s get in touch!**\n\nWe always love to get feedback from all kinds of users, so if you would like to test our product, please send us an email at [founders@autone.io](mailto:founders@autone.io) or by clicking [here](https://calendly.com/autone-support/autone-discover-more?month=2022-07) 🙂\\\nIf you need some customers in the retail space, we’ll be more than happy to put you in touch with our network.\n\nThank you ✌🏼", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GkH-autone-the-sales-operations-planning-platform-for-retailers", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2022-07-06T15:54:45.259Z" } ] }, { "id": 27165, "name": "Entvin", "slug": "entvin", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e0d49ca07ec0976b29ec7382f9a10f4bc1568987.png", "website": "http://entvin.com?utm_source=yc", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Entvin is building AI agents specifically designed to support regulatory teams in the life sciences industry. \r\n\r\nOur platform leverages AI to streamline workflows, automate complex tasks, and enhance efficiency throughout the regulatory process. 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Tell us the name of your podcast and what you want to talk about in this episode and we’ll generate a podcast for you in seconds. Add your own music, voices, and make sure it’s just right for your use-case. Whether you're a seasoned podcaster or new to the game, _[_Wondercraft_](https://www.wondercraft.ai/)_ makes it easy to create engaging content._ _Curious how it sounds? Check out the [_Hacker News Recap_](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170103)._\\\n[_CHECK OUT DEMO_](https://youtu.be/0VYh2TFYVCY)\n\nHey there, we are Dimitris and Youssef, co-founders of Wondercraft. Our mission is to empower podcast creators with cutting-edge AI technology, making podcasting accessible to anyone.\n\n### **🧨 The Problem: Podcasting can be time-consuming and challenging**\n\nCreating high-quality podcasts is not easy, and finding the right voice for your content can be a struggle. Moreover, recording your own voice can be time-consuming, and outsourcing it can be costly.\n\n### **🎉 The Solution: AI-Powered Text to Speech Technology for effortless Podcast Creation**\n\nWondercraft is redefining podcast creation with AI-powered text-to-speech technology. Our virtual studio seamlessly translates your content ideas into an engaging script, brought to life by a spectrum of realistic AI voices. For a more intimate connection with your audience, you can even utilize a clone of your own voice. Complementing the narrative, you can layer-in music and sound effects for a richer listening experience. And the best part? Publication to podcast platforms is a breeze - execute it all directly from our integrated platform.\n\n### **🔦 Use Cases: Business marketing, newsbites and more**\n\nCrafting marketing podcasts for businesses, transforming blog posts into auditory experiences, and producing quick newsbite podcasts for various publications are just a few of the exciting uses for our platform that we're currently seeing. Even podcast studios are loving this as an accelerant to their current work. **A standout success story** has been the [Hacker News Recap podcast](https://hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com/). This daily digest, reviewing the top 10 posts on Hacker News, is created entirely through Wondercraft's automated tools. Impressively, in just 1 month, it climbed into the [top 40 tech podcasts chart on Spotify](https://www.wondercraft.ai/post/ai-podcast-enters-top-50-in-28-days).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71541&key=user_uploads/1010390/0578d4af-68b2-4a03-8930-1fca74a0c5af)\n\n\\\n**💲Opportunity: The Exciting Future of Podcasting**\n\nPodcasting is on the brink of a big change. AI tools are making it easier than ever to start your own podcast and connect with your audience.\n\nWhat's more, we see a future where podcasts are tailor-made for every listener. With AI making the audio, the only hurdle left is picking the content - a challenge that many have already mastered. Want to learn more? 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We bring supporters to the rescue**\n\nBack your favourite up-and-coming athlete by investing in their career! When they make it big, you’ll have secured the ultimate bragging rights, and you’ll make a nice return on your investment in the form of a cut (think \\~5-10%) on their future earnings.\n\nAthletes get the money they need to continue their professional career. Backers get to meaningfully support their favourites and a significant financial stake in their success. Win win.\n\n**Some concrete use cases we’ve come across**\n\n1. Individual sports (Tennis, Golf and Motorsports) - capital may act as a catalyst, by providing the opportunity to fund competition participation and better coaching.\n2. Team sports (Basketball and Football) - capital may act as an insurance policy. A college athlete can capitalise on the potential of a future large contracts in the NBA or NFL.\n3. In most sports, there are one-off career changing events - think of preparation for the NFL Draft Combine, or making a run for the Olympics. Capital may act as a bridge in order for the athlete to reach peak level at the time of the event.\n\n**Want to contribute**\n\n1. Sign up to our backers [waitlist](https://moonshot.li/). We’re launching in September and spots are limited (250).\n2. Know athletes who could benefit from Moonshot? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a talent referral bonus if they sign up!\n3. Know backers who’d passionately love to invest in a sport? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a backer referral bonus.\n4. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/86677997), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/moonshotli/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/moonshot_li)!\n\n**quick blurb to copy & paste**: Check out this YC company that is building a platform that allows you to support your favourite up and coming athlete by investing in their career. 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Blockscope is used by crypto users, trading firms, web3 startups and institutions.\n\n### **❌ Problem:**\n\nWeb3 has a usability problem, currently any interaction is complex and fragmented. For simple things like getting alerted when money moves to your wallet or understanding what happened in a transaction, it’s like you need a degree in cryptography. As developers, traders, and researchers who faced these issues, we realized that without better tools, web3 adoption will not take off. This is precisely the problem we’re solving.\n\n### **✅ Solution:**\n\nAt Blockscope we’ve built a suite of tools that work together to help you understand on-chain data in useful ways and take action. All of our tools help do one of the following:\n\n* Save engineering hours for developers\n* Make on-chain data readable and understandable\n* Enable traders to take informed actions\n* Help monitor & fight against scams, fraud and hacks\n* Empower new comers and non-technical individuals\n\nTools currently available on Blockscope:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72077&key=user_uploads/245828/ec3ccf9e-9e8c-4279-b891-ed0051eb168f)\n\n---\n\n### 💪 **Some of our products:**\n\n✔️ **Data Delivery Pipeline Tool** - Index blockchain data and deliver anywhere in real-time!\n\n\n\n✔️ **Watchtower Tool** - No-code tool to monitor, capture and send alerts based on specific on-chain activity set by users\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72077&key=user_uploads/245828/4c906f2f-f9b5-4ad8-bba0-466ddbad65b9)\n\n✔️ **Tracer Tool** - Track funds moving into and out of different wallets\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72077&key=user_uploads/245828/2f872b79-0b0a-48ae-8546-cb0bb831efe9)\n\n✔️ **Transaction Decoder Tool** - Decode all data in any transaction and understand what is going on! ex: a Flash Loan attack and addresses involved\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72077&key=user_uploads/245828/cc32d118-d093-4879-b159-035090f3d652)\n\n### **🚀 Use Cases:**\n\n* Devs have built discord bots to notify when specific NFTs in certain collections are listed for sale using [Data Delivery Pipelines Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* Traders are monitoring for new Uniswap pool creation with [Watchtower Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* Flash loan attacks can be investigated with [Transaction Decoder Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* Forensics teams can analyze sanctioned addresses with the [Tracer Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* Developers can measure DAUs & MAUs and other metrics with [Contract Usage Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* Understand holdings and activity for any address with [Address Profiler Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* Devs can trigger state changes for their protocols based on on-chain events with the [Webhooks Tool](https://www.blockscope.co/)\n* … many more!\n\n# **👋 Our Ask:**\n\n* Sign up for access at \n* Tell us about any on-chain data issues you’ve had at \n* Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/BlockscopeCo) & [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockscopeco/)\n* Reach out at [hello@blockscope.tech](mailto:hello@blockscope.tech) for any inquires!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IkX-blockscope-easy-to-use-crypto-tools-for-all", "votes": 82, "created_at": "2023-06-06T14:31:08.441Z" } ] }, { "id": 27168, "name": "Relevium Medical", "slug": "relevium-medical", "former_names": [ "Relevium", "ReleviumBio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fe3f53ef710ec5758d984168f33594337d5df8ae.png", "website": "https://relevium-medical.com/", "all_locations": "Galway, County Galway, Ireland", "long_description": "Relevium Medical is developing an injectable gel for knee osteoarthritis. Approximately half the population will be diagnosed with this pain and progressive disease.\r\nRight now, patients have to undergo not only repeat injections to control their pain, but also have to take strong oral medications. Because the disease is progressive and only gets worse over time, many patients end up on highly addictive, high-dose opioids. \r\nTo date, we have secured $3.7 million in non dilutive funding and completed preclinical testing. We demonstrated that our drug is safe, selectively blocks nerves that transmit pain, and provides pain relief that lasts four times as long. \r\nInsurance currently pays $770 per six-monthly treatment for knee osteoarthritis. With 5 million patients in the US, this represents a $7.7 Bn market opportunity.\r\nThis platform biotherapeutic can also be used to treat other joints affects by osteoarthritis such as the hip and ankle, where the same problems exist in treatment care. 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Alison holds qualifications in Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering (M.Sc. & Ph.D.). She has worked for major multinational companies including ROCHE, Cook Medical and Boston Scientific; and completed the BioInnovate Fellowship in the prestigious Stanford BioDesign-affiliated program at NUI Galway, Ireland. She is the named inventor on over 20 patent publications and the winner of the Science Foundation of Ireland’s €1 million innovation prize.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-liddy-ph-d-402155138/?originalSubdomain=ie", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5b2a3ec2cb7d9a78b37837da2196318376af434d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Galway’s Relevium Medical gets €4.6m funding for knee osteoarthritis treatment | Business Post", "url": "https://www.businesspost.ie/news/galways-relevium-medical-gets-e4-6m-funding-for-knee-osteoarthritis-treatment/", "date": "Dec 11, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65532, "title": "🚀🚀 Relevium Medical", "tagline": "Advancing Long-Lasting Solutions for Chronic Pain", "body": "**The problem:** The chronic pain condition Knee osteoarthritis (OA) affects over 250 million people globally, creating significant social and healthcare challenges, with **untreated pain being the #1 patient complaint**.  In the absence of effective long-term injectable treatments, millions of patients rely on damaging oral medications. \n\nCapsaicin, offers long-lasting, selective pain relief for chronic pain via molecular ablation of pain-sensing nerves only. Despite FDA approval and proven safety and efficacy, its adoption is limited by **intense burning pain** post-administration, requiring over **1.5 hours of clinic management and making it intolerable for many patients**. This has restricted the use of an otherwise highly effective treatment for chronic pain.\n\n**Our solution:** RM-010 was specifically developed to address the burning pain associated with Capsaicin. Relevium Medical has engineered an innovative drug delivery system that gradually releases Capsaicin into the knee joint, carefully maintaining concentrations **below the threshold that triggers burning pain** while sustaining levels high enough to achieve full nerve ablation. This breakthrough offers patients a highly tolerable, effective, and safe treatment, delivering long-lasting pain relief with a significantly improved experience. RM-010 is designed for seamless integration into clinical workflows, allowing physicians to administer the therapy in **5 minutes**. It provides a practical, patient-friendly solution for effectively managing knee osteoarthritis pain, setting a new standard in treatment care.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65532&key=user_uploads/896081/10efad73-299c-4cd5-9c87-0a4e0f19f1bb)\n\n**Who are are:** Relevium Medical, headquartered in Galway, Ireland, is a pioneering pharmaceutical company driven by a passionate team of chemists, neuroscientists, pharmacists, and industry experts. United by a shared mission, the team is dedicated to developing novel solutions to improve the lives of people living with chronic pain.\n\n**Interested in hearing more**: Get in contact at [info@Relevium-Medical.com](mailto:info@Relevium-Medical.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H2y-relevium-medical", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-08-22T13:44:28.458Z" }, { "id": 64408, "title": "ReleviumBio - Life changing Innovation", "tagline": "ReleviumBio is developing a platform peptide gel-based therapy for Osteoarthritis", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64408&key=user_uploads/854295/770094dd-9ea7-4b87-96db-dfa446ca3b6e)\n\n[www.ReleviumBio.com](http://www.ReleviumBio.com)\n\n**Problem** \\\nThere has been no disruptive treatment for knee osteoarthritis (KOA) in over 50 years, with 80% of patients reliant on damaging medications. The shortcomings of the current injectable treatments leave 2 million US patients reliant on opioids for adequate pain relief. The number one KOA patient complaint is pain, with regenerative therapies to date failing to demonstrate a measurable patient outcome.\n\n**Solution** \\\nUp to recently, it was believed KOA was a disease of wear and tear. The latest scientific evidence however shows it to be a complex whole-organ disease, affecting multiple tissues and with different disease patterns for different patients. This evidence highlights the need for a multimodal approach to effectively treat this complex disease. PeptiFlex is the first multimodal injectable therapeutic developed for KOA that gives not only pain relief but also lubricates and preserves the joint.\n\n**How it works** \\\nOur novel multimodal therapeutic is based on a peptide component (315y) covalently bound to a polymer gel base. This patent-protected biotherapeutic achieves its effects through three complementary and synergistic effects. The biotherapeutic is injected directly into the knee joint to give immediate long-acting relief.\n\n**Pain Relief Effect**: PeptiFlex reduces pain nerve signalling by the action of peptide 315y which safely and consistently reduces pain signalling by a sodium channel block effect on neurons in the knee nerve fibres. Preclinical test data out to 7 weeks in a dedicated KOA model has shown successful translation of efficacy and safety with statistically significant effects on key pain endpoints.\n\n**Lubrication Effect**: The polymer base of PeptiFlex has unique viscoelastic properties acting as a substitute for healthy joint fluid and providing lubrication, cushioning, shock absorption, and improving the physical function of the joint.\n\n**Protection Effect**: PeptiFlex has proven to be extremely safe and protects joint structure by cartilage protecting actions of peptide 315y. The peptide interacts with cartilage-producing cells (chondrocytes) to cause proliferation and increased cartilage production. Tests have shown KOA joints treated with PeptiFlex were evaluated using the gold standard OARSI cartilage scoring system and showed improvement in terms of aggression and extent of disease compared to control.\n\n**The ask** \\\nIf you know any strategics interested in osteoarthritis or clinical trial groups interested in partnering with early-stage companies, we would really appreciate an introduction", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gkq-releviumbio-life-changing-innovation", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2022-07-07T14:00:52.112Z" } ] }, { "id": 27172, "name": "Clearline", "slug": "clearline", "former_names": [ "Lancey" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/53a34147e63b67c7a9270226ba55f80c0701d86e.png", "website": "https://useclearline.com", "all_locations": "Kitchener, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Clearline is the AI operating system that captures, routes, and converts every revenue opportunity across your dealership without adding headcount.", "one_liner": "AI for modern automotive dealerships", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1655587130, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "AI", "Automotive" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearline", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/clearline.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Kitchener", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamclearline/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/53a34147e63b67c7a9270226ba55f80c0701d86e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 942902, "full_name": "Adi Patel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Clearline", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pateladi/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/39fe4dd168336efa366aa995815ff74af1c5e6bc.jpg" }, { "user_id": 970753, "full_name": "Abhi Patel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Making something people want", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-patel27/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/80aa2c99c9f71ff91ccb8cc6feba51b95f2d34df.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Led by former Ada employees, Lancey secures $2 million to let B2B software buyers “try before you buy” | BetaKit", "url": "https://betakit.com/led-by-former-ada-employees-lancey-secures-2-million-to-let-b2b-software-buyers-try-before-you-buy/", "date": "Dec 05, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 99746, "title": "Clearline | AI native revenue engine for automotive", "tagline": "Clearline deploys AI agents that answers every inbound call, follows up on every lead, and tracks every customer interaction for car dealerships, 24/7.", "body": "Hey everyone! We're Adi and Abhi, the founders of Clearline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99746&key=user_uploads/942902/e3dbee2c-c4a0-4485-ad87-4509317bb2c9)\n\n### The Problem\n\nCustomer experience at car dealerships is broken. Not because the teams don't care, but because the systems were never built for how customers actually behave today.\n\nHere's the reality:\n\n* **23% of dealership calls go unanswered.** 85% of those callers never call back. That's revenue walking out the door every single day.\n* **Most lead follow-up dies by day 5.** Dealerships spend thousands driving traffic and generating leads, then let them rot in a CRM nobody checks.\n* **Sales uses one system. Service uses another. Nobody has the full picture.** Reps waste time on manual logging, managers guess at what's happening, and customers repeat themselves every time they call.\n\nDealerships have tried to solve this with more tools, more staff, more process. It doesn't work. The stack is fragmented and nothing talks to each other.\n\n### The Solution\n\nClearline is an AI-native operating system for dealerships. Three products, one platform:\n\n**Inbound** - AI answers every sales and service call instantly. No voicemail, no hold music, no transfers. It qualifies intent, routes to the right department, and books appointments in real-time. 24/7, including nights and weekends.\n\n**Outbound** - Automated follow-up via calls, texts, and email. Clearline responds to new inquiries within seconds and runs disciplined cadences from day 1 through day 90. No lead gets forgotten.\n\n**CRM** - One unified record across sales, service, and BDC. Full call transcripts, automatic logging, next steps triggered without anyone typing a note. Managers get complete visibility with real data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99746&key=user_uploads/942902/dd50c407-f1a1-4910-b1c3-7124bd3e294b)\n\n### Results\n\nDealerships see this in their first 30 days:\n\n* **$60K+ revenue recovered** from missed calls and dead leads\n* **240% more leads engaged**\n* **4+ tools consolidated** into one platform\n\n> _\"Recovered $78K in service and sales revenue from 400 missed calls per month._\n\n> _\"Show rate on outbound appointments went from 38% to 64% in the first month._\n\n### You're Always in Control\n\nThis isn't about replacing dealership staff. Clearline augments your team:\n\n* AI escalates to a human anytime a situation needs real judgment\n* It only operates within rules you define (hours, routing, boundaries)\n* It only uses dealership-approved responses for pricing and policies\n* Every call, message, and booking is logged and reviewable\n\n### Try Clearline\n\nIf you run a dealership or know someone who does, we'd love to chat.\n\n[Book a demo](https://useclearline.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\nReach us directly at [founders@useclearline.com](mailto:founders@useclearline.com) or check us out at [Clearline](https://useclearline.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pwo-clearline-ai-native-revenue-engine-for-automotive", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-14T21:10:47.506Z" }, { "id": 95485, "title": "Lancey - connect your customer signals to your codebase", "tagline": "Every AI coding tool writes code. Lancey helps you decide what to buid.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nMost teams know what their customers want. It’s buried in Slack threads, support tickets, and calls. But turning that into shipped code still takes months.\n\nLancey is the first autonomous coding agent that builds what your customers want.\\\nIt listens to your customer channels, understands your codebase, and ships ready-to-merge PRs, all in the background.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/1g76HQkrdyQ\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCustomer feedback already tells you exactly what to fix or build. The issue isn’t knowing _what_ to do, it’s the manual steps between understanding and shipping.\n\nSupport tickets, Slack threads, and bug reports pile up. Engineers spend hours triaging. Product teams chase context. PMs and devs are stuck in loops instead of shipping.\n\nEven AI coding assistants today still need you to _prompt_ them, _explain the bug_, and _review every output_. It’s still work, just faster typing.\n\n---\n\n### **Why Lancey Exists**\n\nWe built Lancey because we think software should respond directly to its customers. Without human bottlenecks.\n\nLancey continuously scans your customer channels and codebase to spot high-impact bugs or requests. When it’s confident, it drafts and submits a PR. When it’s unsure, it asks for review.\n\nNo tickets, no triage, no context handoffs. Just a system that quietly keeps your product aligned with your users.\n\n---\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n* **Understands your customer context** - Connect Slack, Zendesk, Intercom, and more.\n* **Understands your code** - Builds a deep map of your repositories and dependencies.\n* **Builds autonomously** - Drafts fixes, features, and improvements as ready-to-merge PRs.\n* **Collaborates by default** - Keeps engineers and PMs in the loop so nothing feels like a black box.\n\n---\n\n### **Who It’s For**\n\nEngineering and product teams who want to spend less time triaging and more time shipping what actually matters to customers.\n\n---\n\n### **Why Now**\n\nWe’ve reached a point where LLMs can not only reason over customer data, they can write safe, context-aware code. The missing piece is connecting these two worlds.\n\nLancey makes **customer-driven engineering autonomous**.\n\n# **How you can get access**\n\n* Sign up for a free account [here](https://lancey.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oq5-lancey-connect-your-customer-signals-to-your-codebase", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-11-13T16:04:17.494Z" } ] }, { "id": 27173, "name": "Jamble", "slug": "jamble", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8964c1f86d1269f9dbee0a1067368d0a96636bdc.png", "website": "https://www.jamble.com/", "all_locations": "São Paulo, SP, Brazil", "long_description": "Jamble is a live shopping marketplace for collectibles in Brazil. Collectors discover products, meet sellers and buy together in interactive live shows, from Pokémon and other trading cards to Hot Wheels and diecast miniatures.\r\n\r\nBuyers see items live, ask questions and make offers in real time. Sellers turn their expertise and inventory into live storefronts, build an audience and grow a community of returning customers.\r\n\r\nJamble brings live video, chat, checkout, payments via PIX and cards, and tracked shipping into one app. Available on iOS and Android.\r\n\r\nExplore Jamble: https://www.jamble.com/", "one_liner": "Live shopping for collectibles in Brazil", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1660193927, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "Consumer", "Social", "E-commerce", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "Brazil", "Latin America", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? 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We want to leverage short-form video & Live streaming to create a new buyer & seller experience.\n\n* Live streaming is a game changer in secondhand fashion. Connecting with an audience in real time, answering all questions at once and selling to the highest bidder is the most effective way to move inventories - way more than managing static listings for months. It is also a unique compelling experience for the buyer.\n* Short videos have become one of the most powerful means for discovery in fashion. We developed a social Feed where our community can share inspiration, styling tips, outfits, etc. This is a place for users to find their next fashion ideas and creators to get known.\n\n### 👋 **Meet the Jamble Team**\n\nWe’re 3 French founders 🇫🇷, we grew up in the same Parisian district and have a longstanding relationship together. We’re all experienced resellers - Aymar and Louis used to run an online vintage shop together while Jeremy is a crazy sneakerhead. 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[Monterey AI](https://monterey.ai) is the most powerful AI native insights platform for decoding the voices of customers and the next growth opportunities.\n\n# [**⭐ Click here to book a demo call ⭐**](https://cal.com/chunonline/monterey-demo)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80330&key=user_uploads/809138/ef5f3408-f42f-413f-a1f0-cf5d659ecd44)\n\n**🤕 Problem**\n\nAlmost all customer conversations in all customer channels have enormously valuable user insights that have never been mined to their full potential. Most companies are not utilizing them enough; this damages the speed of decision-making and slows down execution. Breaking down the problem into three key issues:\n\n* Support tickets, transcripts, and surveys are extremely messy (format, scale, and cadence);\n* Too much noise to filter - everyone wants to listen to users more, but listening at scale is hard;\n* It’s high-stakes decision-making and has a low-risk tolerance towards hallucination.\n\n# [**⭐ Click here to book a demo call ⭐**](https://cal.com/chunonline/monterey-demo)\n\n**🎉 Solution**\n\nWith Monterey AI, you can connect with data sources like **Zendesk, Front, Intercom, Gong, Salesforce, HubSpot, App Store, Google Play Store, and Snowflake, in one click or via API**. Monterey AI automatically extracts, categorizes, and triages the conversations based on company or business concepts.\n\n* **Proactive insights delivery:** Instant, accurate answers. 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We do this by replacing documents with smart use-case-centric workflows that help you strategize, measure, and align.\n\n### **Who is it for**\n\nProduct leads (whether a founder, engineer, product manager, designer, etc.) who are looking to escape from burdensome documents and get back to what they are good at. No more spending hours and days on\n\n1. looking for best practice of product development online\n2. convincing your team to adopt the process\n3. repeatedly communicating and reporting strategies and progress\n4. worrying about cross-team dependencies\n5. managing several products in numerous documents and task management tools\n\n### **How it works**\n\n1. Pick a product template based on your use case\n2. Configure input and share with your team\n3. Check dependencies and solve conflicts\n4. Run, report, retro, and repeat\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64189&key=user_uploads/809138/4340dbb8-f79a-485a-894f-8f044aeb2498)\n\n### **Why we built it**\n\n💪 We started Monterey AI to solve a problem that we’ve experienced at startups ranging from 10 to 10,000 people: **the product velocity gets slow and inefficient as company scales.** We built Monterey to\n\n1. Get teams out of verbose documents and into guided **workflows** that can be visually configured and shared\n2. Speed up product development by exposing and sharing **best practices**\n3. Discover cross-team conflicts and dependency by running **Monterey Bot**\n4. Initiate outcome driven conversations with **slack integration**\n5. Provide a birds eye **portfolio view** to align across features, products, and teams\n\n### **Can I try it**\n\n1. Want to try it? Sign up on [the website](https://www.monterey.ai/) or email ([chun@monterey.ai](mailto:chun@monterey.ai)) and we’ll help you get started!\n2. Have feedback or have friends in need of Monterey? Come be our super design, [join our Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/monterey-ai/shared_invite/zt-1ajkx4ur4-up_0R7TR_I4B9md29c5xbg), and [follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/montereyai)!\n3. 🎁 50% off any paid plan if subscribed annually before Sep.1st, 2022.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhJ-monterey-co-pilot-for-product-development", "votes": 111, "created_at": "2022-06-29T19:08:43.808Z" } ] }, { "id": 27175, "name": "Express Building", "slug": "express-building", "former_names": [ "Uwi Homes", "Uwi", "uwi" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/51e56d00fdef4175645d89fdb8c4452e07a347e7.png", "website": "https://www.expressbuilding.ph", "all_locations": "Singapore, Singapore; Remote", "long_description": "Express Building (EB) helps small and medium sized residential developers scale their pre-sold affordable housing development pipeline. \r\n\r\nCurrent markets: Indonesia & Philippines", "one_liner": "Financing Southeast Asia's ~$1 trillion housing backlog", "team_size": 14, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "launched_at": 1656597546, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Real Estate", "B2B", "Proptech", "Lending" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Housing and Real Estate" ], "regions": [ "Singapore", "Southeast Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/express-building", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/express-building.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Singapore", "country": "SG", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/51e56d00fdef4175645d89fdb8c4452e07a347e7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1005442, "full_name": "Joseph Tan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Former real estate executive who has invested & developed $3B+ in commercial and residential real estate in North America. 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We’re Zoe and Pranov, co-founders of Slingshot, software to reduce people’s medical bills.\n\n**The Problem:**\\\nHealthcare in the US is complicated, confusing, and above all too expensive. [50% of Americans now carry medical debt](https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2021/10/13/50-of-americans-now-carry-medical-debt-a-new-chronic-condition-for-millions/?sh=1b2bac585e5d), and [estimated 80% of hospital bills](https://www.lblgroup.com/how-common-are-medical-billing-errors/#:\\~:text=Upwards%20of%2080%25%20of%20Medical,very%20good%20about%20never%20undercharging.) have errors. \\\n\\\n**What Slingshot Does**\n\nWhen a patient gets a medical bill they upload it to our website, and Slingshot analyzes the bills to find the errors, the up-codes, the items insurance should have covered but didn’t, and the items that can be negotiated to a lower cost. Slingshot handles all the time consuming interactions with hospitals and insurance companies to fix errors and negotiate costs. We take a small percentage of the savings we get customers, and save customers 50% per bill on average. \\\n\\\n**The Backstory of How We Started**\\\nWhen I (Zoe) got a $1400 bill for a gynecologist appointment I was shocked and angry. I trusted my doctor, but was confused why I was being billed over a month's worth of rent for something I thought would be free. 4 weeks later, I had researched, filed claims, audited medical codes, and negotiated to reduce my bill. The whole process though was exhausting.\\\n\\\nMaybe your story involves [pregnancy complications](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/21/1065572001/a-hospital-asked-these-parents-to-pay-45-843-a-month-for-their-babys-nicu-stay), or maybe it involves a [planned checkup](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/31/1101861735/colonoscopy-cost-cancer-screening), whatever the case if it occurred at a hospital it likely involves an inflated bill. And that bill can likely be reduced in cost.\\\n\\\n**Our Ask**\\\nIf you or someone you know has an expensive medical bill, sign up on our website . We would love to help you reduce that cost.\\\nIf you are or know a doctor, nurse, or patient advocate and who would refer patients to us who are in need of assistance. 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Power your data warehouse as well as your microservices using the same API connectors.**\n\n### ⚠️ **What’s the Problem?**\n\nAfter talking to dozens of data engineers as well as technology stakeholders, and from our past experience, we uncovered a set of intertwined problems with current data connectors:\n\n1. A data connector does not provide data to transactional systems. This can lead to duplication of integration work plus lack of reliability between different sources of data. For machine learning this can be real trouble\n2. API integrations done in house are flaky and require a lot of investment in development and maintenance\n3. Event-driven architectures are reimplementing over and over again the same pieces of infrastructure such as schedulers, pollers and webhook receivers\n4. Batch extractors can skip states and so end up with missing data. For example if I have a booking business and a reservation gets cancelled 10 minutes after created, the batch pipeline will only see the cancelled state but not the created state.\n5. Running automations and other workflows is impossible with batch data connectors.\n\n### 👍 **What’s the solution?**\n\n**Realtime, event-driven, deduplicated, replayable, ELT friendly and SDK ready connectors which feed both data and transactional systems at the same time.**\\\nWe are rolling out connector for APIs which give you the ability to add any number of destinations including data and backend systems. We provide on top of that transformations for the data side so that you get the data in nicely formatted tables. Plus we also aim to provide easy to use SDKs so that consuming MovingLake’s webhooks is as easy and fast as possible.\\\n\\\n❓ **What’s the ask?**\n\nDo you have recurring issues with data reliability? Do you end up writing batch scripts to recover lost data from webhooks? 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Meet Pump, FinOps fully automated with AI.", "body": "[Pump](https://bit.ly/3ZeSLWM) is the FASTEST to save up to 60% on your AWS bills with zero engineering effort and financial risk.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71529&key=user_uploads/1048566/9e12619b-721e-4678-99f3-a8a18080e2ed)\n\n**🤖 How Pump saves so much:**\n\nPump’s AI to continuously optimizes AWS discount commitments, our customers get the best price without needing to constantly monitor and adjust their AWS usage. Our optimization algorithms identify which hourly commitments are most cost-effective for your specific usage patterns, so you never pay for more than you need. Additionally, we offer a group volume tier discount, similar to Groupon, based on combined usage across all our customers.\n\nList of all the AWS services we support is [here](https://help.pump.co/overview/list-of-aws-discounts). 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Taro brings together top SWEs with proven insights to scale your career. **Check out our** [**website**](https://bit.ly/taro_app_web) **and** [**YouTube channel**](https://bit.ly/rahul_yt)**.**\n\nTaro helps full-time engineers get onboarded and promoted faster. We do this through Q&A and case studies from tech veterans, organized by company and level.\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nAs a software engineer, you already know how to code. But **software engineering is so much more than coding**.\n\nOver the last 2 years, Alex and I built a community of 50K software engineers on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/rpandey1234), [Slack,](https://join.slack.com/t/techcareergrowth/shared_invite/zt-1ctxuq8h2-b3nnkQG0MtXyBpvrEFpgqQ) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/71614174/admin/). 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A Q&A database from real engineers, with answers from industry experts. **All questions are tagged by company + level, which makes it easy to find relevant content.** [Here’s a sample](https://app.jointaro.com/question/mvMQj8228kuUe38BvdT9).\n2. Case studies from eng leads + managers at top tech companies.\n3. A community of software engineers at top companies who share insights + advice.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65087&key=user_uploads/192956/62f78267-822d-4ab1-a232-5c3f586b48d9)\n\n### **💁🏽‍♀️ Target Audience**\n\nWe already have 100+ Taro Premium members from companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and Amazon (along with thousands of free users).\n\nTaro is a great fit for **full time engineers at fast-moving tech companies**. Taro is **not** a good fit for freelancers or students who are still exploring software engineering.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\n1. Reach out if you’re an engineer starting a new role, or are aiming for a promotion.\n2. 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Assigning the correct diagnosis and billing codes is crucial for proper reimbursement and patient care, but medical coding is becoming more and more complex each year with growing numbers of codes (over 145,000 now), and doctors are unsupported by current technology to keep up with its ever increasing requirements. $125 billion is left on the table each year by healthcare organizations due to improper documentation and coding. \r\n\r\nKnowtex creates visit notes with up-to-date and accurate reimbursement codes from doctor-patient conversations, allowing the doctor to focus on patient care and preventing revenue leakage for hospital systems through standardized, transparent, and accurate documentation. 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Knowtex is changing the game by making AI measurable and explainable, ensuring clinicians and healthcare systems can understand and trust every AI-driven recommendation.\n\n**What This Means for Healthcare Teams**\n\nWith the Model Evaluation Platform, Knowtex can now:\n\n* Evaluate AI performance in real-world clinical workflows for accuracy and reliability\n* Enhance traceability by surfacing insights into model predictions and decisions\n* Strengthen accountability with structured benchmarking and continuous monitoring\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcWhj4wXNN6O4XKxH85tksdXx469QoqDrlorbk5r4Z_uuiwI_hTMzeAX4a4yfyikYpLGKwm4gel84baxTcEa6kILyK4y_nxq7MMnOFMmvAr7FmocYgGxsTPRuATxto9XWZU8fwnyg?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\n**Trust, But Verify**\n\nInnovation in AI isn’t about chasing what’s new—it’s about measurable progress. Knowtex doesn’t just release updates; we test them against real-world clinical benchmarks to ensure every iteration is an improvement. Our benchmarking gauntlet allows us to pit the latest-and-greatest against our tried-and-true models, ensuring that Knowtex isn’t just keeping up—we’re leading the charge in rapid iteration and continuous improvement.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXetEQTUDcqPf954aHWHsmolvU5-QBqtMAEvsuA4RTcKUTNuaJ1M6-HPANSPkJuQR3d1PNvWqAVobaz0DLVgy--L3Qr7tgWx6EUT8Htdvlal64jbWI7LB-4ioma4clTtiQzdITqO9g?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXesQhl_ORLRLMQn1ZAzQKnmHVyziix2px5YivuMSAO74X8TJ61Nh537JeDS8om07m4mGoIdVoIdpyF5fR8yN8km71y19eY-SFN2Z3Oaq21ARKZ0hWHnAZOcMRkQJie9fZGlBbr0Qg?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXek2LkdtRHW22jTpy-JAtYsJeW-ZKkNhrayHjn4EqHnfKOJQww_o46SrsRLbNilTYPyz60OmZd8XLz4byR-8i0KdOMBHimNH5EoPuYEg_AxlNFWOFyy1jSM28t2pMkKC8IlTHwvVw?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\nKnowtex’s benchmarks are built on insights from providers across multiple disciplines and focus on areas that matter most to them, such as:\n\n* **Style** – How well does the AI-generated note match the clinician’s voice? Over time, the model learns and adapts to improve precision.\n* **Note Length** – Does the AI capture the necessary details while avoiding unnecessary verbosity?\n* **Summarization Faithfulness** – How accurately does the summarized note convey the entirety of the clinical encounter?\n* **Structure** – Does the AI-generated note align with the expected template and clinical formatting?\n\nAt Knowtex, **AI isn’t just a tool—it’s a trusted partner in patient care.** Accuracy, clarity, and alignment with clinician needs are non-negotiable.\\\n\\\nThank you to Muhammad Khalifa and Nicholas Talbot for leading this project.\n\nStay tuned as we continue pushing the boundaries of explainable AI in healthcare!\n\nSimply head to [app-knowtex.com](http://app-knowtex.com) to create your account, and you’ll have full access to our voice AI documentation and coding solution supported by this Model Evaluation Platform. We’d love to hear your feedback, feature requests, and any suggestions you have at [demo@knowtex.ai.](mailto:demo@knowtex.ai)\n\nGet Started for Free → [app-knowtex.com](http://app-knowtex.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NC4-knowtex-transparent-explainable-ai-for-smarter-healthcare", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2025-04-01T15:54:35.840Z" }, { "id": 85532, "title": "Knowtex: Ambient Billing for Clinicians 🗣️💸", "tagline": "Personalized intelligent ambient documentation and billing solution for clinicians.", "body": "**Introducing Ambient Billing at Knowtex**\n\nAt Knowtex, we’re excited to launch a new way to capture every billing opportunity with zero added effort. Knowtex is built to empower healthcare clinics and systems, turning real-time doctor-patient conversations into accurate ICD-10, CPT, and HCC codes. Our ambient, AI-driven billing solution helps clinicians avoid leaving revenue on the table—all while keeping them focused on patient care, not paperwork.\n\nMedical coding is complex, and the rules and codes are constantly changing. Missed or inaccurate coding can dramatically impact a health system’s bottom line. That’s where Knowtex comes in. **Knowtex is a clinician’s partner in revenue:** capturing the full range of codes a visit is eligible for and keeping your documentation up-to-date with the latest standards. The result is an optimized, accurate billing workflow that catches every code, every time.\n\n**Unlike other solutions that simply analyze documentation to generate codes, we’ve spent the last two years developing Knowtex into a deeply integrated, personalized coding model based on the visit conversation that is tailored to clinicians and organizations. We create custom models trained on each clinic’s historic coding data so Knowtex tailors its suggestions to the unique needs of every clinician. This level of personalization allows Knowtex not only to generate accurate codes but also to prescriptively suggest coding updates that are finely tuned to the specific workflows and nuances of the practice.** \n\nKnowtex is a truly adaptive partner in coding at the point of care. It captures information correctly upfront and continuously improves and aligns with each clinic’s standards for maximized revenue and streamlined workflows.\n\n## Customer Results\n\nOne health system integrated Knowtex and observed significant improvement in revenue retention. With Knowtex identifying and correcting undercoded visits, they successfully capture approximately **$92,800 per month** in previously lost revenue.\n\nOne of our oncology practices with 50+ providers saw substantial improvement in billing outcomes with Knowtex. Before implementing Knowtex, their daily billing average was $7,101.60. Following integration, the mean daily billing rose to $7,893.70, an increase of almost **$800/provider/day**.\n\n## Features\n\n**🩺 Streamlined intelligent Code Selection**\n\nOur interface is designed for simplicity and speed and makes it easy for clinicians to confirm suggested codes instantly. As a clinician speaks with a patient, Knowtex listens, prompting relevant codes based on the conversation. For E&M codes, it analyzes encounter elements like time, medical decision-making complexity, risk, and data, guiding clinicians to the correct documentation with zero interruptions.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcd1urRt3iovIjG_hdQrkbwJ0U0xMAQcrWNBMJvXj06EkCgVa7VeHot38yjpzGpMDDBPR0lRG_9jLd5bd2tIp2dB-GRbjIs8t723zatJ3OfZ3R8oPR2QKz7NPr7Jh59qYpFC11K?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\nIn addition to live prompting, Knowtex provides targeted suggestions to help clinicians optimize coding accuracy. When assessing complexity, risk, or data documentation, Knowtex offers text snippets to update E&M codes based on the conversation info and historic data. These snippets guide providers by suggesting personalized updates that increase documentation complexity where applicable.\n\nFor example, with MDM:\n\n\\- Complexity: Knowtex can prompt providers to consider documenting any updates on the patient’s status under treatment with a pre-created snippet like “Patient is improving on current chemotherapy treatment but not yet at goal.”\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcB9XivMlmiJrkMbi5KzqYfO-Lpw7SwG7zRg_xyeF8bzfkchHb1PmC2GLx7I3smiTrzp-jAdSVUO-AG9c4haq4U_iKAHBESxngh4YyXel7RnFHHk_l9k-_ACkd-i8RpvCIvjJqOow?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\n\\- Risk: Knowtex may suggest inserting the text snippet, “reviewed liver function tests and discussed present chemotherapy effects with the patient,” to increase the documented level of decision-making complexity.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeXpD_K-hlG10Z0vGGn19NSs-AZsiDcePhUU0X70VZm0z8pwM2J7BovTaTPqum80I2l549WFgkPMTw8SO4z0XoogcljVNKSkbWNaXxA7VqsUfwin2gDF0jvxM-N0BkZB9JRLqalHw?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\n\\- Data: If the clinician reviewed imaging during the conversation, Knowtex will identify this and suggest a clearer way of documenting it: “CT images were **personally reviewed and interpreted**.”\n\nThese real-time, customized tips help clinicians capture all relevant information to substantiate the appropriate billing codes.\\\n\\\n**🔍 Accurate & Personalized Diagnosis Capture and Search**\n\nImagine a clinician is treating anemia. Most physicians would code the patient with D50.9 (Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified). While this can be accepted by insurance and reimbursed, there can be more precise codes that would be a better choice based on the patient’s symptomatology and history. \n\nKnowtex can capture and synthesize conversation and EHR data in real time as the clinician talks through symptoms and treatment with the patient to suggest precise ICD-10 codes like D63.1 (Anemia in chronic kidney disease). \n\nWe also provide intelligent search functionality for clinicians that surfaces the best and most detailed ICD-10 code based on the conversation detail and EHR information.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdYFAYWrvmJgndLiffAJCyQFPnu7fMM796mKPIZQKlQWSrlLdAD3Xoco727I2aEvOA82tfjAHm8-NwP-QKH9Ja9DjI0BSTH6xGxJCd6IoFsCnt-BzBsxaEfwAbxkEgFjEHBhhKn?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\nKnowtex makes sure every detail is captured without breaking focus for clinicians, especially in complex specialties like hematology and oncology. It’s a seamless experience that helps practices keep up with fast-evolving coding standards and prevent revenue leakage.\n\n**📊 Complimentary Financial Gap Analysis**\n\n**We’re offering a free financial gap analysis to the first 10 new clinicians/organizations that sign up.** Knowtex will deeply analyze your last 3 months of billing data and pinpoint specific opportunities where Knowtex can capture missed revenue through optimized documentation and code selection. \n\nUsers will also get **free** **full** access to our state of the art, customizable, ambient scribing solution for those three months. \n\nContact [sales@knowtex.ai](mailto:sales@knowtex.ai) to learn more.\n\nThank you to our engineers Muhammad Khalifa, Andrea Green, and Azeem Ghumman for their work pioneering ambient billing at Knowtex.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFY-knowtex-ambient-billing-for-clinicians", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2024-11-13T16:48:55.533Z" }, { "id": 65893, "title": "Knowtex: Creating Visit Notes from Doctor-Patient Conversations", "tagline": "Making doctors 2x more efficient with automating note-taking & charge capture", "body": "👋 We’re [Jocelyn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynkang/) and [Caroline](https://www.linkedin.com/in/czhang21/), the co-founders of [Knowtex](https://www.knowtex.ai/)!\n\n**tldr;** Knowtex automatically creates visit notes with billing codes from doctor-patient conversations. We built our ML solution in under two months and are working with healthcare organizations to save doctors time and prevent revenue leakage from improper documentation and coding. Our ask is for help connecting with private clinics (with 8+ doctors) in any specialty, digital healthcare companies with providers, and PE firms with medical roll-ups.\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nDoctors are spending more time on taking notes than seeing patients, and aren’t taught how to code their notes optimally for proper reimbursement. This leads to physician burnout and revenue leakage for healthcare organizations (up to $125 billion a year in the US).\n\n### **Our Solution:**\n\nKnowtex creates visit notes with the proper codes for reimbursement automatically from doctor-patient conversation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65893&key=user_uploads/556751/cbde38bb-69a5-49a9-b723-fc0b8bf65864)\n\n(The automatically generated note output from a conversation Caroline had in real-time with a cardiologist!)\n\n**Wait, doctors code?**\n\nWe’re not talking about software coding, but medical coding, which means assigning the right diagnostic (ICD-10) and procedural codes (CPT) to a note to allow a claim to be created and submitted to insurers for appropriate payment. Correct coding is also critical for demographic assessments and studies of disease prevalence, treatment outcomes and accountability-based reimbursement systems.\n\nWith Knowtex, we can cut the time doctors currently spend on admin work in half, and allow them to focus on what they love: patient care.\n\n### **Our Team**\n\nWe met day one of Stanford freshmen year. Caroline received her master's degree in Computer Science concentrating in AI and an undergraduate degree in Economics (in just 4 years!). Jocelyn received an interdisciplinary degree in CS specializing in Linguistics and has worked at startups in a variety of positions including leading AI/ML teams.\n\nAfter graduating during the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to apply our technical skills to build solutions for our healthcare system. We heard about the problem of physician burnout from medical documentation, and **became medical scribes ourselves to experience it firsthand. We’re the only medical scribes in the world with AI/ML backgrounds,** making us uniquely positioned to build this solution for doctors.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nWe’re looking to partner with\n\n* private clinics that have 8+ doctors in any specialty\n* digital health companies that offer healthcare provider services (ex. hybrid and virtual care, telemedicine platforms)\n* private equity companies with medical roll-ups\n\nHere’s a quick blurb you can send them about us:\n\n_Knowtex reduces physician documentation burden and increases coding efficiency and accuracy by automatically creating visit notes with billing codes from doctor-patient conversations. Our software captures natural conversation, identifies relevant medical information, and generates a pre-filled, structured note with ICD-10 and CPT codes for physician sign-off._\n\n_Founders Caroline and Jocelyn are Stanford CS grads who specialized in AI and previously worked as medical scribes. 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Providing shippers an online freight booker and record-keeper of all shipments.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65179&key=user_uploads/466754/984e8c45-fef1-4709-8f95-c772a576aa67)\n\n2. Saving shippers money (5-15%!) on every container shipped by providing them with optimized container stuffing plans and minimizing wasted space inside the container.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65179&key=user_uploads/466754/dc39cc40-f6d6-483e-8b04-8aed92506f0c)\n\n3. Automatically generating all shipping compliance documents, thus saving shippers \\~3-9 emails/shipment in co-ordinating manually generated documents.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65179&key=user_uploads/466754/5f7390c7-8d4e-412c-97d0-84ce37cc0fdf)\n\n4. 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We’re Bryan and David, the founders of [InVision](http://invisionmedtech.com/). At InVision, we develop AI tools to quickly and accurately diagnose heart disease. \n\n### **Challenges in Diagnosing Heart Disease**\n\n32 million heart ultrasounds are performed in the United States each year to diagnose heart disease. Acquiring and interpreting ultrasounds is time-consuming, requiring over an hour of physician and technician time for each exam. Additionally, there exists considerable human-to-human variability when interpreting the ultrasounds, resulting in misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis of heart disease. \n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nAt InVision, we use AI to help streamline the interpretation of ultrasounds and identify undiagnosed diseases. Our models have been tightly integrated into the clinical workflow to allow easy usage by clinicians. We’re leading the first and only blinded randomized trial of AI technology in cardiology, and we will be presenting as a [headliner clinical trial](https://twitter.com/David_Ouyang/status/1562834463343935491) at the largest cardiology conference ([European Society of Cardiology](https://www.escardio.org/Congresses-&-Events/ESC-Congress)) meeting tomorrow!\n\n### **About us**\n\nDavid majored in Statistics at Rice University, did his MD at UCSF, and did residency and fellowship training in cardiology at Stanford University. David then worked as an attending cardiologist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, a leading heart health system which will be the first site of deployment of our technology. Bryan majored in CS at Caltech and did his CS PhD at Stanford. Together, we've worked together on this project for the last 4 years, first as a research project and now as clinical deployment of a viable product.\n\n### **Where We Are**\n\nOur work has previously been peer-reviewed and published in several top medical venues, including Nature (2020), Nature Medicine (2021), Lancet Digital Health (2021), JAMA Cardiology (2022). Results from our blinded and randomized clinical trial on evaluating cardiac function have also been recently presented as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at the European Society of Cardiology.\n\nWe are currently working on securing FDA clearance for our heart failure model and starting up clinical trials for our model screening for cardiac amyloidosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and aortic stenosis.\n\n### **How You Can Help**\n\nIf you or anyone you know would be interested in helping out, we’d be grateful for introductions to:\n\n* Companies who have previously gone through the FDA regulatory process\n* Investors interested in medical technology\n* Hospitals and medical device manufacturers that may be interested in our product\n\nWe can be reached at [founders@invisionmedtech.com](mailto:founders@invisionmedtech.com). 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We’re Steph and Leia, co-founders of Cambio.\n\n**Problem**\n\nThere are many stakeholders in commercial real estate (landlord, LP investor, lender, property manager, etc.). At the center of them all is building data: leases, loan documents, environmental assessments, physical conditions reports, etc. Yet this data is analog, manually created and spread across thousands of PDFs and spreadsheets. Bottom line: there is no system of record weaving all stakeholders in commercial real estate together.\n\nThis makes mission critical workflows like capital planning and compliance painful. Teams rely on manual, expensive and fragmented consultant engagements, requiring thousands of team hours and millions of dollars in upfront cost, just to know where to take action in order to drive returns and impact across the portfolio. After years of manually hunting down utility data, sifting through static 100-page reports and building one-off financial models for every building in the portfolio, real estate managers are desperate for a better way.    \n\n**Enter Cambio**\n\nWe’ve lived this painful user journey. That’s why we built Cambio - to disrupt and automate this process. We use LLMs and agentic workflows to reason across thousands of pages of building documents and help commercial real estate funds identify high-impact retrofits that drive cost savings, compliance and decarbonization. Our AI-based models empower cheaper, faster, and more intelligent data-driven decisions across hundreds or thousands of buildings at scale.\n\n**Backstory**\n\nWe met as roommates at Stanford while pursuing our Masters degrees. On move-in day, we discovered we both worked in commercial real estate and joked over a glass of wine that we should team up to start a company together. The rest is history! \n\nWe’re building the solution we wished we had across collectively two decades working at leading commercial real estate players like KKR, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Oxford Properties.  We’ve lived the pain point and are ready to deliver our solution to the market.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65456&key=user_uploads/1069893/dba9f65f-e767-41e8-aaa3-5d34a3956fe2)\n\n**The Ask**\n\nWe’re rapidly growing our technical team (SWE, Data Engineering, Data Scientist) and also looking for warm intros to any commercial real estate companies.\n\n[founders@cambio.ai](mailto:founders@cambio.ai)\n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cambioai/) for updates and reach out if you’d like to chat - thanks!  ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H1k-cambio", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2022-08-18T01:21:23.742Z" } ] }, { "id": 27249, "name": "Aldara", "slug": "aldara", "former_names": [ "Lumo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0c86ef8ba5f876baddbfe2edd028c531149deb0f.png", "website": "https://aldara.com", "all_locations": "Barcelona, CT, Spain", "long_description": "Aldara is a modern, efficient HOA manager.\r\nWe achieve that by automating back-office and operations with our in-house technology, powered by AI.", "one_liner": "HOA manager with automated operations", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction", "launched_at": 1660117520, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Real Estate", "Proptech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction" ], "regions": [ "Spain", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aldara", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/aldara.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Barcelona", "country": "ES", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/83045241", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/aldara_com", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0c86ef8ba5f876baddbfe2edd028c531149deb0f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 62977, "full_name": "Miquel Llobet", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Aldara. 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For the less involved, they can forget about everything and still have a say, thanks to our support for online voting and meetings through video calls.\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we are [Dani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcarmonaserrat/) (CEO) and [Dani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danitorramilans/) (CTO), and we are on a mission to become the one-stop solution for homeowners, starting with the specific problem of managing their community (the Homeowners Association).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77957&key=user_uploads/209666/c8be3536-00a4-4af9-930a-161a7a0428a5)\n\n## **💣 The problem: Interacting with the HOA sucks**\n\nIf you own an apartment or a house in a housing complex, you need to split expenses with the rest of the owners for things such as utilities, insurance, or maintenance of common areas. \n\nCollecting payments from the owners, paying providers, submitting taxes when applicable, and keeping track of incidents is very painful, so HOAs hire a manager.\n\nNobody trusts their HOA manager: hidden fees, slow response times, and non-existent proactivity.\n\n## **🎉 The solution: One stop for your HOA needs**\n\nAldara is the modern version of an HOA manager. As digital as the owners want us to be, we take care of everything and you can rest assured that things will happen smoothly.\n\n* **⚡Speed:** Our centralized customer support has SLAs of hours instead of days (working to make it become seconds), and thanks to our structured data, anyone in the team can solve incidents.\n* **🗣️Communication:** We update owners about everything through their favorite contact methods: email, WhatsApp, and even postal card (also automated). The elevator was broken and we just fixed it? We will keep you updated in real-time about the status. \n* **🔎 Transparency:** We operate as a neobank for the HOA, which allows us to automate accounting and show balances and expenses in real-time instead of once a year.\n* **💰Savings:** HOAs spend a lot of money. 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", "body": "Today we're launching Terra: the thing we've wanted to build since day one.. If you caught our original launch: you know we've spent three years building India's property infrastructure. More than a million people use Landeed monthly searching millions of properties and growing at an increasing pace. The result of that work is Terra - India’s first and most intelligent property AI trained on 500M+ title documents. 24 states. 22 languages.\n\nEven more importantly, we built Terra on the foundations of our groundwork not guesswork. The answers are backed by verifiable records from regulatory registries and ground truth minimizing hallucination risks. Furthermore, this is the third major launch from Landeed Labs (our internal AI division) after AITSR our flagship product for enterprises which has now evolved into Terra Black.\n\nCheck it out below:\n\n\n\n**Here's what's broken.**\n\nIndia is two markets stitched together: _who you know_ and _what you know_. Most of India's economy has shifted toward what-you-know over the last twenty years. Real estate has not. It is the most extreme who-you-know market in the country.\n\nWho you know determines what you can buy, what price you pay, what risks you discover, and whether your title holds up in court. If you have the right cousin in the registrar's office, the right lawyer in the right city, the right broker who owes you a favor — you have edge. If you don't, you're flying blind with your life savings.\n\nThis is why India has $10 trillion in property and most of it is **dead capital** — Hernando de Soto's phrase. You own it but you can't prove it. You inherit it but you can't read it. You want to buy it but you can't verify it. Many call this dead capital but at Landeed we call this just another Tuesday. The data was always there. It was just illegible, scattered across 28 state systems, locked in 22 languages, and impossible to reason about.\n\n**Here's what we built.**\n\nTerra is the first product that makes data competitive with relationships in Indian property — and wins.\n\nYou just talk to it. In English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil — whatever you think in.\n\n\"Find me 2BHK apartments in Gachibowli under 1 crore and with nice gym.\" Or drop the link or url from your favorite listing to explore more about the property in detail like guideline value or average rentals. Terra shows you real listings across all aggregated from listings platforms, helps you create watchlists, calculate price trends and check property risks all in one screen in real time in one conversation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/c59d4a61-5060-44eb-bdc9-ee30b31e2d74)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/4a929008-2772-42f7-b0a8-bd7e19e4f86b)\n\n\"Who has owned that property since it was built?\" Ownership tree. Every transaction. Linked to source documents you can open.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/6a4338fb-af05-4c24-bc80-0d5dc9e3b049)\n\n\"Are there any encumbrances or legal issues?\" Light diligence in minutes. Not a lawyer's 2-week report.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/b035d906-223a-4a67-8b4f-3305132df9d4)\n\n\"Compare this to the one in Kondapur I was looking at yesterday.\" Side by side.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100213&key=user_uploads/95984/7914e052-0078-469a-9947-e2af051b4f7d)\n\nUnder the hood: a system of specialized AI agents working in parallel. Live integrations with 24 state governments. Proprietary OCR for 22 Indian languages including handwritten records from the 1980s. Terra doesn't guess. It reads the actual government records — the same ones a lawyer would read — and reasons about them in real time.\n\n**One moment that shows what this unlocks.**\n\nA user told Terra about his property next to a biryani shop in Chennai. Terra pulled the documents _and_ found a municipal announcement from that week — the user was now eligible to build additional square footage on his existing plot. He didn't know to ask. Terra found it anyway.\n\nThat's the point. Terra doesn't just answer questions. It tells you things you didn't know to ask.\n\n**Early traction.**\n\nSoft-launched on web a month ago. 50,000 users showed up without a rupee of paid acquisition.\n\n**Try it:** [https://web.landeed.com/terra](https://web.landeed.com/terra?thread=a3c27682-da8c-462a-8855-5d2ebcd80632) or download our app from play store or iOS\n\n**What we want from the community:**\n\n* Know anyone buying, selling, or inheriting property in India? Send them to Terra. Especially NRIs — they have the worst version of this problem.\n* Know a bank, NBFC, or real estate operator in India? We have Terra Black (enterprise API) already running with HDFC Bank, Hero FinCorp, Amazon India, Vastu Housing, and others. Warm intros welcome: [sanjay@landeed.com](mailto:sanjay@landeed.com)\n* Feedback, ideas, critiques — send them straight to us.\n\nIndia's property market has been a who-you-know game since the British left. Terra is how it finally becomes a what-you-know market. We make this inevitable. 🐂", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q4L-terra-turning-indian-property-from-a-who-you-know-market-into-a-what-you-know-market", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2026-04-25T15:27:09.197Z" }, { "id": 89737, "title": "Landeed Bill Pay: Property bills, tax, and documents — handled in one app", "tagline": "India's first property super-app: pay property tax, electricity, water & more — all linked to your property", "body": "**🏡 We’re Landeed — the fastest way to access property documents _and_ pay property-related bills in India**\n\nHey YC — we’re the team behind **Landeed**, a property super-app used by over 1 million people across India to instantly retrieve legal property documents like Encumbrance Certificates, Survey Maps, and Sale Deeds.\n\nToday we’re launching **Landeed Bill Payments** — a major upgrade that lets users instantly pay for all their property-related bills, directly in the same app.\n\n---\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nIndia’s government has digitized property documents — but property _bill payments_ are still a mess.\n\nEvery billing cycle, property owners deal with:\n\n* 3–5 broken government portals (BBMP, BESCOM, BWSSB, etc.)\n* Clunky UIs with mismatched property IDs and consumer numbers\n* OTP loops, failed UPI/card transactions, no real support\n* No central history or receipts\n\nIt’s painful for anyone — and 10x worse for landlords managing multiple properties across cities.\n\n---\n\n### 🧑‍💼 Meet Ramesh, a typical Bangalore landlord\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89737&key=user_uploads/95984/6f635ff1-7dea-4270-bc01-3526f95f8022)\n\n### ✅ Our Solution\n\nWe built **Landeed Bill Payments** right into the same app our users already trust for property documents.\n\nNow users can:\n\n* 💡Instantly pay **Property Tax, Electricity, Water, Gas, Broadband**\n* 💳 Use **UPI, cards, or wallets**\n* 🏙️ Access **20+ utility boards** across India\n* 📂 Automatically save receipts per property\n* 📈 View full **payment history** across all properties\n\nNo logins, no portal hopping, no stress.\n\n---\n\n### 💡 Why Now\n\nIndia digitized land records — but not the ownership experience.\\\nYou can _see_ your property online. But you can’t act on it.\n\nWe’re building the **operating system for property ownership** — starting with documentation, and now enabling transactions.\n\n---\n\n### 🚀 Traction\n\n* 1M+ users across 400+ districts\n* Cover 24 states and union territories in India\n* Live integrations with 20+ major utilities & DISCOMs\n* Multi-lingual support and over 12 vernacular languages supported\n\n---\n\n### 🎥 Product Demo\n\n\n\n> _See how Ramesh pays 3 bills in under 60 seconds, directly from his property dashboard._\n\n---\n\n### 🙌 What You Can Do\n\n* **Try it now**: — no fees, no logins\n* **Share this** with landlords, real estate operators, or civic tech folks\n* **Talk to us**: [founders@landeed.com](mailto:founders@landeed.com)\n\nThanks for checking us out — we’d love your feedback and intros.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NLN-landeed-bill-pay-property-bills-tax-and-documents-handled-in-one-app", "votes": 100, "created_at": "2025-04-22T14:56:32.985Z" }, { "id": 72566, "title": "Landeed XF (LXF): Founder's real estate concierge 🚀", "tagline": "Real Estate reimagined for Founders by Founders 🤝", "body": "# **Landeed XF (LXF): Your Ultimate Real Estate Ally!**\n\n**Quick Summary:** Landeed is thrilled to launch LXF! We present an all-encompassing real estate solution tailored for founders, ensuring hassle-free accommodation and workspace solutions, along with legal support for your company setup. No deposits, no brokerage fees, just an annual contract that bundles everything you need into a single monthly invoice.✨\n\n## **💥 What’s The Issue?**\n\nFounders are swamped with responsibilities and need to be laser-focused on their vision. Real estate complications, finding the perfect workspace, and dealing with legal requirements for company setup are all distractions that no founder needs. The market lacks an efficient, all-in-one solution that caters specifically to the founders' real estate and legal needs. Landeed XF is here to change that.\n\n## **🎯 Here’s What We Offer**\n\nLandeed XF is your one-stop solution, specially curated for founders looking to set their foot in India and vice versa. We’re here to enable you to hit the ground running.\n\n🧾 **Single Monthly Payment Mechanism**: Experience the simplicity of our financial structure. No deposits or brokerages; only transparent, all-inclusive monthly invoicing.\n\n🏡 **Move-in Ready Living Spaces**: No more endless apartment hunting or paperwork. Live comfortably in our fully-furnished apartments and enjoy single monthly payments sans any brokerage fees.\n\n👩‍💻 **Workspace That Matches Your Drive**: Choose from a range of coworking spaces and private offices, ensuring your workspace is conducive to your vision. We find the best locations for you and your team!\n\n👩‍⚖️ **Legal Entity Structuring**: Our expert partners will guide you through the complex maze of legal entity structuring between the US and India. We’ve negotiated discounted fees for you.\n\n🛂 **Hassle-free Company Setup**: We manage all the administrative tasks such as entity formation and government registrations, so you can focus on what matters most – your startup.\n\n⏩ **Fast-Track Your Launch**: Don’t let delays hinder your momentum. Our efficient lease negotiations and expedited legal processes mean you can be operational in just 2 weeks!\n\n## **📢 Landeed + YC Founders = Unstoppable Force**\n\nWe're on a mission to pave the way for your startup’s triumphant journey in India. With Landeed XF by your side, you can leave the real estate and legal complexities to us, and focus on what you do best – building and scaling your business.\n\n## **🎉 YC Exclusive Deal! 🎉**\n\nAs a special launch celebration, we’re excited to offer an exclusive deal for our YC community! Find out more about this limited-time offer [**here**](https://deals.ycombinator.com/deals/1847).\n\n## **🤝 Let’s Get Started**\n\nReady to take the leap? We’d love to hear from you. Reach out to [**namansrivastava@landeed.com**](mailto:namansrivastava@landeed.com) and let's explore how Landeed XF can propel your startup to new heights.\n\nJoin us on this exciting journey. Landeed XF is here to revolutionize real estate for founders! 🚀💡🏢", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IsQ-landeed-xf-lxf-founder-s-real-estate-concierge", "votes": 90, "created_at": "2024-01-09T22:13:42.397Z" }, { "id": 65182, "title": "🌆Landeed: Do you own your property in India? Are you sure? Let's check 🕵🏽", "tagline": "Landeed is India's first, fastest and only multi-state property title checker🥇 ", "body": "**TL; DR We make it easy for real estate agents, owners, developers, bankers and legal advisors to instantly check property titles. Our Landeed** [**app**](https://www.landeed.com/) **retrieves government generated Encumbrance Certificate (EC) within seconds. This document summarizes all present and past transactions pertaining to a property going back multiple decades.**\n\nNamaste 🙏🏽 we are Jonathan, ZJ and Sanjay, the three musketeers fighting for your land rights. This is our second YC startup together and have known one another for 7 (lucky) years.\n\n### **💀** **Serious Problem 🚨**\n\nApproximately 67% of all court cases in India deal with land-related disputes. This is due to India’s legal framework of “presumptive ownership.” Under this model, the due diligence on property purchases falls on the buyer with government claiming no responsibility. Furthermore, there is no concept of a single “title document” leading to prolonged due diligence phase ranging from 2-6 months whereas most property transactions in US can be concluded in 2-4 days.\n\n### 🧪**Landeed Solution ⚡**\n\nLandeed is a national property title search engine. Use our [app](https://www.landeed.com/) and check property transaction ledger going back 20 years in 2 seconds. Think of it as “Google of real estate titles.” We built a standardized interface simplifying the multiple search methods across states into an intuitive and fluid user experience. Next up, Landeed for the world not just India!\n\n### 🪄**Let’s talk about the magic 👏🏽**\n\nLandeed weaves together multiple government departments across various states producing a “plaid-like” property summary data. Whereas government platforms focus on taxing users for civic micro-services and document generation, our product is built around specific user profiles that have strong intent to transact. The end-result of this approach is a consumer-centric product with enterprise capabilities. Search property titles 10x faster guaranteed or money back ! (it’s free for YC)\n\n### 🤵🏽**Damn I look good (the app)** 📲\n\n![landeed app encumbrance certificate screenshot 1](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/acf78d_f957a692fca24048b10ea00073c1a49a~mv2.png/v1/crop/x_736,y_180,w_1037,h_2120/fill/w_238,h_488,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/ec_details_portrait.png)\n\n![landeed app encumbrance certificate screenshot 2](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/acf78d_92d55dce18e54a0e8c491f12cceb502a~mv2.png/v1/crop/x_731,y_171,w_1041,h_2128/fill/w_238,h_488,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/webview_portrait.png)\n\n🗺️And yes, we support multiple states (Home court advantage: TS 🏏)\n\n🙏🏽Asks\n\n1. Download Landeed [app](https://www.landeed.com/) if you or anyone that you know have property in India\n2. Request a state to launch if we are not currently covering it! We have a high demand waitlist and are constructing our build plans accordingly\n3. Follow us on [twitter](https://twitter.com/LandeedInc?s=20&t=nWcLlnd9LyDH_vTopux4wA) and give us your feedback. It’s still day zero at Landeed.\n4. If you have any other feedback, we’d love to hear it at [founders@landeed.com](mailto:founders@landeed.com)\n5. And of course, if you feel what we are building is impactful, we would appreciate the upvote!\n6. Full disclosure and request: Do not illegally trespass, set up meat shacks (it will be bulldozed 🐂) or try to sell our lands without our express written consent and permission\n7. Nothing to see here except it’s our lucky number and proof that some of you have read all the way to the end. If so, slack or email Jonathan, ZJ or Sanjay simply with the message “7\" and get a surprise gift from us 🧧🎁", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GxK-landeed-do-you-own-your-property-in-india-are-you-sure-let-s-check", "votes": 913, "created_at": "2022-08-07T08:56:12.741Z" } ] }, { "id": 27253, "name": "Cone", "slug": "cone", "former_names": [ "Cone software private limited" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6749dbc3973af54314fb19bab89f96afd64cd254.png", "website": "https://www.getcone.io", "all_locations": "Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Remote", "long_description": "Cone is an AI-powered work operating system that unifies accounting workflows —\r\nproposals, tasks, billing, payments, and client engagement into one platform", "one_liner": "Work operating system for professional service businesses", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1655892820, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Workflow Automation" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cone", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/cone.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Hyderabad", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getcone/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6749dbc3973af54314fb19bab89f96afd64cd254.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1014395, "full_name": "Jahangir Mohammed", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jahangir is the co-founder of Cone.\nBefore Cone, Jahangir was the co-founder of Joveo - the leading platform that finds companies worldwide the most qualified hires in the least amount of time. 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I started my career at Microsoft (6.5 years) and then joined UiPath (3.5 years). In UiPath, I had the roles of an Engineering Manager and a Director of Engineering, where I grew my team from 2 to ~20 people within 2.5 years and faced many challenges doing that. We are building Intuned to help ease some of these challenges.\n\nI grow up in Palestine and went to college there; I was then hired to join Microsoft from there.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/faisal-ilaiwi-77356135/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/faisalilaiwi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c9d0cd0dc50914ae87de900b1688042a650eb194.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 106701, "title": "WebSkillet.ai - web automation that gets cheaper every run", "tagline": "One API to automate any website. The agent writes code on run 1 and reuses it on every run after - script speed, agent resilience. Try it free at webskillet.ai", "body": "**Launch Video: [https://youtu.be/mXxe3P7hMzg](https://youtu.be/mXxe3P7hMzg)**\n\n**\\\nWhat is [Webskillet.ai](http://Webskillet.ai)?**\n\nWebskillet is a single API for web automation - extracting data, downloading files, crawling sites, filling forms, research tasks. You send a task in plain English (plus optional parameters, output schema, and start URL), and an agent executes it in a real browser using code.\n\nThat code is saved as a skillet, and since most web automation is repeat work (the same task on a schedule, or the same task with different parameters), the skillet gets reused on every later run. That's why run 2 can be 4x faster and cheaper than run 1. Here are [**20 real tasks with run 1 vs. run 2 numbers**](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EQVW4sypjW-v-sOz2bFU_iwYP3dadeA-4hdCYPYnHy0/edit?usp=sharing).\n\n**Why this is different?**\n\nPure AI browser agents treat every run like the first one. Nothing transfers: the agent re-explores, re-reasons, and you pay full price in time and tokens every time. Fine for one-offs, but web automation is mostly repeat work.\n\nWebskillet captures what the agent learns as code in the skillet, so run 2 starts from a working solution instead of a blank browser. And it's code reuse, not caching: same skillet, new parameters, fresh data from the live site.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106701&key=user_uploads/224423/bb695aa0-402f-4ded-9b33-c9c5ba7da222)\n\n**Our story**\n\nWe've been building [**Intuned**](http://intunedhq.com/) for the past 3 years: a browser automation platform that's been powerful for our customers, but it takes some setup to get up and running. Meanwhile, the world is moving to a place where agents just want everything as an API.\n\nWebskillet is our new product: everything we learned, packaged differently. One endpoint, no setup, and our infra (stealth browser, proxies, captcha solving, AI agent) behind it.\n\nDemo: [**https://youtu.be/U9WPX2bG_GI?si=0qoXtt7JKaTP-eXG**](https://youtu.be/U9WPX2bG_GI?si=0qoXtt7JKaTP-eXG)\n\n**Who it's for**\n\n* **AI agent products** that need the web as a tool. An example: a sales agent calling Webskillet to scrape a big website and build target lists\n* **Product teams** whose product needs data from sites that don't have an API in a repeat manner: government sites or legacy systems\n* **Growth/GTM engineers** doing enrichment and competitor monitoring: pricing pages, job postings, hiring signals\n* **Ops teams** doing repeated lookups: insurance verification, compliance checks, order status\n* **Data/analyst teams** building on web data: price intel, listings, market data, 10-K filings\n\n[**Here's a sheet of 20 real tasks we ran**](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EQVW4sypjW-v-sOz2bFU_iwYP3dadeA-4hdCYPYnHy0/edit?usp=sharing), with costs and timings for run 1 vs. run 2. Every row has a \"try it\" link so you can run yourself.\n\n**Asks**\n\n* **Try it! Sign up at [webskillet.ai](http://webskillet.ai)**\n* Watch the demo and tell us what you think, especially on the skillet concept\n* If you has a scraping/automation [**use case**](https://cal.com/team/intuned/quick-chat), lets talk!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Rkz-webskillet-ai-web-automation-that-gets-cheaper-every-run", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2026-07-21T14:13:11.426Z" }, { "id": 99778, "title": "Intuned - Code-first browser automation, built and maintained by AI", "tagline": "We help developers build and maintain browser automations (scrapers, RPAs, crawlers) with an AI agent that writes the code and fixes it when websites change.", "body": "Hey Everyone,\n\nI'm Faisal, co-founder of Intuned. We're a code-first browser automation platform with an AI agent that builds and maintains your automations: scrapers, RPAs, crawlers, and anything else that needs to control a browser at scale.\n\n\n\n### The problem\n\nBrowser automations run a surprising amount of the internet's back office: price monitoring, job aggregators, data migrations, every RPA that exists because a vendor won't ship an API. And they're miserable to own. The scripts are fragile, selectors break constantly, and when a site changes, someone's day is gone.\n\nThat's before the infrastructure: stealth, proxies, CAPTCHAs, authentication, scheduling, retries, observability. Building one automation is annoying. Running a hundred in production is a full-time team.\n\nRecent AI browsers and LLM-driven agents handle one-off tasks well, but for repetitive tasks that run regularly, you need the speed, predictability, and cost profile that only code gives you. Nobody wants to write that code. And nobody wants to maintain it.\n\n### How Intuned works\n\nTwo parts, designed to work together.\n\n**The platform.** Write automations in TypeScript or Python, organize them into Projects, deploy to Intuned. Run them on demand via API or on a schedule. We handle stealth, CAPTCHA solving, proxies, AuthSessions for login flows, batched Jobs with retries and concurrency, and full observability (logs, browser traces, session recordings).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99778&key=user_uploads/224423/e2c5bb13-ee8a-497c-8312-c0793cad9183)\n\n**Intuned Agent.** Describe what you want. The agent explores the site, proposes a schema, writes the code, validates it against the live site, and delivers a production-ready Project you can review and deploy. It also edits existing projects and diagnoses failed runs by pulling real traces and logs, the same signals a human engineer would use.[ Learn more about it in our docs.](https://intunedhq.com/docs/main/02-intuned-agent/overview)\n\n**Self-healing projects.** Flip a switch and the project becomes autonomous. When a site changes and a run fails, Intuned detects it, the agent diagnoses and fixes it, and the project redeploys. You configure how much autonomy it gets. [learn more about it in our docs](https://intunedhq.com/docs/main/02-intuned-agent/self-healing-projects).\n\n**More demos:** [Build a scraper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es390qwW87w) - [Build an RPA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Uf42OS1cs) - [Fix with AI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPqyOy-brOE) - [self-healing projects](https://youtu.be/22IYRA-ZqQk)\n\n### Use cases\n\n* **Scrapers** — pricing, job listings, public records, news, product catalogs. Anything structured you need on a schedule.\n* **RPA** — form submissions, data entry, report downloads, account actions. Essential when the service you need to integrate with doesn't have an API.\n* **Migrations** — moving data between services that don't talk to each other\n* **Crawlers** — multi-page discovery, sitemaps, content indexing at scale\n\n### How we got here\n\nWe've been in browser automation for over two years. We launched Intuned as a developer platform, but the #1 ask from customers was for us to just build and maintain the automations for them. We ended up running a services motion alongside the product, and over the past year we've processed **40M automation runs (20M minutes)** for a limited set of customers. It became one of the most loved parts of working with us, and also the thing we most wanted to replace with product.\n\nWe spent the last year trying, and nothing we built was good enough.\n\n**Then we integrated the Claude Agent SDK (Claude code wrapped as SDK) directly into Intuned.** Combined with the platform we'd already built, the agent now does what a human engineer on our team used to do: build projects, validate against the live site, read failed run traces, and ship fixes.\n\n### Our ask\n\n* Checkout our docs [here](https://intunedhq.com/docs/main/00-getting-started/introduction).\n* Try it free: [app.intuned.io](https://app.intuned.io)\n* Have a use case you want to talk through? [Book a demo](https://cal.com/team/intuned/get-started) or email [support@intunedhq.com](https://mailto:support@intunedhq.com)\n* Share it with anyone you think will be interested.\n\nThanks for reading 🙏\n\nFaisal & the Intuned team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PxK-intuned-code-first-browser-automation-built-and-maintained-by-ai", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2026-04-15T14:35:16.537Z" }, { "id": 83938, "title": "Intuned Auth Sessions - Build authenticated scrapers and RPA", "tagline": "Intuned Auth Sessions enable you to easily build authenticated scrapers and browser automation for a wide set of use cases. Watch our demo videos to learn more!", "body": "# **The Problem**\n\nAdding authentication to any type of browser automation complicates it. There is a lot to handle—session expiration, proxies, obtaining user credentials/consent, monitoring, and more—and there is no easy or standard way to handle it.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nIntuned Auth Sessions provides a standardized, developer-friendly way to add authentication to any browser automation task. Whether you're building authenticated scrapers, implementing RPA processes, or creating custom integrations for a service without APIs, Intuned simplifies the process and provides you with the infrastructure. Intuned’s auth sessions come with features that handle common authentication challenges, such as securing credentials, solving challenges, proxy support, 2fa, and more!\n\nOne of the features that we are super excited about is our auth session recorder, where you can allow the user to log in to a remote browser and capture the session from that. Check out how it works here (and watch the full video below for more info):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83938&key=user_uploads/224423/47827269-e4ce-4a87-b57b-7a07d8cdc9bd)\n\n# **Use Cases, Demos, and Docs**\n\n* **Build a LinkedIn integration/Build an integration with a service that has no APIs.**\n * Video Demo: \n * What does the demo show? We build an integration that enables users to “Connect to LinkedIn” and then show how we can automate a simple action.\n* **Authenticated Scraper:** Build scrapers that pull data from a website that requires auth.\n * Video Demo: \n * What does the demo show? We build a scraper that runs daily and pulls data from an authenticated website.\n* **Back office Automation:** Automate back office operations on a website that requires auth.\n * Video Demo: \n * What does the demo show? We automate some tasks on OrangeHRM using a service account.\n* To learn more about the feature and about Intuned in general, here are a few pointers to our docs:\n * General docs: \n * Auth Session docs: \n * How to guides: [how to automate LinkedIn](https://docs.intunedhq.com/docs/guides/auth/how-to-automate-linkedin) and [how to do credentials based authentication](https://docs.intunedhq.com/docs/guides/auth/how-to-authenticate-with-credentials).\n\n# **Our Ask & Onboarding**\n\n* Does this set of features sound like something you need? We are ready to onboard developers starting today: \n* Do you know someone facing these challenges? [Email us](mailto:founders@intunedhq.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lpq-intuned-auth-sessions-build-authenticated-scrapers-and-rpa", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2024-09-11T14:20:22.252Z" }, { "id": 81730, "title": "Intuned - The browser automation platform for developers and product teams", "tagline": "Develop, deploy, and monitor reliable web scrapers and browser automations", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nUse [Intuned](https://intunedhq.com/) to develop, deploy, consume, and monitor reliable web scrapers and browser automations. Reliability is powered by AI.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nStartups increasingly rely on browser automation for data scraping and RPA (Robotic Process Automation: automate what doesn’t have APIs via UI). However, the process of building, deploying, and maintaining these automations is fraught with challenges:\n\n* Building and deploying browser automations requires specialized infrastructure that can be complex to set up and maintain.\n* Browser-based automations are inherently fragile. Over 100 conversations with founders, product managers, and integration team members revealed a unanimous concern: the reliability and maintenance headache of scrapers and RPA.\n* The lack of monitoring tools for browser automations complicates the prompt detection and resolution of issues that occur during automation operations.\n\n### **✨ Our solution**\n\n[Intuned](https://docs.intunedhq.com/) is the platform for developers and product teams to develop, deploy, consume, and monitor **reliable** web scrapers and browser automations. We use LLMs to make common browser automation tasks easier to build and more reliable. Check out our docs ([https://docs.intunedhq.com](https://docs.intunedhq.com/)) for more info.\n\n\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n**Develop**\n\nThe Intuned platform has an IDE built to speed up the process of building browser automations. Intuned IDE comes with custom features like action recording, selector creator, and more! To learn more, check out [**Develop**](https://docs.intunedhq.com/docs/platform/develop/overview).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81730&key=user_uploads/1063634/fd5e1fb7-0bff-44be-9444-1c33f8f14e84)\n\n**Deploy**\n\nIntuned’s projects can be deployed with a single click and within a minute. To learn more, check out [**Deploy**](https://docs.intunedhq.com/docs/platform/deploy).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81730&key=user_uploads/1063634/7f553275-4f64-4325-a19a-87cb7dd6b3d8)\n\n**Consume**\n\nStart consuming your projects by making API calls directly or scheduling jobs for scraping tasks. To learn more, check out [**Consume.**](https://docs.intunedhq.com/docs/platform/consume)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81730&key=user_uploads/1063634/0ac65a69-0a97-4777-b0b8-47ea18aa1ec0)\n\n**Monitor**\n\nGet proactive alerts on failures - with access to previous runs’ traces, recordings, and results. To learn more, check out [**Monitor.**](https://docs.intunedhq.com/docs/platform/monitor)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81730&key=user_uploads/1063634/3d319b39-591b-4947-97b7-0f086b324101)\n\n**Reliability**\n\nAs part of the Intuned platform, we provide the `@intuned/sdk` , a library built on top of Playwright, extending its capabilities by offering powerful helpers designed for common browser automation tasks. The `@intuned/sdk` enhances Playwright by making automation tasks more reliable and easier to implement.\n\n### **Our story - why build this?**\n\nFaisal and I started our YC journey working on an analytics platform. However, our background at UiPath drew founders to us with challenges around scaling manual processes. These interactions revealed the inefficiency of classic RPA tools for customer-facing integrations. When the time to pivot arrived, we analyzed YC startups batch-by-batch and observed a rising trend: many founders were venturing into areas requiring non-standardized access.\n\nOver 100 conversations with founders, product managers, and integration team members revealed a unanimous concern: the complexity and reliability of building and maintaining such integrations. Over the past few months, we've handled over a million requests for our early customers who are setting up their large-scale scrapers/automations.\n\n### **Our ask to you**\n\nAre you a dev building a scraper or browser automations? Or have you been postponing building those? Check out [Intuned](https://intunedhq.com/), or just chat with us [here](https://cal.com/team/intuned/get-started).\n\nKnow someone facing these challenges? We appreciate introductions! Contact us for an introduction blurb to facilitate the process.\n\n### **Docs and How-to guides**\n\nGeneral docs: \n\nQuick start: \n\nBuild your first scraper - webhook sink: \n\nBuild your first scraper - S3 sink: \n\nScrape data from web and files: \n\nWeb data extraction (how you don’t need selectors anymore!): ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LGE-intuned-the-browser-automation-platform-for-developers-and-product-teams", "votes": 54, "created_at": "2024-06-25T15:00:44.188Z" }, { "id": 64781, "title": "🎵 Intuned - The data assistant for engineering leaders", "tagline": "We help engineering managers rein in the chaos", "body": "**TL;DR:** [Intuned](https://www.intuned.io/) is the data assistant for engineering leaders. [Watch our demo](https://bit.ly/3PIvCY2) to see how it works, and [email us](mailto:founders@intuned.io) if you want to learn more or get early access!\n\nWe are [Faisal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/faisal-ilaiwi-77356135/) and [Zawad,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zawad-chowdhury/) and we are building [Intuned](https://www.intuned.io/)! We are on a mission to help engineering leaders!\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nBeing an engineering manager day to day is not easy. There is a lot that engineering managers are dealing with, here are a few of the many issues we are trying to help with:\n\n* When it comes to people, many management decisions rely on gut feeling **alone.** This is why the performance-reviews period is a tough one.\n* There are a lot of repetitive, ad-hock, and manual tasks that are expected from a manager. An example is the regular reporting managers are often asked to prepare. Another one is the periodic planning activities that teams go through.\n* Driving change within organizations is hard, what makes it harder is the lack of an easy way to set measurable goals and track progress towards achieving them.\n* Managers have to deal with a set of different tools day to day, these tools all have different and inflexible notification systems, which makes them (as notification systems) useless. This is why managers use a pull model (go check on things) vs. a push model (they get notified) on the things they care about.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\nWhile the problems above are common with most managers, the exact way they can be solved will depend on the manager, their team, their processes, and the systems they use. There is NO one-size-fits-all here!\n\nWith [Intuned](https://www.intuned.io/)_,_ we are providing a toolbox to help!\n\nAs an engineering leader, [Intuned](https://www.intuned.io/) will enable you to connect your data from the different systems you and your team use (Jira, Github, Notion, Excel, and more) and will give you a powerful way to query it, explore it, build metrics, and actions on top of it.\n\nUsing this flexible approach, we believe we can help managers with many of their regular tasks, and save them time, effort and randomization.\n\n[Watch our 4-min demo to see how it works](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzFTvSwFaqs)\n\n### **⚙️ How does it work?**\n\n**🔗 Connect your data with a few clicks.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64781&key=user_uploads/224423/95454f4b-64db-4a06-9e08-b3550b138824)\n\n**❓ Query and explore your data - save hours on building manual reports.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64781&key=user_uploads/224423/107f6c59-9790-4eb4-a040-78e18dffdeda)\n\n**🔔 Setup a custom notifications - never miss a critical issue again!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64781&key=user_uploads/224423/482e12d8-d5c3-4eb8-be56-e78960e44a0d)\n\n🏗️ **Why build this?**\n\nAs a former engineering manager myself, this is the product that I wish I had!\n\n2\\.5 years ago, I became a manager for an engineering team of 2 that end up growing to around 20 people by the time I left _UiPath_.\n\nAs my team was scaling, we experienced growing pains with engineers being blocked, deployments getting delayed, and overall team execution lagging. I realized our software delivery process wasn’t keeping up but I couldn’t pin point what it was. So I ended up building a small tool to help! That tool ended up being very useful. That tool is the inspiration behind [Intuned](https://www.intuned.io/).\n\n### **Let’s Talk!**\n\nIf you or someone you know are a leader of an engineering team who is feeling some of these pains, we think [Intuned](https://www.intuned.io/) can help! please [email us](mailto:founders@intuned.io) or [schedule a meeting](https://calendly.com/intuned/15min) with us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gqr-intuned-the-data-assistant-for-engineering-leaders", "votes": 241, "created_at": "2022-07-20T23:49:02.445Z" } ] }, { "id": 27258, "name": "AccessOwl", "slug": "accessowl", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f47d40efa2ec60ceb6de3d5dad85ab504f1c80f.png", "website": "https://www.accessowl.io/", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Remote", "long_description": "AccessOwl automates employee SaaS account provisioning and permissioning for any tool. 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Scaling from 0-1.8M in profits selling within a single year. AccessOwl is solving the problems we had ourselves when scaling business in the past. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://de.linkedin.com/in/philip-eller-7667238b", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d03166921ce998207b30302568cfd90ca8fde25c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 824799, "full_name": "Mathias Nestler", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Mathias Nestler is the co-founder and CTO of AccessOwl. He is a Forbes 30 under 30 Entrepreneur and CTO with 10+ years of experience in Technology. Former CTO & Co-Founder of FRIDAY.de (InsurTech). Former CTO of viafintech.com (FinTech). Loves to work on great products.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-nestler-a8436044/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4975f24c7b47682decfc9ecdd3ac8fb7eb7aaf8d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85154, "title": "AccessOwl - SaaS Spend Management", "tagline": "Track, manage and reduce your SaaS spend in a single place.", "body": "**tl;dr** AccessOwl SaaS Spend management is your single pane of glass across all your SaaS apps, allowing you to keep track, manage, and reduce your SaaS costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85154&key=user_uploads/165231/fc45f909-ef8a-4412-bf4f-35dbf1c1b8a5)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nWith SaaS apps multiplying across teams, budgets spiral due to overlooked renewals and unused licenses. Manual tracking via spreadsheets is inefficient, leading to hidden costs and wasted resources for finance and IT teams.\n\n**The Solution**\n\n**AccessOwl SaaS Spend Management** offers real-time cost visibility and centralized tracking to streamline SaaS management. By automating renewal alerts and usage insights, it empowers companies to cut waste and control SaaS spend efficiently.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85154&key=user_uploads/165231/594c73b0-0c58-4484-874e-c06f9d5f5f81)\n\n**Key Features**\n\n• **Cost Transparency on Access Requests**: Employees can now see the price tag on every seat and license before adding new software, keeping budgets on track from the start.\n\n• **Centralized Cost Tracking**: Filter SaaS costs by department, team, or individual employee. Get clear insights without the usual hassle of piecing together spreadsheets.\n\n• **Renewal Calendar**: Never miss a renewal or an opportunity to negotiate. The renewal calendar and usage insights help teams optimize spend, avoiding the waste of unused or forgotten subscriptions.\n\n• **Automatic Usage Tracking**: AccessOwl automatically tracks usage and flags unused accounts so you can cut out the fat and make every dollar count.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85154&key=user_uploads/165231/5203a6b2-3e37-4441-9a66-726230261a02)\n\n**Uncover all of your SaaS apps first**\n\nThe [free Shadow IT scan](https://www.accessowl.com/scan) gives you a quick and easy overview of every SaaS app that’s used within your organization.\n\n**🚀 Getting started with tracking, managing, and reducing SaaS spend**\n\nVisit [AccessOwl.com](http://AccessOwl.com) to learn more, or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/dyj-q7w-qmb/accessowl-demo).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M9S-accessowl-saas-spend-management", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-10-30T18:56:16.804Z" }, { "id": 81875, "title": "AccessOwl: Discover every hidden SaaS app and their users", "tagline": "🔍 Losing track of your SaaS apps? Uncover your Shadow IT with a single-click", "body": "Losing track of who has access to which apps is a nightmare. In [**Mathias Nestler**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-nestler-a8436044/) and my previous roles as CTO, COO, and CEO, the problem usually came up in one of three ways:\n\n1. **Missed Employee Offboardings:** If I don’t know which apps the employee used, it’s impossible to fully offboard them. There’s nothing worse than finding out an employee who left for your competition still has access to company data.\n2. **Failing Compliance:** The first question an auditor will ask is what systems you use. Knowing where your company data lives is at the core of any audit.\n3. **Unwanted Costs:** It sucks to find out that you pay for multiple apps that essentially do the same. You can only keep your team accountable if you know what they use.\n\nIn the world of IT administration this challenge is called ‘Shadow IT' - apps you are not aware being used by your team.\n\nHistorically, the only options have been to repeatedly ask employees to fill out a Gsheet with any apps they remember using or to manually search through Google Workspace OAuth logs.\n\n**Here’s a better option:** [**Uncover all SaaS apps and their users in a single click!**](https://www.accessowl.io/scan)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=81875&key=user_uploads/165231/04941cdd-2f76-4b0c-b7f4-e44d0b1a41d1)\n\n[**Scan now!**](https://www.accessowl.io/scan)\n\n_The Shadow IT scanner will find any SaaS app your employees use in combination with Google or Microsoft sign-in._\n\n### FAQ\n\n> **Why do you offer this for free?**\n\nKnowing who has access to what should be the standard for all of us. We want to bring attention to the need to manage your access proactively, which is why we decided to offer a part of our product for free.\n\n> **How does it work?**\n\nAccessOwl reads your organization’s OAuth logs and matches them with our SaaS database. As a result, you’ll see which apps have been used and by whom.\n\n> **What if a user signed up with email/password and didn’t use ‘Sign in with Google/Microsoft’?**\n\nThis feature is not currently part of the free scan. However, our core product offers advanced Shadow IT detection, which includes checking for invitation emails.\n\n> **Is this safe to use?**\n\nYes, reading OAuth logs is common practice for SaaS management vendors. The data is only extracted when you actively request a scan. AccessOwl is SOC 2 Type II audited and GDPR compliant.\n\n[**Start your Shadow IT scan now!**](https://www.accessowl.io/scan)\n\nSurprised by the results? [_Book a free 1:1 consultation_](https://calendly.com/accessowl/30m) _with one of the AccessOwl founders to learn about best practices for keeping track of user access!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIZ-accessowl-discover-every-hidden-saas-app-and-their-users", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2024-07-03T15:20:28.896Z" }, { "id": 64758, "title": "AccessOwl: Automate SaaS access for your employees", "tagline": "SaaS account provisioning and permissioning for your workforce. Save 30 minutes on every access request.", "body": "**tl;dr AccessOwl automates how your employees receive access to SaaS tools. Provision any tool, no matter what API is available. IT teams from companies like Zeplin save 30 minutes on every access request.**\n\n## **📜 The Story**\n\nManually creating software accounts, documenting it in Gsheets and rushing through dozens of tools with every offboarding. Those are struggles we faced time over time when building prior startups. Available solutions only cover a fraction of the tools and require expensive upgrades to enterprise-subscriptions ([SSO.Tax](http://SSO.Tax)). That’s why we built an easy-to-use tool with a Slack-UI that every employee knows how to work with and bundled it with unmatched provisioning capabilities (hundreds of apps!).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64758&key=user_uploads/165231/b1769bda-60e3-4cf9-9085-59489077abd7)\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\n1. **30 minutes wasted for every Access Request**: Your workforce needs to request, approve, provision, communicate & document for every single access request\n2. **Enterprise subscriptions needed**: Other solutions only work with specific APIs (SCIM/SAML) for which the highest enterprise subscription is needed (”SSO Tax”).\n3. **Compliance & Security**: Documenting who has access to what is a manual and tedious process that never is 100% accurate\n\n## **✨ The Solution**\n\n1. **Automated workflows in Slack**: On- & Offboardings, Access Requests and Approvals all handled directly in Slack. Stop the JIRA ticket-flood - saving your workforce time and nerves.\n2. **Provisioning & Permissioning**: AccessOwl is the future of Access Management. It handles all account changes (creation, deletion, updates) for all SaaS applications. The best: It works no matter what API is available.\n3. **Stay SOX, SOC2, HiPAA, ISO27001 compliant:** Full Audit-trail about who has access to what and ability to schedule recurring Access Reviews.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64758&key=user_uploads/165231/22da2853-f0c9-4beb-afd3-0d940596e675)\n\n## ⚡ **How it Works**\n\n1. **Install it in Slack:** Give your employees access in one single click\n2. **App Discovery & Sync**: Let AccessOwl discover all applications used by your team by connecting to your Google Workspace\n3. **Start (De)Provisioning**: Have AccessOwl automate all of your provisioning and deprovisioning tasks\n\n## 🌐 **Integrations**\n\nAccessOwl already works with over 100+ applications. 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Just tell it to:\n\n`Shop for umbrella insurance with Coverage Cat`\n\nOr, point it at [coveragecat.com](http://coveragecat.com) and tell it to do the same. What used to be a week of forms, phone tag, and PDF underwriting shrinks to a minimal prompt, review of your information, and credit consent.\n\nYour agent gathers your context, calls the calculators, compares carriers, and delivers a bindable quote — the complex, cross-carrier judgment call happens where it belongs: inside the loop with you and your AI, not on hold with a sales person.\n\nIt will pre-fill applications from what it already knows about you, ask for your review and confirmation, then hand back a resumable checkout link — all in a single conversation.\n\nWant something more packaged? Check out other agentic interface access options below:\n\nBrowse the catalog at [coveragecat.com/ai/skills](https://www.) or the source at [github.com/Coverage-Cat/skills](https://github.com/Coverage-Cat/skills).\n\nWant to use our MCP? Install it up and get access to both the comparison/purchase tools as well as read-only calculators, agent finders, and estimate tools — discovery lives at [coveragecat.com/api/agent](https://www.coveragecat.com/api/agent), the OpenAPI spec is at [coveragecat.com/api/agent/openapi.yaml](https://www.coveragecat.com/api/agent/openapi.yaml).\n\nPower users can install the CLI for operators:\\\n`npm install -g @coveragecat/cli # npm`\n\nor via Homebrew\n\n```\nbrew tap Coverage-Cat/coveragecat && brew install coveragecat # Homebrew\n```\n\nWant your agent to check out our broader developer portal? .\n\nHappy shopping!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UEs-shop-for-umbrella-insurance-via-your-personal-agent-muse-instinct-openclaw-hermes-etc", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-09-22T15:38:06.824Z" }, { "id": 106902, "title": "Coverage Cat AI Insurance Leaderboard", "tagline": "How do frontier models perform on complex insurance tasks?", "body": "# Coverage Cat AI Insurance Bench\n\nWe’re Coverage Cat. We built an AI insurance benchmark to measure how frontier models perform on real insurance workflows, not trivia or generic reasoning tasks.\n\n### TL;DR\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106902&key=user_uploads/123258/e54c9091-f0a5-4500-b9f8-125255d46418)\n\nCoverage Cat’s AI Insurance Benchmark compares 7 frontier models on two insurance-specific evals:\n\n* Price estimation: can a model estimate umbrella insurance quote ranges accurately?\n* Brokerage/Agent task: can a model answer practical insurance questions the way a good broker or agent would?\n\nThe public leaderboard ranks models by Elo Rating, Win Rate, Quote Coverage, Quote MAPE, Winkler Loss, and judged brokerage-task quality.\n\nView it here: Coverage Cat AI Insurance Benchmark ()\n\n### The Problem\n\nMost AI benchmarks don’t tell you whether a model is useful inside a real insurance workflow or whether consumers can really trust it for insurance information.\n\nInsurance work is full of messy edge cases: pricing uncertainty, underwriting rules, coverage terminology, household risk factors, and questions where the answer needs to be both correct and concise.\n\nThere has been good prior work on insurance AI benchmarks, including UNDERWRITE, which evaluates multi-turn underwriting agents with domain experts, noisy tools, and simulated users. That work focuses on enterprise underwriting agent behavior and found meaningful gaps between general model performance and enterprise readiness.\n\nOur benchmark is different: it focuses on consumer insurance workflows Coverage Cat actually needs to automate, including umbrella quote estimation and broker/agent-style answers. It is also designed as a public, continuously updated leaderboard rather than a one-time research benchmark.\n\n### What We Built\n\nThe first public version includes:\n\n* 2,800+ price-estimation scenarios\n* 19,000+ quote model results\n* 1,200+ brokerage/agent task questions\n* 8900+ QA model results\n* 7 tested models\n\nThe benchmark uses anonymized eval data, no-retention/no-logging model platforms, and aggregate-only public snapshots. Customer data is not exposed to model providers.\n\n### What’s Next\n\nWe’ll update the leaderboard soon with newer frontier models as they become available through our approved model-provider paths. We also expect to expand the benchmark with more brokerage workflows, richer human review, and additional insurance product lines.\n\nOur goal is simple: make it obvious which AI models are actually good at insurance work and help those models improve.\n\nView the leaderboard: Coverage Cat AI Insurance Benchmark ()\n\nIf you’re shopping for umbrella coverage, you can also start here: Coverage Cat Umbrella Insurance ().", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RoE-coverage-cat-ai-insurance-leaderboard", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-07-22T22:45:07.812Z" }, { "id": 92734, "title": "Coverage Cat: Your AI-Native Insurance Agent", "tagline": "Insurance questions cause headaches. Coverage Cat is the relief.", "body": "Coverage Cat, the AI insurance agent, answers any questions you might have about home, auto, umbrella, life, and disability insurance. No more waiting on hold or puzzling over policy jargon. Coverage Cat's assistant can help you figure out if you should buy that policy, file that claim, or shop around for a better price at the click of a button.\n\n---\n\n## Expert Answers for Home, Auto, and Umbrella Insurance\n\nCoverage Cat is trained to provide the right answers about personal lines coverage:\n\n* **Home Insurance**: Learn what your policy covers, from water damage to liability limits.\n* **Umbrella Insurance**: Understand when and how your extra liability protection kicks in.\n* **Auto Insurance**: Get clear explanations on coverage. Never worry about what collision or comprehensive mean again.\n\n---\n\n## Policy Reviews Powered by AI\n\nDon't get bamboozled by the fine print. Just upload your insurance documents, and Coverage Cat examines policy terms to highlight important coverage details.\n\n---\n\n## Estimates for Claims and Coverage\n\nCurious about how a claim or coverage change might impact your premiums? Coverage Cat can create estimates based on specialized tools tools to offer cost and claims insights. Understand your financial exposure before you make your decisions!\n\n---\n\n## Coverage Cat Saves You Time and Money\n\nComplexity benefits insurers, not policyholders. Coverage Cat leverages our rich insurance data sets to create price transparency, and put valuable information into your hands.\n\n---\n\n## Easy Insurance Conversations Start Now\n\nInsurance need not frustrate. Coverage Cat turns your questions into straightforward answers. Clarity makes all the difference when dealing with a stressful part of your personal finances.\n\n---\n\n## Try Coverage Cat Today!\n\nJust visit us at [coveragecat.com](http://coveragecat.com) where you can get answers and shop for insurance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92734&key=user_uploads/123258/9fdcf95e-d78a-44c5-956f-5ea7d8728fed)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O7i-coverage-cat-your-ai-native-insurance-agent", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-08-05T02:01:00.343Z" }, { "id": 65072, "title": "Coverage Cat - Insurance For People Who Don't Believe In Insurance", "tagline": "The Best Way to Buy Umbrella/Home/Life/Disability/Auto Insurance", "body": "Do you have any of: a net worth over $1million; a house; a car; a high paying job? Then Coverage Cat is the best way to buy insurance. We provide **real quotes**, aggressively comparison shop for you across policy types, and **never sell your data**. The result is thousands of dollars saved and weeks of work and phone calls.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65072&key=user_uploads/123258/92e2c8d5-44e3-4cf8-9df6-2ddecf5f19a4)\n\n### Fill out one form and we handle the rest\n\nDon’t waste another minute getting harassed by spam/sales people or figuring out if you bought the right policy. We will shop for you, explain your options, and ensure you get you the best policy for your needs. \n\n* Need umbrella insurance? Shop and learn on our [explainer page!](https://www.coveragecat.com/umbrella-insurance)\n* Need home, car, life, or disability insurance? Visit our [homepage](https://coveragecat.com).\n* Want to learn more about insurance? Check out our [blog](https://www.coveragecat.com/blog).\n* Live in California or Florida and worried about a price jump or non-renewal on your homeowners insurance? See our reviews of carriers that are still underwriting in both states: [Delos \\[CA\\]](https://www.coveragecat.com/review/delos), [Bamboo \\[CA\\]](https://www.coveragecat.com/review/bamboo), [Kin \\[FL\\]](https://www.coveragecat.com/review/kin).\n\n👋 We’re Max & Gabriel, co-founders of Coverage Cat.\n\n### Opportunity: Insurance - An essential product, often poorly purchased\n\nInsurance is an all-time great financial innovation. It represents a way for people to pool and mitigate significant risks when events have shaken out for the worst. \n\nBut the way insurance is been bought and sold has generated a mismatch between the protection from risk that insurance products SHOULD provide. This forces tens of thousands of people to go bankrupt every year from risks that could be properly insured– Often while overpaying for coverage that doesn't protect them from catastrophic risk.\n\n### Problem: Insurance is complicated\n\nThe web of carriers, brokers, contracts, and claims that ensure your risks are properly handled can be an absolute nightmare for people who just want to feel like the things that are important to them are protected.\n\n### The Solution: A one-step process to find the best insurance\n\nWe collect information on how much you feel comfortable losing, in addition to standard insurance questions. Coverage Cat’s AI and team of specialists then searches across available carriers to find the policies and prices for your needs. If you’re in CA, FL, NY, TX, or WA we’d appreciate the opportunity to save you a bundle!\n\nCheers, Max & Gabriel 🐱", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GvY-coverage-cat-insurance-for-people-who-don-t-believe-in-insurance", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2022-08-02T16:06:51.203Z" } ] }, { "id": 27261, "name": "Integrated Reasoning", "slug": "integrated-reasoning", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7abc96adeb32772a65759b3c7fb44df00a0e11db.png", "website": "https://integrated-reasoning.com", "all_locations": "San Diego, CA, USA; Kilauea, HI, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Integrated Reasoning builds efficient computer processors that are tailored to the memory access patterns of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems. 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How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.", "answer": "I founded Integrated Reasoning in December of 2021. I started working on the idea full-time as of March 2022." }, { "question": "What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.", "answer": "Integrated Reasoning designs processors that are tailored to the memory access patterns of NP-complete algorithms. Think GPUs but for optimization and constraint satisfaction problems (e.g. the knapsack problem.)\r\n\r\nComputing solutions to many NP-complete problems requires a massive amount of data transfer between the CPU and DRAM. Memory bandwidth is the bottleneck of modern computing, as discussed in \"Hitting the memory wall: Implications of the obvious.\" [1]\r\n\r\nThe memory wall is such a critical problem that it motivated much of the design behind Apple's M1 architecture. See also this excellent 2017 article [2] by Brendan Gregg, who is widely known for his expertise in system performance engineering.\r\n\r\nI believe Integrated Reasoning presents a win-win-win:\r\n- Customers win by spending less money renting servers, less time waiting for computation, and most importantly, can work on something other than wrangling clusters of computers.\r\n- The Earth and its inhabitants win because less energy will be required to search for countless digital needles in enormous digital haystacks (i.e. combinatorial optimization problems.)\r\n- Integrated Reasoning wins because it can make a profit while pricing its products far below the cost of running the equivalent workload on a cluster of servers.\r\n\r\n[1] Wulf, Wm A., and Sally A. 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We’re making it 100x faster and 10x cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing shipping containers.", "body": "**Problem:**\n\nLogistics is expensive.\n\nImagine you’re a shipping company. Every day, you need to pack 100,000 boxes into shipping containers. How many containers do you need? Which boxes go into which containers? A common solution to this problem is to run [Google’s “OR-Tools” software](https://developers.google.com/optimization) in the cloud. This works, but it’s slow and the costs add up. Integrated Reasoning builds an alternative solution that is faster and cheaper.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n[Integrated Reasoning](http://ir.design/) provides hardware for solving optimization problems that can be quickly deployed in the cloud and scaled as needed. You don’t need any knowledge of hardware or firmware to use our products, and we provide generous support to make sure that the transition is smooth.\n\n**Reach out to us!**\n\nWe’re working on a series of hardware products for optimization. We would love to hear from folks that work on scheduling, routing, packing, networks, or other optimization problems; even if you’re not sure if our hardware could help.\n\nYou can reach out to Brycen and David at [hello@ir.design](mailto:hello@ir.design) or find out more at [ir.design](http://ir.design).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gif-integrated-reasoning-fast-hardware-for-optimization-problems", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2022-07-01T19:12:26.468Z" } ] }, { "id": 27262, "name": "Pivo Technology Inc", "slug": "pivo-technology-inc", "former_names": [ "Pivo Technology" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7420fcdf5d2a549094588e1723a574be25f57e2e.png", "website": "http://www.pivo.africa", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "Africa has experienced robust macroeconomic growth over the last five years and was the second fastest growing region in 2019 with a GDP of $2.6T, a 3.7% increase on 2018. Nigeria makes up $0.5T, 50% of which comes from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – a huge number of these operate within large manufacturing supply chains.\r\n\r\nStarting with Freight Carriers Pivo makes financial services easily accessible for truck owners and truck drivers by providing a bank account, debit card and digital invoicing tools so they can get paid faster and avoid cash flow problems.\r\n\r\nThis will be further augmented by more fundamental financial products such as credit, transaction management, and expense management, to improve their cashflow. 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These SMEs do not get paid in advance and have narrow windows (2 to 7 days) to execute orders. Yet their invoices take as long as 90 days to pay. This is further compounded by an inefficient way to track how and when they get paid. They are left struggling to execute large client orders and miss out on significant business opportunities and earnings.  \n\n**The Pivo Solution**\n\nStarting with freight carriers, Pivo provides easy access to a smart bank account, debit card and digital invoicing tools that track payments so they can get paid faster. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65366&key=user_uploads/147283/c94afb6e-46c0-424c-9633-9c94b17b6364)\n\nThis will be further augmented by more fundamental financial products such as access to credit and expense management, to improve cash flow for these SMEs. \n\nOur goal is to build an end-to-end financial operating system for these businesses.  \n\n**Our Ask** \n\nKnow any supply chain companies or tech platforms looking for a smart financial partner for their SME vendors? We’d love to connect with them. Send us an email: [founders@pivo.africa](mailto:founders@pivo.africa).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0I-pivo-bank-accounts-and-payments-for-freight-carriers-in-africa", "votes": 91, "created_at": "2022-08-15T13:40:28.304Z" } ] }, { "id": 27263, "name": "Guardian Bio", "slug": "guardian-bio", "former_names": [ "GuardianBio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/686bc0e4b74ba3953559c1bb8515351010e84b61.png", "website": "http://www.guardian-bio.com", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "Your immune system is your body’s best weapon and defense against cancer. It is only when it is overcome that cancer develops into full blown disease. Dendritic cells sit at the helm of the immune system, directing and dictating immune responses. 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We take stem cells from cancer patients, turn them into specific therapeutic dendritic cells specially trained against that patient’s tumor, and re-introduce them back into the body. \r\n\r\nOur therapeutic dendritic cells revitalize the killers of the immune system and give them the kickstart they need to fight - and win - against cancer.", "one_liner": "Dendritic cell-based platform for cancer therapy ", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Therapeutics", "launched_at": 1657134176, "tags": [ "Biotech", "Healthcare", "Therapeutics", "Oncology" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Therapeutics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/guardian-bio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/guardian-bio.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Boston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/guardian-bio", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/686bc0e4b74ba3953559c1bb8515351010e84b61.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1010650, "full_name": "Ananya Zutshi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ananya is Co-Founder and CEO of Guardian Bio, a company which controls immunity using dendritic cell-based therapies. \n\nShe has a Bachelors in Science in Engineering from Duke and Masters in Engineering and MBA from Harvard. 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If it loses control, diseases like cancer, chronic infections, and autoimmunity can develop. We created a platform that enables us to produce a master regulator of the immune system (the dendritic cell) from patient stem cells. We program these cells so that they can make corrections to dysfunctional immune systems and bring disease back under control. We’re starting with cancer.\n\n# Team\n\nPrior to starting Guardian Bio, Ananya…\n\n* Was a Blavatnik Fellow at Harvard Business School, a fellowship fostering life science entrepreneurship \n* Worked across Operations, Engineering, and Project Management in the manufacturing and development side of the pharma/biotech industry\n* Received dual Masters in Engineering Sciences and MBA from Havard, where she was a Kaplan Fellow, and graduated with honors from Duke with a degree in Biomedical Engineering\n\nPrior to starting Guardian Bio, Ricky…\n\n* Was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania - tumor microenvironment, tumor immunity, and cell therapy\n* Co-Founded the Philadelphia chapter of Nucleate, a free and collaborative trainee-led organization that facilitates the formation of pioneering life sciences companies\n* Earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences - Immunology at University of Central Florida\n* Worked as a marine biologist and scientific diver at Florida Atlantic University\n* And continues to create science communication content for social media platforms, reaching an audience of over a quarter million followers across TikTok and Instagram\n\n# The Problem\n\nThe overall problem is that the immune system unfortunately can’t always maintain control over disease. Cancer specifically actively suppresses the immune system. It has to. If the immune system maintains control, it will kill the cancer and disease will not develop. \n\nOne of the immune cell types often suppressed by cancer are dendritic cells, which sit at the helm of the immune system. Dendritic cells (DCs) direct and dictate immune responses. DCs are often deficient or dysfunctional in cancer patients, creating severe limitations in the body’s ability to fight off cancer, even when treatments like chemo and immunotherapy are applied.\n\n# The Solution\n\nWe take stem cells from cancer patients, turn them into dendritic cells, program them against that patient’s tumor, and re-introduce them back into the body. This stimulates a diverse yet targeted and robust immune response against the cancer. \n\n# The Platform\n\nOur dendritic cell-based platform can be adapted to a variety of diseases. When we train DCs against different targets, our therapy can reignite immune responses against chronic infectious diseases or suppress immune cells triggering autoimmunity.\n\nOur dendritic cell-based therapy is synergistic with many other immunotherapies including checkpoint inhibitors, peptide and mRNA-based cancer vaccines, oncolytic viruses, etc, potentially extending the reach of these therapies to patients who would not have responded before.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Fog7y2f3-PsbDww_4qw_LbLzzzM_3yXUEMVPMps50vCfN5dnHauQFTn72dLW2hd1RjKghsjpl8HwpSrJ_zMOe-QneWuKm_BLkumbU-01HqsRlLddaJ8713teujTfrYSRd0y9lsxxqffoBgvUwzGsXg)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H4J-guardian-bio-control-immunity-with-dendritic-cells", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2022-08-25T13:47:55.461Z" } ] }, { "id": 27264, "name": "Dev Tools AI", "slug": "dev-tools-ai", "former_names": [ "Dev Tools", "Dev Tools AI", "Radiant" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/52816343555456026d1de1250894ad8361d57799.png", "website": "https://dev-tools.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We help scale automation leveraging LLMs and computer vision", "one_liner": "AI powered web & mobile automation", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1655134557, "tags": [ "B2B", "Productivity", "Enterprise", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dev-tools-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/dev-tools-ai.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/radiant-company", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/dev-tools-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/52816343555456026d1de1250894ad8361d57799.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1076464, "full_name": "Chris Navrides", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Chris Navrides was the VP of engineer at test.ai, which is built the first AI based mobile & web testing solution. 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Installation takes just 10 seconds, and you can start automatically receiving comments & suggestions.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nYou want to make sure the code written by yourself and team is awesome. But having a code review can slow things down, especially if you only have a few Sr Engineers to review for everyone, and you don’t want their time wasted for obvious issues like not having null checks, or ordering imports.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe use GPT, combined with custom review samples, to automatically run code reviews and post the comments in minutes on the PR.\n\n[![Reviewify Demo](https://videoapi-muybridge.vimeocdn.com/animated-thumbnails/image/b48f4158-e90b-42bc-8052-326c02dcc157.gif?ClientID=vimeo-core-prod&Date=1680109610&Signature=3d65ab548135d7de88de0442d6b11d451c863e4c)](https://vimeo.com/812887518)\n\n# **Ask**\n\n* Try it out and leave reactions to the comments it generates so we can improve the system\n* If there are other features that would add value to you, please let us know (ex: Static analysis, code dependency report, integration into IDEs so comments can be seen at code time, etc).\n\nThanks,\n\nChris & Etienne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IN2-reviewify-io-ai-powered-code-reviews", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2023-03-29T17:24:52.596Z" }, { "id": 65540, "title": "Dev Tools AI 🤖 CoPilot for UI Testing", "tagline": "We make writing UI automation tests as easy so you can solve bigger problems", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\n[Dev Tools](https://www.dev-tools.ai/) is a library that makes it easy to write web tests in your existing framework by drawing a box over a screenshot instead of building a locator.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65540&key=user_uploads/1076464/6cf84e73-20ac-4ca5-994d-329f77e7b325)\n\n\n# **🤕Problem**\n\nWriting end to end tests is difficult and time consuming. It takes forever to dig into the page code to build the right XPath or locator. And even when these are found, they are likely to change over time as the product continues development.\n\n# **⚡️Our solution**\n\nWe use computer vision to look at the screen, like an end user, and find the element you want to interact with. Then, in real-time, we find the element and return it so all your existing automation can keep working with it. We make this easy to use by extending Selenium with a `findByAI()` method where you just put a human readable name and let the AI do the hard work.\n\nWe even let you see the elements from within your IDE!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65540&key=user_uploads/1076464/bb8100b8-b570-4aeb-8bae-fd49cd8d470d)\n\n# **🎉 Bonus Features**\n\n### Work on Games\n\nTraditional automation has trouble working with games as most games render within a canvas element. Because we only use the screenshot, and not page source, we can play games like LooneyToons!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65540&key=user_uploads/1076464/3feb64e1-36cd-47c0-93f5-a8c3e98d10d1)\n\n### Crawl for Errors\n\nMonkey Testing for errors comes standard with Android, but there isn’t a default one for Web. We added that functionality to our SDK so that you simply call `scan_domain()` and it will crawl your page and look for errors like broken links, 404s, console errors, etc. Learn more in our [blog](https://www.dev-tools.ai/blog/site-sacnner) about the feature.\n\n# **Our Ask - Try it out and give us feedback**\n\nIf you write or have written Selenium or UI tests, we would love your feedback on the tool.\n\nJoin us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/2J9WEYdq5C), or follow us on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dev-tools-ai)!\n\nIf you have any questions or automation challenges, reach out to us anytime! [chris@dev-tools.ai](mailto:chris@dev-tools.ai) & [etienne@dev-tools.ai](mailto:etienne@dev-tools.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H36-dev-tools-ai-copilot-for-ui-testing", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2022-08-22T17:01:29.766Z" } ] }, { "id": 27267, "name": "Ping", "slug": "ping", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e9b87c65de1557a4548c55d16dabf0051c7a1e7d.png", "website": "https://www.letsping.com/", "all_locations": "Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Miami, FL, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Ping enables international contractors and freelancers to have access to a personal Dollar account in the US, a crypto account, and generate invoices to get paid. 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