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Instead of just links, [**Andi**](https://andisearch.com/) gives you **answers** in a fun and friendly way - like chatting with a smart friend.\n\nHey YC fam, we’re Angela and Jed and we’re building [Andi](https://andisearch.com/)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73788&key=user_uploads/673843/6e575206-0716-407f-ba62-8228d473165c)\n\n### **✖️** The Problem\n\nWe all know search is broken, but it also has massive potential. Today, it’s full of ads, misinformation and SEO spam. With AI-powered search and chatbots the problem will get even worse, because LLMs make things up and bury the sources, and a new era of sponsored answers threatens to destroy trust online.\n\nWhat makes the web great is the high quality content that many producers spend hours researching, writing and creating. Google sells ads on their content without giving fair attribution or promotion. Now LLM-based chatbots give even less credit, or make sources up. Users have to spend more time fact-checking than searching.\n\n### **✅** Our Solution\n\nWith Andi, we want to make search 100x better. We’re building **practical** and **helpful** AI that is largely invisible to the user. We set a high bar on answer speed and accuracy and only show generated answers that have very high confidence. We focus on getting the building blocks like factual summaries and explanations right. We highlight and present rich information direct from sites rather than little snippets.\n\nWe make searching the web fun, interesting, and easy to understand. Our goal is to save you 15 - 20 mins by providing direct answers to questions, but only when they are _right_. Andi is **ad free**, **private** and **anonymous**, so you can feel safe online.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73788&key=user_uploads/673843/ceba85a8-d52d-4461-a816-708dff488213)\n\n### **🙌** What’s New\n\n📷 **Stunning visual results**: Search is more interesting, fun and useful with visual results that highlight the beauty and richness of content online, and enhance search with the meaningful information they contain.\n\n🤓 **Change your view**: Change how you see results based on what you need or your mood - with an entertaining **Feed**, an info-packed **Grid**, or simple **List** views. Results take full-advantage of large screens.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73788&key=user_uploads/673843/f1fc2871-7d14-462a-a149-c36a90f56a23)\n\n⚡ **Summarization**: Andi uses AI to select the best and most useful content from websites to display on results cards, generating short meaningful summaries for each. 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Instructions [here](https://aureatelabs.com/blog/install-pwa-to-device/).\n\nPlease join our community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/andi) 💙", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JC8-andi-making-search-fun-factual-and-interesting", "votes": 366, "created_at": "2023-08-03T21:27:17.152Z" }, { "id": 64519, "title": "⭐️ 🔍 Andi - Search for the next generation", "tagline": "Andi is like a smart friend who answers complex questions simply, and protects you from spam, ads and tracking 🤖 ", "body": "### TL;DR Instead of a page of blue links, Andi gives you answers. It uses language models combined with live data to answer questions and summarize information based on the top sources.\n\nHey Fam, we're Angie and Jed and we're building [Andi](http://andisearch.com/). We're on a mission to unbreak the Internet and save the world from spam and ad tech.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nIt’s become harder to find what you need online. Search is broken because results are overwhelmed with ads, clickbait, and low-quality content marketing. Even when the information you need is in there somewhere, you have to trawl through pages of links to content often buried behind ads and paywalls.\n\n---\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\nAndi is a new type of search engine with an intelligent AI assistant that answers complex questions directly. It has a simple chat interface with visual cards. It's like messaging a smart friend who acts as an intermediary to online knowledge, and keeps you safe and productive online.\n\n### ⚙️ **How it works**\n\nAndi combines large language models with live data, reasoning and common sense. It's like a search of vertical searches and APIs. We use AI to understand questions and predict the best places to find answers, applying blacklist and quality filters. We retrieve and use live content in real time with semantic search ranking, rather than returning outdated information from stale models or a static keyword index. \n\n## **💙 Community fave features**\n\n👉 Get direct answers to questions\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64519&key=user_uploads/673843/4fe6c540-657b-4299-a362-a39ebd481748)\n\n👉 Visual results (a picture is worth 1,000 words!)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64519&key=user_uploads/673843/5723b727-30f2-4473-b9fb-46b3376c9cf8)\n\n👉 Reader mode: See content free from ads and clutter\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64519&key=user_uploads/673843/2f8a8522-6c43-4880-a013-bfb0e7e6dcb1)\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nTry Andi! Start searching [here](https://andisearch.com/). Since we're anonymous, we rely on our users giving us feedback when Andi gets answers wrong to improve. Type /feedback to tell us what you think. If you like it, [make it your default search engine](https://andisearch.com/default/) for a week or install the progressive web app!\n\nJoin us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/qcCcrbMuex), or DM us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/andi_search)!\n\nIf you have 10 minutes to chat about Andi, please book a time with me [here](https://calendly.com/angela-2022/10-minute-meeting) 😊", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gmd-andi-search-for-the-next-generation", "votes": 508, "created_at": "2022-07-11T17:35:27.336Z" } ] }, { "id": 25060, "name": "Wyvern", "slug": "wyvern", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/81c65dc68a3dd43b57dbb23ae1bb4d8d7ae288ab.png", "website": "http://www.wyvern.space", "all_locations": "Edmonton, AB, Canada", "long_description": "Wyvern is a space data company that will capture the highest resolution hyperspectral images from satellites that cost 100X less than satellites using traditional telescopes.", "one_liner": "High-res hyperspectral pictures of Earth from space", "team_size": 26, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "launched_at": 1642438828, "tags": [ "Hard Tech", "Satellites", "Climate" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Aviation and Space" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "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/wyvern", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/wyvern.json", "year_founded": 2018, "city": "Edmonton", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wyvern-space/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/WyvernSpace", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/WyvernSpace", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wyvern-d3f9", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/81c65dc68a3dd43b57dbb23ae1bb4d8d7ae288ab.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": 418248, "full_name": "Chris Robson", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Captains the [space] ship. 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Today when evaluating products, we want the most powerful product in the market that is also agent-friendly.\n\nRavion is what we built from scratch over the past 13 months for this new world.\n\n**WHAT IT IS**\n\nRavion is the agent-native cloud infrastructure platform that gives you one system to orchestrate everything in your AWS account.\n\n**Import or provision** new infrastructure, **build** and **deploy** any type of application, and **monitor** logs and metrics, all from one agent-friendly platform.\n\nUse your existing Terraform or start with our standard library of Terraform-backed modules.\n\n**Saves time and tokens** because AI agents get typed module schemas and connected context across infrastructure state, deployments, failures, logs and metrics.\n\n**Enhances safety** by gating infrastructure changes on preview plans and approval gates.\n\nThe result is a production-grade AWS DevOps system that you didn’t have to assemble from scratch and is fully customizable as your needs change.\n\n> I love Ravion's agent-friendly structure for getting great defaults on AWS while still being able to customize deployments just the way we need. 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But no more! 🙅🏼\n\nOur **Developer-first AWS infrastructure** enables you to use the best AWS services without manual infra work. In fact, you might even call it delightful 😍\n\n![](https://www.flightcontrol.dev/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.datocms-assets.com%2F98758%2F1699399752-browser-min.png%3Ffit%3Dcrop%26q%3D90&w=3840&q=75)\n\n**Simple setup**\n\n1️⃣ Connect your GitHub & AWS accounts in 1-click\\\n2️⃣ Zero config or customize to your heart’s content\\\n3️⃣ Relax while we deploy to your AWS\\\n4️⃣ Never worry about hitting the technical or cost limits of black box PaaS\n\n**Deploy every language, globally**\n\n✅ Servers, background workers, static sites, databases, redis. Coming: cron, Lambda and more\\\n✅ Every language and framework\\\n✅ Use all 32 AWS regions. Multi-region deploys are in early access\n\n**A few years ago** I was building an app that should have been using native AWS services. I tried, but it was too hard. 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We build a power and parallel dialer that works inside the CRM your team already uses.\n\nA call block shouldn't leave you with two lists to reconcile: one in the CRM and another in a dialer. And “call me Friday” shouldn't end up on a sticky note.\n\nWe've previously introduced our Attio and GoHighLevel integrations here. This launch brings the full workflow into focus: start with your CRM audience, have the conversation, save the result, and leave a callback attached to the right record.\n\n## Attio: your People list is the call list\n\nOpen a supported People list or Tasks view, map your phone fields, and choose power dialing or up to five parallel lines on an eligible plan. Keep the person context available while you call.\n\nAfterward, save the outcome and summary to Attio. With the right workspace permissions, Trellus can maintain structured call attributes; otherwise, details go into an Attio note. A requested follow-up can become a Person-linked Trellus Callback Task with a due date.\n\n[Watch the Attio walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1wfr5A9uUc)\n\n## GoHighLevel: work the Smart List, then finish the contact\n\nStart in the active HighLevel location's Contacts Smart List. Trellus uses the filtered audience and valid contact phone numbers without a CSV export. Choose power or parallel dialing based on your plan.\n\nWhen the call ends, save a contact note with the selected outcome and available summary, apply a chosen HighLevel tag, and create a contact-linked callback task. Opportunity pipeline or stage views are available when confirmed during setup. Agency-branded domains need compatible site access and a setup check.\n\n[Watch the GoHighLevel walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTAieDWJms)\n\n## Try it on the call block you already run\n\nBring one real CRM view and the follow-up your reps need to save. That's a better starting point than migrating your whole sales process.\n\nThese workflows are for teams running repeatable outbound blocks. If you only make a few calls a day, basic click-to-call may be enough. Calling modes and coaching depend on your Trellus access and workspace setup.\n\n[Explore Trellus for Attio](https://www.trellus.ai/integrations/attio?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=attio_ghl_call_to_callback_20261006&utm_content=attio) · [Explore Trellus for GoHighLevel](https://www.trellus.ai/integrations/gohighlevel?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=attio_ghl_call_to_callback_20261006&utm_content=gohighlevel)\n\nTell us which CRM view you call from and what needs to happen after a conversation. We'd love your feedback.\n\n![Trellus connected-call screen alongside a GoHighLevel Contacts Smart List, using demo contacts](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/633ef5e495fbc54172ea70ad/6a9f50a21e95ee66a59e2d14_trellus-gohighlevel-complete-workflow-2026-09-07.png)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/V9D-trellus-from-call-list-to-callback-inside-attio-and-gohighlevel", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-10-07T14:16:07.449Z" }, { "id": 112632, "title": "Trellus: Embedded dialing, Salesfloor, and live coaching at half the price of Nooks", "tagline": "Run more outbound calls with embedded power and parallel dialing, a live Salesfloor, and real-time coaching in one platform.", "body": "\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/f3d998f2-1dec-4aa3-b5ce-2e40154d9dfd)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/88403df8-0b92-475b-bde6-87ed22e349db)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/fb0a9225-9c8c-4266-8352-9a976fe560e6)\n\nHey everyone — we're Ajinkya and Craig from Trellus (YC W22).\n\n**TL;DR:** Trellus combines embedded power and parallel dialing, a collaborative Salesfloor, and live AI coaching in one product. Reps can dial up to five lines from supported CRM, sales-engagement, prospecting, and spreadsheet workflows. Managers can run call blocks, listen to live calls, coach reps, and pull people into private huddles without leaving the floor. Trellus is typically about half the price of Nooks for teams buying a comparable dialing and Salesfloor workflow.\n\n## The problem\n\nOutbound teams usually stitch together a dialer, their CRM or sales-engagement platform, a virtual sales floor, call recording, analytics, and a coaching tool. Reps bounce between tabs. Managers see the call after it is over. Remote call blocks lose the energy and fast feedback of a real sales floor.\n\nWe built Trellus so the list, the call, the team room, and the coaching loop can stay connected.\n\n## What a call block looks like in Trellus\n\n1. A rep opens the workflow they already use in a supported platform such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Apollo, Attio, lemlist, GoHighLevel, or Google Sheets.\n2. Trellus adds one-line power dialing or up to five-line parallel dialing directly to that workflow, so the rep does not have to rebuild the list in a separate dialer.\n3. The team joins a shared Salesfloor to dial together, see who is active, chat, and celebrate wins.\n4. Managers can listen to live calls and coach in the moment. Trellus can also surface real-time guidance for objections, discovery, pacing, and next steps.\n5. When a conversation needs privacy, a manager can pull a rep or small group into an audio huddle and return them to the shared floor when it is over.\n6. Calls are transcribed and available for team analytics and review after the block.\n\n## One product for the whole calling workflow\n\n* Embedded power dialing and up to five-line parallel dialing\n* Voicemail drops, phone-number rotation, and number-health workflows\n* A live Salesfloor for remote and hybrid call blocks\n* Private manager-rep huddles inside the floor\n* Live listening and real-time coaching\n* Transcripts, call review, scoring, and team analytics\n* Practice conversations with AI roleplay bots\n\nTrellus works on top of the sales tools your team already uses, so reps keep the account context and workflow they know. You get the high-volume dialing and collaborative floor experience without buying a separate product for every step.\n\n## Why we think this matters\n\nNooks helped establish the modern parallel-dialer-plus-salesfloor category. Trellus gives teams that same core buying outcome—more live conversations and a shared place to run call blocks—while adding embedded workflows and live coaching in one product at roughly half the price.\n\nWe are building for sales leaders who want more activity without treating reps like call-center seats, and for reps who want help during the conversation rather than another dashboard after it.\n\n## Our ask\n\nIf your team runs outbound call blocks, try Trellus and tell us where your current workflow breaks. We are especially interested in feedback on embedded dialing, live manager coaching, and how remote teams use private huddles during a floor session.\n\nWatch the [two-minute product walkthrough](https://www.tella.tv/video/2-min-trellus-walkthrough-9b4y).\n\nSee [Trellus for sales teams](https://www.trellus.ai/sales?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=salesfloor_launch_2026).\n\n[Try Trellus](https://app.trellus.ai/install?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=salesfloor_launch_2026).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/21b3444b-9071-4e01-bb09-7fa6e8fa525a)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TIe-trellus-embedded-dialing-salesfloor-and-live-coaching-at-half-the-price-of-nooks", "votes": 1, "created_at": "2026-08-31T15:02:02.119Z" }, { "id": 101968, "title": "Trellus: Parallel or Power Dial on any Platform + 50% cheaper than Nooks/Orum", "tagline": "Trellus alllows you to parallel dial directly inside your platform of choice (eg Sheets)", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Google Sheets or GoHighLevel. Turn Sheets or GoHighLevel into a full dialing sequencer.\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nGrab time with our team directly at [www.trellus.ai](https://www.trellus.ai) to get access.\n\nWatch a video on how it works (eg in Google Sheets): \n\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in GHL or any sheet in Google Sheets, and map your columns to the right fields - Trellus works across all major SEP/CRM platforms\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QWe-trellus-parallel-or-power-dial-on-any-platform-50-cheaper-than-nooks-orum", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-05-26T14:45:22.434Z" }, { "id": 100003, "title": "Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, Amplemarket, Salesforce, Google Sheets and more", "tagline": "Embedded parallel dialing natively inside of Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, and more", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, Amplemarket, Salesforce, Google Sheets and more\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nCheck out how to use Trellus on these major platforms in our video guides below\n\nAttio: \n\nLemlist: \n\nHubspot: \n\nSalesforce: \n\nGoogle Sheets: \\\n\\\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in GHL or any sheet in Google Sheets, and map your columns to the right fields\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q0x-trellus-parallel-power-dial-directly-inside-of-attio-lemlist-hubspot-amplemarket-salesforce-google-sheets-and-more", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-21T14:51:07.698Z" }, { "id": 97859, "title": "Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Attio", "tagline": "Embedded parallel dialing natively inside of Attio within minutes", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Attio\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce, Sheets)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nYou can try it out directly from our website at [trellus.ai](http://trellus.ai) (see below for how it works)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97859&key=user_uploads/832328/ba910ffc-f5f6-4433-9c00-5ff24b882a58)\n\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in Attio\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PSN-trellus-parallel-power-dial-directly-inside-of-attio", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-02-16T19:56:18.096Z" }, { "id": 94302, "title": "Trellus: Real-time AI + Call Quality assistant for ViciDial", "tagline": "Get a real-time AI assistant + automatic call QA for all calls placed through ViciDIAL ", "body": "**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [_AI powered real time sales coach_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/how-does-real-time-sales-ai-coaching-work) _for sales development reps in their cold calls. It guides reps to exceed quota by identifying common situations in sales calls and delivering simple action-oriented suggestions at the moment they are needed. Trellus also completes all post-call work for reps including note-taking and call summarization._ [_Real-time AI is the future of sales support_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching) _- check out our chrome extension today_ [_here_](https://app.trellus.ai/install-now)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94302&key=user_uploads/832328/a165ef44-7cbf-407c-9c33-2bd363d0af1f)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n**For sales reps** - it is hard to master all the skills necessary to have consistent and repeatable success in prospecting calls. A few examples of what reps need to stay on top of in each call:\n\n1. Who the prospect is and how to build rapport\n2. [What to respond to common cold call objections](https://www.trellus.ai/post/five-common-cold-call-objections)\n3. Any qualification questions that need to be worked through - and the prospect's response\n4. Their own delivery cadence - tempo, talk time, etc.\n5. When to go for the close and book the next steps\n\n**For managers** - it is hard to effectively supervise and train a team of reps since a team of reps has far more (combined) hours to make calls than a manager has time to review them. Existing sales intelligence tools like Gong / Chorus are commonly used for recording and review but offer limited help in coaching reps because [the analytics are less focused on prospecting calls and the feedback is often delayed.](https://www.trellus.ai/post/sales-coaching-is-broken)\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nTrellus solves these issues by giving your sales reps a real-time AI-powered sales coach that is available 24x7 to them. Trellus enables your reps to deliver the right message at the right moment to your prospects.\n\nWe do this by mixing a blend of behavioral and content coaching suggestions to help your sales reps learn best-in-class sales techniques.\n\n### **Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (it’s as simple as downloading our chrome extension)\n* Behavioral coaching on monologues, cadence with a whole host of features coming soon (filler words, pauses, tone)\n* Objection handling for classic cold call objections (e.g., “I’m not interested) with the ability for your sales enablement team to customize suggested responses for your reps\n* Battle cards for competitors (e.g., “I use X”) - whenever one of your competitors is mentioned on a call, your rep will get suggested talking points\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials\n* Real-time localized data on your prospects (e.g., news, weather) to provide additional data sales reps can leverage to build repertoire\n* Automatic call summarization and disposition entry\n\n### **How you can get started!**\n\n**1) Take it for a spin!** Trellus is totally free for individuals to try out - they can get started in less than 5 seconds by downloading our chrome extension [here](https://app.trellus.ai/demo)\n\n**2) Talk to us!** If you’re interested in trialing Trellus with your sales reps, [grab a quick time slot](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/general-meeting) for a white-glove onboarding or let us know in the comments!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OX0-trellus-real-time-ai-call-quality-assistant-for-vicidial", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-03T01:06:47.186Z" }, { "id": 93555, "title": "Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Google Sheets and GoHighLevel", "tagline": "Embedded parallel dialing natively inside of Google Sheets and GoHighLevel within minutes", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Google Sheets or GoHighLevel. Turn Sheets or GoHighLevel into a full dialing sequencer.\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nGrab time with our team directly at https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/meeting to get access.\n\nWatch a video on how it works: https://www.tella.tv/video/parallel-dialing-in-google-sheets-ghuy\n\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at https://app.trellus.ai/install and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in GHL or any sheet in Google Sheets, and map your columns to the right fields\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93555&key=user_uploads/832328/3daf29f0-1be2-4cdc-abc0-135e42133a70)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OKx-trellus-parallel-power-dial-directly-inside-of-google-sheets-and-gohighlevel", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-09-04T15:02:03.441Z" }, { "id": 88465, "title": "Trellus: Parallel Dial directly inside of Clay", "tagline": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial natively inside of Clay within minutes", "body": "# **Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Clay - allowing you to turn Clay into a full dialing sequencer**\n\n**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [AI powered parallel-dialer + sales coach](https://trellus.ai/) to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — [_AI assistants are the future of cold calling._](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching)\\\n\\\n_Grab time with our team directly _[_here_](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/clay-parallel)_ to get access_\n\n# **How it works**\n\n1. Download the chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any clay list and map your columns to the right fields\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88465&key=user_uploads/832328/5499360e-cb6a-49d6-8762-d111a6e15830)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88465&key=user_uploads/832328/c42858db-bd7f-4bfe-bce1-ef7ca6c6b53b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88465&key=user_uploads/832328/92a5df42-b068-496b-be27-bbd6329aac4c)\n\n**Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g. Clay - simply add the chrome extension)\n* Parallel dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n* Real-time AI coaching based of events that occur in the calls\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N0r-trellus-parallel-dial-directly-inside-of-clay", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-03-11T14:52:46.229Z" }, { "id": 86681, "title": "Trellus - Parallel Dial Directly Inside Hubspot, Salesloft, Outreach, or Apollo", "tagline": "Trellus native parallel dialer allows users to dial 5x the number of contacts while staying in the platforms they're used to.", "body": "**TLDR**: [Trellus](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [AI-powered parallel-dialer](https://www.trellus.ai/post/auto-dialer-vs-parallel-dialer-whats-the-best-choice-for-your-sales-team) _+ sales coach_ that helps you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls. Trellus automates all calling activity (e.g., call dispositions, call notes, choosing which prospects to dial, hanging up on voicemails, etc.) and works natively inside your sales enablement platform or CRM (specifically Outreach, Hubspot, Salesloft, or Apollo).\n\n# Trellus is a chrome extension that turns your SEP or CRM into a parallel dialer. Trellus is also half the price of any competing platform like Nooks or Orum.\n\nBelow is an image of how Trellus operates on top of Outreach. Here’s a [clickable demo](https://app.storylane.io/share/tgkyvivx5ays) that walks you through how it works on different platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86681&key=user_uploads/832328/55ff7ef6-064f-4efd-9250-d93761f08f42)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 3-5x increase in their cold call output. It’s as simple as adding our Chrome extension [here.](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl)\n\n### **What You Can Expect**\n\nWithin the first week of using Trellus, you can expect your reps to easily place 150+ calls/day directly inside their platform. With standard connection rates of around 10-15%, you can expect reps to have around 10-20 conversations/day.\n\nThere’s limited set-up and training required, given that Trellus works in your existing tech stack, reducing any context switching.\n\n### **How Parallel Dialing Works**\n\n1. Trellus automatically detects voicemails or busy tones to hang up/drop VMs for you automaticall.y\n2. Trellus automatically detects bad numbers and removes them from your system\n3. Trellus automatically detects live connections and routes your reps within seconds of the call to avoid any awkward pauses\n4. Trellus fully syncs with your CRM/SEP to ensure all call logs and records stay consistent with your expectations\n5. Trellus provides automatic AI notes and coaching on every call to ensure your reps are conducting quality calls\n\n### **How To Get Started**\n\n1. Download the chrome extension [here](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl)\n2. Grab time with us [here](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/15min)\n\n ---\n\nHappy dialing!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MY5-trellus-parallel-dial-directly-inside-hubspot-salesloft-outreach-or-apollo", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-01-08T15:14:41.021Z" }, { "id": 83230, "title": "Trellus - Add AI to Salesloft, Outreach, Hubspot, or Apollo", "tagline": "Trellus adds an AI copilot for cold calling/cold emailing to existing sales platforms.", "body": "# Trellus adds an AI copilot for outbound sales to Salesloft, Outreach, Hubspot, Apollo, and others. \n\n### **Reps today face tool fatigue**\n\nSales reps today face tons of tool fatigue when doing their outbound work. It’s a constant balance of managing what’s the latest and greatest in AI with their core tech stack. At [Trellus](https://www.trellus.ai/), we took the view that reps should be able to still live in their existing tools while getting all the benefits of the newest advances in AI.\n\n### **TRELLUS repurposes your existing sales stack with the latest ai tools**\n\nTrellus uses a [Chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl) (free to try out!) to inject AI assistance across your workflow - whether that be in researching a prospect, automating your dial work, or deciding what to write as part of your sales emails. By doing this, you can easily **2-3x** your output in your existing stack **without spending $$$$.**\n\n**Get Custom AI Emails directly in your tech stack**\n\nTrellus learns your company’s value prop, understands your prospects, and analyzes previous conversations, all in an effort to generate a personalized AI email that you can send off with one click.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=105000)\n\n**Automate all non-dialing work with Trellus’ embedded AI power dialer**\n\nTrellus will automate every single button click you do inside your current dialing tool to make sure you can enter the flow state. Even better, we have Spotify and YouTube integrations that will let you blast tunes while dialing.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=167000)\n\n**Get real-time AI suggestions on your cold calls on what to say**\n\nTrellus will give you real-time suggestions and context on your calls. Whether that be on what opener you should use or how to objection handle, Trellus will be there to guide you through the call effectively.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=175000)\n\n**Get Automatic Custom AI Research on your prospects with 1-click**\n\nTrellus will analyze the prospect’s website to understand any information you may need on them to better your outbound to them.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=175000)\n\n**Watch our full video walk through at** \n\n**Get started today by grabbing the **[**free Trellus extension**](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl)** or learning more about us** [**HERE.**](https://www.trellus.ai/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83230&key=user_uploads/832328/7083fc17-24ff-4091-be93-f95beae9dba1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LeQ-trellus-add-ai-to-salesloft-outreach-hubspot-or-apollo", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-08-20T18:14:34.698Z" }, { "id": 77167, "title": "Trellus: An embedded AI auto-dialer that's 5x cheaper than any parallel dialer", "tagline": "The 10x you need for your cold calls ", "body": "**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [_AI powered auto-dialer + sales coach_](https://trellus.ai/autodialer) to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls. Trellus automates all calling activity (e.g., call dispositions, call notes, choosing which prospects to dial, hanging up on voicemails, etc.) while giving your reps real-time suggestions on what to say durinng the call.\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — [_AI assistants are the future of cold calling._](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77167&key=user_uploads/832328/655782f0-f7cd-4077-8237-b86caca1ca2f)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCold calling without automation is inefficient due to low pickup rates and often times reps are not effectively able to convert prospects who do pick up.\n\nOn the flip side, parallel dialers that offer automation solutions cost $$$ (upwards of $300/rep/month for their base packages).\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nTrellus offers an affordable solution that provides not just call automations but also an AI-powered real-time assistant.\n\nOur AI models automate all mundane calling tasks so that reps are given more time to sell rather than do admin work.\n\n### **Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (it’s as simple as downloading our chrome extension)\n* Automated dialer (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n* Real-time AI coaching based of events that occur in the calls\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials\n\n### **How you can get started!**\n\n**1) Check out a demo** [here.](https://trellus.ai/autodialer)\n\n**2) Talk to us!** If you’re interested in trialing Trellus with your sales reps, [grab a quick time slot](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/general-meeting) for a white-glove onboarding or send us an email at [founders@trellus.ai.](mailto:founders@trellus.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K4d-trellus-an-embedded-ai-auto-dialer-that-s-5x-cheaper-than-any-parallel-dialer", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-01-02T20:31:00.659Z" }, { "id": 68816, "title": "Trellus - real-time sales AI coach for cold calls", "tagline": "Trellus - the AI copilot to supercharge your cold call outbound (join 400+ reps and counting today!)", "body": "**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [_AI powered real time sales coach_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/how-does-real-time-sales-ai-coaching-work) _for sales development reps in their cold calls. It guides reps to exceed quota by identifying common situations in sales calls and delivering simple action-oriented suggestions at the moment they are needed. Trellus also completes all post-call work for reps including note-taking and call summarization._ [_Real-time AI is the future of sales support_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching) _- check out our chrome extension today_ [_here_](https://app.trellus.ai/install-now)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68816&key=user_uploads/832328/639aa519-23ad-4c93-a11a-bdbcd74084f0)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n**For sales reps** - it is hard to master all the skills necessary to have consistent and repeatable success in prospecting calls. A few examples of what reps need to stay on top of in each call:\n\n1. Who the prospect is and how to build rapport\n2. [What to respond to common cold call objections](https://www.trellus.ai/post/five-common-cold-call-objections)\n3. Any qualification questions that need to be worked through - and the prospect's response\n4. Their own delivery cadence - tempo, talk time, etc.\n5. When to go for the close and book the next steps\n\n**For managers** - it is hard to effectively supervise and train a team of reps since a team of reps has far more (combined) hours to make calls than a manager has time to review them. Existing sales intelligence tools like Gong / Chorus are commonly used for recording and review but offer limited help in coaching reps because [the analytics are less focused on prospecting calls and the feedback is often delayed.](https://www.trellus.ai/post/sales-coaching-is-broken)\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nTrellus solves these issues by giving your sales reps a real-time AI-powered sales coach that is available 24x7 to them. 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We’re building **an agent marketplace** with a secure data layer infrastructure and compliance framework **for institutional investors and fintech AI startups**.\n\n### **🧠 The Problem**\n\nInstitutional Investors know they need to adopt AI — but where does one start?\n\n* AI is new, noisy, and fragmented.\n* Consultants lack the required knowledge and are expensive.\n* Broadly available mainstream AI tools aren't built with investor workflows, compliance, or security in mind.\n\nMeanwhile, fintech AI startups are building targeted specialised agents — but distribution to investment funds is a huge challenge.\n\n### **💡 Our Solution**\n\n**Vantedge AI** is the first Agent marketplace with distribution to a rapidly expanding client base of 10+ blue-chip institutional investors managing **$100B+ in AUM**.\n\n* **For investors:** A secure, plug-and-play platform with curated AI agents to streamline research, diligence, and analysis.\n* **For AI startups:** A distribution and infrastructure layer that gets your agents in front of institutional clients, with SOC 2-level compliance, usage tracking, and real-world data access.\n\nWe’re now opening up access to our Agent Marketplace for startups building fintech AI tools.\n\n### **⚙️ How It Works**\n\n* Investors can upload any document or search for filings and instantly run a vetted AI agent — like an SEC filings parser or investment memo generator.\n* AI startups can integrate their agents through our SDK and securely run them inside investor workflows — no sales motion required.\n* All data is stored in a secure Data Vault with workspace-level access, so funds can collaborate and startups can serve verticalized use cases.\n\n🎥 [Here’s a 90-second demo of how it works](https://youtu.be/piElxwuZXbM):\n\n---\n\n### **🎯 Who It’s For**\n\n* **Investors and funds**: Looking to adopt AI but want a secure, curated, and compliant solution.\n* **AI startups**: Building tools for the investment ecosystem and looking for distribution, infrastructure, and real customers.\n\n---\n\n### **📣 Call to Action**\n\n* 🎯 **Funds**: Want to try the platform? **Please reach out to us at** [**founders@vantedgeai.com**](mailto:founders@vantedgeai.com)\n* 🤖 **AI startups**: Want distribution to $100B+ in AUM? [**Join the Agent Marketplace waitlist**](https://forms.gle/cHen2Hh74n3B1Npr8)\n\n### **🙌 Thanks YC**\n\nWe wouldn’t be here without the YC community, and we’d love your feedback, intros, or support. If you’re building in AI, fintech, or investing, we’d love to connect.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NF1-vantedge-ai-the-agent-marketplace-to-scale-your-investing-workflows", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-04-08T19:51:06.367Z" }, { "id": 80487, "title": "Yardstick - Data-driven startup valuation and KPI benchmarking tool", "tagline": "Benchmark and value startups with ease", "body": "Hello, YC community! We're Ravi and Vijay, data enthusiasts and startup founders who've faced the significant challenge of quantifying startup success. Through our experiences in building and growing companies, we've recognized a glaring need in the market for transparent, accessible benchmarking and valuation metrics—tools that rely on data rather than just intuition or incomplete data. Here is a [quick demo](https://app.storylane.io/share/916eqxtsotpo). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80487&key=user_uploads/763615/96e63adc-0b0b-46db-a6cc-0ddca5afeb65)\n\n**What Yardstick Offers:**\n\nYardstick delivers comprehensive tools for accurately benchmarking startup performance and estimating valuations. _Our platform utilizes an extensive dataset of startup performance metrics, providing growth rate percentiles to precisely position startups against a broad database. Moreover, Yardstick computes valuation estimates_ through sophisticated models that analyze KPIs in relation to valuation data and qualitative insights from hundreds of startups.\n\n**The Problem and Our Journey:**\n\nNavigating the vibrant startup ecosystem, we found that evaluating these ventures has traditionally been more art than science_. Our experience in assessing hundreds of early-stage startups for equity and debt investments revealed the difficulty of understanding their market standing without resorting to costly market research or external consultants_. This challenge inspired the creation of Yardstick.\n\n**Our Solution:**\n\nYardstick seamlessly integrates into the workflows of fintechs, investors, and entrepreneurs wanting to underwrite a startup’s performance. Our solution offers not just KPI benchmarking but also insights into current valuations. _With both an API and a user-friendly web application_, Yardstick serves both technical and non-technical users, ensuring comprehensive accessibility.\n\n**Give it a try:**\n\nWe are thrilled to introduce Yardstick and are eager for your feedback. Whether you are a fintech looking to perform KPI benchmarking on potential clients, an investor in need of data-driven tools, or a startup founder trying to understand where your startup stacks up against peers or what should be the latest valuation based on current traction, [we invite you to try out Yardstick](https://ventureinsights.ai/yardstick/) (without a need to sign up!) and share your insights. For those interested in integrating our tools directly, check out our [API documentation](https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/32615745/2sA35G3MMX).\n\nWe look forward to your feedback!\n\nThank you,\n\nRavi and Vijay", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KwB-yardstick-data-driven-startup-valuation-and-kpi-benchmarking-tool", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-04-29T16:44:40.352Z" }, { "id": 79828, "title": "Ventureinsights.ai - Stay on top of your angel portfolio with Smart Updates", "tagline": "Effortlessly oversee your investments, with all the critical information you need at your fingertips", "body": "As an angel investor, if you have more than a handful of startups in your portfolio - staying on top of how each company has been performing through their investment updates is hard as it is difficult to remember their KPIs and goals from their past investment updates. At [VentureInsights](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3p1W5CnVzJ74HHFqW2cDQZK3w0lS2N2DPgRM2mnSXW7jhCrx1-80tGW6KWBsH3yQ423W3dCVRC4zzGg0W7SFwY58DSQxwW1wh6wZ1yNz2yW2vwcTV6R2x7WW8wFCM24RdyFBW3pbYyX8JcB6mW9dC9Yy98f9RLW8GM13H59q25kN5JDmyQ5NJfHW7bflGj4W15DbW39dwrq2sZ44lW5MSk1L4Ytt7YN29Pt1s17ZP8W39H9Nq1CPqbrW3DBFhf1SJ7qyW4mfrMn7_yq8fW4rPFC65-11JFW2VLKHY4BjmnYW7grPCC5NJqgZW3nxBSB4yr6LxMdG2b7tjzyDf5J9l9b04), we understand the value of your time and investments. That's why we've developed a tool that makes it super easy to monitor and manage your angel investments - introducing the [Smart Updates](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3p0W8fMLXx20nsnJW1Fvfzk6LTlP8W7_dsKt4MkxzyW7T-3sj5km1B2W8lqhdj1vMTQrW6sggCG8Jq_dqN2NQgS0YVlbcW5xtKvn5wf6VvVvQ49m70_-3zVgNJNn8k216sW2_mcJy5Hl3wLW1TfLDV4Q-LdNW6j82r87k1rF4W6q-ZFr2YTTCqW3GHkcR7hz18dN7-ndQnKdzldW4qwwSL8MqJHbW3nV7Fy6Y_TGpN3B7ZKfrf5MmW1Ww_9j5Mkt4vVL6n3X3FwV22W5L00xN6LMzKFW8KLgCj5GB_fDV3P8q38yQBpxW583JwQ83tvL8W6L7LzC8dLjx4f4qcN9T04) tool.\n\nYou can check out a quick demo here: \n\n[Smart Updates](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3nvW2KsthG7X96xrN50pTLK_FNYWN7015NBP-H4NW2FHRff7hYp1rW3VxbFM4fFNvrN7TZNPL81Rx1W6g377d734DhZW5ypF8m8W5nZpW804f8l5DhMsDW4XB9ss2dfGn-W1BkkVW551P7yW1fFJD868ChbQN7sgyWVP3wjQW3LCD753v0hbRW71Nzv42zVC0bVjpXy21wGF9zW19W_D443lVc-W12vQXT8kPHLHW1Kck915rMMt8W4LMN0J4K92bwW5qvD716NvgvwW8cBhhG81-GHDW2GMCy15YydKNW2BPzxL6mQrXwW5DvtKh6Gw1ssW7fSQNv5nF78FdTBS7P04) is designed to streamline your investment oversight process. It collates, summarizes, and visualizes the key performance indicators (KPIs) of your portfolio companies through engaging graphs and concise summaries. Our tool also smartly tags and organizes periodic updates from founders, allowing for a seamless review process.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/HW6OYmd-pGO2k9jwRLHrY6Z-zCB79mLvmx-8DMW4240EyJR-mvVMQCRFg3etNY5M_K7k1nUfGt3Mz9VQaUR1RaJ8RsPyYqrPAE29lM0DudvTL7enJ4Y4RSIYZS2Tnel5DmBJx42arzcePasBykiBY-o)\n\nImagine having the ability to effortlessly oversee your investments, with all the critical information you need at your fingertips. [VentureInsights](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3ngW3ryJGW988LTtVCB1qF3P6-vKV36xRM2qB12PW8cD7cx7NSV9-W5xfpFw676htDW7V4P7D1qWRpSW7Zv5Rb1nlw6TW4cnG0F3P4XD2W6T2KzH3yzsB0W6qM6Gj8VF64tN55l1Xf_hxnGW2YXl3T1Vt3rgW7W86w07jC8DvW7GRV6N4qWD6DW6nzz735lLkhXW2jCN6Z63jGhrW68NjHW81PX0xW6jkWXD2X_LYGW5RZHt835pHw1N78K1WkRJFMcW1t90vJ545dxkW5x3mW95jRDPCW5gy2LH6qbJKHW16_zgx13L1c-W43SF4V62lwBgW8FL4Pt3HpS31f6Z0gDF04) makes this possible, through a dashboard with the insights you need to make informed decisions and maximize the potential of your portfolio.\n\nWe believe that effective monitoring leads to better support for your investments and, ultimately, to higher returns. Let VentureInsights take the complexity out of managing your angel investments, so you can focus on what you do best - identifying and investing in the next unicorn! \n\nLearn more and sign up by visiting [VentureInsights](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3nHW1sBdsm3Nnz8wW9llzzq4q5vt3N3mz7FK7GZxJW22YdHZ6NL9dLW1Q2VPz4_hWr7VFBrpq8bcvRSN846zRq1lLBFN1dwH99HldbCN2W3fM0jzHRhW3zQ73V93GGl8N52DSZBB67vnW3m6MSS6LN4DXW5LmmR18wC_SQW4VkpTP3Bdc2LW1419rf3Yzkp8W2R3VGW10-MwfN1x34MPHjqgQW9hHggj96cYLQW43PKsz8H3q0hW71rLtY2xG6H2N3kYKzmf7-MQVKvxSz26_tGvW1SZp0X3wWy8nW4WMzfB5BNhStW4JSl5t7YnKsfW2DF5Z52Z8wPlf1xW0tv04) today. \n\n Best,\n\n8vdx Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KlY-ventureinsights-ai-stay-on-top-of-your-angel-portfolio-with-smart-updates", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-03-30T21:34:33.124Z" }, { "id": 76266, "title": "🚀 VentureInsights: Intelligent data-driven decision-making for investors", "tagline": "VentureInsights harnesses AI to empower VCs and angels with actionable intelligence and data-driven decision-making.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe're thrilled to unveil [**VentureInsights**](https://www.8vdx.com/ventureinsights/), our latest venture in revolutionizing early-stage investing. Having backed over 90 YC startups, we've crafted a solution to the persistent challenges of investment discovery, analysis, and monitoring.\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo_EN21P4E)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nEarly-stage investing is fraught with scattered data, cumbersome discovery, and a lack of effective tools for analyzing startups with minimal track records. Post-investment, investors grapple with the pain of tracking scattered investment updates, often losing out on pivotal insights.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nEnter VentureInsights, your AI-driven hub for early-stage investing. Here's how we're changing the game:\n\n1. **Easy Discovery**: Connect with actively fundraising startups, reducing the grunt work of finding investment-worthy ventures.\n2. **In-Depth Analysis**: Convert inbound founder communications into detailed investment profiles with our AI Analyst tool, giving you the essentials to make informed decisions swiftly.\n3. **Smart Monitoring**: Our Smart Updates feature parses regular updates from your portfolio companies, offering a continuously refreshed performance snapshot and industry benchmarking via the 'Yardstick' score.\n\nAlready, many YC founders have expressed interest in VentureInsights. Experience VentureInsights firsthand with the [**click-through**](https://app.storylane.io/share/sfhx5tbvsqmv) demo or just book a personal demo with our team through this [**calendar link**](https://meetings.hubspot.com/vijay-lavhale/vi-demos).\n\nTo celebrate our launch, we're providing $200 in joining credits that can be applied towards subscription fees ($19.99/month), and AI reports ($9.99/report). No credit card is needed to start your trial.\n\nJoin the venture revolution with us, and let's navigate the investment journey together.\n\nCheers,\n\nRavi and Vijay (Founders@8vdx.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jq6-ventureinsights-intelligent-data-driven-decision-making-for-investors", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2023-11-15T23:47:27.197Z" }, { "id": 68625, "title": "8vdX - Extend your seed extension with a ‘seedex booster’ of up to $1M", "tagline": "Venture debt marketplace with a fundraising stack for early stage startups", "body": "**We are excited to announce the launch of 8vdX Seedex Booster, a new addition to our expanding product portfolio at 8vdX. This product offers early stage startups the opportunity to access seed extension debt of up to $1 million.**\n\nUntil recently, we were focused on providing bridge to Demo Day loans to current YC batches. However, the current market environment has given us the opportunity to expand our product offering.  The 8vdX Seedex Booster aims to solve some of the fundraising challenges currently being faced by founders including;\n\n* Not enough funding runway to meet the performance benchmark expectations of series A investors\n* Decreased valuations that require founders to achieve significantly higher targets in order to avoid a down round \n* Raising seed extension rounds can be challenging in the current environment\n\n8vdX's Seedex Booster program augments a startup’s seed extension raise with up to $1 million of additional funding with founder friendly venture debt.\n\n**How it works is pretty simple:**\n\n**8vdX is offering to contribute up to 25% of a startup's seed extension round**, with the remaining 75% sourced from insiders or others. Our ticket size is between $250k-$1 Mn, capped at 25% of your seed-ex round. Here is an example of how it would work:\n\n* Let’s say you are a startup which has just launched a **$1 Mn seed-ex round** and applied for the 8vdX seedex booster. After evaluating your startup, 8vdX gives a commitment of $250k representing 25% of the total seed-ex round. \n* **We will disburse the $250k** along with the $750k equity investment from other investors. _If you raise $750k in multiple tranches, we can make pro-rata disbursements_.\n* Maturity of up to 18 months or Series A closing, whichever is earlier\n\n_Assuming, the following terms have been negotiated and agreed upon by both parties:_\n\n* Interest cost: \n * cash interest of 1% per month ($2.5k) that you pay each month and\n * bonus SAFE of 5% i.e. ($125k) with the same valuation cap as the seed extension investors. \n\n_8vdX allows for flexibility in selecting a combination of cash interest and bonus SAFE._\n\n* Repayment schedule: The seedex booster will be repaid with the Series A funding. However, founders have the option to create an amortization schedule to prepay the loan or extend it upon maturity.\n\nOverall terms are founder-friendly terms as there is **no prepayment penalty, no collateral, no personal guarantees & no enforcement action.**\n\n**Please apply at** [**8vdx.com**](http://8vdx.com) **or email us at** [**zeronote@8vdx.com**](mailto:zeronote@8vdx.com)\n\n**Our aim is to help you achieve your maximum potential and successfully raise Series A funds.** How do we know this approach works? We have firsthand experience using it to drive growth and secure successful fundraises for startups. In fact, our own business model was developed through observing startups leverage our capital to accelerate their growth and secure successful fundraises.\n\nWe are thrilled to have already partnered with over 20 YC startups and look forward to supporting you as well. Join us in driving this innovative approach to fundraising!\n\n**Interested startups, please visit our digital** [**platform**](https://8vdx.com/) **to learn more and apply.** The entire process is simple, transparent, fast, and completely digitized. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us and we will be more than happy to set up a call.\n\nThanks,\n\nTeam 8vdX", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hqr-8vdx-extend-your-seed-extension-with-a-seedex-booster-of-up-to-1m", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2023-01-23T16:24:03.035Z" }, { "id": 66668, "title": "Fundraising CRM for early stage startups from 8vdX", "tagline": "Enabling startups to fuel their growth through our fundraising stack and alternative sources of capital", "body": "Hi guys! **We are so excited to share our new fundraising CRM!** This is a product that is something we desperately needed, so we built it to help not only us, but the larger startup community. 🥰\n\n**The Problem:** \n\nAs we all know, fundraising can be overwhelming **😩** and hard to keep track of:\n\n* Leads can be hard to organize and schedule. \n* Following up with everyone who contacts us can be difficult!\n* Research on the caliber and reputation of VCs can be hard to gauge. Do they have a history of investing in companies like us? What are their normal check sizes? 🧐 Who is in their existing portfolio?\n\n![My Dumpster Fire Is Filled To The Brim Sarah Wayne Callies GIF - My Dumpster Fire Is Filled To The Brim Sarah Wayne Callies Robin Perry GIFs](https://media.tenor.com/lMrxlxggxXMAAAAC/my-dumpster-fire-is-filled-to-the-brim-sarah-wayne-callies.gif)\n\nWe could go on, but you get it– we’ve lived it, after all. \n\n**The Solution 😃:**\n\nOur new fundraising CRM makes organizing your raise easy by:\n\n* Keeping track of your leads, including follow ups and replies. \n* Making it easy to upload your leads and track them from initial contact to close in a single place\n * This is particularly useful for anyone who is still fundraising from the S22 batch!\n* Targeting investors with high conversion rates and larger check sizes 🤑\n* Providing a clear snapshot of where you are in your goals with our dashboard. 🥳\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66668&key=user_uploads/763615/2e7f70ea-bd3f-4ae2-b052-3b4331a3af10)\n\n**We just launched and would love any and all feedback on this!** Your time is valuable, so the **first 20 startups** able to get on a zoom call with us will get a **$100 gift card to Amazon.**\n\nMuch love,\n\nThe 8vdX fam❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HLI-fundraising-crm-for-early-stage-startups-from-8vdx", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2022-10-12T17:04:14.257Z" } ] }, { "id": 25327, "name": "Starling", "slug": "starling", "former_names": [ "Starling Medical" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdc25280245ff89ae883c07e3aa55cf751c7c285.png", "website": "https://starlingmedical.com/", "all_locations": "Houston, TX, USA", "long_description": "Starling is building a urine diagnostic remote patient monitoring platform that seamlessly integrates into anyone's bathroom routine. 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During his tenure at McKinsey, León focused on strategy projects in insurance companies and private equity funds as well as in operations improvement projects across industries.\nLeón is an alumnus of Imperial College London where he studied Mechanical Engineering (Master's level).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/le%C3%B3n-bartolom%C3%A9-carre%C3%B1o-2097a4107", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6ae54e0e758325fd0371a5b84ba2eb5c6d3e075.jpg" }, { "user_id": 860781, "full_name": "Andrés Guerrero Álvarez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Andrés is Co-Founder at Momento. Prior to founding Momento, Andrés was e-Business Manager at P&G for 3 years, focusing con marketing and distributing FMCG products in the online channel. Andrés is an alumnus of Imperial College (BA), Warwick Business School (MA) and Carlos III University of Madrid (MA).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-guerrero-alvarez-116972146/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4b480139630b22f91a80ee83982d82510c157f5b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Rounds of the Week: Momento Seguros Raises $10.5 Million to Begin Operations", "url": "https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/rounds-of-the-week-momento-seguros-raises-105-million-to-begin-operations/", "date": "Aug 04, 2023" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 25329, "name": "PromptLoop", "slug": "promptloop", "former_names": [ "Kiter" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7c8a8c2a5044b70f4b7cfd2ff37e4a2c34a9bdf2.png", "website": "https://www.promptloop.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "PromptLoop helps GTM teams automate account research and data enrichment at scale. We turn manual web scraping and qualification workflows into automated processes, enabling teams to enrich thousands of accounts with detailed company data and buying intent markers in minutes.\r\n\r\nWhy PromptLoop? Sales and marketing teams traditionally spend hours manually researching accounts or rely on outdated data providers. We automatically crawl and extract precise data points from company websites, social profiles, and public sources at 10% the cost of manual research, with built-in quality controls and strict sourcing. 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Thankfully rowing takes place early in the day!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-mangan/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4d15e0e51c6d9ee7355823e1e74d2d08e38110c8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94672, "title": "PromptLoop: AI research agent that syncs leads to HubSpot/Salesforce", "tagline": "Build simple AI web research agents to find small and local business data and sync to your CRM", "body": "## TLDR:\n\nBring AI Research Agents into your CRM data to fill in missing info, detect stale data, find new leads, and customize content for outbound marketing.\n\n**PromptLoop** integrates directly with **Salesforce** and **HubSpot** with a few clicks bringing our best in class AI research to your customer data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94672&key=user_uploads/291176/c5833fcb-c98f-48ee-9087-079a6940fde5)\n\n## AI Prospecting:\n\nWe help fast growing YC startups like **Arketa** and **Trellus,** consultants at **BCG**, and investors at **Stonewood** and **Centeroak** find best-in-class small-business data, phone numbers, and contacts.\n\nCreate an agent to research a company, find an owner, verify where someone works, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94672&key=user_uploads/291176/068e7691-19d0-4dfb-93ab-3f1b0df2a2fc)\n\n## New Opportunities:\n\nAI-powered search enables you to generate **niche datasets** and refine a list down to your exact ICP.\n\nThis data can then be checked against your CRM records and synced in automatically.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94672&key=user_uploads/291176/1b32c1f9-a9fc-4816-9951-19ada9e92082)\n\n## CRM Sync:\n\nHave old or stale leads in your CRM that you want to make use of or clean up? This is a constant head ache for teams that we are solving today. Instead of deleting records or ignoring bad data, sync in a list of accounts and have **AI research every single one** - validating gaps and filling in your market map.\n\nYou can create custom research or find new decision makers in **as little as 30 minutes** with a project that used to take months.\n\nMore: [Here](https://www.promptloop.com/salesforce)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94672&key=user_uploads/291176/e684898a-0636-49d9-a82a-7c591c1ac27e)\n\nWant to see how it works for your industry in as little as 15 minutes?\n\nBook a demo with our Founders here and we will see if you’re a good fit:\n\n[**Book a Demo**](https://www.promptloop.com/demo?src=yclaunch)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ocy-promptloop-ai-research-agent-that-syncs-leads-to-hubspot-salesforce", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-10-16T00:31:38.512Z" }, { "id": 86382, "title": "PromptLoop - Run AI automation tasks that get sales teams exactly the data they need", "tagline": "Scrape 10x more website data in 10% of the time. Trusted by fast growing teams.", "body": "🎯 **TL;DR:** Sales teams use PromptLoop to automatically pull the exact data points they need from target accounts. Our platform turns manual prospecting into automated, accurate intelligence at scale.\\\n\\\nHey Everyone!\n\nPromptLoop helps dozens of fast-growing sales teams get the custom data they need to close more deals. While existing sales databases and emailing tools provide basic company information, modern GTM teams need deeper, more nuanced data about their target accounts specific to their offering. Sales teams with a focused approach are massively outpacing those ignoring targeting and timing and getting lost in inboxes, regardless of sending optimizations.\n\n**The Problem:**\n\n* Sales teams waste hours manually researching prospects\n* Existing data providers are expensive and often outdated\n* Critical buying signals are buried in websites\n* Sales reps lose time calling unqualified leads\n* Integration with existing tools is complex\n\n**Our Solution:** PromptLoop gives sales teams superpowers with:\n\n* Custom AI models that extract exactly what you need\n* Web intelligence that's 90%+ accurate\n* One-click integration with HubSpot or your CRM w/ API\n* Ability to process thousands of companies in minutes\n* No engineering required - just describe what you want\n\n❤️ **What Teams Are Saying:**\n\n> PromptLoop is great for when we needed to build out custom datasets for lead sourcing that aligns with our criteria.\n\n> Our BDR team is loving these lists. Total game changer!\n\n> The PromptLoop team is amazingly helpful and we have been able to build large datasets much faster than we hoped for and at a fraction of the cost.\n\n100% of new customers in the past two quarters have ended up running far more on the platform than originally anticipated.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86382&key=user_uploads/291176/bc7d8df8-7a00-4818-bdb4-327c0282a717)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86382&key=user_uploads/291176/202231bd-f4eb-4816-aad3-76d4beaa7678)\n\n**What Makes PromptLoop Different:**\n\n* Run AI tasks that extract exactly what matters for your ICP\n* Accurate data (90%+ across difficult domains vs 60% on alternatives and in house attempts as reported by customers)\n* Get answers formatted how you need them\n* Process thousands of companies in minutes\n* One-click sync with your CRM\n* No engineering required\n\n**We're already helping teams across:**\n\n* Enterprise SaaS\n* Vertical SaaS targeting Services industries\n* Private Equity teams\n* Healthcare Tech\n* Professional Services\n\nReady to supercharge your sales data?\n\n* [Book a demo](https://www.promptloop.com/demo)\n* Email us: [team@promptloop.com](https://mailto:team@promptloop.com)\n* Read our case studies: [Link](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/excel/growth-sales)\n\nSpecial Launch YC Offer: Now until Jan 15 free pilot with 5k credits and hands on advice for startups who have raised under 10M. Just mention this post when you get in touch!\n\n#sales #b2b #saas #ai #salesintelligence", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MTG-promptloop-run-ai-automation-tasks-that-get-sales-teams-exactly-the-data-they-need", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2024-12-18T17:21:03.626Z" }, { "id": 77420, "title": "PromptLoop: Supercharge Your Web Research and Data Tasks", "tagline": "Run AI tasks on 1000s of rows of spreadsheet data", "body": "Hello everyone! We're Peter and Andrew, co-founders of PromptLoop, launching our powerful new AI platform to empower you to automate and optimize your data tasks. Specifically designed to cater to investors, consultants, and those involved in extensive online research or web scraping.\\\n\\\n**TLDR:**\n\n[PromptLoop](https://www.promptloop.com/) lets you create AI data automations and run them effortlessly on thousands of rows from a spreadsheet. Create tasks to pull formatted data from websites, categorize research, and find insights needed to filter and act on your research. PromptLoop helps fast-moving teams create accurate, visible, and flexible [AI web-enabled research tasks](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/custom-tasks) easily, saving 80%+ on outsourced services and allowing for insights and data your competitors do not have.\n\n**🚧 The Challenge**\n\nNo matter if you are an investor scouting for potential acquisition targets, a consultant supporting a market study, or a business owner looking to up the bar on your company data inputs, there are common roadblocks:\n\n* Tedious manual data collection\n* Time-consuming and erroneous manual web scraping\n* The need to filter a large list down to relevant targets\n* Difficulty in processing and unraveling insights from the collected data\n* Missing columns that need enrichment\n* Small company data is hard to find or stale\n\nWhile this is easy for a small amount of data, scaling this to 1000s of websites quickly becomes untenable. We have conservatively estimated it takes a human 1 minute to open, read, and extract information from a site. That would be seven days to get through 10k sites.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77420&key=user_uploads/291176/d4e97758-eebe-4c6e-9d3a-c2ce621e281e)\n\n**🚀 Our Solution**\n\nPromptLoop lets you create and use automation like AI web scraping in your existing workflow. Taking spreadsheets of inputs, simple instructions, and getting reliable results in record time. Automate and streamline your data tasks without leaving your spreadsheet or with our drag and drop file tool. Our AI-enabled tools facilitate:\n\n✅ **Automated Data Tasks:** Use our Autoloop feature to schedule and [automate AI data automations on every row of a dataset](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/autoloop). Completing the tens of thousands of data enrichment and AI operations in under an hour, with the results emailed to you.\n\n✅ **Custom Tasks:** Tailor our AI models to extract insights, enrich data, and generate custom reports. Examples include:\n\n* Classifying websites/companies into specific categories\n* Content summarization\n* Determining whether a company x provides a service y\n* Extracting a company's customers or their target customers for lead enrichment.\n* Determining the number of reviews and locations, providing data points on estimated size.\n\n✅ **Spreadsheet Integration:** Apply AI functions directly to your Excel and Google Sheets data, allowing real-time analysis and streamlining your workflow. \n\n**🔄 Drag and Drop Data Enrichment and Custom Tasks**\n\nAutoloop is our automation feature that handles your repetitive data processing tasks. You can read more about Autoloop here.\n\nIt’s time to stop using the same data sets everyone else has access to. Custom Tasks offer flexibility by creating AI-driven automation tailored to your distinct business needs. Whether it's [web scraping](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/web-browsing-capability), analyzing data, or curating custom datasets, Custom Tasks adapt rapidly to meet your objectives. Learn more about Custom Tasks [here](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/custom-tasks).\n\n**🔁 Seamless Spreadsheet Integration**\n\nWe bridge the gap between Google Sheets, Excel, and AI, allowing you to directly apply complex AI functions like text categorization, data extraction, and content generation onto your spreadsheet. \n\n**👋 Our Ask** \n\nConnect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/89570147) and share with anyone who yearns for automated and insightful data tasks.\n\nFinally, if you have a few minutes to chat about PromptLoop, please book a slot with us directly [here](https://www.promptloop.com/demo). We're eager to understand your needs and show you how PromptLoop can revolutionize your data tasks.\n\nWith PromptLoop, let's put AI tools to work on your spreadsheet data - [Start for free today.](https://www.promptloop.com/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K8i-promptloop-supercharge-your-web-research-and-data-tasks", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-01-10T22:55:21.291Z" }, { "id": 69781, "title": "PromptLoop: AI tools for spreadsheet data", "tagline": "AI tools for market research and web browsing in Excel", "body": "Hey everyone, we are PromptLoop, and we make it easy to leverage powerful AI language models inside Excel and Google Sheets!\n\n**TLDR**: [PromptLoop](https://www.promptloop.com/) provides on-demand access to AI language models for analyzing, formatting, and generating text in spreadsheets. Customize and chain together models to analyze text data, automate accurate and up to date web research without scraping, and power company research that goes beyond common datasets like Pitchbook and Crunchbase.\n\n## **🤔 The Problem:**\n\nData-driven teams know that research takes time and great research takes even longer. Whether working with text or gathering accurately sourced insights on companies or new markets. They also know that exporting a CSV and sorting rows is the fastest way to accomplish goals quickly and build reports.\n\nSpreadsheets work well because every business is different, but they **weren’t designed for unstructured text** data that is the lifeblood of effective Sales and Marketing teams.\n\n### **💡 The Solution:**\n\n⚡ Powerful **AI Language Models** inside **Excel and Google Sheets** ⚡\n\n[PromptLoop](https://www.promptloop.com/) provides a set of easy to use AI functions that power common tasks and allow customization for every use case.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69781&key=user_uploads/291176/6d16c164-9e4c-4711-b833-a4be1f543c7c)\n\nPromptLoop provides dependable and scalable access to dozens of AI language models with a simple formula. Teams use our platform to build spreadsheet models that streamline workflows for more output with fewer people, all in a customizable and accessible interface.\n\nWith [dozens of templates](https://www.promptloop.com/templates) and [video guides](https://www.youtube.com/@promptloop4510/videos) to get you started and resources for Research Analysts, Consultants, and Investing due dilligence teams, it's never been easier to stay ahead of the field and future-proof your operations with the best technology available. PromptLoop provides immense value [across any vertical](https://www.promptloop.com/customers) that uses spreadsheets.\n\nExamples of what teams are building with PromptLoop:\n\n* 🏷️ 95% time saved on web research and data categorization\n* 📈 Label and segment existing datasets with labeling AI models for better insights\n* ⬆️ Augment existing data sources for a fraction of the cost like Crunchbase, Pitchbook and Zoominfo\n* 👍 Reducing outsourcing and staffing needs on data gathering without reducing quality\n\nWhether you are a small business or a global consulting firm with ambitious growth goals this year amid cost cuts - PromptLoop is the perfect solution.\n\nSince we launched last year, we have emphasized reliability and performance at scale for hundreds of companies and thousands of users that need dependable and measurable results.\n\nOrganizations can start with [Google](https://workspace.google.com/u/4/marketplace/app/promptloop_ai_in_sheets/831127607357) or [Microsoft 365](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200005194?exp=ubp8&tab=Overview) single-sign-on inside Excel and Google Sheets and deploy custom AI models organization-wide with a simple web interface.\n\n### 💪 Why Us?\n\nBefore PromptLoop, our founder, Peter, taught the Excel course at EY and got his start programming while developing algorithm-backed spreadsheet models for a quantitative trading fund. Andrew studied computer science with a concentration in machine learning at Stanford.\n\nWe take pride in dependability and top-tier support. 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Or do you have any concerns with infant formulas? We would like to understand your concerns as we are creating real human milk using biotechnology. Please share your contact info [here](https://forms.gle/gy64yfLuJ1MtnfmD8) and we will connect to schedule a quick 20 mins call to understand your concerns.**\n\n### **UnReal Human Milk! 🍼 👶**\n\n> **_Why? - Lactation Issues in Women are at an all-time High!_**\n\nEvery year around 85 million women globally struggle with breast feeding in some way or the other. The existing infant formulas are largely based on cow milk which naturally lacks several essential components of human milk like lactoferrin, HMOs etc. which are critical for the nutrition of the baby. Recently there was one of the biggest recalls in history of infant formula in Dec 2025, with a similar recall in US in 2022 which led to sudden shortage of infant formulas and left parents extremely worried and vulnerable. To circumvent such incidents we need more clean-label innovation in this space to create better and more robust solutions for infant nutrition.\n\n> **_What and How? - Harnessing Biology Responsibly!_**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98944&key=user_uploads/215532/88fc5eaf-d775-43a4-86a0-104692179c41)\n\n🚀 🚀 **Huge** **Breakthrough** - **We have been able to secrete Real Human Milk in lab!!!** We have validated all proteins by independent third party testing and have also tested for fats and carbohydrates to create a basic version of real human milk. By using mammalian cell culture we have designed a system to produce human milk in lab with a macronutrient focus currently. We are a Stanford, Rice University and IIT Delhi alumni team with backgrounds across biotechnology, business and innovation, determined to make a huge impact by using technology and leveraging recent advances in understanding of biological systems. This breakthrough leverages our extensive work on cow milk ([Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2025/02/24/first-lab-grown-whole-cows-milk-to-debut-in-the-us/)) as we add this new product to our pipeline - UnReal Human Milk.\n\n> **_More Exciting Stuff! - Why should human adults drink cow’s milk and not human milk?_**\n\nUntil now we had no way to mass produce human milk so we resorted to drinking cow milk since we could keep the poor cows in captivity to produce as much milk as needed. But now with our standardised scalable approach to creating human milk maybe we can move everyone across the planet from drinking cow milk to human milk. 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Choose among a selection of thousands of villas and hotels, add food, activities, and transportation in one click. Don’t delay your next offsite; make it happen today.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76274&key=user_uploads/707520/27bfaff0-7165-436e-8b54-630a0605f1b5)\n\n**Problem**\n\nAll team offsites require the same ingredients: accommodation, food, activity, and transportation. Unfortunately, today no platform exists to do everything in one place, and you end up spending hours looking for an affordable house or a hotel close to the airport. Then you have to make 50 phone calls to find a good catering company, activity, and so on. 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We are [Beau](https://github.com/hartshorne) and [Dirkjan](https://github.com/djc), and we're here to present [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc), an AI tool that helps you **find proven influencers who already love your product.**\n\nDirkjan is a [rustls](https://github.com/rustls/rustls) maintainer and built a fast open-source [vector database](https://github.com/instant-labs/instant-distance) in Rust before anyone knew they needed one. 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Multiplayer supported out-of-the-box.", "body": "### **TL;DR: Hyperbeam lets you embed any third-party website or application, synchronize audio and video flawlessly among multiple participants, and add multi-user control with just a few lines of code.**\n\nHey YC [👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand/#:\\~:text=A%20hand%20waving%20most%20commonly,to%20Emoji%201.0%20in%202015.)\n\nWe’re Philip, Amby, and Declan, and we’re building [Hyperbeam](https://hyperbeam.com/?ch=yc&cm=lyc1) 👾\n\n### [🤔](https://emojipedia.org/thinking-face/) **The Problem**\n\nEmbedding third-party apps and websites can often be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. This is an issue that countless remote learning, productivity, online social, and metaverse platforms face when building their products.\n\n### [💡](https://emojipedia.org/light-bulb/) **Our Solution**\n\nEnter Hyperbeam—an API that lets you embed virtual computers anywhere, including web, mobile, VR, and even VSCode. You can then open any third-party website or application, synchronize audio and video flawlessly among multiple participants, and add multi-user control with just a few lines of code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65609&key=user_uploads/858376/f7507431-2db0-45e9-bcf7-5bbde27ebb1a)\n\n### [⚙️](https://emojipedia.org/gear/) **How it Works**\n\n1. [Sign up](https://hyperbeam.com/?ch=yc&cm=lyc1) on the Hyperbeam Dashboard\n2. Generate an API key and integrate the Hyperbeam API\n3. Customize the UX to your use case (e.g. control permissions, FPS, permitted websites, WebGL)\n4. 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These companies were across legacy industries like consumer goods, mining, telecom, pharma and energy.\n\nOrganisations across these industries have been using archaic decades-old ERP systems to manage their on-ground field teams. These systems are extremely rigid and inflexible. There are very limited options for such companies to choose.\n\n80% of the mobile workforce is deskless, but the majority of the productivity and internal SaaS tools are being built for 20% of desk workers. Hence the need for these companies to build reach out to development agencies to build bespoke internal applications or hire an in-house internal tech team - both of which are bound to lead to disastrous results, given technology is not the forte’ of such industries\n\n---\n\n💛 **What We Do**\n\nWe help businesses with field teams build internal mobile applications within 10 minutes to streamline their on-field operations.\n\nThink giving the power of building tools similar to what Uber or Doordash may use to manage their on-ground workforce to some of these traditional industries!\n\nYou can check out our detailed product overview page [here](https://www.fieldproxy.com/product)\n\n---\n\n💪**Product Demos/Walkthrough of Use Cases**\n\n1. Quick Product Overview - click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/t5JWAkAwEnG3dJiJsnfap_pEOhi1ZH8tokDbs9lhJ6k?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446641)\n2. If you are in the Logistics space and want a take a look at the detailed location intelligence possible on the platform - click [here](https://www.loom.com/share/21288e2dcadf421981f09921f9294578?sharedAppSource=personal_library)\n3. If you run a Field servicing or field operations, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/mH8rVjfpdDG-V1yHuwtjmkjedPkNUnVFegAPVZlC5ZA?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to\n4. If you manage a Field Sales team, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/WBhOyuWNfypZKDTx5_B_SEYNZeV3WpxVHJwSjGTsO94?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to build a simple app with CRM-like functionality for your on-ground sales team\n\n---\n\n---\n\n💁‍♂️ **Asks**\n\n* **No-Code experts**/Founders of No-Code companies - If you are in the no-code space, would love to connect. We are still figuring out our GTM - and would love to have a quick 20-minute chat with people who have been there and done that. We will ensure we keep the questions very concise and specific!\n* **Industry Experts -** We are scaling up our template library in the consumer goods and field service verticals. If you are targeting similar industries or know someone in these industries who is up for a 40-hour paid consulting gig, please do let us know!\n* **Users** - Finally, if you do manage an on ground team, please do let me know! Would love to get on a call and help setup the workflows and applications that can help you get visibility and streamline your field operations\n\nIf there are any queries, feel free to drop a mail at [swaroop@fieldproxy.com](mailto:swaroop@fieldproxy.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjB-fieldproxy-retool-for-field-teams", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-07-04T13:04:03.510Z" } ] }, { "id": 25521, "name": "Happl", "slug": "happl", "former_names": [ "Tahora", "Happl (formerly Tahora)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c17a303b95defe0b51fc282067b942a4dbdaa25.png", "website": "https://happl.com/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Happl - Personalised benefits for employees to choose what’s right for them, and tools for managers to engage their teams, whilst we take care of all the compliance and admin.\r\n\r\nFounded in 2020 and based in London, UK, Happl works with some of the UK’s leading employers to bring their hybrid working culture to life!\r\n\r\nhttps://www.happl.com/", "one_liner": "Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1639472348, "tags": [ "SaaS", "HR Tech", "Insurance" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "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/happl", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/happl.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/happl", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/joinHappl", "fb_url": "https://facebook.com/joinhappl", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tahora", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c17a303b95defe0b51fc282067b942a4dbdaa25.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": 401900, "full_name": "Ben Towers", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ben (24) is Co-Founder at Happl (formerly Tahora). 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For leaders, we handle flexible benefits, allowances, insurance, and manager-to-employee gifting, all whilst ensuring you’re staying compliant. For employees, we use benefits as communities within your existing stack to engage, as well as understand them on a personal and inclusive level through interests and goals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/adb698a0-abe5-447b-a433-7efa64ed283e)\n\n**🤯 The problem**\n\nEmployees are not offered personal and inclusive benefits that have an impact, resulting in poor uptake, whilst often founders aren’t sure how to engage their global teams effectively.\n\nCompanies often roll out company-wide benefits such as a meditation app, or learning platform, in the hope that it’s going to magnificently fix their engagement and retention problems. We hate to break it to you, but that isn’t cutting it.\n\n**Our solution? Flip traditional benefits on their head ⬇️**\n\n* Flexible spend allowances, with controls and international support\n* A marketplace fo recommendations and discounts of quality over quantity\n* Community benefits, connect over shared benefits within slack\n* Personal and inclusive employee profiles for impactful recommendations\n* Manager engagement budgets with prompts and reminders for employee gifting\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/e2d3eb7b-274d-433d-8e17-b3c4c4d9dc14)\n\n**Who’s it for? 🌍**\n\nWe know what it’s like firsthand to scale a company with the weight of ensuring your team is engaged, and it’s not easy. Many of our users, who we like to call Happling’s (we’re working on that) have employees in many regions and simply want to consolidate their benefit allowance and roll it out with ease. Others want to make sure they’re getting the best prices and save money through benchmarking.\n\nWe support start-ups from 5 employees or more, all the way through to more mature companies with thousands of employees like Google, NatWest Bank, The Metropolitan Police, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/68a6073b-3a03-4904-931c-1b839f8f041c)\n\n**How it works 💡**\n\nWe handle everything from the get-go, with a speedy onboarding process through connecting with your HRIS and Accounting software. Rolling out spend allowances or manager expense cards is as simple as choosing an amount. We automatically detect multiple locations and convert the allowances so it’s fair for all employees.\n\nEmployees can sign up with SSO and curate a profile that's personal and inclusive to them. We can share this information with managers prior to gifting or organising a team event to engage.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/91d47b14-2cea-4925-8b3e-8cf5127451c0)\n\n**How to get on it 🖥️**\n\nTake advantage of our YC Deal email me at [ben@happl.com](mailto:ben@happl.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/07b30ce0-15a9-4a7e-badc-30b4dbfead31)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hcv-happl-set-up-global-benefits-and-recognition-in-seconds", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2022-12-07T14:51:48.316Z" } ] }, { "id": 25522, "name": "Unlayer", "slug": "unlayer", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fcefc5d17d05bbb0fe7c4b9b5875db24dc093a45.png", "website": "https://unlayer.com", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Unlayer helps companies add AI-powered content creation into their products without building it from scratch. Developers can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to AI agents, templates, asset storage, exports, and APIs. 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Write once in React, render everywhere.\n\nToday, we’re launching something new and open source:\n\n# Unlayer Elements\n\nAn open-source React content layer for developers and AI agents to create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \\\nDemo: \n\n## **The Problem**\n\nEvery SaaS product eventually needs content creation.\n\nAt first, it’s just one transactional email.\n\nThen it becomes welcome emails, password resets, receipts, invoices, reports, landing pages, PDFs, internal templates, previews, exports, and visual editing.\n\nMost teams end up maintaining separate systems for each output:\n\n* one system for email templates\n* one system for web pages\n* one system for PDFs\n* one system for visual editing\n* one system for exports\n\nThe content is often similar, but the implementation is different.\n\nThis becomes even more important now that AI agents are generating more code and content. Agents can create fast, but teams still need the output to be structured, reusable, version-controlled, and production-ready.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105004&key=user_uploads/105300/5911c2cd-ca33-48e8-86ff-72e1ce4fcfe7)\n\n## **What We Built**\n\nWe built Unlayer Elements: open-source React components for creating emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nDevelopers can use familiar components like:\n\n* <Email>\n* <Page>\n* <Document>\n* <Row>\n* <Column>\n* <Heading>\n* <Paragraph>\n* <Button>\n* <Image>\n* <Custom>\n\nEach output mode is tuned for where the content will live:\n\n* <Email> renders email-safe table HTML\n* <Page> renders responsive web HTML\n* <Document> renders print-ready HTML for PDFs and documents\n\nSame component system. Different surfaces.\n\nA few examples of what you can build:\n\n* Transactional emails\n* Landing pages\n* Web versions of emails\n* Invoices\n* Receipts\n* Reports\n* Internal template galleries\n* PDF documents\n* AI-generated content flows\n\nElements also connects with the broader Unlayer platform. Developers can define content structure in code, and when visual editing is needed, teams can bring that work into Unlayer’s Builder so marketers, admins, or end users can edit without touching code.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\nWe’re open sourcing this early because we want feedback from people building with React, Next.js, email, PDFs, templates, and AI-generated content.\n\nWe’d love for you to:\n\n1. Try it and tell us what feels useful or missing.\n2. Star the GitHub repo if you want to support the project.\n3. Share examples of emails, pages, PDFs, invoices, reports, or AI-generated content workflows you’d want Elements to support.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \n\nWould love feedback from the YC community.\n\nEmail: [founders@unlayer.com](mailto:founders@unlayer.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJc-elements-by-unlayer-open-source-react-components-for-emails-pages-and-pdfs", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-07-08T19:42:04.469Z" }, { "id": 102816, "title": "Unlayer: AI-powered content creation for your product", "tagline": "Let your users create beautiful emails, pages or documents with AI.", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Unlayer**](https://unlayer.com) is an AI-powered content creation platform for developers. It gives you **embeddable builders**, templates, APIs, and AI toolkit so your users can create **emails**, **pages**, **documents**, and other content directly **inside your product**.\n\n\n\n—\n\n## The Problem\n\nAlmost every software product eventually needs users to create content.\n\nEmails, landing pages, proposals, invoices, documents, announcements, templates, PDFs, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/df31db0c-923c-4ac3-977d-bd881f9586d1)\n\nAt first, this looks like “just add an editor.” Then you need responsive rendering, templates, merge tags, asset management, permissions, versioning, exports, personalization, localization, and now AI generation.\n\nA small feature quietly becomes an entire content creation platform.\n\n—\n\n## What We Built\n\n**Unlayer gives developers the building blocks to add AI-powered content creation into their own products.**\n\nYou can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to templates, file storage, exports, APIs, and AI workflows.\n\nYour users can visually create and edit content. Your AI agents can generate, personalize, translate, and modify that content through APIs and skills.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/c9995728-e131-44cd-93cc-d295f255cf1b)\n\nOver time, Unlayer has grown to **1,000+ customers**, from startups to teams at **Netflix**, **Fidelity**, **Bank of America**, **Mastercard, Twilio, Chargebee**, and others.\n\nThat has given us a front-row seat into the same pattern: almost every product eventually needs users or AI to create content inside the product itself.\n\n—\n\n## Why AI Changes This\n\nContent creation is moving from manual editing to assisted and automated workflows.\n\nA user should be able to say:\n\n* **_“Create a launch email for this feature.”_**\n* **_“Translate this landing page into Spanish.”_**\n* **_“Turn this proposal into a branded PDF.”_**\n* **_“Personalize this announcement for each customer segment.”_**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/639a8626-7790-4094-b684-c4800407a6c6)\n\nBut for AI to do this well inside a product, it needs more than a text box. 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You can:\n\n* [⚙️](https://emojipedia.org/gear/)**Train** LLM’s such as FlanT5, GPT-NEOx-20b etc with a few lines of code (beta)\n* [🚀](https://emojipedia.org/rocket/)**Deploy** LLM’s or even custom models using just one line of code to serverless CPU’s/GPU’s.\n* [📈](https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing/)**Monitor** your ML models with our built in integrations with Arize and Censius.\n\nHi Everyone! We’re Michael and Jonathan and we are so excited to introduce you to Cerebrium!\n\n# [❌](https://emojiguide.com/symbols/cross-mark/) **The Problem**\n\nImplementing machine learning based applications in a business remains challenging. You have multiple infrastructure concerns, such as expensive GPU’s, scaling issues, fragmented tooling while additionally also struggle to find machine learning talent and keep up with the latest research and techniques. 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Last year we launched our mobile app as a one size fits all solution for tinnitus.\n\nWe've since spoken to hundreds of users and it's clear that they need a more personalised approach, with live support from a real person. So, we are thrilled to announce our new 1-1 therapy program.\n\n**_Tl;dr:_** _Oto teaches your brain to stop noticing your tinnitus using the latest scientifically proven techniques. Our personalised program combines 1-1 therapy from a world class audiologist with an award winning app._ [_Book a free consultation today._](https://calendly.com/otohealth/tinnitus-consultation-ed)\n\n### ❗**Why do we exist?**\n\nTinnitus or ringing in the ears affects 1 in 8 people, **and there’s no cure**. It impacts mood, concentration and sleep and in 40% of cases is hugely debilitating.\n\nGetting reliable help is not easy. People usually drift between ENT doctors or audiologists searching for effective treatment. Nearly all are told that they need to learn to live with it.\n\nHowever, it shouldn’t be like this. **Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been proven to be the most effective way to manage tinnitus.** Unfortunately, not many clinicians are aware of this, and in the US, CBT can only be delivered by a licensed therapist. Very few therapists are trained to deliver CBT for tinnitus specifically.\n\n[Hear from our lead therapist Anna Pugh why we built the program.](https://youtu.be/xkvfhHkc6pE)\n\n_Anna is a hearing therapist audiologist specialising in tinnitus therapy._\n\n# **💡 How does it work?**\n\nRight now if you have tinnitus, it probably makes you feel anxious, sad or angry. That’s normal.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69248&key=user_uploads/691438/430a79fa-381f-4a1d-9a4c-51b8fca11131)\n\nCBT changes that emotional reaction so that you stop perceiving the tinnitus to be a threat. Two things then happen:\n\n✔️ You stop noticing your tinnitus all the time.\n\n✔️ If you do notice it, it doesn’t make you feel bad.\n\n**What’s included?**\n\nWe'll create a tailored 3-month tinnitus program for you that includes:\n\n* 🖥️ **Online 1-1 Therapy:** 6 therapy sessions with a world class audiologist.\n* 📱 **Toolkit App**: access our digital program anytime, anywhere, and for as long as you need.\n* 🙋 **Instant Support**: get answers to your questions and access to our team with your own personal guide.\n\n### **🙏🏻 Our Ask**\n\n* **Get in touch** - If you struggle with tinnitus, or know someone that does, we’d love to speak. 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For more details on the API, take a look at [LanceDB docs](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/).\n\n![](https://lancedb.com/images/eto-splash-arrow.png)\n\n### **❓ Why we built LanceDB**\n\nAs we spoke to builders of ML/AI applications, a common refrain from users was struggling to get services like Pinecone even running. After a while, we realized that the retrieve-filter-hydrate workflow was often time a big bottleneck in productivity and app latency.\n\nSo we put our heads together. I was one of the original co-authors of the pandas library. Lei was a core-contributor to HDFS and led ML infrastructure at Cruise. Using our experience building data/ML tooling, we’ve built something totally new.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=71382&key=user_uploads/858308/435bcc86-88ef-4c62-9f14-ba9d84c5c48f)\n\n### **LanceDB ❤️ builders**\n\nWe’ve reimagined vector search from the ground up for better developer productivity, scalability, and performance. 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Tasks falling through cracks, team members wondering what they should be working on, and PM work that takes up more time than the projects themselves. Most project management tools force you to spend an inordinate amount of time on the “management” side instead of talking to users and building products.\n\nLegacy productivity and PM tools have been slow to adapt to LLMs, and even the newer, better ones have only recently begun clumsily tacking on AI features in an attempt to keep up with the trend.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe built Dart with AI incorporated from the ground up so teams stop managing logistics and start delivering outcomes. Most PM tools add “AI features.” Dart is fundamentally designed around AI: chat is the UI and agents are first-class collaborators.\n\n* **AI Chat:** Chat to create projects, tasks, subtasks, timelines, specs, and reports. Then conversationally manage your projects as you go\n* **AI Agents:** Invite our built-in or third-party custom agents to handle tasks across all roles such as marketing, design, sales, and coding\n* **Plug into your stack:** Connect all your tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, n8n, Slack, Discord, GitHub and more\n\n# **Our asks**\n\n* 🎯 Try out Dart today! Sign up at [dartai.com](https://dartai.com/) and leave us some feedback.\n* 😻 Support [our Product Hunt launch](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dartai)\n* We’re hiring for dev and marketing roles! [Apply here.](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OS3-dart-cursor-for-project-management", "votes": 286, "created_at": "2025-09-20T10:56:55.553Z" }, { "id": 78558, "title": "Dart - AI-powered project management", "tagline": "The AI tool that will save you seven hours per week in project management overhead", "body": "# tl;dr\n\n[Dart](https://www.dartai.com) is a fully-featured project management tool that uses AI to assist with roadmap planning, report generation, breaking tasks into subtasks, and executing on basic writing and design tasks. Teams use Dart in order to plan better and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78558&key=user_uploads/850757/7bf68dfc-c1d3-409b-8b7d-995cca92e54c)\n\n# The problem\n\nIt's critical for teams to have some sort of project management system that works in order to stay organized and keep making progress. The issues arise when that project management process begins to take up an undue amount of time. Common processes like filling out and categorizing tasks, writing PRDs, cleaning out the backlog, and other ‘work about work’ are seen as simply the cost of doing business when using legacy tools.\n\n# Solution\n\nDart provides a more intelligent project management suite that will save each person on your team seven hours a week in standard PM busywork. In addition to best-in-class management for tasks, documents, roadmaps, calendars, and more, Dart also boosts your productivity with a suite of helpful AI enhancements.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/CMsBAv9CCyU\n\nThese AI functions include:\n\n\\- Automatic standup, changelog, and project report generation\n\n\\- Roadmap planning\n\n\\- Duplicate task detection\n\n\\- Subtask generation\n\n\\- Automatic Task execution with agents (currently for writing and design tasks)\n\n\\- Task categorization and filling (e.g. automatically assigning tasks to the right person)\n\n\\- AI-powered brainstorming\n\n\\- ChatGPT integration\n\n# Our Ask\n\nTry it out! [Dart is freely available](https://app.dartai.com/sign-up) to use now and start managing tasks with your team. 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Over the years, I’ve built and scaled enterprise-grade storage systems, immersing myself in challenges to design and deliver impactful solutions.\n\nNow, I’m embarking on an exciting entrepreneurial journey as the founder of Castled Data, where I’m fortunate to work alongside an incredible team that shares my vision and drive.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/frgeorge", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2e6faf7feef6919f31a4eae735079e12a764c75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 846239, "full_name": "Abhilash Thulaseedharan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "As a coder by chance and an entrepreneur by choice, I love to design systems which is to make an impact on the people around me.\n\n15 years of experience in enterprise product development, leading the development of mission-critical systems like flight operations and cargo handling for one of the biggest airlines in the world, where downtime of even a minute meant grounded flights and millions of dollars in loss.\n\nCycling, running and working out keep me sane.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilashtdharan", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abhilashtdharan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/74be0c72cc9c1668653d46997278e7ab3aefccc3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 847651, "full_name": "Arun Thulasidharan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I was the founding engineer of leading startups like MediaIQ and Hevodata and was among the initial 10 employees of both these companies. I have also spent considerable time in large companies like Flipkart and Applied Materials. \n\nBesides that, I am a huge movie buff and like watching and playing cricket.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-thulasidharan-53a1322b/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b62db1a73f42c9490812711a4a857c3377b0d234.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70296, "title": "Castled - Build audiences on your data warehouse without SQL", "tagline": "The No-Code Customer Segmentation Engine tailor made for Product and Marketing teams", "body": "**tl;dr** **Marketers often wait weeks or months for data teams to sync customer data to their advertising and marketing tools. Castled Audiences help marketers take charge of their data by providing a No-code Customer Segmentation Engine directly on top of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift.**\n\n### 😰 The Problem\n\nModern-day marketers are increasingly adopting data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery as the source of truth for customer data. However, they are still forced to rely heavily on the data teams to get the data out of the data warehouse to their advertising/marketing tools.\n\nThe restriction is primarily due to the complex SQL queries required to create even the most straightforward customer segments. For example, here is the SQL to create a segment of abandoned cart users on Snowflake.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70296&key=user_uploads/846239/c2471db8-ecb8-437d-bdab-f11e59503dcf)\n\nTherefore, marketers are often forced to make tradeoffs in their campaign efficiency as a result of the constraints imposed by limited engineering resources.\n\n## 🛠 How Castled Audiences solve this problem\n\nThe Audiences feature offers a point-and-click Segmentation tool, which helps marketers create the customer segments they need without SQL and send them to a destination of their choice, e.g., Google Ads, Braze, HubSpot, etc. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70296&key=user_uploads/846239/e71e7f81-811b-4a9b-888e-f2f742c2c1c9)\n\nHere is a 3-minute demo of how marketers can create a segment of cart abandoners directly on Snowflake and then sync them to Google Ads for retargeting.\n\n\n\n## 🚀 Get Started\n\nWe would love for you to try us out and share your feedback. Signup at [castled.io](http://castled.io) and give it a spin. Or, if you have a google account, directly sign in using [app.castled.io](http://app.castled.io). \n\nAlso, if this resonates with you, we'd love to chat! - Shoot an email to [founders@castled.io](mailto:founders@castled.io), or book a demo [here](https://www.castled.io/audiences-demo).\n\n**Castled Audiences is available in our Starter Plan irrespective of the number of destinations or the volume of data.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHo-castled-build-audiences-on-your-data-warehouse-without-sql", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2023-03-15T13:37:04.972Z" }, { "id": 66283, "title": "Castled - Customer Engagement using Customer 360 in your data warehouse", "tagline": "Robust and Cost-effective Marketing Automation Platform that sits on top of your Cloud Data Warehouse.", "body": "**tl;dr** **Marketers often make trade-offs in campaign efficiency due to various limitations in existing marketing automation tools. Castled helps businesses overcome these pain points by providing a Marketing Automation Platform built natively on top of Cloud Data warehouses.**\n\nWe're [Arun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-thulasidharan-53a1322b/), [Abhilash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilash-thulaseedharan-3a3a451a/), and [Frank](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frgeorge/), and our vision is to bring the power of Customer 360 in the data warehouses to visionary marketers.\n\n### 🎙 Why yet another Marketing Automation Platform\n\nWe started our journey by building an open-source Reverse ETL solution to make quality customer data available to marketers.\n\nHowever, after talking to 100s of marketers, we realised that there are other fundamental limitations in the existing tools that prevented the marketers from leveraging this data in its true sense. That's when we changed course and built a solution to address these problems.\n\n### 😰 Limitations of existing Marketing Automation tools\n\n* **Need for maintaining a leaky pipeline:** Traditional marketing automation tools needs a pipeline to move the customer data to the tool, which is always at risk of breaking.\n* **Immoderate dependency on the Data & IT Team:** Dependency on the data team for the above-mentioned pipeline maintenance and for running campaign-related queries which often results in delays affecting campaign effectiveness.\n* **Unavailability of quality customer data:** Unavailability of quality customer 360 with relevant historical behavioural data, which is vital for up-selling, cross-selling and re-engaging existing customers\n* **Unreasonable data volume-based pricing:** Traditional marketing automation tools charge in terms of the data points consumed or MAUs, which can get unreasonably expensive for most B2C businesses as the data to move is generally exorbitantly high volumes.\n* **Customer Data Security concerns:** Info-sec team have concerns about the regulatory, privacy and data protection requirements and external security audits as the customer data moves out of the system.\n* **Restrictive data retention:** The data retention in most tools is limited to a few months, drastically reducing the accuracy of the marketing campaigns.\n* **Unreasonably high Time to Value**: It takes months of tech integrations and resource bandwidth before the marketing tools start delivering value.\n\n### 💡 Advantages of our Solution\n\n* **Reduced dependency on the data & IT team:** Since the data don’t leave the warehouse, the dependency on the data team is considerably reduced and is limited to the initial setup. No pipelines to maintain.\n* **Increased data security:** Since the customer data don’t leave your warehouse, we are secure by design.\n* **Cost-effective:** Castled does not store the customers' demographic or event data. This makes Castled 75% more cost-effective than a traditional marketing tool. \n* **Unlimited data retention:** Marketers can use all their customer and behavioral data in the warehouse during customer segmentation. It enables the marketer to cross-sell, up-sell or reengage existing customers more efficiently to increase their LTV.\n* **Low TTV and ease of getting started**: All the data required to run the campaigns are already sitting in the cloud data warehouse. Get started in hours instead of months.\n* **Improved data consistency:** Castled uses Customer 360 in the warehouse directly. No sync is needed to keep data consistent.\n\n## 🛠 How Castled works\n\nCastled is the CEP a modern marketer needs, as it provides the flexibility in creating relevant and dynamic user segments directly on top of the Customer 360 in your data warehouse with _no dependency on the data team or requiring SQL knowledge to do so._\n\nCreate relevant and timely campaigns or user journeys in Castled to engage the segment of users across different channels.\n\n\n\n## 🚀 Get Started\n\nSignup at [castled.io](https://castled.io) and give it a spin. 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Flagright AI **automates these tasks and even eliminates it entirely** for certain use cases such as merchant monitoring 🔎.\n\nIn addition to our proprietary technology, Flagright AI leverages the GPT API for specific features. **This is the first time the power of GPT is brought to AML compliance teams at scale, globally!** 🚀\n\nHere's an overview of the newest capabilities:\n\n1. **Merchant monitoring and alerting 🔎:** The GPT-powered merchant monitoring and alerting module enables Flagright customers to monitor merchants across multiple sources and channels with zero manual input. It eliminates 100% of manual monitoring efforts and improves fincrime operations while ensuring fast response times and maximum risk-mitigation.\n2. **Salesforce, Zendesk, and Hubspot integrations + GPT summaries ✉️:** The CRM integrations will consolidate your CRM correspondence within the Flagright case management system, with Flagright AI summarizing the highlights of customer correspondence. It eliminates the need to comb through tens of emails and messages for each customer correspondence. As a result, it saves analysts 15% of their time each day, improving operational efficiency and accuracy.\n3. **Case and alert narrative generator ✍️:** Our AI Narrative Writer drastically improves analyst performance, decreasing the time it takes to write a contextual narrative for each suspicious activity by 90+%. Flagright AI captures an analyst’s writing style, sentiment, user information, case closing reason, and specific suspicious activity.\n4. **AML AI risk score ⚠️:** AML Compliance Officers can now leverage AI to risk score their customers as a complementary mechanism to their traditional risk assessment (CRA) approach. The combination of heuristics & AI delivers maximum operational efficiency while maintaining explainability for regulators.\n5. **SAR generator 📇:** Our Suspicious Activity Report generator leverages GPT and can automatically create a SAR for any suspicious activity flagged by our platform's monitoring systems, reducing the time spent by 99%. Flagright AI ensures that SARs are generated consistently and accurately and reduces the risk of errors in manual SAR creation.\n\nFlagright AI represents a significant milestone in our journey to empower financial institutions with best-in-class operational tooling for AML compliance and fraud prevention.\n\nWe are excited to see the impact that Flagright AI will have on our customers and building a safer, more secure financial ecosystem. [Contact us](https://www.flagright.com/contact) to schedule a free demo if you are interested in learning more.\n\n# Launch deal\n\n* 50% discount on Flagright AI suite for the next 5 customers that sign up. 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Our AI-powered tax engine helps tech companies like Runway AI, Sierra AI and Codieum remain in compliance when selling to customers around the world. Want an estimate on your global indirect tax liability free of charge? [Talk to the Sphere team today](https://calendly.com/d/44n-bjc-wq7/meeting-with-sphere-team).\n\n### **The problem**\n\nWhen I ran [my last business](https://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-edtech-startup-sphere-seed-round-workplace-training-2022-8), we sold our product globally from day 1 and had a number of challenges with domestic and international tax compliance.\n\nSpecifically, we didn’t even know where/when we needed to pay sales tax, VAT, or GST, and even when we did, dealing with archaic government portals and filing on a regular basis was a royal pain in the behind. \n\nAfter talking to hundreds of finance leaders, we found similar pain points, and when it comes to indirect tax, companies either:\n\n* **Ignore it,** but their tax liabilities accrue, and eventually, they have to pay the liability out of pocket, which can block future fundraises. Additionally, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore as tax authorities pass new regulations to clamp down on indirect tax evasion, especially for tech companies. \n* **Use an incumbent tax automation tool** (e.g. Avalara), but they don’t provide functionality for international coverage, are old/clunky, very expensive, and offer terrible support\n* **Use local tax advisors,** which becomes incredibly expensive as you scale\n\n### **Our solution**\n\nSphere’s platform puts international indirect tax compliance (i.e., sales tax, VAT, and GST) on autopilot:\n\n_Step 1_: We integrate with your payment, billing, and HR solutions to help you see where in the world you’ve triggered economic or physical nexus and how big your indirect tax liability is.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83117&key=user_uploads/516489/d64c617f-1911-4b9d-a509-aa38218c8d7a)\n\n_Step 2_: Once you know where you’re exposed you can register in any jurisdiction via our integrations with local tax authorities. We’ve done the heavy lifting of building these integrations to provide a holistic and superior customer experience (unlike other solutions that will push you to one of their international advisory partners)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83117&key=user_uploads/516489/2fd26632-aa74-4117-a949-691ba98a4c19)\n\n_Step 3_: We leverage scraping technology and LLMs to collect, monitor, and process tax code data around the world (which is then verified by tax experts). Our AI tax engine integrates with your payment and billing provider to ensure you’re calculating and collecting tax correctly for your transactions based on 1. the product being sold and 2. the customer's location.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83117&key=user_uploads/516489/b171ff6b-e556-4bb0-9aee-9652ca25ea98)\n\n_Step 4:_ We then file your tax returns in each jurisdiction and remit tax collected to local authorities - on time, every time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83117&key=user_uploads/516489/92a2e99e-18c3-4a94-bf6b-2909ffe49c48)\n\n### **How we are different** \n\n* **True global coverage**: We’ve built out integrations with tax authorities around the world and are building a proprietary system that uses AI to collect and monitor tax data globally, providing compliance across sales tax, VAT, and GST. Other vendors will say they are ‘global’ but will offload you to an international partner for VAT / GST (which means a disjointed experience, more work for you, and more $$$ spent)\n* **We're focused on fast-growing software / AI companies:** We are an extremely developer-friendly product (easy implementation, broad set of integrations, flexible APIs) and have the most transparent and reasonable pricing on the market ($100 / region/month all-inclusive)\n* **Built with AI at the core**: Our tax engine is powered by an LLM trained on local + global tax legislation and tax rate data to ensure all your transactions are in compliance wherever you sell (other vendors do this research manually, which is hard to scale globally and prone to errors!).\n\n### **Team** \n\n[Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasrudder/) comes from a finance background in the TMT sector (PwC, Macquarie) and experienced the pain of dealing with indirect tax firsthand in his last business, which was a B2C marketplace selling across the world. \n\n[Mehmood](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meshde/) and [Miguel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelribeironeto/) built and optimized many of the cross-border compliance systems at Deel and were previously the founding engineers at Capbase (founded by YC alums), which helped businesses with entity setup and administrative compliance around the world.\n\nWe’re also lucky to have a team of indirect tax experts from companies like Uber, Avalara, and more. \n\n### **Vision** \n\nWe are building an AI-powered cross-border compliance platform so that businesses can transact seamlessly around the world. \n\nAs our engine ingests more compliance legislation from each region and becomes more robust with each customer, we will layer in additional cross-border services, including withholding tax, e-invoicing, and payments services, to further help businesses go global from day 1.    \n\n**_We want to be the Deel for international billing._** \n\nBy abstracting away compliance and cross-border payment admin, we believe this: \n\n* Levels the playing field for startups to compete against global incumbents\n* Helps governments and local economies benefit more from international trade\n\n### **Asks** \n\n* Want to better understand your tax liability? [Onboard with Sphere for free,](https://calendly.com/d/44n-bjc-wq7/meeting-with-sphere-team) and we’ll show you where you’re exposed and provide an estimate of your tax liability (we only charge once you register and file for a jurisdiction) \n* Know a CEO or finance leader who needs help with sales tax / VAT / GST or hates their current solution? Please reach out to me at [nicholas@getsphere.com](mailto:nicholas@getsphere.com) or feel free to send the below blurb to them.\n\n\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\\nA YC company called [Sphere](https://www.getsphere.com/?utm_source=yclaunch&utm_medium=referralblurb) has built an AI-powered indirect tax compliance platform that offers global coverage, easy implementation, and stellar support, all for a flat fee per region per month. They’re already helping global software and AI businesses like Runway AI, Sierra AI, Codeium, and many more. 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Those months are critical to survival for patients with aggressive disease progression.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nNearWave's core imaging technology and accompanying prediction models have been shown in multi-center studies to predict pathologic complete response in breast cancer patients in as early as a week\\[[1](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30338678/#:\\~:text=Notably%2C%20logistic%20regression%20based%20on,CI%3A%200.82%20to%201)\\]\\[[2](http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/76/20/5933.short)\\]\\[[3](https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-29/issue-06/066001/Functional-hemodynamic-imaging-markers-for-the-prediction-of-pathological-outcomes/10.1117/1.JBO.29.6.066001.full#_=_)\\]. If oncologists knew efficacy in a few days, they would make real-time adjustments to therapy, personalizing care for each patient \\[[4](https://www.mendelspod.com/p/precision-oncology-at-the-community-544?utm_source=publication-search)\\].\n\n📸 Device and iPad app showing a tumor simulating phantom scanned with the system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/8f146342-1e4a-4bcb-a40f-639be01f52be)\n\nWhen a therapy is not showing a response, physicians can increase dosage, iterate to other therapies, or move to surgery much sooner, reducing side-effects for patients by as much as 50%, while reducing cost in direct-to-surgery cases. In the future we will expand our indication to cover benign/malignant lesion classification at the ob/gyn bed-side, where ½ the world population undergoes exams, a true **billion user** technology. \n\n**How it works**\n\nThe underlying technology uses [fdNIRS](https://nearwave.co/technology/fdnirs/), a form of near infrared spectroscopy which is deep tissue, non-invasive, does not require injectable contrast, and uses no ionizing radiation.  We measure the molecular absorption and scattering of light of biomarkers (blood, water, lipid) to monitor changes in metabolic and hemodynamic information in tissue \\[[5](https://opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-12-11-7261&id=462776)\\]. Metabolic changes are an excellent indicator of therapy response, which our AI models use to categorize and predict the treatment outcomes. \n\n🌈 Here’s how light travels in tissue, and how it works with our system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/6ffa11ac-d114-48d8-a27b-8e50c0c1e2ab)\n\n🤖 Workflow for our AI model therapy response grading. Breast images are from a study patient responding to therapy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/2a7c993c-4938-4648-b042-61af9cdfe9f5)\n\n🤯 Here we visualize a 3d tumor, measured with our system on a physical tumor phantom of actual breast tissue properties.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/e47ac6ad-99d0-4b3a-a421-9d535916dc28)\n\n**Asks**\n\nIf you know anyone affected by breast cancer that was a candidate for neoadjuvant chemotherapy, we’d love to talk to them to hear about their experience. 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Writing the code, drafting the document, putting the report together. That is the part that is getting cheap. An agent can now produce in an afternoon what used to take a team a month.\r\n\r\nWhat doesn't get cheaper is verifying it. Someone still has to look at what the machine did, decide whether it's right, and answer for that decision later. Output goes up, review capacity doesn't, and that is where the work now piles up.\r\n\r\nVelt is the infrastructure for that step, and it treats agents and people as the same kind of reviewer. A review agent takes the first pass and catches what a machine can catch. A person makes the call on what actually matters. Both work on the same object, in the same thread, under the same rules. Only after approval is the change applied, through your own webhook, and every decision is recorded, so you can always show who allowed what and when.\r\n\r\nTeams build this themselves and it takes about two quarters. 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Checking still costs what it always did. [Superflow](https://usesuperflow.ai/) closes that gap: it turns your QA checklist into AI agents.\n\n* They sweep every page of your site and handle the black and white issues: a dead link, a typo, a form that doesn't submit, a layout that breaks a written brand guideline.\n* You handle taste: the calls with no reference to check against, like whether a design direction is right or a page is good enough to ship. An agent can flag a page. Only a person can approve one.\n* They learn from every review, so the hundredth site gets checked better than the first.\n* Teams tell us the agents catch about 90% of what they used to find by hand. The other 10% needed a person all along.\n\n## Demo\n\n\n\n## The problem\n\nAn agency founder told us, \"We're never changing our QA process. It's tight.\"\n\nThen he sent us the checklist: 400 rows. Ten people clicking through every page by hand.\n\nWe ran our agents on one of his live sites. First finding: placeholder text, live for months. It was on the checklist. Row 212.\n\nChecklists don't fail because they're wrong. They fail because a human is on row 212 at 9pm on a Friday.\n\nAnd the misses that hurt aren't broken links:\n\n* A phone number in the header that doesn't match the footer.\n* \"Award winning\" on a site with no award. In dental, that's a regulator problem.\n* A previous client's name in a testimonial because the page was cloned.\n\nCreating a site collapsed to an afternoon. Checking it didn't budge.\n\n## How it works\n\n* Upload your checklist as is: spreadsheet, PDF, or doc. No reformatting.\n* Superflow turns it into a set of agents, including any custom checks on your list.\n* They run in parallel on every page, phone and desktop. A full site takes minutes.\n* Every finding is pinned on the page with a screenshot, so if the layout shifts later you still have the picture.\n* It fits your process: custom statuses, private team comments (agent findings stay team-only until you clear them), two way sync with your task tool, and a daily recap.\n* Agents learn. Reject a finding and it stops coming back. Catch a miss yourself and it becomes a check on every site after.\n\n## Backstory\n\nLast week we moved our own site from Framer to Next.js.\n\nThe step that used to eat the timeline, clicking through every page to catch what silently broke, our own agents did before sign off.\n\nThe build took a week. We were live in two, start to finish.\n\nCreating done by AI. Checking done by agents. Judgment kept by people.\n\n## Ask\n\nTry [Superflow](https://usesuperflow.ai/) on one page of your own site. No card, no login for reviewers.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Swz-superflow-ai-qa-agents-for-your-website", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-08-18T15:55:44.561Z" }, { "id": 99540, "title": "Velt Cursor plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins", "tagline": "/install-velt. One command. Add CRDT, comments, activity logs, and notifications to your app in one command.", "body": "Type **/install-velt**. The agent reads your codebase, asks which features you want, and scaffolds everything.\n\nComments that attach to specific elements. Real-time editing (CRDT). Presence. Cursors. Notifications. Activity logs. All wired up. Working app.\n\nAdding collaboration features looks like a weekend project. It's not.\n\nComments that anchor to elements. CRDT editing that doesn't corrupt data. Live cursors. Notifications. Activity logs. Each one is simple alone. Together they touch auth, state, routing, permissions, websockets. Get the order wrong and nothing works.\n\nMost teams skip it or spend months on it. Regret both.\n\nWe encoded 140+ implementation rules into the plugin so the agent doesn't make those mistakes. It also includes two MCP servers and a velt-expert agent persona for architecture questions.\n\n→ Watch the demo: \n\n→ Cursor Directory: \n\n→ Cursor plugin: \n\n→ Claude Code plugin: \n\n→ Docs: \n\nIf you try **/install-velt** on an existing project and something breaks, tell us. That's the case we most want to stress test.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PtU-velt-cursor-plugin-add-real-time-collaboration-to-your-app-in-10-mins", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-07T20:19:13.619Z" }, { "id": 99380, "title": "Velt Activity Logs: Audit trail for humans and AI agents", "tagline": "One audit trail for every action in your product. Who did what, and when.", "body": "\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99380&key=user_uploads/195692/08763c82-d915-4369-8e0d-2d5a820be7de)\n\nRight now, most products have no idea what their AI agents did yesterday.\n\nThat's going to seem crazy in two years.\n\nEvery SaaS product is adding AI agents that write, edit, and approve things. But only human actions produce an audit trail. AI agents just act. No record. No attribution. No proof a human reviewed the output.\n\nThis breaks the moment a customer's compliance team asks one question: \"Did a human approve this?\"\n\n**What we built:**\n\nVelt is a collaboration infrastructure SDK. Comments, presence, real-time editing (CRDT), recording, notifications. Activity Logs is the newest piece.\n\n→ Auto-captures comments, reactions, recordings, CRDT edits. Zero config. \n\n→ createActivity() for your own events. One function call. \n\n→ AI agents produce the same record as humans. Same schema. Same attribution. \n\n→ Immutable by default. SOC 2 Type II. HIPAA with BAA.\n\nAgent acted → Human reviewed → Decision recorded. The pair is the proof.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf your enterprise buyers are asking for proof of human oversight over AI, we built this for you. Try it and tell us what's missing.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pqu-velt-activity-logs-audit-trail-for-humans-and-ai-agents", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-02T19:32:54.147Z" }, { "id": 98498, "title": "Velt Claude plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins", "tagline": "Claude Code plugin that adds CRDT, comments, presence, and notifications to your app in one command.", "body": "Building collaboration features from scratch is one of those problems that looks simple and isn't.\n\nCRDT for live sync. Presence to show who's online. Comments that attach to specific elements. Notifications. Permissions. \n\nIt compounds fast. Most teams either skip it or spend months on it and regret both decisions.\n\nWe've been building this infrastructure for 4 years. Varonis, Pendo, HeyGen, Freshworks, Trumpet already use it in production.\n\nToday we're launching a Claude Code plugin that installs all of it in under 10 minutes.\n\nYou run one command. It asks which features you want. \n\nYou give it your API key. It installs, configures, and wires everything together.\n\nThat's it.\n\n→ Watch the demo: \n\n→ Get started: \n\n→ Docs: \n\nWe're a small team and we read every message. \n\nIf you try it and something doesn't work, tell us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pcg-velt-claude-plugin-add-real-time-collaboration-to-your-app-in-10-mins", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-03-05T17:38:44.587Z" }, { "id": 94308, "title": "Velt: Multiplayer Editing Toolkit for React Flow (Build Multiplayer Agent Workflows)", "tagline": "Add multiplayer editing capability in minutes.", "body": "If you are building AI agents and AI workflow builders inside your product, then you are most likely using[ React Flow](https://reactflow.dev/) to power these experiences. Now with[ Velt](https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltjs/), within a few minutes you could make these workflows multiplayer just like Figma's FigJam! We’ve created a purpose-built plugin for React Flow that makes any react flow implementation multiplayer out of the box.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94308&key=user_uploads/195692/38bab09b-d530-458b-9c03-25444a9d5758)\n\n**Velt does the heavy lifting:**\n\n* fully managed ultra low latency backend\n* real-time merges and conflict resolution (CRDT via Yjs)\n* offline support\n* presence indicators\n* slack-style huddle\n* figma-style comments and notifications\n* custom encryption for additional security\n\nYou can focus on delivering epic value to your users. No more building complex infra from scratch.\n\n**Demo**\n\n* [Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgz0jOCLyUA)\n* [Live Demo](https://velt-reactflow-crdt-demo.vercel.app/)\n* [Sample code](https://github.com/velt-js/velt-reactflow-crdt-demo)\n* [Docs](https://docs.velt.dev/realtime-collaboration/crdt/setup/reactflow)\n\n**Customers**\n\nWe power multiplayer experiences for companies like **Heygen**, **Pendo**, **Runway**, **Vellum** etc\n\n### [**Try today**](https://velt.dev/multiplayer-editing)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OX6-velt-multiplayer-editing-toolkit-for-react-flow-build-multiplayer-agent-workflows", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-03T01:06:50.117Z" }, { "id": 84853, "title": "Velt: Tiptap Comments", "tagline": "Enable comments and collaboration in your Tiptap editor.", "body": "With [**Tiptap Comments Extension**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veltdev/tiptap-velt-comments), you can add Google Docs-style overlay comments to your Tiptap editor. Here is a [**demo video.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIWBwV3IHok) You can [**try it here.**](https://documentation-app-demo.vercel.app/)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=84853&key=user_uploads/195692/d711f012-f784-4ed9-b481-5ee328b75f07)\n\nIt's fully customizable and comes with a lot of powerful built-in features like attachments, mentions, recording, notifications and more.\n\nAdding comments and notification features have shown to boost engagement and growth with platforms. If you use Tiptap in your product, you could enable powerful collaborative experiences using [Velt](https://velt.dev/).\n\n### **Installation**\n\nYou can install the NPM package [here.](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veltdev/tiptap-velt-comments)\n\n### **Supported Frameworks**\n\nAll major JS frameworks like React, Next, Angular, Vue, Svelte.\n\n### **More about Velt SDK**\n\nWith Velt SDK you can add powerful collaboration features to your product extremely fast.\n\nThe SDK provides **fullstack components**:\n\n* UI and behavior are fully customizable to match your product's needs\n* fully-managed on a scalable realtime backend\n\nFeatures include:\n\n* **Comments** like Figma, [Frame.io](http://Frame.io), Google Docs, Sheets and more\n* **Recording** like Loom (audio, video, screen)\n* **Huddle** like Slack (audio, video, screensharing)\n* In-app and off-app **notifications**\n* **@mentions** and assignment\n* **Presence**, **Cursors**, **Live Selection**\n* **Live state sync** with Single Editor mode\n* **Multiplayer editing** with conflict resolution\n* **Follow mode** like Figma\n* ... and so much more", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M4b-velt-tiptap-comments", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-10-17T22:07:51.992Z" }, { "id": 84000, "title": "Embedded Recording SDK by Velt", "tagline": "Add AI powered Loom-style recording to your product!", "body": "We're excited to launch [**Embedded Recording in the Velt SDK**](https://velt.dev/recording). Build AI-powered Loom-style recording features (voice, video, and screen) **into your product** in minutes. It automatically generates summaries and transcriptions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84000&key=user_uploads/195692/5f8d698a-2c7e-4d5e-bba5-4add9671cbee)\n\n# **Why this matters:**\n\nYour users are probably already using tools like Loom to communicate. That's time and data they could be spending in your product. Keep your users in your product with native communication features and boost engagement. It's a win for everyone.\n\n# **Products that benefit:**\n\n* Ticketing tools _(Jira, Linear)_\n* Project management tools _(Asana, ClickUp)_\n* Email marketing tools _(Apollo, Customer.io )_\n* Sales tools _(Salesforce, Hubspot)_\n* Development tools _(Github for code reviews)_\n\n# **How it works:**\n\nVelt is a JS SDK that handles everything—UI/UX, full functionality, backend server, and storage. No configuration is needed. You can fully customize it to fit your brand. It works with Next.js, React, Angular, and more.\n\n4 easy steps to get started (see [docs](https://docs.velt.dev/async-collaboration/recorder/setup)):\n\n1. Initialize Velt SDK\n2. Add the recorder components\n3. Customize\n4. That's it!\n\n# **Key Features:**\n\n* Native voice, video, and screen recording\n* AI transcriptions and summaries\n* Built-in recording and playback UI\n* Cross-browser and device compatibility\n* Fully customizable\n* Fully managed and scalable storage and backend", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lqq-embedded-recording-sdk-by-velt", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-09-13T02:03:03.103Z" }, { "id": 79688, "title": "Velt: Full-stack Comments SDK", "tagline": "Build powerful commenting features into your SaaS product crazy fast.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Build powerful commenting features into your SaaS product crazy fast. Make it just as collaborative as the big dogs—Google Docs, Sheets, Figma, Frame io... Keep your users collaborating in your app instead of Slack or Zoom. Watch your engagement soar.\n\n[**Demo Video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27tIG8jEAbc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79688&key=user_uploads/195692/3b9b3bc9-6a81-4e98-82e8-abb2d917f9b5)\n\n### **🤔 Why?**\n\nYour customers want to have discussions within your product – feedback, questions, ideas. Since they can’t do it in your product, they move off-platform to slack, emails, zoom etc.. It's friction for your customers (and you'll watch their engagement drop.)\n\nLuckily, the solution is simple. Add a comment layer across your product. Let customers comment and discuss anywhere, without opening up Slack or Gmail.\\\n\\\nI know what you're thinking. \"How am I going to build that? That's months of engineering and product effort we haven't scoped in.\"\n\n### **✅ Solution**\n\nWe built a complete full-stack Comments feature components for any SaaS product. Embed it anywhere and enable experiences you see in your favorite products like Google Docs, Figma, Sheets and more.\n\nBackend, Frontend - all included.\n\n### **✅ Products that benefit from commenting**\n\n* _Video tools: Frame-by-frame feedback on videos_\n* Documentation tools: Inline comments for better edits\n* _Analytics / Data tools: Questions answered directly on charts and tables_\n* Design tools: Review design assets\n* Form builders, CRMs and so many more\n\n### **🚀 Key Features**\n\n* Commenting Styles: Google Sheets, Google Docs, Notion, Figma, [Frame.io](http://Frame.io), Charts, etc.\n* Loom-style audio, video, screen recording\n* Task management: Statuses, Priority, approval, @ mention\n* Intelligence: AI categorization, AI transcription\n* Customize layout, css & behavior\n* In-app notifications, email notifications, realtime Webhooks\n* Performant and Robust: Buttery smooth. Binds and adapts to changes in your DOM and data.\n\n### **🚀 Try here:** [**https://velt.dev/comments**](https://velt.dev/comments)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KjI-velt-full-stack-comments-sdk", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-03-25T21:40:45.302Z" }, { "id": 79200, "title": "Superflow: Frame by frame review on Lottie files", "tagline": "Get approvals with fewer rounds of reviews and ship more assets fast!", "body": "We fixed the mess of Lottie animation reviews. Frame-by-frame comments mean you ship more animations faster. [Here](https://drive.usesuperflow.com/lottie?id=YVUxTXhLUDByY2EyVVh3S2k4YmxfXzMzYmQzYjg3ZWM3ZjI2NTUxOTQxYjMyMjQ2ZjJhOTAxX19sb3R0aWU%3D&version=v1&_gl=1\\*59beb5\\*_gcl_au\\*MTc5OTQ4OTk4OS4xNzA3NzA3MTc4) is a live demo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79200&key=user_uploads/195692/caa35638-b3e5-4704-9cf3-be7fc8e57db9)\n\nOur mission is to make every creator 10x. We believe creators build the future and your time is precious. Superflow makes you a 10x creator: create 10x more, create 10x better work, grow 10x.\n\n**🤔 Why are we building this?**\n\nWe built this because the old way sucked. Screenshots, endless emails, live meetings just to tweak an animation... that's not how things should work in 2024. So we fixed it!\n\n**✅ Solution**\n\nSuperflow lets creative teams review and provide frame-by-frame feedback on Lottie files.\n\nThis enables you to get approvals with fewer rounds of reviews so that you can get back to animating. With Superflow, you deliver more beautiful animations at light speed.\n\n**🚀 Key Features**\n\n* Pinpoint feedback on frames and individual elements.\n* Voice, Video + AI notes for when typing is too slow.\n* Built-in task management to streamline the process.\n* Works on all devices and browsers.\n* Integrates with your existing tools: Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Slack, you name it.\n* Built-in approval flow just like Docusign.\n* Share easily with a click and get notified when someone visits.\n\n[**Get started**](https://usesuperflow.com/lottie-files-review), it’s free.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KbQ-superflow-frame-by-frame-review-on-lottie-files", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-03-08T03:28:50.378Z" }, { "id": 66899, "title": "Superflow: Comment and collaborate directly on your product!", "tagline": "Comment and collaborate on your staging and prod websites.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66899&key=user_uploads/195692/536286e1-bb3b-475f-a06a-b7a9d275aac7)\n\n_(_[_demo video)_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnfBEw8TfI)\n\n[SuperFlow](https://usesuperflow.com/) makes it super easy to comment on live websites just like you comment on Figma. You can use is to get Copy or UI feedback right on the website you are building. Feedback can be provided in rich formats like audio and video. The best part is that you and your clients don’t need a browser extension.\n\nSuperFlow brings collaboration to wherever you are. Everything is just weaved into one cohesive experience. We have curated the best features of top products like Slack, Loom, Figma into one tool.\n\n### **👩🏼‍💻Who this is for**\n\nWeb agencies, freelancers, product or design teams.\n\n### **Key problems**\n\n* Scattered feedback across emails, slack etc.\n* Endless back and forth, screenshots, unnecessary meetings etc.\n* Clients have to install & learn new tools.\n\n### **📝 Use cases**\n\n* Get copy or UI feedback from clients.\n* Assign tasks to internal team members.\n\n### **💵 Value**\n\n* Reduce website review cycles and ship faster.\n\n### **🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Try our product [**usesuperflow.com**](http://usesuperflow.com) before 31st oct and get 40% off for a year.\n* Share this post with web agencies or freelancers you know build websites.\n\n### **Setup**\n\n**Step 1: Install JS tag on client website in 10 secs.**\n\nYou can just install a JS tag in the footer of the website. \n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-XGbnRxc0Ty/6140d41636b973449d24659aeacab52fd67900c5654c7c113ffc4ad3bf5306eeed19b1162a8b3ccde2cfa635c642722135a4d4a2a87642b35d5f4ec7b6325a88fecd86969d39bd8043dde97a4cf4f9c00515efb075c175855fcb3da704047bd6edbd9efc)\n\n**Step 2: Turn on review mode by adding ?review=true to the URL.**\n\nYou can then turn the review mode on or off on demand by adding **“?review=true”** to the URL. The comments will not be visible to a regular website visitor.\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-WB9sVT7ZmM/5570471db96e4ea68d9d74f0835939d91e707a467094fd00c51b9eb97542df4a9a84996faeccd683f74aab60fda711f099cf8e9568c42c86c9dd28eef6ef1b80a1ac503d3fb04104fa11b10b749058363a6b3ad58d51f58a20f1483ca8f276fe07d44cfc)\n\n### **🔥 Top features**\n\n**1. Comment on live website, just like Figma:**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-NDI5rEj4Ae/8c9caf47c3a53155af4d62231f4d767096816c6d91ba0306fce57e04b642ecb3e5bd70514556c11fb51189d028ea5cb34356c5a0eeff686a40289176667f86af011dd92122307ac44176b1b46c7d7c449652d008714c34e435bc8b41f9fa0bb810973eb3)\n\n**2. Record your screen & camera just like Loom (& attach it to a DOM element).**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-JCblThJt6X/57029764bf3d09a31f0a0d1bcaadfac8a927f26b8a63a34ab1236ca4490454ad7c70a081861e6e4b277d5e920e409af0c7a18a6db1be2ac823ba50e3cfc9a5a957bf8ae09430389015c9c72d969ff467cbc01a75320a63735e073d370371dc2d59dc52e9)\n\n**3. Manage tasks across projects in one place.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-eFWGPbIP0M/2e74eaed9a5b399778c9521b9c65a0682fdd12c879322c8dcf4a8ce5e403f5a9b53516680ed1f4b1ad3655c55820b95a233b0a9e074aa9c8fcd4b56fa355607e6648216389a985f7a0a240dd0a55840bbb78b2225e2fea42c0970ace85763b76f8785c7e)\n\n**4. Start live audio/video huddle or screensharing just like Slack.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-XBrG5e-yJd/fa5e98c2123e926dd9f3199da059dbc03e0dfd31c1f25ffdfa582150df6b53b92847bd8a7c005cfdba9c1cdbf0b375e0a757e59679d39f62c465c6a3f0b4936077e41ba5155058db8dae976623f327f1f68288483a1eef47751f1d252e09fb9712d85c8c)\n\n**5. Personalized Slack & email notifications.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-OkDBML4l8F/f1bb3bd394f220a23f2e7b454de8ec767c322dac395eddbffdcf0beece7775d08797d40c89282e889abb5e5915b492b8db98cb12a1847492859dfc18bafa94fd06df75266314f7e71aa5b7a8bcc122e919cbc5f5280aceb9b31c90e13f32a269da77cef5)\n\n**6. Add internal comments for team & external ones for clients.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-ECwdHMSTuh/81021b5d9a38077d7650507ff098d256af6cee5751f22b1c0da8f08b027eb0ef49ba9545316ee9b4ed4d70c17f7e0f98c41d78a7524437b660e213ba2f623b0e01834ef467c04069952f603cc48837e657130abd66a548c3e92ba6a5812574862ec11e5e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HP1-superflow-comment-and-collaborate-directly-on-your-product", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2022-10-25T03:03:03.856Z" } ] }, { "id": 25665, "name": "Wibond", "slug": "wibond", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3f8aca33bbbc7f098e6884aaf05d63f57bdae220.png", "website": "https://www.wibond.co/", "all_locations": "Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina", "long_description": "Under \"Buy Now, Pay Later\" business model, Wibond is a 100% flexible digital payment method enabling the 200 million underbanked consumers without credit cards to shop online for the first time. \r\n\r\nWe integrate directly into the purchase flow of online merchants, and we offer consumers a credit, when they have already made up their mind that they want to acquire a specific product.\r\nWe provide financial and digital access to a large community of people offering payment options according to their possibilities and profile. Wibond is an inclusive and simple solution:\r\n - Consumers can create their free account to quickly access and pay without banks, in installments, and without a card.\r\n - Merchants with e-commerce channels increase their sales and integrate Wibond in a very agile way by offering a new form of payment and expanding their markets.\r\n\r\nWe’re also integrated in the purchase flow of more than 500 merchants, including Samsung, Musimundo (one of the Biggest retailers in LATAM) , and Motorola. 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Nohooks is a service that offers webhooks functionality even on platforms that do not have native webhooks support. With Nohooks, developers can receive real-time notifications of events from the list of supported apps ([DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/), [Notion](https://notion.so/) and [Render](https://render.com/) as of this [launch](https://getconvoy.io/blog/convoy-launch-week)).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72597&key=user_uploads/357104/c9767c6b-6fce-42dc-93d5-39b8bfdd658f)\n\nWebhooks are a way for one application to notify another application when a specific event happens. By setting up a webhook, developers can receive real-time updates whenever a user takes a specific action, such as deploying a new service or adding a new contact to your CRM. 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It is designed for low latency applications built on time series and event data.\n\n# [**Try Now! (free)**](https://start.hydra.so/get-started)\n\n\n\n# **Enable in seconds**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88443&key=user_uploads/54309/42f17c01-89e7-47ae-ba01-f76bc23c864e)\n\nSet up is simple. To unlock serverless realtime analytics on Postgres, run:\n\n```\npip install hydra-cli\n```\n\nFor setup\n\n```\nhydra\n```\n\n1. fetch your hydra token, paste in to enable Hydra\n2. create analytics schema / tables and insert data ([**quickstart docs**](https://docs.hydra.so/intro/quickstart))\n3. _voila_ - run queries, get insights in milliseconds\n\n# **Problem**\n\nFor decades, there’ve been two core problems with analytics on Postgres:\n\n**Slow** - aggregates and complex queries can take minutes to return results from large data sets.\n\n**Resource Contention** - Expensive analytics queries hog Postgres’ RAM / CPU resources and impair transactional performance. In other words, the entire app slows down, which makes users unhappy.\n\n# **Solution**\n\n### **Fast**\n\nHydra returns analytics queries 400X faster than standard Postgres. Hydra uses duckdb to perform isolated serverless processing on these tables in Postgres. In fact, Hydra is faster than most specialized analytics databases.\n\nIf you’re running AWS RDS, AWS Aurora, Heroku Postgres, Supabase, Fly Postgres, Render Postgres, GCP Cloud SQL, etc.. you can improve expensive analytics queries by 400X by using Hydra.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88443&key=user_uploads/54309/3fb7dc1e-622a-4303-ba7a-f729f18ab019)\n\nfun fact: the Snowflake instance (128x4XL) in the benchmark is $100k / month.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88443&key=user_uploads/54309/5db5d184-2a69-4811-b14e-5ad433f4038c)\n\nThese are results from clickbench which represents a typical workload in the following areas: clickstream and traffic analysis, web analytics, machine-generated data, structured logs, and events data. The table consists of exactly 99 997 497 records — rather small by modern standards but allows tests to be performed in a reasonable time.\n\n### **Isolated, serverless processing**\n\nUsing Hydra there is no impact on Postgres’ RAM / CPU resources when reading from or writing to an analytics tables.\n\nAs a result, here are more cool things Hydra can do: zero-copy clones for scaling read replicas, automatic caching, write isolation, bottomless storage with high data compression, and more.\n\n# **How it works**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88443&key=user_uploads/54309/8d8999aa-a370-4f0f-9d99-badfe4621c97)\n\nHydra integrates duckdb execution and features with Postgres using [**pg_duckdb**](https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb), an open-source project we co-developed with the creators of DuckDB.\n\n**FAQ:**\n\nyes, you can join between an analytic table and a standard row-based table.\n\nyes, you can write (insert & update) to analytics tables.\n\nyes, Hydra is identical to using standard postgres.\n\nyes, data inserted into an analytics table is automatically converted into analytics-optimized columnar format.\n\ntell Hydra you are creating an analytics table by including the ‘using duckdb’ keyword - that’s it.\n\n# **Hydra is best for**\n\nHydra is both a row and columnstore, so you can use it for standard Postgres work, like multitenant apps, as well as analytical work, like monthly reporting. Here are several cool Hydra use cases that blend both transactional & analytics — more in our [**use case docs**](https://docs.hydra.so/guides/usecase).\n\n* time series, logs, events, traces\n* monitoring & telemetry\n* financial services\n* observability & metrics\n* cybersecurity & fraud detection\n* web & product analytics\n* iot\n* realtime ml / ai\n\n# **ok, but why use postgres instead of … \\[insert favorite tech\\]?**\n\nIt’s true, there are many specialized analytics databases. reviewing the benchmark above, the majority of analytics databases are actually _slower_ than Hydra. Regardless, isolated analytics databases produce their own set of challenges and costs.\n\n### **data pipelines (etl)**\n\nTraditionally, an analytics database is isolated, and in most cases, engineers must set up data pipelines for data movement and transformation between Postgres, S3, and the analytics db. Pipelines aren’t cheap. Also, there’s pipeline latency bottlenecking how stale the analytics are. And when pipelines break — because they do — you’re stuck with downtime and wrong results.\n\nHydra side-steps the latency and costs of data pipelines entirely with full support for inserts and updates on columnar files in analytics tables.\n\n### **overweight design**\n\nMany use cases don’t justify a heavy setup. From our time working at Heroku, we saw many transactional apps that only need a couple high level aggregates and a few complex analytical queries to return quickly. 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Shopifolk love it.”\n* Attendees at a recent **Yelp** All Hands said:\n * “Our All hands was absolute 🔥”\n * “#venueforpresident”\n * “Venue was the winner today”\n * “As a hardcore introvert, this all hands was the most comfortable and fun one i’ve ever been to.”\n\n### [**🙏**](https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/#:\\~:text=%F0%9F%99%8F%20Folded%20Hands&text=Two%20hands%20placed%20firmly%20together,Rarely%3A%20a%20high%2Dfive.&text=Android%20once%20showed%20a%20blob,closed%20eyes%20and%20folded%20hands.) **Introduce us to remote companies!**\n\nWe need your help! 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Cresa is a fine-tuned multimodal Agent that handles key workflows for acquisition teams 24/7 so they can focus on high-potential investments. Cresa can screen deals using your preferred acquisition model, analyze deal documents, conduct market research, and generate comprehensive reports. Try Cresa’s [Rent Comp Research](https://cresa.nophin.com/) — no signup or prior experience is needed.\n\n\n\n**Team**\\\nWe're Kwadwo and Weeks, a technical team of second-time YC founders and CRE investors on a mission to revolutionize commercial real estate investing. Having experienced the inefficiencies in CRE investing firsthand, we previously built an end-to-end underwriting solution. There, we uncovered a major pain point for investors: the top-of-the-funnel bottleneck of screening deals, where they waste time reviewing countless deals that don’t match their buying criteria.\n\n**Problem**\\\nAcquisition teams are bogged down by the manual tasks required to screen deals, from analyzing deal documents to conducting time-consuming comp research before testing assumptions in an Excel model. A thorough diligence process takes an average of two hours. The workflow is highly manual, yet each deal is unique, preventing easily scaled processes. These inefficiencies lead to missed opportunities and slowed decision-making, making it difficult to focus on high-potential opportunities.\n\n**Solution**\n\nCresa is an AI Screening Analyst that automates multifamily deal screening and diligence processes. Cresa is the first fine-tuned multimodal CRE Agent that handles key workflows for acquisition teams 24/7 so they can focus on high-potential opportunities. Cresa can screen deals using your preferred acquisition model, analyze documents, conduct market research, generate comprehensive reports, and send emails.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84018&key=user_uploads/289172/1b4daad8-fe9f-4816-a301-4e41f11994ed)\n\n**Cresa In Action**\n\n\n\n**Key Highlights**\n\n1. Specify your investment criteria, and Cresa will automatically screen and filter deals using your acquisition model — each time.\n2. Cresa can analyze and summarize deal documents like rent rolls, T-12s, OMs, and more and answer complex questions.\n3. Sync real-time data to your acquisition models and download the analysis in Excel.\n4. Run dynamic scenarios within your acquisition model.\n5. Ask Cresa to conduct real-time market research from web sources and email you or anyone on your team a comprehensive summary.\n6. 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Schedule a chat with us [here](https://calendly.com/samay-2/30min).\n* If you are an expert/investor in the field of skill based gaming, creator economy or gaming/gambling please reach out [here](https://calendly.com/samay-2/30min).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ISg-better-opinions-prediction-market-of-india", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2023-04-14T13:59:20.387Z" } ] }, { "id": 25928, "name": "Attain", "slug": "attain", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49382467e2a565f576c3b472c767c5c5095a0c0b.png", "website": "https://joinattain.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Attain is a one-stop shop for convenience store owners to buy inventory across all their suppliers with higher reliability, price transparency, and product discovery.\r\n\r\nOn average, store owners buy products from over 10-15 different suppliers each week. 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We’re the team at PropelAuth and we’re really excited today to launch User Insights!\n\n### What is PropelAuth?\n\n[PropelAuth](https://www.propelauth.com/?utm_source=launchyc) makes it easy for B2B companies to start onboarding users quickly. A [simple integration](https://docs.propelauth.com/getting-started/quickstart-fe) gets you everything you need, from signup and login pages to 2FA to invitation flows to Enterprise SSO.\n\nIn addition to that (as you’ll see in this launch), our goal is to also help you grow your business. We understand that building a product/company is incredibly challenging and we want to take as much off your plate as possible.\n\n.\n\n### What problem is User Insights solving?\n\nWhen we first started out a few years ago, all of our customers were other early stage startups.\n\nAs an early stage startup, the first thing you want to do is just get your product live immediately - get your MVP in front of users, get feedback, and hear if you are headed in the right direction or not.\n\nOur role there is pretty straightforward - we need to provide the simplest authentication story possible to help our customers get in front of their users.\n\nHowever, as our customers have grown in both number of MAUs and headcount, we’ve realized that they all tend to shift from “the most important thing is getting in front of people” to “how can we pour fuel on this fire?”\n\nPut differently, it’s not enough to simply get users signed up - you need to know more about them.\n\n.\n\n### What is User Insights?\n\nWith User Insights by PropelAuth, you can quickly get an understanding of:\n\n* Who your power users are\n* Which users and organizations are at risk for churn\n* Where your users are coming from\n* Which of your organizations are growing\n\n.\n\n### 💪 Identifying Power Users\n\nForming relationships with your power users is key to growth. They’re potential advocates, potential logos for your marketing site, and will likely have the best feedback for you about your product experience. Plus… they’re the most willing to pay if they’re not already!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/dc0abe3f-a561-4f33-9e50-aae735e8698b)\n\nIf you’re curious about an individual users usage, we also provide a visualization on their user page, like this user who clearly is a big fan:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/fd4cd0e9-606d-4347-ae5a-3db7277cdc90)\n\nOr this user… who you might want to check in with:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/73f6b3fa-144f-4936-91b5-d75a2d90ea15)\n\n.\n\n### ⚠️ Proactively identifying Churn Risk\n\nSpeaking of proactively checking in with customers, we wanted to make that easier as well.\n\nWhile it’s exciting to see your user count go up, that’s not the end of the work you have to do: you also have to make sure to retain as many of those users as possible.\n\nWith our Churn reports, you can easily see which of your users and organizations haven’t been active in your product for awhile:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/a61c595f-f9ed-4e7e-ab71-0d7fe00d1cd9)\n\nWe also provide re-engagement reports so you can see how your efforts are going to get these users back into your product.\n\n.\n\n### 🔍 Understanding where users came from\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/04f77928-72fa-42eb-a877-d66af61e2821)\n\nUnderstanding where your users are coming from is the easiest way to make sure your marketing efforts aren’t going to waste. Now, any URL query parameters that users have on sign up will be stored. You’ll be able to get both an aggregate report (see above) or take a look at a specific user’s profile page:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/3fcb54a2-6c4d-4a72-a7bc-6ba6afb2a3d6)\n\n.\n\n### 📈 See how quickly your customers are expanding\n\nOne of the most exciting moments for any B2B company is watching one of your customers onboard more employees to your product.\n\nAnd keeping an eye on which of your organizations are growing quickly can make it easy to target efforts around upselling. The Organization Growth report lets you see that at a glance:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77445&key=user_uploads/609048/1f730d81-6c2c-40d8-83b5-5288eda8a207)\n\nYou can also quickly see which of your users is responsible for growth with the Top Inviters report. 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You know automation could help, but it faces three major issues:\n\n1. **Existing business systems are rigid,** and systems of record like CRMs and ERPs make customization frustrating, complex, and expensive, often requiring external consultants or their own dedicated developers \n2. **No-code tools still have a significant learning curve,** and teams still spend weeks figuring out how to configure and build custom workflows properly before they can deliver value\n3. **Pure no-code solutions struggle to handle edge cases** or highly custom business logic, requiring complex and clunky workarounds.\n4. **Existing tools struggle to fully capture real-world business processes,** which involve complex processes that require a mixture of automation and human-in-the-loop, involve multiple teams and stakeholders, and extend across days, weeks, or even months.\n\n   \n\n## **Our Solution**\n\nWorkflow86 is an AI workflow engineer that takes natural language descriptions of business processes and automatically creates fully configured automations with forms, tasks, AI steps, integrations, and more. \n\n### **Design and deploy automations in minutes**\n\nThis allows anyone to build and deploy custom business processes and workflow automations by chatting to their own on-demand workflow automation expert. \n\n1. **Describe your process** in natural language or even upload an image, flowchart, or process diagram\n2. **AI asks clarifying questions** and develops an implementation plan just like a business analyst would\n3. **AI builds and implements everything** using a combination of forms, human-in-the-loop tasks, database queries, AI steps, API integrations, and even custom JavaScript/Python code\n4. **Deploy immediately** or iterate. 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It connects site records, links evidence to failure modes, and supports critical decisions. Live on 5 sites with $1.7M booked in 2026, we’re raising a seed. Contact me at [rahul@korrai.com](mailto:rahul@korrai.com).\n\n\n\n### The Problem\n\nEvery tailings dam has an Engineer of Record. Their name and licence go on the document that says the dam and slope will hold, or that a closed site is safe. If that document is wrong, the liability is theirs. For example, in 2019, a tailings dam at Brumadinho, Brazil, failed and 270 people lost their lives. Engineers from the firm that certified it as stable were among 16 people charged with homicide.\n\n### How We Got Here\n\nWe started in 2021 as a spin-off from a Canadian Space Agency research project and spent four years building AI algorithms for geological and satellite data processing. When we worked with the engineers who prepare review reports, we saw what signing actually takes. They pull together decades of reports, sensor readings, inspections, and surveys provided by paid consultants, contractors, and site teams. All information is in different formats. They synthesize conclusions by hand every cycle. But with the overwhelming amount of data mine sites collect today, making sense of it across 20 different systems is daunting.\n\nThere’s a risk of missed, misinterpreted, or mistaken risk signals.\n\nAI is already in mining. It drives haul trucks, tunes processing plants, and watches camera feeds.\n\nBut there’s no solution for safety reporting because general AI gives plausible and, at times, hallucinated answers. It lacks an interconnected understanding of a mine site and the nuance from diverse sources. Our proprietary data, Ontologies, and Agents are purpose-built for that.\n\n### What TRAIL Does\n\nTRAIL reads the entire site record, enables engineers to link evidence to each failure mode, and supports decisions that matter for the facility. There’s a simple human-AI collaboration to arrive at the final report the engineer can sign.\n\n1. **The site record is connected:** reports, monitoring data, inspection notes, satellite and drone surveys, including the scanned paper nobody has opened in years.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122378&key=user_uploads/492046/d49d95a5-0884-44c6-a496-ebb1b89fe8db)\n\n2. **Failure modes:** evidence linked to the ways each facility can actually fail, so the engineer sees what supports each conclusion and what doesn't.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122378&key=user_uploads/492046/35039718-6227-433e-90ce-f47069b586ba)\n\n3. **Cited answers:** when the engineer asks questions, TRAIL answers with citations for each piece of evidence. Where no evidence supports a claim, TRAIL says so instead of guessing.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122378&key=user_uploads/492046/3d66ca01-0cdb-4d92-9822-4478408dade4)\n\n4. **The engineer's sign-off:** the engineer reviews the evidence file and signs. TRAIL does the insight hunting; the engineer keeps the judgment.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122378&key=user_uploads/492046/e4c61a2e-5659-4c97-9d93-584c1ac4ee26)\n\n\n**Founders & The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122378&key=user_uploads/492046/d1a7e126-6cda-484f-aec3-e117496df6ce)\n\n**Rahul** - I'm the CEO. My first startup was acquired before I graduated. Before KorrAI, I built enterprise IoT systems for the tier-1 Indian heavy infra companies. 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With Massdriver, engineers can provision secure, production-ready cloud infrastructure in minutes without cloud expertise using a simple diagramming interface.**\n\nHey all, we’re Cory, Chris, and David, the team behind [Massdriver.](https://massdriver.cloud) We’re on a mission to radically simplify cloud infrastructure management and ‘DevOps.’\n\n## 😢 The Problem\n\nFor many organizations, DevOps is no longer a set of practices and culture. It’s a separate team with its own backlog slowing down your product development. Software today isn’t simply code on a computer. It’s a series of ~~tubes~~ APIs and services stitched together with YAML, tools like Terraform, and complex IAM rules. A bunch of boring plumbing that is slowing down your feature velocity.\n\n## 🪄 Our Solution\n\nMassdriver is a visual development platform that lets engineers focus on what services they need from the cloud and easily connect them without worrying about implementation details. Massdriver takes care of secret management, provisioning, parity, best practices, and IAM so your team can focus on your product. Our infrastructure and application bundles are open source, so you can modify them as your organization evolves or create your own and extend the platform.\n\n## ⚙ How It Works\n\nDevelopers can quickly connect dozens of pre-built infrastructure and application bundles designed by industry experts to provision secure production-ready infrastructure in minutes. 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Feel free to register on the site and try it out; no credit card is required. 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