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It’s also unclear which models provide the highest quality on your task. This results in lots of manual signups, testing different models, bespoke benchmarking, etc. It’s overwhelming, and the final solution is almost always sub-optimal.\n\n![](https://t9015538723.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9015538723/65677e25-4ec6-4c1a-b235-56ff1fee6552/splash3.png)\n\nMany people give up and just use the largest models for everything. However, you really don't need GPT4 to summarize simple documents. Llama 8B is more than capable and is **15 times faster** and **100 times cheaper**. LLM apps are currently _much_ slower and more expensive than needed 💵🔥⏱️, and also often underperform in output quality because of poorly selected models 📉 (Claude Opus vs. GPT4 vs. Gemni etc.) for your specific prompts.\n\n**🤩 Not Anymore**\n\nUnify automatically routes each prompt to the most suitable model based on your preferences for quality, speed, and cost. Simply tune these three dials and let Unify do all the hard work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81027&key=user_uploads/949841/fa900ddd-6849-408f-9a6c-1ad5dcfb0872)\n\nYour \"easy\" prompts will go to the fastest and cheapest models, and only the \"hard\" prompts will go to the most appropriate heavy lifters, like GPT-4o, Opus, and Gemini. You focus on building your LLM app, and we'll focus on providing the best models, with the fastest providers, at the lowest cost ⚡\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81027&key=user_uploads/949841/b59ee67a-6566-4728-b146-57b102cf3151)\n\nWatch our [explainer video](https://youtu.be/15wgxK1Cw0E?si=5G04-7tGRKPyxiNa) to learn more about the solution at a high level.\n\n**What Unify Offers ✨**\n\n* **⚙️ Control**: Choose which models and providers to route to and adjust three sliders: quality, cost, and latency.\n* 📈 **Self Improvement**: Unify automatically improves your LLM application over time as new models and providers emerge.\n* 📊 **Observability**: [Compare all models and providers](https://console.unify.ai/dashboard) and see which are best for your needs.\n* ⚖️ **Impartiality**: Unify treats all models and providers equally, ensuring unbiased quality, cost, and speed [benchmarks](https://console.unify.ai/dashboard).\n* 🔑 **Convenience**: With a single API key, [access all models and providers](https://unify.ai/docs/api/first_request.html) behind a single endpoint, queryable individually or via the router.\n* 🧑‍💻 **Focus**: Don't stress about updating models and providers; Unify handles it for you so you can focus on building great LLM products.\n\n**Getting Started 🛠️**\n\n[Sign up](https://console.unify.ai/), select your [router](https://unify.ai/chat?default=true), then `pip install unifyai` and you're ready to go!\n\n```\nfrom unify import Unify\nunify = Unify(\n api_key=\"UNIFY_KEY\",\n endpoint=\"router@q:1\",\n)\nresponse = unify.generate(user_prompt=\"Hello there\")\n```\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\nGive Unify a try, and let us know what you think! [Sign up](https://console.unify.ai/), `pip install unifyai`, take our [router](https://unify.ai/chat?default=true) for a spin, and check out our [product walkthrough](https://youtu.be/ZpY6SIkBosE). If you're excited about Unify, tell a friend about it 😊 If you don’t think it’s useful, please tell us. 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Pharma companies use our simulations to guide their experiments, saving hundreds of millions of dollars and years of time in the lab. This will de-risk clinical trials and expedite FDA approval.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69547&key=user_uploads/148651/80bc9d1a-e8b4-41cc-8ca1-5deed312ecbc)\n\nThis is what a pill looks like at the molecular level. Drug molecules pack into repeating patterns–or “crystal structures”–which control the drug’s stability. This particular drug (Ritonavir) was recalled when the developers chose an unstable crystal structure. This recall could have been avoided with effective simulation.\n\n### **🤔 The Problem**\n\nLavo’s simulation software predicts the crystal structure of drug molecules. The crystal structure refers to the three-dimensional pattern in which individual molecules pack to form a solid. Choosing the best crystal structure before clinical trials maximizes the efficacy, shelf-stability, and safety of the drug. Failure to accurately determine the crystal structure can lead to problems in manufacturing, legal protection of the drug patent, and success in clinical trials.\n\nFrom conversations with pharma companies, we’ve learned that they want more of these predictions, but existing vendors are too slow and expensive–think hundreds of thousands of computer hours for a single molecule. This is a limitation of their methodology and is also our key differentiator.\n\nThis market is large and growing. 15,000 relevant drugs enter R&D each year, and pharma companies spend over $100M on crystal structure predictions annually. Also, we have learned that pharma companies need predictions on larger drugs than are currently possible with today's methods, so we have an opportunity to expand the market with more efficient products.\n\n### **🔨 Why now, why us?**\n\nWe are uniquely positioned to solve this problem – Zach and Derek have PhDs in computational chemistry and Scott is a former Google Cloud PM. 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People love talking to Sameday’s virtual sales agents. Not only does Sameday sound ultra-human, but it acknowledges a customer’s pain, overcomes objections, and follows up until the sale is made. With a close rate of 80%. \n\nYes, you read that right.\n\n**Sameday’s virtual sales agent closes 80% of all sales calls it receives.**\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nHome service businesses fail to answer 62% of phone calls.\n\nPaying 4X more per lead than any other industry, missing just one sales call costs $80 on average. \n\n**Third-party call centers are expensive.** Averaging several dollars per minute, they also fail schedule services effectively; resulting in low sold to service rates and an even higher cost per acquisition. (Most of Sameday’s customers switched from a third-party call center)\n\n**Staffing is difficult.** Most hire family and friends to answer the phone, while others attempt to answer it themselves…while on the job…covered in who knows what. 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But it doesn’t stop there…\n\n**Sameday follows up, initiating outbound calls on its own to ensure every lead gets on the schedule.**\n\nCombine that with Sameday’s ability to onboard new customers in seconds, ultra-human voice, which we call, “Pro Voice”, and the ability to overcome objections, Sameday eliminates all the common pitfalls of other AI solutions, resulting in our customers saying, “Wow”.\n\n**You can learn more at** [**gosameday.com**](https://www.gosameday.com/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65994&key=user_uploads/902840/c08a1316-dc73-4e4e-9ceb-8e27c9800f3d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HAQ-sameday-always-be-available", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2022-09-12T16:02:58.374Z" } ] }, { "id": 27492, "name": "Zudo", "slug": "zudo", "former_names": [ "Treasury", "Nucleus", "LazyEditor", "zudo.work" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/02c705489ccd24391e34d49ce6425e36196c1fcb.png", "website": "https://zudo.work/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Zudo is building the AI workforce for the $100B+ warranty and extended service contract industry.\r\n\r\nOur AI workers automate complex, high-volume operations for automotive and home warranty companies — including claims processing, coverage verification, authorizations, customer support, renewals, and sales.\r\n\r\nUnlike traditional chatbots and copilots, Zudo's agents execute workflows end-to-end, interacting with customers over voice and digital channels while taking actions across existing enterprise systems. 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", "body": "**tl;dr:** Product marketing teams spend hours listening to sales calls or using archaic keyword searches that often lead to false positives. We are building an LLM-powered search engine so Product Marketing teams can unlock the gold that exists in hundreds or thousands of sales calls. Nucleus automatically indexes and buckets hundreds of attributes per B2B client, such as objections, feature requests, and competitor mentions, to power your insights.\n\nHi everyone, we’re Akash, Nikhil, and Anirudh - the team behind Nucleus.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80334&key=user_uploads/583810/72ab75fc-307a-4e61-b6e9-bca1a0756bcb)\n\n# **🧨 The problem - hours spent listening to calls**\n\nProduct marketing teams spend hours listening to sales call recordings or painfully searching through transcripts by keywords to inform their sales pitch, marketing campaigns, upsells/cross-sells, and product roadmap. \n\nTake our client Jacob as an example. 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Nucleus will answer the question directly with LLM reasoning, along with supporting evidence from client calls.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80334&key=user_uploads/208653/ea5c36a8-aec6-4dac-828b-17f0abbcedb3)\n\nRather than relying on just keywords that often lead to false positives, with Nucleus Revenue Observability, Jacob can set up LLM-powered smart trackers that ping him in real-time when something he cares about happens in a call, such as when a prospect describes how they perceive a competitor. 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We’re building a new way to make movies using AI.\n\nHere’s a quick demo:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/m48rxBNuhQc\n\n# What is Rubbrband?\n\nRubbrband helps you turn a script into a film.\n\nYou control **dialogue**, **sound**, and **shots**.\n\nHeres how it works:\n\nUpload a script. Lock in characters and costumes. Record or upload voices for each character. Generate OST. Export an MP4.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93303&key=user_uploads/270510/4e1366a9-3350-4d55-9ea1-54730355e673)\n\n---\n\n# Who are we?\n\nWe’re college roommates from UC Berkeley!\n\n* **Jeremy** — worked on ML + audio at CNMAT.\n* **Darren** — ML researcher (MRI focus) at Berkeley.\n* **Abhinav** — RL/ML at BAIR.\n\n---\n\n# The problem\n\nIt’s currently hard to make long-form movies using AI tools.\n\nFilmmakers need **one place** where the world, the shots, the voices, and the music stay in sync.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93303&key=user_uploads/270510/3862baa2-530a-4d40-b7aa-f0a043afdbef)\n\n---\n\n# Our solution\n\nA tool that keeps context on a film and lets you generate **inside** it.\n\n* **Script breakdown:** characters, scenes, dialogue.\n* **Character design:** bring your art or generate; lock a base look + costumes.\n* **Voices:** record or clone. One default voice per character.\n* **Shot list:** type, lens, angle, move.\n* **OST:** generate cues per scene; loopable; stems when supported.\n* **Final movie:** assemble into a timed cut with dialogue + music. Export MP4\n\n---\n\n# Our ask\n\n* **Comment me for early access** (we’re rolling seats out weekly) at [jeremy@rubbrband.com](mailto:jeremy@rubbrband.com)\n* Intros to directors, showrunners, or previz leads are welcome", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OGt-rubbrband-make-movies-using-ai", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-08-25T14:48:03.203Z" }, { "id": 81865, "title": "Rubbrband - Generate images in your own style, repeatably", "tagline": "Rubbrband allow creatives to design steps for generating images in their unique style, repeatably.", "body": "Hi everyone! We’re the team behind [Rubbrband](https://rubbrband.com/). We’re building a highly controllable way to generate images.\n\n\n\n**Problem:**\n\nGenerating images in your own unique style is difficult with the current AI tools. Creatives want specific controls over aspects of an image, like the color palette, as well as control over which model they’re using to generate images.\n\nAdditionally, consistently reproducing that style is difficult because AI models don’t have the ability to remember past interactions and preferences. This makes it hard for artists and designers to achieve their desired results repeatedly.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n**Rubbrband Workflows** allow creatives to design steps for generating images repeatably.\n\nBy setting up a workflow, you can define a sequence of steps that produce consistent results. This ensures that every image generated follows your specific style and preferences, eliminating the variability often encountered with other AI tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81865&key=user_uploads/270510/aa30399b-e4ee-4f76-b0db-35c223885eb4)\n\nRubbrband offers the following features:\n\n* 🎨 **Highly controllable**: Enjoy detailed control over color palettes, reference images, and other controls.\n* 🖼️ **Access to thousands of models**: Utilize any CivitAI checkpoint or LORA for your image generation needs.\n* 💡 **Smart Prompting**: Get suggestions for image styles in your prompts to enhance your creative process.\n* 🧩 **Extensive Node Library**: Access over 20 nodes, including SD, ControlNet, Masking nodes, GPT-4, and more.\n* 🛠️ **Simplified Playground Interface**: Use workflows in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate Playground page.\n* 🌐 **Community Sharing**: Share your workflows and discover others’ creations on the Community page.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81865&key=user_uploads/270510/aeb2f636-44ce-4e58-85fe-11d9a903513b)\n\nRubbrband is available to use [here](https://rubbrband.com)! \n\nWe would love to hear your feedback! Please send questions and comments to [contact@rubbrband.com](mailto:contact@rubbrband.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIP-rubbrband-generate-images-in-your-own-style-repeatably", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-07-11T14:16:52.528Z" }, { "id": 69806, "title": "Rubbrband: Train open-source ML models in a line of code", "tagline": "Meet Rubbrband: The tool that enables users to rapidly train the latest ML models", "body": "### **What is Rubbrband?**\n\nRubbrband is a CLI tool that enables developers to rapidly experiment with and train the latest open-source ML models. For example, Rubbrband allows you to fine-tune your own version of Dreambooth’s Stable Diffusion in just 1 line of code:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69806&key=user_uploads/270510/85f6ebcc-2d0f-49ce-adb9-e2dbb7c23253)\n\n### **Who are we?**\n\nWe’re college roommates who met at orientation at UC Berkeley. Together we grappled with open-source ML projects that were very difficult to set up (due to CUDA and python dependency conflicts), and even more difficult to apply on our specific research problem. While the state-of-the-art looked magical, it always seemed to be out of reach.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69806&key=user_uploads/270510/8cdbfa6d-330c-459f-8d00-c6983ab47480)\n\n**Jeremy** (Left) - Former ML researcher at CNMAT at UC Berkeley.\n\n**Darren** (Middle) - Former ML researcher at UC Berkeley focused on MRI.\n\n**Abhinav** (Right) - Former RL/ML researcher at Berkeley AI Research Lab.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nThere’s a deluge of breakthroughs in Machine Learning every week.\n\nHowever, it’s extremely challenging for developers to leverage these open-source works to solve their own problems. _This is primarily due to the fact that researchers and ML developers optimize for development velocity, and not for reproducibility or extendibility._\n\nAs a result, the entire Machine Learning space seems to be held together with duct tape, as people throw together undocumented scripts to start training runs, which always seem to break one week later.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nWith Rubbrband, **we want to bring a world-class experience to training ML models**. By creating a simple Python library that abstracts away training environments (CUDA drivers, pip dependencies, and C libraries), and exposing a few commands of interest, _developers will be able to rapidly experiment with the bleeding edge in Machine Learning_. By doing so, developers will be able to solve hard problems that otherwise may have remained unsolved.\n\n### Our ask\n\n[Check out our open-source project, and give it a star! ⭐️](https://github.com/rubbrband/rubbrband)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9u-rubbrband-train-open-source-ml-models-in-a-line-of-code", "votes": 78, "created_at": "2023-03-01T13:59:08.494Z" } ] }, { "id": 27655, "name": "Avoca", "slug": "avoca", "former_names": [ "synergy.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/41e4a3c8483aa9a861c7be4030f6eabf0407ad5e.png", "website": "https://www.avoca.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "We specialize in voice and can close customers across every channel 24/7. 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Growing up in Michigan, he helped his parents handle tiresome communications while establishing their own small business.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurva-shrivastava-138b19a0/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/apurvas96", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/13bf8332c7aa4fd73fa31283698a43945dfeffc6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 528003, "full_name": "Tyson Chen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of Avoca. Previously I was an early PM at Nuro for 3 years trying to make self-driving goods delivery a reality. Before that, I worked as a consultant at BCG in NY for 2 years, helping bring AI to multiple F500 companies. I studied CS at MIT where I focused on ML research, specifically using generative AI for drug discovery. As a kid, I helped manage communications for my mom's acupuncturist business in Pennsylvania. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonchen17/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e7bdcf6cfaba39e7924afbc38886204563003ca2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 90681, "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avoca/jobs/82uMqgA-forward-deployed-engineer", "location": "New York HQ", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$160K - $250K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "The AI Agents Helping Home Services Book More Jobs", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHp1HgwCo9I", "date": "Jun 29, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 70104, "title": "Avoca – AI-powered communications platform for SMBs", "tagline": "We’re equipping every SMB with an intelligent, 24/7 customer communications platform so business owners can get back to focusing on their core business", "body": "# **TLDR;**\n\nSMBs lack the tools, people, and time to effectively capture customer intent, convert customer interest, and build customer loyalty. That’s where we come in. [Avoca](https://www.avoca.ai/) handles all customer inbound interest as well as outbound communications.\n\n### **We’re two good friends from college that love building AI-first products:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70104&key=user_uploads/528003/f441ebc9-0779-465e-934c-9dfa37a0286b)\n\n[Apurva](https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurva-shrivastava-138b19a0/) is a 2nd time founder who studied CS at MIT and has worked on AI products at Apple and Sunshine. He most recently was an engineer at Retool where he worked with some of their largest customers. Growing up in Michigan, he helped his parents handle communications with their own small business.\n\n[Tyson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonchen17/) studied CS at MIT where he worked on generative AI for drug discovery. Since then he’s worked on AI projects for F500 companies at BCG and as a PM at Nuro. He’s seen the problem first hand at home with his mom’s local acupuncture business.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**SMBs lack the resources to properly manage their customer communications.**\n\n* They miss over half their phone calls \n* 85% of the time when a call is missed, the customers don’t leave voicemails or call back; they often choose a competitor\n* They have delayed responses to texts / emails\n* They lack organized ways to activate customer loyalty and create repeat business\n\n**Existing alternatives are either expensive or inefficient.**\n\n* Receptionists (both virtual & non-virtual) are costly, not 24/7, require days of onboarding time, and have high variance in terms of performance\n* Call centers are costly (few dollars / minute), inconsistent, don’t integrate with business systems (e.g., CRMs), and can only handle calls\n* Existing tech solutions are expensive and limited\n\n### **✨ Our Solution**\n\n[**Example**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IGVpM4JPUo)\n\n[Avoca](https://www.avoca.ai/) automates all inbound and outbound needs for every SMB.\n\n**Inbound**\n\n* 24/7 phone assistance so no calls are missed again - answer questions, book appointments, collect information\n* Personalized text and email handling - ensure existing and potential customers get fast responses\n\n**Outbound**\n\n* Booking confirmations to minimize cancellations / no-shows\n* Review sequences that boost a business’s Google and Yelp reviews after job completion\n* Follow-ups & promotions to previous customers to build loyalty\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n* 📣 Sharing: Please share this announcement with your network and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avoca-ai/)!\n* 👥 Referrals: If you know of anyone who owns a local business and could benefit from Avoca, please connect us ([founders@avoca.ai](mailto:founders@avoca.ai)). Especially if they are in one of the following verticals: home services, property management, real estate, family medical practice (e.g., dentist, massage therapist), law.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IEi-avoca-ai-powered-communications-platform-for-smbs", "votes": 502, "created_at": "2023-03-09T19:29:58.089Z" } ] }, { "id": 27664, "name": "Infisical", "slug": "infisical", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e613a0916d0e99cf2fa52a3c8be726a00bd6c51a.png", "website": "https://infisical.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Infisical is the all-in-one security infrastructure platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.\r\n\r\nInfisical stores your secrets and injects them back into your development workflow, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. It comes with secrets versioning, point-in-time recovery, audit logging, automatic secret rotation capabilities, and more.", "one_liner": "Security infrastructure for developers and agents", "team_size": 70, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1674066953, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Security", "Open Source" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "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/infisical", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/infisical.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/infisical/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/infisical", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/infisical", "github_url": "https://github.com/Infisical/infisical", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e613a0916d0e99cf2fa52a3c8be726a00bd6c51a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 942802, "full_name": "Vlad Matsiiako", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder/CEO of Infisical", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmatsiiako/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/matsiiako", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66f8eb40aaf6ba990dcf3fb7787222e157a67ede.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1017557, "full_name": "Tony Dang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Infisical", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuan-d-a104a6125/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dangtony98", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2419b4588a6d671c73445ca358b013681c458989.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1191187, "full_name": "Maidul Islam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maidul98/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8aa9292f4de23b8453f0af5a125d55f417ec23e0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 77875, "title": "Full Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/Bf7eGmW-full-stack-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US; 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Austin, TX, US; Atlanta, GA, US; Raleigh, NC, US; Washington, DC, US; Boston, MA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Infisical: The Open Source Security Stack", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDumDlXcMkg", "date": "Jun 06, 2025" }, { "title": "Infisical raises $16 million Series A led by Elad Gil to safeguard secrets | Fortune", "url": "https://fortune.com/2025/06/06/infisical-raises-16-million-series-a-led-by-elad-gil-to-safeguard-secrets/", "date": "Jun 06, 2025" }, { "title": "Google's Gradient backs YC alum Infisical to solve secret sprawl | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/googles-gradient-backs-yc-alum-infisical-to-solve-secret-sprawl/", "date": "Jul 03, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69599, "title": "💚 Infisical - The open source secrets manager for developers", "tagline": "Open source, end-to-end encrypted tool that lets you securely sync secrets and configs across your team, devices, and infrastructure", "body": "Hey there, this is team Infisical 🏂\n\n[Infisical](https://infisical.com/) is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for developers to centralize their application secrets and configs, and sync them across their whole development life cycle.\n\nWe launched 3 months ago, and already have 4.2K+ stars on GitHub, 50 contributors, and 220+ community members 🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69599&key=user_uploads/942802/00941739-4c42-44c8-92e8-e8fc55f7cb1b)\n\n\n**Imagine this**: You add a new environment variable to your team’s codebase, push it up to GitHub, and head out for dinner. Shortly after, your teammate pulls the latest changes and everything crashes because they're missing that variable.\n\nYou come back to angry messages from your teammate and quickly send them the variable over text, risking a security vulnerability. Everything seems to be working until the next day when you deploy to production, and once again, everything crashes because you forgot to add the environment variable to the production environment.\n\nSounds relatable?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69599&key=user_uploads/942802/d8e6a881-8412-4baf-8f54-b8defb0ecd46)\n\n\n## **Problem**\n\nSecrets play a critical role in every stage of the software development lifecycle, from local development to staging, testing, and production. Even so, teams routinely run into challenges dealing with secret management:\n\n* **Missing secrets across infrastructure**: Having secrets sprawled across infrastructure with no central visibility and control often leads to missing secrets. In turn, applications crash in production and developers lose precious time debugging what’s missing.\n* **Leaking secrets to source control**: Even the biggest companies accidentally expose hardcoded secrets and .env files. When it happens, the consequences are grave.\n* **Lacking self-hosted alternatives**: Many great solutions are not self-hostable or end-to-end encrypted, a challenge for companies requiring it. In a world where security and privacy are increasingly paramount, having these options are essential.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nInfisical provides an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for developers to manage their application secrets and sync them across their team and software development lifecycle.\n\nWith Infisical, you can:\n\n* **Securely store and deliver** application secrets to your infrastructure with integrations available for Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, etc.\n* **Inject secrets** into applications instead of using .env files that often get leaked.\n* **Self-host** Infisical on your own infrastructure.\n* **Enhance observability** of secrets and teammates with secret versioning, rollbacks, and audit logs for every action taken.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69599&key=user_uploads/942802/afe74cca-1292-4f25-b0d5-03ae9fc21327)\n\n\n## **Asks**\n\n* Check out Infisical at \n* Contact [tony@infisical.com](mailto:tony@infisical.com) if your company needs help with secret management\n* Intros to companies that in your experience may benefit from Infisical", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6Z-infisical-the-open-source-secrets-manager-for-developers", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2023-02-23T15:39:57.107Z" } ] }, { "id": 27666, "name": "Middleware", "slug": "middleware", "former_names": [ "Middleware Labs Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc8d28e84cb985c9cc0b597aae845c99c32f9a23.png", "website": "https://www.middleware.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Middleware is a full-stack cloud observability platform. 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It then fixes these issues with a single click and generates a pull request in GitHub. ", "body": "I’m [Laduram](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laduramvishnoi/), founder and CEO of Middleware. \\\n**TL;DR** \\\nVery excited to introduce our latest launch: [Ops AI](https://middleware.io/product/ops-ai/) — your observability co-pilot that _not only detects_ issues in production, but actually _fixes_ them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91625&key=user_uploads/1149383/7d2659aa-933b-4206-856a-f6107e930704)\n\nWith Ops AI, resolving production problems becomes as simple as clicking a button. When something breaks, you’ll get an alert. From there, just ask Ops AI for a fix — it analyzes the issue, identifies the affected code using GitHub’s MCP server, and automatically creates a pull request with the fix. No more digging through logs or guessing root causes.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29pzH-1_Dpc\n\n### Why Ops AI?\n\nMiddleware is a full-stack observability platform — we do infra monitoring, APM, Logs, RUM, Synthetic monitoring, and browser testing. That means we have complete context when something goes wrong and can resolve issues faster and smarter than traditional tools.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nTo celebrate our launch, we’re offering an exclusive **2 million free tokens** and [YC deal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/2598) to all the YC companies — just [sign up](https://app.middleware.io/auth/register?ga=enabled) and ask for the deal! Or [book a quick demo with me](https://cal.com/laduram/30min?user=laduram).\n\nWould love to hear what you think 💙", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Npp-ops-ai-by-middleware", "votes": 73, "created_at": "2025-06-25T15:14:51.809Z" }, { "id": 68705, "title": "🚀 Middleware 📊 : A unified observability platform for cloud native, microservices and distributed apps", "tagline": "A real-time cloud-native observability platform to bring all metrics, logs, and traces in one unified timeline to debug issues faster.", "body": "Hey YC! 👋 \\\n\\\nI am super excited to launch [Middleware](https://middleware.io)—a **real-time observability platform** that brings all the **metrics, logs, traces, and events** into a single timeline so you can monitor your distributed apps and cloud native platforms in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68705&key=user_uploads/1149383/7c01ff47-1f21-4647-9254-b2951dc8d1b8)\n\n### **Problem with existing legacy products**\n\nCurrent observability solutions are built to monitor monolith architectures, not distributed and microservices. This results in the following problems: \n\n* Surface-level information makes it **extremely hard to debug** issues. 🧐\n* Costs 💵 to monitor everything in the infrastructure and applications are **incredibly high**.\n* All the data live in separate apps like logs, metrics, traces, and events and can’t **correlate to causation**.\n\nBecause cloud native produces more data than ever, it’s become more challenging to understand what’s happening inside applications and infrastructure. Unfortunately, the result often **wastes engineering time** tracking incidents, creates alert fatigue, and, yes, costs a fortune.\n\n### **Why we founded Middleware**\n\nI faced this problem when building my last startup. While building out the backend, it was **challenging to monitor microservices and Kubernetes**, as there was no all-inclusive cloud monitoring tool available.\n\nMy few early engineers from **Splunk** and **Newrelic** faced this problem as well. After speaking to engineering and IT leaders at several other companies—and they were facing the same problem—we started to work on Middleware full-time.\n\n### **Our solution to cloud native observability**\n\nMiddleware is a **real-time observability platform** for cloud-native, microservices, and distributed apps that brings all the metrics, logs, traces, and events to a **single timeline**. This empowers **dev and ops teams** to find and debug issues faster. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68705&key=user_uploads/1149383/84b686ed-f3f2-4a40-9ad4-b4fec457d860)\n\nAdditionally, our **AI-powered algorithms** collect and analyze data from across your entire infrastructure to spot signs of potential problems before they even occur. \n\nMiddleware offers a wide range of observability from **infrastructure** monitoring, **logs** monitoring, application performance monitoring (**APM**), **synthetic** monitoring, **database** monitoring, and real-time **alerting** solution with cost-effective prices.\n\n### **What our customers say about us!**\n\nCliff from **Puresend** - \"_We migrated from Datadog to Middleware because we absolutely love their unified view. It's such a simple but incredibly useful tool. This, among other features, made it a no-brainer for us to migrate. We monitor our logs, metrics, and traces at a very affordable cost. I highly recommend Middleware as the best in class for cloud-native monitoring._\"\n\nEduardo from **Berliner Philharmoniker** - “The Digital Concert Hall only uses cutting-edge technology, and Middleware was able to provide that with its all-in-one monitoring solution and near real-time metrics.”\n\n### **Reinventing observability for the future 🔮**\n\nOur mission is to change how companies **observe infrastructure and applications** cost-effectively. Our tools provide everything you need to **remediate issues** faster while getting observability data growth under control. It provides real-time insight into your cloud-native infrastructure, applications, and business.\n\n* Vendor agnostic by using and contributing to **Open Telemetry**.\n* Store only the data that you need to save on **costs.** 💰\n* Correlate the traces from the **browser to the front end and back end** with logs and metrics.\n* Using **AI to predict** any anomaly and possible downtime.\n\n### **Our ask/ how to reach us with contact detail 🗓️**\n\n1. Try Middleware and give us feedback. We love to work with **YC companies**. [TRY AT LEAST FREE FOREVER PLAN!](https://app.middleware.io/auth/register)\n2. Tell us your use case; we love building solutions quickly. **Schedule 15 mins** to call me [here](https://calendly.com/middleware_io/15-min-quick-call).\n3. If you are paying too much for your Observability, we love to **cut costs by 2x to 3x.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hs9-middleware-a-unified-observability-platform-for-cloud-native-microservices-and-distributed-apps", "votes": 217, "created_at": "2023-01-25T16:49:47.084Z" } ] }, { "id": 27667, "name": "StackAI", "slug": "stackai", "former_names": [ "Stack", "Stack AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f0b69f56464fb22aa0805117c2f93c2b32f1c717.png", "website": "https://www.stackai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Acquired by Asana (NYSE:ASAN) in May 2026.\r\n\r\nStackAI partners with enterprises to deploy custom AI agents to automate their most complex back-office workflows. Teams at BAE Systems, Monzo, Morgan & Morgan, and Goodwill work with StackAI to bring AI Agents to their operations.\r\n\r\nEnterprises use StackAI no-code to automate large compliance audits, knowledge work, legal intake, due diligence research, and insurance claim underwriting.", "one_liner": "The Enterprise AI Transformation Platform", "team_size": 62, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1673634480, "tags": [ "Enterprise", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stackai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/stackai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/stackai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/StackAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/stackai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f0b69f56464fb22aa0805117c2f93c2b32f1c717.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/60/1680800935227-xq1golaxlbk-93a505c5b1677497750a0010107d5e96/ebac961c06f5184e37d1b998d93f8e6f.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022709Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=39aa6bb43669060507b0b21b4c57f4b180b9dd217bbbc76960e8ea17ae8c2ef5", "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 908498, "full_name": "Toni Rosinol", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO at StackAI (W23). MIT PhD. Bringing us one step closer to AGI.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosinol/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/RosinolToni", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dfafac0a0522e77dda9d3d2e5391345ef24c7e7d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 660940, "full_name": "Bernard Aceituno", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & President of StackAI (W23). MIT PhD. AGI for the Enterprise.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/baceituno/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/bernaceituno", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4ae11cb88a48870abe3e784747068c5516e00805.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/asana-acquires-no-code-agent-builder-stack-ai/", "date": "May 28, 2026" }, { "title": "Enterprise AI Agents for Every Job: StackAI Raises $16M - Stack AI · Accelerate Your Mission with Intelligent AI Workflows", "url": "https://www.stack-ai.com/blog/stack-ai-raises-16m-series-a-to-create-ai-agents-for-every-job", "date": "May 07, 2025" }, { "title": "Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/stack-ai-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-build-ai-fueled-workflows/", "date": "May 21, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 98649, "title": "Beyond Agents: The Era of AI Employees", "tagline": "Trusted from Fortune 500s to Governments", "body": "Today, StackAI is launching three capabilities that are ushering in the era of AI employees: computer use, access to the web, and the ability to coordinate as a team. Each one is a breakthrough on its own; together, they represent a fundamental shift in what enterprise AI can do.\n\n+++\n\nWe’ve moved from AI that responds, to AI that reasons, to AI that acts. Now we’re entering the next stage: AI that works like an employee you onboard. That starts with the same thing you’d give any new team member on day one: a computer, access to your internal tools, and a team to work with.\n\n1. **Giving Every AI Agent a Computer**\n\nComputer use gives each AI agent a sandboxed environment where it can execute commands, run scripts, read and write files, send emails, post Slack messages, and work across the tools your enterprise already uses. Think of it like Claude Code, but living inside StackAI and securely connected to everything your organization already uses.\n\nVideo: \n\nComputer Use on StackAI doesn’t just suggest, it reads your repo, runs commands, edits files, and iterates until the job is done. Need a comprehensive performance deck? The agent navigates to your analytics platform, pulls the numbers, builds the charts, then formats everything into a clean, ready-to-share deck and forwards it to your team. Professional output. Zero manual effort. You don’t even have to press send.\n\nThese agents reason about what needs to happen, adapt when things change, and find a path to the output regardless of what gets in the way.\n\n**What it Means for Enterprises**\n\nEvery knowledge worker spends a significant portion of their time on coordination, data gathering, and repetitive execution. Computer use agents absorb that entire layer, freeing your team to focus on the nuanced work that actually requires human judgment.\n\n2. **Navigating the Web Like a Human Employee**\n\nA huge portion of enterprise work doesn’t happen inside your internal stack. It happens on the web: in vendor portals, legacy systems, government databases, and SaaS platforms that predate modern APIs.\n\nVideo: \n\nBrowser use gives AI agents the ability to navigate the web the way a human does—not through an API or pre-built connector, but by seeing a page, understanding what’s on it, and interacting with it. Clicking, filling forms, logging in, extracting data, submitting inputs. For an agent with browser use, every website is a potential integration; every legacy system, regardless of age or architecture, becomes part of the automation surface.\n\n**What it Means for Enterprises**\n\nTraditional automation has always had a hard boundary: no API, no integration. Enterprises worked around this by having humans manually bridge the gaps. \n\nBut now, an AI employee can log into your logistics vendor’s portal, pull open order status, and update your internal tracking system without anyone touching it. It can monitor competitor pricing across a dozen sites and flag changes before your next pricing review. It can navigate regulatory databases, extract relevant filings, and route them to your compliance team.\n\nAnything a human can do in a browser, an AI employee can do too, including the long tail of irregular, one-off tasks that are too infrequent to build traditional automation around but too time-consuming to keep handing to people.\n\n3. **Coordinating at Scale with Sub-Agent Teams**\n\nComputer use gives AI agents a workstation. Browser use gives them reach across the web. But there’s a ceiling to what any single agent, or any single AI employee, can do alone.\n\nA sub-agent workflow has a manager and a team. The orchestrator agent receives a high-level objective, breaks it into component tasks, delegates each to a specialized sub-agent, reviews the outputs, and synthesizes everything into a final deliverable. Each sub-agent maintains its own context window, so the system handles complex tasks without the constraints that limit a single model.\n\nTake a market intelligence agent. A single agent would need to research competitors, extract financial data, analyze trends, and write everything up sequentially, based on the user’s request. A multi-agent team handles it differently: the orchestrator delegates research to one agent, data extraction to another, analysis to a third, writing to a fourth. Sub-agents may or may not be called upon depending on the original task. The result is one polished deliverable, produced in a fraction of the time.\n\n## **The Era of AI Employees Is Here**\n\nMulti-agent architectures on StackAI let you build workflows that match the actual complexity of your business, not simplified versions of it. \n\nThe era of AI employees is here! Ready to put them to work? \n\n**Get started with StackAI → [stack-ai.com/demo](http://stack-ai.com/demo)**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pf7-beyond-agents-the-era-of-ai-employees", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-03-10T18:04:07.327Z" }, { "id": 96563, "title": "StackAI: Enterprise AI Agents in Seconds", "tagline": "Introducing Auto Agents, a new system that allows you to instantly design, test, and iterate over custom AI agents with enterprise-grade security.", "body": "**StackAI** is the no-code, drag-and-drop platform to build and deploy enterprise AI agents that automate manual work across every vertical. \n\nWe’re excited to introduce Auto Agents, a suite of tools within the StackAI platform that makes it incredibly easy to design, iterate, and optimize agents automatically. These tools will empower enterprise users of all technical skill levels to create reliable, robust AI agents for any business process. Whether you're in finance, legal, HR, support, or any other department, you’ll be able to take those painful, repetitive, and expensive processes and automate them at scale with AI. \\\n\\\nCheck out this brief [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDG3oeFsjk) to see Auto Agents in action. \n\n### **From idea to agent in minutes**\n\nWith StackAI Auto Agents, teams can describe what they want to build in natural language, and the platform generates a complete, multi-step AI agent automatically.\n\nFor example, a user might ask the system to create an equity research agent—one that analyzes stock performance, scans recent news, evaluates opportunities, and produces a structured report. The platform will then design the agent end to end, assembling the workflow, tools, and logic required to complete the task.\n\nCrucially, Auto Agents don’t operate as black boxes. Every generated agent can explain itself, walking users through each component of the workflow, how inputs flow through processing steps, and how outputs are produced. This makes it easier for teams to understand, validate, and build confidence in what the agent is doing.\n\n**Built-in prompt refinement, without the guesswork**\n\nPrompting remains one of the biggest barriers to reliable AI systems. Auto Agents address this directly.\n\nUsers can refine an agent’s behavior by describing how outputs should be structured, whether that’s a multi-section research report, a compliance summary, or a decision memo. With a single click, Auto Agents optimize prompts immediately, applying best practices to improve clarity, consistency, and performance.\n\n**Test, iterate, and build on results in real time**\n\nOnce an agent is generated, teams can test it right away with real inputs. In the equity research example above, the agent can be run against a specific company, pulling in relevant financial data and recent news to generate a comprehensive report in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96563&key=user_uploads/660940/f66c0dcc-f5c7-4f6b-bcdb-bbe33b7ee321)\n\nFrom there, users can interact directly with the results: asking follow-up questions, extending outputs, or generating downstream artifacts like emails or summaries. This interactive loop allows teams to iterate quickly and build layered workflows on top of existing results, all within the same platform.\n\n**Ready for real enterprise workflows**\n\nAuto Agents are designed for teams automating real business processes, not just demos. This launch reflects a broader shift in enterprise AI to systems that operate reliably at scale across the entire development lifecycle: \n\n* **Automatic agent generation** from natural language descriptions\n* **AI-powered prompt refinement** for better performance\n* **Real-time testing and iteration**\n* **Interactive follow-ups** through chat-based enhancements\n* **Enterprise-grade security and governance** by default\n\nWhether you're automating equity research, streamlining contract reviews, handling RFP responses, or tackling compliance audits, Auto Agents puts the power of AI automation in your hands.\n\nStackAI Auto Agents are available now. To learn more or start building, visit [stack.ai](http://stack.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P7T-stackai-enterprise-ai-agents-in-seconds", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2026-01-07T18:25:52.375Z" }, { "id": 77751, "title": "Stack AI - The Enterprise platform for LLM applications", "tagline": "Build Enterprise-grade AI assistants for your organization", "body": "[Stack AI](https://www.stack-ai.com/) is a **low-code platform that enables any organization to build custom AI Assistants without the need for coding or deep expertise in AI**. Our intuitive drag-and-drop interface makes Generative AI accessible for teams across the enterprise.\n\n[**Get a demo today!**](https://8pgahmhngsa.typeform.com/to/j1PDmIAG)\n\n**Fun fact:** this is our first YC launch!\n\n### What can I build?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77751&key=user_uploads/660940/f66ab65b-025a-49ca-af8a-e4916a52f44e)\n\nWe power AI use cases for companies such as **LifeMD, SmartAsset, Circle Medical, HiveMQ, Varos**, and more… \\\n\\\nWith Stack AI, subject matter experts can develop [AI assistants](https://www.stack-ai.com/blog/ai-assistants) tailored to their company needs without coding, powering use cases in industries such as:\n\n1. **Healthcare:** e.g., [insurance and policy document analysis](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents), physician assistant for therapy and diagnosis.\n2. **Education:** e.g., [automatic student support desk assistant](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents), AI-teaching assistants for faculty and courses.\n3. **Finance:** e.g., [comparison and drafting of financial reports](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents), contract drafting assistant, communication compliance analyzer (email, SMS).\n4. **Logistics & Construction:** e.g., [RFPs with AI-powered Resume Searching](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents), Purchase orders drafting and analysis.\n5. **Cross-industries:** e.g., [automatic scrapping of websites](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents), hyper-customized outbound email generation, patent drafting assistant.\n\n### Value Proposition\n\nOur goal is to **equip enterprises with state-of-the-art language models to empower intelligence workers, content creation, and more.** Users can securely connect company data sources through integrations with databases, cloud storage, and SaaS platforms. \n\nWe do the **heavy lifting of AI and software development so customers can focus on deploying AI that drives business value**.\n\n[Learn more about AI Assistants](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents)\n\n### Enterprise-grade AI\n\nEnterprise-grade platform and service\n\nWe developed Stack AI with enterprises in mind since day one:\n\n1. **Enterprise-grade security and privacy**: Stack AI is **SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA** compliant, ensuring [top industry standards](https://www.stack-ai.com/blog/gdpr-announcement) (i.e., data retention, data encryption, access controls). We also have data processing agreements with leading AI models.\n2. **High-touch customer success:** We support each client along the journey, guaranteeing hands-on guidance when building and deploying AI projects. \n3. **Dedicated infrastructure:** We ensure optimal performance and privacy in our client applications.\n4. **All-in-one platform:** Our versatile platform allows companies to deploy multiple customized use cases in an all-in-one platform, **simplifying technology stack and vendor management**.\n\n[Learn more about AI for the enterprise](https://www.stack-ai.com/solutions/ai-agents)\n\n### Bring AI to your Company Now!\n\nStack AI is already loved by over **200 companies in industries such as Healthcare, Logistics, Construction, Higher Education, and Financial Services**. We’d love to discuss with you how your organization can adopt Generative AI without expensive developments or hires.\n\n[**Get a demo today!**](https://8pgahmhngsa.typeform.com/to/j1PDmIAG)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KE3-stack-ai-the-enterprise-platform-for-llm-applications", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2024-01-23T00:56:56.309Z" } ] }, { "id": 27668, "name": "Designbase", "slug": "designbase", "former_names": [ "Fabrikant Tech, Inc.", "Blocksfabrik" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8f6bbfc7fd06398177687e787a5e50cc01365f06.png", "website": "https://www.designbase.com/", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "Designbase is the interface design tool that gives early teams design and development superpowers. 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At Facebook, he led a team driving strategic growth, and at Palantir he led several teams including core search, pharma, and user research.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-xie-0208b46/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/da8d5485780de095844ec4fe19653b4ad8507c51.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69110, "title": "{🟦} Blocksfabrik: Create your own design system without all the work", "tagline": "Generate a design system complete with Figma assets, a private NPM package for your components, and documentation.", "body": "Hi! Alex and Ryan here - we’re super excited to launch [Blocksfabrik](https://blocksfabrik.com/#ref=yclaunch)!\n\n---\n\n**TLDR: We built a way to create design systems that stay in sync across design and code. Teams are using us to design better interfaces and develop them as fast as using an off-the-shelf component library, but with the flexibility of a bespoke design system and none of the tech debt.**\n\n**Ready to ship better product experiences? We would love to help, so please book a slot for a quick chat** [**here**](https://calendly.com/d/zkc-hbp-8n2/blocksfabrik-founders)**, or reach us directly via email at** [alex@blocksfabrik.com](mailto:alex@blocksfabrik.com) or [ryan@blocksfabrik.com](mailto:ryan@blocksfabrik.com)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCreating your own design system takes a ton of effort and experience that is hard to come by. And once they’re built you’ll have to maintain them in design and code indefinitely. Off-the-shelf component libraries get you off the ground, but are disconnected from design and hacking around their limitations becomes a liability as your product grows.\n\nWhat if you can design and build as fast as with a component library, but with the flexibility and quality of a bespoke design system?\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nConfigure your design system in the Editor and Blocksfabrik will take care of the rest — creating the component code, Figma assets, and documentation. It’s like having a full-time design system team, without needing the budget.\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n**(1)** Define your design tokens in the Editor (including color palette, sizes, fill styles, etc) and the specifics of your interface components (from shapes to interaction patterns).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69110&key=user_uploads/919864/31b5b5d1-c6a8-4fca-b639-1a203bcab90b)\n\n**(2)** Publish your design system, and you’ll get a private NPM package, Figma assets, and documentation that are all in sync.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69110&key=user_uploads/919864/56ce7431-2f21-40d9-932c-dd2c1edbf728)\n\n**(3)** Since Blocksfabrik creates components for both Figma and code, your Figma assets will share the same properties, and behave identically to the components in code. The designer → developer handoff becomes fast and seamless.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69110&key=user_uploads/919864/e6fce859-0bb6-4b2c-b4fa-f1502029add2)\n\nNeed to update something? Simply make edits and publish a new version that you can start using in Figma and code.\n\n### **How We Can Help You**\n\nIf you or someone in your network is struggling to build a product interface or design system, we’d love to help! Please book a quick chat [**here**](https://calendly.com/d/zkc-hbp-8n2/blocksfabrik-founders), or email us at [alex@fabrikant.tech](mailto:alex@fabrikant.tech), [ryan@fabrikant.tech](mailto:ryan@fabrikant.tech)\n\nThank you!\n\n---\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hyg-blocksfabrik-create-your-own-design-system-without-all-the-work", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2023-02-08T00:11:07.932Z" } ] }, { "id": 27669, "name": "Laminate", "slug": "laminate", "former_names": [ "laminate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a8e80c0706c21a5dbb22cbba1cbd67df40314d5.png", "website": "https://www.uselaminate.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "", "team_size": null, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1670987296, "tags": [ "Fintech", "B2B", "API" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/laminate", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/laminate.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/uselaminate", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a8e80c0706c21a5dbb22cbba1cbd67df40314d5.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": 897, "full_name": "Khurram Aslam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder, Laminate", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/khurramaslam/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_khurramaslam", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4f9732c60d5b6d0e59d6e0a9abf70d9f59491181.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 27670, "name": "Finn", "slug": "finn", "former_names": [ "Move", "Shyp", "Finvest" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9ac74ef17515332715cf66cdf6fe361837c44011.png", "website": "https://getfinn.us/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Finn is your personal wealth manager that knows your money, plans ahead, and gets things done.", "one_liner": "AI Wealth Manager", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Consumer Finance", "launched_at": 1678100153, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Consumer Finance" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finn", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/finn.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getfinnnow/about/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getfinnnow", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9ac74ef17515332715cf66cdf6fe361837c44011.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 312220, "full_name": "Shivam Bharuka", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Builder", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivambharuka/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/shivambharuka", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e688098b7c4e2860b8e5c5a9ec68b4a83f798fc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 84571, "title": "Chief of Staff", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finn/jobs/Nfeg5mX-chief-of-staff", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$85K - $120K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Growth design" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Finvest app will have you invested in US Treasury Bills in minutes | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/31/finvest-app-treasury-bills-fintech/", "date": "Jan 31, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 77435, "title": "Finvest: The easy way to buy US Treasury Bills", "tagline": "Buy Treasury Bills in a few clicks. Lock in up to 5.3% APY and pay no state taxes!", "body": "Hi Fintech nerds! This is Shivam - We are thrilled to introduce Finvest! 🎉\n\n**TL;DR:** Finvest is the easiest way to buy US Treasury Bills. Our mission is to enable everyone to grow their wealth in a stress-free way. You can **earn up to 5.3% APY** through Treasury Bills - an industry-leading rate to replace your savings account. Your interest is secured and locked-in even if the Fed lowers rates and **interest is exempt from state taxes, unlike your savings account**. Say goodbye to clunky platforms like TreasuryDirect and Fidelity 📉\n\nCheck out our website [**here**](https://www.getfinvest.com/) and download the app on the [**App Store**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/finvest-invest-in-us-treasury/id6473599514) or [**Play Store.**](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bondgrid.bondgrid)\n\n[**Check our Product Demo Video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfG73c2iRF4&t=2s)\n\n**Problem**\n\nInterest rates are at an all-time high since 2007. With interest rates at such unprecedented levels, we wanted to take advantage of the environment, but all the major banks gave us basically nothing on our cash. Chase only gives 0.01% interest on cash - it's a scam! With the high interest rates, you basically earn free money on idle cash through US Treasury Bills.\n\nBut there is no easy way to buy Treasury Bills today. You can buy them through the government website (Treasury Direct) - which is an experience from the 1990s or use the legacy brokerages like Fidelity, Charles Schwab. I would personally never use a Fidelity or Charles Schwab account - it’s non-transparent, opaque, and comes with a clunky user experience. Most modern fintech apps also don’t enable you to invest in underlying fixed income assets.\n\n**Why buy Treasury Bills?**\n\n🎉 Interest-rates are at all-time highs since 2007! In fact, the US Treasury Bill outperforms majority of US stocks\n\n🏝️ You pay no state or local taxes on interest earned on Treasury Bills. This is unlike your savings account. If you live in a high-tax state, this can make a HUGE difference!\n\n🔑 Locked-in rate: Your interest rate is locked in even if the Fed drops interest rates. Its a great time to invest in Treasury Bills because rates will drop soon!\n\n💰 Backed by the full faith of the US Government: Treasury Bills are one of the safest assets in the world\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77435&key=user_uploads/312220/8b48aa44-adab-4aa2-b007-b1d9edba8511)\n\n**Solution**\n\nWe built a platform we wish we had - a simple way to invest in the fixed income assets like US Treasuries. We want to democratize access to the $130 Trillion fixed income market, which is 3x the size of the equity market.\n\nWe are launching with support for US Treasury Bills and plan to offer the entire set of fixed income products such as high-yield spend accounts, money-market funds, Treasury Notes and Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Certificates of Deposits, and International Bonds.\n\nWe want your idle cash to work for you, not the other way around. With interest rates this high, everyone should be able to grow their wealth in a stress-free way.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77435&key=user_uploads/312220/0c126c11-2185-4d6e-a41d-f85600d7f479)\n\n**How do you compare to alternatives?**\n\nIt is not even worth comparing with traditional banks such as Chase and Bank of America which offer less than 0.05% interest, make huge profit by investing our hard-earned money in Treasury Bills, and keeping the interest margin for themselves.\n\nHigh-yield cash account such as Robinhood Cash, Wealthfront, or Marcus give up to 5% interest which is still lower than what we would get by directly investing in Treasury Bills and **are not exempt from state taxes**. You can invest in money-market funds and bond ETFs - but these funds are exposed to short-term securities and their interest rate will fall once the Fed starts cutting rates.\n\nWith Treasury Bills, your interest rate is locked in when you hold them to maturity. So let’s say you buy a 12-month Treasury Bill today, your interest rate is locked in even if the Fed cuts rates. Moreover when you invest into US Treasuries directly, the interest you earn is exempt from any state or local taxes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77435&key=user_uploads/312220/eab1a4b7-0508-43e7-9939-fbd9a8075b61)\n\n### \n\n**Is my money going to be locked in?**\n\nYou can sell your Treasury Bills anytime - it is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world. You can withdraw money from your Finvest account anytime at no cost. :)\n\n### \n\n**How much do you charge?**\n\nUnlike other financial institutions, we want to be transparent about our fees. We charge a monthly fee of 0.03% on the average daily market value of your assets. So let’s say the average daily balance of the assets in your account is $1,000, we will charge you 30 cents per month. A single Starbucks latte costs $5 these days. Your net earnings on Finvest are still higher than your earnings on other investment platforms as shown in the table above.\n\n### \n\n**Is my money safe?**\n\nFinvest is a financial technology company, not a bank or an investment advisor. Finvest never directly holds your cash or investments. Your funds, investments, and Treasuries are securely held in custody and cleared through Pershing Advisor Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp.\n\nYour account is also covered by SIPC, which protects securities customers of its members up to $500,000 (including $250,000 for claims for cash). US Treasuries are considered to be one of the safest assets to park your cash since they are backed by the full faith and credit of the US government.\n\n**Ask**\n\n* Download the Finvest app and share your thoughts.\n* Show it to your friends and family!\n* Reach out at [**shivam@getfinvest.com**](mailto:shivam@getfinvest.com) if you would like to say hi!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K8x-finvest-the-easy-way-to-buy-us-treasury-bills", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-01-11T18:00:06.713Z" } ] }, { "id": 27671, "name": "Miracle", "slug": "miracle", "former_names": [ "Miracle Health" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/708f104e98cf6195b515828cadc85b8d47cfc8d4.png", "website": "http://www.miracleml.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Miracle is building the control room for clinical trials. 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Each day of a clinical trial that Miracle’s software can help shave off is worth on average $2M in additional patent-covered revenue opportunity.\n\nHi everyone! My name is Jin, and I’m the Founder & CEO of Miracle. When I was competing for medals as a former athlete on the USA Archery Team, I used to aim my bow and arrow down at a target 70 meters away. Today, I have my eyes set on improving healthcare by bringing science to life and into hands of patients more quickly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69664&key=user_uploads/985589/5efd5b1c-4740-45b5-88b5-9824dd2ce30b)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nBiotech and pharmaceutical companies (“sponsors”) must run clinical trials (phase 1-3) in order to get FDA approval to market their drug. The **average cost to bring a new drug to market is >$2B**, and clinical trials can take up **7-10 years** of a 20-year patent window. Over **80% of clinical trials are delayed** from patient recruitment, but vendors and clinics do not play along nor provide the transparency necessary for sponsors to account for ROI and, ultimately, runway.\n\nToday, Clinical Operations teams within biotech companies spend **15% of their time manually compiling information** from multiple vendor portals and creating visualizations to report up to management and the board on the study progress – all of which take valuable time that they could be using to focus on improving the study operations.\n\nHowever, the bigger problem is that without transparent consolidated reporting, **they have no choice but to throw money at vendors and research sites** in hopes of recruiting patients quickly. They have a hard time optimizing the millions of dollars spent each year in a way that would actually expedite their trial.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nMiracle is a **one-stop shop** for biotech/pharma to fully automate and consolidate their clinical trial reporting needs. We integrate with their vendors and research sites to **eliminate time wasted** on aggregating metrics and compiling reports, **free up their time** to focus on patient recruitment, and make it possible to **optimize ROI on vendors and sites** that are meaningfully speeding up the trial.\n\n### Examples from Miracle\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69664&key=user_uploads/985589/3de6c2ca-0f94-45de-97d7-a781f5228494)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69664&key=user_uploads/985589/03be693f-8201-4534-aee3-050853ee439a)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n* If you’re at a biotech company running a clinical trial, we’d love to chat with you.\n* Any intros to biotech/pharma reps (especially in Clinical Operations) would be greatly appreciated.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I7c-miracle-speeding-up-clinical-trials", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2023-02-24T21:32:28.618Z" } ] }, { "id": 27672, "name": "Blyss", "slug": "blyss", "former_names": [ "Spiral" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a070a3276443496b8e98455f7edba47028991034.png", "website": "https://blyss.dev/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Blyss is an AI model provider built on strong security guarantees. 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There’s a billboard on the 101 explaining how WhatsApp can’t read your messages, millions of consumers use VPNs to secure their everyday browsing, and Apple doesn’t finish a keynote without touting new, frontier-pushing privacy practices. \n\nBut unless you’re at big tech, the most powerful new privacy tools are almost completely inaccessible. Chrome and Edge use homomorphic encryption to scan unsafe URLs and check passwords, but a startup wanting to offer similar features would need a team of PhDs to build them in-house.\n\n## 🛠️ Our solution: cutting-edge privacy, as a service\n\nThe [Blyss SDK](https://blyss.dev/) offers developers a key-value store with unusually strong privacy guarantees. Create S3-like buckets, fill them with data, and then make cryptographically secure retrievals. No entity, not even the Blyss service itself, can learn which items are retrieved from a Blyss bucket.\n\nPrivate retrieval is a simple but powerful new primitive. Using it,\n\n* Password managers can check if you’ve been exposed in a data breach, without learning anything about your passwords\n* Browsers can resolve domain names privately, without revealing every website you visit to DNS servers\n* Code scanners can safely check repos for vulnerabilities, without ever seeing customer codebases or the scan results\n\nPeople are building lots of new web apps with Blyss - try some of the best ones at the [Blyss playground](https://playground.blyss.dev)!\n\n# 🙇 The ask\n\n## 🧑‍💻 Developers:\n\nTry [our SDK](https://blyss.dev/) - it’s a self-serve, cloud storage service (feels just like S3), that transparently handles encryption and privacy for you. And if it isn’t quite clear how to fit privacy into your app, we’ll help you!\n\n## 🕵️ Privacy-conscious users:\n\nTell us about apps/services that feel icky because they collect too much data. It may not be obvious how to fix them, but your gut feelings on privacy are super valuable to us.\n\n## 🕴️ Bonus:\n\nIf you know companies that are trying to make privacy their competitive advantage (password managers, VPNs, etc), introduce us ([founders@blyss.dev](mailto:founders@blyss.dev))!\n\n## 👯 About us\n\nWe met eight years ago on Day 1 of freshman year at Stanford; we’ve been best friends since. Neil was previously at Apple working on ML; Samir worked at Yubico on applied security, and before that did research on homomorphic encryption with Dan Boneh. We [published](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/368) the fastest-ever scheme for private retrieval at a top cryptography conference (Oakland). 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Our open-source foundation, [OpenLLMetry](https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry) and [Hub](https://github.com/traceloop/hub), collects LLM interactions at scale and our our commercial platform is now helping businesses:\n\n* **Train evaluators** to catch hallucinations and detect quality issues.\n* **Experiment** with different models to choose the right one for your use case.\n* **Monitor and Evaluate AI agent performance** in real-time or during CI.\n\nWe help teams **reduce risk, accelerate iteration**, and ensure that their agents behave as expected in production environments.\n\n🎯 **Asks**\n\n⭐ Star us [OpenLLMetry](https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry) and [Hub](https://github.com/traceloop/hub) on GitHub and follow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/traceloopdev)!\n\nIf you're building LLM apps, we'd love to show you how Traceloop can help improve your agent’s performance and reliability. [Reach out](https://calendly.com/d/cq42-93s-kcx) and let’s explore how we can help.\n\nIf you know teams working with AI, please forward this to them!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nco-traceloop-llm-reliability-platform-powered-by-opentelemetry", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2025-05-28T17:04:16.342Z" } ] }, { "id": 27679, "name": "rift", "slug": "rift", "former_names": [ "Archipelago", "Rift" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bad003b9e6b5d5aa5f2dbd605812cd3b2604a327.png", "website": "https://rift.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "rift is B2B lead routing made simple.\r\n\r\nInbound workflows leak revenue at every step. Routing is manual. Calendar links are generic. No-shows go unrecovered. The handoff between form fill and booked meeting is where pipeline quietly dies.\r\n\r\nrift fixes that. One system for the full inbound lifecycle:\r\n> Capture. Custom web forms that collect and qualify leads in real time.\r\n> Route. Instant validation, enrichment, and assignment to the right rep.\r\n> Schedule. Top prospects get the best calendar slots, matched to real availability.\r\n> Recover. No-shows and ghosted leads are automatically re-engaged.\r\n\r\nrift is built by growth engineers who ran inbound at high-velocity B2B companies and got tired of watching pipeline fall through the cracks.\r\n\r\nrift is the system we wished existed — opinionated, fast, and wired into the tools sales teams already use: HubSpot, Apollo, Google Calendar, Gmail, Slack, Zoom, Stripe, and more.\r\n\r\nBacked by Y Combinator (W23) and Sequoia Capital.\r\n\r\nnever lose an inbound lead → rift.com\r\n", "one_liner": "B2B lead routing made simple", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1676577207, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rift", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/rift.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rifthq/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getrift_com", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bad003b9e6b5d5aa5f2dbd605812cd3b2604a327.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/9eb35bd1d538dfff288ea61043eb5551eea422b8.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 179324, "full_name": "Fil Twarowski", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ rift (W23) || first biz hire @ Pulley (W20) || CEO @ Point API (W18) | MIT '17", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-twarowski-00996a54/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/FilipTwarowski", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c7ef389c8e8e973418986ca44596a2fbca754f0f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1157002, "full_name": "Edvard Eriksson", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Product and Growth at Rift. Formerly Growth at Samsara and Pulley.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edvarderiksson/", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f4290c990622e9f7cde56a4b0f01ec27d0b4a65f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Announcing our seed", "url": "https://www.rift.com/announcing-our-seed", "date": "Jul 24, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69370, "title": "📮 rift — Close more deals, without landing in spam", "tagline": "Send more cold emails that actually get replies. rift combines email automation and deliverability in a single product.", "body": "Hi YC!\n\nFil and Eddie here - we’re co-founders at [rift](http://getrift.com) (W23). We met while working on the growth team at Pulley (W20). At Pulley, we learned that setting up your cold outbound email channel is really hard, rift is our attempt at making it easier!\n\n### ❌ **The problem**\n\nYou’re a B2B business, and you’ve been sending sales emails to your prospective customers. Here are some of your stats:\n\n* You’re sending **100+ emails/day.**\n* Open rates are below **50%.**\n* Reply rates are around **1%**.\n* Bounce rates are upwards of **\\~5%**.\n\nIf you don’t change anything, your next campaign will likely perform worse. Over time, open and reply rates will drop, and your bounce rate will go up.\n\nEventually, your domain reputation will be low enough that you won’t be able to contact your leads or existing customers. This is a tough situation to get out of, and it might take months to recover your domain reputation.\n\n### 🎉 **The solution**\n\nYou need to do two things to effectively sell over email:\n\n1. Set up your cold email infrastructure correctly.\n2. Send relevant sales emails to the right people.\n\n**rift does it all for you in a single platform**. You don’t need to be an expert in email deliverability or cold outbound.\n\nOur product implements the email infrastructure for you, so you can focus only on growing your business. We will work with you 1:1 on writing sales emails that actually get replies.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69370&key=user_uploads/179324/3c9d9e74-f0c5-4e41-945f-42dec2000604)\n\n### **🏎️ How do I get started?**\n\nSchedule a call with Fil and Eddie here: . We’ll help you fix your outbound email, whether rift is a good fit for you or not.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2s-rift-close-more-deals-without-landing-in-spam", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2023-02-16T20:16:58.897Z" } ] }, { "id": 27680, "name": "Trigger.dev", "slug": "trigger-dev", "former_names": [ "API Hero" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/737382941e8e44eb83d28fa6b26854131dcdfcf9.png", "website": "https://trigger.dev", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling.\r\n\r\nPreviously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.", "one_liner": "Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows", "team_size": 17, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1665673307, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Open Source", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/trigger-dev", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/trigger-dev.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/triggerdotdev/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/triggerdotdev", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/737382941e8e44eb83d28fa6b26854131dcdfcf9.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": 1093116, "full_name": "Matt Aitken", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Matt Aitken is the CEO of Trigger.dev, a developer tool that makes creating automation workflows a great experience in your codebase. He's a programmer who previously created two iPad apps that went on to win Apple's iPad app of the year award. He's worked on several startups including building JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattaitken1985/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mattaitken", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ba11771aa265e16fe4cefb3896574af8b7012897.jpg" }, { "user_id": 969974, "full_name": "Eric Allam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Eric Allam is the founder and CTO of Trigger.dev, the developer-first open source Zapier Alternative. He's previously co-founded CodeSchool.com and works on JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-allam/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maverickdotdev", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/790c4ff0a80fb39e496af3c03dfabb5d1f221ff5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1102924, "full_name": "Dan Patel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Trigger.dev; the open source background jobs platform, and JSON Hero.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkpatel/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DKP__", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/53e3239d7b75fe2bbbe7a483cd4a24288faece5d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1093162, "full_name": "James Ritchie", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm co-founder and frontend engineer of Trigger.dev, a developer tool for creating background jobs in code. Previously I was a product lead at a number of VC backed startups. I also built JSON Hero, another popular OSS developer tool.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesritchiecv/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/samejr", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/560ddc0914b111f0013472ce8d4aa60c4ae2d123.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7siiS-V5A", "date": "May 09, 2026" }, { "title": "Trigger.dev raises $3M", "url": "https://trigger.dev/blog/3m-dollar-seed-round", "date": "Aug 25, 2023" }, { "title": "Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative | Hacker News", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686", "date": "Feb 01, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69600, "title": "✨ Trigger.dev: The developer-first open source Zapier alternative", "tagline": "We make it easy for developers to create powerful workflows directly in code.", "body": "**🔥 TL;DR** [**Trigger.dev**](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) **is an** [**open source**](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev) **platform that enables developers to effortlessly create event-driven background tasks directly in their codebase – for example, when a Stripe payment fails, open a Linear issue and send an email to yourself, or easily create a drip email campaign. Write workflows using our SDK, and view a detailed history of all runs in our web app.**\n\nHey! We’re Matt, Dan, James and Eric, the founders of [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc).\n\n### **👀 The Problem:**\n\n* As developers, we find that current workflow / automation tools like Zapier, n8n or Make are great for simple tasks, but not suitable for more advanced use cases.\n* Developers often end up creating important workflows in no/low-code tools on behalf of non-technical team members.\n* Some of these tools let you drop down into code, but it’s not a great developer experience. Developers prefer using their own IDEs with version control and access to the best tools like GitHub Copilot.\n* Connecting together APIs in code is painful – you need to deal with authentication, lots of SDKs and docs for each API you use.\n* Some workflows need to use a database query or access very private data. That data shouldn’t leave your servers and you shouldn’t need to give database access to a third-party.\n\n### **✨ Our solution:**\n\n[Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) makes it easy to create workflows in response to API events (webhooks), on a schedule or on-demand by sending your own events.\n\nAll of this lives in code alongside everything else in your codebase. We handle API authentication with external services, allowing more time to be spent writing functional code, rather than dealing with credentials. We also support long delays of up to a year that survive your server restarting.\n\nAll workflow runs can be viewed in our web app providing great observability for debugging.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69600&key=user_uploads/1102924/b7793d79-dfc0-4c9f-b6d1-f4535a24f5ad)\n\n### **🛠 How it works**\n\n* Install the [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) SDK to get access to our custom packages and functions\n* Trigger workflows from webhooks, custom events or schedules (CRON)\n* Use our growing library of API integrations for the best experience. We will support all of the most popular services, including Slack, Airtable, Linear, Stripe, GitHub, SendGrid, Notion and many more. We’re adding more each week with the help of our open source contributors.\n* Support for Fetch and subscribing to generic webhooks for any service.\n* Add delays of up to 1 year. Workflows will resume where they left off, even if your server has gone down.\n* Observe every workflow run in the app (great for debugging).\n* Your private data is kept private – you have control over where your data is sent.\n* Our open source MIT license lets anyone self-host the platform.\n\nIt’s clear from our [launch](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686) and customers that developers want to be creating workflows in code rather than in an unfamiliar UI. We expect this trend to continue, especially with the rise of AI code writing assistants such as Copilot and Ghostwriter. Leveraging these tools will only improve [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) as time goes on, and make the creation of complex workflows more and more accessible to all developers.\n\n### **🙏 Our asks**\n\nIf you have a workflow you want to build and would like to try our platform - we would love to hear from you!\n\n* Try us out for free at [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc).\n* Book a 15 min workflow session [here.](https://cal.com/team/triggerdotdev/15-mins-about-your-automation)\n* Want to migrate an existing workflow? [Let us know.](https://cal.com/team/triggerdotdev/migration-consultation)\n\n### **⭐️ Our YC deal:**\n\n* **YC W23:** for 12 months, get unlimited workflows with 100k runs per month for free.\n* **YC Alumni:** for 6 months, get unlimited workflows with 50k runs per month for free.\n\nIf you have any questions or want to access the YC deal, please email me at [matt@trigger.dev](mailto:matt@trigger.dev).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6a-trigger-dev-the-developer-first-open-source-zapier-alternative", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2023-02-23T15:51:43.990Z" }, { "id": 67467, "title": "🦸 API Hero: make every API you use faster and more reliable with one line of code", "tagline": "An open source API proxy that makes debugging and caching APIs trivial", "body": "**_🔥 TL;DR_** _API Hero routes API traffic you select through our edge proxy to provide caching and full visibility of requests and responses, speeding up your APIs and making debugging super easy. Check it out for free_ [_here_](https://apihero.run/)_, or schedule a call with us to help you get started_ [_here_](https://cal.com/team/apihero/request-a-demo)_._\n\nHi everyone 👋\n\nWe’re James, Matt, Eric & Dan and we’re building [API Hero](https://apihero.run). We’re on a mission to make using and working with APIs **super easy.**\n\n### **🤦 The problem**\n\nThere are two major headaches we’re tackling:\n\n* Slow APIs dramatically reduce the speed of your site, and adding caching to solve this can be hard\n* Debugging API issues is painful. You want full visibility of requests and responses so you can figure out what’s going on, during development and production (although we make production logging optional)\n\n### **🦸 With API Hero, you can:**\n\n* Monitor all your API traffic (or just the parts you want)\n* Speed up every API you use by enabling caching (this can also save you money!)\n* Get alerts when issues arise\n* Improve reliability with automatic retries\n\n### **🛠 How does API Hero work?**\n\n* Login to [API Hero](https://apihero.run/) (it’s free!)\n* Follow the simple onboarding steps – we’ll automatically populate your dashboard as soon as a request is sent\n* Configure the settings to proxy only the traffic you want\n* Sit back and watch those logs come in!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67467&key=user_uploads/1093162/90670a20-df63-4740-af17-46c35e850deb)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67467&key=user_uploads/1093162/ed99841e-bcd2-411c-94ac-6298c3a28d78)\n\n### **💬 We’d love to chat to:**\n\n* Anyone suffering from API issues\n* Any company working with 3rd-party APIs or building APIs\n* Anyone who’s checked out API Hero and has feedback", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HYB-api-hero-make-every-api-you-use-faster-and-more-reliable-with-one-line-of-code", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2022-11-22T17:09:53.152Z" } ] }, { "id": 27683, "name": "Versori", "slug": "versori", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/72ebeb10f18857a66bed8b775cde8113255925d4.png", "website": "https://www.versori.com/", "all_locations": "Manchester, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Orchestrate custom integrations, workflows & agents in hours, not months. Take control of your integration strategy and breathe easy with maintenance on AI Autopilot.\r\n\r\nFor Product Teams: Build better integration libraries. Build a feature-rich integration library, for your users to enjoy. Offer out-of-the-box integrations that work for you and your customers. Embedded IPaaS typically locks you into connector or endpoint limitations. Versori gives you to tools for limitless customisation. Proactive, self healing agents, scan your connected apps for endpoint or schema changes. You get alerted, Versori AI fixes the change. Embed Versori built integrations into your app with the Versori SDK. Flexible to your development approach with advanced user management.\r\n\r\nFor Operations Teams: Get your internal systems speaking the same language. Deliver integrations for new software in days, not months—so you can start unlocking value immediately. Versori’s speed to value reduces typical deployment fees by half—or more. Low code for speed. Full code for control. No more limits from inflexible integration platforms.\r\n\r\nFor GTM & Sales Teams: Say yes to any prospect's integration request. Stop bouncing between teams to get integrations built. With Versori, Sales can go straight to yes. No more escalations or delays. 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", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean1brown/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/70365dc4555fdca3d8fb6a8d8dadd0d42615f3ad.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1164100, "full_name": "Dan Jones", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dan is a CTO/Founder who loves getting stuck into code and is an advocate for all things cloud-native. With experiences in both public and private sectors, spanning industries such as Finance, Telecoms, Healthcare and Commerce, Dan has grounded himself as a versatile software engineer capable of solving complex problems in simple ways.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-jones25217", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/97873b83b1e5f25d6c4c67f81c216b9f2ff7dbbd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Manchester start up Versori wins $500k Y-Combinator funding Prolific North", "url": "https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/manchester-news/2022/10/manchester-start-versori-wins-500k-y-combinator-funding", "date": "Oct 18, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 91368, "title": "Versori: Integration & workflow automation magic", "tagline": "Go live with integrations built with Versori AI in hours, not weeks", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91368&key=user_uploads/1164100/21b1f014-0560-4373-9b82-52041e7d69b8)\n\nHey YC 👋\n\nWe just rebuilt the way integrations are done.\n\nLike many of you, we’ve wrestled with the limitations of traditional iPaaS tools: rigid templates, slow development cycles, poor customisation, and too many disconnected tools. \n\nSo we decided to take a different approach.\n\n**Versori AI** is a generative AI-powered integration and automation platform that enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage custom integrations and workflows with unprecedented speed and ease. \n\nWith Versori AI, businesses can connect APIs, automate processes, and deploy powerful integrations, across legacy systems, modern SaaS tools, and everything in between. Without the heavy lift of coding or cobbling together multiple platforms.\n\n[Here’s an intro to the new platform.](https://youtu.be/BF5_oVSQnKQ?feature=shared)\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **Prompt to Build:** Describe your integration needs in natural language, and Versori's AI will generate a complete workflow, including connector creation, data mapping, and deployment. ​[versori.com](http://versori.com)\n* **Flexible Modes**: Use a visual low-code editor, go full-code, or let the AI take the wheel. You’re in control.\n* **Transformer Mapping**: Powered by Agentic AI, we handle complex data transformations and mappings instantly, no manual field-matching required.\n* **Enterprise-Grade Security:** Benefit from SOC 2 compliance, data encryption, isolated environments per organization, and 24/7 monitoring and support.\n\nWe’re here to redefine what’s possible with integrations. Faster builds, deeper automation, more control, with the power of generative AI behind every step.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nlg-versori-integration-workflow-automation-magic", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-06-18T04:47:50.968Z" }, { "id": 73415, "title": "Versori Sparkboard: AI Integrations", "tagline": "Create integrations and workflows with just a prompt", "body": "[**Sparkboard**](https://sparkboard.versori.io/) is a prompt-based data integration and workflow automation tool. Just tell Sparkboard what you want to connect and automate and it will use generative AI agents to create a task list and get to work with those tasks.\\\n\\\n**Sparkboard will:**\\\n\\- Create a task list for agents to fulfill \\\n\\- Scrape the internet for the appropriate documentation\\\n\\- Build an OpenAPI spec with the correct auth methods and operations\\\n\\- Use [Versori](https://www.versori.com/) transformation tools to transform and map data\\\n\\- Offer full editing of the workflow with additional tools\\\n\\- Review your finished integration and publish!\n\n[Super Cool Marketing Video (please watch)](https://youtu.be/oIPXrf2088c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73415&key=user_uploads/920068/b7876f5d-4802-444f-b1db-56d8e631c262)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73415&key=user_uploads/920068/59d61e64-5a49-4597-8446-225a5bcde39a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73415&key=user_uploads/920068/1289df89-e45c-4da3-a7c3-8cccdfc29470)\n\n**Try it for free:** [**https://sparkboard.versori.io/**](https://sparkboard.versori.io/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J67-versori-sparkboard-ai-integrations", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2023-07-25T16:54:38.432Z" }, { "id": 69359, "title": "Versori - System & data integration platform", "tagline": "We help enterprises connect any internal system to any external system without hiring expensive consultants.", "body": "**Hello YC!** 👋\n\nAwesome to be here and proud to be part of this fantastic community.\n\nWe’re Sean and Dan, the Founders of [**Versori.**](https://www.versori.com/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69359&key=user_uploads/920068/f5ba23d6-ef01-4adc-ac46-181a9a2236d9)\n\n### **The Problem 😫**\n\nThe enterprise integration market is controlled by traditional system integrators (Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini etc), who charge for professional services and manual development.\n\nTime, money and resource is wasted on manual system and data integrations. Complex iPaaS solutions aren’t easy, and easy iPaaS solutions aren’t complex.\n\n### **The Solution 😊**\n\nVersori “Switchboard” is a no-code system and data integration platform, primarily for major retailers that lets them connect any internal system to any external system without hiring expensive consultants. \n\nFor example, Sephora used Versori to build an integration that imports 3rd party brand products into its own ecommerce site in a few clicks. Reducing integration time from 9 weeks to 2 hours.\n\n[Here’s an intro video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7T1z3nxoD0&t=3s&ab_channel=Versori)\n\n**Create data sources (connectors) in seconds, not weeks.**\n\n* Drag and drop or paste the URL to your API specs\n* Switchboard strips and stores the auth and server types, end points, operations and schemas.\n\n**Build complex and advanced integrations with no-code tools**\n\n* **_Transformer_** provides functionality to take data from multiple sources into a format suited for your target, with all the features you’d expect such as filtering, converting and mapping.\n* **_Selectors_** gives you access to any data from all previous steps in your board, allowing you to perform complex tasks such as merging or flow-control.\n* **_Data Mapping_** allows you to define mappings where some value in one system is equivalent to another value in another system. These can be defined up front in our dashboard, or interactively updated within your board.\n* **_Filter_** allows you to stop or continue execution of a workflow based on a set of conditions. These conditions can be as simple or as complex as your data requires, and can be combined with Selectors to compare data from multiple workflow steps.\n* **_Delay_** halts execution of the current message until a predefined duration has elapsed.\n* **_Batch_** aggregates all data received over a specified batch period before releasing the result to subsequent steps and is useful when integrating real-time APIs with bulk import/export APIs.\n* **_Trigger_** allows a board to be triggered manually or via a schedule instead of via an external API call\n* **_CSV Processing_** allows you to truncate, join and deduplicate CSV files\n* **_Splitter_** takes in an array and outputs multiple new messages for each element in that array\n\n**Deploy integrations and workflows your way**\n\n* Public Cloud\n* Private Cloud\n* On Prem\n* SDK\n\n### **We can integrate your systems, that Zapier can’t.. ⚡️**\n\nYou need the break free from the static guard rails of existing integration platforms!\n\nIf your company has bespoke system or data integration requirements, that can’t be done with an existing IPaaS provider, please reach out to us at [sales@versori.io](mailto:sales@versori.io). 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Today, we're launching **Creator Discovery**, a new way for brands and agencies to find the right influencers by analyzing what's actually inside their content.\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\n* 🎯 Describe your ideal creator in plain English – Syncly finds them by analyzing video content, not just profiles\n* 🔍 Search by visual aesthetic, storytelling style, spoken mentions, and more - things no filter can capture\n* 🚀 Discover organic brand advocates who mention you without tags or hashtags\n* ⚡ What used to take hours of manual scrolling now takes seconds\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/b5ed5c9d-8ded-464c-b93f-ff4ce144df33)\n\n**Ask:** If you run influencer marketing at a brand or agency,[ try it free](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) and tell us what you think. We'd love your feedback.\n\n**Offer:** Book a demo through Launch YC, and we'll include a personalized social listening audit alongside your creator discovery walkthrough →[ Book a demo](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\n \n\n---\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nInfluencer marketing is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a core growth channel. But finding the right creators is still painfully manual.\n\nThe current process looks like this: you open a platform, set some filters (follower count, category, location), scroll through hundreds of profiles, and then manually watch their content to figure out if they're actually a good fit. Does their aesthetic match our brand? Have they worked with competitors? Do they tell stories in a way that resonates with our audience?\n\nThese are the questions that matter most, and none of them show up in metadata.\n\nTraditional discovery tools search profiles. They can tell you a creator has 50K followers in the beauty category. But they can't tell you whether that creator films in a warm, cozy bedroom aesthetic or a bright studio setup. They can't tell you that a creator mentioned your competitor's product in a GRWM last Tuesday, without a hashtag or tag.\n\n---\n\n# **🛠 How Syncly Solves This**\n\nSyncly Social analyzes what's actually happening inside the content – every frame, every word, every sound. Instead of filtering by metadata, you describe what you're looking for in natural language, and Syncly finds creators whose content matches.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/5f564bfa-9007-4d33-8a16-a08eef2493ae)\n\n### Here's what you can search by:\n\n* **Visual mood & aesthetic** - \"clean minimal apartment with natural lighting\"\n* **Creator persona** - \"fitness-forward creator, athletic build, gym setting\"\n* **Content format** - \"GRWM morning routine\" or \"before-and-after transformation\"\n* **Spoken mentions** - find creators who organically mention your brand in their videos, no tags required\n* **Storytelling style** - conversational, educational, high-energy, or laid-back\n* This means you can find creators that genuinely fit your brand's identity - not just creators who check the right demographic boxes. And because you never have to watch a single video yourself, it scales.\n\n---\n\n# **🏢 Who This Is For**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/38e3c357-5fb2-4172-97e7-85fc6eba9532)\n\n**Brand marketers:** Find creators who match your brand's specific criteria - visual style, tone, values - without spending hours on manual research. Just describe what you want and get results.\n\n**Agencies:** Turn vague client briefs into concrete creator shortlists. Discover rising creators early and deliver them to clients before anyone else does.\n\n---\n\n# **🚀 Try It Now**\n\nCreator Discovery on Syncly Social is live and free to try:\n\n👉[ **Start your free trial**](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\nIf you want a personalized walkthrough or want to see how it works for your specific use case:\n\n👉[ **Book a demo**](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) - book a demo through this link, and we'll include a social listening audit + personalized creator discovery session.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pp2-syncly-social-find-creators-by-what-s-actually-in-their-content", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-01T05:33:08.094Z" }, { "id": 93013, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening for video", "tagline": "The first social listening platform for the video era", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\nSyncly Social - AI Social listening platform for Videos like TikTok, Reels, etc. We’re trusted by leading brands, such as Brita, Logitech, adn Laura Geller.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/300cd2ad-0740-4e0f-8d9b-4beb5f2a7ce5)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening 1.0:** Limited to text-based social media contents.\n\n* In today’s world where video dominates, this is no longer valid.\n* Unable to analyze what’s being said or shown, or gather demographic intelligence on creators.\n\n# **What you can do with Syncly social (Social listening 2.0)**\n\n* **Competitive Analysis**: Decode the video strategies driving your rivals' success. Outsmart your competition with data-driven social campaigns.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/10cf6f9b-6296-4899-b365-205da5b00456)\n\n* **Brand Perception**: Measure how well your brand is landing with your customers. Instantly identify the gap between your intention and customer perception, then close it with data-driven, timely action.\n* **Influencer Discovery**: Uncover and partner with influencers who truly resonate with your brand. Amplify your brand's reach with authentic voices that drive engagement.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/d1db78fb-a26a-420c-9555-eed8191dda65)\n\n\n# **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how leading brands achieves competitive advantage through Syncly social, book a demo [HERE](https://syncly.app/demo-social-yc).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCD-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-for-video", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-08-14T23:52:42.170Z" }, { "id": 87956, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening platform for modern brands", "tagline": "970K+ Mentions, 10+ Social Platforms, 1 Breakthrough Solution.", "body": "Introducing [Syncly Social](https://www.syncly.app) - AI social listening platform for modern brands. We aggregate reviews, posts, and conversations from socials and e-commerce (Amazon, Instagram, Reddit, retailer-specific reviews, and many more) for market, competitor, and consumer intelligence, and provide actionable insights, faster and more accurate than ever.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/f0894f43-dfd0-4b93-bb57-828ad0328971)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening platform 1.0**\n\n**High volume of Noise data:** Legacy platforms rely on simple keyword queries to gather data. The problems are:\n\n* **Time-consuming**: Takes up to a couple of months to setup, repetitively.\n* **Less than 10% data is relevant:** For example, product names or sub-brands with generic or common imagery (like Discover and United) can lead to irrelevant content being collected.\n\n**Lack of Granularity in Analysis:**\n\n* Let’s say \"picture quality\" may be frequently mentioned for mobile brand. So what? To translate that into specific product or marketing insights, the insight should be more granular, but what you can get from legacy platform is the summary, at most, like “_People generally praise the picture quality on Samsung phones, particularly on their high-end models.”_\n\n**One-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis:** Traditional sentiment analysis often fails to capture the full context, especially when posts contain mixed emotions.\n\n* For example, a review that says, \"It’s not as bright as {product name}\" might seem negative, but since {product name} is a brand’s another product, it isn’t necessarily a critique of the brand as a whole. This inaccuracy complicates efforts to identify precise product improvements or refine marketing messages.\n\n# **Why we need Social listening platform 2.0 - Syncly social**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/daffa167-4b77-47ae-8b0a-edf4809e5be5)\n\n* **⚡️ 90% Faster Setup:** Forget tedious keyword lists of what to include and exclude that often take up to a couple of months🤯. Syncly's AI automatically filters irrelevant chatter.\n* **🎯 Hyper-Targeted Insights:** Brands went _beyond_ basic sentiment to identify specific product issues and opportunities.\n* **😊 Nuanced Sentiment Analysis:** Syncly pinpointed _exactly_ which features customers loved (or hated) with aspect-based analysis.\n* **🌎 Language Agnostic Brand Tracking:** Global consumer brands, like LG Electronics, could track brand mentions in different languages without needing to translate keywords.\n\n# **Impact**\n\nInsights that once took **months** now surface in just **days**, enabling your brand to refine products, optimize marketing, and stay ahead of competitors, fast.\n\n# **Learn more use case**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how Modern brands achieve competitive advantage through social listening, [schedule a demo](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with me.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mse-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-platform-for-modern-brands", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-02-24T18:23:58.940Z" }, { "id": 81714, "title": "Syncly - Get product insights from everyday customer communication for fast-growing companies", "tagline": "Bringing AI to help CX and Product team to understand customer issues before they churn.", "body": "[Syncly](https://syncly.app/) is an AI customer feedback analysis platform. I know you are running a customer-driven product. But do you understand in detail what’s driving negative customer sentiment and what needs to be done to elevate the experience?\n\nHere’s how Syncly helps top B2C companies like:\n\n* **Logitech, Boundless, Gamma,** and many others\n\nand fast-growing YC companies like:\n\n* **Speak**, **Ello**, **Navattic**, and many others.\n\n# **The Challenge: Do you know what’s driving negative customer experiences on your product and how to address them?**\n\nIt’s difficult to get visibility into the user sentiment trends and what can be done to elevate customer experience from a product perspective. Even when you get it, it’s not actionable. Why?\n\n* **Product insight is not granular enough:** unable to pinpoint customers/customer groups at risk and understand the details of their issues on your product.\n* **It takes loads of manual effort** to read and analyze customer feedback data. By the time you have it, it’s too late. Tagging provides stats but no story.\n* **Scattered data sources:** Difficult to aggregate various customer touch points (i.e., Zendesk, Intercom, Front, [gong.io](http://gong.io), Slack, Discord, reviews, and many others)\n\n# **The Solution: Syncly AI surfaces trending/urgent product** **issues automatically, based on all your customer touch points. Syncly does it with minimal effort from users and provides a granular level of insight on a customer level.**\n\n* With [**Smart Insight**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoTigJI9F4), identify the most critical product gaps and issues that hinder customer experience without having to read all customer interactions across multiple channels (Zendesk, Intercom, gong.io, Front, Slack, Discord, reviews, and others).\n* Ask **Syncly AI** to pinpoint the positive and negative sentiment drivers and get instant action items to elevate the customer experience.\n* With **Customers AI**, monitor sentiment trends by account and individual user, to proactively engage with customers with underlying issues before they become at-risk.\n\n ![](https://framerusercontent.com/images/uTiFzlfEY2imgMwq5c8r1XDKCrE.png)\n\n\n### Learn more use cases\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases and getting a free trial:\n\n* [**schedule a call**](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with Co-Founders at Syncly!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LFy-syncly-get-product-insights-from-everyday-customer-communication-for-fast-growing-companies", "votes": 174, "created_at": "2024-06-24T19:17:19.745Z" }, { "id": 69973, "title": "🚀 Syncly — AI customer feedback analytics that drives retention", "tagline": "Syncly enables Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity. 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Proud to announce the world’s only multi-agent platform in production at Enterprises that lets Agents collaborate across Enterprise systems like GSuite, Salesforce, and Slack while respecting the permissions of the end users across those tools. We’re in production at amazing Enterprise customers like Mongodb, Wise, Checkr, Lattice, and even at traditional Enterprises like Comcast, the US Federal Government (HHS), and the IFRS — and we’re now excited to bring it to the world.\\\n\n\n## The Problem\n\nAI can understand enterprise data and provide marginal productivity gains, but we know that “Chat with your data” doesn’t scale—especially in complex operations.\n\nGetting users to adopt AI for simple tasks, like improving email wording or summarizing meeting notes, is easy. But these small wins don’t fundamentally change how an organization operates. It’s no surprise that 74% of companies still struggle to achieve tangible value from generative AI in 2025; most companies remain stuck in the proof-of-concept phase.\n\nAI is not truly transformative at the enterprise level, and we at Credal want to change that. To solve for this problem, AI agents must integrate into enterprise operations—communicating with internal systems, other agents, and subject matter experts while ensuring security, governance, visibility, and ultimately real business impact.\n\n## 💡 Our Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88742&key=user_uploads/89898/75296e1a-0363-4079-9f82-0c5a9d786d1b)\n\nCredal enables enterprises to deploy secure, specialized AI Agents that collaborate to handle complex, multi-step workflows.\n\nEach Agent is designed by subject matter experts—your employees—for specific tasks like:\n\n* Researching a prospect and personalizing outreach\n* Conducting KYC and AML checks\n* Answering HR and IT helpdesk questions\n* Completing security and compliance questionnaires\n* Analyzing trends in revenue and churn and suggesting the next best action for Customer Success Managers or Account Executives.\n\nWhen a user or API call invokes an Agent, it can autonomously call other Agents for assistance, all while enforcing enterprise-grade governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) policies. This composability moves beyond single-agent AI, allowing for scalable, controllable, and secure AI adoption across complex workflows in the enterprise. AI can at last operate seamlessly across your systems while respecting permission boundaries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88742&key=user_uploads/89898/2c33a821-eabf-402e-a866-a552b5ca4590)\n\n## How it Works\n\nEvery user request follows this pattern:\n\nThe request gets routed to a primary agent which decides whether to call any actions or other Agents based on:\n\n* The instructions you provide in the background prompt and feedback from previous interactions\n* The provided tools and agents, with their descriptions and associated RBAC settings\n* Access Controlled Data from Enterprise systems like Salesforce, Confluence, GDrive, Slack and Sharepoint.\n\nThe primary agent then:\n\n* Notifies the user of any actions it is calling\n* Parallelizes the submission of all relevant actions\n* Polls for responses\n* Notifies the user when responses come back\n\n## ⚙️ Use Cases\n\n✅ End-to-end Know Your Business (KYB) workflows:\n\n* Validate document authenticity\n* Cross-check business addresses\n* Detect politically exposed persons (PEPs)\n* Ensure company services comply with internal policies\n\n✅ Go-To-Market Automation\n\n* Deep research on prospects and target accounts\n* Identify intent signals and the right buyers\n* Automate personalized outreach and seller training\n* Suggest Next Best Actions and upsell opportunities\n\n✅ Security Questionnaires\n\n* Automate security and compliance questionnaire responses no matter what tool you have to upload your response in\n* Ensure regulatory alignment with minimal manual effort\n\n✅ HR & Performance Management\n\n* Draft and refine self-reviews\n* Validate manager reviews for consistency and bias\n\n…and much more, including vendor contract analysis, government agency rule-making, corporate standards setting, customer support automation, training across teams, and general-purpose “ask-anything” AI assistants.\n\n## Next Steps\n\nWith Credal, enterprises can finally operationalize AI at scale—securely, efficiently, and with full control.\n\nReady to power your business with intelligent AI Agents?\n\nLet’s talk. Contact us at [sales@credal.ai](mailto:sales@credal.ai) or book a demo at [credal.ai/get-started](http://credal.ai/get-started).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N5K-credal-ai-the-security-first-multi-agent-collaboration-platform", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2025-03-18T14:24:46.451Z" }, { "id": 70320, "title": "Credal: Control how AI uses your data", "tagline": "Credal protects your organization's sensitive data from AI that can surface it externally. Think Okta for AI.", "body": "Hi there! Ravin and Jack here from [Credal.ai](http://Credal.ai)\n\n**TL;dr:**\n\nCredal protects your sensitive data across all AI apps. We give everyone at your company access to the latest AI models via our secure Chat UI, integrated with your data, whilst management gets granular control over what data is shared with each provider.\n\n⚔️ **The Problem:**\n\nCEOs of every company from Microsoft to our YC W23 batchmates understand the massive productivity gains available through AI applications. But huge concerns exist over adopting these tools at the enterprise: what’s happening to our data once we hand it over to AI providers? The landscape of providers is already large and fast-growing. Many have terms of service that permit training general models on your data. As the usage of these tools explode, businesses risk losing control over what data has been shared with whom, when, and what technical and contractual safeguards are in place to protect that data from inadvertently ending up in the hands of competitors via an AI model’s training dataset.\n\n⚡ **Solution:**\n\nCredal is the gatekeeper for your data, ensuring that all data sent to AI is protected by 3 layers of security:\n\n1. Credal identifies sensitive data using our (self-hosted) detection models alongside your existing data classifications and lets you automatically redact, anonymize, block, or simply warn the user, if sensitive data is about to be sent over to a provider.\n2. For the major endpoints like chat or text completion, Credal allows you to seamlessly switch between providers: letting you take advantage of the latest models, or highest privacy models as they are released, without locking your company into a single vendor.\n3. Finally, Credal protects you with standardized Terms of Service and MSAs that ensure you have total control over your data. Credal links your audit logs to the specific provider associated with each request, allowing full transparency into both the technical and contractual safeguards that govern how any cut of data could be used.\n\nOur secure chat UI can automatically route your request to the best AI for your question (or you can specify manually)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70320&key=user_uploads/1038471/53a41cac-1a2c-4bc6-9441-cc87ed0ef0d3)\n\nWith granular audit logs on each request, per data source, including what was redacted:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70320&key=user_uploads/1038471/fb382a2e-54de-47ec-b03e-93cc332981a9)\n\n**Who needs this, and why did we build it?**\n\nOur current customers are security-conscious companies trying to use AI to get an edge in their operations and product. We noticed early on building AI applications that customers were really nervous about handing data over to AI models they didn’t fully understand. Many enterprises were turning ChatGPT off entirely, or banning its use on anything remotely sensitive. Today, our customers use Credal for a range of problems, from basic things like using ChatGPT for summarizing meeting notes, to using complicated combinations of AI (like Claude + GPT 4) to automatically structure company documents. Either way, Credal is giving our customers the confidence they need to use cutting-edge AI on sensitive data.\n\n**Meet the Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70320&key=user_uploads/1038471/77898790-6a46-477b-8832-df0f5cecd528)\n\nJack and I met in 2019 when we co-led Palantir’s engagement with a multibillion-dollar Life Sciences conglomerate, steering it from an initial pilot to an enterprise deal so critical to their business that Palantir going bankrupt was mentioned as a risk on the customer’s S1 filing.\\\n\\\nI started my career at Google, and since then have been both in the trenches and leading teams at THG at Series A, GoCardless at Series A, and Palantir. Jack started his career at H1 (at pre-seed), before joining Palantir. We’ve both led highly acclaimed teams at Palantir: _Atlantic_ Magazine called the output of work I led for 18 months: “America’s most reliable pandemic data”\\[1\\] and the _Washington Post_ said of a team Jack led for a year: “With these systems aiding brave Ukrainian troops, the Russians probably cannot win”\\[2\\]\n\nWe’re bringing a wealth of expertise in handling the most sensitive data imaginable, into what we see as one of the central problems of our time: building trust in AI.\n\n**Interested?**\n\nIf you are an enterprise with sensitive data, but you want to be able to use that data with AI  - [grab time to chat with us](https://calendly.com/jack-fischer-credal/credal-ai-intro). Enterprises that sign up before Demo Day (April 5th) are eligible for 50% off!\\\n\\\nFootnotes:\n\n\\[1\\] (The article discusses whether the Biden administration would keep paying for the ‘vital system’ that HHS had procured under Trump. 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[**Start building today**](https://www.magicpatterns.com/)**.**\n\n### DEMO VIDEO\n\n[Demo Video - Generate UI](https://youtu.be/_LRBQjy4Z1g)\n\n### PROBLEM\n\n1. Getting design inspiration is hard — most people today use websites like Mobbin and Dribbble, but these tools don’t know what your specific product looks like. You need inspiration that actually looks like what you’re building.\n2. AI code assistants are not visual, but building UI is.\n\n### SOLUTION\n\nStart prompting in our visual editor. You can choose a publicly available design system for free.\n\nWe use AI models to help non-technical founders, engineers, and PMs speed up time to market.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78644&key=user_uploads/1146847/e5b9e2ee-f4bb-433d-8c37-4d96f7a0de39)\n\n### TRACTION\n\nTake our existing [customers](https://www.magicpatterns.com/customers):\n\n* [Designers](https://www.magicpatterns.com/teams/designers) use Magic Patterns to brainstorm and export to Figma\n* [Founders](https://www.magicpatterns.com/teams/startups) use Magic Patterns to generate production-ready code\n* [Product managers](https://www.magicpatterns.com/teams/product) use Magic Patterns to visually communicate their ideas\n\n### FOUNDERS\n\nWe’re [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdanilowicz/) and [Teddy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddy-ni/), two technical founders who have been building products for 10 years together. Here’s us on Alex’s wedding day, where Teddy gave the best man speech about being a “work husband.” (Alex’s wife found it very funny.)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78644&key=user_uploads/1146847/499dabe2-5fe3-40dd-8c7e-9e2b99535e34)\n\n### OUR ASK 👋\n\n1. Try us for free: [www.magicpatterns.com](http://www.magicpatterns.com)\n2. Want to ship faster? [Upgrade](https://www.magicpatterns.com/pricing) for higher messaging limits. You’ll join a community of startups and enterprises that are using Magic Patterns today.\n3. API access? Team discounts? [We have those too](https://www.magicpatterns.com/pricing). 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And once you finish, you find yourself repeating the same process for each new client, project, the next week, month, or quarter? You are not alone! It takes teams anywhere from a few hours to multiple days to create a single set of slides or visualizations. 50% of professionals create slides weekly. 75% of them reuse the same deck at least once, and 30% over 5 times!\n\n### **Rollstack solves this**\n\nRollstack automatically creates and updates presentations and documents using multiple data sources and updates them for you!\n\n[Rollstack allows you to easily connect to your favorite data sources](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclmZkV6XkM), then takes care of refreshing your data where you want to present it. 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And not only is this faster, it’s also 1/2 the cost of GitHub Actions!\n\nWe do this by launching a dedicated instance for each job, registering that instance as a self-hosted Actions runner in your GitHub organization, and then terminating the instance when the job is finished.\n\nWe've also integrated the runners with our existing distributed storage cluster that we use for Docker image builds for up to 10x faster cache throughput! 💪\n\n## Demo Video\n\n\n\n## Tech Details\n\nUsing AWS as our compute provider has a few advantages:\n\n* We launch fast `m7a` instances, which are typically 30%+ more performant than alternatives.\n* Each instance has high-throughput networking of up to 1.5 GB/s, hosted in `us-east-1`, so interacting with artifacts, cache, container registries, or the internet at large is quick.\n* Each instance has a public IPv4 address, so you’re not sharing any rate limits with anyone else.\n\nBy integrating the runners with the distributed cache system (backed by S3 and Ceph) that we use for Docker build cache, jobs automatically save/restore cache from this cache system, with speeds of up to 1.5 GB/s, and without the default 10 GB per repo storage limit.\n\nAdditionally, the runners are located in the same VPC as our [Docker build service](https://depot.dev), so for anyone using both, built containers are now able to `--load` back into CI for testing much faster than they would over GitHub’s default network.\n\nWe build our machine image from [GitHub's image definition](https://github.com/actions/runner-images), so all the same software you expect is pre-installed. Support for Arm runners, powered by Graviton instances, is in beta now.\n\n## Getting Started\n\nYou can sign up at for a free trial if you’d like to try it out with your own workflows!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kmr-depot-managed-github-actions-runners-for-aws", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-04-03T14:38:17.273Z" }, { "id": 67759, "title": "⚡ Depot - a faster way to build Docker images", "tagline": "A remote container build service that is 3-14x faster than CI providers, with emulation-free support for both Intel & Arm architectures", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Kyle and Jacob, and we’re excited to share [Depot](https://depot.dev/) with all of you.\n\n[![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67759&key=user_uploads/600738/bc4dbd39-a0a3-4838-a4f5-20e6302c00b2)](https://depot.dev/benchmark/temporal)\n\nDepot is a remote container build service that is 3-14x faster than building Docker images inside of generic CI providers. It’s much faster than existing solutions like GitHub Actions because we run BuildKit the right way with a persistent SSD cache. We launch both Intel and Arm VMs for each build, allowing you to build native multi-platform or Arm images without any slow emulation.\n\nPostHog’s Docker builds [run around 5x faster with Depot](https://posthog.com/blog/speeding-up-posthog-builds-with-depot), reducing daily time spent on builds from 5+ hours to just an hour. We continuously benchmark several open-source projects, comparing `docker build` and `depot build`, including:\n\n* [Temporal](https://depot.dev/benchmark/temporal) (\\~14.5x faster, saving 7 hours over the last 10 builds)\n* [Supabase](https://depot.dev/benchmark/supabase) (\\~8.5x faster, saving 2 hours over the last 10 builds)\n\n### Our background\n\nAs software and platform engineers, we absolutely hate slow CI builds. Everyone has their own internal timer for what classifies a slow build, our own is 5 minutes, if it takes longer than that we get annoyed. We have experienced first-hand the pain and challenge of keeping Docker container builds fast, optimizing/re-optimizing pipelines and Dockerfiles, and implementing custom runners for multi-platform builds. It’s all annoying, unnecessary, and a drain on developer happiness.\n\nOverall, slow builds clog up the delivery pipeline and take time away from iterating on new ideas and fixing problems for users.\n\n### Building Docker images is slow\n\nBuilding Docker images in CI providers like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc. is slow:\n\n* **Saving and loading layer cache is slow.** Transferring the cache over the network to the ephemeral CI runners eats away at any cache time savings.\n* **Runner resources are constrained,** with limited CPUs, RAM, and disk space.\n* **Multi-platform and Arm builds require emulation.** Emulation is orders of magnitude slower than native, and Arm is increasingly important with the rise of popularity with devices like MacBook M1, Graviton, etc.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nDepot provides managed VMs running BuildKit, the backing build engine for Docker. Each VM includes 4 CPUs, 8GB of memory, and a persistent 50GB SSD cache disk. 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Sales teams at fast-growing B2B companies do 14%+ more calls per week because they no longer have to spend hours updating their CRM.**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=70012&key=user_uploads/312272/108c66cb-2f3c-4a62-865b-c88b96f03b74)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nThere are over **3 million** B2B salespeople in the US, and each of them spends 3-6 hours each week manually updating their CRM with data about their customers and live deals. \n\nThis creates a problem at every layer of large and fast-moving sales teams.\n\nReps at companies like Nextdoor, Twilio, Checkr, and Front spend **10-15% of their time** on data entry versus actually selling; Sales leaders spend hours chasing reps for updates; and sales-ops / rev-ops teams deal with their **CRM missing \\~50% of opportunity data**. This has always made it difficult for sales teams to know what is really happening and which deals are at risk.\n\nIn an environment where many B2B companies have to do more with less, something has to give.\n\n### **Our Solution:**\n\n**Paperplane solves this problem by automatically updating Salesforce after every sales call.** \n\nWe plug into a sales team’s conversational intelligence platform (e.g. Gong, Chorus, Wingman) and Salesforce.\n\nAfter the call, Paperplane transcribes and extracts the required Salesforce fields (eg. next steps, follow-ups, pain points, MEDDIC) and notes. No keywords, tracking words, or scripts to adhere to. 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If your team spends time mapping data for customer data onboarding, data normalization between systems, or mapping for data integrations, we can help! Please go to our [website and sign up](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_24) for a free trial.\n\n—-\n\nHi everyone! We are Nicolas, Nebyou, and Robert, the founders of Lume. We are on a mission to automate the painstakingly manual process of data mapping, after experiencing this frustration as engineers ourselves. We have onboarded several customers who are growing and are excited to help more teams use AI in their data mapping workflows.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/77b12bac-08ae-40df-9984-f0cbc0f10c1d)\n\n**🧨 Problem**\n\nThe usual mapping process involves a labor-intensive cycle: analyzing data to determine what's relevant, selecting the appropriate properties, developing the mapping logic, and constantly updating mappers to accommodate schema changes in source or target systems. This process, we learned, takes days, weeks, or even months for most teams, and automating it has traditionally been borderline impossible due to unique differences in data.\n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nLume uses AI to automatically map data between any start and end schema, whether it is customer data, external sources, or anything else. Lume provides this via an API and a no-code platform where you can generate mapping logic, review and edit it, and manage multiple data pipelines. Whether you want to onboard customer data, normalize data from multiple sources, or create auto-mapping UIs over Lume, Lume delivers. With automated transformations and data delivery, error and type checking, auto-maintenance with schema inference, and execution via an API or a no-code App for different use cases, teams can spend more time delivering their core value to customers instead of wrangling and manually mapping data.\n\n**🚀 Key Features**\n\n* ✨ Generate mapping logic in seconds: via our API or the Lume app, simply pass in a sample of your source data and a target format, and Lume will generate the mappings.\n* 🛠️ Edit mapping logic: review and edit the mapping logic and mapped data as needed to ensure you have the desired outcome. Leverage tools ranging from natural language all the way to full code edits to edit the mappers quickly and easily.\n* ✅ Deploy mappers: Use the mappers deterministically in your code via our API or the app, allowing you to reliably move data between schemas as you scale your data pipelines.\n* 🤖 Auto-maintain mappers: Lume detects changes in your schemas, notifying you and allowing you to use AI to update the mapping logic, effectively automating your maintenance.\n* 📊 Manage and organize mappers: use Lume’s dashboard to have visibility over all of your mappers and live data pipelines.\n* 📑 Handle any format: Lume supports JSON, CSV, XLS, PDF, and other formats! You can move data through the API or the app.\n* 🔮 Upcoming: adding custom logic with lambda functions, custom validation rules, python SDK, transferring your existing mappings when migrating to Lume, and more.\n\n**⚙️ How it works**\n\n* To create mappers: specify your target structure and provide a sample of source data. This can be done via the Lume API or the Lume Platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/d27fd09d-3943-4748-817a-cb16a4b5952a)\n\n* ✨ Lume’s AI system creates the mappings between any two schemas, ranging from simple 1-1 mappings, time-series aggregations, complex calculations, and ontology classifications.\n* Use the generated mappings and mapping logic: Use the Lume API or the Lume Platform to upload new incoming data and retrieve the corresponding output mapped data and mapping logic. Your data has just been automatically mapped with AI!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/c25b7d28-9b19-49b5-b103-ad8a69ef21e7)\n\n* For creating robust data pipelines, review and edit the generated mapping logic before running production data. Once saved, you can confidently use these mappers as deterministic pipelines. This is helpful for your data integrations between systems.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/c9f8696c-e294-4c01-b602-aa16f3635f21)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/b2766b97-2eda-4dca-baf5-9f87ffb22d8d)\n\n* Alternatively, build on top of the Lume API to deploy your own auto-mapper UI to allow customers to self-onboard.\n\n**💡 Use Cases**\n\nLume handles three core use cases:\n\n* Onboarding Client Data\n* Normalizing Data from Multiple Sources\n* One to Many Integrations\n\nHere are three customer success stories:\n\n* For a growth-stage battery analytics company, mapping each customer’s sensor data went from 2 weeks to 1.5 hours with Lume.\n* For a large HR analytics platform, Lume mapping accuracy reached 95% for their most recent batch of integrations, saving them weeks of onboarding time for mapping and classifying data from incoming systems.\n* For an early-stage financial product startup, Lume is handling \\~500 live data pipelines that are externally facing, constantly mapping and adapting to new incoming data.\n\nAll of these have the common theme of having to map data between unique schemas, where even discrepancies as minor as column name variations make this process time-consuming and near-impossible to automate. This gets even worse at scale. Clients previously were allocating engineers, customer success teams, or offshore labor to analyze incoming data, map the data, and route it to their new systems. This process used to take up to multiple months for some teams, costing significant time and money.\n\nWe serve multiple industries ranging from ecommerce, insurance, manufacturing, and financial products.\n\n**👨‍💻Meet the Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/fe023d78-6ef6-49c3-b202-d264bc80270e)\n\nMy co-founders Nebyou Zewde (right), Robert Ross (middle), and I (left) all met during our first year at Stanford. As engineers ourselves, we’ve spent plenty of time grudgingly going over the manual task of mapping data. We quickly learned that we were not the only ones who faced this problem - most companies spend too much time on this. As AI grads, and with a fire for this problem, we built Lume AI. We are part of the Y Combinator W23 batch, and we’re excited to be launching here.\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Sign up for a free trial to get started by [visiting our website](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_24) or [booking a call here](https://cal.com/team/lume/intro). We’ll get you on a Slack and onboarded quickly.\n* Share this with anyone who works on data mapping for customer onboarding, data normalization, or moving data between any two systems. We support a variety of use cases.\n* Upvote and share this post!\n\n**💥 The Deal**\n\nMention you saw Lume via Launch YC, and we will give you a 50% discount for your first 6 months. We also offer a free pilot.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LGs-lume-automate-data-mappings-using-ai", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2024-06-26T17:31:22.598Z" }, { "id": 70009, "title": "Lume - No-code tool to create and maintain custom data integrations", "tagline": "Lume uses AI to automatically transform data between any start and end schema.", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nLume helps engineering teams build and maintain custom data integrations with no code. If you spend countless hours manually transforming data for custom integrations, we can help! Please go to our [website](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_23) and sign up for our private beta.\n\n—-\n\n---\n\nHi everyone! We are Nicolas, Nebyou, and Robert, the founders of Lume. We are on a mission to empower companies to focus on delivering their core value proposition rather than spending time on data integrations and transformations. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70009&key=user_uploads/1157038/0a606e9a-7357-4f36-bd06-be63bddcd635)\n\n**🧨 Problem** \n\nEngineers spend countless hours manually transforming data for custom integrations or pay large amounts to consulting firms to do the same. Dynamic schemas from different clients or apps require engineers to build and maintain custom integration pipelines one by one, and companies spend days, weeks, and even months building integrations. Lume is tackling this problem head-on. \n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nLume uses AI to automatically transform data between _any_ start and end schema and pipes the data directly to your desired destination. Lume provides this through a no-code platform where you can build and maintain your custom data integrations. Whether you want to map multiple sources to your internal unified schema or connect to your third-party apps without manual mapping, Lume delivers. With automated transformations and data delivery, backtesting and data quality checks, and version control, engineers can spend more time delivering their core value to customers instead of wrangling and manually mapping data. \n\n**⚙️ How it works**\n\n* You connect your custom schemas and authenticate into your desired apps.\n* Lume’s AI system creates the transformations between any two schemas, ranging from internal schemas to structured third-party apps.\n* Once you validate the transformed data, Lume will pipe the correct data to your specified destination.\n\nWe can connect to your data warehouse and leverage its compute to keep your data in-house.\n\n**Common Use Cases:**\n\n* Internal: Transforming separate data sources into one unified internal ontology\n * Ex: a unified schema between Salesforce, Hubspot, Quickbooks, and Pipedrive.\n* External: Custom syncs between your SaaS apps\n * Ex: Enrich CRM data from multiple sources before sending it to your BI tool\n* Onboarding: Mapping prospective client data to fit your product’s input schema\n * Ex: Consulting firms mapping each new clients’ unique ERP schemas to their internal ontology on Snowflake.\n* Migration: Creating custom integration pipelines between competitor products to yours \n * Ex: New productivity tool startup creates an “Import from Notion/Evernote” for newly converted users.\n\n**👨‍💻Meet the Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70009&key=user_uploads/1157038/86b2a6a9-5fb4-4300-be17-30125bdb80fa)\n\nMy co-founders Nicolas Machado (right), Nebyou Zewde (middle), and I (left) all met during our first year at Stanford, where we received our undergraduate and Master's degrees in computer science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. With experience working at both unicorn startups and big tech companies, our team has knowledge and experience building and deploying applied machine learning systems.\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Sign-up for our [private beta](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_23) if you want to try Lume and see a demo.\n* Share this with anyone that works on custom data integrations.\n* Upvote and share this post!\n\n**💥 The Deal**\n\n**Sign-up before demo day for a 50% discount for the first year!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDB-lume-no-code-tool-to-create-and-maintain-custom-data-integrations", "votes": 251, "created_at": "2023-03-07T18:12:57.774Z" } ] }, { "id": 27698, "name": "Viddy", "slug": "viddy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1dfe2f7acf5297dd4c70e312a5b1f29fe5205ad7.png", "website": "https://www.viddyapp.io/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "A brand new way to create landing pages that's video-native. 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We enable e-commerce brands to create a cohesive shopping journey from video-first social platforms to their storefronts. Using them, our customers have been able to increase return on ad spend (ROAS) by 30% and decrease CAC by 20%. As a part of this launch we’re offering 1 Month Free as outlined below in the ‘Asks’ section.\n\n## **❌ The Problem: E-commerce brands are losing marketing efficiency on paid social ads due to iOS 14**\n\nDue to iOS 14’s privacy tracking updates, e-commerce brands are facing rising customer acquisition costs (CAC) and declining ROAS on social platforms like Meta, TikTok, and SnapChat. Brands are lacking efficient and modern shopping experiences to combat this.\n\nOnline shopping hasn’t changed in 10+ years, but _where_ shoppers are discovering brands has changed dramatically. Now, shoppers are discovering brands on social media platforms where video is the main medium. This preferred medium of video is completely lost when a shopper arrives on a Shopify website from social media - a pretty large disconnect.\n\nBuilding shoppable video experiences that feel as snappy as an app in the browser isn’t something Shopify and other site builders support. This limits brands to testing simple things like copy changes and different hero images on their websites…things that don’t really move the needle from a core metrics perspective (CAC, ROAS, conversion rate, etc.)\n\n## **🎉 The Solution: Shopping experiences native to social media**\n\nOur Video Storefronts enable a new shopping experience that is native to the video-first medium of social media. Brands have success using our Video Storefronts as the landing pages for their paid social ads.\n\nBrands can create as many Video Storefront links as they’d like so they can create a storefront per product, per video, per ad campaign, per you name it! This lets brands curate each experience for the shopper and ultimately create a more cohesive end-to-end shopping experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74475&key=user_uploads/1164333/178bda56-a114-4b9b-921a-0d60da5ef58c)\n\n## **⚙️ How it works**\n\nUsing our Video Storefronts is very straightforward. Since we don’t touch a brand’s actual website and host everything ourselves on your subdomain, we actually require zero engineering resources to get live!\n\nAll we need from a brand to create a Video Storefront link is (1) a video and (2) a products list to feature in the storefront. It usually takes brands <1 day to get their first Video Storefront live. Once a brand has their storefront link, they can drop it in their social ads manager platforms to be the landing page for existing ad campaigns. This lets brands monitor results using tools they are already familiar with.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74475&key=user_uploads/1164333/efda7308-5465-48bc-a5a8-8fb7b5773bdb)\n\n## **📈 What results can you expect?**\n\nWe work with 7-figure and 8-figure revenue brands and have increased their ROAS by 30% and decreased their CAC by 20% by using our Video Storefronts. We are constantly A/B testing improvements on our shopping experience (the UX, layouts, interactions, etc.) and rollout the winning tests we conduct on your behalf so things are always improving 🙂.\n\n## **🙏 Asks**\n\nFor a limited time, we’re currently offering 1 Month Free of our Video Storefronts product for e-commerce brands doing at least $1M in annual revenue that [**sign up from this link**](https://www.viddyapp.io/partnerships/yc-video-storefronts-launch?utm_source=yc-launch&utm_medium=yc-launch-video-storefronts&utm_campaign=yc-launch-video-storefronts&utm_id=yc-launch-video-storefronts).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JND-viddy-e-commerce-video-storefronts-that-convert-paid-social-ads-better-than-shopify", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-08-29T15:43:24.279Z" }, { "id": 68494, "title": "🛒 Viddy - Shoppable video experiences for e-commerce", "tagline": "We let e-commerce brands add interactive and shoppable video experiences (think Instagram Stories and TikTok feeds) to their websites to increase personalization and conversion rate.", "body": "**🚀 TL;DR Short-form video is the new default medium of content consumption, but e-commerce hasn't adapted and has been static text & images for +10 years. Viddy bridges this gap by bringing familiar and interactive video UIs that are shoppable to e-commerce.**\n\nHi everyone👋 Harris and Nihar here from Viddy! We’re on a mission to change the future of online shopping.\n\n### **🚨 The Problem**\n\nConsumer behavior is shifting towards consuming more short-form vertical video (thanks to TikTok, Instagram, SnapChat, YouTube Shorts, etc.), yet e-commerce has been static text and images for over 10 years.\n\nE-commerce brands and their storefronts have struggled to adapt to this video-first trend, leading to their conversion rate and engagement consistently dropping year over year. Lower conversion rate and engagement leads to lower revenue, retention, and LTV.\n\n# \n\n### **🎯 Our Solution**\n\nWe've built familiar video UIs (such as Instagram Stories, animated carousels, swipeable TikTok feeds, among others) that can be easily embedded on an e-commerce website. See examples below:\n\n![](https://t20558217.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20558217/75c857dc-99f2-43e9-9bca-7019b7908c91/img1.png)\n\nBrands can feature custom call-to-actions within videos (for example: taking a quiz, booking a demo, viewing a product page, etc.). See our mobile optimized video player in expanded view below:\n\n![](https://t20558217.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20558217/054c0633-9fb3-4424-bd51-e0561c6ee71b/img2.png)\n\nEverything is configurable and customizable in terms of what videos a brand wants to use to the look & feel of our video player. See our CMS below:\n\n![](https://t20558217.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20558217/3f897964-6394-486e-8fa9-d421676c5953/image.png)\n\n**You** [**try a live demo here**](https://www.viddyapp.io/?utm_source=yc_launch_post&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=yc_launch_post&utm_id=yc_launch_post#live-examples) **here** **to play around with our video experiences firsthand!**\n\n# \n\n# 🧐 **How it works**\n\n1. 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Cuts time spent on quoting, policy checking, proposals and more by 90%.\\\nStart for free at [usemulligan.com](http://usemulligan.com)\n\n[Check out our launch video](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cMUq8gAs5q-ZjXVqoS7SLv7pAC1ljYF/view?usp=sharing)!\n\n# **Intro**\n\nI’m Aman and we’re building Mulligan, the world’s first end-to-end AI automation platform for commercial insurance brokers. It automates Quoting, Policy Comparison, Proposals, Commissions and more. We work with dozens of brokers and have helped all of them scale their businesses without adding more employees.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nSelling and servicing commercial insurance is a complicated process to begin with, and the manual paperwork involved makes it difficult to scale profitably. Brokers have to spend hours reading lengthy documents, navigating ancient portals and formatting documents to fit into their internal systems.\n\nExisting automation tools typically only address narrow workflows and do not integrate with each other, which means that automating a brokerage involves juggling multiple solutions and integrations.\n\nThe end result is that brokerages spend hundreds of hours every week, and billions of dollars annually, on non-revenue generating tasks and outsourcing.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nMulligan assembles submissions, generates quotes from carrier portals, compares quotes and policies, generates proposals and handles commission statements in minutes, without needing your hands-on-keyboard. Here’s what it can do:\n\n### **Quoting**\n\nQuote from one of the largest selections of commercial lines insurance carriers for Commercial Auto, Workers’ Compensation, Business Owners’, General Liability and Trucking policies. Do so with minimal data entry and largely without human intervention. This makes it easy for an agent to get a more complete view of the market, do less data entry and spend more time with their customers.\n\nTo use it, select the carriers to quote, upload any documents that contain relevant data and click “Submit’’. Mulligan then logs into and produces draft quotes in each carrier portal, ready to review, edit and bind.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94819&key=user_uploads/1013488/6f26d394-1c38-4f97-a17e-99c397e184db)\n\n### **Policy Checking & Comparison**\n\nAnalyze quotes, binders or policies, compare across documents and identify gaps in coverage. Manually analyzing these documents used to take hours, if not days, and can now be done in minutes. This tool can be used to service existing customers, as well as to help close new ones by analyzing their existing policies and identifying areas of improvement.\n\nSimply upload docs, view them side-by-side, chat with them and match them to checklists to identify gaps.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94819&key=user_uploads/1013488/dbc87031-968d-4c02-8301-d77ee5cd94d3)\n\n### **Proposals**\n\nGenerate beautiful, branded proposals using quotes, policies and binders in minutes. These documents can be produced in Mulligan’s own design format, or using a template provided by the agency. The end result is a document whose style, content and tone showcases the agency’s professionalism and thoroughness.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94819&key=user_uploads/1013488/f393c554-a4f4-4485-8d9a-9e89bfe6248e)\n\n### **Submissions**\n\nProduce clean, complete and professional submissions to send to underwriters. 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These data help companies understand how their profitability breaks down by product and customer, allowing them to make optimal strategic decisions about pricing, resource allocation and cloud architecture.\n\n### Problem\n\nMost tech companies **don’t know how much it costs to serve each of their customers with each of their products**. Cloud costs are typically a tech company’s second-largest cost (after personnel), and they can vary significantly even on a per-unit basis, i.e. irrespective of volume.\n\nWithout per-customer and per-product cost information, companies can’t reliably know:\n\n1. What’s our margin on Customer A?\n2. What’s our margin on Product B?\n3. Which usage events drove Customer C’s costs last month?\n4. 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Although our backend is cloud-based by default, **Dashdive can be self-hosted** for companies that need to keep all data within their ecosystem.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70237&key=user_uploads/1165030/943447c4-84fd-4a29-a67c-46f3ae266fcc)\n\n_This is the entire setup for AWS Lambda, a popular cloud service._\n\n### Why Now\n\nSupply and demand factors make now the perfect time to launch this product:\n\n* **Supply**: Monitoring technologies eBPF and OpenTelemetry have come a long way in the past few years. Both technologies allow seamless monitoring of different technology stacks, removing friction where engineering teams would have otherwise needed to make significant investments in setup and maintenance. Application performance monitoring companies like Datadog have proven that monitoring dozens of services is technically feasible and can be profitable even at scale.\n* **Demand**: As the cost of capital has increased and fundraising has become less certain, profitability is the only way to guarantee business survival. Business and engineering leaders are placing newfound importance on margin health.\n\nGiven these factors, this opportunity emerged in the last twelve months.\n\n### Get in Touch\n\nMore information at [dashdive.com](http://dashdive.com). Inquiries can be sent to [team@dashdive.com](https://mailto:team@dashdive.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70237&key=user_uploads/1165030/e5803ab1-04cb-4a16-b4f5-f87c2ec6bb68)\n\nDashdive’s founders met in college at Stanford University. Bringing strategy and sales experience, [Micah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-wheat/) (left) worked at the Boston Consulting Group. 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For employers, FlexDesk makes it easy to create spend policies, track bookings, and streamline billing across all employees, geos, & brands._\n\n### **🥴 Problem**\n\n**1 - Search and discovery:** The coworking landscape is fragmented. Less than 65% of people live within a 50 mile radius to a WeWork location. 75% of workers have experienced it taking longer than 30 minutes to identify and book a coworking space.\n\n**2 - Spend controls and tracking:** It is currently hard to create and enforce standardized spend/booking controls. Companies have reported employees renting $400+ daily conference rooms to serve as their ‘personal office’.\n\n**3 - Payments:** Employees are currently required to pay for each booking using a credit card and submit for reimbursement. 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Request early access** [**here**](https://mzgq3tvfxmu.typeform.com/to/DD8HB5A5)\n\nHey everyone, we're the founders of Nebula!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69881&key=user_uploads/888634/dd916b21-6237-4b46-ab5b-91a02851586a)\n\n**Shanelle** was previously a PM at Google, where she saw firsthand the productivity loss that came with complex microservice architectures.\n\n**Vishnu** is a second-time founder who has previously built developer platforms & ML-based document retrieval systems.\n\nWe've experienced the frustration of seemingly simple features taking months to launch because of the complexity of unwieldy microservice architectures. Building on open-source tooling designed to handle Google-scale codebases, Nebula aims to make it simple and painless to develop microservices.\n\n### Problem 😔\n\n[85% of enterprise companies](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1236823/microservices-usage-per-organization-size/) use a microservice architecture. 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But today they spend 10+ hours every week in busy work just to keep the business running.\n\nThe root cause is tradition back office software is designed for a broad range of industries and contractors are tired of using point solutions with a mix of paper and spreadsheets to manage their workforce.\n\nThese point solutions include…\n\n👨🏻‍🏫 Payroll systems such as ADP or Quickbooks designed for a broad range of industries \n\n💬 Text messages for scheduling and reporting\n\n📊 Spreadsheets for job costing\n\n⏳ Generic time tracking apps\n\n### \n\n### **🔨 Solution**\n\nHammr is an all-in-one platform purpose-built for construction. We deeply understand the perspectives of field workers who build, foremen who manage the field, and business owners and admin staff who run the back-office.\n\nWe’ve combined the simplicity of consumer products into the flexibility and robustness of business software, and created a solution that’s native to how construction companies operate.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69825&key=user_uploads/379301/812fbc44-844d-4319-accf-525b2e179af8)\n\n\\\nOur platform seamlessly combines…\n\n🕦 **Time Tracking**: Accurately track time and attendance for the entire workforce with compliant overtime calculations\n\n💰 **Payroll**: Calculate payroll automatically for both W2s and 1099 workers and ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations\n\n📈 **Job Costing**: Real-time fully-burdened labor cost per job helps owners make decisions to drive productivity and profitability\n\n👥 **HR Management**: Manage employee records, benefits, and compliance all in one place\n\n\\\nWe’re on a mission to help contractors spend less time on admin work, so they can focus on growing their business and investing into their biggest asset — their people.\n\n### **🙏🏼 Our Asks**\n\n📣 **Sharing**: Please share this announcement with your network and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hammr/)!\\\n👥 **Referrals**: If you know anyone in the construction industry who could benefit from Hammr, please connect us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAD-hammr-rippling-for-the-construction-industry", "votes": 322, "created_at": "2023-03-01T18:38:33.176Z" } ] }, { "id": 27712, "name": "Brewit", "slug": "brewit", "former_names": [ "Chataverse", "Members.Land" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b28deb84212c3ba86685834131a7f0142304f1d.png", "website": "https://brewit.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Brewit helps companies to create their role-specific BI agents, trained on their database (through feeding sample queries, metric definitions, column descriptions, etc. to create a semantic layer) that can answer data questions/provide data insights (write SQL, generate plots) through a natural language experience.", "one_liner": "Conversational data analytics for every team", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1674519292, "tags": [ "Analytics", "Data Visualization", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brewit", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/brewit.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/brewit", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BrewitAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b28deb84212c3ba86685834131a7f0142304f1d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 557708, "full_name": "Leo Lu", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Leo Lu is the co-founder and CEO of Brewit. 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Brewit will understand your data schema knowledge, write SQL, and generate the relevant charts behind the scene. It also self-improves as users provide more feedback. [Watch our demo video!](https://www.loom.com/share/f1d6ad7a8d1e4cab97a9fda0f7a6b1be?sid=8e6e0f14-69e0-4846-9761-7287d9c45d21)\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Ad-hoc data questions are almost never answered on time:** A mid-sized data team can receive hundreds of data requests per week; on average, it takes 1-2 weeks for these questions to be answered. Not only does this slow down the decision-making process, but it can also derail the data teams from focusing on more meaningful projects.\n\n**Not everyone has the time to learn SQL and visualization tools:** It can take months for someone to master SQL or tools like Tableau, and without these skills, it is hard for someone to perform in-depth analysis or explore the database independently.\n\n**LLM can hallucinate without the relevant context:** Many people use ChatGPT's code interpreter to perform data analysis on specific business tables, but without having the full picture of the company's data schemas and knowledge (aka a semantic layer), ChatGPT often \"hallucinates\" with inaccurate answers. In addition, companies have no oversight of the questions being asked.\n\n### **✨ Our Solution**\n\n1\\. **Fine-tune** the LLM based on your data dictionary and metrics definitions. The agent will self-improve upon users' feedback and corrections\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80234&key=user_uploads/557708/57721199-8881-4b54-a514-df2a0cf01770)\n\n2\\. Human-like **analytics** **agent** that can clarify your question, answer it with relevant visualizations, and help you to drill down to uncover more insights, all through natural language\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80234&key=user_uploads/557708/b5ab39eb-f87b-41c6-9f31-704d71050c3a)\n\n3\\. Build **reports** with AI-generated insights\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80234&key=user_uploads/557708/ab52f79c-13b6-400e-9931-e7fe2778cdb0)\n\n4\\. Save your charts into a **dashboard** and track your key metrics in one place\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80234&key=user_uploads/557708/7c2a48ad-8ff0-407d-8ae5-76aca04df540)\n\n5\\. 🔒 Enterprise-level security: You can self-host Brewit in your environment, select your preferred LLM, and integrate with your favorite IM such as Slack\n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\nWe're live with customers now! Feel free to book a [time](https://brewit.ai/contact) or email [leo@brewit.ai](mailto:leo@brewit.ai) to see a demo.\n\nGive Brewit a [try](https://app.brewit.ai/) - we've connected a demo database for you to play around with the app :)\n\nConnect us to data and analytics leaders in your network!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ks6-brewit-your-ai-analyst-who-answers-your-data-questions-in-seconds", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2024-04-17T03:54:55.149Z" } ] }, { "id": 27713, "name": "Lynx", "slug": "lynx", "former_names": [ "Myly", "CodeComplete AI", "CodeComplete" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/87bf8e05766a109cbdca1dfc5bfa3fa7f69f32d8.png", "website": "https://uselynx.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lynx is an AI platform that investigates and resolves engineering issues directly in your environment, from data anomalies to production outages. 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If you’ve ever been woken up at 2 AM for a production incident and spent hours piecing together logs, metrics, and documentation, Lynx can help. Sign up on our [website](https://www.uselynx.ai/getstarted), reach out to us at [founders@uselynx.ai](mailto:founders@uselynx.ai), or schedule a time with us on [Calendly](https://calendly.com/codecompleteai/lynx-demo).\n\n### The Problem\n\nSoftware engineering has evolved, but on-call hasn’t. Even with the best observability tools, finding the root cause is slow and frustrating: systems grow more complex, documentation becomes scattered, and tribal knowledge gets lost as engineers leave the company.\n\nCompanies need a faster, more intelligent way to diagnose and resolve issues.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nLynx is an AI-powered **incident resolution platform** that allows engineers to easily investigate and resolve issues directly in their development environment.\n\nCheck out our product [demo](https://youtu.be/atzdMyd7PG0)!\n\nWhen incidents arise, **Lynx will automatically gather information, pinpoint root causes, and perform actions to help fix the issue**. Lynx lives on your dev server, so it can connect with all the tools and integrations in your environment. You can directly run code or execute commands on the Lynx platform in order to resolve your issues.\n\n[Lynx Demo - Directly Resolve Incidents](https://youtu.be/TbvYtI5SstQ)\n\nWe built out chain-of-thought command execution so Lynx can automatically generate queries step-by-step and retrieve all the context it needs.\n\n[Lynx Demo - Chain of Thought Command Execution](https://youtu.be/EANK62F75Pc)\n\nWe implemented several safeguards to ensure Lynx only executes read-only commands, but if you want a bit more control, you can opt to manually approve each command before it runs:\n\n[Lynx Demo - Manual Command Execution](https://youtu.be/oGUpwGSPdVQ)\n\nLynx focuses on helping engineers **resolve** incidents instead of just managing them.\n\n### Why We’re Building This\n\nWe started by building self-hosted, fine-tuned AI coding assistants, but we quickly realized coding was just a fraction of an engineer’s workflow. Teams spend just as much—if not more—time testing, debugging, and deploying.\n\nWe saw an opportunity to apply AI beyond generating new code, with on-call standing out as a major pain point. Engineers were losing hours digging through logs, retracing past incidents, and manually correlating data across tools.\n\nLynx was created to streamline incident resolution, but it goes beyond just on-call incidents. Our vision is to create an AI agent that can understands all the ins and outs of your tech stack so it can predict, investigate, and resolve any technical issue.\n\n### **Ask: How you can help**\n\nIf your team has a heavy on-call burden, we'd love to chat about your workflows and pain points.\n\n* Try out our product! Sign up for our waitlist: \n* Introduce us to engineering leaders or teams who might benefit from Lynx.\n\nQuestions? Visit our [website](https://uselynx.ai/), reach out to [founders@uselynx.ai](mailto:founders@uselynx.ai), or schedule a time with us on [Calendly](https://calendly.com/codecompleteai/lynx-demo).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87299&key=user_uploads/471786/1e163e61-6d72-4178-b08b-2342f1ad445d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mi3-lynx-ai-incident-resolution-for-eng-teams", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-01-30T14:29:09.564Z" }, { "id": 69046, "title": "CodeComplete - GitHub Copilot for Enterprise", "tagline": "AI coding assistant for enterprise that is self-hosted to protect their IP and fine-tuned to their codebases", "body": "### **TLDR**\n\n[CodeComplete](http://codecomplete.ai) is GitHub Copilot for Enterprise. Large companies can't use Copilot because of the security and privacy risks, so we're building a self-hosted version that’s also fine-tuned to the company's codebase. \n\n**If you (or if you know anyone else who):**\n\n* **Would like to use Copilot at work but cannot, or**\n* **Would like a version of Copilot that’s fine tuned to your enterprise codebase**\n\nPlease reach out to us at [founders@codecomplete.ai](mailto:founders@codecomplete.ai) or schedule a time with us on [Calendly](https://calendly.com/lydia-codecomplete/intro). \n\n—\n\n---\n\nHi everyone, we’re Max and Lydia, and we’re building CodeComplete: an AI-powered code assistant built for enterprise companies. We’re incredibly excited about the advances in generative AI and are on a mission to transform the way developers work. Our code completion product is the first in a suite of AI-powered dev tools we’d like to build. \n\n### **The problem**\n\nWe love GitHub Copilot, but in order to use it, you need to send your code to GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Many large enterprise companies strictly forbid this due to **security and privacy concerns**, so they cannot leverage AI-powered dev tools to multiply their productivity.\n\nAlso, the underlying **Copilot model is not tuned to your codebase**, so you don't always get relevant suggestions. It’s best practice for developers to use their company’s frameworks and libraries. However, without fine tuning, code generation models can suggest generic code, which decreases legibility and introduces technical debt, performance issues, and security holes in the codebase.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nCodeComplete is a **self-hosted AI coding assistant tool that's fine tuned to your codebase**. We train powerful code generation base models on your codebase so we can deliver more relevant suggestions. We deploy these models directly on-premises or in your own cloud, so your valuable intellectual property stays with your company. With CodeComplete, your team can leverage cutting-edge AI technology to be more productive, quickly ramp up developers, and write better code while staying security compliant.\n\n**Demo**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69046&key=user_uploads/1160505/0dbe9136-8d6c-415f-a09e-c6f81bba8ddb)\n\n### **Why we’re building this**\n\nMax wanted to use GitHub Copilot at Meta, but leadership explicitly blocked him from doing so. We believe AI-powered dev tools are the future, and we think they can be especially powerful and deliver value at larger companies. 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Sign up on our [website](https://www.codecomplete.ai/)!\n* **We will provide a $500 referral bonus if your referral becomes a paying customer.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hxe-codecomplete-github-copilot-for-enterprise", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2023-02-06T14:02:26.861Z" } ] }, { "id": 27714, "name": "Palomma", "slug": "palomma", "former_names": [ "Pagaa" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6efa2d71f0a1a589e982662a2f6c1a1eab9c259b.png", "website": "http://www.palomma.com/", "all_locations": "Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia", "long_description": "Palomma is building the AI-native bank for real estate in LatAm. We start with AI agents for property managers (leasing, sales, collections), then add payments to own the flow of rent. 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If you’re an online merchant or app in LatAm looking to save on card processing fees, & receive Pay by Bank in a frictionless way, contact us: [cipriano@palomma.com](mailto:cipriano@palomma.com), or **\\+573146450404**\n2. Connect us to online merchants or apps in LatAm: [cipriano@palomma.com](mailto:cipriano@palomma.com), or **\\+573146450404**\n\n**YC deal:**\n\n1. **No fee:** 0$ in fees for the first 5000 transactions through Palomma for YC companies (or referrals of YC companies)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDt-palomma-frictionless-pay-by-bank-for-latam", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-03-08T18:59:35.984Z" } ] }, { "id": 27725, "name": "Parabolic", "slug": "parabolic", "former_names": [ "Prayogh", "Prayog" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19e1af8a1c45eebbb38eb6d6fb3a5ea0f0096b9c.png", "website": "https://www.growparabolic.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Parabolic is an AI assistant that autodrafts ready-to-send responses for your customer support team. \r\n\r\nEquip your team with the best possible response at their fingertips.\r\n", "one_liner": "AI assistant for customer support", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1675746108, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Customer Success", "Customer Support" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/parabolic", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/parabolic.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19e1af8a1c45eebbb38eb6d6fb3a5ea0f0096b9c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1085302, "full_name": "Shub Viragi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sviragi/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/94a5c1016fb244e1a880c0e8afdee42aa3927492.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 27728, "name": "Nango", "slug": "nango", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a2c91c467d6826fc9888627093516dbe795e1a6f.png", "website": "https://nango.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Customers expect your SaaS to integrate with all the software they use.\r\n\r\nWith Nango, you ship integrations your customers love, fast.\r\n\r\nLeverage hundreds of pre-built integrations and unlimited customization.", "one_liner": "A single API for all your integrations", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1669371609, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Open Source", "API" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nango", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/nango.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nangohq", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/nangohq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/NangoHQ", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a2c91c467d6826fc9888627093516dbe795e1a6f.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": 4364, "full_name": "Robin Guldener", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founded Nango after seeing first hand how hard it to build product integrations between SaaS.\nPreviously co-founded Avrios, a B2B SaaS for car fleet management, and grew it to 1000+ customers.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rguldener/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rguldener", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f0793b7421c8ecb8547d4924cc5411a30b470c69.jpg" }, { "user_id": 4587, "full_name": "Bastien Beurier", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Recidivist founder (2 x YC). 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Since then, we’ve expanded to become a full product integration platform for developers. We now support 400+ APIs, 600+ pre-built integrations, and custom integrations-as-code.\n\nDemo video: \n\nEach API in our catalog comes with auth handling (OAuth, API keys, etc.), two-way syncing, retries, rate limit management, pagination, webhooks, observability, etc.\n\nWe also have pre-built integrations for common use cases like fetching HubSpot contacts, creating GitHub issues, syncing Salesforce data, and hundreds more.\n\nIf an API or integration you need isn’t supported yet, you can implement it yourself on Nango (or ask us to prioritize it).\n\nEverything related to API authorization is free forever, and you can either self-host or use our cloud version.\n\n([API catalog](https://www.nango.dev/api-integrations) / [Docs](https://docs.nango.dev/) / [Repo](https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango) / [Try it](https://app.nango.dev))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N04-nango-embed-600-integrations-from-400-apis-in-your-saas", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-03-11T14:52:52.000Z" }, { "id": 70266, "title": "🔌 Nango: Get OAuth tokens for APIs. Fast & secure.", "tagline": "Pre-built OAuth flows & secure token management for 55+ APIs (and counting)", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70266&key=user_uploads/4364/21c7fde9-a308-4c66-9cde-8eacfc4ce237)\n\n## TL;DR\n\nPre-built OAuth flows & secure token management for 55+ APIs (and counting). 100% open source.\n\n## The problem: OAuth sucks.\n\n[OAuth is harder than it seems](https://www.nango.dev/blog/why-is-oauth-still-hard):\n\n* Every API has specific quirks & nuances - forcing you to read endless docs pages\n* OAuth libraries don’t solve redirects, adding callback endpoints, token storage, refresh logic etc.\n* When something goes wrong debugging is hard: Unspecific errors, non-compliant behaviours, missing details and a million possible root causes\n\nOn top of this, SOC 2 compliance & GDPR make storing plain-text tokens in your DB no longer a viable option.\n\n## The solution: Nango makes OAuth fast & secure.\n\nNango is a service that contains everything you need to work with APIs that use OAuth:\n\n* A full OAuth dance for 55+ APIs - no backend work needed\n* A tiny frontend SDK, with promises instead of confusing full-page redirects\n* Secure token storage, with automatic refresh as needed\n* Works with any API, programming language & framework\n\nIn your frontend easily trigger an OAuth flow with 1 line of code (full desktop & mobile support):\n\n```jsx\nnango.auth('salesforce', ''); // Opens a modal for OAuth dance\n```\n\nThen get always fresh access tokens in your backend:\n\n```jsx\nlet accessToken = nango.getToken('salesforce', ''); // Refreshed & ready\n```\n\nThat’s it.\n\n## Trusted in production, by startups and established companies\n\nNango is used in production by companies like Typeform, Crowd.dev, AppraisalInbox, Trigger.dev (YC W23), Blocktool (YC W23) and others.\n\n## Try it in 5 minutes\n\nNango is easy to try on your local machine (open source) or with our cloud option:\n\n* Try it on your local machine: \n* Get started with [Nango Cloud](https://www.nango.dev)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHK-nango-get-oauth-tokens-for-apis-fast-secure", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2023-03-14T15:02:02.167Z" } ] }, { "id": 27734, "name": "Rubber Ducky Labs", "slug": "rubber-ducky-labs", "former_names": [ "Rubber Ducky Labs", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/80d1f55be06d00fd52db1ea9553e87aa6f8ac9d1.png", "website": "https://www.rubberduckylabs.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "We built Rubber Ducky Labs to help e-commerce teams effortlessly improve product discovery through better metadata. Our tool enables non-technical users to leverage multi-modal AI on product catalogs—just upload a CSV and start tagging metadata in minutes.", "one_liner": "AI Powered Product Discovery", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1671139016, "tags": [ "E-commerce", "AI", "Recommendation System" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rubber-ducky-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/rubber-ducky-labs.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rubber-ducky-labs", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/RubberDuckyLabs", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rubber-ducky-labs", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/80d1f55be06d00fd52db1ea9553e87aa6f8ac9d1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1164034, "full_name": "Alexandra Kissel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Alexandra (née Johnson) has spent eight years in the ML tooling industry (starting with a 4-year stint as the first software engineer at @SigOpt) to help make the state of the art in machine learning effortless and easy to use. Before that, she worked on recommender systems in fashion tech. She founded Rubber Ducky Labs to be the suite of dream tools that she wished she had while working on recommender systems.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandraj777/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/alexandraj777", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/026632f9ad081d2f434f06f2117ff2dd8c082677.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1298927, "full_name": "Georgia Hong", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Georgia got her degree in software engineering from the University of Waterloo, during which time she completed six internships including Datadog, Cockroach Labs, Instagram and SigOpt. After graduation, she worked on Security and ML Infra at Meta.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiahong/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ed1edaba5f6e87a1c69d598bcd6d1dc7233ac6a9.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "The quest for better AI recommendation engines | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/rubber-ducky-labs-keeps-ai-engines-afloat/", "date": "Jun 27, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69112, "title": "Rubber Ducky Labs: Stop recommending ski jackets in June", "tagline": "Rubber Ducky Labs builds better recommender systems with machine learning plus human expertise", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69112&key=user_uploads/1164034/d71009b4-6b77-430f-a071-18fbccf522c5)\n\n**TL / DR;** Rubber Ducky Labs helps e-commerce companies avoid tone-deaf product recommendations — like featuring ski jackets in June. It works by combining machine learning with human expertise to produce the best product recommendations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69112&key=user_uploads/1164034/3234f8dd-48e2-4edc-8525-f63699ee47e9)\n\n# Introduction\n\nCo-founders Alexandra and Georgia have over a decade of experience shipping products in fashion tech, B2B ML tooling, and high-scale data infrastructure, and are passionate about making the state of the art in machine learning effortless and easy to understand.\n\nAlexandra’s career started with her dream job working on clothing recommender systems for fashion tech companies, and she and Georgia founded Rubber Ducky Labs to be the suite of dream tools that they wished were available for building recommender systems.\n\n# The Problem\n\nYou’re a PM at a fashion tech startup. Your app is recommending that you buy ski jackets. It’s June.\n\nLooks like nobody told the algorithm that summer isn’t ski jacket season, and now it’s your job to figure out whether or not your algorithm will start driving away users. If your team’s metrics dashboards can’t answer the question, you’ll need to file a ticket for the data science team to run some analysis. Looks like it’s going to be at least a week before you have an answer.\n\n# The Solution\n\nWith Rubber Ducky Labs you’ll have an answer within minutes. Now, you’ll be able to understand whether you looked at a lot of ski jackets recently, so it’s just happening to you, or if your colleague recently flipped a switch to promote a brand that happens to carry a lot of ski jackets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69112&key=user_uploads/1164034/918010a5-c9d2-49f6-b1a0-44086fb79f57)\n\nOur solution was developed from over a hundred conversations to answer the question of “what’s going on with my recommender system?” With Rubber Ducky Labs you can:\n\n* Explore your data visually - with product images\n* Drill down from aggregate metrics all of the way to individual item or user journeys\n* Consolidate and debug your company’s business logic\n* View annual and seasonal trends\n* Facet, segment, and filter and your data\n* View side-by-side comparisons of models or ranking changes\n\n# The Vision\n\nThe mission of Rubber Ducky Labs is to allow people with domain expertise — like product managers, merchandisers, marketers, growth hackers, and founders — to easily build intuition about and incorporate domain knowledge into their recommender systems.\n\nToday’s launch is just the first step. We want to help you do everything from consolidating business logic to previewing side by side model comparison to launching production experiments, all within RDL’s tools.\n\nIf this sounds like something you’re interested in, we’d love to build together.\n\n# Technical Details\n\nSetup took 90 minutes of time with our first user. Under the hood, Rubber Ducky Labs is a fully hosted web app that connects directly to your data warehouse on the backend to pull your custom metrics and data. No need to deploy any services or change any code, plus you get to bring your own model! Additionally, the web and API are authenticated with Auth0 to keep your data safe.\n\n# Our Ask\n\nWe’d love to learn more about your recommender system, and start identifying areas for improvement. Interested? Email [alexandra@rubberduckylabs.io](mailto:alexandra@rubberduckylabs.io) to get started.\n\nHave a friend who works with recommender systems? We’d love to meet them! Email us at [founders@rubberduckylabs.io](mailto:founders@rubberduckylabs.io).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hyi-rubber-ducky-labs-stop-recommending-ski-jackets-in-june", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-02-08T00:47:04.990Z" } ] }, { "id": 27735, "name": "Numeral", "slug": "numeral", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7a499f6b96256283dc99bacb914267102619b349.png", "website": "https://www.numeral.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Numeral is the trusted solution for U.S. sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance, used by 3,500+ global businesses, including Eight Sleep, Supabase, and Brex.\r\n\r\nOur end-to-end platform keeps our customers compliant wherever they sell, with registrations, filings, calculations, and ongoing compliance support.\r\n\r\nNumeral’s AI-native solution covers more than 90 countries and tens of thousands of jurisdictions and is built for accuracy and scale.", "one_liner": "The AI-native sales tax solution.", "team_size": 130, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1672355505, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Finance", "Compliance", "E-commerce" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "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/numeral", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/numeral.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/numeralhq", "x_url": "https://x.com/numeral", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7a499f6b96256283dc99bacb914267102619b349.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 930846, "full_name": "Matt DuVall", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Long-time product engineer, launched Stripe Checkout and Stripe Radar (2014-19), led teams on performance and product at Notion (2020-2022).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mduvall/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/mduvall_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66c57ea545cc4f0f7e603488c18f34b6d10d258a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 230362, "full_name": "Sam Ross", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founded an e-commerce studio that generated over $100M in revenue. 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$130K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 89677, "title": "Software Engineer (AI)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/numeral/jobs/eCDVy2N-software-engineer-ai", "location": "New York, NY, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$175K - $300K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 90203, "title": "Senior Manager, Tax and Filings", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/numeral/jobs/xdjbzae-senior-manager-tax-and-filings", "location": "HQ - San Francisco, CA / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 90206, "title": "Account Executive - Enterprise", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/numeral/jobs/fchZzKt-account-executive-enterprise", "location": "HQ - 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Ecommerce sales tax on autopilot", "tagline": "We do everything from registration to remittance.", "body": "TLDR: Numeral automates sales tax compliance for ecommerce stores. We do everything from registration to remittance.\n\n### **Problem**:\n\nIn 2018, the [Supreme Court ruled](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.) that states can require out-of-state merchants to charge sales tax.\n\nThis means Shopify stores are now required to register with up to 47 state agencies and potentially submit 47 monthly filings.\n\nAdditionally, there are over 13,000 local jurisdictions, each with their own complex set of rules and rates.\n\nIn Iowa, for example, Snickers bars are taxed, while Twix bars are tax-exempt because they contain flour. 🙄\n\nThe current solutions are confusing, self-serve products that offer little to no service.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nNumeral automates the entire process for ecommerce sellers. Just connect your Shopify, Amazon, or other store and we handle the rest.\n\n* Registration: We can register companies in all 47 sales tax charging states.\n* Monitoring: We monitor for sales tax rate changes and automatically adjust your tax settings.\n* Filing: Lastly, we submit tax returns & payments on your behalf.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xkilm56kCWPHeUyHBIY4a-dsuiEyZgxaIoWV0bcsxo-WXl3fZxZ2qWf5D3I6xy0at4xZ8gvmkxmM245gEWXLIil-WFtvKERRMZmy22bsNB4A95owzOuA7mY1MC3FwQLB9A1gRsqPiG9o85HRpybvCaI)\n\n### **Why us?**\n\n**Kevin** - Kevin is a licensed CPA in the state of California. After working in Big 4 Accounting, Kevin went on to start multiple ecommerce businesses. Kevin and Sam co-own a Shopify brand that does $10M+ in annual revenue.\n\n**Sam** - Sam ran his own bootstrapped e-commerce studio that generated over $50M in revenue over the last 4 years. He previously worked in growth & product roles at Airbnb (W09) and Teespring (W13).\n\n### **Want to learn more?**\n\nIf you know any Shopify or ecommerce owners in general, we’d love to help get them compliant.\n\nSignup or book a demo here: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/INV-numeral-ecommerce-sales-tax-on-autopilot", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2023-03-30T17:21:39.106Z" } ] }, { "id": 27740, "name": "Mercoa", "slug": "mercoa", "former_names": [ "Dinora" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b67b90e4f6e84745cd503648bae4a2ed818421e4.png", "website": "http://mercoa.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Mercoa helps AP and Spend management platforms drive more virtual card volume from their BillPay customers. Our agent identifies card-eligible invoices and securely pays them through supplier portals or payment links. ", "one_liner": "AI Agent for Billpay platforms to pay invoices with virtual cards", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1676998433, "tags": [ "Fintech", "API" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "We spent all of 2023 building our core product with a select group of core customers. In 2024, we invested in our go-to-market motion and are now growing at 20% month-over-month. " } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mercoa", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/mercoa.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercoa/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/MercoaFinance", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mercoa", "github_url": "https://github.com/mercoa-finance", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b67b90e4f6e84745cd503648bae4a2ed818421e4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 6155, "full_name": "Sai Arora", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Mercoa\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/saiarora", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Sarora27", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cdaae56239bc9674742a763c6b03ae527c5b6444.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92877, "title": "Mercoa CardPay: AI Agents for B2B Virtual Cards", "tagline": "Mercoa converts check & ACH payments to virtual card payments.", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nMercoa converts check & ACH payments into virtual card payments. Our CardPay agent knows which vendors accept cards, what fees they charge, and pays them through portals, links, phone, or email.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Qg5im2qhwlQ\n\n# The Problem\n\nIf you process millions of dollars in B2B payouts to vendors, you know virtual cards make money.  Our data across 11 BillPay platforms shows that **15-30% of all ACH transactions processed could be paid by card**. \\\n\\\nWhen a vendor accepts your virtual card, you make a percent back through interchange. Unfortunately, a majority of AP platforms, procurement software, supply chain systems, and enterprises with card issuing programs pay vendors through ACH & check. This volume is missed interchange revenue.\\\n\\\nToday, platforms try capture this revenue by:\n\n**1) Asking users to deliver the card themselves**\n\nCustomers use your BillPay for control over approvals and payment timing. Forcing them to generate virtual cards and key them into vendor portals undermines that control.\n\nFor example, Brex BillPay asks users to assign a member of their team to pay a vendor bill using a virtual card.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92877&key=user_uploads/6155/14c18a23-33ea-4d8a-9ce6-8c031e890909)\n\nWhen you ask your customers to deliver the card themselves, you’re also asking them to figure out if a vendor will accept cards. This is a side quest your users do not want to complete. Your customers end up choosing the path of least resistance (ACH & Check) instead of paying by card.\n\n**2) Hiring a vendor enablement team.**\n\nThe other solution is to hire a vendor enablement team. These teams identify vendors who accept cards, check their fees, and process payments by:\n\n* Logging into portals & manually entering card details\n* Calling vendors & reading card details over the phone\n* Emailing card details directly to the vendor\n\nThis approach is slow, expensive, and impossible to scale without adding more people. \n\nSome platforms hire these teams internally. We spoke with one AP platform that staffs 40 vendor ops employees solely to call vendors or type card numbers into portals by hand. \\\n\\\nOthers outsource the work to issuer services like FIS, or Corpay. These providers deliver a poor experience, send cards by email without context, and pressure vendors to join a network.\n\n# The Mercoa CardPay Agent\n\nMercoa automates the entire vendor payment workflow; from identifying which vendor will take a card to delivering that card through the right channel.\\\n\\\nWe do this by: \n\n1. **Plugging directly into your AP or Bill Pay product**. When your customer schedules an invoice, we analyze it in real time and flags if it is cardable and whether fees apply.\n2. **Automating card delivery.** On the scheduled date, our agent takes a card (**issued by you**)  logs into the vendor portal, uses the invoice link, or follows the vendor’s required process to submit a virtual card payment. No human involvement is required.\n3. **Providing full confirmation:** We return a payment confirmation along with a receipt back to your system so the bill is marked as paid, keeping your workflow intact.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92877&key=user_uploads/6155/2c2bc28d-86d1-4d3a-86d6-0d5f8c24d7f5)\n\nDrop in our agent with **2 API calls** and start capturing the margin you are missing today. \n\nOur Agent requires zero changes to your customer experience and works with your card issuing program. \n\nA company using Mercoa can make up to **$26k for every $1 Million processed** through cards. \n\n# How did we get here?\n\nWe were building an embedded Bill Pay platform for SaaS companies to offer AP/BillPay to their customers. We launched Bill Pay for 11 platforms in under a year. \n\nWhile processing their invoices, we kept seeing the same thing:\n\n**15–30% of payments could be paid by card with no fee, but weren’t.**\n\nThe roadblocks were always the same:\n\n1. No one knew which vendors would take a card\n2. What the fee would be,\n3. How to deliver it without breaking the workflow.\n\nThen bigger AP platforms started calling us. They didn’t want our whole Bill Pay product. They just wanted the part that solved vendor acceptance and delivery.\n\nThat’s when we realized the bigger play wasn’t building another AP platform. It was giving every platform and enterprise the ability to turn vendor payments into profits. We’re starting with virtual card payments and see a large opportunity to handle the full vendor enablement journey.\n\n## Our Ask:\n\nAre you a platform or enterprise that wants to make more vendor payments through cards? Do you have a vendor ops team that’s drowning in manual work?\n\nWe’d love to show you how you can capture more card margin without more ops. \\\n\\\nEmail [sai@mercoa.com](mailto:sai@mercoa.com) or book a [demo](https://calendly.com/sai-mercoa/30-minute-chat) today!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OA1-mercoa-cardpay-ai-agents-for-b2b-virtual-cards", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-08-11T15:12:35.662Z" }, { "id": 69478, "title": "Mercoa: The accounts payable & BillPay API for B2B fintechs", "tagline": "Offer B2B BillPay & AP to your customers and monetize payments out.", "body": "Hi everyone! We’re Sai and Sandeep and we’re building Mercoa.\n\n### TL;DR\n\n[Mercoa](https://mercoa.com) lets any B2B fintech offer BillPay and Accounts Payable services to their customers. Use our drop-in iframe or API to offer your users one place to manage and pay all of their invoices.\n\n### The Problem:\n\nB2B fintechs want to be the one-stop-shop for their customers to manage their business finances. Customers want to manage their open bills & invoices on the same platform where they are receiving payments.\n\nHelping customers get paid is usually one of the first things a B2B fintech builds. Customers are willing to pay a payment processing fee, so monetizing incoming payments is seen as an easy win.\n\nOn the other hand, helping customers make invoice and bill payments is not as simple. Aside from building the complex software needed to manage and process these payments, most fintechs do not see a clear way to monetize payments out.\n\n### Monetizing Payments Out:\n\nThe best way to make money from B2B BillPay is to offer premium payment options that help customers maintain their cash flow while ensuring their vendors are paid on time. These options include:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69478&key=user_uploads/6155/329aba45-12ca-4c42-90d4-7227c80aa20e)\n\nBefore a business can offer these options to their customers, they first need to build a software experience that lets their customers pay their bills & invoices with confidence. This experience consists of eight different components that must be tightly integrated together:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69478&key=user_uploads/6155/b5468918-1141-42c3-9ef2-8f4feeb4d11a)\n\nMost companies piece together a solution with some but not all of these components in an effort to launch as quickly as possible. They find themselves in an endless cycle of optimizing an experience with no meaningful end in sight to start monetizing. Some companies we spoke with spent three years optimizing their BillPay experience. Others ended up abandoning their BillPay efforts.\n\n### Our Solution: A white-labeled, embedded BillPay experience with pre-built payment monetization\n\nWith Mercoa, offering BillPay and Accounts Payable services to your users is as simple as dropping our iframe into your product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69478&key=user_uploads/6155/07acf804-a804-4e6b-821d-66349d464ab3)\n\nUsing our drop-in iframe or API, you can offer your users one place to:\n\n* Manage open invoices & bills\n* Schedule payments\n* Invite vendors to choose how they want to receive their payment\n\nWhen you offer AP using Mercoa, your users can:\n\n* Pay any invoice by credit card\n* Pay any invoice by ACH\n* Pay any invoice with BNPL\n\nAnd your user’s vendor can:\n\n* Receive their payment via check\n* Receive their payment via ACH\n* Receive their payment via Virtual Card\n\nThe best part is whenever a user or a vendor chooses a premium payment option, Mercoa shares revenue generated with you.\n\nOur payments-focused BillPay experience decouples a bill payment transaction; allowing payers to pay how they want and letting vendors choose how they want to receive their payment. Our goal is to be a payments orchestration engine that can power any BillPay or Accounts Payable process.\n\n### BillPay is so boring! Why are we working on this?\n\nIn a previous life, Sai was a payments lead at [Bill.com](http://Bill.com). There, he integrated [Bill.com](http://Bill.com) with a neobank and led the Instant Transfer line of business. Both of these experiences exposed him to the challenges B2B neobanks face in offering BillPay to their customers. Sai realized that [Bill.com](http://Bill.com)’s systems were completely unoptimized for an embedded use case which is becoming more common with the rise of B2B vertical SaaS and fintech platforms.\n\nWe believe we’re still in the very early innings of digital B2B BillPay and see a massive opportunity to digitize the $25 trillion in annual business payments in the US and eventually the globe!\n\n### Our Ask:\n\n* Want to offer Accounts Payable services to your customers? Book a [demo](https://calendly.com/sai-mercoa/insider-s-guide-chat-clone?back=1&month=2023-02) or email Sai at [sai@mercoa.com](mailto:sai@mercoa.com)\n* Know a company who is looking to offer Accounts Payable services to their customers? Share this post with them!\n* Want to learn more about what it takes to stand up an Accounts Payable experience? Check out our [Insider’s Guide to Accounts Payable](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZukm7smcP932BgdyUMHAh8q7Txg73KCOlKs1On_UYE/edit#)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4c-mercoa-the-accounts-payable-billpay-api-for-b2b-fintechs", "votes": 108, "created_at": "2023-02-21T16:14:17.815Z" } ] }, { "id": 27754, "name": "Pair AI", "slug": "pair-ai", "former_names": [ "CopyRite", "CopyRite AI", "AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f8a08dbc0e0067d1983b3b85b2e3893f29d7f41f.png", "website": "https://www.pairai.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pair AI is Shopify for knowledge products. We empower creators, educators, and experts to launch addicting mobile-first video courses and provide AI-assisted coaching services at scale. Our platform is a one-stop shop to seamlessly monetize what you know! 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He spent the last 4 years as a Product Manager at Facebook where he patented half a dozen AI technologies. 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As successful 7-figure course entrepreneurs ourselves, we have reimagined the course platform experience for the next generation of creators with best-in-class gamification tools and proprietary AI to maximize each student's learning. \n\n**⭐️ The Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/03a2e5b1-eace-4b12-beff-4c2c8c8fb1d4)\n\n[**Parth Detroja**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthdetroja/) **(CEO)** is the global bestselling author of [Swipe to Unlock](https://www.amazon.com/Swipe-Unlock-Technology-Business-Strategy/dp/1976182190) and has launched multiple 7 figure courses. He spent the last 4 years as a Product Manager at Facebook where he patented half a dozen AI technologies. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University.\n\n[**Jason Goodison**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlevigoodison/) **(CTO)** is a Software Engineer and [Tech YouTuber](https://www.youtube.com/@JasonGoodison) with 138k subscribers. Before YC, he worked at Microsoft for 3 years and graduated with distinction from the University of Waterloo.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**The average completion rate for online courses is below 9%** because they are not designed for our short attention spans. Oftentimes courses are 20+ hours of content, but only contain 1-2 hours of actionable insights. Students don't want to consume long-winded lectures.\n\n**Today’s generation wants to learn from their favorite creators!** We asked over a hundred top creators what was holding them back from creating a course. The top cited reasons were:\n\n1. The time commitment required to script and film a traditional video course\n2. Not knowing where to start and how to effectively monetize a course\n3. Worries about piracy of video-on-demand courses\n4. Not being able to coach each student to the extent they’d like because their time doesn’t scale\n\n \n\nCourses allow creators massive monetization potential without dependence on advertisers; however, **many of the best creators are deterred from selling information products altogether because no platform today fits their needs.**\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n[**Pair**](https://www.pairai.com/) **is the first mobile video course platform built by creators, for creators.** We are removing all the barriers holding creators back from launching information products.\n\n**Our platform is specifically designed for structured learning through shorter**\\-**form video** with our average video length being about 5 minutes. We pride ourselves on offering more actionable insights through 2 hours of total video than traditional courses provide in 20 hours. Not only is this a much better experience for students, but it also lowers the burden on creators to launch their courses. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/1dddeb6d-e65d-4066-9654-71ce177db429)\n\n**Unlike other platforms, we only make money when our creators make money.** Creators keep a generous 90% of sales and we take 10%. With this alignment of incentives, our product roadmap prioritizes helping course creators maximize their long-term revenue above all else. Our out-of-box white label solution optimizes specifically for course sales and helps any creator seamlessly launch their course and craft a world-class sales funnel. We have handcrafted this experience after spending the last 4 years launching multiple 7 figure courses ourselves.  \n\n**Our platform also allows any creator or educator access to powerful engagement tools like streaks, badges, and leaderboards** to create daily habit and build a lucrative and retentive content business. These tools were previously reserved for unicorn companies like Duolingo, Calm, and Headspace with large in-house engineering teams until we decided to democratize them 🙂\n\n**Pair also offers robust tooling to prevent ripping of your content** and to actively search for and file takedown requests on the off chance piracy does occur. As course creators ourselves, we know firsthand how terrifying piracy is. A ripped copy of your course getting SEO’d to Google could cut your sales in half or worse overnight. Astonishingly, not a single course platform today offers even the most basic anti-piracy solutions—until now.\n\nAnd last but not least, **Pair offers best-in-class AI assistance to help you provide 1:1 coaching and personalized learning assistance to your students at scale.** We do this by ingesting a creator's entire back-catalog of content to craft a chatbot that is fine-tuned to sound exactly like them. Creators can also use this chat experience to deliver push notifications and live content updates to students to support their learning process!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/09f2a0b0-ad6e-40d5-bb6c-a55baa60ffe8)\n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\n**If there’s someone in your network with a large audience who is looking to launch a course,** [**please introduce us.**](https://team@pairai.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9G-pair-ai-monetize-your-knowledge-in-a-scalable-way", "votes": 1248, "created_at": "2023-02-28T18:52:32.886Z" } ] }, { "id": 27762, "name": "Ohm", "slug": "ohm-2", "former_names": [ "Byterat" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/55b1c275e0ba176abf2805a822f08b78ecea7eba.png", "website": "https://www.ohm.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Ohm’s AI platform helps Fortune 100 engineering teams accelerate the engineering and testing of complex hardware, including wearables, electric vehicles, and batteries. 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Instead of googling prospects one by one, Double uses language models to search the web and compile an answer, with citations.", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\nIf you’re looking to answer questions about your sales prospects using information that’s on the web (news articles, LinkedIn profiles, company websites, financial filings, press releases), Double can look it up for you and use it to answer your questions in bulk.\n\n\n\n# **Researching and qualifying your sales prospects takes forever**\n\n* The information you need to qualify your leads lives in news articles, job posts, LinkedIn profiles, company websites, OpenCorporate, Crunchbase and other aggregators\n* Most of this can be manually Google’d, but doing so, plus reading it and formatting it the way you want it, takes time\n\n# **Background research your sales prospects by searching the web with LLMs**\n\n* Double searches the web using LLMs to compile verifiable answers. Every answer includes citations to reputable sources\n\n# **Companies use Double to answer hyper-focused qualifying questions**\n\n* Let’s say you’re selling tools for remote work, and you’re targeting remote-first companies.\n* Crunchbase/Linkedin/etc don’t have filters for “Remote-First?”, so you either:\n * Broadly target companies and hope they do _some_ remote work – leads to poor conversion 🤞\n * Or, google each company one by one and look at their job openings – tedious 😔\n* Instead, Double can search the web with language models and compile a verifiable answer with **citations**! 🔥\n\n# **Repeat Founders from Waterloo**\n\nBefore Double, we:\n\n* studied engineering at Waterloo\n* worked on autonomous vehicles at Waymo and Tesla, and\n* built Ninja, Canada’s first 10-minute delivery service. Ninja raised $2M and offered deliveries in 2 cities with a team of 80+ couriers before it was acquired in 2022.\n\n# **Let us automate your manual prospecting processes!**\n\n* Got a question you want answered about your prospects, or looking to save time in your prospecting process? Book a product tour with us!\n* Tell us about the most manual, time-consuming part of your sales process", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JIw-double-background-research-on-sales-prospects-by-searching-the-web-with-llms", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2023-08-18T05:51:59.351Z" }, { "id": 70385, "title": "Double — Internet-capable GPT bots to automate repetitive work", "tagline": "Double is an assistant that can use Google to do research like: Which of these people are executives that work in finance, according to their linkedin profile?", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\n# If you have a task that involves _search google_ → _read links_ → _answer question,_ Double can automate it for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70385&key=user_uploads/1247275/8551fc0f-01d6-44ec-b9db-9ef2a5516e50)\n\n# **What can you do with Double**\n\n* Given a list of chiropractor websites, find how many chiropractors work there. Don’t count admin staff\n* Given a list of business names, find their websites, addresses, and phone numbers\n* Given a list of Etsy stores, find the main category of the products they sell\n* Given a list of websites of recently funded startups, is this a business that does outbound B2B sales? (that would be interested in our b2b sales prospecting product?)\n\n# **Roadmap**\n\n* Our bots are essentially read-only on the web today, but we’re working on abilities to navigate the web and click buttons to do things like login and submit forms (helpful for things that don’t have an API!)\n* Parsing PDFs as an input\n* Calling REST APIs. On top of Google Search, Web Scraping, and GPT, we’ll be adding a plugin to make REST API calls, which will unlock every API and the ability to chain arbitrary code execution by calling your code on [repl.it](http://repl.it)\n\n# **Team**\n\nBefore Double, we :\n\n* Studied engineering at Waterloo\n* Worked on autonomous vehicles at Waymo and Tesla, and\n* Built Ninja, Canada’s first 10-minute delivery service. Ninja raised $2M and offered deliveries in 2 cities with a team of 80+ couriers before it was acquired in 2022\n\n# **Ask:**\n\n* Got a process you want to automate? [Try Double for free today](https://www.usedouble.com/), or reach out to us if you need a hand setting up\n* Share our [Twitter launch thread](https://twitter.com/geepytee/status/1636066726973702149?s=20) and our website on your Twitter, LinkedIn, Tiktok, or other social media! It really helps!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IJF-double-internet-capable-gpt-bots-to-automate-repetitive-work", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2023-03-17T20:06:09.828Z" } ] }, { "id": 27766, "name": "Glass Health", "slug": "glass-health", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a4bfc350809e1c4f0b4e0ccc1e6449d3a68998b6.png", "website": "https://glass.health", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "We empower clinicians with our AI platform for developing differential diagnoses and drafting clinical plans.", "one_liner": "AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support & Ambient Scribing", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "launched_at": 1671385379, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Health Tech", "Digital Health", "Healthcare", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Healthcare IT" ], "regions": [ "Unspecified" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/glass-health.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/glass-health-inc/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/glasshealthhq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a4bfc350809e1c4f0b4e0ccc1e6449d3a68998b6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 76099, "full_name": "Dereck Paul", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Dereck Paul, MD is a cofounder and the CEO of Glass Health. Previously, he was an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dereckwpaul", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dereckwpaul", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8ea6fb090b55179ac9cb0a9f8b1de34b9f8fd924.jpg" }, { "user_id": 368372, "full_name": "William Hart", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CTO at Glass Health. Serial entrepreneur (2 x YC). PhD in Physics from Imperial College London.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wshart", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bd478cb8341c3050c6cb2bfe84acf8106cccb13f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 64761, "title": "Founding Product Engineer (Remote)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health/jobs/fGTJfGh-founding-product-engineer-remote", "location": "Remote / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $210K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.00%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python", "React" ] }, { "id": 64763, "title": "Founding Software Engineer (Backend, Remote)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health/jobs/r1SZMPD-founding-software-engineer-backend-remote", "location": "Remote / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $210K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.00%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "PostgreSQL", "Python" ] }, { "id": 64765, "title": "Founding Software Engineer (Full-Stack, Remote)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health/jobs/lbhTrFq-founding-software-engineer-full-stack-remote", "location": "Remote / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $210K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.00%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python", "React" ] }, { "id": 64767, "title": "Founding AI/Data Engineer (Remote)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health/jobs/HzQtmlN-founding-ai-data-engineer-remote", "location": "Remote / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $210K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.00%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Machine Learning" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Glass Health Raises $5M for AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support Platform", "url": "https://blog.glass.health/glass-health-raises-5m-for-ai-powered-clinical-decision-support-platform/", "date": "Sep 11, 2023" }, { "title": "Glass Health is building an AI for suggesting medical diagnoses | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/glass-health-is-building-an-ai-for-suggesting-medical-diagnoses/", "date": "Sep 08, 2023" }, { "title": "Glass Health Raises Investment from Breyer Capital and Y Combinator for a New Generation of Clinical Software", "url": "https://blog.glass.health/yc/", "date": "Feb 14, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69950, "title": "Glass AI 2.0 Demo - \"ChatGPT for Doctors\"", "tagline": "We empower doctors with our platform for AI-assisted diagnosis and clinical-decision making.", "body": "**Glass AI 2.0** 🩺 **🦾**\n\nIn January, [Glass Health](https://glass.health) launched a new feature called Glass AI, which uses an LLM to generate a medical diagnosis or clinical plan from a patient summary. The launch of Glass AI led to >50K AI queries and more than 5K sign-ups for the Glass Health platform.\n\nWe used the feedback from those queries to create an entirely new clinical layer for Glass AI. In this new video [demo,](https://twitter.com/GlassHealthHQ/status/1631001866564927488?s=20) our AI creates a clinical plan for a patient with heart failure. Glass AI 2.0 has been created by a team of 20 physicians and outputs state-of-the-art clinical plans with up-to-date and accurate medical references.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69950&key=user_uploads/76099/27c5a00b-4805-4ede-8353-ff8a89cb6feb)\n\n**About Us**\n\n[Dereck Paul](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) is a physician who trained at the UCSF School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During his clinical training, he encountered the archaic software doctors use to practice medicine and became passionate about providing clinicians with a new generation of software. \n\n[Graham Ramsey](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) was an early engineer and product manager at Modern Fertility and built a telemedicine EHR at Plushcare, where he became passionate about building for clinicians.\n\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, we founded Glass Health because of our shared belief that technology should be fully leveraged to optimize the practice of medicine and improve patient outcomes. Please contact us at [founders@glass.health](mailto:founders@glass.health) to learn more about our mission or our Demo Day.\n\nIf you’re a clinician, we’d love to have you try our platform. Please sign up for the Glass AI 2.0 waitlist [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCdTtVQiufki0qZqDUiQRZ8TuVbjp9j0GwM5gk75jjBY_o-g/viewform).\n\nFollow us on Twitter at [@GlassHealthHQ](https://twitter.com/GlassHealthHQ) for more updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICE-glass-ai-2-0-demo-chatgpt-for-doctors", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2024-01-09T21:40:10.162Z" }, { "id": 70581, "title": "Glass AI - GPT for doctors", "tagline": "We empower doctors with our platform for AI-assisted diagnosis and clinical decision-making.", "body": "**Glass AI** 🩺\n\nPhysicians spend 2x more time with the computer than they do with patients. Generative AI has the potential to assist doctors with their work, but base LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) cannot be used in the clinical environment. Base LLMs can output incorrect and outdated treatment plans. \\\n\\\nWe combine a base LLM with a proprietary clinical knowledge database and human (physician) reinforcement training to help doctors diagnose patients and generate accurate clinical plans in seconds. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70581&key=user_uploads/76099/68c8b1d6-25ad-4fc3-a4e5-1aaaf32d5958)\n\n**About Us**\n\n[Dereck Paul, MD](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) is a physician who trained at the UCSF School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During his clinical training, he encountered the archaic software doctors use to practice medicine and became passionate about providing clinicians with a new generation of software. \n\n[Graham Ramsey](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) was an early engineer and product manager at Modern Fertility and built a telemedicine EHR at Plushcare, where he became passionate about building for clinicians.\n\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, we founded Glass Health because of our shared belief that technology should be fully leveraged to optimize the practice of medicine and improve patient outcomes. Please contact us at [founders@glass.health](mailto:founders@glass.health) to learn more about our mission or our Demo Day raise.\n\nIf you’re a clinician, we’d love to have you try our platform. Please sign up for the Glass [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCdTtVQiufki0qZqDUiQRZ8TuVbjp9j0GwM5gk75jjBY_o-g/viewform).\n\nFollow us on Twitter at[@GlassHealthHQ](https://twitter.com/GlassHealthHQ) for more updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IMP-glass-ai-gpt-for-doctors", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2023-03-28T14:36:11.359Z" }, { "id": 68710, "title": "Glass Health — Frictionless software for learning and practicing medicine 🩺", "tagline": "Glass is an AI-powered platform for medical knowledge management and clinical decision making that helps clinicians provide better patient care.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68710&key=user_uploads/76099/471cfb16-bd60-47be-8b49-b60d0faa66a6)\n\n**🤔 PROBLEM**\n\nWe saw physicians struggling to manage an ever-expanding world of complex clinical information from heterogeneous sources. We also experienced this problem first-hand in the clinical environment. Our friends in medicine had phones and email accounts full of disorganized journal articles, tweets, clinical images, lecture slides. They could not easily reference these important digital assets when needed to enhance their care of patients.\n\n**🩺 SOLUTION**\n\nGlass is a medical knowledge management platform, aka “Notion for doctors.” Our platform is tailored to how clinicians capture, organize, store, and retrieve medical knowledge.\n\nWe’ve created medicine-specific knowledge management features, including:\n\n* Schemas, Scripts, and Cases: store content in special page templates tailored to common medical knowledge constructs.\n* Pearls: capture snippets of clinical knowledge encountered during patient care and later organize them in your notebook.\n* Linking and Visualizations: easily backlink pages and later view their relationships with medicine-specific visualizations.\n* Community Library: view and save pages published by others in the Glass Health Community.\n* Glass AI: draft differential diagnoses and clinical plans using generative AI. ([Glass AI Demo](https://glass.health/ai))\n* Team Collaboration (coming soon): track key information about patients in a HIPAA-compliant team collaboration environment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68710&key=user_uploads/76099/ba37b973-9395-4320-b3dd-9771299ce305)\n\nThese features help clinicians bring all medical knowledge assets they encounter throughout their careers into one place. This helps them achieve clinical mastery faster and leverage their ever-growing digital external brains to better care for patients.\n\n**📖 FOUNDER BACKGROUNDS**\n\n[Dereck Paul, MD](https://twitter.com/dereckwpaul) was a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine.\n\n[Graham Ramsey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-ramsey/) interned at Watsi (YC W13) and designed and built the EHR at the telemedicine company PlushCare. He was an early product team member at Modern Fertility (YC S17) until its acquisition by Ro in 2021.\n\nContact us at [founders@glass.health](mailto:founders@glass.health).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HsE-glass-health-frictionless-software-for-learning-and-practicing-medicine", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-01-25T17:58:38.335Z" } ] }, { "id": 27774, "name": "Versive", "slug": "versive", "former_names": [ "Mirio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c576ccab62c99fd845635ad445e0305d08a2681.png", "website": "https://www.getversive.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Versive is an all-in-one research platform that helps teams make faster customer-informed decisions.\r\n- Collect richer insights: AI-moderated studies that deliver interview-quality results at the survey speeds\r\n- Accelerate your analysis: AI-assisted analysis that instantly turns transcripts into shareable insights\r\n", "one_liner": "AI-first user research platform", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677539488, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Design Tools", "Market Research", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/versive", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/versive.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getversive", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c576ccab62c99fd845635ad445e0305d08a2681.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": 239074, "full_name": "David Correa Orozco", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "David is the CEO of Versive. He started his career as a PM at Microsoft working on the Windows Build System. He then became one of the founding engineers at Bread (NYSE: BFH) where he developed multiple fin-tech products. Most recently, he spent the last 3 years working on Serverless Networking systems at Google Cloud. He is now focusing on building an AI-survey platform that enables teams to gather better user insights, faster.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e0b4b18e7029206e3b43fc16489fc4d5745b682b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 322456, "full_name": "Eric Li", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Eric is the co-founder of Versive. Previously, he led product and design at Vareto, designed marketplace products at Uber Eats, and was the first designer at Bread (NYSE: BFH). In a past life, he studied Economics at UChicago and was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/28ac3abe347a9bab347de881822f3592553885b0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83020, "title": "Versive - AI-powered synthesis for user interviews", "tagline": "Instantly turn user interviews into shareable reports and actionable insights.", "body": "We’re [Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictli/) and [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/), the founders of [Versive](https://www.getversive.com/).\n\n**tl;dr:** Versive now helps you turn user interviews and customer calls into ready-to-share reports. Upload your recordings to get shareable research reports with key quotes and actionable takeaways. Plus, use AI chat to dive deeper and get answers to specific questions.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nTalking to users helps companies make better decisions, but the process of conducting and analyzing user research is slow and manual.\n\nImagine you’re a researcher who just interviewed 10 users. To share your findings, you need to watch each recording, summarize the conversations, extract key themes and quotes, consolidate your notes into a single report, and then package everything into a polished document. It’ll take at least a week before you can share actionable insights with your team, and you’ll have spent hours that could have been used to drive actions or launch new studies.\n\n# **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/bf2ff14a-662f-4762-be93-3ec32360a76b)\n\nVersive’s mission is to help companies make faster, customer-informed decisions by making it easier to conduct high-quality user research. Our [AI-moderated interviews](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K81-versive-ai-powered-surveys-that-collect-interview-quality-insights) have already helped leading brands gather in-depth feedback from thousands of users. However, we believe that human-moderated interviews are still key for capturing nuanced feedback and building customer empathy.\n\nThat’s why we’re launching a new product that enables research teams to instantly synthesize interview recordings into shareable reports and summaries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/4bd673aa-28a0-439e-a631-23f32c25dc7f)\n\n# **How it works**\n\n1. **Customize your reports:** Tailor the structure of your reports to fit the needs of your study, no coding or prompting expertise required.\n2. **Upload interviews:** Import audio/video recordings or VTT transcripts.\n3. **Get instant summaries:** You’ll get consistent, shareable summaries for each interview, complete with quotes and actionable takeaways.\n4. **Get an aggregate report:** We’ll also generate a report for your entire study, with citations that link back to your transcripts.\n5. **Chat with your results:** Have more questions? Chat with your study data and get immediate, citation-backed answers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/d8ce7917-30ea-4966-85d6-a746146e5410)\n\n## **Get in touch**\n\nWe’re already working with leading research, design, product, and customer experience teams to accelerate their user research. If you’d like to learn more:\n\n* [Request a demo on our website](https://www.getversive.com/) or reach out to us directly at [hi@getversive.com](mailto:hi@getversive.com).\n* [Follow us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq/) for product and company updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lb2-versive-ai-powered-synthesis-for-user-interviews", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-08-14T01:39:13.325Z" }, { "id": 77377, "title": "Versive - AI-powered surveys that collect interview-quality insights", "tagline": "We make it easy to gather high-quality user insights and customer feedback", "body": "**tl;dr:** _Versive makes gathering user insights and customer feedback easier. Our AI-powered surveys ask intelligent follow-up questions to give you interview-quality insights in a fraction of the time._\n\nHi everyone, we’re David and Eric, the founders of Versive.\n\n## **The problem**\n\nMost companies don't speak to their users enough, especially as they scale. As a result, it's difficult to make informed product and marketing decisions.\n\nIn Eric’s past life as a product manager and designer, he conducted dozens of user studies at startups and public companies. Each time, it took weeks of scheduling, interviewing, and synthesizing to get from questions to answers. As a result, his teams collected feedback and validated ideas far less than they would have liked.\n\nExisting tools don't solve this problem well. Interviews and focus groups are time-consuming and expensive to set up. Surveys only yield surface-level insights and are cumbersome to build. Even at companies with dedicated research teams, few requests get approved, leaving most PMs, designers, and marketers on their own.\n\n## **The solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77377&key=user_uploads/322456/1c77cc3e-958b-4f93-9803-ec92b67eadfe)\n\nVersive enables teams to collect interview-level insights at the scale and speed of a survey. We support voice interviews, dozens of languages, concept and design testing, structured questions, branding customization, and more.\n\n1. Build your survey in Versive, or ask our AI assistant to generate one in seconds.\n2. Our AI moderator administers your survey and asks intelligent follow-up questions to dig deeper into user responses.\n3. We'll auto-generate summaries and insights, plus give you transcripts for each response.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77377&key=user_uploads/322456/96a56e72-eb80-41d8-a926-8474268d77ce)\n\n## **Who is this for?**\n\nWhether you’re creating B2B software or selling consumer products, we can help.\n\n* **Product and design teams:** you'll validate designs, roadmaps, and requirements in hours instead of weeks.\n* **Marketing and customer teams:** you'll conduct market research and collect customer feedback more efficiently and with higher quality.\n* **Research teams:** you'll be able to offload simple requests so you can focus on high-value studies.\n\n## **Our team**\n\nWe're David Correa and Eric Li. We met as early employees of Bread (NYSE: BFH) and became fast friends. Eric is a designer and product manager who's experienced these problems firsthand at Uber and several startups. David is a software engineer who's worked at Google and Microsoft.\n\n## **Our asks**\n\n* If you’re interested in trying us out, sign up at [getversive.com](https://www.getversive.com/) or email us at [founders@getversive.com](mailto:founders@getversive.com) for a demo.\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getversive) for product updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K81-versive-ai-powered-surveys-that-collect-interview-quality-insights", "votes": 106, "created_at": "2024-01-09T22:16:01.952Z" }, { "id": 69820, "title": "🪄 Mirio - Spin up personalized demos for your API product in minutes", "tagline": "Mirio is the easiest way to create personalized demos for your API product", "body": "**tl;dr: Mirio enables sales teams at API companies to spin up and personalize demo apps in minutes. Stop demoing docs and show every customer a personalized use case.**\\\n[**👉 Book a demo**](https://trymirio.com)\n\nHi everyone, we’re [David Correa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/) and [Eric Li](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictli/), the founders of Mirio.\n\nMirio is a demo platform for sales teams at API companies. Instead of bugging engineers to build custom demos or screen-sharing documentation, sales teams can use our no code-platform to clone, deploy, and personalize demo apps in minutes.\n\n### **For sales teams selling API products**\n\nWe spoke to account executives and SDRs at API companies and heard the same problems:\n\n* Developers are okay with documentation but decision-makers want to visualize the impact on their business and product.\n* Sales tries to convince engineers and designers to create custom demos but are usually told no (When David and I were asked to help create demos, we hated it too)\n* As a result, they only personalize demos for top prospects and end up demoing the same documentation and code for most customers, which often doesn’t land.\n\n### **Create personalized demos in minutes with Mirio**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69820&key=user_uploads/322456/74b71732-cae7-4f78-a69e-c02341ab8cb3)\n\nMirio empowers sales teams to spin-up and personalize real apps (connected to your API) so they can convey the magic of your product to every customer.\n\n1. Connect your demo apps to Mirio, we’ll help you set them up so they can be customized.\n2. From your Mirio dashboard, account executives and SDRs can clone and deploy demo apps in one click. They can then personalize branding, content, and more using our no-code editor.\n3. Use your personalized demos in live meetings, SDR outreach, website embeds, leave-behinds, and more. Track demo engagement from your dashboard.\n4. Wow more customers and close more deals! **🚀**\n\n### **Why us?**\n\nDavid and Eric met at as early employees of Bread Financial (NYSE: BFH) where the sales team bugged us every week to help create custom demos for Bread’s developer-facing product. 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In the past, he designed the foundational layers for high-frequency trading, contributed to the container runtimes, and implemented graph algorithms for continent size road networks.\n\nLately he has been on a mission to secure workloads and in 2022 he teamed up with Rob and Russell to tackle the problem, starting with fixing the vulnerability fire hose.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-yakubovich-4640604/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/eyakubovich", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c569124aefb1e5e87e2e6cae1108ec324218e46d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "FOSSA Acquires EdgeBit: From Scanning to Updating", "url": "https://fossa.com/blog/fossa-acquires-edgebit/", "date": "Sep 28, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69144, "title": "EdgeBit - Secure your software supply chain", "tagline": "Supply chain analysis that eliminates noise in vulnerability response", "body": "tl;dr: [EdgeBit](https://edgebit.io) automatically inventories software dependencies, ensures they are trusted, and monitors vulnerabilities – securing your software supply chain. For security teams, we help you meet new compliance requirements about the libraries and packages in your products. For engineers, we make vulnerability investigation/patching streamlined, so you can get back to writing code.\n\nHi everyone, we are Rob, Russell and Eugene, the team behind [EdgeBit](https://edgebit.io).\n\nWe’re on a mission to make software secure by default. EdgeBit deeply understands how your app is built, what makes it up and how it’s running. That knowledge builds up trust to make developers lives easier, and your entire server fleet more secure.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69144&key=user_uploads/230598/b3341e0d-c53a-49b4-a31a-c5d9a5fa6c8c)\n\nLeft - [Eugene](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-yakubovich-4640604/) - Chief Architect and low level hacker. He worked on pathfinding algorithms at Lyft, container networking at CoreOS and performance optimization in his high frequency trading days.\n\nCenter - [Rob](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robszumski/) - CEO and product leader. He was a Director of Product at Red Hat working on the OpenShift/Kubernetes platform after their acquisition of CoreOS (YC S13).\n\nRight - [Russell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellhaering/) - CTO and master of backend systems. He ran security engineering at Okta after their acquisition of ScaleFT, the zero trust access management startup he cofounded.\n\n## The Problem: securing software still feels like throwing problems over a wall\n\nSecurity teams have important work to do – meeting a maze of compliance rules against a constantly moving target of dependencies, frameworks and deployment platforms. Automation is key, but security teams aren’t experts in each app, so “open a ticket for any vulnerability found” is a typical workflow. This is a firehose for app teams, and tickets don’t contain the context needed for a speedy investigation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69144&key=user_uploads/230598/201aef87-ad12-4842-9b9d-f423f8ccd315)\n\nLooking beyond compliance, real attacks are happening via software dependencies. For a single library, it’s tricky to securely download, integrate, sign and verify it…and very hard for 100s of dependencies across multiple apps. An enterprise can use [40,000 open-source software packages](https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/05/supply_chain_security_efforts/) each bringing another 77 dependencies.\n\nAn end-to-end system across the build→scan→run→monitor is required to stop these attacks. Dependencies are fragmented across OS packages, standalone binaries and containers, but a single view across all is required to understand the full attack surface.\n\n## EdgeBit: Map your supply chain from build to production in real time\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69144&key=user_uploads/230598/9872f16b-3980-4c64-bf6f-fe47a5f82262)\n\nEdgeBit builds up context and trust by observing your software from build until deployment to your server fleet. How does it work? Install EdgeBit into your build pipeline and your server fleet/Kubernetes cluster via a tiny agent to immediately enable teams to bring vulnerabilities under control:\n\n* Security: track workload signatures, provenance and prevent malicious modification\n* Compliance: build a real time inventory tracked back to the software’s bill of materials (SBOM)\n* Engineering: prioritize vulnerability investigation based on deep context\n* Enterprises: track patching across teams. 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Every enterprise deployment became a custom engineering project, slowing down sales, consuming engineering resources, and creating ongoing operational complexity.\n\nWe built Omnistrate to change that — enabling software companies to deploy, manage, and scale their products in any customer environment without building and maintaining their own control plane.\n\n### **Three common use cases**\n\n**1. 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Sell through AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplaces**\n\nLaunch and transact through the major cloud marketplaces without building separate fulfillment and billing integrations for each provider.\n\nOmnistrate helps with the end-to-end motion including marketplace enablement, fulfillment, subscriptions, metering, billing, and integration with your product. We also work with you on the listing (we partner with Suger, another YC company) and cloud co-sell motion.\n\nTo learn more, please see this blog: \n\n### **What Omnistrate handles**\n\nYour generated control plane can automate:\n\n* Infrastructure provisioning and configuration\n* Application deployment, scaling, and upgrades\n* Customer self-service deployments\n* Tenant and subscription management\n* Observability and health monitoring\n* Backups, recovery, drift detection, and Day-2 operations\n* Security, governance, RBAC, and auditability\n* Metering, billing, licensing, and entitlements\n* Cloud Marketplace fulfillment\n* Fleet-wide operations across customer environments\n* and more: [**https://docs.omnistrate.com/**](https://docs.omnistrate.com/)\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\nBring what you already have — container images, Docker Compose, Helm charts, Kustomize manifests, Kubernetes Operators, Terraform/IaC, or your existing deployment artifacts.\n\nDefine how your product should be deployed and operated in Claude (or your favorite codex), and we will translate that into a declarative spec and then use that to generate your **private-label control plane running in your account**.\n\nThat control plane manages the infrastructure and application lifecycle across your different customer environments.\n\nFor customer-hosted deployments, your customer's workloads and data stay in their environment. 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The endpoint is smart enough to handle a broad range of use cases and automatically adjust based on usage to optimize for the cost, scale, performance without compromising on the security or reliability\n* AaaS: If you are looking to build next-gen experience where each customer gets a **personalized experience** based on their organization, workloads, and data or distribute your agents\n\nTo learn more more about different distribution models, see this blog: https://blog.omnistrate.com/posts/152\n\nTo learn more on how we are different than CI/CD, IaC, or PaaS systems: https://omnistrate.com/control-plane-demystified\n\n### **Why we built Omnistrate:**\n\nGiven the complexities of Control Plane, most DIY control planes become fragile, siloed, and a blocker to innovation. 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Let’s say you have an open-source software (e.g. MongoDB), and you want to monetize your invention by building a multi-cloud SaaS solution (e.g. MongoDB Atlas), you can either spend years doing it yourself, or use Omnistrate to do it in no time.\n\nHello everyone - it’s Kamal and Alok here introducing [Omnistrate](https://www.omnistrate.com)!\n\n### **🤯 Problem**\n\n* Going from Software to SaaS can **take months or even years**. Moreover, it can take several attempts for enterprises to find their product-market fit making it **extremely costly** to experiment.\n* Cloud is **complicated** with so many different services, cloud providers, and a rapidly evolving landscape.\n* Building a SaaS service from scratch to do undifferentiated heavy-lifting **distracts** enterprise from the core innovation and adds significant **risk** to their business.\n\n### **💡 Solution**\n\n* Omnistrate makes it **simple, quick** and **cost-effective**, saving years of development time and resources. And we do this, for every cloud provider across the globe out of the box.\n* Omnistrate abstracts away all the cloud complexities and make it **super** **easy** to build cloud-native services.\n* In a fast moving world, enterprises need a platform that allows them to **successfully experiment**, without shifting their focus or taking a massive business risk.\n\n### **📜 Our Story**\n\nI was part of the AWS founding team, and built **more than half-a-dozen cloud services** over the years (2007-2020) across different domains. During my early days at AWS, I was one of the **original authors of AWS control plane** that was used to host open-source technologies by numerous AWS services.\n\nAlok and I met at AWS Aurora when I was running the database engineering for a **billion dollar SaaS business**, managing millions of databases. Alok was the original technical author of Aurora Serverless, which revolutionized the data systems space. He then went to Cisco to scale networking pipeline (packets-per-second) on AWS by 10-15x.\n\nWe reunited again at Confluent in 2020 where I ran the Kafka engineering at Confluent and grew their multi-cloud Kafka offering to **200MM+ ARR business managing over 100,000 containers**. Alok played a key role there in scaling Kafka Cloud throughput by 5x, and reducing Kafka Cloud latencies by 10x to really distinguish Confluent Kafka offering from other vendors.\n\nWith Omnistrate, we want to **share our learnings into a fully automated platform** by getting rid of the undifferentiated work and making it simple for anyone to build a SaaS service.\n\n### **⚒️ How it works**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70134&key=user_uploads/1159729/57ff5a13-a71a-4853-8370-f46493442817)\n\nYou start by simply bringing your docker image. Omnistrate, from then on, will seamlessly build your SaaS and runs it on auto-pilot. At every step of the process, you retain full control, the ability to innovate on your product and the ability to integrate with your favorite tools or services.\n\n### **🫶 Ask**\n\nIf you are **looking to SaaSify your open-source (or any other software)**, please sign-up [here](https://omnistrate.com/demo) and we will create an account for you to provide a white glove experience. We will then come on a quick call to get you up and running in a few minutes.\n\nIf you know someone who could benefit, please reach out to us at: [founders@omnistrate.com](mailto:founders@omnistrate.com)\n\nIf you are excited about the SaaS space, please join our [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/cloudnative-u5h1399/shared_invite/zt-1qf3cgi37-lCV1vKJlrBioqGuVjKBtyw) community\n\n### **⭐️ Our YC deal:**\n\nPlease see this: \n\nFor any questions on the deal, please reach out to us at [yc@omnistrate.com](https://mailto:yc@omnistrate.com)\n\nThank you! 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Using LLMs, we can save the typical restaurant owner $60,000 in labor costs per store annually.\n\nHi YC community - Adam Proschek (right) and Will Edwards (center) here - founders of [OfOne](https://www.of.one/). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69517&key=user_uploads/1162985/20300ff2-47c3-4229-83f1-f4987fe5ffd1)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nQuick-service restaurants are a $300B industry in the United States, comprising roughly 300,000 individual restaurant units. These businesses are low-margin with food & labor costs making up \\~70% of OPEX. In recent years, operators (many of whom are immigrants and small business owners) have been getting squeezed as inflation and wages rise and labor becomes more scarce.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nOfOne is helping fast food operators make more money by automating their largest ordering channel: the drive-thru.\n\nThere are 200,000 drive-thrus in the United States and in many cases they contribute 70%+ of order volume. They are also expensive, costing on average $14.00 per hour to staff and operating for 12 hours per day - representing $12B in aggregate labor costs.\n\nWe’re offsetting these labor costs by automating the end-to-end ordering process - from greeting customers to answering questions to processing orders through the point-of-sale. Plus, it works with existing drive-thru audio systems.\n\nAdditionally, OfOne can intelligently upsell - like suggesting ice cream on a hot day - and always says please and thank you, raising average order size and improving customer experience.\n\nWe currently have signed & deployed pilots at major national chain stores.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69517&key=user_uploads/1162985/7d2fbb4f-dcc7-456f-b7d4-d5dcd518392a)\n\n### **Why we’re building OfOne:**\n\nWe both know the quick-service industry well from building Crew (acq. by Square in 2021), which sold employee communication software to QSR brands, like Taco Bell.\n\nThrough this experience, we built valuable industry relationships and more importantly gained an in-depth understanding of how critical controlling labor costs is for restaurant success. Frankly, it can be the difference between a growing business and defaulting on interest payments for a personally guaranteed loan.\n\n### **Our Ask:**\n\nIf you have any connections with **franchisees**, **multi-unit restaurant operators**, or **leaders at corporate brands** (e.g., Taco Bell Corporate), we’d love to speak with them and share how we can help!\n\n_Here’s a quick blurb you can copy and paste_: A team of restaurant tech entrepreneurs recently launched an AI-powered order taker for quick-service restaurant drive-thrus. They are helping operators boost margins by reducing labor costs and increasing order sizes. You can contact [will@of.one](mailto:will@of.one) for more information.\n\nIf easier, I can also craft an easily forwardable email for you. 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Vickie, Jeff, and I (Ruoni) are excited to introduce [OpenSight](https://www.opensight.ai)!\n\n**_Tl;dr_**_: OpenSight is a customer support automation tool that resolves **>70% of your customers’ questions** by automating actions in addition to providing text-based responses._\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\nYou are a B2C SaaS, e-Commerce, Marketplace, FinTech company with tons of tickets growing every day, support is becoming really expensive and **your Intercom bot solves 30% of the tickets** after either you or your head of ops **spent hundreds of hours finding and creating examples to train the bot.** (A notable portion of which are customers who just rage quit and counted as contained)\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n### Automatic Answering Bot\n\n* Learn from your FAQ, past agent responses AND agent actions to **2-3x your current chatbot’s containment to 70 - 90%**\n* Give your customer **precise answers** to the question asked (**check out** [**this comparison**](https://www.loom.com/share/ef944404f6e74ce3a0ea756ecf57b78a) **of our answer bot vs. Stripe’s help center and doc, and try it yourself** [**here**](https://stripe-demo.opensight.ai))\n* **More than just a simple embeddings search fed into GPT** - our proprietary algorithm uses statistical modeling to adjust answer relevancy and filter out irrelevant or case-specific content to ensure vetted and up-to-date answers\n* Promptly perform the actions that your customers request when the right conditions are met\n\n### Agent Assist\n\n* Draft answers and allow agents to **perform lengthy yet repetitive actions** with **a single click**, saving up to **80% of handle time**\n* Surface the **relevant customer data** at the **right time** to give your agents confidence without cluttering their workspace with unnecessary details\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69276&key=user_uploads/699631/93ad40ec-16f6-4bca-8ca7-581efe7ac9c3)\n\n\n## **⚙️ How it works**\n\n1. 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Email** [**sales@justpaid.ai**](mailto:sales@justpaid.ai)\n\n_Story on the founders:_\n\nJustPaid.ai is the brainchild of Anelya Grant, Daniel Kivatinos, and Vinay Pinnaka.\n\nAnelya is a two-time female founder with a profound understanding of accounting and finance. She led a top accounting practice for tech startups in Silicon Valley for 15 years.\n\nDaniel is a two-time founder and the co-founder of DrChrono, the first YC healthcare company and one of the YC’s top healthcare exits.\n\nVinay is an exceptional software talent with expertise in ML and AI and years of experience building complex billing architecture.\n\nAccounts Receivable is a massive multibillion-dollar market, with around 12%—15% projected growth over the next few years. 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This is what we’re here to resolve.\n\nOn average, United States businesses lose over $300,000 per year alone from invoice fraud totaling $12B. Don’t be a statistic. \n\nWith expanding teams, a lot of vendor workflows are stuck in Slack and inboxes.  We are automating workflows to successfully manage vendors, including contracts, projected spend, W9/W8BEn collection, payment approval and remittance. \n\n### Solution\n\nSaving thousands of dollars in real-time overview of your usage and billing, [JustPaid.io](http://JustPaid.io) provides a centralized experience to automate and manage vendor relationships, overspending, and more to ensure no matter the stage of your organization, you are always in control.\n\nWe collect data from your contracts all in one dashboard and compare it to both your historical as well as ongoing spend. We work with your existing bill payment solution or you can leverage our multi-approval workflow.\n\n### Backstory\n\nOur backstory is founded on personal experience that is often shared by many in the YC Community:\n\n“_My firm and I were handling all the bookkeeping, accounting and controller functions for over 1,000 startups in the past 10 years. It’s the same issues with the lack of workflow. There is always the same persistent disconnect of management and finance teams. Endless emails between so many stakeholders due to the contract negotiation process with no meaningful control when the bill is due. Additionally, collecting W9/W8BEN forms, and setting up payment accounts.”_ \n\n_- Anelya Grant // Co-CEO_ [_JustPaid.io_](http://JustPaid.io) _(Loopfour)_\n\n_“As a second-time founder, I know it can be a burden to keep a daily eye on spend, yet it is a necessary part of running a successful startup looking into what is owed and what is paid. I wanted to create a tool I wish I had that gave real-time financial insights. Founders and their teams need a copilot providing a usable dashboard to make them certain about cash flow visibility into their company, giving financial insights real-time.”_\n\n_- Daniel Kivatinos // Co-CEO_ [_JustPaid.io_](http://JustPaid.io) _(Loopfour)_\n\n_“I want every founder out there to have accurate financial information at their fingertips so that every employee can feel secure.”_\n\n_- Vinay Pinnaka // Co-Founder and Founding Engineer_ [_JustPaid.io_](http://JustPaid.io) _(Loopfour)_\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/aaAXDhjlpZgFRCKiGdU36ksQkCeDyTb-2lNZJYaYrw3Dcle9U271Z_ic4GI8zI6E-Zz1a8MbEPerpl0I76302PBIhVIZVyyaw-Y2bN7FA3jLrCTkEcu0oeGtFV96yBDco3HngTqTXMuyGGGdzKOKhMs)\n\n### Asks\n\nFrom [_JustPaid.io_](http://JustPaid.io) _(Loopfour)_, YC members and others are able to easily self-onboard, connect bank accounts and provide contracts to jump-start the process of agreed vs. charged bill analysis and manage payments. 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Baptiste led the Internal Tools engineering team initially, then worked on Data Operations while Anne-Charlotte built and scaled the Revenue Operations team. 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Just before founding Gluetrail, I was responsible for Revenue Operations at Algolia (YC W14).\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/annecharlottechauvettissot/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7dfb4e07bbe9802fe81a7e037656fc30a5d0c0e6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1189125, "full_name": "Baptiste Coquelle", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "10+ years in software development applied to Operation and Strategy.\nI had the chance of joining Algolia early stage and to work on many different layers in the data space: data automation, data pipeline, data analytics and most recently, business modeling in sales led and product led motion, where there is still so much to do!", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/baptistecoquelle/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4710815d2d6a029d08d7d2455438f0f8f6d459f2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68415, "title": "✨ Gluetrail - empowering non tech teams to build internal tools, in minutes", "tagline": "No code SaaS allowing no tech teams to build internal tools autonomously", "body": "**TL;DR** [**Gluetrail**](https://www.gluetrail.com/) is a no-code SaaS application that allows non-technical teams to build internal tools autonomously, on top of their existing business systems and databases. Have a look at our [**template library**](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) or contact us with any use case you’d like help with; sign up [**here**](https://www.gluetrail.com/) to request free trial access.\n\n### **🛠️ THE PROBLEM WITH BUILDING INTERNAL TOOLS**\n\n* **Operational teams rely heavily on internal tools.**\n* They know best the challenges they need these tools to solve, and have **the most urgency** for them.\n* But **they are not autonomous to build and maintain them**.\n\nWhy? Because building internal tools requires knowing how to write and maintain code.\n\n_A short story about a simple use case is worth a thousand words…_\n\nJohn from the Ops team wants to drive his sales team’s productivity by building and sending forms on Slack (with buttons, input, datetime etc.) and process that information back to his CRM, HubSpot. For example, sending a form like this to update deals’ close dates that are past due:\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/-4DOLazJmJHGcHsg7aHXz2Ssy1rlRWy3zkaHokyGVxRQ8K05Cz56ohVxpjpkX_qd4RFynIJUOEBIW2dgkIKaPG31AugDRGZEQENIL7nNp-LoeqXd6fUiF3JsEotM1Kdt1jpHjWGL-IoIGI2xFerDYkw)\n\nHe looks at options to build this but none of them are suitable:\n\n* **Ask his dev team**: his request is low priority in the backlog and he knows he’ll have to go back often to the dev team for maintenance after the tool is built.\n* **Leverage internal tools builders**: these tools are built for developers and require knowing how to code. The technical bar is too high for John to get started and build quickly.\n* **Use no-code workflow tools**: his use case requires building end-user interfaces (Slack notifications with a form and buttons), which is something these tools don’t handle easily without having to code.\n\n### **🤖 THE SOLUTION**\n\nHere's a [**1mn video demo**](https://www.gluetrail.com/use-case/video-demo) of how John built, in Gluetrail, his Slack notifications allowing reps to update HubSpot, without any code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/7e6a88e2-b8e6-4f67-94b4-fd7f5abc2685)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/cc1c8bf2-c3f7-4835-a999-4a0fc67a17aa)\n\n[Gluetrail](https://www.gluetrail.com) empowers non-technical teams to build business critical internal apps autonomously, literally in minutes. We do this with:\n\n* **A no-code interface**\n* **Automations and UI components** to build web, Slack or Chrome extension based interfaces \n* **Integrations** with 3rd party systems like HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, OpenAI, Slack, Postgres, BigQuery and others.\n\nOur [template library](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) features some use cases you can replicate in Gluetrail. \n\n### **🚀 Give it a try!**\n\nWe offer **14-day free trials to get started**. Our pricing is license based for internal tool builders and front-end users, and comes with unlimited app builds and runs.\n\nYou can get in touch with us by **signing up on our** [**website**](https://www.gluetrail.com) (we’ll follow up quickly!) or emailing us directly at [annecharlotte@gluetrail.com](mailto:annecharlotte@gluetrail.com).  ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HnT-gluetrail-empowering-non-tech-teams-to-build-internal-tools-in-minutes", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-01-13T11:01:42.171Z" } ] }, { "id": 27819, "name": "FlexWash", "slug": "flexwash", "former_names": [ "FlexWash Technologies, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/91e7c3ac7ae72c11b4d5a3c04877460cac5d2d3d.png", "website": "https://www.flexwash.com/", "all_locations": "Temecula, CA, USA", "long_description": "Car washing is a $15B market in dire need of disruption. Legacy systems are costly, out of date, and inflexible. 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This business had no subscription program, which by this point had become a popular thing in the car wash industry. The site was also surrounded by several well established competitors.\\\\Instead of offering an identical subscription model that gave customers a single wash unlimited I wanted to do something different. Our subscription gave customers more flexibility and combined multiple packages from our menu, allowing them to both clean the car themselves and take advantage of options where we cleaned the car for them all for a recurring monthly fee.\\\\I searched the industry for a solution that would help me do this and found none. All existing solutions were inflexible and came with quotes over $100K. 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We ran into several pain points trying to run our car wash with existing solutions, so we built our own.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/chirag-singh-toor-94713aa7", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a898bb3afef30388c77c6dee1a936a84199bb4ac.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69970, "title": "🚘💦FlexWash - An operating system for car washes", "tagline": "We make all the software car washes need to manage operations and revenue.", "body": "Hi, we’re [Chirag](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/165993) and [Karan](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/968288), founders of [Flex Wash](https://www.flexwashtech.com/), based in Temecula CA. We have decades of software development experience and ran a car wash ourselves.\n\n**Flex Wash is an operating system for the car wash industry. We help owners manage their operations and grow their revenue.**\n\nCar washing is an industry no one ever thinks about, especially software companies. But they should! This is a $15B industry that is rapidly evolving with publicly traded companies and franchises entering the space for the first time in history.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCar washes have complex technology needs beyond just normal retail\n\n* 🚗 License plate recognition and tracking\n* 💰 Monthly subscription management\n* 🧑 Customer retargeting\n* ⚙️ Complex maintenance for equipment that costs up to $1M\n\nCurrent solutions in this space are\n\n* 💲 Costly, charge big upfront fees for custom hardware (up to $100K)\n* 📟 Out of date, require ancient versions of Windows on-premise servers\n* 🩼 Inflexible, software is sold in static licenses rather than as a service\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nWe offer car wash operators a system that is:\n\n* 😺 Affordable, just a monthly SaaS fee\n* 📱 Compatible with generic hardware (< $700)\n* ☁️ Runs in the cloud, operators can focus on car washing, not servers\n* 💰 Modern, we use vehicle wash history to funnel customers to high-margin subscriptions\n\n### We know this because we ran a car wash ourselves. We faced these issues first hand and that is why we got together to build FlexWash. Our solution not only saves operators money but helps them better manage operations and boost revenue.\n\n\\\n**The Ask**\n\n* **Own a car wash? … We’d love to give you a demo**\n* **Don’t own a car wash? … Refer anyone in your network, especially your favorite car wash, please.**\n* **Car wash enthusiast? … We’d love to chat.**\n\nReach us at [karan@flexwashtech.com](mailto:karan@flexwashtech.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICY-flexwash-an-operating-system-for-car-washes", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-03-06T18:25:19.584Z" } ] }, { "id": 27820, "name": "LaunchFlow", "slug": "launchflow", "former_names": [ "FlowState", "Inlet", "launchflow", "LaunchFlow", "infra.new", "LaunchFlow / infra.new", "infra.new" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ba2bf3c743512b0b3cda71e1f81a113f9c1c05c.png", "website": "https://www.launchflow.com/", "all_locations": "Eugene, OR, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Still cooking...\r\n\r\nReach out to josh@launchflow.com if you'd like early access.", "one_liner": "Collaborative workspace for internal tools and agents", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1675872738, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Operations", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/launchflow", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/launchflow.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Eugene", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/launchflow-inc/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/launchflow", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ba2bf3c743512b0b3cda71e1f81a113f9c1c05c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 808343, "full_name": "Josh Tanke", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Previously helped scale data & ml infra at Google[X] and Google Life Sciences.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-tanke", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/josh_tanke", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c649a4cb7f132d3ad990c2cf36ec6e0f0b9d86ff.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87449, "title": "Infra.new - AI Copilot for Cloud DevOps", "tagline": "Save money and ship faster on AWS, GCP, and Azure.", "body": "**tl;dr**\\\n[**infra.new**](http://infra.new) is an AI DevTool that configures your cloud infrastructure for cost and security.\n\nYou can set up your entire infrastructure stack from scratch or import your GitHub repository to optimize your existing configuration.\n\nTry it now at [**infra.new**](http://infra.new) – no signup required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87449&key=user_uploads/808343/7e666222-a6d5-4cc8-887e-f341c3d8f10d)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\n---\n\nHey everyone,\n\nWe're excited to launch [**infra.new**](http://infra.new)—your AI Copilot for Cloud DevOps.\n\nThe cloud is complicated. Engineering teams waste countless hours configuring Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and other related DevOps tooling. Whether you’re setting up a new project or reconfiguring an existing one, manual configurations and unpredictable costs can slow you down.\n\nWe’re building an AI agent specialized in configuring the cloud so engineering teams can focus on shipping their product without sacrificing control or cost.\n\n### **Problems with LLMs and DevOps**\n\n* **Stale Documentation & Configuration Errors:**\\\n LLMs often reference outdated docs and hallucinate fields that don’t exist, resulting in misconfigurations that can cost you time and money.\n* **Hidden Cloud Costs:**\\\n A single tweak can unexpectedly spike your expenses. Without clear visibility, planning your budget is a guessing game.\n* **Lack of Context:**\\\n General-purpose coding agents are great at updating application code, but often struggle to find the subtle connections between different configuration files.\n* **Bad Training Data:**\\\n LLMs will generate an average of the content they see online, but the average cloud configuration online is messy and filled with bugs. Most IaC on Reddit is related to junior devs asking about their configuration.\n\n### **Our Solutions**\n\n* **Fresh Documentation:**\\\n The agent pulls the latest documentation for Terraform, GitHub Actions, and other tools before every change, ensuring your configurations are accurate and current.\n* **Real-Time Cost Calculator:**\\\n You can see a complete breakdown of your cloud costs update in real-time as your configuration changes, so you know exactly how much it will cost before you deploy.\n* **Automated Error Detection & Fixes:**\\\n A dedicated language server scans your configuration for issues and applies fixes automatically, reducing manual debugging.\n* **Expert-Guided Best Practices:**\\\n The agent has access to a corpus of expert human examples that it references to produce configuration that is optimized for performance and security.\n* **Two-Way GitHub Sync:**\\\n Import your existing Terraform, see what it currently costs, ask the agent to look for optimizations, then export any changes back to GitHub.\n\n### **Demo**\n\nWatch me use [infra.new](http://infra.new) to reduce our AWS bill from $400 to $150 with little to no effort in the video below\n\n[Infra.new](http://Infra.new) [Demo - AWS](https://www.loom.com/share/3b7d85b25fd94cfd93ca19c39c188618?sid=f9ca58ca-6bd3-4b97-bd3b-46c842ea8160)\n\n### **Contact Us**\n\nIf you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to reach out!\n\nEmail the founders at [founders@launchflow.com](mailto:founders@launchflow.com) or book some time to chat at ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MkT-infra-new-ai-copilot-for-cloud-devops", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-02-05T19:28:23.002Z" }, { "id": 82326, "title": "LaunchFlow - A Terraform / Pulumi alternative for Python developers", "tagline": "Automate infrastructure on GCP and AWS with Python", "body": "[**LaunchFlow**](https://launchflow.com/) is an Infrastructure as Code Python SDK that extends OpenTofu with features like [**multi-environment support**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/environments), [**autoconfigured infrastructure clients**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/resources), and [**API release management**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/services).\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=82326&key=user_uploads/808343/d6958b07-d5be-4547-b751-173b033339c5)\n\nYou can add GCP / AWS infrastructure to your app with a single line of code - all infrastructure types ship with built-in clients that automatically connect to your infrastructure across multiple environments. Includes integrations with [**FastAPI**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/framework-guides/fastapi), [**Flask**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/framework-guides/flask), and [**Django**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/framework-guides/django).\n\n**Try it out**\n\nIt only takes 3 commands to launch your first app to GCP or AWS\n\n1. install the Python SDK with pip\n\n ```\n $ pip install launchflow \n ```\n2. setup launchflow in any Python project\n\n ```\n $ lf init \n ```\n3. deploy everything used in your code to GCP / AWS\n\n ```\n $ lf deploy {env} \n ```\n\nFollow the [**Get Started Guide**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/get-started) to launch an example FastAPI app in a matter of minutes.\n\nNo account required.\n\n**Easily collaborate with your team**\n\nLaunchFlow Cloud is an optional service you can use to create collaborative cloud environments that automatically share infrastructure, configuration, and secrets with your team. You can also access preconfigured GitHub release pipelines, audit logs, RBAC security, and more.\n\n![](https://www.launchflow.com/_next/image?url=%2Fhome%2Fconsole.png&w=2048&q=75)\n\nYou and a teammate can try LaunchFlow Cloud 100% free forever - signup at [**console.launchflow.com**](http://console.launchflow.com/) to get started.\n\n**Contact us**\n\nIf you are interested in anything mentioned above, we would love to hear from you!\n\nYou can email us at [**team@launchflow.com**](mailto:team@launchflow.com) or book some time on [**my calendar**](https://calendly.com/josh-from-launchflow/chat).\n\nHappy launching! 🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LPq-launchflow-a-terraform-pulumi-alternative-for-python-developers", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2024-07-22T20:54:00.610Z" }, { "id": 80185, "title": "LaunchFlow: A better developer experience on GCP and AWS", "tagline": "The easiest way to build Python apps on GCP and AWS", "body": "## **TLDR**\n\n[**LaunchFlow**](https://www.launchflow.com/) manages cloud environments in your own GCP / AWS account that are secure, scalable, and cost-effective by default. Import Postgres, Redis, and other cloud resources in your Python code, then deploy everything to your cloud with a single command.\n\n—\n\nLaunchFlow is an [**infrastructure-from-code**](https://infrastructurefromcode.com/) tool that aims to dramatically improve your developer experience on GCP and AWS. We automatically deploy infrastructure to dedicated environments in your cloud as you use it in your code and ensure it's configured for both local development and production deployments.\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nWe believe managing and using cloud infrastructure is far more complex than it should be. It's hard to set up deployment pipelines. It's frustrating to run your application locally. It's annoying to keep your cloud configuration in sync with your application code.\n\nMost teams cobble together their own DevOps automations using a mixture of Terraform, Pulumi, custom scripts, and environment variables. These automations are great when they work but are often brittle and eventually become the main source of overall system complexity.\n\nWe believe there's a better way.\n\n## **The Way**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/86TIu-MtInbRpmbfJWeL50XX54rQ0LV8KadWXaHHZJyZ9pmJ6ZMCKUwHoDLmDDukyiDubynyYQShtBsOLdrrdf08-ZYYEflSKKUIhrb7x9OY8YMNs_OBI_0ydBleeUpuU-jZqe2ycmB_N-PynbDzc7U)\n\nUse LaunchFlow’s Python SDK to import Postgres, Redis, and other cloud resources in your Python code, then deploy everything to dedicated environments in your cloud with a single command.\n\nEverything in the LaunchFlow ecosystem is fully configured for local development and cloud deployments by default.\n\n**Environments**\n\nLaunchFlow **deploys** and **manages** your infrastructure inside [**Environments**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/environments) that run in your own cloud account. These Environments satisfy most compliance requirements by default and are automatically configured for cost, security, and reliability.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Qa6mHTluFv0JTJqD6JwWs9vzQHmZxtn5j54fqvXUTmieIg20B7nBtZIrTOJ3SquGLPJaYtHvGHUKMuHOmv1zLJge7zLy5KYr8pNzmeSX3abNorK2DQ3I2_2iV6qNP6bRMsh80d1jZFUpjUmAURGpLcY)\n\n**Resources**\n\nYou can **create** and **connect** to cloud [**Resources**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/resources) in an Environment by simply importing them into your code. Our SDK provides ready-to-use client APIs for every Resource so you can immediately start using them in your application both locally and when deployed.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80185&key=user_uploads/808343/085c12a5-8f53-44b9-8a97-1799f53ff2f4)\n\n**Deployments**\n\nYou can **build** and **deploy** Python applications in the same environment as your resources with a single command. LaunchFlow [**Services**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/services) lets you deploy your APIs to GCP / AWS with all resource permissions and networking settings automatically configured. We will be adding Jobs and Notebook deployments in the next couple of months.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80185&key=user_uploads/808343/b7c23093-c085-4a3d-97ac-60ebb78d92f5)\n\n## **Works anywhere that Python runs**\n\nLaunchFlow Resources manages its own configuration and can be plugged into any existing Python app. We’re framework-agnostic and work anywhere that Python runs - we also include a library of common utilities for building FastAPI, Flask, and Django apps on the cloud.\n\n## **Why not just use Terraform / Pulumi?**\n\nTools like Terraform and Pulumi make it easy to automate cloud infrastructure, but there is still an added cost of maintaining a separate IaC tool and keeping it in sync with your application encode.\n\nOn top of this, these tools only help you create the infrastructure, but they don't help you actually _use_ it. Engineers can spin up infrastructure in a few minutes, but they'll often spend the rest of the day (or longer) stumbling through docs and blogs, trying to figure out how to actually connect it to their application.\n\nThings only get worse once you add a release pipeline into the mix and now need to figure out how to structure your code to work across multiple environments.\n\nThis creates a tradeoff between automation and overall system complexity, which is why many teams put off IaC practices until they can afford a DevOps engineer/team to maintain the automations for the company.\n\n## **Our ask**\n\nWe are looking for pilot users who would like to start using LaunchFlow today.\n\nIf you’re interested in using LaunchFlow, please email me at [**josh@launchflow.com**](mailto:josh@launchflow.com) or schedule a demo call using my [**Calendly**](https://calendly.com/josh-from-launchflow/one-on-one-with-josh-founder).\n\nHappy launching! 🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KrJ-launchflow-a-better-developer-experience-on-gcp-and-aws", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-04-15T17:39:39.355Z" } ] }, { "id": 27821, "name": "PoplarML", "slug": "poplarml", "former_names": [ "Poplar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e108e35156cecf90efeb1f504d510fca87ce7b44.png", "website": "http://poplarml.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "PoplarML lets you deploy any machine learning model to a fleet of GPUs as a ready-to-use and scalable API endpoint with one command.", "one_liner": "Deploy Machine Learning Models with One Command", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1674681330, "tags": [ "AIOps", "Machine Learning", "B2B", "API", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/poplarml", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/poplarml.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/poplarml/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/PoplarML", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e108e35156cecf90efeb1f504d510fca87ce7b44.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 522488, "full_name": "Danna Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of PoplarML, Previously Research @ Snap, SWE @ Stripe, Coinbase, Microsoft, PagerDuty", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/dnaliu", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dnaliu17", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f8031b2bc79dd8cb941d56543eeafeb8ed6f8cc6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 556433, "full_name": "Evan Chu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder @ PoplarML. Previously SWE @ Stripe, Amazon, AWS", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-j-chu/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/evan_j_chu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/30d3a5d172cfeb2c14891b4ab942650f2de5090b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69447, "title": "🌳 PoplarML – Deploy machine learning models with one command", "tagline": "Deploy any machine learning model to a fleet of GPUs as a ready-to-use and scalable API endpoint with one command", "body": "👋 Hey Everyone, this is Danna and Evan, and we’re super excited to introduce PoplarML!\n\n### 📖 **TL;DR**\n\nBuilding deployment infrastructure for machine learning models is difficult and time-consuming. With PoplarML, you can replace that process with one simple command. We handle all of the infrastructure to deploy and serve at scale, enabling you to focus on building your product.\n\n### ❌ **The Problem**\n\nAI-powered products have grown in popularity but many are deterred by the challenges to bring their models to life. Deploying a machine learning model to production is complex and requires a heavy engineering lift. Building the infrastructure to support ML models takes days, increasing the time to ship your product. \n\n## ⚡ **The Solution**\n\nPoplarML helps teams easily deploy custom machine-learning models to production. With one simple CLI command, you can turn your model into an API endpoint that you can integrate with the rest of your product. Our endpoints come with auto-scaling out of the box, ensuring low-latency when there are bursts of requests to your model.\n\nPoplarML can deploy any custom model, regardless of the framework used. Some examples of models that our customers have deployed on PoplarML are: \n\n* Flan-T5-XXL\n* Whisper\n* Stable-Diffusion-2\n\n### 🤖 **How it Works**\n\n1. ✏️ Define a Load and Predict function in a [main.py](http://main.py) file\n2. 💻 Use our CLI tool to pick a GPU instance and deploy your model\n3. 🚀 Use the returned API endpoint in your product\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69447&key=user_uploads/522488/30758efd-4ce3-48d0-94be-e43093ad027f)\n\n### 💡 **Why PoplarML was Built**\n\nWe have personally felt the pain of deploying models to production and have previously built ML deployment infrastructure at companies such as Amazon and Snapchat. With PoplarML, we would like to provide a better and more streamlined experience for ML development. \n\n### **🙌 Our Asks**\n\n* Reach out via our [contact us](https://poplarml.com/contact.html) form or book a time directly on our [calendly](https://calendly.com/poplarml/15min) if you want to try PoplarML\n* Share this with anyone you know building AI-powered products or companies\n* Upvote and share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I47-poplarml-deploy-machine-learning-models-with-one-command", "votes": 297, "created_at": "2023-02-20T18:57:45.405Z" } ] }, { "id": 27822, "name": "GovEagle", "slug": "goveagle", "former_names": [ "Sage (Placeholder)", "Zenfetch", "ZenFetch", "Zenfetch" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0586ceaa695a4fbf233b89bbafdc3195a9fc128e.png", "website": "https://www.goveagle.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "GovEagle is an AI-native platform built to help public sector teams find, win, and manage work.", "one_liner": "AI for Government Contractors", "team_size": 25, "industry": "Government", "subindustry": "Government", "launched_at": 1678919888, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Government" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/goveagle.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goveagle1", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0586ceaa695a4fbf233b89bbafdc3195a9fc128e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 578463, "full_name": "Akash Mandavilli", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Akash is currently the co-founder of GovEagle. Before GovEagle, Akash was a Product Manager at Meta working on virtual reality co-presence and WhatsApp ads. Akash also spent time at IBM working on federal sales operations and predictive analytics. Akash graduated from Johns Hopkins with a degree in Economics and Computer Science. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashmandavilli/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AkashMandavill4", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dd411c24b3c0a21cd4410ab171cddcf237056c26.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1856015, "full_name": "Gabe Villasana", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Gabe is the cofounder and CTO of GovEagle, an AI platform to help government contractors win more awards. Prior to GovEagle, Gabe was the founding ML engineer for Stripe's Financial Crimes team and has led ML research at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-villasana/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GabeVillasana", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e8519341d8c1410bd7670abceedf64f964861bd4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 114986, "title": "Sales Development Representative (SDR)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle/jobs/uYPkFY4-sales-development-representative-sdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.01% - 0.10%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84598, "title": "GovEagle - Win more government awards, faster", "tagline": "Government RFP to compliant first-draft in hours instead of days, powered by secure AI. ", "body": "**TL;DR:** \n\n[GovEagle](https://www.goveagle.com/) is an AI-powered proposal writer. GovEagle understands your past proposals, past performance, and more to generate a compliant first draft in your templates, voice, and style. GovEagle does all this in 60 minutes instead of 60 hours. \n\n# **The Problem:**\n\n* Government contractors spend weeks on each proposal they submit. These submissions are dozens of pages encompassing multiple volumes and appendices.  \n* Timelines for RFPs are often tight and unpredictable, leading to late nights/weekends at the best and forsaken opportunities at the worst. \n* Government solicitations have strict compliance requirements - missing simple things like the correct font size can lead to disqualification\n* Subject matter experts and program managers often spend more time on proposals and paperwork than on customer-facing work or developing new capabilities\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n[GovEagle](http://www.goveagle.com) AI uses your past proposals, past performance, and more to generate a compliant first draft in < 60 minutes. The GovEagle platform produces a complete compliance matrix, generates a compliant outline, exports a first draft in your template, and supports compliance and quality reviews throughout the process.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84598&key=user_uploads/578463/1c59c85e-80bb-4871-b171-33eb0235bc70)\n\n### **Compliance Shred**\n\nGovEagle shreds the RFP, PWS/SOW, and any additional attachments provided with the solicitation. This goes beyond just ‘shall’ terms, GovEagle will find any requirement regardless of how it’s phrased. From here, you can filter and search to make a bid/no-bid decision. \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXenZGySD30oO4iP22uJ_VUMuaImlsNYzih65YAJV2vKSMg8mAJ_7gIK45M5HtoBbIGCfnmpbX68_f8dhdn-Jt2p85R0QMv54S7RMAUWVh_q91A61nw2SvfWIxvMdCjQ8KgrzVlFE30pbJUEWiNCDR7lng6w?key=OrX_EzEPvEP3vPXbI5jRsw)\n\n### **Pink Team Draft (Compliant Outline)**\n\nGovEagle will “marry sections L and M” to give you a fully compliant outline with detailed writing plans that match the format requested in the RFP. GovEagle then finds relevant documents and excerpts from your past proposals, past performance, white papers, and more. Use GovEagle’s AI chat to find additional resources and add them to the compliant outline. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84598&key=user_uploads/578463/64377a29-1971-412c-ad21-2463c2b6daea)\n\n### **AI RFP Writer**\n\nUsing the pink-team draft and relevant content, GovEagle will generate a complete red-team draft in your style, template, and voice. 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Now, they’re on a mission to help government contractors turn proposals into a superpower instead of a bottleneck. \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdHKohiNwQrzZ4fZF5Usq4XcHLn228ETn0jFwFn3a8sqKOjX8DPnKjj_wNX-Po4oF3tY41N5RIF7zRWDMtlufxLvvf-yd16Mx5eYuIPQRrRcso_IoKCw-jYgGLTWbkJZYC_YxPRQd1Y9Zd6-Z91VklNff4I?key=OrX_EzEPvEP3vPXbI5jRsw)\n\n**Learn More:**\n\n* Email [akash@goveagle.com](mailto:akash@goveagle.com)\n* Book a demo at ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M0U-goveagle-win-more-government-awards-faster", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-10-08T15:45:43.277Z" } ] }, { "id": 27823, "name": "Overflux", "slug": "overflux", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a0338ca42cb50b2be254086011ed9dc423496b0.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Overflux automates the EV charger purchase, installation, and government incentive application processes for commercial real estate properties.", "one_liner": "Streamline EV charger installations for real estate developers", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1703408985, "tags": [ "Logistics", "Proptech", "Climate", "Transportation", "Electric Vehicles" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/overflux", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/overflux.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/overflux/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a0338ca42cb50b2be254086011ed9dc423496b0.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 504669, "full_name": "Richard Zhang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO of Integuru — build and maintain fast, reliable integrations for any platform. 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We help logistics companies scale with less headcount, reduce cost per load and eliminate data entry errors. Reach out at _[_www.vooma.ai_](http://www.vooma.ai)_._\n\nHello! We’re Mike and Jesse, and we’re building Vooma.\n\n### 🎊 Vooma: a backoffice automation platform for logistics\n\nVooma is a back-office automation platform for freight brokers and carriers that fully automates order taking from shippers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69872&key=user_uploads/887217/2a8f7b68-4b35-46d5-9e22-852e63f32c67)\n\n### 😰 Taking orders from shippers is still extremely manual\n\nToday brokers and carriers receive 60% of orders (\\~$200BN of freight) over email text, spreadsheets and PDFs and key them into their systems manually. The industry spends \\~$750M per year in salaries alone on this problem.\n\nOnly a fraction of shippers have transportation management systems, and a smaller fraction can send orders digitally.\n\nThere’s no good solution for logistics companies. 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They're using Neptyne to build financial trading applications, personal fitness tracking, and Twitter bot automation.\n\nCheck out [our launch post on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818706) for more discussion on Neptyne \n\n**Our ask:**\n\nTake 3 minutes to go through our tutorial and get inspired to build your next thing.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHI-neptyne-the-spreadsheet-reimagined-for-the-ai-era", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2023-03-14T14:49:06.460Z" } ] }, { "id": 27832, "name": "Trigo", "slug": "trigo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f4995777223c0a6941873d356643ed969835aea5.png", "website": "https://trigodata.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Trigo aggregates consumer rent history to help landlords approve better tenants and lenders write more loans. 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We’re [Sam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsonstein/) & [Abe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abrahamwheeler/), founders of [Trigo](https://trigodata.com/).\n\n**TLDR:** **Trigo** aggregates **consumer rent history** to help **landlords approve better tenants** and **lenders write more loans**. We have **25x more coverage** than the credit bureaus, and we’ve already consolidated **tens of thousands of rental units** to provide data instantly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69852&key=user_uploads/1092278/edd9cd08-b7d8-48f6-8830-8a7d9f3d4731)\n\n## ❓ Rent Data is Missing\n\n🏠 **Landlords**: **Bad debt & evictions are at all time highs** in the U.S., and landlords need more data for added protection across the **60+ million tenants screened annually**. Applicants with positive rent history are **4x more likely** to pay their rent on-time and in full.\n\n🏦 **Lenders**: In 2021, financial institutions including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac added rent payment data to their underwriting models to expand access to credit. Without rent data to input into these models, **lenders are writing 17% fewer loans than they could**. That’s a lot of missed loans across the **300 million consumer loan originations** annually in the U.S.!\n\n❌ **No solution exists** to consistently furnish this data to landlords and lenders today. The largest database has only **3% coverage** of rent data.\n\n## 🔌 Trigo Rent API\n\n**Trigo** is a federally regulated **Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA)** that provides this missing rent data set through a **real-time API** and web application. We’ve already consolidated **tens of thousands of rental units** to provide **instant data**. Where we don’t yet have data coverage, we **automate outreach** to landlords.\n\n## 👋 About Us\n\nWe’re repeat founders with consumer data and finance experience across Experian, Citigroup, and Amazon.\n\nTrigo began when Sam pulled his own credit report and realized not one of his landlords over the past decade had reported a single month’s rent payment to the credit bureaus. With a little research, we discovered that **this data has only 3% coverage in the market today**.\n\nSam met Abe through [YC cofounder matching](https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching) (amazing product - 🤝 YC!), and the rest is history.\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\nThanks for reading about us. If you or someone you know is interested in our data, you can reach us at [**contact@trigodata.com**](mailto:contact@trigodata.com). 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Oh, and it’s free to get started. Here’s how:\n\n* **Sign Up:** Anyone (Founders, VPs, Managers, AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, etc.) can [sign up on our website](https://bluebirds.com) and log in via SFDC secure authentication.\n* **Find Champions:** Our algorithms will find which contacts in your CRM are likely to buy your product again.\n* **Match Identities:** We’ll match your sparse contacts to public identities (i.e. john@hotmail is John Smith at Airtable) and check if they’ve switched jobs.\n* **Deliver Leads:** Finally we’ll rank all the leads based on similarity to your ICP and send them to you, along with monthly updates with any fresh job changes.\n\n### **Why us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69546&key=user_uploads/987806/ab789d18-71a3-4cc5-a5bf-38e4cea98af4)\n\n[Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpunera/) and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanpunamia/) are well-versed with contact data and building AI systems to solve sales problems. 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", "body": "Hey YC!\n\nWe're Ari and Peter, co-founders of Pirros. Pirros is a detail management system for structural engineers and architects. Our goal is to make it easier to use the knowledge from previous projects to save time on future projects.\n\n### 😬 **The Problem**\n\nConstruction design companies (structural engineering and architectural firms) are wasting time redesigning the same detailing conditions. \"Details\" are the micro-level blueprints of a construction building, for example a beam to column connection, or a wall assembly (see below). 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Companies like Brave, Banking Circle, and Nokia use us to improve their models with sensitive data that they could not leverage before.**\n\n→ Before you continue: [give us a star on GitHub](https://github.com/adap/flower) ⭐️\n\n### Problem: What's holding AI back?\n\nAlmost all of the AI breakthroughs you know of — from ChatGPT and Google Translate to DALL·E and Stable Diffusion — were trained with public data available on the web. **Conventional machine learning needs all data collected in a central place, the motto has always been to “move the data to the computation**.**”** This approach has given us some impressive results, but we are seeing those advances struggle to make their way into other important areas, like healthcare.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69921&key=user_uploads/433179/d7d5559b-1a93-43ee-8b87-79472c59b0bb)\n\nWhy is that? The reason is simple: most data is sensitive and distributed across organizational silos or user devices. 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So seven years later, we finally saw the opportunity to bring a product of our own into the world, starting with Index and then following up with our second product, [Alloy](https://alloy.app)." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "We’re building Alloy which is the first AI Prototyping tool for Product Managers. It’s tailored to professional product teams (rather than hobbyists) and builds prototypes that look exactly like your product. 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He has featured in Forbes and Business Insider, and was previously a product leader at Atlassian, working on Jira, Forge, and new products and platforms.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonkubica", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/simonkubica", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e3fcf9a4d498d79cf1876dbf1c9b0681acf82e17.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1162739, "full_name": "Christian Iacullo", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Christian Iacullo is an Australian software engineer who is the co-founder and CTO of Alloy. Before founding Alloy, Christian was a software engineer at Canva, where he worked on their Editor, Developer Platform, Education and Collaboration products. Christian began his career at Atlassian, where he worked on Confluence.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-iacullo", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/iaculch", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c9dacab862215f7a3ecd04c6cd57fa79284e1dfb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "SaaStr AI App of The Week: Alloy — AI Prototyping Tool", "url": "https://www.saastr.com/saastr-ai-app-of-the-week-alloy-the-ai-prototyping-tool-that-actually-looks-like-your-product-not-some-generic-app-builder/", "date": "Oct 18, 2025" }, { "title": "Alloy (prev Index) lands $3.5m seed round from Blackbird and Bain Capital Ventures", "url": "https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/index-lands-3-5m-seed-round-from-blackbird-and-bain/", "date": "Feb 11, 2025" }, { "title": "Canva and Atlassian alumni raise $3.5 million Seed round for their product management startup", "url": "https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/funding/canva-and-atlassian-alumni-raise-3-5-million-seed-round-for-their-product-management-startup/", "date": "Feb 11, 2025" }, { "title": "Simon Kubica speaks with Business Insider on Alloy's $2 Million in Funding for Product Management Tools", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/index-secures-funding-bain-capital-ventures-product-management-tools-2025-2", "date": "Feb 10, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 109009, "title": "Cloud Agents • Alloy", "tagline": "Codebase Sessions for Everyone, Not Just Engineers", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109009&key=user_uploads/1045840/6e090e72-2393-4677-ab33-dde28fb18b8c)\n\n### **Cloud Agents for Product Teams**\n\nAlloy is the world's first [cloud agents platform](https://alloy.app/cloud-agents) built for everyone, not just engineers:\n\n➤ Connect GitHub and run your real codebase in the cloud\\\n➤ Chat to build your feature ideas in minutes\\\n➤ View a direct preview, not a pixelated video stream\\\n➤ Push code and open a pull request in one click\n\n### **The story behind cloud agents**\n\nHey! I'm Simon Kubica, CEO of Alloy. I co-founded the company with Christian Iacullo after our time working at Canva and Atlassian. We founded the company with one mission: give product leaders new superpowers.\n\nWe started with prototypes that look exactly like your product, captured from the browser. But we kept hearing the same thing from our users: the prototype was never the finish line. The moment something looked right, PMs wanted it in the real product — and that meant handing it back to engineering and starting over.\n\nThe problem is that cloud agents today are built for engineers. Cursor, Devin, and Claude Code are powerful, but they assume you can configure environments, read diffs, and live in a terminal or IDE.\n\nWe felt that going from idea to pull request shouldn't require a development environment.\n\nSo starting today, it doesn't.\n\n### Get started with Cloud Agents\n\nWith cloud agents, you build with your actual codebase in the cloud: describe a change in chat, click through a live preview of your real app (not a pixelated remote desktop), share the session with a link, and open a pull request your engineers review in GitHub like any other change. Early users like [Rallied](https://rallied.ai/) and are already using Cloud Agents to ship PM-built prototypes directly to production.\n\nToday we're launching cloud agents to the YC community. Just visit the Alloy website to get started!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SMD-cloud-agents-alloy", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-08-04T14:29:27.961Z" }, { "id": 95014, "title": "Alloy · AI Prototyping for Product Managers", "tagline": "Prototype with your real product", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95014&key=user_uploads/1045840/a045e46f-3258-44e5-aca1-be340830028c)\n\n### **AI prototyping for product teams**\n\nAlloy is the world’s first tool for prototypes that look exactly like your product:\n\n➤ Capture your existing product from the browser in one click\\\n➤ Chat to build your feature ideas in minutes\\\n➤ Share a link with teammates and customers\\\n➤ 30+ integrations: Linear, Notion, Jira Product Discovery, and more\n\n### **Get started in 30 seconds**\n\nChoose the starting point that suits your team best:\n\n* Use our [website cloner](https://alloy.app/website-cloner) to capture any public page\n* Add the [browser extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/alloy-%C2%B7-ai-prototyping-fo/phenpkgkiaibdlfgllchgfhdfiephpdi?hl=en) for logged-in pages\n* Start with [cloud agents](https://alloy.app/cloud-agents) to use your codebase directly\n\n### **The story behind Alloy**\n\nHey! I’m Simon Kubica , CEO of Alloy. I co-founded the company with Christian Iacullo after our time working at Canva and Atlassian. We founded the company with one mission: give product leaders new superpowers.\n\nInitially, we focused on the workflow of planning and prioritization. But with AI, we started to notice PMs could finally _do_ the work, rather than just plan it. We completely re-oriented the company to build a dedicated tool for this new PM workflow.\n\nThe problem is that even with new AI app builder tools, PMs are struggling with off-brand prototypes. Using chat to prototype is powerful, but the outputs didn’t look anything like their existing app.\n\nWe felt that your prototypes should look like your actual product.\n\nSo starting today, they actually can.\n\n### **The [best AI prototyping tool](https://alloy.app/library/best-ai-prototyping-tools) of 2026**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95014&key=user_uploads/1045840/349afb11-0231-4544-a718-7db1eefa603c)\n\nProduct leaders at top companies have signed up shockingly fast:\\\n➤ 42% of the Forbes Cloud 100 \\\n➤ 17% of the Fortune 500\\\n➤ Growing usage at Harvey, Hubspot, Canva, SeatGeek, Linktree, and thousands more\n\nToday we’re launching to bring the power of Alloy to the YC community. We couldn’t be more excited to hear what you think!\n\nWe couldn’t be more excited to hear what you think!\n\n_Updated August 4, 2026_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OiU-alloy-ai-prototyping-for-product-managers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-10-29T21:21:57.629Z" } ] }, { "id": 27841, "name": "Bujeti", "slug": "bujeti", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62a7ef894596096ec275d7930a661da71c364631.png", "website": "https://www.bujeti.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "Control spending, process payments, manage payroll, and multi-currency operations with approval workflows, total visibility and control, from one unified platform", "one_liner": "The Finance Control Centre for African Businesses", "team_size": 35, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1673189707, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "France", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bujeti", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/bujeti.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Paris", "country": "FR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bujeti", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Bujetihq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62a7ef894596096ec275d7930a661da71c364631.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 156795, "full_name": "Achille AROUKO", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/achille-arouko", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/alekaizer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01307d9c3411ba249b3b7b3fabc88b74d656b1ea.jpg" }, { "user_id": 882789, "full_name": "Samy Chiba", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "COO at Bujeti ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samychiba/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d565bd8ec98695b5319331f901c48d289a0247a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Bujeti launches AI agents to automate routine finance work", "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/09/16/bujeti-launches-ai-agents-to-handle-finance-work/", "date": "Sep 16, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti launches payroll to drive financial control for African businesses | TechCabal", "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/05/21/bujeti-payroll-for-african-businesses/", "date": "May 21, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti launches tax management solution as Nigeria's reforms shape | Business Insider Africa", "url": "https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/bujeti-launches-tax-management-solution-as-nigerias-reforms-shape/yegcdn1", "date": "Feb 12, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti to Power Financial Inclusion for 10M Nigerians", "url": "https://punchng.com/bujeti-signs-partnership-with-presidential-committee-to-power-financial-inclusion-for-10-million-nigerians/", "date": "Feb 06, 2026" }, { "title": "YC-backed fintech Bujeti raises $2M for its corporate cards and spend management platform | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/yc-backed-fintech-bujeti-raises-2m-for-its-corporate-cards-and-spend-management-platform/", "date": "Dec 07, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69607, "title": "💳📈 Bujeti - Corporate cards and expense management platform for African businesses", "tagline": "We help African businesses issue corporate cards, control and manage their expenses", "body": "**TL;DR:** We help African businesses in industries such as Healthcare, Logistics, Agriculture and Construction easily issue corporate cards to their employees and contractors to streamline their spendings. We help them control and manage their expenses by setting up spending limits, restrictions and approval flows for their decisions makers, staff and suppliers.\n\n## **Who are we?**\n\nHello everyone, we are Achille and Samy from [Bujeti](https://www.bujeti.com)\n\n🧠 [Achille](https://www.linkedin.com/in/achille-arouko): Drives ideas and make things come to life. 8yoe engineer, 3+ years at [Paystack](https://paystack.com), and 3x founder in Fintech and AI.\n\n🧠 [Samy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samychiba/): He keeps us compliant and makes operations go smoothly. 2 MsC in Business Administration, 2 years at Ariane Group, former ceo SmartSoft Europe.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/e5c7ef67-82e9-4d84-b95d-7bc5b2190f28)\n\n# **What is a corporate card and why is it hard to get one in Africa?**\n\nA corporate card is a debit or credit card issue by a business to its employees, generally issued to upper management (CXO, Accountants, Team Managers, etc.) and a select number of employees to make payments on behalf of the company.\\\nIn the US and EU, bank card penetration is very high and the process for businesses to get multiple cards from their banks is pretty straightforward— but in Africa where card penetration is still low, getting a card for a business isn’t as straightforward as it should be, much less for multiple cards.\n\nThis is an even a bigger problem for traditional businesses in industries like Agriculture, Logistics, Healthcare, Construction— businesses that are not tech heavy, but contribute to a big part of the GDP of most of African nations. To go around that, businesses generally have one card that they pass around which causes a lot of security, control and fraud issues.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/062f9c7e-3473-43c3-a797-c4dfc1932fd1)\n\n# **How do we fix it?**\n\nTo help fix that problem and allow African businesses to issue cards at will to their employees, while maintaining the control of their spendings, we launched Bujeti, an all-in-one corporate cards and expenses management platform.\n\nWe also help them:\n\n* **Budget** their expenditures to keep their finances afloat\n* **Monitor** and **track** all the expenses made in the company\n* Facilitate **receipts** tracking and collection\n* Automate **Account Payables & Receivables**\n* Set up **spending limits and approval** flow to make sure the resources are well used and create value\n* **Reimburse** out of pocket expenses of their employees\n* **Run payroll**\n* Integrate their **accounting softwares**(QuickBooks, Xero, etc…)\n* Automate **reconciliation** and **reporting**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/43997f82-7bf2-4595-a226-48eccb71c0db)\n\n# **How did we get here?**\n\nAchille wanted to build a personal finance and expenses management app for the African Diaspora that helps automate remittances while keeping an eye on how money sent back home was being spent. 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It's hard to evaluate and compare the quality of retrievals and responses.\n\n2\\. Non-technical users like PMs cannot prototype pipelines or run experiments effectively, creating a bottleneck on engineers.\n\n3\\. Managing experimenting is messy, requiring teams to maintain scripts and spreadsheets.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### 😁 The Solution: Athina IDE\n\n**🧪 Athina IDE is a collaborative editor for AI teams to prototype, evaluate, and experiment with AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/d86504e7-ba8e-4b65-a872-a0dafeabfa0b)\n\n.\n\n### 🎯 Core Philosophies\n\n
**1\\. Great AI products are a team effort:** PMs, Data Scientists, SWEs, MLEs, QA teams, etc., all have to come together to build something great

\n\n...so we made sure that **_non-technical users could experiment, prototype, and run tests on Athina just as easily as technical users._**


\n\n**2\\. Great AI products are built around great data**

\n\nThis is why the entire editor revolves around your data and gives you powerful controls like a spreadsheet.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### _What can you do with Athina IDE?_\n\n.\n\n## **✨ Prototype Complex Pipelines with Dynamic Columns ✨**\n\n![](https://athina.ai/develop/prototype.png)\n\n**⚡️ Dynamic Columns** in Athina IDE let you prototype complex pipelines in a UI that feels like a spreadsheet. Dynamic columns can be used to:\n\n* Run prompts\n* Execute code\n* Retrieve data from a vector DB\n* Make API calls\n* Classify text / extract entities\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/1a18b5ba-2b6a-4a41-b5d5-7c702af3bd2d)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Evaluations**\n\nPlug in any eval from our library of over **50+ preset evals**, or use custom evals. Run evaluations in seconds with just a few clicks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/9288258e-9ce9-4e65-9f16-8de55405807c)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Experiments**\n\nIn just a few clicks, anyone can experiment with a different prompt, model, or retriever.\n\nIf you are technical, you can run even more powerful experiments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/7694a57b-ab7d-4444-b568-a2eb2944d503)\n\n.\n\n##### **Compare Everything Side-by-Side**\n\n* Compare datasets side-by-side with an optional diff-view!\n* Run evaluations on multiple datasets simultaneously and compare metrics!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/131fe29f-828d-48d5-aae7-f9f7a470c9ce)\n\n.\n\n## **How can you use it?**\n\nYou can start using Athina IDE for free!\n\n* Create an account at and go to the **Develop** tab.\n* For a personal demo and to learn more about how Athina IDE can accelerate your AI development, book a demo with us: .", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LCO-athina-ide-experiment-with-ai-pipelines-in-a-spreadsheet-like-ui", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-06-13T20:09:26.820Z" }, { "id": 77263, "title": "Athina AI: The Ultimate Monitoring and Evaluation Platform for LLM Developers", "tagline": "A suite of tools to supercharge LLM development and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications", "body": "### **TL;DR: Athina helps you monitor and evaluate your LLM powered app. Plug and play evals in production. 5 minute setup.**\n\n—-\n\n👋 Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of [Athina AI](https://docs.athina.ai/), a suite of tools for LLM developers to ship and develop AI products with confidence.\n\n### What is Athina AI?\n\nAthina AI is a **Monitoring & Evaluation platform** for LLM developers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77263&key=user_uploads/731066/30a27eb5-a787-46d2-8420-cb2c30da24e2)\n\nDevelopers use Athina’s evaluation framework and production monitoring platform to improve the performance and reliability of AI applications through real-time monitoring, analytics, and automatic evaluations.\n\n### 🔴 The Problem\n\n* It is difficult to measure the quality of Generative AI responses.\n* Eyeballing responses is tedious, leading to slow development cycles\n* No easy way to detect unreliable or bad outputs (especially in production).\n* Difficult to make changes to prompt or retrieval pipeline with confidence without introducing regressions.\n* Poor visibility into all the steps in your LLM inference pipeline\n\nLLM developers typically have to build and maintain lots of in-house infrastructure for monitoring and evaluation.\n\n### 🟢 Our Solution: Athina AI\n\n[Athina](https://docs.athina.ai) is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\n* **Quick Setup**: [Get started](https://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api) in just 5 minutes! The entire integration is 1 simple POST request _(and we don’t interfere with your LLM calls)_\n* **Comprehensive Monitoring Platform**: Full visibility into your LLM touchpoints. Search, sort, filter, compare, debug.\n* **Prebuilt Evaluations**:\n * You can configure automatic evaluations in just a few clicks - use one of our preset evals or define a custom eval.\n * These evals will run against logged inferences automatically.\n * You can also use our [**open-source library**](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals) to run evals and iterate rapidly during development.\n* **Granular Analytics**:\n * Tracks usage metrics like response time, cost, token usage, feedback, and more.\n * Athina also track metrics from the evals, like Faithfulness, Answer Relevance, Context Sufficiency, etc\n * You can segment these metrics by any property: customer ID, environment, model, prompt, etc.\n * For example, you could use Athina to see how **prompt/v4** is performing for customer ID **nike-usa** and how **gpt-4** performance compares to a **llama-finetune**.\n\n**Who is this for?**\n\nAthina is designed for developers building AI products.\n\nIf you’re in the prototyping or development stage, you can use Athina to get visibility and [rapidly test](https://docs.athina.ai/evals/develop_dashboard) the LLM generated responses.\n\n![](https://docs.athina.ai/develop-ui-results.png)\n\nIf you have launched your AI in production, you can use Athina to monitor and evaluate your LLM in production.\n\n### 🌟 Our Story\n\nAs a team of engineers and hackers, we spent a summer trying to build various LLM-powered applications for developers.\n\nWhile working with LLMs, we found that the most challenging part was evaluating the Generative AI output and systematically improving model performance.\n\nOn speaking with other AI developers, we discovered a major gap in the tools that engineers need to effectively build production grade applications using LLMs, and set out to solve this problem.\n\n### 🚀 Get Started\n\nAthina AI is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\nHere’s how you can get started:\n\n* 🌟 Sign up for a free account at [app.athina.ai](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/knowledge/Eq-launch-yc#compose-your-launch-yc-post)\n* Log your inferences using [this guide](http://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api).\n* Try our [open source evals](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals).\n* [Schedule](https://cal.com/shiv-athina/30min) a call with us", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K6B-athina-ai-the-ultimate-monitoring-and-evaluation-platform-for-llm-developers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-01-09T17:07:26.255Z" } ] }, { "id": 27844, "name": "Cloudchipr", "slug": "cloudchipr", "former_names": [ "Cloudchipr Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/96f17fae40f55e74f9d214af11045d8eed8f096f.png", "website": "https://cloudchipr.com/", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "Cloudchipr is an actionable FinOps platform that keeps multi-cloud spend under control 24/7 with AI agents.", "one_liner": "The #1 Actionable FinOps Platform", "team_size": 25, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1667473991, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "FinOps", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Germany", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cloudchipr", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/cloudchipr.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Berlin", "country": "DE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudchipr", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/cloudchipr", "fb_url": "https://facebook.com/cloudchipr", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudchipr", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/96f17fae40f55e74f9d214af11045d8eed8f096f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1159850, "full_name": "Ashot Ayvazyan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ashot is an engineer and entrepreneur with a computer science background and 14 years of experience in the design, implementation, and operations of distributed computing systems based on cloud and bare metal infrastructures. 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Now he is the Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Cloudchipr, which helps companies to reduce their cloud costs with infrastructure optimization automation workflows.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/surenmarashlyan", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3cb6abc193d8bc86fab3f6ab2650c3300cddd09d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69761, "title": "Cloudchipr streamlines the cloud operations", "tagline": "Cloudchipr - cloud costs observability, management and automation platform", "body": "### **TL;DR Instead of wasting runway on the cloud, sweating about your bottom line and limiting your developers, let Cloudchipr take care of optimizing your cloud usage and getting the most out of it.**\n\nHey everyone we are the founders of [Cloudchipr](https://cloudchipr.com/) 🙂\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69761&key=user_uploads/1159850/9a6a6c4e-e473-4927-823b-28d84a6d8e1f)\n\n**Ashot** (left) managed some of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world. A distributed computing systems and cloud guru, who can smell coffee ☕ and sniff expensive infrastructures 📈 from at least 1000 feet away 😄\n\n**Suren** (right) worked on platforms serving 100,000,000s users from all over the world while at Picsart, AWS and Wayfair. A foodie with the power of Spring Boot as his spirit animal 🐩 😄\n\nWe got a lot of battle scars figuring out what’s the best way to operate your cloud. Now we’ve built Cloudchipr so that you don’t have to! 🚀\n\n### ❌ **The Problem**\n\nAll clouds make it very easy to start using resources. That’s how they are designed and that’s why they won. Problem is, that freedom very quickly turns into a mess eventually hurting the bottom line and becoming an operational hurdle.\n\n**Where it hurts Product and Engineering:**\n\n* Services and resources sprawl out of control across various geographies and cloud regions.\n* Resources get wasted to ensure developer convenience (dev machines run over weekends, holidays and non-working hours alike).\n* Routine operational maintenance becomes a burden and a time consuming activity for expensive DevOps and SRE engineers.\n* Every launched resource in the cloud becomes a monument - once it’s there no one risks to touch and it lingers around forever.\n\n**Where it hurts the Business side:**\n\n* Accountability and trackability becomes an issue: ask any series B (or later stage) company startup CFO how much a particular project costs on a cloud and see them roll their eyes.\n* Cloud is treated as a black box. Although being one of the largest cost centres finance has little visibility into what is actually going on. They are expected to foot the bill with 0 insights or understanding how the money is actually spent.\n* Very hard to forecast spend and act on if it gets out of hand.\n\n### **🪄 The Solution**\n\nWatch our [Demo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QLy74eGnLg)\n\nCloudchipr is an AWS qualified SaaS platform (we also support GCP and Azure) which provides a suite of powerful tools for cost tracking, resource management, and automation. It simplifies cloud operations, streamlines DevOps workflows while giving financial visibiliy, predictability and control. \n\n✅ **Cost Optimization by granular cost tracking and reporting.** It allows to monitor cloud expenses in real-time and optimize their usage to reduce waste. \n\n✅ **Resource Management:** Cloudchipr provides a centralized dashboard that provides full visibility into their cloud infrastructure across all geographies and cloud regions.\n\n✅ **Automation workflows:** Cloudchipr's automation features enable teams to streamline their DevOps workflows and automate routine operational tasks. With Cloudchipr, businesses can set up notifications and actions based on their criteria and free up valuable time and resources for other important tasks.\n\n**For example:**\n\n* If a resource is underutilized, Cloudchipr will notify the owner to take an action.\n* If there are resources without an owner, a slack message will be sent.\n* Stops expensive GPU nodes based on configurable usage criteria (e.g. idle more than 3 hours)\n* Stops/Starts the selected dev databases and virtual machines at night and on weekends\n* Takes care about resources being properly tagged.\n\n✅ **LAST BUT NOT LEAST:** It’s 2023, so you should be able to talk to your cloud and your cloud should talk back!  We are launching the first version of **CloudChat -** an interactive Natural-Language interface for querying, reporting and setting automations for your cloud. \n\nCloudchipr automates the cloud cost saving and reporting, and helps the finance and engineering departments save money and time by removing the friction around the costs saving. We do that by automation workflows which constantly check all the cloud resources, take configurable actions and report about the progress.\n\n### **Get started now:**\n\n* Try it for free at [cloudchipr.com](http://cloudchipr.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9B-cloudchipr-streamlines-the-cloud-operations", "votes": 888, "created_at": "2023-02-28T17:28:41.075Z" } ] }, { "id": 27846, "name": "PoloTab", "slug": "polotab", "former_names": [ "PoloPay", "Polo", "PoloPay", "Polo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/125206d3d51ae1a0a9e8a0446836031dcecb557a.png", "website": "https://polotab.com", "all_locations": "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico", "long_description": "The ecosystem coffee shops and restaurants in Mexico run on.\r\n\r\nFrom point of sale, to inventory management, payments and much more for the most demanding. \r\n\r\nOur tech is as user-friendly as an iPhone, yet powerful enough to power Starbucks. \r\n\r\nPoloTab is led by a team driven by the vision that things should be different, with the skills to make it happen. 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You sit down, stare at a menu, look around wondering what others at the venue like, and a few “Uhmmm”s later, staff comes around to take an order you are still not even sure about. Splitting and paying the bill is a tedious waiting game, and tipping staff is close enough to a math exam. **What could be done in a few seconds, takes several minutes.**\n\n**A coffee shop is no different**. Join the line and wait a few minutes until it's your turn to go “Uhmmm”, just like everyone before you. Finally you get to sit down, and start sipping. Did you just run out of that delicious matcha latte? Stand up, and wait on line again!\n\n**What’s frustrating for guests is wasteful for venues.** Restaurants, coffee shops, and hospitality venues alike have seen their margins shrink well before covid, especially small and medium venues. They operate in an industry where costs are highly volatile, staff turnover rate is a staggering 75% (higher than any other industry), and guest preferences are quickly changing. \n\nResources are limited, especially for these venues. **So how does PoloPay help?**\n\n### 🫗**Our approach**\n\nWe built an easy-to-use tool that **restaurants love**. PoloPay improves how teams and staff manage their menus, fulfill orders, and collect payments. \n\n**To help venues sell more,** our QR codes expose guests to beautiful pictures of dishes and the perfect drink pairing. PoloPay makes it as easy as possible to order that next dirty martini while giving staff a breather during peak hours; eliminating unattended parties and decreasing checkout times to seconds. **We seek to perfectly complement the warmth of hospitality.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70252&key=user_uploads/961294/f79e41b8-9451-48d3-90f1-863eadda2878)\n\n**Are costs increasing?** Venues can adjust menu prices or food offerings, instantly charge for them, and forget the need to spend on reprints or waiting for new menus to arrive. **PoloPay also leverages data** to help capture guests' preferences, identify new areas of opportunity, and surprise guests on their next visit. Automatic language translations, powerful availability and pricing scheduling, 86-ing, and in-menu promos are a few other reasons why chefs, staff, and owners love us.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70252&key=user_uploads/961294/4d22eff1-056e-4079-a89d-0f201144c2a4)\n\nBeautiful experiences are at the core of what we build. We aim to grant guests a seamless experience and give much-needed control back to restaurant teams. We are not “X for LatAm”, **we are PoloPay**.\n\n### 🍽️**Our ask**\n\nIf you, or someone you might know, manages a restaurant or coffee shop, [reach out!](https://polopay.co/demo) **We would love to start working with your venue and would appreciate any warm intros too.** [Sign up](https://polopay.co/demo) before April 1st and enjoy a 50% discount during your first two months!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IH6-polopay-dynamic-menus-for-latam-restaurants-and-coffee-shops", "votes": 498, "created_at": "2023-03-14T00:58:35.798Z" } ] }, { "id": 27850, "name": "Repacket", "slug": "repacket", "former_names": [ "0pass Inc.", "0pass" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cd9ecbe70bee41aabfbd1a47f721272aeeb86502.png", "website": "https://repacket.com", "all_locations": "Vancouver, BC, Canada", "long_description": "90% of security breaches are caused by a simple employee mistake. \r\n\r\nYour employee clicks a bad link, and gives up their password.\r\nThey download ransomware from an email and run it.\r\nThey leak your intellectual property and sensitive customer data to ChatGPT.\r\n\r\nRepacket allows your employees to enjoy the internet without risk - instantly blocking threats like phishing and sensitive data leaks. This gives your employees the ability to make that mistake without impacting your company.\r\n\r\nRepacket is built for smaller companies, who may not have dedicated IT or security people to run the show. We install in 60 seconds and give your employee instant protection where they need it most.\r\n\r\nFounded by cybersecurity leaders from SpaceX, AWS, and Google - we're building the easy button for cybersecurity.", "one_liner": "Employee security done for you.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1673479325, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "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/repacket", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/repacket.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Vancouver", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/repacket", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/0pass", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cd9ecbe70bee41aabfbd1a47f721272aeeb86502.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1127176, "full_name": "Noah Stanford", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ repacket.com (previously 0pass.com) | Most recently, I created and led the security team for AWS Cognito. 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Before founding Frigade, Eric co-founded Perform, a mobile app to help runners reach their goals through a combination of AI and 1:1 human coaching. Prior to that, he worked in product management at Digit where he helped launch an AI-powered mobile banking app and at LinkedIn where he managed an intelligent communications platform for notifications and email.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebrownrout/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/372320b943518c5b75b9176dedc464f4cf241e83.jpg" }, { "user_id": 265839, "full_name": "Christian Mathiesen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Christian is the co-founder and CTO of Frigade. Before founding Frigade, Christian co-founded Perform, a platform to help runners reach their goals through a combination of AI and 1:1 human coaching. 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When a user gets stuck and needs help, companies tend to go one of two ways.\n\n1. Buy a help agent (Frigade Assistant, Fin, etc.). Now you have two agents and two chatboxes, and your users cannot tell which one to use for what.\n2. Have your own agent handle it. Agents in that case usually answer out of a knowledge base or help center with basic RAG. Docs are stale or incomplete more often than not, and even when the snippet is right it puts the work back on the user, who has to read it and then figure out how to apply it in the app.\n\n**SOLUTION**\n\nWe already solved the docs problem with Frigade. Our browser agent signs in to your product with the same permissions a real user has, works through your real workflows, and maps how your product works. No manual documentation or screenshots to take. It trains again every time you ship, so it always knows the version of your product that's live.\n\nNow, with the Assist API, we can solve the two-agent problem too.\n\nThe Assist API a single tool call. Your agent calls it and gets back an answer grounded in how your product behaves today, or a personalized walkthrough rendered on the page the user is already on. For most AI agent frameworks, you can add it with just these lines of code:\n\n```\nimport { frigade } from '@frigade/ai'\n \nconst frigade_guide_tool = {\n description: 'Call this tool to answer product ' +\n 'questions or guide the user through a task.',\n parameters: {\n query: {\n type: 'string',\n description: 'What the user is asking or wants to do',\n },\n },\n run: ({ query }) => frigade.assist({ query }),\n}\n \n```\n\nThe SDK forwards the call to the browser and Frigade acts on the page the user is on, highlighting the real element with the next step attached. Your agent decides when to call it and stays the only thing your user talks to.\n\nWhat you get with it:\n\n1. **Personalized in-product guides**, generated on demand. A new user gets walked through first-time setup without leaving the page. Someone stuck mid-workflow gets shown the next step instead of a link to an article.\n2. **Visibility and control for the people who own support**. Your support and product teams see who Frigade is helping and where, and can steer the output without any engineering help.\n\nWe are already working with Retell AI to extend their agent's onboarding capabilities. They build agents for a living and still chose to plug in Frigade rather than build something like this themselves.\n\nThis is for teams who already own an agent and care about product adoption. And if you do not have an agent, our drop-in Frigade Assistant is still the fastest path.\n\nIf you want to give it a spin, reach out and we'll get you a demo. \n\nChristian and Eric", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TkA-frigade-assist-api-give-your-ai-agent-the-ability-to-generate-in-product-guides-and-support", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-09-08T22:26:18.625Z" }, { "id": 105121, "title": "Frigade Skills: the in-app AI agent that learns your product and acts for your users", "tagline": "Frigade learns your product by using it, then takes real actions for your users through Skills your team approves with no code.", "body": "Hi everyone, Eric and Christian here, co-founders of [Frigade](https://frigade.com) (W23).\n\nFrigade is an AI agent that lives inside your product and [guides users through it](https://frigade.com/blog/product-help-where-users-stuck). Point it at your app and it learns your UI in minutes. You don't wire anything up or write docs.\n\n**Today we're launching a major new upgrade to our agent called [Skills](https://frigade.com/features/skills).**\n\nSo far, Frigade has guided users and [answered their questions](https://frigade.com/blog/how-to-deflect-support-tickets). With Skills, it can take real actions for them too: looking things up, creating, editing, deleting.\n\nSkills are the actions Frigade figures out on its own while it trains on your product. It documents each one, your team approves it with no code from the dashboard, and from then on Frigade runs it for any user who needs it. You can still wire in your own custom tool calls with our SDK, too.\n\n\n\nIf you've used Linear's AI agent, Frigade is that as an embed: the same kind of in-app agent, dropped into your product with [one snippet](https://frigade.com/blog/walkme-alternatives-without-six-month-rollout). You get about 80% of it out of the box, with no eng work required.\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. Add the snippet. Frigade starts using your product and learns it, like a new user would.\n2. It turns the actions it finds into Skills. Your team reviews and approves them, no code.\n3. Frigade runs those Skills for your users and answers their questions as they go.\n\n**Here it is running on popular products we don't embed in.**\n\nWe just pointed it at each one and let it learn to see how it performed:\n\n* [Jira](https://demo.frigade.com/?skill=jira)\n* [Spotify](https://demo.frigade.com/?skill=spotify)\n* [Hacker News](https://demo.frigade.com/?skill=hackernews)\n\n**Frigade is best for:**\n\n* Teams drowning in \"how do I...\" tickets\n* CS teams who want [onboarding](https://productonboarding.com/articles/what-is-product-onboarding) to happen without a call\n* Product teams who want every feature to be [self-serve](https://productonboarding.com/examples)\n* Anyone with a complex product or non-technical users who keep getting stuck\n\nMany teams are also building their own agents in-house. If that's you, we're launching the Frigade API soon so you can add our generative assistance capabilities into your agent. More on that soon.\n\nIf your product's complex or your users aren't super technical, we'd love to show you what Frigade does on your actual app. Send us a note, or book a demo at [frigade.com](http://frigade.com).\n\nEric & Christian\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105121&key=user_uploads/123251/18d6ac08-4814-47bc-b966-4268a0da843a)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RLV-frigade-skills-the-in-app-ai-agent-that-learns-your-product-and-acts-for-your-users", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2026-07-09T17:34:23.119Z" }, { "id": 95912, "title": "Frigade: Product onboarding that builds itself", "tagline": "The help center is dead. Your product is the teacher now.", "body": "Hey everyone, we are Eric and Christian, founders of [Frigade](https://frigade.com).\n\n**TL;DR:** Frigade automatically learns your product and provides expert, in-product assistance to users. Now with Suggestions, Frigade can proactively teach your users in the context of the product itself.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/FhHSj8YpR2U\n\n# **🔴 The problem**\n\nMany users never see the best parts of a product. Teams try to fix this but run into the same issues:\n\n* Onboarding flows take too long to build\n* Feature tours get stale as the product changes\n* Users ignore help docs :( \n* Customer Success loses hours teaching users on Zoom\n* Product teams rely on outdated screenshots, Looms, and Slack to explain the product\n\nIn-product guidance should be easy to create and maintain, but today it is neither.\n\n# **🟢 The solution**\n\nFrigade automatically learns your product by using it, and Suggestions create guidance directly inside your product from simple prompts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95912&key=user_uploads/123251/af21223e-4d69-40f8-9cc3-c34827827206)\n\nWrite what you want users to learn:\n\n“Show users how to use the new Calendar view in the Sales tab. Walk users through the key features.”\n\nFrigade understands the latest version of your product and generates the experience directly from that context. You do not need a help center, articles, or any existing documentation for Frigade to work. It learns directly from the product itself.\n\nNo user flows. No element targeting. Nothing to wire up.\n\nYou can create:\n\n* Onboarding for new signups\n* Guided tours for new features\n* Help for confusing parts of the UI\n* Workflows for power users\n* Role or plan specific nudges\n* Contextual support at the right moment\n\nEverything runs inside your real product and stays accurate as it evolves, without depending on any external help documentation or content.\n\n# **🧪 Preview, refine, publish**\n\nInstantly preview Suggestions to watch the experience run in your product. Tweak the prompt to adjust the tone or structure. Choose who should see it and publish. Users will see it at the right moment and can launch the experience instantly.\n\n# **🧵 Who is using it today**\n\nTeams across SaaS, AI, fintech, marketplaces, and more use Frigade to:\n\n* Onboard users without a human in the loop\n* Increase feature adoption\n* Reduce support tickets\n* Walk customers through complex workflows\n* Educate users inside the product rather than sending them elsewhere\n\n# **🚀 Try it out**\n\nFrigade Suggestions are live today. Create your first in-product experience from a single prompt [**https://frigade.com**](https://frigade.com)\n\nWe’d love your feedback or questions: [founders@frigade.com](mailto:founders@frigade.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Owy-frigade-product-onboarding-that-builds-itself", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-12-02T15:44:08.899Z" }, { "id": 92353, "title": "Frigade AI: In-app support agent that adapts to your product automatically", "tagline": "Frigade AI uses your product to learn how it actually works, then guides users with live, step-by-step support directly inside the UI—right when they need it.", "body": "**TL;DR: Frigade AI** is an in-app agent that keeps users moving forward with contextual, real-time guidance. It can generate step-by-step tutorials for complex workflows, highlight relevant features at the right moment, and even take actions directly on users' behalf to eliminate friction. Unlike traditional chatbots that rely on outdated help center documents, Frigade AI learns your product by actually using it and automatically adapts to every product update without any work from your team.\n\n📅 Book a demo → [calendar](https://cal.com/forms/ed0e923f-6f00-4191-a08f-7bebba6636b6)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjL4OfPs3I\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nMost onboarding tools assume users follow a perfect path. They don’t. Users skip steps, explore features early, and ask questions that don't fit your predefined paths.\n\nSupport teams can’t scale to handle every question. Engineering teams don’t have time to build and maintain hardcoded walkthroughs. And most AI chatbots fall short, offering generic responses based on outdated help center docs. \n\nWhat users actually need is guidance **in real time**, **in context**, and **on demand**. Not just during sign-up, but throughout their entire journey.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nToday, we’re officially launching [**Frigade AI**](http://frigade.ai), a fully integrated agent that lives inside your product and helps users get personalized support instantly. \n\nUnlike traditional chatbots, Frigade AI learns your product by actually _using_ it. It explores your interface, navigates your workflows, reads your documentation, and builds a working model of how your product functions. Just like a real user would.\n\nThe goal? **Help users succeed from their first session** and keep them unblocked at every step.\n\nIt works alongside everything you’ve already built, like checklists, tours, help centers, and fills in the gaps with real-time support when your users need it most. Frigade AI:\n\n* **Unblocks users instantly** with dynamic step-by-step guides for any workflow\n* **Eliminates friction** by taking product actions directly for users\n* **Answers open-ended questions** with contextual product support\n* **Escalates seamlessly** to Zendesk, Intercom, and other live support tools\n* **Gets running in under an hour** with minimal engineering effort\n* **Stays current automatically** as your product evolves\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usspoSsWIb4 \n\nThe result is an AI agent that **turns every user into a power user,** removing confusion and guiding users to success.\n\n### **See It in Action**\n\nIf you're building a web app and want to better support users at scale, without scaling your existing support team, we’d love to show you what we’re working on. \n\n🔗 Check out our website at [https://](https://frigade.ai)[frigade.ai](http://frigade.ai)\\[\\\n\\](https://frigade.ai) 📅 Book a demo → [calendar](https://cal.com/forms/ed0e923f-6f00-4191-a08f-7bebba6636b6)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92353&key=user_uploads/123251/ef0698cc-01a2-4f96-97e6-f0c2a151ec6e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1Z-frigade-ai-in-app-support-agent-that-adapts-to-your-product-automatically", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-07-22T15:51:42.115Z" }, { "id": 85509, "title": "Trench: Open Source Analytics Infrastructure 🌊", "tagline": "Fast and scalable. No bloat. GDPR compliant. Powered by ClickHouse and Kafka.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Christian and Eric from Frigade. [Trench](https://trench.dev) is open source analytics infrastructure for tracking events, identifying users, and querying data in real time.\n\nIt’s built on top of ClickHouse and Kafka for speed and scale, and it can be deployed with a single production-ready Docker image. Trench is a major part of Frigade’s infrastructure and powers our own in-product analytics and user targeting for millions of end users.\n\nThe code is MIT-licensed at . We just launched, and Trench gained over 1,000 GitHub stars ⭐ in less than a week.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85509&key=user_uploads/123251/443f6361-9b1a-45d5-921e-e79504ebdcea)\n\n# **Demo:**\n\nCheck out our open source demo to see how to build your own version of a Google Analytics dashboard powered by Trench in less than 15 minutes.\n\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85509&key=user_uploads/123251/049bc7b3-bd4a-4038-8128-faa2a8e2cc67)\n\n# **🚨 The Problem: Postgres doesn't scale for tracking and querying millions of events at scale**\n\nAs we’ve scaled [Frigade](https://frigade.com) to millions of end users, our Postgres table we used for event tracking was quickly ballooning in cost and becoming a performance bottleneck. Many companies run into the same problem as us (e.g. [Stripe](https://brandur.org/fragments/events), [Heroku](https://brandur.org/fragments/events)). \\\nEngineers start by adding a basic events table to their relational database, which works at first, but breaks down as the user base scales. It's usually the biggest table in the database, the slowest one to query, and the longest one to back up. Postgres (or MySQL for that matter) simply isn't a good solution for tracking and querying events in real time at 1M+ end users scale.\n\n# **The Solution: Fast, scalable, and affordable event tracking**\n\nWe knew we wanted to move to technologies like Kafka and ClickHouse that are purpose-built for ingesting and querying thousands of events per second. When we looked for existing solutions, all the existing OSS projects we found were either bloated with unnecessary features, UIs and spaghetti code, or simply antiquated. So we built Trench.\\\nWith Trench, we've put together a single Docker image that provides a production-ready tracking event table that scales. When we migrated our tracking table from Postgres to Trench, we saw a 42% reduction in cost to serve on our primary Postgres cluster and eliminated all lag spikes from autoscaling under high traffic. We're happy with how Trench has solved event tracking for us, and now we’re excited to share that with other teams.\n\n### **Core Features**\n\n* Compliant with the Segment tracking specifications\n* Can handle thousands of events per second on a single node\n* Query tracking data in real-time with read-after-write guarantees\n* Send data anywhere with throttled and batched webhooks\n* Single production-ready Docker image\n* Easily plugs into cloud-hosted ClickHouse/Kafka solutions\n\n### **Use cases**\n\nWhat can you build with Trench? There are many use cases:\n\n1. **Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting** – Monitor your services and get alerts through tracking custom events like errors, usage spikes, or specific user actions, and send that data anywhere with webhooks.\n2. **Event Replay and Debugging –** Capture all user interactions in real time for event replay services.\n3. **A/B Testing Platform** – Capture events from different users and groups in real time. Segment users by querying in real time and serve the right experiences to the right users.\n4. **Product Analytics for SaaS Applications** – Embed Trench into your existing SaaS product to power user audit logs or tracking scripts on your end-users' websites\n5. **Build a custom RAG AI model** – Easily query event data and give users answers in real time. LLMs are really good at writing SQL.\n\n# **Try it out and give us a star ⭐**\n\nWe hope you’ll find Trench useful if you’re facing or have ever experienced a similar problem with analytics at scale. Here are some links to get started:\n\n* Trench website: \n* Quickstart guide: \n* Github repo: \n* Product demo: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFB-trench-open-source-analytics-infrastructure", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2024-11-12T22:22:46.640Z" }, { "id": 78903, "title": "Frigade – Growth platform for modern software teams", "tagline": "Frigade is a low-code tool for building product growth loops", "body": "# **tl;dr**\n\n[Frigade](http://frigade.com) is a low-code tool for building product growth loops. It comes with pre-built React UI components, a web app, and flexible APIs. Our customers use Frigade to build product growth experiences similar to those used by companies like [Notion](https://www.productonboarding.com/notion-feature-announcement), [Github](https://www.productonboarding.com/github-embedded-promotions?view=components), and [Mercury](https://www.productonboarding.com/mercury-new-user-onboarding).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78903&key=user_uploads/123251/7ac8ec05-e94e-4f88-93c2-561aae34289d)\n\n\\---\n\n# **Founding Story**\n\nOur team first met at LinkedIn where we built internal tooling to help accelerate company growth. Turns out many of the best companies in the valley also had large growth teams dedicated to building the same powerful tooling.\n\nThese platforms made it easier to ship new experiences with functionality like user targeting, air traffic control, state management, admin tooling, and much more.\n\nHowever, many companies lack the resources to develop this kind of tool. With Frigade, we are building the growth platform we wished we had everywhere we’ve worked since LinkedIn, and we’re making it available to all teams.\n\n\\---\n\n# **What kind of experiences can Frigade power?**\n\n* **Onboarding forms** — like Typeform, but native\n* **Product checklists** for user activation\n* **Guided tours** for feature adoption\n* **Announcements** for engagement and adoption\n* **House Ads** to nudge users toward upgrades and adoption\n* **Surveys** for user research and account enrichment\n* **Custom Flows** to power unique in-app experiences\n\n\\---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78903&key=user_uploads/123251/cc206e9a-c6cf-4e23-ade4-d1a8b60e924a)\n\n# **How does Frigade work?**\n\nFrigade combines React components, an admin dashboard, and flexible APIs to allow teams to build growth loops, faster.\n\n**React UI Components**\n\nFrigade includes a library of beautiful, pre-built React UI components based on industry best practices. Our components are fully customizable to your brand and product so they feel seamless.\n\n**Web App**\n\nFrigade’s web app helps technical and non-technical users alike with user targeting, performance metrics, user and account progress, and more. Frigade integrations help you connect tools like Mixpanel and Segment with a few clicks.\n\n**Flexible APIs**\n\nThe Frigade API is designed to give teams full control over their experience, unlike rigid no-code tools. Teams can even use our APIs to build fully custom Flows.\n\n\\---\n\n### **Our asks:**\n\n* **Sign up** for free at [frigade.com](http://frigade.com) to get started\n* **Grab a demo** with our team [here](https://cal.com/team/frigade/frigade-demo) to discuss your use cases", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWd-frigade-growth-platform-for-modern-software-teams", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-02-29T17:52:18.262Z" }, { "id": 68103, "title": "💻 Frigade - The easiest way for developers to build product onboarding.", "tagline": "Frigade helps developers build better native onboarding and product education, faster. ", "body": "**_TL;DR_** _Frigade helps developers build best-in-class product onboarding and education_ faster. _Check us out at_ [_frigade.com_](http://frigade.com)_!_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/acaad972-6a2d-45b3-817c-00685b328449)\n\nHello everyone! We’re [Christian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmathies/) and [Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbrownrout/). We’ve been working together since 2015 when we first met as interns at LinkedIn, and we’re excited to be building Frigade. Our goal at Frigade is to make it easy to build great product onboarding so developers can spend more time building their core product experiences.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/c42721d4-9f20-4993-b0ce-cac1c7a69fe2)\n\n### **🔴 Problem: Product Onboarding is Hard**\n\nProduct onboarding is essential to customer activation and retention, but building great onboarding is difficult and time consuming. We know because we experienced this problem firsthand at our previous startup where we spent enormous amounts of time building onboarding and education for our app through trial and error. Time that could’ve been spent developing our core product offering.\n\nㅤ\n\n### **🟢 Solution: Powerful API and Open Source SDK**\n\nFrigade’s API and open source SDK take the hard work out of building and scaling great product onboarding. With Frigade, developers can:\n\n* 🛠️ Quickly build beautiful onboarding within their own app UI\n* 🔄 Ingest onboarding data from our API into their backend\n* ⚡ Make instant changes to copy, assets, and logic via API\n* 🎯 Easily build user targeting (powered by Segment, MixPanel, etc.)\n* 📚 Automatically leverage built-in industry best-practices\n\nAs a result, developers can spend less time building features for product adoption and more time building the product roadmap.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/e768b350-e12d-4e11-976b-042f82f1def3)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/52788266-214c-4314-a0a9-dc7d270afdde)\n\n[_Frigade SDKs_](https://github.com/FrigadeHQ) provides beautiful, extensible boilerplate for critical flows.ㅤ\n\n### **💻 Try it yourself**\n\nCheck out our [GitHub page](https://github.com/FrigadeHQ) and [website](https://frigade.com). We’re here to help! Feel free to contact us at [founders@frigade.com](mailto:founders@frigade.com) with any questions regarding implementation, feature requests, or to chat generally about your product onboarding needs. And if you’re in San Francisco, come say hey!\n\nㅤ\n\n**Thanks!**\n\nEric and Christian", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HiR-frigade-the-easiest-way-for-developers-to-build-product-onboarding", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2022-12-28T22:08:51.477Z" } ] }, { "id": 27853, "name": "Cobblestone", "slug": "cobblestone", "former_names": [ "AppDoma" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6cf240361cd25bc54d8ed95f6708c9750de6531f.png", "website": "https://getcobblestone.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "We're building software to help institutional landlords reduce delinquency starting with fraud reduction.", "one_liner": "Delinquency reduction and automation software for institutional…", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction", "launched_at": 1725807872, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Real Estate", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cobblestone", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/cobblestone.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6cf240361cd25bc54d8ed95f6708c9750de6531f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1160727, "full_name": "Jack Mastrangelo", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of Cobblestone, ex-Ramp & Facebook software engineer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-mastrangelo/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/913b6ec36d4e653ca898ab802e012b33989ba534.jpg" }, { "user_id": 601611, "full_name": "Jason Scharff", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Cobblestone. 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Suger eliminates the need to reinvent the wheel with your own engineering resource or spend a fortune on consulting-based solutions. 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Our first Agent is automating the maintenance coordination process. 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Recurring credit card charges are declined [15% of the time](https://www.chargebee.com/blog/making-sense-credit-card-declines/#:\\~:text=According%20to%20Visa%20and%20Mastercard,card%20machines%20of%20the%20web.) and account for [48% of churn](https://www.pymnts.com/subscriptions/2021/almost-half-of-subscription-churn-caused-by-preventable-friction-in-failed-payments/), making them the single largest source of churn for most subscription businesses.\n\n### 💸 Processing Fees\n\nAmerican businesses spent over [$138B on credit card processing fees](https://nilsonreport.com/mention/1586/1link/) last year, which is only growing. With Visa and Mastercard controlling more than 70% of the market, they have no incentive to reduce these fees themselves. This is especially painful for businesses that sell high-ticket items or operate on low margins, where every single percentage point can move the needle.\n\n# Our Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69567&key=user_uploads/82730/6478a091-1af2-4a1c-b14f-1660f235b380)\n\ncoil tackles both of these problems by getting to the root of the issue: credit cards. We’re building a new, seamless experience to help you collect payments via bank transfer (ACH/RTP) instead of credit cards and handling all of the complexity behind the scenes.\n\nOur first product is a “Pay with coil” button that can be added directly to your pre-existing checkout flow for one-off or subscription payments. When a customer uses coil for the very first time, they’ll securely link their bank through Plaid. Afterward, they can verify their identity through an SMS or Email verification code, allowing authenticated payments in seconds. You can checkout the returning flow here:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69567&key=user_uploads/82730/f090bdc8-de04-437a-a8a6-daf8abc36a06)\n\nThis is already a huge improvement over today’s ACH experience, and we’re just getting started. Over the coming months and years, we’ll continue to flesh out the scenarios and integrations necessary to become the default payment method for a post-credit card world.\n\n# Asks\n\n* Reach out if you're looking to reduce your processing fees or eradicate churn from credit card declines — all YC companies will receive priority onboarding.\n* Share with anyone you think might be interested in moving past cards to reduce fees & churn.\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@trycoil.com](mailto:founders@trycoil.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I63-coil-cut-fees-kill-churn-with-seamless-bank-payments", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2023-02-22T20:35:24.403Z" } ] }, { "id": 27858, "name": "Kivo Health", "slug": "kivo-health", "former_names": [ "Kivo Health", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ee15c21c618dfd0aa1cbb6bb3be671ac26a2be94.png", "website": "https://kivohealth.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Kivo Health provides AI-powered virtual care for seniors with chronic disease, starting with lung care. 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I founded Movity in W2010 which exited to Trulia, and have built key tech at both startups and larger companies.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/vaughnkoch", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/vaughnkoch", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/73062f5c22131724acce49e0b3d2387e752a1fb3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 100517, "title": "Senior Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kivo-health/jobs/2dlgyZO-senior-engineer", "location": "Seattle", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$200K - $260K", "equity_range": "0.15% - 0.25%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Django", "Python", "React", "React Native", "TypeScript", "LLMs", "AI Agents" ] }, { "id": 101225, "title": "Full-Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kivo-health/jobs/L6oQv63-full-stack-engineer", "location": "Seattle", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$160K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.15%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Django", "Python", "React", "TypeScript", "LLMs" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69058, "title": "Kivo Health - Telehealth lung rehab", "tagline": "We treat chronic lung disease patients with rehab over live video.", "body": "Hey YC, we're Vaughn and Victor, and we're excited to announce the public launch of [Kivo Health](https://kivohealth.com?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=post&utm_id=launch&utm_content=toplink)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69058&key=user_uploads/29150/dd09bb20-ff16-41d8-ac17-e02af5f068d4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69058&key=user_uploads/29150/e395a0d4-305a-4d2c-b658-213602df0192)\n\n**We treat chronic lung disease with rehab over Zoom.** We offer an 8-week remote program that keeps people out of the hospital, and can save payers $6,000 per patient by reducing hospital stays.\n\n# How we help\n\nChronic lung disease affects 16M people in the US, resulting in $50B in annual spend due to recurrent hospitalizations.\n\nPulmonary rehab (PR) is like physical rehab for your lungs. It includes guided exercise, breathing techniques, and a full education program which teaches people to manage their lung condition.\n\nPR has strong clinical evidence: it can improve clinical outcomes, reduce hospital bed-days by 62%, save payers between $6-10k for every patient, and help patients feel better.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69058&key=user_uploads/29150/5bfdd176-ce16-4965-a9e6-82a8a5d7e4e9)\n\nThis life changing therapy has been around for decades, but tragically only 3% of eligible patients are getting it. Why? Access.\n\nOften, people with COPD or other lung disease find it challenging to walk up a flight of stairs. Traveling 30-45 minutes to a PR center twice a week is a lot harder, especially for people without transport or the ability to pay for gas and parking.\n\n**Kivo Health solves access by providing telehealth PR**, so patients can be treated comfortably at home.\n\n# **How it works**\n\nWe ship people our Kivo Kit, which has a cell-connected iPad, a Bluetooth pulse oximeter, and exercise equipment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69058&key=user_uploads/29150/dd5cd6c7-0ead-424b-aa90-b30c62bedc77)\n\nPatients join live video sessions twice a week for 2 months, with one of our talented respiratory therapists.\n\nDuring the sessions, our therapists are:\n\n* Monitoring our patients with realtime pulse oximetry\n* Improving their lung function with exercise\n* Teaching them breathing techniques, inhaler use, and a lot of other key lessons.\n\n# **Wins**\n\nWe're building Kivo to help patients get access to pulmonary rehab. But it's the stories that make us feel great about what we're doing. Here's a few examples.\n\n1\\. One patient told us that she'd been using her inhaler wrong for over 20 years, until she learned proper technique from Kivo.\n\n2\\. Another patient told us that she loved Kivo so much, she wrote a letter to her pulmonologist telling him that he should refer all of his patients to our program.\n\n3\\. During our first cohort, we had a patient that was feeling the signs of a lung exacerbation one day. These are dangerous because people often end up in the ER, or even full hospitalization (which costs $19k on average!). Because she had learned from Kivo how to recognize the signs of an exacerbation, she immediately got a course of steroids from her doctor and felt better quickly. This could have made the difference between a hospital visit and relaxing at home.\n\n# **How you can help**\n\n* If you have a family member or friend with COPD or other lung disease, tell them about [Kivo Health](https://kivohealth.com?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=post&utm_id=launch&utm_content=asks)! Note - patients need to be referred by their physician.\n* Also, we'd appreciate any intros to pulmonologists - email us at [hello@kivohealth.com](mailto:hello@kivohealth.com).\n\nMuch love, **Victor and Vaughn**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69058&key=user_uploads/29150/4d3d690e-3fe6-4ba3-bdd3-96c5597d68ed)\n\n# **Where to find us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69058&key=user_uploads/29150/d07c5bf9-fae7-4973-8470-a13db1e96cec)\n\nWeb: \n\nEmail: [hello@kivohealth.com](mailto:hello@kivohealth.com)\n\n[Twitter](https://twitter.com/kivohealth)\n\n[Facebook](https://facebook.com/kivohealth)\n\n[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kivo-health/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hxq-kivo-health-telehealth-lung-rehab", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2023-02-06T18:03:52.870Z" } ] }, { "id": 27859, "name": "No Cap", "slug": "no-cap", "former_names": [ "Carbon Science", "Carbon Search", "Intently", "Socap.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6cf30e5fb4585b9d43dd92dd9ebe9b279cd7f68a.png", "website": "https://www.nocap.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "The world's first AI agent that coaches founders & invests in them. 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Entrepreneur and angel investor in science, AI, and deep-tech. On the hunt for sustainable ways of unlocking higher productivity in critical industries. Can help with product development, R&D acceleration, and fundraising. 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Our previous venture grew to 250 people and raised over $150M. While scaling Mighty Buildings, **we faced the challenges of the sales process** – for each successful interaction, countless poorly-timed outreach messages and **missed opportunities piled up** 📚.\\\n\\\n**The reason is simple** - your marketing and sales teams simply can't access and analyze the sheer volume of data available today. Fortunately, what’s challenging for humans is easy for AI.\\\n\\\n**How does Intently work?**\n\nThink of us as the **Google of people search 🔍**: tell us who you want to target, and we'll provide a ranked list of prospects based on their likelihood of buying.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70769&key=user_uploads/255469/489dfe95-3f3a-4d58-8f88-4d959256c8bc)\n\n\\\nIntently leverages AI to analyze a wealth of data - from social media presence to digital footprints, to pinpoint prospects with buying intent signals relevant to your offering. We complete each profile with valuable data to help you understand their specific needs and craft tailored proposals.\n\nAs a team that's been on both sides – bombarded with unwanted sales pitches and now promoting our solution to fellow YC community –  we've experienced firsthand how intent data helps us prospect smarter and close deals faster ⚡. And we're eager to help you achieve the same!\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIf you're in the B2B space and want to accelerate your growth with accurate intent data, [book](https://app.usemotion.com/meet/mika-melchanka/meeting?d=30) a demo with us to start using Intently, or reach out to [mika@getintently.ai](mailto:mika@getintently.ai) with any questions!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IPR-intently-identify-the-best-sales-targets-using-ai", "votes": 66, "created_at": "2023-04-05T15:54:40.269Z" } ] }, { "id": 27860, "name": "Dream3D", "slug": "dream3d", "former_names": [ "MettaSpace" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc5c128914787f1ad09c34983b9c40c1200da598.png", "website": "https://dream3d.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Dream3D is an AI research lab that builds tools to help humanity predict the future.", "one_liner": "We build tools to help humanity predict the future.", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677865645, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Computer Vision", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dream3d", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/dream3d.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc5c128914787f1ad09c34983b9c40c1200da598.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 251860, "full_name": "Tony Francis", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Tony is a second-time YC founder. Currently, he is the founder & CEO of Dream3D building generative models to simulate virtual worlds. His previous company, Inokyo, built the first AI-checkout retail stores. In between, he lead the development of the ML platform at Clubhouse. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/tony-f", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_tonyfrancis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f5122876a10bca071b9861a58e57029896a31f68.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69920, "title": "Dream3D 😈 - AI-powered 3D design", "tagline": "Studio-quality computer graphics made easy", "body": "Hey, y’all! Tony here from Dream3D– excited to share what we’ve been working on!\n\n**Dream3D is an AI-powered 3D design tool that makes it easy to create studio-quality computer graphics.**\n\n### The Problem\n\n**Creating 3D renders is an expensive and time-consuming process that can take teams of highly trained specialists months, if not years, to produce a final result.**\n\nIn current rendering methods, input quality = output quality. A designer or artist needs to spend days building a scene, component by component, to get a final rendered result. \n\n**This leads to**\n\n* 🐢 Slow and costly iteration cycles as you nail down your creative vision\n* 💰 Hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars spent purchasing assets, textures, and shaders– many of which never even make the final cut\n* 🤬 Complex and difficult-to-use tools required for building detailed scenes\n\n### How we fix this\n\n**Dream3D replaces complex workflows with text-driven commands and intuitive interfaces powered by our custom AI models.** \n\nUnlike existing generative tools, we give users explicit control over their scene, unlocking professional use-cases.\n\nWe let designers quickly build out 3D scenes by describing them in plain English– “a jetski in front of a building.“ We then let them transform that scene into a high-quality image with just another description of what they want– “photorealistic yellow jetski, evening sun, 80s magazine ad”\n\nHere’s an example of transforming a simple car scene into production-ready concept art:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69920&key=user_uploads/251860/f63e5f85-b22c-451b-aa59-1846384eb605)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69920&key=user_uploads/251860/3e190d62-d65d-48be-9e26-7639ee1ca06c)\n\nOr a full landscape from just a couple of boxes:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69920&key=user_uploads/251860/84be4590-2db2-40a6-b61e-5672a55e828e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69920&key=user_uploads/251860/067a0ef7-f509-4de2-83af-fb30c99254d7)\n\n\\\nThis means you can quickly iterate through multiple concepts and styles, maintaining the same scene composition, without having to spend time & energy building each scene from scratch.\n\nIt's fast and fluid so you can focus on what you want to create.\n\n### Looking Forward\n\nRight now, we let designers create static renders. But soon, we’ll be adding support for animation and video export. \n\nIn the longer term, Dream3D will be a complete 3D creative suite– letting you create full games, movies, and simulated worlds.\n\n## Our Story\n\nPrior to Dream3D, I led the development of the machine learning platform at Clubhouse and my previous company, Inokyo (S18), built computer vision to automate retail checkout. \n\nI first got interested in computer graphics and storytelling while I was studying at Carnegie Mellon. But, I found my creativity stifled by the complexity of the tools.\n\nNow, we’re combining our experiences building prosumer tools and bringing machine learning research to production to make it easy for anyone to create studio-level computer graphics and build the tool I always wish I had.\n\n### The Ask\n\nIf you do 3D design work (or want to), sign up [here](https://hkqvoariw92.typeform.com/to/QJv3ghPN)!\n\nOr if you’re interested in researching hard problems across computer graphics and AI, and/or building delightful tools, send me an email at [tony@dream3d.com](mailto:tony@dream3d.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IBk-dream3d-ai-powered-3d-design", "votes": 108, "created_at": "2023-03-03T18:30:17.701Z" } ] }, { "id": 27862, "name": "Bluedot", "slug": "bluedot", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8fd6f1d5fb7457d7a65b3b8719a1b2c7f07928b.png", "website": "https://thebluedot.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets. They're growing 40-45% weekly and made $110K GMV last week.\r\n\r\nOver 50% of vehicles sold will be electric by 2030. The payments management infrastructure for EV charging and the expenses doesn’t exist at the moment. The founders operated 100+ EV charging stations, worked in companies like Zipcar, Bosch, and Mercedes, and faced this problem through their own experiences. They built a team with a strong fintech background and publicly launched their Bluedot card on Dec 14th, 2022.\r\n\r\nBluedot has raised their pre-seed from Y Combinator, Axel Springer, Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, and Pritchard Automotive. ", "one_liner": "Bluedot is a single payment platform for EV drivers and fleets.", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1677704231, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Climate", "Transportation", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bluedot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/bluedot.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluedottechnologies/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thebluedot_co", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8fd6f1d5fb7457d7a65b3b8719a1b2c7f07928b.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": 711267, "full_name": "Selinay Parlak", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinayfilizparlak/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/selinayfilizp", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6bb9fdc713e01ad2bf6caf255ded6a8da3716f9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 711269, "full_name": "Ferhat Babacan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I’m co-founder and CEO of Bluedot. I was working at Zipcar and Bosch before starting Bluedot. I’m a former national volleyball player in Turkey. \n\nI did in high school by feeding worms at home, I received awards from many companies such as Google and Microsoft at the age of 14. As a university climate activist, I participated in many studies. I dropped out of the Munich Technical University, where I went for my master's degree, and we founded Bluedot with my high school friend Selinay.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferhatbabacan/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ferhaatbabacaan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a8121f5ad1611054208685c0051910e1f1218fbf.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How credit cards are getting in on the electric vehicle spending trend - MarketWatch", "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-credit-cards-are-getting-in-on-the-electric-vehicle-spending-trend-11644614659?mod=credit-cards", "date": "Feb 17, 2023" }, { "title": "Bluedot's debit card for EV owners offers cheaper charging, cash back • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/bluedots-debit-card-for-ev-owners-offers-cheaper-charging-cash-back/", "date": "Jan 23, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69841, "title": "(🌍) Bluedot - Single payment solution for electric vehicle drivers and fleets", "tagline": "Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n* **What:** [Bluedot](https://thebluedot.co/) is a single payment platform for EV (electric vehicle) drivers and fleets to charge their cars and manage expenses.\n* **Traction:** We continue to grow since launching publicly on December 15. As of Feb. 28, our **GMV was $82K last wee**k, and it’s **growing by 45% weekly**. We have closed 5 fleet companies.\n* **Here’s what one of our EV fleet management customers had to say:**\n\n “We have partnered up with Bluedot to give our drivers a better charging experience and understand charging behavior and optimize it. Our drivers enjoy using Bluedot so far. The charging map is great and makes it easy for me to drive without worrying.” \n\n “They love that they can pay a flat fee at any charging station and pay without having to download numerous apps. Saves money and time!”\n\n### ⏳ **Problem and how fuel card industry is changing**\n\nCurrently, EVs account for 5% of new car sales in the US and the Biden administration has set an ambitious goal to increase the **market share to 50% by 2030.** To encourage EV adoption, the federal government is investing in building 500,000 new public charging stations for these cars. Along the way, the projected spend for all-electric vehicle charging is expected to hit **$25 billion**.\n\nHowever, this transformation comes with some challenges and opportunities around charging and payments, such as:\n\n📱 **Accessibility:** Currently, to charge their cars, drivers need 5-6 different apps & cards to find and pay at charging stations. This is especially inefficient and difficult for fleet drivers who need to charge frequently.\n\n📊 **Trackability:** It’s hard for fleet managers and drivers to track charging behavior and spending, which creates an inefficient ecosystem.\n\n🧾 **Reimbursement:** Lack of accessibility and trackability also makes it harder for fleet drivers to get reimbursed for charging expenses. Also, most drivers can charge their cars at home, which adds to reimbursement problems.\n\n### Bluedot aims to address these challenges and help accelerate the transition to EV transportation.\n\n### **💡 How Does Bluedot Work?**\n\n▶️ **Bluedot Driver App:** EV drivers can access 60% of available charging stations and pay with the [Bluedot App](https://bluedot.app.link/SPpSLBVv8ub), while also enjoying savings on auto-related expenses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69841&key=user_uploads/711269/024d8b2f-e99b-44bf-9b06-b368614ec80f)\n\n▶️ **Bluedot Dashboard:** Fleet managers can monitor and authenticate driver permissions, as well as gain better visibility into charging and driving behavior, helping to improve fleet efficiency and control costs.\n\n### **👥 Bluedot Crew**\n\n> ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/825Nr_5QT2HD7fYmh4DKuM9NiifgbBP7hNua8V_VxG2pwDcRE7KFieNd_FHkLSy_wCZLjcEAhg8sVfo_SDcwa3dJ3MwKVlPVlcq7rGrYtp5BgtKyz0HuHvdXiH-fKyHsgLDc4rzhQqwgZTOa2kBKUkQ)\n\n\n_From our Bluedot Exclusive event for our drivers_\n\nOur team comprises long-time friends Ferhat and Selinay, who have known each other since high school. Ferhat has worked at reputable car and mobility companies such as **Zipcar, Bosch**, and **Mercedes-Benz**. Meanwhile, Selinay has worked on multiple EV projects and has been recognized by **Business Insider as a Rising Star in the EV Industry**. She was also nominated as Women4Climate by C40 cities.\n\nEmre and Yunus, our technical leads, have built applications that have reached 3 millions users without a marketing budget. Our team is characterized by our grit and perseverance, and we pride ourselves on acting fast and building faster. \n\nWe are backed by investors including Axel Springer and Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, Eksim Ventures and Pritchard Automotive.\n\n### **🙏🏼 Ask**\n\nWe are expanding and distributing our offering through auto dealers, auto financing companies, fleet management and delivery companies.\n\nWe want to learn more about how they currently manage charging and if they could benefit from payments platform and dashboard.\n\nAlso, try our product and let us know your feedback! If you want to reach out, here is our e-mail: [founders@thebluedot.co](mailto:founders@thebluedot.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAT-bluedot-single-payment-solution-for-electric-vehicle-drivers-and-fleets", "votes": 99, "created_at": "2023-03-01T20:25:28.552Z" } ] }, { "id": 27867, "name": "DataSuite", "slug": "datasuite", "former_names": [ "Extensional AI", "Extensional", "Extensional AI", "Anarchy AI", "Anarchy", "Anarchy Labs", "TruthSuite" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98dc541fc5fbbef1e6c9baee61264602e4e64531.png", "website": "https://truthsuite.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "DataSuite provides a way to manage and collect multi-terabyte multi-media datasets, and train generative models (diffusion, gan, interactive video) models based on them. \r\n\r\nWe make it trivial for non-technical builders to create their own networks by providing an instant way to collect with AI without worrying about data formats, unzipping power, caching, or data locality.", "one_liner": "Dataset Management for AI Trainers", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Legal", "launched_at": 1669080392, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Generative AI", "Machine Learning", "DevOps", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Legal" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? 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Before this, he worked at apple on JS compiler optimizations that saved the world a billion dollars in time wasted waiting for pages to load, and before that got an MS from CMU on meta-programming CoC logic languages.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewmirman/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mmirman", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0f8c7b0dfce84c3fc75c64878dd889bf64439c0d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1151451, "full_name": "James Spoor", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "A Generalist, with a passion for learning! After living in multiple countries hustling, building and creating, I ended up in Switzerland diving into the deep tech world where I worked at DeepCode, ml on static analysis which was then acquired by Snyk a cyber security unicorn. A fun fact about me is I was once a professional climber. My superpower is caring deeply and understanding through questions... there will be many questions!\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/james-spoor", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Spoor2709", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5578b222bbf26bfc932bfdd143434fe50587bbf5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69294, "title": "Anarchy 🧪 - LLM infrastructure for building conversational applications 🏗️", "tagline": "Anarchy provides companies with their own LLM endpoints that can call any APIs", "body": "Greetings YC community! We’re Matt and James, the founders of Anarchy. We’ve been working in AI for a long time (Matt just finished a PhD working on formal methods in deep learning) and have become experts in taming LLMs. We started Anarchy to share these advances with devs who want to use LLMs in production.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nWhile LLMs are beginning to be used as universal text interfaces, developers and prompt engineers are beginning to want consistent and reliable LLMs with agency: LLMs which can search through their ever-changing databases, be able to book meetings, and generally make calls to their APIs. However, coaxing LLMs to behave consistently is black magic requiring constant vigilance, and relying on a single provider can be a risky point of failure.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nOur platform abstracts away the unpredictable work of researching ideal prompts so developers can focus on building business logic: Provide your API and its description, and your LLM-keys, and anarchy will provide you an LLM endpoint (or web-interface chatbot) that can answer questions and solve problems using your API and load-balance between LLMs.\n\n[Here's a short product demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcv_wrCYRds)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69294&key=user_uploads/129728/2ecd3d46-6642-49b8-bdf7-8f655f59078e)\n\n### **Ask**\n\nIf this excites you (or anybody you might know, YC or not) and you’d like to try our product, please contact us by [signing up.](https://forms.gle/5rqU282gUKmKPmjm9)\n\nIf you want to have a chat about LLM tech or ask us questions directly, feel free to join our discord: \n\nWe’re also in the process of building up our [twitter](https://twitter.com/anarchy_ai_inc) and [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/extensional) and would appreciate a follow 🙂!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I1e-anarchy-llm-infrastructure-for-building-conversational-applications", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-02-15T01:33:56.036Z" } ] }, { "id": 27868, "name": "Outerbase", "slug": "outerbase", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7ffc83c79c7fc5268f3ebcb40e602151effc32b.png", "website": "https://www.outerbase.com", "all_locations": "Pittsburgh, PA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Outerbase is the interface for your database. 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At his time there he guided teams in making key data-driven decisions, in which he took his experience from to assist in building Outerbase.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brayden-wilmoth/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BraydenWilmoth", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/30c5b71e48d1a39556079a95091351ba214bedd7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69291, "title": "👾 Outerbase – Interface for your database", "tagline": "Outerbase is the easiest way for you and your team to securely access your data.", "body": "Hi everyone – we are Brandon & Brayden from Outerbase.\n\n**📚 TL;DR**\n\nCurrent database tooling is poorly designed and historically been targeted solely at developers. Outerbase is a modern platform that allows you and your entire team to view the data you need whether it be in Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery or more.\n\n### \n\n**🪨 The Problem**\n\nGetting access to your data is hard. Typically there are only a few people who hold the keys to it at any given company and they quickly become a bottleneck on data requests. The tooling around it is outdated and poorly designed, and not intended for the modern collaborative work environments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69291&key=user_uploads/1247130/86c6422c-a53c-41d7-a9fa-10c9e5362450)\n\n### \n\n**⚒️ Our Solution**\n\nOuterbase provides an intuitive interface with granular access to your data. It has a familiar spreadsheet-like experience that anyone can use. Outerbase’s EZQL provides a sql-less experience through the use of GPT-3. You can take those same queries and create beautiful dashboards all in one experience.\n\n### \n\n**⚙️ How Outerbase Works**\n\nWe sit on top of most relational database types, including Postgres, MySQL, Redshift, BigQuery, and Snowflake. You simply provide your database credentials and Outerbase gives you a spreadsheet-like experience to view, edit, query, and visualize your data. Since access is based on your credentials you can easily control how granularly your team accesses your data. Our EZQL feature is powered by OpenAI and takes your databases schema and structures your questions/queries based on it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69291&key=user_uploads/1247130/8bf0e1cb-0788-47a1-84aa-8d91e6652aad)\n\n### \n\n**🙋 Asks**\n\nTry Outerbase, simply [sign up](https://app.outerbase.com/signup) and get started with our demo database, or add your own database credentials in the connections tab. You can also [download](http://app.outerbase.com/downloads/Outerbase.dmg) our mac app.\n\nIf you know of anyone trying to kick off the process of making data-driven decisions but doesn’t know where to start, please intro them to us!\n\nJoin our Slack [community](https://join.slack.com/t/outerbasecommunity/shared_invite/zt-1ple7fhsg-2z6MIC_P4fzdrKe1koJ7kQ).\n\nAnd, if you have 15 minutes to chat about your pain points accessing your data please book some time [here](https://calendly.com/outerbase/demo).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I1b-outerbase-interface-for-your-database", "votes": 86, "created_at": "2023-02-14T23:19:39.388Z" } ] }, { "id": 27869, "name": "co.dev", "slug": "co-dev", "former_names": [ "Wisp Finance", "Finex", "Codev" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/69fb9c525432d1e46ceb4d9dc25dc4e77da0f0be.png", "website": "https://co.dev/?ref=YC", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Skip the complexity, high costs, and limitations of no-code tools—our AI-powered platform lets you create scalable, modern full-stack apps using natural language, all while keeping full ownership of your code.", "one_liner": "Turn your ideas into full-stack apps", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1673365680, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "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/co-dev", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/co-dev.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/codotdev", "x_url": "https://x.com/codotdev", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/69fb9c525432d1e46ceb4d9dc25dc4e77da0f0be.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 931418, "full_name": "Uladzislau Radkevich", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Experienced software developer with a background in Computer Security. \nLed tech side of crypto development at Revolut and scaled their payments infrastructure from 1M to 20M+ users. \nWinner of multiple web3/crypto hackathons, including ethAmsterdam and Polygon Buidl IT 2022.\nHave strong domain expertise in traditional banking and fintech.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/uladzislauradkevich/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ulad_dev", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3b9b4334514b78dd566da629665325d5651ed799.jpg" }, { "user_id": 983743, "full_name": "Andrew Kim", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Andrew started his career in business IT consulting with Accenture, consulting for Google, Cisco, and 3M. After, he worked as a software engineer for Levi Strauss and various startups. 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While current no-code platforms offer a partial solution, they come with serious drawbacks:\n\n* Vendor Lock-In: They use they own stack, so you are tied to their platform.\n* Scaling Challenges: Outgrowing these tools often means starting over.\n* Limited Customization: Advanced features require a steep learning curve or outside help.\n\n# **Solution**\n\n[co.dev](https://co.dev) bridges the gap by combining the simplicity of no-code platforms with the flexibility and scalability of professional development tools. Using natural language, [co.dev](https://co.dev) enables users to build full-stack apps effortlessly through a chat-based interface.\n\nThe platform provides:\n\n* Access to the Codebase: Users can download and own the generated code, eliminating vendor lock.\n* Modern Tech Stack: Apps are built using Next.js and Supabase, providing scalability, speed, and reliability.\n* Built-In Modules: Common features like authentication, database integration (via Prisma), and more, ready to use out of the box.\n* AI Code Management: AI handles coding, bug fixes, database updates, and deployments, while you just provide requirements using natural language.\n* Customization: Advanced users can continue app development outside the platform if desired.\n\nThis solution saves users time, reduces costs, and lowers the technical barriers to building fully functional, scalable applications.\n\n# **Uses Cases**\n\n1. **Startup MVP Development:** Entrepreneurs can quickly create and iterate on minimum viable products for their startup ideas, allowing for rapid testing and validation of concepts.\n2. **Non-Technical App Development:** Anyone can describe their app vision in plain text, and [co.dev](https://co.dev) transforms it into a functional app. Whether you're a small business owner or a creative individual, [co.dev](https://co.dev) makes app creation accessible to all.\n\nSign up [here](https://co.dev).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85946&key=user_uploads/983743/b0fcac42-5c3f-41e6-a607-315cf600d821)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MME-co-dev-turn-your-ideas-into-full-stack-apps", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-11-29T23:15:00.169Z" } ] }, { "id": 27870, "name": "Langfuse", "slug": "langfuse", "former_names": [ "Finto", "langfuse" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d3e0acd0e4d5b3b53104245ec4f7548555f11896.png", "website": "https://langfuse.com", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "Traces, evals, prompt management and metrics to debug and improve your LLM application.\r\nOnboard via https://langfuse.com\r\n\r\nLangfuse helps you build and improve LLM applications across the entire lifecycle: \r\n- Develop: Observability, Langfuse UI & Prompt Management\r\n- Monitor: Traces, Analytics, Metrics & Evaluations\r\n- Test: Experiments, Releases & Datasets\r\n\r\nWe are hiring: https://langfuse.com/careers\r\n\r\nLangfuse joined Clickhouse in Jan 2026 where the founders now continue to build the team.", "one_liner": "Open source LLM engineering platform", "team_size": 26, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1673911015, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Generative AI", "Analytics", "Open Source", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Germany", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/langfuse", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/langfuse.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Berlin", "country": "DE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/langfuse", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/langfuse", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d3e0acd0e4d5b3b53104245ec4f7548555f11896.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a19a4b0f2f343ddcb687df3d09f4dbbc3a75500e.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/133f4b1d73f1af1d0f963426bdb8600b1059b396.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 860580, "full_name": "Marc Klingen", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Marc has diverse experience across Product, Sales, Business Intelligence and full-stack engineering at companies from large (Google, DHL) to early stage startups. He graduated within the top 1% of his Masters in Management and Computer Science from Technical University Munich. Besides that, he loves to hack on personal project and connect with other builders (something he does not get to too much right now).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcklingen/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/marcklingen", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dd46310738491a63c921865cf5e9b89a189ad725.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1156994, "full_name": "Maximilian Deichmann", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Max built trading systems at European 5bn Fintech, Trade Republic. He knows the ins and outs of building reliable, scalable systems to handle our customers’ most critical business processes. While Max started out studying Management in undergrad, he quickly found his love for computer science and transitioned into engineer self-taught and with a graduate degree.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxdeichmann/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c4eb3902bf32f61df34a8bb19d0942ae2809d624.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1148936, "full_name": "Clemens Rawert", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "co founder of langfuse with max & marc!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rawert/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rawert", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d0dc62d0e6b79c2d284807a0ffb4048c3b981684.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "ClickHouse welcomes Langfuse: The future of open-source LLM observability", "url": "https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-langfuse-open-source-llm-observability", "date": "Jan 15, 2026" }, { "title": "Langfuse raised $4M - Langfuse Blog", "url": "https://langfuse.com/blog/announcing-our-seed-round", "date": "Nov 07, 2023" }, { "title": "Our favorite startups from YC's Summer 2023 Demo Day, Day 1 | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/06/ycombinator-demo-day-one-summer-2023/?guccounter=1", "date": "Sep 06, 2023" }, { "title": "Show HN: Langfuse - Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310070", "date": "Aug 29, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 87195, "title": "🪢 Langfuse - The Open-Source LLM Engineering Platform", "tagline": "Langfuse helps teams collaboratively monitor, evaluate and debug their LLM applications.", "body": "![](https://lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdIAXpWtb7lK2NRs0-3d-GTPHW5YYMdHGsiSgqV4j4hVw8eb5PJXfszk16m2ROBoKOfyjOWlOtlk3adorGG4L49KTClDdTo5Yv6_k-iBdhbSFgnsKTQBa5e4Cp5kaDnmRlWccSKWQ?key=X_meTBjiqstYzDfMfZ-Cj7Hg)\n\n[Langfuse](https://langfuse.com) is the open-source LLM engineering platform designed to help teams build production-grade LLM applications faster. We started building Langfuse in SF during Y Combinator's W23 batch - just when GPT 4 was initially released. \\\n**Today, Langfuse is used by tens of thousands of developers and is one of the **[**most popular LLMOps platforms globally**](https://langfuse.com/blog/2024-11-most-used-oss-llmops)**.**\n\n### **🤯 The Problem**\n\nBuilding production-grade LLM applications is challenging because of the probabilistic nature of LLMs and the multiple layers of scaffolding required to get complex workflows into production. \\\nDevelopers need to **debug** their applications because of increasingly complex abstractions like chains, agents with tools, and advanced prompts. Understanding how an application executes and identifying the root causes of problems can be arduous. Additionally, **monitoring costs and latencies** is crucial since LLMs can incur high inference expense and take time to respond to users, making it important to track model usage and costs across applications.\n\nAssessing the **quality of LLM outputs** also poses challenges. Outputs may be inaccurate, unhelpful, poorly formatted, or hallucinated, complicating the process of ensuring reliability and accuracy. Quickly **identifying and debugging issues** in complex LLM applications is essential but often difficult. Furthermore, building high-quality datasets for fine-tuning and testing requires capturing the full context of LLM executions..\n\n### **✅ Our Solution**\n\n \n\nLangfuse addresses these challenges by providing an open-source platform to debug and improve LLM applications. \\\nLangfuse captures the **full context of your application**, tracing the complete execution flow—including API calls, retrieved context, prompts, parallelism, and more. By enabling **hierarchical representations through nested traces**, Langfuse helps you understand complex logic built around LLM calls. Langfuse also offers **full **[**multi-modal**](https://langfuse.com/changelog/2024-11-20-full-multi-modal-images-audio-attachments)** support**, including audio, images, and attachments.\n\n**Langfuse measures cost and latency**, breaking down metrics by user, session, feature, model, and prompt version, allowing for detailed analysis. To assess output quality, Langfuse facilitates the collection of **user feedback**, performs automated **LLM-as-a-judge evaluations**, and supports manual **data labeling** within the platform. It also offers [**prompt management**](https://langfuse.com/docs/prompts/get-started) features, allowing you to handle prompts effectively and perform [**prompt experiments**](https://langfuse.com/changelog/2024-11-22-prompt-experimentation) over new ideas and systematically track success.\n\nFor testing and experimentation, Langfuse supports **versioning your application** and running tests of **expected inputs and outputs** via curated **datasets**. This provides quantitative insights into the impact of changes, helping you understand and improve your LLM applications more effectively.\n\n### **🎬 Getting Started (Tracing OpenAI with Langfuse):**\n\nBelow is a brief example highlighting how you can integrate with Langfuse. You can also try out Langfuse through our interactive live demo or our walkthrough video - more [here](https://langfuse.com/docs/demo)**.**\n\n_(Not using OpenAI? Langfuse can be used with any model or framework through our _[_Python Decorator_](https://langfuse.com/docs/sdk/python/decorators)_ and _[_JS-TS SDK_](https://langfuse.com/docs/sdk/typescript/guide)_. Langfuse also natively integrates with popular frameworks such as _[_Langchain_](https://langfuse.com/docs/integrations/langchain/tracing)_, _[_LlamaIndex_](https://langfuse.com/docs/integrations/llama-index/get-started)_, _[_LiteLLM_](https://langfuse.com/docs/integrations/litellm/tracing)_ and _[_more_](https://langfuse.com/docs/integrations/overview)_. )_\n\n#### Step 1: Create a New Project in Langfuse\n\n1. Sign up for [Langfuse Cloud](https://cloud.langfuse.com) or [self-host](https://langfuse.com/docs/deployment/self-host) Langfuse OSS.\n2. Create a new project within Langfuse.\n3. Generate API credentials via the project settings.\n\n#### Step 2: Log Your First LLM Call to Langfuse\n\nThe [@observe() decorator](https://langfuse.com/docs/sdk/python/decorators) makes it easy to trace any Python LLM application. In this quickstart, we use the Langfuse [OpenAI integration](https://langfuse.com/docs/integrations/openai) to automatically capture all model parameters such as cost and token usage.\n\n```\n%pip install langfuse openai\n```\n\n```\n# Get keys for your project from the project settings page https://cloud.langfuse.com\nos.environ[\"LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY\"] = \"sk-lf-...\"\nos.environ[\"LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY\"] = \"pk-lf-...\"\nos.environ[\"LANGFUSE_HOST\"] = \"https://cloud.langfuse.com\" # 🇪🇺 EU region\n# os.environ[\"LANGFUSE_HOST\"] = \"https://us.cloud.langfuse.com\" # 🇺🇸 US region\n```\n\n```\nfrom langfuse.openai import openai # OpenAI integration\nfrom langfuse.decorators import observe\n\n@observe() # Langfuse decorator\ndef story():\n return openai.chat.completions.create(\n model=\"gpt-3.5-turbo\",\n messages=[\n {\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a great storyteller.\"},\n {\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away...\"}\n ],\n ).choices[0].message.content\n \n@observe()\ndef main():\n return story()\n \nmain()\n```\n\n#### Step 3: See your Traces in Langfuse\n\n![](https://lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfbJGtoDrEGUKAM8Kiim08yIkwLNR25bUtH6Mlr9H49lIdQUkwr9yVQhC1Q06Y8IMaGDte-likn20DUIo1_eGST64FC4RO1VREZdF24OxrTTV3yYL9EmV6xBxXmCiSN01ucH-_zPA?key=X_meTBjiqstYzDfMfZ-Cj7Hg)\n\nLog into the [Langfuse UI](https://cloud.langfuse.com/) to view the created trace. You can now take it further by managing your prompts through Langfuse or by starting to test or evaluate your LLM executions (more below).\n\nSee this example trace in the Langfuse UI: [_https://cloud.langfuse.com/project/cloramnkj0002jz088vzn1ja4/traces/fac231bc-90ee-490a-aa32-78c4269474e3_](https://cloud.langfuse.com/project/cloramnkj0002jz088vzn1ja4/traces/fac231bc-90ee-490a-aa32-78c4269474e3)\n\n### **🏃 Now what?**\n\nAfter you are set up in Langfuse you can now:\n\n* **Evaluate** the quality of your application through\n * [User feedback](https://langfuse.com/docs/scores/user-feedback)\n * [Data Labeling](https://langfuse.com/docs/scores/annotation)\n * [LLM-as-Judge Evals](https://langfuse.com/docs/scores/model-based-evals)\n * [Custom Evaluators](https://langfuse.com/docs/scores/custom)\n* Run **Tests & Benchmarks** by\n * [Curating Datasets](https://langfuse.com/docs/datasets/overview)\n * [Conducting Prompt Experiments](https://langfuse.com/docs/datasets/prompt-experiments)\n* **Analyze and collate statistics** on your app with\n * [LLM analytics](https://langfuse.com/docs/analytics/overview)\n * [Intent Classification](https://langfuse.com/docs/analytics/example-intent-classification)\n * [Posthog Integration](https://langfuse.com/docs/analytics/posthog)\n* **Develop faster** by utilizing\n * [Prompt Management](https://langfuse.com/docs/prompts/get-started)\n * [Prompt Playground](https://langfuse.com/docs/playground)\n\n### **👇 Interested in learning more?**\n\n* ⭐️ Star us on [GitHub](https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/) + follow along on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/langfuse) & [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/langfuse).\n* 👨‍💻 [Getting Started](https://docs.langfuse.com/)\n* [👷 How did we build Langfuse?](https://langfuse.com/blog/2024-12-langfuse-v3-infrastructure-evolution)\n* PS: [We’re Hiring!](https://langfuse.com/careers)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MgN-langfuse-the-open-source-llm-engineering-platform", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-01-27T15:36:38.074Z" }, { "id": 73214, "title": "🪢 Langfuse - Open-source product analytics for LLM apps", "tagline": "Track quality, cost and latency of your LLM apps", "body": "⭐ Star us on [**_Github_**](https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/) & follow us on [**_Twitter_**](https://twitter.com/langfuse)\n\n**_TLDR_**_: _[**_Langfuse_**](https://www.langfuse.com/?utm_source=LaunchYC)_ is building open-source product analytics (think ‘Mixpanel’) for LLM apps. We help companies to track and analyze quality, cost and latency across product releases and use cases._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73214&key=user_uploads/1148936/d38a4a7c-edf5-469a-ad3f-7f7aef62a3a5)\n\nHi everyone, we’re Max, Marc and Clemens. We were part of the Winter 23 batch and work on [**Langfuse**](https://www.langfuse.com/?utm_source=LaunchYC), where we help teams make sense of how their LLM applications perform. \n\n### **🤯 Problem**\n\nLLMs represent a new paradigm in software. Single LLM calls are probabilistic and add substantial latency and cost. Applications use LLMs in new ways via advanced prompting, embedding-based retrieval, chains, and agents with tools. Teams building production-grade LLM applications have new **product analytics** and **monitoring** needs:\n\n* **Quality of outputs** is difficult to measure. Outputs can e.g. be inaccurate, unhelpful, poorly formatted, hallucinated or error.\n* **Cost of compute** is a priority again given high inference costs.\n* **Latency** of responses matters for synchronous use cases.\n* **Debugging is challenging** due to increasingly complex LLM applications (chains, agents, tool usage).\n* **Understanding user behavior** is difficult given open-ended user prompts and conversational interactions.\n\n### **🧠 Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73214&key=user_uploads/1148936/75e00e56-33fa-4484-bf63-4bdf0394049d)\n\nLangfuse derives actionable insights from production data. Our customers use Langfuse to answer questions such as: _‘How helpful are my LLM app’s outputs? What is my LLM API spend by customer? What do latencies look like across geographies and steps of LLM chains? Did the quality of the application improve in newer versions? What was the impact of switching from zero-shotting GPT4 to using few-shotted Llama calls?’_\n\n**Metrics**\n\n* **Quality** is measured through user feedback, model-based scoring and human-in-the-loop scored samples. Quality is assessed over time as well as across prompt versions, LLMs and users.\n* **Cost and Latency** are accurately measured and broken down by user, session, geography, feature, model and prompt version.\n\n**Insights**\n\n* Monitor quality/cost/latency **tradeoffs** by release to facilitate product and engineering decisions.\n* **Cluster use cases** by employing a classifier to understand what users are doing.\n* Break down **LLM usage by customer** for usage-based billing and profitability analysis.\n\n**Integrations**\n\n* Python and Typescript SDKs to easily monitor complex LLM apps\n* Frontend SDK to directly capture feedback from users as a quality signal\n\n_Langfuse can be self-hosted or used with a generous free tier in our managed cloud version._\n\n### **🚧 Debugging UI**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73214&key=user_uploads/1148936/8d29b87f-8426-4eb1-be4e-6efbf9d4769f)\n\nBased on the ingested data, Langfuse helps developers debug complex LLM apps in production:\n\n* Inspect LLM app executions in a nested UI for chains, agents and tool usage.\n* Segment by user feedback to find the root cause of quality problems.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nStar us on [**GitHub**](https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/) + follow along on [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/langfuse) & [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/langfuse).\n\n* If you run an LLM app, go ahead and [**talk to us**](https://cal.com/marc-kl/langfuse-analytics), we’d love to see how we can be helpful.\n* Please forward [**Langfuse**](https://www.langfuse.com/?utm_source=LaunchYC) to **teams building commercial LLM applications**.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J2s-langfuse-open-source-product-analytics-for-llm-apps", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-07-19T14:33:30.177Z" } ] }, { "id": 27871, "name": "Extend", "slug": "extend", "former_names": [ "CrowdView" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/184d30d91903380caada7f52cd7cd7992759e07b.png", "website": "https://www.extend.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy. Read any layout with specialized vision models, and ship reliable pipelines in minutes, not months.", "one_liner": "Production-ready document processing", "team_size": 25, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1679062598, "tags": [ "Documents", "Developer Tools", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/extend", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/extend.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/extend-app", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/extendHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/184d30d91903380caada7f52cd7cd7992759e07b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 137869, "full_name": "Kushal Byatnal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2x technical founder interested in making it easy to build internal tools. Previously, I worked as an early engineer at Brex and then cofounded Stir, a creator fintech company that grew to hundreds of millions in payment volume.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushal-byatnal-92a33085/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kushalbyatnal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ffbc77035467f2a55670b375c631a97cd63d9abd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1121959, "full_name": "Eli Badgio", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder @ Extend", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-badgio/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ebadgio_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1e76a78dbd63d57a5bf1aa189fc87146d3990faa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Extend Raises $17 Million to Build the Document Processing Cloud | Extend", "url": "https://www.extend.ai/resources/series-a", "date": "Jun 17, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 87403, "title": "📄 Extend - Unified Document Processing Platform", "tagline": "Turn messy documents into high quality data, achieve > 95% accuracy, and ship custom document pipelines in days, not months.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87403&key=user_uploads/137869/a0dc2100-5072-45e4-92c3-d6088bf15bdf)\n\n# What is Extend in a nutshell?\n\nExtend provides document processing infrastructure, tooling, and APIs that enable technical teams to handle complex documents with state-of-the-art accuracy and reliability.\n\nCompanies like Chime, Brex, Flatiron Health, Opendoor, and Checkr use Extend for mission-critical document pipelines to achieve > 95% accuracy on their hardest docs, and go live in days (not months).\n\n[Sign up to get started](https://dashboard.extend.ai/)\n\n# The Problem\n\nProcessing complex documents **is hard.** You have to deal with:\n\n* Difficult layout elements like tables, charts, handwriting, and signatures\n* Lengthy documents needing chunking and merging strategies\n* Extracting structured data with > 95% accuracy across a variety of input formats\n* Optimizing outputs for LLM readability\n* Ensuring accuracy and reliability in production for critical use cases\n\n# Our Solution\n\nThere are plenty of OCR and document parsing options on the market. However, we noticed customers still struggling to deploy complex use cases when accuracy requirements are high (> 95%). This is because OCR and parsing is only one part of the problem, and real world use cases need to bridge the gap between raw outputs and production-ready data.\n\nExtend uniquely solves this by unifying models, infrastructure, and tooling into a single platform for end to end document processing.\n\nThis includes:\n\n* Process any document format with state-of-the-art parsing powered by VLMs and OCR\n* Capture precise data with multi-step extraction powered by semantic chunking, bounding boxes, and citations\n* Tackle the most complex use cases with processing modes for document parsing, classification, extraction, and splitting\n* Deploy faster with low code tooling that empowers your entire team to quickly iterate, review results, and improve accuracy\n* Continuously improve results with fine-tuning pipelines that turn reviewed corrections —> custom models\n\nFor example, Extend’s built-in evaluation tools to help you benchmark performance, improve accuracy, and deploy with confidence.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87403&key=user_uploads/137869/801788f4-a72c-4d1a-8dd0-d4e9f9f18436)\n\nOur customizable document splitter identifies each distinct section and their relationships according to your instructions. This is critical when ingesting lengthy documents (or multi-document packages).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87403&key=user_uploads/137869/f0c2726e-b58f-42fc-8a9a-2b5294c5751d)\n\nHere’s an example of zero-shot table extraction on a complex healthcare doc. What enables this is vision models specialized for tabular structures, working alongside our bounding box citations & human-in-the-loop review system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87403&key=user_uploads/137869/df2d9e80-2ade-4730-98ed-f0a15f942450)\n\n# Hear it from our customers\n\nMatt Hodgson, CTO at Vendr:\n\n> We did a bakeoff, and Extend had the best results of any solution on the market. It eliminates an entire class of engineering problems around accuracy we don’t want to worry about.\n\nAdam Litton, Staff Engineer at Checkr:\n\n> Extend eliminates the maintenance cost of model tuning, scoring, evaluations, and more. We’re able to focus on our core experience instead of managing the infra.\n\nFabio Fleitas, CTO at Tesorio:\n\n> I don’t know what you guys are doing under the hood, but it’s so much more accurate than any other tool we’ve tried.\n\n# Get Started\n\nIf you’re building document processing pipelines with high accuracy requirements, get in touch with us!\n\n* [Book a demo](https://extend.cal.com/extend/extend-intro-call)\n* Email us at [founders@extend.app](mailto:founders@extend.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mjj-extend-unified-document-processing-platform", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2025-02-04T15:46:20.176Z" }, { "id": 73038, "title": "Extend - Build AI-powered workflows for unstructured data", "tagline": "Intelligently process documents, emails, images, and more with powerful tools for extraction, classification, and analysis.", "body": "**TLDR;** Extend makes it easy to process unstructured data in the form of PDFs, images, emails, and more. Build workflows that combine LLMs, business logic, integrations, and human-in-the-loop confidence - all without a line of code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73038&key=user_uploads/137869/8f86f279-0f42-4ab8-891d-a0ef4df19126)\n\n**The problem**\n\nVast amounts of data is often locked away inside messy PDFs, images, or emails and companies often build entire operational workflows around trying to manage and understand it. Humans have to do the tedious manual work of organizing and parsing all of it, but that’s just the start. To make use of that data, workflows have to be built around classification, validation, deduplication, fraud & spam checks, anomaly detection, manual audits, and so much more.\n\n**How Extend works**\n\nExtend comes with a set of building blocks to manage workflows around unstructured data. It can be used both:\n\n* **internally** to manage and automate complex operations (e.g. back office ops/fraud/support/finance use cases)\n* **externally** in your product (e.g. drop in a embeddable component to collect, classify, and validate documents uploaded by your end users in real time)\n\nHere’s how:\n\n**Combine** LLMs with business logic, validations, and integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73038&key=user_uploads/137869/ff3801ab-d622-4938-92bd-417d55d22fec)\n\n**Build** custom workflows that mirror your internal operations, and let them run on autopilot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73038&key=user_uploads/137869/caccc352-e74d-45cb-a579-581746f4bc00)\n\n**Deploy** confidently into production with built-in confidence scoring and human-in-the-loop flows.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73038&key=user_uploads/137869/2c18cecb-152f-4c89-9d2f-0b9648b07aba)\n\n**Integrate** via our API, dashboard, or even embed Extend natively in your user-facing product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73038&key=user_uploads/137869/3f48afc3-0b2f-46a0-b066-bf3ded6cf8c6)\n\n\n### **Get Started**\n\n[**Sign up**](https://www.extend.app/) on our website! Right now, we’re running a special deal + priority onboarding and support.\n\n### **Asks**\n\n* We’re growing quickly and looking to hire ex-founders (please reach out)!\n* Follow us on [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/extendhq) and [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/extend-app/?viewAsMember=true) to stay in touch\n* We love any and all kinds of feedback", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J02-extend-build-ai-powered-workflows-for-unstructured-data", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2023-07-13T19:36:11.447Z" }, { "id": 70372, "title": "Extend - Build internal Chrome extensions that give your team superpowers", "tagline": "Ship internal tools that reduce context switching, eliminate copy/pasting, and customize any website your team relies on.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nExtend is a low code developer tool that makes it easy to build internal chrome extensions for your company.\n\nFor example, **support teams** can solve tickets faster with custom buttons that call internal APIs, draft responses, and bring GPT-4 into the loop.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70372&key=user_uploads/137869/d1322b76-0479-474e-b51d-96e26317ce37)\n\n**Sales teams** can customize their CRM with real-time database queries and UI overlays.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70372&key=user_uploads/137869/7db4d9cb-69f4-4308-a918-71f49991ffc5)\n\n**Give your company superpowers in 15 minutes.**\n\nExtend gives your developers building blocks so they can build these types of workflows in 15 minutes.\n\nWe provide:\n\n1. tons of pre-built modules (e.g. extract info from the page via GPT-4, inject a button in to the DOM)\n2. beautiful UI components\n3. secure connections to your database + internal APIs\n4. one-click instant deployment to your team\n\nJust write your custom business logic and wire up the flow, we’ll handle the rest.\n\n**Extend is a better way of building internal tools.**\n\nI’ve spent years working in fintech and built a ton of internal tooling for support and operations teams. But using most internal tools today requires a ton of copy/pasting and context switching, which any support or operations team will tell you is the bane of their existence. Chrome Extensions enable your internal tools to live _inside_ the apps where your teams already spend 90% of their time today.\n\nAnd now with GPT-4, your teams can activate supercharged workflows within the context of your existing tools.\n\n**Get Started**\n\n* For the first 5 companies that [sign up](https://tally.so/r/w2Xx5L), we’ll build your internal chrome extension for you with **no engineering resources needed on your end**!\n* Send a note to [kushal@extend.app](mailto:kushal@extend.app) if you have feedback / want to chat", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IJ2-extend-build-internal-chrome-extensions-that-give-your-team-superpowers", "votes": 75, "created_at": "2023-03-17T14:16:56.849Z" } ] }, { "id": 27873, "name": "Floworks", "slug": "floworks", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b971472cf0d2638ad01eeaaf35f5a56a8abd2541.png", "website": "https://floworks.ai/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Floworks (https://floworks.ai) is building a suite of AI employees that helps business to run several business functions such as sales, on autopilot.\r\n\r\nOur flagship product, Alisha is an AI SDR that performs the full outbound SDR job- fully autonomously without any human involvement. \r\n\r\nOur AI SDR Alisha can perform ICP research, find out prospect lists, research about each prospect across 180 web sources, write highly personalized emails to each, follow and engage, and finally coordinate like a human to book sales calls.\r\n\r\nBusinesses using Alisha get 3 key benefits:\r\n1.⁠ ⁠They get 12x output from your existing sales team.\r\n2.⁠ ⁠⁠Are able to scale to 8 figure revenues with just a single AE.\r\n\r\nAlisha is built on our proprietary function calling model ThorV2 (https://floworks.ai/research) that outperforms both Claude 3 and GPT-4 function calling in accuracy by 13% and 43% respectively. At the same time, ThorV2 uses only a fraction of the cost (<40%) and time/latency (<78%) as the other models.\r\n\r\nOur second AI employee, Ashley, is an AI Executive Assistant that keeps you reminded and on top of your on your schedule. Works on your whim- just command Flowy to book a meeting, move a meeting or write a email, and it does without you having to navigate through every apps. You can teach Flowy specific workflows such as ‘inform me immediately if i receive a reply from xyz’, “show my unread emails from last day every morning 7am” and much more\r\n\r\nOur third AI employee, Romona is a helpful AI Revenue Operations Manager that keeps track of every CRM data updation on behalf of your team, works on your instruction to update notes, next steps, MEDDIC after every call, does periodic CRM reporting and much more.", "one_liner": "Hire the best AI Sales employees | AI SDR | AI RevOps | AI EA", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1678165264, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Productivity", "Sales", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/floworks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/floworks.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/floworkssolutions", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Floworks4", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b971472cf0d2638ad01eeaaf35f5a56a8abd2541.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/f50d4456c49d307250c3f621a16bd0a9f7d6ad36.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 767160, "full_name": "Sarthak Shrivastava", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "An 2X entrepreneur and problem solver with experience in the e-commerce, logistics, and financial services industries of India, Singapore, and Philippines markets. 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I have also built multiple tax filing products for India’s business at Cleartax.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudipta-biswas/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/265e006088e2d3eccf183c62a60170c7a01912cd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "YC-backed Indian Startup Claims its AI Agent is Better than OpenAI’s GPT-4o", "url": "https://analyticsindiamag.com/aim-exclusive-yc-backed-indian-startup-claims-its-ai-agent-is-better-than-openais-gpt-4o/", "date": "Jul 19, 2024" }, { "title": "Floworks is building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/floworks-is-building-an-ai-assistant-to-change-how-workers-use-software/", "date": "Aug 31, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 86791, "title": "Floworks AI SDR: Alisha v2", "tagline": "Alisha v2 automates the entire outbound sales workflow —lead research, sequencing, objection handling, followups. ", "body": "**TL;DR**\\\nIn the v2 of [Floworks](https://floworks.ai/) AI SDR,\n\n1. **High Precision Lead Research:** Alisha AI SDR performs hyper-focused research on prospects by connecting with 10+ sales databases and finding intent signals across 20+ sources.\n2. **Run sequencing across email and LinkedIn _simultaneously_**: Reach, engage, sequence your prospects over both email and linkedin.\n3. **Automated objection handling:** Objection/question/query- our AI SDR handles all responses. Every response is grounded in your business data.\n4. **Automate meeting scheduling:** Our AI SDR, being linked with your calendar, can coordinate on your behalf to book meetings fully _autonomously_.\n5. **Two way CRM Sync:** Alisha AI SDR keeps your CRM updated with every outreach sequencing data. It also runs new campaigns automatically based on the deal progression.\n\nTo get started with Alisha AI SDR, book an intro call with us [here](https://calendly.com/alisha-2ome/30min?embed_domain=floworks.ai&embed_type=Inline&hide_landing_page_details=1&hide_gdpr_banner=1&text_color=000000&primary_color=9209f3&back=1&month=2024-11). We are offering 10% additional discount (with annual plans) on the [listed price](https://floworks.ai/pricing) for customers coming through YC listing.\n\n### **High Precision 🎯 Lead Research**\n\nAlisha AI SDR goes beyond traditional spray and paint approach. With a ChatGPT like interface, you can instruct Alisha to find and pinpoint the exact lead persona.\\\\\n\n* “Find me VP of Sales at UK based healthcare SaaS companies that have recently entered a deal with NHS”\n* “Find me VP of Sales of Fintech companies that recently got Federal Reserve licenses” \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/d26f8751-b536-46c7-85d1-1f72a3d9888f)\n\n### **Multi Channel (Email+Linkedin) Sequencing**\n\nThe \"Media Synergy\" principle says that advertising impact is enhanced when consumers encounter messaging across multiple touchpoints, as each channel reinforces and complements the others.\n\nYes! That quite literally is this feature.\n\nIf your prospect does not respond to emails, Alisha reaches out over Linkedin. If your prospect asks for contracts, Alisha switches back to email again- all while maintaining the context of the conversations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/9abc5fa8-287e-46e4-a210-b7ccefbf0d62)\n\n_Prospect: Ujjwal, while Aishwarya is communicating through our AI SDR product Alisha_\n\n### **Instant ⚡ Objection Handling with Grounded AI response**\n\nHow many times have we seen leads dying off because we couldn’t reply to them in time. _A recent HBS study says any response after 15 min of receiving a query reduces the chances of conversion by 80%._ Hence, we introduce Instant Objection Handling.\n\n_Here’s how it works:_\n\nWhile setting up the sequence, you provide AI SDR (a.k.a. Alisha) with all and any of your product/sales info. Supported format of files includes **PDF, Websites, CSV, Plain text, Docs.**\n\nNow, lets say your prospect asks a question “How much does your pricing look like?”, “Can you share some case studies relevant to our industry”. Our AI looks into all the documents and provides an answer. In case it does not find the answer, it does not hallucinate, instead alerts the user.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/020e1df3-1465-414d-8cc0-dd5f1d10be3e)\n\n> We ensure our model doesn't hallucinate and always provides grounded answers by using our proprietary function calling engine, Thor v2. Read More about this on our [Arxiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17950v1)\n\n### **Calendar Coordination without Calendly**\n\nSending over Calendly links and asking your prospect to book is never considered a sales best practice. First of all, it shifts the burden of work to the prospect (they have to click through, check your availability, and book). And naturally many people won't take the effort, so conversion suffers.\\\n\\\nPlus, in many cultures and settings, it's actually considered rude. It's like saying \"have your people call my people\". \\\n\\\nSo here we come. Alisha AI SDR is integrated with your calendar and goes on to suggest vacant slots to the prospects. Based on the response of the prospect, Alisha AI SDR coordinates like a human and books a meeting accordingly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/00fe4265-117c-432e-afcc-f53826036dae)\n\n_Prospect: Ujjwal, while Aishwarya is communicating through our AI SDR product Alisha_\\\n\\\n**Further** **Improvements on v1**\n\n### **Even more control in Composing Messages**\n\nWe found out that AI is not really great at composing Sales emails. However, it is great at collating information from multiple sources and plugging them appropriately in a specific format.\n\nSo, we decided to give the control back to the user. 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For example, after an important sales meeting, a rep can post the summary via slack instead of waiting to get back to their desk to log into Salesforce or HubSpot.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69995&key=user_uploads/1052632/6a48f096-7350-48b0-9cbf-87c889ef35c9)\n\n🤔 **The Problem:**\n\n20% of every salesperson's time is spent doing CRM updates, follow-ups, and administrative tasks. **This time could have been spent doing actual sales.**\n\nEven after investing such time and effort in CRM, have you ever wondered\n\n* **how many crucial follow-ups did your team miss last week?**\n* **how many valuable contacts never converted into opportunities?**\n* **how many lucrative deals slipped through the cracks because of neglected logs and updates?**\n\n**👤Who is it for:**\n\nEvery B2B companies starting with 2 person sales team (like founder led sales)  to 100 and beyond.\n\n## [😊](https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/)**The Solution:**\n\nSales teams today live and breathe on Slack. Floworks brings your entire CRM on top of Slack.\n\nIt does so by integrating your existing CRMs like Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive with your Slack workspace. \n\n![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69995&key=user_uploads/1052632/1bce61f1-ed81-435d-abb1-93171ca4b0f8)\n\n**Benefits for Sales teams:**\n\nWith Floworks, sales teams can set up customized flows that\n\n1. Notify about critical tasks like customer follow-ups, stuck deals, escalations etc.\n2. Keeps the team and leaders on top of high value deals in slack based dealrooms.\n3. Alerts the team in timely manners for leads going cold.\n4. Enable you to send customer emails, set up meetings, follow-up tasks- all from Slack.\n\nand much more.\n\nAll our slack alerts are bi-directional in nature. What it means is that you don’t just get notified but **are also able to update, or take follow-up actions (such as moving the deal stage, sending customer emails, updating close date etc.) right from Slack.**\n\nAnd because it’s Slack, the whole team can instantly collaborate on the deal simplifying activities like coaching BDRs and AEs, highlighting key issues, collaborating to solve them etc.\n\n**Benefits for Salespersons:**\n\nWith Floworks, sales folks reclaim **45 minutes to 1 hour everyday**, earlier spent in manual CRM updates, by:\n\n1. Quickly adding contacts, accounts and deals.\n2. Searching and updating deal status and information.\n3. Logging meeting notes.\n4. Seeking approval or escalate issues.\n\nand more- all by giving natural language commands directly from Slack.\n\n![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69995&key=user_uploads/1052632/7f183864-f995-40ce-812d-eaad233abd0f)\n\nWith Floworks there are no more Hubspot or Salesforce related delays. 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Propify's API allows companies to integrate with these systems in weeks, not years.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/fbfa8b9c-aac6-449d-af99-d9696611c11e)\n\nHey everyone! We're Remen, Nick, and Ben from [Propify](http://www.getpropify.com). We entered the proptech world in 2020 and quickly realized the single biggest problem was accessing the data from the major systems of record.\n\n# ⚠️ **The Problem: Fragmentation and Legacy Software** \n\nThe managed real estate market includes 290k companies, 80M tenants, and $300B in rent payments. This market is not only for \"proptechs.\" Amazon, Lowes, and Progressive Insurance actively sell into the space. \n\nThe most significant headwind to innovation has been the effort to integrate with the systems of record: Property management software. \n\nIt is a fragmented market where SOAP APIs are the norm and documentation is rarely available. In addition, companies like Zuma (S21) have entire teams managing these integrations - they often take years to build the complete list.\n\n  \n\n# 👨‍🔬 **The Solution: A unified API**\n\nPropify's API and unified data model allow a company to integrate with the six most prominent players in weeks.\n\nAdditionally, we provide modern developer tooling like Webhooks, which is largely missing from the native integrations.\n\n# 👨‍🔬 **How it works:**\n\nWith Propify, you integrate once to access all of our supported integrations. In addition, our REST API is well documented, and we simplify integrating and scaling your company with additional tooling that your engineers will love!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/49132478-7f99-47d2-985d-562b77f4f415)\n\nA company can manage the systems and integrated buildings through its Propify Portal. They can also manage users, export datasets, and set up Webhooks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/d543d0d9-66a4-43af-91b1-774a8a9867e1)\n\n\n# 🙋 **Propify is for: Almost Everyone**\n\nThis market is significant - tens of millions of renters live in professionally managed housing + hundreds of thousands of property management companies that need services. Examples of tools that do well in the space:\n\n🏢 Proptech\n\n🏗 Construction tech\n\n💸 Payments\n\n👨‍💼 Insurance\n\n🖥 Marketing\n\n🏷 Sales\n\n🎧 Support\n\n✅ Productivity\n\n📈 Reporting\n\n📞 Communication tooling\n\n🚗 Transportation\n\n❓ Unsure? 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OpenMeter can collect and meter millions of events per second. It integrates seamlessly with cloud infrastructure components, making it an ideal solution for DevTool, AI, and IoT applications with Usage-Based-Pricing (UBP) or event-driven analytics requirements.\n\nCheck out [OpenMeter on GitHub](https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72230&key=user_uploads/1163072/fb0d1720-b48f-4e25-bf33-03306006f9c7)\n\n### **Why does it matter?**\n\nAs the PLG (Product-Led Growth) motion gains momentum and the macroeconomic landscape limits growth potential with seat-based pricing, many companies are adopting usage-based pricing models, requiring accurate metering. Looking ahead, it is expected that the majority of SaaS products will offer AI capabilities. To effectively cover costs and generate revenue, these companies must meter AI usage and attribute it to their customers.\n\n[See common OpenMeter Use Cases](https://openmeter.io/use-cases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yc)\n\n### **The Metering Challenge**\n\nUsage metering requires accurately processing **large volumes** of events in **real-time** to power billing use cases and modern data-intensive applications like DevTool, AI, and IoT.\n\nIt’s challenging for engineers to balance out scale, accuracy, latency, and cost as:\n\n* [🎈](https://emojipedia.org/balloon/) Monitoring systems fall short in terms of accuracy and consistency necessary for billing\n* 💸 Scaling databases to handle large volumes of writes and real-time queries can be expensive\n* [⏳](https://emojipedia.org/hourglass-not-done/) Warehouses processing leads to stale usage data and longer feedback cycles\n* [💼](https://emojipedia.org/briefcase/) Building out streaming aggregation requires experience in handling idempotency and failures\n\nCompanies need to extract usage data from various cloud infrastructure components (Kubernetes, AWS, etc.), vendors (OpenAI, Twilio, etc.), and hardware components to attribute metered usage to their customers.\n\n### **The Solution: OpenMeter**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72230&key=user_uploads/1163072/c04f742b-747e-4490-b2b4-57f162d55f4b)\n\n[Watch the demo video](https://www.loom.com/share/bc1cfa1b7ed94e65bd3a82f9f0334d04)\n\nA real-time, open-source, and infrastructure-first metering solution that you can start quickly and grow with rapidly:\n\n* **Real-time Metering**: Instant aggregations and queries\n* **Scalable Ingestion**: Handles millions of usage events per second\n* **Accurate**: Precise metering for billing and industry use-cases\n* **Fault Tolerant**: Built-in idempotency, event backfills, and meter resets\n* **Infrastructure plugins**: Usage ingestion plugins for Kubernetes, AWS, etc.\n* **RevOps plugins**: Integrations for Billing (Stripe), CRM, and data warehouses\n\nWe aim to make OpenMeter the standard to collect and share usage across many solutions and providers.\n\n[Check out OpenMeter on GitHub](https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter)\n\n### **About the Tech**\n\nUnder the hood, OpenMeter harnesses the power of Kafka to deliver billing-grade and scalable metering. Its idempotent event ingestion uses the CloudEvents specification managed under CNCF. The usage metering aggregations are configurable, which allows tracking specific event properties on various time windows. OpenMeter is available on GitHub (published under the Apache 2.0 Open Source license).\n\n[Check out the OpenMeter Examples](https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter/tree/main/examples)\n\n### **Join the OSS Community**\n\n* [Follow OpenMeter on GitHub](https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter)\n* [Check out the Roadmap](https://openmeter.io/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yc#roadmap)\n* [Contact Us](https://us10.list-manage.com/contact-form?u=c7d6a96403a0e5e19032ee885&form_id=fe04a7fc4851f8547cfee56763850e95)\n\nOpenMeter is built with ❤️ by Tailfin and experience from Netflix, Banzai Cloud, and Stripe.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/In0-openmeter-io-real-time-and-scalable-oss-metering", "votes": 77, "created_at": "2023-06-13T14:39:57.994Z" }, { "id": 69167, "title": "Tailfin - Maximize revenue with usage-based pricing", "tagline": "Tailfin unlocks revenue by identifying and pricing sales opportunities.", "body": "B2B SaaS companies see up to 25% revenue increase by adopting usage-based or hybrid pricing models, but realizing this potential requires the right tools and insights. This is where [Tailfin](https://tailfin.cloud?utm_source=bookface&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch1) has you covered.\n\nThis is Andras and Peter - coming from Stripe, Netflix, Banzai Cloud, and Cisco; we understand that unlocking the full revenue potential requires to:\n\n* Identify revenue opportunities and forecast over-usage to start the sales cycle early\n* Find customers ready to be converted to enterprise plans\n* Forecast usage and revenue to price deals accordingly\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69167&key=user_uploads/112934/0aa156bf-ec1b-48b3-a713-639a51217424)\n\n## 💸 The Challenge\n\nWith the rise of Product-Led-Growth (PLG), pay-as-you-go is becoming the dominant pricing model, but unfortunately, many SaaS companies miss out on revenue opportunities. For example, enterprise customers often underestimate their usage and pre-purchase too little credit, leaving you with the dilemma of offering your service for free or renegotiating the deal. Moreover, self-serve customers may outgrow their plans without you knowing, and customer success and support may not prioritize users according to their spending and future potential.\n\n## 🐬 Our Solution\n\nTailfin is a monetization platform explicitly designed for usage-based pricing. We help businesses to maximize revenue by providing insights about customers and highlighting opportunities so your sales and customer success teams can be data-driven.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69167&key=user_uploads/112934/92610c86-d525-4e40-9e52-cf924668dcac)\n\nTailfin provides:\n\n* Subscription predictions like detecting overage before it happens so you can outreach and start the sales process in time.\n* Price simulations to calculate historical and future revenue based on usage and different pricing models.\n* Accurate metering with high-frequency event aggregation; can include events such as API calls, disk storage usage, or other product-related actions that could result in charges.\n* Real-time dashboard and APIs to extract usage and revenue data\n\n## [🐋](https://emojipedia.org/whale/) Sign up\n\nDon’t leave revenue on the table. Ask for a demo today:\n\n  or email me at [peter@tailfin.cloud](mailto:peter@tailfin.cloud)\n\n[https://tailfin.cloud](https://tailfin.cloud/?utm_source=bookface&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch1) \n\nBest,\n\nTailfin Founders, Andras & Peter", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hzb-tailfin-maximize-revenue-with-usage-based-pricing", "votes": 99, "created_at": "2023-02-09T18:55:55.742Z" } ] }, { "id": 27878, "name": "RUUF", "slug": "ruuf", "former_names": [ "Ruuf" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4a9ecc0033d5bfee665cac41bbb93d0a33181c19.png", "website": "https://www.ruuf.cl", "all_locations": "Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile", "long_description": "We offer no-money-down installations that generate free money for homeowners from day one. We are digitalizing the whole process of going solar. 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", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n_At_ [_Momentum Foods_](https://www.linkedin.com/company/momentumfoods/)_, we’re adding meat back into plant-based meat to make it more affordable, healthy, and delicious._ \n\n### **Overview**\n\nAfter five years developing and scaling textured protein (the base of every product) at Beyond Meat, I realized two things:\n\n1. Plant-based meat companies don’t have a clear path to improving product quality _and_ decreasing cost.\n2. The 96% of the population that regularly eats meat cares more about cost, health, and flavor than whether their food is vegan.\n\nBy combining plant protein with the best parts of meat, we can finally make a product that’s less expensive than the real thing, but nearly indistinguishable from it — all while being better for the planet.\n\n### **Our Retail Brand, Paul’s Table:**\n\n[Paul’s Table](https://www.paulstable.com/) delivers our vision of competitive price, flavor, and health. Everyday products for everyday people. Coming to stores in Summer 2023.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/jLpHHfZw35HrIMIF1TO2kvVP4fSVdxODZ2KlK1pjbrBV3YVSMjAkSog59f_yZSFCr9xbCAZ-l6nMkdIdGHt0ATcp5hL1oGrxjDfFKDs8ZXytZT4P8rDdgDSvP8mar01ofMSltyofn_BCIlLdG2KkBeg)\n\nA sneak peek product photo (sans BBQ sauce):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69856&key=user_uploads/1182533/e0db13c1-8b74-46f8-b3da-f24267b53732)\n\n### **Team (more than just mustaches)**\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0S3AbYE7CGE68wHbI297eYwiq-Ye8ljgR2v1xm_lIkpuHficvHpOn-vNdlo8QIP-ayQs3JkOKsN8cBa7cIAmLVyJ-ErnSpx2XCYtcfhPvcPj38VRXhINHdpAZ-_IcwbGxCdErThlm3I1ADzYXg3hV08)\n\nI ([Saba](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saba-fazeli-8b686067/)) spent the past five years heading up the R&D engineering department at Beyond Meat, where I helped develop and scale the textured proteins that underpin every product introduced to the market since 2017. [Brice](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brice-klein-b89a5668/) was the fourth engineer at the vertical farming company Plenty and developed the base of their technology before shifting to lead the commissioning of their multimillion dollar LA farm. We met our freshman year at Stanford then both went on to get bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering, completing much of the coursework together.\n\n### **Ask:**\n\n1. Introductions to grocers, restaurants, or food-world tastemakers who’d be excited to try out Paul’s Table.\n2. 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Engage with specialized providers, access AI-based coaching tailored to your needs, and discover services to boost your mental well-being. **Download our** [**iOS app**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plutis/id6450721690) on the App Store and give it a try!\n\n### **Problem**\n\nAccording to the CDC, [more than 1 in 5 US adults live with a mental illness](https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/index.htm) (over 50 million Americans), more than half of whom do not receive treatment. Furthermore, [there are an estimated 350 individuals for every one mental health provider](https://mhanational.org/issues/state-mental-health-america) in the U.S.\n\n**Currently, patients struggle with:**\n\n1. Lack of personalization and options.\n2. Constant discovery/search process to find the right services for them.\n3. High costs/lack of insurance coverage for services.\n4. Lack of cost-effective and continuous support in between sessions.\n\n**Therapists and mental health service providers are looking for ways to:**\n\n1. Gain access to a larger clientele (for therapy and coaching).\n2. Drive up patient engagement and see more patients that are suited for their unique practice/specialty.\n3. See clients / operate in more states than those they are currently licensed in.\n4. Get credentialed with major payors to see a wider array of clients.\n5. Off-load complex billing and reimbursement systems that enable them to see more patients without the overhead/headache.\n6. Leverage online platforms while still maintaining the ability to set their own prices and schedules.\n\n### **Introducing Plutis**\n\nWe are creating a more modern mental health care platform. Our platform allows patients to receive personalized care and gain access to a variety of services to improve their mental health, ranging from live sessions with service providers to AI-based coaching and feedback. We also help therapists, coaches, and other mental health service providers expand their practice and see more engaged clients and patients, on their own terms.\n\nOur initial platform features are as follows:\n\n**For Patients**\n\n1. AI-based journaling with tailored feedback, advice, and guidance based on your unique goals.\n2. Monthly goal-setting and constant check-ins/recommendations to keep you on track.\n3. On-demand AI coaching for issues you may face.\n4. Easy access to service providers (therapists, coaches, etc.) via scheduling or on-demand availability.\n5. Access to wellness circles (peer support as well as facilitated support groups for almost any situation).\n6. Access to curated content from communities centered around challenges you may be facing or certain life events.\n\n**For Therapists**\n\n1. Expanding your reach with patients and clients to help you grow your practice.\n2. Services to reduce workload while also creating a more engaged client base.\n3. Credentialing with major payors and multi-state licensing.\n4. Ability to set your own prices and schedule.\n5. Streamlined billing and claims management to ensure payouts without the overhead/complexity.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74488&key=user_uploads/171080/8e2a889d-cc21-4ad4-9962-cd5a15e584cd)\n\n### **Team**\n\nHi 👋 We are Asim and Kamil, co-founders of Plutis.\n\nPrior to Plutis, we founded AccessBell, a white-labeled video conferencing platform for telemedicine which was acquired by our largest customer, the Tata Group.\n\nWe were drawn to behavioral health, given our own experience (and struggle) as well as that of our close friends and communities with trying to find coaches and therapists in the past. We were further motivated after countless conversations with therapists, who communicated various challenges they faced running their practice(s) online.\n\n### **Our Ask(s)**\n\n1. **Download our** [**iOS app**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plutis/id6450721690) on the App Store and give it a try! **Share feedback** with us at [founders@plutis.io](mailto:founders@plutis.io). We will launch the Android version of the app on the Google Play Store in the near future.\n2. Connections to **therapists**, **life coaches**, or any other **mental health service providers** (e.g. organizations that offer mental health services like meditation retreats, etc.).\n3. **Spread the word** and share with anyone struggling with their mental health or looking for more personalized mental healthcare delivery.\n4. Connections to any **payors/insurance companies** that have innovative models for behavioral health.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JNQ-plutis-on-demand-modern-day-mental-healthcare", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-08-29T21:23:39.267Z" } ] }, { "id": 27881, "name": "Inkeep", "slug": "inkeep", "former_names": [ "inkeep" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca1b5818bf14fe551342345b16c3c399f2ecdf21.png", "website": "https://inkeep.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Inkeep is the only agent platform designed to help both developers and non-developers ship Agent-powered assistants and automations.\r\n\r\nCompanies like Anthropic, Midjourney, Clay, PostHog, and Postman deploy Inkeep Agents at scale to help with everything from support to sales.\r\n\r\nHighlights:\r\n- A No-Code Builder and Developer Framework with full 2-way sync\r\n- Unified search and RAG for knowledge bases, docs, and company data\r\n- MCPs and integrations with your apps, APIs, and software\r\n- Intelligent insights and monitoring over how Agents perform\r\n\r\nWith Inkeep Agents, enterprises and high-growth teams empower their employees with AI teammates that help get work done and automate repeatable tasks.\r\n\r\nBacked by Khosla Ventures, Y-Combinator, Great Point Ventures and leading CEOs and founders.", "one_liner": "Build AI Agent teammates and automations in code or no-code", "team_size": 18, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677660046, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Workflow Automation", "Customer Support", "No-code", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inkeep", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/inkeep.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/inkeep/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/inkeep", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://crunchbase.com/organization/inkeep", "github_url": "https://github.com/inkeep", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca1b5818bf14fe551342345b16c3c399f2ecdf21.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c9c0852fd8b6bce98922c3f075583b77aa63e8d4.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1161446, "full_name": "Nick Gomez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Nick is co-founder and CEO of Inkeep. He previously led devex for a team at Microsoft, focusing on self-serve developer experiences and no-code builders. He studied Business & Computer Science at MIT. Beyond Inkeep, Nick enjoys photography and hiking.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwinngomez", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/nickgomez", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/909605b4e584bff4ae903ae08a61d992f8a253b6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1161457, "full_name": "Robert Tran", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Robert Tran is a cofounder of inkeep. He studied CS & Math at MIT and has an extensive background in tech, including working with government, political organizations, financial firms, and logistics companies. Previously, Robert was an early employee then Head of Engineering at illumis — building software to aggregate thousands of public data sources that are locked in silos. illumis was acquired by ComplySci. Outside of inkeep, Robert is passionate about film & writing.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-tran-profile", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/robert_inkeep", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/be2d117ced48c24de80e03ddc3cfb572bfb86714.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "This Startup Just Raised $13 Million To Make AI Agents Easy For Any Team", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/zoyahasan/2025/09/05/this-startup-just-raised-13-million-to-make-ai-agents-easy-for-any-team/", "date": "Sep 05, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 85650, "title": "Inkeep - AI support you can trust", "tagline": "All the AI tools you need to scale support - without losing the human touch", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re Nick and Robert - co-founders of [Inkeep](https://inkeep.com/).\n\n### TL;DR\n\nAs founders, we know that fast, quality support helps great products stand out.\n\nInkeep accelerates every step of support with:\n\n🔍 An AI assistant for end-users\n\n🎧 A copilot for support teams\n\n📚 Tools to fix content gaps\n\nInkeep works with any docs or support platform; see our [showcase](https://inkeep.com/showcase?example=anthropic&tab=aiForCustomers) for examples.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85650&key=user_uploads/1161446/2fab07e8-72a9-4e56-9fb9-e14f38f411c6)\n\n### Problem: today’s tools focus too much on automation\n\nUsers of modern products expect two things:\n\n(1) great self-serve experiences\n\n(2) fast human help when they need it\n\nAI support solutions often forget about this and end up feeling like a barrier to getting “real” help. \n\n### Solution - AI that builds trust\n\nOur approach is simple: build practical tools for every step of the support process with the end-user as the #1 priority.\n\n**Assistant for users**\n\nInkeep taps into your docs, help center, and other content to provide direct answers to user questions. Our assistant cites its sources, **admits when it doesn’t know**, and hands off to your support channels.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85650&key=user_uploads/1161446/66cc6667-df67-4209-baa3-6ea0e6b38fd3)\n\n**Copilot for support teams**\n\nWhen your support team needs to step in, our CX copilot:\n\n✍️ Drafts detailed answers\n\n🔗 Links to relevant docs and past tickets\n\n⚡ Summarizes long tickets \n\n🔔 Suggests to-dos and next steps\n\n[Demo:](https://youtu.be/4_yEpMkdua4)\n\n**Tools to fix content gaps**\n\nThe #1 way to improve support over time is to improve your content (or product).\\\nInkeep helps close that loop with:\n\n1. [AI reports](https://docs.inkeep.com/analytics/reports) that pinpoint and prioritize gaps in your content.\n2. A [Ticket to FAQ](https://go.inkeep.com/ticket-into-faq) tool to create new content from closed tickets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85650&key=user_uploads/1161446/2a81cc6c-821f-4853-8630-a831a5144135)\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* Want to try an AI assistant powered by your content? Get a [self-serve demo](https://inkeep.com/demo?cta_id=yc_launch).\n* Thinking about adding AI to your entire support workflow? [Schedule a call](https://inkeep.com/demo?cta_id=pricing_enterprise_demo_cta).\n\nSocials: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inkeep), [𝕏.](https://x.com/inkeep_ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MHS-inkeep-ai-support-you-can-trust", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-11-18T15:46:06.140Z" }, { "id": 69837, "title": "Inkeep - Conversational search for your developer product 💬🔍", "tagline": "Help developers do more with your product, faster.", "body": "> tl;dr: [Inkeep](https://www.inkeep.com/?utm_campaign=yc) provides conversational search for developer-focused companies. We use LLMs to understand a company’s docs, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow questions, and more to answer developer questions and increase customer activation.\n\n### **Our Team:**\n\nHi YC, we’re [Robert Tran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-tran-profile/) and [Nick Gomez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwinngomez/) from Inkeep!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69837&key=user_uploads/1161457/4cbbe838-fb40-4508-89aa-8713f83d7755)\n\nWe met eight years ago at MIT as undergrads. After MIT, Nick was a Senior Product Manager working on developer experiences for Microsoft’s identity products. Robert was Head of Engineering at illlumis (acquired), building large-scale data aggregation pipelines for public datasets.\n\nWith years of experience building developer-focused products, we are excited to build Inkeep.\n\n### **Problem:** Any blocker or unanswered question is a drop-off point\n\nDevelopers evaluate a product by how easy it is to get started and use it for their use case. Optimizing this experience is the #1 goal for many developer-focused companies, but it’s hard to do well because:\n\n* Knowledge about the product is scattered across docs, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, forums, private communities, and more.\n* Answering technical issues and questions at scale is hard.\n* Developers often prefer to self-troubleshoot.\n\n### **Solution:** Conversational search powered by all your existing content\n\n[Inkeep](https://www.inkeep.com/?utm_campaign=yc) automatically indexes all of a developer tool company’s content with zero effort required. We use fine-tuned LLMs that fully understand your product to power search and chat experiences tailored for developers.\n\nInkeep is embeddable as a:\n\n* Search bar for your docs\n* Chat widget for your app or landing page\n* Slack or Discord bot for your community\n\nYour developers can search or ask anything and get answers immediately. And you’ll be able to get insights on what they're getting stuck on.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69837&key=user_uploads/1161457/41100239-1ce3-4e5a-8349-4294e24a237d)\n\n\n### **Our asks:**\n\n* Interested in adding Inkeep to your developer product? We’d love to [show you a demo](https://calendly.com/nickgomez/inkeep-demo-20mins).\n* Connect us with folks who are obsessed with developer experience & activation.\n\nGet in touch at: [founders@inkeep.com](mailto:founders@inkeep.com) \\\nLearn more at: [Inkeep.com](https://www.inkeep.com/?utm_campaign=yc)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAP-inkeep-conversational-search-for-your-developer-product", "votes": 167, "created_at": "2023-03-01T20:02:13.615Z" } ] }, { "id": 27882, "name": "Velos", "slug": "velos", "former_names": [ "GradientJ" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1521d60e05f3fa5d010d16b7722a46d4fb586f90.png", "website": "https://www.tryvelos.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Velos helps insurance carriers and MGAs automate complex, manual back-office tasks with AI workers instead of overseas teams.\r\n\r\nWe take over workflows with the same responsibility of a traditional overseas Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm: mapping the customer’s existing process, creating the SOP, building the automation, and continuously improving the workflow after launch. \r\n\r\nUnlike other \"automation platforms\" we don't rely on our customers to build and manage the workflow, we take over it for them like a traditional outsourcing firm.\r\n\r\nWe're automating the repetitive work people hate to do.", "one_liner": "AI BPO for Specialty Insurance MGAs", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Insurance", "launched_at": 1674503496, "tags": [ "Reinforcement Learning", "Robotic Process Automation", "Insurance", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Insurance" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/velos", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/velos.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryvelos/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1521d60e05f3fa5d010d16b7722a46d4fb586f90.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": [], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68762, "title": "GradientJ - Build and manage GPT3 🤖 applications at scale", "tagline": "GradientJ helps product teams deploy large language models at scale. Companies use us to create GPT3 applications and monitor them in production.", "body": "### **What is it?**\n\nGradientJ is a web application to build, compare, and deploy prompts for large language models like GPT3.\n\n### **Is this for me?**\n\nGradientJ is for:\n\n* Product teams that are just **thinking of using something like GPT3** in their product and are **trying to figure out how to get started**.\n* Teams who are **already using LLMs** to delight their customers and are **trying to level up their workflow** with faster iteration, better organization, easy cost and performance comparisons, and the on-ramp to \\~_the mythical land of fine-tuning\\~_.\n\n### **What’s the Problem?**\n\nCurrently, the **road from exciting prototype output with ChatGPT to production-ready GPT3 deployment is unclear** and littered with potential pitfalls.\n\nEven for the teams that do get version 1 out the door, **the workflow often ends up as a stitched together hodgepodge of makeshift processes and tools.**\n\nLLM deployment is a leading cause of “am I doing this right?”-itis. Symptoms include:\n\n* A text document with examples copy-pasted into the OpenAI playground\n* A prompt comparison process that consists of an eyeball test followed by “looks better-ish”\n* Hours spent tweaking a prompt on one example only to find, in the end, it breaks on all the others\n* Nightmares of users getting nonsensical or offensive output from a hallucinating LLM\n\n### **How do we solve it?**\n\nWe made a prompt engineering interface that:\n\nAutomatically suggests starting points or improvements to your prompts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68762&key=user_uploads/314229/aabfc294-5d59-4f02-a9a0-ff9ea4e2a1b0)\n\nTracks prompt versions and benchmark examples so you can always compare and deploy the best iteration.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68762&key=user_uploads/314229/2491d923-0562-4c55-aa1c-fe0837a3b899)\n\nDeploys to your own API endpoint with automatic cost and performance tracking in one click.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68762&key=user_uploads/314229/df784795-2290-4ce9-9fbe-90ec41fbb21b)\n\n# **The Ask:**\n\n* **Let us help:** If you’re trying to use LLMs like GPT3 in your application and want to discuss how to **get version 1 out the door** **FAST**, we’d love to talk.\n* **Try it out:** If you’re already using LLMs in your application, we’d love to talk.\n* **Spread the Word:** If anyone you know is using or thinking of using LLMs, we want to turn their ideas into reality.\n\nDrop your email here , email us at [founders@gradientj.com](mailto:founders@gradientj.com), or jump right in and book a time to talk [here](https://calendly.com/daniel-gradientj/meeting)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ht4-gradientj-build-and-manage-gpt3-applications-at-scale", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2023-01-26T20:03:07.818Z" } ] }, { "id": 27883, "name": "EzDubs", "slug": "ezdubs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f522d127247f205dc3f18f39bd1ca96301cbefe9.png", "website": "http://www.ezdubs.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "EzDubs is a real-time speech translator. Our proprietary models translate speech without waiting for complete sentences, clone voices on the fly (without enrollments), and even replicate emotions in the translated language. \r\n\r\nOur iOS and Android apps translate live phone calls, automatically dub voice messages, and auto-translate text conversations so that you can communicate seamlessly across languages, with your voice and emotions. Thousands of users use EzDubs to communicate with friends and family who speak different languages, manage offshore teams, and even have relationships across languages. \r\n\r\nVisit https://ezdubs.ai to download our app and try a live demo of our real-time speech translator, or reach out to explore how EzDubs can integrate with your communication stack to enable live multilingual conversations. 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To achieve this, you need to aggressively minimize distractions. It's crucial to eliminate the constant stream of alerts, often leading to full nights of stressful debugging.\n\n### **Solution:** AI agents can knock down issues before they get to engineers\n\n**Our AI agent kicks off every investigation by querying logs, metrics, DBs, and code to surface information and resolve issues.** The initial steps in investigations are predictable and automatable, but they take time for a human to perform. We save that time. **In many companies this simple step already cuts MTTR by 50%.** \n\n[▶️▶️ Chat with us to join the beta.](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/30-min)\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. **Collects data from monitoring data sources**\\\n When a new production issue is found, the moose kicks off by collecting data from your monitoring data tools, such as Datadog, Snowflake, New Relic, Cloudflare, etc.\n2. **Generates an enrichment report**\\\n The moose runs an investigation in real-time, analyzing the data collected to present its findings.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80510&key=user_uploads/281723/a7ca493a-891b-4da7-8326-920b6f4a4025)\n\n3. **Concludes and recommends next steps**\\\n The moose presents a summary of its findings along with recommended next steps, focusing on impact and mitigation.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80510&key=user_uploads/281723/30f636da-7ddf-45e0-bae4-493b21055e76)\n\n4. **Improves over time**\\\n You can indicate what information was useful or ask the moose to fetch more. Based on this feedback and an underlying model of your system, our model learns over time the actions it should take in different scenarios.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80510&key=user_uploads/281723/65c3bd53-edd3-492d-bff1-7a27a0ea0fa3)\n\n\n### **Try it out and tell us what you think!**\n\n[▶️▶️ Let’s chat and get you on our beta.](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/30-min)\n\n**We’re looking to work with companies that are making an effort to improve their reliability**, preferably companies that already measure MTTR or are interested in starting to do so. \n\n* **_You don’t have to prepare your data or monitoring tools_**. We know things are often messy - our model works just as well with data that is unstructured\n* **_You do need to have your logs and/or metrics stored in a SaaS platform_** (Datadog, New Relic, Coralogix, etc.).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KwY-wild-moose-alert-enrichment-solve-production-issues-before-they-get-to-engineers", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2024-04-30T15:03:33.825Z" }, { "id": 69325, "title": "🔥 Wild Moose: Solve production incidents faster with Gen AI", "tagline": "Helping on-call developers quickly identify the source of production incidents with conversational AI trained on their environment.", "body": "**TL;DR When you’re on-call and everything’s on fire, instead of frantically sifting through logs and going through other people’s code, our moose just gives you the answers.** [**Chat with us**](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/15min) **to try it out.**\n\n**—-**\n\n👋 We’re Tom, Yasmin, and Roei, founders of [Wild Moose](https://wildmoose.ai?utm_source=YC+newsletter&utm_medium=blog+post&utm_campaign=Launch+YC). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69325&key=user_uploads/281723/afaf46a4-84f9-46c1-b638-ee353587eaa5)\n\n[Yasmin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasmin-dunsky-519a4ab2/) has an MBA from Stanford and is a third-time founder & CEO. 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High single-core performance is the key to a fast CI process, and BuildJet's gaming CPU cloud is optimized to deliver just that.\n\nTake a look at our at the chart below, **MacBook Pro 2015 hardware beating GitHub Actions runner in 2022.** It’s yet another instance where you can see the limitation of using server CPUs in tasks that need high single-core performance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69746&key=user_uploads/730963/40b07ca7-7828-4ae1-9c6b-20b8d1ea0026)\n\n### **Founding Team**\n\nLian and I, first met at a data privacy startup in Berlin in 2014, where we developed a strong working relationship and launched many products together. After leaving that company, we joined a German startup that runs the biggest market research panel in Germany, Civey, with Adam as CPO and Lian as CTO. 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Check out our [demo video](https://framerusercontent.com/assets/OuoBfiorNSCbVJarMwG4I1GATaU.mp4), where we go from prompt to Gen AI application in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/1f931ce6-71d9-410b-901d-1ab36b6255e7)\n\nWhether you need an internal tool for categorizing customer inquiries, need to do fuzzy PDF analysis at scale, or want to automate and schedule a Custom GPT - [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) has you covered.\n\nChoose from our library of 165 different nodes that can be connected in infinite ways. You can build it yourself with our no-code interface or use our AI Auto-Build feature to go from prompt to application in a single shot! We auto-create a dynamic interface UI so you can share your creation as a single-page app with a link.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/bada6f09-f346-43ea-8d32-a0d0412a791c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/dd5bfa1a-8677-4c8a-88a3-a89630336d6b)\n\n**✋ Our asks**\n\nIf you're looking to build an AI internal tool or simplify your AI experimentation process - reach out, give [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) a try, and book a demo with us. We’re loading up all new accounts this week with 500 free credits. If you know a founder or operator who would benefit from [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai), please contact us at [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai).\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIB-booth-ai-build-no-code-gen-ai-apps", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-07-01T17:51:21.810Z" }, { "id": 69552, "title": "Booth.ai - Easy product photography with Generative AI", "tagline": "Create unique, engaging product images - all without a photographer", "body": "**Hi YC 👋**\n\nHigh quality product photography is a must for E-Commerce stores, but it gets costly fast - with an average of $300/SKU for new photography. That’s why [Ian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianabaldwin/) and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-locascio/) started [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) to make quality product photography scalable and accessible to sellers of all sizes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/be88ecd8-fcd0-4309-a67d-519c46eced99)\n\n### **🔥 TL;DR**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) is your personal product photographer, powered by Generative AI. Just describe your photoshoot in text, and we’ll place your product naturally in the generated scene.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/e48ceaf4-8262-4c1f-a250-8853b7f9ef1c)\n\n### **🧠 How does it work?**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) makes incredible Gen AI technology accessible and easy to use. Customers connect their Shopify stores to auto-import all of their products. Then they describe, in text, how they want their product to appear. 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The solution that has helped over a hundred companies with their month-end close is now available for accounting firms and internal accounting teams.\n\n## **Introducing the next-generation AI-powered accounting solution**\n\nHow does an “AI-powered” accounting solution improve your current operations?\n\n**With the power of LLMs, you are able to:**\n\n* Auto-classify bank and credit card transactions with >90% accuracy\n* Identify accrual entries and auto-create a work paper in 1-click\n* Collect supporting documentation automatically with 0 intervention\n* Match supporting documentation to your accounting journal entries\n\nThink of Truewind as a **_digital accountant._** A digital accountant that does the repetitive work of categorizing transactions, finding supporting documentation, and closing the month-end books. A digital accountant that works while you sleep.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/6cbbea13-2d87-450a-a42a-1fdb6484d02e)\n\n## **Most alternatives are service providers that are prone to manual errors and overhead costs**\n\nThere are many vendors that help startups with bookkeeping and accounting. These service companies are easy to start because, in the background, they have an army of operational staff who **manually** enter your data into an accounting system.\n\nIf the transaction is missing an invoice or receipt, they will **manually** follow up with you for that document. Accrual journal entries are **manually** tracked in an Excel sheet and **manually** updated monthly. Lastly, reports are **manually downloaded** and shipped to you for review.\n\nWhy is this problematic? The **manual**\\-intensive process is an error-prone one. The Excel file below is an example of how they manage this; now multiply this by 100 rows and 20 tabs. Maybe they get it right as high as 99% of the time. But inevitably, with humans **manually** going back and forth between Excel tabs and traditional legacy systems, it’s never going to be 100%.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/8992ac60-7524-4111-83de-b92a2ca382f1)\n\n## **Month-End Close Powered by AI**\n\nTruewind helps accountants close their books faster without the administrative overhead costs that come with most month-end close management solutions.\n\nTraditional month-end close solutions’ is a checklist. Accountants dislike these solutions because they add administrative workload. Accountants track their month-end checklist in Excel or Google Sheets because it works, but because their company decided to purchase a month-end close software, they have to **manually** move their checklist into the software each month.\n\nTruewind is different in that we _actually do the work for you_. Truewind is a **_digital accountant_** that does the journal entry work while you rest. Each day, you get into the office with your morning queue of work prepared for you to review.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/5b2c1d58-32c4-4d82-807c-468aa2ec6981)\n\n**Here are just a few examples:**\n\n* The AI model is trained on your client’s historical data so that bank and credit card transactions can be **auto-classified** to the correct account, payee, and department\n* By studying historical patterns, Truewind identifies prepaid expenses and **auto-capitalizes** the transaction as an asset. Each month, we **auto-update** the work paper and write the journal entry\n* By studying historical patterns, Truewind identifies and recognizes an accrued expense even though an invoice or payment is missing; when it arrives next month, we **auto-adjust** the journal entries\n* Rather than manually searching for supporting documentation, our integrated AI agents **auto-identify** the supporting documentation that is tied to each journal entry and transaction\n\n## **Visit us at AICPA Engage 24 - Silver Sponsors**\n\nIn addition to this product launch, I’m excited to announce that Truewind is a Silver Sponsor of the AICPA CIMA Engage 24 Conference 💎\n\nAICPA & CIMA Engage is the largest gathering of accountants and finance professionals in North America, with close to 4,000 attendees. And we are thrilled to be a Silver Sponsor for this event. In the coming weeks, we will post about how Truewind helps accounting firms and internal accounting teams close the books closer and get their life back.\n\nWe have many fun activities and talks planned. Follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/truewindai/) & [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/truewindai/) to stay tuned for more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/1da64d47-c89b-4171-b484-2b7ea7df06ee)\n\n## **How to learn more and sign up**\n\nAll of these capabilities are available today for our early accounting firm partners and will be available broadly on June 1, 2024. Our accounting firm partners include fast-growing boutique firms and top 50 national firms.\n\nWe have room for 2-3 more accounting firms in our May onboarding batch. Then, in early June, we will be showcasing this and more at the Engage 24 conference.\n\n**If you’d like to see a live demo and potentially sign up:**\n\n1. **Fill out this **[**Tally form**](https://tally.so/r/3qA68k)** or**\n2. **Email** [**launchyc@trytruewind.com**](mailto:launchyc@trytruewind.com)\n\n## **Made with 💛 from our team**\n\nUnfortunately, Mochi 🐶 didn’t make this photo. During our Launch YC a year ago, Truewind was a team of three. Today, we’re 15 strong with over a hundred customers, including multiple top 50 accounting firms. From our team to everyone - Thank you to the many startups and accounting firms we get to work with day in and day out. 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And that's what we do for you.\n\nOn a lighter note, hey everyone! 👋\n\n### **What we do for you**\n\nI’m super excited to launch [**Truewind**](https://www.truewind.ai/) to all of you! **⛵️ Truewind is AI-powered Bookkeeping and Financial Modeling for Startups**\n\nThrough a combination of generative AI and concierge service, we deliver a delightful financial back office experience.\n\n* Reliable bookkeeping\n* Detailed financial models\n* Built exclusively for startups\n* Fast, responsive expertise\n\nBecause you need investor-ready financials. Your dedicated Truewind team prepares your monthly financial statements reliably and accurately, so you have investor-ready financials when you fundraise.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/1f76d30b-864d-4cb1-a600-223fc9065871)\n\n### **We use Generative AI to capture the business context that only you have**\n\nWe are **delivering a 10x better experience to you, the operator**, by making it easier to provide business context.\n\n* We connect to your bank account and then auto-categorize the transactions that we recognize.\n* For the ones we don’t, we’ll send you a message notifying you that we do not recognize this transaction. You reply in **plain simple English** and we’ll handle the rest.\n* For accrual accounting, upload contracts and invoices on Truewind and our software will read those pdf files.\n* If we’re missing information, say we don’t know the duration, we’ll send you a message that we need more information. You reply in **plain simple English** that the duration is 12 months.\n\nFinance and accounting isn’t simply numbers, **it requires business context that only the operators have.** This is where Generative AI shines. We use GPT-3 to digest your natural language inputs, translate it into accounting journal entries, and learn from it so future journal entries can be automated.\n\n### **Most accounting & finance companies are service providers, prone to manual errors**\n\nThere are many vendors that help startups with bookkeeping and financial models. These services companies are easy to start because, in the background, they aren’t building **reliable** accounting and finance software.\n\nThese service providers have armies of operations staff who **manually** enter your data into an accounting system. Then, they **manually** download reports and ship it to you for review.\n\nWhen they don’t recognize a transaction, they ask _you_ to **manually** categorize the data. Then, next month, they’ll ask you to **manually recategorize** the same transaction. Without native accounting and finance software, they do not remember and learn from previous inputs.\n\nWhy is this service provider approach problematic for your company?\n\n**Service providers are error prone.**\n\nLet’s say a wire of $16K comes into your bank account but the memo says `[Online 13875836747 To Jayson (_########62846)]`\n\nWe don’t know what it is, nor do other accounting companies. So you, **the operator**, has to go thru a drop down of 50 items with words you barely understand and you’re expected to figure out what it should be categorized as. Half the time, you just pick something and move on 👎\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/675a6b16-8efd-4ad7-bd94-61144b3ce66d)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nIf you haven’t picked up a bookkeeping solution yet, give us a chance at winning your business! And even if you already did, give us a chance to change your mind 😆\n\n**Help us become the #1 recommended financial back-office provider for startups 🔥**\n\n**Truewind Customer Form:** \n\nFill out this Typeform to get started with me, Alex. I’ll answer any questions you have on the call, get you onboarded, and even start on the financial model!\n\n### **Our Customers**\n\nYour finances are a delicate thing, I know. Many other fast-growing startups already work with us (listed below). Hopefully this gives you some confidence 🙂 Many of them YC, many of them not, and many of them current batchmates!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/216923c2-b785-4af4-9414-d46873d95f67)\n\n### **A little bit about us and Mochi**\n\nIt feels weird introducing ourselves in a product launch but given we’ll be working with your financial data, I thought you should know about us.\n\n* I’m a second-time YC founder, ex-Boeing engineer, and ex-VC. As an ex-VC, I worked very closely with startup financial statements and I could build a financial model in my sleep.\n* My co-founder Tennison took a whirlwind of a journey: studying business in school → self taught developer → worked at Flexport Pinterest Alibaba → and now building a fintech startup\n* Mochi is our 2-year old Samoyed pup and the chief motivating officer. Kiddo doesn’t understand fiscal responsibility, all he wants is the best organic food.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/4837a8f8-f03f-4543-9d54-ab438664be98)\n\n### **Hit us up if we can help you!**\n\nWe published a **Y Combinator W23 Generative AI Landscape** on LinkedIn that has over 800K views - [check it out here](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexlee611_ai-startup-generativeai-activity-7033871151416164352-mMeR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).\n\nWe love working with founders, accountants, and finance leaders, so pls don’t be shy. 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Instead of spending time on manual data entry and validation, teams use TableFlow to automate these tasks with AI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73464&key=user_uploads/405594/c161bc5a-7c2f-45d1-8e93-39ea826fc6a6)\n\nHi everyone, we’re Eric and Mitch from [TableFlow](http://tableflow.com)! 👋\n\n### Problem\n\nMany companies rely on spreadsheets, PDFs, and other file types to import partner or customer data, which exists in a variety of formats. This difficult and time-consuming process often leads to companies relying on a combination of in-house tooling and manual work to migrate the data. This becomes even more problematic when ingesting hundreds or thousands of files a week.\n\n### Solution\n\nTableFlow handles the file import process with automated pipelines that use AI to map, extract, transform, and validate data.\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. Define your destination schema in our app. These are the columns and data types that you want to transform data to.\n2. 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He previously worked at GE Digital and Bolt and founded a company focused on B2B payments.\n\n[Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericciminelli/) is a software engineer who previously worked at Facebook and myMatrixx and co-founded a company that created a search engine for car shopping online.\n\n### Asks\n\n💌 If your team handles recurring imports of data in different schemas and formats, we’d love to hear about the problems you’ve encountered. 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We’re aiming to build the Holy Grail of productivity apps - an AI agent to replace self-control.\n\nHere’s our landing page: [www.overlord.app](http://www.overlord.app)\n\nHere’s the link if you want to chat with it: [chat.overlord.app](http://chat.overlord.app)\n\nImagine you hired someone to stay awake 24/7, sat behind a big computer screen, monitoring you - knowing where you are (GPS), what website you’re on (Mac integration), what you spend money on. They can take actions: texting/calling you, charging you money, blocking your iOS/Android apps, blocking websites on your Mac, texting friends if you’ve fallen off the wagon.\n\nOverlord has been in a closed beta for about a year, and has had hundreds of thousands of messages sent to it by users. It’s specifically meant to be weasel-proof, so we’ve put a lot of effort into making sure there are no easy workarounds. Our target users are the type of people that have their friends manage their Screen Time passcodes, and have web blockers all over their Mac.\n\nHere are a few examples of what Overlord can do:\n\n* **Staying sober:** “Send a video blowing 0.00 on a breathalyser each night at 11pm, or text Jane: “John has skipped his evening check-in. Ensure he’s not relapsed”.”\n* **Undistracted on Mac:** “Lock me in from 9-5 each day on my Mac. Annoy me if I go on anything unrelated to work, and block if I go on any rabbit holes. Work is anything coding related.”\n* **Not skipping cardio:** “When I enter the gym, make sure I send a photo of 10 mins cardio, or charge me $5\".”\n* **My personal screen block:** “Block Instagram at all times, allowing me 1 min an hour, 15 mins if I send a photo of a meal, and unblock on Friday/Saturday nights from 7pm-4am. Charge me $50 if I disable Screen Time Permissions.”\n* **Mac productivity to co-founder:** “Track my Mac. Send a text to my co-founder of my total productive time each day at 11pm.”\n* **Showering after gym:** “When i get home from the gym, make sure I send a selfie if my hair wet within 30 mins or lose $5”\n\n**_No processed food:_** “Each time I spend money at Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, make sure I send a receipt (with the exact amount spent to ensure I’m not cheating) and it must not have anything processed on it. Also no purchases from any dollar pizza store. If I do, charge me $50.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Cr1A0j6LBec\n\n**_Morning routine w/ screen blocking + charging:_**\\_ “Call me to wake me up at 7am, and block my apps at this point. I must send a photo of my fridge at 7:05, a video brushing teeth by 7:10, a photo of a coffee by 7:20, and a photo outside by 7:30 (unblock my phone at this point). If I miss any of these, call me, then if I am not telling you I’m taking action on the phone, charge me $1.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/TVSTbu3jwKA\n\n**_Getting to work immediately:_**\\_ “Once I arrive at the office, I must start a 2hr focus session on my Mac within 15 minutes. If I exit this, or spend more than 10 mins distracted or inactive total, charge me $5 and text my co-founder that I’m distracted. Block all distracting sites.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/I0NvyW7RQYM\n\n**Asks:**\n\n1. Give it a go at [chat.overlord.app](http://chat.overlord.app) ! See if any goals you can set up with it would be useful to you. No login required.\n2. Comment down below if there are any goals/capabilities you’d like to see - there’s a bit of a learning curve to Overlord, but it can be extremely powerful once you get the hang of it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96453&key=user_uploads/254744/79482180-f44e-41da-8397-d2cd197eec85)\n\n\nHappy New Year!\n\nJosh", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P5h-overlord-ai-accountability-partner", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-12-31T00:29:23.091Z" }, { "id": 69854, "title": "📱 Forfeit App - Complete your habits or we take your money", "tagline": "Sent photo/timelapse evidence of you completing your habits, or we take $$$", "body": "**tl/dr:** Forfeit is an iOS/Android app that **takes your money if you don’t do what you say you’re going to do**. You must submit photo/timelapse evidence of you completing said habit, which we then manually verify on our end, or we take your money.\n\nEg, I know there’s a very slim chance I can motivate myself to go to the gym each weekday morning at 6am for the next 4 weeks. I can set a Forfeit to force me to send a photo, inside the gym, each morning at 6am, or lose $20 each time I don’t. It’s pretty much unlimited willpower!\n\n![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/602cf455f72a961cfec0c783/634094c898f0f615c6402033_ezgif.com-gif-maker%20(13).gif)\n\n**💰Opportunity:**\n\nMost people struggle with forming habits, and this is the only thing that truly motivates a subset of these people. We have a very short payback period on our initial ad campaign, and for a while have had a small amount of users that love us and run a lot of their life through our app.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n🚀 Procrastinating on your YC launch (like us)?\\\n🧘‍♀️ Want to meditate consistently for the next 30 days?\\\n🏋️ Want to be more consistent in the gym?\\\n✅ Have a load of boring ToDos that you wish you could be forced to grind out in 5hrs?\\\n📈 Absolutely anything you want to force yourself to do, that you can either self-verify or prove with a photo/timelapse?\n\nGive it a try here!\n\n\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAg-forfeit-app-complete-your-habits-or-we-take-your-money", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-03-01T22:20:12.862Z" } ] }, { "id": 27899, "name": "GoodCourse", "slug": "goodcourse", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b9c215571177dfa178d439924a339c97899b894a.png", "website": "https://www.goodcourse.co", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "GoodCourse is the TikTok-style corporate learning platform achieving 10x better completion rates, training employees on topics like compliance and inclusion.", "one_liner": "The TikTok style corporate training platform", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1669845357, "tags": [ "eLearning" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goodcourse", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/goodcourse.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goodcourse", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GoodCourse_", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goodcourse", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b9c215571177dfa178d439924a339c97899b894a.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": 901497, "full_name": "Chris Mansfield", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of GoodCourse, the TikTok-style micro-learning platform used by universities to engage students. 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We’ve all had to click through some sort of long, deeply uninspiring course, right?\n* **But why does employee engagement matter?** Well, beyond the moral case for a more equitable and harassment free world - negative workplace behaviors lead to lawsuits, lower productivity, and higher employee churn.\n\n### **How GoodCourse works**\n\nLearners love our courses because they look and feel like the social media platforms we use every day, but you can’t 10x learner engagement with cringe-free content alone. It takes:\n\n* **Peer-led content:** delivered in a way that speaks to your employees.\n* **Learning pathways:** designed in partnership with our team of leading academics\n* **Personalized**: content relevant to your organizational needs\n* **Benchmarking:** across your sector to learn how to better engage your employees\n* **Intelligent delivery:** nudges spaced across days & channels to maximize completion rates\n\n### **YC Deal**\n\nOur product works best for companies that have at least a few hundred employees (usually Series C onwards). Any YC Alumni companies that **sign up on our website will get a 25% discount** on our standard rates.\n\nWe are also extending this deal to any friends of YC. If you know L&D leaders, Chief People Officers or HR Directors that would find this useful, please shoot us an email 🙏\n\nIf you have any questions, email me at [chris.mansfield@goodcourse.co](mailto:chris.mansfield@goodcourse.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4I-goodcourse-compliance-training-for-modern-teams", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2023-02-20T21:28:45.069Z" } ] }, { "id": 27901, "name": "Orchid", "slug": "orchid", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c45a8c4b15289c3172e10baab22e5b061b400e76.png", "website": "https://orchid.health", "all_locations": "Philadelphia, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Orchid is an AI-powered Electronic Health Record (EHR) for independent mental health professionals that saves them time, money, and frustration by integrating core administrative workflows, streamlining clinical processes, and automating manual flows.", "one_liner": "AI-powered EHR for independent mental health professionals", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare", "launched_at": 1677113728, "tags": [ "Mental Health Tech", "SaaS", "Health Tech", "Healthcare", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orchid", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/orchid.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "Philadelphia", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hey-orchid", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c45a8c4b15289c3172e10baab22e5b061b400e76.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1179470, "full_name": "Joseph Pomianowski", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-pomianowski-338a39160/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66b586b72cc9c904eafd2fb90f9356f5af7d8813.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 57486, "title": "Senior Frontend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orchid/jobs/pBF8nao-senior-frontend-engineer", "location": "IN / PK / BD / BR / AR / CL / MX / PL / Remote (IN; PK; BD; BR; AR; CL; MX; PL)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$5K - $75K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Python", "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 61534, "title": "Senior Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orchid/jobs/No4g3BG-senior-backend-engineer", "location": "Remote (PL; DE; NL; US; GB; FR; IT; CH; BE; HU; AT; RO; SK; SI; SE; CA; EE; CZ; ES; PT; LT; LV; DK; HR)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$100K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Python", "SQL" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "EHR Startup Targets Mental Health Clinicians With AI Scribe Technology | Healthcare Innovation", "url": "https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/analytics-ai/generative-ai/article/55248056/ehr-startup-targets-mental-health-clinicians-with-ai-scribe-technology", "date": "Dec 06, 2024" }, { "title": "Orchid announces new HIPAA-compliant AI scribe for mental health | Healthcare IT News", "url": "https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/orchid-announces-new-hipaa-compliant-ai-scribe-mental-health", "date": "Jul 29, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69725, "title": "Orchid – The most efficient EHR for independent mental health professionals", "tagline": "We help mental health professionals automate and streamline their admin workflows.", "body": "### **Tl;dr:** _[_Orchid_](https://orchid.health) is an Electronic Health Record (EHR) for independent mental health professionals that saves clinicians’ time, money, and frustration. We do this by integrating core administrative workflows, streamlining clinical processes, and automating manual flows. Altogether, Orchid practitioners reclaim \\~500+ hours of their time spent on administrative work, with the potential to save $11B in healthcare costs annually._\n\n### _Would you or anyone in your network be interested in learning more or helping out? [**Connect with us**](mailto:founders@orchid.health)_\n\n \n\n### **The Problem** \n\nDid you know that **mental health professionals** spend more time on their EHR than they do with their patients? In fact, they **lose 500 hours a year** by clicking around terrible infrastructure and as a result the **healthcare industry loses $11 billion annually**.\n\nMental health clinicians face the following set of challenges:\n\n1. Subpar EHR solutions cost mental health clinicians \\~1,500 hours/year\n2. This admin time detracts from time spent with patients, translating into $10,000+ of lost revenue per clinician\n3. 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By doing this **we reclaim 500 hours of each provider annually, and we potentially save the healthcare industry 11 billion dollars**. \n\nOrchid not only helps clinicians improve the mental health outcomes of their patients but also alleviates the supply-demand imbalance in the mental healthcare market by enabling clinicians to spend more time both onboarding new patients and focusing on their current patient roster.\n\n**Read what Orchid subscribers are saying about how Orchid reduces their admin work**:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69725&key=user_uploads/1179470/fddba9d9-d1b1-42f8-859c-c0ec794570c7)\n\n\n### **Make the world a better place**\n\n**If you or anyone in your network might be interested in learning more or helping out, we would love to chat.**  We're especially interested in talking with:\n\n* **Health insurance companies (payors)**, especially those interested in expanding their mental health offerings, in increasing their members’ access to mental healthcare, in decreasing their costs through efficient operations, and in improving their quality of care. **We have hundreds of vetted clinicians implementing measurement-based care.**\n* **Independent mental health professionals**: therapists, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, even if they’re currently not in the market for a new EHR. You can also ask them to [sign up for a quick 15-minute demo](https://orchid.health). \n* **Nonprofits** with an interest in supporting mental health\n\nWe can be **reached at** [**founders@orchid.health**](mailto:founders@orchid.health)\n\nPlease **follow us on** [**LinkedIn**](https://linkedin.com/company/hey-orchid) and spread the love.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8b-orchid-the-most-efficient-ehr-for-independent-mental-health-professionals", "votes": 157, "created_at": "2023-02-27T21:50:35.839Z" } ] }, { "id": 27902, "name": "Teclada", "slug": "teclada", "former_names": [ "Teclada", "Logital (Teclada)", "Logital AI (Teclada)", "KV Cash" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd91b72016ac0b1503fe195f48b2a6eee5112fcb.png", "website": "https://www.teclada.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Browser based remote access: Think SSH, but from your browser", "one_liner": "Remote Shell Access in the Browser", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1678082739, "tags": [ "Open Source" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/teclada", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/teclada.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd91b72016ac0b1503fe195f48b2a6eee5112fcb.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1146313, "full_name": "David Fiala", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Teclada Inc.\n\nPreviously, David led the security effort for Google Health and several core Google-wide security initiatives.\n\nHis PhD is related to supercomputing resilience, high-performance computing, and security/privacy.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfiala", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/davidjfiala", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8f9dcae3c47600f222e53b599131b3fb5c565894.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 27906, "name": "1stCollab", "slug": "1stcollab", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "website": "https://1stcollab.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "1stCollab is the first influencer platform that fully automates and optimizes every aspect of your influencer marketing program. 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(i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "After working on creator-related products for three years at Pinterest—and talking with dozens of creators about the challenges they faced—Varun and Leon began brainstorming different ways creators could better monetize the enormous value they delivered to their audiences and to brands. After testing a number of concepts, they became excited by the idea of building better discovery experiences to help brands find creators for their campaigns. A mutual friend connected them with Carina, who was independently building something similar. Andrew had also previously worked with Varun and Leon on discovery at Pinterest, and joined the team as well. Soon after, 1stCollab was born!" }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "We’re focused on solving a two-sided marketplace problem, for brands and creators. For brands, their biggest pain point with influencer marketing is discovering and sourcing creators. Platforms that exist today not only cost >$30k each year, but have very limited discovery capabilities. For instance, [Grin.co](http://Grin.co), one of the top two influencer marketing platforms today, does not surface any Instagram influencers as part of their sourcing tools. We’re going to be the first influencer marketing platform that prioritizes discovery and create the best discovery experience for brands by growing a network of authenticated creators and surfacing those creators through industry leading discovery algorithms and experiences. For creators, 99% of creators don’t get brand deals today, because creators don’t have a way to actively apply to relevant campaigns. By creating an open platform that has a broad set of brands, we can help creators apply to campaigns by showcasing those brands and their campaigns to relevant creators. Creators know their audience and content the best, and through encouraging creator participation, we can facilitate better matchmaking between brands and creators than any platform out there." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "From working at social media companies, we know that users engage at much higher rates with sponsored creator content than organic ads. But the market for sponsored influencer content is being held back, because it’s hard to run influencer marketing campaigns and the tools out there today don’t make it much easier. 1stCollab will simplify and automate influencer marketing the same way that Facebook and Google transformed the digital ads market. If we’re successful, we’ll enable a new category of ad spend—helping more brands to leverage influencer marketing and shift more of their budgets towards it. That’s money that goes directly to creators, enabling orders of magnitude more people to make a living as full-time creators. We have the opportunity to make content creation a genuinely feasible career for many, many talented folks out there—and we’re excited to make it happen." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/1stcollab.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1stcollab", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1168808, "full_name": "Leon Lin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Currently working on 1stCollab, the best platform for brands and creators to collaborate on influencer marketing campaigns. I was previously at Pinterest for over nine years, where I watched the company grow from 100 to 3k employees. Most recently, I was Head of Discovery product there where I led our Home, Search, and Pins teams and was responsible for user engagement. Before that, I was a tech lead on the Recommendations team.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e613d2a09dfafba1eedd23a45f5dc7c892ea74a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1168810, "full_name": "Varun Bansal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at 1stCollab, a platform for brands and creators to connect and run marketing campaigns together. Before 1stCollab, I worked at Pinterest, where I was a product manager for the homefeed recommendations team, the international growth team, and—most recently—the creator engagement and community teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3251e49676ec33cca771662e36818914ead68d75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176814, "full_name": "Andrew Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently working on building a network for brands and creators to connect and launch marketing campaigns. Previously, I was a Tech Lead on search and recommendations at Coupang and Pinterest.\n\n\nIf you're interested in search, recommendations, or creators, please reach out :)!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyuliu/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1270d66ac8965363670c2cc98caf2d245db2f2f7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 71585, "title": "Customer Success Manager (CSM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab/jobs/atezDBY-customer-success-manager-csm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94796, "title": "1stCollab - Fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing", "tagline": "Build a community of thousands of creators for your brand–instantly", "body": "**tl;dr**: 1stCollab is the fastest way to test, optimize, and scale your influencer program. Instantly source thousands of creators, and let our platform handle everything — outreach, negotiations, contracting, payments, and taxes — all while maximizing ROI.\n\n**Product Demo:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KI3LN-xqdM\n\n**Ask**: Introduce [leon@1stcollab.com](mailto:leon@1stcollab.com) to companies interested in influencer marketing!\n\n## The Problem\n\nWe’ve spoken with hundreds of startups running influencer programs, and nearly all hit the same roadblocks:\n\n* **Low response rates.** They reach out to about 10-20 influencers and don’t get any responses. \n* **Time-consuming processes.** Even if some creators reply, sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and paying them quickly turns into a full-time job (or an agency retainer).\n* **Scaling is hard.** Early success is exciting, but optimizing and expanding campaigns takes costly tools, headcount, and process.\n\n## What 1stCollab does\n\n1stCollab helps you test out and scale your influencer marketing program to hundreds of creators with an hour of setup work. We do this by automating the exact same influencer process that the world’s best marketing teams run. \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1: Instantly source thousands of influencers**\n\nFree to try out! We’ve indexed all of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube so you’ll quickly be able to find relevant creators using our search and recommendation tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/7c914441-b10e-4367-99c6-253a39f48bf6)\n\n**Step 2: We take care of outreach, negotiations, contracting and payments.** \n\nWe handle everything to bring the right creators on board at the right price. You’ll see the full negotiation history and campaign pipeline. Our pricing engine predicts ROI using real-time engagement signals and proprietary data from hundreds of thousands of deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/05e49138-75eb-4fdc-b941-e24044207a7d)\n\n**Step 3: (Optional) Review content**\n\nCreators submit concepts and draft videos for your approval. All revisions stay organized in one place. Once you give the green light, we take care of payouts and collect performance data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/fc46b925-16b3-4ef8-82df-1380a85dec64)\n\n\\\n**Step 4: Analyze your metrics**\n\nAs creators are going live, we’ll report out on real time engagement and link click metrics. We’ll cut things by ad groups as well so you can experiment with different briefs and creator populations to understand what works well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/90bbd692-5064-454d-a9c4-a20748bd411e)\n\n## Some of our campaigns\n\nWe’ve helped hundreds of startups start their influencer campaigns and scale up to **some of the largest campaigns on social media**. Some interesting case studies to check out include [Framer](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/framer), [Locket](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/locket), [Gamma](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/gamma) and [SnapCalorie](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/snapcalorie)!\n\n## How to get started\n\nStart [sourcing creators for free](https://brands.1stcollab.com/) or schedule [some time with Leon](https://calendar.app.google/Zd88eFtzJF3TKs3k6) so we can discuss campaign strategy and we can share with you best practices\n\nAlready running influencer campaigns? A/B test us against your current program — we’re confident we can improve your performance and efficiency!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/96f60d67-2c55-48e9-9d78-35dcdddb8e28)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oey-1stcollab-fully-automated-roi-optimized-influencer-marketing", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2025-10-21T19:13:55.295Z" }, { "id": 70145, "title": "1stCollab — Run an influencer marketing campaign in less than 30 minutes 🎉", "tagline": "1stCollab is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that automates the process of running an influencer marketing campaign.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nInfluencer marketing is one of the most efficient ways to reach and acquire new customers, but it’s tedious to run campaigns. By leveraging machine learning and our prior campaign data, 1stCollab lets you run a campaign in under 30 minutes. Visit [1stcollab.com](http://1stcollab.com) to get started with your next influencer marketing campaign!\n\n### **Why is influencer marketing hard?**\n\nFrom our time working at large social media platforms, we know that influencer marketing consistently outperforms organic ads. Unfortunately, launching an influencer campaign is a manual and lengthy process. _Launching an influencer campaign takes weeks_, while launching Google ads takes just minutes. \n\nThe first step of every influencer campaign is to find the right creators to work with—which often takes over 50 hours per campaign. Existing solutions cost tens of thousands of dollars and operate off inaccurate data. As a result, the majority of influencer marketers spend hours manually searching on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. From there, they have to manually calculate stats, vet a creator’s audience, evaluate past partnerships, and negotiate rates and contract terms, review creatives, report out campaign metrics, and finally submit payments. This whole process often takes 2+ weeks for a single campaign.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n1stCollab lets you launch an influencer marketing campaign in minutes—not weeks. All you have to do is find a single influencer who's relevant to your brand and target customers. Then:\n\n1. Use our [influencer look-alike discovery tool](https://www.1stcollab.com/) to identify, vet, and save additional influencers you'd like to work with. We do what the best influencer marketers do: identify a single relevant creator, dig through that creator’s community, identify additional relevant creators, and repeat the process—but automatically.\n2. Send us your list of saved influencers and tell us about your campaign goals and budget.\n3. We'll take care of everything from there. All you have to do is approve the content that the influencers will post.\n\nWe support campaigns on all platforms. Our self-serve discovery tool currently supports YouTube, and we’re launching for Instagram and TikTok soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/a5397e58-9fda-4820-8ec8-945d2930f80d)\n\n### **Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/214846e7-6c27-47c6-9213-4ecac24313be)\n\nOur team has built some of the largest and most-used discovery and ML systems in the world, and has led industry-leading influencer marketing programs.\n\n* [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/) spent nine years at Pinterest, where he was most recently Head of Discovery Product. \n* [Varun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/) was at Pinterest for five years, where he led product for both the Creator Engagement and Recommendations teams. \n* [Carina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-cater/) led influencer marketing at Whatnot, Robinhood, and Curology.\n* [Andrew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyu-liu/) was the tech lead for the Recommendations and Search team at Coupang and the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n* [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlau93/) was a Founding Engineer and tech lead for the Machine Learning team at Abnormal Security and earlier, an engineer on the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* **Want to give influencer marketing a try?** We'd love to help! We're the easiest and fastest way to do it. Our discovery tool is free to try and we’re happy to help you run the rest of your campaign.\n* **Know someone doing influencer marketing?** We'd love to be connected. Even if our product isn't the right fit, we’d love to know how we can make their process faster and improve their performance.\n* **No plans to run an influencer marketing campaign?** Feel free to use our discovery tool and explore creators you might want to work with in the future! We'd love to get feedback on the discovery experience.\n\nIf you have any questions, shoot us an email at [hello@1stcollab.com](mailto:hello@1stcollab.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IFN-1stcollab-run-an-influencer-marketing-campaign-in-less-than-30-minutes", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-03-10T18:04:24.429Z" } ] }, { "id": 27907, "name": "Storyboarder", "slug": "storyboarder", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fdaa90707265a548984bceb0ca01f4971e16d6c3.png", "website": "https://storyboarder.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Storyboarder is a tool and a platform for anyone to create, share, and sell webcomics.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is an $12B market and rapidly growing to the rest of the world. Webtoon, the largest company in the space, generates $100M / month in revenue. However, their addressable market is limited by their content creators, who need know how to draw. Readers are desperate for a greater variety of stories in webcomics.\r\n\r\n\r\nThrough years of working with filmmakers, we’ve built extremely easy to use storyboarding software that has 700K users. We’re democratizing visual storytelling to everyone. We’re working on the next generation that, through advances in video game interfaces, ubiquitous 3D compute, and AI, will allow anyone to easily create scenes, pose characters, to create webcomics. \r\n\r\n\r\nStoryboarder is backed by Y Combinator (W23), David Karp (Tumblr Founder), Andrew Kortina (Venmo Founder), and other product focused investors.", "one_liner": "Tool and platform to create and sell webcomics", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1677558181, "tags": [ "Entertainment", "Media", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/storyboarder", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/storyboarder.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyboarder", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fdaa90707265a548984bceb0ca01f4971e16d6c3.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": 73262, "full_name": "Charles Forman", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Charles Forman is the co-founder of Storyboarder. With a background in computer science and design, Charles is passionate about building great product experiences that make the world a more enjoyable place. Prior to co-founding Storyboarder, Charles was the founder of OMGPOP (YCS06), a gaming startup that gained international recognition for its popular game \"Draw Something\". OMGPOP attracted millions of users and was ultimately acquired by Zynga for $210 million.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/iminlikewithyou/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/charlesforman", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3227d0e81f001594d91ca5b7060a736acdb6557f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176853, "full_name": "Joe Watkins", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Joe Watkins is the co-founder and CTO of Storyboarder. Prior to Storyboarder, Joe lead a computer vision/machine learning team at Google before working on generating maps with machine learning at Waymo.\nJoe's passion for web-native fiction played a significant role in inspiring Storyboarder's design. As a teenager, he was captivated by the potential of the internet to tell stories in new and exciting ways, and spent countless hours exploring different forms of digital storytelling.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-watkins-06925295", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/292cc2868728f7817b98e5382b45fce1321fd4f8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 66669, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/storyboarder/jobs/hmyhqGZ-backend-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$120K - $140K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 67565, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/storyboarder/jobs/T0QqbIb-backend-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$120K - $140K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69867, "title": "Storyboarder - Create, buy, and sell webcomics", "tagline": "Storyboarder is a tool and platform that enables anyone to create, buy, and sell webcomics.", "body": "# TLDR: Storyboarder is a tool and platform that enables anyone to create, buy, and sell webcomics. Over 650,000 users have used Storyboarder to make movies like Black Panther, Cruella, I Tonya, and Modern Family — and now we're expanding to webcomics.\n\nHi Everyone! We’re [Charles Forman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iminlikewithyou/) and [Joe Watkins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-watkins-06925295/), the founders of [Storyboarder](https://storyboarder.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69867&key=user_uploads/73262/1d6bac9f-7694-4132-b0e9-b6f55630014f)\n\nIf you have an idea for a story, you can use Storyboarder to tell it by adding characters to a scene and typing in dialogue - the tool will automatically generate the shots you need to tell your story. You can post episodes of your story to the platform as part of a series, and other people can buy the episodes to read them.\n\n## 🤬 **Currently, it’s too hard to make webcomics - You have to be able to draw!**\n\nIn East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is a $12B market - and it’s rapidly growing to the rest of the world. People are addicted to reading webcomics. For example, the largest company in the space, Webtoon, has 100M MAU and generates $1.2B in annual revenue. The problem is that the variety and appeal of webcomics is constrained by the number of webcomic artists - you need to know how to draw to make a webcomic.\n\n## 💜 **We make it easy for anyone to make webcomics!**\n\nStoryboarder is a 3D scene editor. You pick a scene. You add characters. You type in what they say. Storyboarder makes the panels for you, and then you can edit them as much as you want. We have a world class rendering system, so everything ends up looking absolutely beautiful!\n\nStoryboarder is also a platform for posting your comics as episodes in series. After your readers read 5 of your episodes, they can pay the equivalent of 20 cents to read additional episodes.\n\n## 🧔🧔‍♂️ **Why are we building this?**\n\nI, (Charles), was working on making a movie. I wanted the story to be good, but I had no experience. Pixar uses storyboarding as a tool to iterate on their stories. They can see each version of their movie and rapidly iterate on it. Being the creative / engineer that I am, I made a storyboarding tool so I could create storyboards without having to draw. I released the tool, Storyboarder, and 700K people use it to storyboard movies and tv shows like Black Panther, Cruella, I, Tonya, and Modern Family.\n\nWe were ready to start shooting my movie in March of 2020 - then the pandemic hit. We realized we wouldn’t be able to make the movie. So I focused on Storyboarder. Working with some of the best writers, directors, and storyboard artists in the world, I saw a bunch of fantastic storyboards for movies that would never be filmed. They were cancelled because of covid. I realized that there are tons of stories that never see the light of day because they can’t get made into movies.\n\nBeing depressed about COVID, I spent time on Clubhouse, where I met my cofounder Joe. We talked a lot about the world of online fiction and webcomics and how it relates to storyboarding. We learned that Webtoon is huge and makes tons of money, but very few of their stories appeal to us, or many people I know. Webtoon creators are a particular type of person that need to know how to draw.\n\nI used to make videogames. I started OMGPOP (YC06). We built 35 games and a game called “Draw Something” We sold the company for $200M. Joe was running a team of ML engineers at Google and worked on computer vision at Waymo. So we thought we could combine forces to build the next generation of storytelling with online 3D tech, game tech, and AI.\n\nJoe and I thought, what if we make a tool where anyone can make webcomics without having to draw? The stories created would appeal to so many more people. We did the math: 3 out of 10 Americans buy e-books: 100M people X $12 (ARPPU on Webtoon). That’s $1.2B. 10X Globally: $12B!\n\n## **Checks all the boxes:**\n\n✅ **Making stories is important and fun!** \\\n✅ **Huge Market: $12B.** \\\n✅ **Built in 650K Users.** \\\n✅ **Previous YC06 videogame company with success: $200M Exit.** **\\#29 Top YC Exit.**\\\n✅ **Investors include**: David Karp (**Tumblr Founder**), Andrew Kortina (**Venmo Founder**), **Jonathan Glick** (NYT), **Andy Artz** (Best man in the world), other top secret celebs and good looking rich people.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69867&key=user_uploads/73262/c4ddcafc-e38e-49f9-8259-b90af30cfb5c)\n\n_Various gingers: Laura (Joe’s partner), Joe, some freakishly tall guy, and Charles._\n\n### **The Ask:**\n\n🚀 Do you want in on this rocket ship? Interested in using our tool? 💌 Email us and we’ll add you to the waitlist or set up a call: [founders@storyboarder.com](mailto:founders@storyboarder.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAt-storyboarder-create-buy-and-sell-webcomics", "votes": 114, "created_at": "2023-03-02T15:10:31.514Z" } ] }, { "id": 27909, "name": "Magicflow 𐂂", "slug": "magicflow", "former_names": [ "SAPI", "SAPI 𐂂" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b2234eb7e6f24362b194ad8921038406c8824499.png", "website": "https://magicflow.ai", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Prompt engineers, visual artists and AI data scientists are using Magicflow to run experiments at scale and perfect their pipelines\r\n\r\nOur product is ready to use: https://console.magicflow.ai try it out! we have some preloaded examples you can try.\r\n\r\n🤟 Talk to us about anything! 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We are [Yotam Hamiel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyotam/) and [Yarden Shem Tov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yardenst/), the founders of [Magicflow](https://magicflow.ai/)!\n\nMagicflow is a no-code drag-and-drop tool to design and run AI workflows that easily integrate into your app.\n\nComplex workflows tend to be expensive and slow. We can optimize them for cost and speed so you don’t have to deal with the painful infrastructure work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70432&key=user_uploads/1006285/cf3b8f4e-4f92-40a4-b9f3-bb02603a99f8)\n\n### The Problem:\n\nAI capabilities such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are more accessible than ever. However, they still require a fair amount of technical know-how to deploy and orchestrate, particularly when combining multiple models to create optimized and cost-efficient workflows.\n\n### Our Solution:\n\nMagicflow — a no-code AI model orchestration solution.\n\nWe provide a user-friendly playground that integrates models from top services like [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/), [OpenAI](https://openai.com), and [Replicate](https://replicate.com).\n\nWith Magicflow anyone can easily stitch together various models without requiring any DevOps or code.\n\nOnce ready to deploy, workflows are cost/speed optimized and made ready for production.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70432&key=user_uploads/1006285/e84b74b9-a806-4ad6-9421-5995b02caa08)\n\nAn example of a workflow built with [Magicflow](https://magicflow.ai).\n\nWe came up with Magicflow by talking to our pre-pivot customers (who were mostly using us as a proxy for AI services). They told us that they needed a way to quickly iterate on their workflows, debug them and deploy them to production in a scalable and cost-efficient way.\n\nOur goal is to provide an accessible solution, for both engineers and non-engineers, to utilize the vast AI capabilities available to enhance their own products.\n\nSuhail (Mixpanel founder) [described it best](https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1632064689466376194?lang=en):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70432&key=user_uploads/1006285/f8ef6c1a-849e-40cb-bf30-2a13db968340)\n\n### How you can help:\n\nWe’re looking to work with companies who rely on AI workflows, and are looking to make them cheaper and faster. If you know someone please contact us at [founders@magicflow.ai](mailto:founders@magicflow.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IK0-magicflow-webflow-for-ai-development", "votes": 71, "created_at": "2023-03-20T23:38:40.099Z" } ] }, { "id": 27911, "name": "IcePanel", "slug": "icepanel", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dbd813cd554f2fcf891554ea0c9a4e0eceff792e.png", "website": "https://icepanel.io", "all_locations": "North Vancouver, BC, Canada", "long_description": "IcePanel is a collaborative diagramming tool that helps software engineering and product teams align on technical decisions. Teams use IcePanel to create a map of their software systems, giving them full context about how it works.", "one_liner": "Design and explain complex software architecture.", "team_size": 9, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1669087724, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Collaboration", "Enterprise" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/icepanel", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/icepanel.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "North Vancouver", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/icepanel/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ice_panel", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/icepanel", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/icepanel", "github_url": "https://github.com/IcePanel", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dbd813cd554f2fcf891554ea0c9a4e0eceff792e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 690358, "full_name": "Jacob Shadbolt", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "🧊 IcePanel Co-Founder | I am building a simpler (cooler) way to talk about system design and share technical knowledge. Before IcePanel, I was a UX Designer at Mastercard, working on greenfield real-time payment products, including monitoring and mobile payments. I prefer solving \"boring\" problems over jumping on hype trains. Stay chill.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-shadbolt-design/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1c3b5e696e164622ef8f794349042621d956194b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 690349, "full_name": "Victor Leach", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "🧊 IcePanel Co-Founder | I have a passion for discovering and solving problems with technology, and my mission is to make products that people love!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorleach/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2e727d275ed407a2309d229d2376f52f01c89e17.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 72555, "title": "Senior Full Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/icepanel/jobs/KlI6KP6-senior-full-stack-engineer", "location": "Vancouver, BC, CA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$170K CAD", "equity_range": "0.20% - 0.70%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Google Cloud", "Node.js", "TypeScript", "Vue.js", "Tailwind" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 67487, "title": "🧊 IcePanel - Collaborative system design; linked with reality", "tagline": "A lightweight visual approach to modelling software architecture, linked with resources in the real world.", "body": "### **⚡️TL;DR**\n\nCommunication of software systems is hard, visuals help but often lack consistency and are out-of-date within weeks.\n\nIcePanel is a SaaS tool for tech teams to collaborate on their software architecture design.\n\n### **👋 Who are we?**\n\nHey all, we’re [Victor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorleach/) and [Jacob](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-shadbolt-design/), the founders of 🧊 [IcePanel](http://icepanel.io).\n\n### **🤬 Problem**\n\nSoftware teams currently use generic diagramming tools to communicate complex systems.\n\n* Software systems are becoming increasingly complex and are hard to explain.\n* Technical teams often find it challenging to tell the right story and gain alignment.\n* Technical diagrams are inconsistent, lack context and drift from reality - becoming out-of-date in a matter of weeks.\n* Engineering and product teams are often misaligned, especially in technical areas.\n\n💩 Bad communication across teams is time-consuming and expensive.\n\n### **🚀 Our solution**\n\nHelp humans visually communicate complex systems; linked to resources in reality.\n\n**1️⃣ Modelling**\n\n> * IcePanel is a collaborative modelling tool, that provides a single source of truth with reusable objects and relationships, keeping your diagrams in sync and up-to-date with changes.\n\n**2️⃣ Consistent language**\n\n* IcePanel is built upon the [C4 model](http://c4model.com), a lightweight layered approach designed for technical and non-technical audiences. This brings consistency to visual & verbal communication about software architecture.\n\n**3️⃣ Linked to reality**\n\n* IcePanel objects can be linked to resources in reality, such as files in Git, that flag as out-of-date if they no longer exist.\n\n### **🫣 Sneak peek**\n\n_Levelled diagramming_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67487&key=user_uploads/690358/af8b9aee-00f4-48c5-9215-1c5a75cbb7b9)\n\n_Dynamic flows_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67487&key=user_uploads/690358/ead5d78e-c923-41bb-b34a-74d8d03bb9b8)\n\nWant to see more? [Head over to IcePanel!](https://icepanel.io)\n\n### **🙌 Our ask**\n\n* [Try us out](http://icepanel.io) for free & let us know your feedback\n* Connect us with engineering teams who struggle to fully understand their systems\n* Share with your developer or product friends", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HYV-icepanel-collaborative-system-design-linked-with-reality", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2022-11-23T00:36:21.646Z" } ] }, { "id": 27915, "name": "Rainmaker", "slug": "rainmaker", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4513fcb84fa72bcdfce26d3a22b34e43edaa1e49.png", "website": "http://www.rainmaker.nyc", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Rainmaker is an account abstraction-based crypto wallet that makes DeFi investing simple and fast. Set up a wallet with just an email, instantly deposit funds from your bank or credit card, and invest in DeFi without gas fees.", "one_liner": "DeFi for Everyone", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Consumer Finance", "launched_at": 1678219500, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Consumer Finance" ], "regions": [ "Unspecified" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rainmaker", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/rainmaker.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/87153326", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/RainmakerWallet", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4513fcb84fa72bcdfce26d3a22b34e43edaa1e49.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 69513, "full_name": "Carlos Reyes Stoneham", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder of Rainmaker. Previously PM & Engineer.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosreyes1/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/theczarlos", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/57ba8115a38a4be91e6e1cec6b9b63af0ea8c91a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1298997, "full_name": "Brent Traut", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of rainmaker.nyc • Previously Apple, Microsoft, Pinterest, Hashflow, and lifetime startup hacker", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/btraut/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/btraut", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3cd4728077c82e2dea0e855e3d6ea898eb67ca0e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70781, "title": "Rainmaker - DeFi for everyone", "tagline": "We’ve built the best crypto wallet for the next generation of DeFi, removing unnecessary technical nuances and simplifying complex concepts.", "body": "**The Overview**\n\nRainmaker is the fastest, simplest way to invest in and manage DeFi positions. Our mobile-first, account abstraction based crypto wallet enables 1-click, gas-less entry into advanced investment strategies.\n\n**The Team**\n\nBrent and Carlos are DeFi veterans with over a decade of experience building crypto and consumer products.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70781&key=user_uploads/69513/bdd065f3-0f9a-4a62-a732-85a0d614c7d5)\n\nBrent was previously the VP of engineering at Hashflow where he scaled trading volume from under $200M/yr to over $12B/yr. Carlos previously led Consumer Growth at LinkedIn Learning where he added over $14M in revenue in under two years.\n\nOutside of their previous employment both Brent and Carlos have been building automated systems for personal DeFi investing for years, working on everything from arbitrage to MEV.\n\nAs the founders built more and more custom software to facilitate trading, they came to the realization that all of this software should be packaged together and made more accessible to a wider range of users. Ultimately this became Rainmaker.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nWhile owning tokens like BTC and ETH has become common, putting these tokens to use via DeFi remains prohibitively difficult for most people due to the complexity of the tooling and ecosystems. As a result, people leave money on the table, or worse, mismanage their investments and lose money.\n\nWe think about the complexity of investing in DeFi in three parts:\n\n1. Setup, tooling, and education.\n2. On-ramping\n3. Investing\n\nInvesting in DeFi starts with basic wallet setup which comes with a learning curve too steep for most. Users need to navigate seed phrases, security hygiene, fiat onramps, gas fees, token allowances, and so much more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70781&key=user_uploads/69513/bfdf639d-335d-4c0e-81e3-165254696c5d)\n\nIf a user is motivated enough to make it past setup and funding, it’s still difficult to securely discover, enter, and manage complex DeFi strategies. Users often accidentally take on positions with unclear risk, sacrifice security and decentralization for convenience, or just hold tokens without earning any yield.\n\nUltimately the goal of investors is to execute on their investing thesis, and the complexities of the tooling and protocol interactions have merely been “part of the process”.\n\n**The Product**\n\nRainmaker is an account-abstraction-based mobile crypto wallet that reduces the lengthy and complex process of investing in DeFi to just a few taps. What used to take hours of work and months of research now takes seconds.\n\n\n\nWe leverage MPC and smart contracts to allow users to safely self-custody funds with just an email login. Instant onramps enable users to go straight from their bank accounts to DeFi.\n\nWhile simple onboarding is critical to help more users feel comfortable interacting with DeFi, Rainmaker’s real magic is how we leverage account abstraction to create the world's best DeFi integrations.\n\nNative integrations with top protocols like Lido, Stargate, Synapse, Vector, and many more allow users to enter and exit DeFi strategies with one-click and no gas fees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70781&key=user_uploads/69513/6c26ca83-8a21-4fb5-8259-4d15d3a453f3)\n\nPosition automations precisely track key metrics like gains/losses, rewards collected/expected, and changes in underlying risk (TVL, unique wallets connect, APY variance) all while regularly compounding rewards for maximum capital efficiency.\n\nRainmaker takes seconds to set up and is available across iOS, Android, and web.\n\n**The Ask**\n\nIf you’re a DeFi investor, we’d love to hear about the strategies you’re currently leveraging or are interested in!\n\nYou can schedule a call with us or email us at [founders@rainmaker.nyc](mailto:founders@rainmaker.nyc).\n\nCheck us out at: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IPd-rainmaker-defi-for-everyone", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2023-04-05T22:28:17.586Z" } ] }, { "id": 27919, "name": "Helicone", "slug": "helicone", "former_names": [ "Prompt Zero", "TableTalk", "Valyr" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0fd0f837e64cef0930fd804e4345c0342b9a2827.png", "website": "https://www.helicone.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Helicone.ai is creating an advanced observability platform tailored for developers working with Large Language Models (LLMs). Our goal is to simplify and enhance the operational side of deploying these models, making it easier for developers to monitor, manage, and optimize their AI applications at scale. Helicone provides a unified view of performance, cost, and user interaction metrics for various LLM providers, like OpenAI, Anthropic, and LangChain, empowering developers to make their LLM deployments more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective.\r\n\r\n### Key Features\r\n\r\n1. **Centralized Observability**: Our platform captures and visualizes detailed logs and metrics across all LLM deployments. With tools for prompt management, performance tracing, and debugging, Helicone provides real-time insights into the inner workings of your LLMs.\r\n\r\n2. **LLM Performance Optimization**: Helicone supports prompt experimentation, success rate tracking, and fine-tuning, allowing you to continuously improve response quality and efficiency. This level of insight makes it easier to deliver high-performing, cost-effective AI applications.\r\n\r\n3. **Flexible Data Management**: We understand that data privacy is critical. 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It is an analytics interface for understanding your metrics broken down by users, models, and prompts with visual cards. 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Customize your cache for your application’s unique requirements. This removes the latency overhead when you’re experimenting to make development faster.\n\nConfigure retry rules when you run into rate limits, or even route your request to another provider when your service is down.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69629&key=user_uploads/1203799/00d73946-0303-4024-9fc3-da961f05275b)\n\n## Get started **in seconds**\n\n* Try it **for free** at [helicone.ai](http://helicone.ai)\n* Book a call with the team [on our calendly](https://calendly.com/d/4hs-9jb-b96/helicone-intro)\n* Join our [Discord community](http://discord.gg/zsSTcH2qhG)\n* Email the team at [help@helicone.ai](mailto:help@helicone.ai)\n* We’re open source! 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Rather than having policies spread out between multiple agents/brokers, real estate managers can use Homeflow to view their policies, change coverages, and get quotes for upcoming acquisitions.\n\nHi everyone, we’re Perry and Christian, co-founders of Homeflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/6f1b3243-2701-4977-80af-bd2a8ae8254b)\n\n### **🤔 Why are we the right ones to work on this?**\n\n[Perry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/perryha95/) was the 5th business hire at Hippo Insurance and was there through the IPO, building and leading the sales operations team. \n\n[Christian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmgreen/) was the youngest staff engineer at Mosaic, a unicorn proptech company, where he led engineering for a new business line that grew to $10M ARR in 6 months. \n\n### **❌ What’s the problem?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70501&key=user_uploads/437987/48a1f68f-5a21-48cc-9fb3-01549b851641)\n\nLarger real estate investors deal with inefficiencies when managing their insurance. 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We help your team skip months of development (and years of maintenance), and focus on what really matters: your core product and features._\n\nHey, [Felipe here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipearp/). I’m a software engineer who spent the last 3+ years building apps and plugins for e-commerce companies. Project after project, I was shocked at the amount of boilerplate required just to reliably sync from 3rd-party APIs. I decided to start Fiber to solve this problem and help SaaS companies ship faster.\n\nLet me explain: 👇\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nIf you’re building a SaaS tool, you’re probably hoping to ship some integrations next quarter. To do so, your team will have to write a ton of code to authenticate, paginate, backfill, and listen for changes on each API you’re reading from. Once all this work is done, you will need to worry about hosting, maintaining and scaling this integration pipeline… _forever_. 😱\n\nIf your API vendor is in a fragmented vertical such as finance or HRIS, you are probably better off using a unified API to skip most of this integration trouble. Otherwise, if you need deep integrations with unique tools, you’re out of luck. You had to do all this work from scratch.\n\n**_But now…_** you can use Fiber! 🌀\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nFiber is an ETL service that is laser-focused on the needs of _developers_ (no offense to data people). We help you skip the work of pulling users’ data from 3rd-party APIs (eg. their Quickbooks reports, Salesforce accounts, Github issues etc), and just consume it straight from your main database:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70073&key=user_uploads/203888/dfc9f660-4146-4ece-9146-b1b83d0a928f)\n\n_(Yes, we have a great dashboard too, but you don’t even need to use it!)_\n\nHere are all the required steps:\n\n1. Register your database with us. (We will walk you through creating a database user that can’t access any of your existing, sensitive information.)\n2. Choose which third-party API to pull data from, and which of their resources you need.\n3. Hit the Fiber API whenever a client connects your SaaS to this third-party tool.\n\nThat’s it. You can now focus on your core products, knowing the user data you need will be kept up-to-date inside your database. 🤘\n\n## **The Ask**\n\nAre you or someone you know building a SaaS? Let’s chat! You can [pick a time here](https://calendly.com/portalform/25min) or email me directly at felipe@portalform.com.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IED-fiber-the-api-data-you-need-straight-from-your-database", "votes": 288, "created_at": "2023-03-10T19:39:28.255Z" } ] }, { "id": 27935, "name": "compliant-llm", "slug": "compliant-llm", "former_names": [ "ZKomm", "Devpod", "FiddleCube", "compliant-llm", "compliant-llm (fka FiddleCube)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e836589affa3183241d8a3c3f2914bb8dc44d2a8.png", "website": "https://www.compliantllm.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "CompliantLLM detects every data leak into third-party GenAI tools used in your company by monitoring employee interactions.\r\n\r\nSecurity and tech leaders get visibiliity and control over the data flowing into various Gen AI apps used in their organizations.", "one_liner": "Detect every data leak into third-party GenAI tools", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1690346092, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/compliant-llm", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/compliant-llm.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiddlecube/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/FiddleCubeAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e836589affa3183241d8a3c3f2914bb8dc44d2a8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a697d7992ef3aad4d19bc4f93cc16167fa703c0d.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1124543, "full_name": "Neha Nupoor", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building CompliantLLM - Preventing data exfiltration into Gen AI apps.\n\nBuilt AI Customer Support at Uber.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehanupoor/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/nupoor_neha", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/55cd5adbdf80afa9e7d4349dff30b637b5939d4d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1103301, "full_name": "Kaushik Srinivasan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Working on preventing data leaks into Gen AI apps.\n\nWas previously building payment systems at Google Pay and AI customer support at Uber.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushik92/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/da6e5ea0e13e2b882e4979f9ebce8415c3a9dff7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92988, "title": "CompliantLLM - Detect Data Leaking into 3rd Party GenAI tools", "tagline": "Detect data breaches in approved & unapproved AI workflows", "body": "Hi YC,\n\nWe’re [Kaushik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushik92/) and [Neha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehanupoor/), cofounders of [CompliantLLM](https://www.compliantllm.com?utm_source=bookface&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=compliant-llm).\n\nCompliantLLM detects every data leak into third-party GenAI tools used in your company.\n\nIf you’re worried about data exfiltration risks at your organization, reach out to us at [founders@fiddlecube.ai](mailto:founders@fiddlecube.ai). We would love to learn more!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbheLR6CIMc\n\n## TL;DR\n\n* GenAI products introduce new surfaces for data leaks – a growing concern with increasing AI usage in companies.\n* CompliantLLM analyzes AI logs and finds GenAI-specific attacks and anomalies to detect data breaches.\n* It surfaces every PII-leak or unauthorized/malicious data access, across approved and unapproved AI workflows.\n\n## Problem\n\n* GenAI introduces new ways for leaking sensitive data or breaching data access controls. The problem is getting worse as AI agents connect to more workflows with increasing autonomy.\n* Currently, **leaders lack visibility and control into which GenAI apps are in use and the potential data-exfiltration risks that they create.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92988&key=user_uploads/1103301/bf03c8da-80fd-4ea5-9dc6-8b280f72e7da)\n\n**Source:** https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach\n\n---\n\n---\n\n## Solution\n\nCompliantLLM monitors employee interactions with third-party GenAI tools and detects every data exfiltration incident.\n\nWe monitor users’ past actions, their role, and data access permissions across teams, identifying unauthorized data access and prompt injection attacks.\n\nWe segment the violations into meaningful and malicious types, and give the teams an option to take an unobtrusive approach towards AI governance in the company.\n\n## Ask\n\nIf this is on your mind, we would love to talk more. Reach out to us at [**founders@fiddlecube.ai**](mailto:founders@fiddlecube.ai)\n\n## Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92988&key=user_uploads/1103301/ca7550ae-8834-4cb8-ac11-0f93305f9b04)\n\nKaushik was previously an engineer leading payments solutions at Google Pay, where he faced the problem of building compliant payment gateway solutions. He worked at Uber before this on their customer support AI efforts, where he met Neha.\n\nNeha previously led the automation of customer support at Uber using AI Agents. She brings her experience of building real-time AI workflows that worked at Uber’s scale and complexity to build CompliantLLM.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OBo-compliantllm-detect-data-leaking-into-3rd-party-genai-tools", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-08-14T15:04:31.154Z" }, { "id": 82440, "title": "FiddleCube - Data platform for fine-tuning LLMs", "tagline": "Synthetic data platform to streamline dataset generation for custom LLM training", "body": "### TL;DR: Upload your files & generate a high-quality dataset in minutes. [Give it a go](https://dashboard.fiddlecube.ai/sign-up)!\n\nLlama3.1 405B has just dropped, and it's already outperforming GPT-4o. As we assist our customers in fine-tuning domain-specific LLMs, we see firsthand that it's no small feat. It requires an extensive, diverse, and superior-quality dataset, and multiple iterations of training to get it right.\n\n## ❌ Creating high-quality datasets from raw data is messy!\n\n**Identifying the right data** in the knowledge base is a manual, challenging process.\n\n**Data cleaning and filtering** takes significant effort and man-hours, and is error-prone.\n\n**Costs of training & evals skyrocket** **with bad datasets** requiring multiple iterations of training.\n\n## ✅ We're making it easy and efficient for businesses.\n\nFiddleCube’s data platform converts your data corpus into a high-quality fine-tuning dataset. Generate 1000s of rows of multi-turn chat, function-calling, and QnAs. Additionally, augment your datasets synthetically from unstructured data to improve your model's performance.\n\n**Our users have used us to:**\n\n* **Save >2 months in their data cleaning, preparation, generation, and quality check cycle.**\n* Generate a **high-quality training dataset** that accurately resembles their production data without PII.\n* Generate a **golden dataset** for testing & benchmarking their AI-powered apps.\n* Generate **gender diversity, safety & guard railing** dataset.\n* **Customize the tone** of their responses instead of a standard GPT-like tone.\n\n## 🚀 FiddleCube’s - Data platform empowers you with:\n\n* **Data generation - A simple & clean UI** to generate datasets from PDF, TXT, and data sources to train your model.\n* **Dataset Management** - Editing, versioning, RBAC, and synthetic data augmentation to create self-correcting datasets.\n* **Diagnosing** **and improving underperforming queries** with regression testing & detailed data diagnostic tools.\n* Use **production logs and feedback** to auto-generate datasets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82440&key=user_uploads/1103301/d3b373f7-800d-4539-8790-364859f60904)\n\n### 🙋‍♂️ Let's Take Your Data to Production and Get You Started\n\n[Sign up here](https://dashboard.fiddlecube.ai/sign-up) to generate your first dataset. Or [book a call with us](https://fiddlecube.ai/contact-us) for help in getting started.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82440&key=user_uploads/1103301/1b2e9f87-678a-4b9b-9f13-f1c4e4e3af3b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LRg-fiddlecube-data-platform-for-fine-tuning-llms", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2024-07-25T16:24:53.504Z" }, { "id": 73434, "title": "🎲 FiddleCube - Automated dataset generation for fine-tuning LLMs", "tagline": "Create high-quality datasets for fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.", "body": "Tl;Dr; Fine-tuning LLMs requires high-quality datasets. FiddleCube automagically generates fine-tuning datasets from your data.\n\n**User Data Source > Fine-tuning Datasets (FiddleCube) > Fine-tuning**\n\nHead over to [fiddlecube.ai](http://fiddlecube.ai) to get started!\n\nHi everyone, we are Neha and Kaushik. We’re building FiddleCube to make high-quality datasets accessible to everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73434&key=user_uploads/1103301/b1e5c3f8-b7af-42f7-b251-bbb11ad5d38f)\n\n🦸 Kaushik spent most of the last decade building tech at companies like Google, Uber, and LinkedIn.\n\n🧙🏻 Neha has spent a similar amount of time as a dev at multiple startups, most recently at Uber\n\n👫🏻🫶🏻 We met at Uber, eventually got married, and decided to build a startup together, following our passion for AI.\n\n# 😤 The Problem\n\nIn the real world, LLMs need to be aligned to follow human instructions. It needs to respond in a manner that is:\n\n* Positive, Truthful & Honest\n* And in accordance with human beliefs and sensibilities\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73434&key=user_uploads/1103301/d7f8e8a0-2522-4ecf-a80e-d591c6cacd9a)\n\nRemarkable outcomes have been achieved towards this end by fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with high-quality datasets. However, creating these datasets takes significant time, manual effort, and money.\n\n# 💡The Solution\n\nFiddleCube leverages a suite of AI models to create high-quality datasets for fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.\n\n* Generate annotated datasets from raw data.\n* Augment the datasets - create large datasets to significantly improve model performance.\n* Evaluate and improve the data quality of your training dataset.\n\nWe create a rich, diverse, high-quality dataset to produce better models with a lower corpus of data.\n\n# ⚙️ Use Cases\n\n### 👩🏻‍🎤Personalization\n\nGive the model a personality, voice, and tone. For example, you can create a safe Dora the explorer / Peppa Pig model that speaks to children.\n\n### 👩🏻‍💻 API calling and coding\n\nFor specific use cases like making API calls or generating code, fine-tuning has provably demonstrated better results. You can fine-tune the LLM on a corpus of code or API data to significantly improve their ability at these tasks.\n\n### 🚄 Increase Throughput, Reduce Latency and Cost\n\nFine-tuned LLMs are much smaller than the foundational models. You can use them to increase throughput and reduce latency and cost.\n\n### 🗺️ Low Resource Domains\n\nLLMs perform poorly in certain domains like vernacular languages. These domains lack a sufficient corpus of high-quality data. Fine-tuning using generated datasets has shown remarkable improvements over the state of the art in these cases.\n\n# 🙏🏻 Ask\n\nAre you fine-tuning any LLM, or looking to fine-tune LLaMa V2, MPT, or Falcon? We would love to know your use case. Drop a comment on what you are doing, or reach out to us privately!\n\n# 👋🏻 Need help with fine-tuning?\n\nBook a slot on our calendar 🗓️ or drop us a line using:\n\n\\- Email 📧 : [kaushik@fiddlecube.ai](mailto:kaushik@fiddlecube.ai)\n\n\\- [Typeform](https://m6qcwjky3c1.typeform.com/to/CyfMeAbT) 📝\n\nand we will get back to you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J6Q-fiddlecube-automated-dataset-generation-for-fine-tuning-llms", "votes": 87, "created_at": "2023-07-26T05:46:22.692Z" } ] }, { "id": 27936, "name": "ClickPe", "slug": "clickpe", "former_names": [ "FinX", "DailyPe" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3c6e584d85f4fd70f979807e451c948d3482cdf8.png", "website": "https://clickpe.ai/", "all_locations": "Surat, GJ, India", "long_description": "Small shop owners earn daily unlike salaried people but when it comes to loan repayment both are asked to pay monthly. For these shop owners it is difficult to calculate how much to save daily so that they will have the required installment amount at the end of the month and also at the time of repayment they have a big hole in their working capital.\r\n\r\nTherefore, when you earn daily why not pay daily and get away from the stress of huge one-time installments. \r\n\r\nEvery day a small amount of $X is deducted from your digital wallet which is on the auto-debit mandate and you don't need to worry about keeping your balance of $XXXX. 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I have 2 years of experience building products in the lending tech domain at FinBox. I have created products such as Device Connect and Bank statement analyzer to evaluate New to Credit customers. During my college, I opened a glass bottle recycling factory. 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We are [Saurabh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-gupta2104/) and [Shashwat](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashwat-shrikhande/), the founders of [DailyPe](https://dailype.in/). We met each other at IIT Kharagpur and have been friends for the past 7+ years. We’re building DailyPe — a marketplace for business loans that are paid in smaller, daily installments.\\\n—\n\n### **Problem 💸: Paying your loans in huge installments at once sucks.**\n\nSmall shop owners earn daily unlike salaried people, but when it comes to loan repayment both are asked to pay monthly. For these shop owners, it is difficult to calculate how much to save each day so that they will have the required installment amount at the end of the month. Also, at the time of repayment, they end up with a big hole in their working capital.\n\n### **Solution 💡: Reduce risk & pay small amounts daily.**\n\n**Borrower Side:** When you earn daily you pay daily and get away from the stress of huge one-time installments. Each day, a small amount of $X is deducted from your digital wallet which is on the auto-debit mandate and you don't need to worry about keeping your balance of $XXXX. You never default, and you also build your credit score. \n\n**Lender Side:** Discover defaulters early because right from the 2nd day onward, your collection data stops you from lending in that particular demographic and geographic location. These data points wouldn't be available in the traditional way of lending till at least the 3rd month. With DailyPe, lending decisions are much more informed leading to higher collection rates and lower NPAs.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70455&key=user_uploads/514038/c1cbfb52-4486-4bf2-aa13-d39065cd0419)\n\n### \n\n### **Why us 😎**\n\nWe both have seen this problem firsthand when our fathers, who ran their own businesses, would stress out days before installment day — saying that they “\\*\\*need to save and transfer money from their secondary accounts to pay for the loan.\\*\\*” \n\nAlso, while working at FinBox and ICICI bank in the past, we built products in the **lending-tech industry.** This was something we had always wanted to build.\n\nFun fact: These loan products are called “**khandi Udhar**” which existed for a long time in the unorganized markets in India. We are making them organized 😁\n\n### **Ask** ❤️\n\n**Lending Partners**: If you can connect us with banks, NBFCs, and debt institutions in India who are open to becoming finance providers for our small business owners. \n\n**Data Points**: If you have worked on credit models, underwriting tech, risk analysis, or any sort of lending algorithm, please reach out to us at [founders@dailype.in](https://mailto:founders@dailype.in). It would be a pleasure to learn from you.             ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IKN-dailype-repay-your-loans-daily", "votes": 78, "created_at": "2023-03-21T20:51:49.508Z" } ] }, { "id": 27938, "name": "Boundary", "slug": "boundary", "former_names": [ "Gloo", "Gloo Chat", "Gloo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7d66bb51ef2922c834b2fbb6de2b175e7a85b8f8.png", "website": "https://www.boundaryml.com", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "Boundary is building BAML -- a programming language to build AI agents.\r\n\r\nWe used to code in assembly, and moved on to C.\r\nFrom C, we moved on to higher level languages like Python.\r\nNow we are going from Python to natural language.\r\n\r\nWhat does the code look like when 50% of the business decisions is decided by an AI agent / prompts? How do you test these AI components? We made BAML to address these problems.\r\n\r\nBAML helps has built-in tools to test, observe, and work with structured LLM outputs / tool calling natively in the language 10x faster. With BAML you can also instantly parallelize LLM Calls, or react to certain events or changes in your pipelines, without having to write any boilerplate. 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We help developers build a searchable knowledgebase that LLMs can understand, and validate their responses are legit.\n\nHey everyone! We’re Aaron and Vaibhav from Gloo and we’re on a mission to help LLMs understand your data and get them to stop hallucinating all over the place.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70071&key=user_uploads/855521/fefa49cf-6a22-4913-ac9e-da9550da9e69)\n\n### **The problem**\n\nBuilding a knowledge graph isn’t as easy as calling OpenAI embeddings API, storing them in a VectorDB and calling it a day. Developers have to choose from a myriad of parameters like chunking algorithm, embedding type (even based on the content), vectorDB, whether to fine-tune or not, how to securely store the data — and the list goes on and on.\n\nOnce you feed everything into the LLM, you’re only halfway there, as getting rid of hallucinations is tricky, and confidently incorrect answers to customer questions will give you headaches in the long-term.\n\nOn top of that, you still have your actual customer problems to still fix: getting the customer data, building flows on top of the LLM, writing the right prompts, getting more customers.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nGloo is the managed solution to building your knowledge graph — built for LLM context-windows from the ground-up. **We stand up a search API for your data that supports both keyword and semantic search**, and we smartly index and compute embeddings for you based on the content type. Once that’s setup, you can call our **_Check-_GPT API to check LLM answers** against your knowledgebase to ensure trustworthiness.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70071&key=user_uploads/855521/4c3b7bd2-6924-427b-a1f6-6aa194ae500f)\n\nWe built our search with a security-first approach. Your data is always server-side encrypted, and never actually stored in 3rd party Vector DBs. We are also supporting new transformations search engines couldn’t do before, like generating document summaries (powered by LLMs!), so you don’t have to spend precious time computing this at query time.\n\nAll of your data is viewable in your own personal dashboard where you can track embedding jobs, play around with different search parameters, and search query performance and analytics.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70071&key=user_uploads/855521/3e191b7a-73b1-4b36-983c-8852002a646e)\n\n### **Asks**\n\nReach out to us at **founders@gloo.chat**\n\n* If your AI keeps making shit up ☠️\n* If you want your LLM to stop saying “Sorry I dont know 😵‍💫”\n* If you’re worried about data security and VectorDBs / LLMs 🔒", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IEB-gloo-empower-llm-s-with-domain-specific-knowledge", "votes": 54, "created_at": "2023-03-08T22:57:42.876Z" } ] }, { "id": 27939, "name": "FactIQ", "slug": "factiq", "former_names": [ "Data Narratives", "Defog.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4eea8e74dd560d5b945e787263172d6a883e4e0a.png", "website": "https://factiq.com/", "all_locations": "Singapore, Singapore", "long_description": "FactIQ gives AI agents access to clean and trustworthy data for investment research.\r\n\r\nWe source, clean and standardize data from company financials, market prices, economic series and satellite imagery. We make it absurdly obvious for any AI agent to accurately query this data. We currently have 100M+ data series covering US and Asia, and are adding new data every day. 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We’re [Medha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/medha-basu/) and [Rishabh](http://twitter.com/rishdotblog) from [Defog.ai](http://defog.ai/).\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nDefog embeds in your app and lets your users query data in seconds, using everyday language. It’s like ChatGPT for data - right within your app. [**Sign up**](http://defog.ai/) **to get early access.** Or give it a try at [defog.ai/ask](http://defog.ai/ask).\n\n### **😤 The problem**\n\nInsights features within apps take a long time to build and get right.\n\nThis is because SaaS founders and product managers spend most of their time on improving their core product. Insights features are rarely top-of-mind, even though they increase user stickiness.\n\nMost teams tell themselves that they will eventually get to it. But they rarely do. The result is a hastily-built dashboard that provides limited insights to users.\n\n### 🎉 **Our solution**\n\nWe make it super easy to let your users ask questions in natural language and instantly get data and insights on your app.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68202&key=user_uploads/1153841/bd2e56ef-b1f8-4d38-b02a-1c851549def9)\n\nDefog embeds an intuitive Q&A-style interface for analytics in your app, and lets users query data in seconds.\n\nSome examples of how companies can use Defog:\n\n* Fintech companies could provide deep insights based on users’ transaction history.\n* Video meeting tools could extract common complaints across customer calls and make them easy to discover.\n* Social media platforms could replace generic analytics dashboards with more specific metrics.\n\n### **🪄 How it works**\n\n1. Give us the metadata of your database schema (if using SQL), or just unstructured data corpuses (if using APIs or text corpuses)\n2. Add our iframe or Javascript plugin to your app\n3. (optional) set up visual styling for how charts should look on our app\n4. Let your users ask questions of the data, and get insights in seconds\n\nWe’re powered by large language models that can search and visualise both structured data (like SQL databases or data warehouses) and unstructured data (like text in call transcripts).\n\nPS: We don’t compromise on privacy 🔐 Our model only needs access to your database schema to work, and not actual data about your customers.\n\n### **⚡ Our asks**\n\n* [Get early access](http://defog.ai/): Sign up to get early access if you’d like to embed Defog in your app\n* [Take it for a spin](http://defog.ai/csv): Ask Defog questions on your own datasets - or one of our pre-selected ones\n* [Share your feedback](https://defog.ai/contact/): If you have questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at founders\\[at\\]defog.ai or reach out to us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/defogdata) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/defog-ai/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hk2-defog-ai-chatgpt-for-data-embedded-in-your-app", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-01-05T06:17:24.307Z" } ] }, { "id": 27941, "name": "Sage AI", "slug": "sage-ai", "former_names": [ "Omnistore", "Emblem", "Semantic", "Semantic Finance" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c9492b07bf996e987ccacc0cea4bd6811a5000d5.png", "website": "https://sage-ai.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Sage is a self-generating, self-maintaining knowledge base for your code with in-built chat, accelerating expertise, and comprehension of any codebase.\r\n\r\nDocumentation is perpetually stale, codebases become increasingly old, large, and complex, and knowledge remains siloed within individuals and teams. As a result, engineers take 8-12 months to become fully operational, enterprise code becomes slow and unmaintainable, and core knowledge is continually lost upon engineer turnover.\r\n\r\nSage is changing this reality. We take your code and automatically generate a symbol-level knowledge base that self-updates to remain forever fresh. 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This is the main reason enterprises with extremely large, old, and complex code can’t move fast.\n* **Fragmentation:** Code information is unversioned and unlinked across disparate platforms, so it’s often unclear what your Confluence article is referring to and whether it’s still applicable.\n* **Discoordination:** Information silos impede collaboration and lead to unnecessary repetition of work. Cross-team features and bugs are exponentially harder to implement and resolve.\n* **Underutilization:** Engineers are expected to take 8-12 months to fully onboard and usually experience a “sink-or-swim” strategy for ramping up a new team.\n* **Overdependence:** Core knowledge is continually lost as employees turnover. Raise your hand if you’ve ever needed to touch code that’s written by an engineer who left in 2014. 🙋\n\nWhether you’re a newly hired engineer, just moved teams, or need to touch code you’ve never seen before, it’s the steepest learning curve in software engineering. This is the skeleton-in-the-closet of software: your average engineer spends more than 40% of their 2-year-tenure “onboarding.”\n\n### 🎉 The Solution\n\n[Sage](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sage-ai) is changing this reality. We take your code and automatically generate a symbol-level knowledge base that self-updates to remain forever fresh.\n\nFirst, we integrate with source control to pull your code and generate a symbolic graph representation of functions, classes, interfaces, types, etc., automatically determining the relevant context for each symbol.\n\nWe then use LLMs to annotate and propagate documentation via traversals of the symbol graph, saturating knowledge across multiple traversals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78163&key=user_uploads/1192337/14c14041-7efc-425c-9535-913fa9934ccb)\n\nWe're also exposing a configurable, deeply contextualized chat system that can derive higher-level purposes and objectives of program symbols and modules from its own knowledge base.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78163&key=user_uploads/1192337/a6b0701b-c4a8-42ad-9405-1d495ee05dad)\n\nIn the future, we'll let your engineers themselves improve the system, and integrate and link current knowledge systems such as Slack and Confluence. As its comprehension of your codebase grows, the quality of every downstream task improves automatic coding, testing, refactoring, bug fixing, vulnerability detection, and so on.\n\n### Our ask\n\n* If you are a software engineer and have struggled with documentation or onboarding in the past, sign up to try the platform at . We would love to get your feedback!\n* If you know any engineers or engineering managers who might be interested in using our platform with their teams, let us know at [founders@sage-ai.dev](mailto:founders@sage-ai.dev)\n* If you are developing AI systems that deal with codebases, let us know if you are interested in consuming docs and symbol graphs as an API.\n* Share any additional feedback in the comments!\n\nSage AI Team (Akhil and Joshua)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KKh-sage-ai-your-self-generating-self-maintaining-code-knowledge-base", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2024-02-05T17:43:51.471Z" }, { "id": 70729, "title": "Semantic Finance: Real-time AI-powered financial news data", "tagline": "We help firms understand the markets faster and better", "body": "TL;DR: Semantic provides financial institutions a real-time news insights API for events that affect the financial markets. We use trade data, articles, social media engagement data, and breakthroughs in language models to filter the 99% of noise faster than the markets can react.\n\n—\n\n---\n\nHey YC, we’re Josh and Akhil, and we’re building Semantic.\n\nJosh (CEO) met Akhil (CTO) in high school and share a similar interest in how underutilized qualitative data is in financial markets.\n\nWe reconnected after a combined 7 years of experience in Software Engineering at companies such as Google, IBM, Squarespace, and Charles Schwab.\n\nWe’ve been studying how news impacts markets from a quantitative standpoint independently for years. Joshua developed an event-based trading algorithm that Ematiq proposed to implement during his time at Google.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n\\\nAs trading firms spend tens of millions on microwave networks, racing for the fastest market data and order execution, GPT-4 has introduced a new race for relevant financial information retrieval and processing. 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Hadrius automates the entire ongoing SEC compliance process for investment managers, saving compliance teams hours daily on manual reviews, filings, and audit prep while giving full control over tasks and flagged items from an intuitive dashboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70075&key=user_uploads/441787/52bbfc17-b327-4223-99b1-4c221a692e23)\n\n### **The Problem ❌**\n\n30,000+ financial firms spend a combined total of $16b+ a year on ongoing SEC compliance, and with new regulations every year, these costs are continuing to rise. 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He has research experience at Deepmind, Columbia, and Synbio Technologies in areas such as fabricating a neurosurgical tracking sensor and predicting antibody heavy and light chain pairing within an NGS sequencing library. He was also a software engineer at Pillpack where he built a service that checks if users' prescriptions are safe to take in the context of their health profile.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephchen2022/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/12d2d68b2ed983d23a66ad80caa4859e0c7838dd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 321627, "full_name": "Grace W", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO of Fairway Health. Grace previously worked at Asana and AWS on authentication/authorization and IoT device data monitoring respectively. Before that, she worked at MDClone, developing packages to enable the analysis of hundreds of thousands of datapoints for attributes such as patient remission. She also previously did research in ML in computer vision (detecting diseases from retinal OCT scans) and natural language processing (efficiently optimizing pre-trained language models like GPT).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-wang-0a6173193/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d07be6a7265a3930e035ca9926a48138df952e8f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions Acquires Fairway Health to Accelerate Innovation in Condition Management", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/turningpoint-healthcare-solutions-acquires-fairway-health-to-accelerate-innovation-in-condition-management-302144997.html", "date": "May 14, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 70364, "title": "Fairway Health - Process prior authorization faster", "tagline": "We use LLMs to analyze long (70+ page), messy medical records and determine if a patient is eligible for a treatment.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nFairway Health is an AI assistant for health insurers to quickly process patient treatment authorizations. We use LLMs to analyze long (70+ page), messy medical records and determine if a patient is eligible for a treatment.\n\n### **What is Prior Authorization?**\n\nPrior Authorization is a process where physicians must obtain approval from a patient’s health insurance plan before a specific treatment or medication is delivered. This process can take an **average of 2-14 days, with some cases taking upwards of 15-31 days**. This prevents patients from receiving necessary treatments in a timely manner. The entire healthcare industry is also projected to **spend $36 billion each year** in administrative costs for this process. \n\n**This process for health insurance is still manual and inefficient:**\n\n1. Patient documents sent to health insurance are a mess and can be a **70-100+ page fax.**\n2. Health insurance companies have to **allocate more headcount to try and manually check these documents** against their medical necessity criteria, costing them millions each year.\n\n### **How it works:**\n\nWe speed up the medical eligibility determination for health insurers. We ingest patient documents + criteria from health insurance plans and use LLMs to output an approval/denial decision with justification based on an evaluation of each sub-criteria. We also highlight the context within the medical document that informed the decision to allow for easy review.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70364&key=user_uploads/1096888/fceffbb3-e71a-4523-a0a9-df7c73f34c76)\n\n### **Our ask:**\n\nAre you in health insurance or do you know anyone in health insurance? Ping us at [moses@fairwayhealth.co](mailto:moses@fairwayhealth.co). We would love to get connected and hear if we can help speed up your medical necessity determination process.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IIu-fairway-health-process-prior-authorization-faster", "votes": 304, "created_at": "2023-03-16T23:33:50.968Z" } ] }, { "id": 27946, "name": "Fluid Markets", "slug": "fluid-markets", "former_names": [ "Fluid Markets", "Pointwise" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b64061c291b764a8c38c8d8455f8d2aeeabbb5a.png", "website": "https://fluidinvesting.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Fluid Markets was the first company to attempt to build futures markets on public company KPIs with the legal structure now known as prediction markets.", "one_liner": "Invest in public companies KPIs", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "launched_at": 1671463381, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Banking and Exchange" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fluid-markets", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/fluid-markets.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fluidmarkets/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b64061c291b764a8c38c8d8455f8d2aeeabbb5a.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": 838824, "full_name": "Ken Book", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Pointwise: The app that tells you which credit card to get", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethbook/", "x_url": "https://x.com/itskenbook", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c36a8e0f2f85d8936b85bd91a8d96f38e94fd995.jpg" }, { "user_id": 859404, "full_name": "Benjamin Litvin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/benlitvin/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/589f4bbbf93b3a669d0fcf5bf003264c536cf99d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74640, "title": "Fluid Markets - Invest in Apple earnings, not Apple stock", "tagline": "Fluid creates futures contracts on public company earnings and revenue that eliminate market risk", "body": "Here at [**Fluid**](https://www.fluidinvesting.com/), we’re building futures contracts that enable **direct investments in the earnings and revenue of publicly traded companies, without taking any market risk**.\n\nFor example, **invest in Apple earnings**, **but not Apple stock. If Apple outperforms earnings expectations, you will make money.**\n\nToday, we're launching our beta in the form of a [paper trading competition](https://trading.fluidinvesting.com/)!\n\n**❌ The Problem: The Stock Goes Down, Even When Earnings Beat**\n\nInvestors model out revenue and earnings while determining the value of the underlying company. When quarterly statements are released, an investor's prediction about a component can be **correct**, but they can still **lose money** on the trade. Investors **cannot** accurately eliminate external risk through current hedging strategies.\n\n**✅ **[**Try it Out:**](https://trading.fluidinvesting.com/signup)** A Paper Trading Competition With Real Cash Prizes**\n\nOur trading competiton allows you to test our markets while we undergo regulatory approval.\n\nEach competition lasts 2 weeks, with cash prizes awarded to those who place within the top 10.\n\n**Home Page: Track Your Progress Against The Competition**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74640&key=user_uploads/858644/b988cf09-1c9c-42ae-ae68-dadca26ecda3)\n\n**Our Live Markets: Go Long or Short Earnings, Revenue, and More**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74640&key=user_uploads/858644/dade841b-c460-4516-b76f-66a00c34c31e)\n\n**Portfolio: Track Your Performance**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74640&key=user_uploads/858644/38891381-8f44-4bb9-9b74-51a449dc30f8)\n\n[**Start trading now!**](https://trading.fluidinvesting.com/signup)\n\n❓ **Ask:** If you are or know anyone who is a public equities investor, from hedge fund managers to asset managers to retail traders, please introduce them to Fluid!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JPs-fluid-markets-invest-in-apple-earnings-not-apple-stock", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2023-09-05T20:26:33.901Z" }, { "id": 70425, "title": "Fluid Markets - Exchange to invest in company earnings", "tagline": "Fluid is a futures exchange enabling direct investments in the components that influence stock prices, without taking any market risk.", "body": "\nWe’re excited to share what we’re working on here at Fluid!\n\nWe're launching a futures exchange to enable **direct investments in the components that influence stock prices, without taking any market risk**. For example, **invest in earnings** of a public company, **but not the equity** itself.\n\n### **❌ Problem:**\n\nInvestors model out revenue, earnings, segments and other components that determine the value of the underlying company. When quarterly statements are released, an investor's prediction about a component can be **correct**, but they can still **lose money** on the trade. Investors cannot eliminate external risk through current hedging strategies.\n\n### **✅ Solution:**\n\nWe're building an exchange to offer **futures on fundamentals of public companies.** Our futures on **revenue, earnings, and segments,** among other fundamentals, guarantee that if an investor's thesis is **correct**, they will **make money.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70425&key=user_uploads/859404/2062d737-7782-4f76-bb75-89fdf5b581f7)\n\n### **📚 Our Story:**\n\nKen, Ari, and Ben are experienced entrepreneurs who have worked in derivatives and securitization investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Barclays.\n\nWe encountered the problem of trying to trade fundamentals in our personal portfolios based on expectations of segment performance, and through speaking with equity investors, we've discovered it's a bigger problem than we could have imagined.\n\n### **❓Ask:**\n\nIf you are or know anyone who is a public equities investor, from hedge fund managers to asset managers, we would love to hear from you! You can reach out to us at [founders@fluidinvesting.com](mailto:founders@fluidinvesting.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IJt-fluid-markets-exchange-to-invest-in-company-earnings", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-03-20T21:02:04.002Z" } ] }, { "id": 27947, "name": "Shortbread", "slug": "shortbread", "former_names": [ "KURUKURU" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/078f1845141c235e73d8a7d865841150d50fcf92.png", "website": "https://www.shortbread.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Shortbread app is Netflix for romance comics built by a team of women writers, artists and engineers. We work with bestselling authors on Kindle and #BookTok to turn their romance fictions into comics. Our content specialize in viral romance fiction tropes such as mafia and dark romance. The comics are free to read with options to buy a subscription.\r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "Read romance comics.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1677185733, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shortbread", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/shortbread.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/shortbreadai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ShortbreadAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/078f1845141c235e73d8a7d865841150d50fcf92.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1139029, "full_name": "Fengjiao Peng", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Epsilab. Previously co-founded Shortbread (YC W23), generating $500K revenue and 2M episodes sold for AI-created comics. Founding member of Vimeo's AI team, pioneering multi-modal deep learning and RL for video streaming. Researcher at MIT Media Lab. BS Physics from University of Hong Kong, MS from MIT Media Lab.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fengjiao-peng/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5862bd598d2f2176dc6aa4b24c4581b799eb3045.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1156004, "full_name": "Yiping Lyu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/yiping-lyu", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/62c0bf6b8fcd054dbf2931a66ae9b9af45aaef96.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Our favorite startups from YC's Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1 | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/y-combinator-demo-day-favorites-part-one/", "date": "Apr 05, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 81122, "title": "Shortbread App: Netflix for comics", "tagline": "Indulge in the binge-worthy romance comic series, at your fingertips.", "body": "Introducing the [Shortbread App](https://shortbreadapp.com/)—a Netflix for bite-sized mobile comics featuring premium romance series from bestselling authors on Kindle, Wattpad, and Chapters. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81122&key=user_uploads/89898/cc20cad3-81dc-4693-b992-159d93e7430a)\n\n# **Founders**\n\nHi, we’re [Fengjiao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fengjiao-peng/) and [Evan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanhu1/), building Shortbread to transform the $130B webcomics industry.\\\n**Fengjiao** is an engineer who has worked at Vimeo, Adobe, and MIT Media Lab. A former comics creator, she pitched her own projects to webcomics platforms and saw the lack of advanced tech in the space. \\\n**Evan** is an AI researcher at the Berkeley AI Research Lab and was SWE at Amazon. He founded Generative AI @ Berkeley and grew it to 70 members + partnerships with Microsoft and YC startups in 7 months. He also built talk2arXiv, an open-source RAG system that reached 1st place on Hacker News, 500 stars on GitHub, and is still used by thousands today.\n\n# **Why Shortbread**\n\n**🩷 We’re building something _women_ want**. We marry the most advanced tech to a centuries-old genre: ROMANCE. A women-led founding team, we deeply understand our audience’s taste and meticulously optimize every algorithm, every storyline, every panel, and every pixel to visualize what today’s women seek. \n\n**📖 Story is king.** Our debut Shortbread Original series are brought to you by bestselling authors from Kindle, Wattpad, and Chapters—collectively with 64+ million views—and webcomic artists with 2+ billion views. Each story undergoes a rigorous revision process with the best minds in the industry to ensure unparalleled quality.\n\n**🎨 We build technology for our creators**. We’re building the best technology to enable artists to express their creativity and be freed by the tedious side of drawing. Enabled by our creative studio tools, our team are bringing best-of-its-kind graphics and artwork to the mobile romantic fictions.\\\nA video of our tools: https://youtu.be/QgYWf9rtBp4\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nDownload the [Shortbread App](https://shortbreadapp.com/) on iOS (Android next week ;) with the code YC2024 and get 100 free coins to read beautiful romance stories :). \n\nInvite friends with your personal code in the app for more free bonus coins!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L6Q-shortbread-app-netflix-for-comics", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2024-05-28T14:04:08.841Z" }, { "id": 70027, "title": "KURUKURU (now Shortbread.ai): 3D engine in the browser for comics creation", "tagline": "One destination for anyone to create, publish and monetize comics stories.", "body": "**TL; DR:** Webcomics platforms like webtoon generate $1.2B+ in ARR, engaging 90M monthly active readers. KURUKURU is a 3D engine in the browser to allow every storyteller to create, publish and monetize comics.\n\nThis is a page of a comics story (aka webtoon, manga, manhwa)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70027&key=user_uploads/1139029/ddde28f5-c960-4ffb-a7ef-8a421be9b6a3)\n\nCreated with KURUKURU\n\n**Reality:**\n\nWebcomic platforms like Webtoon generate $1.2B+ in ARR from comics sales, engaging 90M+ monthly active readers. Tapas, a webcomics platform, was sold for $550M. Over 2B people watch anime globally, and the total market cap of anime, webtoon and comics is $47.3B in 2022.\n\nCurrently, creators make comics by drawing, which requires art skills and is incredibly labor intensive and time consuming.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nDemo: \n\nKURUKURU is an all-in-one 3D engine and platform that enables every storyteller to create, publish and monetize comics. By uploading or generating characters, posing panels, and applying stylized filters, anyone can make comics in minutes, not hours.\n\n**👧🏻 Optimized for comics storytelling.** Characters take up >90% of panel areas. KURUKURU offers easy and detailed control of characters to express those \\~feelings\\~.\n\n**🖼️ Making art in clicks.** Creators want panels that look like hand-drawn art, not photorealism as in traditional 3D engines. KURUKURU has proprietary filters to render webtoon, manga, and comics styles (w/ provisional patent pending), in addition to continuous integration with generative AI.\n\n[**🔮**](https://emojipedia.org/crystal-ball/)**User generated content + oceans of assets.** Comics creation is art asset heavy: character poses, props, backgrounds. KURUKURU offers massive amounts of native assets, and encourages creators to upload, share and trade.\n\n**🧙‍♀️Character generation.** Working with the 3D art teams behind games like Genshin Impact and Onmyoji, we’re building powerful character generation tools with a variety of aesthetics that Gen Z and Gen Alpha love.\n\n[**🚀**](https://emojipedia.org/rocket/)**Share everything through a link**. Collaborate in realtime.\n\n[**💰**](https://emojipedia.org/money-bag/)**Helping creators from distribution to monetization.** Comics creation is a whole journey, and creators need so much more help and support than a great tool!\n\n**Who are we?**\n\nTwo frens who like to draw and write ٩(●˙▿˙●)۶…⋆ฺ\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70027&key=user_uploads/1139029/278f04cb-2d65-4557-a5dd-e6b13ef2be2a)\n\nFengjiao has had a fascination with visual storytelling her whole life. In college she wrote and created several animated films, some of which went viral. A veteran from MIT Media Lab, Adobe and Vimeo, she made algorithms on generative animation and AI.\n\nIn 2019, she co-created a webcomics series, 少女，香草，及其他易燃物 (Girl, Herbs and Other Inflammable Objects), which was accepted to Dongman, a Chinese webcomics platform. Trying everything out there to get her comics done, Fengjiao developed deep insights in the comics creation process, from story to art, and saw the total vacancy of advanced technology in this space.\n\nIn 2022, she teamed up with Yiping, a fellow creative, and financial engineering guru, who developed large-scale trading systems for SMBC Capital Markets, & former analyst at Alliance Bernstein since graduating from Columbia University. In their bedrooms, the two concocted the first prototype of KURUKURU. In 6 months, KURUKURU landed in the hands of the first cohort of creators that the founders befriended on Reddit.\n\nWe are fortunate to be backed by supportive investors and experts in the field, including YC, Joi Ito and Louis Kang @ GMJP, Ben Casnocha, Amrit Rao and Anne Dwane @ Village Global, Habib Haddad and Calvin Chin @ E14. Our founding advisor [Peter Dolch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdolch/) orchestrated content systems & warehouses for HP, Merriam Webster and AT&T, and has been a strategic advisor to numerous startups including WOMP and Gentle Beast.\n\n**Ask**\n\nTell your friends/cousins who love comics, manga, animation, anime, visual storytelling … about us. Say “yc fren“ in the sign up form. We’ll help them skip the waitlist and turn their stories into comics.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDT-kurukuru-now-shortbread-ai-3d-engine-in-the-browser-for-comics-creation", "votes": 395, "created_at": "2023-03-07T23:21:47.841Z" } ] }, { "id": 27949, "name": "Onshore", "slug": "onshore", "former_names": [ "SPRX Technologies", "SPRX" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/05c5d6fcfdd95bdf07f580b5df18a19dab5e5843.png", "website": "https://onshore.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Onshore uses AI to prepare corporate R&D tax credits.\r\n\r\nWith our technology, anyone can prepare an R&D Tax Credit accurately and fast. To provide some background, the R&D Credit is often cited as the most complex and audited tax credit in the United States. With that in mind, we set out to create software to achieve two primary objectives:\r\n\r\n1. Ensure that any credit computed with our software is exactly what the IRS is asking for in terms of quality.\r\n\r\n2. 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With our technology, R&D Credits are simple, fast, and affordable.\n\nWant to see a demo? Schedule a call with us [here](https://calendly.com/sprx-team/sprx-initial-discussion)!\n\n### **❌ The problem**\n\nThe R&D Credit is often cited as the most complex and audited tax credit in the United States.\n\nWhen companies do decide to claim an R&D Credit, they often face analysis costs that can be greater than the credit itself!\n\n### **🧠 SPRX Solution**\n\n[SPRX](https://sprx.tax) automates the analysis. When using our software credits computed are:\n\n* Exactly what the government is asking for\n* Completed up to 80% faster than other providers\n* Cost, on average, 50% less\n\n### **⚙️ How does SPRX work?**\n\n[SPRX](https://sprx.tax) uses technology to break the R&D Credit analysis into three easy steps:\n\n1. Gather Data\n2. Review Predictions and Analysis\n3. File Your Credit!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67903&key=user_uploads/570353/2638dab5-2925-4647-a0b8-bcb5963841c6)\n\n### **🤝 Ask!**\n\nIf you want to learn more about how [SPRX](https://sprx.tax) can make your R&D Credit process simple, fast, and affordable you can:\n\n* Checkout our website at [sprx.tax](http://sprx.tax)\n* Schedule a [demo](https://calendly.com/sprx-team/sprx-initial-discussion)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HfD-sprx-technologies-making-r-d-credits-simple-fast-and-affordable", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2022-12-14T22:30:31.359Z" } ] }, { "id": 27950, "name": "Sherloq", "slug": "sherloq", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/303c40c74b1c65d00ba6f772b138135819922051.png", "website": "http://sherloqdata.io/", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Companies use Sherloq as their single source of truth for their SQL on top of their existing data stack.\r\n\r\nToday, data-driven organizations face the challenge of giving 2 of their data analysts the same task and getting 2 totally different results from their analysis. Although SQL is the #1 coding language for data analysis, it is still managed independently on each user's internal documentation tools (notepads, Slack channels, or docx files).\r\nCreating one source of truth is an ongoing difficult process, that’s done manually and takes time to implement. \r\n\r\nUsing our plugin on top of our user's existing query editors, companies can now manage their SQL code in one place.\r\nWe ourselves are data users and we've built Sherloq to fit the exact needs of data teams, becoming a true alternative to the way SQL is being managed today.", "one_liner": "One place for all your queries, directly on your SQL editor", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1674678598, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "Israel", "Middle East and North Africa" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sherloq", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/sherloq.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Tel Aviv-Yafo", "country": "IL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sherloqdata/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/303c40c74b1c65d00ba6f772b138135819922051.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": 1123455, "full_name": "Noy Twerski", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/noy-twerski/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/570c4a28e170147e7cb796378e38c01f2c50fae6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1151605, "full_name": "Nadav Gutman", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadav-gutman-213637197/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b9cb3e2af8dea6b2bb119e12ba856d4670db2257.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85978, "title": "⚡🔍 Sherloq - Collaborative SQL Repository for the GenAI Era", "tagline": "One place for all your queries, directly on your SQL editor.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/7c98d785-c103-402b-a746-f59818b533ce)\n\n# 🔍 **TL;DR**\n\n**Sherloq is the one place for all your queries, on top of your SQL editor.**\n\nUsing the SQL repository plugin, you can collaboratively organize, save, and share your SQL code, without leaving your editor and IDE.\n\nThat means you can actually focus on what matters most - analyzing the data and creating meaningful insights for your org.\n\n[Try it out yourself for free!](https://www.sherloqdata.io/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post)\n\nWatch our quick [demo:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Rddj6Cekg)\n\n# 🔍 **The Problem**\n\nIf you use SQL, you probably know that we **spend too much time on managing, sharing and finding our code**, and that SQL is scattered between different tools, docs, dashboards, people and even notepads.\n\nYou might relate to one of these:\n\n* Trying to remember when was the last time you ran a SQL on some ‘users_v2’ legacy table, and who might know where it is.\n* Clone, update, commit, merge, push just to change the field from “revenue” to “revenue_new.\n* Asking the company-wide Slack channel if someone can send the most updated CASE WHEN condition we talked about in yesterday’s daily.\n* Going over 252 queries in the ‘All Queries’ Docs file with cmd+f: ‘prospect_id’.\n* Getting asked from the product / marketing team, for the 6th time that week, how to filter out all ‘cohort week 7’ users from the company dashboard.\n* Waiting 45 minutes just to retrieve the custom SQL from your Tableau Dashboard for that CTE you use.\n\n**Common alternatives today aren’t built for this type of code, making each person independently manage their day-to-day SQL work.**\n\nIn the GenAI Era, SQL is becoming even more popular as everyone inside the org can easily access and use it.\n\nCompanies are actually generating more and more data and SQL, and are looking for ways to democratize it and make data as self-served as possible.\n\n_The result of all of this?_ Spending too much time on creating inconsistent SQL, that leads to inconsistent data.\n\n### \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/1d75b0a1-ddf6-4cd6-89d4-9e1f1c30b4cb)\n\n### 🔍 **Enter Sherloq**\n\nAs we ourselves were (and are still) heavy SQL users, we were looking to create a solution that gives us just the right amount of order we need.\n\n**Something that’s actually built for this type of code:**\n\n* **Hassle free:** More organized than a Notepad / Slack channel / Notion Page, but doesn’t require any process that’s an overkill like Github.\n* **Zero integration:** It sits on top of our SQL editor but doesn’t require any integrations or have access to the data itself.\n* **Collaborative**: It has a shared workspace but also has a place for our own personal work.\n* **Built for the entire org:** Can be used by people that love data and understand it, and by those that don’t.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/38198f2b-19af-4822-8189-3c2fbaee628c)\n\n# 🔍 **Using Sherloq you’ll be able to:**\n\n* 📁 Create a shared SQL repository for your org and team\n* 💻 Manage your code better with reusable SQL snippets and templates\n* 🕶️ Understand your code faster with AI SQL ERD diagrams, formatting, _(coming soon)_ SQL errors explained, and query optimization\n* 📝 AI auto-documentation including SQL version control, generated query names and descriptions\n\n# 🔍 **How it works**\n\n1. Download for free the [Chrome Extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sherloq-save-share-simpli/kjndilccgkemibeimjdefmjkhfddobfk?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post) / [JetBrains Plugin](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22201-sherloq--save-share--simplify-your-queries?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post) (VSCode _coming soon_!)\n2. Save your SQL, create folders, and share them with your team\n3. Use for free until you reach the saved SQL limit\n\n**✨Together with our customers and users, we’ve just finished a complete product redesign! ✨**\n\n**We’ve added new capabilities and made it 10x faster and easier to use.**\n\n🥳 To celebrate, we’re giving our YC community a [15% discount, try it out.](https://www.sherloqdata.io/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post) \\\nWe’re freemium, so you only start paying after reaching the saved SQL limit :)\n\nWe’d really love to hear what you think, check it out for free and let us know!\n\n[hello@sherloqdata.io](mailto:hello@sherloqdata.io)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/d8598246-3821-4165-aab2-51d4d62610fc)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MMk-sherloq-collaborative-sql-repository-for-the-genai-era", "votes": 117, "created_at": "2024-12-02T18:51:37.240Z" }, { "id": 69960, "title": "⚡🔍 Sherloq: Collaborate and manage your SQL data with the power of Gen AI", "tagline": "One place for all your data team's SQL queries on top of your existing data stack", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nSherloq is a collaborative SQL repository, like Github for data teams, that creates one source of truth for all company queries using Gen AI. With Sherloq, different data analysts are asked the same question and they always give the same answer.\n\n—\n\nHey everyone 👋 We’re [Alon (CTO)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alon-greenfield/), [Noy (CEO)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noy-twerski/) and [Nadav (COO).](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadav-gutman-213637197/)\n\nWe’re happy to introduce Sherloq - the first collaborative SQL repository for data users.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69960&key=user_uploads/1123455/7976b4f2-b95d-4fbd-865a-c978601fe8cc)\n\n### 🔍 **Inconsistencies in data analysis destroy business value, and costs orgs more than $15M per year**\n\nWith the adoption of the modern data stack and while companies store endless amounts of data, data teams (analysts, scientists and engineers) spend 60% of their time trying to find, understand and manage their data. \n\n**Data analysis is still very subjective and dependent on the user creating it:**\n\n* Company business metrics are interpreted differently by each data user, and have various definitions \n* Structured data consist of hundreds of out-of-date fields with similar names, making it almost impossible to determine the most relevant fields for a particular analysis\n* Since SQL code is stored locally on each data user’s computer and isn’t reused, every data user writes code their own way regardless of company best practices\n\nThe rise of Gen AI changes the rules of the game, as now it enables us to take data explainability to a new level of clarity, a capability we only wish we had a few months back.\n\nAs we ourselves were data users in companies such as Microsoft, Walkme and 8200 the Cyber Intelligence Unit at the IDF, we’ve experienced this problem firsthand and waited for a proper solution for too long. \n\n### 🔍 **Enter Sherloq**\n\nSherloq is a collaborative SQL repository that creates one source of truth for all company queries. \n\nWe change the paradigm of how queries are stored and analyzed, with our new product capabilities and technology:\n\n1. **Zero integration and hassle free** - our add-on to any query editor, and our own SQL parser algorithm, extract the relevant queries automatically, so we know the data scheme, queries, users and usage in a click\n2. **Tailor-made data knowledge base per organization** - based on our fine tuned LLMs and by analyzing each company’s own data usage and costs, we automatically create a knowledge base within hours of download\n\nUsing Sherloq, organizations increase their data teams’ productivity by 2x and save 60% of their direct data management costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69960&key=user_uploads/1123455/cb7564dc-3337-4063-9f88-b8b0788e04c1)\n\n### **🔍 **[**Try**](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sherloq-save-share-simpli/kjndilccgkemibeimjdefmjkhfddobfk)** our Google Chrome Extension**\n\nIf you’re tired of adding more and more tools to your data stack (like we were), our add-on sits on top of your **existing** query editor, so you don’t need to change anything in your current workflow. \n\n**After downloading, you’ll be able to:**\n\n* 🛫 Use auto-complete and co-pilot features on your own query editor\n* 🪄 Automatically generate descriptions and names for each query and table\n* 📁 Create SQL version control and shared folders\n* ⏱️ Based on our metadata analysis, you’ll get to know best practices for optimizing your queries and database\n\n### 🔍 **Don't waste another minute on unreliable data analysis**\n\n[Download](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sherloq-save-share-simpli/kjndilccgkemibeimjdefmjkhfddobfk) Sherloq! We’re offering a 50% discount until Demo Day.\n\nWe’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback, so feel free to schedule [here](https://calendly.com/noy-twerski/30-minute-meeting) or reach out to us - [noy@sherloqdata.io](mailto:noy@sherloqdata.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICO-sherloq-collaborate-and-manage-your-sql-data-with-the-power-of-gen-ai", "votes": 136, "created_at": "2023-03-06T14:46:00.148Z" } ] }, { "id": 27951, "name": "Honeydew", "slug": "honeydew", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/628b819928f75f1e921c92594fbcd9a7e63a91b4.png", "website": "https://honeydew.ai", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "The way people use data is constantly changing. Data teams must support every new context without breaking the shared truth. Honeydew’s semantic layer does it automatically. We validate each change and update every data flow.\r\n\r\nUsing Honeydew, data teams can support 10x more data users - without more engineers or compromising integrity. 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At the first startup I founded, Varada (acq. by Starburst), we created an acceleration engine for data lakes - helping queries run faster on huge amounts of data. Before becoming a founder, I was an early employee at XtremIO (later EMC) - which became the market leader in all-flash-storage. Even before that, I was a computer science and physics nerd. Still am.\nI live in Tel Aviv with my wife and two kids. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-krakov/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/davidkrakov", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c6c2fb2d3b5ae7581f5df895e8643eb265b8403d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1136236, "full_name": "Baruch Oxman", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I have been in software for over 20 years, leading technology and engineering, and building products around data. I was the first employee of Implisit, building AI for sales. After being acquired by Salesforce, I led the architecture and engineering of Einstein for Sales.\nMy passion is traveling, cycling and finding simple solutions for complex problems.\nI live in Tel Aviv, with my wife and 2 daughters.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/baruchoxman/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/14f768338d6f6f473330eb9d5283885546392639.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1136228, "full_name": "Liron Slonimsky-Shemy", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "In my previous life, I worked as a script writer (and even won first prize for best drama feature), I pivoted and decided to \"produce\" my scripts in real life by opening a startup. At my first startup, Awear, we did \"Frequent-Flyer for fashion\" - We sold data to fashion companies showing how people are actually wearing their garments. \nCurrently living in Tel Aviv with my husband and our two kids - Orr and Eyal.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/liron-slonimsky-0aba3240/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66ae854df6096e8b14ca316b4f868ae7379d43d2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70089, "title": "🍈 Honeydew - one truth to rule them all", "tagline": "We help data teams achieve consistent metrics like Revenue or Churn", "body": "# TL;DR\n\n**We are a shared source of truth for data teams living** **in the data warehouse.**\n\nWhy is it that your “daily active users” never add up to the same number in different reports? Your data team is amazing, but it’s a struggle to keep all metrics synchronized. There is no single place that enables a shared workflow and truth.\n\nHave you ever seen a screw-up like:\n\n1. Presenting wrong numbers in an exec meeting 🤦‍♂️\n2. Not being able to understand how a KPI such as Daily Active Users, Churn or ARR was built 😡\n3. Spending all your time on preparing and transforming data instead of producing insights on top of it 😫\n4. Making a change to a KPI calculation and breaking the CEOs favorite dashboard 🙀\n\nWe fix this! [Honeydew](https://honeydew.ai/) helps the data team organize analytics into manageable blocks of knowledge supporting every data flow. Users can consume them in SQL, Tableau, Looker, Python, or dbt.\n\nOur product is being used by multiple early adopters - unicorn companies in cyber, insurance tech, and cloud ops.\n\nWe (Baruch, Liron and David) always want to talk, at [founders@honeydew.ai](mailto:founders@honeydew.ai); or just [grab a time](https://calendly.com/d/yjm-8jd-pwt/honeydew-20min-call) if you ever felt or feel the data mess pain.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70089&key=user_uploads/1136239/95e430f6-06cd-4df5-bc7c-46e840c95751)\n\n---\n\n# **Would you like to know more?**\n\n### 💡 How does it work?\n\nWe connect to Snowflake and act as a layer on top of it for different data tools.\n\n(_we don’t need to access your data, and yes - we are SOC2-compliant_)\n\nThen,\n\n1. Map the source data and relations (we can map it automatically for you 😎)\n2. Create reusable pieces of logic like what is a _User_, what is _Active_, what is _Daily_\n3. Create a workflow around it, that helps the team to control changes\n4. Connect any tool, it will use the same logic ✌️: Tableau, Looker, dbt, Python or SQL\n5. Under the hood: we’ll will build the needed data pipeline on the fly and then maintain it to reflect the current truth.\n\n\n\n---\n\n### 🏗️ Why did we build this?\n\nAll three of us encountered and solved this problem in our previous roles.\n\nLiron founded a company that turned fashion consumer behavior data into real-time (yes, the numbers always lie 🤥 ). Baruch built AI products on sales data in Salesforce (yes, the numbers lie even with AI 🤥 ). David founded a company that built data lake acceleration (we calculated everything right, the questions lied 🤥 ).\n\nSo far we talked with over 300 analytics teams. They were all busy trying to get consistent data their stakeholders can trust. The surprising thing is that there is a gap that nobody is filling at the moment - this gap was covered before BI like Looker, and even before with likes of SAP Business Object. We fill this gap.\n\n### 👩‍💻 Why do customers want to use Honeydew?\n\n* “I struggle to keep logic in Looker and in the warehouse the same. I want to build it once”\n* “I am building a new data team, and I don’t want to end up with another dbt spaghetti”\n* “We have every tool in the modern data stack, and yet our KPIs calculations end up being managed in a wiki, reimplemented in ETL and dashboards. This does not make any sense”\n\n### 🙏 Our ask\n\n* Does your company have a data team? We would love to talk to them!\n* Does your company plan to have a data team? We would love to talk to you!\n* Do you like to talk about data in general? We also do, any time 😀\n\n### 🍈 Our deal\n\n* Sign up before demo day, and we do all the onboarding for you, free of charge\n\nLove - team [Honeydew](https://honeydew.ai/)\n\nFind us at [founders@honeydew.ai](mailto:founders@honeydew.ai); or just [grab a time](https://calendly.com/d/zyr-qvr-dhv/honeydew-grab-a-time)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IET-honeydew-one-truth-to-rule-them-all", "votes": 260, "created_at": "2023-03-09T14:22:45.602Z" } ] }, { "id": 27952, "name": "Finic", "slug": "finic", "former_names": [ "Triton", "Buff", "Sidekick", "Psychic", "Dealwise" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/06180819ad31c1d2ee1b4b62d506fd5e7655aec4.png", "website": "https://www.finic.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Finic helps teams stop fraud, abuse, and financial crimes with system on models that make accurate decisions in fractions of a second, and system two agents that automate investigations end-to-end.", "one_liner": "Frontier AI to stop fraud, abuse, and financial crimes.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1677272534, "tags": [ "Compliance", "Enterprise", "Automation", "Fraud Detection", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finic", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/finic.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/finic-ai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/06180819ad31c1d2ee1b4b62d506fd5e7655aec4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/1c9eadc7f39d66903aedf0861616956033002285.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 139135, "full_name": "Jason Fan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ex security & product @ Robinhood. University of Toronto Computer Science.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jason-fan-b59767104", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jfan001", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/970d5fd882ee5ceec1544145866e19f878696341.jpg" }, { "user_id": 487696, "full_name": "Ayan Bandyopadhyay", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder @ Finic (YC W23). Caltech class of 2020, former software engineer at Robinhood.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayan-bandyopadhyay-9a45b1103/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ayanicband", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/84f47331f39f9e66682b24a2dc6262c3ce44ca15.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 120575, "title": "Grayson: A universal decision model for fraud, risk, and financial crimes", "tagline": "Real-time risk decisions at 1/100th the cost of Sonnet 5.5", "body": "Hey everyone 👋 I'm Jason, CEO of [Finic](https://finic.ai). Today we're launching **Grayson**, the first universal decision model trained to catch fraud, abuse, and financial crimes in real time.\n\n**TL;DR:** Send Grayson any context (logins, transactions, case notes, call transcripts) and a set of questions. Get back a calibrated probability for every answer in under 150ms. On fraud and risk benchmarks it's as accurate as Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 1/100th the cost, and it beats Jev. Zero data retention by default. [Request API access](https://finic.ai) and get $25 in free credit.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120575&key=user_uploads/139135/042eac49-1269-4f2c-b51e-d7f1476d31da)\n\n### ❌ The problem\n\nI joined Robinhood pre-IPO and built our fraud investigations platform, along with some of our most critical authentication controls. I saw the same problem over and over: many risk decisions need human-level judgment, but they come up so often that paying a human (or an AI agent) to make them is financially unworkable.\n\n* Should this new device require step-up authentication?\n* Should we allow this transaction, or block it?\n* Should this ticket go to fraud, or to customer support?\n* Does this call log show signs the customer is being scammed?\n* Is this fraud?\n\nToday, teams answer these with some mix of:\n\n* **Rules** that are brittle and get gamed the week after they ship\n* **Custom ML models** that take months, need labeled data, and have to be retrained every time a question or data source changes\n* **Frontier LLMs** that take seconds, cost dollars per thousand calls, return prose you have to parse, and are confidently wrong\n* **Humans or agents** who can do it well, but not on every login, transaction, and ticket\n\n### ✅ The solution: Grayson\n\nGrayson is a **decision model**: you can't chat with it. You give it context and typed questions, and it returns only probabilities, so a rules engine, router, or review queue can use them directly.\n\n```\n// Request (abridged)\n{\n \"context\": { \"known_devices\": [...], \"events\": [...] },\n \"questions\": [\n { \"name\": \"is_ato\", \"type\": \"noul\", \"instructions\": \"Are there signs of an ATO?\" },\n { \"name\": \"top_device_family\", \"type\": \"choice\",\n \"instructions\": \"Which device family do they use the most?\",\n \"options\": [\"apple\", \"android\", \"other\"] }\n ]\n}\n\n// Response\n{\n \"is_ato\": { \"value\": true, \"probability\": 0.999 },\n \"top_device_family\": { \"value\": \"apple\",\n \"probabilities\": { \"apple\": 0.999, \"android\": 0.001, \"other\": 0.000 } }\n}\n```\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120575&key=user_uploads/139135/7b6becc9-a9de-4478-a6ac-a7920a35f2cd)\n\n* **Universal:** any context, structured or unstructured, and any question: yes/no, multiple choice, or a score. No retraining when your data or processes change.\n* **Calibrated:** when Grayson says 0.8, it's right about 8 times in 10. So you can set thresholds, auto-approve the clear calls, send the close ones to review, and move the threshold later without retraining.\n* **Fast and cheap:** under 150ms of model time for typical requests, at $0.035 per million input tokens (about $0.11 per 1,000 requests on our benchmarks).\n* **Private:** zero data retention by default. We never store the context, questions, or answers you send.\n\nGrayson is trained with Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD). Credit to the TypeSafe team behind Jev for pioneering RLCD and the \"System One\" model. Grayson takes that idea and specializes it for fraud, risk, and trust & safety.\n\n### 📊 Benchmarks\n\nWe ran Grayson against Jev, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Kimi K3, and Laya on six fraud and risk datasets: four public benchmarks (LendingClub, customs fraud, fake job postings, scam/phishing email) and two of our own held-out evaluation sets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120575&key=user_uploads/139135/4c4a9563-db5f-4ce0-a307-9ad52568bb5c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120575&key=user_uploads/139135/9d4f3e5c-a61d-4f68-907c-d69f89342eab)\n\nGrayson has the best log loss and the highest % right of any model, which matters most for a model whose job is to output probabilities you can threshold on. On the \"is it fraud?\" questions with known outcomes, it has the best log loss of every model tested:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120575&key=user_uploads/139135/470e932a-f3d2-4b02-80c2-f16c77137a3a)\n\nAnd on general business decisions (JevBench and EIKOS), Grayson is level with Jev (0.971 vs. 0.974 AUC-PR), while frontier models score 0.988–0.998 at 100–500x the cost.\n\nFull methodology, datasets, and charts are in the [announcement post](https://finic.ai/blog/introducing-grayson).\n\n### 🙏 The ask\n\n* **If you run fraud, risk, or trust & safety** at a fintech, bank, lender, or marketplace: [request API access](https://finic.ai). Every account gets $25 in free credit. We're in early beta (GPUs are still hard to get!) and are rolling out access gradually.\n* **Intros:** we'd love to meet heads of fraud, risk, and T&S, and the engineers who own rules engines and decisioning platforms.\n* Questions or ideas for what Grayson should answer? Email me at [jason@finic.ai](mailto:jason@finic.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/VMl-grayson-a-universal-decision-model-for-fraud-risk-and-financial-crimes", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-10-07T20:23:18.171Z" }, { "id": 85671, "title": "Finic 🕵️‍♂️ - AI that investigates financial fraud", "tagline": "Helping fintechs increase fraud ops capacity, improve accuracy, and resolve cases 80x faster.", "body": "We’re Jason and Ayan, the founders of Finic. We help fintechs automate fraud investigations with AI agents.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85671&key=user_uploads/139135/4a8b26cc-6258-4e8a-93c7-1779e1768748)\n\n## tl;dr\n\nFinic lets fraud ops teams at financial institutions scale up their capacity by 10x without increasing headcount. We use intelligent automation to analyze structured data (SQL queries, risk scores) and unstructured data (customer support tickets, adverse media), allowing us to triage tickets and generate case notes twenty times faster and at 80% lower cost compared to tier 1 fraud analysts.\n\n---\n\n—\n\n---\n\nAt Robinhood, we led the identity team. One of our key mandates was to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, with a specific focus on identity fraud. We were able to reduce account takeover (ATO) fraud losses by 95%, but it took us 10 months and a lot of new hires to get there, largely due to **bottlenecks in the human review process.** We tried automating fraud SOPs, but weren’t able to arrive a compelling solution because at the time there wasn’t a way to automate the biggest bottle neck to fraud reviews - subjective reasoning.\n\nNow, we’re building Finic to be the product we wish we had, with AI that now makes this possible.\n\n## **Why is this important?**\n\nConsumer financial fraud losses crossed $10bn for the first time in 2023, and is likely to keep growing as new technology also enables new attack vectors, most recently with synthetic identities created by GenAI.\n\nThe way financial institutions prevent fraud is usually split into three parts:\n\n* **Prevention:** Find and closing loopholes that enable fraud in the first place.\n* **Detection:** using ML or heuristic models (aka “rules engine”) to detect unusual activity.\n* **Response:** Investigating cases of potential fraud, deciding on a course of action, and, in some cases, writing reports detailing the investigation.\n\nPrevention is typically achieved through product improvements, and the market for data products that help with fraud detection is mature. However, **the way that companies respond to fraud is still mostly done by human review** by a combination of highly skilled onshore and low-skilled offshore analysts.\n\n## **Problem**\n\nUsing humans as the front line of fraud investigations is not ideal for several reasons:\n\n* **Humans make mistakes.** For CS tickets, mistakes mean frustrated customers. For fraud cases, mistakes can result in thousands or millions in losses and compliance headaches that last years.\n* **Humans take a long time to train.** Fraudsters change tactics frequently. By the time a team of analysts is fully trained on a new fraud typology, fraudsters have already moved on to other strategies.\n* **Humans are expensive to scale.** The average offshore agent costs $43,000 per year and has a throughput of about 250 cases per month. This means it costs companies $14 per case to investigate fraud, and that’s not even factoring in the period it takes to onboard and train new agents, which is a constant problem since turnover is so high.\n\nFinancial institutions aggressively overhire when fraud is bad, yet still find themselves unable to respond quickly to new fraud typologies, leading to **millions in preventable losses per quarter.** As a result, every fraud ops team I’ve worked with is either understaffed and overworked, or overstaffed and just waiting to be laid off.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nFinic allows fraud ops teams to build custom AI agents that execute SOPs autonomously, improving on the work of junior fraud analysts and allowing the team to scale capacity by 100x with the click of a button.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85671&key=user_uploads/139135/1211dd85-7c36-4f73-b1f8-5ab59a333550)\n\nThis gives fraud ops teams several superpowers:\n\n* **Accuracy and explainability:** Finic agents document each step of their workflow, making it easy for senior analysts to audit, which means fewer mistakes. Case notes written by human analysts take much longer and are often inconsistent.\n* **React faster to new fraud vectors:** Finic agents can be created, trained, and scaled to 1000s of cases per day in a matter of hours, something that would be impossible for a team of human analysts.\n* **Scale capacity instantly:** Fraud ops can now scale capacity as easily as engineering can scale web services. Finic agents complete investigations in 1-5 minutes, compared to 1-2 hours for human analysts.\n\nThe Finic platform has three parts, all of which are built on top of a multimodal reasoning engine.\n\n### **SOPs**\n\nEach Finic agent is defined with a SOP, or list of actions they need to take in order to investigate a ticket. This can include data retrieval steps to build a profile of the customer’s activity, analysis steps to reason about whether fraud is taking place (and if so, what kind), as well as actions the agent can take once a decision is made, like escalating tickets for human review.\n\nCustomers can create an SOP on Finic from scratch or import an existing document to **automatically generate each action based on existing SOPs.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85671&key=user_uploads/139135/d3036616-7071-4c1a-a95d-9777fe9b412c)\n\n### **Tools**\n\nFraud analysts need many tools to conduct an investigation, from internal dashboards to SQL tables to vendor data.\n\nFinic uses intelligent automation to connect to any data source and use it the same way a human analyst would: through a browser.\n\nRather than waiting for the engineering team to build new APIs, all it takes to get started with Finic is a list of credentials for the tools they use, drastically **reducing the time it takes to get to ROI.**\n\n### **Audit Logs**\n\nWhether the investigator is an AI agent or a human analyst, keeping a trail of why decisions were made is just as important as making the right decision. In fact, several regulations mandate that financial institutions keep logs of not just transactions but also the reasons why transactions or accounts were flagged as fraudulent.\n\nFinic agents “think out loud” and document each step in the SOP, including what data sources they used, how they arrived at their conclusions, and what steps they took afterward. This makes it easy for senior analysts to review agent activity to ensure compliance and is usually more comprehensive than the reports generated by junior analysts.\n\n## Learn more\n\nHere’s a list of some of the types of fraud we’re helping customers remediate:\n\n* Identity Fraud: Reviewing KYC tickets to determine if new signups are using stolen/synthetic identities, or if the account is being used as a proxy by a malicious third party.\n* Friendly Fraud: Reviewing account activity and dispute packages from third parties to determine if customer-reported issues like credit card chargebacks are legitimate.\n* Account Takeovers (ATO): Reviewing accounts flagged with unusual login activity, and looking at device fingerprint, IP address, transaction activity and other signals to determine if the account has been compromised.\n\nIf you’re a fintech looking for ways to 10x the capacity of your fraud ops team without increasing headcount, **email me at **[**jason@finic.ai,**](mailto:jason@finic.ai)** and I’d be happy to show you a demo.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MHn-finic-ai-that-investigates-financial-fraud", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-11-18T20:31:43.972Z" }, { "id": 77023, "title": "🌱 Dealwise: an AI powered investment bank for startups", "tagline": "Get acquisition offers in just 3 months. No exclusivity, cancel anytime", "body": "We’re Jason and Ayan from the W23 batch of YC, and we’re building **Dealwise, an AI powered investment bank for startups**\n\n### **TL;DR:**\n\nDealwise helps founders sell their startup. We use AI to automate the back office work associated with dealmaking. This let us serve startups too small for traditional investment banks, while running an accelerated process that gets founders offers in half the time.\n\nContact me at [jason@godealwise.com](mailto:jason@godealwise.com) or visit [godealwise.com](http://godealwise.com) to learn more!\n\n### Background\n\nBefore being founders, Ayan and I were each other’s PMs and software engineers at Robinhood. Around August 2023, we noticed a lot of interest in M&A activity from our founder friends, including one batchmate who we advised informally in the sale of his startup. We started learning about what it takes to get deals done, and that’s when we realized there was a massive gap in advisory services for founders who want to step off the venture path (or were never on it in the first place) that existing service providers don’t fill.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77023&key=user_uploads/139135/6ef79a46-b348-4364-b427-e798acfd74d7)\n\n### **The problem**\n\nSelling a company is hard. In fact, **over 90% of deals fall apart before the transaction closes!** Acquisitions are like babies - each one is a miracle, but somehow they still happen all the time. This difficulty is why the investment banking industry rakes in over $300bn per year. \n\nGiven the high failure rates, founders must run an efficient process. They can’t afford to waste months or even years on a deal that never closes.\n\nUnfortunately, if you’re the founder of a startup worth less than $50M, no reputable investment bank is going to work with you, as they won’t generate enough in fees for it to be worth their time.\n\nThis leaves founders with just a few options that, frankly, all suck.\n\n**Traditional M&A Advisors**\n\nThere are many M&A advisors (sometimes called business brokers) in the lower end of the market that work with small businesses. However, selling a small company is just as much work as selling a much bigger one, so successful advisors tend to move upmarket. That means most advisors working with startups are either bad at their job, or very new and inexperienced. \n\nDue to the high failure rates in M&A, advisors sign as many clients as possible and lock them in to exclusivity agreements that ensure they get paid a fee if any client sells in the next 2 years, regardless of whether the advisor was involved. This is not an extreme case, **these predatory agreements are the norm** for M&A advisory firms.\n\nPlus, traditional M&A advisors almost always come from a business background - few understand the software industry or have networks that are better than the founders they work with.\n\n**Marketplaces**\n\nMarketplaces like Flippa or Acquire.com are great for four, five and six figure transactions paid for in cash by individuals, but serious corporate and institutional buyers avoid these platforms.\n\nFor transactions that are seven figures and up, buyers usually need some combination of equity and/or debt financing, which means the bar is much higher for diligence. It also means founders expect a lot more support through the process than what they get listing on a public marketplace.\n\n**DIY**\n\nGiven the alternatives, it’s no wonder most founders with between $1mm and $5mm revenue opt to DIY their acquisition process.\n\nUnfortunately we see many founders who’ve gotten stuck in a viscous cycle of: spend time chasing buyers → get distracted → growth declines → selling gets harder → spend even more time chasing buyers → growth declines more → ultimately shut down.\n\nThe median founder sells 0 companies in their lifetime, so it makes no sense to become a M&A expert when you have a business to run.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nWe started Dealwise in December 2023 to help startup founders get acquired. We use AI to automate the back office work, which means we get healthy margins on transactions that are too small for investment banks. More importantly, it allows us to **run a process in just 3 months** compared to the typical 6-12 months process for M&A advisors and investment banks. As a founder, it means you can get feedback sooner instead of wasting a year with an M&A advisor who’s stringing you along but not doing much work for you behind the scenes.\n\nWe’re new, but our track record is phenomenal. Traditional M&A advisors typically take a minimum of 6 months to close a deal, and 12 months or more if it’s their first deal. We went from launch → 7 figure deal closed in just 3 months, with several more under offer. Our record for clients was just 4 weeks from the start of our engagement to first offer submitted.\n\nAs we scale, we’ll apply our experience building LLM tooling at our previous startup to continue automating tasks like buyer prospecting, thesis generation, NDA signing, and data room creation so we can focus our time on supporting founders through their acquisition journey.\n\n### **Why is this important?**\n\nPatrick and John Collison sold a little known startup called Auctomatic in 2008 before founding Stripe. Sam Altman’s first company, Loopt, raised $30M from investors only to sell for a “modest” $40M. Before Uber, Travis Kalanick spent six years trying to make a startup called Red Swoosh work, at one point moving back in with his parents, before finally selling it in 2007. And Socialnet was considered a failure by its founder, Reid Hoffman, after being acquired for a “modest sum” in 2002.\n\nFor startups that struggle to hit escape velocity, sometimes the best option is to sell it so the founders can move on to greener pastures.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77023&key=user_uploads/139135/a9f2b058-74b2-404f-a8f0-eb8921afbc1a)\n\nBut selling a startup is a difficult, and often lonely process. We want to be there for founders when their VCs have stopped replying.\n\n## **Our ask**\n\nIf you know a founder who are considering an exit, email me at [jason@godealwise.com](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/about/centers-institutes/ces/research/search-funds). We keep conversations 100% confidential and I’ll be more than happy to chat even if all they’re looking for is some advice and insights on the market.\n\nThe founders who will best fit for Dealwise have a few things in common:\n\n* They sell software, or software-enabled services\n* They have at least $1mm in ARR\n* They are profitable or have a clear path to profitability\n* They are motivated - if they had to choose between an exit and raising a round, they’d choose to exit\n* They already have buyer interest and are looking to run a more competitive process\n\nLearn more on [our website](https://godealwise.com/), or reach me at [jason@godealwise.com](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/about/centers-institutes/ces/research/search-funds) if you want to chat about acquiring or exiting a startup.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K2J-dealwise-an-ai-powered-investment-bank-for-startups", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2023-12-19T17:04:54.030Z" } ] }, { "id": 27953, "name": "Koywe", "slug": "koywe", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8017c0951eaa502590f3ffbe4554b9152defa32a.png", "website": "https://koywe.com", "all_locations": "Miami, FL, USA; Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile; Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico; Remote", "long_description": "We provide simple, well-documented, and fully compliant payments APIs and interfaces so that any company can instantly start leveraging crypto to offer services like remittances, USD wallets, and investments.", "one_liner": "Crypto On and Off Ramp for Latam", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1673033105, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Crypto / Web3", "Payments" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "Chile", "Mexico", "America / Canada", "Latin America", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": true, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": [ { "question": "Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.\n", "answer": "Crypto infrastructure for Latam" }, { "question": "What is your company going to make? 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Growing 5x MoM!!", "body": "Good morning, buenos días, bom dia!\n\n**TL;DR:** [**Koywe**](https://koywe.com/) **provides simple, well-documented, and fully compliant payment APIs and SDKs so that any developer can instantly start leveraging crypto to offer services like remittances, USD wallets, and investments.**\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uX0oe40VTdcx1-sixXKvlhjcMAT0yg9gKrfYouL8ChAmqztqPBYLKES3s9-wXv79QSc7Lq9KkCT_KE2a63HzQPLfCaqMf5V_P1nBYjxKqon2966nGAuF9VLfwTi_XcFIS9hMJRjouJLaq884b4y_I4U)\n\nWe’re live, with local on & off payment rails in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, and **growing 5x MoM**! Soon we’ll be in Brazil, Argentina, and Central America.\n\n[**Check out our docs**](https://docs.koywe.com/v/english) **and send us an email to** [**founders@koywe.com**](mailto:founders@koywe.com)**! Join the Koywe forest.**\n\n# Who is building this?\n\n[**Koywe**](https://koywe.com/) **is built by us,** [**Ignacio Detmer**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ignaciodetmer/) **and** [**Guillermo Acuña**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjacuna/)**! We met over 30 years ago and have remained friends ever since.**\n\n**We’ve always been passionate about building something people need, especially if it can help every Latin American thrive, founding startups for the last 15 years!**\n\n# **Latam needs this**\n\nToday, most Latin Americans are financially underserved, in both access to, and prices we pay for almost all financial services.\n\n**We believe crypto can solve this**, not by having expensive jpegs or mooning tokens, but by enabling **real financial applications** that settle instantly and at the cheapest fees. We want to offer the building blocks for those applications!\n\nAnd **we’re not alone** in our belief! Latam has been one of the fastest growing regions in crypto adoption and the main use cases are remittances (instant settlement and cheap fees!), a hedge against inflation (stable coins ftw!), and last but not least: investments and speculation.\n\n# **Real use Cases, Real Solution**\n\nThere are many challenges to be solved! **It’s too hard (and expensive) to use crypto as a startup or fintech company**. Countries in Latin America are very diverse, not only in terms of its people, but also laws and regulations, institutions, and financial infrastructure. An international ramp can be as expensive as 10% per transaction, thanks to lack of liquidity, payment processor fees, and exchange rates.\n\n**This made using crypto infrastructure really difficult, until now!**\n\n# **Koywe Infrastructure**\n\nKoywe provides simple, well-documented, and fully compliant payment APIs (both GrapQL and REST) and SDKs so that any developer can instantly start leveraging crypto to offer services like remittances, USD wallets, and investments, at **the best local prices and fully compliant in each country**. As easy as 1, 2, 3.\n\nFor example, get a real quote to sell 1,000 USDC on Polygon and receive CLP:\n\n```\ncurl --location --request POST 'https://api.koywe.com/rest/quotes' \\\n--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n--data-raw '{\n    \"amountIn\": 1000,\n    \"symbolIn\": \"USDC Polygon\",\n    \"symbolOut\": \"CLP\",\n    \"executable\": false\n}'\n```\n\n**Try it out now!**\n\n**Pro Tip**: Changing _executable_ to _true_ allows you to execute that quote within 10 seconds of creating it.\n\n### **We make it as easy as possible.**\n\nWe wrote our docs to be **very easy** to read and understand. They get updated almost every week with feedback from our dear customers.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kz4B52QeqIh3WpxYN9jtPFYy-vJB4kxVx3ZiIiTTO3yPDThyHikT4B-lHzzSRAg6gZWrkDFobDosHUWEempKtcmIY3X2mQJ4SOkTaekFP6sBm2Y7iJeCdmL1vHAy7g6CqTyEvwzJ9Tsz5m8e1QMTawo)\n\nAnd if APIs or SDKs are too complicated for you _(or can't be bothered with yet another integration)_, we can spin up a completely customized web view or url just for you! **In under an hour we had set up a bespoke solution for one of our DeFi customers!**\n\n### **The Future**\n\nWe have a **long-term vision of crypto enabling even more complex use cases**, like lending, invoice discounting, and other financial services that help speed up the region's development. All in a non-custodial, fully compliant way!\n\nRead more about our vision and why we are called [**Koywe**](https://koywe.com/) (like the tree in Patagonia) [on our docs!](https://docs.koywe.com/v/english/about-koywe/what-is-koywe#why-koywe-came-about)\n\n# **Our ask**\n\n1. If you're a fintech or crypto-native company, **let's talk about how we can help you grow in Latam**!\n2. 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She sees eight children daily, keeping her energy high to keep them engaged. After work, she spends an hour writing down exactly what happened in each session. She's tired, it's hard to remember, and she's getting burnt out.\n\nNow meet John, a physical therapist who sees 8-13 patients a day. He helps adults relieve pain, athletes get back to sports, and the elderly avoid falls. He loves helping people, but after work, he has to recall what happened and spend 1-2 hours writing it all down. He's skipping family dinners and slowly burning out.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nHundreds of thousands of clinicians like Marissa and John are suffering from documentation burnout. They love helping patients, but it's overwhelming to remember everything and constantly write it down.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nOur AI Scribe listens to patient visits and generates compliant clinical documentation in the clinician's preferred format within 20 seconds after the visit. With us, clinicians save hours every week, don't have to type during patient visits, and can give patients 100% of their attention.\n\n**Free Plan**\n\nWe're launching a free plan so more clinicians can see how AI can solve their documentation problems. To get started, simply create an account at [gethipposcribe.com](https://gethipposcribe.com).\n\n**Community**\n\n600+ clinicians are discussing AI Scribe in our [facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/hipposcribe/). Join your peers and see how AI is benefiting them! \n\n**User love:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82736&key=user_uploads/643279/e184090b-3e10-4c14-b426-3aae1048a150)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82736&key=user_uploads/643279/ad5dfc08-e0e2-411b-8df2-d5d5d3d1af31)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82736&key=user_uploads/643279/5208e1ab-675c-4352-9478-7f350153a539)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LWS-hippo-scribe-free-ai-scribe-for-pt-ot-slp", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-08-05T17:39:47.858Z" }, { "id": 80679, "title": "Hippo Scribe - 70% faster documentation for PT/OT/SLP", "tagline": "Our AI Scribe listens, generates the first draft of clinical documentation, and syncs the finalized documentation to EMR.", "body": "Hello world, I’m Yansen, son of clinicians and I’m building AI solutions to make documentation easier. \n\n**The Problem: Burdensome Documentation**\n\nWe talked to more than 200 physical therapists, and learned that burdensome documentation is one of the top reasons for burnout. Many PTs see patients back to back in a 10 hour shift, and still have to spend 2 unpaid hours at home documenting each visit. \n\n**The Solution: AI Scribe**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80679&key=user_uploads/643279/2dafd1d4-5ae1-4cc2-9fe7-c1a37cff3348)\n\nHippo Scribe makes writing documentation painless by recording the patient visit/clinician dictation, generating the first draft, then syncs the documentation into EMR with one click. \n\n**The Result: Happy Clinicians**\n\nwarning: using Hippo Scribe may cause extreme happiness\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80679&key=user_uploads/643279/0142940d-d534-4b10-bf77-8fb60562db4b)\n\n**Ask:**\n\n* Know a clinician who hates doing notes? Share [Hippo Scribe](https://gethipposcribe.com/)\n* You are a clinician and want to see a demo? 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Ianai and Alejandro here to introduce Infinia.\n\n[Infinia](https://www.infiniaweb.com/en) makes it easy for consumer to pay by bank, and we make it easy for merchants to enable this payment method.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67538&key=user_uploads/1007566/cf9496ee-9e4c-45fe-972a-69678057ae8d)\n\n### 😩 The Problem\n\nUnlike Europe, where there is an open banking standard and regulation, in **LATAM each country operates independently**, with different regulation and payment rail.\n\nIn addition, **cards decline rate** roughly **35% in LATAM**….\n\nWe are the first solution to put together those payment rails and create an easy way for merchants to accept frictionless **Pay By Bank across the continent**.\n\n### 🤩 Our Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67538&key=user_uploads/1007566/213b1e7b-fc1e-425a-8df2-1e4ed0658f0c)\n\n\nAll-in-one Pay By Bank API solution:\n\n1. Payment initiation services: it makes live easier for consumers to pay.\n2. 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We would love to showcase our product and discuss the future of payments in LATAM.\n\nFeel free to reach out to us [founders@infiniaweb.com](mailto:founders@infiniaweb.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HZK-infinia-the-account-to-account-payment-solution-in-latam", "votes": 101, "created_at": "2022-11-28T13:22:12.105Z" } ] }, { "id": 27958, "name": "Noya Software", "slug": "noya-software", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7d3160c0336ac442ed7a4c13a39845f3f042dff.png", "website": "https://noya.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Noya is a new kind of product design tool for non-designers. 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Noya UI supports most common web frameworks and libraries like Tailwind, React, and Chakra UI.\n\n**Check it out:** [**https://noya.io/ui**](https://noya.io/ui)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79579&key=user_uploads/134273/d31c13b1-6821-4d23-9f2e-83b87189bbc1)\n\n### About Us\n\nHi everyone! My cofounder David and I were the Design Tools team at Airbnb, after they acquired our previous design tools company. We pioneered internal tools and processes that the award-winning Airbnb design team used when designing web and mobile apps.\n\nIn 2023 we started our second company together, Noya Software, and were part of the W23 batch. While building our AI-powered design tool, we put together a collection of high-quality “universal” components — components that work across many web frameworks. Based on feedback from customers, we’ve decided to release this component collection as a standalone product: Noya UI!\n\n### The problem\n\nWhen building websites or mobile apps, you have _some_ UI design needs but…\n\n1. You don’t have enough design work to justify a full-time designer on your project\n2. Designer contractors can be very unpredictable: they take a while to find and vet, the best ones are booked up for months, and even then there’s no guarantee you’ll get quality, timely designs\n3. Premade templates and component kits typically only work for specific frontend tech stacks, and often don’t have components that are relevant within your vertical, thus requiring you to make significant modifications\n\nAt the end of the day, for all the time and money you spend you can very easily wind up with a subpar design.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79579&key=user_uploads/134273/cf5327bc-fe6b-48bb-813e-49926fe66553)\n\n### Our solution: Noya UI\n\nNoya UI is a collection of beautiful, premade UI components that you can copy and paste into your own codebase and customize as a starting point for your website.\n\nCompared to existing component kits, Noya UI is:\n\n* **Tech stack agnostic:** We support a wide range of tech stacks and base component libraries: plain HTML + CSS, React, Vue, Tailwind, Chakra UI, MUI, Ant Design, Radix Themes (and if we’re missing what you use, get in touch and we’ll see if we can add it! e.g. Shadcn or Framer or Webflow)\n* **Multi-vertical:** We offer components focused on specific verticals like developer tools and fintech, which are often missing from other kits. Of course, we have all the common marketing/landing page components, too!\n\n### Our ask for you\n\n1. **We’d love for you to consider using **[**noya.io/ui**](https://noya.io/ui)** for your website! It’s a one-time purchase of $149 for lifetime access.**\n2. Share this post with founders, PMs, and engineers in your network who might be interested!\n\nFeel free to reach out to us anytime via [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/NPGAwyEBJw) or email: [founders@noyasoftware.com](mailto:founders@noyasoftware.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KhX-noya-ui-universal-component-kit", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-03-21T16:53:07.977Z" }, { "id": 69609, "title": "🧑‍💻 Noya - Draw wireframes, get designs & code", "tagline": "Design products faster by leveraging design systems!", "body": "tldr; Noya turns UI ideas into designs & code in just a few minutes. Built by former Airbnb Design Tools team members, Noya is a new kind of design tool that enables product teams of any size to fully leverage the advantages of design systems. Try it here: [noya.io](https://www.noya.io/?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=referral)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69609&key=user_uploads/134273/b3692215-185c-4f5b-8d6e-1adb98a118cb)\n\n### About us\n\nHi everyone! My cofounder David and I were the Design Tools team at Airbnb, after they acquired our previous design tools startup. We pioneered internal tools and processes that the award-winning Airbnb design team used when designing web and mobile apps.\n\nAt Airbnb’s scale, it made sense to have an in-house design tools team. 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[James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james0thomas/) and [Cyriel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyriel-notteboom/) here to introduce [Radical](https://www.radicalaero.com/)!\n\nRadical makes high altitude solar-powered aircraft. Our aircraft are able to fly continuously in the stratosphere without landing. They provide an inexpensive, zero-emissions way to connect and observe earth like never before.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68187&key=user_uploads/1045182/65f89115-af17-4432-ae79-3fcbeb7b2bc5)\n\n### **Why Solar aircraft?**\n\nOur aircraft is designed to fly over specific areas for months, carrying various payloads for tasks like imagery, sensing, and telecommunications. What we’re building behaves like a drone in some ways, and like a satellite in other ways. Much like satellites, we’re able to provide service for long periods of time, but we’re also much closer to users (we fly at around 70,000 ft / 20 km altitude) and able to maneuver or remain over an area of interest. This makes what we’re building really well suited to applications that require continuous coverage or high-resolution/bandwidth data. Applications include:\n\n* Providing cell service or internet coverage\n* Aerial imagery and mapping\n* Meteorology and atmospheric sensing\n* Emergency response\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68187&key=user_uploads/1045182/893208ea-fa0f-46bc-9dc7-b93042439b94)\n\n### **How it works**\n\nOur aircraft is battery electric and driven by propellers. It has a large wing for high aerodynamic efficiency and to generate the necessary lift required to fly in the thin air of the stratosphere. The wing is covered in solar cells, during the day, these power the aircraft and charge its batteries. Through the night, battery energy is deployed to continue flight. We repeat this process daily, enabling us to fly for many months without needing to land. Ultimately, battery cycle life is what limits our aircraft’s flight endurance - and we can land, carry out simple maintenance tasks and then re-launch to continue flying.\n\n### **Ask**\n\nWe’re hiring and working with customers! If you’re interested in making use of this technology or working on challenging physics technology then get in touch!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hjn-radical-high-altitude-solar-powered-aircraft", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2023-01-04T19:12:42.475Z" } ] }, { "id": 27961, "name": "Hona", "slug": "hona", "former_names": [ "Milestones", "Hona (formerly Milestones)", "Hona 🚀" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca3c9f60cb1b588e41fbba65990acd0b8578f152.png", "website": "https://hona.com", "all_locations": "Orem, UT, USA", "long_description": "Hona is a legal technology company transforming the personal injury law space. 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Businesses often store a wealth of information in their software, but that information is never communicated/available to clients.\n\n### **🧪 Solution**\n\nThink about your interactions with various businesses:\n\n* Insurance claims\n* Taxes\n* Getting a loan\n* Building a house\n* Legal cases\n* Oil changes\n* Solar Installations\n* etc.\n\nHow much better would it be if there was a _Domino's Pizza Tracker-esque_ interface for each one?\n\n* Milestones connects directly with a business’s CRM to automate updates and stream information back and forth. Notifications are sent to clients via text message, so that a client has easy access to the information. Clients enter the milestones application through a link in the text message. 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We infuse AI agents into the game development process, starting at QA all the way to player simulation.\n\n**Trailer**: [ ](https://youtu.be/ZezZjkuY75M)\n\n### The Problem\n\nIn the gaming industry, quality assurance is a critical yet often labor-intensive process. One among many. Studios invest countless hours in testing games for bugs, balancing gameplay, and ensuring a smooth player experience. The repetitive and manual nature of these tasks not only strains resources but can also lead to missed opportunities for innovation and improvement. Releasing unfished or undertested games is one of the largest pain points in the industry.\n\n### The Solution\n\nAt [nunu.ai](http://nunu.ai/), we've developed multimodal AI agents that revolutionize the way game studios approach these challenges. Our AI agents are designed to automate and enhance various aspects of game development, starting with quality assurance. 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We provide seamless collaboration, and [being OSS](https://github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrain), we provide tons of customization and self-hosting capabilities to satisfy your data governance needs.\n\n### **PROBLEM 🤔:**\n\n**“Building LLM prototypes is easy, but productionising them is damn hard.”** (You might have guessed it given we are building an LLMOps platform 😉). So, LLMs are unpredictable and dealing with them is complex and messy:\n\n1. You spend countless hours manually reading through your chatbot responses or analyzing the actions of your automation agents.\n2. Fixing the prompt to solve one failure case opens a can of worms and can make previous answers go bad.\n3. Improvements are always reactive - users complain, and then you go back and fix them, eroding their trust and your credibility. \n4. Collaborating with your team is messy - countless Google Docs and Slack channels are created to debug failure cases.\n\n### **SOLUTION 💡:**\n\nUpTrain provides the most advanced LLMOps platform to streamline the complete process. It goes beyond just giving scores or monitoring logs but provides a single platform to identify, debug, and collaborate to improve the accuracy of your LLM applications. \n\n* We give reliable scores over various metrics (both LLM-based and classical NLP ones) as well as allow you to define custom ones to evaluate your full LLM pipeline comprehensively.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77918&key=user_uploads/588096/c9c6e03f-be80-4799-a783-05074f0d72ea)\n\n* We run root cause analysis to identify if it is a retrieval issue, if your context requires reranking, if the LLM is unable to utilize the context, or if certain instructions are not being followed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77918&key=user_uploads/588096/117c15f7-c03b-4821-b033-8ab4b0d6e3df)\n\n* State-of-the-art techniques for automated prompt optimization, automatic eval generation, finding common topics among failure cases, etc., to act as your LLMOps co-pilot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77918&key=user_uploads/588096/e190b97e-49f9-45be-9dba-ec8233e3f2fe)\n\nBest of all, UpTrain is open-source under Apache 2.0 with more than 1700 GitHub stars and adoption among developers across multiple Fortune 500 companies. 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Join [our Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/uptraincommunity/shared_invite/zt-1yih3aojn-CEoR_gAh6PDSknhFmuaJeg) to stay updated on our progress.\n\nIf you want a demo or want to chat more, please [book a call here.](https://calendly.com/uptrain-sourabh/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KGk-uptrain-ai-enterprise-grade-tooling-to-ship-llm-applications-confidently", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2024-01-29T15:19:58.364Z" }, { "id": 69166, "title": "UpTrain - Open-source tool to observe your ML models ⚙️ 🔧", "tagline": "Open-source Datadog for machine learning models ", "body": "**TL;DR:** UpTrain is an open-source ML observability and refinement tool. It helps data scientists observe how their ML models are performing in production and continuously improve them over time by automatically retraining them on cases where the model accuracy was low.\n\n**Hi everyone!** Sourabh, Vipul, and Shikha here, and we’re the team behind UpTrain. \n\nSourabh (CEO), previously founder at fitness tech, where he spent most of his time improving their AI models rather than, well, working out 🏋️\n\nVipul (CTO), previously worked at Meta and Bytedance, where he was busy applying his doctorate knowledge (yes, the Ph.D. kind) to improve their ML models 🔭\n\nShikha (CMO), an ex-VC, where she witnessed the magnanimity of AI problems from the inside of her portfolio companies and this is where she got her eureka moment 🔔\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69166&key=user_uploads/588096/a21aa066-6198-48c0-8c27-354f6e4ba73a)\n\n### **Problem (The Origin Story 📖)**\n\nDuring the last 7+ years of building and deploying ML models, we have been constantly frustrated due to a lack of good tools that could answer one simple question - “Are our models working as expected in production?“\n\nSourabh first experienced this issue while working on self-driving cars at a Fortune 500 company. Then again he faced similar issues at his startup. The only way the model issues were highlighted was through reading loads of customer complaints, and it was excruciating to see their (hard-earned) revenue churn due to model degradation **😩.** \n\nCoincidentally, Vipul was solving the same problem at the big techs, where he built internal observability tools and optimized model retraining processes. The three founders spoke to 100+ ML practitioners to validate their hypothesis and got a unanimous yes! In fact, during one of the user interviews, we learned that an innocuous bug in the model deployment code led to 3+ weeks of wasted debugging efforts and losses of millions of revenue dollars 🤯\n\nWe are building UpTrain to prevent you from experiencing the same agony!\n\n### **The Solution 💡**\n\nUpTrain is built specifically for Machine Learning. We natively support all the things an ML practitioner requires to observe and improve their models.\n\n✅ Complete visibility into your model’s online health via real-time dashboards \n\n✅ Automatically collects outliers and edge cases \n\n✅ Identifies data distribution shifts \n\n✅ Monitors quality of object embeddings\n\n✅ Model explainability \n\n✅ Continuously retrains and improves your model \n\nCherry on the cake, we are Open-source! Some of the biggest AI-first startups are adopting UpTrain to fulfill their ML observability needs.\n\n### **How to use UpTrain 🤔**\n\nInstall UpTrain from pip, just tell it what all you want to observe, and UpTrain handles all the complexities in the background. Something as simple as below:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69166&key=user_uploads/588096/3f9f9f08-df84-480d-af42-62a6af0950c2)\n\nWe DO NOT require you to change any part of your production pipelines and readily integrate with all major ML libraries and tools. 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Try us [out](https://uptrain.ai/) or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/uptrain-ai/30min?month=2023-02) 🔥\n* To follow our progress, do star our [project](https://github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrain) on Github (show us some love - it’s free ❤️) \n* Know someone who needs ML observability, connect us 🔗\n\nFeel free to reach out to any of us with questions, bugs, requests, etc. at [sourabh@uptrain.ai](mailto:sourabh@uptrain.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hza-uptrain-open-source-tool-to-observe-your-ml-models", "votes": 169, "created_at": "2023-02-09T18:18:08.592Z" } ] }, { "id": 27967, "name": "Echo", "slug": "echo", "former_names": [ "Tailorr" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f6dfed4b4cf59bce811964c28ffcffc1f374e33f.png", "website": "https://www.echothat.ai/", "all_locations": "Haifa, Haifa District, Israel", "long_description": "Echo helps B2B founders know exactly what to say during a sales call to win the business, including how to respond to any objections that come up. 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[If you need help with this, let's talk.](https://usemotion.com/meet/tal-feld/intro)\n\n—\n\nHey everyone, we’re [Tal](https://linkedin.com/in/tal-feld), [Noam](https://linkedin.com/in/noam-hertz), and [Ido](https://linkedin.com/in/ido-fish-62577b102). We've been friends for over 15 years, built products together for the past four years, and are on a mission to help B2B founders get better at sales.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83680&key=user_uploads/834401/08186ad5-8ddc-4cb7-a08e-b8370a4a969a)\n\n# **How we got here**\n\nOver the past two years, we've conducted hundreds of B2B discovery and sales calls. After repeatedly failing to qualify prospects and close paying customers, we realized we had to change our approach to sales. We read sales books, listened to podcasts, and consulted with sales coaches. What ultimately worked for us was the sales coaches' playbooks for each step in the sales process, and it worked like a charm. We finally had a structured process and knew what to say at each point. We started quickly disqualifying prospects and, most importantly, started closing paid customers repeatedly. Going through this process ourselves made us realize it could and should be automated without paying a sales coach $2-3k/hour. So that's what we're doing.\n\n# **The Problem: Founder-led sales are unstructured**\n\nFounders often conduct sales calls without a clear plan and fail to follow best practices, resulting in missed opportunities. In particular, they fail to:\n\n* Qualify prospects and eliminate window shoppers.\n* Convince prospects to give their product a chance.\n* Prove they can deliver value in a short period.\n* Monetize their value and grow their revenue.\n* Determine why a deal was won or lost.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83680&key=user_uploads/834401/712831f0-0419-4d9b-9307-b575a163a532)\n\nThis means an unclear path for improvement and a lack of understanding of what needs to change to increase revenue consistently.\n\nFounders who attempt to resolve this issue by delegating to a salesperson spend significant money and time only to realize that this approach does not work.\n\n# **The Solution: Personalized playbooks with a close feedback loop**\n\nEcho helps early-stage startups improve qualification, shorten sale cycles, and increase close rates in a repeatable way by building and consistently executing their sales playbooks.\n\nEach playbook is a guide that covers questions to ask, information to share, and decisions to make during each discovery, demo, POC scoping, and closing call.\n\n**How it works**\n\nEcho will coach you similarly to how human sales coaches work with clients but in an automated way.\n\n1. 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It would help us a lot.\n* If you are a founder at a B2B startup looking to improve your sales, [book an intro call](https://usemotion.com/meet/tal-feld/intro).\n* If you have worked with a sales coach and are willing to share your experience, we would love to [chat with you](https://usemotion.com/meet/tal-feld/short-chat).\n* If you hear other founders complain about their sales, please direct them to our [website](https://www.echothat.ai/) or introduce us at [tal@echothat.ai](mailto:tal@echothat.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Llg-echo-founder-led-sales-co-pilot-for-b2b-startups", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2024-09-02T18:32:45.040Z" } ] }, { "id": 27968, "name": "Alaan", "slug": "alaan", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fc9ff5bdd231134886435b1360a606fccec68c2c.png", "website": "https://www.alaan.com/", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Alaan is an AI-native finance platform for businesses in the Middle East. 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A reseller can take orders and collect payments with our mobile app - we then ship bulked products at once to a single reseller, and she'll take care of the last mile delivery, making the economics super attractive. We've already got **15,000 women** selling on our platform growing revenue consistently at a **25% monthly** pace with double-digit **positive gross margin**. \\\n**Download** **the app on** [**GooglePlay**](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.vendah.app&hl=pt_BR&gl=US&pli=1)\n\n# Meet Vendah\n\nDon’t forget to turn on the translated subtitles\n\n\n\n### **The problem** 👩\n\nHigh unemployment rate in LATAM \\\n50M women out of the workforce just in Brazil \\\nNeed for extra-income alternatives (mainly digital)\n\n### **The opportunity** 📱\n\nSocial selling - formal and informal - is huge in LATAM\\\nLow e-commerce penetration in LATAM (<10% of retail)\\\nWhatsApp is king in the region\n\n### **The solution** 🤩\n\nWe are building a platform that enables anyone to start reselling products and services on social media - specially WhatsApp - and make extra-money without any investment.\n\nWe provide: \\\n✔️ 100% digital experience through an easy-to-use app\\\n✔️ product selection by sourcing directly from importers and local manufacturers\\\n✔️ fulfillment solutions\\\n✔️ payment solutions\\\n✔️ credit and other financial services (in the future)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68355&key=user_uploads/1147419/731b8b10-cd3c-4e80-bfad-43f866691119)\n\n### **What’s special about us** ⭐\n\n**Low operational cost model** - by bulking orders into resellers home and making them do the last mile deliver\\\n**Higher margins** - by working with high margin products and by being a retailer sourcing the best opportunities directly from suppliers\\\n**Low inventory model** - by working with few hundreds SKUs and stocking only high sales frequency products\\\n**Proprietary tech systems** - by building customer facing and operational proprietary tech systems\n\n### **Our traction** 🚀 \n\n⭐ **15,000** women selling in our platform\\\n⭐ **25%** revenue growth monthly\\\n⭐ **Positive margins** after marketing expenses\n\n### **Our ask** 😄\n\n1. [Download](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.vendah.app&hl=pt_BR&gl=US&pli=1) our app and feel free to share feedbacks ([founders@vendah.com.br](mailto:founders@vendah.com.br))\n2. Plase share our [job board](https://vendah.notion.site/Mural-de-Vagas-job-board-1708009e87ee4ea9953b4334a439f82d) (Portuguese only) with talented people you know and who may be interested in working at Vendah\n3. Do you have a e-commerce, marketplace or any other background related to Vendah? 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We are Charly and Bryan, and we’re happy to present you [Defer](https://www.defer.run/):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69350&key=user_uploads/1143800/14e200b6-6899-4313-9030-29ddc708dc4b)\n\nDefer allows developers to quickly create and run background jobs without infrastructure.\n\nBackground jobs are vital in building responsive and resilient web apps by moving slow code outside the users’ journey (ex: pulling and sending data to external APIs, sending emails).\n\n## Why are we building Defer?\n\nBryan and I have been working for 10 years in startups of many stages (pre-seed to Algolia or Dashlane stages).\n\nIn all those experiences, part of our work included crafting similar background jobs solutions and their internal dashboards, as Charly did at Algolia for the Shopify Integration Pipeline.\n\nWe identified a gap between current solutions and actual product needs that leads to **a repeated waste of engineering time** (initial cost, support, and maintenance) and **bad user experiences** across all companies.\n\nAs consultants, we also faced companies that **preferred to keep degraded user experiences** to not invest in R&D in background jobs.\n\nAll those combined experiences led us to create Defer to help companies match **modern product criteria** (great user-perceived performance and an increasing number of integration with external APIs) with **minimum effort** while keeping the **developer experience at heart**.\n\n## Our solution\n\nDefer enables developers to use a background jobs solution that matches their product needs without reinventing the wheel or building fragile layers.\n\nDefer brings a **unique developer experience** that makes it easy to create or transform existing functions into background functions (function version of a background job) **without the usual distracting boilerplate code** that current OSS solutions bring:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69350&key=user_uploads/1143800/8f9ece4b-ff95-4171-a3bc-e0cc82e73609)\n\nDefer’s infrastructure then **handles background function executions** with the configured parallelism and retries, **without infrastructure work or DevOps knowledge**.\n\nThe Defer Dashboard allows developers to manage applications with multiple environments and **get a sense of their product’s health** with **analytics and filters-rich executions list** view:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69350&key=user_uploads/1143800/0024a5c8-a2d6-4c80-a7fc-57f8f26fb4c4)\n\nFinally, developers get **notified on Slack upon failure** and can quickly access the execution’s logs and business metadata to **narrow down the issue and keep users in the loop**.\n\n## Focus on your product.\n\nGet started with Defer in a few minutes without refactoring or configuration, and start building delightful user experiences:\n\n* Defer comes with a [**free Hobby plan for developers** and small projects](https://app.defer.run/sign-up) 🚀\n* **As a YC company** (current batch and alumni) [benefit from a generous YC Deal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/1652) 💰\n* Defer is full-featured: you will find many examples [in our documentation](https://docs.defer.run/) 📖\n* Want to talk about your use case? [Let’s brainstorm together!](https://calendar.app.google/La5TPwFtvJhqwq7w6) 🧠", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2Y-defer-a-zero-infrastructure-platform-for-node-js-background-jobs", "votes": 155, "created_at": "2023-02-16T14:56:47.173Z" } ] }, { "id": 27974, "name": "Fastgen", "slug": "fastgen", "former_names": [ "Hyrule Technology" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e3d017d6b2932b5d62965a60b41ea099e46ea0c1.png", "website": "https://fastgen.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "Fastgen is a low-code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB. Our drag-and-drop platform allows you to rapidly develop custom APIs and workflows with ease. Our integrated Postgres DB makes it even easier to create, read, update, and delete data in your applications. 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With Blair (YC S19), we raised more than $100M to help students get access to education in the US. One of our constant questions was how we could move even faster. We are building Fastgen to answer that question and are building a tool we wish we had during our time at Blair.\n\n## **What is Fastgen**\n\n### **REST APIs**\n\nFastgen's API Builder enables you to quickly create any REST API by using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Our platform also includes pre-built integrations to popular tools such as Sendgrid, Slack, and Twilio and the ability to connect to any external API you need for data exchange. We launch new integrations every week to make our users’ lives even easier. 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Technology will ultimately fill that gap, AI-driven software will know your interests and your learning style so it can tailor content that will keep you engaged. It will measure your understanding. It will give immediate feedback, he said.\n\n## **AI x Education = SuperKalam**\n\nWe have built SuperKalam by thinking how education & learning can be delivered in the AI-first world.\n\nAt SuperKalam, we harness AI to democratize education, making it affordable and tailored to each student's needs. As an AI-driven personal mentor, SuperKalam helps students excel in the highly competitive UPSC Civil Services Examination.\n\nGuided by India’s top educators and the latest AI models, SuperKalam has already become the favorite personal mentor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81539&key=user_uploads/990441/393a67be-37ed-4037-815d-7e9eb074867a)\n\n### [**Join Us for a LIVE Session with SuperKalam to Decode UPSC Prelims 2024**](https://superkalam.com/upsc-prelims-2024-answer-key)\n\nThe UPSC Prelims 2024 is scheduled for June 16th. As soon as the exam concludes at 4:30 PM, we will be hosting a LIVE session with SuperKalam AI and our expert team.\n\nThis session is designed to provide students with the Answer Key for UPSC Prelims 2024, detailed explanations, and real-time doubt resolution, apart from Standard Sources of the UPSC Prelims 2024 GS Questions.\n\nImagine getting instant feedback on the Prelims answers for UPSC 2024, understanding the nuances behind each question, and analyzing previous years' trends to better prepare for future attempts. This session is not just about getting answers; it's about learning and growing with each step.\n\n> On June 16th at 5 PM, [**join here**](https://superkalam.com/upsc-prelims-2024-answer-key) for a one of a kind Free LIVE session where SuperKalam will solve the UPSC Prelims 2024 paper in real-time.\n\nIf you are UPSC 2024 or 2025/26 aspirant, [**click here**](https://superkalam.com/upsc-prelims-2024-answer-key) to:\n\n* **Get the Answer Key for UPSC Prelims 2024**: Accurate and immediate.\n* **Receive Detailed Explanations**: Understand the reasoning behind each answer.\n* **Resolve Your Doubts in Real-Time**: Ask questions and get instant responses.\n* **Analyze Trends**: Compare with previous years to spot patterns and prepare smarter.\n\n> Whether you are looking for the GS Paper I Answers 2024 Prelims or want to solidify your preparation strategy for UPSC 2025-26, SuperKalam is here to guide you. Let's decode the UPSC Prelims 2024 together and set the stage for your success.\n\nAll the best.\n\nContact: ask@kalam.in", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LD9-superkalam-ias-ai-powered-personal-super-mentor-for-the-upsc-exam", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-06-15T20:07:53.746Z" }, { "id": 73599, "title": "SuperKalam: AI-Powered Learning, Human-Driven Success", "tagline": "Solving the challenges of affordability and accessibility to great teachers in India", "body": "In India, more than 5 million students set their sights on top careers in Engineering, Medicine, and Civil Services each year. However, they face significant hurdles in finding great mentors and teachers. [SuperKalam](https://superkalam.com/), a revolutionary AI-backed education initiative, comes to the rescue, empowering students with access to personalized mentorship in a discipline-inculcating learning ecosystem.\n\n> SuperKalam prepares study plans and sets daily targets based on a student's progress, keeping track of common mistakes, performance and time spent on specific concepts or subjects. This innovative approach is already working wonders, and the aim is to scale this to reach 5 million students in India, starting with the Indian Civil Services Examination (UPSC).\n\nRead on to discover the magical superpowers of SuperKalam!\n\n[Vimal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vimalsinghrathore/), alongside [Aseem](https://www.linkedin.com/in/-aseemgupta/), is the driving force behind building superkalam.com\n\nVimal, one of India’s top educators for more than 7 years, has witnessed the rise of edtech from the unique perspective of both founder and teacher during his tenure at unacademy and subsequently while building out his first startup in education, [coursavy (acquired by unacademy)](https://inc42.com/buzz/edtech-unicorn-unacademy-acquires-upsc-test-prep-platform-coursavy/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/aa5fca7e-ed8d-4ee3-9485-5a3f8b486782)\n\nCurrent Edtech solutions primarily involve one-way content delivery, where thousands of students merely consume the content without engaging in effective discussions with the teacher. This leads to a loss of curiosity and, eventually, to poor learning outcomes. Furthermore, an excess of content leads to a multitude of choices, often resulting in confusion and chaotic, unplanned preparation.\n\n**SuperKalam steps in to solve these issues with simplicity and focus.** Vimal has championed this process through his education initiatives over the past decade. Now, leveraging the latest AI technology, SuperKalam is fully equipped to scale founder’s counter-intuitive insights and learnings to assist millions of students in India, starting with the UPSC exam.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nWondering about the superpowers of SuperKalam? Let's uncover the magic.\n\nIt assists in creating a **personalised timetable**, sending **daily targets**, and tracking progress throughout the learning journey.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/42988042-7dd4-41a8-854a-36180d858340)\n\nIt helps resolve doubts, aids in mastering concepts, and can **evaluate** a UPSC student’s handwritten answer in less than 60 seconds — a process that typically takes 2-4 weeks in the current education market.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/bb9f8270-0139-4d0a-9f06-e9f5a506b94c)\n\nIt conducts **mock tests**, identifies students' strengths and weaknesses, and provides **progress reports** that foster self-awareness, unlocking their full potential.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73599&key=user_uploads/990441/8b7f2fdc-f768-407c-8266-ae3bf70607ff)\n\nDo share your experience or feedback with us at [vimal@kalam.in](mailto:vimal@kalam.in)\n\nSocial Media Pages:\n\n[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@superkalam_?sub_confirmation=1) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SuperKalam_) \\\n\\\n**Thankyou!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J95-superkalam-ai-powered-learning-human-driven-success", "votes": 155, "created_at": "2023-07-31T13:48:28.716Z" }, { "id": 69590, "title": "qoohoo - monetize your audience across all platforms", "tagline": "experience swift monetization tools to scale your revenue as a creator.", "body": "**tl;dr:** qoohoo helps creators to grow, manage and monetise their audience across all platforms. Creators on qoohoo earn swiftly from their micro-content, courses & subscriptions directly on Whatsapp and Telegram unlocking massive growth potential. **Check out our** [**product**](https://qoohoo.in/)**.**\n\nHello everyone, we are [Aseem](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/594687) & [Vimal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/990441), the team behind [qoohoo](https://qoohoo.in/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69590&key=user_uploads/990441/0058114c-2b3e-4ddd-aeee-90f327d47b20)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nCommunities on Telegram and WhatsApp have been growing at a rapid pace, especially in the last few years. Creators tend to bring their audience from social media to messaging apps, but they don't have a way to monetize or manage them effectively. \n\nThey are currently managing their backend operations in a chaotic, error-prone, and time-consuming way, manually handling payments and adding/removing users separately.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69590&key=user_uploads/990441/010078e6-3abc-4907-9a23-f8702f004f53)\n\nBesides monetisation, creators need help with _audience growth, retention_, and _reactivation_. **They are missing critical audience insights, behaviour and nudges to grow their business effectively to their full potential.**\n\nThis problem was first faced by Vimal while running his edtech startup - coursavy, where communities of students & LIVE courses were the core. He used to create a telegram channel for each course and manually managed the operations. His brother is also a [_YouTuber in music learning_](https://www.youtube.com/@MusicwaleLessons/featured) facing similar issues while running classes on Whatsapp.\n\nThis experience gave us a ring-side view of the problem and the scale.\n\n### **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69590&key=user_uploads/990441/92fd5d84-0568-4e39-a74a-0af7b6787233)\n\nCreators on qoohoo can quickly launch their micro-content, courses & subscriptions directly on Whatsapp and Telegram unlocking massive growth potential.\n\nIf we take simplicity & speed into account, _what whatsapp is for personal communication, qoohoo is for creators. It’s that simple!_\n\nIn February alone, our creators are earning close to **$500K** in the field of Art, Music, Education and Finance.\n\n_One of our_ creators’ earnings has surged from **$10K** to **$125K** per month in just 10 months of using our product. She leverages YouTube for distribution and qoohoo for monetization.\n\n### **Ask & Deal**\n\nToday we are launching our global version, now anyone across any nation can use qoohoo easily. This is a beta release, we will keep on adding all the new tools going forward.\n\n**Check out our product** at \n\n* It will be super nice if you could use our product & share your experience, we are available at [founders@qoohoo.in](mailto:founders@qoohoo.in)\n* If you have creators or startups in your circle who are running their communities & courses, do connect us with them. (We have special offers for YC companies & referrals :)\n\nLet's keep building and moving forward! Thanks for your support. 🙏", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6Q-qoohoo-monetize-your-audience-across-all-platforms", "votes": 366, "created_at": "2023-02-23T14:45:45.871Z" } ] }, { "id": 27982, "name": "Clueso", "slug": "clueso", "former_names": [ "Desklamp" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8bb9d01e5193ccdd98bfdf1cea08fb2ede901fe5.png", "website": "https://clueso.io", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Clueso is the fastest and easiest way for companies to generate high-quality instructional videos and documentation, ideal for customer education/onboarding and employee training. Our AI transforms simple screen-recordings into studio-quality videos and step-by-step documentation in minutes.", "one_liner": "Create beautiful videos & docs for any product or process in minutes", "team_size": 25, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677925658, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Customer Success", "Enterprise" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clueso", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/clueso.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/clueso", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_Clueso", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8bb9d01e5193ccdd98bfdf1cea08fb2ede901fe5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a318105dbc08033ac97808c00731b2717e956ee9.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/9db2d83d735ac0f971891d671b741aa026fed056.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1159730, "full_name": "Akash Anand", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO at Clueso. \nAI to automate video creation for marketing, support, sales, and training teams. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/realAkashAnand", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a7153577a8363c9b34d410626830c013aa88ddbb.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1156693, "full_name": "Neel Balar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm Neel, CBO at Clueso. Prior to Clueso, I built and scaled a consumer note-taking app to 20K+ users while in college. I studied Engineering Design and Data Science at IIT Madras. I previously led Asia's most advanced student Hyperloop team, where we raised $1.1M from the Indian govt. I also represented India at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition organized by Elon Musk. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BalarNeel", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c208d0c8a14f7da8da25a572bf83947c740cc12a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1156437, "full_name": "Prajwal Prakash", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm Prajwal, co-founder at CTO at Clueso. I'm a Bangalorean and a recent (2022) CS grad from IIT Madras where I graduated top of my batch. I've always loved building products (previously made Desklamp, a consumer notetaking app) and working with nascent technologies (interned at Adobe AI, co-founded a quantum machine learning group in college). When I'm not thinking about tech, I write stand up sets.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e228947a894dc4c36a882b59bb9d09b487d332d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Business video automation startup Clueso raises $10M to kill off manual production processes", "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/13/business-video-automation-startup-clueso-raises-10m-to-kill-off-manual-production-processes/", "date": "Oct 13, 2026" }, { "title": "Announcing our $1.4M seed funding | Clueso", "url": "https://www.clueso.io/blog-posts/announcing-our-seed-funding", "date": "Apr 23, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 106963, "title": "Clueso Agents: Ship product videos automatically, whenever you ship features.", "tagline": "Launch videos, product demos, help tutorials, and more - all created automatically with every release.", "body": "Every new feature needs a launch video, help tutorial, sales demo, and more such content.\n\nClueso Agents automate the entire video production pipeline. From generating screen recordings of your product to voiceovers, motion graphics, and visuals that match your brand style.\n\nWith Clueso Agents, your content team can ship as fast as your engineering team does.\n\n[**https://youtu.be/2rio5VoUUV8**](https://youtu.be/2rio5VoUUV8)\n\n**🔴 The Problem**\n\nVideos are the best way to communicate your product’s value.\n\nBut they’re still created manually. For every new feature, your content team has to figure out what’s new, screen record the product, and edit the video with motion graphics and animations.\n\nThe result is a permanent backlog. By the time content is ready, the product has already moved on.\n\nTools like Loom and Screen Studio help you move faster, but only by compromising on quality.\n\n**🟢 The Solution**\n\nInstead of manually producing every video, let Clueso Agents ([**clueso.io/agents**](http://clueso.io/agents)) handle the entire production pipeline.\n\nHere's how it works:\n\n1. **Connect your product:** Give Clueso login credentials to your product or connect with GitHub, and provide one reference video that represents your brand style.\n2. **Every release becomes a trigger:** Clueso understands what changed and creates production plans for new features. It can also identify outdated videos in your existing library.\n3. **Our agent screen-records your product:** It logs into your product, navigates through the workflows, and captures polished screen recordings of the features you want to show. Fully autonomously.\n4. **AI handles the entire edit:** Along with the recordings, Clueso generates the voiceover, beautiful motion graphics, zooms and visual effects, captions, music, and applies your brand style.\n\nYou can also build workflows in Claude with the Clueso MCP, so video creation becomes just another step in your existing automations.\n\n**Why we're building this**\n\nOver the last two years, we built an AI video editor for product videos. Along the way, after working with 1,000+ SaaS companies, we realized editing wasn’t the only bottleneck.\n\nThe hard part was understanding what changed in the product, figuring out what to show in the demo, recording it cleanly, and keeping an entire video library up to date as the product evolved.\n\nWe’ve now replaced our recording extension with a browser agent that captures the recordings for you.\n\nOne customer recently rolled out a complete UI redesign that left nearly 700 videos out of date. With Clueso Agents, they refreshed the entire library in days instead of months.\n\nTo learn more and get started for free, book a demo with us at clueso.io/agents.\n\nWe can’t wait to show you agents in action!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpD-clueso-agents-ship-product-videos-automatically-whenever-you-ship-features", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-07-22T17:57:25.874Z" }, { "id": 95851, "title": "Clueso: Product Videos in Minutes with AI", "tagline": "Your product ships fast. Your videos should too.", "body": "Hey all, we’re [Akash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/), [Prajwal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000/), and [Neel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/) from Clueso!\n\n**TL;DR:** Introducing Clueso – AI that turns any rough screen recording, document, or slide deck into a stunning video in minutes.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/OlOVMA06tpA\n\n## 🔴 The Problem\n\nOrganizations today need to produce more videos than ever, for a variety of use cases:\n\n* product demos\n* marketing and feature launches\n* customer onboarding\n* internal training\n* sales enablement\n* product, process, and workflow training\n\n… and so much more.\n\nBut creating these videos is time-consuming and requires specialized skills. And despite all the effort, engagement is usually low.\n\n## 🟢 The Solution\n\nClueso solves this. Our AI turns any rough screen recording, document, or slide deck into a stunning video in minutes.\n\nNo design skills required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95851&key=user_uploads/1159730/9a6519b7-57f7-498c-ba0d-ab1ea1a07e1d)\n\nClueso can **write** your video’s script, add a studio-quality **voiceover**, and auto-generate visual **effects**, transitions, branding, and captions – all while giving you full editing control.\n\nIt can even **translate** your videos into 50+ languages with one click.\n\nWith this launch, we’re also introducing a suite of AI-first tools to **automate** the most time-consuming parts of the video editing process.\n\nWith a single prompt, Clueso can now:\n\n* **break down long recordings** like sales calls, webinars, or internal training calls, into bite-sized, polished videos\n* **generate** entire videos from documents and slide decks\n* **blur out** sensitive customer data from your screen recordings\n* create videos that match your brand or any design from our growing **template** library\n* generate **step-by-step docs** & SOPs from any screen recording\n\nMultiple teams at 1,000+ startups and enterprises already use Clueso for a variety of use cases.\n\nSign up today for free at [clueso.io](http://clueso.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ovz-clueso-product-videos-in-minutes-with-ai", "votes": 176, "created_at": "2025-12-01T08:07:54.511Z" }, { "id": 76665, "title": "Clueso: AI-powered product videos and documentation in minutes", "tagline": "Screen recording -> how-to articles crafted by AI and studio-quality videos with AI voiceovers ", "body": "### **TL;DR:**\n\n> Clueso helps teams create stunning product documentation in a fraction of the time.  Our tool converts simple screen recordings into comprehensive articles and kickass product videos. \n>\n> Clueso articles are crafted by AI and come with beautiful GIFs. \n>\n> To generate videos, Clueso lets you edit your script and swap your audio-track with a professional, natural-sounding AI voiceover. Videos also come with zoom- in effects, thumbnails, and custom branding – everything you need for a great video without any of the effort.\n\nHi everyone! We are Akash, Prajwal, and Neel, the team behind [Clueso](https://clueso.io/).\n\n## **🔴 The Problem**\n\nHigh quality educational content on products and processes isn’t a nice-to-have: it's a necessity. From knowledge base articles and feature launch videos to internal SOPs and employee training material, there's a constant need for videos and articles in any organization. \n\nBut creating this content is time-consuming and expensive:\n\n* Loom videos require several retakes to get the perfect output and, even so, don’t look professional or engaging enough.\n* If you’ve ever created documentation  for your product, you know how painful it is to capture screenshots and find the right words.\n\nAnd when a guide goes out-of-date, you need to put the same effort all over again!\n\n## **🟢 The Solution**\n\nClueso streamlines your entire workflow to create  product videos and documentation.\n\n**Creating User Guides**\n\nSimply capture a screen recording while talking through any feature or flow on your product. Clueso instantly gives you:\n\n* **Step-by-step articles:** Clueso snaps GIFs/screenshots, and AI drafts your guide automatically. No matter who captures the process, get a uniform tone across all articles. \\[[Check out a Clueso-generated article](https://www.clueso.io/features/help-articles)\\]\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76665&key=user_uploads/1156693/1bc55859-9389-4b24-a054-db1efba881ed)\n\n* **Engaging studio-quality videos:** Update transcripts on-the-fly, and regenerate your video instantly with natural-sounding AI voices. Incorporate zooming-in effects and branded intro, outro, and background elements at a single click. \\[[Watch a Clueso-generated video](https://www.clueso.io/features/video-tutorials)\\]\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76665&key=user_uploads/1156693/67d98602-2210-4f26-a668-13abd2ecd5cf)\n\n\n**Updating Content**\n\nWhen your product or process changes, simply re-record the updated flow and Clueso magically updates all related documentation. Don’t worry about swapping screenshots or explaining the same terms again. \n\n**Use Content Anywhere**\n\nContent created using Clueso can be exported anywhere or hosted on a Clueso powered help center or team workspaces.\n\n## **Our customers use us for creating…**\n\n1. how-to guides and videos for knowledge base\n2. SOPs for internal team training \n3. onboarding videos\n4. feature launch videos for landing pages and social media\n5. and sharing guides for ad-hoc customer queries\n\nBasically, anywhere you need videos or articles: Clueso has got your back.\n\n## **Our quick asks**\n\n* [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/clueso_intro/neel) with us if you want to learn more about Clueso and use it for creating product documentation, videos or a help center.\n* Refer us to anyone you know who’s on the lookout for a solution to improve their customer education or internal team training. Our inbox is always open [founders@clueso.io.](mailto:founders@clueso.io)\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clueso) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_Clueso) for new product updates and customer education best practices.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JwX-clueso-ai-powered-product-videos-and-documentation-in-minutes", "votes": 203, "created_at": "2023-12-05T06:46:46.430Z" }, { "id": 70052, "title": "🚀 Clueso : Create in-app tours that never go out-of-date", "tagline": "One screen recording → Help guides in three formats!", "body": "Hey there! We’re [Prajwal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000), [Neel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/), and [Akash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand), and we are very excited to launch [Clueso](https://clueso.io) to all of you!\n\n**TL;DR:** Clueso helps customer success teams save time creating and maintaining help content for SaaS apps. Our product converts simple screen recordings of product features into interactive product tours and how-to guides that stay up-to-date with every product release. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70052&key=user_uploads/1159730/adc0642c-6d2c-44cd-b4e3-7e18691a78fe)\n\n### [**🔴**](https://emojipedia.org/large-red-circle/) **The Problem**\n\nUsers of SaaS apps have a hard time discovering new features and finding what they’re looking for, even on products with a well-designed UX.\n\nCreating help guides on tools like Intercom is time-consuming – you have to put together screenshots, write out instructions, and make everything look presentable. Making interactive tours is even more work.\n\nAnd what happens when you deploy new UI updates? All your hard work goes down the drain, and you have to start from scratch.\n\n### [**🟢**](https://emojipedia.org/large-green-circle/) **Our Solution**\n\nClueso lets you create help guides for product features in seconds rather than hours. Here’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1:** \n\nUse our chrome extension to capture a simple screen recording of some feature on your app. \n\n**Step 2:**\n\nThat’s it; you’re done! \n\nClueso automatically generates help guides in three formats: a document with screenshots, a video, and an interactive tour that points users to the exact buttons they need to click on your app.\n\n**Wanna see it in action?** Check out this 2-min demo: [Clueso Demo](https://www.loom.com/share/964797a5cf6c4582b5ffb5ccca662abf)\n\nTo serve all these guides to your users, **insert a single line of code** to add our help widget to your app. Your users’ experience looks something like this:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70052&key=user_uploads/1159730/182a84cf-6ce7-4f5b-aa2f-695a47b208a8)\n\n### 🤯 **But wait, there’s more!**\n\nNo more waiting for angry customers to come tell you your docs are out of date!\n\nWith every new update on your app, all guides are automatically tested. Outdated guides are flagged so that you know exactly which ones need to be reworked.\n\n### **Meet the team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70052&key=user_uploads/1159730/f606bc26-46b2-4218-af78-465829b49618)\n\nWe’re a team of recent grads from IIT Madras. Before Clueso, our team built and scaled [Desklamp](https://desklamp.io) – a note-taking tool for students and researchers – to 2k MAU from around the world. We experienced this problem first-hand with Desklamp, where our users would repeatedly email us similar questions about how to use the product. Prajwal (middle) has a bachelor’s in Computer Science, while Neel (left) and Akash (right) have a bachelor’s in Engineering Design and a master’s in Data Science. \n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* If you’d like to give your users an interactive way to learn your app or discover new features, reach out to us at [founders@clueso.io](mailto:founders@clueso.io) or schedule a chat with us here: [calendly link](https://calendly.com/clueso/30min?month=2023-03).\n* If you know of someone else who may be interested, especially customer success managers at seed-stage+ start-ups, we’d love an intro!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDs-clueso-create-in-app-tours-that-never-go-out-of-date", "votes": 191, "created_at": "2023-03-08T18:48:43.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 27983, "name": "Retape", "slug": "retape", "former_names": [ "Merse", "Baselit" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ae3ba43742d4dcd5a5ed43d8813d3cab2253bd1f.png", "website": "https://www.retape.ai/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India; Remote", "long_description": "We're building an AI Operating System for DSCs. 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Today, we manage over 50 warehouses, totaling 400k square meters of space, in 8 cities in Saudi Arabia. \n\n**❌ Problem – Storing and moving inventory in MENA is challenging**  \n\n**1\\. Difficulty in finding suitable solutions:** The conventional approach for businesses is to rent, equip, and operate their own warehouses. The available options are often difficult to discover online and frequently surpass the actual space needs for the business, resulting in underutilized facilities. On the other hand, businesses seeking third-party logistics (3PL) services face a similar challenge in locating a reliable and trustworthy partner.\n\n**2\\. Lack of short-term options:** Regardless of whether a business opts to rent its own warehouse or utilize a third-party logistics provider, it will likely be bound by long-term agreements with limited flexibility.\n\n**3\\. 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Onu doesn’t require any frontend work at all, so developers can spend their time writing business critical code instead of building or dragging/dropping frontend components. Sign up for our [waitlist](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch) for early access!  \n\nHi everyone! We’re Lindsey and Chine, and we’re excited to announce [Onu](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch)! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69549&key=user_uploads/838199/d4e8ff75-31ac-445a-ac37-c428f4f503a0)\n\nChine and Lindsey are both software engineers who met 5 years ago when they started working at Lyft. \n\n[Chine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chineikoro/) worked as an engineer at Bain before working at Lyft on the bikes & scooters team. After Lyft, Chine went to Stripe where she worked on banking-as-a-service, corporate cards, and payment links.\n\n[Lindsey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-redd/) worked on developer infrastructure and observability at Lyft before leaving to work at Stripe where she worked on low-code/no-code payments on the checkout and payment links teams. \n\n## 😢 **Problem**\n\n* **Tasks that involve both engineering and ops/CX are disjointed and time consuming.** Engineers spend too much time writing and running one-off scripts (e.g. fixing an out-of-sync user account) and ops/CX are often blocked by engineering.\n* **Building internal tools (even with low-code/no-code saas) takes a lot of frontend work.** As a result, building the tool stays in the backlog and engineers & ops keep schlepping through tasks.\n\n## **🥳 Our solution**\n\nOnu is a developer-first tool that allows engineers to quickly turn their ops/CX-related scripts or workflows into production-ready internal tools without having to write any frontend code at all.\n\n* **Spin up internal tools quickly** using the scripts you’ve already written, spending **zero time on frontend development.**\n* **See logs of each task’s previous executions** to keep track of when it was run, who ran it, and the result\n* Run scripts in your own environment but **without having to SSH into production**\n* **Use built-in integrations** to easily add actions to your tasks like posting to Slack, sending an email, or generating a Linear issue\n\n**🤯 You can use Onu to…**\n\n* **Onboard** **new users** to your product and then send them a welcome **email** \n* **Cancel a subscription**, refund the customer, and then update your **CRM**\n* **Fix an out-of-sync user account** and then notify a **Slack** channel of the fix\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69549&key=user_uploads/838199/3c3d3105-f01e-46a2-b5ea-b38d019b23c9)\n\n## **🌱 Why we built Onu**\n\nWe experienced these problems firsthand while working on fast moving engineering teams at Lyft and Stripe. Our teams needed internal tooling, but we didn’t have time to build feature-rich admin dashboards. Stripe had a homegrown tool that allowed engineers to spin up internal tools without writing frontend code. When we started working on Onu with a different idea we immediately felt the pain of not having a similar tool. \n\n## **🙌🏾 Asks**\n\n* **Sign up** - Join our [waitlist](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch) for early access! We’ll reach out with sign up instructions.\n* **Intros** - Do you know an **engineer, customer experience/ops lead, or startup founder** struggling to manage the workload between ops and engineering? We’d love an introduction. Shoot us an email at [founders@joinonu.com](mailto:founders@joinonu.com) or DM Lindsey on Twitter [@reddyourmind](https://twitter.com/reddyourmind?s=20) if you have someone in mind.\n\n _\\*forwardable blurb:_ [Lindsey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-redd/), and [Chine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chineikoro/), a team of ex-Stripe software engineers, are building a developer tool called [Onu (YC W23)](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch) to turn scripts and workflows executed for ops and CX teams into internal tools, zero frontend work required. If you’re interested in learning more, feel free to email them at [founders@joinonu.com](mailto:founders@joinonu.com).\n\n \n\n## **⚒️ Offer**\n\n* If you have any manual or repetitive tasks or scripts, we will migrate them onto Onu for you. 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You’re probably navigating complex equity (RSUs, ISOs), multiple 1099s, capital investments, K1s, and maybe even foreign income.\n\nYou’re stuck in a \"missing middle\":\n\n* **DIY software (TurboTax)** is too risky. You’re almost guaranteed to make a costly mistake.\n* **Traditional CPAs** are slow, expensive, and reactive. They're just _filers_, not _strategists_, so you're overpaying by thousands and don't even know it.\n\nhttps://youtube.com/shorts/CTFwxZ8TCdw?feature=share\n\n### 💚 **Solution**\n\nRally is the AI-powered tax advisory platform for anyone with a complex tax situation. We’re replacing the broken, reactive CPA model with a proactive, year-round subscription.\n\nWe combine a powerful AI platform that automates 80% of the manual work with elite, in-house CPAs. This allows us to deliver high-value strategic advice (like QSBS planning, CRTs, and solar tax credits) at a transparent, flat fee.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/1ebcc573-0ccd-4186-a9db-95d55782b4ee)\n\n### 🚀 **Our Story & Mission**\n\nI previously worked at Meta. I founded Rally because of the pain I personally felt when I got my first big RSU tax bill. I was shocked, confused, and couldn't find a CPA who would give me proactive advice—only a bill _after_ it was too late.\n\nWe validated this at my last company, iNRI, where our tax pilot for **250+ high-income clients (generating $90k)** proved this problem is universal.\n\n**Our mission** is to stop people from overpaying on their taxes just because they lacked the right strategy. We're building the proactive, transparent financial co-pilot we wish we'd had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/a0b68e9f-6a32-4a3f-87d4-e9d276f0bdf7)\n\n\n### 📹 **Demo: The 60-Second AI Tax Plan**\n\nOur first launch is a **free AI-generated tax plan in 60 seconds.**\n\nInstead of paying a CPA $500+ and waiting two weeks, you can securely link your accounts or estimate your situation. Our AI analyzes your data and builds a personalized plan showing the exact strategies you can use and how much you could save.\n\n**1. Generate tax plan**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/d1fa175c-b1c0-4a0a-bc06-20a563ba96ec)\n\n**2. Ask AI, about your tax plan**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/3a0d485a-b7d7-4f69-8bc6-41a23f93745d)\n\n**3. Download FREE tax plan**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/462e5b00-365b-4eda-a73c-a8d2944d552d)\n\n### ‼️ **Why Now?**\n\nA perfect storm is hitting the tax industry:\n\n1. **AI Maturity:** For the first time, AI can automate the complex analysis that only human experts could previously do.\n2. **The Great CPA Retirement:** 75% of CPAs are nearing retirement, creating a massive supply crisis for expert advice.\n3. **Market Need:** Complex equity and investments are now mainstream for millions, who are all being underserved.\n\n### 🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n1. **Try it!** If you paid over $50K in taxes (and wish you could keep more of what you earn), try our **free AI Tax Plan** and give us feedback: https://www.rally.tax/\n2. **Share with your network:** We all pay taxes, and wouldn’t it be wonderful to help a friend, too!\n3. **Partnerships:** Intros to leaders at tech companies. We’re building a powerful B2B channel to offer Rally as a financial benefit.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Op1-rally-the-ai-co-pilot-for-proactive-tax-strategy", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2025-11-12T15:44:10.659Z" }, { "id": 76931, "title": "iNRI: Wealthfront for 32M Indians living abroad", "tagline": "Investing in India ‍made easy for Indian expats", "body": "Hi all, \n\nWe’re Hemant and Nishad, building iNRI, Wealthfront for 32M Indian expats abroad. \n\nIndia is set to be the fastest-growing major economy and Indian expats have a unique opportunity to invest in this dynamic growing market. However, for an Indian expat looking to invest in India, it is still a daunting experience, with multiple operational hurdles, and complex tax and repatriation regulations.\n\nInri solves these challenges by providing a seamless investment platform with personalized wealth advisory and tax compliance services.\n\nHere’s a short video explaining what we do:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyABkOht-pI)\n\n### **Our journey so far:**\n\nSince inception in March 2023, we have crossed over $150K invested capital from 3000+ users across 30+ countries including the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76931&key=user_uploads/1132289/e12122fa-88ae-470d-a293-9fb9f45b3db7)\n\nWe provide 3 key solutions that non-resident Indians need to invest in India:\n\n1. **Faster and digital onboarding:** Existing processes require either physical paperwork or even in-person visits in India. In comparison, you can get started with iNRI in just 5 mins, completely online.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76931&key=user_uploads/1132289/ef9d25fd-081f-4b81-8b7a-b3ab168c158a)\n\n2. **Curated portfolios:** If you have been living outside for a few years, you don't know where to invest. Our smart investing tool _(image below)_ helps you generate a funds basket based on your investment horizon, capital allocation, and risk appetite.\n3. **Cross-border compliance:** Navigating taxes across two countries is hard, which is why we have a network of CAs, CPAs, and experts in cross-border taxes to help you.\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76931&key=user_uploads/1132289/1463ada0-855f-42cd-98dc-97c038ca83c1)\n\niNRI’s vision is to become a one-stop platform for the Indian expat community of all things money in India.\n\n### **Why Us**\n\nWe (Hemant and Nishad) have both seen these problems firsthand through our own experience and that of our friends looking to invest in India. We’re committed to solving it for the broader Indian expat community around the world.\n\nWe are both alumni of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad and have a decade of experience working at McKinsey, BCG, Meta, Walmart, and HSBC.\n\nIf you’re an Indian expat looking to invest in India, check us out [here.](https://bit.ly/3v0Ob4P)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K0p-inri-wealthfront-for-32m-indians-living-abroad", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2023-12-15T18:31:01.299Z" }, { "id": 69944, "title": "Inri - Wealthfront for Indian expats", "tagline": "Investment platform for Indian expats to diversify capital in India", "body": "Hey everyone - We’re [Hemant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantgangolia/) and [Nishad](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishad-shah-7776897a/) from [Inri](https://www.goinri.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch). Inri helps Indian expats (NRIs) to invest in personalized portfolios of Indian index & debt funds with hassle-free repatriation and tax compliance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69944&key=user_uploads/840851/fa45867a-93b7-4c0a-8935-a8caf5af3d9b)\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nIndia is set to be one of the fastest growing major economies and Indian expats have a unique opportunity to invest in this dynamic growing market. As an Indian expat looking to invest in India, investing in India is a daunting experience, with multiple operational hurdles, complex tax and repatriation regulations.\n\nInri solves these challenges by providing a seamless investment platform comprising of personalized wealth advisory and compliance services.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nInvesting in India from abroad is broken due to multiple reasons:\n\n1. Lack of awareness - Indian expats often don’t know where to start, what to choose and how to personalize from a plethora of available investment options\n2. High complexity - Being compliant from a taxation and repatriation perspective needs a lot of regulatory knowledge\n3. Physical paperwork - A lot of processes still require paper documents and in-person presence, which makes it impossible to invest hassle-free\n4. Inefficiency - Existing India based funds listed abroad don’t track the Indian market well, leading to an underperformance of as high as 15% over 5 years.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69944&key=user_uploads/840851/f2f9cd57-a1e8-47d1-8507-b21792c75bcd)\n\nInri helps you navigate through these hassles with a simple platform that curates personalized baskets based on your risk appetite, along with services like easy repatriation and tax compliance.\n\nInri provides\n\n* Personalized baskets curated from 8000+ available mutual funds based on your risk preferences\n* Complimentary Taxation & Repatriation Support to help you get done with taxes under 1 day for both India and your home country\n* Faster Onboarding as Inri partners with leading banks to get your accounts opened faster\n* Educational content to enhance awareness about Indian economy and regulatory processes\n\nInri’s vision is to become a one-stop platform for the Indian expat community of all things money in India.\n\n### **Why Us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69944&key=user_uploads/840851/61f93da0-8854-43b1-a3a4-ead608782e4d)\n\nWe (Hemant and Nishad) have both seen these problems first hand through our own experience and that of our friends looking to invest in India. 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We share over 15 years of friendship, mobility and technology background and remain committed to a common vision to drive business optimisation for every car dealer in Africa.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67732&key=user_uploads/910214/2cb5be47-a58b-43a8-b247-0928741b7654)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67732&key=user_uploads/910214/227bf16b-d243-4191-bca7-8d7010a8f7a6)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67732&key=user_uploads/910214/071f0309-8a9c-4dca-8bcf-4df2129e6685)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67732&key=user_uploads/910214/2765a61d-9959-40f8-bc15-87aec13bf1ce)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67732&key=user_uploads/910214/236796e3-b7bf-487e-a1fb-b773c26845e2)\n\n**Shekel Mobility dealers have been able to triple their sales by growing their inventory through access to our affordable finance.**\n\nWe are happy to engage strategic partners on this ambitious but exciting journey of building the largest Auto dealership ecosystem powering $10Billion dollars by the year 2025.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67732&key=user_uploads/910214/c234e2a6-2df2-4265-a3c5-ef60d6ae2d88)\n\nRegards.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HcS-shekel-mobility-the-neobank-and-trading-platform-for-car-dealers-in-africa", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2022-12-06T17:50:53.661Z" } ] }, { "id": 27989, "name": "MagnaPlay", "slug": "magnaplay", "former_names": [ "MagnaPlay LLC" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a49da32dac6e6235ca09c99fefeffdc43ec7122.png", "website": "https://magnaplay.com", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "MagnaPlay is game translation simplified into SAAS. Every game needs to be translated - a process which currently consists of finding freelancers, verifying their quality, negotiating prices, building contracts and waiting months for them to deliver. \r\n\r\nWith MagnaPlay, game developers cut out the middleman and get results 5x faster, at half the price and with more reliable quality. 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He recently dropped out of the University of Chicago and is working towards democratizing game development by making it a frictionless development experience.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossirpaulo", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b4ae512832be96e27f3765a258d180983640b7c9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 218172, "full_name": "Eugenio Sánchez Rabiella", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2X YC Founder at Flinto (W18) and MagnaPlay (W23), currently leading GTM at Mesmer (P25)", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/cesrabiella/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8eea783798a3df4047c9dea2ef48ce3cda9b8ce1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69919, "title": "MagnaPlay — AI-powered game translation", "tagline": "We translate games at a faster, cheaper and more reliable rate.", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\n_We use AI-assisted translators to largely automate the process of translating your game. We turn months of work into days, profit-ruining expenses into a manageable cost, and we help connect the world through gaming._\n\nHey everyone! We’re [Pedro](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-esteves-434169204/) and [Paulo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossirpaulo/) from Brazil, two college dropouts from Harvard and the University of Chicago on the mission to democratize gaming!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69919&key=user_uploads/850536/d16a0f68-1635-4548-822d-2d6ee50300e1)\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nWell, it’s pretty intuitive that games these days need to be translated, with English speakers compromising only 20% of the gaming population. What isn’t intuitive is how expensive and time consuming this process is. \n\nTraditional localization involves identifying a suitable partner, negotiating complex pricing models, vetting their quality, and paying them tens of thousands for what is often a straightforward task. A part-time developer might have to wait months and invest upwards of $30k to translate their game!\n\n# **✨ Our Solution**\n\nWe built technology that translates entire games in seconds, instead of months. We take into account cultural norms, game context and even screen display sizes. We then cross check texts across languages and pass everything through our QA team, ensuring meaning is preserved and quality is up to the highest standards. \\\nWe integrate this infrastructure to game devs’ IDEs. Translation is now fully streamlined into the game production process. No back and forth, endless invoices, and contracts ⁠⁠— just one subscription, like any other SAAS tool.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3zdQ0u3UCe3h5et4jEbJJ8rCb-VElM_392zurrbCQp-dg-dPY9GJE6sP57CNzqiXResvekBIsQzccFapNhPsyUpKUd3mftTGLyDFckJDX1eMizPoaTQibIf1me_fn1tQQhNfdBgcNqIiqpPtgll36u0)\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GjSjjOsIeCOTOLVNWClkimrgPsDJOXH6ET4VOw-eGc8gAWhkjz6y1kWUt55FiA8NuuXYaPyEI9CH6RN2lV1GZgqOkZyuIpTN2d807zzDW0FF4csQ5Sd5dyAGYn9MolpWKt6zTpu0yDPzI_XGFY3SL60)\n\nGaming is the entertainment form of the future, and it only makes sense that it should be accessible to everyone around the world. We aspire to be a tool used to build that reality!\n\n# ✅**Our Asks:**\n\n* If you’re a game dev, or know someone who is, email us at [hello@magnaplay.com](mailto:hello@magnaplay.com)!\n* Spread the word! Share this post, help us connect the world! 🌎", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IBj-magnaplay-ai-powered-game-translation", "votes": 89, "created_at": "2023-03-03T18:21:41.609Z" } ] }, { "id": 27991, "name": "Coldreach", "slug": "coldreach", "former_names": [ "EasyJobs Inc.", "EasyJobs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/01cfd7370853173c26a810e2aec87fd55f289393.png", "website": "https://coldreach.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Coldreach helps sales teams find ready-to-buy leads, by monitoring public signals *custom* to your product. \r\n\r\nFor example, it can find who's hiring their first accountant, so an accounting automation product can hit them with a targeted message at the right time. \r\n\r\nPublic data sources (job postings, news articles, 10-k reports, etc.) tell a lot about a company’s priorities and the problems it faces. 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Sales teams know who'd thank them for a cold email/call now, and can sound relevant without hrs of manual research. \r\n\r\nTypically, targeted outreach yields 2-8x higher booking rate compared to random outreach.\r\n\r\n\r\n**Example intent signals we track**:\r\n- Bookkeeping automation product: Monitor who starts to hire human to manually enter invoices\r\n- Compliance product: Monitor who recently onboarded a new Compliance Analyst\r\n- CRM integrations: Monitor who starts to hire engineers experienced in Salesforce API.", "one_liner": "Find the best leads with custom intent signals", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1677033188, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? 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Thus, they decided to build Coldreach to generate personalized sales emails at scale." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coldreach", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/coldreach.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/coldreach/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/01cfd7370853173c26a810e2aec87fd55f289393.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/4b6e4eb322108f5a9b7013cec66bf3e717dd1c10.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 984968, "full_name": "Xiaohan Shen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Outbound nerd. Founder of Coldreach and EasyJobs. \n\nI built up a working outbound machine from scratch for 2 of my startups, and helped 50+ sales teams book meetings consistently from outbound. \n\nIf you want to chat about outbound, sales tactics, or startups, feel free to grab a time: https://calendly.com/shen-xiaohan/30min", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-shen1/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/853aa2385135d24da13f80d75953010c0b03c895.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1165112, "full_name": "Hankel Bao", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hankel is the CTO of Coldreach and ex-CTO of EasyJobs. He has extensive experiences in NLP and abstractions.\n\nHankel is enthusiastic in beautiful solution to hard problems. He started coding at 9, and developed an operating system in middle school. With that passion, he led the dev team to create the most intelligent solution to job applications at EasyJobs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankel-bao-0a0149208/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/96bae2cbf4893cfbd0b2dec171fba8684e4644c5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 80525, "title": "Coldreach: Find ready-to-buy leads by monitoring custom signals", "tagline": "Helping B2B companies find who need their help, before the competition does", "body": "_TL;DR - _[_Coldreach_](https://coldreach.ai?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=yc-launch&utm_campaign=YC+launch)_ finds the best leads at the right time by watching public signals, customized to your product. For example, it can find companies hiring their first accountant, so an accounting automation solution can hit them with a targeted message at the right time._\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n[⭐ Get a FREE list of high-intent companies today ⭐](https://airtable.com/app6J50ppnP1E86QV/pagToOMvuy00fPqNt/form)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80525&key=user_uploads/89898/02130ffb-d417-489d-99be-c26a38fa520c)\n\nHey everyone! We’re Shen and Hankel. We’re 2x founders who closely helped 40+ outbound sales teams last year. The biggest problem we see SDRs face is they waste >80% of their time spamming people who don’t care. We’re on a mission to change this at Coldreach. \n\n### 🤯 The problem 🤯\n\nB2B outbound is broken: Mass emailing no longer works. Conversion rates are low even with personalization. \n\n**The real problem is you can’t sell to someone who doesn't need help, even with the perfect message in the world.** \n\nMost teams waste >85% of time reaching out to the wrong people and have no time to focus on getting the attention of those who need their product. \n\n### 🟩 Our solution 🟩\n\nPublic data sources (job postings, news articles, 10-k reports, etc.) tell a lot about a company’s priorities and the problems it faces. \n\nLuckily, AI is great at screening through them to find who faces a relevant problem you solve today and why. \n\n**How it works:** \n\n1. Identify relevant signals that indicate buying intent\n2. AI agent starts monitoring the signal in your ICP market, 24/7\n3. Get a list of leads ready to buy today, updated daily\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/D4Zk6kyFEf0Xoj3ROgBX_U-2zi-hV4HaSrOaX9Od_CPzsrHXX93-o3RVFwW7xSR5sPOL6PDUY5xMdgQnyVnzj9A6T7PDKtLcfn7k20_dhASZq65BSMHFBPiGg7iq74UeONH2ZVsiy2PbKlg8OpBDjDg)\n\nAllison, ex-Senior SDR at Instawork (1,500+ employees), said:\n\n_“Coldreach found me the best accounts with hiring signals! I had the most qualified demos completed for Q4 out of 80 reps, while making almost the least number of calls, because I went after the right accounts and knew exactly what to say.”_\n\n**Example signals our customers tracked:** \n\n* **AP automation product**: Find companies hiring roles to process accounts payables, currently using Quickbooks\n* **Compliance product**: Find companies that recently onboarded a new Compliance Analyst\n* **CRM integration**: Find companies hiring engineers with experience in Salesforce APIs\n\n### The ask:\n\n* Want to track a public intent signal? We’ll [find you a list of high-intent companies for free.](https://airtable.com/app6J50ppnP1E86QV/pagToOMvuy00fPqNt/form) (first come, first serve)\n* Doing outbound but not sure if there’s a good public intent signal to find your buyers? [Chat with Shen](https://calendly.com/shen-xiaohan/15-minute). It isn’t always obvious!\n* If you know someone who could really use this, we’d love an intro! Please message Shen on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-shen1/) or [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai). Referral discount available.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kwn-coldreach-find-ready-to-buy-leads-by-monitoring-custom-signals", "votes": 100, "created_at": "2024-04-30T17:28:47.566Z" }, { "id": 73239, "title": "🦾 Coldreach - Personalized prospecting at scale, tailored to your needs", "tagline": "Generate 2-5x more pipelines by researching your prospects and personalizing every cold email auto-magically, exactly in the way you need. ", "body": "### **Tl;dr**\n\nWe make it easy for sales reps to reach many more **qualified** **prospects**, without sacrificing **hyper-personalization**. A prospecting bot conducts prospect research on aspects sales reps care about and personalizes emails in the way they need. \n\nHey everyone! We are Shen and Hankel aka the team behind Coldreach.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/MjyaZpGvltrsSs0ixus0dl1Yj4Kp6crAFBOh45wmdj941cuhaMYAck8PMAbQqtVXNhHIo-1JpJtSMmII4dvrqsCH8l4_tlLzye-qwKdrF1HhonZ1RNCvshyOtxmYuHMUrNxfu6sSDJ4XZHubmrL6kJg)\n\n### **👪 Who is it for**\n\nAre your sales reps:\n\n\\- spending a lot of time on **prospect research** and **personalizing emails** \n\nOR \n\n\\- not spending enough time on that? \n\nThen Coldreach is for your team. \n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nSales reps face a dilemma today: **quality vs. quantity**. \n\nTake our friend Sam as an example. He is an SDR at a B2B company. He researches prospects thoroughly and personalizes every message. As a result, he gets a great reply rate, but he spends so much time on every prospect that he couldn’t reach out to a lot of people. To generate more pipelines, Sam tries to “spray and pray” a little bit - he created a sequence of templated emails and added 300 leads onto it, but got zero conversion. \n\nReps like Sam are forced to find a **balance between quantity and quality**, which often distinguishes the best-performing reps from the rest. \n\n### **💡 Our solution**\n\nWe automate prospect research and email personalization, allowing sales reps to have the best of both worlds and reach many more prospects with hyper-personalization. \n\nNo one knows better than your sales team how to prospect effectively, and certainly not an AI. So we allow you to **customize your own prospecting bot**:\n\nSpecify what you’re looking for in prospects or accounts.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NkZhfTa8P0rYV-iogDy5FIJJQdIcMGp-wUusr1lL8QkXmmnG7gU6DW1j0g2u89px2USJMkZ6ZAhUhuU7oW9yZvWZ1YCI9mXTxZZscFRKyoTTurSLgxPawPC9BQ5MovBcahANSae9Xzd1I1z_t2gN3f0)\n\nOur AI answers your questions based on real-time data from different sources. \n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/IT1A9FDcMDNJNqMaEI0JzyBr0RAm25mI6yMFjnRn2NBpbWKSDEOoLB_FViN3ZcwM0JuuFBjeTIeyzcCM9z3Izq6IL2wTrY6HuhdM1Qp_0u4kXpdrFeKZnZWmtxxy0v13er_GG0YvXjDF3Z_GvEt5TyM)\n\nImport your prospect list, research prospects and quickly qualify/disqualify. \n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ORhMQ6kPxSM8DznlwDez-y1vHz4DzH1WrV-kuup7RusjHUDFlhtvFmzdS4-ND9W2QMmuOC3ZYQ9744ltrwDeBC8NkE5nbEPKQDMGNx7hVnvLdbe_FmvIUQvI2nyQ0Ct0fz8jgVID912S8IqA-qZ9tXk)\n\nEasily customize how you want your emails to be personalized. In one click, generate hundreds of personalized emails based on research and start your sequence. \n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/DRGM8Z19PxQZ7KqfBfsR3hTbl1MMb4YFMJMz2hYMl2v0AkYQ21iRDJyuXSjXkEEgzgkd3egUrkg8a3nIoZbYsvhscu-E3cB8dQO1LIcfZzmOjon0Cj64-VPujirI2MK8AXKId82vvbbztdskt2uEFm4)\n\n### **🙏🏻 Our Ask**\n\nWanna try it out? Fill out this [form](https://airtable.com/shrXtHfPE8dHfSIQG) (\\~1 min) and we will be in touch! \n\nConnect us to sales leaders in your network: Connect with [Shen on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-shen1/) or drop a line to [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai) - We love intros!\n\nInvestors: please reach out to [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3H-coldreach-personalized-prospecting-at-scale-tailored-to-your-needs", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-07-19T19:41:50.168Z" }, { "id": 70656, "title": "✍️ Coldreach: Automate sales email personalization for 10x conversions", "tagline": "We make every email to your prospects personalized auto-magically, so you get more meetings booked and deals closed. ", "body": "**Tl;dr**\n\nSales reps can teach AI how to personalize sales emails **the way they want** in 5 minutes, and our AI writes and sends personalized emails for every prospect on autopilot, resulting in both higher conversion and much more emails sent per day. \n\nHi! We are Shen and Hankel - the team behind Coldreach.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70656&key=user_uploads/984968/3a9fe46c-225e-4641-8432-0df8f1287d73)\n\n### **👪 Who is it for**\n\nIs your sales team:\n\n\\- spending a lot of time writing sales emails? \n\n\\- running templated email sequences that few people respond to? \n\n\\- struggling to train good SDRs?\n\n\\- finding it hard to write follow-up emails after meetings?\n\nThen Coldreach is for you. \n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nTemplated emails get no attention and land in spam, because so many people are spamming. \n\nPersonalization pays off, but it takes a lot of training to do it well, and takes >5 mins to research and write every email. \n\n# 💡 Our solution\n\n**AI-powered templates** - instead of only replacing names on emails, Coldreach researches the prospect and fill in personalized information intelligently!\n\nFor example:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70656&key=user_uploads/984968/4e5912b7-35ae-4c1d-8c92-d262a0be07b3)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70656&key=user_uploads/984968/e06a982b-3c52-4707-ab0d-7466fa9edd20)\n\nFor every template, tweak the email for a few prospects manually, and the AI **learns from your tweaks to write the way you want**! \n\nImport lead list from your favorite engagement platform or CRM easily, and start **sending personalized emails to everyone automatically** using your AI-powered templates. \n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZjsTytIbwS2ndQ5HDmd-AKq-784e-l0J4yTJaGfohtlppzdDWFRd6hhG8A6UWDnj_EargCGuYoHrK1gQtk7pkJHjHGuONnRFjpoIYIIYpCguSnPjuamUTzcvzRxsMGpFTnwInmR3C-IYpvBFGc7URT4)\n\nColdreach focuses on driving **scalable outbound sales**, but can also be applied on other forms of email interactions with prospects, regardless of inbound/outbound or cold/warm. \n\n# **💪 Why we built Coldreach!**\n\nWe built another startup also around LLMs, during which we wrote over 1,000 personalized sales emails for our outbound, so we know it converts, but hard to do at scale. \n\nThus, we decided to apply our expertise in writing sales emails and LLMs to solve this problem for other B2B companies struggling with it! \n\n# **🙏🏻 Our Ask**\n\nWant to use the product? Please fill out this [form](https://airtable.com/shrXtHfPE8dHfSIQG) (takes <1 min) and we will reach out! \n\nInvestor interested in investing? Please reach out to [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai) to book a call!\n\nIf you know sales leaders or senior sales reps who may be interested, drop us a line at [founders@coldreach.ai](mailto:founders@coldreach.ai). We love intros!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/INc-coldreach-automate-sales-email-personalization-for-10x-conversions", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2023-03-30T21:18:18.123Z" } ] }, { "id": 27992, "name": "Proglix", "slug": "proglix", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b934ac4e6592338ecfb6059eed0e744a22a3698a.png", "website": "https://proglix.com/", "all_locations": "Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia", "long_description": "Proglix is a marketplace for small and medium manufacturers to buy metal and steel raw materials in Indonesia. 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He started his small business in 2016 trading electrical components to government project and power plant developer. Moving on in 2019, he expand the business into manufacturing in agriculture commodities and got contracted from local and global oil companies like Wilmar and Cargill. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wynn-wijaya-76a2a8a4/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/61e8079eb10490ca376c66030892b87f33f57f10.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1170558, "full_name": "Prawira Indrawan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Software engineer, with 11+ years in software development. 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If you struggle to know what your contracted, live and realised ARR are at given point of time or need to go through a lot of manual effort to reach there, we can help you.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nAs companies grow, revenue is not just revenue, it is Contracted ARR, Live ARR, Realised ARR, Churn, expansion, etc. and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a track of them due to:\n\n* **Data sitting in disparate locations:** Contracted ARR sits in CRM(Salesforce/Hubspot), Billed ARR sits in a billing software(Stripe, Chargebee), Churn sits in CS software(Gainsight) or Excel sheets, so on and so forth.\n* **Most of the tracking ends up happening in Google/Excel sheets** which leads to dependency on individuals, high chance of errors and inability to handle multi-dimensional data\n* **Difficult to forecast complex business models:** SaaS has matured and there are complex pricing models like usage based, hybrid emerging which makes customer level forecasting even more difficult.\n\nAs a result, founders/CFOs are not able to answer fundamental questions like what their ARR is, how much is actually realised, what is the onboarding cycle, how will it impact cash flow etc. at any given point of time leading to governance issues and lack of actionable insights. **It takes them 5-7 days every month to just compute revenue metrics.**\n\n![Twitter 上的Chetan Puttagunta：\"There's ARR and then there's ARR https://t.co/XMKKkooAsM\" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E34eGfvUUAADQ6C.jpg)\n\n**The solution**\n\nMantys helps SaaS companies calculate and forecast their ARR accurately in real time without using multiple spreadsheets. For example, NextBillion uses Mantys to pull data from HubSpot and Chargebee and create real-time views of their Contracted ARR, Billed ARR, Churn, and forecasted ARR.\n\nWe enable them to:\n\n* **Establish a single source of truth and automate processes:** Integrate with CRM, Accounting and Billing software to get real time visibility of your Contracted ARR, Billed ARR, Realised ARR, Unearned ARR, Expansion, Contraction, Churn, etc., broken down at customer & cohort level and use the data cleaning layer to reduce 80% of manual effort\n* **Get actionable insights and take corrective action faster:** Know the exact cycle between Contracted to Billed to Realised and reasons for discrepancies for different dimensions like time period, region, industry, etc,. and take actions preemptively to avoid accidents\n* **Simulate different what-if scenarios in minutes and forecast:** Build different scenarios to see how Bookings will translate into billing and cash flow and forecast at a customer/cohort level taking into consideration both revenue and usage data\n\n**We know every business is complex and has it nuances. We have however, solved this problem for multiple Series A+ SaaS companies like MoEngage, Locus, etc. and have identified patterns for data cleaning and transformation across businesses. And we know how to handle them.**\n\n* Recording Unbilled or unearned entries? Just enter on the system\n* Usage based revenue? Integrate your usage data\n* Don’t have a common identifier across systems? We can handle it.\n* Multiple entity or currency issues? Don’t worry, we will convert it.\n\nAnd we provide best-in-class templates which help SaaS startups get up and running in days with very minimal effort involved from their end.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n* Have trouble figuring out your ARR lifecycle? Schedule time to chat here: \n* If you know any growth stage SaaS company who might be a fit, please introduce us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IL2-mantys-arr-reporting-and-forecasting-tool-for-saas-companies", "votes": 71, "created_at": "2023-03-23T15:07:20.443Z" }, { "id": 68546, "title": "Mantys - Modern day business planning & analytics tool for SaaS startups! 🚀", "tagline": "Helps companies take real-time data-backed decisions and plan growth scenarios.", "body": "👋🏼 Hello! We are Mantys and we are a Business Planning & Analytics tool with a focus on helping SaaS startups get **real-time visibility of their ARR Cycle**. If you struggle to know what your contracted, live and realised ARR are at given point of time or need to go through a lot of manual effort to reach there, we can help you.\n\n**The Problem** \\\nAs companies grow, It becomes increasingly difficult to track and forecast their Contracted ARR, Live ARR, Realised ARR, Churn, expansion, etc. due to:\n\n* **Data sitting in disparate locations:** Contracted ARR sits in CRM(Salesforce/Hubspot), Billed ARR sits in a billing software(Stripe, Chargebee), Churn sits in CS software(Gainsight) or Excel sheets, so on and so forth.\n\n\n* **Most of the tracking ends up happening in Google/Excel sheets** which leads to dependency on individuals, high chance of errors and inability to handle multi-dimensional data\n\nAs a result, founders/CFOs are not able to answer fundamental questions like what their ARR is, how much is actually realised, what is the onboarding cycle, how will it impact cash flow etc. at any given point of time leading to governance issues and lack of actionable insights.\n\n\\\n**The Solution**\\\nThus, we are building Mantys, a SaaS platform that helps companies:\n\n* **Get and track all their real-time data** – including financial and business metrics – in one place, simulate different scenarios, get insights faster, and be empowered to plan for the future.\n* Integrate with varying sources of data (like CRM, Accounting tools, etc.) and **automate the manual processes**/grunt work (reduce the time taken to generate reports and metrics by atleast 60%):\n* **Get access to best-in-class planning and analysis templates** to reduce the onboarding time to hours than months\n\nWe know every business is complex and has it nuances. 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You can email us at [kriti@mantys.io](mailto:kriti@mantys.io) and [mudit@mantys.io](mailto:mudit@mantys.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hpa-mantys-modern-day-business-planning-analytics-tool-for-saas-startups", "votes": 114, "created_at": "2023-01-19T10:23:27.549Z" } ] }, { "id": 28007, "name": "Milio", "slug": "milio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b20ca0d6ea153d334a9f63f5b2c7e991839b0369.png", "website": "http://www.miliopay.com", "all_locations": "Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia", "long_description": "Milio is a fully interoperable and immediate payment system for Colombia through a single API connected to millions of accounts. 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Real-time and saving up to 80% of transaction costs.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Milio is building **B2B payments infrastructure for emerging markets, domestic and cross-border**, and connecting it to legacy ERPs through one single API. Milio's platform allows faster money movements, real-time access to data, and treasury automations through efficient workflows and seamless account-to-account domestic and cross-border payments. Real-time and 80% cheaper.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nIn Latin America, **legacy B2B payments infrastructure** doesn’t allow automated transaction initiation and costs up to 3% through local ACH networks and credit card processing fees. Cross-border payments rails are expensive and inefficient, with up to 5% FX spreads. \n\nIn addition, **no single checkout is built for the B2B-commerce**; and legacy **ERPs are siloed from the payments infrastructure**, involving long treasury workflows and over 20h/week in manual work.\n\n### **Milio’s solution 💡**\n\nMilio enables real-time **B2B account-to-account payments, both domestic and cross-border**, that are **real-time** and save up to 80% of transactions cost and FX rates. Our API provides an **embedded checkout for B2B-commerce** and connects it to legacy ERPs, enabling automated treasury workflows that save our customers over 10h per week in manual work.\n\nOur customers can now access affordable money movements, real-time data, and a **unique B2B checkout experience** that increases conversion rate by 2x. \n\n### **How does Milio work? ✅**\n\nMilio is building an account-to-account payments infrastructure across all of Latin America, both domestic and cross-border, that enables real-time payments (T+0) and the best B2B checkout experience. Our customers can automate how they pay, get paid, and reconcile their ledger, saving up to 80% in transaction costs and over 10h per week in manual work.\n\nThey can also offer the best checkout experience to their business customers by enabling account-to-account one-click real-time payments at checkout, designed explicitly for B2B transactions, increasing conversion rates by 2x.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69870&key=user_uploads/627782/948bba8a-dbe6-4e7e-ac5e-6e4f51024772)\n\n### **Why are we working on this?**\n\nExchanging money and accessing premium financial services for local enterprises in LatAm is a nightmare. This is experienced every day by business owners across the region, including the co-founders who have spent time working for large payment fintechs and owning SMBs across the region. We firmly believe that helping those local enterprises and entrepreneurs ­means helping any economy to thrive and grow to its maximum potential. We are committed to solving this problem.  **💥** **Milio was the first Milio client! 💥**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69870&key=user_uploads/627782/5c6ed840-bc0b-4fa3-a0fe-b7986a0056fd)\n\n### **Our ask 🙏🏻**\n\n* **Please contact us at**: [founders@miliopay.com](mailto:founders@miliopay.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAw-milio-b2b-payments-infrastructure-for-emerging-markets", "votes": 390, "created_at": "2023-03-02T15:10:58.102Z" } ] }, { "id": 28008, "name": "Univerbal", "slug": "univerbal", "former_names": [ "Quazel", "Univerbal (formerly Quazel)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8278fad06fd1b1d1ed9d47f63aa549adf1a8fece.png", "website": "https://univerbal.app", "all_locations": "Zürich, ZH, Switzerland", "long_description": "Univerbal is an AI-powered language learning app that helps people boost their confidence simply by talking. In unscripted and dynamic conversations, users can talk about anything they’d like using the microphone, with the AI responding as it adapts to their level and skills. Each user gets a personal AI Language Tutor that creates a custom learning plan based on the language goals they’d like to work towards and their own interests, offers instant corrections after every message and helps users in their own language.\r\nBased in the country with 4 official languages, Switzerland, in 2024 we were selected as one of WIRED’s Hottest 100 Startups in Europe.", "one_liner": "Language learning with a conversational AI Tutor", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1668632369, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "Switzerland", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": [ { "question": "Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.", "answer": "Conversational language practice by talking to AI" }, { "question": "What is your company going to make? 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Most importantly, never judges you!\n\nYour personal AI Tutor creates a language study plan combining both the language skills you’d like to work towards, based on CEFR language education standards and the conversation topics you’re interested in. **_No two study plans are the same because no two language learning journeys are the same._**\n\n### **Try it for free:**\n\n🌐 [Web app](http://chat.univerbal.app/) | 🍎 [Get the iOS app](http://univerbal.app/) | 🤖 [Get the Android app](http://univerbal.app/)\n\nWatch the demo [here](https://youtu.be/gZs_F9J76xg) and try the app for free.\n\n### \n\n## **🤔 The problem**\n\nPeople learn a language to be able to speak it, but they end up memorizing vocabulary and doing boring grammar exercises and in the process, forget or they get too shy to actually practice speaking\n\nPracticing with native speakers can feel like a burden, language tutors can soon get expensive and using some language apps can only get you so far.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85531&key=user_uploads/566264/8a04773c-911c-4f8d-bbdd-392e51ee0f0b)\n\n## **💡 The solution**\n\nWe’re based in Switzerland: the country with 4 official languages🇨🇭 so it was only natural to try to solve this problem by building an AI-powered language learning app to help everyone increase their confidence to speak a new language.\n\nUniverbal was born out of our own frustration as language learners (initially Philipp’s as he was learning Greek to connect to his Cypriot family heritage). It was obvious that the only way to get better was to speak, but it became both difficult to find the time for tutor sessions and very expensive 💸\n\nUniverbal gives everyone access to a conversation partner and language tutor that’s customized to their own needs.\n\n## **👉 How does it work?**\n\nWith the Univerbal app, each user gets a personal AI Language Tutor that creates a study plan based on the language goals they wants to work towards **and** the topics they’re interested in talking about.\n\nDeveloped in collaboration with the Language Department at the University of Zürich, this ensures that everyone gets the language training based on CEFR language education standards, that’s also personalized to their own needs, skills and interests!\n\nNo two study plans are the same.\n\nUsers can practice with real-life conversations like ordering coffee or going for a job interview, get help from their AI Language Tutor in their own language and practice with short vocabulary exercises.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85531&key=user_uploads/566264/3a215c8e-39e0-4e0d-85fa-13e7e11b1d9e)\n\n## **👋 Ask**\n\n* **We need your input:** What would you like to see in terms of vocabulary features? What’s helped you in the past as a language learner? Speaking is essential, but we don’t want to neglect vocabulary building.\n* Offer: 30% off on the 3M and 12M plan with code STUDYPLAN at this link [Univerbal](https://chat.univerbal.app/)\n* Try it and leave us feedback: 🌐 [Web app](http://chat.univerbal.app/) | 🍎 [Get the iOS app](http://univerbal.app/) | 🤖 [Get the Android app](http://univerbal.app/)\n* Join us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/EpbYsNKNy9) or follow us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/univerbalapp/)\n* Spread the word to other language lovers", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFX-univerbal-ai-language-learning-app", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-11-13T14:48:22.396Z" }, { "id": 77959, "title": "Univerbal: The AI language tutor in your pocket", "tagline": "A brand new name, look and feel", "body": "# **Quazel is now Univerbal.**\n\n### A brand new name, look, and features for your AI-Language Tutor.\n\n\\\nWhen we launched [Quazel](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HuS-quazel-talk-your-way-to-fluency) we focused on building the best AI Language Tutor app out there.\n\nLots of people tried it and loved it, except _everyone struggled to spell it… or find it._\n\nQuazel makes sense in German, as a play on _quasseln_ (to chat), but that’s about it. And, as a language learning app, **we wanted to be uni…versal**, after all - so we needed a name to reflect that.\n\n**Introducing - Univerbal!** A brand new name, look, and feel for the AI Tutor in your pocket. With lots of new features, too.\n\n### **Try it for free:**\n\n🌐 [Web app (no account needed)](http://chat.univerbal.app/) | 🍎 [Get the iOS app](https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/univerbal/id6443595452) | 🤖 [Get the Android app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chatexpo&hl=en&gl=US)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/e21383c2-8971-43f2-b847-eeb841231f54)\n\nThe AI Tutor that helps anyone learn a language by talking freely, with no judgment, through conversations personalized to your interests.\n\n\\\n🎙️ Talk about anything you’d like and practice with real-life scenarios \\\n✍️ Get instant feedback from your AI Tutor\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/e75e59bf-d29f-4317-a864-78a9adcaad13)\n\n**NEW:**\\\n✔️ Work towards mastering language skills\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/2f5a8178-9d64-40db-8a18-b6147f3e4ae7)\n\n💫 Generate an infinite amount of possible conversations based on your interests and skill progress\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/df14f1df-680c-44d2-893f-a3d2960bdb31)\n\n🧑‍🏫 Switch to tutor mode any time and ask questions in your known language\\\n👩 Get a photorealistic image of your AI conversation partner\\\n🤝 Guided beginner mode\\\n\\\nOf course, Quazel OGs get a badge!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77959&key=user_uploads/566264/1e28b9e3-369f-4a77-9f81-756fceb91778)\n\n## **👋 Ask:**\n\n* **We need your input:** How much gamification do you think we should add? On the one hand, we don’t want to become a “game” and a Tutor lesson is always a “hard” thing and kind of exhausting, but there is some balance to be struck there. Thoughts?\n* Try it here and leave us feedback\n* Join us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/QeZuJyCg)) or follow us on [social](https://www.instagram.com/univerbal_app/)\n* Spread the word to other language lovers", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KHP-univerbal-the-ai-language-tutor-in-your-pocket", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-01-30T15:55:01.017Z" }, { "id": 68848, "title": "Quazel - Talk your way to fluency", "tagline": "An AI language tutor in your pocket", "body": "David, Sam, and I (Philipp) have been hard at work to build [Quazel](https://quazel.com), a language learning app that enables users to have natural and unscripted conversations with an AI tutor.\n\n[🌐Try it (no account needed)](https://quazel.com/try) | 🍎Get the [iOS app](https://apps.apple.com/qa/app/quazel/id6443595452?platform=iphone) | 🤖 Android app is pending review.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68848&key=user_uploads/566264/c070ce58-86ac-49bc-9b11-4ccffab650fe)\n\n**Problem**\\\nRight now, conversational practice gets neglected, and boring grammar and vocabulary are emphasized too much! Additionally, tailored tutoring is too expensive, cumbersome to schedule and beginners are often self-conscious about the way they talk.\n\n_Background_\n\nI faced the problem of exact issue a while ago when I started to learn Greek and thought to myself there must be a better way! To be honest, I really want Quazel for myself but seeing that other people really like it is the cherry on top 😄.\n\n\\\n**Solution**\\\nWith Quazel learners are thrown into real-world scenarios where they actually need to talk. Speak into the mic & listen to AI responses. Features include:\n\n* Scene Builder - Create your own scenes & get an AI-generated image of your conversation partner!\n* Grammar Analysis\n* Built-in translator\n* …much more\n\n\\\n**Ask:** [Try it](https://quazel.com/try)! Leave us some feedback and report bugs! 🙌", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HuS-quazel-talk-your-way-to-fluency", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2023-01-30T19:32:01.050Z" } ] }, { "id": 28013, "name": "Clearspace", "slug": "clearspace", "former_names": [ "clearspace" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/26a5919b40e1b2ba581acd245fcd79c5a1eb2c2c.png", "website": "https://clearspace.org", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Giving families their time back with tools to understand and control how their time is spent online.", "one_liner": "Less screen time, more life.", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1676229928, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/clearspace.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/82817875", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getclearspace", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/26a5919b40e1b2ba581acd245fcd79c5a1eb2c2c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 579166, "full_name": "Royce Branning", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder & CEO Clearspace\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycebranning/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rbfasho", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b538ad2f0a68ce9afa4ac82fc6330edbd0ab1d70.jpg" }, { "user_id": 115827, "full_name": "Oliver Hill", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder & CTO at Clearspace\nhttps://oliverhill.xyz", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-hill-070322149/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_oliver_hill", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/47b7bdd3e9a4c1ff8f7e872ae3d33fb2524e3168.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "59 Actually Useful Tips for Using Your Phone (a Little) Less | The Strategist", "url": "https://nymag.com/strategist/article/how-to-use-your-phone-less.html", "date": "May 22, 2026" }, { "title": "The growing business of disconnecting", "url": "https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/11/12/the-growing-business-of-disconnecting", "date": "Jan 12, 2026" }, { "title": "12 Apps to Add to Your Kid’s First Phone (That Aren’t Social Media) | Reviews by Wirecutter", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-kids-first-phone-apps/", "date": "Dec 19, 2025" }, { "title": "The App That Wants to Cure You from Smartphone Addiction", "url": "https://www.wired.it/article/app-dipendenza-smartphone-clearspace/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null", "date": "Oct 01, 2024" }, { "title": "A Cure for Doomscrolling: Shaming Your Friends - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/cure-for-doomscrolling-shaming-your-friends-screentime-app-2024-10", "date": "Oct 01, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 80566, "title": "Clearspace - Earn your screen time with exercise", "tagline": "Make your phone less addicting", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80566&key=user_uploads/115827/458f8c3e-6213-4a39-94af-a0d4af946c55)\n\n[Clearspace](https://getclearspace.com/) is an iPhone app that makes your phone less addicting. Here’s how it generally works:\n\n1. You tell Clearspace what apps/websites you want to use less\n2. Clearspace requires you to do **_something_** to unlock them\n\nThis turns out to be incredibly effective for habit change - we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of users, most cut their screen time in half permanently by adding a time buffer before using their addicting apps.\n\n**Today we’re rolling out a new mode within Clearspace, one that requires you to do pushups to unlock your apps.** Every pushup you do earns a minute of scrolling, which you can use now or save for later.\n\nAlong the way we’re pretty sure we built the best pushup detection in the world. Here’s what it looks like\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80566&key=user_uploads/115827/acf3d5aa-ea6a-4570-a44e-9d6b5d3dc38e)\n\nWhy we built this:\n\nChanging our habits requires changing our environment. And even though we’re spending more of our lives online, our tools for changing our digital environments are _incredibly_ limited. That’s where we come in. We’ll help you set up a digital environment that is aligned with your goals rather than big tech’s bottom line.\n\nSome ways we allow you to create your ideal digital environment:\n\n* Create scheduled windows where you can freely access apps, (or they’re blocked entirely)\n* Write notes to yourself that you’ll see before every app open\n* Build your streak each day you stay under your scrolling budget\n* Add accountability partners who get notified if you break your budget or delete Clearspace.\n* Turn off social feeds entirely on the web\n* Walk or run to open your apps (as measured by Apple Health)\n\nGet started on iOS [here](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-reduce-screen-time/id1572515807)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KxS-clearspace-earn-your-screen-time-with-exercise", "votes": 69, "created_at": "2024-05-01T22:45:01.813Z" }, { "id": 69264, "title": "◻️ clearspace: eliminate compulsive phone use forever", "tagline": "we make your phone less addicting", "body": "### phones are both **mission-critical tools** and **weapons-grade distractions**\n\nenter [clearspace](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-less-screen-time/id1572515807)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69264&key=user_uploads/579166/c9dd761e-9c1e-4c84-9f1b-ef3fc4f88d97)\n\nthe [clearspace iPhone app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-less-screen-time/id1572515807) intercepts and regulates your social media app experiences so that you don’t lose time to impulse opens and doom scrolls.\n\ndopamine-driven app experiences establish addictive user behaviors. clearspace is designed to help you keep your usage in line with your intention.\n\n### how it works:\n\n**stimulus-response buffer -** mandatory 15-second exercise before every social app open. we’ve tried everything, and this is what actually changes behavior.\n\n**session lengths -** tell us how long you want to use an app, and we yank you out at the end. never get lost in the scroll again.\n\n**gamification (the good kind) -** build your digital weight loss streak as you refrain from wasting your life on attention parasites.\n\n### team (oliver and royce):\n\n_we started building clearspace because we needed it. we felt our devices encroaching on the moments that mattered to us most, and set out to build the solution that this problem deserves._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69264&key=user_uploads/579166/10ecd380-bd1b-4009-9c06-247e1ad21679)\n\n### **how to get started:**\n\n**1) download** [**clearspace for iOS**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-less-screen-time/id1572515807)\n\n**2) try our** [**chrome extension**](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearspace/geebjpiagpchjgjdanomkgjhcjnahjfe) **\\[beta\\]**\n\n**3) stay in the loop** - sign up for our [newsletter](https://www.getclearspace.com/#newsletter) to be up to date on our latest releases.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I1A-clearspace-eliminate-compulsive-phone-use-forever", "votes": 89, "created_at": "2023-02-14T03:44:02.526Z" } ] }, { "id": 28018, "name": "Sanvivo", "slug": "sanvivo", "former_names": [ "Sanvivo GmbH", "Sanvivo", "Sanvivo GmbH" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ccaf529126f9d95946ed5ba74aa3dd498334a60.png", "website": "http://www.sanvivo.eu", "all_locations": "Munich, BY, Germany", "long_description": "Sanvivo builds a multisided platform to enable customers to order medications, get pharmaceutical advice, and book health services at local pharmacies in Europe. 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He studied Computer Science in Berlin and has been with Microsoft Germany as Cloud Solution Architect, consulting enterprise customers concerning well designed data architectures.\nPassionate about data and artificial intelligence.\nLoves all kind of process automation (favorite tool: Microsoft Azure Logic Apps).\nEnjoys to explain complex topics much simplified to everyone who is eager to listen.\nHost of \"AudioDatAI\" - a German speaking podcast about data and AI.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/svenwildermann/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/svenwildermann", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fc2fd74545656a5bebb7a66fc99ea152e3473229.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68308, "title": "📱💊 Sanvivo - DoorDash for pharmacies", "tagline": "Sanvivo enables customers to order medication at local pharmacies.", "body": "⏰ TL;DR\n\nWith our mobile app, [VIVOLY](https://onelink.to/vivolylaunchyc), patients can easily order medication and get them delivered to their doorstep in just 120 minutes.\n\n\\\n**❌ The problem – buying medication in Europe is inconvenient**\\\nFor patients:\n\n* Medicine is often out of stock\n* Long waiting times of up to 24h when buying medication\n* Medication can be purchased at mail-order-pharmacies, but shipping takes several days\n\nFor local pharmacies\n\n* Pharmacies are barely using digital tools\n* Orders (if any) are operated using paper notes or fax\n* Pharmacies can not scale (cap of 4 - 6 pharmacies per owner in Europe)\n* No digital tools to improve customer loyalty & retention\n\n\\\n**📈 The European pharmaceutical market is changing rapidly**\n\n* Telemedicine is expected to grow by 300% by 2027\n* E-prescription unlocks the market for a new digital patient journey\n* Pharmacies in Germany are already doing 120M deliveries a year without any digital tools.\n\n\\\n**✨ Our Solution**\\\nWith our mobile app, [VIVOLY](https://onelink.to/vivolylaunchyc), patients can easily order medication and get them delivered to their doorstep in just 120 minutes. Local pharmacies receive these orders in their Point-of-Sale (POS) systems and communicate with the patient via chat.\n\nVivoly is beneficial, especially for patients with difficulty leaving their homes due to mobility issues or underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to infection. The risk of transmission is reduced by allowing patients to order medications online and deliver them directly to their doorstep.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68308&key=user_uploads/1159560/c176ffba-7dc7-42f1-a4f0-857fec190e86)\n\n\\\n**⚙ How it works**\\\nIn most European countries, franchising is not allowed for pharmacies. Just like individual restaurants, pharmacies in Europe are one-person businesses. Without any state-of-the-art e-commerce solutions, it is tough for local pharmacies to compete with mail-order-pharmacies. This is true even though local pharmacies offer a much faster patient supply.\n\nIn Germany alone, there are over 120M deliveries done per year by pharmacies. Those are done without any digital process and are managed mostly manually. Compared to most retailers, pharmacies typically have real-time inventory management.\n\nSanvivo builds a marketplace that unlocks this existing infrastructure and delivery capabilities to enable a fast “quick-commerce” user experience. With our App, [VIVOLY,](https://onelink.to/vivolylaunchyc) patients order medication and get pharmaceutical advice via chat. Pharmacies are enabled to process those orders through our web app. Then, ready-to-pick-up orders are delivered by riders of the pharmacy using our mobile rider app.\n\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\n\n* Download our app (currently only in Germany) and share your feedback with us ([founders@sanvivo.eu](mailto:founders@sanvivo.eu))\n\n### [Download VIVOLY App](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1634607276?pt=125264050&ct=bookfacee&mt=8)\n\n* If you know great **working students** with coding, online marketing, or sales skills, please let us know.\n* **We are open to connecting** and cooperating with health providers.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hlk-sanvivo-doordash-for-pharmacies", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2023-01-10T12:22:21.191Z" } ] }, { "id": 28019, "name": "inBuild", "slug": "inbuild", "former_names": [ "inBuild, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/565db1f58d2ff6409bb5c8eb3aefcdbc3f515329.png", "website": "https://www.inbuild.ai/", "all_locations": "Wilmington, DE, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Aspen, CO, USA", "long_description": "inBuild boosts revenue for home builders by automating the thousands of invoices they receive for every project. 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[Ty](https://twitter.com/tysharp_ib) and [Ian Sharp](https://twitter.com/iansharp_iB) here from [inBuild](https://www.inbuild.ai/).\n\nOur team is building a platform that automates the workflow of financial documents by plugging into email accounts, extracting incoming documents, and processing them all the way into existing accounting systems.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/47d121da-2a70-4dfb-b36e-9af7ab09ab36)\n\nOver the last 12 months, inBuild has processed over $450M of invoice volume with over $8M flowing through the platform daily.\n\nCustomers rave about inBuild saying:\n\n“You often hear 'under promise and over deliver'. I don't believe that is the business model of inBuild, but they continually over-deliver.“ - Joey Zikor, CFO at [Finbro Construction](https://www.finbroconstruction.com/)\n\n### Problem\n\nFinancial management should be seamless, but construction companies are faced with…\n\n* high document volumes.\n* no industry standardizations.\n* complicated approval workflows.\n* outdated legacy software (yuck 🤮)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/b71952c8-eb4d-4d6c-bc97-8c2b92c153df)\n\n### Solution\n\nA simple interface that works for you not against you, by…\n\n* ingesting incoming emails.\n* customizing account details.\n* learning from interaction.\n* automating document lifecycles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/c39a25f3-9256-4a43-8e2d-ce0546f5c823)\n\n### Team\n\nTy was the CFO of a large luxury home builder and was working with real estate developers that collectively process over $250M in construction volume each year. His brother Ian was the Director of Growth at Gainfully, a Series A startup based in the Bay Area, and assisted in the company's successful acquisition.\n\nThe brothers teamed up to tackle this challenge after cold-calling over 2,000 home builders. What they learned was that a custom home takes 18-24 months to build and during that time the contractor will receive more than 18,000 invoices from vendors and subs, each with as many as 100 line items that all need to be verified and cross-checked to budgets and contracts. The process desperately needs to be automated and we have the backgrounds to make that happen.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70189&key=user_uploads/1115776/441f1209-cad6-4c31-a995-f7b161c267c0)\n\n### Asks\n\nPlease reach out if you know any…\n\n* [referrals to home builders](mailto:sales@inbuild.ai).\n* [talented individuals looking for work](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inbuild/jobs).\n* [connections to investors](mailto:founders@inbuild.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IG5-inbuild-financial-automation-for-home-builders", "votes": 200, "created_at": "2023-03-11T19:49:23.880Z" } ] }, { "id": 28037, "name": "Diffuse Bio", "slug": "diffuse-bio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/961a0aa4b25ffd0049a0526af8ad2406763125f4.png", "website": "http://diffuse.bio", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Diffuse is building generative AI for protein design. 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An important task in bioengineering is designing proteins with specific 3D structures and chemical properties which enable targeted functions. \n\nSo far, computational protein design methods have had some success — but have enormous limitations, the primary one being **low success in downstream validation experiments**. These methods are also painfully slow and scale poorly.\n\n### What we do:\n\nFor the past several years, I’ve been working on **re-envisioning the computational protein design toolkit with AI** in my PhD and beyond, with the goal of overcoming these challenges. Some highlights are the first crystal structures of [AI-designed proteins](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28313-9) (i.e. experimental validation) and the **first diffusion models** for [protein structure and sequence generation](https://nanand2.github.io/proteins). Below you can see one of our early models producing structures unconditionally from noise!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69997&key=user_uploads/459396/08cd90de-6450-4ebe-8873-a77d625e0ed1)\n\nNow, we’re **scaling up these methods** and **applying them to grand challenge problems in molecular design**. We’re able to handle a whole array of protein engineering tasks at the _push of a button_ — from loop redesign and sequence engineering, all the way to binder design and _de novo_ structure generation. \n\n### Curious to learn more?\n\nCheck out our coverage in the [**New York Times**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/science/artificial-intelligence-proteins.html#:\\~:text=Namrata%20Anand%2C%20a%20former%20Stanford%20University%20researcher.%20She%20is%20now%20building%20a%20company%20in%20generative%20A.I.%20protein%20design) and [**NBC news**](http://bit.ly/3JjgVKL), and get in touch at [info@diffuse.bio](mailto:info@diffuse.bio)!\n\n### We’d love your help!\n\n* If you’re working on any protein or molecular engineering problem, we’d love to hear from you!\n* We’d love **intros to pharma and biotech companies** working on problems in protein therapeutics, antigen design, and enzyme design. \n* We’d also love intros to any companies (preferably early stage) doing **high-throughput protein characterization** **assays** (yeast display, phage display, etc).\n* Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdamv0S3LB2cyVLJXT6QdCG2g71Lobwkw59qTYGullYgqg7bw/viewform?usp=sf_link) to **beta test** our first-gen protein design software!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICz-diffuse-bio-generative-ai-for-protein-design", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2023-03-07T05:47:09.229Z" } ] }, { "id": 28045, "name": "Peeba", "slug": "peeba", "former_names": [ "Kingmaker Limited" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1201a58c5de47a287ab4ea6a262a2598a1e6f3af.png", "website": "http://peeba.com/", "all_locations": "Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia", "long_description": "Peeba is a one-stop B2B wholesale marketplace that is changing the way retailers across Asia purchase inventory. 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I graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackylaihk", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/45aef4fd9efa9db471f019d5d1dd0fc5fa318fe7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 745223, "full_name": "Kevin Cho", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Medifly.ai. 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", "body": "**tl;dr:** Peeba is a B2B wholesale marketplace that simplifies the buying process for retailers in Asia, connecting them with over 2,500 brands from around the world at the best prices, with free returns and 60 days payment terms.\n\n👋 Hello everyone! We are Kevin and Jacky, founders of [Peeba](https://www.peeba.com/).\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Z8jALKdiHQaXA8YwXCDv9tYOySii1nPFLOWqAkbsav0X8egaQ3d0veCkDIZeYFsl5pvm3G7dUBT1QaQvL6XTOIX29d0_zlx60rkmtdoygpWQrs41aV1vONYLLRjx1yjecZoGL1qyhA5ANhCvG6e0Eac)\n\n**Problems:**\n\nDespite the growth in e-commerce over the last decade, the B2B wholesale industry in Asia that supports and connects retailers with brands languishes in the pre-digital era and lags behind in technology adoption - over 80% of wholesale transactions in Asia are still brokered over phone and physical meetings with sales representatives. Retailers face difficulty discovering relevant new products, it is risky to take on new products and very cumbersome to manage multiple brand/supplier relationships. The same applies for brands - going to trade-shows to entice buyers is expensive and inefficient. This problem is amplified in Asia where people are spread out across different countries, with different languages, different payment methods, different logistics infrastructure and non-transparent pricing creates many layers of challenges for retailers and brands to build relationships. \n\n**Solution:**\n\nPeeba addresses these pain points by providing a one-stop B2B wholesale marketplace that offers retailers in Asia access to thousands of best selling products with flexible buy-now-pay-later options and free returns. Our platform uses machine learning to enable discovery, allowing retailers to streamline their procurement process, automating many of the tedious tasks associated with buying inventory and simplifying cross-border logistics, making it easy for retailers to discover new brands and manage inventory. With our free return policy, retailers can reduce inventory risk and purchase with confidence, helping them to buy inventory that their customers will love. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69864&key=user_uploads/1119720/a04b3631-f594-4707-974c-4e2b9a0f72be)\n\n**A bit more about us:**\n\nWe kicked off our journey in mid-2020 and since then, we've been on a mission to make B2B trade simpler, connecting retailers across 13 markets in Asia with over 2,500 brands and growing! The more we dive into the complexities of the industry, the more driven we become to simplify wholesale for everyone involved. Our goal is to empower retailers across Asia to achieve more by revolutionizing the way B2B wholesale trade is done, bringing efficiency and simplicity to the forefront of the industry.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf you are a brand looking to expand your wholesale business in Asia, please reach out to us [here](https://peeba.com/brands).\n\nIf you are an investor looking to join our mission, please reach out to us here: [founders@peeba.com](mailto:founders@peeba.com). ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAq-peeba-faire-for-asia", "votes": 167, "created_at": "2023-03-02T05:47:09.677Z" } ] }, { "id": 28048, "name": "Muffin Data", "slug": "muffin-data", "former_names": [ "Muffin" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/114d8e98d0c660d1f014c3be491efb93b593f25c.png", "website": "http://www.muffindata.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Muffin Data is a turnkey data platform and reporting solution for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. 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These barriers are incredibly painful, costing **time, money, and manual effort**:\n\n* **Disparate data:** all your data lives in separate portals and is hard to combine in a meaningful way\n* **No automation:** almost **no data** in our space is exposed via programmatic API\n* **No standardization:** because everyone is pulling manually, everyone problem-solves in their own bespoke way\n\n### 📊 **The solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70143&key=user_uploads/1165044/91bbd312-7cac-4a53-816f-265620c70d99)\n\nTo solve this, we connect to your brand’s major data sources — **retailer portals** (daily sales for each store and product a brand sells) and **distribution portals** (shipments to stores and inventory) — to extract, normalize, and enrich the data for common analytics use cases.\n\nOur first product gives the end-user an easy plug-and-play dashboard to understand **velocity and distribution** at at the **retailer, store, and product** level. Under the hood, it’s the first unified data warehouse built specifically for food and beverage.\n\n### **🌱 Our backstory**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70143&key=user_uploads/1165044/4906d8a4-7c0a-4f1e-b002-a22ceb6ab3c2)\n\nWe ([Andrés Recalde](https://linkedin.com/in/andres-s-recalde) and [Sal Calvo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/salcalvo)) met building data warehouses at a startup called RJMetrics. Andrés went on to build data teams in the CPG industry at fast-growing brands like La Colombe, Gopuff, and Banza — and realized along the way how limited the existing data tooling for the industry really is.\n\nHere we are at Expo West 2023 peddling our wares for the first time! 🤘\n\n### **🙏 Our ask —**\n\n* If you **know any** **food and beverage brands** who would be interested in trying us out, we’d love an intro ([founders@muffindata.com](mailto:founders@muffindata.com)) and a chance to demo. 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Making sure tickets don’t expire is also necessary, so contractors avoid a ‘down day’ (a day where they can’t work, due to an expired 811 request). \n\nWith 43M tickets submitted last year by tens of thousands of contractors, this is not a small problem.\n\nSo we decided to fix it.\n\n### We’ve made handling locates a breeze for contractors\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Y04NyOXGt2o\n\nWe built Clad Locates to make it fast and easy to submit and track 811 tickets.\n\n1. **AI-driven narratives -** We use AI to eliminate the most time consuming part of submitting a ticket, writing a ‘narrative,’ (to describe the path that a contractor will excavate.\n2. **Bulk Submission -** Clad connects with the state 811 systems to submit tickets automatically, 1 ticket at a time or 15 all at once.\n3. **Automated Tracking -** We get data from the state 811 systems to build an automated automated tracker to monitor when areas are ready to dig, and when tickets will be expiring.\n4. **Expiration Notifications** - To prevent ‘down days,’ Clad notifies contractors when tickets are expiring and need to be renewed. 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Clad does this by streamlining everything from bidding through payments, all in one system._ \n\n> _Know anyone who works at a telco or data center?_ [_Reach out_](mailto:jason@withclad.com)_!_\n\n### The Problem\n\nDemand for high speed internet is accelerating, driven by the rise of remote work alongside new public and private investment. As a result, ISPs, data centers, and other operators are rapidly expanding their networks. \n\nTelcos rely on contractors to get this construction done. And with the rapid growth in deployments, there’s more need for them than ever before. As a result, telcos are struggling to find and retain enough high quality contractors, putting budgets and timelines at risk.\n\nIt’s no surprise telcos are having a tough time - the way they work with their subcontractors is broken at every step of construction:\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/T6CNj3VYdBdETF7lwV9IKA95DtBujw8pMwGmLEi3qpbrgmZidTyIJwn-NEh1WiEjORDd6hCEmT7L6cKdGhuDOjE7EcBcb_WOQciZj0f9Fwbc2j6Y-8Abh8TomWsj7ScYzKpt7qyqKi8BZbo_Va3cByQ)\n\n### Enter: Clad\n\nClad is a subcontractor management platform tailor-made for telecom construction. We streamline how telecom companies bid out and qualify subcontractors, track construction progress, and create, approve, and pay invoices too.\n\nOur entire goal is to eliminate the time consuming back-office functions that come from working with subcontractors. \n\nCurious how? Take a look 👇\n\nWith Clad, telcos get out of email and spreadsheets - speeding projects up, saving money, and getting the insights to improve construction over time:\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZFyNTkN1ZWfSZ60KsUFm_ibKme0xQLMg600PJ1dR0nF3_sjSrhFZQyCw6jHCP6QOJX85VotA6K2sbE0u-mN6-FlJt-XlcrXmYAiOGXnmP34rvHK8nIoThCUeV6UumCuj3Rh0iGlg-Y4xq-CgTz_Yj7U)\n\n_I’m_ [_Jason_](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrudin/)_, and I started Clad because growing up, I saw first-hand how time consuming and painful it can be to work with subcontractors. When I was younger, my mom worked at a telco. I’d regularly hear stories about projects that were delayed or over budget because of miscommunications or errors with contractors. Last year I met two friends in telco who were complaining about the same problems as my mom. Hearing that, I dug in to learn more, and was shocked to learn that not much had changed in the decades since then. I’m building Clad to change this status quo._\n\n_I’m excited to build Clad because today, it remains too hard to build new things. And with high quality effective tools, we can get more done, faster._\n\n### You can help!\n\n1. **Share this post** - you never know who knows someone in telecom\n2. **Connect** Clad to General Contractors, ISPs, data centers, or anyone else in telecom construction at [jason@withclad.com](mailto:jason@withclad.com)\n\n_Thanks!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5X-clad-software-to-manage-telecom-subcontractors", "votes": 116, "created_at": "2023-02-22T14:42:46.583Z" } ] }, { "id": 28071, "name": "Epsilon", "slug": "epsilon", "former_names": [ "Backprop", "planar", "Planar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e47843584052deeed1fa6de8329bc470a1152265.png", "website": "https://www.epsilon-ai.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Get answers to research questions with citations from the academic literature. 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Why?\n\n* They don’t use the most up to date information\n* They can’t provide citations to relevant peer-reviewed literature\n* They struggle to give detailed and comprehensive answers that are necessary for research\n\nMeanwhile academic search tools like Google Scholar leave researchers with hours of paper reading to find the one single nugget that suits their specific use case.\n\n**How Epsilon Works**\n\nFor a given search query, Epsilon will find content from top related academic papers to generate research-backed. Users use our product to brainstorm research questions, summarize papers, and find targeted reading material that they can use to learn new academic subfields.\n\nHere’s a demo of how it works:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74855&key=user_uploads/979098/1999826d-c35f-4713-81bf-421363979285)\n\nWe simplify repetitive workflows for scientists so that they can focus on producing ground-breaking research.\n\n**Get Started**\n\nTry it out [**here**](http://www.epsilon-ai.com/) or send it to someone who you think will find it useful. And let us know what you think!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JTL-epsilon-ai-search-engine-for-academic-research", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-09-14T15:38:00.752Z" } ] }, { "id": 28072, "name": "Helios", "slug": "helios", "former_names": [ "Holacasa" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1a19c2e4abf0702ea3bce9c8e6b7cffbae37f7d2.png", "website": "https://www.usehelios.ai/", "all_locations": "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico", "long_description": "Helios builds AI-powered digital workers that automate B2B operations for companies.", "one_liner": "Create your AI workforce", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1671041398, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Mexico", "Latin America" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/helios", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/helios.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Mexico City", "country": "MX", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/usehelios/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1a19c2e4abf0702ea3bce9c8e6b7cffbae37f7d2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 481616, "full_name": "Eric Yáñez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Mexico City. 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I'm super passionate about building and scaling products that add value and make a difference in people's lives.\n\nI've been a software engineer and a product person in my past role at OLX where I met Mahmoud to start Play.ht. My experience ranges from bootstrapping products to profitability, SEO, product management, and building and deploying end-to-end systems that deliver high-impact business value within constrained timelines.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hammad-syed-61040432/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/hammadh4", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0d916ecb826ad1155ea5b67c82605434f70e79f4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 14845, "full_name": "Mahmoud Felfel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-felfel-33024252/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9cfaf3c2cca3834641869691ca44f78e16f936ce.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "PlayAI raises $21M funding and releases a new voice model", "url": "https://blog.play.ai/blog/21m-funding", "date": "Nov 25, 2024" }, { "title": "Talking AI with AI | Greylock", "url": "https://greylock.com/greymatter/reid-hoffman-chatbots-talking-ai-with-ai/", "date": "Jan 12, 2023" }, { "title": "Fake Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs AI-Powered Interview Freaks Out the Internet", "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/fake-joe-rogan-steve-jobs-ai-powered-interview-freaks-out-internet-1751275", "date": "Oct 12, 2022" }, { "title": "Perceptron: Multilingual, laughing, Pitfall-playing and streetwise AI • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/24/perceptron-multilingual-laughing-pitfall-playing-and-streetwise-ai/", "date": "Sep 24, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 75648, "title": "PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The fastest generative AI Text-to-Speech API (+ YC deal)", "tagline": "A new blazing-fast Conversational Text-to-Speech model with <300ms latency!", "body": "## **TL;DR**\n\nWe are thrilled to announce the release of the _FASTEST_ Voice LLM to date! Real-time speech streaming from text in 300ms or less. Dive in and test it using our [Playground](https://play.ht/playground), [available SDKs](https://docs.play.ht/reference/nodejs-sdk), or these Replit demos for [Nodejs](https://replit.com/@MahmoudFelfel/PlayAPIStreamingDemo) and a [chatGPT integration](https://replit.com/@MahmoudFelfel/ChatGPT-with-PlayHT-Voices#index.js).\n\n**YC Deal**\n\nFor all YC companies, get 50% off API Plans for 2 years, [check it here](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/2051).\n\n\n\n# **Introduction**\n\nAt [PlayHT](https://play.ht/), our vision is to redefine human interactions with AI agents. Whether it’s for customer support or sales calls, AI tutors, or bringing Gaming NPCs to life, our goal is to revolutionize the way humans communicate with generative AI agents. \n\nToday we announce our latest milestone on the road to fulfilling that vision: the launch of PlayHT Turbo, a new version of our [conversational voice model, PlayHT 2.0](https://play.ht/conversational/) that generates speech in under 300ms via network and < 100ms for on-premise solutions.\n\n## **Input Text Streaming**\n\nPlayHT 2.0 Turbo supports input text streaming. This feature seamlessly integrates with LLMs, like chatGPT. Simply feed the output stream of tokens/words from the LLM and the SDK will process the tokens in the best way that can balance both generating expressive contextual speech and reducing the TTFB (time to first byte).\n\n## **Output Speech Streaming**\n\nOnce Turbo receives text, it starts streaming audio in approximately 70ms. However, due to inevitable network costs, users typically receive the audio stream within a 200ms to 400ms window.\n\nCheck out our demo showcasing the integration with chatGPT with both input and output streaming: \n\n\n\n## **Create Delightful Conversations**\n\nReady to redefine human-AI communication? Build the next AI Therapist, AI Tutor, Gaming NPCs, or Personal Assistant that actually sounds human? We built this API for you, get started now for free, and join our [discord](https://discord.gg/ZGganaStFq) and show us what you are building!\n\n**How can you help?**\n\n* If you have any connections or potential partners in the conversational AI, customer support, or AI agents space, please send intros.\n* [Retweet](https://twitter.com/play_ht/status/1714382990523167197).\n* Build cool stuff :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jg8-playht-2-0-turbo-the-fastest-generative-ai-text-to-speech-api-yc-deal", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2023-10-19T00:11:07.237Z" }, { "id": 69947, "title": "PlayHT: The Generative AI voice platform", "tagline": "Generate or clone voices and turn any text into human-like speech", "body": "**TL;DR At PlayHT we’re building our own Large Language Speech Models that are capable of generating highly expressive and emotional speech, and companies like Amazon, RedBull, Volvo , Hyundai & SalesForce use our platform to create voice content at a fraction of the cost without compromising on quality.**\n\nHello everyone, we’re Mahmoud and Hammad, and we’re building generative voice models that can generate true human-level speech that can be used in media and content creation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69947&key=user_uploads/382101/7ee43104-38e9-4f99-a931-031d8b084866)\n\nSome of the most common use cases of PlayHT are -\n\n1. **Voice cloning** - media and gaming companies use our voice cloning to clone actors/character voices and use them in post-production.\n2. **Voiceovers** - from YouTubers to training & Elearning teams at companies use our platform for creating voiceovers for their videos, employees and customers.\n3. **API -** developers and companies use our API to create dynamic content or add interactive voice experiences to their applications.\n\n🎧 **Listen to these audio samples generated by our models** → \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69947&key=user_uploads/223804/4a67beb5-99fe-49a9-976d-04619509ab3b)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n* **Recording and updating** voiceovers is time consuming and tedious work. If you’ve ever tried recording one, you know what we’re talking about.\n* **Hiring voice actors** is **expensive.** They charge $100-$150 per 75-100 words, plus royalty fee.\n* **Updating** the audio in the future is a hassle because you have to get the same voice.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nHighly expressive generative voice AI with voice cloning capabilities.\n\nWe’re solving this problem by building **voice models that are trained on LLMs** so they can understand the context of the text passed to them. The models are capable of cloning any voice with near perfect results **with just 10 minutes** of recordings.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69947&key=user_uploads/223804/2e4d07e8-49d9-4ac2-ae1a-f9491065fa4c)\n\n**There are two ways we offer our models -**\n\n1. We offer a diverse library of 100+ high quality fine-tuned voices that creators can start using right away.\n2. We allowing creators to clone their voices and use those for creating new or update existing content.\n\n**We’ve built a text to voice editor and an API for people to access and interact with these voices.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69947&key=user_uploads/223804/920079ca-b9e7-4755-9827-3d90b678dc30)\n\n### **Our story**\n\n* We started [Play.ht](http://Play.ht) with a chrome extension to listen to articles.\n* As a way to grow, we built audio player widgets for bloggers that had a ‘powered by [play.ht](http://play.ht)’ link. This turned into a product that people started paying for.\n* A big problem bloggers had was to edit the text before converting it to audio. At that time, we piggy backed on other TTS APIs and built a robust TTS editor to help solve this issue.\n* People started using our editor to create voiceovers and we realized a bigger need and made a pivot to build our own TTS models that are now used by thousands of people from individual creators to teams at Fortune 500 companies.\n\n### **Our Ask 🙏**\n\n1. We’ve opened up access to our voice cloning tool for the launch period. Try cloning your voice and share an audio sample on social to help spread the word.\n2. If you run a popular YouTube channel, podcast, newsletter or have lots of Twitter followers - **we’d love to clone your voice** and show it to your audience!\n3. If you or anyone you know might be interested in using our models please introduce us to them or reach out to us.\n4. We offer an API that gives access to our voices, please try it out and share any feedback you have - \n5. Interested in working with us? Reach out!\n\nYou can reach out us at [hammad@play.ht](mailto:hammad@play.ht) and [mahmoud@play.ht](mailto:mahmoud@play.ht).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICB-playht-the-generative-ai-voice-platform", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2023-03-05T15:29:37.043Z" } ] }, { "id": 28074, "name": "Keep", "slug": "keep", "former_names": [ "Paladin" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca57c15ee63fa6b716d10d0f8f29a5e1732f44e4.png", "website": "https://www.keephq.dev", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel; Remote", "long_description": "Keep is an open-source AIOps platform. 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Check out our first drop, [**DBT copilot**](https://www.turntable.so/copilot)**.**\n\n### **🐌 Problem**\n\nDespite being one of the most important parts of a modern business, data transformation tools are often hard to use, slow, and uninspiring. Data teams spend the majority of their time finding the right data, creating pipelines, and responding to ad-hoc requests. With the added issue that recruiting data talent is difficult, data pipelines quickly become a bottleneck for product development and business learning.\n\n### **⏩ Solution**\n\nOur first product is a [DBT copilot](https://www.turntable.so/copilot) that allows DBT users to do in minutes what they previously could do in hours or days. Our copilot currently supports:\n\n* generating or modifying DBT code\n* writing DBT schema and documentation\n* generating code for sharing DBT models in BI or visualization tools\n\nWatch a demo of the copilot [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQpry2Ctok).\n\nIn the future, you’ll see us launch more features and integrations to make it easier to find and contextualize data within your analytics codebase and collaborate with your teammates.\n\n### **📚 Backstory**\n\nWe’ve all either worked on data teams or have been customers of data teams that have been blocked on data pipeline work:\n\n* Justin led commercial data science at Cruise where he managed a team of data scientists that spent 70% of their time managing data pipelines in DBT.\n* Ian was the tech lead for growth & data engineering teams at Pinterest and Stripe, where he had to build internal tools and hacks to get around data pipeline constraints.\n* Wally led product for Twitter’s Home Timeline team, which would often be blocked on the creation of new metrics and data pipelines- slowing down product development and learning.\n\nTogether, we started Turntable because we believe that generative AI has created an opening to build a new standard for data transformation tools.\n\n### **🙋 Asks**\n\n* If your company uses DBT, reach out at [team@turntable.so](mailto:team@turntable.so)! (bonus: we may help you save >50% on your DBT costs 🤑).\n* If your company doesn’t use DBT, we’d love introductions to data teams at companies that do", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HqB-turntable-transform-data-at-warp-speed", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2023-01-20T23:53:57.602Z" } ] }, { "id": 28079, "name": "Invopop", "slug": "invopop", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5903341d8e42bfa4053fabf5f02effd07eda7793.png", "website": "https://www.invopop.com/", "all_locations": "Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain", "long_description": "Invopop helps global companies like SumUp, Fever, and DeepL manage electronic invoicing across more than 25 countries through a single API.\r\n\r\nIn the next five years, over 40 countries—including all EU member states—will require businesses to issue invoices electronically and report them in real-time to tax authorities. 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Yes, every **single transaction,** in real-time (i.e. **electronic invoicing**)\n\nThis is **already required** in most **LatAm** countries and India, and the majority of **European countries** are making it mandatory in the next **1-3 years**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68825&key=user_uploads/1138452/fcc7d3af-be8e-41da-9e85-45dd7b4b4286)\n\n## **🎉  Our solution: one API, global compliance**\n\nOur API receives the information of a **sale in a simple open-source format** and **converts it to a locally-compliant invoice,** including\n\n* Sync with tax authorities reporting requirements (e-invoicing).\n* Generate a custom-branded PDF invoice and send it to customers.\n* Integrate with the company’s stack (e.g. ERP, billing, payments, reconciliation).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68825&key=user_uploads/1138452/457c38ec-ba3d-49b8-a18c-4f8e1ddc7fef)\n\nInvopop is already live in **Colombia, Spain & Portugal**. Many more coming soon: Mexico, Italy, Peru…\n\n### **🚀 Why we built Invopop**\n\n**Sam** was previously **co-founder & CTO of Cabify**, and as they expanded to LatAm, complying with the e-invoicing requirements became a nightmare. As he could not find a global provider to solve this, he built Invopop.\n\n**Juan** worked as a **consultant in Mexico** and was blown away by how complex the e-invoicing system was. When he learned this is becoming mandatory in Europe, he knew Invopop was needed!\n\n### **🙏🏼 Ask**\n\nIf you want to make sure your company complies with the new regulation: Schedule a demo with us [here](https://savvycal.com/juan-moliner/15min-public)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hu5-invopop-global-sales-tax-compliance-with-a-single-integration", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-01-30T01:47:23.981Z" } ] }, { "id": 28080, "name": "Tagsafe", "slug": "tagsafe", "former_names": [ "Tagsafe", "Swishjam" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d607b93f3da26fde36fd956fe7b3fb67f045e121.png", "website": "http://www.tagsafe.io", "all_locations": "Cincinnati, OH, USA; Remote", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1678306868, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "Automation" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tagsafe", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/tagsafe.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "Cincinnati", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/swishjam", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d607b93f3da26fde36fd956fe7b3fb67f045e121.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 77810, "title": "Revenue Analytics by Swishjam — Connect your product usage data to revenue", "tagline": "Pull in all of your core SaaS-related revenue metrics into a single dashboard to enable you to better understand your business and keep track of what matters most; your revenue.", "body": "Swishjam’s Revenue Analytics solution pulls in all of your core SaaS-related revenue metrics into a single dashboard to enable you to better understand your business and keep track of what matters most; your revenue. Most importantly, your revenue is now automatically connected to your user’s product usage.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77810&key=user_uploads/26873/84e0b9b4-523c-4c42-a7b2-48f85eeb3255)\n\n**How does it work?**\n\nSwishjam connects to your Stripe account, syncs your data, and calculates all of your most important SaaS-related revenue metrics such as MRR, churn rate, revenue retention, and more.\n\nWhen you enable Revenue Analytics in Swishjam, you get:\n\n1\\. **Revenue Analytics Dashboard** - data visualizations of all your key revenue metrics.\n\n2\\. **Automations & Slack Notifications** - because Swishjam is now ingesting your Stripe events as they occur in real-time, you can set up [automations](https://swishjam.com/solutions/automations) to take actions when important revenue-related events occur.\n\n3\\. **Reporting** - Get daily/weekly/monthly reports on your revenue in Slack or by email.\n\n4\\. **User Profiles Tied to Revenue** - we automatically tie user profiles from your product analytics to Stripe data. This lets you build a better picture of your customer without lifting a finger. We also roll up this data to organizations if your app has that type of billing. Coming in version 2 is the ability to predict churn from this data and catch zombie users before they churn to keep more of your hard-earned customers.\n\n**Why is this exciting?**\n\nSure, lots of other apps already have this type of dashboard but **none that we know of can tie this type of information together easily**. Currently, it’s quite painful and most usually a manual process. This is also a big step towards our larger mission of tying your disparate data sources into your product analytics data as a first-party citizen, automatically stitched to your user profiles, and creating a true 360 user profile. What this means is that within Swishjam, you will be able to easily sift, segment, and visualize all of your product analytics data along with your billing data (and other data sources!) to answer questions like:\n\n1\\. Which of my users’ usage is dropping off who are subscribed to the Gold Plan?\n\n2\\. What percent of users on the Free Trial trigger the {your aha moment} event?\n\n3\\. What were the usage patterns for user XYZ leading up to their churn?\n\nInterested in getting access? Drop us a line at [founders@swishjam.com](mailto:founders@swishjam.com) and we’ll get you up and running in a few clicks.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KF0-revenue-analytics-by-swishjam-connect-your-product-usage-data-to-revenue", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-01-24T15:34:14.849Z" }, { "id": 70623, "title": "Swishjam - Open-source suite of page speed optimization tools", "tagline": "We help companies measure, monitor, and optimize their page speed to deliver best in class experiences to their users.", "body": "Hey all - Collin here, co-founder of Swishjam.\n\n[Swishjam](https://www.swishjam.com) is a suite of [open-source](https://www.github.com/swishjam/swishjam) tools that enables companies to deliver the best experience to their users by providing them with the tools they need to measure, monitor, and optimize their page speed.\n\n**Page speed really, really matters**\n\nPage speed is one of the most important yet overlooked metrics to delivering the best experience to _all_ of your users. A faster page load is directly correlated with higher conversion, better SEO, and lower bounce rates. Amazon reported in 2006 that every additional 100ms in page load resulted in a 1% drop in revenue. Despite that, the page speed tooling is lagging behind, leaving users with more questions than answers.\n\nWe first encountered this problem when working with users in a past role watching them attempt to diagnose performance issues on their site. While page speed was a top priority for them, they often had to use legacy software, and/or hire expensive consultants to triage and resolve them.\n\n**A wholistic solution to measuring, monitoring, and optimizing page speed**\n\nSwishjam helps you identify page speed bottlenecks by capturing key performance metrics your users are receiving on your site. Our dashboards help you make sense of your overall page speed, and provides you with actionable insights and tooling to improve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70623&key=user_uploads/622150/fba9b8fe-a743-4318-abdd-79efe6954328)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70623&key=user_uploads/622150/4bebf3e3-89f4-466d-95db-391c1359feae)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70623&key=user_uploads/622150/1319cc5c-129a-4663-b194-61fc999f5da4)\n\n**Want to learn more?**\n\nIf you or someone you know works in eCommerce, digital media, or a related industry where page speed is important KPI, we’d love any intros! You can get in touch with us at [founders@swishjam.com](mailto:founders@swishjam.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IN5-swishjam-open-source-suite-of-page-speed-optimization-tools", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2023-03-29T17:38:10.086Z" } ] }, { "id": 28081, "name": "DAGWorks Inc.", "slug": "dagworks-inc", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/94a18b5c0cc3a340150d731fa97acee3a6a56ebd.png", "website": "https://www.dagworks.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "We’re on a mission to enable everyone to build reliable AI agents & AI applications. We're fully open source, and provide a unique integrated development & observability experience for those building anything in the AI space. This is the first step towards laying the foundations for Composable AI Systems; all AI systems need observability and introspection to be first class for them to be reliable.\r\n\r\nHow? We're standardizing how people write python to express data, ML, LLM, & agent workflows/pipelines/applications with lightweight frameworks. So that no matter the author, it'll be easy to collaborate, connect, and importantly in one line integrate observability and datastore needs. This speeds up time to production and reduces TCO because code remains easy to maintain and your data flywheel stays manageable. So you can increase the top line & bottom line of your business by delivering on AI that is reliable.\r\n\r\nWe've got two open source projects:\r\n- one focused on AI applications, called Burr (https://github.com/dagworks-inc/burr).\r\n- one focused on AI pipelines/workflows, called Hamilton (https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton) see https://www.tryhamilton.dev\r\n\r\nBoth Hamilton & Burr come with self-hostable UIs (+ enterprise & SaaS offerings). With a one-line code change, you get versioning, lineage / tracing, cataloging, and observability out of the box with Hamilton. 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A core component of this was Hamilton (https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton), an open-source framework for managing dataflows that DAGWorks's is now driving forward.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/elijahbenizzy", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/elijahbenizzy", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/376e0e11a4f37bad6d7e27c6baa103a0376f6dc0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69876, "title": "DAGWorks: Avoid Machine Learning Pipeline horror stories 😱", "tagline": "From creation to maintenance, DAGWorks is building a more human capital efficient way for Data Science teams to build and own Machine Learning Pipelines.", "body": "👋 Hi, Stefan & Elijah here from [DAGWorks](https://dagworks.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69876&key=user_uploads/1208898/cf51f7bb-c9a2-495e-91d8-afb1ddfc0192)\n\n### **TL;DR:**\n\n(1) At DAGWorks Inc. our goal is to make Machine Learning (ML) initiatives more human capital efficient. (2) Our solution is an open source SaaS platform for Data Science teams to build and maintain model pipelines, plugging into as much of your existing MLOps and data infrastructure as you want. (3) Star our open source project [Hamilton on github](https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton) and get started with it via [tryhamilton.dev](https://www.tryhamilton.dev).\n\n### **❌ The Problem:**\n\nAsk a Data Scientist whether they like inheriting someone else’s ML pipelines. 99% of the time, they’ll say no. Why? Getting ML to production is easy when you’re small, but when your team and codebase start to grow, maintaining these pipelines becomes challenging:\n\n* 😕 understanding code you didn’t write\n* 🐛 debugging production issues\n* 🏗️ migrating to new infrastructure\n* 🥼 handling personnel changes\n\nThis causes teams to spend far more time keeping existing ML pipelines afloat than innovating and driving their business forward.\n\nTo get out of/avoid such a mess, you need a high (and expensive) software engineering skill set, but for many that’s not an option. In our experience, this phenomenon is the biggest blocker to leveraging machine learning in your business as it grows.\n\n### **✨ Our Solution**\n\n(1) We leverage our open source project [Hamilton](https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton), which is an opinionated way to write python code (akin to what DBT did for SQL), that naturally helps teams follow software engineering best practices.\n\n(2) Using the DAGWorks Client on top of Hamilton, we can give you full insight into how your pipelines operate on the DAGWorks Platform, including:\n\nA **catalog of functions** - feature catalog anyone?\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/lDX_3El7R6_OdBZg_tfBekfl--qUUmsmm10wBFcZcE59wrTn01e2_U8Ns-LC73fCfsJ1kmGirfbZ6XT_T_uqniK7SyJsPPZt6BXb8byJCq_C6HNlFhsdOLdiPdyVWAwS18x4D2bAQhN19AVX4Ouga6w)\n\n**Lineage** - see upstream and downstream dependencies:\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EwfBtPJB1OkF3JtS_JATLshDFHTnudGU5qyn9TqZJ3i29LcZGw0pU4Xed3Yb-apaRETO2HqQY_mDCD1ucOt8MQA5VH0D7Q_uCW99uh90c72nbKEeY8dvn5ppH5zhM0i-PtKJHDfxEYwaojPezU1ZlE)\n\n**Debugging insights** - e.g. know exactly what code failed given an airflow task failure:\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j6gqllKW9oDbC9r8KC4_TRusN3MxSemIySmHq8PhSZnwOYGDwQ5ckwe-LIW4MFdtKtRfjpyCXlE_qTpQTT5boMbIDNfMgOz9huOG01UK0RuGQLFxTIR7YMuEAy5OfDuQJc-qDqdaGFLUy_9NR4nl3mo)\n\nAnd more like **data observability**, and **links with materialized artifacts** (like data sources, models, features, etc.).\n\n(3) The DAGWorks Platform becomes your ML Pipeline control plane. Use it to manage integrations with your existing infrastructure, as well as providing any reporting and compliance insights you need.\n\n### **⚙️ How it works**\n\nWith [Hamilton](https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton), users logically express what should happen, which helps avoid vendor and infrastructure lock in. Then with the DAGWorks Platform & Client, we make your Hamilton code run on your existing infrastructure, providing out of the box connectors to common systems, and provide insights post execution. By building on a solid foundation that clearly decouples concerns, we can avoid the problems that plague traditional ML Pipelines. This enables Data Science teams to move faster and do more themselves, making ML projects more human capital efficient.\n\n**👪 Founding Team**\n\n[Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/skrawczyk/) and [Elijah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijahbenizzy/) worked together at Stitch Fix where they built the self-service ML Platform for over 100 data scientists. They learned firsthand the troubles that occur building and maintaining ML Pipelines over a diverse set of modeling disciplines. Their work has been recognized by industry and included in books, newsletters, and was even the topic of a lecture at Stanford. Previously Stefan built data and ML systems at Nextdoor and LinkedIn and graduated from the Stanford CS Masters program with a Distinction in Research. Elijah built tools for quants at Two Sigma and studied Math and CS at Brown.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. Start with Hamilton open source today!\n * ⭐️ Star [Hamilton on Github](https://github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton)! Download it from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/sf-hamilton/).\n * Checkout out [www.tryhamilton.dev](http://www.tryhamilton.dev) for an in browser overview of Hamilton. A common use case is to start using it for feature engineering.\n * Don’t know how to leverage Hamilton – [book time](https://calendly.com/stefan-dagworks/15-minute-intro-call-with-stefan) and we’ll walk you through it!\n2. We’re looking for more leads to larger organizations that have ML Pipeline struggles, in particular if they have compliance/auditing needs for them. Know someone, or perhaps you’re the right person? Please email us - [founders@dagworks.io](mailto:founders@dagworks.io) or book [15 minutes here](https://calendly.com/stefan-dagworks/15-minute-intro-call-with-stefan).\n3. We’re still currently in closed beta for the DAGWorks Platform, but you can sign up for early access via [www.dagworks.io](http://www.dagworks.io).\n4. 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Contact us at [_yc@rivet.gg_](mailto:yc@rivet.gg) to get access to the closed beta!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70240&key=user_uploads/1203698/e8281ea7-b796-4b7d-83e1-91367747b058)\n\n[**Rivet**](https://rivet.gg) **is trusted by publicly traded companies to indie studios to serve millions of monthly players on our infrastructure.**\n\n**The Team**\n\nIn high school, we procrastinated our homework by building and launching multiplayer games together for fun. We always wanted to make building multiplayer games more accessible, so we started Rivet to do exactly that.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70240&key=user_uploads/1203698/b4463d5c-b8d6-4fe2-9e89-268db904ebfa)\n\n**Together, we built a small game studio and launched 4 games with one acquisition.**\n\n[Nathan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanflurry/) (right) independently built infrastructure serving over 15M MAU & 20k concurrent players while still in high school on games like [Krunker.io](http://Krunker.io) (acquired by FRVR). He was an Apple WWDC scholar from 2016-2018 and was featured in TechCrunch for his visual programming language.\n\n[Nicholas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaskissel/) (left) was a PM at the [Paradox.ai](http://Paradox.ai) R&D department to help built AI HR solutions for companies like McDonalds. He continued to work at Addicting Games as a PM on multiple multiplayer games and helped launch [Apes.io](http://Apes.io), a cutting-edge browser-based battle royale.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nModern games need game servers to support large lobbies, anti-cheat, low latency, and mobile platforms. **The need for game servers is growing, but** **studios have to build their own game server infrastructure from scratch.**\n\nTherefore, **studios spend more time building in-house game server infrastructure than adding content** when trying to launch games with game servers. This makes it unreasonably difficult for small to medium-sized studios to launch and maintain these types of games.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70240&key=user_uploads/1203698/5918c6af-05a5-404b-943a-66c4ccc9c276)\n\n**We make it easy for game developers to run their game servers on **[**Rivet**](https://rivet.gg)**.** We take care of auto-scaling servers, matchmaking, and DDoS mitigation so the developer can focus on adding content. Rivet works with all major game engines and custom server code.\n\n**Integrating Rivet into a game takes 4 lines of code in any language.** We provide no-downtime deploys with easy rollbacks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70240&key=user_uploads/1203698/49c025ec-b2b3-4148-8f08-55625dca99a6)\n\nOnce a game is up and running, Rivet provides a sleek dashboard for operating the game and streamlining DevOps. 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We’re Yuheng, Akeem, and Harsha, the co-founders of Thread.\n\n**tldr: Thread is incident management for large enterprises. We take the best practices from Amazon and Microsoft and make them available to all engineering organizations.**\n\n### **Problem ❌:**\n\nIncidents are the most stressful part of any live production service, and engineers are often ill-prepared for dealing with them… especially in large enterprises. As enterprises move to the cloud and microservice architecture, embrace remote work, and pick up increasingly more tooling for incidents, engineers face growing difficulty identifying and resolving complex system issues.\n\n* APMs, such as Datadog and New Relic, **overwhelm engineers with data and lack contextual information, making problem-solving a challenge.**\n* Customer support help desks, like Zendesk, **often provide inadequate information when creating tickets, leading to a frustrating cycle of questions for engineers.**\n* Alerting and ITSM tools, such as Pagerduty and ServiceNow, **alert engineering teams but often lack the necessary context for efficient issue resolution.**\n\nNot to mention, leadership still lacks visibility into incident details and progression.\n\nIt's like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces and no picture on the box.\n\n### **Solution 💡:**\n\nThe gold standard for incident management workflows is straightforward to describe, but it is incredibly difficult to implement in practice, especially at enterprise scale.\n\nThe four pillars are:\n\n**Detection**: identifying the bug using either a monitoring tool or a customer service tool\n\n**Routing**: getting the ticket to the right person that can solve the issue, using paging tools and communication tools\n\n**Resolution**: using context-providing tools like session replays and streamlined data providers to help solve the issue\n\n**Learning**: identifying the root cause of the issue and generating future workflows to more adeptly solve the problem (or prevent it from happening again)\n\nEnter **Thread:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69972&key=user_uploads/1146884/e2dd7ee3-17c8-45d5-a047-eb5305106c76)\n\nThread offers engineers a customized configuration management database with runbooks, past tickets, monitoring data, and recommended actions for diagnosing and resolving incidents.\n\nWe also provide real-time updates and summaries to leadership and stakeholders during critical incidents, identifying bottlenecks in workflows to prevent future issues.\n\nWhy settle for a single tool that might not fit all your needs? 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We are happy to share that Littio is live!\\\n\\\n🚀 [Littio](https://www.littio.co/) is a **dollar bank** tailored made for people in Latin America to fight devaluation. \n\n**Why we started this**\n\n300 million people in Latin America have no way of accessing basic financial services in U.S. dollars. We are financially cut off from the world. Access to dollar financial products is limited to the richest 1% and only them can effectively protect their money from hyper-devaluation. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68339&key=user_uploads/201195/800b4078-18be-4a6b-83ec-f9be1565d897)\n\nHaving lived this problem first hand for years, we want to fundamentally change the dynamics. People should have access to global financial services in dollars via technology.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nA dollar bank account that works from an app on any smartphone. With Littio people can:\n\n* Open a free dollar bank account in less than 3 minutes 💵\n* Get a Mastercard debit card 💳 \n* Send and receive dollar payments 💸 \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68339&key=user_uploads/201195/c35b782a-cc5a-4ba7-a846-590944c5539d)\n\nWe use USDC and traditional payment railways to power up this solution in a simple and easy experience for users.\n\n**Finally,** \n\nIf you live in Colombia 🇨🇴 and want a dollar account, download our app at [Apple](https://littio.sng.link/D89hr/y9ggo?_smtype=3) or [Google](https://littio.sng.link/D89hr/y9ggo?_smtype=3).\n\nIf you live in any other country in LatAm, send us an email at [founders@littio.co](mailto:founders@littio.co) and we can set you up.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HmF-littio-dollar-banking-for-latin-america", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-01-11T03:36:45.384Z" } ] }, { "id": 28091, "name": "Hindsight", "slug": "hindsight", "former_names": [ "NodeFlow", "Baseplate", "DealPage" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7937cfc67cd819742d4ef88a0139c7be4122cc00.png", "website": "https://www.usehindsight.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Hindsight's AI helps teams understand why they win or lose deals - and use that insight to win more.\r\n\r\nOur platform is used by teams like Ironclad, LaunchDarkly, and Klaviyo to build workflows on top of their GTM data.\r\n\r\n1. Build battlecards, objection handling guides, and case studies that never go out of date\r\n2. Create AI roleplays based on real conversations your sales team is having\r\n3. 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PM @ Logitech working on AI-powered meetings.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ani-gottiparthy/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d0b95748fdc135ec7b3904c74f7802d30f0cdfd1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 88481, "title": "Hindsight – Competitive Intelligence That’s Actually Intelligent", "tagline": "Win more competitive deals with simple AI-powered insights and workflows", "body": "Deals are more competitive than ever, and sales teams don’t feel prepared to win. Product marketing teams constantly get hit with questions like:\n\n* “How do we beat \\[competitor\\]?”\n* “Do we have a battlecard for this?”\n* “What’s our answer to \\[new competitor launch\\]?”\n\nTo find answers, teams have to dig through call recordings, piece together competitor research, and hope they’re making the right call.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88481&key=user_uploads/1213493/b87ca67c-de33-4a14-9dfa-28abc23ce023)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCompetitive intelligence today is **broken**:\n\n* **Prioritizing junk data** – Teams spend tons of money on web monitoring tools that flood them with alerts that don't actually matter.\n* **Ignoring the best source of intelligence—actual buyers** – Most marketing teams review **<5%** of calls and talk to **<1%** of lost prospects. That’s not enough to know why deals are really won or lost.\n* **Outdated content** – PMMs spend weeks building battlecards that go stale before they’re used. Sales stops trusting them, and adoption plummets.\n\n### **How Hindsight Fixes This**\n\n\n\nUnlike other CI tools, Hindsight prioritizes competitive insights directly from your buyers AND helps you collect it.\n\n* **Win-Loss at Scale** – AI analyzes 100% of your CRM deals, calls, and emails to uncover decision drivers, identify competitors, and clip key quotes from deals.\n* **Automated Buyer Feedback** – Hindsight runs unbiased debriefs with won and lost prospects to uncover how they really compare you vs. competitors—giving you the data sales teams actually need.\n* **Real-Time Competitive Intelligence** – Hindsight monitors the web and your other sales tools daily to build and maintain battlecards automatically.\n* **Just-in-Time Sales Enablement** – Insights and battlecards are delivered directly in Slack or email so reps always have the right info before their calls. Automatically updated as new insights roll in.\n* And a lot more!\n\n### **Why We’re Building Hindsight**\n\nHey, I’m Ani 👋. I co-founded Hindsight with one of my best friends, Andrew Luo. When I was a PM, I spent too much time **guessing** why we won or lost deals. Our roadmap was shaped by opinions instead of facts, and I struggled to get sales teams aligned with the right messaging.\n\nWe built Hindsight to turn every deal into a learning opportunity and make sure sales, product, and marketing are always aligned on the truth.\n\n### **See Hindsight in Action**\n\nHindsight integrates seamlessly with **Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Slack and other popular tools**, so you can capture and act on the right insights instantly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88481&key=user_uploads/1213493/be5da5a9-7e57-46d3-b273-13557e270c68)\n\nTeams using Hindsight see competitive win rates increase by up to **15%**.\n\nIf you’re in a competitive industry and want to stop losing winnable deals\n\n**→** [**Get early access**](https://www.usehindsight.com/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N17-hindsight-competitive-intelligence-that-s-actually-intelligent", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2025-03-11T17:40:13.824Z" } ] }, { "id": 28092, "name": "Dill", "slug": "dill", "former_names": [ "Lux" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6354365dd8a078eedfebf117d50c6ac01a2401b6.png", "website": "https://usedill.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Dill helps construction suppliers automate accounts receivable, online payments, and credit applications.", "one_liner": "Dill helps construction suppliers automate accounts receivable,…", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1676868805, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/dill.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6354365dd8a078eedfebf117d50c6ac01a2401b6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 339405, "full_name": "Catherine Jiang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Second-time founder digitizing payments for the construction industry", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/catherinehuijiang", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9322f32e5bb19715cdd4522adab3ba1893f4db95.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 95754, "title": "Account Executive ($150-180 OTE)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill/jobs/lK4vqF3-account-executive-150-180-ote", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$150K - $180K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 95755, "title": "Sales Development Representative", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill/jobs/PU1CUuB-sales-development-representative", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $100K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 113898, "title": "AI Engineer / Lead", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill/jobs/n13RHke-ai-engineer-lead", "location": "US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "AI engineer", "salary_range": "$160K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69694, "title": "🌿 Dill - Faster payments in foodservice distribution", "tagline": "We help foodservice distributors get paid faster & get time back on more sales", "body": "Hi everyone! Excited to launch [Dill](https://usedill.com/) 🤠\n\n**What we do**\n\nDill is a digital invoicing & payments tool for foodservice distributors. \n\n**The problem**\n\nFoodservice distributors are processing hundreds of invoices each day. Their biggest pain today is late payments. Restaurants often pay late due to missing invoices and proof of delivery. This is because of the way invoicing is done today – it’s still rooted in paper. \n\n**The solution**\n\nAt Dill, we’re bringing the invoicing & payments process online, and we’re built specifically for the unique workflows of the food supply chain. With us, our customers have gotten paid 20% faster and gotten 20 hours per week back on new sales & better customer service. \n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/KxWNLoQzLq6zbnAe05wfz564uhonBCmELjcZ4TeLnGyEGShYsdLonW7UHcgb5pXlyZy0RpXwqaPeHsxc1Mn5LlxKZ7fcehZatJoVxEHrNlff0gjnUIVtnddmCEg933BdaJoobQCgRVvnrod2MpTSwQ)\n\n**Our backstory**\n\nI’m a second-time founder, and b2b commerce is my bread and butter. My last startup in b2b commerce was acquired, so this isn’t my first rodeo! I have always been passionate about the food supply chain – I previously was a PM at Yelp and have always been a huge foodie 😋\n\n**The asks**\n\n🥦 Would appreciate any **warm leads to foodservice distributors**. If you know someone or know someone who knows someone, reach out at [catherine@usedill.com](mailto:catherine@usedill.com)!\n\n💵 Ping me if you’re also building in AR/AP. Would love to bounce off ideas and share learnings.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I86-dill-faster-payments-in-foodservice-distribution", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2023-02-27T05:56:24.934Z" } ] }, { "id": 28093, "name": "Common Paper", "slug": "common-paper", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1a5fd0218aaaf79164dd214261cfc4cec6d668f8.png", "website": "https://commonpaper.com/", "all_locations": "Philadelphia, PA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk.\r\n\r\nWe create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These are analogous to the SAFE, but are between customers and vendors rather than investors and startups. The standardized format means that data within contracts is structured from inception. \r\n\r\nWe build software for managing standard contracts, accelerating sales cycles, and making the data within the contracts programmatically accessible to other business systems.\r\n\r\nTens of thousands of people have downloaded our standard contracts, and 63% of the contracts on our system close within 24 hours.", "one_liner": "The SAFE for commercial contracts", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1671143047, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Open Source", "Sales", "Legal", "LegalTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/common-paper", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/common-paper.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Philadelphia", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/common-paper", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/UseCommonPaper", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076076826750", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/common-paper", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1a5fd0218aaaf79164dd214261cfc4cec6d668f8.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": 1205428, "full_name": "Benjamin Garvey", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO @ Common Paper. Formerly RJMetrics / Magento / Adobe / Betterment. Loves charts and Twin Peaks.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengarvey/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/bengarvey", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c76a1a77362c395ecce325293e9753715b7e0dc2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 71220, "full_name": "Jake Stein", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jake Stein is co-founder and CEO of Common Paper. Previously, he was co-founder of RJMetrics (acquired by Magento, then Adobe) and Stitch (acquired by Talend). \n\nBefore RJMetrics, Jake worked in venture capital, started a landscaping business in high school, and was the 44th ranked table tennis player under 21 in New Jersey; achievements of which he is equally proud.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakestein/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jakestein", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fe4eced33a0dc54b656cc2b6bcf6ac89f87d8730.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Common Paper's founders are halfway through Y Combinator's winter cohort. 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[Gerri is built for everyone with a stake in getting a deal signed.](https://www.getgerri.ai/) \n\n2 minute intro:[ youtube.com/watch?v=QL4nIETkZnY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL4nIETkZnY) \n\n3 minute demo:[ loom.com/share/ac7906243ce340159797af888488cb6b](https://www.loom.com/share/ac7906243ce340159797af888488cb6b)\n\n**Background:**\n\nMore than 10,000 companies have used Common Paper to close deals over the past few years. While the standards have helped, we keep hearing how painful the redline process is. The root cause is that contract negotiation is a team sport, but most tools are built for one player.\n\nMost teams end up in one of two camps:\n\n* Every redline goes to the attorney, which is expensive and slows deals down\n* Redlines get triaged first, usually by someone in sales or ops, and contracts are one of 10 things they have on their plate\n\nWhat's missing is a system where AI does the first read, loops in the right people when needed, and pulls all of their feedback into a new draft that can be sent back to the other side. \n\nThat's Gerri.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99518&key=user_uploads/71220/c7e0519b-5c7b-46d2-8456-3ecbb0a4b5b4)\n\n\n**How it works:**\n\nContracts get into Gerri three ways: upload, forwarded email, or direct inbox scanning. From there:\n\n* Gerri reads every redline against your playbook and automatically accepts, rejects, or counterproposes anything it can handle\n* Anything outside the playbook gets routed to the right person. That might be legal for indemnity questions, finance for payment terms, VP of Sales for commercial terms, etc.\n* Every AI decision cites the specific playbook rule behind it; every human override is logged\n* Gerri edits the Word doc directly and can add comments in your name, explaining the reasoning to the other side\n\nGerri typically reviews contracts before you even know they've arrived. You'll open your inbox, see a contract, and find it's already been handled.\n\n**What's new in 2.0:**\n\n* 10X faster processing engine. 90% of contracts reviewed in under 3 minutes.\n* Any contract type: your paper, their paper, standard or custom agreements\n* Personality Settings: set custom instructions that guide Gerri's behavior across all contracts, without editing individual playbook rules\n* Template Improvement: Gerri analyzes your negotiation history and suggests changes to your outgoing templates that proactively reduce future redlines. The more you use it, the smarter your paper gets.\n* Optional attorney review add-on: flat fee, 4-hour turnaround guarantee, for when you need a human in the loop\n* Available as a standalone product at [getgerri.ai](http://getgerri.ai)  - No other Common Paper subscription required\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99518&key=user_uploads/71220/304536b5-ce30-400e-8036-e43eb4c63ce3)\n\nTry it free at [getgerri.ai](http://getgerri.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pt8-gerri-2-0-the-ai-agent-for-contracts-from-common-paper", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-07T16:48:35.875Z" }, { "id": 94771, "title": "Gerri - The AI Agent for Contract Redlines", "tagline": "Get your contracts reviewed before you even realize they’re in your inbox", "body": "We’re Jake and Ben, co-founders of Common Paper.  We just launched Gerri, the AI agent for redlines. [Try it out here and get three contracts reviewed for free](https://commonpaper.com/product/ai-agent).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL4nIETkZnY\n\n## Problem\n\nCommon Paper started by creating [standard agreements](https://commonpaper.com/standards/) that have been signed by more than 10,000 companies and used to close more than $100 million dollars in deals. We also make contract management software for customizing, signing, and tracking agreements with customers and partners.\n\nAs companies scale, more and more of their sales teams’ time is spent dealing with contract redlines from their customers.  After talking seeing the problem close up at countless companies, we found that most folks fall into one of two camps:\n\n* Every contract redline gets sent to their attorney, which is expensive and adds delays\n* Nothing gets sent to the attorney, and the founder, sales, ops, or other non-lawyer handles all redlines. This creates a significant risk when they don’t know what they don’t know about risks in contracts\n\nA better approach is to have AI do a first read of each contract and then triage the redlines so that as much as possible is handled automatically, and then if anything remains, assign it to the right person. That’s what we built with Gerri.\n\n## Solution\n\nThere are three ways contracts get into Gerri:\n\n* Upload\n* Forward an email with attachment\n* Have Gerri scan your team’s inboxes for redlined contracts and automatically review them as they come in\n\nOnce Gerri gets a contract, it compares it to your playbook, which contains rules about what you will and won’t accept, how you respond to asks, comments to leave in the doc, etc. Gerri includes a demo playbook to help you get started, and you can chat or answer questions to have Gerri help you generate your own custom rules.\n\nGerri then either\n\n* Responds with a clean contract that’s ready to send back to the other side.  Gerri automatically accepts, rejects, counter-proposes, and leaves comments for the other side.  \n* Flags which redlines can’t be handled automatically, and notifies the right people for them to weigh in. For example, it might be your lawyer for indemnity issues, CS lead for renewal terms, and IT for special security procedures/certifications.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94771&key=user_uploads/71220/c61e5a05-75a4-4f95-a66d-cf4f618bb057)\n\nEach time a human weighs in, they can make a decision for just this one case or have Gerri generate a rule to handle this decision going forward. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94771&key=user_uploads/71220/a1877eb9-5798-4ba5-8b31-eac429cd02b1)\n\nThe end result is your contracts get reviewed before you even realize they’re in your inbox, and deals close faster.\n\n[Check out Gerri and get three contracts reviewed for free. ](https://commonpaper.com/product/ai-agent) \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94771&key=user_uploads/71220/8cd882ae-a79f-4280-8303-da34655ee66b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OeZ-gerri-the-ai-agent-for-contract-redlines", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-10-20T16:10:06.039Z" }, { "id": 68207, "title": "📃 Common Paper - Faster sales with standard contracts & structured data 📃", "tagline": "Common Paper helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. ", "body": "TLDR: If you want to close deals faster/shorten your sales cycles with standardized contracts and a platform that helps eliminate back and forth, [we’d love for you to try us out](https://commonpaper.com/)!\n\n# Background\n\nWe (Jake and Ben) met while working together at a BI startup called RJMetrics. Jake was a co-founder, and Ben was an engineering leader. At that job and others, we were incredibly **frustrated by contract negotiation**. The process was filled with:\n\n* **⏳ Unpredictable delays**\n* **💰 Huge legal bills**\n* **🥽 Extremely limited visibility**\n\nWe realized that founders and go-to-market teams have many of the same problems with sales that were widespread in startup fundraising before the introduction of the SAFE. Each company has a unique sales or procurement contract (and NDA, DPA, etc).  People argue over whose template to use, and **no matter who wins that argument, one side of the deal has to review and negotiate a new contract for the first time**.\n\nThe same basic ideas show up in all contracts about a given type of transaction, but they are expressed totally differently.  As an example, take governing law, one of the simplest terms in most contracts.  These are real examples from four contracts, showing four different ways describe governing law:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68207&key=user_uploads/71220/b869c8db-5099-478e-855d-b34c5b28bf55)\n\n# Standard Contracts & Structured Data\n\nTo solve this, we looked to the SAFE and other widely used contracts for inspiration and created standard, open-source contracts for buying and selling software, including:\n\n* [Design Partner Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/design-partner-agreement/)\n* [Mutual NDA](https://commonpaper.com/standards/mutual-nda/)\n* [Terms of Service](https://commonpaper.com/standards/terms-of-service/)\n* [Cloud Service Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/) \n* [Data Processing Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/data-processing-agreement/), [Service Level Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/service-level-agreement/), and more\n\nThese contracts have been downloaded by thousands of companies, are created by a committee of attorneys, and are free to use under a Creative Commons license. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68207&key=user_uploads/71220/bc9fd4c5-56c8-48ed-8ab2-dd024fa5b974)\n\nUsing standard contracts reduces back and forth, accelerates sales cycles, and makes it easier for everyone involved to understand what the contracts actually mean.\n\nIn addition to the contracts themselves, we’ve built a new kind of [contract management platform](https://commonpaper.com/product/) for startups.  It makes automation, negotiation, and programmatic access to contract data all way faster and easier than ever before. These kinds of tools have traditionally been built for managing unstructured text, and we’ve built Common Paper on top of the **standards and structured data**. \n\n**⌚ 63% of the deals on our platform close within 24 hours ⏲️**\n\nWe also built the [SaaS Agreement Toolkit](https://commonpaper.com/resources/saas-agreement-toolkit), which combines the standard agreements with step by step guides to help founders:\n\n* Choose which contracts to use based on their stage and business model\n* Understand the meaning of different terms within the contracts\n\nThe toolkit also includes a benchmark report based on the real contracts of more than 150 companies, with data on what positions are most common and how different terms influence the odds of getting your contract signed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68207&key=user_uploads/71220/b4ae10b3-d5bf-4439-b700-df82cb92e521)\n\nIf you want to shorten your sales cycle, save money, and reduce risk with standardized contracts and a platform that helps eliminate back and forth, [we’d love for you to try us out](https://commonpaper.com/)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hk7-common-paper-faster-sales-with-standard-contracts-structured-data", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2023-01-05T15:31:08.561Z" } ] }, { "id": 28094, "name": "Constant", "slug": "constant", "former_names": [ "Jottix" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0f3c94a7859923f3ba272902a34a8093dda07dd.png", "website": "https://useconstant.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Institutional-grade AI, replicating a team of top analysts.", "one_liner": "AI Analysts for the Buy-Side", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Asset Management", "launched_at": 1677744392, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Asset Management" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/constant", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/constant.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/useconstant", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0f3c94a7859923f3ba272902a34a8093dda07dd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 690279, "full_name": "Ben Sender", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ben previously worked at Silver Point, a hedge fund run by the former heads of Goldman Sachs Special Situations, Goldman High Yield Credit and Goldman Bank Loans. Before Silver Point, Ben worked at J.P. Morgan, Blackstone and T. Rowe Price. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton, where he studied economics, computer science and philosophy. His thesis was advised by former Princeton President Harold Shapiro, and was presented to former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-sender-272813a4", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/258ffa5227188f15e83bd59da708425a591de57f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 28096, "name": "OpenInt", "slug": "openint", "former_names": [ "Map3", "Ally", "Evefan" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67a1ff68627d7db644256cf5b89e938213258bed.png", "website": "https://openint.dev", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "OpenInt helps teams ship product integrations in hours, not weeks, using no or low code. 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Phil also founded codeamigo.dev, which helps developers level up their coding skills and reached #1 on Hacker News when it launched.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/philiplondon", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/plondon514", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/745af5d7af866c9f2a26aa0a2867494080798251.jpg" }, { "user_id": 32370, "full_name": "Mark Pfluger", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Mark is the co-founder and CTO of Map3. Previously he worked at Blockchain.com as Head of Crypto Engineering, where he built and ran multiple engineering teams, contributed to the non-custodial wallet across all platforms (iOS, Android and Web), and led the effort to build the custody infrastructure across both Hot and Cold systems. Originally from Munich, Germany, Mark has been an entrepreneur since high school and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-pfluger-14734650/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/markpfluger", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c8b530687f196e9010469ae59262764979ea4cae.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83175, "title": "⭐️ Evefan — Self-hosted Segment alternative — 99% savings w/ Cloudflare Workers (OSS)", "tagline": "Self-host your own internet scale events infrastructure.", "body": "**TLDR;** Evefan enables developers to privately capture, transform, and deliver customer events at internet scale. Evefan is open source and self-hosted on Cloudflare workers. It can be configured either via our Evefan Console or via Wrangler. With Evefan, organizations can save > 99% when scaling events.\n\n**Need help scaling events**? Let’s talk! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83175&key=user_uploads/702191/93a130d5-d424-4400-aa4b-cf7b7873e01c)\n\n### ❌ Problem: Scaling Customer Events IS HARD\n\nBefore joining YC, I led a large portion of the Blockchain.com consumer product. At the time, we had the most popular crypto wallet with over 60M accounts. We only made money on a subset of users who used our ‘premium’ features. \n\nAs a result, **we could not afford to understand how free users used our product**. We got seven-figure quotes (😱) from the top vendors in the Customer Data Platform (CDP) space and tried to self-host several alternatives. Imagine a PM team considering whether adding an event is worth XXXX dollars. Silly. \n\nAll the products we self-hosted then fell over at our scale. We had to build our own, more narrow version for our use case. There’s a reason for it—you could even say that it’s a dark industry secret.\n\n**😭 Self-Hosting Is Meant To Be Practical**\n\nExisting OSS alternatives in the market are all built with massive multitenancy in mind. **They’re not meant to be practically self-hosted**. Most of them tell you in their docs to only self-host for toy projects or require overly expensive closed source ‘high availability’ add-ons that they can only configure for them to work correctly. That’s OK; they serve a different use case. \n\nLook at the architecture of the top self-hostable alternatives in the space. Imagine asking your SRE team to ‘simply’ set these up and keep them highly available (even with Docker & Kubernetes, it's not core work).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83175&key=user_uploads/702191/e695acc0-3cd3-4580-9e0e-38cfdcc543ac)\n\n### ⭐️ The Solution: Evefan\n\n1. **Segment compatible**: this means you can use the battle-tested Segment SDKs in your preferred programming language.\n2. **Deploy to Cloudflare**: Configure Evefan instance via our console with your Cloudflare API key or yourself via Wrangler. Evefan will create a bundle with just your destinations small enough to run on Cloudflare. \n3. **Transform and Deliver To Your Destinations**: We’ve made Bigquery and Postgres work so far. We also added Mixpanel just for fun. We’ve reviewed the top data warehouses and are confident we will natively support them.\n\nOver time, Evefan will become an indispensable part of your async events delivery infrastructure. Use cases like in-and-out webhooks, queues, pub-sub, and jobs are coming! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83175&key=user_uploads/702191/6a355a35-8aa4-4410-8701-72aef7a364e0)\n\n**😻 It’s 99% Cheaper Than Alternatives & Built For Scale**\n\nHere’s why: We follow a Bring Your Own Compute (BYOC) model. When Evefan runs in your infra, it roughly incurs $70 of Cloudflare worker compute for every 100 million events processed. This is 99.5% cheaper than Segment and similar alternatives! Of course, price is not the only reason people self-host. In Finance and Healthcare, for example, it is often the only practical option.\n\n### 🙌 Our Asks\n\n1. **Please Star** our Github repo ⭐️   \n2. **Let's Partner**: We’ve been working with our first two design partners and are searching for our next three! Does your organization process over 10M monthly events and struggle to scale? 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We enable creators to quickly generate music videos or B-roll that matches their content.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69403&key=user_uploads/1216864/cd976d12-1661-4738-9eea-fa5bcbb70c0e)\n\n# 😓 **Problem**\n\nContent creators often have audio content (music, podcast, etc.) that struggles with engagement on video platforms like Youtube, Tiktok, and Instagram. They want to use AI video generation to create a compelling visual pair for their content, but existing solutions are not accessible. A combination of costly hardware requirements, programming knowledge, and constant research upkeep prevents them from using the technology.  \n\n# **💡 Solution**\n\nDecoherence is an intuitive, no-setup application to create all of your generative videos. It gives creators the ability to work at 10x the speed: quickly generating B-roll content or animating their music in minutes rather than days. It works by analyzing structure in generated images, converting audio signals into motion effects, applying them over time, and stitching images together to make a full video. \n\nSee the full [product demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDlAyyQDuw8):\n\n# **🤖→🎨 Why us?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69403&key=user_uploads/1216864/f497f999-d57d-4287-9c12-2e3e7f8d7a78)\n\nWe are engineers with experience bringing bleeding-edge technology, autonomous vehicles and next-gen internet satellites, into production at a global scale. \n\nWe met at Amazon Robotics where we shared a deep appreciation for robotics because it was **software that _literally_ moves**. In early 2022, we found a similar spark when we typed in a few words and received back beautiful images from AI image generators. We think things are always more fun when they **move**, so we applied our background in computer vision to bring the images to life in the form of video. \n\nWe learned to turn tech demos and research into products used by thousands at Amazon. We’re applying that experience to Decoherence by building a product that anybody can pick up and use. \n\n# **🙌 Ask**\n\n**Interested in creating video?** Shoot us an email at \\\n[getaccess@decohere.ai](mailto:getaccess@decoherence.co), and mention “**YC Launch**”! We will bump you up the waitlist!\n\n**We are looking to chat with content creators!** If you know any that may be interested in a tool like this, we would appreciate an introduction. 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This means, any updates in your database will only modify the relevant portions of your cached API responses.\n\nThis reduces the amount of computations on your database & compute instances, helping reduce your cloud spend.\n\n# **🚀 How does SuperAPI work?**\n\nSuperAPI can either be deployed as a separate API gateway, or can run on top of other caching providers like **Cloudflare & Cloudfront.**\n\nThis API gateway listens to all incoming update API calls (POST / PUT / PATCH), and invalidates any API cache that could go stale as a result of this incoming update API call.\n\nWe also have a tiny docker container running within your network that listens to your database updates (using the replication stream or database triggers), which helps us catch any invalidations coming from internal cron jobs & batch processes.\n\nRead more about how SuperAPI works [here](https://trysuperapi.com/blog/how-does-superapi-work-clet0rvf1446071ko73x4q6qtr).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70198&key=user_uploads/11606/c7fdb60e-043e-49d6-b23b-e6123de076e6)\n\n# **📜 How did we get here?**\n\nBoth of us founders worked together at a Tiger Global backed Indian tech company before starting on SuperAPI.\n\nI was the first engineer there, and built out majority of the product & platform for the first couple of years. 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Don’t skimp on a good user interface; it’s the first impression you don’t get to make twice! Try it [here](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeParrot-ai.codeParrot).\n\n—\n\nHi, we are **Royal** and **Vedant**. We have worked as CTOs and EMs and started CodeParrot with a mission to improve developer productivity and happiness!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/bf10e92c-2a6e-442f-a81a-3343bca809e6)\n\n[Royal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/royal-jain) (on the right) loves computer networking and building compilers. Talk to me about all things computer science and football (soccer for some of you)    \n\n[Vedant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vedantsopinions) (on the left) loves building efficient user interfaces and cryptography (eth) and has OCD with coding practices. \n\n### ⚠️ Problem\n\nShipping fast often comes with cutting corners. When you cut too many corners, you end up going in circles. Just look at our old website \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/ada2d484-ada0-4248-a058-938611a65d31)\n\nwhich we are now changing to\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/b4c42892-e730-4845-9dfc-8834ceb0cdb5)\n\nBuilding a really good-looking product is hard! And with so many products out there, the user expectations have never been higher.\n\n### ⚡ Solution\n\nCodeParrot converts Figma Designs and screenshots to production-ready code. Why choose us?\\\n\\\n**We understand Figma** - we parse your Figma file to extract layout, style, and semantic information to give the most accurate results.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/11a99a0f-9b33-42e6-aa89-9002971deb94)\n\n**We know you have code preferences** - specify how you like your code exactly. Only once.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/9966735b-534c-4045-809a-a181061b74b4)\n\n**We build on your existing work** and reuse your existing components, libraries, and coding standards. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/badbb145-a7e1-42e3-ba37-0f4ccd119f38)\n\nAll aligned to a single goal to help developers build stunning UI lightning fast ⚡️\n\n### Getting started\n\nSimply install the product from [vscode marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeParrot-ai.codeParrot). 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Roboticist and calisthenics athlete. Previously worked on autonomous retail stores using computer vision, also worked on autonomous robots ((legged, UAVs, and crawlers) ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmad-roumie-1a59a417a/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/75d60a8965ff22709d30ee5a749911dd78f6d2d3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Food tracking just got lazy — in the best way possible — with this wearable | Fox News", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/tech/food-tracking-just-got-lazy-best-way-possible-wearable", "date": "Dec 22, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 86073, "title": "The Drop: Fully Automated Nutrition Tracker", "tagline": "The Drop automatically tracks your calories and macros as you eat.", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nHi there! We’re Rangel and Ahmad and today we’re excited to be launching [the Drop on Kickstarter. The Drop is our wearable AI pendant and app](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rangel/the-drop-fully-automated-nutrition-tracker) that automatically tracks what you eat throughout the day. \n\n[Watch the launch video here!](https://youtu.be/wa0rATqlnQU)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86073&key=user_uploads/635063/1041e0f0-9ce8-42e6-ad9e-885502231d89)\n\n# How it works\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86073&key=user_uploads/635063/356232f6-9e59-4216-afa8-b0f7c808b541)\n\n[The Drop](https://www.getdrop.ai) uses **computer vision and AI** to know when you're eating food. Once the smart AI chip on the device classifies something as food, the LED light turns on and the device starts recording what you're eating. Afterwards, the cropped image of the meal will be sent to the cloud for analysis. The algorithms will then break down your meal into **calories, protein, carbs and fats**, which you could see right away in the app on your phone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86073&key=user_uploads/635063/3d7365f6-f033-44b4-9867-59268af954c8)\n\n# Why are we building this?\n\nWe launched [Rex Nutribot on WhatsApp](https://www.rex.fit) in December 2023. We made calorie tracking as simple as sending a photo or a text to a friend. More than 20,000 users later, we learned that nutrition tracking is still not a solved problem. Every solution on the market requires **too much input from the user**, and most don't manage to create the habit to track what they eat. \n\nA real solution needs to be as **user-friendly and intuitive** as fitness tracking is. It needs to be a wearable that you can just put on in the morning and forget about. For that reason we developed The Drop: the first fully automated nutrition tracker.\n\nBy fully automating meal tracking we want to **enable everyone to learn what and how much they eat**, understand their eating habits and transform their diet to optimize for health and longevity.\n\n# The team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86073&key=user_uploads/635063/79e0e320-e8ee-4934-a7e1-0a4e5ebb6627)\n\nOur core team consists of Harvard and ETH Zurich engineers and we are backed by two of the largest and most well-known incubators: [Y Combinator](https://ycombinator.com) and [Entrepreneur First](https://www.joinef.com). Our co-founder and CTO, [Ahmad](https://www.rex.fit/contacts/ahmad), is a computer vision engineer who previously worked in autonomous retail with a Masters in Robotics from ETH Zurich, and our co-founder and CEO, [Rangel](https://www.rex.fit/contacts/rangel), is an AI engineer who graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard. We met at Entrepreneur First in Paris in 2022 and have been working together since. \n\n# Get the Drop\n\nYou can find more information and [pre-order the Drop by backing us on Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rangel/the-drop-fully-automated-nutrition-tracker). Pricing starts at **199 USD** and it is available in **3 colors**: carbon black, metallic blue and gold. Early adopters and beta testers will start receiving their devices in the summer. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86073&key=user_uploads/635063/bc268686-845b-4419-9d5c-ee88333bc390)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MOH-the-drop-fully-automated-nutrition-tracker", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2024-12-05T15:21:06.246Z" }, { "id": 75089, "title": "Rex.fit 🦖: Your personal AI workout and nutrition coach", "tagline": "The AI that helps you get and stay in shape.", "body": "Hi everyone! We're excited to share with you [**Rex.fit**](http://Rex.fit). We merge the addictive nature of gaming with the benefits of physical fitness. And we can't wait for you to try it!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75089&key=user_uploads/635063/639f56b0-2380-405b-95ce-fcca5714280b)\n\n## 💪 **What is **[**Rex.fit**](http://Rex.fit)**?**\n\nWe gamify workouts using computer vision and AI to provide immediate feedback on your workouts. By tracking your workout intensity, calorie burn, and repetitions in real-time, we ensure you stay engaged, challenged, and hungry for more. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75089&key=user_uploads/635063/44015f5d-d594-4346-85db-452f78d8dc49)\n\nWe also offer a nutrition chatbot that simplifies food logging through natural language processing, making it as easy as texting a friend to track your dietary intake.\n\n🎮 **How Does It Work?**\n\n1. Head over to [www.rex.fit](http://www.rex.fit), sign up and choose a workout. The weekly challenge or the fitness test are great places to start.\n2. Make sure your camera is on and stay around 1.5 meters (\\~5 feet) away from your phone or laptop - our AI will track your movements, count your reps and measure your intensity.\n3. You’ll get a final score at the end of each workout based on your performance. Head the leaderboard by beating your own score and that of your friends.\n4. Dive into our variety of gamified workouts. Whether you're into HIIT, or strength training, we have a workout for you! The weekly challenge is a great place to start!\n5. Visualize and track your progress using the profile page:\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75089&key=user_uploads/635063/c8de0795-3972-4ccd-8cab-6f18656d3efc)\n\n6. Earn points, beat your high score, challenge friends, and most importantly, get fit while having fun!\n\n## 🍲 **AI-Powered Nutrition Tracking!**\n\nWe understand fitness isn't just about workouts, so we're also introducing a Telegram chatbot you can text to track your meals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75089&key=user_uploads/635063/f534de8b-1eaf-45b6-bb41-3b2683873069)\n\n* **Text your daily meals** to the bot, whether they’re home-cooked, take-out, or store-bought.\n* We use LLMs to break meals down into ingredients and then query our DB to estimate calories, protein, carbs, fats, and other micronutrients, giving you a comprehensive view of your diet.\n* Say goodbye to manual logging and inaccurate guesses. Let our AI take care of your nutritional tracking.\n\n🌟 **Why **[**Rex.fit**](http://Rex.fit)**?**\n\n* **Engagement**: Turn workouts into games, making them more engaging and fun.\n* **Accuracy**: Ensure your workouts are effective with real-time feedback.\n* **All-in-one**: Combine workouts and nutrition in one platform.\n* **Community**: Challenge and compete with friends or the [Rex.fit](http://Rex.fit) community.\n\n🙏 **Join Us On This Journey** We're on a mission to make fitness accessible, fun, and effective for everyone. But we need your help. Check out [www.rex.fit](http://www.rex.fit), try our platform, and give us your feedback. If any of you are or know well fitness trainers, dieticians, or other people who would like their content to be on our platform, please reach out to us.\n\n🔗 **Links & Resources**\n\n* 🏋️‍♂️ Gamified Workouts: [www.rex.fit](http://www.rex.fit)\n* 🤖 Telegram Bot: [t.me/rex_nutribot](http://t.me/rex_nutribot) (you need to sign up on Rex first to gain access)\n* 👍🏿 Like and follow us on Instagram: \n* 📞 Chat with us: \n\nCheers to a healthier, more fun fitness journey! 💪🎮\n\n---\n\n_Note: Always remember to prioritize safety. Ensure you're in a suitable environment before starting a workout, and consult with a healthcare professional if you have any medical concerns._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JX7-rex-fit-your-personal-ai-workout-and-nutrition-coach", "votes": 169, "created_at": "2023-09-22T18:21:30.459Z" }, { "id": 68843, "title": "Babylog: A lightweight open-source logging library for computer vision", "tagline": "Easily log image and prediction data from edge devices", "body": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe’re excited to launch our new **open-source logging library for ML and computer vision teams**. With Babylog, we aim to empower engineers to **easily log raw image and prediction data from edge devices to the cloud (or on-prem servers).**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68843&key=user_uploads/635063/04dbb932-16fa-4e04-bc2c-b7a14f273ebf)\n\n## Problem\n\nYou need to know what your models are running on in the real world. Setting up that infrastructure takes away precious time and money. You need a standard for logging your data so that you know how your models perform. **Babylog (bah-bee-log) provides a standard where all device, model, and prediction information are coupled.**\n\n* If you don’t have a data stream from production, you have no idea what your models are seeing and no way to evaluate their performance.\n* If something suddenly changes in the real world and with it the distribution of your inputs, things could go very wrong so you’d likely want to know (i.e. stop signs suddenly turning blue = Tesla becoming a murder machine)\n\n## Our asks\n\n* [**Go check us out on GitHub and don’t forget to star us ⭐.**](https://github.com/thebabylonai/babylog)\n* Check out our [website](https://www.babylonai.dev), and play with our library and mock dashboard.\n* If you’re interested, have feedback or criticism, or think we should talk to someone, please either:\n * schedule a chat with us: \n * shoot us an email at [founders@babylonai.dev](mailto:founders@babylonai.dev)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HuN-babylog-a-lightweight-open-source-logging-library-for-computer-vision", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2023-01-30T18:19:49.406Z" } ] }, { "id": 28115, "name": "Vellum", "slug": "vellum", "former_names": [ "Vocify" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/211ce1fb908d8d56541fcc5ddfa4be47bd69dc5d.png", "website": "https://www.vellum.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 23, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1673626837, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? 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It connects to your tools, handles the logic, and shows you exactly what the agent is doing so you are never guessing why or how it works. To celebrate our launch we’ll be giving away free credits for everyone who signs up today (worth $100). Launch video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72TU43fauo4).\n\nWe’re a W23 company with deep experience running AI in production. We’ve built AI tooling used by teams at Drata, Redfin, Seeking Alpha, Headspace, and Swisscom to launch and operate real AI solutions.\n\n_That experience led us here._\n\nToday, we’re sharing a new version of Vellum, an agent builder for ops teams. You describe the task you want to automate, and Vellum gives you a working agent in minutes. It asks follow up questions, connects to your tools, handles the logic, and shows you exactly what the agent is doing at every step, so there is no guesswork.\n\n## Common problems on using AI agents\n\nIn 2025 I watched as our engineering team gained superpowers. Coding agents like Devin, Claude Code, Cursor seemed to move them to a whole new level. By end of year, 40% of the work was done by agents and their productivity is up 2.5x.\n\nThat impact never really reached the rest of the company.For those of us who are not engineers, getting started with agents is still hard.\n\nWhile the models are good enough to help with Ops, Finance, Sales, and Marketing tasks, there are frequent challenges that we’ve observed:\n\n* Too many off-the-shelf tools that almost work, but break in specific edge cases\n* Prompts you tweak over and over, but still do not fully trust\n* Logic that becomes hard to manage in drag and drop builders\n* Little guidance on what is actually possible with agents\n* A lot of technical setup, before anything feels useful\n\n**_There is a huge drop off in the agent adoption funnel and we’re here to fix it._**\n\n## The solution\n\nToday we’re excited to launch the new version of Vellum.\n\nJust explain the task you want to automate and Vellum turns it into a working agent (like Lovable for agents). Vellum will ask follow-up questions to understand what you need and connect to your tools. It handles the logic and makes the agent’s behavior visible, so you’re never guessing what it’s doing or why.\n\n### Agent: Getting from 0 to 1\n\nOnce you give Vellum your prompt, it asks a few follow up questions and builds a plan. For some use cases, it will ask which apps to connect and confirm access. When it has everything it needs, it creates the first version of the workflow:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96757&key=user_uploads/1020427/aea05991-1a72-42a9-9f21-f803c82a3616)\n\n### Console: Access run and output details\n\nAfter you have the first version of your agent, you get a UI that shows exactly how it works and what it does on each run. You can keep refining it with help from the agent itself, whether that’s improving prompts, adding new tools, or adjusting the logic.\n\nTo then test your changes, you can run the agent directly from the UI and inspect every decision it makes, like which tools it calls, when it decides to run a web search, and how it arrives at the final output.\n\nWe believe our agent logic is among the most reliable out there, and teams reach a working setup much faster compared to other agent builders.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96757&key=user_uploads/1020427/8c4b97e9-0e04-4920-9719-2ef967d6c74e)\n\n### Interact: Run manually, via triggers, API or code\n\nOnce you’re happy with how your agent works, you have a few ways to use it. Depending on your use case, you can choose one of the following:\n\n* run the agent through a ready made UI\n* vibe code your own UI with one of our integrations (e.g. Lovable)\n* run it on a schedule or trigger it through APIs or app events\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96757&key=user_uploads/1020427/77309dfb-ba7c-406d-b4ed-a38aa9d440f2)\n\n## Most common use-cases\n\nIf you want to try Vellum today, here are the common agent automations we’ve seen ops teams build:\n\n* **Content generation:** Agents around SEO and GEO keyword research, content analysis, and daily content creation.\n* **Sales ops automation:** This is where we’ve seen the most use cases in the last few months. From automated demo prep, to pulling account intelligence from CRMs, to analyzing sales calls and deals.\n* **Product ops:** Agents can reliably analyze support tickets and Linear issues, then ping the right DRIs to move things forward.\n* **Customer support:** This is where agents really shine today. They can classify all incoming tickets and surface insights, like the best timing for renewals, automatically.\n\n## What we ask\n\n1. **If you have one gnarly task that you’ve been putting out** we ask you to login to Vellum and try to automate it. Share your feedback in this thread or text me at [akash@vellum.ai](mailto:akash@vellum.ai)\n2. **Do any of these problems resonate with you?** Please share your experience in creating agents to automate your tasks. We would love to learn more!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PAb-vellum-for-agents", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-01-14T17:26:33.481Z" }, { "id": 74014, "title": "Vellum Workflows – Quickly prototype and deploy AI chains", "tagline": "Quickly prototype, deploy, and manage complex chains of LLM calls and the business logic that tie them together.", "body": "Hello hello! We’re Noa Flaherty, Akash Sharma, and Sidd Seethepalli from [Vellum](https://www.vellum.ai/).\n\n**Tl;dr** \"Workflows\" is a new product in Vellum's LLM dev platform that helps you quickly prototype, deploy, and manage complex chains of LLM calls and the business logic that tie them together. We solve the \"whack-a-mole\" problem encountered by companies that use popular open source frameworks to build AI applications, but are scared to make changes for fear of introducing regressions in production.\n\n**The Problem 😰: Many AI use-cases require chains of prompts, but experimentation and productionization of complex chains is hard.**\n\nWe have helped dozens of customers take their AI prototypes to production by delivering tools for efficient prompt engineering, tightly integrated semantic search, prompt versioning, and performance monitoring. However, as the AI industry matures, we’ve found that more and more real-world use-cases require multi-step flows across actions like semantic search, multiple prompts/LLM calls, and bespoke business logic.\n\nFor example, if building a customer-support chatbot, you may want to:\n\n1. Use a fast, low-cost, model to categorize an incoming user question\n2. Depending on the categorization, query against a different index in a vector store to return relevant context about how to answer the question\n3. Feed that context into a prompt that’s been tuned to answer accurately about that topic\n4. Feed the output of that prompt into another that rephrases using your brand voice\n5. Finally, return the answer to your end user\n\nUnfortunately, existing tools and frameworks don’t make it easy to:\n\n1. Rapidly experiment with these chains both step-by-step and end-to-end – especially if you’re non-technical\n2. Make changes with confidence once in production and avoid regressions\n3. Gain visibility into the performance of the system both as a whole, and at each step in the chain\n\n**The Solution 🤤: A fully managed platform for experimenting with, deploying, and managing AI workflows that power your app**\n\nVellum Workflows provides a low-code UI for experimenting with and deploying LLM workflows to power features in your app.\n\nYou can construct a workflow using different “Nodes,” define “Input Variables” to the workflow, their values across different “Scenarios” and run with a single click to see the output at each step along the way.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74014&key=user_uploads/1213437/1d62e723-3e99-4eb5-b4bd-5b4eef082579)\n\n_Shown here is one of the workflows used in production by a customer of ours, Miri Health, for powering their health & wellness AI chatbot._\n\nYou get immediate feedback on whether your chain/prompts perform the way you expect without having to edit code, inspect console logs, or hop between browser tabs. You can validate that your workflow does what it should across a variety of scenarios / test cases.\n\nOnce you’re happy, you can deploy the Workflow directly in Vellum and invoke it through an API via Vellum’s python/node SDKs. Events for nodes that you subscribe to are streamed back using [Server-Sent Events](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_serversentevents.asp).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74014&key=user_uploads/1213437/18a82c70-6ee8-4cde-af75-183014f838a0)\n\n_Invoke a workflow via a simple API. Use our officially supported python and node sdks, or roll your own._\n\nBy deploying your Workflow through Vellum, you can:\n\n* Mix and match models from different providers without having to integrate with each. Use the best prompt/mode for the job!\n* Have a production-ready backend in minutes without having to write, maintain, and host complex code and orchestration logic\n* Version your Workflow, see changes over time, and revert with one click\n* Get full observability into the production system, viewing inputs, outputs, timestamps, and more for the workflow as a whole, as well as each Node along the way.\n* Use role-based access control to determine which team members are allowed to experiment vs update production deployments\n\nMonitor how your workflows are performing in production, with the ability to inspect the inputs/outputs of the workflow as a whole, as well as each step in the chain.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74014&key=user_uploads/1213437/da276020-b865-472f-a569-c767320a5667)\n\n**Looking Ahead**\n\nThis is just the beginning! Our beta customers are already asking for things like:\n\n* A/B testing workflows for live experimentation\n* Test suites for evaluating that workflows are doing what they should and don’t break after an “improvement” is made\n* Composability via nested workflows\n* More node types for executing code, making calls to 3rd party APIs, etc.\n\n**Why Vellum?**\n\nOur focus to date has been to provide robust building blocks for creating production-ready AI applications. We’ve seen our customers assemble Vellum-powered Prompts and Semantic Search to create incredible products, version control and debug them using Vellum Deployments, and validate them when making changes using Vellum Test Suites.\n\nNow that we have the building blocks, we’re well-positioned to help you assemble them. Workflows has been in closed-beta for a few weeks now and we already have customers using them to power their entire AI backend in production.\n\n> Vellum Workflows give us the opportunity to really tailor different parts of our product to the end users’ needs without having to invest in tons of custom development, which has dramatically decreased our time to market. As a technical, but non-engineering stakeholder, I’m able to truly participate in the development of the product experience and help deliver personalized AI-powered experiences to customers faster than I could have ever imagined.\n>\n> **Adam Daigian, Product Lead at Miri Health**\n\nWe firmly believe that the best AI-powered products out there will be the result of close collaboration between technical and non-technical team members. We’ve repeatedly seen engineers set up the initial scaffolding, integrations, and guard-rails, while non-technical folks run experiments and tweak prompts/chains. No other platform facilitates this collaboration as well as Vellum.\n\n**Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Sign up for a free 14-day trial if the problems we aim to solve resonate with you. [Click here](https://vellum.ai/landing-pages/14-day-trial).\n* Share your thoughts and feedback on our direction in the comments below 👇\n* Spread the word with others you think this may help", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JFm-vellum-workflows-quickly-prototype-and-deploy-ai-chains", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2023-08-15T13:35:21.785Z" }, { "id": 69757, "title": "Vellum - Build production-worthy LLM applications", "tagline": "The developer platform for building production-worthy Large Language Model applications", "body": "**TL;DR** [Vellum](http://vellum.ai) (W23) is a developer platform for building production-worthy applications on LLMs like @OpenAI’s GPT-3 or @Anthropic’s Claude. Use Vellum to save hours on prompt engineering, iterate on prompts in production confidently, and continuously fine-tune for better results (we helped one customer save 94% of their LLM costs through fine-tuning!). Request early access [here](https://www.vellum.ai/landing-pages/request-early-access).\n\n—\n\nHi everyone,\n\nAkash, Noa and Sidd here. We worked together at Dover (YC S19) for 2+ years where we built production use-cases of Large Language Models (LLMs). Noa and Sidd are MIT engineers who previously worked at DataRobot’s MLOps team and Quora’s ML Platform team respectively.\n\nWe decided to work on Vellum after realizing that while the MLOps industry has matured rapidly for traditional ML, companies using LLMs don’t have any of this tooling available. Engineering teams spend many hours building custom internal tooling to tame LLMs, taking away time from building their core product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69757&key=user_uploads/1020427/c77e40f4-74d7-49b8-89cf-650548274362)\n\n# \n\n# **The LLM Management Problem**\n\nWe’ve seen companies building production applications with Large Language Models experience challenges at all stages:\n\n1. **Going from 0 → 1:** ”Prompt engineering” has become an important role in working with LLMs. Today, most people experiment with various prompts across browser tabs and the more diligent track the results of their experimentation in spreadsheets. Rarely do people take the time to test each variant across a sufficient number of test cases, let alone try different parameter combinations and LLM providers. Most settle for a sub-optimal configuration because the testing process is so tedious. Querying for semantically relevant context against a corpus of text to inject in the prompt is another large barrier for many people just getting started.\n2. **Managing changes once live in production:** Tracking model & prompt versions, keeping an audit log of inputs/outputs, testing changes to prompts/models before going into production, and measuring aggregate quality metrics are all critical for a production-worthy system, but all require custom code and non-trivial internal tooling. Engineers don’t have time to build out this tooling and instead, fly blind – never sure what their current baseline for quality is or whether “improvements” made to their prompts will in fact break existing behavior.\n3. **Post-MVP optimization:** Most people find a semi-reasonable prompt for _text-davinci-003_ and move on. But, they also acknowledge that with more time, they could set up a fine-tuning pipeline, experiment with other models/LLM providers, and try out new foundation models as they’re released to maximize output quality while dramatically reducing LLM provider spend. They’re paying a premium for sub-optimal quality and risk falling behind as new models are released.\n\n# \n\n# **The Vellum Product**\n\nWe have 3 products – each aimed to solve the problems we identified when building production LLM apps ourselves.\n\n### **Vellum Playground: Super powers for prompt engineers**\n\nCreate one “sandbox” per LLM use-case. In each, you can try as many prompt variants as you like across as many test cases as you wish. These prompt variants may differ in their text, underlying model, model parameters (e.g. “temperature”), and even LLM provider! Each run is saved as a history item and has a permanent url you can use share with teammates and track results.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69757&key=user_uploads/1020427/3a844278-c463-456f-ae0a-566ecbd29153)\n\n## **Vellum Manage: Confidently iterate on models in production**\n\nOnce you’ve settled on a prompt you like, you “deploy” it through Vellum. Vellum acts as a high-reliability, low-latency proxy layer between you and LLM providers. Every request is captured and persisted in one-place, providing observability into your model’s performance. Because the API interface doesn’t change, you can update your prompt (and even the underlying LLM provider!) without making any code changes. Previously made requests can be replayed against proposed changes to gain confidence prior to updating a deployment. All updates are version-controlled and you can revert to prior versions at any time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69757&key=user_uploads/1020427/437adec7-b675-459c-8148-fe7600c20c41)\n\n## **Vellum Optimize: Continuously fine-tune to improve quality and lower cost**\n\nOnce you’ve collected data in production for some time through Vellum Manage, these input/output pairs (minimum 100, but depends on the use case), can be used to fine-tune your own proprietary models for better quality, lower cost, or lower latency. Your data and your models become a powerful competitive moat. Vellum periodically runs model evaluation jobs in the background to see if we can find a different model that works even better for your use case. If one is identified, you can swap models under-the-hood – no code changes needed!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69757&key=user_uploads/1020427/72d1eb55-ddc8-4512-b674-1e409c4eb608)\n\nP.S: If you’re curious, we recently published a blog where you can learn more about the benefits of fine-tuning and how to do it. Check it out [here](https://www.vellum.ai/blog/what-is-fine-tuning-and-when-to-use-it).\n\n### **Trusted by companies on the bleeding edge of AI**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69757&key=user_uploads/1020427/f3a6ea0a-6b88-4b9c-81a6-8a4770e42e0f)\n\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n* Visit [our website](http://vellum.ai) to learn more, [request early access](https://www.vellum.ai/landing-pages/request-early-access) if any of these problems resonate with you!\n* Spread the word! Share this post if you know of others looking to build applications using LLMs who would likely benefit from our platform\n* If you’re thinking about using LLMs and would like to discuss your use-case with us, please reach out through our website!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I97-vellum-build-production-worthy-llm-applications", "votes": 95, "created_at": "2023-02-28T16:40:51.920Z" } ] }, { "id": 28116, "name": "Wallbit", "slug": "wallbit", "former_names": [ "Wallbit LLC", "Wallbit Pay" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/85e8ced1cd60b84efb4f8a3717bd9cac4572be69.png", "website": "https://wallbit.io", "all_locations": "Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina", "long_description": "Wallbit is a neobank for global remote workers, it offers them bank accounts in the US, a debit card, and an investment account to invest in bonds or stocks on the US stock market.", "one_liner": "Neobank for global remote workers", "team_size": 17, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "launched_at": 1677044894, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Investing", "Neobank" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Banking and Exchange" ], "regions": [ "Argentina", "Latin America", "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/wallbit", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/wallbit.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Buenos Aires", "country": "AR", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/wallbit", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/wallbit_app", "fb_url": "https://instagram.com/wallbit.app", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wallbit", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/85e8ced1cd60b84efb4f8a3717bd9cac4572be69.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/1ea575d0ca342402c06822ed38a98cd026cd75c3.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1021346, "full_name": "Rodrigo Vidal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Wallbit", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rodrigovidal05", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rodrividal_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/647ac9c6fb6e9a98473e24c1bd0c54a1d10b13de.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1021392, "full_name": "Tomas Bruzza", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Head of Product @ Wallbit", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasbruzza/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tomasbruzza", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0602cf95549e2e2310fec7b236877649a7d726c0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1238147, "full_name": "Braian Fritz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Software Architect @ Wallbit", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/braian-nicolas-fritz-887966144/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/braian_fritz", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/95b5d6bf741d1208ba0e7e8da2952c9b64be85d9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1021372, "full_name": "Martin Gira", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO @ Wallbit", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/martintg", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/martin_tito_99", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/acd37c71a62471c69176bfbf3f8c683b19afc504.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84746, "title": "Wallbit: US banking for global remote workers", "tagline": "Meet Wallbit; US bank account, card and investments for non-US residents", "body": "**Wallbit: The All-in-One Neobank for Global Remote Workers**\n\nWe’re excited to introduce you to the new version of Wallbit: your US banking app from anywhere in the world—without ever stepping foot in the US.\n\n### **FOR INDIVIDUALS:**\n\n* **US Checking Account**: Open a fully functional US checking account 100% remotely. No need for costly travel or lengthy paperwork.\n* **US Debit Card**: Spend globally with a US debit card linked directly to your Wallbit checking account.\n* **Investment Accounts**: Access US stocks and ETFs with ease, giving users the ability to invest and grow their wealth.\n* **Cash Management**: Earn competitive yield on your cash with low-risk options designed for stability and growth.\n* **Instant Withdrawals to Latin America**: Send money back home in seconds, saving up to 5% and many days compared to traditional remittance methods.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84746&key=user_uploads/1021346/47f1952f-aabe-4657-bf81-1e36a3022634)\n\n### **For Businesses:**\n\nOur new **Business Portal** allows companies to easily pay to all their contractors without incurring in swift bank transfers or paying high fees to other intermediaries. With no cost, businesses can now \"bankarize\" all their contractors, open US bank accounts to all of them and manage their payroll seamlessly in Wallbit or their own business banking (aka Mercury, Brex, etc.)\n\n### **🥳 Do you like it?**\n\nSign up now and let us know what you think! If your company is interested in using our business portal, or if you’d like to just chat and learn more, you can reach out to us at [founders@wallbit.io](mailto:founders@wallbit.io)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84746&key=user_uploads/1021346/2e7f1aff-2d18-4c75-b6e3-4794e53d06e3)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M2s-wallbit-us-banking-for-global-remote-workers", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-10-14T22:34:11.128Z" }, { "id": 69714, "title": "Wallbit: Neobank in the US for global remote workers", "tagline": "Meet Wallbit, a Neobank for non-US residents that also supports crypto and local currency withdrawals", "body": "**TL;DR:** Wallbit is a Neobank for global remote workers. We give non-US residents a bank account in the US where they can receive their income, and withdraw in crypto and local currencies around the world.\n\nHey everyone 👋, we are happy to introduce Wallbit!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69714&key=user_uploads/1021346/74112f3e-dbd6-4d80-b025-6b4e6c217aac)\n\n**🙃 The Problem:**\n\nAs an international worker, you have to figure out ways to receive payments and withdraw money locally. Some banks in Latin America don’t even support US dollars, and the **US financial products are not so accessible if you don’t live there!**\n\n**🌎 The Solution:**\n\n**⚡ One-Stop Neobank for all the needs of remote workers ⚡**\n\nWallbit not only helps you receive payments, but also helps you get immediate liquidity. **Imagine receiving an ACH/Wire bank transfer from your client/employer in your Wallbit account, and then having those funds available in your bank account in your country in just 5 minutes…** sounds good, right? That’s exactly what we do.\n\nNow, take a look to the rest of our features:\n\n1. Receive ACH/Wire and Swift bank transfers ✅\n2. Receive payments from payroll platforms like Deel, OnTop ✅\n3. Convert and withdraw in crypto or local currencies ✅\n4. Get access to a virtual US debit card ✅\n5. Invest in the stock market and US treasuries ✅\n\nYep, all that, and it’s live already, no waitlists! Sign up in [app.wallbit.io](http://app.wallbit.io) and get access to your US bank account for free.\n\n### **💪 Why us?**\n\nWe are a team of software engineers from Argentina who have faced this problem for years while working remotely for US companies. We’re combining all that understanding of the problem with our tech expertise to fill the banking gap between the US and the rest of the world.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69714&key=user_uploads/1021346/e30bd5b8-34df-4c62-b7ee-b0b0d0bb87c9)\n\n### **🥳 Do you like it?**\n\nSign up now and let us know what you think! You can reach out to us at [founders@wallbit.io](mailto:founders@wallbit.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8Q-wallbit-neobank-in-the-us-for-global-remote-workers", "votes": 188, "created_at": "2023-02-27T18:14:46.462Z" } ] }, { "id": 28118, "name": "Vocode", "slug": "vocode", "former_names": [ "Brush" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aad057fc105425dc8b99aca0064ab8e6964e0c28.png", "website": "https://vocode.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Open source voice AI.\r\n\r\nCheck out our docs for more information: https://docs.vocode.dev", "one_liner": "Open source Voice AI", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1677630945, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Generative AI", "Open Source", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vocode", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/vocode.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vocode-dev/about/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/vocodehq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aad057fc105425dc8b99aca0064ab8e6964e0c28.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/34c808535d8ad7173a1321fbec53a480ec8f79f2.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 782661, "full_name": "Kian Hooshmand", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Working on something new. 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Using Vocode, developers can integrate realistic voice AI in product flows or to automate interactions like phone calls in 10 lines of code. [**Watch our demo**](https://vocode.dev?utm_source=bookface&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=launch_yc)😀\n\nHi everyone! Ajay and Kian here representing Vocode – we are on a mission to build the most realistic, production-ready conversational voice AI to power the future of human <> computer interactions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69813&key=user_uploads/782661/2d32781c-f34c-4c26-8f70-c018e66a4255)\n\n### Problem: voice interfaces are useful but hard to build\n\nTo build a realistic voice interface, you have to orchestrate several pieces – speech recognition, AI/Natural Language Understanding, and speech synthesis – in real time while managing the asynchronous and imperfect nature of human conversation.\n\nBut voice is our most natural communication medium and is applicable in practically every industry (healthcare, sales, customer service, etc). Many products and services _would_ have voice interfaces or voice automation.. but don’t due to the complexity.\n\n### Vocode makes it easy\n\nVocode makes it easy for developers to build voice interfaces through composability. Vocode orchestrates everything in real time and provides tools out-of-the-box for common workflows.\n\nCompanies can now focus on their core product/vertical and use our library to dramatically reduce the complexity and engineering time required to build voice into their applications.\n\n### Why now?\n\nWe’re at an inflection point where speech recognition/synthesis/AI are all improving at breakneck speed and we think this will lead to a massive boom in voice interfaces. Vocode wants to be the developer platform for building these voice interfaces.\n\nThe existing market is either too focused on custom enteprise use cases or not easy enough to use. Vocode will make it 10x faster to build voice apps through composability and the developer ergonomics we’re used to with other dev focused products (eg Stripe).\n\nIf you’re interested in what we’re building, check us out at [vocode.dev](https://www.vocode.dev/) and drop us an email/request access to our private beta!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IA1-vocode-open-source-voice-ai-on-top-of-llms", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2023-03-01T15:49:57.823Z" } ] }, { "id": 28119, "name": "Fabius", "slug": "fabius", "former_names": [ "Fabius Technologies", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3146a62c7afd679b4aadd44a003d88caa00ec656.png", "website": "https://fabius.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Fabius helps sales leaders understand and improve their reps' performance by analyzing customer calls with AI. 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We identify the deals that won't be successful and make sure reps don't waste time on them.\r\n- Need to strengthen the business case for a deal: We tell managers and reps when a deal has a weak business case and show them how to uncover more business value in the deal.", "one_liner": "AI to improve Sales Calls", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1671052963, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fabius", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/fabius.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fabius-technologies/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fabiustech", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fabius-66e4", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3146a62c7afd679b4aadd44a003d88caa00ec656.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": 992464, "full_name": "Neil Madsen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Neil is the CEO of Fabius. \n\nBefore co-founding Fabius, Neil was the Head of Technical Services at LiveRamp, where he led all technical customer-facing teams (Sales Engineering, Implementation, Technical Account Management, and Support). \n\nHe has a BS in Computer Science from The Ohio State University.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-madsen-18a3755b/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/59e59bf705548a587c9bc6532f2aadf3f483c504.jpg" }, { "user_id": 630080, "full_name": "Andy Day", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CTO of Fabius. Previously lead the Pixel Serving Engineering Team @ LiveRamp.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkday", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/adayNU", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b08bf69ad518999a195ba021b27c03babcde78bc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69385, "title": "📈 Fabius - Unlock the power of your sales process and drive urgency to win more deals", "tagline": "We score every opportunity against your unique sales process by analyzing call recordings", "body": "**_TL;DR_** _- Fabius helps sales leaders take the guesswork out of their sales pipeline by providing visibility into their sales process. For individual reps, we provide just-in-time feedback to reps to help drive urgency and win more deals._\n\nHey everyone, we’re [Neil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-madsen-18a3755b/) and [Andy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkday/) and we’re thrilled to announce the launch of [Fabius](https://www.fabius.io/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/d80ac2d9-d0a3-4448-a5b0-656faa0d255b)\n\n**🫣 The Problem: B2B sales teams are often blind to how their sales process works in practice.**\n\nDespite having a well-defined process (like MEDDPICC), sales reps can often overlook key information, and view deals with rose-colored glasses.\n\nIdentifying pain, driving urgency, and gaining access to power are critical to successful B2B sales - especially in today’s market! Without visibility into their process, sales leaders struggle to make accurate forecasts, identify deals that are off-track, and onboard new reps effectively.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/8ecee57b-d85c-4bb6-819d-d8b0ed4ee007)\n\n**🔎 The Solution:**\n\nFabius uses data from customer intelligence tools like Gong and Chorus to overlay your company's sales methodology with what's happening in the field, leveraging LLMs to extract the ground truth around your opportunities. We score every deal against your company’s tailored sales process so you can replicate what works again and again.\n\n**For sales leaders** - this gives unparalleled visibility into their sales processes, so they can improve their forecasts, help course correct deals which are missing key steps in their methodology, and ramp up sales reps faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/5281e3e4-5b22-406b-9b01-ba28f58619c9)\n\n**For individual reps** - they get just-in-time feedback on their sales calls to help them drive urgency and win more deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/188dcb5f-5446-4ee1-ae91-b4ef2e5f5f06)\n\nWe believe that Fabius is the best way to take the guesswork out of sales and help sales teams become more efficient and productive. We are excited to get started and look forward to helping B2B sales teams succeed!\n\n**Our Asks!**\n\n1. Sign up for our waitlist by emailing [founders@fabius.io](mailto:founders@fabius.io)!\n2. Share this post with anyone who might need this (think Sales Leaders, CROs, etc)\n3. Chat with us! If this problem / solution space is interesting to you, we’d love to chat. Book time on [our calendar](https://calendly.com/fabiustech/15-mins?month=2023-02)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I37-fabius-unlock-the-power-of-your-sales-process-and-drive-urgency-to-win-more-deals", "votes": 64, "created_at": "2023-02-17T01:49:58.651Z" } ] }, { "id": 28127, "name": "Benchmark", "slug": "benchmark", "former_names": [ "BidSight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0dddc99c1f1c38c90b727d87cc7bb8d59dfad6be.png", "website": "https://withbenchmark.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Benchmark is the trusted AI platform for investment firms. 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Benchmark efficiently extracts, organizes, and summarizes key information from any data source in seconds while automatically building a proprietary comp database. With Benchmark, decision-makers can capitalize on opportunities with unmatched speed and precision. Visit _[_https://withbenchmark.com_](https://withbenchmark.com)_ to accelerate your investment process today._\n\n_—_\n\nHey YC! We are Alec, Connor, and Josh, the co-founders of Benchmark. We are on a mission to change how private market investors screen investment opportunities and utilize data.\n\n### **❌ The Problem:**\n\nInvestment teams spend thousands of hours each year reviewing investment opportunities that die. When deals die, all of the precious data and context that was painstakingly collected is lost in old email chains and folders. This data is a gold mine for investment firms but is currently neglected. As a result, investment teams spend way too much time focusing on low-probability opportunities, digging through old files for comps, and redoing old analyses.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution:**\n\nBenchmark automatically extracts, normalizes, and summarizes deal data from any data source. Allowing investment teams to quickly screen deals, answer due diligence questions, build comps, and gather context. Benchmark’s single source of truth for deal data provides a huge competitive advantage for teams by minimizing the amount of time they spend on low-probability deals and building permanent institutional knowledge.\n\n### **❓ How it Works:**\n\n* **Upload deal documents**\n * Documents from any data source, whether internal or external, are securely parsed in minutes\n* **Instantly screen your deal**\n * Review deal summaries, key metrics, internal comps, due diligence question answers, and highlighted risks\n* **Dive deeper into any area of interest with Q&A**\n * Ask any question about the deal, and Benchmark will provide accurate answers with instantly verifiable sources, reasoning, and citations.\n* **Retain and analyze all of your data**\n * Upon upload, each file has key metrics extracted - transforming previously unstructured data into a structured database ready for any analysis\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81006&key=user_uploads/1122874/8b8447dc-c49b-40cf-b413-4e59f97bd845)\n\n### **🙏 Asks:**\n\n* **Connect us** ([alec@withbenchmark.com](mailto:alec@withbenchmark.com)) with Private Equity Funds, Institutional Real Estate Investors, Private Credit Funds, or other private market investors.\n* **Test our product**: We would love to have you test our product if you do any private market investing yourself!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L4Y-benchmark-the-fastest-way-to-screen-deals-analyze-investment-data", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-05-21T16:57:01.742Z" }, { "id": 68929, "title": "BidSight 🏗️ - Modernizing pre-construction for CRE developers", "tagline": "Eliminate costly errors and meet deadlines during pre-construction, with the first project management platform specifically built for CRE developers", "body": "### **Tl;dr**:\n\nBidSight makes it easy for commercial real estate (CRE) development teams to manage and collaborate on complex pre-construction workflows. Today, CRE developers manually track pre-construction workflows across hundreds of project documents, which leads to extremely costly errors. BidSight’s platform acts as a single source of truth for development teams, eliminating errors and saving them millions. [Learn more today!](https://www.bidsight.io/)\n\nHi everyone! We’re Alec, Connor, and Josh from [BidSight](https://www.bidsight.io/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68929&key=user_uploads/1122874/e2f756ee-d963-4a1b-b098-b60906f34233)\n\n### **🚧 The Problem: The Pre-Construction process is broken**\n\nDuring pre-construction, commercial real estate developers rely on numerous stakeholders (architects, engineers, contractors, etc.) to help design, permit, and plan construction projects within their budget. However, development teams currently have to utilize a patchwork of non-specialized tools (email, excel, PDF editors, etc) to manage stakeholder workflows and output, creating error-prone, non-standardized, and siloed processes.\n\nThe current process forces development teams to recreate the wheel from scratch on every project and causes them to lose millions of dollars on each project due to error driven delays.\n\n### 📖**Background**\n\nAlec (CEO) spent 5+ years working for one of the largest commercial real estate developers in the United States and dealt with this problem on a daily basis. He spent a significant amount of time searching for a software solution that addressed his highly specific needs; however, none of the non-specialized tools in the market worked. After speaking with numerous other developers that faced the same problem, Alec decided to recruit Connor (ex-Square) and Josh (ex-Google), who have spent their careers developing software, to build the product he always wished he had.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution: Collaborative workflow and data management**\n\nA pre-construction specific workflow and data management platform that acts as the single source of truth for development teams.\n\n* **🧑‍🤝‍🧑Team Management**: Add your full team (internal and external) to a project, with clear permissions structures based on roles and responsibilities\n* **📅Schedule Management**: Create project schedules that update in real-time based on the completion of tasks\n* **📄Drawing & Document Management**: Upload all of your project drawings and our OCR engine will automatically categorize them, allowing for clear version control and change tracking\n* **✔️Task Management**: Assign, track and prioritize tasks, which are directly tied to project documents and deadlines\n* **♻️Templated Workflows**: Create templates and checklists for your specialized workflows to standardize processes\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68929&key=user_uploads/1122874/12194d69-7dc5-4da1-8d19-bfd9c968d4e5)\n\n### **💰 Opportunity: Value beyond savings**\n\nIn 2022, $1.8 trillion was spent on construction in the United States. Recent studies have shown that 75% of construction projects are delayed and less than 1/3 of projects come within 10% of their original budget. This means that there are hundreds of billions of dollars wasted each year due to project delays! Rather than wasting these funds, they should be reallocated to enhance our built world.\n\n### **🙏Ask: How you can help**\n\n* [Connect us](mailto:sales@bidsight.io) to US based CRE developers in your network\n* [Share BidSight](https://www.bidsight.io/) with your network\n* If you are building a company within the real estate & construction space, we would love to connect to learn about your experience ([founders@BidSight.io](mailto:founders@BidSight.io))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hvl-bidsight-modernizing-pre-construction-for-cre-developers", "votes": 75, "created_at": "2023-02-01T16:27:56.777Z" } ] }, { "id": 28128, "name": "Edge", "slug": "edge", "former_names": [ "Drift Bio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eaf8f081136d0802d1263079f90289e27869565f.png", "website": "https://withedge.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Edge uses AI to help IP professionals get their jobs done. 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We’re passionate about life sciences and the ability of software to transform the way life sciences do business by fixing their software.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68655&key=user_uploads/229820/89e8e191-d016-4642-a3a5-ac9392fe6fe7)\n\n### **Why life sciences software?**\n\nThe practice of life sciences has undergone more change in the past decade than the past century. Today, life sciences companies have to analyze large amounts of data without clear best practices, and this work is often done by hand and requires software engineering to scale. Data scientists lived that way too, ten years ago–but now they have tools to help them manage their overhead and output 10x more than their predecessors. Life sciences practitioners deserve the same.\n\nThe amount of analysis life sciences companies have to do is dizzying. Genomics, flow cytometry, scRNA, PCA, CRISPR, proteomics (do you prefer DDA or DIA?), and more. People need answers and breakthroughs. Software that requires life sciences companies to deal with this headache, instead of abstracting it away and scaling it across their whole organization, is a key bottleneck to success.\n\n### **Great, so how does Drift help?**\n\nDrift is a platform that is specifically tuned for life sciences organizations. We help you scale your work and make it easy to use.\n\nHow? We help you access popular open source tools, manage your workflows (even with custom code across several languages!), get into the cloud, store your data, share it with collaborators, and more, all without having to manage environments or clusters. All that in just one platform.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KgBFOBnezzIc8qdQAQdWvVADYXBqJ2LCEgtMK603O8j-Skmh9g9CjCxqaROi1XSlpMXNhVpg2_Llhf5YYGqGECuuOFi6JuAf9AGb9oWm1jbYFoSawv1gbek4Z29KQkqbA4wdC_WZNiQ9q1k0vTp0jtfHKs1nnsS8nlhGSPUM_2sjzkZQ3tdeWoAuSfvAnA)\n\nAt its core, Drift is a platform for data that creates different entry points for everyone across any life science organization to get their data in the cloud, analyze it, and make their work reproducible in a shareable way. We do this through our in-house management tools, which you can use to access popular open-source libraries or deploy your own software IP. By using Drift, it is all in the cloud and easy to use. And without even having to change your code, you can turn it into a GUI so that others can use the software. \n\n### **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you work at a life sciences organization, we want to talk to _you_! Tell us about your use case and we’ll tell you how Drift can help. 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[Get in touch](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) with us!\n\n**Our Story**\n\nWe are Yonah Mann and Tanvi Surti. We met while working at Uber, where we both worked on pricing technology. Our work cumulatively created over $1 billion in margin gains for Uber – and this experience made us realize that configurable revenue tools in the hands of operators could be incredibly powerful!\n\nSo, we are now on a mission to bring revenue optimization tools to retail, and build a fun company as we go along!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/5422d569-a5ce-4f8a-bbc2-1cf3c2a98268)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nE-commerce teams have to react to large swathes of data from multiple channels to build a pricing and discount strategy, such as  –\n\n1. ⛅ Seasonal and Market trends, with changing customer price elasticities\n2. 👯 Competitor price changes or promotional campaigns\n3. 🚛 Inventory availability \n4. 🚢 Changing manufacturing and shipping costs\n\n_And_, they have to do this across 1000s of SKUs and across multiple stakeholder teams such as Merchandising, Marketing, Revenue, and Inventory. This level of complexity makes changing prices time-consuming and inefficient, while still leaving money on the table.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/004e0bac-15fd-49c9-a3af-d7d20e6bc40d)\n\nWe replace fragmented decision making in e-commerce teams with our pricing system that organizes, recommends and measures outcomes, ensuring that every product is priced in a way that optimizes revenue and profits. Here’s how –\n\n1. **👀 Observe:** We connect with the customer’s sales and inventory data sources (Amazon and Shopify to start, more to come soon), and create a real-time view of customer elasticities and conversion rates. \n2. **👉 Recommend**: We feed historical sales, competitor and market data into our machine learning model, combine it with inventory availability and make recommendations for price and discount adjustments.\n3. **🖐 Act:** We bubble up the recommendations over email and Slack, allowing the business to quickly act upon the data and push the changes to production across all their channels.\n4. **⚙ Configure**: Lastly, we allow the business to configure custom rules, such as competitor-based pricing guardrails or wholesale-price-based constraints.\n\n**Asks**\n\n* If you work in retail and would like to try our product, please sign up [here](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) and we will get in touch with you.\n* If you know someone in your network who would be interested in this, please drop us a note at [founders@askluca.com](mailto:founders@askluca.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAU-luca-meet-the-pricing-co-pilot-for-e-commerce-businesses", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-03-01T20:37:56.184Z" } ] }, { "id": 28131, "name": "Untether Labs", "slug": "untether-labs", "former_names": [ "Untether Labs Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/89a118853f7ef1ffaf38dcc3929f98219859af74.png", "website": "https://untetherlabs.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Digital Clinics are facing an existential problem - fix margins, or die. 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We’ve built a digital clinic, and seen the tech they need to improve margins. Now we’re bringing this tech back to other clinics. For our first customer, we’re projected to generate $2.5M in revenue.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70128&key=user_uploads/1154826/3a55bc0b-c7d4-4dde-8c7a-fb1ae202191c)\n\n# **🤯 PROBLEM · MARGIN**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70128&key=user_uploads/1154826/d963c99c-02d2-4450-a2ae-1c089cdfc873)\n\n**Doctors (MDs, nurses, therapists) spend less than 50% of their day seeing patients.** Yet you, as a patient, can’t get an appointment 4+ weeks out. Why? … archaic software.\n\n**Care models for digital clinics have evolved**. Care happens over calls, texts, at-home, in-person and over state lines covering insurance requirements. Scheduling the supply of doctors with the fluctuating patient demand is too complex for billion-dollar clinics to be coordinating out of spreadsheets. So while demand for healthcare has grown rapidly, **margins are poor**.\n\n# **💡 SOLUTION · SAAS**\n\nWe help clinics improve margins through an all-in-one tool that offers better scheduling, reporting, and forecasting.\n\n**Scheduling** to optimize doctors and appointments across specialties, regions, and insurance regulations:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70128&key=user_uploads/1154826/bb5c456b-6bd3-450f-97ef-22ec6b18dd3d)\n\n**Reporting**. One dashboard to track margin, patient demand, and doctor utilization.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70128&key=user_uploads/1154826/82445723-5549-4b51-96be-4fe4e323fc7c)\n\n**Forecasting** to help Clinics prepare for fluctuating demand, and scenarios.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/zfBFMN1CovypldaZeRp2f-cQNnU5gntRFNhDA1ER14FlGtY7BaxdhyLRjGnOAJ5AhOPocejaKtfGdFcFFV4bxVGVyOyhMmTkKi_W4JGC-l3CbtvbfFbS68MBjtLaDbCGc5Pn7XR9YT-R1kJ2dA9NXR0)\n\n# **👥 TEAM · FOUNDER-MARKET FIT**\n\n[@Aditya](https://linkedin.com/in/sharmaed) is ex-Uber, ex-Headspace, Waterloo eng, and repeat founder. Team is filled with engineers who are ex-Uber, Meta, Apple, repeat founder.\n\n# **🫶 ASK**\n\nKnow someone in healthcare? Please tell them about us.\\\n[founders@untetherlabs.com](mailto:founders@untetherlabs.com)\n\n[UntetherLabs](https://untetherlabs.com/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IF6-untether-labs-smart-scheduling-for-digital-clinics", "votes": 168, "created_at": "2023-03-10T04:29:57.386Z" } ] }, { "id": 28141, "name": "highlight.io", "slug": "highlight-io", "former_names": [ "Highlight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d4301601e4f70936655aa2574a0bf0a798fe1bd.png", "website": "https://www.highlight.io/", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "highlight.io is the open source, full-stack monitoring platform. With just a few lines of code, Highlight makes it easy to understand what's slowing down your users and swiftly address errors and regressions on your web app. Imagine that you have a customer reporting an issue on your web app. With highlight.io, you can playback their exact interactions to reproduce the bug and get notified of any future errors that could happen.\r\n\r\nThat being said, we’re just getting started! We have plans to go way deeper into your observability stack to give you all of the visibility you need. Join us on this journey:\r\n- Star us on GitHub (https://github.com/highlight/highlight) to keep up with releases and news.\r\n- Join our Discord (https://highlight.io/community) to share product feedback and thoughts.\r\n", "one_liner": "The open source, fullstack monitoring platform: stop guessing why…", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1675367373, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Open Source", "Monitoring" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/highlight-io", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/highlight-io.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Seattle", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/highlightrun", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/highlightio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d4301601e4f70936655aa2574a0bf0a798fe1bd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 241768, "full_name": "Jay Khatri", "title": "Cofounder, CEO (acquired by LaunchDarkly)", "founder_bio": "I currently run the Observability business at LaunchDarkly. I was the CEO at Highlight, which was acquired by LaunchDarkly in March of 2025. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jay-khatri", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/theJayKhatri", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b9f1e7513e56139706e0a7fa29cc2cf7701527f0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1250975, "full_name": "Vadim Korolik", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Vadim Korolik is the founder and CTO of highlight.io, the open source session replay and error monitoring framework. A native of the Bay Area, Vadim previously worked at Pure Storage and drive.ai.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vkorolik/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/vkorolik", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/310d5870d701e4759b843740c85bf40bcf26f3e4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Highlight launches full-stack application monitoring platform, raises $8M | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/highlight-launches-full-stack-application-monitoring-platform-raises-8m/", "date": "Aug 15, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 68975, "title": "highlight.io - Open-source session replay & error monitoring", "tagline": "highlight.io is the open source, fullstack monitoring platform. We help engineers reproduce hard-to-crack issues, and understand how their product is used.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68975&key=user_uploads/241768/1b79410b-8b41-4e1e-8869-c4ccfe7d2130)\n\n## **TL;DR:**\n\n[highlight.io](http://highlight.io) is an open-source **session replay and error monitoring** tool that helps teams reproduce hard-to-crack issues and understand product usage. We enable developers to understand WHY bugs are thrown on their web apps to eliminate the noisy alerts they get from more traditional monitoring tools.\n\n[highlight.io](http://highlight.io) is already being used in production by **2k+ developers and 80+ companies**. Get started for free at [app.highlight.io](http://app.highlight.io) and give us a ⭐️ at [github.com/highlight/highlight](http://github.com/highlight/highlight).\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nHow many times have you gotten an alert from Bugsnag or Sentry, and dismissed it because you weren’t sure about what caused it? And how many of you have an endless backlog of errors that your team _should_ triage, but haven’t gotten to yet?\n\nWe’ve found that when debugging an issue or customer request, **the toolset that you use is responsible for delivering one thing only: context**. And if there’s any gaps in this context, engineers are left in the dark.\n\nTo solve this, at our last companies, we found a lot of value in instrumenting a session replay-like tool, (similar to Logrocket or Fullstory), paired with an error monitoring tool (like Bugsnag). In fact, we’ve built these sorts of tools ourselves to hackily solve the problem. Enter [highlight.io](http://highlight.io).\n\n### **The Solution: Session Replay 🤝 Error Monitoring**\n\nWith a simple `yarn/npm` import in your frontend and an optional import in your backend, [highlight.io](http://highlight.io) gives you session replay and error monitoring out of the box. This means that you can:\n\n* Replay exactly what a user was seeing at the time of an issue/bug.\n* Reproduce the browser dev-tools for every user session, including the network requests, errors, and more.\n* Access all of the errors and exceptions (both frontend and backend) thrown in your app, paired with session replay.\n\nLastly, given the privacy-sensitive nature of the product, we have a very powerful privacy API that you can take a look at in our docs [here](https://www.highlight.io/docs/session-replay/privacy).\n\n## **💬 What’s Next?**\n\nWe’re just getting started! We have plans to go way deeper into your observability stack to give you ALL of the visibility you need; that means logs, traces and more! Join us on this journey:\n\n* ⭐️ us on [GitHub](https://github.com/highlight/highlight) to keep up with releases and news.\n* Join [our Discord](https://highlight.io/community)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HwV-highlight-io-open-source-session-replay-error-monitoring", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2023-02-02T19:04:50.853Z" } ] }, { "id": 28158, "name": "Adventris Pharmaceuticals", "slug": "adventris-pharmaceuticals", "former_names": [ "Elimivax" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5c8bb0a987c29df94410bb9cc6ab7db9eb0d6478.png", "website": "https://adventris.com", "all_locations": "Baltimore, MD, USA", "long_description": "Adventris makes cancer vaccines. Our platform solves the problem of targeting poorly immunogenic oncogenes. Our first \"off-the-shelf\" vaccine targets KRAS, the most common cancer oncogene. In the long run, we envision a world where every adult receives our pan-cancer vaccines annually – preventing the majority of cancer deaths.\r\n\r\nIf you are interested in learning more about our approach to treat and prevent cancer, please reach out to us at contact@adventris.com", "one_liner": "Adventris makes cancer vaccines", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "launched_at": 1675190671, "tags": [ "Biotech", "Healthcare", "Therapeutics", "Drug discovery", "Oncology" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Drug Discovery and Delivery" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adventris-pharmaceuticals", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/adventris-pharmaceuticals.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Baltimore", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5c8bb0a987c29df94410bb9cc6ab7db9eb0d6478.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1145057, "full_name": "Jen Herbach", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jen Herbach is the CEO of Adventris Pharmaceuticals. She has more than a decade of biotech industry experience bringing novel oncology drugs to market, across companies including Onyx/Amgen, InterMune/Genentech, Exelixis, and Amunix. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters from the University of Cambridge.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennylesser/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a4adf9402b75db976cbf8cf9bc9daa3538d621d2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1157162, "full_name": "William Collis", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "William Collis is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, most recently the data platform Genji. His research has been published in Harvard Business review and featured as a TED talk with over 1.5M views. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was named a Baker Scholar. He is lifelong friends with his co-founders Jen Herbach and Mark Yarchoan, since meeting as roommates at Amherst College.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-collis-145a2511/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/William_Collis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b5c77e81b24d9b47c77c2c401669aded99074923.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1163176, "full_name": "Mark Yarchoan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Mark Yarchoan, M.D, is an Associate Professor of Medical Oncology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Yarchoan runs an NCI-funded laboratory focused on developing novel immunotherapies, with a focus on cancer vaccines. He has led multiple international clinical trials of immunotherapy agents including neoantigen-targeted cancer vaccines. Dr. Yarchoan has received multiple honors, including the ASCO Young Investigator Award and the ASCO Career Development Award.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/markyarchoan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/57e4f209a83f48b812a625fa97dad9138e582500.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68893, "title": "Adventris Pharmaceuticals - We make cancer vaccines!", "tagline": "By teaching our body’s immune system to recognize and kill the mutations that cause cancer we can eliminate the majority of all cancer deaths.", "body": "**ABOUT ADVENTRIS**\n\nAdventris makes cancer vaccines. By teaching our body’s immune system to recognize and kill the mutations that cause cancer, we can eliminate the majority of all cancer deaths.\n\n**OUR SCIENCE**\n\nA normal cell turns into cancer when it develops a mutation that makes it grow aggressively. Surprisingly, a small number of these mutations account for the vast majority of cancer deaths. The immune system usually doesn’t recognize these mutations, but our technology platform enables us to train the immune system to recognize and attack these cancers. Our first product is a vaccine for the treatment of lung cancer that targets the KRAS mutation, the most common mutation in cancer, accounting for about 25-30% of all cancer deaths. In the long run, we envision a world where every adult receives our vaccines annually – preventing the majority of cancer deaths.\n\n**OUR TEAM** \n\nOur team includes some of the leading cancer vaccine experts in the world including: our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Mark Yarchoan (principal investigator of multiple international cancer vaccine clinical trials) and our Scientific Co-Founder, Dr. Liz Jaffee. Our team is led by our Chief Executive Officer, Jen Herbach, who has more than a decade of biotech industry experience including with Amunix (the second largest oncology pre-clinical stage acquisition).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68893&key=user_uploads/1145057/259fde86-331d-4477-83f2-f7f6e5461adf)\n\n**INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE** \n\nIf you are interested in learning more about our approach to treat and prevent cancer, please reach out to us at [contact@adventrispharma.com](mailto:contact@adventrispharma.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HvB-adventris-pharmaceuticals-we-make-cancer-vaccines", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2023-01-31T19:18:22.720Z" } ] }, { "id": 28159, "name": "Invitris", "slug": "invitris", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b31c6e14e61e0a7e292383c88d7094914a492565.png", "website": "https://invitris.com/", "all_locations": "Munich, BY, Germany", "long_description": "Invitris radically simplifies how we create novel biological drugs. Our patent-pending technology platform turns DNA into synthetic proteins and was recently featured in the Science magazine. It makes creating new drugs >10,000x more efficient at <100x lower costs of material.\r\n\r\nOur killer application is enabling the newest generation of synthetic bacteriophages to combat antibiotic-resistant infections, which are threatening to cause more deaths than all cancers combined. 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I earned a PhD and MBA, and highly enjoy opportunities to improve the world with science-based products. I co-founded Invitris to radically simplify drug development to stop antibiotic-resistance, which has the potential to become the dominating health-economic challenge in this century.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickgrossmannbioinformatics/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7fd393675a42df3ca1abac5c1131e3248a325274.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1195343, "full_name": "Kilian Vogele", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Kilian, the CTO and co-founder of Invitris, is responsible for driving innovation and development within the company. With a PhD in synthetic biology from TUM and a track record of 5 patents, his expertise has been instrumental in creating Invitris' groundbreaking technology.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kilian-vogele-21a321183/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4cb832abbb78ced414d19e28f010a711ebeb3ece.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Innovation and Start-up Center Biotechnology (IZB) welcomes Invitris - Innovations- und Gründerzentrum Biotechnologie IZB", "url": "https://www.izb-online.de/en/media-library/press-release/press-release-izb-martinsried/innovation-and-start-up-center-biotechnology-izb-welcomes-invitris/", "date": "Feb 28, 2023" }, { "title": " moma future: Viren gegen Bakterien - ZDFheute", "url": "https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/zdf-morgenmagazin/moma-future-viren-gegen-bakterien-100.html", "date": "Feb 06, 2023" }, { "title": "Bacteriophages the Modern Way | Science | AAAS", "url": "https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/bacteriophages-modern-way", "date": "Aug 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 70166, "title": "INVITRIS - Simplifying drug development & manufacturing", "tagline": "Our biotech platform creates the newest drugs in shortest time", "body": "### **Tl;dr**\n\nAt Invitris we're creating **protein-based drugs**, such as the next generation of antibiotics. To do this at scale, we created a platform called **Phactory**, that can turn DNA into synthetic proteins. Phactory makes the development of novel protein-based drugs 10,000x more efficient and cuts down the material costs by 100x.\\\n—\n\nHi everyone! This is [**Kilian** ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kilian-vogele-21a321183/)and [**Patrick**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickgrossmannbioinformatics/) from INVITRIS, a Munich-based life science company.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70166&key=user_uploads/89898/df875741-b00f-4ba8-b56f-48cee390fbf1)\n\n# **Protein-based drugs are powerful but expensive**\n\nWhile only 2% of all treatments are based on protein-based drugs, these drugs generate 40% of the total drug revenue. One of the reasons why they are so expensive is that you need living cells, like bacteria, to produce them. **Handling living cells is error-prone** and **scales terribly** because you have to establish new processes for every new drug.\n\n# **One platform to synthesize them all**\n\nOur universal biotech platform, **Phactory**, takes DNA and uses it to synthesize proteins in a single step. It mimics the molecular machinery you find in living cells but can be stored in conventional vessels.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70166&key=user_uploads/1163538/e720da18-e212-42d5-9a13-a5e53fbecc80)\n\nThis platform is based on Kilian’s groundbreaking research during his PhD, which was honored in the famous magazine [**Science** ](https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/bacteriophages-modern-way)and was also featured on [**German national TV**](https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/zdf-morgenmagazin/moma-future-viren-gegen-bakterien-100.html)!\n\nOur primary focus area is **bacteriophages** - natural viruses that cannot attack humans but bacteria, even when those have become resistant to antibiotics. We are therefore tackling a problem that is expected to cause 25% more deaths per year than all cancers combined in the next decades: [multidrug-resistant infections](https://www.stopamr.eu/blog/new-studies/no-more-wake-up-calls-amr-is-now-the-leading-cause-of-death-worldwide/).\n\n# **We believe in collaboration and partnering!**\n\nBuilding new protein-based products is hard. We can help each other.\n\n* We are constantly looking for **biopharmaceutical partners** seeking innovation!\n* Intros to companies developing antibacterial products in animal health or agriculture are also welcome!\n* If you **struggle with protein synthesis** in general - we can help!\n* Know anyone who is experienced in scaling cell-free expression under GMP? Reach out!\n\nAny outreach is highly appreciated:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70166&key=user_uploads/1163538/d016e457-3a55-4651-a7f6-6308d85772cb)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IFi-invitris-simplifying-drug-development-manufacturing", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2023-03-10T22:48:50.259Z" } ] }, { "id": 28160, "name": "Finni Health", "slug": "finni-health", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/040abcfa7f35e870153693b5040b7ebd5ca04b53.png", "website": "https://www.finnihealth.com/", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Our platform is simple: we provide everything providers need to go independent, from scheduling and billing to marketing and client support.", "one_liner": "Empowering Autism Care Providers to Go Independent", "team_size": 40, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness", "launched_at": 1673586223, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Consumer Health and Wellness" ], "regions": [ "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/finni-health", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/finni-health.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/finni-health/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/journey-health-7bab", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/040abcfa7f35e870153693b5040b7ebd5ca04b53.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 307687, "full_name": "Bucky Khan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bukhtarkhan/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BukhtarK", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/96d1293230c7987c69e33e60392ec50c26076701.jpg" }, { "user_id": 486894, "full_name": "Yilun Chen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Helping providers at Finni :)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yilunc/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/yilunch", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/394e686c2e90b657e5b7d2eb8611e92aa8cc2554.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 75960, "title": "Full-Stack Software Developer 2", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/ph1Y4Dp-full-stack-software-developer-2", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Toronto, ON, CA / Toronto, Ontario, CA / Remote (US; CA)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $160K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.10%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Google Cloud", "Node.js", "React", "React Native", "TypeScript", "Firebase" ] }, { "id": 78266, "title": "Senior Full-Stack Software Developer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/15yP0bE-senior-full-stack-software-developer", "location": "US Remote / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $210K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Express", "React", "React Native", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 104359, "title": "Head of Payor Strategy", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/DaMe5bF-head-of-payor-strategy", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$120K - $150K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 104360, "title": "Chief of Staff", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/VBPDtlL-chief-of-staff", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.40%", "experience": "8+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 106775, "title": "Payroll Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/lcE7BnM-payroll-manager", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$90K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 106777, "title": "Senior FP&A Analyst – Clinic Finance & Business Partner", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/Dbuo4sq-senior-fp-a-analyst-clinic-finance-business-partner", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$90K - $100K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 107966, "title": "Senior Manager, Practice Operations", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finni-health/jobs/z2WYCdj-senior-manager-practice-operations", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$130K - $150K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Finni Health Raises $3.2M to Build the Provider-Centric Future of Autism Care", "url": "https://www.finnihealth.com/finni-health-raises-3m-to-build-the-provider-centric-future-of-autism-care", "date": "Jun 11, 2023" }, { "title": "Meet the Canadian startups participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 Demo Day", "url": "https://betakit.com/meet-the-canadian-startups-participating-in-y-combinators-winter-2023-demo-day/", "date": "Apr 06, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69595, "title": "Finni Health - Platform for autism care providers 🦊", "tagline": "Finni Health empowers autism care providers to start, run, and grow their practices", "body": "We are [Bucky](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bukhtarkhan/) and [Yilun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yilunc/), and we are excited to share how we are democratizing access to autism care. \n\n**tl;dr:** Finni Health helps autism care providers start, run, and grow their practices. We launched 7 months ago and already have $30K in monthly revenue growing 50% per month.\n\nToday, we have providers in New Mexico, South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois and Virginia. Soon, we will be across the country!\n\n# **Our Story**\n\nWe connected over a shared passion for improving access to healthcare. Bucky grew up providing in-home daycare to children with different abilities for over a decade with his mom. After sharing this personal story, Yilun suggested “What if providers had a platform that automated their operations and billing”. That idea got us our start, and within a couple weeks, we partnered with our first provider, Monique. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69595&key=user_uploads/307687/131f1c0b-b7c2-4ce5-8f29-43633dc37e78)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nThe autism care industry is growing rapidly due to increasing diagnosis rates and landmark legislation requiring payors to cover care in every state. This has caused private equity to take over the market, with over 200 M&A deals in the past decade. This cash grab not only hurts providers, who are overworked and underpaid, it also hurts quality of care. Providers want a world where they can have the freedom to focus on their patients, but starting their own practice is costly. \n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nWe built the only platform designed for autism care providers to start, run, and grow their business. Providers with Finni can launch their own practice in 2 weeks. When they join, they instantly get access to our insurance network. From there, our platform allows them to manage patient data, schedule appointments, and get paid.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69595&key=user_uploads/307687/4df36730-8e4a-418c-9ee8-7fc85443c1b5)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69595&key=user_uploads/307687/ffdc08b0-4ca2-45f8-880e-0a0245694107)\n\n**Asks**\n\n* ABA Providers! 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We also empower firms to leverage their extended network for back-channeling and due diligence on prospective investment targets. 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We drive proprietary deal flow, backchannel diligence, and executive advisory for the private equity industry", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-manske/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fcca6f4841e40320e460ad7a9a1aefa34f9af94b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1236126, "full_name": "Josh Gardner", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Verata, an executive network mapping and company intelligence platform for investors (think BoardEx plus PitchBook). We drive proprietary deal flow, backchannel diligence, and executive advisory for the private equity industry. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-gardner-957903134/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/112add0217d636a126e07dbefc32f1f08945219f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "AiFlow Secures Seed Round Investment | MarTech Cube", "url": "https://www.martechcube.com/aiflow-secures-seed-round-investment/", "date": "Apr 26, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 96939, "title": "Verata - Network Mapping for Investors", "tagline": "Harness the power of your firm's extended network", "body": "[Verata ](https://www.veratainsight.com/)helps PE firms source proprietary deals by mapping their network and showing warm paths to target companies.\n\n\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nVerata is the relationship intelligence platform for private equity. We map your firm's entire network, show you warm paths to any target company, and combine that with private company intelligence—so you can source proprietary deals through relationships instead of cold outreach.\n\n**3 of the top 10 mega funds** already use Verata. We drive proprietary deal flow, due diligence, and the sourcing of deal advisors and portfolio operators.\n\n**Ask:** Know someone at a PE firm frustrated with deal sourcing? Intro us at [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).Want to try it yourself? Book a demo [here.](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/39421e1c-e8f7-442e-a8ad-39a754cf72eb)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Private equity runs on relationships—but firms can't see their own network.**\n\nEvery PE firm has thousands of professional connections across partners, principals, alumni, operating advisors, and portfolio executives. When a deal team wants to reach a specific CEO or find companies matching their thesis, all that relationship capital is invisible.\n\nThe result:\n\n* **\"Do we know anyone at this company?\"** - Asked dozens of times a week, answered by guessing\n* **\"Who's our best path to this founder?\"** - Hours of LinkedIn searching for each target\n* **\"What companies fit our thesis?\"** - Days of manual market mapping\n* **Cold outreach to warm targets** - Missing relationships that could have opened doors\n\nFirms pay millions for databases of company information, but the most valuable data—their own relationships—sits unused.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nVerata combines relationship intelligence with private company data in one platform built specifically for PE.\n\n**Relationship Path Mapping**\n\nSee how your firm connects to any target company or executive. We identify high-quality, verified professional relationships—not LinkedIn's low-quality connections—and show you the warm paths that turn cold outreach into warm introductions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/a9bebdb0-e58e-4038-8fdd-3253f96961b3)\n\n**Private Company Intelligence**\n\nResearch any target in seconds. Revenue estimates with transparent methodology, headcount trends, funding history, leadership profiles, comparable company analysis. One source of truth for target research.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/e1054869-f81f-4131-a395-5c60121a78a4)\n\n**Targeted Search**\n\nFind every company matching your thesis. Filter by geography, revenue range, sector, ownership type. Save searches and and see which targets you have warm paths to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/32502b83-ccf5-4c02-9c2a-6390cbb2f4a9)\n\n**The Numbers:**\n\n* 1.5M+ executive profiles\n* 30M+ relationships mapped\n* Used by 3 of the to 10 firms by AUM\n\n---\n\n### **The Team**\n\n**Nick Manske** - Serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded AiFlow and Alariss Global, a software platform for international executive search that grew to 37 employees. Harvard '09, INSEAD '17J, former U.S. diplomat.\n\n**Josh Gardner** - Princeton-educated computer scientist with research published in top journals and experience leading startup engineering teams at Alariss Global and AiFlow. Princeton BSE ‘20, MSE \\*22.\n\n### **How We Got Here**\n\nBefore [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/), we built and scaled AiFlow—a software platform for executive search. We learned that relationship data is incredibly powerful when it's properly mapped, verified, and made actionable.\n\nWe also saw the same problem plaguing PE that we solved in executive search: brilliant professionals spending hours trying to answer a simple question—\"Who do we know?\"\n\nWe knew we could bring the network intelligence techniques we'd perfected to private equity deal sourcing. Today the [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/) platform trusted by 3 of the top 10 mega funds in the world.\n\n---\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n1. **Intros to PE deal teams** - Know principals, directors, VPs, or business development folks at PE firms? We'd love an intro. Email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n2. **Try Verata** - If you're at a PE firm or work closely with one, book a demo [here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner).\n3. **Follow our journey** - Connect with us on LinkedIn: [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-manske/) | [Josh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-gardner-957903134/)\n\nThanks for reading! For more information please email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com) or visit .\n\n— Josh & Nick\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PDX-verata-network-mapping-for-investors", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-01-19T22:46:33.127Z" }, { "id": 88557, "title": "Verata - AI-Powered PE Intelligence Platform", "tagline": "Verata unifies financial data and executive profiles to help PE firms make better investment and talent decisions", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe're Josh and Nick – co-founders of [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/).\n\n**TL;DR** Verata is the first unified intelligence platform for private equity that combines financial data and detailed executive profiles in one place. PE professionals spend hours jumping between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo manually compiling data. Verata saves firms 4.7x research time while providing verified executive attribution data that reveals which leaders truly drive returns.\n\nAsk: Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research and intelligence stack for 2025? Book a [demo here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner) or email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n\n\n\n❌ **The Problem** \n\nPrivate equity professionals waste 20+ hours per week on fragmented research across data silos (PitchBook, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo).\n\nA look at the numbers:\n\n* 71% of PE professionals toggle between 3+ platforms daily\n* 62% of executive hires fail to meet performance expectations\n* $380B in value creation is missed annually due to poor talent decisions\n* No solutions: existing platforms show where executives worked but not what they actually delivered\n\n🛠️ **Our Solution: One Unified Platform for PE Intelligence**\n\n**All-in-One System** 📊\n\n* End the frustration of toggling between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo.\n* Financial and people data in one place.\n* Complete profiles with PE-specific metrics\n* Seamless workflow with no \"stitching\" required\n\n**Performance-Verified Talent Intelligence** 👥\n\n* Find executives with proven PE value creation records\n* Validated historical performance across multiple PE cycles\n* Quantify what executives actually delivered\n* Identify true drivers of portfolio success\n\n**Superior Data Quality** 📈\n\n* Auto-updating, never stale data with continuous verification\n* Verified sources with clear citations\n* Transparent revenue estimation methodology\n* High accuracy on projections vs. actual reported figures\n\n**Comprehensive Market Mapping** 🗺️\n\n* Map your entire PE ecosystem in minutes\n* Superior competitor identification and market research\n* Eliminate the need to stitch data across multiple tools\n* Get the freshest insights on companies, executives, and investors\n\n🌟 **Results & Metrics**\n\n* 330k+ PE operators with verified experience and quantified metrics\n* $1.2T+ exit value tracked across our PE operator database\n* 4.7x faster research compared to traditional methods\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research tools? Book a demo here.\n* Know any PE Operating Partners or Talent Partners who might benefit from our platform? Please share this post or introduce us: [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:alex@verata.com)\n* Follow us on LinkedIn for the latest PE intelligence insights\n\nLearn more at [VerataInsight.com](http://VerataInsight.com)\n\n👫 **The Team**\n\nNick - Serial entrepreneur and repeat HR tech founder. He has deep expertise in people data and has built multiple advanced search systems for executive search professionals. Self-taught coder who graduated from Harvard and then worked as a diplomat in the US State department. \n\nJosh - Repeat founder and published algorithmic game theory researcher. Led technology teams for Alariss Global (General Catalyst) and AiFlow (YC ‘23) after graduating from Princeton (‘20, \\*22). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88557&key=user_uploads/89898/17b2d31d-6b4f-43fd-bf33-62214e75f584)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N2L-verata-ai-powered-pe-intelligence-platform", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-03-13T04:58:32.602Z" }, { "id": 82693, "title": "AiFlow - AI-powered Executive Search for the C-suite", "tagline": "We help executive search firms deliver exceptional candidates faster than ever before.", "body": "**tl;dr:** _AiFlow helps executive search firms generate a shortlist of executive candidates for an open position in under 60 seconds. Candidates are selected from our platform of 150,000 highly-enriched profiles, and each shortlist is created by thousands of AI “workers” evaluating candidates in parallel._\n\nHi everyone, we're Nick and Josh, the founders of AiFlow. We're on a mission to revolutionize executive search by harnessing the power of AI to deliver exceptional C-suite and board candidates faster than ever before.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82693&key=user_uploads/1236126/62fc49eb-65f1-4768-ac74-baa149328cbe)\n\n**Nick Manske:**  Harvard and INSEAD alumnus, previous co-founder of a cross-border talent marketplace.\n\n**Josh Gardner:** Princeton-educated computer scientist specializing in AI and NLP, who trained under one of OpenAI's GPT creators.\n\n🎯 **The Problem: Executive search is slow, manual, and often biased**\n\nTraditional executive search methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Search firms spend countless hours manually researching candidates, often relying on limited networks and potentially biased decision-making processes. This leads to:\n\n\\- Extended search cycles, sometimes lasting months\n\n\\- Difficulty in identifying diverse, high-quality candidates\n\n\\- Inconsistent results and potential missed opportunities\n\n✨ **Our Solution: AI-powered executive search at unprecedented speeds**\n\nAiFlow combines advanced AI algorithms with vast datasets to streamline and enhance the executive search process:\n\n\\- Analyze millions of data points to instantly identify top candidates\n\n\\- Generate comprehensive candidate profiles and dossiers\n\n\\- Mitigate bias through transparent and explainable AI systems\n\n\\- Provide industry-specific insights and competitor analysis\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82693&key=user_uploads/1236126/87469b54-9be2-4ba1-be5c-685c5960b3a6)\n\n🚀 **Key Features:**\n\n1\\. Rapid Candidate Identification: Shorten search cycles by an average of 60%\n\n2\\. AI-Generated Insights: Gain deep understanding of candidates in minutes, not hours\n\n3\\. 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We enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance and servicing with just a few lines of code. Using Pier, our customers can offer credit to their borrowers/users without ever directing them outside their app, while Pier’s API powers the credit and compliance stack all under the hood.\n\n## **⛔️ The Problem ⛔️**\n\nLaunching a credit product in the US is extremely complex, expensive and time consuming — Companies have to build a lending function from scratch, pay millions of dollars for a bank charter, and spend months or years to implement. These combined factors often break the unit economics of a fast-growing company and are usually not part of a company’s core competency.\n\n## **✅ Our Solution ✅**\n\nPier enables companies to go live with their own credit product in weeks, not months!\n\n🔥 **Speed is our (and your) currency** - our platform and implementation process is designed to take you live in weeks, not months\n\n🚀 **Built for developers** - API driven, flexible modules to support innovative credit products\n\n📐 **Compliance partner** - leave the toughest compliance & licensing burdens to us, so you can focus on your customers. We help you understand your licensing and compliance needs, and provide you with compliance guardrails for long term sustainability. \n\n## **⚙️ How it works ⚙️**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68537&key=user_uploads/1218632/e12a53e0-8a14-4878-8362-da74840a0188)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68537&key=user_uploads/1218632/0a66540d-b85b-4903-868d-cb9b313be48d)\n\n## **🙏🏻 Our Asks 🙏🏻**\n\n* Reach out via our [contact us form](https://www.pier-finance.com/contact) if you’d like to use our solutions\n* Share this with folks you know building credit products\n* Give us an Upvote & share!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HpR-pier-the-fastest-way-to-ship-your-own-loan-products", "votes": 255, "created_at": "2023-01-18T23:25:45.982Z" } ] }, { "id": 28178, "name": "Vector", "slug": "vector", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbf1d46970daada2c04ef49b49592227799f0224.png", "website": "https://vector.co", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "B2B advertising is broken: poor targeting, wasted ad spend, bot traffic, and 3rd party-cookies. 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Big fan of New York so now I live there.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorlowe11/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/T__Lowe", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fccb2375c2dc56e262189584fae495dfcca8f354.jpg" }, { "user_id": 506814, "full_name": "James O'Dwyer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Metal", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesxodwyer", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/softboyjimbo", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5b49b1a7c0a4781597e822e509086005f86747ad.jpg" }, { "user_id": 412427, "full_name": "Sergio Prada", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co founder of Metal (metal.ai)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiopradamora/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sergioprada666", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/45999f4d54ac6c1f6f59743235bf6af0659728ff.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 110016, "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Strategic Account", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metal/jobs/7zlvBO4-forward-deployed-engineer-strategic-account", "location": "New York City", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $240K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Metal Raises $5M from Base10 Partners to Transform Private Market Investing with AI", "url": "https://www.metal.ai/blog/seed-fundraise-announcement", "date": "Sep 11, 2025" }, { "title": "In the AI arms race, Metal aims for enterprise dominance with $2.5 million war chest | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/in-the-ai-arms-race-metal-aims-for-enterprise-dominance-with-2-5-million-war-chest/", "date": "Jun 22, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 77440, "title": "Metal - Your deal team assistant 🤘", "tagline": "AI Accelerated Deal Flow and Portfolio Intelligence", "body": "⚡**TLDR**\n\n* [Metal](https://www.getmetal.io/) is relaunching as a SaaS application for financial services and funds, with a focus on buy-side deal teams and portfolio monitoring for fund managers 🤘\n* We make deal teams 10x faster by parsing data and assisting in diligence across relevant file types - transcripts, 10-Ks/Qs, financial statements, board decks, CIMs, and more\n* Portfolio data is structured and made queryable for fund managers to better understand their investments – from running instant comps to extracting quotes from a board meeting\n* We’re rolling out Metal on a fund by fund basis – if this sounds like you, please get in touch! [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io) or [submit your contact info here](https://www.getmetal.io/contact) 🎸\n\n**👎The problem**\n\nDeal teams are overloaded with data, yet deals remain highly competitive and are lost with an inefficient diligence process. In early diligence alone, analysts spend days reading through expert call transcripts, 10-Ks, or financial statements just to get a basic understanding of a company. This is a highly manual process – and funds are paying analysts $200k/year and up to do it. \n\nOn top of this, fund managers lack insights into their portfolio company’s historic performance, areas of focus, and if they’re deviating from plan. Tracking this data down internally is often infeasible, so managers are left in the dark and their investments are put at risk.\n\n**👍Our solution**\n\nMetal accelerates fund workflows by integrating them with the advanced capabilities of LLMs. Here’s how:\n\n**1\\. Purpose built ingestion pipelines for financial documents.** Funds can upload documents and specify the values they want extracted from datasets. Metal does the heavy lifting from there.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/591aea10-3d61-4c10-be1f-4b47ea9f7930)\n\n**2\\. Diligence workflows rebuilt with generative AI.** Metal extracts relevant quotes, cites sources, browses the web and more when generating responses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/71312968-12bc-4380-8b3e-4c37d8aadc8d)\n\n**3\\. Fully searchable portfolios.** We structure and make all fund data queryable – from memos to board decks to financials. Spot patterns across collections of data and query for deeper insights.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/29e0a3b7-250f-4071-9aad-30c7f54d7e83)\n\n**🙏 Asks**\n\nToday’s launch is an exciting first step, but we’ve got a lot planned for the next 6 months!\n\nWe are rolling out Metal on a per fund basis so we can dedicate more of our resources to each implementation – we’ll work side by side with your team to ensure success.\n\n**If you’re on a PE or VC deal team, or managing a fund** – here’s how you can reach us: [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io) or [submit your info here](https://www.getmetal.io/contact)!\n\n🤘Taylor + James + Sergio🤘", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K92-metal-your-deal-team-assistant", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2024-01-11T18:57:23.238Z" }, { "id": 71084, "title": "Motörhead - LLM memory server built in Rust", "tagline": "Motörhead is an open-source memory and information retrieval server for LLMs.", "body": "## Overview\n\n[Motörhead](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead) is an open-source memory and information retrieval server for LLMs. Built and supported by [Metal](https://getmetal.io/).\n\nAs LLM usage becomes more widely adopted, modern software products must handle users' LLM interactions, chat sessions, and retrieval for relevant prompting context at scale. With much of the performance cost being on the prompting to APIs like OpenAI and other LLMs, contextual data retrieval is ideally as fast as possible.\n\n## Features\n\n* 🪄 Modern strategies to stay within the prompt window\n* 💬 Chat session management out of the box\n* 🦜 [Langchain integration](https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/memory/examples/motorhead_memory.html)\n* 🧠 Automatic Embedding generation via OpenAI ADA\n* 🕸️ Redis Vector DB forto utilize RedisSearch (semantic)\n* 💽 Short-term & long-term storage\n* 🔥 Built in Rust for performance\n\n## Roadmap\n\n* User Authentication\n* Knowledge Graph Memory handling\n* Additional support for other Embedding Models\n* [Create an issue!](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/issues)\n\n## Resources\n\n* Check out [Motörhead on Github](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead)\n* Join the [Motörhead Discord](https://discord.gg/sxbFX5dsQY)\n* Suggest a [feature for Motörhead](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/issues)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IUW-mot-rhead-llm-memory-server-built-in-rust", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-04-20T14:09:32.416Z" }, { "id": 69701, "title": "Metal: Helping developers easily implement machine learning embeddings", "tagline": "Embeddings as a service 🤘", "body": "tl;dr\n\n_Metal makes it easy for developers to implement machine learning embeddings. With embeddings, we help businesses create value from unstructured data like images, text documents, videos and more._\n\nHey everyone! We’re Taylor, James, and Sergio and we’re building [Metal.](https://www.getmetal.io/?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC)\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/BAmRW6DjuFBKZwKTqlBZ3usUOyMeRtO_c34yip0WO65CQX-VCS3IeNXKPOE57AdV-HApI_CC0QjqVgurwEDxHJSDo9BxV5Pve7VXz20yulLPBNYbSKHQXqSxhLowmbYOUlQ7c3sln6lJ4eRTuVMRmL0)\n\n**What’s the problem?**\n\nEmbeddings are super powerful but they’re too hard to use. We learned this the hard way while building machine learning products at companies like Spotify and Meta. Getting to production for simple features (or so we thought) was incredibly painful.\n\nThe team would put weeks into offline training only for the data to be stale in production. It was difficult to iterate on models without versioning. Fine-tuning was highly inefficient. When we finally did get a model deployed there were immediate scaling concerns. It once took us 6 frustrating months to ship a simple embedding classification feature 🤦\n\nCompanies shouldn’t need to reinvent the wheel to use embeddings.\n\n**What’s the solution?**\n\nMetal gives you all the tools you need to quickly and easily implement embeddings against your data in production. \n\n* We integrate with your data sources\n* We generate and store your embeddings\n* We provide real time indexing and search APIs\n* We provide versioning\n* And we make it easier to fine tune embeddings via Metal’s API or SDKs\n\nYou can get started in as little as five minutes.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/izlgcDfSdm-FgMwj8Cns-nsnN2GmkAuUtdsSCQKuLawBY0fcv3KZjgkjiwxa7yiOpbPOnNZs_uN9ERNmCS8ZVVP3IC-NY-qHBe1cuipof9D7JKskIn6FvN-BSuYULjJGJPb6xYyi3e47OUDZ2qm9c4U)\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/nOmwv8oD-qYgxa_m6enimIFMTirXP1olznsJv1UrojbT2lf69WdR0vxc2xLkX8TceIfAusPKPFopsM2vjXcGXIJMDMHQz9lgJhmxPr2qcOI3uS5_b7LI44k1HvaYeFSF2uGvHp1fpgMzuqVsU31sNaA)\n\n**Ok so it’s easy to use, but what about some real world use cases?**\n\n* Better personalization for your users through behavioral clustering\n* Search and compare similarities between data types, such as images or videos\n* Understand how your customers feel by classifying their free text reviews\n* Make the most of internal resources by supporting semantic search of text documents, PDFs, call notes and more\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n1. [**Sign up for early access**](https://www.getmetal.io/?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC) and we will get in touch! [You can also book a time here to learn more](https://calendly.com/metal-taylor/metal-30-minutes-landing?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC).\n2. **Introduce us to companies** who could use Metal. We mostly work with small to medium size companies (10-200 people) who have raised a series A. These companies have an embeddings use case but don’t want to spend the time/resources to build it from scratch.\n3. **Help us build the future** :) If you’re experienced with embeddings and want them to be simpler, then we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch: [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io)\n\nYou can also follow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/metal__ai) or [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmetal?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC) :) 🤘\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8D-metal-helping-developers-easily-implement-machine-learning-embeddings", "votes": 179, "created_at": "2023-02-27T14:57:53.771Z" } ] }, { "id": 28192, "name": "Skyhook", "slug": "skyhook", "former_names": [ "Koala Ops" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c4df2dc3a8591521492f4797ca92971742623b68.png", "website": "https://skyhook.io", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "We make running services on Kubernetes as easy as Heroku, but on your cloud and with all the flexibility and power of Kubernetes. 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[Talk to us](https://calendly.com/oded-koalaops/meeting) to learn more!**\n\n**Also, if you need help with migrating/working with Kubernetes please [contact us ](https://mailto:founders@skyhook.io)for a free consultation. We’d love to learn and help.**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Oded Regev and Nadav Erell, the founders of [Skyhook](https://www.skyhook.io/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=yclaunch).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69952&key=user_uploads/1233799/182a0cd6-8737-48d0-9543-543907a62b1b)\n\n[**Nadav, CTO**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadav-erell/) formerly a Staff Software Engineer and an experienced team leader and architect at Google. Deep technical experience building scalable, robust systems in cloud native environments.\n\n[**Oded, CEO**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/odedregev/) founded and led Cherrypick Consulting for 7 years with diverse customers including Gong.io, Mixtiles, Outbrain, OpenWeb and many more. \n\n# The Problem\n\nAlthough [50-70%](https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2022/) of organizations have already adopted Kubernetes, most developers agree that it is too complex and difficult to manage. It is intended to be extremely flexible in order to solve pretty much everyone’s needs, however, it can take a ton of work and many auxiliary tools to get there.\n\nAs companies grow, they spend a lot on DevOps or Platform Engineers that try to reduce the burden on developers by gluing together all the 3rd party tools via custom internal tools.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nWe give you an “internal developer platform” out of the box, with best practices and golden paths for building and operating services on Kubernetes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69952&key=user_uploads/1233799/9f8423a0-3f16-48f6-911c-d8e6234bfbc1)\n\nWe do the research on the latest and greatest tools in the extremely vibrant ecosystem, and automatically integrate for you the tools you want to use.\n\nWe operate on your code and in your Cloud environment, so you’re never locked in and never restricted, as is common with classic PaaS offerings.\n\nIf you prefer a fully hosted environment like Heroku, Fly or Vercel, we’ll host a cluster for you and offer you a one-click migration to your own cluster whenever you want.\n\n# **Our Ask 🙏**\n\n[Contact us](https://mailto:founders@skyhook.io) - We have a few last slots left in our beta - we’d love to see if we can help you step up your Kubernetes game or migrate, so that you can focus on building your own product instead of configuring YAML files and tools all day.\n\n### **We also offer free Kubernetes consultation!**\n\nPlease [contact us](https://mailto:founders@skyhook.io) or [book time](https://calendly.com/nadaverell) - we’d love to assist, even if you don’t end up using our product. Learning about real-life challenges that you are facing and trying to help you navigate them helps inform our roadmap and focus.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICG-skyhook-kubernetes-the-easy-way", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2023-03-05T21:35:40.921Z" } ] }, { "id": 28205, "name": "Modulari-T", "slug": "modulari-t", "former_names": [ "Modulari-T Biosciences" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdfde836f1d168c7ec0299ab6b4daf90d112f929.png", "website": "https://modularit.bio", "all_locations": "Montreal, QC, Canada; San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cell and gene therapy promises to one day cure any disease; Modulari-T’s Platform produces the tools to fulfill that promise.\r\n\r\nModulari-T has designed a new family of synthetic genes that can reprogram cells to better sense their environment and modify their behavior accordingly. 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His expertise spans multiple areas and he is driven by a passion for pushing the boundaries of technology.\n\nDuring his PhD he discovered how protein receptors form complex structures that allow them to alter cells’ behavior. He then took this knowledge and the novel technology that was developed to build Modulari-T.\n\nWhen he’s not thinking up a new way to engineer cells he can be spotted biking or running up a mountain.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-white-modulari-t/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/02ce0c5af1e07f18b7b09b99212309d6f1df723e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1161771, "full_name": "Stephanie Mok", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and COO at Modulari-T. PhD in chemical engineering. Technical background in synthetic biology, advanced 3D cell culture systems, and biomaterials in the context of the cellular cancer microenvironment. Fascinated by the innovations cell-based therapies, food products, and the scale up of their manufacturing. 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Modulari-T has the technology to fix this, bring hope to cancer patients, and supercharge the cell therapy market to grow beyond $50B by the end of the decade.\n\n \n\n### **HOW YOU CAN HELP**\n\nConnect us with people in the ecosystem! Do you know anyone working in cell therapy or oncology? We want to talk to them, to know about their pain points - academic, biotech/pharma or physicians.\n\n[We are hiring!](https://modulari-t.breezy.hr/) Are you a synthetic biologist or immunologist? Ready to join a new adventure? Become part of the Modulari-T squad (Mod Squad!) in beautiful Montreal!\n\n### **THE SCIENCE**:\n\nWe have built a platform to produce a new type of receptor, the Modular Actuation Receptor Complex or MARC, that mimics the modular architecture of immune receptors. These receptors can be used to reprogram immune cells to recognize cancer antigens and direct an immune response against tumor cells. Compared to CAR-T cells, MARCs have twice the tumor clearing power and avoid causing immune exhaustion to ensure a long lasting response.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ItKO7egaIuynMGKcNjoT2YMqkANZ6E6oNxe5RyIisJ47KOaWhchZU9NpFHXfqkGu_EIB6--huJ4KOnT_5IqHMQut2czid5T8krpDXcZ3iSYTSEL9y2tyAg2IfOYSLic_Uaiz7dOJbcH6dELlc-MPEA)\n\nThe MARC’s unique architecture allows us to link any extracellular cue with the required signalling outputs across different pathways to achieve therapeutic success.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68886&key=user_uploads/1161771/abbed6b1-a7be-43e4-821c-8daa69fff47a)\n\nOncology is only the first step; the MARC platform is applicable to autoimmunity, neurology, regenerative medicine and more!\n\n### **HOW WE CAN HELP YOU**\n\nAre you a Cell Therapy company? Let us show you how Modulari-T’s MARC platform can help your development. Our platform can do anything but we can’t do everything alone. That’s why we want to partner with you and bring hope to as many patients as we can.\n\n### Thank you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68886&key=user_uploads/1161771/773beb5d-3dbb-4905-8b5e-c5e453a33517)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hv4-modulari-t-unleash-the-full-power-of-the-immune-system", "votes": 863, "created_at": "2023-01-31T18:07:52.539Z" } ] }, { "id": 28214, "name": "Atmeto", "slug": "atmeto", "former_names": [ "Keeling Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9903b97190d67a01064a67c7522d3703402c8f0c.png", "website": "https://www.atmeto.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Building a frontier world model for power", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Energy", "launched_at": 1674416288, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Climate", "Energy", "ClimateTech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Energy" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/atmeto", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/atmeto.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/atmeto/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9903b97190d67a01064a67c7522d3703402c8f0c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 310129, "full_name": "Jack O'Grady", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I build applied machine learning for energy systems. 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I started the company because I believe that batteries are crucial to enabling more renewable energy from solar and wind, and I wanted to bring applied AI to the table to help scale the deployment, efficiency, and performance of these assets.\n\nPrior to this, I worked on battery algorithms, data, and optimization for 3+ years at Rivian, where I started the company’s Battery Data Science Team and pioneered the application of Reinforcement Learning to fast charging in the R1T/R1S.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68703&key=user_uploads/310129/7bf230b1-f162-4080-967d-104572029552)\n\n### **Let’s Talk About Grid-Scale Batteries…**\n\n**What’s Happening**\n\nThe U.S. is deploying batteries in the grid at an insane pace, but managing them is unlike any other power asset:\n\n* They don’t make their own power\n* They don’t have contracts for selling power at a fixed price\n\nBattery storage assets are constantly buying and selling power at dynamic prices, and doing that well or poorly leads to massive differences in project returns. With every new battery and renewable energy system added to the grid, though, the right thing to do shifts. Looking at planned battery additions across nearly every ISO, we can see that changes to grid dynamics will only be intensifying.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68703&key=user_uploads/310129/2997b0e7-f7be-4efa-8f8a-4ab56d9462fd)\n\n**How Our Product Handles This**\n\nRather than rely on human experience or hard-coded instructions, we make AI that learns the best way to buy and sell power specific to each battery asset – all on its own. This type of AI is called Reinforcement Learning, and it’s a paradigm shift in how we optimize hardware systems. Our product builds on the founding team’s years of experience with RL-based battery controls and optimization in the EV space.\n\nYou can read more about our technology here: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68703&key=user_uploads/310129/dd18161f-2f67-49d8-8f32-0f4cbc2b3cc8)\n\n### **One ask**\n\nWe’re looking for tech-forward industry partners to work with us as we develop an amazing product. 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Companies like **Paypal**, **Walmart**, **Twitter**, and **Airbnb** are now all relying on GraphQL APIs for **their** **core businesses**.\n\nYet, we observed that most - as in like **95%** - of GraphQL APIs that exist today are insanely vulnerable to cyberattacks.\n\nThe reason is simple: GraphQL has an entirely different structure than traditional APIs like REST.\n\nExisting security tools do not support it, leaving GraphQL developers and organizations completely blind to the security of what they release and **putting their business at risk**.\n\n### 🎯 Our solution\n\nWe aimed to build the GraphQL Security Testing tool that devs would love. As developers ourselves, we think such a tool would\n\n* _be_ **fast to run in CI/CD**\n* _be super_ **easy to set up** and maintain\n* _give_ **relevant results**\n\nExisting tools fail at achieving the latter because they rely on brute-forcing API requests. Thus, most requests are blocked at the validation layer, failing to test the actual code.\n\nAt Escape, **we developed a new approach called _feedback-driven API exploration_**. We crafted a graph traversal algorithm that learns from the API's responses how to generate requests that actually make sense from a business standpoint.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69497&key=user_uploads/1231138/4d4ffbf4-e5af-46b9-927d-904530700300)\n\n_Requests generated by bruteforce (left) vs. **Escape’s feedback-driven exploration** (right)_\n\nUsing this technique, we are able to pass the validation layer and test the code of the application at a deeper level than previous solutions. So far, we have achieved **more than 80% coverage** in most applications without fine-tuning.\n\n### 🚀 let us assess the security of your GraphQL API for free in seconds\n\nIn only 6 months, we partnered with **Snyk** and **Postman**, got into the GraphQL foundation, and worked with companies like **Neo4j** and **ArangoDB**.\n\n👉 If you are using GraphQL yourself, you are welcome to try our platform and **get your application's security report for free**, as **we unlocked all the features for the YC community**: !", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4v-escape-secure-your-graphql-apis", "votes": 1096, "created_at": "2023-02-21T19:45:54.930Z" } ] }, { "id": 28218, "name": "Kyber", "slug": "kyber", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3004c4a72b716a80763763b95bf3e212c448756e.png", "website": "https://askkyber.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "With Kyber, companies operating in regulated industries can quickly draft, review, and send complex regulatory notices. For example, when Branch Insurance's claims team has to settle a claim, instead of spending hours piecing together evidence to draft a complex notice, they can simply upload the details of the claim to Kyber, auto-generate multiple best in-class drafts, easily assign reviewers, collaborate on notices in real-time, and then send the letter to the individual the notice is for. Kyber not only saves these teams time, but significantly improves consistency, compliance, and personalization. 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With GenAI draft generation, real-time collaborative editing, integrated review workflows, and omnichannel delivery, Kyber’s LetterGen is able to supercharge the process of creating claim denial, partial denial, and settlement notices for even the most complex claims._ **Book a demo on our [website](https://askkyber.com?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=claims_launch_yc) to learn more!**\n\n**—**\n\n# **🧨 Problem: Regulated notices are tedious and high-risk.**\n\nFor claims teams, state departments of insurance typically have very clear guidelines around the specific types of notices an insurer is supposed to provide to the parties involved. These include notices like claim acknowledgment, status updates, proactive reservations of rights, and finally, either a claim denial, partial denial, or settlement letter detailing what finally is or isn’t covered.\n\nWhile that may seem straightforward, many organizations fail to meet these requirements as adjustors struggle to efficiently write notices up to the required quality bar. Numerous carriers we’ve talked to and currently work with have audited their claims organizations and found that their teams spend upwards of **30% of their working hours** just handling these notices.\n\nWhy? Many times, these notices end up in a court of law where an unhappy claimant will sue the insurer, arguing that the notice was ambiguous.\n\n# **🎉 Solution: One platform to consolidate, collaborate, and send notices.**\n\nKyber’s LetterGen helps companies streamline their notice creation process, removing tedious overhead and minimizing risk from claimants suing companies for acting in bad faith.\n\n![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=79877&key=user_uploads/271067/33ede188-d105-4957-a9e3-5f109a3b9320)\n\nOut of the box, Kyber’s LetterGen comes with:\n\n* Automatic policy language extraction 🔍\n* Personalized draft creation powered by GenAI 🤖\n* Integrated review workflow ⭐\n* Real-time collaborative editing and commenting 💬\n* Full history and version tracking support 🕗\n* Basic template creation and management 📄\n* Progress tracking across your notice funnel 📊\n* Pre-built integrations into claims systems and mailing systems ✉️\n\n### **Our ask 🙏**\n\n* Connect us with Operations or Claims leaders at TPAs, Carriers, MGAs, or Reinsurers ➡️ [sav@askkyber.com](https://mailto:sav@askkyber.com).\n* If you or your organization operate in a regulated industry (Healthcare, Loans, Banking, Utilities, etc.) and are required to generate similar notices for third parties, we’d love to learn more ➡️ [founders@askkyber.com](mailto:founders@askkyber.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KmL-kyber-lettergen-compose-and-send-complex-claim-notices", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-04-02T15:41:18.646Z" }, { "id": 69780, "title": "Kyber - ChatGPT for enterprise support", "tagline": "Kyber embeds AI intelligence into enterprise support workflows to accelerate customer success teams.", "body": "# TL;DR Instead of digging across resources to find the right answer, Kyber provides highly specific and accurate answers right at your fingertips.\n\n### Who Is It For?\n\nAny company/enterprise that gets repeat questions about the same thing over and over again that they’ve already documented or answered.\n\n### How It Works\n\n⚡ Install our **Slack/Discord/Front/Intercom** Apps each in **two clicks**\n\n**⚙️** We’ll ingest your knowledge base (typically public documentation) and configure them into your preferred access channels\n\n**❓** Go to town asking Kyber for help on questions about your knowledge base\n\n🔍 Gain important insights into user questions and team questions, which you can then use to further refine your knowledge base\n\n🚀 Accelerate support, onboarding, and more at speed of AI\n\nDirect Response Flow:\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69780&key=user_uploads/271067/061a2882-761b-4b9d-83cf-edf2fc8ba501)\n\nHidden Response Flow:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69780&key=user_uploads/271067/98d2c6ea-889d-45a7-a4bc-33b6d11a4626)\n\n# Why We Built Kyber\n\n🤔 We started Kyber because we were frustrated with the tradeoffs that different resources and support channels provide today. At the end of the day, we realized that end users just want factually correct answers and they want them NOW.\n\nExisting resources each make tradeoffs between speed, relevance, and trust:\n\n* Documentation (Immediately available, but not easy to search or always up to date): \n * Speed ✅\n * Relevance ❌\n * Trust ✅\n* Community (Friendly, but not sure if answers are trustworthy):\n * Speed ✅\n * Relevance ✅\n * Trust ❌\n* Support Staff (Relevant and trustworthy answers, but usually very slow):\n * Speed ❌\n * Relevance ✅\n * Trust  ✅\n\nWe help bridge these gaps by either providing your users a direct interface for help or by enabling your CX teams to quickly search and generate answers using our flows.\n\n# How Can I Try It?\n\nEmail us at [founders@askkyber.com](mailto:founders@askkyber.com)\n\nWe’ll set up a custom demo where you’ll be able to try it out firsthand on top of your chosen knowledge base. Once you’re happy, we’ll give you and your team a white-glove onboarding experience.\n\nHave any additional flows, knowledge base sources, or integrations in mind? Let us know! We’re more than happy to support it and already have a few more exciting features planned for the future (stay tuned 😉).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9U-kyber-chatgpt-for-enterprise-support", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-02-28T20:08:07.488Z" } ] }, { "id": 28221, "name": "Serial", "slug": "serial", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a8354b5bea40df992c6f00ba3131da07c65e1300.png", "website": "https://www.serial.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serial is software to help manufacturers root cause problems in minutes not days and avoid millions in liabilities. Our solution integrates with data sources from any production line, enabling engineering & operations teams to ask questions about their manufacturing data and instantly get answers. Serial will become the single source of truth for manufacturing data.\r\n\r\nOur founding team has 10+ years of manufacturing and product design experience from Apple, Tesla, and more. We have suffered this problem firsthand and are building the tool to fix it.", "one_liner": "Root cause manufacturing issues in seconds", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677010841, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Analytics", "Manufacturing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/serial", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/serial.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/serialmfg/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Serialmfg", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a8354b5bea40df992c6f00ba3131da07c65e1300.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": 1235892, "full_name": "Tak Alguire", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at Serial (W23). I've spent my carreer in the manufacturing space at Apple and Google. Now I lead the product team at Lumafield, making the best CT equipment in the world. Always will to trade notes with founders in the hardware/manufacturing space. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tak-alguire/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tak_alguire", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7706faad70cc1b9507fe2a3181d9435c108126e4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1208864, "full_name": "Devon Copeland", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Serial (W23). Devon has spent over 5 years working in hardware engineering at companies like Apple, Tesla, and Aeryon Labs. His obsession with timely, data-driven decision making has guided the engineering of several features on Apple Watch Ultra and the Model 3. 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We have suffered this problem firsthand and are building the tool we wish we had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69709&key=user_uploads/1235892/4ee36f70-60d5-4903-9a22-d325dbead0e3)\n\n### **The Ask - Intros to Manufacturers**\n\nIf you are manufacturing products and share this pain, then reach out to [founders@serial.io](mailto:founders@serial.io) or sign up directly at [serial.io](https://www.serial.io/contact-us)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8L-serial-unify-your-manufacturing-data", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2023-02-27T17:43:34.649Z" } ] }, { "id": 28301, "name": "Persana AI", "slug": "persana-ai", "former_names": [ "ViralCopy", "Outboundify", "Perspectiva", "Persana" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a905b8903d47a58d77045ad7c8e648b750915402.png", "website": "https://www.persana.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Persana AI | The Agent Layer for Modern GTM Teams\r\n\r\nAI Superpowered Sales & GTM Intelligence — built on autonomous agents\r\n\r\nAI agents that research, enrich, and engage your best prospects — autonomously, not just automated.\r\n\r\nThe Shift from Tools to Agents:\r\nYour GTM stack is fragmented. Multiple enrichment providers. Workflow tools with hard limits. Manual triggers. Disconnected data. Persana consolidates it all into one agentic platform that thinks, learns, and executes — 24/7.\r\n\r\nWhat Persana Does:\r\n🔍 Multi-Source Intelligence – 100+ data sources tracking funding, hiring, tech changes, real-time intent signals, waterfall data for finding emails, phone numbers and more\r\n🤖 Autonomous Execution – Run complex workflows across 100K+ prospects without manual triggers or platform limits\r\n🧠 Continuous Learning – AI that adapts based on what actually converts to pipeline, not predefined rules\r\n⚡ Native CRM Integration – Bi-directional sync with Salesforce, HubSpot, and your entire GTM stack\r\n\r\nWhy Teams Choose Persana:\r\n\r\nReplace fragmented point solutions with one autonomous platform\r\n- Break free from workflow ceilings and platform constraints\r\n- Access comprehensive signal intelligence across all major data sources\r\n- Scale prospecting without adding headcount\r\n\r\nResults Customers See:\r\n✓ 95% increase in qualified pipeline\r\n✓ 65% faster sales cycles\r\n✓ 3+ weeks per month reclaimed from manual work\r\n✓ 30% higher conversion rates\r\n\r\nThe Technology:\r\n\r\nTrained on 700M+ contacts and 200M+ companies, and 100+ data sources. Multi-agent architecture combining research, enrichment, and execution. Proprietary embeddings fine-tuned for GTM use cases.\r\n\r\nThe Team:\r\n\r\nBuilt by LinkedIn engineering veterans who scaled systems to billions of users. Backed by Y Combinator, Dharmesh Shah, Race Capital, and Stage 2 Capital.\r\n\r\n🚀 Join 15,000+ GTM professionals using agents to boost their revenue → persana.ai\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "Sales Agents with 100+ data sources to close more deals", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1678238119, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/persana-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/persana-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/persana-ai/?viewAsMember=true", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/PersanaAi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a905b8903d47a58d77045ad7c8e648b750915402.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/952d71d9fef4b99185b26f31e00eb84c7c7ca46f.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 563858, "full_name": "Sriya Maram", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder and CEO at Persana AI. I've previously been a PM at Linkedin working on customer data and have built a successful generative AI tool in the past. I'm now focused on helping businesses leverage the incredible power of AI and making it more accessible. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriyam", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/tweetsreez", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3f057f6fa998c760ceedc2220a54e576c8fcb822.jpg" }, { "user_id": 866384, "full_name": "Rush Shahani", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Persana AI. I've been an AI Engineer focused on NLP for the last 5 years. \nPrev experience: LinkedIn, ElementAI (acquired), Shopify", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rusheelshahani/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/RushShahani", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f26888035dca0fcb729a9ab693f773916c9e7d3d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How Persana Plans To Help Sales Teams Get Back To What They do Best", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2024/10/31/how-persana-ai-plans-to-help-sales-teams-get-back-to-what-they-do-best/", "date": "Oct 31, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 70055, "title": "🎯📈 Persana AI - Sales copilot to boost productivity", "tagline": "Persana AI is a sales copilot that easily surfaces unique lead insights and generates personalized outbound in your company's voice.", "body": "_TL;DR: Sales teams spend hours researching prospects and writing emails. **Persana AI boosts sales productivity by building a fine-tuned model for your sales team** which combines CRM data with real-time web signals and uses this to easily write hyperpersonalized outbound._\n\n### 👋 Hey YC we're Sriya and Rush and we're building [Persana AI](https://www.persana.ai/)! \n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nIn this macro-environment, it is now more important than ever for **sales teams to concentrate their efforts on the most promising prospects** and close more deals efficiently. However data is distributed across hundreds of different touch-points like CRMs and Outreach, causing **teams to lose out on ripe opportunities.** On top of this, writing hundreds of personalized emails across different lead stages is a cumbersome task that takes time away from actually selling to qualified leads.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\nPersana AI is an AI copilot for sales teams to easily identify promising leads by combining CRM data with real-time signals. The AI can then quickly generates personalized outbound in your company's voice so sales teams can make the most of ripe opportunities. For instance, when a lead visits the company website or gets funding, Persana AI can notify the sales team and generate an email to send out right away.\n\n### **⚙️ How it works**\n\nPersana AI's proprietary engine brings together historical email campaign data, CRM and internal data, and publicly available data points to build a fine-tuned model for the team. Additionally, leveraging Persana's proprietary engine, we are able to identify the leads with the highest likelihood of conversion, allowing sales teams to focus their efforts on these leads and achieve a higher ROI in less time.\n\n## 🎯 **Our Products**\n\n👉 Personalized email combining different sources of insights\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70055&key=user_uploads/563858/fd21fdb2-58c6-465a-a386-2e160e802641)\n\n👉 Chrome Extension to get insights and generate anywhere!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70055&key=user_uploads/563858/7202244e-7162-449f-8567-0302c6eabd49)\n\n👉 Quickly get answers and notified about high intent leads.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70055&key=user_uploads/563858/362d3690-dbf1-4239-bb5a-67e0f2155968)\n\n### 🤝 Meet The Team\n\nSriya and Rush met while working at Linkedin where they worked on customer data platform and search teams respectively. Rush has been working in the NLP/gen-AI space for over 4 years and Sriya has been working in the CDP/AI space to help businesses make the most of their data. They’ve launched a successful AI product before and one of the key insights they uncovered was generic AI models don’t perform well for business use-cases - leading them to build Persana AI. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70055&key=user_uploads/563858/eb86afc8-916f-4c8e-835e-4e5172dad89d)\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nIf you’re a sales team that would like to try us out - please book a time with me [here](https://calendly.com/sriyamaram/sri-intro?month=2023-03)!\n\nIf you have any intros to sales leaders - I’d love to chat. My email is [sriyamaram@gmail.com](mailto:sriyamaram@gmail.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDv-persana-ai-sales-copilot-to-boost-productivity", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2023-03-08T19:16:07.877Z" } ] }, { "id": 28303, "name": "Scout", "slug": "thedailyscout", "former_names": [ "Meru", "PromptBidder", "Prompt", "Social Radar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62066a9f835dfb54435fdb72d9510ec33510d68f.png", "website": "https://thedailyscout.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Scout features 10 minute long generative podcasts that update you about your industry and interests while you are at the gym or in the car. We currently have 58% D7 retention, 35% D30 retention, and 24% DAU/MAU. 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Studied Bioengineering at Berkeley. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/meetrohanarora", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rohanarora_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/33104764ef4c36c409866381c382db234515eecf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 324661, "full_name": "Venkat Krishnan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO, Social Radar. Prev worked at Tesla Autopilot AI. 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Previously co-founded Foster (W21). Before that, I served as the CTO of Banzai and an EIR at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier-7422b829/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stewfortier", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d05e60f63691ac1c2a67ef4991b448a2ed3c7ab1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 77152, "title": "Founding Product Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/type/jobs/1idOunL-founding-product-engineer", "location": "NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 5.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "MongoDB", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Type raises $2.8M to build a new kind of document editor", "url": "https://type.ai/blog/type-seed-round", "date": "Jun 14, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69329, "title": "Type – an AI-first document editor", "tagline": "Type is an AI-first document editor that helps you write faster.", "body": "Hi there –\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) and [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) here. We're building Type.ai.\n\nType.ai is an [AI writing tool](https://type.ai). We help marketers and creators write high-quality content remarkably fast.\n\nType makes it effortless to access the most powerful capabilities of today’s large language models. Type’s AI can instantly generate and transform any text – it picks up on your intent and the context of your document as you write.\n\nWe’d love to give you early access [here](https://type.ai/).\n\n## The problem\n\nCompanies spend billions of dollars on content marketing each year, but creating great content is hard. Finding compelling ideas and articulating them in a way that will resonate with an audience requires constant experimentation and iteration.\n\nAI will radically reduce this friction by making it easier to generate and refine ideas, but it's still hard to get today’s large language models to give you what you need.\n\nYou must either become a “prompt engineer” or use AI writing tools with rigid, template-based interfaces that constrain creativity and produce mediocre content.\n\n### The solution\n\nWe've built a flexible, fast document editor that lets a user quickly surface powerful AI commands by hitting cmd + k as they write.\n\nType’s AI commands help with the slowest parts of writing, from generating drafts to rewriting content to suggesting what to create next.\n\nThe more you write, the better Type’s suggestions get. Type’s AI understands the context of a document – it can generate or transform text quickly and accurately. \n\nWe combine the flexibility of a product like ChatGPT with a powerful document editor. The result: Type is fun to write in!\n\n### The founders\n\nWe started building this because we were surprised nobody else had. Writing is not a “one-shot” activity! You need a flexible canvas for refining your ideas as you write.\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) (CEO) is an entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for writing. [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) (CTO) is a software engineer with previous experience building advanced document editors.\n\n### Start writing with Type\n\nIf you are planning to write a bunch this year, please drop your info below and we will send you an invite ASAP:\n\n👉 [Request an invite](https://type.ai/)\n\nThanks!\n\nStew & Stefan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2D-type-an-ai-first-document-editor", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-02-15T23:16:56.973Z" }, { "id": 64183, "title": "Foster – a better way to write.", "tagline": "Tap a button in Google Docs and watch your writing transform.", "body": "Hi, everyone!\n\nStew and Dan here from [Foster](https://foster.co/).\n\nFoster is a button that lives inside Google Docs. Writers can tap it to get collaborative support on their writing within 24 hours.\n\nBehind the scenes, we’ve built a collective of writers, editors, and experts who love jumping into first drafts and helping improve them.\n\nFoster contributors do much more than spot a missing comma; they can give you ideas on how to make a story funnier or how to make an argument air-tight.\n\n### **Quality writing wins**\n\n**Writing on the Internet follows a power law.** The _best_ piece of writing on a topic tends to have an exponentially larger impact than the average piece.\n\n**But writing great stuff is hard.** Most writers publish into the void, hoping for constructive feedback that never comes.\n\n### **We help writers and content teams produce better writing**\n\nFoster’s [Chrome extension](https://foster.co) lets anyone summon editors and experts to appear directly inside of their work and help them produce something great.\n\nAll drafts on Foster are privately routed to vetted contributors who we believe will be able to push them forward.\n\nMost automated writing and grammar tools can only catch relatively minor errors. We’re focused on what we consider to be the harder part of the process: how do you turn a rough draft into something timeless?\n\n### **Foster is easy to use**\n\nWriters never have to leave Google Docs to use Foster.\n\nHere’s what the process looks like:\n\n1. Write.\n2. Share the draft with Foster.\n3. Receive constructive suggestions.\n4. Rewrite and incorporate the best feedback.\n5. Publish.\n\n### **Writers love it**\n\nThe most common word we hear from our early users is “[Amazing](https://share.cleanshot.com/NNMuxM).”\n\nCoincidentally, many of our early users are YC founders or Hacker News regulars. Both of these drafts were sent through Foster prior to being submitted to HN: [We need a middle class for startups](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219),  [What's the Future of IDEs?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304667)\n\nAnd while it’s exciting to see individual pieces improve, many writers tell us that using Foster has elevated their writing skills generally ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1535404631123173376)) and motivated them to write more ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/liuxi/status/1511191555796729862)).\n\n### **We’re ready to support your writing**\n\nToday, we’re ready to help everyone produce better writing.\n\n**You can sign up for one of our new plans and get high-quality support on your next draft here:**\n\n\n\nYou can use the code “FIRSTDRAFT” for a free month of the Hobbyist or Basic plan.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhD-foster-a-better-way-to-write", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2022-06-29T16:10:15.154Z" } ] }, { "id": 28361, "name": "Lightski", "slug": "lightski", "former_names": [ "Codex", "Lightski", "Streamstraight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f913750d13336c120035ae29b41b164fc9638be.png", "website": "https://www.lightski.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lightski implements AI agents to replace document-heavy enterprise workflows. One document-heavy customer now processes intake in 10 minutes instead of 2 days, with a > 5x decrease in cost. \r\n\r\nTo do so, we audit and rebuild the entire substrate your business runs on, native to AI. From document-heavy intake to back-office execution, automatically drive your top line with Lightski agents.", "one_liner": "Transform Document Workflows with AI Agents", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1678895856, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lightski", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/lightski.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/lightskis", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f913750d13336c120035ae29b41b164fc9638be.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 68558, "full_name": "Hansen Qian", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hansen is the the cofounder of Lightski. Previously, Hansen was a founding engineer and engineering manager at Affinity CRM.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansenq", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/hansenq", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dd1fcb67de3a48912de62aae07dd6cb1b79badaa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Una apuesta de Y Combinator que impulsa la IA generativa | Emprendedores", "url": "https://www.expansion.com/expansion-empleo/emprendedores/2023/05/03/645247fee5fdeaa9148b4653.html", "date": "May 04, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 87552, "title": "Lightski", "tagline": "Audit and rebuild the entire substrate your business runs on, natively with AI.", "body": "Don't just automate tasks. We audit and rebuild the entire substrate your business runs on, natively with AI. From document-heavy intake to back-office execution, automatically drive your top line with Lightski agents.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87552&key=user_uploads/68558/97044200-bcd0-4229-84c4-217b3e952f28)\n\nIf you’re a company looking to pilot a plan for your entire team, please email [founders@lightski.com](mailto:founders@lightski.com). ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mm8-lightski", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2025-02-10T17:57:02.574Z" }, { "id": 80683, "title": "Lightski - Embed an AI data scientist in your app", "tagline": "Embedded data analytics more powerful than Tableau and Looker by pairing AI with code execution", "body": "**tl;dr:** Lightski helps you build an analytics experience for your users that answers any arbitrary question about their data. We provide embedded data analytics more powerful than Tableau and Looker by pairing AI with code execution, which eliminates hallucinations.\n\n## Why?\n\nBefore YC, I was an engineering manager at Affinity CRM, where we spent six figures on an embedded analytics solution. Even then, our users were never happy; they either didn’t know how to navigate the complex UI or wanted even more advanced analytics. Most customers ended up exporting the data themselves and running their own analysis (not an ideal solution).\n\nRecent AI advancements remove this trade-off, enabling a natural language interface and powerful code-based analysis. We started Lightski to quickly give your users the full power of a data scientist, without needing to know a line of code.\n\n## User Experience\n\nWith Lightski, you’re able to embed an AI Data Scientist in your app, pre-loaded with your users’ data. Your users can then explore a dataset however they want; in response, we generate and execute code to perform analyses, such as:\n\n* Create custom graphs, charts, and dashboards\n* Perform arbitrary filters, group-bys, and aggregations\n* Transform or clean data for a custom CSV export\n\nAnything that a data scientist can accomplish in code can now be accomplished with Lightski. Best of all, your users won’t even know we’re powering the experience—you can quickly re-theme our UI with your design system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80683&key=user_uploads/68558/dea1307b-ab28-464c-acf0-f89373cf1dfe)\n\n## Under the Hood\n\nWe rely heavily on state-of-the-art LLM models to guide the analysis, but there’s a lot of other capabilities built in-house that power the experience:\n\n* Secure and isolated per-user code execution environments\n* Native connectors for the most common databases\n* Code-based ETL, for flexible data pre-processing and transformation\n* Support for image generation and CSV export\n* Embeddable streaming UI that supports custom theming\n\nWe’re building fast and will also soon launch:\n\n* Interactive charts and even more customizable dashboards\n* Direct API access to our safe code execution environments and ETL pre-processing features\n* Guided assistants, for less technically-savvy users\n\nand much more! Let us know if you’re interested in any of these and we’ll prioritize it for you.\n\n## Get a Demo\n\nThe fastest way to get access to Lightski is by [signing up for our waitlist](https://forms.gle/Sj239WNvp5ZTLJGX6) or emailing [founders@lightski.com](mailto:founders@lightski.com)—we’ll help you format your data into a clean schema, and get Lightski embedded in your app within the day. Email us with any questions or feedback!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KzL-lightski-embed-an-ai-data-scientist-in-your-app", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-05-07T17:04:06.921Z" } ] }, { "id": 28366, "name": "Vendora", "slug": "vendora", "former_names": [ "Jaldi" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7be06dcb8a54a9986497faea1a7a0198198f052.png", "website": "https://www.vendora.io/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Vendora is building a generational company in one of the largest industries out there - grocery. We build software to serve the $1 trillion dollar (over 3% of US GDP) grocery industry. This ranges from point of sale, payments, e-commerce, inventory management, loyalty, and advanced analytics with more on the horizon. \r\n\r\nWe’re taking bleeding edge technology and an AI-focused approach to modernizing an industry stuck in legacy software and practices. Backed by Y Combinator and investors with deep expertise in retail, we are a team of operators from Amazon, Uber, Tesla, Figma and McKinsey in transforming a sector that touches us all.\r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "All-in-One Software for the $1T Grocery Industry", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1677283319, "tags": [ "Grocery", "Payments", "B2B", "Retail", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vendora", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/vendora.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getvendora", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7be06dcb8a54a9986497faea1a7a0198198f052.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1224770, "full_name": "Sunny Singh", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Sunny Singh grew up in supermarkets - his family owns and operates a mid-sized chain in the US. 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I’m Sunny, the founder of [Vendora](https://www.vendora.io/).\n\n**tl;dr** At Vendora, we build vertical saas for the grocery industry - today we focus on e-commerce enablement, helping grocers make the most of their digital channels. Think of us as Shopify Meets Toast for supermarkets.  \n\n### Problem\n\nA monumental $800B grocery industry runs on outdated systems and manual processes. In an age where 12% of grocery sales have gone online, many grocers are getting left behind, lacking the tools to adapt and make the most of this emerging channel. Grocers need to adapt to compete with the Amazon and Walmarts of the world.\n\n### Solution\n\nVendora is solving this problem by being the one platform grocers need to engage with customers digitally. We make it easy for them to succeed online. \n\nBy connecting with their existing stack, we ingest their data, augment it through our AI powered workflows, and set up accurate, enhanced data feeds to their third parties. We also give them their own storefront (website and app) so they can own more of the customer relationship. Along with all this, we give them the tools to easily manage these channels, optimize their performance, and engage with their customers.  \n\n### Who am I?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74433&key=user_uploads/1224770/f850f527-6a20-494e-be39-33fa37d566cb)\n\nI’ve quite literally have been in the grocery space for my entire life. \n\nI grew up in grocery stores, working in my family’s supermarkets, seeing it go from a single 500 sq ft family store in Queens, NY to a chain of stores. I’ve seen it all first hand (stocking, the register, backoffice, you name it). \n\nProfessionally, I was the Head of US Strategy at Uber Grocery coming in through Uber’s acquisition of Cornershop, where I earned my startup stripes. I began my career at Amazon's US Grocery team, worked on ops for Amazon Fresh, and then the Search Science and AI team. I’ve seen how some of the best companies on the planet run things and I’m channeling that expertise into Vendora. \n\n### Ask\n\nKnow any grocers that want to start selling online or earn even more on existing channels? Send them our way. [founders@vendora.io](mailto:founders@vendora.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JMX-vendora-ecommerce-enablement-for-grocery", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-08-28T14:59:06.995Z" }, { "id": 69777, "title": "🛒🥭 Jaldi – South Asian Groceries Delivered!", "tagline": "Jaldi is the online supermarket for South Asians living in the US", "body": "Hey everyone!  Sunny here from [Jaldi](https://getjaldi.com/). \n\nTL;DR: **Jaldi delivers your favorite South Asian groceries, household items, and beauty products right to your door**. Give us a try (use discount code LaunchYC at checkout or [click here to have it autoapply](https://getjaldi.com/discount/LaunchYC)) and share with your friends (). \n\n### 🛒 **What is Jaldi?**\n\nJaldi is the online supermarket for South Asians living in the US. We deliver thousands of South Asian grocery, beauty, and household products right to customers’ doors through nationwide and same-day local delivery. Available at [getjaldi.com](http://getjaldi.com) and on [our mobile apps](https://getjaldi.onelink.me/0mSJ/j3y5iudn), we offer the most seamless shopping experience for anyone looking to explore the rich cultural diversity of South Asia or simply get a taste of home. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69777&key=user_uploads/1224770/0bf887ba-cb0f-499b-a287-d9447dfe5536)\n\nCurrently we offer nationwide shipping of non-perishable items (get your [Kurkure](https://getjaldi.com/products/kurkure-masala-munch-82g/?variant=%2044438553690429), [Thums Up](https://getjaldi.com/products/thumps-up-300-ml/?variant=%2044141331218749), [Dals](https://getjaldi.com/pages/dal-beans?filter.p.tag=Nationwide), etc.) and local same-day delivery of a full selection of South Asian groceries ([dahi](https://getjaldi.com/products/0rganic-whole-milk-dahi-2-l?variant=44141385253181), fruits & vegetables, frozen meals, etc.) in New Jersey. \n\n### 🤔 **Why does Jaldi exist?**\n\nWhile the last five years saw a fivefold increase in US online grocery penetration, little has changed for South Asians living in the US. Few South Asian supermarkets offer delivery and often struggle on inventory and quality when they do. Selection online can often be expensive, elusive, and leave the customer wanting for more. \n\n**The South Asian consumer deserves better. That’s why I started Jaldi.** \n\nSouth Asians in the US are the highest earning and fastest growing ethnic demographic - yet there are few shopping experiences that cater specifically to them. Jaldi is building the first-class e-commerce experience for the South Asian diaspora. The next wave in retail will be cultural commerce, how communities shop and interact with what they buy. Jaldi is leading the way in this emerging space. \n\n### 🧔🏻‍♂️ **Why am I the one building this?**\n\nI’ve spent my life in this space. I grew up in South Asian supermarkets - my family runs a large chain in the US. My first job out of college was working on Amazon’s grocery business, wearing many hats over the few years I spent there. Most recently, I was the Head of US Strategy & Expansion for Uber’s Grocery business. I’ve seen the grocery industry (and specifically the South Asian consumables space) from multiple angles and see the opportunity to build an amazing customer experience here. \n\n### 💥 **The Deal**\n\nOrder! Browse the site ([check out our Popular Picks](https://getjaldi.com/pages/popular-picks) if you can’t make up your mind).You can use the discount code LaunchYC at checkout for 10% off and free shipping on your first $50 order. \n\n* [Download the app](https://getjaldi.onelink.me/0mSJ/j3y5iudn)\n* [Go straight to](https://getjaldi.com/) [getjaldi.com](http://getjaldi.com)\n\n### 🙏🏽 **Our Ask**\n\nFollow us and share! We’ll be highlighting some of our favorite products and special deals on our socials, help us spread the word!\n\n* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/getjaldiofficial)\n* [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/getjaldi/)\n* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getjaldi)\n* [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/getJaldi/)\n* [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getjaldi)\n\n### 🗣️ **What are customers are saying?**\n\n_I love your service. Please accept few more orders in future._ \\[He bought all of our inventory on a product\\]_. Great work! Thank you for your business_ \n\n_Sunny!!! I got the groceries. Seamless process, actually so smooth._\n\n_Honestly, I had never stepped foot into a South Asian supermarket and didn't know what to expect. Ordered some of the recommended products, now I can't get enough of Thums Up and Kurkure!_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69777&key=user_uploads/1224770/6576e5fd-0ca9-4e38-93d8-1ad4934e03ac)\n\n_Screenshot shared by an enthusiastic batchmate and Jaldi fan!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9R-jaldi-south-asian-groceries-delivered", "votes": 159, "created_at": "2023-02-28T20:07:14.007Z" } ] }, { "id": 28367, "name": "Adri AI", "slug": "adri-ai", "former_names": [ "Atri Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e19d277657e0a919d7f393b4d5533000d3f1ab02.png", "website": "https://www.getadri.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Agents for The Complete SAP Development Workflow. 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Instead of filling out paperwork and waiting 6 months for a check, our software instantly applies rebates and manages the settlement in the background.\n\n# The Problem\n\nClean energy products have higher upfront costs while competing in markets defined by the importance of affordability (e.g. 60% of appliances are financed). Rebates are designed to offset these higher costs, but because rebates are complicated and not surfaced during buying decisions, consumers today choose products that are worse for both the environment and their wallets.\n\n# The Solution\n\nWe solve this problem by partnering with retailers to enable them to transform government and utility rebates into dramatically lower prices for their customers. This solution saves consumers money, increases retailer sales, and helps deploy rebates faster than ever.\n\nStarting with EV Chargers, we qualify consumers for all applicable rebate programs in real-time and advance their savings at checkout. 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Fellow consumers and retailers agreed, so in January of 2023, we started Upfront.\n\nWe're determined to help make clean energy products the obvious choice for consumers to stamp out the nearly 1 gigaton of CO2E emitted from America’s 124 million homes annually.\n\n# The Ask\n\n* If you sell a product that receives government and/or utility rebates (especially EV chargers)–we’d love to chat! [Book some time with us here.](https://calendly.com/thomas-upfront/upfront-intro-call)\n* Know folks in the EV charger space? Let’s connect! Reach out to [thomas@knowupfront.com](mailto:thomas@knowupfront.com) with any relevant intros.\n\nWe'd love to hear your feedback in the comments below! Also feel free to reach out to us directly at [thomas@knowupfront.com](mailto:thomas@knowupfront.com) or [andrew@knowupfront.com](mailto:andrew@knowupfront.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8q-upfront-turning-rebates-into-instantly-lower-prices", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2023-02-28T00:56:49.517Z" } ] }, { "id": 28382, "name": "Theya", "slug": "theya", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/57042ecd2926bcb4a43d14403b927a2ae844ffdc.png", "website": "https://www.theya.us/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Theya is the world’s simplest Bitcoin self-custody app for users who find crypto exchanges risky and hardware wallets overwhelming. 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No hardware required. No technical experience needed.**\n\n\n\n---\n\n### Why This Matters\n\nManaging bitcoin in a team setting is hard:\n\n* Single-key wallets = single points of failure\n* Custodians = counterparty risk\n* DIY multisig = technical, fragmented, and hard to scale\n\nWe’ve seen finance and ops teams struggle to manage holdings, delegate access, and reconcile activity—securely and collaboratively.\\\n**Theya for Business solves this with a purpose-built, modular platform that scales with your org.**\n\n---\n\n### What You Can Do with Theya\n\n✅ **Collaborative Vaults**\\\n2-of-3 multisig setup—distribute keys and approve transactions across your team.\n\n✅ **Scalable Infrastructure**\\\nCreate vaults for departments, partners, or individual employees—all under one roof.\n\n✅ **Effortless Access Control**\\\nAssign signer roles, onboard your finance team, and rotate access without any engineering overhead.\n\n✅ **Transaction Visibility & Reconciliation**\\\nTrack balances, activity, and approvals from a single dashboard—ideal for ops, accounting, and compliance.\n\n✅ **Modular Setup**\\\nUse single-key for payments, multisig for core holdings. Theya supports both.\n\n---\n\n### Who It’s For\n\n* Bitcoin-native companies\n* Funds, family offices, and exchanges\n* Any organization managing bitcoin across teams, wallets, or jurisdictions\n\n---\n\n### What’s Next\n\n* Built-in bitcoin purchases\n* Automated payroll & bonuses in BTC\n* Credit lines against your bitcoin\n* Advanced finance & compliance dashboards\n\n---\n\n### Why Now\n\nBitcoin is gaining traction with organizations, but the infrastructure hasn’t kept up. Most custody options are built for individuals or require trust in third parties.\n\n**Theya offers a new model: collaborative, self-custodial, and built for scale.**\n\n---\n\n### Try It Today\n\nTheya for Business is live and available globally — [business.theya.us](https://business.theya.us)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NFW-theya-for-business-the-bitcoin-operating-system-for-organizations", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-04-10T13:39:56.679Z" }, { "id": 70576, "title": "Theya: World's simplest Bitcoin multi-sig, self-custody app", "tagline": "We are building the default consumer app for Bitcoin - offering products like accumulation, lending, investments and payments - all built on top of our intuitive self-custody platform.", "body": "### **Tl:dr**\n\nTheya is the world’s simplest Bitcoin self-custody app for whole-coiners (users with >1BTC) who find crypto exchanges risky and hardware wallets overwhelming. We simplify the self-custody UX through our multi-device, multi-sig wallet that users can set up using smartphones, giving you the functionality and convenience of centralized exchanges without sacrificing control and security of hardware wallets.\n\n### **Team**\n\nVikas, Sriram and Smeet have extensive background in founding and scaling tech companies and crypto platforms over the past 10 years. Founders have been friends for over 15 years.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70576&key=user_uploads/1235724/1abfbd7f-b023-47b1-8c54-ddf9bd32371f)\n\nVikas was previously the co-founder and CTO of Porter, India’s largest intra-city logistics marketplace that does over $220M in annual revenue. He raised over $150M from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global during his 7 years at Porter. While studying at Stanford, Vikas founded an ML-driven real estate fund that has invested over $30M.\n\nSriram has led crypto engineering teams at Robinhood, FalconX and GameStop Blockchain. He built crypto custody infra and led the development of self-custody wallets for Robinhood and GameStop. He started his career at Google and has over 10 years of experience building consumer apps. Sriram graduated with Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Bombay.\n\nSmeet has led marketing and go-to-market teams at multiple early-stage startups. Prior to Theya, he was the first business hire at Prodigal (YC S18). He started his career at Deutsche Bank and has 8+ years of experience trading macro assets like FX, Bonds, Equities and believes that long Bitcoin is the most important trade of the 2020s.\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe protection of your wealth and trust is paramount, which is why we exist. The reality is that centralized crypto platforms like FTX, Celsius, and Voyager have failed to ensure the safety of their users' Bitcoin. More recently, there are renewed concerns about Binance.\n\nAs the saying goes, **\"not your keys, not your Bitcoin\"** and this is more true now than ever before. Every user who stores Bitcoin on popular crypto exchanges faces severe counterparty risks, including:\n\n**Credit Risk:** If your crypto exchange was to go bankrupt (like FTX) or suffer a catastrophic event, your Bitcoin stored there is certainly at risk.\n\n**Regulatory Risk:** Any change in laws or regulations, crypto exchanges may be forced to freeze or confiscate your Bitcoin.\n\n**Cybersecurity Risk:** While centralized exchanges invest in security measures, they are prime targets for cyber attacks. Successful hackers can steal users’ Bitcoin from hot wallets.\n\nSelf-custody hardware wallets are a solution, but they come with their own set of challenges. They have a messy user experience, and users are responsible for managing their own setup, security, and backup keys. 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Each addition involved 3 changes:\n\n* Update list of available models users can call from\n* Adding key to our secret manager / .env file\n* Mapping the model name - e.g. `replicate/llama2-chat-...` to a user-facing alias `llama2`.\n\nSince LiteLLM integrates with every LLM API - we provide all of this out of the box with zero configuration. With a single environment variable - `LITELLM_EMAIL` you can automatically add 100+ new LLM API integrations into your production server, **without modifying code / redeploying changes 👉** [LiteLLM UI](https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/debugging/hosted_debugging)\n\n## Ask 👀:\n\n* Adding new LLM providers? Contact us at [krrish@berri.ai](mailto:krrish@berri.ai) if you need help!\n* ⭐️ us on [GitHub](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) to keep up with releases and news.\n* Join [our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/wuPM9dRgDw)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JKe-litellm-call-all-llm-apis-using-the-openai-format-llama2-anthropic-huggingface-etc", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2023-08-22T19:05:23.350Z" } ] }, { "id": 28410, "name": "Finta", "slug": "finta", "former_names": [ "Porter" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb79fed805e928fe0d188a9f6392ca4ee5df90fc.png", "website": "https://www.finta.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Automated bookkeeping, effortless tax filing, real‑time insights.\r\n\r\nSet up in 10 mins and get back to building.", "one_liner": "Magically simplify accounting and taxes", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1673469605, "tags": [ "SaaS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/finta.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/finta/", "x_url": "https://x.com/finta", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb79fed805e928fe0d188a9f6392ca4ee5df90fc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 311901, "full_name": "Andy Wang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Finta", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/a27wang/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/andywang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6bed60b80d84dd608100bdaebece81b30a7962f2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 66636, "title": "Founding Designer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/awUE3Ik-founding-designer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Product design", "salary_range": "$140K - 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Expensive bookkeepers with deceptive billing practices\n\n* Starts at $700+/month for startups\n* Price goes up based on expenses, not value\n* Charge to bank account directly without notice\n\n2\\. Repeated questions, mistakes, and late results\n\n* Asks repeatedly simple about categorizing expenses\n* Asks accounting questions that they should be educating you on\n* Put you on tax extensions and don’t file by the April deadline\n* Deliver financial results 3 weeks after the month ended\n\n3\\. Dealing with multiple people and tools\n\n* Introduced to a new person on your account every month\n* Paying for Quickbooks, but you don’t use it\n\n4\\. After all this, still can’t understand your finances\n\n* Can’t get accurate results on cash, burn, runway\n* Don’t understand why financials went up or down\n* No visibility into your revenue or expenses\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/7a28573d-2d16-429d-a877-47d58256d1e6)\n\n### **Solution**\n\n1\\. Transparent and fairly-priced\n\n* Flat price per year, does not increase until your next funding round\n* Includes monthly bookkeeping, taxes, and insights\n\n2\\. Accurate results on time, and proactive on your taxes\n\n* No repeated or common-sense questions, unless we’re not sure\n* You’ll never do anything manually. We value your time.\n* Monthly bookkeeping within the first few days\n* Taxes are always on file time and get proactive notices\n\n3\\. All-in-one platform\n\n* We built accounting from the core, not a wrapper on Quickbooks\n* Actual software, not a form or messaging portal\n\n4\\. Source of truth for your financials\n\n* Easily connect with tools you already use\n* Modernize your finance tech stack\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/06a2b765-545e-4a30-b218-919c3650b315)\n\n### **Frequently Asked Questions**\n\n**How does Finta differ from bookkeepers like Pilot?**\n\nThey do your bookkeeping in Quickbooks. Finta replaces both bookkeeping and taxes, and gives you way more financial insights.\n\n**How does onboarding work for Finta?**\n\nSign up, integrate, and that’s it! It’s at most 10 minutes.\n\n**What if I already have a bookkeeper that manages Quickbooks?**\n\nIt’s the same process to onboard. Finta will actually enrich the data that Quickbooks can’t pull from your existing finance tools.\n\n**What’s the risk of not using Quickbooks?**\n\nNo VC or customer will ever require you to be on Quickbooks. In fact, no one likes Quickbooks.\n\nIf, for whatever reason, you need to go back to Quickbooks, we’ll provide white-glove service for free and help you migrate. However, you’ll lose transaction details because of Quickbooks’ limitations.\n\n**What taxes do you handle?**\n\nFinta handles everything from franchise and income taxes at the city, state, and federal levels. Finta also provides R&D tax credit services.\n\n**How frequently are my results?**\n\nWe’re aiming to give you a real-time dashboard. As of today, we deliver bookkeeping and financial reporting every month.\n\n### **Get Finta**\n\nVisit [www.finta.com](http://www.finta.com) or send me an email at andy at finta dot com", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J5I-finta-accounting-platform-for-startups", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2023-07-24T18:24:13.688Z" } ] }, { "id": 28412, "name": "Speedy Labs", "slug": "speedy-labs", "former_names": [ "SpeedyBrand" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/621b935d9e98b45293833804f8d64d9f43348ad6.png", "website": "https://speedylabs.ai/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote", "long_description": "Speedy Labs helps manufacturers and distributors ditch error-prone spreadsheets that cost them millions in missed rebate opportunities for an AI-powered solution that not only tracks rebate payments and their performance but also unlocks insights from their financial data silos that uplifts their bottom-line profit margins.\r\n\r\n$1 trillion worth of rebates are exchanged every year in North America alone.", "one_liner": "Maximize profits with AI-powered rebate management.", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1676873926, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speedy-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/speedy-labs.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Toronto", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/89983427/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/621b935d9e98b45293833804f8d64d9f43348ad6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/53db8d25fb13b59be1bdd3a0f1242292eef9b34c.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1148352, "full_name": "Jatin Mehta", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Having built AI algorithms for cancer detection from mammograms, I'm on a mission to apply AI for good at scale. 50% of the businesses fail in the first 5 years according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 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We create a custom AI model for each business, that helps you curate hyper personalized content like blogs, socials and get organic traffic on your site.\n\n### **Problem**\n\n* SMBs cannot afford the high fees of digital marketing agencies that go into thousands of dollars per month.\n* Due to a limited marketing budget, they often lose traffic to more prominent companies.\n* They lack the time and resources to create and run content marketing campaigns.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nUsing Generative AI, Speedy creates SEO-optimized blogs and social media content, which SMBs can use to do effective marketing at a price that works for them.\n\n**How does it work?**\n\n1. Once you onboard to our monthly/annual plan, we conduct a branding workshop to feed into our models to help bring your brand’s voice to the content.\n2. For a monthly subscription, you get 4 blogs and 16 social media posts that are SEO-optimized.\n3. For an annual subscription, you get monthly benefits + a monthly newsletter + an annual content strategy.\n\n### **Backstory**\n\nWhile serving SMBs at Vetan (a payroll app), we realized they did not have the budget for the expensive marketing agencies. As an online business, having effective content around its products is crucial to get leads. At Speedy, we understand that creating engaging content can be time-consuming and expensive. That's why we offer affordable plans that include weekly SEO-optimized blog posts and social media posts for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And with our high-conversion ad copies for Google, Facebook, Instagram, and more, you can take your ad campaigns to the next level.\\\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\\\n1\\. Checkout our demo for your website \\\n2\\. 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Beginning his career as an optician, Joe has worked on all sides of the optical industry and most recently managed top territories for Johnson and Johnson Vision. Joe’s ultimate vision (pun intended) is to create a piece of technology which unifies the patient, doctor, and third party vendors in a single elegant solution. When he’s not busy with SpecCheck, you can find Joe cooking in the kitchen, sailing, or playing video games. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-demaria-15a15943/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cbb7fc10d0da1d33c8833c5380f634211aef147f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1251063, "full_name": "Arnold Villatoro", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Arnold is the co-founder and CTO of SpecCheck. Arnold has been a software engineer for almost a decade, starting his career at Workday. Most recently, he lead the payments team at Lyft. Outside of work and tech, Arnold enjoys working out, is a big foodie, has a cat named Peanut, and loves Super Smash Brothers. 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SpecCheck’s users work more efficiently and make fewer costly errors, increasing productivity and improving their overall workflow._\n\nHello, World! We’re Joe DeMaria and Arnold Villatoro, the co-founders of [SpecCheck](http://www.speccheckrx.com). Together with our team of industry experts and seasoned software engineers, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the optical industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69528&key=user_uploads/1251063/d58a9c75-3474-4b78-a5af-978c0f8eea1c)\n\n_Co-founders Joe DeMaria and Arnold Villatoro_\n\n### **❌ The Problem: Current optical industry software sucks!**\n\nDid you know it takes a coordinated team of eye doctors, opticians, technicians, and an optical lab to successfully dispense a _single pair_ of prescription eyeglasses? Despite this complex balancing act, each of these groups are forced to use antiquated technology and systems built in the 1990s that are fragmented, outdated, and limited to specific use cases. This results in glasses taking longer than they should to reach the patient, and results in expensive remakes. Not-so-fun fact: one in ten pairs of glasses needs to be redone before they are ready for pick up.\n\n### 😎 **The Solution: SpecCheck**\n\nSpecCheck is a unified ordering, billing, and communications platform designed specifically for the optical industry. Our solution centralizes all processes involved in the purchasing and manufacturing of prescription eyewear, saving time and reducing costly errors. Some of our features include: \n\n* **✨ Modern Dashboard:** Our simple and intuitive dashboard appeals to both new and veteran eye doctors.\n* **👓 Order Entry:** The easiest way for eye doctors to electronically transmit eyewear orders to optical laboratories, with advanced data validations to reduce errors.\n* **💳 Payments Processing:** Doctors can conveniently pay lab invoices directly from our platform.\n* **💬 Customer Service Live Chat:** Communicate more efficiently with optical labs to check order statuses, make edits, and request additional information.\n* **🔔 Patient Notifications & Tracking:** Keep patients in the know with one-click order notifications and our self-service patient order tracker.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69528&key=user_uploads/1251063/7a550fda-8c41-49eb-8cf3-c4478ff946f1)\n\n_SpecCheck’s Dashboard_\n\n### **⭐ Why Us?**\n\n[Joe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-demaria-15a15943/) began his career in the optical industry in 2012, working as an optician for several different offices. In 2016 he was recruited to work for a key industry player, Shamir Insight, and afterwards for Johnson & Johnson Vision as a sales executive. As he traversed the industry in various roles, Joe realized that thousands of other eye doctors and optical labs were suffering from the same problems and frustrations he had encountered during his career. \n\nWhen Joe approached his friend [Arnold](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnold-villatoro-85629330/) about creating a new technology resource to unify the fragmented optical industry, Arnold was quick to see the vision (pun intended). Arnold’s career started at Workday building the infrastructure for an internal job scheduler. Most recently, Arnold was the lead staff engineer for the payments infrastructure and processing teams at Lyft. With his diverse experience designing scalable and easy-to-use technology solutions for millions of users, Joe and Arnold make the perfect co-founding team.\n\n### 🙏 **Our Asks**\n\n* **📣 Sharing:** Share this post with your network, and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/speccheck)!\n* **➡️ Referrals:** Connect us with any family, friends, or colleagues who work in the optical industry. \n* **🖥️ Product Demos:** If you’re in the industry and would like to learn more about [SpecCheck](https://www.speccheckrx.com/), please [contact us today](https://www.speccheckrx.com/contact).\n* **🚀 Investors:** Please reach out to us at [investors@speccheckrx.com](mailto:investors@speccheckrx.com) to discuss investment opportunities.\n\n ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5Q-speccheck-unifying-how-the-optical-industry-does-business", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2023-02-22T05:30:14.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 28414, "name": "Automat", "slug": "automat", "former_names": [ "Lasso", "Automat (formerly lasso)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/55c324c494df9a6e5d939b7ecdc8e94880f2d575.png", "website": "https://www.runautomat.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Automat is an AI automation company that replaces slow manual work and brittle legacy RPA with agents that understand context, recover from errors, and improve over time. 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Automat Core replaces legacy RPA with self-healing agents that combine UI automation, AI document extraction (IDP), and API workflows in one platform. 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It works inside the tools you already use and hands back finished work, not status updates.", "body": "Hi! Lucas here from Automat. Stoked to share what the team's been heads-down on: Ace. It's instinct, but for work. **The TL;DR: you can now hire an AI teammate.**\n\nEvery team we talk to wants AI teammates, but doesn't know how to actually put one to work. Maybe you've tried homebrewing OpenClaw or Hermes. The two usual options both whiff: traditional automation (UiPath) makes you sign up for a months-long integration project before it does one useful thing, and AI \"assistants\" hand you a wall of text, and you still go do the work yourself.\n\n**Ace is different.** You onboard it like any new hire, and it shows up where the work happens:\n\n• Forward it an email or cc its own inbox, and the draft lands in your Drive with the judgment calls left as comments.\n\n• @Ace in Slack after a call, and the summary + action items land on the opportunity.\n\n• Text it between meetings (\"move Thursday to Friday and tell them why\"), and it updates the invite, emails everyone, and confirms.\n\n• Ping it in a doc comment, or have it make a call on its own line.\n\nWhat comes back is finished work: CRM updated, email sent, invoice reconciled. When it hits a real fork in the road, it hands you the open questions instead of guessing.\n\n**Why trust it?** We spent two years automating high-volume work in mortgage, lending, and insurance, where a wrong answer is a compliance problem. Ace pairs a deterministic engine for must-be-identical work with AI for the fuzzy stuff. Every run is logged step by step, you set what needs approval, and you can revoke access like any employee's. SOC 2, encrypted credentials, role-based access.\n\n\"I really tried hard not to like this product, and I'm in love.\" — Asa Block, COO, Near Space Labs\n\n\"It's a no-brainer… Monday to Friday you won't believe how much more stuff you get done.\" — Jack Miller, President & CEO, T3 Sixty\n\n## Our asks 🙏\n\n• Try Ace: One month free with unlimited usage for the YC community only. Sign up here:() Use the promo code: ACEYC30\n\n• Intros: Know a team drowning in admin across a dozen systems? Send them our way.\n\n• We're hiring! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UYU-ace-from-automat-it-s-instinct-but-for-work", "votes": 1, "created_at": "2026-09-30T16:33:11.033Z" }, { "id": 69615, "title": "Automat RPA - Robotic process automation for Chrome using ChatGPT and computer vision", "tagline": "Automate anything in Chrome using natural language", "body": "### **TLDR: Traditional automation software is slow and expensive, Automat is 10X faster and 1/10th the price. It lets operations teams automate using natural language.**\n\nHowdy y’all! Lucas here from [Automat](https://www.getlassoai.com/) - excited to share what my cofounder Gautam and I have been working on!\n\n**🧐 The problem: Traditional Robotic Process Automation is slow and expensive.**\n\nIt’s extremely time consuming and expensive to build out robot process automations using traditional tools like UiPath (\\~$66,000 per yearly license - Yikes!) not to mention the initial consultant setup fees which most people are forced to pay if they don’t have the resources in house (at the lowest end we’re talking $50,000+ per project - Double Yikes!!)\n\n💡 **Our Solution: Automat makes it 10X cheaper and faster to build any robotic process automation using natural language on chrome.**\n\nWe’re solving this by creating a platform that enables robotics process automation for Chrome using large language models and computer vision.\n\nCurrently our customers send us descriptions or videos of the processes they’d like us to automate and we use our internal tooling to quickly build out those automations.\n\nHere is one of our customer’s attended bots in action, scraping an email, looking through a prospecting tool, and saving it to a spreadsheet.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69615&key=user_uploads/415306/a547a684-faee-4c6e-b3db-88cef800940a)\n\n\\\nWe want to let anyone regardless of timeline or budget automate the work they do by using natural language or simply sending Automat the workflow in a screen recording.\n\n**👯 A little more about us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69615&key=user_uploads/415306/e82023cd-a7c1-4be3-8446-f2e0c2eae6f6)\n\nGautam and Lucas met on the first day of Design school at Carnegie Mellon University and have been roommates ever since:\n\n* At Google, their team was tasked with finding product applications of [LaMDA](https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/) in early 2020, and they built over 50+ prototypes integrating LaMDA across Google’s products and services. Eventually Gautam would go on to implement multiple demos for Google’s [first public Demonstration of LaMDA](https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23065072/google-ai-app-test-kitchen-future-io-2022), the AI test kitchen.\n* They were hired together at Google’s Creative Lab as part of the [Creative Lab 5](https://www.creativelab5.com/), at Google they spent the following three years launching products like the [AI Test Kitchen](https://blog.google/technology/ai/join-us-in-the-ai-test-kitchen/), [Everyday Helper Robots](https://everydayrobots.com/), [Teachable Machine](https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/), the [Google Pixel Buds Pro](https://store.google.com/product/pixel_buds_pro?hl=en-US&pli=1), and most importantly a [high speed lucky charms cereal sorter](https://coral.ai/projects/teachable-sorter) 🍀\n* At Carnegie Mellon they studied Human Computer Interaction and Design. During their Junior year they created an adorable [AI robotic assistant](https://vimeo.com/270823057) that caught Google’s attention which awarded them a grant during their senior year to [research Robotics and AI](https://vimeo.com/393172151).\n\n**🙏 Our asks**\n\nAre you struggling in a deluge of repetitive or complex tasks that you wish you could hire someone for (or automate) but don’t have the budget? Send an email to [lucas@runautomat.com](https://lucas@runautomat.com) or submit a request on our [website](https://www.getlassoai.com/).\n\nDoes the above sound like someone you know? We’d appreciate intros to anyone. Let us know and we can send you over a quick intro blurb to make it an easy email to forward.\n\n**YC Special Offer:** For the first 10 YC companies that reach out we’ll waive the setup fee associated with building your automation!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6p-automat-rpa-robotic-process-automation-for-chrome-using-chatgpt-and-computer-vision", "votes": 91, "created_at": "2023-02-23T19:08:21.664Z" } ] }, { "id": 28415, "name": "moonrepo", "slug": "moonrepo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3de25b12e8aab670255b22d53c12d30ccd142ae5.png", "website": "https://moonrepo.dev", "all_locations": "Portland, OR, USA; Remote", "long_description": "moonrepo is a developer tool that reduces build/test/deploy times, and maintenance costs for companies. We’ve achieved this through moon, our open source build system and repository management tool. moon can be paired with moonbase, our paid service that provides cloud caching, CI insights, code ownership, and health score related metrics. 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Please describe your product and what it does or will do.\n", "answer": "We plan to make a suite of tools and services to solve common developer experience and company workflow problems. These are problems that all companies deal with at some point in time, and range from solutions like a configuration service, code ownership, repository management, deploy/merge locks, CI insights and metrics, deployboard, and much more.\r\n\r\nMany companies custom build in-house solutions to these problems, as there are non-viable or no alternatives. This diverts focus and resources away from their mission. We hope to provide solutions to these problems, so that companies can focus solely on their mission.\r\n\r\nThe first tool in this suite is moon, which is a language agnostic build system (built in Rust), with first class support for CI pipelines and the developer experience. In the future, this will be expanded to also support CD workflows. 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Are you struggling with large codebases? Well, look no further! We built moonrepo to simplify repository management, project ownership, task running, and everyday developer and productivity workflows.\n\n### 🧑‍💻 Who is it for\n\nFor companies or individuals that maintain monorepos or large codebases (or any size really), and want to reduce build and CI times, and ensure their repository stays healthy.\n\n### 🚀 How we’re solving it\n\nAfter more than a decade in the industry, with many of those years working on infrastructure and developer tooling-related products, we weren’t happy with the status quo of tooling or ad-hoc solutions that companies are required to build. As such, we set out to build moon, a language-agnostic task runner that is smart enough to only run against affected code changes, and [moonbase](https://moonrepo.dev/moonbase), an upstream service for monitoring CI pipelines. We wanted our products to be enjoyable to use and easy to understand.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69492&key=user_uploads/1247217/8945b4a3-e49c-410b-ae5f-5c59794fbbea)\n\n### 🛰️ How it works\n\nAt a high level, we are putting an immense focus on the developer experience. For example, the configuration is in YAML, which everyone is familiar with, and is **_not_** a proprietary syntax. Tasks are defined and run as if you were running them in the terminal; there are no more abstractions. We automate common and everyday workflows. We manage a toolchain, ensuring the correct version of languages is used (no more “works on my machine”). And lastly, our foundation is built on Rust and Tokio, so performance is first-class, the runtime is reliable, and memory safety is guaranteed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69492&key=user_uploads/1247217/c5d3c251-0768-493b-8bed-28c9fc60bc6a)\n\n### Try it today!\n\nOur moon task runner is free and open source, and will always be! Start adopting today and see the immediate benefits in your codebase. \n\nOur moonbase service is also available under our free tier (with reasonable limits). Join today in 1-click! \n\nIf you have any questions or would like a demo, feel free to join our Discord community and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tothemoonrepo)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4q-moonrepo-simplifying-codebase-management-and-organization", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2023-02-21T19:13:22.175Z" } ] }, { "id": 28416, "name": "Pierre", "slug": "pierre", "former_names": [ "Umbrella Company" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b78dca2b9a7dd83a3f06b2d4efd75eb21f68233b.png", "website": "https://pierre.co", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are re-building code hosting, code review, and CI primitives from the metal, for the next generation of professional developers: Small, focused teams, working closely, augmented by AI.", "one_liner": "Pierre is a new, opinionated, git platform.", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677182558, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Developer Tools", "B2B", "Productivity", "Collaboration" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "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/pierre", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/pierre.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/pierredotco", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b78dca2b9a7dd83a3f06b2d4efd75eb21f68233b.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": 1253715, "full_name": "Jacob Thornton", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jacob Thornton has been doing software development in the bay area for over a decade, as an early employee at startups like Twitter, Medium, and Coinbase.\n\nDuring this time he contributed to several large open source projects (most notably as the co-creator of Twitter Bootstrap), given talks around the world (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os), and written several chapters in technical books (beautiful javascript, if Hemingway wrote javascript).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-thornton-13a6a5162/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fat", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/12170102c839a10c7f7a28f061f7b97c3d70f378.jpg" }, { "user_id": 46928, "full_name": "Ian Ownbey", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I have worked for a number of consumer tech companies ranging from Twitter in 2010 to Coinbase in 2018. I started as a backend engineer using Ruby on Rails and then eventually moved up the stack to iOS engineering, React Native engineering and now mostly React. I enjoy hanging out with my cat when not working.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-ownbey-4aa5ba117", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/beda0dcd17ad0f5ebb42b391b4c8c1b7cc8560f1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69619, "title": "Pierre - A new way to review code", "tagline": "Pierre enables engineers, designers and business team members to discuss new features before they're merged.", "body": "Hi Everyone —\n\nWe are Ian and Jacob, and we are on a mission to modernize code reviews. Sign up for the alpha on [**HeyPierre.app**](http://heypierre.app/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69619&key=user_uploads/46928/b1f1d6e0-88b1-4a2e-b17c-0d5982d2543d)\n\nJacob (CEO) and Ian (CTO) met as early engineers at Twitter 14 years ago.\n\nJacob is the co-creator of Bootstrap (one of the largest and most popular open source communities on GitHub) and later went on to work as one of the first engineers at Medium. Ian was the first intern at Twitter, dropping out of college at 19 to TL the Twitter platform team.\n\nJacob and Ian co-founded a mobile app called Bumpers in 2016, which was eventually acquired by Coinbase. For the next 5 years, they led the Product Platform team at Coinbase and were the company-wide web and mobile DRIs.\n\n### Github doesn’t solve today’s biggest engineering problems\n\nIn the decade+ since Github was built, tools that prioritize real time collaboration and discussion (Figma, Notion, and Linear) have exploded in popularity, but the circa-2006 code review experience hasn’t materially changed.\n\nWe’re building a new way to review code, and we’re starting with pull requests. As engineers with more than 15 years of experience, we’ve seen firsthand how cumbersome a pull request review is using Github — often, pull requests lack necessary context, take too long to approve, and cannot be viewed by non-engineers for feedback. Github’s comment features make it difficult to manage a conversation over time, and discussion is lost when engineers switch to Slack or Hangouts.\n\n### Your code, conversations, and collaborators. Together.\n\nPierre enables engineers to shape the way that their code is reviewed. We’re starting with two of the biggest problems that engineers have:\n\n1. How do you set better context?\n2. How do you better manage discussions?\n\nWe’re taking features of the products you love most — the organized chats of iMessage, the real time collaboration of Figma, and the narrative structure of Notion — and we’re bringing it to code reviews.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69619&key=user_uploads/46928/2f0b02fe-d44b-4605-a704-f66aa7736c4f)\n\nUsing Pierre, code review creators can:\n\n* Set context next to the code\n* Reorganize diffs intuitively\n* Break up large pull requests into digestible bites\n\nAnd code reviewers can:\n\n* Be anyone — no more waiting for the bug bash to get design and product feedback\n* Comment on anything — code, images or text\n* Conduct real-time conversations right next to the code\n* Get up-to-speed on changes more quickly\n\n### Why we built Pierre\n\nWe’ve been intimately using GitHub since it’s inception (Ian’s user id is #91). There’s been a lot to love about GitHub over the years, but innovation on the core experience is lagging and other pieces of our toolchain are making us expect more. This is only exasperated by Ian living in NYC and Jacob in SF.\n\nEngineers deserve a realtime, collaborative software platform optimized for productivity - instead of a slow, feed-based social network for coding.\n\n### Try Pierre Out!\n\n* Head to [**HeyPierre.app**](http://heypierre.app/) and sign up for our waitlist. We’re in closed alpha, but we can’t wait for you to try us out.\n* We’re looking for a handful of fast growing teams (with \\~25-50 engineers) to pilot us. If you know a team that could be a good fit, email [rachel@heypierre.app](mailto:rachel@heypierre.app). **Earn a $200 referral bonus for each paying team you bring in.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6t-pierre-a-new-way-to-review-code", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2023-02-23T20:27:31.367Z" } ] }, { "id": 28417, "name": "Yuma AI", "slug": "yuma-ai", "former_names": [ "Yuma" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b5e2299b8aa66bb93182989998fcde535817370.png", "website": "https://yuma.ai", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "## What is Yuma AI?\r\n\r\nYuma is automating customer support by providing an AI Support Agent orchestration platform. Yuma provides autonomous AI agents dedicated to customer service and e-commerce.\r\n\r\nWe integrate directly with help desk software (Zendesk, Kustomer, Gorgias, etc.) and focus on helping large Shopify brands deal with their high volume of support requests.\r\n\r\nTop merchants using Yuma can automate up to 80% of their support tickets fully autonomously.\r\n\r\n## Why do Shopify merchants need Yuma?\r\n\r\nThere are thousands of large Shopify merchants around the world generating $10M+ a year. Most of them have taken over some niches and are great at what they do: selling their products.\r\n\r\nBut they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support. It's a burden for them and a huge source of cost, as they receive hundreds of requests per day. Some of them have dozens of support agents on staff, usually offshore, and the overall quality is still often pretty poor while staff turnover remains high.\r\n\r\nThose merchants have been promised automation for years but have always been disappointed by the outcome. As customers, we have all had to live through a terrible support automation experience before, so this is no secret, and everyone knows that the current state of the technology is quite bad.\r\n\r\n## Yuma is solving this in a few ways:\r\n\r\nYuma isn't just another RAG chatbot. Our platform provides autonomous AI agents dedicated to support and ecommerce.\r\n\r\nThese agents are powered by knowledge, follow processes, and are managed by our in-house AI orchestration technology. This ensures safety, control, and quality at every step.\r\n\r\nWe believe that to truly automate customer support, we must develop a platform that mimics the actions of a human support agent. That's exactly what we've been doing.\r\n\r\nCurrently, our top merchants are automating 60% of their support tickets through Yuma. Yuma can fetch information from external services and take actions in other apps as needed to resolve each ticket.\r\n\r\nWe are laser-focused on building the best AI support agent platform and aim to achieve 80% true automation in the next few months.\r\n\r\n## Fun Fact\r\n\r\nYuma got started by accident. This is my third YC startup after Socialcam (W12) and Triplebyte (S15). I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022 and was overwhelmed with demo requests. That's when I knew I was onto something and had to turn this into a real company, once again.", "one_liner": "The AI Support Agent for Ecommerce", "team_size": 26, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1677585502, "tags": [ "Customer Support", "AI", "Conversational AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yuma-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/yuma-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Boston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/yuma-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/yuma_dot_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b5e2299b8aa66bb93182989998fcde535817370.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 37163, "full_name": "Guillaume Luccisano", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently Founder @ Yuma (W23) - Previously Co-Founder at Triplebyte (S15) & Socialcam (W12) - Seed Investor in 60+ companies.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaumeluccisano/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/luckwi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0c11c755fbf5b493b7b1ddd8ea8d3ddaf32a9210.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Yuma Raises $5M to Transform Ecommerce Customer Support with Advanced AI Agents", "url": "https://yuma.ai/news-announcements/yuma-ai-raises-5-million-to-transform-e-commerce-customer-support-with-advanced-ai-agents", "date": "Oct 31, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 116594, "title": "Yuma Voice: Your AI support agent now answers the phone", "tagline": "AI phone support for brands. Resolves requests and takes real actions, with a unified, single Handbook to define the rules for your AI agents across every channel.", "body": "👋 We are Yuma, YC W23, and since 2023, We have automated millions of customer conversations for retail & ecommerce brands.\n\nToday we're launching Yuma Voice. The same AI agent that handles your email, chat, and WhatsApp can now answer your phone!\n\nThis one took many, many months of work and iteration from the whole team. I'm very proud to finally put it in your hands :)\n\n**Why we built it**\n\nWe have spent years teaching AI agents how to actually resolve customer requests: understand the problem, follow the brand's policies, look things up, and take the right action.\n\nWe wanted to bring all of that to the phone. But making seamless at the same time.\n\nVoice is a totally different beast. It has to be fast, accurate, and personable. One awkward pause or misunderstanding, and the customer hears it immediately. But the hardest part was making it as capable as the rest of our agents.\n\nA customer calls at 11pm to skip her next delivery. Yuma picks up, finds her subscription, confirms the change, updates it during the call, and tells her when the next delivery will arrive.\n\nThat's the experience we've been working toward.\n\n**What it does**\n\n* **Takes real actions during the call.** Update an address, cancel an order, process a return, or change a subscription while the customer is still on the line.\n* **Uses everything you've already configured.** Same knowledge, same processes, same guardrails as your existing Yuma agents. Nothing to retrain or duplicate.\n* **Speaks 30+ languages.** It can follow the customer even when they switch languages mid-call.\n* **Works on your phone number and your website.** Connect your existing telephony or add a browser call button.\n* **Hands over when it should.** You decide when to transfer to a human or collect an email for follow-up. Recordings and transcripts give your team the context.\n* **Lets you start small.** Run it after hours, on weekends, or on a portion of calls. Listen to the conversations and expand when you're comfortable.\n\nIt plugs into the helpdesk and ecommerce tools you already use, with voice conversations alongside the rest of your support activity.\n\n**Try it yourself**\n\n☎️ [Call Emily, our live demo](https://yuma.ai/voice-demo).\n\nShe handles support for Daybreak Coffee, our fictional demo store. Pick a sample customer on the page, ask to skip a shipment or change a subscription, and see how she handles it.\n\nYou can call directly from your browser. It’s that easy!\n\nPlease try it and give me blunt feedback. That's why we're launching here :)\n\n**Looking for**\n\nAre you running a retail brand with phone support, or thinking about offering it?\n\nWe would love to help you connect Yuma Voice, set up your first processes, and review the results together. Contact Guillaume, the founder below, or [book a demo](https://yuma.ai/voice-ai-agent).\n\nAnd if you know a brand whose team spends too much time handling repetitive calls, send them our way 👀\n\nContact Guillaume, the founder at g-voice-ai-launch@yuma.ai for priority setup.\n\n**What else does Yuma do?**\n\nYuma brings your entire customer service operation into a single platform. Email, chat, social, WhatsApp, and now voice, with AI agents handling both inbound and outbound conversations across every channel.\n\nWhether customers contact you or your agents reach out first, it all runs through Yuma. A single Handbook defines the rules, and a single tool lets you manage the full customer experience.\n\nYuma is AI for CX infrastructure.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=116594&key=user_uploads/37163/9dbfb2d6-b738-4f4f-9c3b-ebe6a3213fd1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UKY-yuma-voice-your-ai-support-agent-now-answers-the-phone", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-09-23T21:00:25.732Z" }, { "id": 99564, "title": "Ask Yuma: The AI that runs your entire support operation", "tagline": "Commerce brands can now build automations, investigate ticket issues, find optimization opportunities, and generate reports by talking to their AI platform in plain English.", "body": "👋 We are **Yuma (YC W23)**, the AI agent layer for commerce CX. We started building on OpenAI's Davinci model in late 2022 and have processed millions of customer conversations for 100+ commerce brands since.\n\nToday we are launching **Ask Yuma**. Think Claude Code, but for your entire CX operation. A conversational AI built into every page of the Yuma dashboard.\n\n**Demo video:**\n\n\n\nAsk Yuma knows your entire support operation: tickets, automations, knowledge base, metrics, integrations, brand voice. You tell it what you want in plain English. It does the work.\n\n**Why we built it**\n\nSince 2023, Yuma has automated millions of customer interactions for commerce brands. Our best merchants automate 93% of their customer conversations. The automation works.\n\nBut configuring it was still painful. Merchants had SOPs in Google Docs they couldn't turn into live automations without our help. They wanted to investigate why a ticket was handled wrong but had to file a request and wait. They knew there were more tickets to automate but finding them meant hours of manual digging.\n\nThe dependency on our team was the bottleneck. So we built Ask Yuma: one conversational interface that puts all of that in the merchant's hands, with our team still there when they need us.\n\n**What it does**\n\n**Build automations from documents:** Upload any SOP or process doc. Ask Yuma reads it, asks clarifying questions, generates a visual flowchart, and produces a complete automation ready to go live. What used to take days takes 1 conversation.\n\n**Find automation opportunities:** Ask Yuma analyzes your escalated tickets, ranks recommendations by impact, and links to real examples so you can verify before acting.\n\n**Diagnose issues:** Ask \"why was this ticket handled wrong?\" Ask Yuma traces the root cause through your configuration and tells you what to change.\n\n**Generate reports:** Ask for a report of every product defect reported this week. Ask Yuma searches thousands of tickets, pulls the images, and generates a PDF you can share with your exec team or manufacturer.\n\n**Monitor performance:** Track automation rate, CSAT trends, unusual spikes, and compare time periods in plain English. No dashboards to build.\n\nIt doesn't stop there. Ask Yuma finds what's broken, proposes a plan, gets your approval, implements the fix, tests it in a sandbox, and verifies it worked.\n\nIn just 1 week of internal release, Ask Yuma has seen 60% adoption among existing merchants.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99564&key=user_uploads/37163/ccaf771b-aa36-4429-930f-2f22e68be888)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99564&key=user_uploads/37163/1ddfc2a1-f617-4280-932b-329fa2945bd5)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99564&key=user_uploads/37163/150191ac-4804-4fc7-987c-e1fe19abba26)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99564&key=user_uploads/37163/0b951c2a-8621-4c37-8ec4-b3ee345c13bc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99564&key=user_uploads/37163/a3d159ca-0dc6-4ef4-a161-2e77f40b28f2)\n\n**Looking for**\n\nCommerce brands running support automation that want to move faster without the manual work. We will connect Ask Yuma and help you find automation opportunities on day one. Reach out to Guillaume (founder) at [g-social-ai-launch@yuma.ai](mailto:g-social-ai-launch@yuma.ai).\n\n**What else does Yuma do**\n\nYuma is a full AI agent infrastructure for commerce brands. Beyond Ask Yuma, we offer autonomous support agents, a sales AI widget for product pages, social media comment automation, deterministic workflow builder, and deep ticket analytics. All connected, all powered by the same orchestration layer.\n\n**What should we build next?**\n\nWe are working on automated weekly process recommendations, scheduled reports, and MCP integration so you can use Ask Yuma directly inside Claude and other AI tools. Tell us what workflow you wish you could ask your support data about. We build based on what brands need most.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99564&key=user_uploads/37163/a4887f0d-d8f8-4894-95ee-7b0156b779a9)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pts-ask-yuma-the-ai-that-runs-your-entire-support-operation", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2026-04-08T14:39:18.485Z" }, { "id": 98153, "title": "Social AI: Put E-commerce Social Media on Autopilot", "tagline": "Safely automate social media moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.", "body": "👋 We are Yuma, YC W23. Since 2023, we've automated over 5 million customer interactions for leading e-commerce brands with Support AI and Sales AI. Today we're launching our newest product: **Social AI**\n\nSocial AI puts your brand's social media comments on autopilot. It connects to your Facebook, Instagram, and soon TikTok pages, ingests every comment in real time, classifies each one by intent and sentiment, and acts based on automation rules you define. In early testing, Social AI safely automates up to 60% of repetitive social media moderation.\n\n**Why this matters**: because social comments are one of the last unmanaged channels in e-commerce. They're public, they shape brand perception, and most teams have no system for handling them. And \"safely\" matters here. One careless AI reply on a post can reach thousands of eyes in minutes.\n\n**Why we built it**\n\nWe kept hearing the same thing from customer support and social teams at high-growth brands: social comments are a blind spot.\n\n* \"A negative comment sits on a post for days and nobody can catch it.\"\n* \"Someone asked a product question under our Instagram ad. By the time we saw it, they'd already bought from a competitor.\"\n* \"A frustrated customer tagged us publicly. It snowballed into 40+ replies before anyone on our team even noticed.\"\n* \"A customer leaves a glowing comment and we don't even say thank you.\"\n* \"We have 1 person manually scrolling through hundreds of comments.\"\n\nSupport tickets have tools. Social comments didn't. We've been running Social AI in private beta for the past year. Today, after a major upgrade, we're opening it up to everyone.\n\n**What's different**\n\n* Works across both paid and organic posts. Negative comments on your ads are conversion killers, and Social AI catches them before they cost you.\n* Built-in automation templates for common scenarios (reply, like, hide, flag, or skip), with the ability to create fully custom rules\n* Configurable agent persona: set the tone, verbosity, and brand guidelines so replies sound like your team wrote them\n* Advanced targeting based on the commenter's follower count, so high-profile users get the extra care they deserve\n* Crisis prevention: automatically detect and escalate comments that could spiral into bigger brand issues before they do\n* 24/7 coverage. 50% of comments are posted outside business hours and on weekends. Social AI is always on so your brand is never unprotected.\n* Safety first: every automation rule is scoped by platform, intent, sentiment, and user popularity. You stay in control of what gets automated and what doesn't\n* Real-time dashboard with engagements, automation coverage, sentiment distribution, negative exposure rate, and unanswered rate across all platforms\n\n**The demo video:**\n\n\n\n**Looking for:**\n\nAre you running an e-commerce brand and leaving social comments unmanaged? We'd love to help you set up Social AI, configure your automations, and track the impact with a 30-day free trial. 👀\n\nContact Guillaume, the founder at [g-social-ai-launch@yuma.ai](mailto:g-social-ai-launch@yuma.ai) for priority setup.\n\n**What else does Yuma do?**\n\nWe also offer AI agents for e-commerce support (Support AI) and a product page Q&A widget to boost conversion (Sales AI). On top of that, our platform includes a visual automation builder (Flows) and a ChatGPT-like interface for surfacing customer voice insights from support tickets (Deep Search). :)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98153&key=user_uploads/37163/6d6bf373-8851-4839-9000-95026af84bc2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98153&key=user_uploads/37163/c822a5ad-30d5-47e9-8ffb-562dc987dd3f)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98153&key=user_uploads/37163/fbcfd039-9496-497e-871a-2616e80c16e2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98153&key=user_uploads/37163/91b861bf-7efc-46ff-9cc7-3467f7df03ca)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98153&key=user_uploads/37163/fcb91c3e-7cbb-4c2e-b0d8-dc890d46316b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PX7-social-ai-put-e-commerce-social-media-on-autopilot", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2026-02-24T20:59:26.072Z" }, { "id": 95775, "title": "Deep Search: Chat With Your Customer Voice", "tagline": "ChatGPT-style interface that turns your support ticket history into instant insights, trends, and answers.", "body": "👋 We’re **Yuma (YC W23)**, an AI agent platform **dedicated to e-commerce brands**. Similar to Sierra and Decagon but built for **high-volume retail support**.\n\nToday we are launching **Deep Search**, our latest innovation for unlocking **Customer Voice**.\n\nDeep Search is an **LLM-powered conversational search engine** on top of your support ticket history (your entire support **ticket cloud**). Instead of digging through dashboards or exports, you ask questions in plain language and get **clear, sourced answers** straight from recent customer conversations.\n\n### Why we built it\n\nSince 2023, Yuma has helped brands resolve **millions of support tickets**. CX teams kept asking questions that no tool could answer well:\n\n* _“Which products are generating defects or breakage complaints this week?”_\n* _“What is driving checkout abandonment and what are customers saying about it?”_\n* _“Are refund requests spiking for a specific SKU or variant?”_\n* _“What new issues are trending right now that we did not even know about?”_\n\nDashboards only show the metrics you already track. The real **Customer Voice lives in the support tickets**.\n\n### Why it matters\n\nDeep Search gives you insights **in minutes** that used to take **days of manual work** or were simply not economically viable to produce. Until today, no one had the time or budget to manually read and analyze hundreds or thousands of support tickets.\n\nNow you get that work done **instantly**. Product, CX, ops, and growth leaders can finally:\n\n* Spot **product defects** before they create churn\n* Identify **friction points** that slow or block purchases\n* Surface **refund and return patterns** across SKUs\n* Detect **trending issues early** and intervene fast\n* Ship improvements backed by **real customer data**\n* Turn support into a **compounding ROI engine**\n\nDeep Search makes your support tickets an **always-on source of business intelligence**.\n\n### What it does\n\nDeep Search:\n\n* Scans your entire **support ticket cloud** in seconds\n* Identifies themes like product defects, shipping issues, sizing confusion, checkout friction, or subscription churn\n* Surfaces patterns that teams usually miss until it is too late\n* Returns concise analysis with **real ticket snippets** you can click into\n* Supports **follow-up questions** with full conversational context\n* Generates reports on anything you ask for and **emails them on a schedule**\n* Helps CX, product, ops, and growth teams move from **reactive to proactive**\n\nDeep Search turns your support history (your ticket cloud) into a **live Customer Voice layer** you can explore, monitor, and automate.\n\nDemo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7t4UDkFbxM\n\n### Looking for\n\nWe are looking for e-commerce brands that want to use support data for **decision-making**, not just firefighting. We will help you plug in Deep Search, define your key questions, and track the impact.\n\nContact Guillaume (the founder) at [**g-sales-ai-launch@yuma.ai**](mailto:g-sales-ai-launch@yuma.ai) for early access.\n\n### What else does Yuma do\n\nYuma also offers **AI agents for e-commerce support** and **Sales AI** for product-page Q&A. Top brands automate up to **70%** of support with us.\n\n### What should we build next?\n\nWe are adding **dynamic charts**, trend visualizations, and anomaly alerts to Deep Search. If there is something specific you want to analyze or ask from your support tickets, tell us. We are shaping the roadmap based on what brands need most.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95775&key=user_uploads/37163/423d30b5-09ea-4f68-ba9f-b4fa15c0791c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95775&key=user_uploads/37163/d934e3fb-2c75-4b73-8a80-927f38563bad)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95775&key=user_uploads/37163/bddadaab-df99-4cf8-982e-ad7a8e782fab)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95775&key=user_uploads/37163/66f63c0e-3481-4031-a5df-ac52ad420a0b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95775&key=user_uploads/37163/728d3d61-5280-4837-8f01-a41a96fe5c59)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oul-deep-search-chat-with-your-customer-voice", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-11-25T17:27:47.699Z" }, { "id": 95152, "title": "Flows: AI Agent Builder for Precise, Reliable Ecommerce Support", "tagline": "Visual Step-by-Step Builder for Ecommerce Support", "body": "👋 We’re **Yuma (YC W23)**, an AI support platform for e-commerce, and today we’re launching one of our biggest updates yet: **Flows**, a visual automation builder for ecommerce support.\n\n**Flows** expands Yuma’s AI agents’ capabilities with a visual builder for explicit, deterministic steps. You can now combine process-based AI agents with the reliability of a flow for faster, more precise CX automation.\n\n### **Why we built it**\n\nFor more than 2 years, Yuma has helped merchants automate customer support using our natural-language AI Agents builder, resolving over 5 million tickets to date. But as merchants grow, they need more control, advanced workflows, and precision while staying flexible and easy to maintain.\n\nThat’s why we built **Flows**, a visual, step-by-step builder that adds structure, clarity, and reliability to AI automation.\n\n### **What it does**\n\nFlows let merchants visually define how an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) runs, step by step and action by action. Each step is visible, enforced, and powered by a mix of good old hard code and LLMs.\n\nFlows combine quick ramp-up and adaptability with _strict step-by-step control_ where it matters.\n\nWith Flows, you can:\n\n* Build if/then logic visually with guaranteed execution\n* Combine AI conversations and deterministic rules\n* Review and debug complex automations in minutes\n* Gather clear insights and metrics on automation paths\n* Use hooks and ordered API & CRM calls for full consistency\n\n### **Why it matters**\n\nFlows make automation more reliable and easier to maintain. It brings three major advantages:\n\n**Step-by-step precision:** Every action runs exactly as designed, with enterprise-grade reliability you can trust.\\\n**Visual clarity:** Instantly see, review, and debug every step of your automations, no guessing or black boxes.\\\n**Hybrid flexibility:** Combine LLM adaptability with structured, reliable workflows for the best of both worlds.\n\nThe result is higher accuracy, fewer escalations, and faster resolutions, all in a visual format you can refine in minutes.\n\n### **The demo video**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J1OMGCM2v0\n\n### **Looking for**\n\nWe’re looking for merchants and DTC brand owners who want to test **Flows** and share honest feedback 👀\n\nWe’ll help you build your first Flow, monitor accuracy, and measure results.\n\nContact Guillaume, the founder, at [g-sales-ai-launch@yuma.ai](mailto:g-sales-ai-launch@yuma.ai) for early access.\n\n### **What's Yuma's full suite of products?**\n\nFlows is part of Yuma’s full suite. Top brands automate up to 70% of support with us. With 3 main products — Support AI, Sales AI, and Social AI — we integrate with helpdesks like Gorgias, Zendesk, Kustomer, Gladly, Front, and Salesforce (I know, even Salesforce!!) to automate support, pre-sales, social interactions, and more.\n\n—\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95152&key=user_uploads/37163/6ae22e52-741e-4ce1-a0e9-29a0a97e0d0e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95152&key=user_uploads/37163/e54a55a9-7f35-482b-baa9-bdea778b5756)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95152&key=user_uploads/37163/c9fda7bd-d74f-467d-ba7d-42b307853b99)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95152&key=user_uploads/37163/9a74d334-e177-4566-b67c-34ba665342ff)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95152&key=user_uploads/37163/61460ccb-56b7-4392-86de-2781fb526ec3)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oki-flows-ai-agent-builder-for-precise-reliable-ecommerce-support", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-11-04T16:15:37.558Z" }, { "id": 94117, "title": "Sales AI: Shopify product Q&A widget that boosts revenue", "tagline": "AI-powered PDP widget that answers shoppers' hesitations instantly", "body": "👋 We are Yuma, YC W23. Today, on top of already automating customer service for more than a hundred merchants, we are launching our latest product: **Sales AI**\n\nSales AI is a product Q&A widget dedicated to Shopify. It sits on each PDP (product page), suggests the top questions a shopper is likely to ask, and answers instantly. If they want more, a lightweight chat opens with a fuller answer. From there, they can add to cart inside the chat or get more recommendations.\n\nWhy this matters: because the future is shopping, not chat! Shoppers want info delivered to them before they ask for it! Most drops happen on PDPs because of missing information.\n\nSales AI reduces that friction and in controlled A/B tests lifts conversion by up to 14%! It also records what people asked, which answers helped, and where they still hesitated, so as a brand, you see the \"why\" behind purchases and bounces.\n\n**What’s different:**\n\n* Tailored FAQs per product and per visitor behavior\n* Uses your existing Shopify data + policies + prior support knowledge\n* A/B test friendly; 2-click to install; doesn’t slow the site\n* Full dashboard & insights with Yuma-driven revenue/purchases, impressions, interaction rate\n\nOne of our early partners, **Parachute Home**, credits the product with improving both customer experience and revenue. “Our shoppers love the interactive FAQ widget. They get answers fast, and on desktop, in one A/B test, we saw our Revenue Per Visitor increase +18% and our Average Order Value +4% - Mehdi Ait Oufkir, CEO of Parachute Home.”\n\n**The demo video:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcRN5GQ89hk\n\n**Looking for:**\n\nDo you own any D2C stores with a bit of traffic and are you willing to try Sales AI and give us blunt feedback? 👀 We'll help set it up, watch the numbers with you, and iterate!\n\nContact Guillaume, the founder at [g-sales-ai-launch@yuma.ai](mailto:g-sales-ai-launch@yuma.ai) in order to get priority setup.\n\n**What's Yuma's other product?**\n\nWe also offer AI agents dedicated to support and e-commerce! Our top brands automate up to 70% of their CX with us. :)\n\n---\n\n—\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94117&key=user_uploads/37163/94fdd8b0-4e7c-49a1-ab95-e106140292fa)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94117&key=user_uploads/37163/629d91f1-ea82-4fc2-80b5-bfbb02fb8e9b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94117&key=user_uploads/37163/90ddadbc-e5bf-4e47-9d63-872b6696607f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OU1-sales-ai-shopify-product-q-a-widget-that-boosts-revenue", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2025-09-25T14:30:35.251Z" }, { "id": 84121, "title": "Yuma: AI agents for e-commerce customer service", "tagline": "The leading AI-powered CX automation platform.", "body": "↗️ support quality & consistency. ↗️ customer satisfaction. ↗️ cost-efficiency.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nMillions of E-commerce merchants share the same pain: costly and inefficient customer support that deteriorates customer loyalty. [Yuma](https://yuma.ai/) is on a mission to automate 100% of your support tickets and change customer support for good. Merchants love Yuma AI for its accuracy and industry-leading automation rate.\n\n## The Yuma Story\n\nI'm G, and I'm delighted to re-introduce Yuma.ai, my 3rd company - after Socialcam (W12) and Triplebyte (S15)!\n\nYuma was launched by accident 🤷‍♂️. After I released a prototype in December ‘22, my inbox was inundated with requests from Shopify merchants, and I decided to retake the startup route.\n\nI did YC once more in W23 with Yuma as an AI co-pilot for customer support agents, but things have changed rapidly since then. We are now a full-grown, fully automated AI Agent orchestration platform.\n\nToday, Yuma has over 100+ paying merchants who choose Yuma.ai for its unmatched accuracy, dedicated customer support, and industry-leading automation capabilities (over 50% of automated - and successful - ticket resolutions).\n\nWe’re building a world where businesses will never worry about customer support again, and we’re turning Yuma.ai into the most advanced Customer Support platform.\n\n![Industry Leading CX Automation rate with AI](/media/?type=post&id=84121&key=user_uploads/37163/03444e47-ceae-435b-83da-8663b1be3da0)\n\n---\n\n—\n\n## Top benefits from real users:\n\n* Achieve up to **50% full automation** of all your support tickets. - [**Learn how Petlibro did it**](https://yuma.ai/case-studies/how-petlibro-achieved-49-automation-and-saves-20-annually-with-yuma-ai)\n* Achieve **4X ROI** on your investment in Yuma AI - [**Learn how MyVariations did it**](https://yuma.ai/case-studies/myvariations)\n* Reduce first-response-time **(FRT) by 87%** - [**Learn how MFI Medical did it**](https://yuma.ai/case-studies/how-mfi-medical-cut-first-response-time-by-over-87-and-automated-45-of-customer-inquiries-with-yuma-ai)\n* Reduce monthly support **cost by 33%** - [**Learn how MyVariations did it**](https://yuma.ai/case-studies/myvariations)\n* Be **available 24/7** and manage demand spikes - [**Learn how Omnie did it**](https://yuma.ai/case-studies/omnie-and-yuma-ai-reshaping-e-commerce-customer-service-together)\n\n—\n\n![Top Merchants having success with Yuma.ai](/media/?type=post&id=84121&key=user_uploads/37163/1f000682-b3e9-4669-8764-bf0060fa8cda)\n\n## Reasons to use Yuma\n\n* Unlimited processed tickets, only charged on a full-automated-resolution basis.\n* Dedicated support regardless of plan, through exclusive Slack channels.\n* Access to the best AI models, even for small plans.\n* Unlimited AI Agents & SOPs\n* Natively Multi-store and Multilingual\n* Omnichannel Support: chat, email, social, etc\n* Top-notch integrations with third-party services\n\n## Our Ask 🙏\n\n**💸 Know any e-commerce businesses, CX managers, or Shopify agencies?**\n\nSend them our way—they will be forever grateful! Plus, we’re offering a referral bonus for every lead that turns into a customer.\n\nJust drop us an email at [hello@yuma.ai](mailto:hello@yuma.ai)\n\n**🛒 Own an e-Commerce store?**\n\nBook a demo and see [Yuma.ai](https://yuma.ai) in action. You will receive a white-glove onboarding experience along with a 30-day free trial. 🙂 \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84121&key=user_uploads/89898/711c85bf-4427-4554-abe4-8ba5980e6022)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lsn-yuma-ai-agents-for-e-commerce-customer-service", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-09-18T17:36:12.306Z" }, { "id": 69885, "title": "Yuma - ChatGPT for customer support", "tagline": "Yuma is using LLMs to automate support for Shopify merchants", "body": "**TL;DR:** _Thousands of large Shopify stores all share the same pain: a costly and inefficient customer support. Yuma leverages LLMs and integrates directly with help desks to automate away their high volume of support requests._\n\n## **The Yuma Story**\n\nHi everyone,\n\nI'm G and I'm very pleased to be launching [Yuma](https://yuma.ai), my third company!\n\n**I did YC twice before** already, with Socialcam (W12) and Triplebyte (S15). It seems like I just can't help myself, and I had to do it all over again.\n\nThis time around, however, it's a little bit special as Yuma was launched by accident 🤷‍♂️. I released a prototype in December 2022, and my inbox was inundated with installation requests from Shopify merchants. That's when I knew I was onto something, and I decided to take the plunge. Having experienced that roller coaster ride before, I know exactly what I am signing up for again and I am thrilled about the long and eventful journey that lies ahead.\n\n## **Why do Shopify merchants need Yuma?**\n\nThere are thousands of Shopify merchants around the world generating $10M+ a year, and they all have one thing in common: **they all hate customer support**. It's a burden for them and a huge source of cost as **they receive hundreds of requests per day**. Some of them have dozens of support agents on staff, usually offshore, and the overall quality is still often pretty poor, while staff turnover remains high.\n\nThose merchants have been promised automation for years, but the technology has always fallen short, leaving them disappointed. As customers, we have all had to live through a terrible support automation experience before, so it's no secret that **the available current solutions are pretty bad**.\n\n**This has to change**, and we believe that the technology is finally there to fix this problem once and for all. Of course, our goal is for Yuma to do it :)\n\n## **The main things Yuma can do for merchants today:**\n\n* **One-click install** into **help desks**: **no configuration required**, zero adoption cost, and no change in workflows for the support agents.\n* By **combining LLMs with custom knowledge bases**, Yuma suggests drafts to support agents.\n* By analyzing historical tickets, Yuma can **copy the writing style of any brand**, but also understand and **replicate their current workflows** autonomously.\n* By bringing the power of LLMs to rules and templates, Yuma delivers a new type of dynamic workflow that wasn't possible before.\n\nYuma is already live on Gorgias at the moment, and our Zendesk app will be live in a few weeks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69885&key=user_uploads/37163/858ab524-d3ce-461b-968c-43ba41dea793)\n\n\n## **Our ask 🙏**\n\nDo a good deed today and **save a Shopify merchant in your network by telling them about Yuma**. They will be forever grateful! Not only that, they will receive a white-glove onboarding experience along with a 7-day free trial. :)\n\n— —\n\nThank you for reading!\n\n🔥", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IBB-yuma-chatgpt-for-customer-support", "votes": 74, "created_at": "2023-03-02T21:07:47.495Z" } ] }, { "id": 28418, "name": "Vaero", "slug": "vaero", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e8880a43b4d78bdcd9007972307a7188143b601c.png", "website": "https://vaero.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Vaero's AI produces the most human sounding writing in the world. User's input their own writing, and Vaero automatically trains custom models to write exactly like the user. It writes emails, reports, brand content, and anything else. 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The software includes a complete platform for patent lawyers to use AI for reviewing patent applications, responding to office actions, and enhancing invention disclosures.**\n\n**🔬 The Problem:**\n\nPatent lawyers spend hours drafting patent applications, which can be dozens and even hundreds of pages long. Patent applications include lots of detailed technical description about inventions in a formalistic way that is slow and laborious to write. Many patent lawyers find writing these technical descriptions to be their least favorite part of the job given that it can be tedious.\n\nMoreover, the time-consuming nature of patent application drafting is also a major business problem for patent attorneys. Budgets per patent application have been on a flat or declining trend over the last two decades due to increased client demands. As a result, patent attorneys find themselves having to write patent applications with a smaller and smaller budget, which has led to increased time pressure. In some firms, patent application drafting has become an unprofitable loss leader that only serves to retain clients for more profitable legal services.\n\nIn addition to drafting patent applications, patent attorneys also deal with large volumes of documents in the other parts of their job. They often have to analyze long patent documents; they have to respond to patent application rejections from the patent office, which can be dozens of pages long; and they have to work with varying levels of invention information, which range from a few sentences to entire manuscripts.\n\n**🪄 The Solution:**\n\nVaero is AI software built specifically for patent lawyers to speed up their patent drafting and other daily tasks:\n\n* Vaero drafts an entire patent application using AI based on the same inputs that patent lawyers use\n* Patent applications are written to the highest legal standards, based on our CEO’s ten years as a patent lawyer including at one of the biggest U.S. law firms\n* Automatically review existing patent applications to assist with legal analysis\n* Enhance invention disclosures from inventors\n\n**⭐️ Why us?**\n\nWe are [Bryant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryant-lee/) and [Earl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/earlhathaway/), 2nd time founders whose prior startups have collectively raised $80M+.\n\n* Bryant has been a patent lawyer for ten years and previously co-founded Cognition IP, a legal tech startup in the patent field which achieved 7 figures of annual revenue and was backed by Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Y Combinator. He was a patent lawyer at Covington & Burling, one of the biggest law firms in the U.S., and graduated from Harvard Law School where he was on the law review. Prior to that he was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.\n* Earl previously co-founded a successful legal compliance startup called DataGrail (Series C, raised $84M), which sells privacy software to the legal departments of large enterprises. Prior to DataGrail, he has been a technical and product leader at many startups.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/WX1askFb1Wr4isgeEJJNjiF-3ksFsLa67Kwt93RZ6TiiDP1b7VxjVq-CCnnk0uIKtCO3_7WucjnKx0xtXdPaiRKu1F7BSyqtTgmAH0CBVdcu6X6NRZEH932WhuTkR4ki404crxQuF0WdWQJMOyRPDLg)\n\n**🎉 Interested?**\n\nIf you’re thinking about how to draft patent applications more efficiently, book a [call](https://calendly.com/bryant-lee-sf/15min) with us or reach out to [founders@vaero.co](mailto:founders@vaero.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHO-vaero-ai-for-patent-lawyers", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-03-14T15:46:27.642Z" } ] }, { "id": 28421, "name": "Metal", "slug": "metal-2", "former_names": [ "Pluto Technologies", "Apollo Group" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d405f124083ad95be24745d98de294a71b7cf71c.png", "website": "http://www.metal.so", "all_locations": "Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan", "long_description": "Backed by a16z and YC, Metal is building an AI-native operating system for founders raising venture rounds. 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Our ultra-high-throughput screening platform screens 1000 times more enzymes, 75% faster, and 80% cheaper than traditional methods. This empowers our generative AI to optimize enzymes across multiple properties, delivering high-performing, tailored enzymes that cut costs and enhance efficiency.\n\n### The Problem\n\nEnzymes play a crucial role in driving market growth and profitability in the pharmaceutical industries. Inefficient or underutilized enzymes can lead to significant financial losses and missed opportunities. Therefore, developing optimized enzymes that possess a balance of key properties becomes a top priority but remains challenging and time-consuming.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nOur AI model designs enzymes with specific mutations that enhance multiple properties simultaneously. These AI-generated enzymes are tested using our unique ultra-high-throughput one-pot screening platform. This platform converts diverse biological signals into abundant and quantifiable data under various conditions. By integrating AI design with advanced screening, we’ve reduced the design-build-test-learn cycle to just one month. We efficiently evaluate enzyme performance across different criteria tackling the challenge of multi-property optimization.\n\nAt Pando, we help pharma companies improve existing enzymes and discover new ones, cutting costs and boosting productivity. We are also developing our own proprietary enzyme assets.\n\n### Our Team\n\nWe are experts in the field. @Will joined the synthetic biology unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks as an early employee. @Yang spent 6 years at Harvard Medical School before joining Ginkgo. AI-guided enzyme engineering is in our wheelhouse.\n\n### Want to be part of it?\n\nIf you are from a **pharma, diagnostic, or biotech company** and are interested in taking enzyme engineering to the next level, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at [founders@pando.bio](mailto:founders@pando.bio).\n\nThank you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69169&key=user_uploads/875330/303f90f4-0887-4557-92b3-47f2bd20a39f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hzd-pando-bioscience-empowering-pharma-with-ai-optimized-enzymes", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2023-02-09T18:57:43.819Z" } ] } ]