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Instead of just links, [**Andi**](https://andisearch.com/) gives you **answers** in a fun and friendly way - like chatting with a smart friend.\n\nHey YC fam, we’re Angela and Jed and we’re building [Andi](https://andisearch.com/)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73788&key=user_uploads/673843/6e575206-0716-407f-ba62-8228d473165c)\n\n### **✖️** The Problem\n\nWe all know search is broken, but it also has massive potential. Today, it’s full of ads, misinformation and SEO spam. With AI-powered search and chatbots the problem will get even worse, because LLMs make things up and bury the sources, and a new era of sponsored answers threatens to destroy trust online.\n\nWhat makes the web great is the high quality content that many producers spend hours researching, writing and creating. Google sells ads on their content without giving fair attribution or promotion. Now LLM-based chatbots give even less credit, or make sources up. 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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": 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": 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. 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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": 28097, "name": "Decohere", "slug": "decohere", "former_names": [ "Decoherence" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8b52d23619be197ec836547295f0d1ac0bf36b9.png", "website": "https://decohere.ai", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "Decohere is building product and infrastructure for real-time generative AI. We enable our customers to iterate towards their creative vision without waiting for long-running GPU jobs. 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Working on new ways for us all to explore creative abundance.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibhuta/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rbhuta95", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9a9db74a0a3353fa862e8f67ffdefd1bd2851d02.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1216907, "full_name": "Will Stith", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Decohere. Working on realtime generative AI, with an emphasis on AI video. \n\nPreviously at Amazon doing greenfield R&D projects in Robotics and Project Kuiper.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstith/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/TheStithLord", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f2dbdd8d16b087d96035fcb8da4ca2abdb3b5386.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69403, "title": "▶️ Decohere: Create video with prompts", "tagline": "A purpose-built tool for creating generative video. Video production in minutes, not days.", "body": "# tl;dr: ✍️→🎞️\n\n[Decohere](https://decohere.ai) is the easiest way to create videos with AI by using text prompts and music. 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. Please reach out to [rishi@decohere.ai](mailto:rishi@decoherence.co).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I3P-decohere-create-video-with-prompts", "votes": 86, "created_at": "2023-02-17T19:42:35.860Z" } ] }, { "id": 28486, "name": "Y/n", "slug": "yn", "former_names": [ "Emittance", "Can of Soup" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0e36b8395f7d2041a4dee857e320994716af5a66.png", "website": "https://yn.app", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Y/n is the most entertaining app in the world.\r\n\r\nOn Y/n, you play a character in your story. Be a boarding school student and get the boys to fall in love with you, or plan a jailbreak with Sherlock Holmes.\r\n\r\nStories are made for you. Your texts change the plot and how characters feel about you, so no two playthroughs are the same (but you can rewind).\r\n\r\nThere's a Y/n story for every mood: romance, fanfiction, fluff, mystery, and more. 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Wuri makes this instantaneous by using AI to transform text stories on the web into visual novels in real time, offering our readers an endless library. **Check out our** **app on** [**Android**](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.wuri.portal&hl=en_US) or [**iOS**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wuri-books-comics-stories/id6450294532)**!**\n\n**—**\n\nHi everyone, we are [Akshay](https://linkedin.com/in/akshay-megharaj-aba3646) and [Pratik](https://linkedin.com/in/pratikgangwal). We have been friends for 12 years and spent 10 months in 2023 building visual stories (we did everything from writing the plots to creating assets and launching on our app). 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We’re [Mark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbuckler/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinparus/), and [Diandre](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diandre-ruiz/) and we’re thrilled to introduce you to [Soundry AI](https://soundry.ai/): **a text-to-sound AI generator for musicians**. Our AI creates musical building blocks perfect for reducing friction in the music creation process.\n\n# \n\n# 🦸‍♂️ The Team\n\nAll three co-founders are united in their love of music. After completing his PhD in AI at Cornell, Mark got his start in the music industry by founding the [Codex Collective](https://codexcollective.co/press-kit), a live music event production company in Seattle. Justin quickly joined, and all three founders met for the first time when Diandre came to Seattle to perform as [Bandlez](https://www.instagram.com/bandlez/), the music project he co-founded. Justin is an engineer extraordinaire, first cutting his teeth on large-scale data processing during his time at Microsoft Azure. Diandre is a professional musician who has performed all over the world and written music with big names, including [Shaquille O’Neal](https://open.spotify.com/track/2oCzWh04Rt4WBr7StVUCHe)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78937&key=user_uploads/1320080/71009b68-f2c7-400e-afbc-466111c5784a)\n\n# **🔇** The Problem\n\nMusic production technology has become increasingly democratized over the years, but creating a piece of music that you are proud of is just as challenging as it’s ever been. These days, most music is made by combining multiple audio recordings of individual instruments (called music samples) into a full song. Music sample libraries are easy to use which has led to massive growth for companies who provide them ([Splice,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/splice) [Output,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/output) etc), but they have a few key issues:\n\n* Professional music producers are often prohibited from using sample libraries due to [copyright strike concerns](https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/17/21140838/justin-bieber-changes-running-over-asher-monroe-synergy-splice-sample-melody).\n* Amateur music producers feel a lack of authenticity when using sounds made by someone else and struggle to make meaningful changes to them.\n\nGenerative AI offers a unique opportunity to build music creation tools that are easy to use and offer fine-grained artistic control. Unfortunately, existing AI music platforms ([Suno,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/suno-279f) [Boomy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boomy), etc) offer very little customization and next to no ability to modify any generated output.\n\n# **🎵** Our Solution\n\nOur team at Soundry AI has led the charge by launching the first-ever text-to-sample generator. Our proprietary foundational latent diffusion transformer offers state-of-the-art audio quality due to the efforts of our research team and partnerships with leaders in electronic music production. As you can see in [the video below](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3k4VV5yrs&ab_channel=SoundryAI), musicians like Diandre can use our tool to create unique, high-quality, copyright-free samples perfect for their music projects.\n\nThis past week we released our newest product: [Infinite Sample Packs](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEfYkkon7YI). 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Before founding HeartByte, Rachel was the Chief Data Officer at Wish, a cross border e-commerce marketplace. Rachel graduated from the Columbia University where she received a Master of Data Science and Peking University where she received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Why does she work on HeartByte? She thinks the world can be a bit boring and needs more imagination. 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Tech lead at Instagram and Google. ex-Carnegie Mellon University. A fanfiction OG for the past 15 years.\n\n😮‍💨 **The Problem**\n\nEveryone wants to be a writer, but no one wants to ✍️ write a book 📚. Writing a book is hard— **writers on average take 8-12 months to complete a 100,000-word novel. That’s too slow!** For the rest of us non-writers, we have fleeting passions wanting to turn those interesting fantasies 🧚‍♂️ in our minds into stories. Most of the time, these fantasies remain in our brains 🧠, never shared with others. Because of that, there are fewer good stories in the world, which is why Harry Potter or Game of Thrones seem so precious.\n\nBut it doesn’t have to be this way.\n\n🪄 **The Solution**\n\n**With HeartByte, we make it 10 times easier and faster to write fiction.** 🤩 We build an effortless flow that guides a creator through writing an entire novel 💅. We help users overcome writer’s block ✌️, and provide editing support and workflow management. We enable users to spend more time imagining 👁 and less time writing word by word.\n\nWe want using HeartByte to be like having your **personal writer's studio**, where you can easily exchange ideas, get inspired, and complete each other's sentences with AI. Instead of the old long grind 🥱, writing a novel becomes easy and fun 🤗.\n\n📚🔮 **The Magic**\n\nOur users are loving ❤️ the product. **We've seen users who previously published a chapter every five days now able to publish one chapter per day, with better writing!**\n\n📣 **Our Ask**\n\n* **Try our product** at [heartbyte.ai](http://heartbyte.ai). Share your feedback with us [rachel@heartbyte.ai!](mailto:rachel@heartbyte.ai)\n* **Share this post** if you think someone might be interested in effortless creative writing.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kch-heartbyte-a-global-community-creating-the-future-of-fictional-universes", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-03-11T22:13:22.500Z" } ] }, { "id": 29416, "name": "Focal", "slug": "focal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9ec08eef8dbe4db1ca30529a97bf9fde4e2b61aa.png", "website": "https://focalml.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Focal is an AI video creation tool that allows anyone to create and share TV episodes and movies. 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Eventually we will distribute these shows on our platform, similar to Netflix.\n\n## 🎥 Focal\n\nFocal manages the entire process of turning a book into a movie, including:\n\n* using language models to adapt books into screenplays\n* generating video clips and stitching them together\n* generating audio clips to match video\n* keeping characters consistent across clips\n* lip-syncing characters with dialogue\n\n## 👥 Team\n\n[Robert](https://linkedin.com/in/robert-cunningham-38b43a129) and [Felix](https://linkedin.com/in/felixwang9817) are high school classmates.\n\nRobert studied math and physics at MIT. He helped build Dark Forest, the first zero-knowledge proof-based game with significant traction.\n\nFelix studied math and computer science at Stanford. He previously worked at Tecton on ML infrastructure.\n\n## 📢 Our Ask\n\n**We would love introductions to anyone with experience in the film or TV industry.** We are specifically interested in meeting with screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, and producers.\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@focalml.com](mailto:founders@focalml.com). Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/focalml) for updates!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KXT-focal-ai-movie-studio", "votes": 86, "created_at": "2024-03-01T20:11:32.612Z" } ] }, { "id": 29431, "name": "Treblo", "slug": "treblo", "former_names": [ "Sonauto" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/06f5522b7fa85084b0dbcbf4b215da1780123f6f.png", "website": "https://treblo.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Treblo is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs in any style. 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Try it now at \n\n# For example, in a few minutes with Sonauto you can:\n\n(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)\n\n* Make a sick Y Combinator Power Metal Anthem:\\\n \\\n \n* Or lament the \"Type 2 fun\" we founders love so much: \\\n \\\n \n* Or hear from a 60s rocker about the time he pivoted: \\\n \\\n \n* Or discover ChatGPT’s content policy: \\\n \\\n \n\n# Team\n\nRyan graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open source researchers.\n\nHayden was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.\n\n# Problem\n\nRecords, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remains out of the hands of millions of would be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.\n\n# Product\n\nStarting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at !\n\nSonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.\n\nOur first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.\n\n# Asks\n\n1. Make some songs at ! For example, you can make a song about:\n 1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!\n 2. Your pet\n 3. Your company, startup, or side project\n 4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday\n2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI\n3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kb4-sonauto-make-hit-songs-with-ai", "votes": 0, "created_at": "2024-03-08T20:54:50.000Z" }, { "id": 79179, "title": "Sonauto 🎸 Make hit songs with AI", "tagline": "Meet Sonauto, which turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in seconds.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79179&key=user_uploads/564530/4dc23bf4-4a7e-482d-bd25-06758a81c803)\n\n# \n\n# TL;DR: Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in any style. [Try it now](https://sonauto.ai/)!\n\n## January 2025 update: Here are some great songs from our v2 model…\n\n(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)\n\n* How do you like me now?:\n\n \n\n \n* Ghost in My Mind by whosthere:\n\n \n\n \n* When The Lines Are Drawn by gonesvan:\n\n \n\n \n\n## Team\n\n[Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tremblay-62429a86/) graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open-source researchers.\n\n[Hayden](https://linkedin.com/in/hhousen) was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open-source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.\n\n## Problem\n\nRecords, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remain out of the hands of millions of would-be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.\n\n## Product\n\nStarting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at [https://sonauto.ai](https://sonauto.ai/)!\n\nSonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.\n\nOur first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.\n\n## Asks\n\n1. Make some songs at [https://sonauto.ai](https://sonauto.ai/)! For example, you can make a song about:\n 1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!\n 2. Your pet\n 3. Your company, startup, or side project\n 4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday\n2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI\n3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kb5-sonauto-make-hit-songs-with-ai", "votes": 94, "created_at": "2024-03-07T20:00:48.344Z" } ] }, { "id": 29461, "name": "Magic Hour", "slug": "magic-hour", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/57875ffefcede579f19a1952d91ce8fd43305cc7.png", "website": "https://magichour.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Magic Hour is a browser-based creative platform and API for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Creators and teams use more than 100 tools, including face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, text-to-video, image editing, and voice generation. 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We're [Runbo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/runboli/) and [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhu2000/), and we’re building [Magic Hour](https://magichour.ai/), a video creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create professional-quality videos.\n\nImagine swapping your face onto [Anne Hathaway’s](https://vimeo.com/919285653?share=copy) in The Devil Wears Prada, or transforming [Michael Jordan](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0etTFPu82Y/) into a marble statue shooting a game-winner in the Colosseum.\n\n**Try Our Website**: [**magichour.ai**](https://magichour.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/uj-ZNSVmwSdWtWRUhHFLgD15D5jMgY15bfHB-ZqNZqo4widCmOnzG23lk7XMCuZahyrBie0WUW1T6SyhgbAocdpOanu9vfNtZ6Io9DNQdt2ni5BGj1Tth5gy3JMk2PsTtv879SvBJeKxY3UQusUQvYs)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nMany creators, professionals, and businesses struggle to produce enough engaging, high-quality videos due lack of video production expertise and constraints on time and budget.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nWe take the best open-source AI models, figure out the best settings, and put them in a user-friendly UX so anyone can create high-quality videos in three easy steps: **choose a template, customize it, and share it**.\n\n**About Us**\n\nOur moms are best friends and introduced us in 1997 (left). Magic Hour is born out of experiences helping our parents market their small businesses, where we learned how hard it is to create engaging video content.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wO2hXAv9DwXnRIIawRUkI2NMU2Jz4N3pLBWLRahJBSmMQl-tsjBHfEcA3iCanBClT4KculXKeeR0uavWcXtmTRqeKk0sqyMXuVrj-cXbQ3oHPUW16DyTDnYECf0DYdXFuYCc9zN6QKQ8eWdhOYIf_KY)\n\n**Our ask**\n\n* Try \n* Share with friends and family\n* Give us feedback at [founders@magichour.ai](mailto:support@magichour.ai) \n* If you have any connections to businesses that make a lot of video content, especially professional sports teams, we’d love to connect\n\nFeel free to reach out at [founders@magichour.ai](mailto:support@magichour.ai) anytime!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZ1-magic-hour-create-engaging-videos-using-ai", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-03-05T01:39:16.302Z" } ] }, { "id": 29762, "name": "Remade", "slug": "remade", "former_names": [ "Pheat AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "website": "https://www.remade.ai/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=YC&utm_campaign=YC_profile&utm_content=YC_profile", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Remade is building an AI-native canvas for creative workflows. \r\nTry it now at: app.remade.ai", "one_liner": "AI-native canvas for creative workflows.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1721201298, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Consumer", "Social Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Acquired", "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/remade", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/remade.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104217651", "x_url": "https://x.com/Remade_AI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561070223360", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/remade", "github_url": "https://github.com/Pheat-AI", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2c980220f3649574a4878b6ee1748f655fff36cf.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1226451, "full_name": "Christos Antonopoulos", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Christos Antonopoulos is the Co-founder & CEO of Remade. Remade (YC S24) Building an AI-native canvas for creative workflows. He holds a MEng in Information & Computer Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has research contributions in Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis and Natural Language Interfaces. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christos-antonopoulos-6534031b0/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Christos_antono", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d0838a3206c47e9c97038a5fc797047149acdace.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1763456, "full_name": "Alex Matthews", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Alex is the Technical CPO of Remade, a company enabling businesses to automate their entire visual content marketing using AI. Remade's web application transforms basic, low quality photos of any product into professional hooks.\n\nAlex holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He has contributed to earning £700k+ in revenue/ funding in past ventures.\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-matthews-1b282918b/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8822923a3a2cd2bf1903b30cba6be376db5552b5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1928468, "full_name": "Blendi Bylygbashi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Blendi is the co-founder of Remade, a company focused on creating professional videos using AI. He holds a BA and an MEng in Information and Computer Engineering from the University of Cambridge. At Transport for London, he developed deep learning models for CCTV event detection. His research on intra-cranial hypertension was published in the Lancet Neurology Journal.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/blendibylygbashi/", "x_url": "https://x.com/BlendiByl", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/44cd7ddcc78ee7bf957650363e156203011be0cf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1824343, "full_name": "Rehan Sheikh", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Rehan is the CTO and co-founder of Remade, researching Diffusion Models. He holds a BA and MEng in Information & Computer Engineering from the University of Cambridge!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rehan-sheikh-1102", "x_url": "https://x.com/rehan_shei", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df91a3b800bf1e7cddc60d1f814fbd19791bad88.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84186, "title": "Remade: Automating video ad workflows using AI", "tagline": "Create engaging TikTok hooks for your products.", "body": "[Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zndokGv8Lk)\n\n**Tl;DR: Remade automates visual marketing workflows. Lifestyle product brands generate TikTok hooks that land 130% higher clickthrough rate.** \n\n**Try it now:**\n\n[**https://app.remade.ai/create**](https://app.remade.ai/create)\n\nHi everyone! We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/34c8021f-473b-429c-a686-1d0dbbccd54c)\n\nWe are excited to announce our product image-to-video workflow, enabling the transformation of low-quality product images into video hooks that sell.\n\n# How it works:\n\n1. **Upload an image of your product**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/3212644d-c5d4-434d-94ae-c0009f3348dc)\n\n2. **Use “AI Backgrounds” to create a scene for your product video.**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/57fa19f5-3b50-4ad6-b8d9-b047fdae34f7)\n\n3. **Generate your TikTok hook**\n\n [TikTok Hook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrZIN7KDD8)\n\n# Use Cases\n\n**Marketing Teams**\n\nMarketing teams use Remade to generate short-form product reels in minutes. We replace a process that corporations outsource to marketing agencies for thousands of dollars in 3-clicks. \n\n**Marketplaces**\n\nMarketplaces use Remade’s Enterprise API to quickly generate product videos for their catalogs. These videos help sellers showcase products with dynamic, attention-grabbing content, which is proven to boost conversion, reduce bounce rate, and enhance the shopping experience. \n\n**Delivery Platforms**\n\nDelivery platforms use Remade to generate videos for their food listings, enabling a TikTok-style User Experience.  \n\n# **👋**Asks: How you can help\n\nWarm intros to Heads of Image Catalogue at Delivery platforms such as Zomato, Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo and Grubhub.\n\nWarm Intros to CMO’s / Heads of Content of lifestyle product brands.\n\nEmail us at [founders@remade.ai](mailto:founders@remade.ai) for 24/7 support.\n\n**Try it here:**\n\n[**https://app.remade.ai/create**](https://app.remade.ai/create)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ltq-remade-automating-video-ad-workflows-using-ai", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-09-20T15:51:55.133Z" }, { "id": 82235, "title": "Remade: GenAI product photography for businesses", "tagline": "Generate studio-quality product photoshoots from your smartphone.", "body": "[Remade Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5d9S0cmaE)\n\n**tl;dr:** We use AI to generate professional product images from smartphone-quality inputs. These images are then used in marketplaces, social media & ads. Get your first photoshoot for free at [app.remade.ai.](http://app.remade.ai)\n\nHi everyone! We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/f9304638-6681-457f-ad40-a35807205621/image.png)\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nTraditional photography is labor-intensive, slow, and expensive. Enterprises spend thousands on photography, while smaller businesses can't afford it. Existing AI platforms struggle to capture the user's vision and maintain the consistency of input images.\n\n### 🎉 **The Solution**\n\nRemade replaces the entire photography pipeline with 3 steps.\n\n1. Upload 10 photos of your item from different angles.\n2. Direct the photoshoots through text prompts, or let Remade suggest prompts for you.\n3. Receive studio-quality images in minutes.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/1385a61e-b4fb-4535-af01-7dc92efa1706/image.png)\n\nRemade reduces the costs of professional images by 100x and cuts delivery time from weeks to minutes. Work with us to amplify your marketing content across major social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and more.\n\n## **Use Cases**\n\n**Fashion**\n\nHiring photographers, models, studio setups, lighting experts, and stylists can be replaced with three clicks, saving you thousands of dollars.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/3c3d6bae-29cc-45ae-bcda-52a88e8dd30c/image.png)\n\n**Food**\n\nIncrease your coverage of images across multiple sales channels, including food delivery platforms and social media.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/9b7fe9c1-e830-4f59-bbbb-721156c7b7ea/image.png)\n\n**Products**\n\nShowcase your products in scenes, build your brand, and boost advertisement engagement on social media and marketplaces.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/d7f870e3-fa32-419f-934d-b157e16696c0/image.png)\n\n**Cars**\n\nDriving to the desert to get a cool shot of your car isn't a viable option for most car retailers. Take some pictures of your car in a parking lot, and let Remade do the rest!\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/426ab5fa-54f5-481f-870a-40fa47d733c5/image.png)\n\n### **👋** **Ask: How you can help**\n\n* If you or anyone you know is struggling with photography, [please reach out to us](https://www.remade.ai/contact-us)!\n* Connect us to Delivery platforms (e.g. DoorDash, Uber Eats)\n* Connect us to Enterprise leaders (Fashion Brands, Marketplaces, Car Manufacturers) that aim to reduce photography operational costs!\n* Connect us to small businesses (e.g. Restaurants) that need help with Photography / Social Media management\n* Give us product feedback [here](https://www.remade.ai/contact-us).\n\nThanks - we hope to see you on our platform! 😊🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LON-remade-genai-product-photography-for-businesses", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-07-17T23:18:37.426Z" } ] }, { "id": 29786, "name": "Palmier", "slug": "palmier", "former_names": [ "ProteusAI", "Palmier", "Sado" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0186f2775062552b28ed6bdc42f5d5e89590738e.png", "website": "https://www.palmier.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Palmier Pro is a video editor built for AI, where Claude and Codex can edit your timeline directly: trimming, reordering, and generating footage. We used it to make 15+ cinematic AI launch videos for YC companies and it's now open-source and free to download at palmier.io.", "one_liner": "Video editor built for AI", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1724450208, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Consumer", "Video", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "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/palmier", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/palmier.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/palmier-io", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/palmier-io/palmier-pro", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0186f2775062552b28ed6bdc42f5d5e89590738e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/ab56a1648caef11eac4909233133f022b09e4131.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1645879, "full_name": "Marcos Rico Peng", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "After graduating Berkeley in three years, I worked for a year and a half as an infra engineer at LinkedIn. Now co-founder and CEO of Palmier, building something people want! Documented my journey as a professional swimmer training to make the Paris Olympics on YouTube [155k+].", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosricopeng/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4961a13a98fa80328cc405c4fcc17e7a4848259a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1960944, "full_name": "Harrison Tin", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "cofounder of palmier.\n\nprev microsoft, studied eecs at uc berkeley.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisontin", "x_url": "https://x.com/harrison_t71373", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/55cc1c35caacf4ebca5bc639e650bf3243aafb81.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 103383, "title": "Palmier Pro — an open source video editor your agents can operate", "tagline": "The fastest way to generate and edit videos using AI", "body": "Hey everyone, we're Marcos and Harrison, co-founders of Palmier (YC S24).\\\n\\\n**TL;DR**\\\nPalmier Pro is a video editor built for AI, where Claude and Codex can edit your timeline directly: trimming, reordering, and generating footage. We used it to make 15+ cinematic AI launch videos for YC companies and it's now open-source and free to download at [palmier.io](http://palmier.io).\\\n\\\n**The Problem**\\\nMaking AI videos today means bouncing between tools constantly.\\\nGeneration.\n\n* You generate a clip in Runway or Higgsfield, import it into Premiere, realize one section doesn't work, go back to the generation tool, regenerate, reimport. That loop repeats dozens of times per video.\n\nIteration.\n\n* Because generation and editing live in separate apps, your workspace is a mess and it becomes extremely hard to keep track of good takes, bad takes, reference images, and reference videos.\n\nRepetition.\n\n* You still spend hours sorting through footage, finding the right takes, and manually adding keyframes, effects, and captions. It eats into your productivity and leaves you with less time for the actual creative work.\n\n\\\n**Our Solution**\\\nWe built a full-fledged professional video editor with two things in mind.\n\nWe made AI video a primitive, not an add-on. For each clip, we track the prompt, model, and references so you can iterate directly inside the timeline instead of bouncing between apps.\n\nWe made everything operable by AI. By using our built-in agent, or connecting to yours via MCP, AI agents can help:\n\n* Save hours of work by automating the grunt work in editing: finding key moments in long videos, captions, file organization, and more.\n* Create first draft edits from your footage. The tools let AI understand your videos and draft a first cut directly in the timeline.\n* Use AI generation models to create footage, b-roll, sound effects, voiceovers, and music and drop it directly into your project.\n\n\\\n\n\n\\\n**Asks**\n\nDownload Palmier Pro at [palmier.io](http://palmier.io) — it's free and open source.\n\nFollow us on [X](https://x.com/) and [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/).\n\nIf you work a lot with AI video or are looking to explore it, we would love to chat. You can reach us at [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103383&key=user_uploads/1645879/a49f9c7d-0c0f-4dbf-a1ee-4b35b425f612)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QtT-palmier-pro-an-open-source-video-editor-your-agents-can-operate", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-06-16T19:59:43.822Z" }, { "id": 83365, "title": "Palmier - AI that understands any codebase", "tagline": "Be a 10x developer with Palmier", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/276b05df-577c-4821-b64d-a8a5e6ca80ef)\n\n**☕ tl;dr**: [Palmier](https://www.palmier.io/) is an **AI** tool that **understands any codebase**.\n\n* **Automates code reviews**, **bug detection**, and **code optimization** and implements them for you.\n* Context-aware **code explanations** **and** **natural language** code **search**.\n\nBy the time you finish reading this launch, you could’ve setup **Palmier** already! Reach out to [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io) and/or sign up to the waitlist [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMLX009lTuWnseUHcwFWLq04-BQP-sW9Ytl3I5UBz-iQC5w/viewform) to get started.\n\n# **🔒 Problem**\n\nDevelopers spend only about 30% of their time actually building new features, with the rest of their day taken up by tedious but necessary tasks like understanding code, fixing bugs, and reviewing other people's code. And this only gets worse as the codebases and teams get larger. Furthermore, context switches get more frequent, and general productivity starts to decline.\n\n# **🔑 Solution**\n\nPalmier tackles this by having an individually trained AI model for each unique codebase. This ensures the most accurate and precise understanding of the code.\n\nPalmier lives in your GitHub repository, and thoroughly checks every PR request:\n\n* Palmier automatically creates a concise yet precise description of the changes being made, trains on every past PR made, and opens issues for the most accurate context. No more guessing games trying to find why a change was implemented.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/576e5722-9289-4f48-b894-a8e20662c982)\n\n* Palmier scans your changes and suggests improvements: this can be as simple as variable name changes to more complex changes, such as performance optimizations. With a couple of clicks, you can implement these suggestions and commit them without leaving GitHub.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/4f35aa2d-445f-4ce4-9e79-e2c260aa64db)\n\n* Palmier will scan CI/CD issues and suggest fixes to failed tests that are related to the code changes (coming soon).\n\nWith Palmier chat, you can onboard any codebase 10x quicker. Whether it’s understanding what certain code does, how it interacts with other components, or where in your code a certain feature is implemented, Palmier gives you the most accurate answers and avoids hallucinating by always citing its sources.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/6536e3cb-8477-47b8-85aa-0bd178dd01f4)\n\n# \n\n# **🚀 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/5ce7d590-a9d3-464c-81a3-53f7e30fb4a8)\n\n[Marcos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosrico) CEO (left), [Harrison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-tin-a260321b3/) CTO (right)\n\nThe Palmier team consists of Marcos and Harrison, both graduates of UC Berkeley with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. With experience working at big tech like LinkedIn and Microsoft, we started Palmier to tackle the productivity problems we personally faced while working there: large code review cycles, many review iterations, and onboarding never-ending codebases. We are both extremely passionate about improving software developers’ lives and are on a mission to make every developer do what we love doing most - building! Feel free to reach out to any of us at any time! We'd love to chat.\n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\n* Try out Palmier! You can [schedule a call](https://calendar.app.google/u5pUgv7nkqBLHMMw9) with the founders, reach out to us at [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io) or sign up for the waitlist [here.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMLX009lTuWnseUHcwFWLq04-BQP-sW9Ytl3I5UBz-iQC5w/viewform) We’d love to talk to you and how we can make this customized for your use case!\n* If you know any engineers in large development teams who work with large codebases and push and review PRs often, please connect us with them!\n * Copy & paste blurb: A YC company named Palmier has developed an AI code expert that will automatically review your PRs. It’ll save tons of time for you. You can grab a time [here](https://calendar.app.google/u5pUgv7nkqBLHMMw9) for a demo from the founders.\n\nApproved open-source repositories can install for free! 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Before building Kestroll, Ben worked as a founding engineer and Tom as a founding sales at seed-stage YC companies. Tom is also a videographer and felt this problem personally.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92522&key=user_uploads/712685/512c4d79-a337-4a5f-b0d8-f51c2b287d0c)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’d appreciate intros to anyone working with extensive amounts of media assets, especially videos!\n\n* Executives at Hollywood studios and production houses\n* VPs of Content or Digital Asset Managers at professional sports teams\n* Media asset managers at large organizations (universities, enterprises, non-profits, etc.)\n* C-suite of talent management companies, creative studios, and marketing agencies\n* Anyone working with extensive amounts of videos, photos, or audio content\n\nIf you’d like to learn more, we’d love to chat with you! Book a time with us [**here**](https://cal.com/team/kestroll/learn-more) or send us an email at [**founders@kestroll.com**](mailto:founders@kestroll.com) 😄", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O4I-kestroll-ai-powered-media-asset-management", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-07-29T16:20:34.929Z" } ] }, { "id": 30670, "name": "cocreate", "slug": "cocreate", "former_names": [ "CoCreate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0fa7e6874bb04b698aead6e523b8be6359e8af3d.png", "website": "https://cocreate.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cocreate was built alongside our friends and colleagues — editors and their assistants, DITs, post supervisors, and UPMs — to design something that will keep individual professionals competitive in a landscape rapidly overrun by needless automation.\r\n\r\nWe've spent the past few years collecting as many grumbling stories of production and post production inefficiency; lost footage, wasted time. 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For big shoots, this can eat nearly half the project’s time and budget.\n\nCoCreate is an AI-native tool that does all of that in the background while you back up your footage, so by the time your card is copied, it’s already synced, proxied, organized, and ready to edit in Premiere, Avid, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve.\n\nIf you work with large volumes of footage, we’d love to onboard you as an early user, connect with assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know, and get your feedback on our demo.\n\n**Problem**\n\nMedia prep is the slowest part of post-production. Professional video teams juggle multiple tools to back up, sync, proxy, and organize — a process that’s repetitive, error-prone, and can consume 40% of a project’s time and budget. Existing tools fail at solving this core issue.\n\n**Solution**\n\n\\\nCoCreate is an AI-native video editing and media organization tool that gets professional video editors from SD card to edit as fast as possible. CoCreate works in parallel during backup: we checksum your files for safety, automatically sync audio with video, create proxies, and organize footage by scene, take, date, camera, and person. The result: **weeks** of prep work done in **minutes**, with everything searchable, and exportable in your preferred format.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93051&key=user_uploads/1742167/95b007b5-884d-41f2-aab6-6bee44c19ef7)\n\n**Check out our demo:** https://youtu.be/zL4gAKHMHyo\n\n**Who it’s for**\n\nWe’re built for high quality video production teams — from massive YouTubers and indie shoots to large-scale post houses — who deal with large volumes of footage and need to move faster without sacrificing quality or safety. \n\n**Our backstory**\n\nTamish and Sid first met during New Student Orientation at Stanford three years ago and quickly became close friends. A year later, Archish transferred to Stanford and was introduced to them through the university’s vibrant music scene. The three clicked instantly — not just as musicians playing campus shows together, but also as classmates grinding through late-night problem sets as CS majors.\n\nAll three had been creating music and video content for years before Stanford, and they kept that momentum going on campus — producing projects that have collectively garnered millions of views across platforms. That blend of long-standing creative experience and technical expertise made them deeply familiar with the pain points of media production, ultimately inspiring them to build **cocreate** to make high-volume post-production faster, simpler, and more collaborative.\n\n**Our ask to the YC community:**\n\n* **Post houses / production teams** — if you handle lots of footage, we’d love to onboard you as early users.\n* **Introductions** to assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know.\n* **Feedback** on our product demo — especially from those with experience in high-volume video workflows.\n\nIf you can help us with any of this, please reach out at [founders@cocreate.so](mailto:founders@cocreate.so).\n\nThank you!\n\n**Team**\n\nTamish Pulappadi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamish-pulappadi/\n\nSid Yu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sid-yu/\n\nArchish Arun - https://www.linkedin.com/in/archisharun/\n\nMatan Hamam - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9327125/", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCp-cocreate-ai-native-video-editing-tool", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-08-18T15:00:02.968Z" } ] }, { "id": 30870, "name": "Koyal", "slug": "koyal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6be5eec5520358437374d48ae33d4a26eadd56.png", "website": "https://koyal.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation.\r\n\r\nhttps://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha.\r\n\r\nAnnouncement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687\r\nDemo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099\r\n\r\n\r\nWe currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai\r\n\r\nWe recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views!\r\n\r\nWe've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.", "one_liner": "Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1759263547, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Entertainment", "Video", "Media", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/koyal", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/koyal.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/koyal-ai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/KoyalAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6be5eec5520358437374d48ae33d4a26eadd56.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": 1057149, "full_name": "Mehul Agarwal", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO, Koyal, Agentic AI Filmmaking\nCMU CS & ML / part-time Standup comedian \n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehul-agarwal-a274a0287/", "x_url": "https://x.com/meh_agarwal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9bb654b37951dd53ebadfe160fd6ed4af5cc280e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2383496, "full_name": "Gauri Agarwal", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO, Koyal AI, Audio to Video GenAI \nMIT Media Lab '25 | Meta Instagram Video | CMU SCS '20", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauri-agarwal", "x_url": "https://x.com/gauriagarwal99", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63da06468651d4cd0b94dfecca3d207565f4682d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 102118, "title": "Founding Engineer @Koyal", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/koyal/jobs/N7tedzJ-founding-engineer-koyal", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Machine learning", "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 3.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94569, "title": "Koyal: The Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform", "tagline": "Turn your script or audio to short films, music videos & launches", "body": "https://youtu.be/j5t8kEuZpSc?si=q_Jcbcnanrjl4h-N\n\nTL;DR\n\nCreate cinema that feels real. Koyal captures emotional tone from your audio, turning emotion into cinematic scenes with consistent characters and settings. You can storyboard, direct, and edit every scene to perfection.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nFilmmakers, musicians, and creators spend **weeks to months scripting, shooting, and editing** or pay **$100,000+** to agencies to get something that feels right.\\\n\\\nEven with new AI tools, you’re still wrestling with prompting, uncanny performances, and inconsistent characters.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nKoyal lets you speak your story once, and watch it come to life.\\\nWe capture the **emotional tone** in your voice or script and translate it into expressive, cinematic performances with consistent characters, settings and storylines.\n\nYou can **storyboard, reshoot, and refine** each scene naturally, like directing your own crew: no complex prompts, no model wrangling, no editors needed.\\\n\\\nJust your voice, your script, and your vision.\n\n# **How Koyal Works**\n\n[Demo Video](https://youtu.be/6Slhq8fbQ1c?si=9OaAU2xVKzhEbre8)\n\n* **Upload your script or record your voiceover**: Koyal understands the emotion, pacing, and intent behind every line.\n* **Design your characters**: Create an AI character or safely place yourself in the film using **CHARCHA: our Character Captcha protocol** that ensures your likeness is used **with verified consent.**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94569&key=user_uploads/2383496/0f411243-c4be-4b15-af57-b5ae3f957e2d)\n\n* **Craft your world:** Create or find real-life locations to shoot your movie in, add assets and choose art styles (animated, realistic, etc.)\n* **Auto-generate cinematic scenes**: complete with consistent characters, environments, and shot logic.\n* **Storyboard and edit visually**: adjust lighting, camera angle, or emotion directly with simple directions like “make it more hopeful” or “change the setting to night.”\n* **Export your finished film**: ready to share across YouTube, socials, or investor decks.\n\n# **In Action**\n\nWe’ve battle-tested Koyal across **music, media, and startups**.\n\n* Worked with **Universal Music**, **T-Series**, and major Bollywood studios.\n* Created videos for **Grammy and Oscar-winning artists** like [A.R. Rahman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeaAHxFl-6A), [Ricky Kej](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT7NTK_Y_TY), and [Shankar Mahadevan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSkpEaud9-o), each crossing **1.5M+ views**.\n* Partnered with **22 YC companies** to create their [launch videos](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/y-combinator_brickanta-isthe-construction-estimator-and-activity-7378775629376364544-A2vW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABZ8s4EB2S4yNxvn-aoVAyfMlfkG_me_3f8) in days, not weeks.\n\n**Who We Are**\n\nWe’re **Mehul and Gauri Agarwal**, a brother-sister team obsessed with reimagining how stories are told. \\\n\\\nWe are a team from MIT, CMU and Meta with experience building in AI video. 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It needs original IP, recurring series, creative direction, production workflows, and a place for audiences to discover the best work.\n\nFlick is building both sides:\n\n\\- AI filmmaking platform for creators: go from idea → script → storyboard → shots → edit → finished film in one workspace, with more creative control across characters, styles, scenes, and production workflows.\n\n\\- Flick TV, the home for original AI films and series\n\nTry it now: [flick.art](http://flick.art)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104559&key=user_uploads/2980671/54220433-4453-4294-b014-440b4c91378c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RCR-flick-tv-the-future-home-of-original-ai-films", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-07-02T17:04:26.501Z" }, { "id": 95208, "title": "Flick = Figma + Cursor for AI Filmmaking 🎬", "tagline": "AI Filmmaking tool for anyone who cares about aesthetics, control, and flexibility", "body": "👉 **Other AI tools generate clips** — **Flick lets you direct Films**\n\n👇 **All launch video content made with Flick** by ourselves | 🔊+🎧 recommended\n\nhttps://youtu.be/daVI0yscN94?si=iEhip6dPkn8E4rwu\n\n👉 Make your first film: [flick.art](https://flick.art/?invite_code=YCLAUNCH) with code: YCLAUNCH\n\n### **Problem**\n\nMany AI tools can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to making high-quality films, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow.\n\nCreators think very differently from consumers. Creators think in a non-linear way — moving back and forth freely to iterate, making decisions at every step. To direct a film, creators need not just visual and character consistency, but also character movement, shot angles, camera language, and emotional arc.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nFlick puts creative power back in the hands of filmmakers:\n\n1. **Infinite Canvas + Chat**\n\n An infinite canvas where users upload or generate text, images, and video as connected nodes. We integrate multiple models, but instead of prompt-to-video, we let filmmakers think in terms of scripts, characters, and scenes and give them a natural “chat to create on canvas” experience.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/b8812b5c-bb57-4071-9c06-8fe98632f7d0)\n\n2. **Editing while creating**\n\n Creators like to go back and forth when making shots, so we built editing tools directly into the canvas. So, they can define exactly what kind of shot they want to add or delete to ensure a stronger narrative.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/03442527-7251-4885-9368-05ebffdb3191)\n\n3. **Studio + Perplexity for film scenes**\n\n No one creates from nothing, we’ve needed inspiration since the beginning of humanity. That’s why we’re building [Studio](https://flick.art/studio/experiments-too-boring?from=home), where we produce our own [AI films](https://flick.art/studio/short-films-a-letter-in-early-fall?from=home) and collaborate with leading filmmakers to share their behind-the-scenes workflows as reusable canvases and templates for our community members.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/9c2e48c5-fdcc-4228-9782-250c0b8325d6)\n\n And integrated Perplexity for film search, allowing users to find classic film shots as references.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/508c6b70-0b8d-4c27-8f40-74481ffde11f)\n\n\n### **Connect Hollywood？**\n\n[**John Rosenberg**](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742239/) is a Hollywood filmmaker, producer, and production executive with over 30 years experience. He has worked at studios including 20th Century Fox, Orion, and New Line. His films have premiered at Sundance.\n\nJohn also is a professor at [USC’s School of Cinematic Arts](https://cinema.usc.edu/directories/profile.cfm?id=33682) and a member of ACE (American Cinema Editors). His editing books, published by Routledge / Focal Press, are widely used by film students around the world.\n\nJohn joins Flick as our advisor to connect Hollywood filmmaking craft with the next generation of AI storytellers.\n\n### **Now**\n\n👉 Make your first film: [flick.art](https://flick.art/?invite_code=YCLAUNCH) with code: YCLAUNCH\n\n[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flickart) | [X](https://x.com/flickart_ai) | [Discord](https://discord.gg/SPYgXej78k) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/flickart_ai) | [TikTok](https://tiktok.com/@flick_art)\n\n### **About Us**\n\n[**Ray**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruiwang3/) was a founding engineer at Instagram AI team, who helped build the first version of Instagram Stories, launched it and helped grow it from 0 to 400M DAU in 2018. As main contributor, wrote almost all the backend code in the first year. Have built multiple profitable AI products in the past venture.\n\n[**Zoey**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/z0ey/) has been a filmmaker since 2013, graduated from Brown and RISD. She is an award-winning filmmaker and product designer. Previously her creations include commercials for Mercedes-Benz, viral short films with millions of views, an award-winning documentary, and collaborations with leading film talents such as cinematographer Thierry Arbogast (_Léon_). Her AI filmmaking research was published at [SIGGRAPH 2025](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721250.3742968).\n\nFlick was emerged from the creation of Zoey’s first AI film that got best visual award at [MIT film festival](https://mitaifilmhack.com/winners/). Since then, there are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards at international film festivals and our early creator residency are generating several AI short films every week.\n\n---\n\n### **Mission**\n\nThe next generation of creators won’t think about “prompting models” at all, they’ll just direct, compose, and feel, and the tools will disappear into their creative flow. That’s the future we’re building toward. And that’s why we exist.\n\n### **Ask**\n\nIf you know film studios or creators interested in AI filmmaking, reach out to us: [founders@flick.art](mailto:founders@flick.art) ✌️🍊\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/97d97c4c-82b0-4de1-8bb5-e3a579aa677c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Olc-flick-figma-cursor-for-ai-filmmaking", "votes": 94, "created_at": "2025-11-05T18:07:12.705Z" } ] }, { "id": 30931, "name": "Pixley AI", "slug": "pixley-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fed7dace3f2d8cdd9b201c782646c8ba0cc231c.png", "website": "https://pixleyai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pixley turns kids' drawings and ideas into fully animated cartoons – in minutes.\r\n\r\nKids are natural storytellers. With Pixley, any kid can draw a character, describe a world, and watch their story come to life as a personalized animated cartoon.\r\n\r\nMost kids' screen time is broken: passive, algorithmic content designed to keep kids watching, not growing. Pixley is the antidote. Every episode is safe, ad-free, and built around Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). Parents can choose any lesson they want to teach their child, and Pixley weaves it naturally into the story their kids create. We're building the creative platform for the next generation – where kids are the directors, not just the audience.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the same technology powers Pixley Studios, our B2B content service for brands and content creators who want to produce high-quality AI video without the cost or time of traditional production.\r\n\r\nWe’re 19 year old CS dropouts who’ve known each other since elementary school and won 4 hackathons at 15. 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He also gained deep insights into the video generation space and has won four hackathons with his co-founder, Pranit.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/krish-iyengar/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Krish5Iyengar", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/42d493a864be71585f3535c53ec91779041c783e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2396632, "full_name": "Pranit Agrawal", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO @ Pixley AI (F25). Building AI video end to end: a consumer app where kids turn their drawings and ideas into cartoon characters that teach them educational lessons through personalized animated stories, storybooks, and games. Also built Pixley Studios, a B2B AI video production platform for brands. Built and shipped both products from zero.\n\nPrev: Fable Security (Greylock-backed), Stanford, PressW. UCLA CS dropout at 19.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/pranit-agrawal", "x_url": "https://x.com/PranitAgrawal4", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4e56de13c40cf2621f9d283752f7b86ad482e5fc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94447, "title": "Pixley – Personalized AI Cartoons 📺", "tagline": "Pixley is a platform that turns kids’ drawings and ideas into personalized, educational cartoons", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\\\n\\\nWe’re [Pranit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranit-agrawal/) and [Krish](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krish-iyengar/) – the co-founders of [Pixley AI](https://pixleyai.com/).\n\n**Pixley turns kids’ drawings and ideas into personalized, high-quality animated episodes – guided by parents’ educational and behavioral goals.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94447&key=user_uploads/2396632/e8c1fb0c-2d87-4bce-877f-524eb4dd3b71)\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n* **🎨 From doodles to characters instantly**: Draw on your screen or upload a picture and watch it come to life in seconds\n* **🧑‍🏫 Parent-guided learning:** Parents can simply describe any lesson they’d like to teach their child, and we’ll create an entire cartoon episode for it\n* **📞 Character calling:** Kids can hop “on the phone” with their new friends, and talk endlessly about any educational topic\n* **📚 Educational, Active Learning:** Make screen time engaging and safe while encouraging creativity\n\n**_Ask:_**\n\n👉 _Use our [website](https://pixleyai.com/) and [iOS App](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixley-personalized-cartoons/id6751121342) to create any cartoon you want!_\n\n👉 _Share this post! We all know parents and teachers that could benefit from Pixley_\n\n👉 _Send any feedback over to [admin@pixleyai.com](mailto:admin@pixleyai.com)_\n\n### https://youtu.be/h9sc9PgjfC0\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Endless Scrolling**\n\nKids aged 2-8 spend an average of **2 hours and 48 minutes every day** on screens. Nearly all of it is passive consumption of algorithm-driven videos, with little opportunity for creativity or active learning.\\\n\\\n**Guilt Without Good Options**\n\nParents prefer screen time that is both fun and educational. Right now, they have to choose between entertaining caartoons designed for engagement, or educational apps that feel like homework.\n\n**Behavioral Learning is Overlooked**\n\nStudies show Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs boost achievement by **11 percentile points**. Yet schools rarely emphasize it. That leaves kids missing critical skills – like handling frustration, working with others, and bouncing back from setbacks – lessons every parent wants taught early.\n\n### ✅ Our Solution\n\nAt Pixley, we are using the newest video generation technologies to allow families to make AI cartoon shows within minutes.\n\n⏳ **Instant Character Creation**\n\nChildren can draw directly on the screen or upload any picture – even a photo of themselves, their family, or friends. Pixley transforms it into a fully animated character in seconds, which can be saved into the character library and used in future episodes. For the first time, your child can actually **star in their own cartoons.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94447&key=user_uploads/2396632/6251e031-0c2d-49e0-83a4-2daeae7c20d2)\n\n📺 **Personalized Cartoon Episodes**\n\nParents simply describe what they want the episode to be about – from sharing with siblings, to learning fractions, or exploring space. Pixley generates an entire animated episode around that theme, starring the child’s characters, within minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94447&key=user_uploads/2396632/706b3cee-18f4-45ea-b687-e68db2f73a79)\n\n**📞 Character Calling**\n\nKids can “call” their characters and hold conversations on any topic, like FaceTiming a cartoon friend that never runs out of things to say. Our characters will personalize to your child and teach them about their favorite topics!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94447&key=user_uploads/2396632/46e126b1-ce44-4119-a242-0260b7f84921)\n\n**🌎 The Storyverse**\n\nDon’t have time to make an episode? No worries, our Storyverse has a growing library of Pixley Original educational cartoons that are ready to watch!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94447&key=user_uploads/2396632/150a8e8a-08cf-4dbe-8a7d-3c45513459a4)\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n**Try it out yourself @ [pixleyai.com](https://pixleyai.com) and download our [iOS App](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixley-personalized-cartoons/id6751121342)**\n\n\\*\\*Share this post to anyone and everyone!\\*\\*\\\n\\\n**Reach out: [admin@pixleyai.com](mailto:admin@pixleyai.com)**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OZL-pixley-personalized-ai-cartoons", "votes": 55, "created_at": "2025-10-07T18:17:34.398Z" } ] }, { "id": 30950, "name": "Narrative", "slug": "usenarrative", "former_names": [ "AdDojo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/db1362ab305e5a74bfdc1a509c929ce8348b2df9.png", "website": "http://www.usenarrative.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "An AI-powered video editor that makes editing dramatically faster. 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When we talked to businesses about their marketing, we kept hearing the same problem over and over: they had incredible footage from events and productions, but it took weeks to turn into content. Smaller teams simply didn’t have the time to edit this footage either. We dove deeper into post-production workflows and realized the entire industry was drowning in grunt work.\n\nPreviously, we’ve worked on computer vision research at Brown and software engineering research at UW, as well as AI infrastructure at Apple and marketing for Vectara.\n\nProfessional video editors spend 90% of their time on work that has nothing to do with creativity.\n\nThey're scrubbing through hours of raw footage, hunting for specific moments, organizing clips, and fighting archaic software — while the actual artistry gets squeezed into whatever time remains.\n\nWe're **Erik, Aryan, and Victor;** we built **Narrative** to fix this.\n\n## **What Narrative does**\n\nNarrative automates the repetitive work:\n\n* Add b-roll to the timeline intelligently for an interview, based on the transcript\n* Search terabytes of footage using natural language and instantly find similar clips\n* Pull selects and create stringouts for social media and long form edits\n* Perform batch iterations through a conversational chat window\n\nProfessionals at corporate post-production teams, wedding videographers, and sports teams already use Narrative to cut hours from their workflow.\n\nWe will also be launching video editing and clipping APIs for businesses soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95083&key=user_uploads/2289348/cb7592c9-1f12-4e1b-96ce-60ab2be96364)\n\n## **How you can help**\n\n**Video editor or creator?** Try Narrative and tell us what you think: [narrative.video](https://www.narrative.video)\n\n**Need to edit videos/find specific moments via an API?** Reach out to us at [founders@usenarrative.ai](https://mailto:founders@usenarrative.ai)\n\n**Can you introduce us to:**\n\n* Post-production teams at studios, agencies, or media companies?\n* Sports teams or content creators producing high volumes of video?\n\nReach us at: [founders@usenarrative.ai](mailto:founders@usenarrative.ai) :)\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ojb-narrative-cursor-for-professional-video-editors", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2025-11-01T16:08:12.079Z" } ] }, { "id": 31517, "name": "YouArt", "slug": "youart", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b7bf5ef49531e304338226fa7947782386f95b91.png", "website": "https://youart.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "YouArt helps storytellers create AI originals using our industry-leading video agent, launch their original concepts, get funded directly by early fans, and earn from their audience.", "one_liner": "Patreon for AI Originals", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1777676428, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/youart", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/youart.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/youart/", "x_url": "https://x.com/YouArtStudio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b7bf5ef49531e304338226fa7947782386f95b91.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1404079, "full_name": "Harry Zheng", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of YouArt, Patreon for AI originals\nEx-Google, Ex-Tiktok, found and grew Tiktok Shop Ads from 0 to 100 million, ex-cofounder of Speaking AI, top TTS Model.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-zheng-bbb847105/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/65832294518cbdf6b0c50472f84a2a92246a995e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3409877, "full_name": "Edward Ma", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of YouArt. 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Creators are forced to rely on YouTube or TikTok ad algorithms, which reward short-form viral clips rather than premium, long-form storytelling. They have no way to build a brand, sell private content, or capture the true value of their IP.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nYouArt bridges this gap. We are replacing the traditional Hollywood pipeline with YouArt.\n\nHere is how we do it:\n\n* Production : We provide an industry-leading AI video agent natively integrated into our platform. Creators can quickly bring their ideas to life, seamlessly turning scripts into stunning visual concepts and trailers without leaving the workspace.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101354&key=user_uploads/1404079/95eb3c2d-8846-4e01-8221-00e3673c7507)\n\n* Crowdfunding: Creators don't need to pitch to studio executives anymore. They can launch their AI-generated trailers directly on YouArt to crowdfund support from early believers. 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Users can scroll to discover shows and binge bite-sized episodes, unlocking them with either coins or a subscription. We produce new shows daily with AI, and they've hit 300M+ views organically.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nTraditionally, entertainment takes years to go from production to the TV screen. But fans always crave more. With the advent of AI, entertainment cycles become as fast as days, and now we’re able to serve the most underserved audience of all - anime fans.\n\n**What we built**\n\nA mobile app to watch 1 minute anime packed with:\n\n* emotional thrills (_finally_, you get revenge on the bully), \n* plot twists (_turns out_, the bully is your secret long-lost sibling), \n* and cliffhangers (_suddenly_, the bully whispers “without me, they’ll come for you…”)\n\nUnlike traditional anime, our content is built for Gen Z. TikTok doomscrolling and lower attention spans has led to audiences wanting payoffs in seconds instead of seasons. 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