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We handle the rest, letting your personal brand flourish while you focus on what you do best.\n\n**Fundraise Easier**\n\nPosition yourself as an industry authority. Our content showcases your thought leadership, attracting investors eager to support visionaries with proven insights and innovation track record.\n\n**Attract Top-Level Hires**\n\nWhen your personal brand shines, so does your appeal to high-caliber talent. They'll be lining up to work with you, drawn by the promise of being part of a visionary-led future.\n\n**Build Credibility and Status**\n\nAs your stories and insights circulate, your status as an industry leader solidifies. 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They struggle with customer service due to budget constraints and often lose potential customers because of slow responses and negative experiences. Larger e-commerce sites need help managing the right team size to handle thousands of customer queries during peak times.\n\n### **✨** The solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/d93d84a5-928d-40ad-a758-3b7a22f2ac73)\n\nWe developed advanced AI models to automate critical tasks in e-commerce, such as handling customer queries, processing orders, managing payments, scheduling appointments, and providing shipping updates, and integrated them into a user-friendly admin dashboard that integrates with Shopify, allowing businesses to easily manage their orders, customers, and products while monitoring the AI's performance.\n\n### **⚙️** How it works\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/1c825d1c-50e6-4ea2-8ccf-3ac042824dce)\n\nThe AI displays products, answers questions, handles payments, and gives shipping updates via messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Email, and soon iMessage). This helps businesses provide value and convert leads into customers from anywhere.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n* [Join our private beta](https://getsuperteam.com/?v=skip) to provide instant omnichannel customer service to your customers. \n* If you know an e-commerce owner, [refer them to us](https://getsuperteam.com/)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IIU-superteam-ai-that-manages-customer-service-sales-for-you", "votes": 170, "created_at": "2023-03-16T01:47:33.235Z" } ] }, { "id": 23431, "name": "Navattic", "slug": "navattic", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d4a4ef6a3d05c5e0e6207e2f196eaafa06183e8.png", "website": "https://www.navattic.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Navattic helps sales and marketing teams instantly create interactive product demos.", "one_liner": "Interactive product demos", "team_size": 40, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1614276980, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "Marketing", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/navattic", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2021/navattic.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/navattic", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/navattic", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d4a4ef6a3d05c5e0e6207e2f196eaafa06183e8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 428469, "full_name": "Neil McLean", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder, Navattic", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-mclean/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e405a36cc6870d6eba36ef30375091c1a50483ca.jpg" }, { "user_id": 601331, "full_name": "Randy Frank", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Navattic", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/randy-frank/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/323de84acaab5a904b2d3582693a6278e78a15bf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 595808, "full_name": "Chris Hoyle", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Navattic", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hoyle", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5e33482dc3a3b497935ca4cc4c98975b8b9a2eaa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Navattic Raises $4.25M to Build the Future of Product-Led Growth | Navattic", "url": "https://www.navattic.com/blog/building-the-future-of-plg", "date": "Mar 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 23860, "name": "Positional", "slug": "positional", "former_names": [ "ContainIQ" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/75fcad3beb96d8a2706d8564e5d492e75be91b66.png", "website": "https://www.positional.com", "all_locations": "Charleston, SC, USA; Hoboken, NJ, USA", "long_description": "Start, grow, and scale your inbound marketing and SEO strategy with a toolset optimized for results — not vanity metrics. Our goal is to connect the workflow from end to end, from keyword research to analytics, and the actions that users take that ultimately drive revenue for a business.", "one_liner": "A modern platform for content marketing & SEO.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1625660571, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Marketing", "SEO" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/positional", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/positional.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Charleston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gopositional/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/75fcad3beb96d8a2706d8564e5d492e75be91b66.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 83309, "full_name": "Matthew Lenhard", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder / CTO ContainIQ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-lenhard/37/bb0/ba/en", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/88547c2b3a49c36aa7ed2093d89659578bf5c7d1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "ContainIQ Announces $2.5 Million Seed Round From Lachy Groom, Y Combinator, & Others", "url": "https://www.containiq.com/post/seed-round-announcement", "date": "Oct 12, 2021" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 79701, "title": "📈Positional — A modern platform for content marketing & SEO", "tagline": "Start, grow, and scale your inbound marketing and SEO strategy with a toolset optimized for results — not vanity metrics.", "body": "**tl;dr:** We make starting, growing, and scaling your inbound marketing and SEO strategy easy. With Positional, our goal is to connect the workflow from end to end, from keyword research to analytics, and the actions that users take that ultimately drive revenue for a business. We are building the toolset we’ve always wanted. **Get started with **[**Positional**](https://www.positional.com/)**!**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/QF-DahK75XYQ8xgTgYaqDd904aT5bYQ77DL2-hsdNfQHSV7zioFI-8ULa6h4H4ti6UNxeKtejnElqq7tKMvirI5Y5_2TUBsSfyUOBPikH048lAFBxFxPCkgqOFBAXS8PfFw8I-a-vIWfg-HvR4EczX8)\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Nate](https://www.linkedin.com/in/natematherson/) and [Matt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-lenhard-0babb037/), co-founders of Positional.\n\nWe’ve been working on Positional for about 13 months. Our company, however, was actually in Y Combinator’s S21 batch. In short, we spent two years building something _that people didn’t want_. We decided to make a hard pivot, and that ultimately led us to Positional.\n\n## [🌲](https://emojipedia.org/evergreen-tree) We are back to our roots. \n\nAbout ten years ago, we fell in love with inbound marketing, particularly content marketing and SEO. Since then, we’ve built and scaled content channels in some of the world’s most competitive industries (e.g., consumer finance, and developer tools).\n\nWe’ve wanted to start Positional since at least 2019. As content marketers and SEOs, we found ourselves constantly jumping between 6-7 separate tools throughout the day. We had one toolset for keyword research, another for content optimization, yet another for internal linking, and then an entirely different set of tools for measuring the success of our channel and analytics.\n\n**With Positional, our goal is to bring the entire workflow together. Positional takes you from start to finish, from ideation to optimization and analytics.** \n\n## [💪](https://emojipedia.org/flexed-biceps) One platform to do the job.\n\nToday, Positional has 11 thoughtfully built features. Of course, we have tools for keyword research and tracking. But we also have a number of really unique experiences and workflows for internal linking, content optimization, content analytics, and mapping buyer journeys.\n\n### [🔎](https://emojipedia.org/magnifying-glass-tilted-right) Ideation\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wKWlHN4QsHDSc7i2e6zMreZIBxr6t6sY3zpsiJ194ZiittqTC23FtizQb3UDjpQFN_62ZYOQ-KSNByQpWRSDh6zVe8L_famgs7uyXXsYhPQkxoYDPCIXxGUdnDlaZN5zjGcSLeJQcVQfdoJZMf5fQHU)\n\n_Keyword Tracking within Positional._\n\n* **Keyword Research** — An intuitive keyword research toolset, providing advanced insights into how your audience searches, engages, and converts.\n* **Keyword Tracking** — Monitoring keyword performance has never been easier.\n* **Competitor Research** — Quickly identify the keywords your competitors are ranking for that you aren’t.\n* **Keyword Clustering** — Never manually check the SERPs again. Keyword clustering is done for you. SERP-based.\n* **Editorial Calendar** — A simple editorial calendar that works alongside your core SEO toolset.\n\n###  🙌 Optimization\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/h6wnsHzX4AsQqITCoUN88N1_Dun_-dSLg_c2Hjt7XoggRNQ0H_EABz9n9Npb5HhCydMnh2TS4gOktbOj-xwVSy73OB959e2AWienrATsFLTi7zWcsLsRXIKypqrRepJnbafhW-b9zXMz17fgysgkiTs)\n\n_Optimize within Positional. Highlighting Unanswered Questions._\n\n* **Optimize** — A data-driven approach to creating fantastic content that actually ranks.\n* **Internals** — Internal linking has never been this easy.\n* **AutoDetect** — Check the originality of content before it goes live. **To be upfront:** Our toolset is certainly not 100% accurate, although we are constantly improving. False positives and false negatives will regularly occur.\n\n### [📈](https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing) Analytics\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/7kQjFkMmOn1VS7Nnk2M2ek6Tr0je3g_qVnbdCX9bKmOn39jMlnj4928ezn8geKeWF5FeYNjfcCiSqG8dg1e9rdu8y1KpoFd4PD8HAHLwe8_v6vtivopXIXGsIiNv1XEs7l_M8wT60W8aAfc2EZFeBV8)\n\n_Content Analytics within Positional. Highlighting Readmap._\n\n* **Content Analytics** — Know exactly which pages to improve and where to make those improvements. Kinda like a heatmap but more granular for in-article insights.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/UDhG3cNIWCFyO8DHsTEAnih3KbfKrpSrvgNfrDn3c5n2ldGkktkiVWOTJV_TeYreYUr2T1Vfwqg7vBXz2iZ5LUGqZk9Lk48LhS00_CfskG5DhAB4VBWF6xDNH1IIHnPR2dZmk2i7_VaMsfxWain3M9o)\n\n_Buyer Journeys within Positional._\n\n* **Buyer Journeys** — Analyze user flows from entry points to conversion pages. Use data to optimize content within your most common user paths.\n\n### [🚨](https://emojipedia.org/police-car-light) Socials\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/E07-g96asIuclXlLrw0MP9aZYwfTxYDcdzm2l2ohVGYy4k4eTkJE7VFOpczg-Hfl6mCRKskbfS0GI5-DSuY1FAOzc9AmwDW927A3gSO8uPcxA9WntO4UTXNcY_sSWUMd91B8oIU04o7mXBovDimhdAo)\n\n_Social Listening within Positional._ \n\n* **Social Listening** — Social listening across your favorite platforms (ex Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter, Hacker News). The first toolset within our social platform!\n\n## 👋 Getting Started with Positional\n\nWe’d love for you to give us a try! Positional was launched publicly today, and there is a trial. \n\nSign up at [Positional.com](http://positional.com)!\n\nAlternatively, we’d love to hear from you. We’d be happy to show you around our toolset if you’d like a quick demo. You can book a call with Nate using this [Calendly link](https://calendly.com/positional)!\n\nBy the way, if you’ve made it this far, know that we’ve got a pretty awesome [SEO blog](https://www.positional.com/blog) and [weekly SEO podcast](https://www.positional.com/podcast), too! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KjV-positional-a-modern-platform-for-content-marketing-seo", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-03-26T14:46:15.545Z" } ] }, { "id": 24044, "name": "Mailmodo", "slug": "mailmodo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2cd8af0cab42bc6084be64d866151163c3120d15.png", "website": "https://www.mailmodo.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Mailmodo is an email marketing software that helps marketers create app-like experiences in email by adding forms, shopping cart, calendar, NPS and more widgets within the email. Our interactive emails reduce the number of steps for users, thereby increasing email conversions. You can use it to collect feedback from your users, book meetings with prospects, recover abandon carts, generate leads, and more all within emails.", "one_liner": "No-code email marketing platform to send forms & widgets within emails", "team_size": 70, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1624630315, "tags": [ "SaaS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/mailmodo", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/mailmodo.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mailmodo/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mailmodo", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2cd8af0cab42bc6084be64d866151163c3120d15.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 463208, "full_name": "Aquibur Rahman", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Aquibur Rahman is a growth-focused entrepreneur and marketing leader, currently building Mailmodo, a B2B SaaS platform that helps businesses achieve 3x higher conversions through interactive, app-like widgets inside emails. As the CEO and Co-founder, he has led the company’s vision, driving product adoption and customer growth. Previously, he headed marketing at Cleartax, growing organic traffic 5x in one year, scaling CleartaxGST to 600,000+ signups, and driving multi-crore AUM in mutual funds.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aquibur/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AR_Bits", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/60752f1afd4e9e93a137a9cfe1ac971b1a48316a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 218594, "full_name": "Apurv Gupta", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Apurv Gupta is a seasoned technology leader and serial entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in building and scaling B2B SaaS startups. As the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mailmodo, he has led product strategy and planning, served a variety of customers across industries, and built high-performing engineering teams. Previously, he co-founded Flick2Know, where he led the development of FieldAssist, scaling it to $3M ARR without external funding. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/apurvgpt/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ApurvGpt", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e879b9cc971f6cea5606564dadacd13f904ee043.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94640, "title": "Mailmodo AI: Prompt-first email marketing for the AI era", "tagline": "Do all your email marketing - from design to automation - with just prompts", "body": "**TL;DR:** Mailmodo AI is an end-to-end conversational AI agent that enables you to plan, create, build automations, and analyze entire email campaigns through simple prompts, turning what typically takes 4-5 days into a task of a few minutes.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u49l4K3TUI\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94640&key=user_uploads/463208/64a5f1f5-bb74-4442-a8c9-2f15e772858d)\n\n## **We identified a problem.**\n\nIn 2025, you can build an entire MVP in 3 days with AI tools like Lovable and Bolt. But setting up basic email flows? That still takes 2 weeks.\n\nI've watched this happen countless times. Founders ship their product, then get stuck navigating 15 screens, learning complex automation builders, and spending hours on segmentation logic. Meanwhile, every other business tool has gone conversational.\n\nEmail marketing, however, remained stuck in 2015:  painfully manual despite being the most important channel for early-stage growth.\n\n## **So, we built a solution**\n\nFor years, Mailmodo has been propelling emails into the future. We made them interactive through our drag-and-drop editor, turning inboxes into actionable playgrounds. But we weren't solving the real bottleneck: managing multiple workflows, juggling between tools, and wearing too many hats.\n\nSo we rebuilt email marketing from scratch around one idea: **What if you could run your entire email strategy from a single conversation?**\n\nYou describe what you want: _\"Create a 5-part onboarding series for SaaS trial users.\"_ Mailmodo AI handles strategy, copy, design, automation, segmentation, and analysis, all from one prompt, in one place.\n\nWhat used to take days now happens in minutes.\n\n## **How It Works**\n\nA founder types: _\"Create a re-engagement campaign for users who haven't opened emails in 30 days.\"_\n\nMailmodo AI instantly:\n\n* Segments the audience based on your data\n* Generates ready-to-send email designs\n* Builds the multi-email automation flow with strategic timing\n* Tracks performance and suggests improvements\n\n## **The Mission Remains**\n\nWe've always believed emails should do more, and we made it happen in 2021. Today,  they’re finally easier to create, automate, and analyze as well. \n\nFor those building and running growth engines in 2025, email marketing shouldn't take half ya day. Thankfully, now, it won't.\n\nThat's the modern era of email. That's Mailmodo AI.\\\n\\\n**Ask**\n\n* Please sign up on [mailmodo.com](http://mailmodo.com) and try it for free. First 500 email subscribers are free.\n* We’ve launched on PH. Please help us with your love, support and feedback - https://www.producthunt.com/products/mailmodo/launches/mailmodo-ai", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OcS-mailmodo-ai-prompt-first-email-marketing-for-the-ai-era", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-14T17:58:00.669Z" }, { "id": 64413, "title": "Mailmodo: Email marketing platform for higher email engagement", "tagline": "Centralize all your email marketing efforts and send interactive emails to get higher email ROI", "body": "I am Aquibur, founder and CEO of Mailmodo, where we are reinventing emails to help marketers get better ROI and engagement.\n\n### The problem with today’s email marketing\n\nEven though emails are affordable, effective, and personalized at scale, unfortunately, they're not built to encourage user conversions. \n\nLong user journeys from email to website/landing pages result in low conversions and limit emails as just channels for information exchange.\n\nMoreover, even though other mediums have evolved, emails are still the same since their beginning.\n\n### Unleashing Email 3.0\n\nMailmodo cuts through this long journey and allows your emails to get higher engagement and conversions using unique emails powered by interactive widgets and a centralized platform that creates, sends, automates and measures email campaigns of all kinds!\n\nWith Mailmodo you can add a live poll, calculator, or a spin-the-wheel widget to engage customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64413&key=user_uploads/463208/49c88bc9-f910-4c67-8d24-884382ddbf7b)\n\nYou can even gamify your emails with a live quiz.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64413&key=user_uploads/463208/e0a2313c-c456-4034-acbc-4eac1ece2fbe)\n\nYou can enable reservation or appointment bookings inside emails\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64413&key=user_uploads/463208/1a70e0ff-b372-40e3-9e02-d07c24626a37)\n\nAnd get reviews and responses from customers inside their inboxes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64413&key=user_uploads/463208/131dcaff-6d8d-4de9-8c14-b20d05810a15)\n\nMailmodo is a complete platform for all your email marketing needs in addition to the superior email experience and conversions that you get. Here’s a summary of what you can do with Mailmodo\n\n* **Create any type of email much faster** than other email tools and save your team time & effort with our next-gen email editor\n* Drive **higher engagement with interactive widgets** such as forms, quizzes, calculators, polls, spin the wheel, and others for use cases like surveys, feedback collection, webinar registrations, cart recovery, admission forms, etc.\n* **Integrate with your existing tool stack** like Segment, Mixpanel, Hubspot, Zapier, etc. You can also use our APIs to send transactional emails or trigger based on web/platform events\n* **Import contacts manually (CSV), with API, or sync contacts with easy CRM & 3rd party app** **integrations**. You can also create contact segments to send targeted emails\n* **Automate email sequences with our drag-and-drop journey builder** with a variety of triggers and actions.\n* Send 10k emails for free every month and **avail YC deal on all paid plans.**\n\nVisit us at [www.mailmodo.com](http://www.mailmodo.com). If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [help@mailmodo.com](mailto:help@mailmodo.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gkv-mailmodo-email-marketing-platform-for-higher-email-engagement", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2022-07-07T14:53:13.845Z" } ] }, { "id": 24083, "name": "Rivia.AI", "slug": "rivia-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/74b8fae20934df4dfafa899ab30b9ddd193b6f6b.png", "website": "https://rivia.ai", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Rivia.ai empowers marketing, sales, and demand generation teams to effortlessly generate and distribute interactive product demos within 10 minutes. Potential customers of SaaS brands can now personally engage with these self-guided product stories without direct sales interactions. 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Before XTX, Philip worked at GSA Capital (which XTX span out from), Barclays Capital, UBS and Morgan Stanley predominantly on automated trading.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/philiphowson/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/howsonph", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/53f49f5156bd1f874551b25cb155244580acc034.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 24241, "name": "Laudable", "slug": "laudable", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb7d6cfef41904da6758d65129b0adeffca2b2e1.png", "website": "https://www.laudable.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; United States; Remote", "long_description": "Laudable finds happy customers and their success stories hiding in your existing data - like call recordings, NPS, salesforce logs - and auto-generates case study content.", "one_liner": "App for B2B companies to find customer stories and advocates", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1627532302, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Video" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/laudable", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/laudable.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getlaudable/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb7d6cfef41904da6758d65129b0adeffca2b2e1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 345721, "full_name": "angela ferrante", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-ferrante/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/640ef45b8633b4b3d0a329b2083fde7d92ecb9cc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Announcing Laudable's $2.95M Seed Round | Laudable", "url": "https://www.laudable.com/blog/announcing-our-seed-round", "date": "Oct 07, 2021" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 24384, "name": "Whalesync", "slug": "whalesync", "former_names": [ "Whaleform Inc. (product is Whalesync)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/859ce6355b2e4ff52655c420f97fbe51b3849528.png", "website": "https://www.whalesync.com", "all_locations": "St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Whalesync makes data syncing easy. Our automation platform syncs data between key business tools like Webflow/Wix/WordPress and Airtable/Notion/Google Sheets. We give marketing teams two-way, real-time sync, so they can manage their website from their favorite collaboration tools.\r\n\r\nWhalesync launched during Y Combinator’s S21 cohort. Since then we’ve raised from some of the world’s top investors. We’re now trusted by hundreds of companies like [Ramp](https://ramp.com/), [Webflow](https://webflow.com/), and [Alchemy](https://www.alchemy.com/), and process millions of transactions every day. Many of our customers enjoy the product so much they [tell all their friends](https://whalesync.com/customers).", "one_liner": "Manage your website from your favorite tools like Airtable and Notion", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1626201713, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Remote Work", "No-code", "Data Engineering", "Web Development" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/whalesync", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/whalesync.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "St. Petersburg", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/whalesync", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/WhalesyncData", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whaleform", "github_url": "https://github.com/whalesync", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/859ce6355b2e4ff52655c420f97fbe51b3849528.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": 614866, "full_name": "Curtis Fonger", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of Whalesync (S21)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/cfonger/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/CurtisFonger", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/09e7af5c143a1c626f28a9d3dd7887f69e2c831d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Whalesync wants to simplify the process of syncing data between SaaS apps • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/26/whalesync-wants-to-simplify-the-process-of-syncing-data-between-saas-apps/", "date": "Jan 26, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 85696, "title": "Whalesync: Give your spreadsheet edit access to data in apps", "tagline": "Do things you shouldn’t with spreadsheets.", "body": "Hi everyone! We’re Matthew and Curtis, founders of [Whalesync](https://www.whalesync.com).\n\n**Whalesync gives your spreadsheet edit access to data in apps like HubSpot, Webflow, and Supabase.** This way, you can bulk edit, collaborate, or build AI workflows directly from Airtable, Notion, or Google Sheets. It's a little scary... but also super powerful ;)\n\nHere’s a Notion database updating deals directly in HubSpot:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85696&key=user_uploads/689259/02e173cf-86dd-4420-ac98-9197be6bbcd8)\n\n### **Why spreadsheets?**\n\nSpreadsheets like Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion are super flexible, require practically no learning curve, and let you view and update records in bulk.\n\nWhen you connect these tools with your business apps (like your CRM, CMS, or database), you basically get spreadsheet superpowers ✨.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85696&key=user_uploads/689259/a269b120-351c-41f1-ae49-576fd317a397)\n\n### **Common use cases**\n\nHundreds of companies, including Webflow, Descript, and Clay, use Whalesync to work faster by:\n\n* **Enriching CRM leads with AI** from a spreadsheet (HubSpot + Notion)\n* Creating **thousands of programmatic SEO pages** from a spreadsheet (Webflow + Airtable)\n* **Creating internal tools** without any engineers (Supabase + Airtable)\n* **Updating deal statuses** from a spreadsheet (Affinity + Google Sheets)\n* Giving clients an **easy way to update projects** (Notion + Google Sheets)\n\n### **How it works**\n\n1. Connect your app and your spreadsheet.\n2. Map the tables and fields you want to sync.\n3. Turn it on, and your data syncs into your spreadsheet. Then you can start editing/creating.\n\n### **Try it out**\n\nWe have a two-week free trial on all of our plans if you want to try Whalesync yourself!\n\nAnd always feel free to shoot us a note if you have questions at 👋 [hello@whalesync.com](mailto:hello@whalesync.com).\n\n**🚀 Try it out here** ——> [**https://www.whalesync.com**](https://www.whalesync.com)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MIC-whalesync-give-your-spreadsheet-edit-access-to-data-in-apps", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2024-11-19T17:55:29.794Z" }, { "id": 68930, "title": "Whalesync - 2-way sync your no-code tools", "tagline": "Whalesync lets you create an instant, 2-way sync between Airtable, Webflow, Notion, Postgres, & Bubble", "body": "**tl;dr** We make it easy to 2-way sync data across tools like Airtable, Webflow, Notion, Postgres, & Bubble. This unlocks powerful use cases like programmatic SEO, no-code apps, ABM pages, and internal tools. You can check out our [free trial here](https://www.whalesync.com/airtable-webflow/choose-connectors)!\n\nHey everyone! We’re Ryder, Matthew, Curtis, Manish, Veneta, and Sean aka the team behind [Whalesync](http://whalesync.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68930&key=user_uploads/689259/bc6a3ca8-c31c-4a1b-841c-7c5afd6dc221)\n\n### **The problem: connecting tools is hard**\n\nConnecting apps like Airtable & Webflow enables amazing use cases, but is actually really hard to do without code!\n\nWe started Whalesync because we repeatedly saw people spending weeks architecting multi-step automations only to find them brittle and unreliable.\n\nWhile we love automation tools, they’re really not built to handle true data syncing where you connect deeply and bi-directionally.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68930&key=user_uploads/689259/f59ab897-31e7-4717-8c1d-5353077f4f28)\n\n### **The solution: simple, no-code data sync**\n\nWhalesync is the no-code tool built to handle data syncing. In a few minutes, you can hook up your apps and have them 2-way syncing in real-time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68930&key=user_uploads/689259/05a48b3c-e3a4-49cc-870c-9b8564835d98)\n\n### **Use cases: pSEO, internal tools, + much more**\n\nWhalesync works by connecting different tools, so there are a TON of different things you can do. A few of the more popular use cases:\n\n* 🔎 Launch thousands of **programmatic SEO pages** (Airtable x Webflow)\n* ⚒️ Build an **internal tool** on top of your production database (Postgres x Notion)\n* 💻 Create a scalable **no-code app** (Bubble x Airtable)\n* 🧑 Personalize hundreds of tier-1 **ABM landing pages** (Airtable x Webflow)\n* 📝 Manage your **blog** (Notion x Webflow)\n\n### **How it works**\n\n1. Pick the tools you want to sync\n2. Tell Whalesync how the data maps\n3. Turn on sync, we do the rest ✅\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68930&key=user_uploads/689259/c61a0dd3-5b9f-4be0-aef9-14310076108c)\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n* [Try it out](https://www.whalesync.com/airtable-webflow/choose-connectors) and let us know what you think! Support is great, but feedback is even better as it helps us decide what to build next.\n* Also, let us know if you have any [requests for new connectors](https://jjm01gwpyzn.typeform.com/to/lij7aJhR)! We’ll be building a bunch more this year.\n* If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to my personal email 😄 [matthew@whalesync.com](mailto:matthew@whalesync.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hvm-whalesync-2-way-sync-your-no-code-tools", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-02-01T16:56:55.235Z" } ] }, { "id": 24526, "name": "Writesonic", "slug": "writesonic", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd007ffa21d124d29441b51ecf33a2c45d832ad5.png", "website": "https://writesonic.com/", "all_locations": "New Delhi, DL, India; Remote", "long_description": "Writesonic is the GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) platform that tracks your AI visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and 10+ AI search platforms. Then helps you take precise actions to boost visibility—create new content, refresh existing pages, or reach out to sites that mention competitors but not you. \r\n\r\nTrack, Act, and Win AI search from one platform. \r\n\r\n15,000+ five-star reviews across G2, Trustpilot, and Capterra.", "one_liner": "Track & Boost Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search", "team_size": 35, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1628672374, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/writesonic", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/writesonic.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "New Delhi", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/writesonic/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Writesonic", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/GetWritesonic", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/Writesonic", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd007ffa21d124d29441b51ecf33a2c45d832ad5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 490043, "full_name": "Samanyou Garg", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building the platform that helps brands win AI search through GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Started tracking AI visibility before anyone knew it mattered, now helping 13,000+ teams dominate AI search. Computer science graduate from the University of Manchester. Won the 2019 Global Undergraduate Award (the \"junior Nobel Prize\") for machine learning research on group emotion recognition.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanyougarg/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SamanyouGarg", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0ae5d689976cb17cd8c3e9ea1557c7e0535c1978.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87645, "title": "Writesonic - The AI SEO Agent that replaces $10k/month agencies", "tagline": "Connects with your essential SEO tools: Ahrefs, Search Console, Keyword Planner, and more", "body": "Hey everyone! We're Sam and the Writesonic team. Today we're launching our [SEO AI Agent](https://writesonic.com/seo-ai-agent) that automates end-to-end SEO workflows by connecting real-time data from Ahrefs, Google Search Console, and other key marketing tools.\n\n## TL;DR\n\nTraditional SEO requires endless tool-hopping and manual work. Our SEO AI Agent changes that by automating the entire workflow - from research to implementation. It works like an in-house specialist but faster, pulling live data from your marketing tools to turn weeks of work into minutes. After helping 10M+ users create AI content, we're now solving the bigger SEO automation problem. Watch our [2-minute demo here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnL8oaLWauQ).\n\n## The Traditional SEO Problem ⚠️\n\nHere's what teams currently deal with:\n\n* Spending 6-8 hours/week comparing keyword data\n* Paying agencies $5,000-10,000 monthly for basic SEO work\n* Wasting hours switching between different tools\n* Waiting weeks for competitor research and strategy\n* Getting stuck in endless iterations\n\n**A typical SEO project involves:**\n\n1. Initial consultation (1-2 hours)\n2. Tool research & data gathering (4-6 hours)\n3. Competitor analysis (6-8 hours)\n4. Strategy development (3-4 hours)\n5. Multiple revision cycles (1-2 weeks)\n\n## How Our AI Agent Changes This ⚡\n\nWhen you ask \"Help me rank for 'AI SEO' keyword in the US\", the agent:\n\n1. Does **keyword research** to understand search volume, difficulty, and related terms **using Ahrefs and Google Keyword Planner**\n2. Studies the current **Google SERP** landscape to understand content types and ranking factors\n3. Examines your site's current **Domain Rating and organic keywords**\n4. Identifies your top competitors in the US market for this keyword\n5. Analyzes relevant **backlink profiles**\n6. Performs technical SEO audit to spot improvement opportunities\n7. Compiles a comprehensive strategy based on all gathered data\n\nAll this happens in minutes, not weeks. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, we're not making educated guesses - we're working with real-time data from your actual marketing tools.\n\n## Example Use Cases 💡\n\n**Keyword Research & Strategy**\n\n* \"Find easy-to-rank keywords in our niche\"\n* \"Analyze content gaps vs competitors\"\n* \"Map topic clusters for our features\"\n\n**SERP Analysis**\n\n* \"What's working for top-ranking pages?\"\n* \"Find SERP features we can capture\"\n* \"Discover untapped keyword opportunities\"\n\n**Content Optimization**\n\n* \"Optimize our post for featured snippets\"\n* \"Improve key product page rankings\"\n* \"Find missing content opportunities\"\n\n## Who's Using It? 🎯\n\n**Startup and Small Business Owners**\n\n* Get enterprise-grade SEO without hiring expensive in-house teams or agencies\n* Access tools like Ahrefs without separate subscriptions\n* Turn complex SEO into simple, actionable steps without needing technical expertise\n\n**Marketing Agencies**\n\n* Automate research and reporting for multiple clients simultaneously\n* Scale your client base without increasing headcount\n* Replace $5,000-10,000 monthly research costs with a single, efficient tool\n\n**In-House Marketing Teams**\n\n* Reduce or eliminate dependency on external agencies\n* Get instant, data-driven answers to SEO questions\n* Make faster decisions with insights pulled in real time\n\n## Real Results 📈\n\n* One user jumped from position 14 to 4 in two weeks\n* Teams capturing featured snippets for 30% of keywords\n* Agencies replacing $5,000-10,000 monthly costs\n* Content teams turning 2-week cycles into minutes\n\n## What's Next: The Full Marketing AI Agent 🔮\n\n![SEO AI Agent Dashboard](/media/?type=post&id=87645&key=user_uploads/490043/2e3af77c-fdd8-4e01-af26-31fa58c4b7f9)\n\nThis SEO Agent is just the start. We're building:\n\n1. Social Media Agent: Post scheduling, engagement and analytics\n2. Ads Agent: Multi-platform campaign management\n\nOur vision is an end-to-end marketing system where AI agents work together seamlessly.\n\n## Our Ask 🤝\n\n1. Try the SEO AI Agent free: \n2. Share feedback, especially if you're:\n * A business/startup owner trying to grow your business\n * A marketing team fighting manual workflows\n * An agency owner looking to scale\n3. Questions? Email [sam@writesonic.com](mailto:sam@writesonic.com)\n\nThe future of SEO is automated, integrated, and intelligent. We'd love your feedback on making it even better.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mnd-writesonic-the-ai-seo-agent-that-replaces-10k-month-agencies", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-02-13T16:17:23.820Z" }, { "id": 76934, "title": "GPT Router - API gateway for LLMs", "tagline": "Automatically route between 30+ LLMs, Vision and Image Models based on latency and uptime.", "body": "**Tl;dr:** GPTRouter is an open source LLM API Gateway that offers a universal API for 30+ LLMs, vision, and image models, with smart fallbacks based on uptime and latency, automatic retries, and streaming. Stay operational even when OpenAI is down. [Try it out today.](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter)\n\nWe are open-sourcing [**GPTRouter**](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter), an LLMOps tool we have been using internally at [**Writesonic**](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7141049399975075841/#) for handling millions of monthly requests for our users.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76934&key=user_uploads/490043/69dec2e5-ab07-4bda-b21c-2132c2f10bd9)\n\n✅ Universal API for 30+ LLMs, Vision and Image Models\n\n✅ Smart Fallbacks based on latency and uptime\n\n✅ Automatic Retries\n\n✅ Supports streaming\n\n## Why we built it\n\nSince embracing OpenAI GPT-3 in production in 2020, we at Writesonic have been serving millions of users and faced the typical scaling pains with generative AI models:\n\n1\\. Dependency on a single model risked total downtime.\n\n2\\. Latency issues with models like GPT-4 affected user experience.\n\n3\\. Integrating various models was tough due to different APIs and SDKs.\n\n**🌟 Early this year at Writesonic, we set out with a clear vision: to become model agnostic.**\n\nFaced with single-model limitations and diverse AI challenges, we began building GPTRouter - our bespoke solution to navigate and thrive in a multi-model AI world.\n\n**🔗 With GPTRouter's Universal API, you're the master of AI models.**\n\nSwap between OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Replicate, Cohere & more with just one line of code.\n\nIt simplifies model management to a great extent.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76934&key=user_uploads/490043/faa03edd-ebda-469b-8731-297fd33f0ffc)\n\n**🛡️ Downtime isn't an option.**\n\nGPTRouter's Smart Fallbacks mean your service is always on.\n\nYou can define a hierarchy of models for each use case. GPTRouter will constantly check for uptime/downtime, latency and other factors, and automatically fallback to the next best model with zero interruption.\n\n**♻️ Say goodbye to manual retries.**\n\nGPTRouter does the heavy lifting with Automatic Retries for failed requests, keeping your AI services sharp and consistent.\n\n**🌟 **[**GPTRouter's**](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter)** Edge:**\n\n✅ Universal API for seamless model switching.\n\n✅ Smart, automatic fallbacks for continuous service.\n\n✅ Reduced latencies for quick interactions.\n\nThis is just the starting point. 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As an engineer on Facebook's growth and mobile teams, [Beau](https://www.github.com/hartshorne) helped rebuild Facebook twice, once on the [web](https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/breaking-facebook-lite-launches-in-the-u-s/) and again on [iOS](https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/23/facebook-for-ios-faster/).\n\n[**Book a call**](https://calendly.com/strobe/beau) with Beau to learn how growth teams are working with influencers now.\n\n### Problem\n\nFounders and growth teams tell us that while influencer marketing has a high ROI, it’s very hard to **find and evaluate content partners at scale.**\n\n1. Finding partners who really understand and care about their products is hard.\n2. Teams do not want to work with creators who post controversial content or are already working with their competitors. But it’s nearly impossible to review thousands of posts by scrolling.\n\n### Our solution\n\n[Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) connects first-party social APIs with modern LLMs so you can quickly find and evaluate influencers in your community. We’re launching with Instagram and will soon roll out integrations with LinkedIn, YouTube, and other platforms.\n\n1. [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) finds influencers in your social communities who already love your products. You can also import your existing customers to find influencers who already use your products.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80532&key=user_uploads/10064/7c4f48ef-9042-4b52-a9d3-5362a373b7e9)\n\n2. [Strobe’s](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) fine-tuned LLMs instantly review thousands of posts with dozens of GPUs to identify key performance metrics, topics, controversial topics, brand partnerships, and unlabeled sponsored content.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80532&key=user_uploads/10064/800331c9-de29-4c76-8f94-48fa13aecf9d)\n\n\n### Our customers\n\n[Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) helps growth and marketing teams at software companies find great content partners at scale. Here are two examples:\n\n1. A large public B2C software company with \\~1M followers uses [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) to segment and analyze their audiences, including customers, to find content partners for influencer marketing.\n2. A growth-stage B2B software company with \\~75k followers uses [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) for competitive research and to screen out creators who share content that does not represent their brand values.\n\n### Our ask\n\n1. [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/strobe/beau) with Beau to see how [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) can help your team\n2. If you have an Instagram professional account, sign up for a free trial at [Strobe.app](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80532&key=user_uploads/10064/944f654d-acf1-4ad1-a134-771a2237e1e5)\n\n### Thank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kwu-strobe-creator-marketing-for-software-companies", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-04-30T21:14:01.037Z" } ] }, { "id": 25491, "name": "Bobidi", "slug": "bobidi", "former_names": [ "Bobidi, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f84e00a73b712ac5b6de5e0cec130ff847c1a3e3.png", "website": "http://www.upswell.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bobidi runs Upswell, a platform that brings new guests to local restaurants and helps turn them into regulars.\r\n\r\nWe transform restaurants’ promotional videos on social media into engaging quiz campaigns based on the video content. 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He is a product guy at heart, passionate about building products that customers love, and believes in a customer-first approach. He is an IIT Roorkee alumnus who loves writing blogs about start-ups and product management in his leisure time.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/myselfmukul/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mukulanand_iitr", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1fed333e27e0c07fe9ee4aaf07177a7191dbb6dc.jpg" }, { "user_id": 819242, "full_name": "Tushar Dhara", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Tushar Dhara is the co-founder and CTO of rehook.ai, Tushar's first tryst with entrepreneurship was a web development set-up which he started after graduating in Computer Engineering. Before rehook.ai, he was the Vice President, Technology at a fantasy sports start-up, which he scaled to support 8 million registered users. His architecture earned a spot in the AWS showcase (This is My Architecture) and was the subject of an AWS Case Study.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://in.linkedin.com/in/tushardhara", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ea71aeea4284303a14ebef6b6c52e6cc707563d6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 162827, "full_name": "Akshay Suhag", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Akshay is the Co-founder and COO of rehook.ai. Previously he built and scaled FanFight, one of India's largest Fantasy Sports platforms to 8 million users and 7 million in yearly revenue before being acquired. Originally from New Delhi, India, he graduated from National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India where he received a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology. He is an avid sports fan, especially Cricket, Football and Formula 1.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay-suhag-4400a5b0/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/74b3b606cc705256cb8fdd9d9ff6ca0cdb027f26.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "CleverTap Strengthens Customer Retention Suite with Rehook.ai Acquisition | Entrepreneur", "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/clevertap-strengthens-customer-retention-suite-with/490108", "date": "Apr 16, 2025" }, { "title": "Live-commerce platform Shopr.TV raises seed round", "url": "https://entrackr.com/2022/10/live-commerce-platform-shopr-tv-raises-seed-round/", "date": "Oct 18, 2022" }, { "title": "shopr.tv funding: Live commerce startup Shopr.tv raises $1.7 million from Y-Combinator, Kunal Shah - The Economic Times", "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/live-commerce-startup-shopr-tv-raises-1-7-million-from-y-combinator-kunal-shah/articleshow/94941133.cms", "date": "Oct 18, 2022" }, { "title": "Live-commerce Platform Shopr.TV Raises $1.7 Mn In Seed Capital", "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/live-commerce-platform-shoprtv-raises-17-mn-in-seed/437376", "date": "Oct 17, 2022" }, { "title": "Shopr.TV Gets Funding From BEENEXT, Kunal Shah For Its Live Commerce Platform", "url": "https://inc42.com/buzz/live-commerce-startup-shopr-tv-raises-funds-to-create-interactive-shopping-experience/", "date": "Oct 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 25588, "name": "Castled.io", "slug": "castled-io", "former_names": [ "Castled", "Castled Data" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a415f42fd3d3ae124e10f5ef086446cbfc36c4ec.png", "website": "https://castled.io/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Castled.io is a Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) that brings the power of data in the warehouse to the marketer. \r\n\r\nEssentially, Castled.io is similar in feature set to Braze, CustomerIO or MoEngage with a major difference - We don't store your customer data. 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Worked and scaled several startups from initial stage to high growth stage - Flipkart, Lendingkart and Hevo Data. Currently building Castled Data.\n\nI build products which make a positive impact on people and businesses. Apart from work, I am also interested in travel, food and spirituality.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishsingh123/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_manish_s", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0bca0162c2f22d6dd390a92246912772a90cdbdf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 845155, "full_name": "Franklin George", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I’m an engineer by training with a passion for solving complex problems. Over the years, I’ve built and scaled enterprise-grade storage systems, immersing myself in challenges to design and deliver impactful solutions.\n\nNow, I’m embarking on an exciting entrepreneurial journey as the founder of Castled Data, where I’m fortunate to work alongside an incredible team that shares my vision and drive.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/frgeorge", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2e6faf7feef6919f31a4eae735079e12a764c75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 846239, "full_name": "Abhilash Thulaseedharan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "As a coder by chance and an entrepreneur by choice, I love to design systems which is to make an impact on the people around me.\n\n15 years of experience in enterprise product development, leading the development of mission-critical systems like flight operations and cargo handling for one of the biggest airlines in the world, where downtime of even a minute meant grounded flights and millions of dollars in loss.\n\nCycling, running and working out keep me sane.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilashtdharan", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abhilashtdharan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/74be0c72cc9c1668653d46997278e7ab3aefccc3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 847651, "full_name": "Arun Thulasidharan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I was the founding engineer of leading startups like MediaIQ and Hevodata and was among the initial 10 employees of both these companies. I have also spent considerable time in large companies like Flipkart and Applied Materials. \n\nBesides that, I am a huge movie buff and like watching and playing cricket.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-thulasidharan-53a1322b/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b62db1a73f42c9490812711a4a857c3377b0d234.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70296, "title": "Castled - Build audiences on your data warehouse without SQL", "tagline": "The No-Code Customer Segmentation Engine tailor made for Product and Marketing teams", "body": "**tl;dr** **Marketers often wait weeks or months for data teams to sync customer data to their advertising and marketing tools. Castled Audiences help marketers take charge of their data by providing a No-code Customer Segmentation Engine directly on top of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift.**\n\n### 😰 The Problem\n\nModern-day marketers are increasingly adopting data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery as the source of truth for customer data. However, they are still forced to rely heavily on the data teams to get the data out of the data warehouse to their advertising/marketing tools.\n\nThe restriction is primarily due to the complex SQL queries required to create even the most straightforward customer segments. For example, here is the SQL to create a segment of abandoned cart users on Snowflake.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70296&key=user_uploads/846239/c2471db8-ecb8-437d-bdab-f11e59503dcf)\n\nTherefore, marketers are often forced to make tradeoffs in their campaign efficiency as a result of the constraints imposed by limited engineering resources.\n\n## 🛠 How Castled Audiences solve this problem\n\nThe Audiences feature offers a point-and-click Segmentation tool, which helps marketers create the customer segments they need without SQL and send them to a destination of their choice, e.g., Google Ads, Braze, HubSpot, etc. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70296&key=user_uploads/846239/e71e7f81-811b-4a9b-888e-f2f742c2c1c9)\n\nHere is a 3-minute demo of how marketers can create a segment of cart abandoners directly on Snowflake and then sync them to Google Ads for retargeting.\n\n\n\n## 🚀 Get Started\n\nWe would love for you to try us out and share your feedback. Signup at [castled.io](http://castled.io) and give it a spin. Or, if you have a google account, directly sign in using [app.castled.io](http://app.castled.io). \n\nAlso, if this resonates with you, we'd love to chat! - Shoot an email to [founders@castled.io](mailto:founders@castled.io), or book a demo [here](https://www.castled.io/audiences-demo).\n\n**Castled Audiences is available in our Starter Plan irrespective of the number of destinations or the volume of data.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHo-castled-build-audiences-on-your-data-warehouse-without-sql", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2023-03-15T13:37:04.972Z" }, { "id": 66283, "title": "Castled - Customer Engagement using Customer 360 in your data warehouse", "tagline": "Robust and Cost-effective Marketing Automation Platform that sits on top of your Cloud Data Warehouse.", "body": "**tl;dr** **Marketers often make trade-offs in campaign efficiency due to various limitations in existing marketing automation tools. Castled helps businesses overcome these pain points by providing a Marketing Automation Platform built natively on top of Cloud Data warehouses.**\n\nWe're [Arun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-thulasidharan-53a1322b/), [Abhilash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilash-thulaseedharan-3a3a451a/), and [Frank](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frgeorge/), and our vision is to bring the power of Customer 360 in the data warehouses to visionary marketers.\n\n### 🎙 Why yet another Marketing Automation Platform\n\nWe started our journey by building an open-source Reverse ETL solution to make quality customer data available to marketers.\n\nHowever, after talking to 100s of marketers, we realised that there are other fundamental limitations in the existing tools that prevented the marketers from leveraging this data in its true sense. That's when we changed course and built a solution to address these problems.\n\n### 😰 Limitations of existing Marketing Automation tools\n\n* **Need for maintaining a leaky pipeline:** Traditional marketing automation tools needs a pipeline to move the customer data to the tool, which is always at risk of breaking.\n* **Immoderate dependency on the Data & IT Team:** Dependency on the data team for the above-mentioned pipeline maintenance and for running campaign-related queries which often results in delays affecting campaign effectiveness.\n* **Unavailability of quality customer data:** Unavailability of quality customer 360 with relevant historical behavioural data, which is vital for up-selling, cross-selling and re-engaging existing customers\n* **Unreasonable data volume-based pricing:** Traditional marketing automation tools charge in terms of the data points consumed or MAUs, which can get unreasonably expensive for most B2C businesses as the data to move is generally exorbitantly high volumes.\n* **Customer Data Security concerns:** Info-sec team have concerns about the regulatory, privacy and data protection requirements and external security audits as the customer data moves out of the system.\n* **Restrictive data retention:** The data retention in most tools is limited to a few months, drastically reducing the accuracy of the marketing campaigns.\n* **Unreasonably high Time to Value**: It takes months of tech integrations and resource bandwidth before the marketing tools start delivering value.\n\n### 💡 Advantages of our Solution\n\n* **Reduced dependency on the data & IT team:** Since the data don’t leave the warehouse, the dependency on the data team is considerably reduced and is limited to the initial setup. No pipelines to maintain.\n* **Increased data security:** Since the customer data don’t leave your warehouse, we are secure by design.\n* **Cost-effective:** Castled does not store the customers' demographic or event data. This makes Castled 75% more cost-effective than a traditional marketing tool. \n* **Unlimited data retention:** Marketers can use all their customer and behavioral data in the warehouse during customer segmentation. It enables the marketer to cross-sell, up-sell or reengage existing customers more efficiently to increase their LTV.\n* **Low TTV and ease of getting started**: All the data required to run the campaigns are already sitting in the cloud data warehouse. Get started in hours instead of months.\n* **Improved data consistency:** Castled uses Customer 360 in the warehouse directly. No sync is needed to keep data consistent.\n\n## 🛠 How Castled works\n\nCastled is the CEP a modern marketer needs, as it provides the flexibility in creating relevant and dynamic user segments directly on top of the Customer 360 in your data warehouse with _no dependency on the data team or requiring SQL knowledge to do so._\n\nCreate relevant and timely campaigns or user journeys in Castled to engage the segment of users across different channels.\n\n\n\n## 🚀 Get Started\n\nSignup at [castled.io](https://castled.io) and give it a spin. 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Follow-ups are timely, relevant, and automatic.\n* **Advanced Sales Analytics & Insights-** Gain actionable insights: Truva analyzes prospect sentiment, engagement, and communication patterns, providing the data you need to refine your pitch and boost conversion rates.\n* **Real-Time Alerts & Customizable Data Fields-** Stay on top of every conversation with real-time notifications, automated task creation, and customizable data mapping to the CRM fields that matter most.\n\n**And this is just the beginning…**\n\n**The Vision: A Sales Sidekick for Every Rep** 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ Our long-term goal is for Truva to be the AI “Sidekick” to your sales “Superhero.” Acting as an orchestration layer across all your tools, Truva automates the busywork, so you can focus on closing deals and driving growth.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M91-truva-sell-more-grind-less-with-ai-agents", "votes": 459, "created_at": "2024-10-29T17:31:28.285Z" } ] }, { "id": 26709, "name": "Dittofeed", "slug": "dittofeed", "former_names": [ "Plinth", "Plinth Financial" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b22d1c28c768e382c5e7543fe2dbe66969ea4adf.png", "website": "http://dittofeed.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to platforms like Klaviyo and Customer.io. 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", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/max-gurewitz-6a848966", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maxgurewitz", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8cbf85330155993fe3829f823bdc4b248345f12a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 91935, "title": "Dittofeed 📬 Embedded Messaging Features for Your SaaS", "tagline": "Dittofeed's Embedded Components instantly add template editors, workflow builders, user segmentation, and other messaging features to your app", "body": "Hi all, we’re [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwell-gurewitz-6a848966/) and [Chandler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandler-craig-90/) from [Dittofeed](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dittofeed) 🙂\n\n**TL;DR - Dittofeed Embedded Components give your application messaging features like template editors and broadcasts in seconds**. SaaS companies in health, finance, education, and property management use Embedded Components to give their users the power to automate messaging.\n\n✋ Ask - If you are/know a **vertical SaaS founder, product manager, or engineering manager** who doesn’t want to spend a year developing workflow builders, user segmentation, SMS and email template editors, etc. reach out! [chandler@dittofeed.com](mailto:chandler@dittofeed.com)\\\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GrR1TtbDA\\\\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GrR1TtbDA%5C)\n\n**☣️ Problem**\n\nOn any given day, somewhere in the world, there’s an engineer reimplementing a low code messaging automation tool for the nth time.\n\nDrag and drop workflow builders, user segmentation engines, and email template editors are seemingly ubiquitous among SaaS.\n\nThis is especially true for vertical SaaS. Consider the example of an app for healthcare providers - the providers may want to automate SMS to patients when a prescription refill is available. Or you might have an app for property managers, and you need to let them email tenants when their lease is up for renewal. It’s a non-trivial lift to build this suite of tools, and it can end up taking engineering teams 6-12 months to implement, plus ongoing maintenance.\n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nDittofeed’s [Embedded Components](https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started) wrap up our existing open-source messaging automation so that they can be embedded within your own application.\n\nYou can consume these components using styled iframes, unstyled react components, or by using Dittofeed as a headless API to rebuild your own components from scratch.\n\nThese embedded components can be served by Dittofeed cloud, or by self-hosting Dittofeed. Self-hosting is great for highly regulated industries like health and finance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/fd063652-db40-41f5-aaa5-ca4096131e2b)\n\n**How to get Embedded Components**\n\nContact [**support@dittofeed.com**](mailto:support@dittofeed.com), and we’ll send you an admin API key. Check out our Embedded Components [documentation](https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started) to learn more.\\\n\\\n🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️ **The Founders**\\\nMax and Chandler have been friends since high school – 20 years and counting! They founded Dittofeed in 2023 with a mission to make a great open-source alternative to Klaviyo, Braze, and MailChimp.\n\n**Max** was previously a senior software engineer at OpenTable and Braze where he helped architect infrastructure that scaled their automated messaging services to billions of end users.\n\n**Chandler** was previously a marketing manager at Sony Music and various B2C startups where he became a power user of marketing automation software, seeing a need for change in the industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/2be1b40c-c1a5-46eb-b75b-9b99d21a2104)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/ff7093e7-2d18-455d-8bf9-7d92e6c17e55)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nup-dittofeed-embedded-messaging-features-for-your-saas", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-07-07T19:18:21.762Z" }, { "id": 70363, "title": "Dittofeed - The first open-source customer engagement platform with developer tools", "tagline": "We’re building the world's first open-source customer engagement platform with a fantastic developer experience.", "body": "**Tl;dr**: Dittofeed is a developer-focused, open-source alternative to platforms like Iterable and Customer.io. Dittofeed’s streamlined developer experience allows growth engineers to send better-performing marketing messages. Additionally, self-hosting Dittofeed delivers large cost savings to power users who are constrained by existing providers’ volume-based pricing.\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re Max and Chandler, and we're equipping the next generation of technical growth teams with the tools they need to ensure their marketing messages look great and get delivered correctly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/2732dae6-eed4-4b8e-99b7-88266c3aa80e)\n\n### **The Problem**: Customer engagement platforms are expensive and error-prone.\n\nIf you’ve ever received marketing emails with broken links, or opted out of a company’s texts, only to receive an “exclusive offer” text the next day, there’s a reason. And it’s not (for the most part) because growth teams are bad at their job.\n\nCurrent customer engagement platforms give growth teams the low-code tools they need to automate marketing messages at scale, but none of the technical tools they need to make sure they’re sending the right messages, to the right customers, at the right time. This results in reduced customer conversion and retention rates, as well as frustrated growth engineers.\n\n### **The Solution**: An open-source customer engagement platform that empowers growth engineers.\n\nGrowth teams are becoming increasingly technical, and with that, comes a huge potential for fixing buggy marketing messages. We’re building a future where growth engineers can finally version control email templates and test messaging automations in CI, and where, simultaneously, non-technical growth team members still have access to the low-code tools they’re comfortable with.\n\nUsing Dittofeed, you get industry-standard features like a drag-and-drop customer journey builder, a segmentation interface, and a web-based template editor, helpful for non-technical marketers. You ALSO get technical features like:\n\n* **git-based workflows** 😎\n* **a first-in-class testing SDK** 🤯\n* **an OpenTelemetry integration** 🥳\n* **a self-hostable platform** 🥹\n\nSet your growth engineers up for success. Retain more customers. Save money. Everyone wins!\n\n_Jest Test Example_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/36c3f478-9e0f-4494-a81c-6cf7c0ac4a60)\n\n_Journey Builder Example Workflow_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/57a4c636-7de0-4849-a2cf-532f5a016bf0)\n\nCompanies using Dittofeed can:\n\n1. Save up to thousands of dollars a month by self-hosting, avoiding volume-based pricing.\n2. Reliably build high conversion, high-retention marketing campaigns.\n3. Make their growth engineers happier.\n\n### **Our ask**:\n\n🤩 Star us on [Github](https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed)\n\n🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 Connect us (Max & Chandler) with growth and marketing teams [via email](mailto:founders@dittofeed.com)\n\n🗓️ Schedule a [demo](https://calendly.com/d/zy7-8d5-jdq/dittofeed-demo-founders)\n\n💬 Contact us with any feedback! 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We’re just getting warmed up and plan to grow our marketing channels during YC. \n\n## **Problems**\n\n* Restaurants live or die based on their ability to get their customers ordering regularly, but over 60% of a restaurant's customer base never make it in for a 2nd visit.\n* Customer data is notoriously hard for restaurant owners to access because it’s in several different systems with various accessibility challenges.\n* Restaurant owners are strapped for time and often lack any marketing know-how.\n* Most restaurant marketing lacks good tracking to know exactly how it’s working.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\n* We aggregate customer data from several data sources for the restaurant & get customers to opt in to receive texts from the store.\n* We put text marketing on autopilot with weekly offers, birthday deals, & relevant reminders.\n* While the customer eats, we solicit feedback via a 2 click survey and help to connect the restaurant with the guest if there was an issue or generate a 5 star review on Google.\n* We track the restaurant’s ROI across all of their sales channels (online, over the phone, or in-store).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gee-boostly-s22-text-marketing-feedback-on-autopilot-for-restaurants", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2022-06-23T19:13:00.409Z" } ] }, { "id": 26796, "name": "Popsy", "slug": "popsy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ada7a7ab505e37bb2de88fd9b81eb0bedd4997f2.png", "website": "https://popsy.ai", "all_locations": "Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Remote", "long_description": "Popsy is an AI tool that finds you leads on Reddit and sends them hyper personalized DMs.", "one_liner": "AI tool that finds you leads on Reddit and sends them hyper…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1661960540, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Marketing", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "Slovenia", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/popsy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/popsy.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Ljubljana", "country": "SI", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/MihaPopsy", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/popsy-8fef", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ada7a7ab505e37bb2de88fd9b81eb0bedd4997f2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 187910, "full_name": "Miha Mlakar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at Tingles (YC W18)\nCo-founder at Popsy (YC S22)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlakarmiha", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/MihaPopsy", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e8b5786ce744fb73dbd63049169347ea6e4d0b9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 213658, "full_name": "Mourad Mourafiq", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Loves building products. \nMore info on: https://mourafiq.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://github.com/mmourafiq", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mmourafiq", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/43ad0f4832d6b99f6792f7c59f3c3bf0886b3788.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65849, "title": "🍊 Popsy - No-code website builder that works like Notion", "tagline": "Website builder with a Notion-like editor. 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But Notion lacks many basic features of a website builder.\n\nWe started with a simple tool to turn existing Notion pages into websites. The response was great, but we also quickly realized the limitations of that approach. We took everything we learned from it and built a fully independent website builder.\n\n\\*\\*\\*\n\n### **Asks**\n\nOur only ask is to check it out and give us some feedback. What's the one thing you're missing the most?\n\nDM me on Twitter at 👉 \\\nOr email us at 👉 [founders@popsy.co](mailto:founders@popsy.co)\n\nThank you and happy building! 😊🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/1d1d9e3d-365a-419e-bfb7-dee8f32da480)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/539fe163-5e4a-4fd2-a908-38243e8bb78c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/513b9234-3c49-4889-87f7-d82819121c74)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H85-popsy-no-code-website-builder-that-works-like-notion", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2022-09-05T16:42:31.958Z" } ] }, { "id": 27154, "name": "Superbar", "slug": "superbar", "former_names": [ "Caddie", "Caddie AI", "Superbar (Formerly Caddie)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/00fd47f91143cc8393a67e9aa539ee075762df08.png", "website": "http://www.superbar.ai", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote", "long_description": "Superbar instantly answers questions on your website and drives conversions 24/7.
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He previously was a Head of Product for the payments and mobile business at FreshBooks. He started as a PM and built the unit from $0 to $30M+ in annual revenue in under 5 years. Alan later joined NinjaCat as a VP of Product Management and member of the executive team. He took additional responsibilities as VP of Marketing and VP of Engineering Operations. \n\nHe started his career by building a web development company in the early 2000s while in high school.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alannowogrodski/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/595c768c02a79f3c835377da826ddd1916a9f51e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64194, "title": "🚀 Caddie - Schedule Meetings & Qualify Inbound Leads", "tagline": "Automate your inbound lead qualification and book more meetings!", "body": "# Book More Demos from Your Website\n\n[Watch a Demo](https://youtu.be/72TtCntEkac)\n\n### 😄 **About Us** → Our Customers Were Pissed Off, So We Did Something About It\n\nIn our past life, Marshall and I led sales and marketing teams. More recently, we asked ourselves:\n\n* Why does conversion in B2B websites suck (from Visitor to a Demo Booked)?\n* Why do we keep hearing complains that customer just “want a F\\*&!ng demo!”?\n\nWe explored solutions to fix this and Caddie hit us in the face.\n\n### **🤬** Problem → Too Much Friction to Request a Demo\n\n* **Friction is Killing Leads** → 83% of interested buyers never make it to a demo because there are too many steps to get a demo.\n* **Speed Matters →** 74% of buyers purchase from the first company they see a demo from.\n* **Have SDRs do Qualification Calls? →** Adding an SDR qualification step leads to 30% drop-off in pipeline. In addition, they are expensive and hard to hire.\n\n## 🚀 Solution → Make It Easy to Schedule & Qualify\n\n* Build a personalized **demo** **scheduling experience.**\n* **Qualify inbound** leads by asking simple questions.\n* Using logic and point scoring, **route** to the right Account Exec.\n* Finally, allow qualified prospects to **schedule a demo** on the spot.\n\nTry a demo by going to [trycaddie.com](http://trycaddie.com)\n\n**Using Calendly? →** We allow you to qualify prospects before bad leads jam your calendar. In addition, we shorten your contact form by getting key insights from a database of 200M+ records so you don’t need to ask for “First Name”, “Company”, “# of employees”. The result is 50%+ more qualified leads than with Calendly.\n\n## 💰 The Impact → 2X More Demos, Faster Deal Speed, No Need for SDRs to Qualify Manually.\n\n* Book 2X more demos by removing friction.\n* Improve speed from lead to opportunity by 50% by cutting steps.\n* Have SDRs qualifying leads? → Cut $100,000s in costs.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhO-caddie-schedule-meetings-qualify-inbound-leads", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2022-06-29T20:32:47.116Z" } ] }, { "id": 27166, "name": "Wondercraft", "slug": "wondercraft", "former_names": [ "Moonshot" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/42f387b44ccbfe794a96fd7877c9a7818766a06d.png", "website": "https://wondercraft.ai/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Wondercraft introduces vibe creation, creating video through natural conversation.", "one_liner": "Create video by chatting to AI", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1659074281, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Podcasts", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wondercraft", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/wondercraft.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wondercraft-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/wondercraft_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/wondercraft-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/42f387b44ccbfe794a96fd7877c9a7818766a06d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 725995, "full_name": "Youssef Rizk", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Youssef co-founded Wondercraft after a 4 year stint at Palantir as a software engineer, where amongst other things, he led Palantir's startup practice, and met his co-founder, Dimi. Before Palantir, Youssef obtained an MEng from Imperial College London in EEE.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssef-rizk-397b19107", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/youssefarizk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b0511bffdeb8b4d1ad42a2b53763f5992d38ed09.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1010390, "full_name": "Dimitris Nikolaou", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dimitris co-founded Wondercraft after spending 4 years as an engineer at Palantir, where he also met Youssef. Before that, he graduated with an MSc in CS from Imperial. During studies, he did a few internships as a Data Scientist and at a Hedge Fund. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-nikolaou-29753080/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dimireadsthings", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e0636737dc5f948c5020c5143651d89db4ed175c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Wondercraft raises $3 million Seed funding for the 'Canva of audio' - Tech.eu", "url": "https://tech.eu/2024/01/29/wondercraft-raises/", "date": "Jan 29, 2024" }, { "title": "Wondercraft: Audio AI Startup Raises $3 Million in Seed Funding", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/wondercraft-audio-ai-startup-raises-3-million-in-seed-funding-2024-1", "date": "Jan 29, 2024" }, { "title": "Wondercraft raises $3m to build AI-powered Audio Studio", "url": "https://www.wondercraft.ai/blog/wondercraft-launches-audio-studio", "date": "Jan 29, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 71541, "title": "🎙 Wondercraft - Create studio-quality podcasts in seconds", "tagline": "We enable anyone to create studio-quality podcasts in seconds using AI-powered text-to-speech technology.", "body": "**_Tl;dr:_** _Wondercraft leverages AI to simplify podcast creation. Tell us the name of your podcast and what you want to talk about in this episode and we’ll generate a podcast for you in seconds. Add your own music, voices, and make sure it’s just right for your use-case. Whether you're a seasoned podcaster or new to the game, _[_Wondercraft_](https://www.wondercraft.ai/)_ makes it easy to create engaging content._ _Curious how it sounds? Check out the [_Hacker News Recap_](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170103)._\\\n[_CHECK OUT DEMO_](https://youtu.be/0VYh2TFYVCY)\n\nHey there, we are Dimitris and Youssef, co-founders of Wondercraft. Our mission is to empower podcast creators with cutting-edge AI technology, making podcasting accessible to anyone.\n\n### **🧨 The Problem: Podcasting can be time-consuming and challenging**\n\nCreating high-quality podcasts is not easy, and finding the right voice for your content can be a struggle. Moreover, recording your own voice can be time-consuming, and outsourcing it can be costly.\n\n### **🎉 The Solution: AI-Powered Text to Speech Technology for effortless Podcast Creation**\n\nWondercraft is redefining podcast creation with AI-powered text-to-speech technology. Our virtual studio seamlessly translates your content ideas into an engaging script, brought to life by a spectrum of realistic AI voices. For a more intimate connection with your audience, you can even utilize a clone of your own voice. Complementing the narrative, you can layer-in music and sound effects for a richer listening experience. And the best part? Publication to podcast platforms is a breeze - execute it all directly from our integrated platform.\n\n### **🔦 Use Cases: Business marketing, newsbites and more**\n\nCrafting marketing podcasts for businesses, transforming blog posts into auditory experiences, and producing quick newsbite podcasts for various publications are just a few of the exciting uses for our platform that we're currently seeing. Even podcast studios are loving this as an accelerant to their current work. **A standout success story** has been the [Hacker News Recap podcast](https://hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com/). This daily digest, reviewing the top 10 posts on Hacker News, is created entirely through Wondercraft's automated tools. Impressively, in just 1 month, it climbed into the [top 40 tech podcasts chart on Spotify](https://www.wondercraft.ai/post/ai-podcast-enters-top-50-in-28-days).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71541&key=user_uploads/1010390/0578d4af-68b2-4a03-8930-1fca74a0c5af)\n\n\\\n**💲Opportunity: The Exciting Future of Podcasting**\n\nPodcasting is on the brink of a big change. AI tools are making it easier than ever to start your own podcast and connect with your audience.\n\nWhat's more, we see a future where podcasts are tailor-made for every listener. With AI making the audio, the only hurdle left is picking the content - a challenge that many have already mastered. Want to learn more? Reach out to [team@wondercraft.ai](mailto:team@wondercraft.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ibt-wondercraft-create-studio-quality-podcasts-in-seconds", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-05-12T16:18:07.685Z" }, { "id": 65039, "title": "Moonshot - Angel Investing in athletes 🏈🎾⚽️🏀🚀", "tagline": "Support you favourite athlete early on, share some of their future success", "body": "**tl;dr** 🏈🎾⚽️🏀\n\nWith Moonshot you can angel invest in athletes. We enable promising athletes to fund their professional journey with the help of a community of backers, in exchange for a portion of their earnings when they make it.\n\nHey everyone! We’re [Youssef](https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssef-rizk-397b19107/) and [Dimitris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-nikolaou-29753080/), co-founders of Moonshot. We met working at Palantir as software engineers and recently left to build on a mission that is near and dear to our hearts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65039&key=user_uploads/1010390/8bc31829-f3dc-4348-8582-2f85da5d3501)\n\n**What’s the problem?**\n\n**Becoming a professional athlete is expensive and risky.** Professional tennis players spend more than $100,000 annually to finance tournament fees, travel, accommodation, coaching, etc, which is prohibitive for most mere mortals. As a result, only those privileged enough to sustain this deficit can really make it in the sport. This is a real problem for those with underprivileged backgrounds, but don’t just take our word for it, take Hollywood’s. [The Blind Side](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878804/) (true story) and [Hustle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8009428/) capture this essence in their storylines.\n\n**How do we solve this? We bring supporters to the rescue**\n\nBack your favourite up-and-coming athlete by investing in their career! When they make it big, you’ll have secured the ultimate bragging rights, and you’ll make a nice return on your investment in the form of a cut (think \\~5-10%) on their future earnings.\n\nAthletes get the money they need to continue their professional career. Backers get to meaningfully support their favourites and a significant financial stake in their success. Win win.\n\n**Some concrete use cases we’ve come across**\n\n1. Individual sports (Tennis, Golf and Motorsports) - capital may act as a catalyst, by providing the opportunity to fund competition participation and better coaching.\n2. Team sports (Basketball and Football) - capital may act as an insurance policy. A college athlete can capitalise on the potential of a future large contracts in the NBA or NFL.\n3. In most sports, there are one-off career changing events - think of preparation for the NFL Draft Combine, or making a run for the Olympics. Capital may act as a bridge in order for the athlete to reach peak level at the time of the event.\n\n**Want to contribute**\n\n1. Sign up to our backers [waitlist](https://moonshot.li/). We’re launching in September and spots are limited (250).\n2. Know athletes who could benefit from Moonshot? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a talent referral bonus if they sign up!\n3. Know backers who’d passionately love to invest in a sport? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a backer referral bonus.\n4. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/86677997), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/moonshotli/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/moonshot_li)!\n\n**quick blurb to copy & paste**: Check out this YC company that is building a platform that allows you to support your favourite up and coming athlete by investing in their career. [This](http://www.moonshot.li/) is their website - contact [founders@moonshot.li](mailto:founders@moonshot.li) for more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gv1-moonshot-angel-investing-in-athletes", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2022-08-01T14:25:50.808Z" } ] }, { "id": 27685, "name": "Syncly", "slug": "syncly", "former_names": [ "Deep BlueDot" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a79c1285a2d784965cac2f7d6a820ded7c6499f2.png", "website": "https://syncly.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Syncly co-founders (former founders of Sualab, a video AI startup, $200M exit) are building agentic AI to automate video marketing for the world’s largest CPG brands (Tiffany, Clorox), a market where brands spend hundreds of billions on agencies today. At $2.1M ARR, grown 2x in 6 months, 4x in 12 months, and 142% NDR. 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Today, we're launching **Creator Discovery**, a new way for brands and agencies to find the right influencers by analyzing what's actually inside their content.\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\n* 🎯 Describe your ideal creator in plain English – Syncly finds them by analyzing video content, not just profiles\n* 🔍 Search by visual aesthetic, storytelling style, spoken mentions, and more - things no filter can capture\n* 🚀 Discover organic brand advocates who mention you without tags or hashtags\n* ⚡ What used to take hours of manual scrolling now takes seconds\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/b5ed5c9d-8ded-464c-b93f-ff4ce144df33)\n\n**Ask:** If you run influencer marketing at a brand or agency,[ try it free](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) and tell us what you think. We'd love your feedback.\n\n**Offer:** Book a demo through Launch YC, and we'll include a personalized social listening audit alongside your creator discovery walkthrough →[ Book a demo](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\n \n\n---\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nInfluencer marketing is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a core growth channel. But finding the right creators is still painfully manual.\n\nThe current process looks like this: you open a platform, set some filters (follower count, category, location), scroll through hundreds of profiles, and then manually watch their content to figure out if they're actually a good fit. Does their aesthetic match our brand? Have they worked with competitors? Do they tell stories in a way that resonates with our audience?\n\nThese are the questions that matter most, and none of them show up in metadata.\n\nTraditional discovery tools search profiles. They can tell you a creator has 50K followers in the beauty category. But they can't tell you whether that creator films in a warm, cozy bedroom aesthetic or a bright studio setup. They can't tell you that a creator mentioned your competitor's product in a GRWM last Tuesday, without a hashtag or tag.\n\n---\n\n# **🛠 How Syncly Solves This**\n\nSyncly Social analyzes what's actually happening inside the content – every frame, every word, every sound. Instead of filtering by metadata, you describe what you're looking for in natural language, and Syncly finds creators whose content matches.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/5f564bfa-9007-4d33-8a16-a08eef2493ae)\n\n### Here's what you can search by:\n\n* **Visual mood & aesthetic** - \"clean minimal apartment with natural lighting\"\n* **Creator persona** - \"fitness-forward creator, athletic build, gym setting\"\n* **Content format** - \"GRWM morning routine\" or \"before-and-after transformation\"\n* **Spoken mentions** - find creators who organically mention your brand in their videos, no tags required\n* **Storytelling style** - conversational, educational, high-energy, or laid-back\n* This means you can find creators that genuinely fit your brand's identity - not just creators who check the right demographic boxes. And because you never have to watch a single video yourself, it scales.\n\n---\n\n# **🏢 Who This Is For**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/38e3c357-5fb2-4172-97e7-85fc6eba9532)\n\n**Brand marketers:** Find creators who match your brand's specific criteria - visual style, tone, values - without spending hours on manual research. Just describe what you want and get results.\n\n**Agencies:** Turn vague client briefs into concrete creator shortlists. Discover rising creators early and deliver them to clients before anyone else does.\n\n---\n\n# **🚀 Try It Now**\n\nCreator Discovery on Syncly Social is live and free to try:\n\n👉[ **Start your free trial**](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\nIf you want a personalized walkthrough or want to see how it works for your specific use case:\n\n👉[ **Book a demo**](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) - book a demo through this link, and we'll include a social listening audit + personalized creator discovery session.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pp2-syncly-social-find-creators-by-what-s-actually-in-their-content", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-01T05:33:08.094Z" }, { "id": 93013, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening for video", "tagline": "The first social listening platform for the video era", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\nSyncly Social - AI Social listening platform for Videos like TikTok, Reels, etc. We’re trusted by leading brands, such as Brita, Logitech, adn Laura Geller.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/300cd2ad-0740-4e0f-8d9b-4beb5f2a7ce5)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening 1.0:** Limited to text-based social media contents.\n\n* In today’s world where video dominates, this is no longer valid.\n* Unable to analyze what’s being said or shown, or gather demographic intelligence on creators.\n\n# **What you can do with Syncly social (Social listening 2.0)**\n\n* **Competitive Analysis**: Decode the video strategies driving your rivals' success. Outsmart your competition with data-driven social campaigns.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/10cf6f9b-6296-4899-b365-205da5b00456)\n\n* **Brand Perception**: Measure how well your brand is landing with your customers. Instantly identify the gap between your intention and customer perception, then close it with data-driven, timely action.\n* **Influencer Discovery**: Uncover and partner with influencers who truly resonate with your brand. Amplify your brand's reach with authentic voices that drive engagement.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/d1db78fb-a26a-420c-9555-eed8191dda65)\n\n\n# **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how leading brands achieves competitive advantage through Syncly social, book a demo [HERE](https://syncly.app/demo-social-yc).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCD-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-for-video", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-08-14T23:52:42.170Z" }, { "id": 87956, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening platform for modern brands", "tagline": "970K+ Mentions, 10+ Social Platforms, 1 Breakthrough Solution.", "body": "Introducing [Syncly Social](https://www.syncly.app) - AI social listening platform for modern brands. We aggregate reviews, posts, and conversations from socials and e-commerce (Amazon, Instagram, Reddit, retailer-specific reviews, and many more) for market, competitor, and consumer intelligence, and provide actionable insights, faster and more accurate than ever.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/f0894f43-dfd0-4b93-bb57-828ad0328971)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening platform 1.0**\n\n**High volume of Noise data:** Legacy platforms rely on simple keyword queries to gather data. The problems are:\n\n* **Time-consuming**: Takes up to a couple of months to setup, repetitively.\n* **Less than 10% data is relevant:** For example, product names or sub-brands with generic or common imagery (like Discover and United) can lead to irrelevant content being collected.\n\n**Lack of Granularity in Analysis:**\n\n* Let’s say \"picture quality\" may be frequently mentioned for mobile brand. So what? To translate that into specific product or marketing insights, the insight should be more granular, but what you can get from legacy platform is the summary, at most, like “_People generally praise the picture quality on Samsung phones, particularly on their high-end models.”_\n\n**One-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis:** Traditional sentiment analysis often fails to capture the full context, especially when posts contain mixed emotions.\n\n* For example, a review that says, \"It’s not as bright as {product name}\" might seem negative, but since {product name} is a brand’s another product, it isn’t necessarily a critique of the brand as a whole. This inaccuracy complicates efforts to identify precise product improvements or refine marketing messages.\n\n# **Why we need Social listening platform 2.0 - Syncly social**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/daffa167-4b77-47ae-8b0a-edf4809e5be5)\n\n* **⚡️ 90% Faster Setup:** Forget tedious keyword lists of what to include and exclude that often take up to a couple of months🤯. Syncly's AI automatically filters irrelevant chatter.\n* **🎯 Hyper-Targeted Insights:** Brands went _beyond_ basic sentiment to identify specific product issues and opportunities.\n* **😊 Nuanced Sentiment Analysis:** Syncly pinpointed _exactly_ which features customers loved (or hated) with aspect-based analysis.\n* **🌎 Language Agnostic Brand Tracking:** Global consumer brands, like LG Electronics, could track brand mentions in different languages without needing to translate keywords.\n\n# **Impact**\n\nInsights that once took **months** now surface in just **days**, enabling your brand to refine products, optimize marketing, and stay ahead of competitors, fast.\n\n# **Learn more use case**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how Modern brands achieve competitive advantage through social listening, [schedule a demo](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with me.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mse-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-platform-for-modern-brands", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-02-24T18:23:58.940Z" }, { "id": 81714, "title": "Syncly - Get product insights from everyday customer communication for fast-growing companies", "tagline": "Bringing AI to help CX and Product team to understand customer issues before they churn.", "body": "[Syncly](https://syncly.app/) is an AI customer feedback analysis platform. I know you are running a customer-driven product. But do you understand in detail what’s driving negative customer sentiment and what needs to be done to elevate the experience?\n\nHere’s how Syncly helps top B2C companies like:\n\n* **Logitech, Boundless, Gamma,** and many others\n\nand fast-growing YC companies like:\n\n* **Speak**, **Ello**, **Navattic**, and many others.\n\n# **The Challenge: Do you know what’s driving negative customer experiences on your product and how to address them?**\n\nIt’s difficult to get visibility into the user sentiment trends and what can be done to elevate customer experience from a product perspective. Even when you get it, it’s not actionable. Why?\n\n* **Product insight is not granular enough:** unable to pinpoint customers/customer groups at risk and understand the details of their issues on your product.\n* **It takes loads of manual effort** to read and analyze customer feedback data. By the time you have it, it’s too late. Tagging provides stats but no story.\n* **Scattered data sources:** Difficult to aggregate various customer touch points (i.e., Zendesk, Intercom, Front, [gong.io](http://gong.io), Slack, Discord, reviews, and many others)\n\n# **The Solution: Syncly AI surfaces trending/urgent product** **issues automatically, based on all your customer touch points. Syncly does it with minimal effort from users and provides a granular level of insight on a customer level.**\n\n* With [**Smart Insight**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoTigJI9F4), identify the most critical product gaps and issues that hinder customer experience without having to read all customer interactions across multiple channels (Zendesk, Intercom, gong.io, Front, Slack, Discord, reviews, and others).\n* Ask **Syncly AI** to pinpoint the positive and negative sentiment drivers and get instant action items to elevate the customer experience.\n* With **Customers AI**, monitor sentiment trends by account and individual user, to proactively engage with customers with underlying issues before they become at-risk.\n\n ![](https://framerusercontent.com/images/uTiFzlfEY2imgMwq5c8r1XDKCrE.png)\n\n\n### Learn more use cases\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases and getting a free trial:\n\n* [**schedule a call**](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with Co-Founders at Syncly!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LFy-syncly-get-product-insights-from-everyday-customer-communication-for-fast-growing-companies", "votes": 174, "created_at": "2024-06-24T19:17:19.745Z" }, { "id": 69973, "title": "🚀 Syncly — AI customer feedback analytics that drives retention", "tagline": "Syncly enables Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity. ", "body": "Hey, We are Joseph, Kwan, Jongsoo from [Syncly](https://www.syncly.app) (YC W23).\n\nOur team founded and sold an AI startup for $200M, and decided to bring our technology to help Revenue team drive retention by delivering the right value for customers.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nSyncly uses AI and Chat-GPT to enable Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity.\n\n### **The Challenge**\n\n* **Manual tagging and insights:** Your revenue team wants to understand the most impactful product or operational feedback, but the team spend a lot of time manually aggregating and analyzing. As a result, you come to learn what had gone wrong _AFTER_ the damage.\n* **Measuring team efficiency**: Hard to track most of what problems your Revenue team is doing, but seems your team is doing a lot. Currently, done by 1-on-1 meetings or manual tagging, which is not scalable.\n* **Post-action impact:** Hard to measure how customer feedback has changed after certain actions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n* **Automating feedback insight:** Syncly finds urgent and impactful customer issues. Your team can proactively engage with customers _BEFORE_ the damage.\n* **Boosting team efficiency:** Spread best practices within the organization to help Account managers, Customer success & support managers focus on delivering more value to the customer.\n* **Post-action visibility:** By monitoring customer feedback trend, you can measure the impact of each release and action.\n\n\\*Syncly’s integrations include **Intercom, Slack, Salesforce**, and other customer communication platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/777aa42c-a17a-40a9-8418-feaf2f342c4d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/ab5abf25-c974-4eed-8e29-1f07e7bff28c)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n* If you wanted to get as many actional insights from your customers feedback, schedule a call with us here: [https://www.syncly.app](https://www.syncly.app/) (Click “Book a Demo”)\n* Feel free to shoot me an email at [joseph@deepbluedot.io](mailto:joseph@deepbluedot.io) if you want to chat more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICb-syncly-ai-customer-feedback-analytics-that-drives-retention", "votes": 138, "created_at": "2023-03-06T19:49:55.810Z" } ] }, { "id": 27818, "name": "Gluetrail", "slug": "gluetrail", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/655e9f2acbaad108c6e7539ecb81f7a1ce60e8cc.png", "website": "https://www.gluetrail.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "Gluetrail is a chrome extension that allows you to create support/training/marketing assets 10x faster, just from a screen and audio recording. These assets allow you to drive software or process adoption & awareness among prospects, customers or teammates. \r\n\r\nFrom one single recording, Gluetrail leverages your screen+clicks+audio transcript, and AI, to:\r\n- automatically create step-by-step articles with screenshots and videos\r\n- adapt the content for & publish it on 3rd party platforms in 1 click: internal or external knowledge bases (Notion, Confluence, Intercom, Zendesk...), community platforms and social media (linkedin, youtube, twitter, discourse...) 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Baptiste led the Internal Tools engineering team initially, then worked on Data Operations while Anne-Charlotte built and scaled the Revenue Operations team. 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Just before founding Gluetrail, I was responsible for Revenue Operations at Algolia (YC W14).\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/annecharlottechauvettissot/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7dfb4e07bbe9802fe81a7e037656fc30a5d0c0e6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1189125, "full_name": "Baptiste Coquelle", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "10+ years in software development applied to Operation and Strategy.\nI had the chance of joining Algolia early stage and to work on many different layers in the data space: data automation, data pipeline, data analytics and most recently, business modeling in sales led and product led motion, where there is still so much to do!", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/baptistecoquelle/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4710815d2d6a029d08d7d2455438f0f8f6d459f2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 68415, "title": "✨ Gluetrail - empowering non tech teams to build internal tools, in minutes", "tagline": "No code SaaS allowing no tech teams to build internal tools autonomously", "body": "**TL;DR** [**Gluetrail**](https://www.gluetrail.com/) is a no-code SaaS application that allows non-technical teams to build internal tools autonomously, on top of their existing business systems and databases. Have a look at our [**template library**](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) or contact us with any use case you’d like help with; sign up [**here**](https://www.gluetrail.com/) to request free trial access.\n\n### **🛠️ THE PROBLEM WITH BUILDING INTERNAL TOOLS**\n\n* **Operational teams rely heavily on internal tools.**\n* They know best the challenges they need these tools to solve, and have **the most urgency** for them.\n* But **they are not autonomous to build and maintain them**.\n\nWhy? Because building internal tools requires knowing how to write and maintain code.\n\n_A short story about a simple use case is worth a thousand words…_\n\nJohn from the Ops team wants to drive his sales team’s productivity by building and sending forms on Slack (with buttons, input, datetime etc.) and process that information back to his CRM, HubSpot. For example, sending a form like this to update deals’ close dates that are past due:\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/-4DOLazJmJHGcHsg7aHXz2Ssy1rlRWy3zkaHokyGVxRQ8K05Cz56ohVxpjpkX_qd4RFynIJUOEBIW2dgkIKaPG31AugDRGZEQENIL7nNp-LoeqXd6fUiF3JsEotM1Kdt1jpHjWGL-IoIGI2xFerDYkw)\n\nHe looks at options to build this but none of them are suitable:\n\n* **Ask his dev team**: his request is low priority in the backlog and he knows he’ll have to go back often to the dev team for maintenance after the tool is built.\n* **Leverage internal tools builders**: these tools are built for developers and require knowing how to code. The technical bar is too high for John to get started and build quickly.\n* **Use no-code workflow tools**: his use case requires building end-user interfaces (Slack notifications with a form and buttons), which is something these tools don’t handle easily without having to code.\n\n### **🤖 THE SOLUTION**\n\nHere's a [**1mn video demo**](https://www.gluetrail.com/use-case/video-demo) of how John built, in Gluetrail, his Slack notifications allowing reps to update HubSpot, without any code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/7e6a88e2-b8e6-4f67-94b4-fd7f5abc2685)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/cc1c8bf2-c3f7-4835-a999-4a0fc67a17aa)\n\n[Gluetrail](https://www.gluetrail.com) empowers non-technical teams to build business critical internal apps autonomously, literally in minutes. We do this with:\n\n* **A no-code interface**\n* **Automations and UI components** to build web, Slack or Chrome extension based interfaces \n* **Integrations** with 3rd party systems like HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, OpenAI, Slack, Postgres, BigQuery and others.\n\nOur [template library](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) features some use cases you can replicate in Gluetrail. \n\n### **🚀 Give it a try!**\n\nWe offer **14-day free trials to get started**. Our pricing is license based for internal tool builders and front-end users, and comes with unlimited app builds and runs.\n\nYou can get in touch with us by **signing up on our** [**website**](https://www.gluetrail.com) (we’ll follow up quickly!) or emailing us directly at [annecharlotte@gluetrail.com](mailto:annecharlotte@gluetrail.com).  ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HnT-gluetrail-empowering-non-tech-teams-to-build-internal-tools-in-minutes", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-01-13T11:01:42.171Z" } ] }, { "id": 27843, "name": "Gooseworks", "slug": "gooseworks", "former_names": [ "Magik Labs", "Magik Labs - Fast Web3 Checkout", "Magik Labs - Fast NFT Checkout", "Magik Labs", "Magik", "Athina AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be25b5e55711ba973cd7f6c514b56a10ab3da20e.png", "website": "https://gooseworks.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Goose is an AI marketing brain that understands your company's marketing context deeply and makes it accessible to agents. \r\n\r\nWe index your existing materials — videos, product shots, testimonials, ad performance data — into a context layer that AI agents can then use to make creatives, webpages, write emails, social content and more.\r\n\r\nThe engine compounds: the agent learns from campaign performance, competitors, trends, and human feedback, so your creative gets better every month.", "one_liner": "Self-Improving Marketing Harness", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1667592357, "tags": [ "Video", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/gooseworks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/gooseworks.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gooseworks-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/GooseworksAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/gooseworks-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be25b5e55711ba973cd7f6c514b56a10ab3da20e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 739633, "full_name": "Himanshu Bamoria", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Gooseworks AI (https://gooseworks.ai) - 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It's hard to evaluate and compare the quality of retrievals and responses.\n\n2\\. Non-technical users like PMs cannot prototype pipelines or run experiments effectively, creating a bottleneck on engineers.\n\n3\\. Managing experimenting is messy, requiring teams to maintain scripts and spreadsheets.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### 😁 The Solution: Athina IDE\n\n**🧪 Athina IDE is a collaborative editor for AI teams to prototype, evaluate, and experiment with AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/d86504e7-ba8e-4b65-a872-a0dafeabfa0b)\n\n.\n\n### 🎯 Core Philosophies\n\n
**1\\. Great AI products are a team effort:** PMs, Data Scientists, SWEs, MLEs, QA teams, etc., all have to come together to build something great

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


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

\n\nThis is why the entire editor revolves around your data and gives you powerful controls like a spreadsheet.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### _What can you do with Athina IDE?_\n\n.\n\n## **✨ Prototype Complex Pipelines with Dynamic Columns ✨**\n\n![](https://athina.ai/develop/prototype.png)\n\n**⚡️ Dynamic Columns** in Athina IDE let you prototype complex pipelines in a UI that feels like a spreadsheet. Dynamic columns can be used to:\n\n* Run prompts\n* Execute code\n* Retrieve data from a vector DB\n* Make API calls\n* Classify text / extract entities\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/1a18b5ba-2b6a-4a41-b5d5-7c702af3bd2d)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Evaluations**\n\nPlug in any eval from our library of over **50+ preset evals**, or use custom evals. Run evaluations in seconds with just a few clicks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/9288258e-9ce9-4e65-9f16-8de55405807c)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Experiments**\n\nIn just a few clicks, anyone can experiment with a different prompt, model, or retriever.\n\nIf you are technical, you can run even more powerful experiments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/7694a57b-ab7d-4444-b568-a2eb2944d503)\n\n.\n\n##### **Compare Everything Side-by-Side**\n\n* Compare datasets side-by-side with an optional diff-view!\n* Run evaluations on multiple datasets simultaneously and compare metrics!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/131fe29f-828d-48d5-aae7-f9f7a470c9ce)\n\n.\n\n## **How can you use it?**\n\nYou can start using Athina IDE for free!\n\n* Create an account at and go to the **Develop** tab.\n* For a personal demo and to learn more about how Athina IDE can accelerate your AI development, book a demo with us: .", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LCO-athina-ide-experiment-with-ai-pipelines-in-a-spreadsheet-like-ui", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-06-13T20:09:26.820Z" }, { "id": 77263, "title": "Athina AI: The Ultimate Monitoring and Evaluation Platform for LLM Developers", "tagline": "A suite of tools to supercharge LLM development and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications", "body": "### **TL;DR: Athina helps you monitor and evaluate your LLM powered app. Plug and play evals in production. 5 minute setup.**\n\n—-\n\n👋 Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of [Athina AI](https://docs.athina.ai/), a suite of tools for LLM developers to ship and develop AI products with confidence.\n\n### What is Athina AI?\n\nAthina AI is a **Monitoring & Evaluation platform** for LLM developers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77263&key=user_uploads/731066/30a27eb5-a787-46d2-8420-cb2c30da24e2)\n\nDevelopers use Athina’s evaluation framework and production monitoring platform to improve the performance and reliability of AI applications through real-time monitoring, analytics, and automatic evaluations.\n\n### 🔴 The Problem\n\n* It is difficult to measure the quality of Generative AI responses.\n* Eyeballing responses is tedious, leading to slow development cycles\n* No easy way to detect unreliable or bad outputs (especially in production).\n* Difficult to make changes to prompt or retrieval pipeline with confidence without introducing regressions.\n* Poor visibility into all the steps in your LLM inference pipeline\n\nLLM developers typically have to build and maintain lots of in-house infrastructure for monitoring and evaluation.\n\n### 🟢 Our Solution: Athina AI\n\n[Athina](https://docs.athina.ai) is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\n* **Quick Setup**: [Get started](https://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api) in just 5 minutes! The entire integration is 1 simple POST request _(and we don’t interfere with your LLM calls)_\n* **Comprehensive Monitoring Platform**: Full visibility into your LLM touchpoints. Search, sort, filter, compare, debug.\n* **Prebuilt Evaluations**:\n * You can configure automatic evaluations in just a few clicks - use one of our preset evals or define a custom eval.\n * These evals will run against logged inferences automatically.\n * You can also use our [**open-source library**](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals) to run evals and iterate rapidly during development.\n* **Granular Analytics**:\n * Tracks usage metrics like response time, cost, token usage, feedback, and more.\n * Athina also track metrics from the evals, like Faithfulness, Answer Relevance, Context Sufficiency, etc\n * You can segment these metrics by any property: customer ID, environment, model, prompt, etc.\n * For example, you could use Athina to see how **prompt/v4** is performing for customer ID **nike-usa** and how **gpt-4** performance compares to a **llama-finetune**.\n\n**Who is this for?**\n\nAthina is designed for developers building AI products.\n\nIf you’re in the prototyping or development stage, you can use Athina to get visibility and [rapidly test](https://docs.athina.ai/evals/develop_dashboard) the LLM generated responses.\n\n![](https://docs.athina.ai/develop-ui-results.png)\n\nIf you have launched your AI in production, you can use Athina to monitor and evaluate your LLM in production.\n\n### 🌟 Our Story\n\nAs a team of engineers and hackers, we spent a summer trying to build various LLM-powered applications for developers.\n\nWhile working with LLMs, we found that the most challenging part was evaluating the Generative AI output and systematically improving model performance.\n\nOn speaking with other AI developers, we discovered a major gap in the tools that engineers need to effectively build production grade applications using LLMs, and set out to solve this problem.\n\n### 🚀 Get Started\n\nAthina AI is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\nHere’s how you can get started:\n\n* 🌟 Sign up for a free account at [app.athina.ai](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/knowledge/Eq-launch-yc#compose-your-launch-yc-post)\n* Log your inferences using [this guide](http://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api).\n* Try our [open source evals](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals).\n* [Schedule](https://cal.com/shiv-athina/30min) a call with us", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K6B-athina-ai-the-ultimate-monitoring-and-evaluation-platform-for-llm-developers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-01-09T17:07:26.255Z" } ] }, { "id": 27906, "name": "1stCollab", "slug": "1stcollab", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "website": "https://1stcollab.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "1stCollab is the first influencer platform that fully automates and optimizes every aspect of your influencer marketing program. We’ve helped hundreds of startups launch their first campaigns and enabled larger brands to scale to thousands of influencers, while saving them over $1M annually in influencer spend.\r\n\r\nWhat we offer:\r\n- Smart search & recommendations – Instantly connect with thousands of relevant influencers.\r\n- Full campaign automation – From outreach and negotiations to contracts, payments, and taxes, we handle it all.\r\n- Real-time performance tracking – Monitor conversions, revenue, and run A/B tests with detailed reporting.", "one_liner": "Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1671641116, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Marketing", "Advertising", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "After working on creator-related products for three years at Pinterest—and talking with dozens of creators about the challenges they faced—Varun and Leon began brainstorming different ways creators could better monetize the enormous value they delivered to their audiences and to brands. After testing a number of concepts, they became excited by the idea of building better discovery experiences to help brands find creators for their campaigns. A mutual friend connected them with Carina, who was independently building something similar. Andrew had also previously worked with Varun and Leon on discovery at Pinterest, and joined the team as well. Soon after, 1stCollab was born!" }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "We’re focused on solving a two-sided marketplace problem, for brands and creators. For brands, their biggest pain point with influencer marketing is discovering and sourcing creators. Platforms that exist today not only cost >$30k each year, but have very limited discovery capabilities. For instance, [Grin.co](http://Grin.co), one of the top two influencer marketing platforms today, does not surface any Instagram influencers as part of their sourcing tools. We’re going to be the first influencer marketing platform that prioritizes discovery and create the best discovery experience for brands by growing a network of authenticated creators and surfacing those creators through industry leading discovery algorithms and experiences. For creators, 99% of creators don’t get brand deals today, because creators don’t have a way to actively apply to relevant campaigns. By creating an open platform that has a broad set of brands, we can help creators apply to campaigns by showcasing those brands and their campaigns to relevant creators. Creators know their audience and content the best, and through encouraging creator participation, we can facilitate better matchmaking between brands and creators than any platform out there." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "From working at social media companies, we know that users engage at much higher rates with sponsored creator content than organic ads. But the market for sponsored influencer content is being held back, because it’s hard to run influencer marketing campaigns and the tools out there today don’t make it much easier. 1stCollab will simplify and automate influencer marketing the same way that Facebook and Google transformed the digital ads market. If we’re successful, we’ll enable a new category of ad spend—helping more brands to leverage influencer marketing and shift more of their budgets towards it. That’s money that goes directly to creators, enabling orders of magnitude more people to make a living as full-time creators. We have the opportunity to make content creation a genuinely feasible career for many, many talented folks out there—and we’re excited to make it happen." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/1stcollab.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1stcollab", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1168808, "full_name": "Leon Lin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Currently working on 1stCollab, the best platform for brands and creators to collaborate on influencer marketing campaigns. I was previously at Pinterest for over nine years, where I watched the company grow from 100 to 3k employees. Most recently, I was Head of Discovery product there where I led our Home, Search, and Pins teams and was responsible for user engagement. Before that, I was a tech lead on the Recommendations team.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e613d2a09dfafba1eedd23a45f5dc7c892ea74a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1168810, "full_name": "Varun Bansal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at 1stCollab, a platform for brands and creators to connect and run marketing campaigns together. Before 1stCollab, I worked at Pinterest, where I was a product manager for the homefeed recommendations team, the international growth team, and—most recently—the creator engagement and community teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3251e49676ec33cca771662e36818914ead68d75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176814, "full_name": "Andrew Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently working on building a network for brands and creators to connect and launch marketing campaigns. Previously, I was a Tech Lead on search and recommendations at Coupang and Pinterest.\n\n\nIf you're interested in search, recommendations, or creators, please reach out :)!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyuliu/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1270d66ac8965363670c2cc98caf2d245db2f2f7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 71585, "title": "Customer Success Manager (CSM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab/jobs/atezDBY-customer-success-manager-csm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94796, "title": "1stCollab - Fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing", "tagline": "Build a community of thousands of creators for your brand–instantly", "body": "**tl;dr**: 1stCollab is the fastest way to test, optimize, and scale your influencer program. Instantly source thousands of creators, and let our platform handle everything — outreach, negotiations, contracting, payments, and taxes — all while maximizing ROI.\n\n**Product Demo:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KI3LN-xqdM\n\n**Ask**: Introduce [leon@1stcollab.com](mailto:leon@1stcollab.com) to companies interested in influencer marketing!\n\n## The Problem\n\nWe’ve spoken with hundreds of startups running influencer programs, and nearly all hit the same roadblocks:\n\n* **Low response rates.** They reach out to about 10-20 influencers and don’t get any responses. \n* **Time-consuming processes.** Even if some creators reply, sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and paying them quickly turns into a full-time job (or an agency retainer).\n* **Scaling is hard.** Early success is exciting, but optimizing and expanding campaigns takes costly tools, headcount, and process.\n\n## What 1stCollab does\n\n1stCollab helps you test out and scale your influencer marketing program to hundreds of creators with an hour of setup work. We do this by automating the exact same influencer process that the world’s best marketing teams run. \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1: Instantly source thousands of influencers**\n\nFree to try out! We’ve indexed all of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube so you’ll quickly be able to find relevant creators using our search and recommendation tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/7c914441-b10e-4367-99c6-253a39f48bf6)\n\n**Step 2: We take care of outreach, negotiations, contracting and payments.** \n\nWe handle everything to bring the right creators on board at the right price. You’ll see the full negotiation history and campaign pipeline. Our pricing engine predicts ROI using real-time engagement signals and proprietary data from hundreds of thousands of deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/05e49138-75eb-4fdc-b941-e24044207a7d)\n\n**Step 3: (Optional) Review content**\n\nCreators submit concepts and draft videos for your approval. All revisions stay organized in one place. Once you give the green light, we take care of payouts and collect performance data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/fc46b925-16b3-4ef8-82df-1380a85dec64)\n\n\\\n**Step 4: Analyze your metrics**\n\nAs creators are going live, we’ll report out on real time engagement and link click metrics. We’ll cut things by ad groups as well so you can experiment with different briefs and creator populations to understand what works well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/90bbd692-5064-454d-a9c4-a20748bd411e)\n\n## Some of our campaigns\n\nWe’ve helped hundreds of startups start their influencer campaigns and scale up to **some of the largest campaigns on social media**. Some interesting case studies to check out include [Framer](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/framer), [Locket](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/locket), [Gamma](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/gamma) and [SnapCalorie](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/snapcalorie)!\n\n## How to get started\n\nStart [sourcing creators for free](https://brands.1stcollab.com/) or schedule [some time with Leon](https://calendar.app.google/Zd88eFtzJF3TKs3k6) so we can discuss campaign strategy and we can share with you best practices\n\nAlready running influencer campaigns? A/B test us against your current program — we’re confident we can improve your performance and efficiency!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/96f60d67-2c55-48e9-9d78-35dcdddb8e28)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oey-1stcollab-fully-automated-roi-optimized-influencer-marketing", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2025-10-21T19:13:55.295Z" }, { "id": 70145, "title": "1stCollab — Run an influencer marketing campaign in less than 30 minutes 🎉", "tagline": "1stCollab is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that automates the process of running an influencer marketing campaign.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nInfluencer marketing is one of the most efficient ways to reach and acquire new customers, but it’s tedious to run campaigns. By leveraging machine learning and our prior campaign data, 1stCollab lets you run a campaign in under 30 minutes. Visit [1stcollab.com](http://1stcollab.com) to get started with your next influencer marketing campaign!\n\n### **Why is influencer marketing hard?**\n\nFrom our time working at large social media platforms, we know that influencer marketing consistently outperforms organic ads. Unfortunately, launching an influencer campaign is a manual and lengthy process. _Launching an influencer campaign takes weeks_, while launching Google ads takes just minutes. \n\nThe first step of every influencer campaign is to find the right creators to work with—which often takes over 50 hours per campaign. Existing solutions cost tens of thousands of dollars and operate off inaccurate data. As a result, the majority of influencer marketers spend hours manually searching on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. From there, they have to manually calculate stats, vet a creator’s audience, evaluate past partnerships, and negotiate rates and contract terms, review creatives, report out campaign metrics, and finally submit payments. This whole process often takes 2+ weeks for a single campaign.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n1stCollab lets you launch an influencer marketing campaign in minutes—not weeks. All you have to do is find a single influencer who's relevant to your brand and target customers. Then:\n\n1. Use our [influencer look-alike discovery tool](https://www.1stcollab.com/) to identify, vet, and save additional influencers you'd like to work with. We do what the best influencer marketers do: identify a single relevant creator, dig through that creator’s community, identify additional relevant creators, and repeat the process—but automatically.\n2. Send us your list of saved influencers and tell us about your campaign goals and budget.\n3. We'll take care of everything from there. All you have to do is approve the content that the influencers will post.\n\nWe support campaigns on all platforms. Our self-serve discovery tool currently supports YouTube, and we’re launching for Instagram and TikTok soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/a5397e58-9fda-4820-8ec8-945d2930f80d)\n\n### **Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/214846e7-6c27-47c6-9213-4ecac24313be)\n\nOur team has built some of the largest and most-used discovery and ML systems in the world, and has led industry-leading influencer marketing programs.\n\n* [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/) spent nine years at Pinterest, where he was most recently Head of Discovery Product. \n* [Varun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/) was at Pinterest for five years, where he led product for both the Creator Engagement and Recommendations teams. \n* [Carina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-cater/) led influencer marketing at Whatnot, Robinhood, and Curology.\n* [Andrew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyu-liu/) was the tech lead for the Recommendations and Search team at Coupang and the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n* [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlau93/) was a Founding Engineer and tech lead for the Machine Learning team at Abnormal Security and earlier, an engineer on the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* **Want to give influencer marketing a try?** We'd love to help! 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Previous to Vector, Co-founder and CEO Josh Perk and I served as executives in charge of Sales Engineering at Drift helping drive a $1.3B acquisition. 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Buyers are inundated with noise. Modern “solutions” only automate the problem:\n\n* 2% cold call success = automated power dialers 🤮\n* 1% cold email success = mass sales engagement sequencers 👎🏼\n* Costly SDR team = AI prospecting + “virtual SDRs” that “personalize” at scale 🙅‍♂️\n\nPersonalization does not matter if no one opens your email or answers your call. There’s a monumental shift in the industry of B2B prospecting - and CROs are searching for a new playbook.\n\n# **Vector: Less Volume, More Quality**\n\nWe believe in an AI-enabled world where authentic relationships rule all.\n\nVector is the world’s only Relationship Intelligence platform — using AI to analyze 400M+ signals in real-time to identify meaningful relationships across your company’s entire network to win, retain, and expand deals.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/V8oj_wAPmeAT7ayqDcRBSOPMM66QEMPMd0Tlwd-kgcEBr9ijOnSmtE-OOxC-4TOZQno7GE118BQwF2qJsA-Z1Mv8F-Pa7KY6Ver8YvvT4n6PnP_5I8Q1P5ahY4k7EziCs79zTJVDcEwddDbLvquKWok)\n\n# **The Shared Experience Graph™**\n\nAt Vector’s core is the Shared Experience Graph™ — a powerful data engine analyzing hundreds of signals _per relationship_ and a proprietary AI model purpose-built to find the most authentic relationships for your sales team.\n\nStop relying on manual spreadsheets, meaningless mutual LinkedIn connections, or expensive, glorified champion tracking tools that only tap a fraction of your network.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/_WqZpni8euVAwRbQBinwgZW9xlhK3WKp3HX1mj8cppFi5ii6F_zgsONXutIpuwxqNgVbMzAe1s-F5SGaHh3aDvkKEhdMaCltw5a3Wki53OxLPpMn0-pALETUoDn1QqgZqEYqvenY8VySx8zrQ17qmOE)\n\nLet’s talk, because **84% of your B2B decision-makers start their buying process with a referral**, but finding the right trusted person to open the door for your team is extremely hard.\n\nFollow us, [Joshua](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaperk/) and [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasamasters/). We lived with this problem for years as GTM executives, and now we’re fixing it at [Vector.](https://vector.co/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=Launch&utm_campaign=2024&utm_id=YC+Launch%2C+2024)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KGY-vector-turn-your-company-s-network-into-pipeline", "votes": 90, "created_at": "2024-01-29T00:12:47.168Z" } ] }, { "id": 28852, "name": "Kite", "slug": "kite", "former_names": [ "MockRocket" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bfa0b0578ef53f45eaff933ccf7f9f6f80f2b0f.png", "website": "https://kite.video", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Kite is a screen recorder that makes your demo videos look like Apple commercials in minutes.\r\n\r\nSimply record your app (works for iPhone recordings too!). Kite will track your cursor and keyboard inputs, so it can automatically zoom in on the action with professional 3D animations.\r\n\r\nKite is as easy as Canva, but your videos will look like they came out of OpenAI or Figma.\r\n\r\n- One-click cinematic 3D animations\r\n- Display recordings on 3D mockup devices (MacBooks, iPhones etc)\r\n- Combine unlimited recordings into one video\r\n- Edit, adjust speed and trim recordings\r\n- Add text scenes and text annotations alongside recordings\r\n- AI voiceovers using state of the art text to speech models\r\n- Free music library\r\n- Brand kit–upload your logos, colors and fonts\r\n- Start from our template library or start from scratch\r\n\r\nKite is used by hundreds of YC companies for launch videos, social media posts, landing page demos, changelog updates, feature releases and more.", "one_liner": "Screen recorder for stunning product demo videos", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1691634049, "tags": [ "Video", "Media", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/kite", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/kite.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/kitevideo", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kitevideohq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bfa0b0578ef53f45eaff933ccf7f9f6f80f2b0f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 282294, "full_name": "Derek Feehrer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Kite (YC S23)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/feehrer", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DerekFeehrer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ebf28b52304644fa15b45fffef219e167d402601.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1432840, "full_name": "Todd Ashley", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO @ Kite", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddashley/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/toddashleyk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/364ed2da8f58a673c40ff44e66c17f8fc3b9381b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74042, "title": "Kite: Apple-style product videos in minutes", "tagline": "Kite helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes.", "body": "### 🏎️ TLDR\n\nKite helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes. Take a screen recording of your product and turn it into a polished video–no experience required.\\\n\\\n👉 Try out Kite on Mac OS (alpha): [**https://kite.video**](https://kite.video?ref=launchyc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/6bca3709-f628-4c2b-a533-6fb825209d17)\n\n👋 Hey there!\n\nDerek and Todd from Kite here.\n\n### 🥲 The Problem\n\nTop companies know that the way they present themselves to the world matters. **Great storytelling amplifies great products**.\n\nWhen Apple launches a product—or even the tiniest feature—they don’t just put out a press release or a Tweet. They put on something closer to a cinematic film premiere—using video to craft a story and make their audience truly appreciate their features, one by one.\n\nMost of us aren’t Apple, but need to tell our story all the same. **Nearly every software company needs marketing videos**, not just once, but continuously.\n\nUsers prefer video to text and social algorithms boost it heavily.\n\nThe world is noisy. Every feature release is an opportunity to relaunch your product and tell your company’s story once again.\n\n(Some companies we think crush it with frequent feature launch videos: Framer, Brex, and Vercel).\n\n**The thing is, making great marketing videos is still _really_ hard.**\n\nDerek has been pulling out his hair making startup marketing videos for over a decade, both for his own products and as a contractor.\n\nExisting solutions are either **bland**, **tedious**, or **expensive**:\n\n* **Simple screen captures** work well for internal communication but aren’t great for grabbing attention externally, and tend to all look the same. Attention spans are short, and a lot of software just…isn’t that engaging on its own.\n* You can cobble together **powerful video tools** (After Effects, etc), but you’ll probably spend way longer than you’d like, end up with a janky result, and feel like you should have earned a film degree by the end.\n* Or, you can **hire a video creator** (contractor, agency, or full-time). Tech companies spend a LOT on marketing video creation (We know, we’ve talked to your video people!).\n\n### 🪁 The Solution\n\nOur goal with Kite is to help any software company create studio-quality marketing videos—no studio required.\n\nHere’s a quick Kite video we made for our Product Hunt launch this week:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Gz6JI2KSk)\n\nWe start with **screen capturing** your product. It’s easy. If you can take a Loom, you can take a Kite.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/e83335c6-d414-483e-a806-fd7726d03239)\n\nThen we turn it into a ridiculously professional video—semi-automatically.\n\n* Show off your app on the screen of a **3D device model** (like a laptop).\n* Kite **automatically moves the camera** to follow the action and highlight the features your cursor is interacting with.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/c491535d-1987-4417-a0aa-fca72a90b324)\n\n* Add **animated text** (kinetic typography) with two clicks.\n* Sync it all together to the beat of a music track from our **music library**\n* Check out our tutorial video for more detail:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lhSIGDW98)\n\n(**This entire video was made in Kite**, you can explore the full project file in the app).\n\n### 🛣️ Roadmap\n\nWe want to make Kite more comprehensive and automatic with each update–abstracting away all the tedious parts of making great videos, and giving you all the cool stuff you see in big co-marketing videos for free, so can let your creativity run wild.\n\nWe've only been working on Kite for a few months, but there's a lot coming!\n\n* **AI-assisted video creation**\n * **LLMs** – Chat with Kite like you’d chat with a video creator. Get help with everything from copy editing and storytelling to animations and fonts.\n * **Generative AI** – narrations, music, graphics, 3D objects\n * 3D object scans for physical product demos\n* More **customization**–animations, text effects, music, 3D devices, backgrounds, cursors, etc\n* **Mobile videos** & iPhone screen capture\n* Designer **templates**\n\n### 🔮 The future\n\n* We’re starting with software videos because it’s an area we know well, but we’re not stopping there. We think the web is a more engaging place where everyone can create great videos and we're excited to help create the next generation of **AI-first video tools**.\n\n### 👉 Try out Kite on Mac OS (alpha): [**https://kite.video**](https://kite.video?ref=launchyc)\n\nYou can use the entire product **for free**, just upgrade to remove watermarks.\n\nSend us feedback, bug reports, and questions! [support@kite.video](mailto:support@kite.video)\\\n\\\nDerek & Todd (& Harvey 🐶)\\\nKite\\\n🪁🪁🪁\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/816899be-a259-4847-af3a-01e90ec336dc)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JGE-kite-apple-style-product-videos-in-minutes", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-08-11T23:04:21.633Z" } ] }, { "id": 28921, "name": "Surface Labs", "slug": "surface-labs", "former_names": [ "Surface" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d1c735d9ba6a64fce2c94cba6690c524ea7f778.png", "website": "https://withsurface.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Surface Labs helps B2B companies capture, qualify, and convert inbound leads through intelligent contact forms. We replace tools like HubSpot Forms, Zapier, and Chili Piper with a single platform that embeds on any site with one line of code.\r\n\r\nOur AI agents handle lead capture, enrichment, routing, follow-up, and CRO testing — automating what used to require full marketing ops teams. 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[**Surface Labs**](https://withsurface.com/) is building the first **AI Workforce for Marketing Ops** — a team of AI Agents that run your inbound workflows, boost conversions, and cut workloads by 80%.\n\nOur AI Agents are already live in production, handling **50k+ leads every month**. \\\n\\\nMeet one of the first: the **Form Agent**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93874&key=user_uploads/1179226/4f068f22-c1da-43c6-a00a-132cea0b6259)\n\n### **🙅‍♂️ Problem**\n\nMarketing teams spend millions on ads, tools, and headcount… but still lose **30–50% of inbound leads** to spam, bad routing, and slow follow-ups.\n\nEveryday reality:\n\n* Endless spreadsheets and duct-taped workflows.\n* Hours wasted fixing ops instead of building campaigns.\n* Pressure from leadership while growth stalls and leads slip away.\n\nMarketers weren’t hired to babysit forms and CRMs. They were hired to **create, inspire, and drive growth**.\n\n### **👌 Solution: The AI Workforce for Marketing Ops**\n\nWe’re building an AI Workforce that handles the repetitive, manual parts of marketing ops so that marketers can focus on strategy and creativity. Here are some of the members of the Workforce:\n\n* **Forms Agent** → builds high-converting funnels that capture every lead.\n* **Follow-Up Agent** → responds instantly, with personalized outreach.\n* **CRM Agent** → routes and updates deals in Salesforce/HubSpot.\n* **Experiments Agent**→ runs CRO tests automatically to boost conversions.\n* **Ads Agent** → optimizes ad spend and performance in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93874&key=user_uploads/1179226/d5785765-ad9a-4de4-a619-72393b38ca91)\n\n### **📊 See Results within 2 weeks**\n\n* **Agent-powered** inbound funnels boost conversions by 30%\n* **80%+ spam eliminated;** replaces expensive ad fraud prevention & lead routing tools (e.g. ChiliPiper, LeanData)\n* **Does the work of 3+ ops hires** at a fraction of the salary cost\n\n### **Want to hire our agents (& get free lunch)?**\n\n**👉 Stop letting leads slip away.** Book a demo/ free strategy call with our founders [**here**](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/15-min-intro-call-with-surface)**.**\n\nWe’ll audit your inbound funnel/ ops and if we can’t build you a form + workflow funnel that beats your current setup, **lunch is on us.**\n\n### **Want to work with us?**\n\n[**_Surface Labs_**](https://withsurface.com/) _is an applied AI lab building the next generation of marketing technology._ _Our core product grew 70% in the last month, with 500k+ website visitor sessions and 50K+ leads captured every month. Surface AI agents are live in production and usage is 📈📈📈._\n\n_Email [**saharsh@withsurface.com**](mailto:saharsh@withsurface.com) with 3 bullet points on why you want to work with us._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OQ6-surface-labs-ai-workforce-for-marketing-operations", "votes": 130, "created_at": "2025-09-16T18:12:22.299Z" }, { "id": 81386, "title": "Surface Labs: AI that turns Leads into Customers", "tagline": "Boost conversion rates by up to 40% using AI.", "body": "**TL;DR** We previously built intelligent forms for businesses to **_boost website conversions by up to 40%_**, but found them still struggling to close sales because they _couldn’t **scale manual human tasks**_ against increased lead volume. _We give every site visitor a dedicated AI agent to convert more leads into customers across the entire funnel._\n\n---\n\n—\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **The Problem.**\n\n**Over 40% of ad spend is wasted.** Businesses spend money on ads to drive traffic to websites/ PPC pages, but businesses struggle to convert visitors into leads if the page fails to convey value and collect lead data. This results in **leads leaving to visit competitors' websites** and **wasted ad spend.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/f96972a0-9b96-420e-afcb-eb33ed6f4957)\n\nEven if a lead does initially convert on the site, it’s not enough. Businesses still need to\n\n* **filter out unqualified leads/ fake form fills**\n* **decrease speed-to-lead**\n* **repeatedly** **engage the lead**\n\nThis problem is most severe for businesses in **competitive ad spaces** with commoditized offerings (e.g. services, lending, higher education, home services, etc).\n\nAs a result, many businesses end up **buying low-quality leads in bulk** from lead gen services or just **spray-and-pray** cold outbound campaigns.\n\n—\n\n# **Our Solution.**\n\nWe’re building an **_intelligent lead management system_** — a better way to track and engage every lead that clicks on an ad & lands on your website.\n\nWe’ve achieved this by building:\n\n* super customizable, **high-converting** lead forms\n* dedicated AI agents to **qualify and engage every lead** on your website\n* better **ad targeting and personalization** using first-party data collected on your website\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/c72a7f9c-8b56-47ab-8c8d-0eb0e222bb54)\n\nThe platform includes a highly customizable, multi-step form builder, agent configuration UI, and data + analytics dashboards that provide granular details for every lead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/c8ca819f-6e77-44b7-ac87-a1629bcacc49)\n\n—\n\n## **The Backstory.**\n\nWe (**Arjun and Saharsh**) are both engineers who met at UC Berkeley 🐻 and have helped growth teams at multiple startups and companies like **Snowflake** ❄️ boost funnel conversion rates.\n\nWe launched our high-converting forms product last September, **booked 300+ customer calls** in just a few days, and have helped hundreds of businesses ranging from **law firms, real-estate** and **high-ticket coaching services** to **B2B SaaS companies** spending millions on ads boost conversion rates on their website.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/d96a94aa-8abd-4359-9bd8-6a4994841385)\n\nAre you ready to optimize your ad spend and engage every lead using AI?\n\nWe’d love to chat! Reach out at [saharsh@withsurface.com](mailto:hello@plyhealth.com), fill out the contact form on our [website](https://withsurface.com/), or book a demo directly [here](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/25-min-intro-call-w-surface-labs). We’d also appreciate sharing our launch and following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/96129512)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LAg-surface-labs-ai-that-turns-leads-into-customers", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-06-08T15:17:11.558Z" }, { "id": 74412, "title": "🏓 Surface: Intelligent Forms that Boost Conversions", "tagline": "We're building a better way to buy products, starting with forms.", "body": "👋 Hey everyone - we’re Saharsh and Arjun from [Surface Labs](http://withsurface.com)!\n\n### **🏆 TL;DR**\n\nWe’re building intelligent forms designed to help B2B companies collect richer customer data and convert more site visitors to customers via AI-powered content personalization.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/feb58565-fcf9-442d-9cd7-9a2b8cfbcd40)\n\n### **🤔 The Problem**\n\n**You’re losing out on the opportunity to collect valuable first-party data from your customers and increase conversions due to suboptimal forms on your landing page.**\n\n* It’s difficult to personalize content on a form using existing solutions, despite this being one of the most effective methods for converting customers\n* Solutions like Typeform don’t fit seamlessly into your product’s design/ styling and can look out of place 🤢\n* HubSpot or custom-built forms can easily lack an optimal UX that drives form conversions 🥱\n\nOptimizing page forms to collect rich user data that your marketing and sales teams can use to drive conversions is important but is an ongoing task that takes resources away from developing your core product.\n\n### **✨ Our Product**\n\nWe’re building intelligent forms designed to help companies collect richer customer data and convert more site visitors to customers through AI-powered content personalization.\\\n\\\nOur forms can be embedded in minutes on your site as a pop-up or even take over the entire page and provide your business with a managed “Contact Sales” page!\\\n\\\nHere are some example of early forms that we’re building:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/f2cdf1f7-1166-4d67-8ffa-6008adac73c2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/14aa7de7-73ea-43cb-986c-79b2bec5499c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/6179b0ec-94eb-43d8-b97a-c93f33167b90)\n\nOur platform has helped our customers:\n\n* add targeted messaging to a form to easily enable personalization at scale\n* reduce the burden of data entry for customers to improve form completions by up to 70%\n* manage their entire inbound sales pipeline with our managed “Contact Sales” page experience\n* enrich customer responses with external data sources and ask personalized follow-up questions that allow sales teams to instantly filter, qualify, and book meetings with leads\n\n### **⚙️ Features**\n\nAt their most basic, our forms are customized to match your site’s theme and branding, but here are some additional things our forms can do:\n\n* Intelligent form routing logic\n* AI-Powered A/B testing of questions\n* Automatic lead enrichment and scoring\n* Slack bots that inform you when an important lead has signed up\n* Integrations with your CRM, CDP, analytics, email, and scheduling tools\n\n### 👏 **Our Team**\n\nArjun and I met as freshmen at UC Berkeley 🐻 where we both studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/3f2b4e0b-a5f2-438c-aa96-5b853b512322)\n\n[Arjun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjun-sahai/) spent much of his time at Snowflake on the growth team optimizing their self-serve flow, starting with the form on [signup.snowflake.com](http://signup.snowflake.com).\n\n[Saharsh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saharshagrawal/) received his M.S. in EECS from Berkeley where he studied privacy-preserving systems and has worked at early-stage startups where he built products from 0-to-1.\n\nThey’ve both worked with marketing/ sales/ growth teams to perform experimentation around content personalization, onboarding flows, and form templates to help optimize improve response rates/conversion rates. After directly experiencing how powerful personalized business forms can be, Saharsh and Arjun decided to start Surface.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nIf you are currently using a custom form/ Typeform/ Hubspot form, have had to disable your Calendly booking screen due to spam bookings, or are struggling to collect rich user data from inbound leads, check us out!\n\nWe’re onboarding a limited number of companies over the next 2 weeks and are custom-building forms for them prior to our self-serve product launch.\\\nBook time to chat with us [here](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/15-min-intro-call-with-surface?month=2023-09) or reach out at [founders@withsurface.com](https://founders@withsurface.com)!\n\nVisit our website at [withsurface.com](http://withsurface.com) to check out one of our forms!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JMC-surface-intelligent-forms-that-boost-conversions", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2023-08-25T23:49:16.378Z" } ] }, { "id": 28992, "name": "Rankai", "slug": "rankai", "former_names": [ "LineUp" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/32ccd0a8e163e6c0cf404e4f9c6202d57317315c.png", "website": "https://rankai.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Websites used to be static billboards, passive and waiting to be found.

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Its 1st agent automates the entire SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.\n\n\n\n# **What’s the insight?**\n\nMarketing agencies grew and made $400B in 2024, despite the rise of affordable marketing tools. We talked to 100+ SMB owners, and found that many would still pay thousands for marketing agencies. They want to pay for a service – for someone to think about what to do, then just execute and deliver results. \n\n# **What did we build?**\n\nRankai is building AI Agents to strategize and execute on marketing objectives, just like an agency. It’s first AI Agent automates the SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.\n\nHow it works:\n\nStep 1: Crawl through your website pages and understand your business.\n\nStep 2: Suggest technical SEO fixes based on Google SEO Guide.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85538&key=user_uploads/804786/38787d8a-f2b6-4192-a390-978a58725a1e)\n\nStep 3: Research for target keywords tailored to the business.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfvDlVknS_1BOO7TT6rVukxlz7ROXbt8sg9mLlsqMfsV8HLNjiq-JQUS43zNtq1_98fFFygSLSg83emG0O55j8afS0CegUWoP1N2xHwxkAvaiqDxuCKmvwE9QVKISbciRQFVd0jzw?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz)\n\nStep 4: Craft keyword-optimized SEO content.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeLgTVPuUR6tTMOOeGGqoUsueqcHs_RtCr_cPyHDG4MriprwfgzlzAeCm_v5WVNkJfSXLoOoiUAlaM9fYUmvH4CrVXyJMll_LTFmhO2KcdL00vswJK5VUCnQPK0i40YjIUVIXPTCA?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz)\n\nStep 5: Finally, Rankai publish the technical SEO fixes and weekly blogs straight to your website.\n\n# **The Team**\n\n[Boyuan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyuan-deng/): Built and scaled FlowGPT from 0 to 4M users via SEO & organic traffic, EECS at UC Berkeley\n\n[Hugo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-z-21197a122/): Engineering at Amazon, National Junior Math Olympiad Team, Blockchain Dev at Eluvio, Research at BAIR, Math & CS at UC Berkeley\n\n[Dyllan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyll/): Ex-McKinsey, Engineering at Amazon, Built an education platform serving 1500+ rural students, Business & DS at UC Berkeley\n\n# **Our Ask (and Offer)**\n\nTry it yourself: [rankai.ai](http://rankai.ai)\n\nDemo/SEO Strategy Session: [Book here](https://calendly.com/rankai/rankai-ai-demo)\n\nIntro: Any SMBs that aren’t SEO-optimized for organic traffic (Ecommerce owners, startups, agencies, local businesses, freelancers, etc.)\\\n\\\nEmails: [dyllan@rankai.ai](mailto:dyllan@rankai.ai) and [hugo@rankai.ai](mailto:hugo@rankai.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFe-rankai-ai-agents-that-replace-marketing-agencies", "votes": 238, "created_at": "2024-11-13T21:43:46.169Z" } ] }, { "id": 29080, "name": "Smobi", "slug": "smobi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d332393d7c5b5f27e1a2f82f8ec54fa8b38e21a1.png", "website": "https://smobi.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Smobi is the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We help businesses send rich, personalized messages that drive engagement, build trust, and create real conversations.", "one_liner": "Send texts your customers actually want over RCS", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1689048246, "tags": [ "B2B", "API", "Marketing", "SMS", "Telecommunications" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/smobi", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/smobi.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getsmobi/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GetSmobi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d332393d7c5b5f27e1a2f82f8ec54fa8b38e21a1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 846621, "full_name": "Kunal Puri", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I spent 4 years building out communication systems for Amazon Advertising, and got my first taste of entrepreneurship when I created a Minecraft server that generated over 250K at the age of 15.\n\nNow I'm building Smobi - the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We help businesses send rich, personalized messages that drive engagement, build trust, and create real conversations.\n\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thekunalpuri", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/740e9a422d9032c9b4ac7fd1f5a56c7fce81ce02.jpg" }, { "user_id": 275990, "full_name": "Michael Ning", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder and CTO @ Smobi (YC S23), a business for sale marketplace with verified buyer and listing data.\n\nFormerly Dover (YC S19)\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mning1598", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3a4ea26d5c55edcd9053b9cb13537a889dbc4576.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93769, "title": "Smobi - Business Texting Reimagined.", "tagline": "We help businesses 5x their engagement with interactive & conversational texts over RCS.", "body": "Hey everyone, I’m [Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1/) - founder of Smobi 👋\n\n# **📖 TLDR**\n\nSmobi is the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We **help businesses send rich, personalized texts** that build trust, drive engagement, and create real conversations.\n\nIf SMS messaging is part of your strategy, we’d love to show you how you can do more!\n\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n# **🎬 Our Launch Video:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJkl6m7RxgI\n\n# **‼️ Why This Matters**\n\nModern customer engagement is broken. Despite the abundance of messaging channels - email, SMS, WhatsApp, in-app notifications, and voice - most brand communications feel impersonal, transactional, and spammy. **Consumers are overwhelmed with noise**:\n\n* 82% of consumers received a spam text in the past week\n* 70% of consumers will penalize a business for a poor communication experience\n* 35% of consumers are annoyed by impersonalized and irrelevant content\n\nMessages go unread. Calls go unanswered. Engagement is at an all time low. The problem is clear, all of us have felt it.\n\n# **🛠 Our Solution**\n\nRCS addresses these issues with verified, branded, and interactive messages and it is finally here in the US. However most businesses don’t know it exists, and the few that do are still figuring out how to use it.\n\n**Smobi changes that**. We know exactly how to unlock RCS to drive real value.\n\nWith Smobi, you can:\n\n* 👷 Create complex AI-powered conversational flows in minutes\n* 🚀 Launch them via API or campaign\n* 📊 Analyze every tap, interaction, and read\n\nWe also handle the strict carrier vetting and compliance, so you don’t have to.\n\n**The results speak for themselves**:\n\n* ⚡ On average, 5 - 10x the engagement vs SMS\n* 🎯 4x higher CTR than SMS\n* 💳 Up to 3x increase in purchase intent\n\n# **🙏 Join Us**\n\nWe’re already helping innovative businesses in industries such as healthcare, entertainment, and fintech, leverage RCS to provide the most unique experiences for their customers. \n\nIf you’re interested in doing the same, let’s talk.\n\n\\\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93769&key=user_uploads/846621/98237455-fafd-4894-959d-7b955b4fde85)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OOP-smobi-business-texting-reimagined", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-09-11T16:36:35.923Z" }, { "id": 73135, "title": "Smobi - New age marketplace for businesses for sale", "tagline": "Bringing main-street business acquisitions to the 21st century", "body": "# Overview\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1/) and [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mning1598/) from [Smobi](https://smobimarket.com/)!\n\nSmobi is a marketplace that makes it **easy for buyers** to purchase brick & mortar small businesses. We do this by **verifying business listing data** and **managing deal-flow** on our platform.\n\nWebsite: [smobimarket.com](http://smobimarket.com)\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc69c6f56-e67a-45b9-904d-ee8c7ea7f4f0_3456x1812.png)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n* Buyers have to go through numerous listings to find quality businesses because most listings are **incomplete and misrepresented**\n* Business brokers and owners who are looking to sell, **waste their time** working with buyers who aren’t qualified to purchase their business\n* In the past 30 years, technology has only changed the business for sale market in **two** ways:\n * Listings have moved online instead of being in the local newspaper\n * Financial documents are emailed instead of being sent via mail\n* The baby boomer generation is retiring over the next decade, who owns **1\\.4 million businesses** that will close their doors unless they are sold to someone willing to buy them\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nFor those looking to buy, we utilize first and third party data to screen listings, so buyers are looking at the complete picture of the business that is for sale. Buyers can keep track of the state of each of the listings they are interested in and manage deal flow on the platform.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c68aba5-bbb6-4d50-9daf-4afef20fb191_3456x1822.png)\n\nAdditionally, we create NDA protected data rooms with more in-depth documents for each listing on our website. If the broker / seller of the business thinks you’re a good match for buying the business, we send the data room to the buyer.\n\nFor those looking to sell their business, we create a comprehensive profile for each buyer that is interested in a listing that the seller has created. Using data that the buyer has provided and our internal business logic, we classify how well of a match a person is for your business, ultimately saving time in your search for a buyer.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F465d0d7a-7313-4cb9-a80a-e6011294ea8c_3454x1828.png)\n\n### **Our Vision:**\n\nOur long term vision is to **digitize the entire acquisition process** for main-street businesses, ultimately making small business ownership attainable for everyone.\n\n### **Who Are We?**\n\nHi everyone, we are Kunal and Michael, and we are building Smobi. Our mission is to make small business ownership attainable by everyone.\n\nKunal formerly worked in Amazon Advertising, where he built several notification delivery channels that supported 10B+ communications annually. Kunal spent over 6 months in 2022 looking to purchase multiple SMBs and found the process of finding and purchasing a business to be extremely complex, especially for a first time buyer.\n\nBefore Smobi, Michael worked at another YC startup, Dover, as an early engineer where he worked on growth initiatives and building AI products.\n\nKunal and Michael grew up together, have known each other for 10 years, and now both reside in NYC. Together, we are attempting to simplify the small business acquisition process for all parties involved.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73135&key=user_uploads/846621/2ed626b9-972e-4a72-84c0-fe19ecf48dee)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\nThank you for reading about Smobi! We welcome any feedback for our platform as we are just beginning!\n\n* **Sign up today**: Sign up and browse 700+ businesses for sale and get notified when businesses come up for sale tailored to your preferences.\n* **Join our newsletter**: Sign up for our [blog](https://smobi.com/blog) for guides on how to buy and sell SMBs!\n* **Give us your feedback**: Tell us more about what criteria and information you would want before purchasing a SMB\n* **Connect us**: Help us connect with SBA approved lenders, business brokers, people looking to purchase small businesses, and owners looking to sell their business", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1b-smobi-new-age-marketplace-for-businesses-for-sale", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:37:58.227Z" } ] }, { "id": 29323, "name": "Zaymo", "slug": "zaymo", "former_names": [ "Zaymo Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5f257204d98f9d544a5265e0aac1efeeae4f1f3.png", "website": "https://zaymo.com", "all_locations": "Lehi, UT, USA", "long_description": "Zaymo is a full-stack retention marketing agency for the largest brands on Shopify. We bring all your data in house, remove the guess work, and automate the busy work. 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Our interactive emails have brought in 27% more revenue than existing solutions._\n\n[**🧠**](https://emojipedia.org/brain) **no-brainer ask**: If you’re reading this, you can **gift a free trial with Zaymo.** We don’t offer free trials outside of this post. Intro a Shopify brand to [founders@zaymo.com](mailto:founders@zaymo.com) and you’re good to go :)\n\n### problem\n\n* **1 - 3% conversion rates** at best from e-commerce emails\n* However, e-commerce stores attribute **\\~20 - 30% of total revenue** to email marketing\n* Interactive emails work well, but cross-platform compliance means **implementation requires several hours of coding** for a single email\n\n### solution\n\nMarketers can build reliable interactive emails in minutes with Zaymo. Here’s an email that increases orders for subscription brands and improves retention.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/e8941b14-5a3b-4569-b423-c76a17cd1f83)\n\nZaymo supports the following:\n\n* In-email abandoned cart recovery\n* In-email one-click subscription upsell\n* In-email Campaigns\n* In-email Review collection\n* In-email Forms\n\nEventually, we’ll support hundreds of use cases.\n\n**Case study:** [**A/B test with Zaymo increases revenue by 27% for Gozney**](https://getzaymo.com/blog/gozney-case-study)\n\n### backstory\n\nAs a PM, Co-founder [Santi](https://linkedin.com/in/gomezpaz) led Turing.com to adopt interactive emails after proving out a 3x conversion rate boost in A/B tests. After unsuccessfully searching for 3rd-party tools, his team built the functionality into their internal tool.\n\nSanti knew in-email interactivity should be more accessible to marketers, and Zaymo was born.\n\n### ask\n\nIf you’re reading this, you can **gift a free trial with Zaymo.** We don’t offer free trials outside of this. Just intro a Shopify brand to [founders@zaymo.com](mailto:founders@zaymo.com) and you’re good to go :)\n\n### additional examples\n\nAbandoned cart recovery\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/9321eac7-7585-4376-a089-2b0fbc627217)\n\nReviews\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/612e7605-7ef5-4673-9989-d1debfaeeb68)\n\nEmail builder\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/3b2e6c72-b81b-453d-a6a1-fd94b8201e0b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KQa-zaymo-shop-directly-inside-emails", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-02-19T19:09:25.446Z" } ] }, { "id": 29353, "name": "Resonance", "slug": "resonance", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f32584f82882e696b3984dfcf4bd700cce69fd5f.png", "website": "https://www.useresonance.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Resonance hyper-personalizes MarTech campaign content and automatically refreshes and stores high performing content for re-use.", "one_liner": "Self-improving content bank for marketing", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1709332105, "tags": [ "Reinforcement Learning", "SaaS", "Subscriptions", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/resonance", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/resonance.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/99332802/admin/feed/posts/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f32584f82882e696b3984dfcf4bd700cce69fd5f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 570574, "full_name": "Jonathan Ou", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jonathan is the CEO of Resonance. 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Companies use Resonance as a one-stop shop for campaign creation, intelligent experimentation/prioritization, analytics, and impression management to boost net revenue retention following user onboarding._ [_Schedule a demo_](https://calendly.com/jonathantou/quick-chat) or [_get in contact_](https://www.useresonance.com/contact).\n\n> **The Team:**\n\nI used to work as a SWE at Dropbox, DoorDash, and Microsoft. In particular, I helped build a similar platform to Resonance at Dropbox that generated $100 million ARR. I wanted to start Resonance because 1) I felt there were many ways to improve that particular tool and 2) I wanted to bring that tool to other companies that need it but don’t have the bandwidth to build it themselves.\n\n> **The Problem:**\n\nFor companies that depend on product-led growth (primarily consumer/SMB/startup-centric companies), their website remains their most valuable marketing channel. Post-user onboarding, these companies rely on in-product messaging to drive feature adoption so they can retain users.\n\nUnfortunately, this sort of strategy only works at scale, and there are many challenges in doing so. Below are some non-trivial functionalities that modern companies require to launch effective campaigns with velocity:\n\n1. Code-based and no-code workflows for launching campaigns\n2. Campaign performance analytics\n3. Intelligent campaign targeting and experimentation\n4. Sophisticated campaign impression management\n5. UX flexibility (i.e. messaging should not be limited just to overlays)\n\nSolving this problem is crucial, as millions in ARR is left on the table if companies cannot properly scale their in-product feature discovery/awareness/education. 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If you are a product-led company, shipping a lot of features, or are using something like Intercom or Pendo, I’d love to set up some time here to chat about improving your user retention. I’m familiar with existing tools and I believe I can do a much better job.\n2. If not, I’d appreciate an intro to anyone in your network who works in a senior role within growth or product if possible.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZd-resonance-optimally-upsell-users-within-your-product", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2024-03-06T01:22:47.987Z" } ] }, { "id": 29407, "name": "JustAI", "slug": "justai", "former_names": [ "Choice", "Choice AI", "just words", "Just Words" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/166536f94d496e2b50084b3b8edf8b6d9e29040b.png", "website": "https://getjust.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Always-on AI agents for 1-1 personalization at scale", "one_liner": "Agentic Marketing Platform", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1704840202, "tags": [ "Reinforcement Learning", "Workflow Automation", "Personalization", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? 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We are on a mission to rethink growth by turning content into conversations. Our core product allows companies to auto-refresh content on growth channels like emails using reinforcement learning, artificial intelligence, and causal inferences. Companies have 10X their speed of experimentation, and have seen stat sig engagement lift with our technology. \n\n```\n❌ the problem\n```\n\n1\\. Traditional A/B testing is slow. It can take 3-6 months to run one test because of organizational decision-making and lack of ML infrastructure. \n\n2\\. Content and copy selection is based on vibes. \n\n3\\. Prioritization of the biggest opportunities is decided by the loudest voice in the room. \n\n```\n✨ our solution\n```\n\n1\\. Enrich CRM with ML powered personalization \n\n2\\. Auto-refresh content on the fly. Auto-tune underperforming content with newly generated dynamic content in real time\n\n3\\. Use insights from infinite testing to predict the next best action.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77393&key=user_uploads/1381391/30b40cc4-6a73-4e12-9a09-5cbba4930fb3)\n\n```\n🙏 asks\n```\n\n1\\. Check out [justwords.ai](http://justwords.ai) and book a demo for your use case (email, sms, push, landing page titles).\n\n2\\. Connect us to your growth & marketing teams. Book a [30 min slot](https://calendly.com/just-words) with us or drop us an email at [founders@justwords.ai.](mailto:founders@justwords.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K8H-just-words-scale-hyper-personalized-messaging-with-ai", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2024-01-10T20:48:09.601Z" } ] }, { "id": 29571, "name": "Apten", "slug": "apten", "former_names": [ "Attent" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba5782492516410e226be3162e29ac3095f17be.png", "website": "https://www.apten.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Apten is an omni-channel AI agent that engages and nurtures leads across text, call, email, and webchat. \r\n\r\nWe help enterprises in consumer services convert more leads.", "one_liner": "Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1715787443, "tags": [ "Sales", "Marketing", "SMS", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/apten", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/apten.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/apten", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Apten_AI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Apten/61552046652434/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba5782492516410e226be3162e29ac3095f17be.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1547400, "full_name": "Daniel Ho", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Daniel is the Co-founder & CEO @ Apten. 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Apten can also dynamically transfer to specific numbers depending on\n* **Reliability:** setup custom guardrails that automatically detect non-compliant messages and proactively fix them before they’re sent to the lead\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re an enterprise that:\n\n* Falls in a consumer services industry (home services, financial services, insurance, education, healthcare, auto, law, etc)\n* Generates a high volume of leads (5k+ leads / mo)\n* Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences) + a sales team/call center to engage leads over the phone\n\nWe’d love to chat - you can find us at http://apten.ai.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ogz-apten-omni-channel-ai-agents-for-b2c-sales-marketing", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-10-27T15:16:24.244Z" }, { "id": 91362, "title": "Apten: Omni-channel AI Agents for Sales and Marketing", "tagline": "Engage and nurture leads across text, call, and email", "body": "TLDR: Apten is an **omni-channel AI agent** that engages and nurtures leads across **text, call, and email.**\n\nToday, Apten automates sales and marketing conversations across hundreds of thousands of leads.\n\nIt responds at any time, automatically follows up with personalized messages, and **dynamically switches between channels** to meet leads where they want to be met.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EX6BxpnAVQ\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, email/sms marketing automation systems to convert new leads.\n\nThese systems fall short because:\n\n* Human teams are required to scale up sales operations\n* SMS/email automations are typically one-way, static sequences\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nBuilt for enterprise, Apten comes with:\n\n* **Omni-channel capabilities**: set up a single conversational flow that works across SMS, voice, and email\n * Apten maintains unified memory across SMS, voice, and email (just like a human does) to personalize conversations at scale\n * It also processes existing data/context about leads from your CRM to nurture leads with relevant follow-ups\n* **AI tools:** Give Apten an API, and it will take actions with your systems (scheduling, dialers, quote APIs, etc)\n* **Human in the loop:** Handles transfers to your human team at any time (cold or warm)\n* **Reliability:** includes a native guardrail system that automatically detects non-compliant messages and proactively fixes them before they’re even sent out\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Generates a high volume of leads (2k+ leads / mo)\n* Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences)\n* Is scaling up a sales team\n\nWe’d love to chat with you - you can find us at http://apten.ai.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nla-apten-omni-channel-ai-agents-for-sales-and-marketing", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2025-06-17T13:40:44.819Z" }, { "id": 87585, "title": "Apten - AI SMS + voice agents to convert leads", "tagline": "An AI agent that texts & calls in the same way as a human", "body": "**TLDR:** We help B2C companies automate sales and marketing with custom AI SMS and voice agents. Apten handles inbound/outbound calls + texts 24/7, automatically follows up at the right time, and syncs with your knowledge base/systems.\n\nHey everyone - we’re Daniel and Roshan, the founders of Apten :)\n\nOver the last 8 months since launching, we’ve helped companies engage tens of thousands of new leads each month.\n\nToday, Apten becomes an AI agent that can both text and call in the exact same way a human does.\n\n\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, and automated text systems to convert new leads.\n\nFollow-ups are not personalized or are manually done by humans, and leads do not get immediate responses 24/7.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nApten is an AI agent that:\n\n* Handles inbound/outbound texts + calls, 24/7\n* Can switch from SMS to voice (and vice versa) at any time in the conversation\n* Guides leads down customizable conversational flows\n* Takes actions with your systems (e.g. pull in quote premiums from an insurance company’s API)\n* Syncs with your knowledge base to pull in relevant info at any time\n\nWhite glove onboarding/support included for every customer!\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Generates a high volume of leads\n* Uses SMS or phone calls to engage/follow-up w/ leads\n* Wants to introduce AI into their sales and marketing process :)\n\nYou can find us at [http://apten.ai.](http://apten.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mmf-apten-ai-sms-voice-agents-to-convert-leads", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-02-11T18:52:47.642Z" }, { "id": 81132, "title": "Apten 💬📲 - AI SMS agents", "tagline": "Apten helps businesses automate communication with customers and leads over SMS text", "body": "**TLDR:** We help B2C businesses automate sales, marketing, and customer service through SMS text. Customize Apten, and it’ll **proactively reach out, respond at any time, and never forget to follow up.**\n\nHey everyone - we’re [Daniel](https://linkedin.com/in/danielho799) & [Roshan](https://linkedin.com/in/roshan-kumaraswamy), the founders of [Apten](https://www.apten.ai/)! 👋 \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81132&key=user_uploads/1547400/595aa8ba-e1da-4e01-b095-a4182f7b1836)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nBusinesses currently rely on humans or traditional SMS automation (drip texting) to qualify and nurture leads. This applies to both inbound leads (e.g., ad -> website -> fills out contact/quote form and leaves phone number) and the re-engagement of existing leads in a CRM. \n\nExample industries where this happens: real estate, insurance, home services\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nAn AI SMS assistant that qualifies and nurtures leads in a **personable way** while responding 24/7 and automatically following up. \n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMYEZ4jYHE**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMYEZ4jYHE)\n\nCustomize:\n\n* Apten’s knowledge (FAQs, info about your business, specific instructions/rules)\n* Specific conversation flows and follow-up schedules for **different types of leads**\n\nApten won’t just chat - it’ll **take actions** in a way a human would to help your business by proactively:\n\n* Categorizing/tagging leads based on the conversation\n* Creating notifications based on conditions you define\n* Determining the appropriate time to follow-up based on a lead's response\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81132&key=user_uploads/1547400/6db38255-433a-4ddb-9826-20ffd76ebd45)\n\nWe’ll provide white-glove onboarding and support the whole way! \n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Collects phone numbers from leads\n* Employs virtual assistants or a contact center\n* Leverages drip texting campaigns or other SMS automation\n\nWe’d love to [talk to you!](https://calendly.com/daniel-attent/20min)\n\nYou can also email us at [founders@apten.ai](mailto:founders@apten.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L6a-apten-ai-sms-agents", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-05-28T14:21:44.061Z" } ] }, { "id": 29693, "name": "Gauge", "slug": "gauge", "former_names": [ "Bridge" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a1b74adcd6bfd4193d3eb1b786fb19988505e78.png", "website": "https://withgauge.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Agents are leading the next wave of growth for companies like Supabase, Openrouter, Resend, PostHog, Braintrust, and more.\r\n\r\nUnlike chat experiences, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor are now implementing products autonomously. 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What do you want a marketing agent to do for you that it can’t do today?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98751&key=user_uploads/323364/04c1c5f3-b97f-4ab7-b69e-e463ac8e7187)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pgl-gauge-your-marketing-agent-for-organic-paid-and-ai-search", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2026-03-12T18:10:29.538Z" }, { "id": 90559, "title": "Gauge - Show up in more AI answers", "tagline": "💡 Gauge helps your company show up in more AI answers", "body": "**Gauge helps your company show up more in AI answers.**\n\n### ⚠️ Why should you care?\n\n* [Google searches are falling for the first time ever](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-threat-to-google-just-got-real-8280b4ee?utm_source=chatgpt.com) ([and Google itself is moving to AI answers](https://www.theverge.com/news/655930/google-q1-2025-earnings))\n* [Gartner predicts AI chatbots will capture 25% of search volume by next year](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-19-gartner-predicts-search-engine-volume-will-drop-25-percent-by-2026-due-to-ai-chatbots-and-other-virtual-agents)\n\nWith traffic leaving search, traditional SEO is dying. Our customers are seeing inbound AI traffic **double every quarter**.\n\n### 💡How do we help?\n\nWe measure how often you and your competitors are referenced by AI, and derive insights from changes in the data over time.\n\nLet’s take a look at how this works:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXcshLuQD4\n\nWe came across this problem through an Open Source Day hosted by YC. There, we heard from a huge range of speakers, including Vercel, Elastic, Resend, and Airbyte. A consistent theme across every speaker was the new inbound they were seeing from ChatGPT.\n\nWe decided to run an experiment: [productrank.ai](http://productrank.ai).\n\n[productrank.ai](http://productrank.ai) lets you search for a topic, and see how the top models rank them. [Check it out here!](https://productrank.ai)\n\nIn just a few weeks, we reached the front page of HN, saw over 40,000 organic users, and found our first design partners.\n\nOur early customers include LendingTree, ChartHop, Resend, Helius, Standard Metrics, and more. If you’re curious in how often AI mentions your brand, [grab 15 minutes here and we’ll show you.](https://cal.com/caelean/15)\n\n### **❓Asks**\n\n* Play around with [**productrank.ai**](http://productrank.ai)!\n* Curious how often AI mentions your brand? [**Grab 15 min here!**](https://cal.com/caelean/15)\n* Know any marketers or SEO specialists? We’d love an intro! [**Send me their name here**](mailto:caelean@withgauge.com)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90559&key=user_uploads/323364/0b94db77-ab63-4470-afb0-6b73c6074965)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NYd-gauge-show-up-in-more-ai-answers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-05-20T17:25:21.072Z" } ] }, { "id": 29830, "name": "Typa", "slug": "typa", "former_names": [ "Weavel", "Typa - by Weavel" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9922edca2847f43aae8a7cd38ca5819ed482590a.png", "website": "https://typa.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We help businesses capture what resonates, make it repeatable, and turn attention into lasting momentum. With Typa, you can build a scalable inbound growth engine with content that compounds.\r\n\r\nWe make this possible through three pillars:\r\n\r\n1. A tone of voice that always sounds like you. Typa learns your style, cadence, and perspective so every piece of content reflects your authentic voice.\r\n\r\n2. A knowledge base that updates in real time. Your digital clone continuously absorbs everything you say and create, ensuring your content always reflects your latest thinking.\r\n\r\n3. A personal ghostwriter that’s always just a call away. 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Weavel)", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyunjie/", "x_url": "https://x.com/hyunjiejung", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/35ae2dca90ce976d5c8b6f1192f81c2508a9b2c6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1567093, "full_name": "Junyoung Park", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jun is co-founder of Weavel. Jun previously worked as researcher at NLP-focused AI lab and has experience in building various applications with LLM. Prior to that, Jun studied computer science & engineering at Seoul National University.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-park314/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/86523643442bce39c00d3d15cef503596ae4d2b9.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83213, "title": "Weavel - Ape 🐒 Your first AI Prompt Engineer", "tagline": "Get fast (7 hours → 10 minutes🔻) & efficient (70% → 93%🔺)", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/8f68d0d9-5e48-46ee-852f-a6a841232f11)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/d1d98093-7792-4954-bd9d-a588f0658a53)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/85f4ffe2-bf2f-4cb2-966c-2501c2b4fbe2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/9cf399d9-e818-4bfb-9da4-42ac9ed3736f)\n\n# **☕️ TL;DR**\n\n* **Ape** is the ultimate **AI prompt engineer** 🐒, designed to optimize your prompts by reducing cost and latency while increasing performance.\n* Ape achieves an **impressive 94.5%** on the GSM8K benchmark, surpassing Vanilla (54.5%), CoT (87.5%) and DSPy (90.0%).\n* **Easy to set up evaluation**: Ape can auto-generate evaluation code and use LLMs as a judge, or you can use your own eval metrics.\n* Get set up in less than 15 minutes and see the difference.\n * [Schedule a meeting](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) to discover more. Let's chat! 🙂\n\n# **🔒 Problem**\n\nYou’re an engineer of an LLM app, trying to get the prompts just right. Every time you type something in, the output changes—so you tweak a word here and there, and it changes again. Sometimes the outputs looks better, sometimes not. But you’re never sure. Hours go by, all spent on prompt engineering.\n\nGetting the outputs you want can feel like an endless game of trial and error. And you’re not alone. Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked to over 100 YC companies, and a lot of them are facing the same challenges:\n\n* **Measuring output quality is hard** (You’re heavily relying on manual evaluations at the moment.)\n* **Prompt engineering does not work as you want** (You hate spending 5-7 hours a day searching for that one great prompt.)\n\n# **🔑 Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/ddf5778d-78d0-4ff2-a4aa-b84624aeebc0)\n\nWe solve the problem with one simple formula:\n\n```\ngood input + right guidance = better prompts\n```\n\nToday, we launch Ape, your first **AI Prompt Engineer**. Inspired by DSPy, Reflexion, Expel and other research papers, Ape iteratively improves your prompts. Here’s how Ape works:\n\n1️⃣ Log your inputs and outputs to Weavel (with a single line of code!)\n\n2️⃣ Let Ape filter the logs into datasets.\n\n3️⃣ Ape then generates evaluation code and uses LLMs as judges for complex tasks.\n\n4️⃣ \u001dAs more production data is added, Ape continues refining and improving prompt performance.\n\n### **How to use**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/0c1eeedd-ac08-40e7-ad35-acff6766c2c1)\n\n**Create a Dataset**\n\nChange just one line of code to start logging LLM calls with the Weavel Python SDK. The SDK supports sync/async OpenAI chat completions and OpenAI structured outputs.\n\nYou can also import existing data or manually create a dataset.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/bdfc79bd-edeb-4dbf-8c9b-7d432007fa3a)\n\n**Create a Prompt**\n\nWrite a prompt that corresponds to your dataset. You can add an existing prompt as the base version, or if you prefer, create a blank prompt and provide a brief description for Ape to create a prompt from scratch.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/1bfacea3-c2d9-4ac8-90d7-9a6d3e37fd60)\n\n**Optimize Prompts**\n\nTo optimize your prompt using Ape, fill in the necessary information (e.g. JSON schema as you want) and then run the optimization process. An enhanced version of your prompt will be created and available soon.\n\nTa-da! It’s that easy. Ape outperforms with a remarkable 94.5% score on the GSM8K benchmark, surpassing Vanilla (54.5%), CoT (87.5%) and DSPy (90.0%). With Ape, you can optimize the prompt engineering process, saving tons of time and cost while increasing performance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/2002273/45b5ec84-f89d-4d57-9e20-ad349f521c97)\n\nApe is **open source**. [Check out our repository on GitHub.](https://github.com/weavel-ai/Ape) (We’d appreciate a star 🌟)\n\n# **🚀 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/201595e0-e85e-4931-81aa-a9947754b1b4)\n\nFrom left to right: [**Jun**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-park314/), [**Andrew**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sounhochung/), and [**HyunJie**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyunjiejung/) — together we’re building Weavel.\n\n**Andrew** and **Jun** built 10+ LLM-based products, open-sourced a prompt engineering platform, and co-authored a paper at a NeurIPS workshop last year. **HyunJie** worked on data analytics and optimization at Chartmetric and DevRev, and focused on growth marketing at Liner.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n* Try Ape! [Schedule](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) a walkthrough with the Weavel team or email [hyunjie@weavel.ai](mailto:hyunjie@weavel.ai).\n* Share thoughts on our [Discord](https://weavel.ai/discord) or DM us on [Twitter](https://x.com/weaveldotai).\n* If you know anyone struggling with prompt engineering or evaluations for LLM apps, connect them with us!\n * Copy & paste blurb: A YC company named Weavel has developed an AI prompt engineer (Ape in short) which continuously improves your prompts. It’ll save tons of time for you. You can grab a time [here](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) for a demo from the founders.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/2002273/d937ab74-d39f-44cb-82f8-8454bf017ed1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Le9-weavel-ape-your-first-ai-prompt-engineer", "votes": 111, "created_at": "2024-08-20T14:56:52.551Z" } ] }, { "id": 29972, "name": "Affil.ai", "slug": "affil-ai", "former_names": [ "Awardington", "Affil" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/afaac0ba9fea3d823a798e81e6b89e28c34dbd0e.png", "website": "https://affil.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build AI compliance for external marketing. 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[Affil](https://affil.ai/) monitors affiliate content, enabling companies to expand marketing efforts and maximize revenue.\n\n_What is financial affiliate marketing?_ When you see content by The Points Guy or Forbes that talks about credit cards, checking accounts, etc, they get a kickback from the financial brand for anyone who successfully applies for the product.\n\n### ⚠️ The Problem\n\nFinancial institutions (e.g., Capital One) or consumer fintech companies (e.g., Acorns) want to grow their affiliate programs but are completely blocked by compliance barriers. However, it’s expensive and time-intensive to do manual affiliate compliance & management.\n\nOn the flip side, affiliates are also dissatisfied with these financial affiliate programs. The majority have to work with disorganized & outdated middlemen hired by financial brands who take a significant cut of payouts.\n\n### 🛠️ The Solution\n\nOur AI compliance software monitors affiliate content so that financial companies know exactly what’s being said about them so that they can expand their marketing efforts:\n\n* Track thousands of affiliate pages \n* Quickly identify compliance violations without needing human intervention\n* Create support tickets for every issue, so affiliates & brands can keep track of errors\n\nWe’re also improving the affiliate experience:\n\n* Offer higher payouts for conversions (since we have a lower cost structure)\n* Provide a beautiful user experience & working APIs\n* Proactively identify compliance risks & offer automated suggestions to minimize risk\n\nFor example (see below), the AMEX Gold Card underwent significant changes on July 27, 2024, but outdated affiliate content still exists on the internet (that’s not good). We caught this issue that both AMEX and Bankrate missed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83537&key=user_uploads/723194/ba92939d-54dd-48e3-96e2-92f6fd687240)\n\nThe big vision is to become the affiliate network that powers all financial institutions out there.\n\n### 🧍‍♂️Our Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83537&key=user_uploads/723194/876b50d9-2679-48a5-a7ae-e4623f56d47a)\n\n[Vivek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-olumbe/) & [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnta2000/) first met at Penn and cofounded the first personal finance nonprofit at 8 different colleges, accumulating 2.5k+ users and $25k+ in funding. Vivek is a full stack developer who worked for several startups shipping new products; John was previously in banking, strategy, and growth roles.\n\nAfter managing affiliate relationships in a prior role & being involved with credit cards for years (fun fact: he has 30 cards), John realized the financial affiliate marketing space was broken. \n\n### 🤝 Our Ask\n\n* **Leads:** Know anyone at a consumer finance company or publishers/content creators that write about credit cards/use affiliate links? We’d love an intro! \n* **Banking:** We are having particular struggles getting in contact with some of the key stakeholders at some of the major banks (think Chase, Wells Fargo, USAA…), so if you can make any warm intros to folks on the consumer banking side, I’ll buy you dinner!\n\nContact: founders@affil.ai", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LjN-affil-ai-compliance-for-financial-affiliate-marketing", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2024-08-28T14:35:12.697Z" }, { "id": 83176, "title": "Affil - AI Affiliate Marketer 🤝", "tagline": "Launch & scale affiliate programs with ease", "body": "**TLDR;** Our AI Affiliate Marketer helps companies launch & scale affiliate programs at a fraction of the cost.\n\n**⛔️ The Problem**\n\nRunning a successful affiliate program is hard. Some common challenges brands face:\n\n1. Competing with thousands of other brands on networks like Impact, CJ, or Awin\n2. Reaching out to (many) content creators\n3. Vetting affiliates to avoid spam and fraud\n4. Ensuring affiliates follow brand guidelines, especially in regulated industries like financial services\n5. Managing a growing number of affiliate relationships\n\nThese inefficiencies lead to poor experiences for content creators, who can struggle to monetize their work or feel ignored by brands. Currently, the most common solution is to hire an agency or full-time staff, but that’s expensive.\n\n**🛠️ The Solution**\n\nOur AI-powered affiliate marketer can integrate into any stage of a company’s affiliate marketing journey:\n\n* Identify relevant content creators\n* Handle affiliate outreach, contracting, & onboarding \n* Monitor affiliate content to ensure it meets brand & compliance guidelines\n* Manage affiliate communications\n\n \n\n\n\nWe merge compliance & auditing directly into the affiliate marketing lifecycle:\n\n\n\nDon’t have an affiliate program set up yet? No worries—we’ll get that up and running for you. \n\nDo you have an affiliate program set up in-house or on Impact, CJ, Awin, or elsewhere? We can build on top of them to help grow your program (or we’ll help you migrate your existing program to our network).\n\n**🤝 Our Ask**\n\n* **Demo:** [Book a chat](https://calendly.com/john-affil/30min) & see if we can help you with your affiliate program needs.\n* **Leads:** Know anyone with an affiliate program? Put us in touch!\n* **Banking:** Have connections at major banks like Chase, Citi, or BOFA? We’re aiming to become a financial affiliate network and need help reaching key stakeholders.\n\nBlurb: Affil is building an AI affiliate marketer that can help you launch & scale your affiliate program, with compliance and monitoring built in. Contact [john@affil.ai](https://john@affil.ai) to see a demo from the founders.\n\n**🧍‍♂️Our Team**\n\nHi! We’re [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnta2000/) & [Vivek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-olumbe/)— we cofounded a nonprofit together at Penn (2.5k+ members). Vivek is a full-stack developer who worked for several startups shipping new products; John was in strategy, banking, and growth roles and uncovered the outdated affiliate marketing space in his previous position.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83176&key=user_uploads/723194/c67620a4-5a7a-44fd-b2ec-aa8cd73db332)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LdY-affil-ai-affiliate-marketer", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2024-08-19T18:05:20.181Z" } ] }, { "id": 30033, "name": "Openbenchmarks", "slug": "openbenchmarks", "former_names": [ "OpenFunnel" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba2fe192898aad8d25d7bcb8cef6e121485b633.png", "website": "https://openbenchmarks.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Openbenchmarks runs open, independent benchmarks across APIs, vendors and tools. \r\nHelping teams fairly evaluate vendors.\r\n\r\nWe offer private benchmarking & analytics tools to help you measure your product against competitors, see exactly where you fall short, and fix it.", "one_liner": "We help humans & agents pick tools via Independent Benchmarks", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1728361776, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "SEO", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/openbenchmarks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/openbenchmarks.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openbenchmarks", "x_url": "https://x.com/openbenchmarks", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/openbenchmarks-labs", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba2fe192898aad8d25d7bcb8cef6e121485b633.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a9298d52b6b229a08b076901ebabad1e045ac611.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/41126eaa87edec592e55dbaffc6095cc7243ca40.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 858828, "full_name": "Fenil Suchak", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder at Openbenchmarks - 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No buying signals. No understanding of pain. Plus, data for growing markets aren't even present in these databases.\n\nOne-time snapshots. No timing. No triggers when pain surfaces. Your competitors have the same database. Everyone's spamming the same channels.\n\nYou need 24×7 searches capturing insights as they happen - not after they're stale.\n\nTraditional Intent data is a blackbox and unreliable.\n\nOnly Inbound dependence is a reactive approach and prospects are already evaluating competitors by that time.\n\nOpenFunnel automates finding unique, timely insights that get you \"ins.\"\n\nWe unlock net new pipeline across GTM functions in Marketing, RevOps, SDRs, and BDRs that were unreachable before.\n\n### **ENTER OPENFUNNEL:**\n\nOpenFunnel is your search engine for inferred pain: you describe the activities that reveal potential pain-points, we find the companies with those pain points, identify the right people, and produce outreach-ready messaging.\n\n**Find companies WHERE Activity happening = \\[abc\\] AND TimeRange = \\[m..n months\\]**\n\nSome examples that you can search for:\n\n* Companies implementing usage-based billing in the past 3-6 months - then monitor daily for new ones\n* Companies moving from OpenAI to self-hosted Llama in the last 2 months - then track all ongoing migrations\n* Companies that are looking to build out their government facing sales motions - then surface all such build outs.\n* B2C fintechs attending RSAC Conference in Las Vegas\n\nLive search agents continuously monitor time-based activities and changes across your ICP that matter to your GTM.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94200&key=user_uploads/858828/07397e96-6b5e-4d21-a265-2961783af3bf)\n\n### **LIFE OF CUSTOMERS after Openfunnel:**\n\nGTM teams setup custom insights they want to search and monitor for, in natural language.\n\nOpenFunnel auto-surfaces new and existing accounts with deep actionable insights and sync to CRM, autonomously.\n\nWe work with the fastest-moving companies who understand the value of acting quick on insights - including Central, Mintlify, Everest Systems, Fini, and Numi.\n\nOur self-serve platform has 1000+ users.\n\n### **Why We're Building ThiS:**\n\nDuring F24 batch, we built GTM tools for developer-focused companies with zero knowledge of the GTM toolkit and stack.\n\nCustomers loved our first-principles approach - we built what we'd actually want: relevant outreach with real context at the right time.\n\nThen we discovered existing that GTM tools are built on flawed, pre-LLM assumptions and this generalizes across industries.\n\nGTM is timing, insights, and reasoning - exactly what LLMs excel at. As software shifts to agent-first, it becomes a search and discovery problem.\n\nTraditional indexing lacks the temporal + contextual depth for GTM.\n\nSo, we're building a time-aware search engine for GTM.\n\n### **🦄 COME Say hi:**\n\nAditya & Fenil were dorm mates at BITS Pilani & friends for 8 years.\n\nAditya built AI Agents at scale at Appfolio and Fenil built cloud-scale vector databases at Oracle.\n\nWe've talked to 200+ GTM teams across sizes, industries, and AI adoption levels.\n\nWe’ve embedded these insights deep into OpenFunnel.\n\nWe are in SF at 128 Kings St. next to Oracle Park. Need help with anything GTM? Come say hi.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94200&key=user_uploads/858828/074961ff-899f-4306-a87e-4498d6aa2dea)\n\n### **ASK:**\n\nJoin a 1000+ users already using pain-first search to discover their prospects!\n\nGet started for free at - [app.openfunnel.dev](http://app.openfunnel.dev) !\n\nWe also have a YC deal loved by customers, Book a time for a personalized walkthrough - https://deals.ycombinator.com/deals/2816", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OVM-openfunnel-search-engine-for-gtm", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2025-09-29T22:29:20.375Z" }, { "id": 85119, "title": "OpenFunnel - GTM Agents for Developer Tools", "tagline": "Accelerate your Go-To-Market with a team of AI Agents.", "body": "We are [Fenil](https://linkedin.com/in/fenilsuchak) & [Aditya](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityalahiri/) from [OpenFunnel](https://openfunnel.dev/), and we're building GTM Agents for Developer Tooling companies. Previously, we built 23ai Cloud DB at Oracle and Leasing AI Agents in PropTech. Before that, we were dorm mates during our undergrad.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nRunning GTM at a Developer Tooling company is challenging. It involves engaging the developer community, driving adoption, finding qualified leads that match your ideal customer profile (ICP), and researching company initiatives to determine where your dev tool fits in. These tasks require the skills of a salesperson, a developer, and a marketing expert.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nOur Team of GTM Agents helps with this. We use our AI Agents that are fine-tuned to your industry, ICP, and products to support your entire GTM strategy.\n\nOur Enterprise Sales Research Agent provides Team Graphs & Developer Champions, including project details, company initiatives, and developer journeys. Weaviate is using this to close deals with Fortune 50 Enterprise Accounts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85119&key=user_uploads/1631833/f50196df-9c57-4a8e-8be8-65c46da2d41d)\n\nFor fast-moving startups, our Sales Research Agent helps high-growth YC dev tool companies like Greptile find qualified leads that match their ICP and need their products.\n\nOur Marketing Agent monitors developer channels, helping our YC batchmates like Alex (Cursor for Xcode) understand their developer community and effectively engage with it.\n\n[A Demo](https://youtu.be/n8QMtShty88)\n\n**Let’s Get Started - Join Us!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85119&key=user_uploads/1631833/f25f0761-7832-4aed-8e48-ac507bdcaab0)\n\nAccelerate your GTM - [Set up a call with us.](https://cal.com/team/openfunnel/demo) Our Agents are ready to get to work for you!\n\n**Bonus**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85119&key=user_uploads/1631833/9bf1d2f3-cda7-4ac6-a926-981d6ea8b2ab)\n\nInterested in why we find GTM in Dev Tools exciting? [Read more here](https://openfunnel.dev/blog/how-why)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M8t-openfunnel-gtm-agents-for-developer-tools", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2024-10-29T19:45:23.390Z" } ] }, { "id": 30066, "name": "Unusual", "slug": "unusual", "former_names": [ "Aditto" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cd15b298040da78745561fe92b10fb7b1c25f4d5.png", "website": "https://unusual.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "AI agents are the newest audience brands need to speak to, but go-to-market teams don't have the tools to understand how they form opinions or make decisions.\r\n\r\nUnusual helps brands in the Fortune 100 and scale-ups like Change.org and Astronomer drive more sales and win more market share by shifting how AI models perceive their offerings.\r\n\r\nWe work closely with every brand to (1) identify the root cause of AI misperception, (2) align on marketing, sales, and product strategies that appeal to agents, and (3) build infrastructure and content that makes their strongest proof more legible to agents.\r\n\r\nOur methodology centers on applying black-box interpretability techniques to AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude to understand how they form opinions about a brand and its competitors. Seeing the *why* behind each opinion gives us the ability to create targeted interventions that change them.", "one_liner": "Market to AI agents", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1730767330, "tags": [ "Sales", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/unusual", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/unusual.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104397499/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cd15b298040da78745561fe92b10fb7b1c25f4d5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 317891, "full_name": "Will Jack", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Unusual helps you change AI's mind about your brand to get more leads. Previously founded Remedy, a healthcare startup. MIT alum.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/willjack", "x_url": "https://x.com/willwjack", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/adb5460d0b279b2f5fca5fbc009f6d75b1834d06.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1572046, "full_name": "Keller Maloney", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder @ Unusual. Previously growth @ Gatsby. 15,000 cold call club. All american water polo player @ Princeton.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/keller-maloney-130856187/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/KellerMaloney", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/18ed88c3c393ce0460417ded8015a43efa05870a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 85675, "title": "Founding Engineer - Full Stack", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/unusual/jobs/qJM5Zxd-founding-engineer-full-stack", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.30% - 1.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 94630, "title": "Agent Marketing Consultant", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/unusual/jobs/JhH2Fdo-agent-marketing-consultant", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$125K - $185K", "equity_range": "0.02% - 0.25%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94065, "title": "Unusual – AI Relations", "tagline": "Get more leads with PR campaigns targeted at ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and more", "body": "Unusual creates and suggests media engineered to improve how AI talks about your brand – driving you more leads. This is the first “AI Relations” tool – public relations for AI models.\n\n**The problem:**\n\nEvery day, your customers rely more on ChatGPT for their buying decisions. \n\nGetting tools like ChatGPT to send you leads is a lot more than GEO/AEO; it’s more like running a PR campaign – strategically building credibility and authority with models themselves.\n\n**The solution:**\n\nWe built a platform that helps you improve AI’s holistic picture of your brand – what we’re calling “AI Relations.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/EIkyCu3kTt4 \n\nWe break this into three components, all of which Unusual manages:\n\n1. Filling key knowledge gaps – publishing LLM-optimized content full of information LLMs are searching for, but don’t have: like a reference manual for your company. Check out ours here: https://llms.unusual.ai  \n2. Getting you on the map – flagging the 3rd party media sources LLMs look to in your industry.\n3. Nuanced reporting – analyzing how LLMs think about your company, and giving you extremely detailed reports on why they make the recommendations they do.\n\nUnusual also track AI crawls of your content, so you can measure when it’s getting picked up and referenced by LLMs, helping you track ROI.\n\n**Results:**\n\nQuality wins fast with AI systems – content with rich and needed information is quickly picked up and referenced.\n\nFor [Parley](https://parley.so), an early customer, Unusual identified a key gap in what Perplexity knew about the space of SOC2 compliant AI for law firms. It automatically published pages to fill the gaps ([Model Use, Data Flows, and Isolation by Firm](https://ai.parley.so/model-use-data-flows-firm-isolation), [Encryption, Access Controls, and Audit Logging](https://ai.parley.so/encryption-access-controls-audit-logging)) and within a month, those two pages were within the top 3 most important citations for the topic area.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94065&key=user_uploads/317891/2da445ae-819c-4443-b491-c094c14c1fe4)\n\n**Try it out!**\n\nEmail us for a demo: [founders@unusual.ai](mailto:founders@unusual.ai)\n\nTry it for free:[ app.unusual.ai/sign-up](http://app.unusual.ai/sign-up) \n\nOur website:[ unusual.ai](http://unusual.ai) \n\nOur own AI subdomain: [llms.unusual.ai](http://llms.unusual.ai) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OTB-unusual-ai-relations", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2025-09-23T16:30:36.000Z" }, { "id": 87418, "title": "Unusual - AI Generated Websites for Each Visitor", "tagline": "We’ve boosted conversions up to 4x. Get more from your SEO content, ads, 3rd party links, and Linkedin outreach", "body": "**TLDR:** Unusual personalizes your website for every visitor. Customers have boosted their leads by 4x from SEO/blogs, ads, 3rd party links, and even Linkedin outreach to individual prospects.\n\n**SEE FOR YOURSELF**\n\nOur website _normally_ looks like this: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87418&key=user_uploads/317891/c5f7735d-81e5-45ce-9571-756857e97a7b)\n\n**Now, click on** [**unusual.ai**](https://unusual.ai) 👀 … you can see how it adapts to you coming from [YCombinator.com](http://YCombinator.com).\n\n\n\nUnusual uses information about the visitor to tailor the copy on your website automatically. Just drop a script in your site, and you're good to go!\n\n**Automatic personalization from any source of traffic**\n\n* Unusual can serve a unique version of your site for every single ad, blog post, social media post, email and more. \n* If you highlight a particular feature of your product in a blog post, that feature will be prominently displayed on the page the users see.\n\n**Personalize your outbound sales**\n\n* Include a custom version of your site in emails to prospects.\n* Depending on who they are, their position at the company, the industry, etc…\n\n**Create one-off versions of your site in seconds**\n\n* Create new landing pages with a prompt\n\n**Create custom sites via API**\n\n* All of Unusual’s personalization features are available via API, so you can programmatically create variants of your website (think attaching a custom page to LinkedIn or Email outreach)\n\n**Want to try it out?**\n\n* It’s a two line of code integration, it works with every kind of website, and we’re happy to help you get set up.\n\n📧 [founders@unusual.ai](mailto:founders@unusual.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mjy-unusual-ai-generated-websites-for-each-visitor", "votes": 66, "created_at": "2025-02-04T22:19:28.840Z" }, { "id": 85552, "title": "Aditto: Launch search engine marketing with the click of a button", "tagline": "Generate and manage hundreds of ads and landing pages without hiring a marketer.", "body": "**TL;DR** Aditto lets you run search engine marketing without marketers. Every day, Aditto generates new search ads and custom landing pages based on search trends, and lets you launch them with the click of a button. Our first customer: 2x leads, ½ cost per conversion in week one.\n\n\n\n---\n\n### **The problem**\n\nSearch ads are a huge pain to set up and manage – and when founders hire marketers to do it for them, they often misunderstand their product and market and waste money on bad leads.\n\nRunning effective ad campaigns means either:\n\n1. Wasting precious time learning the \"dark arts\" of ad platforms\n2. Bleeding money on experiments while competing against marketing veterans\n3. Burning 10-30% of your ad budget on marketers who barely understand your product\n\n---\n\n### **Our insights**\n\n* Founders are the best marketers but lack the tools/know-how.\n* Marketers don’t understand your product, but they know a lot about the “dark arts” of running Google ads and landing page optimization.\n\n---\n\n### **The solution**\n\nAditto puts founders in the driver’s seat while automating the grunt work. Our first customer 2x’d their leads while halving CPA in the first week with Aditto.\n\nJust sign up for Google Ads, drop a script tag into your site, and you’re good to go.\n\n---\n\n### **The product**\n\n**Smart Search Ads 🔍**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85552&key=user_uploads/317891/d9e7742e-de72-4329-9481-64e217003c63)\n\n* Press one button to launch hundreds of “intelligent” search ads – no need for a whole marketing team.\n* Daily updates on new search trends and ad performance\n* Automatic optimization based on what's working\n\n**Dynamic Landing Pages 🎯**\n\n* Your website automatically adapts to each visitor's context\n* Live demo: Our website usually looks like this:\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdtY6LlxIo87wShNKFYzN2gV2VwZlwa0cE-pjLK-76wALh1G6QGwIUSgBp9SMddPyYPgkSGTuY-_lr6UYZZtGhbJCVhiSOAiVZZfRoH4ZOdRv2_uecOwWD9gkVTi6DGJXKDKiR0maGyyG153pIDh8Vs93oE?key=2Z5kuXksLecyVkABy6luuA)\n\nClick here ➡️ to see what happens when you visit from YC’s website 👀\n\n(disclaimer… this might not work if you have uBlock origin on)\n\n---\n\n### **Why it works**\n\n* Zero learning curve - no need to become an ads expert.\n* Personalization at scale without a giant marketing team.\n* Perfect for companies with multiple value props and customer profiles\n\n---\n\n---\n\n### **Want to join?**\n\nWe're looking for beta partners with \"Swiss Army Knife\" products — multiple value props, multiple customer profiles — especially enterprise and SaaS companies. \n\n📧 [**founders@aditto.co**](mailto:founders@aditto.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFs-aditto-launch-search-engine-marketing-with-the-click-of-a-button", "votes": 79, "created_at": "2024-11-13T21:44:56.659Z" } ] }, { "id": 30268, "name": "AthenaHQ", "slug": "athenahq", "former_names": [ "NewsPod", "Otter Health" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c559a82e8bccf756d0c26668df5ed8dc95c8bd00.png", "website": "https://www.athenahq.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Make sure your brand doesn’t get left behind as search shifts from traditional SEO to generative AI search.\r\n\r\nAthenaHQ is an AI SEO platform for GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), helping brands show up in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and more.\r\n\r\nAI search is expected to overtake traditional search within the next few years. 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Make sure your company doesn’t get left behind in the paradigm shift from traditional to generative search.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nIn the past, majority of website visits came from traditional Google Search. Now, sites are increasingly getting it from generative engines like ChatGPT. \n\nFrom our conversations, we found anecdotally that site traffic attributed to generative engines is increasing month-over-month, picking up in the past few months since the launch of ChatGPT Search in October 2024. **Traditional search engine volume is predicted to drop 25% by 2026, and 50% by 2028**, replaced by traffic originating from generative engines like ChatGPT.\n\n\n\n# \n\n# \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87626&key=user_uploads/556828/f040136e-62e0-4ac2-8ce4-f93fb3620c02)\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nAthenaHQ helps your brand adapt to the fast-changing world of generative engines with our monitoring solution and action center. We give you a 360 degree view of possible ways customers are discovering your brand and centralize actionables you can take in our action center. Our copilot Athena generates first drafts of actions you can take to improve your AI engine posture.\n\n# \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87626&key=user_uploads/556828/44929a94-b0df-4f41-a55a-19cf9914cae3)\n\n# **AthenaHQ Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87626&key=user_uploads/1639890/a716a3fc-e51d-4904-ab9d-79de859d9492)\n\n[Andrew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-yan-200/) (left) was formerly a product manager on Google Search’s information acquisition team and also worked on the generative media team on Deepmind, where he saw firsthand how brand management is changing in the AI age.\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanya0/) (right) has been at the forefront of consumer and AI since pre-ChatGPT, having donated to OpenAI in 2019 back when it was a nonprofit.\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nCurious what ChatGPT is saying about your brand? Want to track what queries you do well and how you’re trending?\n\n**Know any marketing friends who don’t want to miss out on this paradigm shift?** \n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/athena-hq) and feel free to email us at [andrew@athenahq.ai](https://mailto:andrew@athenahq.ai) or schedule time directly on our website: [athenahq.ai](http://athenahq.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MnK-athenahq-get-your-brand-discovered-on-chatgpt", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-02-13T03:29:22.357Z" } ] }, { "id": 30438, "name": "Beluga", "slug": "beluga", "former_names": [ "Beluga Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/11644b045eb253141d3efc6875010730a886df27.png", "website": "https://www.trybeluga.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Using our 6+ years of creator marketing experience to help companies run their creator campaigns at scale. Fully managed solution to drive real, attributable results to their marketing efforts.", "one_liner": "Creator marketing that scales like paid ads", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1748129784, "tags": [ "Marketing", "Advertising", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/beluga", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/beluga.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/beluga-labs-ai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/trybeluga", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/belugaworks", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/11644b045eb253141d3efc6875010730a886df27.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/600581f4d6a2f6f21d447c8a755b595ac315a2ae.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2204818, "full_name": "Fernando Young", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Beluga Labs. 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Now building Beluga to transform how companies grow through creators.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-swisher-77548a165/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Jack__Swisher", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/86e37ee92739f6fb866f40d6e73bb55913da251c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 107925, "title": "Beluga - Creator Marketing on Autopilot", "tagline": "Run creator marketing like paid ads", "body": "**TL;DR**: We run creator marketing end-to-end so companies can test and scale the channel without needing to hire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/717d980b-6271-4c94-a779-1c60e4277af9)\n\nMarketers do not need to be convinced that distribution matters.\n\nThe harder question is whether a channel can become repeatable before it consumes the whole team.\n\nCreator marketing is one of those channels. It oftentimes performs 3-5x better than traditional digital ads. When it works, it can drive real awareness, clicks, and signups from audiences that are hard to reach through paid ads. But running it well still tends to mean spreadsheets, inboxes, rate negotiations, contracts, draft reviews, tracking links, payment follow-up, and a lot of manual judgment.\n\nThat is what we built Beluga to fix.\n\n---\n\n## Why this problem got under our skin\n\nOne of the largest spenders in creator marketing made the labor problem concrete for us. They are spending in the high six figures each month, and told us they employ 30+ people to run their creator partnerships. Even then, each rep can only manage around 18 creators.\n\nThey also told us that if they had $2M ready to put into the channel tomorrow, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They would need to hire even more people.\n\nThat is a wild ceiling for a marketing channel that should scale with spend.\n\nWe got pulled into this from both sides.\n\nFernando saw the brand side up close at Dare Drop, helping gaming publishers run creator campaigns. The demand was real, but the operating model still looked like a traditional agency: lots of coordination, lots of manual work, and a hard ceiling on how much the team could scale.\n\nWe also spent time on the creator side while trying to build a Rippling for the self-employed. Working with creators on taxes showed us the other half of the problem: even when a brand deal is a good fit, the process around it is painful. Creators have to find deals that match their audience and content style, align expectations with the brand, actually run the campaign, and then hope they get paid on time.\n\nWe kept seeing the same thing from both sides: brands wanted creator marketing to work, creators wanted better deals and less chaos, and everyone was somehow stuck in spreadsheets, email threads, and manual follow-up.\n\n---\n\n## What Beluga does\n\nThe problem is not that creator marketing is mysterious. It works when you find the right creators, give them enough room to make authentic content, track the results properly, and run enough shots on goal.\n\nThe hard part is doing all of that consistently without making it a headcount problem.\n\nBeluga is our attempt to make creator marketing feel more like running a paid acquisition channel: set the target, set the budget, see what is happening, and double down on what works.\n\nWe run campaigns ed-to-end, including:\n\n* Creator sourcing and vetting\n* Pricing and negotiation\n* Contracting\n* Deliverable management\n* Creator payments\n* Performance tracking\n* Post-campaign analysis\n\nThe goal is that a founder or growth team can test creator marketing without building the internal machine. If the results are there, we help them scale the channel without turning it into a hiring plan.\n\nSince starting in March, we have generated over 3M views for clients ranging from YC companies to Series F hyperscalers, and saved over $100k in negotiations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/2dd9d0b8-f197-41aa-aa36-621c473b6569)\n\n_Beluga helped take Freebuff, Codebuff's free coding agent, from roughly 50 to 1,200 daily active users at peak._\n\nFor another Series F company, we drove 3,500+ signups in two weeks.\n\n---\n\n## Who Beluga is for\n\nWe are most useful when you already believe creator marketing could fit your market, but you do not want the channel to require a whole internal team before it can scale.\n\nOur bet is that the traditional operating model is the problem: most of the sourcing, negotiation, coordination, payments, and reporting should not require dedicated headcount inside every company.\n\nThat also changes what is possible. When the work gets cheaper and easier to coordinate, you can test more creators, go after smaller but better-matched channels, and deploy more capital without being bottlenecked by how many deals an internal team can manually manage.\n\nThe signal we look for is simple: can we name a real content audience where your users spend time?\n\n\"Developers who watch AI coding tool reviews on YouTube\" is a clean audience shape. So is a consumer category with obvious creator communities. A niche B2B buyer can still work, but if the buyer is hard to describe in creator and audience terms, or the product only moves through a long enterprise committee, the test usually has less conversion signal.\n\nThe other important thing is seriousness about the experiment. Creator marketing is not one magic post. It takes enough well-matched attempts to learn which creators, formats, and messages work. If distribution is a real priority and you want to test the channel properly, that is the conversation we are best suited for.\n\n---\n\n## Why us\n\nThe reason we think we can make this work is that we have lived the messy parts.\n\nFernando ran millions in ad spend at Meta and then sold creator campaigns at Dare Drop. Zan, our Head of Account Management, led outreach across tens of thousands of creators and is a content creator himself. [@Jack Swisher](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2210281) spent years building AI systems at Bubble and now works on building the infrastructure needed to make our vision a reality.\n\nBetween us, we have seen the agency side, the creator side, the paid acquisition side, and the automation side.\n\nOur mission is simple: make creator marketing as measurable and easy to run as paid ads.\n\n---\n\n## The ask\n\nIf creator marketing is on your roadmap and you do not want the channel to become an internal ops burden, we would love to chat.\n\nAnd if you know another founder or growth lead who already believes distribution matters and is thinking about creator marketing this year, an intro would be hugely helpful.\n\n[Learn more here](https://www.trybeluga.ai/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/S4j-beluga-creator-marketing-on-autopilot", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-07-27T18:18:30.035Z" } ] }, { "id": 30607, "name": "The Prompting Company", "slug": "the-prompting-company", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/465a7528e2de2669ab4bb994eb9cb8630eff6db1.png", "website": "https://www.promptingcompany.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "The Prompting Company helps companies get discovered and used by AI agents.\r\n\r\nWe help companies with two things:\r\n- Discovery: We find the exact questions your customers ask AI, analyze whether your product shows up, and improve how AI systems describe and recommend you.\r\n- Usability: We test whether AI agents can actually use your product, including finding the right docs, performing the right workflows, and completing tasks on behalf of users.", "one_liner": "We help products get discovered & used by AI agents.", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1755802702, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/the-prompting-company", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/the-prompting-company.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/promptingcompany", "x_url": "https://x.com/promptingco", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/465a7528e2de2669ab4bb994eb9cb8630eff6db1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 182307, "full_name": "Kevin Chandra", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO The Prompting Company", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinnicholaschandra", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kvnchandra", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3dff587c98e3d9d7dc95f36946c404d3caf37304.jpg" }, { "user_id": 379052, "full_name": "Michelle Marcelline", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder @ The Prompting Company", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-marcelline/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/michwirantono", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66b02d4d9a61f4b21f997b6a5751fa165cad0282.jpg" }, { "user_id": 388077, "full_name": "Albert Purnama", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO @ The Prompting Company", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertputrapurnama/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/albertpurnama", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/49ec2920b4a9be51621027df60021e21b4227995.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 84120, "title": "Fullstack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/the-prompting-company/jobs/sHmYVPr-fullstack-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - 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We also offer Meta campaign management for teams that want creative production and campaigns handled together.\n\n[See our work and book a call](https://www.knowlify.com/).\n\n## What we make\n\n- **AI UGC:** Presenter-led, straight-to-camera ads built around your product and message.\n- **Pixar-style animation:** Original characters and stories that bring your product to life.\n- **AI commercials:** Produced scenes and product shots, created with AI and finished by our team.\n\nWe handle concepts, scripts, production, editing and sound. 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Unlike Google which shows you a list of blue links to click on, ChatGPT adds additional context and traditional SEO elements like rank and authority are no longer relevant.\n\nHere’s a fun video that encapsulates this perfectly: https://youtube.com/shorts/A1zkkdpXsjM?si=TIR2PpnO9Du4DV2O\n\n# What is Lapis?\n\nLapis helps you rank on AI Search Engines (we currently support ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok) without generating hundreds of blogs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94694&key=user_uploads/482153/d7152bae-e95b-49de-b222-45d4b18a7359)\n\nWe manage to do this by extensively analyzing Model responses and a combination of real-time content fixes, technical SEO, and linking websites on domains that are mentioned in models.\n\n# Analyzing AI Search Models\n\nWe spend over 650M tokens a day understanding responses for our customers. 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The software delivers new, creative ideas, and gives full flexibility to ensure every marketing message is on brand and compliant.\n\nIn marketing, speed and analytics are essential. Humans simply can’t catch up with the speed and precision of AI.\n\nBook a [demo](https://uplane.com/talk-to-us?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc-launch) now.\\\n\\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUhS6pz4-hs\n\n### Problem\n\nFor years, the promise of digital marketing has been data-driven revenue growth at scale. The reality for most marketers, however, is a losing battle fought with manual work.\n\nMarketing teams and their agencies are drowning in a sea of spreadsheets, unreliable data, and siloed ad platforms. They are buried in repetitive tasks: endlessly creating and testing ad variations, designing new landing pages, trying to make sense of the data, and manually shifting budgets across ads and channels. This makes it impossible to move at the speed and precision the market demands.\n\nThe result: billions of dollars are lost due to low-performing marketing campaigns. No human can do the manual work that is required to do the job right.\n\n### Solution\n\nUplane replaces manual work with AI automations.\n\n💡 **Phase 1) Insight & Creation:** Uplane analyzes the target audience, brand style, ads, competitors' ads, and even real-time market trends. It uses these insights to instantly generate thousands of ads and matching landing pages.\n\n🚀 **Phase 2) Launch & Management:** Select your favorite ads, and with a single click, campaigns go live across all channels. Uplane takes over, managing everything 24/7. It monitors performance and shifts budget to the ads and channels that deliver the highest return.\n\n📈 **Phase 3) Learning & Scaling:** Built-in dashboards give instant transparency. The insights from the data are not just useful for marketers but also for our AI. It continuously tracks ad performance, identifies best value propositions and designs, and gets smarter with every conversion. Thus, it creates better ads with every iteration.\n\n### Our Ask\n\nUplane is working hand-in-hand with ambitious companies that want to scale their marketing profitably, eliminate manual work, and make marketing that their customers love.\n\nWant more customers? Let’s talk.\n\n📅 Book a [demo](https://uplane.com/talk-to-us?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc-launch)\n\n👉🏻 Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplane-com) and [X](https://x.com/uplane_com)\n\n💬 Share this post with people in your network", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Odk-uplane-replace-your-marketing-agency", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-10-17T17:21:33.522Z" } ] }, { "id": 30873, "name": "Tell if AI", "slug": "tell-if-ai", "former_names": [ "Pando Technologies", "Tellif", "Tellif AI", "Tell if AI", "Land.dev" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/da77fda94e244c20522deac6fb0556be091b2804.png", "website": "https://tellif.ai", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "An AI-run performance marketing agency. 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More at [absurd.com](https://absurd.com).\n\nㅤ\n\nHey everyone — we'll make your launch video!\n\nWe’re Philip, Damian, and Daniel, co-founders of Absurd.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nAbsurd turns your ideas into viral AI ads. \\\n\\\nHere’s an ad we made that blew up on X ([690K views](https://l.gourl.es/l/68f21298ba10b07930efb63b9484bfe66f06080e?notrack=1&u=12901289)). Another one ([470K views](https://l.gourl.es/l/7a5ee89d2fb57e15d431d5a5fe413c280db4db76?notrack=1&u=12901289)). Here’s a more artsy one ([150K views](https://l.gourl.es/l/3ddd171616572212dc8e8000d70af58f6c5dcc49?notrack=1&u=12901289)). Our [portfolio](https://absurd.com).\n\nWe built a multi-agent system that plans, generates, and edits campaigns in real time.\n\n[philip@absurd.com](https://mailto:philip@absurd.com)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nMaking entertaining AI videos is hard.\n\nScripting. Breaking an idea into scenes, pacing it, and keeping a story coherent takes real creative skill. Most people underestimate how much of a craft that is.\n\nGeneration. There are dozens of AI video models out there, each good at something different — one nails motion, another nails faces, another gets the lighting right. Knowing which one to use, and how to deal with their quirks takes serious trial and error.\n\nBecause of these factors, most AI-generated ads look generic and perform poorly.\n\n---\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nAutonomous AI agents handle the creative process — while we stay in the loop, stepping in to steer the output when needed. This all happens inside an interactive platform where you can step in anytime to review progress, give feedback, or steer the direction alongside our team.\n\n\n\n### **Asks**\n\n1. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/absurdco) and [X](https://x.com/dopadealer).\n2. If your team needs a studio-grade launch video with fast turnaround, we’d love to help.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94646&key=user_uploads/795572/fab19a66-c5f0-4a03-ac02-44517f88e858)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OcY-absurd-the-production-canvas-for-ai-video", "votes": 147, "created_at": "2025-10-14T19:07:34.746Z" } ] }, { "id": 30986, "name": "The Hog", "slug": "the-hog", "former_names": [ "TheHog" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ba9edbf42a04ad97bf80ea5c1940458e14f3f70.png", "website": "https://thehog.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "One API to search, enrich, and monitor the web.\r\n\r\nAn agent is only as good as the data it runs on. Most agents and GTM tools today are stuck pulling stale, fragmented data from a dozen different providers, which caps how good their output can ever be. We unify all of it behind one API.\r\n\r\nOne credit-based API covers people data, company data, web search, deep research, news, social signals, and web scraping. 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Like look at the level of insight of this.”_ - David (from current customer; actual response will differ between users)\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nIt’s like the Google Maps for customer acquisition: The Hog finds the most optimized ways to reach your customers. \n\nIt gives one person the power of an entire sales and marketing team. It compresses research to execution from hours to minutes.\n\n**Our Vision**\n\nWe believe the future of go-to-market is not dashboards. It is a command center where sales, marketing, and growth work together on the same platform with the same data.\n\nShared context creates faster decisions, cleaner execution, and fewer handoffs. This is how teams stay ahead and keep adaptive go-to-market playbooks dynamic, updating in real time as the market moves.\n\n**The Hog: Promo Video**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jfcAEhqrJN0\n\n**Why the ‘The Hog’?**\n\nThe Hog stands for Head of Growth (Hog), literally. It’s the dream tool our team wished we had when we scaled a startup from \\~$900k ARR to $7M+ in 3 months as a solo growth hire, and helped pivot a company to profitability with only two months of runway left.\n\n**What we built**\n\nOur AI-native go-to-market command center, where you control an army of AI sales and marketing co-pilots to constantly monitor your market, identify opportunities, and generate actionable game plans to connect with your potential customers. \n\nYour customers engage outside of LinkedIn and Inboxes. The Hog continuously maps your ICP, channels, and opportunities, spots shifts in the market, and stack-ranks what to do next based on goals and constraints. \n\n**What can it do now?**\n\n* Find where your ICPs spend time and how they behave across channels\n* Generate tactical game plans with ranked next actions\n* Market research and trend analysis\n* Automated daily competitive and market monitoring\n* Social listening for relevant topics and keywords across Reddit, LinkedIn, X, forums, and review sites\n* Strategic messaging and positioning suggestions\n* Create and manage company ‘Brand and Messaging Guide’\n* Personal brand building\n* SEO research plus blog and content drafts\n* Digital marketing and PPC planning with keywords and budgets\n* Auto-draft comments, posts, and replies for social engagement\n* Thought leadership content for founder-led growth\n* Brand awareness tracking and sentiment listening\n* Channel strategies for Reddit, LinkedIn, and X\n* Auto drafts for organic social and community engagement\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/a01fcab0-7dfd-4674-bb64-a2a7b81d7d8b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/a5eebd92-cae5-42d4-8beb-31248e5495c8)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/07391000-f434-4481-9c8b-557dd6f31ac8)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/5d472533-57d9-4b41-85e9-725157f6d66b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/bcfa0769-03bd-48b3-807e-0b30ebce3f48)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/f31cf377-0e0a-4f45-98bb-1de15c0b541c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95315&key=user_uploads/1556892/dcf0b109-793b-4867-87aa-a70a3377279e)\n\n**Why now?**\n\n“The best product doesn't always win. 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As such, we can help bring together the whole marketing stack into one platform where all you need is a really good prompter and taste.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/abcdeafe-fa89-4ddc-a571-70e9c7b880e5)\n\nLet's say you want to recreate a winning UGC skincare ad. You can first take the URL and automatically de-edit each scene, captions, text and photo overlays. Then, you can use our asset maker to recreate all the shots exactly.\n\nThen you can save all your workflows as templates in our node based canvas.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/758866c5-48a3-47c4-b396-723ed16f203f)\n\nWe allow you to split screen to work between assets and editing seamlessly - including a creative agent and capabilities like auto captioning.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/dc015a6b-b975-47ed-94bf-ae78dfe24ae2)\n\nYou can also clone slideshows and create multiple variations in one canvas.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/cf3abd59-aede-4eb9-a48c-0033bd3c007c)\n\n**Our ask**\n\nWe'd love for you to try out our product! It is still in beta and any type of feedback is greatly appreciated. There is no waitlist or paywall and you can try starting today at .\\\n\\\nLinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluma-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluma-ai/)\\\nTwitter: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/4e8170c8-5ad0-44ab-bf86-58710f4e77dd)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pg0-bluma-ai-ugc-maker", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-03-12T15:09:58.820Z" }, { "id": 95662, "title": "Bluma: The AI short form content engine", "tagline": "Your entire consumer marketing strategy run with content templates", "body": "Hey all - this is [Alisa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wu-alisa/) and [Stephen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-ni/) from Bluma!\n\n**TL;DR** Bluma automates your entire consumer marketing strategy with content templates - a library of automated video workflows that turn scripts and assets into finished videos at the click of a button.\n\n[https://youtu.be/Pi69Jd-fnok](https://youtu.be/Pi69Jd-fnok%5C)\n\n\\\n**Problem**\n\nIf you’re building in consumer, you know that it is super hard to get eyes on your product.\n\nIn a post-AI world, attention is the most valuable commodity. Social media is only growing faster and faster, and we're still early.\n\nShort form has a high barrier of entry due to cost (UGC costs $35/video + $1 CPM, editors are $50/video) and operations as shown below:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95662&key=user_uploads/2724981/ade8a7fd-4114-4164-ae5c-f0b389922684)\n\n**Solution**\n\nInstead of manually assembling a video in CapCut, Bluma works like this:\n\n1. Create template format by chatting with AI\n2. Generate videos on autopilot\n3. Push traffic to product/service\n\nOur biggest client runs 8 templates across 16 accounts, posting 2x daily. Bluma is growing 100% w/w and went from 0 to 28k MRR in 4 weeks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95662&key=user_uploads/2724981/c5fd4e08-2eb3-4c12-80ea-bcf74db92c92)\n\nUsing templates, we can replicate proven formats and A/B test scripts for you cheaper, faster and more scalable than human creators (UGC, editors).\\\n\\\n**Our Vision**\n\nMake video effortless and accessible to anyone through (video automation) templates.\n\n**Team**\n\nAlisa was the youngest engineer at 19 working on self-driving at Zoox. Stephen scaled payment infrastructure to millions at Shopify. Having generated over 6.7M views and been featured on New York Times, we have taste for scalable virality.\n\nWe met 3 years ago when we snuck into the Collision Tech Conference and spent the entire summer building in WeWork offices before both heading into the University of Waterloo. 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You just publish, improve your AI visibility, and start winning leads.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97707&key=user_uploads/2979444/a9370216-c966-424c-b98b-f93707e7a04e)\n\n### The Team\n\nVincent and Jochen met at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Vincent founded his first company at 18, and studied at CDTM (study program producing 20% of German unicorns). Jochen is a valedictorian of Germany’s no. 1 finance program, worked on optimization/deep RL at Stanford and as a PhD Candidate at TUM. We’re excited to bring cutting-edge data science to marketing teams!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97707&key=user_uploads/2979444/5f3cdf2b-ea74-4b34-9219-c1bfa08dc5bf)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n1. **Introductions:** Do you know **marketing/growth teams at Series A+ companies** that need a GEO tool to actually take action? 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MEDVi (controversial, but instructive) scaled by running ads across 800+ Facebook pages. Few brands can produce personalized ads at that scale.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nInstaAgent generates hundreds of on-brand creatives from your brief — each tailored to a specific persona, informed by what's trending and distributed across hundreds of social accounts engineered to reach each niche.\n\nIn hours, performance data starts flowing back. Winners scale. Underperformers are replaced by new variants. The optimization loop that used to take weeks now runs continuously.\n\nIn days, you launch the next campaign. 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Our agent watches all videos across social media, learns the brand's context and helps them turn signals from billions of social videos into winning campaigns without increasing headcount.\r\n\r\nPrevious platforms gave marketers databases to search through and a CRM. Kuli actually watches the content. Marketers at team like Disney, Nivea and PostHog use it to scout creators, run analysis on trends and competitor strategies, and analyse what makes their campaign perform better.\r\n\r\nFor 10 years, influencer marketing meant more tools, more tabs, more spreadsheets. Kuli replaces all of that with one single agent you orchestrate. 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It watches every video, knows your brand, plans and runs your campaigns. 5 months in, the largest Fortune 100 entertainment brand now ships 3x more campaigns on Kuli.\n\n\n\n# **❌** The problem\n\nBrand partnerships with creators are doubling in 2026. Teams are being asked to do more without additional headcount. More creators to find. More videos to watch. More emails and more reporting. Each of these steps is still manual.\n\nA marketer's week looks like this :\n\n* 8 hours scrolling TikTok to shortlist creators\n* Wednesday morning catch-up on trends and competitor monitoring\n* 100s of emails with creators\n* Friday spent preparing the reporting of last campaign\n\nThat's one campaign. Most teams run several of them per month. 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Starts negotiating rates and pings the marketer when it needs input.\n\n# 🧲 Early Traction\n\n5 months in, and the largest Fortune 100 entertainment brand, the leading mobile gaming studio and some of the biggest cosmetics brands cut their agency fee and ship 3x more campaigns without adding headcount.\n\n**Marketers orchestrate. Kuli operates.**\n\n# 🧩 Team\n\nTen years ago we started building side hustles together. We then saw this problem from different angles :\n\n**Michael Hodara** — built AI systems to run a $25M marketing budget at Aircall and Logitech based on voice and visual analysis. \n\n**Jonathan Hassan** — advised consumer brands at KPMG on billion-dollar deals. He saw them lose hundreds of millions because of the wrong creator choices.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100704&key=user_uploads/1865906/af16cbec-acb9-4ea5-a8cc-b8b2452b5e01)\n\n# **📣 Our Ask**\n\nIf you **run social or influencer marketing at a brand**, we’re here to give you and your team your time back and help you outpace competition.\n\nBook a demo on [kuli.one](http://kuli.one) or write to us on [founders@kuli.one](https://mailto:founders@kuli.one) if you want to see what the most effective consumer brands are already doing.\n\nWe’re also **hiring a growth genius**. 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Done overnight.", "body": "Hey! We're [George](https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgejeffers/) and [Art](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artfreebrey/), co-founders of [Revnu](https://revnu.com/).\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n[Revnu](https://revnu.com/) is your AI growth hire. Connect your tools and our agents run every growth channel in parallel. Outbound, SEO, ads, short form content + more. You focus on building, we focus on growing.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nAI solved coding. Building software has never been easier and the cost is collapsing to 0.\n\nThe only moat left is distribution.\n\nFounders don’t want to worry about managing email outbound campaigns, ad budgets, blog articles. 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Twice as fast with AI and half the cost of hiring a DevRel, with solid results at Greptile, Skyvern, and Supermemory.\n\n—\n\n[**Manicule**](http://manicule.dev/) is a technical studio that owns your docs and developer-facing content end-to-end to help you grow. We write **for agents** and humans, ship in **<2 weeks**, and have delivered tangible results - **\\~37%** less support tickets, millions of impressions on AI search & socials, and **$100K+** in enterprise deals closed across customers.\n\nCustomers include [**Greptile**](http://greptile.com/docs) (W24, $25M+ raised), [**Reducto**](http://docs.reducto.ai/) (W24, $100M+ raised), [**Supermemory**](http://supermemory.ai/docs), [Skyvern (S23),](http://skyvern.com/docs) Rootly, etc.\n\n## **The Problem**\n\n* Founders don’t have time to write docs, engineers hate doing it, and it ends up on the backlog forever.\n* Nobody knows how to optimize their docs for agents\n* AI tools like CC hallucinate code snippets and write empty content without nuance\n* Docs sit unused as a growth channel, leaking signups to competitors with better content.\n\nWe solve that, and here’s proof.\n\nWe’ve engineered agent-optimized docs and benchmarked it on our clients’ docs. On average, agents perform **no errors** while using our approach vs **failing 25% of the time** with other frameworks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101237&key=user_uploads/1069030/66c15ca0-661e-465a-9356-3af1492a195a)\n\n## **Case Study: Supermemory**\n\nSupermemory had two overlapping products and a lot of internal confusion about what each one was actually for. Customers couldn't figure it out either, and the docs were full of broken code snippets.\n\nSo, we:\n\n* Got on calls with their CEO to lock down messaging and figure out the exact outcome each product was best for.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101237&key=user_uploads/1069030/19709c8a-0654-4eb0-988e-fcd387fe538a)\n\n* Redesigned the information architecture from scratch. We mapped the journey from zero to \"aha\" and structured the docs like that.\n* Wrote every page tied to a concrete developer outcome, with AI agents drafting from the OpenAPI spec and SDK definitions, then humans refining, testing every snippet, and cutting the fluff.\n\n**Results:** 37% increase in answer success rate, multiple enterprise deals closed directly from docs, and viral reception on Twitter.\n\nHere’s the Mintlify stats from **before** our engagement:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101237&key=user_uploads/1069030/3e448fc8-1672-4d58-bf45-44acd73b0d51)\n\nAnd from after:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101237&key=user_uploads/1069030/37eaa68b-ab79-4c37-a41b-784a9fd3f115)\n\nBesides the docs, we also created a lot of blog content, cookbooks, case studies, and videos for GEO, which have bought millions in impressions across AI search and socials.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101237&key=user_uploads/1069030/453c538a-5d5b-4b58-84a2-0c0112c364a2)\n\n## **How we work**\n\nYou bring us in for a complete docs write-up that ships in **about 15 days** and **keep us on call 24/7** so your docs never fall behind. 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Traditionally, this either means long engineering roadmaps, or, customers end up using workarounds. No software can adapt to all customer workflows.\n\nThis creates three compounding problems:\n\n1\\. **You lose competitive deals** — customers choose vendors that have the exact workflow they operate on.\n\n2\\. **Customers don’t fully adopt** — they buy, but the product doesn’t match how they actually work. So they build workarounds and usage stays low, affecting renewals.\n\n3\\. **Your backlog fills with one-off requests** — when you sell to many different types of companies, each customer needs something slightly different.\n\n### How Gigacatalyst Works\n\nGigacatalyst embeds directly inside your SaaS product, built on your APIs and design system and governed by your auth and security. Your customers and team members can build new missing workflows in natural language.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101321&key=user_uploads/118028/9bd0ac4c-be86-4a72-b320-97d5c6c5eb0f)\n\n\\- A Solutions Engineer types _\"Build a KPI dashboard for maintenance performance\"_ → working dashboard on real data in \\~1 minute\n\n\\- A customer asks for _\"a photo upload tab that OCRs asset labels and creates a record\"_ → deployed without waiting for engineers\n\n\\- A vertical enterprise needs _\"custom lifecycle tracking\"_ → delivered in minutes, not quarters\n\nEach built app runs in a sandbox and inherits your existing auth and RBAC. 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That $150B market is moving toward local creators.", "tagline": "Word of mouth at scale for local restaurants", "body": "Hey everyone,\n\nWe're Yousef, Obaida, and Ahmad, the founders of **TryNearby**.\n\nYousef co-founded FaZe Clan and spent 15 years creating content for 10M+ followers alongside hundreds of other creators. Ahmad and Obaida co-founded one of the first social media clipping companies, building the infrastructure that tracked billions of views across thousands of videos for creator campaigns. We've watched creator content become the most powerful distribution channel on the internet, and we're bringing it to local businesses.\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\n84% of small businesses on TikTok say it helped grow their business. Almost every restaurant owner we meet knows that and has no idea how to act on it.\n\nTryNearby handles it. Every month we send a new group of creators who live nearby to visit, film, and post a review, for a $399 subscription. All of it is handled by us and our AI agents.\n\nToday, 120+ restaurants are subscribed and have had 2,500+ videos posted for them. We nearly doubled one restaurant's revenue in their first month, and owners tell us people walk in every day saying \"we saw you on TikTok.\" Almost half our new restaurants now come from other owners referring us.\n\nOur launch video: \n\n## **The problem**\n\nThere are about 1 million restaurants and cafes in the US. Most of them are invisible in the places people actually decide where to eat.\n\nThe options an owner has today:\n\n* Agencies cost thousands a month and often don’t drive real results\n* Influencers work, but finding the right local ones, negotiating, and doing it again every month is a job by itself\n* Creating their own content is a second full-time job they don't have time for, or a full-time hire they don't have the budget for\n\nAnd here's the thing: _the algorithm doesn't reward a business talking about itself. It rewards people talking about the business._\n\nSo the thing that actually works — someone who lives nearby posting about your food — happens once or twice, or not at all.\n\nAnd the platforms keep rewarding the ones who show up. TikTok's new Local Feed ranks by location and recency, so the restaurants getting fresh content every month reach their own neighborhood. The ones who don't, disappear.\n\n## **The solution**\n\nTryNearby is a subscription that puts local creators inside local restaurants every month, and their followers through the door.\n\n$399/month. Every month we automatically schedule a new group of vetted creators who live nearby. They come in, film, edit, and post. The restaurant just serves the food.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/7721f4f4-96e4-4a68-b860-841fee782765)\n\n### **Part 1 — They sign up, creators start showing up**\n\nThe moment a restaurant joins, our matching agent finds the creators nearby who fit that spot and sends the invites. Sometimes a creator is scheduled to visit within five minutes of a restaurant signing up. Creators pick their own time from the restaurant's availability. The restaurant doesn't coordinate anything or answer a single message.\n\n### **Part 2 — An AI agent runs every creator relationship**\n\nEvery creator on TryNearby is managed over iMessage by an agent we built. Onboarding, match invites, booking, reminders, reschedules, questions. It handles over 10,000 texts a month.\n\nIt also learns as it goes. Every conversation teaches it more about that creator: what they like to eat, where they'll actually drive, when they're free, what they turn down. That context feeds the matching, so the invites get better the longer someone is on the platform.\n\nFor creators, it's a personal assistant that helps them become better creators while bringing collaborations straight to their iMessage instead of them chasing restaurants.\n\n### **Part 3 — Restaurant owners get their own AI agent to text**\n\nOwners get an assistant in iMessage too. It watches every video, comment, and review, and tells them what's happening: who's visiting this week, how the last video performed, what people are saying. So when a dish sells out the week after a creator posted about it, the owner knows exactly why.\n\nOur team sits behind both agents. Anything either one can't handle gets flagged to us in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/5ff964f8-9013-42d7-9617-29d6ccb2164a)\n\n## **Traction**\n\n10 months in:\n\n* 120+ paying restaurants across Southern California\n* 37% month-over-month growth with over 90% monthly restaurant retention since November\n* 2,500+ videos posted by local creators → \\~35M views, almost entirely from people within a few miles\n\nWhat that turned into for the restaurants:\n\n* A restaurant in San Diego nearly doubled revenue in a single month\n* Another had a whole new demographic of customers drive a 50% increase in sales\n* Dishes featured in creator videos hit record sales the following week\n\nEvery single owner tells us the same thing: **people are walking in and saying they saw them on TikTok.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/3301e743-2fef-43c4-9138-aaa5631d1eb8)\n\n## **Team**\n\n**Yousef** co-founded FaZe Clan after starting as a 14-year-old YouTuber in 2010. He spent 15 years in the creator economy, built an audience of 10M+ followers and over a billion views, and helped take FaZe public on the Nasdaq at a $1B valuation.\n\n**Ahmad** co-founded one of the first social media clipping companies, where he built the first and largest infrastructure for short-form clipping, tracking 10B+ views across tens of thousands of videos for some of the biggest creators on the internet. UC Berkeley CS, previously a senior engineer at WeightWatchers.\n\n**Obaida** co-founded the clipping company alongside Ahmad. He was an early employee at Replit, previously Goldman Sachs, and grew a consumer app from $360K to $2M ARR in 18 months. Master's in applied economics from Johns Hopkins.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/031126b7-4cbd-49dc-989f-ef79381b8bd9)\n\nIf you own a restaurant, know an owner who wants more foot traffic, are a local creator, or are just interested in TryNearby, we'd love to talk → 📧 [hello@trynearby.com](https://mailto:hello@trynearby.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Src-trynearby-every-local-business-needs-to-be-discoverable-that-150b-market-is-moving-toward-local-creators", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2026-08-17T18:03:07.676Z" } ] }, { "id": 34134, "name": "Voyager", "slug": "voyager", "former_names": [ "moda.app", "Moda" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c6a49b867492868c7c12a9622e59839c26e0b5a.png", "website": "https://voyager.so", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Most AI tools are built for coding. 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Voyager enables people to do this all from one place: no juggling API keys, providers, and apps.\n\n\n\n# How it works\n\n1\\. Download Voyager at [voyager.so](http://voyager.so) and connect the tools, models, and subscriptions you already use.\n\n2\\. Describe what you want to do - edit existing footage, ideate on commercials for your product, make a launch video…\n\n3\\. Voyager works with you just like Codex. 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By dogfooding we've reached $2M ARR within our first 6 months.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nAI has made it much easier to produce text, images and video. But you still have to decide what’s worth saying, which angle fits your brand and what your audience might care about.\n\nProducing more content doesn’t answer those questions. It just produces more noise.\n\nOur bet: knowing what to say becomes more valuable as creating it gets cheaper.\n\n**How Norn works**\n\nJust type in your website. Native gathers your business and brand context, and Norn ranks ideas using four signals:\n\n* Brand personality: your voice, positioning and style\n* Social performance: what happened after content was published\n* Trends: what people are paying attention to\n* Taste: which ideas you approve, rewrite or reject\n\nNorn’s output is an idea: the point to make, the angle and the format. Native uses frontier models to turn it into images, video, ad creatives and social posts. You review the results, and Native handles scheduling and publishing.\n\nThe original idea, your feedback and the published result become part of the learning loop.\n\n**Already live**\n\nMore than 2,000 businesses use Native, and Norn v1 is already working inside it.\n\nThat gives us something useful to build on: feedback from the whole creative process, from the first suggestion to what happens after publishing.\n\n**Why us**\n\nBen comes from YouTube and agency work, with 15 years in content and marketing. Trond built a marketing agency and founded a music festival. Håkon built machine learning models for visual imagery and brings the AI and engineering background.\n\nBetween us, we’ve spent years creating content and building the software behind it. 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