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They only sold within their communities and localities, which limited their earning potential. \\\\On the consumer side, traditional e-commerce companies focused on the metros and relatively affluent consumers, leaving smaller cities and those with lower incomes out of the internet commerce revolution. Vidit and Sanjeev wanted to take the benefits of e-commerce to this cohort of consumers, democratizing internet commerce for everyone. \\\\To that end, Vidit and Sanjeev gauged the immense potential of social networks as a sales channel early on. They created a platform that enabled millions of people, including homemakers, to become entrepreneurs and resell products in their network via WhatsAp. Meesho pioneered social commerce in India and it now has \\~16 million entrepreneurs on the platform, of which over 10 million are women. \\\\What started as an idea to digitize India’s unorganized retail is now a $4.9B e-commerce company, a single thriving ecosystem of sellers, entrepreneurs and consumers. Meesho’s evolution from pure play social commerce to e-commerce is a testament to how the company is transforming the industry and making e-commerce accessible to the masses. With a vision to enable 100 million small businesses to succeed online, Meesho is continuously facilitating MSMEs’ transition from the offline to the online world." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Put simply, Vidit and Sanjeev decided to apply to Y Combinator because they were fans of Paul Graham's iconic essays 🙂They were hungry to learn how to start up from great mentors and other entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley – the global hub of tech innovations and startups. Y Combinator’s application process made Vidit and Sanjeev think hard about what they were building, what unique insight they had that no one else did, etc. Some of these fundamental questions helped refine their thinking a great deal. While going through the batch, they learned a lot about growth and user behavior from other startups. At the same time, Y Combinator partners connected them to other entrepreneurs like Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who shared valuable advice with Vidit and Sanjeev on how to get insights from users to build products." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "The Y Combinator community is very active, both in India as well as globally. Vidit and Sanjeev are now close friends with some of the other Y Combinator founders. They often brainstorm together on the challenges they are working on, always learning something new in the process. " }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "When Sanjeev and Vidit got together in July 2015, they were looking at building a hyperlocal platform for fashion. During the early days, the founders did everything from taking shop inventories to cataloging them on the app to making the deliveries themselves – listening intently to feedback from users and suppliers all this while. A couple of iterations later, Meesho became a social commerce platform where resellers used WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram to become a bridge between suppliers and consumers. Millions of resellers, most of them women, were able to supplement their household income by starting virtual stores on social channels without any investment and selling to their community. In the process, they achieved financial independence – besides a sense of accomplishment and identity. While Meesho pioneered the concept of social commerce in India, e-commerce adoption tailwinds from COVID-19 saw many consumers become more comfortable with directly shopping online. This was a huge opportunity for Meesho to tap and the company has been operating a marketplace connecting sellers and consumers (in addition to WhatsApp-led reselling) for over 1.5 years now. Direct sales on the platform now account for 80% of Meesho’s business. **Funding:** In July 2016, Meesho was selected by Y Combinator for a three-month summer program. In October 2017, the company raised $3.1 million in a [Series A round](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_A_round) from investors led by Elevation Capital (formerly SAIF Partners), following it up with a Series B round of $11.5 million in June 2018. Five months later, Meesho closed its Series C round of $50 million at a valuation of $200-250 million. Soon, Meta (formerly Facebook) came aboard as an investor in August 2019 and the company raised 125 million, becoming India’s first startup to be backed by the social network. In April 2021, Meesho turned a [unicor](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/meesho-raises-300-million-led-by-softbank-enters-unicorn-club-6729831.html)n with SoftBank leading a $300 million funding round that valued the company at $2.1 billion. Later in the year, Meesho raised [$570 million](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/meesho-raises-570-million-from-fidelity-b-capital-others-at-4-9-billion-valuation-7524951.html) in its Series F round, doubling its valuation to $4.9 billion. The company has so far raised $1.06 billion from marquee investors including Prosus Ventures, Elevation Capital, Sequoia Capital, Good Capital and Symphony International. **Growth and scale:** 2021 and 2022 were breakout years for Meesho with the business growing exponentially and witnessing strong momentum on several fronts. Meesho became the world’s most downloaded e-commerce app globally in October 2021, as per [data.ai](http://data.ai). It repeated the feat in the first half of 2022, logging record downloads, according to Apptopia. During the calendar year 2022, the Meesho app recorded the highest Monthly Active Users worldwide, as per [data.ai](http://data.ai). In 2022, the company saw 910 million orders, with nearly 80% of them coming from small towns,  showcasing how the company’s value proposition of affordability continues to be a significant differentiator. Affordable, relatable merchandise mirroring local markets has helped Meesho make inroads into homes of first-time internet users across the country. The company’s 85 million+ active product listings and strong value prop of everyday low prices has resulted in 140 million annual transacting users. On the seller side, the company’s relentless focus on digitizing small businesses is bearing fruit. Driven by industry-first initiatives such as zero commission and by ensuring there’s no private label play or tiering of sellers, Meesho’s supplier base has grown to over 825,000. Three in five of them are new-to-e-commerce and selling on Meesho for the first time. One of the reasons Meesho is able to deliver on its promise of everyday low prices is because of its asset-light structure, wherein it works with third-party logistics players for order fulfillment. Meesho is the single-largest contributor to India’s fast-growing third-party logistics industry, accounting for \\~35% of all shipments delivered by national players. **Inflection points:** The landmark entry of telecom operator Reliance Jio revolutionized India’s internet landscape. The availability of fast data, almost free of cost, catalyzed internet penetration, taking it to the deepest and remotest corners of the country. As other telecom companies followed suit, almost all of India became the Target Addressable Market in one fell swoop – opening the doors of opportunity for e-commerce companies. Additionally, the Covid-19 pandemic paved the way for a huge transformation in India’s retail landscape. Widespread adoption of e-commerce by millions of consumers across the country marked a record shift from offline to online. At the same time, millions of sellers discovered the potential of e-commerce platforms and embarked on their online journey." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? 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We’re Nick Evans and Shayan Guha, co-founders of **Avocado** - a point-of-sale system for restaurants that now includes a **fully integrated AI assistant**. We’re thrilled to share our biggest update yet.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91825&key=user_uploads/258127/ce5f4736-b005-49ce-b579-8bf8596ce1e8)\n\n---\n\n## **🧠 The problem: running a restaurant is overwhelming**\n\nIndependent restaurant owners juggle dozens of tools, dozens of vendors, and constant interruptions - all while trying to serve food and keep customers happy. Managing the POS, updating menus, pulling sales reports, figuring out Instagram posts, dealing with changing prices… it’s a full-time job _on top of_ their actual full-time job.\n\nBut the real bottleneck? **Information is trapped in systems that don’t talk to each other**, and most POS systems are clunky, hard to use, or just dumb.\n\n---\n\n## **🍳 The solution: an AI agent that _knows_ your restaurant**\n\nAvocado is a POS system designed from the ground up to work with an AI assistant. Our agent understands your menu, your modifiers, your sales data, your customers, your staff - and it can take action across the system in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91825&key=user_uploads/258127/4f4d0889-0077-48bd-a427-72d160f30492)\n\nYou can ask it:\n\n* “Add a matcha latte to the menu for $5.50”\n* “What’s my best-selling item on weekends?”\n* “Update all egg-based items to reflect the new cost of eggs”\n* “Create a social media post featuring today’s specials”\n* “Tell me which servers had the highest tips last week”\n\n…and it just **does it**. Right away. No UI to navigate, no learning curve, no training required.\n\n💡 This is more than a chatbot. This is a **restaurant-native AI agent** with full control over the POS, KDS, kiosk, and online ordering systems - like having a superpowered GM in your pocket.\n\n---\n\n# **Check out our launch video here**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QaQdDJlb0\n\n---\n\n# **✨ Here are some examples from the video:**\n\n**Prompt** “Add a matcha latte to the menu”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91825&key=user_uploads/258127/f4589fd7-69da-40c2-8d3f-a16fd766dbad)\n\n**Prompt** “Write an Instagram post announcing our new matcha lattes”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91825&key=user_uploads/258127/3e7c0988-ed76-486c-b3e0-e96ecb21629f)\n\n**Prompt** “Raise all the prices of my egg dishes by 10%, round to the nearest quarter”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91825&key=user_uploads/258127/0bfaae04-2776-442b-b3ba-3679ecedf2c7)\n\n**Prompt** “We’re out of bacon. Mark everything with bacon as out of stock.”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91825&key=user_uploads/258127/2f4ec1fd-7ff8-4720-bce0-753093934587)\n\n\\\n**👩‍🍳 Why we built Avocado**\n\nWe’ve worked with restaurants for years and have seen the same story over and over: people want to focus on hospitality and food - not software. But they were stuck with outdated POS systems or janky integrations between too many tools.\n\nSo we built Avocado to be the _last_ system a restaurant needs - tightly integrated hardware + software, a beautiful POS UI, and now, a deeply capable AI agent.\\\n(Also, we were frustrated that nobody else had done it right. So we did.)\n\n---\n\n## **📣 Call to action**\n\nWe're looking to work with independent restaurants, food trucks, cafes, and anyone tired of using 5 different tools to run their shop. 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This is [Aromal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/251201) and [Arjun](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/198845), the founders of ZOKO.\n\nZoko (https://www.zoko.io/) now lets ecommerce merchants add a fully-functioning sales agent to their WhatsApp Business number in a few minutes.\n\n**Here’s a video of how it works**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6zNXdH8Tc\n\n**Who is it for** \nWe are building this for the 200M monthly active businesses on WhatsApp. Most business today, use WhatsApp as fancy SMS - i.e. for sending out marketing blasts. They don’t have a way to scale sales inside WhatsApp.\n\n**Our Backstory**\n🤔 We started off with an ecommerce business, entirely on WhatsApp, which grew to a customer base of 200K followers on Facebook, who would make purchases after seeing our weekly product drops on WhatsApp.\nOther businesses started reaching out to us, offering to pay for our \"WhatsApp sales tools\". That was the Aha moment! 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Feel free to reach out to any of us with feedback, questions, etc. Email [founders@zoko.io](mailto:founders@zoko.io) or whatsapp me directly [wa.me/919108281134](http://wa.me/919108281134)\n\n**Ask**\nThanks for reading about us. **_We are looking to connect with ecommerce brands in WhatsApp dominated markets - India, Middle East, Western Europe and South America._** If you are one or know of brands that would love to scale-up sales on WhatsApp, please get in touch with us at [founders@zoko.io](mailto:founders@zoko.io), thanks :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IyS-zoko-unleash-ai-inside-your-whatsapp-business-number", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2023-07-11T17:41:14.972Z" } ] }, { "id": 23139, "name": "Seer", "slug": "seer", "former_names": [ "StyleLab Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/673469ddd9e13fcf8fa33e841fd41e73a1d6133d.png", "website": "https://www.helloseer.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Palo Alto, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Seer helps retail salespeople create and send personalized shoppable Lookbooks to their customers via email and sms.\r\n", "one_liner": "Sell beyond the store.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1614635454, "tags": [ "SaaS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "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/seer", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2021/seer.json", "year_founded": 2019, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/helloseer/about/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/673469ddd9e13fcf8fa33e841fd41e73a1d6133d.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": 601267, "full_name": "Christina Czap", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Christina is a former Director at Vogue and top grossing salesperson at some of the most recognizable companies and brands such as Moda Operandi, Alexander McQueen and Miu Miu.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-czap/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fec32c262d3026279e44b8fd9e07c50520594860.jpg" }, { "user_id": 264117, "full_name": "Felipe Saint-Jean", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Felipe has a PhD from Yale in Computer Science and is a visionary developer whose platforms have millions of users. 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This problem is being currently tackled with countless spreadsheets or legacy systems, no longer fit for purpose.\n\n**Solution**\n\nOur platform allows business users to make **optimal decisions, easily and quickly**. Autone acts as an intelligence layer on top of the company’s existing infrastructure, turning data into decisions at lightning speed.\n\n**Why we’ve built Autone?**\n\nAfter successfully growing McQueen's business, we kept getting requests from old colleagues to help them, at the new companies they have joined, solve the same problems. We quickly understood that this was a **pattern across the industry**, so we decided to solve these inefficiencies.\n\n**Let’s get in touch!**\n\nWe always love to get feedback from all kinds of users, so if you would like to test our product, please send us an email at [founders@autone.io](mailto:founders@autone.io) or by clicking [here](https://calendly.com/autone-support/autone-discover-more?month=2022-07) 🙂\\\nIf you need some customers in the retail space, we’ll be more than happy to put you in touch with our network.\n\nThank you ✌🏼", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GkH-autone-the-sales-operations-planning-platform-for-retailers", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2022-07-06T15:54:45.259Z" } ] }, { "id": 27894, "name": "Booth AI", "slug": "booth-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4b3a15112db36cea4190b3079ddeba5278c19f7f.png", "website": "https://booth.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. 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Check out our [demo video](https://framerusercontent.com/assets/OuoBfiorNSCbVJarMwG4I1GATaU.mp4), where we go from prompt to Gen AI application in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/1f931ce6-71d9-410b-901d-1ab36b6255e7)\n\nWhether you need an internal tool for categorizing customer inquiries, need to do fuzzy PDF analysis at scale, or want to automate and schedule a Custom GPT - [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) has you covered.\n\nChoose from our library of 165 different nodes that can be connected in infinite ways. You can build it yourself with our no-code interface or use our AI Auto-Build feature to go from prompt to application in a single shot! We auto-create a dynamic interface UI so you can share your creation as a single-page app with a link.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/bada6f09-f346-43ea-8d32-a0d0412a791c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/dd5bfa1a-8677-4c8a-88a3-a89630336d6b)\n\n**✋ Our asks**\n\nIf you're looking to build an AI internal tool or simplify your AI experimentation process - reach out, give [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) a try, and book a demo with us. We’re loading up all new accounts this week with 500 free credits. If you know a founder or operator who would benefit from [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai), please contact us at [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai).\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIB-booth-ai-build-no-code-gen-ai-apps", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-07-01T17:51:21.810Z" }, { "id": 69552, "title": "Booth.ai - Easy product photography with Generative AI", "tagline": "Create unique, engaging product images - all without a photographer", "body": "**Hi YC 👋**\n\nHigh quality product photography is a must for E-Commerce stores, but it gets costly fast - with an average of $300/SKU for new photography. That’s why [Ian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianabaldwin/) and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-locascio/) started [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) to make quality product photography scalable and accessible to sellers of all sizes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/be88ecd8-fcd0-4309-a67d-519c46eced99)\n\n### **🔥 TL;DR**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) is your personal product photographer, powered by Generative AI. Just describe your photoshoot in text, and we’ll place your product naturally in the generated scene.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/e48ceaf4-8262-4c1f-a250-8853b7f9ef1c)\n\n### **🧠 How does it work?**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) makes incredible Gen AI technology accessible and easy to use. Customers connect their Shopify stores to auto-import all of their products. Then they describe, in text, how they want their product to appear. [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) handles the rest by generating a scene around the product and producing a 4k image. We even support bulk image generation for stores with thousands of SKUs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/2edcd9c9-723f-4ce4-8dc5-95cd38973df6)\n\n### **🛍️ Who is** [**Booth.ai**](http://Booth.ai) **for?**\n\nOur ideal customer profile is an e-commerce business that sells a physical product, and currently spends > $10k yearly on visual imagery. This includes e-commerce aggregators, independent stores on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magenta, FBA, and larger brands with SKU counts that eclipse their photography budgets.\n\n### [✋](https://emojipedia.org/raised-hand/) **Our asks**\n\n1. If you run an E-Commerce business - reach out, give us a try, and book a demo [here](https://share.hsforms.com/1dSi0_0YSTLC4ic4tpeY42Ae1qx8?__hstc=121515287.d8ace17c3feac80f7acec81ca9243dd8.1673563844280.1676356189520.1676398984590.70&__hssc=121515287.1.1676398984590&__hsfp=1945899485)! Use our YC-network discount code YC30 for 30% off our plans.\n2. If you know a founder/operator in this space who would be interested in using Booth AI, please connect us to them - [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai)\n\n### ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5o-booth-ai-easy-product-photography-with-generative-ai", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-02-22T17:49:37.585Z" } ] }, { "id": 28129, "name": "Luca", "slug": "luca", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c1a38009f747692e81bd13516e12a87a399aead1.png", "website": "https://www.askluca.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pricing Strategy is one of the most powerful levers that retailers have at their disposal to create growth, yet it is underleveraged. 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[Get in touch](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) with us!\n\n**Our Story**\n\nWe are Yonah Mann and Tanvi Surti. We met while working at Uber, where we both worked on pricing technology. Our work cumulatively created over $1 billion in margin gains for Uber – and this experience made us realize that configurable revenue tools in the hands of operators could be incredibly powerful!\n\nSo, we are now on a mission to bring revenue optimization tools to retail, and build a fun company as we go along!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/5422d569-a5ce-4f8a-bbc2-1cf3c2a98268)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nE-commerce teams have to react to large swathes of data from multiple channels to build a pricing and discount strategy, such as  –\n\n1. ⛅ Seasonal and Market trends, with changing customer price elasticities\n2. 👯 Competitor price changes or promotional campaigns\n3. 🚛 Inventory availability \n4. 🚢 Changing manufacturing and shipping costs\n\n_And_, they have to do this across 1000s of SKUs and across multiple stakeholder teams such as Merchandising, Marketing, Revenue, and Inventory. This level of complexity makes changing prices time-consuming and inefficient, while still leaving money on the table.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/004e0bac-15fd-49c9-a3af-d7d20e6bc40d)\n\nWe replace fragmented decision making in e-commerce teams with our pricing system that organizes, recommends and measures outcomes, ensuring that every product is priced in a way that optimizes revenue and profits. 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I’m Sunny, the founder of [Vendora](https://www.vendora.io/).\n\n**tl;dr** At Vendora, we build vertical saas for the grocery industry - today we focus on e-commerce enablement, helping grocers make the most of their digital channels. Think of us as Shopify Meets Toast for supermarkets.  \n\n### Problem\n\nA monumental $800B grocery industry runs on outdated systems and manual processes. In an age where 12% of grocery sales have gone online, many grocers are getting left behind, lacking the tools to adapt and make the most of this emerging channel. Grocers need to adapt to compete with the Amazon and Walmarts of the world.\n\n### Solution\n\nVendora is solving this problem by being the one platform grocers need to engage with customers digitally. We make it easy for them to succeed online. \n\nBy connecting with their existing stack, we ingest their data, augment it through our AI powered workflows, and set up accurate, enhanced data feeds to their third parties. We also give them their own storefront (website and app) so they can own more of the customer relationship. Along with all this, we give them the tools to easily manage these channels, optimize their performance, and engage with their customers.  \n\n### Who am I?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74433&key=user_uploads/1224770/f850f527-6a20-494e-be39-33fa37d566cb)\n\nI’ve quite literally have been in the grocery space for my entire life. \n\nI grew up in grocery stores, working in my family’s supermarkets, seeing it go from a single 500 sq ft family store in Queens, NY to a chain of stores. I’ve seen it all first hand (stocking, the register, backoffice, you name it). \n\nProfessionally, I was the Head of US Strategy at Uber Grocery coming in through Uber’s acquisition of Cornershop, where I earned my startup stripes. I began my career at Amazon's US Grocery team, worked on ops for Amazon Fresh, and then the Search Science and AI team. I’ve seen how some of the best companies on the planet run things and I’m channeling that expertise into Vendora. \n\n### Ask\n\nKnow any grocers that want to start selling online or earn even more on existing channels? Send them our way. [founders@vendora.io](mailto:founders@vendora.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JMX-vendora-ecommerce-enablement-for-grocery", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-08-28T14:59:06.995Z" }, { "id": 69777, "title": "🛒🥭 Jaldi – South Asian Groceries Delivered!", "tagline": "Jaldi is the online supermarket for South Asians living in the US", "body": "Hey everyone!  Sunny here from [Jaldi](https://getjaldi.com/). \n\nTL;DR: **Jaldi delivers your favorite South Asian groceries, household items, and beauty products right to your door**. Give us a try (use discount code LaunchYC at checkout or [click here to have it autoapply](https://getjaldi.com/discount/LaunchYC)) and share with your friends (). \n\n### 🛒 **What is Jaldi?**\n\nJaldi is the online supermarket for South Asians living in the US. We deliver thousands of South Asian grocery, beauty, and household products right to customers’ doors through nationwide and same-day local delivery. Available at [getjaldi.com](http://getjaldi.com) and on [our mobile apps](https://getjaldi.onelink.me/0mSJ/j3y5iudn), we offer the most seamless shopping experience for anyone looking to explore the rich cultural diversity of South Asia or simply get a taste of home. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69777&key=user_uploads/1224770/0bf887ba-cb0f-499b-a287-d9447dfe5536)\n\nCurrently we offer nationwide shipping of non-perishable items (get your [Kurkure](https://getjaldi.com/products/kurkure-masala-munch-82g/?variant=%2044438553690429), [Thums Up](https://getjaldi.com/products/thumps-up-300-ml/?variant=%2044141331218749), [Dals](https://getjaldi.com/pages/dal-beans?filter.p.tag=Nationwide), etc.) and local same-day delivery of a full selection of South Asian groceries ([dahi](https://getjaldi.com/products/0rganic-whole-milk-dahi-2-l?variant=44141385253181), fruits & vegetables, frozen meals, etc.) in New Jersey. \n\n### 🤔 **Why does Jaldi exist?**\n\nWhile the last five years saw a fivefold increase in US online grocery penetration, little has changed for South Asians living in the US. Few South Asian supermarkets offer delivery and often struggle on inventory and quality when they do. Selection online can often be expensive, elusive, and leave the customer wanting for more. \n\n**The South Asian consumer deserves better. That’s why I started Jaldi.** \n\nSouth Asians in the US are the highest earning and fastest growing ethnic demographic - yet there are few shopping experiences that cater specifically to them. Jaldi is building the first-class e-commerce experience for the South Asian diaspora. The next wave in retail will be cultural commerce, how communities shop and interact with what they buy. Jaldi is leading the way in this emerging space. \n\n### 🧔🏻‍♂️ **Why am I the one building this?**\n\nI’ve spent my life in this space. I grew up in South Asian supermarkets - my family runs a large chain in the US. My first job out of college was working on Amazon’s grocery business, wearing many hats over the few years I spent there. Most recently, I was the Head of US Strategy & Expansion for Uber’s Grocery business. I’ve seen the grocery industry (and specifically the South Asian consumables space) from multiple angles and see the opportunity to build an amazing customer experience here. \n\n### 💥 **The Deal**\n\nOrder! Browse the site ([check out our Popular Picks](https://getjaldi.com/pages/popular-picks) if you can’t make up your mind).You can use the discount code LaunchYC at checkout for 10% off and free shipping on your first $50 order. \n\n* [Download the app](https://getjaldi.onelink.me/0mSJ/j3y5iudn)\n* [Go straight to](https://getjaldi.com/) [getjaldi.com](http://getjaldi.com)\n\n### 🙏🏽 **Our Ask**\n\nFollow us and share! We’ll be highlighting some of our favorite products and special deals on our socials, help us spread the word!\n\n* [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/getjaldiofficial)\n* [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/getjaldi/)\n* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getjaldi)\n* [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/getJaldi/)\n* [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getjaldi)\n\n### 🗣️ **What are customers are saying?**\n\n_I love your service. Please accept few more orders in future._ \\[He bought all of our inventory on a product\\]_. Great work! Thank you for your business_ \n\n_Sunny!!! I got the groceries. Seamless process, actually so smooth._\n\n_Honestly, I had never stepped foot into a South Asian supermarket and didn't know what to expect. 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However, most Ecommerce retailers & brands still use keyword search tools resulting in lost revenue for tail queries.\n* Search providers give you tools to build search engines, **but leave relevance engineering up to you** (i.e. tuning of the search).\n* Tuning search to maximize conversions is [**complicated & expensive**](https://blog.branch-ai.com/what-it-takes-to-build-effective-search-8a2901a9a943) (involves stitching together embeddings, rankers, NLP models, heuristics & annotated feedback).\n* DIY embeddings and models are easy to experiment with. But building **production-grade deployments requires catalog-specific tuning**, which can unlock 20-30% better accuracy & conversions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78740&key=user_uploads/31801/a4c105e8-a6a6-41f0-977c-e09de9b09233)\n\n**Step 1 - Upload/Connect Catalog:** Upload a list of products or connect to an existing search database or platform (e.g. Elastic or Shopify).\n\n**Step 2 - LLM-powered Tuning**: This happens under the hood automatically. We use LLMs to train catalog-specific embeddings, rankers & query rewriters, bootstrapped from our proprietary Ecommerce-specific models.\n\n**Step 3 - AI APIs**: With zero effort, businesses get:\n\n1. _Search API_: Query → Ranked Products (for end-to-end query rewriting, hybrid retrieval & reranking)\n2. _Query Understanding API_: User Query → Catalog-Aware Query (for DIY query expansion/relaxation)\n3. _Embeddings API_: Query or Product → Catalog-specific Embedding (for DIY retrieval)\n4. _Reranking API_: Candidate Products → Re-ordered Products (for DIY precision improvements)\n\n**Step 4 - Preferences**: Users can control search behavior using:\n\n* _Merchandising Strategies:_ Execute smart strategies using simple instruction templates (e.g. “boost Apple Vision Pros to visitors looking for gifts”)\n* _Feedback:_ Demonstrate examples of preferred search results (models learn from these “few-shot”)\n* _Maintenance Jobs:_ LLMs periodically evaluate search results (e.g. for queries with zero results) and produce training data to fix gaps\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* If you want a better search with lower effort for your Ecommerce store, contact us via [email](mailto:govind@branch-ai.com) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/).\n* If you’d like a free evaluation of your site search, submit a request [on our website](https://www.branch-ai.com).\n\n### **About Us**\n\n* [Govind](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/) was previously co-founder of [Semantics3](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/semantics3) (YC W13), an Ecommerce catalog AI company, from 2011 to 2020.\n* Govind & [Praveen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveens07/) (founding engineer) built embeddings, rankers, and transformer-based sequence models at Twitter that directly drove 1MM+ DAUs.\n* [Ishan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishanagrawal/) was CTO at Funding Societies, the largest digital financing Fintech in Southeast Asia, where he built and scaled the technology and business from Seed to Series D.\n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nTo serve as an Ecommerce AI platform for brands and retailers. 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Today, we focus on connecting these stores with over 1,000 non-alcoholic and functional beverage products.\n\nHi everyone! We’re Aaron, Elian and Paolo – the team behind Airgoods. We’re on a mission to level the playing field for specialty food stores by offering tools previously only available to big box chains.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73226&key=user_uploads/797737/38498184-4bb5-425f-8025-35e02960e710)\n\n### 🤔 **The Problem**\n\n* **Specialty food stores struggle to stay up to date on new and trending products.** Today, most rely on social media platforms like Instagram for discovery. Once they see a product they like, they send the brand a DM to ask for a sample – which can take weeks to months to receive.\n* **To purchase inventory, they have to manage dozens of direct brand relationships.** That means placing orders and coordinating payments over email, phone calls and texts.\n* **Best sellers often go out of stock.** At most specialty stores, reorders only happens when the buyer sees that the shelf is empty. This means there are days – if not weeks – that go by with best sellers being out of stock.\n* **Most brands don’t have the resources to run an in-house wholesale team.** They primarily rely on inbounds, and many relationships end because of limited resources to maintain the account over email, Instagram DMs, and texts.\n\n### **🧰 Our Solution**\n\nAirgoods makes it easy for specialty food stores to discover, sample and order inventory in one place. 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We - [Wael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/walsallami/) and [Kenan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenan-kaymakcan/) - are building a platform for retailers to match their invoices with their purchasing orders.\n\n**The Problem: Retailers are overpaying their vendors**\n\nRetailers are juggling a lot of internal and market pressures­–inflation, low margins, high turnover, etc. They don’t have the time and resources to stay on top of their entire operations. 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Operators rely on paper and phone interactions with suppliers, do not accurately maintain inventory and prices, miss valuable discount periods, struggle to monitor regulatory changes, and do not capitalize on new revenue streams. \n\n### Solution\n\nTransformity is a point-of-sale system purpose-built for liquor stores that integrates with their suppliers, automates manual work, and opens new sources of revenue. Transformity provides:\n\n1. **Supplier integration**: Provides a digitized catalog from liquor wholesalers, including all available products, pricing & discounts.\n2. **Purchasing decisions**: Generates purchase orders that optimize inventory based on pricing and sales.\n3. **Automatic inventory tracking**: Receives digital invoices to seamlessly maintain inventory and prices.\n4. **Regulatory monitoring**: Automatically tracks monthly changes to liquor regulatory requirements.\n5. **Additional revenue streams**: Integrates with delivery and e-commerce platforms.\n\n### Customer response\n\n> _“Transformity is exactly what we needed. A system built by liquor store owners for liquor stores.”_ - Rason Bell, Little Rooster Liquors\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73720&key=user_uploads/992509/dedbfa6c-14d5-4e24-a281-bb015ded6a9b)\n\n_Our first user in action!_\n\n### Team\n\nJay and Param both come from families who have owned liquor stores across 3 states for over 20 years. 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We worked with everything from sex toys (real story) to lightbulbs, for 2bn products. Chaotic catalogs, and lots of war stories.\n\nSince then, we heard the same problem from large catalog merchants like Sunco. Vendors send them Excel sheets with 30% missing data, inconsistent product identifiers and blurry images.\n\nOur catalog agent lives for these headaches. Share any vendor data, pull competitor pricing and product specs, generate images, standardize attributes and output products at scale.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95204&key=user_uploads/1651987/c9dffef9-b2c2-4762-a90f-fdce9c5a2b63)\n\nThe result? A customer told us “[Rastro.AI](http://Rastro.AI) gave us a new scale”. We get thousands of products out of their backlog, and quality listings online.\n\n**Ask**: do you know any retailers or distributors with 5k+ products? We’ll help them launch their next product line in the first month, or offer a refund. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95204&key=user_uploads/1651987/f45b9b48-912f-44a4-bb47-f80019f8a058)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OlY-rastro-ai-launch-products-faster", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-11-05T23:15:43.974Z" }, { "id": 83240, "title": "Rastro: Your personal interior designer", "tagline": "Find beautiful objects for your home, at no extra cost.", "body": "# Should it cost you 50k to decorate your home?\n\nDecorating your home? You have 2 choices: hire an interior designer for $50k, or spend 50 hours doing it yourself. A beautiful home, time, money: pick two.\n\nRastro is your hassle-free personal shopper and interior designer:\n\n1. We craft your taste profile in a 15-minute call.\n2. We find you matching decor from 46 sources.\n3. We buy what you love, delivered to your door.\n\nAre you decorating your space? \\\n[**Book your 15-minute onboarding call here.**](https://forms.fillout.com/t/eJHrqtsGiKus)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83240&key=user_uploads/2075162/4c6ff5d7-be50-45e6-9245-51b6f184a78c)\n\n# 💡 How we got here\n\nIn our first week at YC, we built a tool to help interior designers source furniture for less. Early on, a designer told us, “Getting an $8k chair for $4k isn’t material, we do $75k jobs.” Not sure their customer would agree, but it does explain their fee.\n\nMost of us know our taste, but scrolling dozens of websites is a waste of time. Niche sourcing channels are jealously guarded by professional dealers, and the best inventory is difficult to find.\n\n# ✅ Rastro’s Solution\n\nRastro is your personal interior designer, with no up-front costs.\n\n1. In an onboarding call, we craft a taste profile for you. Show us your space and tell us what you’re looking for. 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We deliver everything you purchase to your door, leveraging retailer partnerships and referrals to ensure a same-price guarantee.\n\nLet us help you decorate your home: book your onboarding call today at [**rastro.sh**](https://rastro.sh)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83240&key=user_uploads/89898/037237d1-8a7b-4779-9d3c-2e8b27a42f9c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lea-rastro-your-personal-interior-designer", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2024-08-20T19:29:33.359Z" } ] }, { "id": 29850, "name": "SureBright", "slug": "surebright", "former_names": [ "SureBright Technologies, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/786573119daa04ca85d28b00e8358a03f4e0a184.png", "website": "https://surebright.com/", "all_locations": "New Delhi, DL, India", "long_description": "SureBright lets e-commerce merchants embed \"Apple Care” like product warranties into their checkout flows in less than 10 minutes. 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And it’s as easy as signing up for Facebook if you still remember that!** 😉 — [**_Talk to us._**](https://meetings.hubspot.com/manishchauhan/discussion-booking-extended-hours)\n\n_—_\\\n\\\nHello, everyone! We are Manish and Sanket (right to left), the team behind SureBright. We started our professional journey together with our first job at Samsung Research Institute 14 years ago. \\\n\\\n[**Manish**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishchauhan01/) **(CEO)**, a graduate of the University of Waterloo (MMath, CS) and INSEAD (MBA), has developed products for industry giants like Amazon and serves on the board of the InsurTech Association. [**Sanket**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanketmunjal/) **(CTO)** has led engineering departments at insurtechs such as Policy Bazaar, which has become a household name in India. Together, we bring 25 years of combined experience in insurtechs, startups, major tech companies, and business.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83656&key=user_uploads/456731/48122b44-2e46-4967-8d6f-81c645ca259d)\n\nWarranty and insurance distribution in e-commerce has seen minimal change, with the industry evolving slowly. At Surebright, we're on a mission to revolutionize this by leveraging the latest advancements in generative AI. Our platform enables US and Canadian merchants to seamlessly integrate Apple Care-like warranty programs for any eligible product, from ovens to bikes. We achieve this with nearly zero onboarding and operating costs, allowing merchants to offer these warranties in just minutes across any sales channel.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83656&key=user_uploads/456731/62878cfc-f33a-4731-82c6-022f2614970f)\n\n### **What is the problem? ❌**\n\nThe cost of offering product warranties is exponentially high for merchants and insurers. As it follows,\n\n1. **Resource-Intensive Integration:** Merchants must create a file transfer-based system to integrate with insurers. Additionally, they need to develop internal tools to apply the correct warranty plans to products, build custom UIs, and manage data collection, sharing, and tracking to meet both insurer and regulatory requirements. This entire process can take **six months to a year to go live**.\n2. **Recurring Additional Work:** Maintaining integrations and tools requires dedicated engineering teams. Running the warranty program also requires dedicated time from the operation team. This usually requires **additional hiring**.\n\nBelow is what the current merchant landscape looks like,\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83656&key=user_uploads/456731/0e70aa2b-9c2e-41d7-bc6d-6b292f383590)\n\n### **How is SureBright Solving these problems? 🎉**\n\nSureBright’s **warranty program runs on auto-pilot**, empowering merchants of all sizes and providing the following key benefits:\n\n1. **99% less onboarding time, no onboarding or operating costs**, and no recurring tasks or hiring required. Our end-to-end automated solution ensures you never worry about the warranty program.\n2. **Cover any product** under warranty and offer other insurance products, such as Shipping Insurance, without lifting a finger.\n3. **Enjoy the highest warranty conversions** in the industry, averaging around 20.2%.\n\n**With these benefits, we help merchants boost their bottom line** by up to 12% through warranty margin share. Offering warranties also increases customer trust in the brand, leading to 15.6% more conversions and a 14% increase in Average Order Value. In addition, customers get a better post-purchase experience, resulting in more repeat customers and fewer negative reviews.\n\n### **The “aha” moment? 🎯🧠🧨**\n\nWe began our journey to help smaller merchants (<$100M in sales) offer warranties. But, within 3-4 months of going live, we began attracting interest from larger merchants. **The “aha” moment came when Insurance companies started utilizing our platform for their customers.** This was a pivotal moment, leading us to develop SureBright as the Stripe for embedded e-commerce insurance products.\n\nToday, our customers include a diverse range of merchants and marketplaces with $0.5M to $1B in sales, insurance companies, tech firms involved in consumer product purchase journeys (such as Buy Now Pay Later), warranty management companies, and other insurtechs.\n\nYou can explore our consumer journey with partners such as [**Blackstone**](https://blackstoneproducts.com/products/blackstone-pizza-oven)**, **[**Magnum Bikes**](https://magnumbikes.com/products/magnum-pathfinder-t)**, **[**WalkingPad**](https://www.walkingpad.com/products/walkingpad-c2-foldable-walking-machine)**, and Street Cred Capital (BNPL).**\n\n### **How can you help? 🙏**\n\nIf you know any merchant, marketplace, or company participating in the consumer purchase journey, such as Buy Now Pay Later and Checkout Management Companies, please make the introduction. 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We empower brands, retailers, and marketplaces to effortlessly onboard, enrich, and list hundreds of product SKUs. This saves time and improves sales. Contact us to learn more: [amay@anglera.com](mailto:amay@anglera.com)\n\n### **👋 Who we are**\n\nHello! We’re [Amay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amayaggarwal/) & [Ray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/\\~iyer), and we’re on a mission to redefine how e-commerce companies manage their product data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82584&key=user_uploads/1164027/42a17226-77c0-4c1d-8fb9-cab72b34aaf6)\n\nWhether you’re a brand, retailer, or marketplace, we know that dealing with e-commerce products can be challenging. We faced this problem first-hand at Uber Eats, where we built tech to enhance millions of listings uploaded by our restaurant and retail partners.\n\n### **🔍 Problem**\n\nMost rapidly growing e-commerce companies spend several hours each week managing their products across sales channels. Teams drown in spreadsheets, manually adding descriptions, images, and attributes for hundreds of items. This time-consuming process diverts focus away from actually growing their core business.\n\n### **💡 Solution**\n\nWe’re tackling the $20B Product Information Management (PIM) industry by building the smartest platform for managing e-commerce product data.\n\n\n\nAnglera empowers every e-commerce business with their own AI catalog ‘expert’ trained on thousands of top-converting product listings. We not only help our customers onboard new products faster, but also improve all of their listings to drive better sales.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **✅ Faster Time-To-Market**: Instantly onboard products from any source (Website URL, Spreadsheet, PDF, etc.)\n* **​✅ Better Sales**: Automatically enrich descriptions, images, & attributes to drive conversion\n* **✅ Wider Reach**: Start selling on new channels with just one click (Shopify, Amazon, etc.)\n\nWe measure success for our customers with two simple metrics: 1) $ increase in sales, and 2) # of hours saved.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. **Let’s chat** if you're a brand/retailer/marketplace looking to improve how you manage your product listings. Happy to share data-driven learnings from years of experience working on this at Uber Eats.\n2. **Introduce us** to any e-commerce companies in your network. Whether it's a friend running their own brand or someone who works at a larger retailer or marketplace, we’d love to connect.\n\nContact: [amay@anglera.com](mailto:amay@anglera.com) | Website: [www.anglera.com](http://www.anglera.com) | Calendar: [Book Time](https://calendly.com/amay-anglera/15-min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LU0-anglera-the-smartest-way-to-manage-e-commerce-products", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2024-07-30T21:50:52.321Z" } ] }, { "id": 30103, "name": "Metreecs", "slug": "metreecs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0896c8d6a3292048c3275f782ddd6f5a282d3e4a.png", "website": "https://www.metreecs.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Metreecs helps retailers plan, buy, and allocate products using AI-demand forecasting. 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This issue stems primarily from two main problems: overstock and out-of-stock.\n* **Outdated Practices**: Retailers rely on outdated tools like Excel, causing inefficiencies, forecasting errors, and missed opportunities.\n* **Environmental Cost**: Fashion is the 3rd most polluting industry due to massive overproduction: 73% of textiles are burned or landfilled which contributes to 900 million tons of CO2 annually.\n\nIn the world of retail, inventory planning can often feel like a guessing game. One of our prospects, a company with a whopping $250M in revenue, humorously encapsulated this challenge during a recent call:\n\n> **_I quickly review our data and then check my crystal ball to pull a number out of thin air._**\n\nThis playful take highlights a serious issue: without the right tools for accurate demand forecasting, retail planners resort to guesswork.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85641&key=user_uploads/1951235/e07d224f-ffef-470b-9a82-2a12ad344d58)\n\n### **Solution 📈**\n\nMetreecs is an **AI demand forecasting software for retailers**. We analyze large sets of internal and external data to predict consumer demand. This helps our clients align their inventory with actual market trends, reducing overproduction, stockouts, and markdowns, all while automating 90% of manual tasks.\n\nOur demand forecasting models drive 3 different modules:\n\n* **Buying:** We ensure that our clients buy the right products, in the right quantities for the right locations.\n* **Reordering:** We anticipate stockouts before they occur, and suggest product replenishments to prevent them.\n* **Rebalancing:** We provide inventory reallocation suggestions to eliminate waste and meet customer demand.\n\n### **Our Team 👬**\n\n* [**@Thibaut Pellegrin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibautpellegrin/) experienced the challenge firsthand—after co-founding a leather bag company and talking with industry experts, he realized there had to be a better way to manage inventory in retail.\n* [**@Elie Dufeu**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elie-dufeu-goldenberg/), a graduate from École Polytechnique in Applied Mathematics and Columbia in Data Science, developed forecasting models for financial institutions before joining Metreecs.\n* [**@Martin Dimitrov**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mardimitrov/) led the international expansion of Lydia in Italy, before moving into early stage venture capital where he invested in AI and B2B SaaS startups.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85641&key=user_uploads/1951235/1b4e5323-2dcf-4fb3-9c1a-88ca376ece07)\n\n### **Our Ask 🫂**\n\nIf you’ve worked in retail, sold software to retailers, or have connections in the industry, we’d greatly appreciate an introduction!\n\nFeel free to reach out at [**martin@metreecs.com**](mailto:martin@metreecs.com) or book a slot directly: [**https://calendly.com/martin-metreecs**](https://calendly.com/martin-metreecs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MHJ-metreecs-ai-powered-demand-forecasting-for-retailers", "votes": 136, "created_at": "2024-11-18T06:15:29.630Z" } ] }, { "id": 30446, "name": "Kirana AI", "slug": "kirana-ai", "former_names": [ "Kirana" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bc9cf5c0f4cd5c6141c30f400757b42039051c6.png", "website": "https://www.kirana-ai.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Kirana AI is building the first full-stack AI store manager.\r\n\r\nWith 100 years of family experience owning and operating grocery stores, we are starting there to prove our impact.\r\n\r\nOur first product utilizes an on-premise GPU that monitors the store 24/7, scans for theft, looks for workplace health and safety issues, and optimizes customer service. \r\n\r\nWith future POS/ordering data integrations, our manager will automate many of the day-to-day tasks of running a store, such as ordering, pricing, assortment, and delegating.", "one_liner": "AI manager for physical stores", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1747354989, "tags": [ "Grocery", "Computer Vision", "Retail", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "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/kirana-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/kirana-ai.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bc9cf5c0f4cd5c6141c30f400757b42039051c6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1910327, "full_name": "Nicholas Sleeper", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO of Kirana AI, an AI store manager for grocery stores. 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Growing up, in the summers I worked at my family's grocery store, and saw first hand the challenges my father went through on a day to day basis. 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", "body": "Greg and Dima here - childhood friends, grew up in our families’ warehouses - now YC founders building Prox.\n\n**launch video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ywl-K7ncj0\n\n---\n\n**tldr:**\n\n[**Prox**](https://www.prox.inc/) builds digital workforce for third-party logistics and fulfillment providers. We deployed our first agents at [**ShipBob**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shipbob) (unicorn 3PL handling 100+ million packages per year) to automate carrier claims for lost-in-transit packages. **They're now live in production, processing hundreds of claims in parallel and on track to recover millions in carrier refunds annually.**\n\n**what is 3PL?**\n\nthird-party logistics companies (3PLs) are the invisible infrastructure behind e-commerce brands: they warehouse inventory, fulfill orders, manage returns, and negotiate with carriers so brands don't have to.\n\n**the problem:**\n\n40,000+ 3PLs in the US all do the same thing: throw people at operational bottlenecks.\n\n❌ Claims processing done manually, one by one \\\n❌ Invoice reconciliation eating hours of labor \\\n❌ Compliance paperwork blocking growth \\\n❌ Every increase in package volume = more back-office hires\n\nThat's the margin trap. Logistics companies stuck at 3-5% margins because headcount scales linearly with volume of packages. You can't compound when labor costs are linear.\n\n**what we built:**\n\nWe developed an n8n-inspired agent building platform - native to logistics infrastructure. It integrates with Salesforce, warehouse & transportation management systems, carrier portals, Microsoft Teams, and email → then executes SOPs end-to-end.\n\nWith this platform, we can deploy agents in production in a matter of days.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95414&key=user_uploads/3066807/dc3e69b6-c3f6-476d-94c5-578b3a02d9de)\n\n**use case: ShipBob Carrier Claims Automation**\n\nHere’s an example of how our agents handle lost package claims for [ShipBob](https://shipbob.com/), one of the biggest 3PLs in the US.\n\n> first demo at ShipBob HQ in Chicago\n>\n> ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95414&key=user_uploads/3066807/cd110709-17ec-410e-90c8-e3c0d7db72f5)\n\n\nWhen a package goes missing - our agent orchestrates resolution: pull order data, calculates refund amounts, files with carriers, monitors responses, parses updates, syncs internal systems, escalates exceptions - hundreds running in parallel.\n\nOur agents do not stop at task execution - we designed them to own outcomes. If a carrier doesn't respond, the agent follows up. If documentation is missing, it fetches it. Each agent has one objective: get the claim resolved.\n\n**about us:**\n\n[**Gregory Makodzeba:**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-makodzeba/)\n\n* Founded Rektoff: built blockchain security infrastructure protecting $100B+ in crypto assets (clients: Solana Foundation)\n* Led Developer Relations at Runtime Verification, working with NASA, Boeing, and Ethereum Foundation on formal verification for mission-critical systems\n* Grew up implementing ERP and WMS systems in the family distribution business\n\n[**Dima Yanovsky:**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanovsk/)\n\n* MIT grad: Computer Science + Electrical Engineering\n* Robotics research at MIT CSAIL under Prof. Pulkit Agrawal on manipulation policies;\n* Built internal and customer-facing AI agents at Pulley (YC W20) during early GPT era\n* Spent childhood automating warehouse operations and business processes\n\nWe both grew up in our parents' warehouses. When we weren't moving boxes around, we were doing the mundane back-office work every warehouse has (filing claims, reconciling invoices, chasing carriers). This was the pre-LLM era, so we had no choice but to grind through manual workflows. We saw firsthand how coordination became the biggest constraint on growth - and how no software could actually handle it end-to-end.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95414&key=user_uploads/3066807/68380300-ee0e-4379-98de-de1b551b269e)\n\nWe deeply understand the ontology of logistics operations. That's why we can ship integrations in days, not months. We're building the digital workforce we wish existed back then.\n\nIf you're running logistics operations at a 3PL, fulfillment center, or freight forwarder, or know someone who is - reach out: [founders@prox.inc](mailto:founders@prox.inc)\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oow-prox-digital-co-workers-for-logistics-operations", "votes": 130, "created_at": "2025-11-11T23:07:29.395Z" } ] }, { "id": 30695, "name": "Channel3", "slug": "channel3", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/68ab8f3604e8e37628ae61b0f2bc76124389ada3.png", "website": "https://trychannel3.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Channel3 is building a database of every product on the internet.\r\n\r\nGoogle and OpenAI maintain vast product graphs, but keep that valuable data to themselves. Channel3 gives every developer access, opening a world of possibility for new shopping experiences across any vertical. For instance, developers could build AI fashion stylists or give their agents shopping capabilities.\r\n\r\nWe don’t just collect product data; we actually understand it. With the latest image classification and reasoning models, we can match products across merchants—even when listings and images differ—recognize variants, and surface the perfect matches for every search. As we grow, we’ll capture unique insights into what users want, click, and buy.\r\n\r\nAs AI models get smarter and cheaper, our flywheel accelerates: our catalog will improve, and it will be even easier for developers and vibe-coders to build on our infrastructure. To further incentivize building on Channel3, we provide built-in monetization; developers earn commissions on sales they drive.\r\n\r\nAlex discovered this need while building an AI tutor that could recommend products and earn affiliate revenue. When no solution existed, he persuaded his smartest friend from Duke and former co-founder George to leave Palantir and build Channel3 together.", "one_liner": "Database of every product on the internet", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1752182938, "tags": [ "E-commerce", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "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/channel3", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/channel3.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/channel3-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/try_channel3", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/channel3-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/68ab8f3604e8e37628ae61b0f2bc76124389ada3.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": 873183, "full_name": "Alexander Schiff", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CEO, Channel3 (S25).\n\nI started coding at 9 and launched my first company at 12. 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During my senior year, I started my first company with Alex (Channel3 CEO).\n\nFun fact: I'm also a published astronomer (twice!)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/george-lawrence-aab0011a6", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c411822bd9b9895aefffa0e38ef09cf31dbc8368.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 88416, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/channel3/jobs/3DIAYYY-backend-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$120K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Channel3 raises $6M to build a database of every product on the internet - Channel3 Blog", "url": "https://trychannel3.com/blog/channel3-raises-6m", "date": "Dec 10, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 92118, "title": "Channel3: A database of every product on the internet", "tagline": "Channel3 lets developers add commerce to their websites, apps, and AI agents — and earn commission.", "body": "Hi! We’re [George](https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-lawrence-aab0011a6/) and [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderschiff/), and we’re building [Channel3](https://trychannel3.com): **a database of every product on the internet.**\n\nLaunch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gut-0iopIDg&feature=youtu.be\n\n**What?**\n\nEvery time you shop on Google, Amazon, or ChatGPT, you’re querying a product database. These companies have built massive product catalogs — with pricing, availability, images, and specs — but they keep this data private. That means only the giants can build shopping experiences. Channel3 is changing that. We’re building a universal product catalog and giving every developer access.\n\n**Got it. What can I use a product database for?**\n\nAny website, app, or AI agent can boost revenue by adding commerce – without holding inventory or processing payments. You could, for example, build a kitchen co-pilot that suggests the best tools for every cook, or a fitness app that intelligently recommends equipment needed for the next class.\n\n**How do I make money with Channel3?**\n\nMonetization is built in. With Channel3, developers earn commission on every sale they drive — no chasing affiliate deals, no ads that break trust, and no subscription fees users won't pay.\n\n**Why now?**\n\nMultimodal models have only just become accurate and cheap enough to recognize products visually and semantically, letting us match duplicates across merchants, structure heaps of messy data, and link variants like color or size.\n\nAs AI models get smarter and cheaper, our flywheel accelerates: our catalog will improve, and it will be even easier for developers and vibe-coders to build on our infrastructure.\n\n**Why we’re building this**\n\nAlex discovered this problem firsthand while building an AI teacher that could recommend appropriate products for its students. He discovered that giving AI agents shopping capabilities is both a real pain-point and a growing opportunity, so he persuaded George, his smartest friend from Duke and former co-founder, to leave Palantir and build the solution together.\n\n**I’m in! What now?**\n\nWe’re looking for developers who want to build the next generation of shopping on top of Channel3 (and get paid to do it!).\n\nSign up today at [trychannel3.com](http://trychannel3.com), or reach out at [founders@trychannel3.com](mailto:founders@trychannel3.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92118&key=user_uploads/873183/480c3aca-d06a-460a-a990-50408ddee2b2)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nxm-channel3-a-database-of-every-product-on-the-internet", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2025-07-14T16:08:19.203Z" } ] }, { "id": 31443, "name": "Complir", "slug": "complir", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f1f72e453635f03c2884d2d58c26211bfd627530.png", "website": "https://complir.io/", "all_locations": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "long_description": "AI-powered product compliance platform that makes it easy for retailers to launch and scale products across borders without drowning in regulatory work. Complir's AI agents handle the regulations and documentation across every market you sell in - and keep your entire catalogue audit-ready.", "one_liner": "Vanta for physical products", "team_size": 13, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1774933783, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "Denmark", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complir", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/complir.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Copenhagen", "country": "DK", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/complir", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f1f72e453635f03c2884d2d58c26211bfd627530.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Andrew Miklas", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1829555, "full_name": "Gustav Bang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO, Complir.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gustavbangn/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6644ca87428bf7e32a68c78f8acb753c5f9970ad.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2546336, "full_name": "Marc Kaa Brejner", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO, Complir.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-kaa-brejner/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/525de72f6379fbef9587491d142604e3a4b31a5f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2094459, "full_name": "Tine Kühnel", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "CPO, Complir.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinekuhnel/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b25c73bd560bb552032f7504c12949ee6af59ef2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 99807, "title": "Head of Germany", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complir/jobs/4JZzlHG-head-of-germany", "location": "Berlin, Germany / Hamburg, Germany", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 104000, "title": "Open Application", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complir/jobs/83TkluK-open-application", "location": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 111394, "title": "Product Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complir/jobs/A20A77P-product-engineer", "location": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99317, "title": "Complir - Helping large retailers remove compliance as a bottleneck to launching products globally.", "tagline": "Vanta for physical products", "body": "Hi there! I’m Gustav, and together with Tine and Marc we’re building AI infrastructure that automates compliance for global retailers.\n\nIf you sell physical products across markets, compliance is brutal.\n\nEvery country has different requirements. Documentation is fragmented. Regulations change constantly. Most teams still manage it in spreadsheets, consultants, and shared drives. And every product launch becomes a fire drill.\n\nOur users are:\n\n\\- Enterprise retailers with thousands of SKUs\n\n\\- Compliance, quality, and sourcing teams\n\n\\- Companies launching across multiple EU and international markets\n\nThey don’t want to just be compliant. They want to ship products fast and never think about compliance again.\n\n**How we got here**\n\nJust one month after Tine and I met back in May 2024, we made a deal with Flying Tiger Copenhagen (a 1,000+ store global retail chain, similar to a European Five Below) and forward deployed ourselves in their offices, working directly with their compliance, packaging, and sourcing teams for over a year.\n\nWe had no idea how much manual work we were about to witness.\n\nRegulations are dynamic. Products change. Data is messy. Requirements depend on category, market, material, packaging, claims, and more. Most existing tools treat compliance like static storage.\n\nSo we built an AI-native system that:\n\n\\- Maps products to relevant regulatory requirements across markets\n\n\\- Transforms messy product data into structured, audit-ready compliance records\n\n\\- Automatically generates legally required outputs — including translations, warnings, labels, risk assessments, declarations, and technical documentation\n\n\\- Propagates updates when regulations or products change, so documentation stays compliant without manual rework\n\nToday we manage 100k+ products, work with large retailers across Europe, and are growing \\~45% MoM\n\nIf you know large retailers selling across markets, tell them they can save millions in yearly compliance costs - while launching more products in more markets, faster.\n\nAnd if you’re building or operating in retail, import/export, or compliance infrastructure, we’d love to compare notes!\n\nDemo: [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4omoq7tcU88**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4omoq7tcU88)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ppt-complir-helping-large-retailers-remove-compliance-as-a-bottleneck-to-launching-products-globally", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2026-04-03T21:07:08.390Z" } ] }, { "id": 31989, "name": "Pango", "slug": "pango", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d6fb7711e26bf57516e7dcfa35cfadeb5d98b5b2.png", "website": "https://pango.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pango is a platform for e-commerce companies to use natural language to build agents and automate their logistics operations like delivery and returns.", "one_liner": "Agentic OS for e-commerce operations", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1781764394, "tags": [ "Logistics", "E-commerce", "Retail", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pango", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/pango.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pangoai", "x_url": "https://x.com/Pango_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pango-ai", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d6fb7711e26bf57516e7dcfa35cfadeb5d98b5b2.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": 3288698, "full_name": "Steve Rahimi", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Pango (YC S26). E-commmerce entrepreneur since 17. 7 years of building and scaling in e- commerce and tech.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-rahimi/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Steve_rahimi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/171d14e5486ca0d0a6ec63893fda171ebe2820de.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3331619, "full_name": "Lukasz Reszczynski", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Pango (YC S26). Previously Lead Developer at Partfiniti where he created a patented configurator that powered over $1.5B in product quotes and the entire sales process of Accu-Tech ($300M revenue). Acting CTO for several companies, led delivery infrastructure development for a UK restaurant chain. MSc in Astrophysics from Liverpool John Moores University, from which he pivoted to PhD in Molecular Biology from Universität Wien, before dropping out to start Pango. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasz-reszczynski-bio/", "x_url": "https://x.com/_lukres", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9f1ff89daf4143621266c9f4ab07922a3e22787e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 112412, "title": "Founding Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pango/jobs/xXKwYhq-founding-engineer", "location": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$36.2K - $145K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 2.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 107204, "title": "Pango: E-commerce operations on autopilot.", "tagline": "Why can't e-commerce companies scale like tech companies?", "body": "tl;dr: Why can't e-commerce companies scale like tech companies? And how we might be able to change that.\n\nWe spent 12 months embedded in the operations of 30 e-commerce brands\\! Here’s what we learnt:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107204&key=user_uploads/3288698/1a3cc8c3-db71-4d81-b2ad-9679b77f9451)\n\n**What we saw:** Each company had a unique operational setup with a mix of 5 to 7 tools glued together to run the shop. To keep all these tools running smoothly with each other, it requires a lot of tedious admin. As a result, headcount increases as the company scales.\n\nMost companies couldn't even automate a basic return processing, let alone offer exchanging items or build an AI agent to approve returns or send shipping label to the customer.\n\nExpansion made it worse: more countries and/or SKUs = exponentially more problems.\n\n**What we built:** We have built an agentic OS for e-commerce: You connect your shop stack, then describe how you want to handle shipments, returns, refunds, or claims → Pango builds the return portal, fixes the delivery options, and builds a customer service process and agent for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107204&key=user_uploads/3288698/ceed8a01-52aa-403a-9986-758da64ff4e4)\n\n**Result:** So far we have managed to automate 99% of returns and shipping operations, reduce operation costs by 20% and sign 30 global brands.\n\nAsk\n\nIntros to:\n\n- Agencies (Shopify/e-commerce)\n- Brands in fashion, beauty, home.\n- Forwardable: \"Pango runs everything after checkout: tracking, returns, and exchanges in one platform. Demo: \" Or book us directly: Or just email me if you are intrested: \n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Rt6-pango-e-commerce-operations-on-autopilot", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-07-24T14:19:26.215Z" } ] } ]