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So, this struggle, coupled with a genuine desire to help others navigate their skincare journeys with confidence, ignited the idea behind Clear; an app that helped people to track their skincare routine, skin progress, access a community of like-minded individuals on a similar journey, and get data-driven, unbiased product recommendations.The vision was not only to provide users with personalized skincare recommendations but also to fuel innovation in the industry, enabling brands to create more effective product formulations. My personal connection to the mission, being my own customer, fueled my decision to become a founder. Clear is more than a company; it's a commitment to revolutionizing skincare and empowering individuals on their path to healthier skin." }, { "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": "The decision to apply to Y Combinator was driven by a combination of factors, including the belief in Clear's mission and the recognition of Y Combinator's unparalleled reputation for nurturing and propelling innovative startups. The application process was rigorous, requiring a clear articulation of our vision, market potential, and the problem we aimed to solve. Going through the Y Combinator batch was a transformative experience, marked by intense mentorship, invaluable insights, and a supportive community of fellow founders.Fundraising at Demo Day was a pivotal moment in Clear's journey. Presenting our vision to numerous, influential investors provided a platform to showcase the potential impact of Clear in the skincare industry. The experience not only facilitated crucial funding but also opened doors to valuable connections and partnerships. Y Combinator played a pivotal role in shaping Clear's trajectory, contributing to its growth and success in the dynamic startup ecosystem." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "Staying connected with the Y Combinator community has been integral to Clear's ongoing success. Post-batch, I actively participate in YC alumni events, forums, and networking opportunities, fostering relationships with fellow founders and leveraging the collective wisdom of the community. The YC network remains a valuable source of insights, mentorship, and potential collaborations.Additionally, Clear continues to benefit from YC resources and programs. From access to YC's extensive network of experts to ongoing mentorship opportunities, these resources have been instrumental in navigating challenges and seizing growth opportunities. The continuous engagement with the Y Combinator ecosystem underscores the enduring support and collaborative spirit that define the YC community." }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "Our journey began with a vision to revolutionize the skincare experience, a vision that culminated in the creation of Clear, a mobile app designed to empower individuals in their skincare journeys. Founded by Ahana Banerjee, an alumna of Imperial College London, Y Combinator, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, Clear is more than an app—it's a community-driven platform reshaping how people buy, track, and share their skincare routines.From its inception, Clear has pioneered features that make it the Strava for skincare, offering users a comprehensive platform with selfie analysis data providing insights to cosmetic brands.Our growth story is one of organic success, with 10,000+ users achieved without any paid acquisition or marketing hires. We've been featured as one of the \"Best New Apps\" in the US App Store in 2023, underscoring our impact and relevance in the skincare space.Our community is at the heart of our success, contributing to over 500,000+ routine check-ins and 32,000+ posts, fostering engagement among skincare enthusiasts. The industry has taken notice, with Clear winning the L'Oréal Beauty Tech for Good Challenge and Beiersdorf Beauty Tech Innovation Summit, leading to invaluable partnerships and recognition.As we continue our journey, Clear remains committed to innovation, community building, and revolutionizing how individuals approach and engage with skincare. We're not just an app; we're a movement reshaping the future of skincare." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "The core problem Clear addresses stems from a lack of clarity and communication within the skincare landscape. Consumers find themselves grappling with uncertainty about which skincare products to use and whether these products are effective. Simultaneously, skincare brands face a challenge in understanding their consumers, hindering industry-wide innovation. Dermatologists, too, encounter difficulties in efficiently communicating with their patients.\\\\This problem is substantial because it permeates the entire skincare ecosystem. For consumers, the ambiguity around product efficacy can lead to frustration and wasted resources. Skincare brands, without a clear understanding of consumer behavior, struggle to innovate and tailor their products to meet genuine needs. Dermatologists, the experts in skincare, face inefficiencies in conveying information and prescribing effective routines.\\\\The decision to tackle this pervasive issue arose from a personal connection and a broader recognition of its widespread impact. I personally endured the challenges of skincare struggles, which fostered a deep empathy for others facing similar dilemmas. Recognizing the industry-wide ramifications of this problem, the decision to create Clear was driven by a passion for revolutionizing skincare journeys, providing clarity for consumers, empowering brands with actionable insights, and facilitating seamless communication between dermatologists and their patients.Clear's mobile app acts as a transformative solution by offering routine tracking and a dynamic social community. This platform enables users to objectively measure their skincare progress, connect with a supportive community, and receive data-driven product recommendations. For skincare brands, Clear becomes a conduit for real-time insights into consumer behavior and sentiment, leveraging product usage metrics and user-generated content. Moreover, Clear facilitates secure sharing of routine and progress data between users and medical professionals, allowing dermatologists to prescribe effective skincare routines seamlessly.In essence, Clear emerges as the bridge that resolves the communication gaps in the skincare industry, providing users with confidence in their skincare choices, brands with valuable insights, and dermatologists with efficient tools to enhance patient care in this $200B industry." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Clear's overarching vision extends beyond being a solution for current skincare challenges. Our aim is to become synonymous with skincare, a pervasive force in a $200 billion market. The long-term vision for Clear envisions a comprehensive ecosystem that transcends conventional boundaries. From being a single source of truth for skincare recommendations and self-tracking to delving into teledermatology, operating an expansive e-commerce marketplace, introducing a rewards program, curating engaging skincare content, entering the skincare market, and fostering industry-wide innovation through data-driven insights – Clear aspires to redefine and elevate every facet of the skincare experience.As Clear achieves its long-term vision, the world of skincare will undergo a transformative shift. The pervasive uncertainty and inefficiencies plaguing the skincare industry will dissipate, replaced by a seamlessly integrated ecosystem that empowers consumers, brands, and dermatologists alike. Individuals navigating their skincare journeys will find clarity and confidence, supported by personalized recommendations and a supportive community. Skincare brands will experience heightened innovation and responsiveness, guided by real-time insights into consumer behavior. Dermatologists will leverage efficient tools for communication and care, enhancing the patient experience. 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Samagra is a published AI researcher and holds a patent on Multimodal Content Generation.\n\nAdditionally, Samagra authored the Java implementation of \"AI: A Modern Approach,\" a widely used AI textbook in over 1,500 universities around the globe.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/samagra-sharma-4476bb135", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/samagra_sharma", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b226f7221bc738b972c9b764fbb77d4b19c4e00c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 396588, "full_name": "Agam Jain", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Agam is co-founder and CPO at Whip, a social platform for AI mini-apps. He also built Tensorfuse, a serverless GPU platform on customers' own AWS used by 70+ companies. \n\nBefore becoming a founder, as a Systems Engineer at Qualcomm, he filed a USPTO patent on an image upscaler that improved display quality by 30% and is being used in millions of phones powered by qualcomm snapdragon chips. \n\nHe also co-authored IEEE and Elsevier papers on nanowire FET modeling from research at IIT Bombay", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/agam-jn", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/agam_jn", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7541673210889241fb3e5f078a4a07a5f223d3fd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 114427, "title": "Whip Web: Youtube for interactive web experiences", "tagline": "Discover and play games, 3D worlds, interactive stories, generative art, and more.", "body": "Discover and play games, 3D worlds, interactive stories, generative art, and more\\\n\\\n\n\nHey, we’re Agam and Samagra\n\nThree months ago, we launched Whip as a mobile feed where every post was an interactive AI creation. Anyone could describe an idea, turn it into a mini app, and publish it from their phone.\n\nWhile building it, we realized the problem was much larger.\n\nThe internet is already full of remarkable interactive work: games, simulations, visual explanations, data stories, music toys, and 3D worlds. But it is scattered across personal websites and temporary links.\n\nWe usually discover these experiences through screen recordings on X, watch someone else use them, and lose them when the timeline moves on. There is no simple place to discover this work, follow its creators, or find what they make next.\n\nSo today, we’re launching Whip Web.\n\nIt is a YouTube-style feed where every post is an interactive experience. You can play directly in your browser, search by creator or interest, explore creator channels, and like, comment, or see play counts.\n\nFor creators, Whip turns a link into a channel and an audience. For everyone else, it makes the interactive internet easier to explore.\n\nHow you can help\n\nTry a few experiences and tell us what we should improve or add next.\\\n\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Tlb-whip-web-youtube-for-interactive-web-experiences", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-09-09T17:06:16.672Z" }, { "id": 101722, "title": "Whip - Social feed of interactive AI apps and games", "tagline": "Scroll, play, remix, and publish interactive creations from your phone.", "body": "## TL;DR\n\nWhip is a social feed where every post is an interactive AI creation you can actually play with. \\\n\\\nInstead of just posting a photo or video, you can post a tiny app: a game, a quiz, or something completely random. You can play with what others make, remix it, or describe your own idea and publish it to the feed.\\\n\\\n\n\n## **Hey, we're Samagra and Agam**\n\nWe met in high school and have been building and hacking together for the last 4 years. \\\n\\\nWe built Whip because over the past few years, we noticed a growing community of people using AI to vibe-code things purely for self-expression and entertainment.\\\n\\\nBut most existing vibe-coding tools are like individual workspaces. You make something, share a link, and then it disappears into a group chat, a tweet, or a folder. There is no real place for these creations to live, spread, get remixed, and build a community around them.\\\n\\\nSo we built Whip. Its a mobile app where the feed itself is made of interactive AI creations. Every post is something you can tap, swipe, or play with. A trivia game for your friends. A countdown for your event. A tiny game someone made in 2 minutes because it was funny.\\\n\\\nAnd if you like something, you can remix it into you own version and publish it back to the feed. Creating something new is just as simple. Describe what you want and whip builds it on your phone. \\\n\\\nWe want Whip to become the social home for people who make with AI. Not just serious tools or productivity apps, but playful, weird, useful, disposable, personal things too.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101722&key=user_uploads/396588/53d04b8b-a89f-466f-8128-6ef25128455f)\n\n\n## How you can help\n\nDownload Whip and make your first app. Scroll the feed, try a few creations, remix one you like, or describe your own idea and publish it.\\\n\\\nDownload Whip: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QSg-whip-social-feed-of-interactive-ai-apps-and-games", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-05-21T16:56:39.104Z" }, { "id": 78531, "title": "🚀 Tensorfuse - Deploy and scale LLM pipelines on your own cloud", "tagline": "Tensorfuse makes it easy to deploy and manage LLM pipelines on your own cloud", "body": "### **Tl;dr**\n\n[Tensorfuse](https://tensorfuse.io/) makes it easy to deploy and manage LLM pipelines on your own cloud. Simply connect your cloud to Tensorfuse, select your model, point to your data and click deploy. Tensorfuse will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you. Behind the scenes, we manage K8s + Ray clusters, enabling you to scale without LLMOps overhead.\n\n### **About us**\n\nWe are [Agam](https://linkedin.com/in/agam-jn) and [Samagra](https://linkedin.com/in/samagra-sharma-4476bb135). We have experience deploying production machine learning systems at scale at Adobe and Qualcomm. You can see some of our work while using Adobe Scan. Additionally, Samagra authored the Java implementation of \"AI: A Modern Approach,\" which is a widely used AI textbook in over 1,500 universities worldwide. Agam worked as a Computer Vision researcher at Qualcomm, where he published a paper and obtained a patent for image upscaling.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78531&key=user_uploads/396588/ca4c5c9f-32d4-4e65-92f3-5d12a3fcfce5)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nCompanies in regulated spaces are constrained to build LLM apps on their cloud to maintain control over their data. However, managing and Scaling LLM infra is hard and it requires LLMOps expertise. Companies face the following issues: \n\n❌ Deployment complexities increase development time and operational overhead\n\n❌ Auto-scaling requires sophisticated solutions and there are not enough LLMOps experts in the market \n\n### ✅ **Solution**\n\nTensorfuse provides a single API to manage your infra. Simply connect your cloud to Tensorfuse, select your model, point to your data and click deploy. Tensorfuse will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you. \\\n\\\nOne of our clients managed to deploy a production-ready retriever in just 6 days, a process that would have otherwise required months of experimentation.\n\n### ❇️ **Ask**\n\n1. If you are facing issues in deploying LLM apps on your infra, contact us at [founders@tensorfuse.io](mailto:founders@tensorfuse.io) \n2. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tensorfuse) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tensorfuse) for more updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KQd-tensorfuse-deploy-and-scale-llm-pipelines-on-your-own-cloud", "votes": 75, "created_at": "2024-02-19T21:11:18.598Z" } ] }, { "id": 29430, "name": "BiteSight", "slug": "bitesight", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/271fe2b65b962c0591e8700c14d977ce6c108e5c.png", "website": "http://bitesight.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. \r\n\r\nZac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19..\r\n\r\nUberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. 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Lucious also built a treasury management company focused on nonprofits and was an analyst at General Atlantic covering restaurant tech.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/luciousiv", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/LuciousIV", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f7e72ebb3f1477d71839ee50a77fda418a77bb6a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1540300, "full_name": "Zac Schulwolf", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Chief Tasting Officer at BiteSight, UT Austin Turing Scholar '22, previously built random projects and conducted time-series transformer research during his masters, is probably wearing a restaurant t-shirt", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/zacschulwolf", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/zacswolf", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8f83185796ee3149f042d6e46061eec617171e3a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 78738, "title": "🍔 BiteSight: TikTok meets DoorDash", "tagline": "Watch mouthwatering full-screen videos of dishes from nearby restaurants and get food delivered right to your door! ", "body": "**tl;dr:** [BiteSight](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitesight-food-delivery/id6476070829) is the video-based food delivery app that learns what you like and shows you exactly what you are craving. **Watch mouthwatering full-screen videos to discover dishes from nearby restaurants and get food delivered right to your door.** Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78738&key=user_uploads/369650/cdf28698-ca7c-4f52-9b46-27ed7324bfce)\n\n### **😣 The Problem**\n\nPopular food delivery apps work well if you know what you want to order, but they make it difficult to discover new dishes or restaurants because they are plagued with generic stock images and inflated ratings. That’s no fun for anyone.\n\n### **🚀 Our Solution**\n\nBiteSight makes it easy and exciting to find your next bite and get it delivered right to your door.\n\n**Scroll full-screen videos:** View mouthwatering dishes from the best restaurants in all of San Francisco. \n\n**Personalized Food Feed:** See exactly what you want to eat when you want to eat it.\n\n**Search how you want:** Whether you are looking for “Burritos,” “Healthy Lunch,” or just “Something Cheesy,” put it in our search bar and find exactly what you are craving.\n\n**Save it for later:** Something tasty catch your eye? Bookmark it for your next meal!\n\n**(Coming Soon) BiteSight with friends:** See what your friends are ordering and try their top takeout recommendations.\n\n### **📖 Our Backstory**\n\nWe met at UT Austin (Hook ’em🤘) during college. After [Zac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacschulwolf/) finished his Master’s in Computer Science, [Lucious](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciousiv/) quit his job as a restaurant tech investor in New York, and together, we started cooking on ideas around our shared love of food.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78738&key=user_uploads/369650/b9876ed3-66dd-4680-8d41-e3ad880afa0a)\n\n### **🙌 Our Asks**\n\n**Try BiteSight:** Download [BiteSight](https://flowcode.com/p/m52nqwQV7?fc=0) and give it a try next time you order takeout!\n\n**Spread the word**: Do you have friends who are major foodies, adventurous eaters, or still working in finance, consulting, or tech and have a fat daily meal credit to blow? Tell them about BiteSight!\n\n**Recommend a restaurant:** Let us know if you have any favorite neighborhood spots that you think should be on BiteSight, and we will make it happen!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KTy-bitesight-tiktok-meets-doordash", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2024-02-26T15:54:24.116Z" } ] }, { "id": 30065, "name": "Charm", "slug": "withcharm", "former_names": [ "BeerMe" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bdd48a02de2e277524168808bf7edcd14c995ed9.png", "website": "https://charm.cash/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Charm makes sending money as easy as sending email. Most people juggle multiple payment apps and scattered balances. 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We’re [Gray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gray-newfield-447b9b111/) and [Noah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-newfield-208a40129/), co-founders of [BeerMe](https://beerme.world/).\n\n**The Problem:** Sending money should be as engaging as other forms of digital content.\\\nAs we spend more time online, our options for self-expression (text, audio, photos, video, gifs, emojis, reactions, and stickers) have flourished. But payments feel about the same as they did 10 years ago.\n\n**The Solution:** BeerMe makes sending money fun and expressive.\n\nSend an old friend a couple beers ($16) on his birthday. Text your daughter a coffee ($5) to brighten up her finals week. Slack your team little treats ($4 each) at the end of a long sprint. With a curated library of tokens, any moment becomes an occasion.\\\n\\\n**Demo:**\n\n\n\nLike all social media content, tokens can be sent via private, anonymous links on any platform where people stay connected. Transfers are instant, global, and free. 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Women lose half of their friends every 7 years, and yet there is no easy way to rebuild those circles. This fundamental problem has led to ⅔ of Americans regularly feeling lonely to no fault of their own.\n\nTHE SOLUTION:\n\nWe know that friendships form when three ingredients align: 1) compatibility, 2) repeat encounters, and 3) authentic conversations. That’s why we designed RealRoots to reliably deliver all three, allowing us to guarantee friendships.\n\n* **Friendship compatibility:** We ask women a questions about her life stage and values, matching with with compatible new friends in her area\n* **Repeat Encounters:** When a woman joins RealRoots, she commits to meeting her friend matches for multiple shared experiences, allowing enough repetition for connection to develop.\n* **Authentic Conversations**: RealRoots experiences are led by a trained facilitator, who guides deep conversations and icebreakers so that a woman gets to know her matches intentionally.\n* A woman joins for a quarter, a year, or longer.\n\n \n\nWHY WE’RE BUILDING THIS:\n\nWe’re building the product we desperately wished existed. After moving 10 times between us, we’ve repeatedly felt the struggle of rebuilding a community from scratch, and the isolation that follows. We created RealRoots because we want to solve this problem, for ourselves and for every woman seeking genuine connection.\n\nOUR ASK:\n\n**Meet friend matches (women only):** Have any female loved ones who are looking for female community? Spread the word about RealRoots. And if you’re a woman, we’d love to help you [meet your new local friend group](https://www.therealroots.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93017&key=user_uploads/263511/8b7a20c9-56f7-4105-96c4-29a16d751ace)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCH-realroots-the-irl-friendship-app-for-women", "votes": 151, "created_at": "2025-08-15T20:19:28.651Z" } ] }, { "id": 30816, "name": "Digipals", "slug": "digipals", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a100705513555f60b674edacd7874b01e7bef2df.png", "website": "https://www.digipals.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Social networks are dead. 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When I open up Facebook and Instagram, I don’t see any of my friends on it anymore - it’s one third ads, one third content from strangers on the internet, and one third AI slop. My friends are no longer on social media - I either meet up with them IRL or catch up with them in group chats.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KW2tjLl6sxM \n\nWhat if your group chats could help get you a reservation... and help you split the bill? Now it can.\n\nWe're building an AI-native group chat app that helps you hang out with your friends more. Your AI agent (digipal) knows your location, calendar, relationship history, and photos. It talks with your friends' digipals to coordinate IRL hangouts automatically - suggesting times when everyone's free, finding nearby restaurants and coffee shops, making reservations with AI calls, splitting bills from receipts, and nudging you to share photo memories after hanging out. \n\nRight now, coordinating hangouts with friends takes too much effort. We're removing that friction so you can spend less time planning and more time actually having fun IRL.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/7bae7c14-2266-4d71-82e2-f23716cf4f2a)\n\n**Where We're Going - The First AI-Native Social Operating System**\n\nDigipals work through AI widgets that pop up right in your group chat when you and your friends need them. Talking about dinner? The restaurant widget appears. Someone sends a receipt? The bill split widget shows up. You never have to leave the group chat to coordinate.\n\nWe're starting with widgets that make it easier to hang out IRL - restaurant reservations, movie/concert suggestions, flight/hotel bookings, bill splitting, and sports scores. Here's some sneak peeks:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/91296545-05f9-4057-b324-b600168547b9)\n\nThen we're adding widgets that help you stay close to your friends and make new ones - relive memories from fun times together in the past, post memes/articles/reels your group would actually find funny, surface life updates worth celebrating, and connect with friends of friends.\n\nEventually, anyone can build AI widgets for Digipals. Your group chat becomes the social operating system, and the widgets are the apps that enhance human connection.\n\n**Team**\n\n[Peggy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-wang-ai/) cares deeply about human relationships. For over nine years, she's grabbed dinner monthly with the same friends at Madras Cafe in Sunnyvale - the restaurant their group chat is named after. She's a second time founder who worked on the Metaverse at Meta Reality Labs, where she believed that the future of social connection was in virtual worlds and games. Now, she's convinced the future is simpler - it's showing up IRL.\n\nMathew made a hit solo game called [deadshot.io](http://deadshot.io) which has over 2M+ monthly active users. He enjoys connecting with others through playing music and video games, and joined the team to help make the future a little less lonely for everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/7ee11258-ded8-466d-a9e5-ac5819801ad0)\n\n**Asks**\n\n* Please join the waitlist at [www.digipals.app](http://www.digipals.app) - we’ll be launching soon 👀 If you know Peggy personally, you can DM/text her to get early access :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OlJ-digipals-ai-native-group-chats-that-get-you-outside", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2025-11-05T17:54:23.555Z" } ] } ]