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It automatically builds your ideal customer profile, tracks buyer intent in real-time, and provides actionable insights for SDRs and decision makers.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Cru5GSrRfHQ\n\n### The Team\n\nWe’re Matt & Jonty, the team that helped build Voxbone to a $519M exit and we’re now building the GTM platform we wish we’d had. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Crane, and Cocoa.\n\n### The Problem\n\n**92% of your best leads don't fill out forms.**\n\nThey do deep research, and show real buying intent, but we never know who they are until it’s too late. By the time we realize they were interested, they’ve already signed with someone else who actually saw them coming.\n\nMeanwhile your SDR drowns in unqualified “MQLs” that will never close.\n\nCustomerOS solves this problem.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nCustomerOS surfaces high-fit leads that are actually evaluating your product in real-time. It scores buying stage and intent from their behavior and alerts sales with content and messaging to share at exactly the right moment to drive deals forward.\n\nWith CustomerOS you have a squadron of purpose-built AI agents, engineered to \n\n1. Outsmart your competition\n2. Accelerate your pipeline\n3. Turn every touchpoint into revenue firepower\n4. Help SDRs focus on the leads that actually convert\n\n### Here’s How it Works\n\n### Your Ideal Customer Profile\n\nCustomerOS automatically generates your ICP based on your website, content, and existing customers.  Then we score every lead  based on how well they fit your ICP.\n\nOnly high-fit leads make it into your pipeline so you don’t waste time on prospects who are never going to convert.  Everything on your screen is a qualified lead we actually WANT to close.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/0508be1e-076a-4b1a-87b6-073b8d7ed078)\n\n### See Who's Ready to Buy\n\nWith our easy-to-setup web tracker, you can follow each lead's intent in real time. This allows you to know where they are in their journey and who’s ready to buy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/861fca57-630d-4eab-ab5b-f22ae5cbe953)\n\n### Competitive Intelligence for SDRs\n\nEach lead comes with tailored battle cards showing how big the opportunity can be, who else they’re likely evaluating, and what we need to do to win.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/bf890845-4aeb-4f3e-b770-d5ad51ae7287)\n\n### Insights for Decision Makers\n\nWe automatically pull together insights from your lead behaviour, content engagement, and ad spend, and turn them into strategic recommendations that show decision-makers exactly where to double down and what to cut.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/51b3828a-21e3-43f1-a1d2-3e8993be5122)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n* Introduce us to a B2B VP of Marketing, or Head of SDR who would like to build a repeatable, high quality lead pipeline.\n* Try the **Estimate my leads** tool and see how many ICP fit prospects are already evaluating you anonymously.\n* Book a walkthrough.  Most customers book their first meeting in under a week.\n\n \n\n**See who’s ready to buy right now at** [customeros.ai](http://customeros.ai)\n\n### Proof\n\nOne of our early users put it simply:\n\n> This thing prints meetings. We had two in the first two days, a third within the week, and more are lining up. The rest of the SDR team was fighting over access because the conversations were so easy and the close rate was so high.\n\nBacked by **Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Crane, and Cocoa**, CustomerOS is built to solve the problems every GTM team faces.\n\n### Why Now\n\nThe traditional lead generation infrastructure is crumbling due to privacy changes, AI cannibalization of search traffic, and the evolution of enterprise buyer behavior, making Pipeline Blindness a permanent competitive disadvantage. \n\nEarly adopters are building intelligence moats through superior lead identification that get stronger with every qualified visitor.\n\nThe gap between companies with lead intelligence and those without is widening rapidly and becoming permanent - every day without this capability allows competitors to capture prospects you can't even see. \n\nOnce the intelligence gap becomes permanent, no amount of marketing spend can close it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/3ae9386c-ab02-44b0-9d20-06cfa1f67dc5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OTZ-customeros-uncover-hidden-pipeline-that-actually-converts", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2025-09-24T14:15:27.231Z" } ] }, { "id": 27583, "name": "Rubbrband", "slug": "rubbrband", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5720d48d89fcdf16b2887231b42541c2a4f1da5b.png", "website": "https://rubbrband.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Rubbrband is a creative company making commercials for some of the world's top brands.", "one_liner": "A new kind of creative company.", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1666397912, "tags": [ "Video", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "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/rubbrband", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/rubbrband.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rubbrband/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rubbrbandHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5720d48d89fcdf16b2887231b42541c2a4f1da5b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/e3e76df02efd661812374a462c02fca6ca187e5a.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 270510, "full_name": "Jeremy Lee", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO at Rubbrband.\nPreviously: UC Berkeley, Cape Analytics", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jeremy-l-a90742b8", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jrmyjlee", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ea5221cb756a0da57a6d155fe117dd058e40dc97.jpg" }, { "user_id": 979064, "full_name": "Abhinav Gopal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO @ Rubbrband.\nPrior to Rubbrband, I was a graduate student in UC Berkeley, studying deep reinforcement learning. I have worked on and shipped ML/software products at Google and PayPal.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinav-gopal/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/readysetgopal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/36e435451ff37840296055d10fcb1aaffd291cc5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1002501, "full_name": "Darren Hsu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "COO, Co-Founder Rubbrband, UC Berkeley.\nBuilding creativity at Rubbrband", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-h/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/darrenhsu_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/277e65ca540f38e977260ff163f5dc968baf894b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 92373, "title": "Creative Director, Video Ads", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rubbrband/jobs/bFh2bFy-creative-director-video-ads", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.40%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 92586, "title": "Motion Graphics Designer, Video Ads", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rubbrband/jobs/MBqv06s-motion-graphics-designer-video-ads", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Animation", "salary_range": "$80K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.40%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Adobe After Effects", "Adobe Premiere" ] }, { "id": 92732, "title": "Motion Graphics Designer, Video Ads (Contract)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rubbrband/jobs/YsCqavX-motion-graphics-designer-video-ads-contract", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Contract", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Animation", "salary_range": "$20 - $40 / hourly", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Adobe After Effects" ] }, { "id": 94570, "title": "Creative Director, Video Ads (Contract)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rubbrband/jobs/QnySI2X-creative-director-video-ads-contract", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Contract", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$20 - $40 / hourly", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 94572, "title": "Creative Strategist, Social Media", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rubbrband/jobs/3E89QYh-creative-strategist-social-media", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.40%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93303, "title": "Rubbrband - Make movies using AI", "tagline": "Create movies from screenplay, while controlling dialogue, sound, and shots.", "body": "Hey YC, we’re Rubbrband from the W23 batch! We’re building a new way to make movies using AI.\n\nHere’s a quick demo:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/m48rxBNuhQc\n\n# What is Rubbrband?\n\nRubbrband helps you turn a script into a film.\n\nYou control **dialogue**, **sound**, and **shots**.\n\nHeres how it works:\n\nUpload a script. Lock in characters and costumes. Record or upload voices for each character. Generate OST. Export an MP4.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93303&key=user_uploads/270510/4e1366a9-3350-4d55-9ea1-54730355e673)\n\n---\n\n# Who are we?\n\nWe’re college roommates from UC Berkeley!\n\n* **Jeremy** — worked on ML + audio at CNMAT.\n* **Darren** — ML researcher (MRI focus) at Berkeley.\n* **Abhinav** — RL/ML at BAIR.\n\n---\n\n# The problem\n\nIt’s currently hard to make long-form movies using AI tools.\n\nFilmmakers need **one place** where the world, the shots, the voices, and the music stay in sync.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93303&key=user_uploads/270510/3862baa2-530a-4d40-b7aa-f0a043afdbef)\n\n---\n\n# Our solution\n\nA tool that keeps context on a film and lets you generate **inside** it.\n\n* **Script breakdown:** characters, scenes, dialogue.\n* **Character design:** bring your art or generate; lock a base look + costumes.\n* **Voices:** record or clone. One default voice per character.\n* **Shot list:** type, lens, angle, move.\n* **OST:** generate cues per scene; loopable; stems when supported.\n* **Final movie:** assemble into a timed cut with dialogue + music. Export MP4\n\n---\n\n# Our ask\n\n* **Comment me for early access** (we’re rolling seats out weekly) at [jeremy@rubbrband.com](mailto:jeremy@rubbrband.com)\n* Intros to directors, showrunners, or previz leads are welcome", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OGt-rubbrband-make-movies-using-ai", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-08-25T14:48:03.203Z" }, { "id": 81865, "title": "Rubbrband - Generate images in your own style, repeatably", "tagline": "Rubbrband allow creatives to design steps for generating images in their unique style, repeatably.", "body": "Hi everyone! We’re the team behind [Rubbrband](https://rubbrband.com/). We’re building a highly controllable way to generate images.\n\n\n\n**Problem:**\n\nGenerating images in your own unique style is difficult with the current AI tools. Creatives want specific controls over aspects of an image, like the color palette, as well as control over which model they’re using to generate images.\n\nAdditionally, consistently reproducing that style is difficult because AI models don’t have the ability to remember past interactions and preferences. This makes it hard for artists and designers to achieve their desired results repeatedly.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n**Rubbrband Workflows** allow creatives to design steps for generating images repeatably.\n\nBy setting up a workflow, you can define a sequence of steps that produce consistent results. This ensures that every image generated follows your specific style and preferences, eliminating the variability often encountered with other AI tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81865&key=user_uploads/270510/aa30399b-e4ee-4f76-b0db-35c223885eb4)\n\nRubbrband offers the following features:\n\n* 🎨 **Highly controllable**: Enjoy detailed control over color palettes, reference images, and other controls.\n* 🖼️ **Access to thousands of models**: Utilize any CivitAI checkpoint or LORA for your image generation needs.\n* 💡 **Smart Prompting**: Get suggestions for image styles in your prompts to enhance your creative process.\n* 🧩 **Extensive Node Library**: Access over 20 nodes, including SD, ControlNet, Masking nodes, GPT-4, and more.\n* 🛠️ **Simplified Playground Interface**: Use workflows in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate Playground page.\n* 🌐 **Community Sharing**: Share your workflows and discover others’ creations on the Community page.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81865&key=user_uploads/270510/aeb2f636-44ce-4e58-85fe-11d9a903513b)\n\nRubbrband is available to use [here](https://rubbrband.com)! \n\nWe would love to hear your feedback! Please send questions and comments to [contact@rubbrband.com](mailto:contact@rubbrband.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIP-rubbrband-generate-images-in-your-own-style-repeatably", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-07-11T14:16:52.528Z" }, { "id": 69806, "title": "Rubbrband: Train open-source ML models in a line of code", "tagline": "Meet Rubbrband: The tool that enables users to rapidly train the latest ML models", "body": "### **What is Rubbrband?**\n\nRubbrband is a CLI tool that enables developers to rapidly experiment with and train the latest open-source ML models. For example, Rubbrband allows you to fine-tune your own version of Dreambooth’s Stable Diffusion in just 1 line of code:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69806&key=user_uploads/270510/85f6ebcc-2d0f-49ce-adb9-e2dbb7c23253)\n\n### **Who are we?**\n\nWe’re college roommates who met at orientation at UC Berkeley. Together we grappled with open-source ML projects that were very difficult to set up (due to CUDA and python dependency conflicts), and even more difficult to apply on our specific research problem. While the state-of-the-art looked magical, it always seemed to be out of reach.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69806&key=user_uploads/270510/8cdbfa6d-330c-459f-8d00-c6983ab47480)\n\n**Jeremy** (Left) - Former ML researcher at CNMAT at UC Berkeley.\n\n**Darren** (Middle) - Former ML researcher at UC Berkeley focused on MRI.\n\n**Abhinav** (Right) - Former RL/ML researcher at Berkeley AI Research Lab.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nThere’s a deluge of breakthroughs in Machine Learning every week.\n\nHowever, it’s extremely challenging for developers to leverage these open-source works to solve their own problems. _This is primarily due to the fact that researchers and ML developers optimize for development velocity, and not for reproducibility or extendibility._\n\nAs a result, the entire Machine Learning space seems to be held together with duct tape, as people throw together undocumented scripts to start training runs, which always seem to break one week later.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nWith Rubbrband, **we want to bring a world-class experience to training ML models**. By creating a simple Python library that abstracts away training environments (CUDA drivers, pip dependencies, and C libraries), and exposing a few commands of interest, _developers will be able to rapidly experiment with the bleeding edge in Machine Learning_. By doing so, developers will be able to solve hard problems that otherwise may have remained unsolved.\n\n### Our ask\n\n[Check out our open-source project, and give it a star! ⭐️](https://github.com/rubbrband/rubbrband)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9u-rubbrband-train-open-source-ml-models-in-a-line-of-code", "votes": 78, "created_at": "2023-03-01T13:59:08.494Z" } ] }, { "id": 27843, "name": "Gooseworks", "slug": "gooseworks", "former_names": [ "Magik Labs", "Magik Labs - Fast Web3 Checkout", "Magik Labs - Fast NFT Checkout", "Magik Labs", "Magik", "Athina AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be25b5e55711ba973cd7f6c514b56a10ab3da20e.png", "website": "https://gooseworks.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Goose is an AI marketing brain that understands your company's marketing context deeply and makes it accessible to agents. \r\n\r\nWe index your existing materials — videos, product shots, testimonials, ad performance data — into a context layer that AI agents can then use to make creatives, webpages, write emails, social content and more.\r\n\r\nThe engine compounds: the agent learns from campaign performance, competitors, trends, and human feedback, so your creative gets better every month.", "one_liner": "Self-Improving Marketing Harness", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1667592357, "tags": [ "Video", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/gooseworks.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gooseworks-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/GooseworksAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/gooseworks-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be25b5e55711ba973cd7f6c514b56a10ab3da20e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 739633, "full_name": "Himanshu Bamoria", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Gooseworks AI (https://gooseworks.ai) - building creative engines for AI ads.\n\nPreviously co-founded Athina AI – an LLM engineering platform used by teams at Perplexity, Doximity, and Avalere Health.\n\nEarlier, scaled a startup from 0 → $8M in revenue.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbamoria/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/0xhbam", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e69c7d483fcfb141f7e08b3852c41fee608af5f3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 731066, "full_name": "Shiv Sakhuja", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Gooseworks AI (https://gooseworks.ai) - building creative engines for AI ads.\n\nPreviously co-founded Athina AI (https://athina.ai), an LLM observability and evaluation platform used by AI teams at Perplexity, Doximity, You.com, Meesho, PhysicsWallah and hundreds of other teams.\n\nContent creator - got 20M+ impressions and 70k+ followers in 1 year.\nPreviously worked as an engineer at Google and Troops.ai (acq. by Salesforce), building natural language Slack chatbots for work.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivsakhuja/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/shivsakhuja", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/db43ccec0497e1149ce70d0bd8b2b8fe18f6f7fb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 104690, "title": "Founding Engineer / Builder", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/UJ4vH2F-founding-engineer-builder", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 2.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 104914, "title": "Founding Creative Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/rfgY8La-founding-creative-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$120K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 109409, "title": "Design Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/XZRrah7-design-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "UI / UX", "salary_range": "$50K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "React", "Figma" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 81492, "title": "Athina IDE: Experiment with AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI", "tagline": "A collaborative editor for teams to prototype, evaluate, and experiment with AI pipelines", "body": "## **_TLDR; Athina IDE is a collaborative editor for teams to prototype, evaluate, and experiment with AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI 🧪_**\n\n### 😢 The Problem\n\nBuilding AI-powered features comes with lots of new challenges:\n\n1\\. It's hard to evaluate and compare the quality of retrievals and responses.\n\n2\\. Non-technical users like PMs cannot prototype pipelines or run experiments effectively, creating a bottleneck on engineers.\n\n3\\. Managing experimenting is messy, requiring teams to maintain scripts and spreadsheets.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### 😁 The Solution: Athina IDE\n\n**🧪 Athina IDE is a collaborative editor for AI teams to prototype, evaluate, and experiment with AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/d86504e7-ba8e-4b65-a872-a0dafeabfa0b)\n\n.\n\n### 🎯 Core Philosophies\n\n
**1\\. Great AI products are a team effort:** PMs, Data Scientists, SWEs, MLEs, QA teams, etc., all have to come together to build something great

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


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

\n\nThis is why the entire editor revolves around your data and gives you powerful controls like a spreadsheet.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### _What can you do with Athina IDE?_\n\n.\n\n## **✨ Prototype Complex Pipelines with Dynamic Columns ✨**\n\n![](https://athina.ai/develop/prototype.png)\n\n**⚡️ Dynamic Columns** in Athina IDE let you prototype complex pipelines in a UI that feels like a spreadsheet. Dynamic columns can be used to:\n\n* Run prompts\n* Execute code\n* Retrieve data from a vector DB\n* Make API calls\n* Classify text / extract entities\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/1a18b5ba-2b6a-4a41-b5d5-7c702af3bd2d)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Evaluations**\n\nPlug in any eval from our library of over **50+ preset evals**, or use custom evals. Run evaluations in seconds with just a few clicks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/9288258e-9ce9-4e65-9f16-8de55405807c)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Experiments**\n\nIn just a few clicks, anyone can experiment with a different prompt, model, or retriever.\n\nIf you are technical, you can run even more powerful experiments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/7694a57b-ab7d-4444-b568-a2eb2944d503)\n\n.\n\n##### **Compare Everything Side-by-Side**\n\n* Compare datasets side-by-side with an optional diff-view!\n* Run evaluations on multiple datasets simultaneously and compare metrics!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/131fe29f-828d-48d5-aae7-f9f7a470c9ce)\n\n.\n\n## **How can you use it?**\n\nYou can start using Athina IDE for free!\n\n* Create an account at and go to the **Develop** tab.\n* For a personal demo and to learn more about how Athina IDE can accelerate your AI development, book a demo with us: .", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LCO-athina-ide-experiment-with-ai-pipelines-in-a-spreadsheet-like-ui", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-06-13T20:09:26.820Z" }, { "id": 77263, "title": "Athina AI: The Ultimate Monitoring and Evaluation Platform for LLM Developers", "tagline": "A suite of tools to supercharge LLM development and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications", "body": "### **TL;DR: Athina helps you monitor and evaluate your LLM powered app. Plug and play evals in production. 5 minute setup.**\n\n—-\n\n👋 Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of [Athina AI](https://docs.athina.ai/), a suite of tools for LLM developers to ship and develop AI products with confidence.\n\n### What is Athina AI?\n\nAthina AI is a **Monitoring & Evaluation platform** for LLM developers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77263&key=user_uploads/731066/30a27eb5-a787-46d2-8420-cb2c30da24e2)\n\nDevelopers use Athina’s evaluation framework and production monitoring platform to improve the performance and reliability of AI applications through real-time monitoring, analytics, and automatic evaluations.\n\n### 🔴 The Problem\n\n* It is difficult to measure the quality of Generative AI responses.\n* Eyeballing responses is tedious, leading to slow development cycles\n* No easy way to detect unreliable or bad outputs (especially in production).\n* Difficult to make changes to prompt or retrieval pipeline with confidence without introducing regressions.\n* Poor visibility into all the steps in your LLM inference pipeline\n\nLLM developers typically have to build and maintain lots of in-house infrastructure for monitoring and evaluation.\n\n### 🟢 Our Solution: Athina AI\n\n[Athina](https://docs.athina.ai) is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\n* **Quick Setup**: [Get started](https://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api) in just 5 minutes! The entire integration is 1 simple POST request _(and we don’t interfere with your LLM calls)_\n* **Comprehensive Monitoring Platform**: Full visibility into your LLM touchpoints. Search, sort, filter, compare, debug.\n* **Prebuilt Evaluations**:\n * You can configure automatic evaluations in just a few clicks - use one of our preset evals or define a custom eval.\n * These evals will run against logged inferences automatically.\n * You can also use our [**open-source library**](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals) to run evals and iterate rapidly during development.\n* **Granular Analytics**:\n * Tracks usage metrics like response time, cost, token usage, feedback, and more.\n * Athina also track metrics from the evals, like Faithfulness, Answer Relevance, Context Sufficiency, etc\n * You can segment these metrics by any property: customer ID, environment, model, prompt, etc.\n * For example, you could use Athina to see how **prompt/v4** is performing for customer ID **nike-usa** and how **gpt-4** performance compares to a **llama-finetune**.\n\n**Who is this for?**\n\nAthina is designed for developers building AI products.\n\nIf you’re in the prototyping or development stage, you can use Athina to get visibility and [rapidly test](https://docs.athina.ai/evals/develop_dashboard) the LLM generated responses.\n\n![](https://docs.athina.ai/develop-ui-results.png)\n\nIf you have launched your AI in production, you can use Athina to monitor and evaluate your LLM in production.\n\n### 🌟 Our Story\n\nAs a team of engineers and hackers, we spent a summer trying to build various LLM-powered applications for developers.\n\nWhile working with LLMs, we found that the most challenging part was evaluating the Generative AI output and systematically improving model performance.\n\nOn speaking with other AI developers, we discovered a major gap in the tools that engineers need to effectively build production grade applications using LLMs, and set out to solve this problem.\n\n### 🚀 Get Started\n\nAthina AI is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\nHere’s how you can get started:\n\n* 🌟 Sign up for a free account at [app.athina.ai](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/knowledge/Eq-launch-yc#compose-your-launch-yc-post)\n* Log your inferences using [this guide](http://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api).\n* Try our [open source evals](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals).\n* [Schedule](https://cal.com/shiv-athina/30min) a call with us", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K6B-athina-ai-the-ultimate-monitoring-and-evaluation-platform-for-llm-developers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-01-09T17:07:26.255Z" } ] }, { "id": 27906, "name": "1stCollab", "slug": "1stcollab", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "website": "https://1stcollab.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "1stCollab is the first influencer platform that fully automates and optimizes every aspect of your influencer marketing program. We’ve helped hundreds of startups launch their first campaigns and enabled larger brands to scale to thousands of influencers, while saving them over $1M annually in influencer spend.\r\n\r\nWhat we offer:\r\n- Smart search & recommendations – Instantly connect with thousands of relevant influencers.\r\n- Full campaign automation – From outreach and negotiations to contracts, payments, and taxes, we handle it all.\r\n- Real-time performance tracking – Monitor conversions, revenue, and run A/B tests with detailed reporting.", "one_liner": "Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1671641116, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Marketing", "Advertising", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "After working on creator-related products for three years at Pinterest—and talking with dozens of creators about the challenges they faced—Varun and Leon began brainstorming different ways creators could better monetize the enormous value they delivered to their audiences and to brands. After testing a number of concepts, they became excited by the idea of building better discovery experiences to help brands find creators for their campaigns. A mutual friend connected them with Carina, who was independently building something similar. Andrew had also previously worked with Varun and Leon on discovery at Pinterest, and joined the team as well. Soon after, 1stCollab was born!" }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "We’re focused on solving a two-sided marketplace problem, for brands and creators. For brands, their biggest pain point with influencer marketing is discovering and sourcing creators. Platforms that exist today not only cost >$30k each year, but have very limited discovery capabilities. For instance, [Grin.co](http://Grin.co), one of the top two influencer marketing platforms today, does not surface any Instagram influencers as part of their sourcing tools. We’re going to be the first influencer marketing platform that prioritizes discovery and create the best discovery experience for brands by growing a network of authenticated creators and surfacing those creators through industry leading discovery algorithms and experiences. For creators, 99% of creators don’t get brand deals today, because creators don’t have a way to actively apply to relevant campaigns. By creating an open platform that has a broad set of brands, we can help creators apply to campaigns by showcasing those brands and their campaigns to relevant creators. Creators know their audience and content the best, and through encouraging creator participation, we can facilitate better matchmaking between brands and creators than any platform out there." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "From working at social media companies, we know that users engage at much higher rates with sponsored creator content than organic ads. But the market for sponsored influencer content is being held back, because it’s hard to run influencer marketing campaigns and the tools out there today don’t make it much easier. 1stCollab will simplify and automate influencer marketing the same way that Facebook and Google transformed the digital ads market. If we’re successful, we’ll enable a new category of ad spend—helping more brands to leverage influencer marketing and shift more of their budgets towards it. That’s money that goes directly to creators, enabling orders of magnitude more people to make a living as full-time creators. We have the opportunity to make content creation a genuinely feasible career for many, many talented folks out there—and we’re excited to make it happen." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/1stcollab.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1stcollab", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1168808, "full_name": "Leon Lin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Currently working on 1stCollab, the best platform for brands and creators to collaborate on influencer marketing campaigns. I was previously at Pinterest for over nine years, where I watched the company grow from 100 to 3k employees. Most recently, I was Head of Discovery product there where I led our Home, Search, and Pins teams and was responsible for user engagement. Before that, I was a tech lead on the Recommendations team.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e613d2a09dfafba1eedd23a45f5dc7c892ea74a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1168810, "full_name": "Varun Bansal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at 1stCollab, a platform for brands and creators to connect and run marketing campaigns together. Before 1stCollab, I worked at Pinterest, where I was a product manager for the homefeed recommendations team, the international growth team, and—most recently—the creator engagement and community teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3251e49676ec33cca771662e36818914ead68d75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176814, "full_name": "Andrew Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently working on building a network for brands and creators to connect and launch marketing campaigns. Previously, I was a Tech Lead on search and recommendations at Coupang and Pinterest.\n\n\nIf you're interested in search, recommendations, or creators, please reach out :)!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyuliu/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1270d66ac8965363670c2cc98caf2d245db2f2f7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 71585, "title": "Customer Success Manager (CSM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab/jobs/atezDBY-customer-success-manager-csm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94796, "title": "1stCollab - Fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing", "tagline": "Build a community of thousands of creators for your brand–instantly", "body": "**tl;dr**: 1stCollab is the fastest way to test, optimize, and scale your influencer program. Instantly source thousands of creators, and let our platform handle everything — outreach, negotiations, contracting, payments, and taxes — all while maximizing ROI.\n\n**Product Demo:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KI3LN-xqdM\n\n**Ask**: Introduce [leon@1stcollab.com](mailto:leon@1stcollab.com) to companies interested in influencer marketing!\n\n## The Problem\n\nWe’ve spoken with hundreds of startups running influencer programs, and nearly all hit the same roadblocks:\n\n* **Low response rates.** They reach out to about 10-20 influencers and don’t get any responses. \n* **Time-consuming processes.** Even if some creators reply, sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and paying them quickly turns into a full-time job (or an agency retainer).\n* **Scaling is hard.** Early success is exciting, but optimizing and expanding campaigns takes costly tools, headcount, and process.\n\n## What 1stCollab does\n\n1stCollab helps you test out and scale your influencer marketing program to hundreds of creators with an hour of setup work. We do this by automating the exact same influencer process that the world’s best marketing teams run. \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1: Instantly source thousands of influencers**\n\nFree to try out! We’ve indexed all of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube so you’ll quickly be able to find relevant creators using our search and recommendation tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/7c914441-b10e-4367-99c6-253a39f48bf6)\n\n**Step 2: We take care of outreach, negotiations, contracting and payments.** \n\nWe handle everything to bring the right creators on board at the right price. You’ll see the full negotiation history and campaign pipeline. Our pricing engine predicts ROI using real-time engagement signals and proprietary data from hundreds of thousands of deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/05e49138-75eb-4fdc-b941-e24044207a7d)\n\n**Step 3: (Optional) Review content**\n\nCreators submit concepts and draft videos for your approval. All revisions stay organized in one place. Once you give the green light, we take care of payouts and collect performance data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/fc46b925-16b3-4ef8-82df-1380a85dec64)\n\n\\\n**Step 4: Analyze your metrics**\n\nAs creators are going live, we’ll report out on real time engagement and link click metrics. We’ll cut things by ad groups as well so you can experiment with different briefs and creator populations to understand what works well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/90bbd692-5064-454d-a9c4-a20748bd411e)\n\n## Some of our campaigns\n\nWe’ve helped hundreds of startups start their influencer campaigns and scale up to **some of the largest campaigns on social media**. Some interesting case studies to check out include [Framer](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/framer), [Locket](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/locket), [Gamma](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/gamma) and [SnapCalorie](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/snapcalorie)!\n\n## How to get started\n\nStart [sourcing creators for free](https://brands.1stcollab.com/) or schedule [some time with Leon](https://calendar.app.google/Zd88eFtzJF3TKs3k6) so we can discuss campaign strategy and we can share with you best practices\n\nAlready running influencer campaigns? A/B test us against your current program — we’re confident we can improve your performance and efficiency!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/96f60d67-2c55-48e9-9d78-35dcdddb8e28)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oey-1stcollab-fully-automated-roi-optimized-influencer-marketing", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2025-10-21T19:13:55.295Z" }, { "id": 70145, "title": "1stCollab — Run an influencer marketing campaign in less than 30 minutes 🎉", "tagline": "1stCollab is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that automates the process of running an influencer marketing campaign.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nInfluencer marketing is one of the most efficient ways to reach and acquire new customers, but it’s tedious to run campaigns. By leveraging machine learning and our prior campaign data, 1stCollab lets you run a campaign in under 30 minutes. Visit [1stcollab.com](http://1stcollab.com) to get started with your next influencer marketing campaign!\n\n### **Why is influencer marketing hard?**\n\nFrom our time working at large social media platforms, we know that influencer marketing consistently outperforms organic ads. Unfortunately, launching an influencer campaign is a manual and lengthy process. _Launching an influencer campaign takes weeks_, while launching Google ads takes just minutes. \n\nThe first step of every influencer campaign is to find the right creators to work with—which often takes over 50 hours per campaign. Existing solutions cost tens of thousands of dollars and operate off inaccurate data. As a result, the majority of influencer marketers spend hours manually searching on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. From there, they have to manually calculate stats, vet a creator’s audience, evaluate past partnerships, and negotiate rates and contract terms, review creatives, report out campaign metrics, and finally submit payments. This whole process often takes 2+ weeks for a single campaign.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n1stCollab lets you launch an influencer marketing campaign in minutes—not weeks. All you have to do is find a single influencer who's relevant to your brand and target customers. Then:\n\n1. Use our [influencer look-alike discovery tool](https://www.1stcollab.com/) to identify, vet, and save additional influencers you'd like to work with. We do what the best influencer marketers do: identify a single relevant creator, dig through that creator’s community, identify additional relevant creators, and repeat the process—but automatically.\n2. Send us your list of saved influencers and tell us about your campaign goals and budget.\n3. We'll take care of everything from there. All you have to do is approve the content that the influencers will post.\n\nWe support campaigns on all platforms. Our self-serve discovery tool currently supports YouTube, and we’re launching for Instagram and TikTok soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/a5397e58-9fda-4820-8ec8-945d2930f80d)\n\n### **Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/214846e7-6c27-47c6-9213-4ecac24313be)\n\nOur team has built some of the largest and most-used discovery and ML systems in the world, and has led industry-leading influencer marketing programs.\n\n* [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/) spent nine years at Pinterest, where he was most recently Head of Discovery Product. \n* [Varun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/) was at Pinterest for five years, where he led product for both the Creator Engagement and Recommendations teams. \n* [Carina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-cater/) led influencer marketing at Whatnot, Robinhood, and Curology.\n* [Andrew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyu-liu/) was the tech lead for the Recommendations and Search team at Coupang and the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n* [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlau93/) was a Founding Engineer and tech lead for the Machine Learning team at Abnormal Security and earlier, an engineer on the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* **Want to give influencer marketing a try?** We'd love to help! We're the easiest and fastest way to do it. Our discovery tool is free to try and we’re happy to help you run the rest of your campaign.\n* **Know someone doing influencer marketing?** We'd love to be connected. Even if our product isn't the right fit, we’d love to know how we can make their process faster and improve their performance.\n* **No plans to run an influencer marketing campaign?** Feel free to use our discovery tool and explore creators you might want to work with in the future! We'd love to get feedback on the discovery experience.\n\nIf you have any questions, shoot us an email at [hello@1stcollab.com](mailto:hello@1stcollab.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IFN-1stcollab-run-an-influencer-marketing-campaign-in-less-than-30-minutes", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-03-10T18:04:24.429Z" } ] }, { "id": 28852, "name": "Kite", "slug": "kite", "former_names": [ "MockRocket" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bfa0b0578ef53f45eaff933ccf7f9f6f80f2b0f.png", "website": "https://kite.video", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Kite is a screen recorder that makes your demo videos look like Apple commercials in minutes.\r\n\r\nSimply record your app (works for iPhone recordings too!). Kite will track your cursor and keyboard inputs, so it can automatically zoom in on the action with professional 3D animations.\r\n\r\nKite is as easy as Canva, but your videos will look like they came out of OpenAI or Figma.\r\n\r\n- One-click cinematic 3D animations\r\n- Display recordings on 3D mockup devices (MacBooks, iPhones etc)\r\n- Combine unlimited recordings into one video\r\n- Edit, adjust speed and trim recordings\r\n- Add text scenes and text annotations alongside recordings\r\n- AI voiceovers using state of the art text to speech models\r\n- Free music library\r\n- Brand kit–upload your logos, colors and fonts\r\n- Start from our template library or start from scratch\r\n\r\nKite is used by hundreds of YC companies for launch videos, social media posts, landing page demos, changelog updates, feature releases and more.", "one_liner": "Screen recorder for stunning product demo videos", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1691634049, "tags": [ "Video", "Media", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kite", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/kite.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/kitevideo", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kitevideohq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bfa0b0578ef53f45eaff933ccf7f9f6f80f2b0f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 282294, "full_name": "Derek Feehrer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Kite (YC S23)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/feehrer", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DerekFeehrer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ebf28b52304644fa15b45fffef219e167d402601.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1432840, "full_name": "Todd Ashley", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO @ Kite", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddashley/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/toddashleyk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/364ed2da8f58a673c40ff44e66c17f8fc3b9381b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74042, "title": "Kite: Apple-style product videos in minutes", "tagline": "Kite helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes.", "body": "### 🏎️ TLDR\n\nKite helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes. Take a screen recording of your product and turn it into a polished video–no experience required.\\\n\\\n👉 Try out Kite on Mac OS (alpha): [**https://kite.video**](https://kite.video?ref=launchyc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/6bca3709-f628-4c2b-a533-6fb825209d17)\n\n👋 Hey there!\n\nDerek and Todd from Kite here.\n\n### 🥲 The Problem\n\nTop companies know that the way they present themselves to the world matters. **Great storytelling amplifies great products**.\n\nWhen Apple launches a product—or even the tiniest feature—they don’t just put out a press release or a Tweet. They put on something closer to a cinematic film premiere—using video to craft a story and make their audience truly appreciate their features, one by one.\n\nMost of us aren’t Apple, but need to tell our story all the same. **Nearly every software company needs marketing videos**, not just once, but continuously.\n\nUsers prefer video to text and social algorithms boost it heavily.\n\nThe world is noisy. Every feature release is an opportunity to relaunch your product and tell your company’s story once again.\n\n(Some companies we think crush it with frequent feature launch videos: Framer, Brex, and Vercel).\n\n**The thing is, making great marketing videos is still _really_ hard.**\n\nDerek has been pulling out his hair making startup marketing videos for over a decade, both for his own products and as a contractor.\n\nExisting solutions are either **bland**, **tedious**, or **expensive**:\n\n* **Simple screen captures** work well for internal communication but aren’t great for grabbing attention externally, and tend to all look the same. Attention spans are short, and a lot of software just…isn’t that engaging on its own.\n* You can cobble together **powerful video tools** (After Effects, etc), but you’ll probably spend way longer than you’d like, end up with a janky result, and feel like you should have earned a film degree by the end.\n* Or, you can **hire a video creator** (contractor, agency, or full-time). Tech companies spend a LOT on marketing video creation (We know, we’ve talked to your video people!).\n\n### 🪁 The Solution\n\nOur goal with Kite is to help any software company create studio-quality marketing videos—no studio required.\n\nHere’s a quick Kite video we made for our Product Hunt launch this week:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Gz6JI2KSk)\n\nWe start with **screen capturing** your product. It’s easy. If you can take a Loom, you can take a Kite.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/e83335c6-d414-483e-a806-fd7726d03239)\n\nThen we turn it into a ridiculously professional video—semi-automatically.\n\n* Show off your app on the screen of a **3D device model** (like a laptop).\n* Kite **automatically moves the camera** to follow the action and highlight the features your cursor is interacting with.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/c491535d-1987-4417-a0aa-fca72a90b324)\n\n* Add **animated text** (kinetic typography) with two clicks.\n* Sync it all together to the beat of a music track from our **music library**\n* Check out our tutorial video for more detail:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lhSIGDW98)\n\n(**This entire video was made in Kite**, you can explore the full project file in the app).\n\n### 🛣️ Roadmap\n\nWe want to make Kite more comprehensive and automatic with each update–abstracting away all the tedious parts of making great videos, and giving you all the cool stuff you see in big co-marketing videos for free, so can let your creativity run wild.\n\nWe've only been working on Kite for a few months, but there's a lot coming!\n\n* **AI-assisted video creation**\n * **LLMs** – Chat with Kite like you’d chat with a video creator. Get help with everything from copy editing and storytelling to animations and fonts.\n * **Generative AI** – narrations, music, graphics, 3D objects\n * 3D object scans for physical product demos\n* More **customization**–animations, text effects, music, 3D devices, backgrounds, cursors, etc\n* **Mobile videos** & iPhone screen capture\n* Designer **templates**\n\n### 🔮 The future\n\n* We’re starting with software videos because it’s an area we know well, but we’re not stopping there. We think the web is a more engaging place where everyone can create great videos and we're excited to help create the next generation of **AI-first video tools**.\n\n### 👉 Try out Kite on Mac OS (alpha): [**https://kite.video**](https://kite.video?ref=launchyc)\n\nYou can use the entire product **for free**, just upgrade to remove watermarks.\n\nSend us feedback, bug reports, and questions! [support@kite.video](mailto:support@kite.video)\\\n\\\nDerek & Todd (& Harvey 🐶)\\\nKite\\\n🪁🪁🪁\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/816899be-a259-4847-af3a-01e90ec336dc)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JGE-kite-apple-style-product-videos-in-minutes", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-08-11T23:04:21.633Z" } ] }, { "id": 28921, "name": "Surface Labs", "slug": "surface-labs", "former_names": [ "Surface" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d1c735d9ba6a64fce2c94cba6690c524ea7f778.png", "website": "https://withsurface.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Surface Labs helps B2B companies capture, qualify, and convert inbound leads through intelligent contact forms. We replace tools like HubSpot Forms, Zapier, and Chili Piper with a single platform that embeds on any site with one line of code.\r\n\r\nOur AI agents handle lead capture, enrichment, routing, follow-up, and CRO testing — automating what used to require full marketing ops teams. 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[**Surface Labs**](https://withsurface.com/) is building the first **AI Workforce for Marketing Ops** — a team of AI Agents that run your inbound workflows, boost conversions, and cut workloads by 80%.\n\nOur AI Agents are already live in production, handling **50k+ leads every month**. \\\n\\\nMeet one of the first: the **Form Agent**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93874&key=user_uploads/1179226/4f068f22-c1da-43c6-a00a-132cea0b6259)\n\n### **🙅‍♂️ Problem**\n\nMarketing teams spend millions on ads, tools, and headcount… but still lose **30–50% of inbound leads** to spam, bad routing, and slow follow-ups.\n\nEveryday reality:\n\n* Endless spreadsheets and duct-taped workflows.\n* Hours wasted fixing ops instead of building campaigns.\n* Pressure from leadership while growth stalls and leads slip away.\n\nMarketers weren’t hired to babysit forms and CRMs. They were hired to **create, inspire, and drive growth**.\n\n### **👌 Solution: The AI Workforce for Marketing Ops**\n\nWe’re building an AI Workforce that handles the repetitive, manual parts of marketing ops so that marketers can focus on strategy and creativity. Here are some of the members of the Workforce:\n\n* **Forms Agent** → builds high-converting funnels that capture every lead.\n* **Follow-Up Agent** → responds instantly, with personalized outreach.\n* **CRM Agent** → routes and updates deals in Salesforce/HubSpot.\n* **Experiments Agent**→ runs CRO tests automatically to boost conversions.\n* **Ads Agent** → optimizes ad spend and performance in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93874&key=user_uploads/1179226/d5785765-ad9a-4de4-a619-72393b38ca91)\n\n### **📊 See Results within 2 weeks**\n\n* **Agent-powered** inbound funnels boost conversions by 30%\n* **80%+ spam eliminated;** replaces expensive ad fraud prevention & lead routing tools (e.g. ChiliPiper, LeanData)\n* **Does the work of 3+ ops hires** at a fraction of the salary cost\n\n### **Want to hire our agents (& get free lunch)?**\n\n**👉 Stop letting leads slip away.** Book a demo/ free strategy call with our founders [**here**](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/15-min-intro-call-with-surface)**.**\n\nWe’ll audit your inbound funnel/ ops and if we can’t build you a form + workflow funnel that beats your current setup, **lunch is on us.**\n\n### **Want to work with us?**\n\n[**_Surface Labs_**](https://withsurface.com/) _is an applied AI lab building the next generation of marketing technology._ _Our core product grew 70% in the last month, with 500k+ website visitor sessions and 50K+ leads captured every month. Surface AI agents are live in production and usage is 📈📈📈._\n\n_Email [**saharsh@withsurface.com**](mailto:saharsh@withsurface.com) with 3 bullet points on why you want to work with us._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OQ6-surface-labs-ai-workforce-for-marketing-operations", "votes": 130, "created_at": "2025-09-16T18:12:22.299Z" }, { "id": 81386, "title": "Surface Labs: AI that turns Leads into Customers", "tagline": "Boost conversion rates by up to 40% using AI.", "body": "**TL;DR** We previously built intelligent forms for businesses to **_boost website conversions by up to 40%_**, but found them still struggling to close sales because they _couldn’t **scale manual human tasks**_ against increased lead volume. _We give every site visitor a dedicated AI agent to convert more leads into customers across the entire funnel._\n\n---\n\n—\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **The Problem.**\n\n**Over 40% of ad spend is wasted.** Businesses spend money on ads to drive traffic to websites/ PPC pages, but businesses struggle to convert visitors into leads if the page fails to convey value and collect lead data. This results in **leads leaving to visit competitors' websites** and **wasted ad spend.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/f96972a0-9b96-420e-afcb-eb33ed6f4957)\n\nEven if a lead does initially convert on the site, it’s not enough. Businesses still need to\n\n* **filter out unqualified leads/ fake form fills**\n* **decrease speed-to-lead**\n* **repeatedly** **engage the lead**\n\nThis problem is most severe for businesses in **competitive ad spaces** with commoditized offerings (e.g. services, lending, higher education, home services, etc).\n\nAs a result, many businesses end up **buying low-quality leads in bulk** from lead gen services or just **spray-and-pray** cold outbound campaigns.\n\n—\n\n# **Our Solution.**\n\nWe’re building an **_intelligent lead management system_** — a better way to track and engage every lead that clicks on an ad & lands on your website.\n\nWe’ve achieved this by building:\n\n* super customizable, **high-converting** lead forms\n* dedicated AI agents to **qualify and engage every lead** on your website\n* better **ad targeting and personalization** using first-party data collected on your website\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/c72a7f9c-8b56-47ab-8c8d-0eb0e222bb54)\n\nThe platform includes a highly customizable, multi-step form builder, agent configuration UI, and data + analytics dashboards that provide granular details for every lead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/c8ca819f-6e77-44b7-ac87-a1629bcacc49)\n\n—\n\n## **The Backstory.**\n\nWe (**Arjun and Saharsh**) are both engineers who met at UC Berkeley 🐻 and have helped growth teams at multiple startups and companies like **Snowflake** ❄️ boost funnel conversion rates.\n\nWe launched our high-converting forms product last September, **booked 300+ customer calls** in just a few days, and have helped hundreds of businesses ranging from **law firms, real-estate** and **high-ticket coaching services** to **B2B SaaS companies** spending millions on ads boost conversion rates on their website.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/d96a94aa-8abd-4359-9bd8-6a4994841385)\n\nAre you ready to optimize your ad spend and engage every lead using AI?\n\nWe’d love to chat! Reach out at [saharsh@withsurface.com](mailto:hello@plyhealth.com), fill out the contact form on our [website](https://withsurface.com/), or book a demo directly [here](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/25-min-intro-call-w-surface-labs). We’d also appreciate sharing our launch and following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/96129512)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LAg-surface-labs-ai-that-turns-leads-into-customers", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-06-08T15:17:11.558Z" }, { "id": 74412, "title": "🏓 Surface: Intelligent Forms that Boost Conversions", "tagline": "We're building a better way to buy products, starting with forms.", "body": "👋 Hey everyone - we’re Saharsh and Arjun from [Surface Labs](http://withsurface.com)!\n\n### **🏆 TL;DR**\n\nWe’re building intelligent forms designed to help B2B companies collect richer customer data and convert more site visitors to customers via AI-powered content personalization.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/feb58565-fcf9-442d-9cd7-9a2b8cfbcd40)\n\n### **🤔 The Problem**\n\n**You’re losing out on the opportunity to collect valuable first-party data from your customers and increase conversions due to suboptimal forms on your landing page.**\n\n* It’s difficult to personalize content on a form using existing solutions, despite this being one of the most effective methods for converting customers\n* Solutions like Typeform don’t fit seamlessly into your product’s design/ styling and can look out of place 🤢\n* HubSpot or custom-built forms can easily lack an optimal UX that drives form conversions 🥱\n\nOptimizing page forms to collect rich user data that your marketing and sales teams can use to drive conversions is important but is an ongoing task that takes resources away from developing your core product.\n\n### **✨ Our Product**\n\nWe’re building intelligent forms designed to help companies collect richer customer data and convert more site visitors to customers through AI-powered content personalization.\\\n\\\nOur forms can be embedded in minutes on your site as a pop-up or even take over the entire page and provide your business with a managed “Contact Sales” page!\\\n\\\nHere are some example of early forms that we’re building:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/f2cdf1f7-1166-4d67-8ffa-6008adac73c2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/14aa7de7-73ea-43cb-986c-79b2bec5499c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/6179b0ec-94eb-43d8-b97a-c93f33167b90)\n\nOur platform has helped our customers:\n\n* add targeted messaging to a form to easily enable personalization at scale\n* reduce the burden of data entry for customers to improve form completions by up to 70%\n* manage their entire inbound sales pipeline with our managed “Contact Sales” page experience\n* enrich customer responses with external data sources and ask personalized follow-up questions that allow sales teams to instantly filter, qualify, and book meetings with leads\n\n### **⚙️ Features**\n\nAt their most basic, our forms are customized to match your site’s theme and branding, but here are some additional things our forms can do:\n\n* Intelligent form routing logic\n* AI-Powered A/B testing of questions\n* Automatic lead enrichment and scoring\n* Slack bots that inform you when an important lead has signed up\n* Integrations with your CRM, CDP, analytics, email, and scheduling tools\n\n### 👏 **Our Team**\n\nArjun and I met as freshmen at UC Berkeley 🐻 where we both studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/3f2b4e0b-a5f2-438c-aa96-5b853b512322)\n\n[Arjun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjun-sahai/) spent much of his time at Snowflake on the growth team optimizing their self-serve flow, starting with the form on [signup.snowflake.com](http://signup.snowflake.com).\n\n[Saharsh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saharshagrawal/) received his M.S. in EECS from Berkeley where he studied privacy-preserving systems and has worked at early-stage startups where he built products from 0-to-1.\n\nThey’ve both worked with marketing/ sales/ growth teams to perform experimentation around content personalization, onboarding flows, and form templates to help optimize improve response rates/conversion rates. After directly experiencing how powerful personalized business forms can be, Saharsh and Arjun decided to start Surface.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nIf you are currently using a custom form/ Typeform/ Hubspot form, have had to disable your Calendly booking screen due to spam bookings, or are struggling to collect rich user data from inbound leads, check us out!\n\nWe’re onboarding a limited number of companies over the next 2 weeks and are custom-building forms for them prior to our self-serve product launch.\\\nBook time to chat with us [here](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/15-min-intro-call-with-surface?month=2023-09) or reach out at [founders@withsurface.com](https://founders@withsurface.com)!\n\nVisit our website at [withsurface.com](http://withsurface.com) to check out one of our forms!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JMC-surface-intelligent-forms-that-boost-conversions", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2023-08-25T23:49:16.378Z" } ] }, { "id": 29332, "name": "Polished", "slug": "polished", "former_names": [ "Double", "Pillar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6b130da6813f93f556cf04be9132b6ba506b4fc.png", "website": "https://polished.ad", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "With Polished, you create finished ads (video or static) in minutes.\r\nThen you refine it in plain English, until it's exactly what you had in mind.", "one_liner": "Generate ads. 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We’re JJ and Mark, cofounders of [Pillar](https://trypillar.com) 👋\n\n**TL;DR: Pillar is an embedded AI copilot that executes tasks inside your product for users and agents.**\n\nUsers or agents can type what they want. The copilot carries it out **client-side in the browser**, using the user’s existing session, permissions, and security checks. You install the SDK via npm and register your existing frontend code as tools.\n\nExample: in a banking app, a user types _“send $200 to my cleaners.”_ Pillar finds the right recipient, navigates to the transfer flow, and pre-fills the form. The user still reviews and confirms. If your app requires 2FA for that acion, so does the copilot.\n\nDemo: \n\n# The Problem\n\nTeams ship faster than ever. But when your changelog is 10x longer than it used to be, users can’t keep up.\n\n* **Discoverability breaks down:** the UI changes, features move, and people forget where things live.\n* **Friction turns into “support”:** users open tickets that aren’t really support tickets. The user wanted to do something your product already supported but couldn’t get there.\n* **Most products don’t have an “action layer”:** AI agents are starting to use web apps the same way users do: navigate, click, fill forms. Products need to prepare for this\n\n**Bottom line:** products need a reliable, permissioned way to execute actions end-to-end - not just document them.\n\n# How Pillar Works\n\nPillar turns a user request into action by combining planning with **in-browser execution**.\n\n1. **Plan:** Pillar determines which steps/tools to run\n2. **Execute:** your app runs those tools in the browser (navigation, API calls, state updates, form fills)\n3. **Confirm:** the user stays in control for sensitive actions.\n\nYou register tools inside your existing React components:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97986&key=user_uploads/376672/a918639c-e2a9-405b-9e4d-2f54acac8af0)\n\nWhat happens at runtime when a user types _“send $200 to my cleaners”_:\n\n* Pillar calls **search_recipients** with “cleaners”\n* Selects the right match\n* Calls **prefill_transfer** with the recipient + amount\n* User reviews and confirms in the existing flow\n\nBecause execution happens in the browser, tools run with the current user’s permissions and session. **Pillar can’t do anything the user can’t do.**\n\nPillar syncs with your help content (Zendesk, Intercom, Notion, Confluence, internal docs) so requests map to the right tools/flows. When it picks the wrong path, you flag it and the correction is captured so the same issue is less likely to repeat.\n\nSDKs are available for React and vanilla JavaScript. Registered tools can also be reused by other copilots/agents via WebMCP (navigator.modelContext).\n\n# Try It\n\nInstall: [trypillar.com](http://trypillar.com)\n\nWe also have live demos you can try right now - Pillar installed on open-source products:\n\n* Grafana ([trypillar.com/demos/grafana](https://trypillar.com/demos/grafana)): you can have Pillar build you a monitoring dashboard and set up alerts\n* Apache Superset ([trypillar.com/demos/superset](https://trypillar.com/demos/superset)): you can explore the names dataset and build a dashboard\n\n👉 Want help getting live? Reach out at [founders@trypillar.com](https://mailto:founders@trypillar.com)\n\n# Our Ask\n\n* If you lead product/engineering and users open tickets for things your product already does, we’d love to talk: [founders@trypillar.com](mailto:founders@trypillar.com)\n* If you know someone who fits that (founders, VP Product, Head of Support), intros are appreciated\n* Share this post. Follow us on LinkedIn and X.\n\n# Backstory\n\nWe built Pillar to solve our own problem. At our last company (Double Finance), we saw a pattern: users asked for outcomes we already supported, but still opened support tickets. We wanted a way to reuse the frontend code we’d already shipped, without rebuilding flows or adding new “automation” surfaces.\n\n_Pillar is what we wish we had._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97986&key=user_uploads/376672/597895ee-5fab-49bb-b55e-cabb1f3f6ff2)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PUQ-pillar-your-app-s-copilot", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-02-19T20:32:35.986Z" }, { "id": 82801, "title": "Double - Design your own stock index", "tagline": "Double automates your investments with zero AUM fees.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82801&key=user_uploads/1289064/c2a6166e-82a3-419a-9800-0648a58901ea)\n\n**TL; DR** — Design and invest in your own stock index that’s advised, managed, and tax-optimized by [Double](https://double.finance/).\n\nHistorically, access to sophisticated finance tools like direct indexing and tax loss harvesting has come at a steep cost and only through exclusive financial advisors. We are on a mission to revolutionize investing by providing world-class portfolio tools to everyday investors without any AUM fees. \n\n# Key Features\n\n* **Direct Index into 20+ ETFs:** Build an elite portfolio with the ability to tilt towards specific sectors, industries, themes, or even custom groupings like all YC publicly listed companies.\n* **Daily Tax Optimization, Rebalancing & Potential Tax Loss Harvesting**: Our optimization engine keeps your portfolio on track by factoring in drift, taxes and transaction costs. If your account qualifies, our tax-loss harvesting service aims to help you minimize your tax liability and maximize your after-tax returns.\n* **Dollar-cost averaging:** We allow users to move between positions at a set cadence, regardless of the market's performance, helping you reduce timing risks associated with active trading.\n\n# Example Use Cases\n\nWork for AAPL and want to diversify away from tech?\n\n* Buy a direct-indexed [S&P 500 Portfolio](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/3), remove AAPL entirely, and cut the rest of your tech exposure in half.\n\nDid you know AI was going to be a big deal before everyone else?\n\n* Double makes it easy to tilt your portfolio towards your hunches. Pick a handful of stocks set to benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act, or some that target the booming AI and semiconductor industry, or shift your portfolio towards the explosive meme growth of Zyn.\n\nFeeling confident in the overall market and ready to pile on the risk?\n\n* Follow [Hedgefundie’s Adventure](https://app.double.finance/explore/110), which uses 3x leverage in a Stock and Bond ETF to try and increase returns. Or pick from our smart screens that target top growing companies or even a basket of the [YC Public Companies](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/140).\n\nThink we’re headed for a recession and want to take some chips off the table? \n\n* You can invest in a version of [Ray Dalio’s All Weather Portfolio](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/108) comprising 5 ETFs or [John Bogles Majesty of Simplicity](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/105) and migrate between these Strategies and Bonds over time.\n\nBuild and backtest your own stock index!\n\n* Use our Stock and ETF Screeners to build your very own personalized portfolio.\n\n#### Fees\n\nDouble doesn’t charge AUM fees. Financial Advisors often charge around 1% a year for tools like Direct Indexing and Dollar Cost Averaging. In a sample $1M portfolio, these fees lead to a dollar cost of $1,800,000 or a 24.5% overall reduction in performance over 30 years, assuming 6% growth vs. 7% growth. We aim to eventually make money like the commission-free trading pioneers. Our custodian Apex Clearing charges some fees which we pass on to users which you can see [here](https://help.double.finance/en/articles/9450171-service-provider-fees). \n\n#### Additional Features\n\n* Backtest a custom stock grouping to see its historic performance.\n* Cash sweep available: Earn 4.5% interest on your uninvested cash (as of August 5th, 2024, not a guarantee of future rates)\n* Fractional investing: Invest in over 3,000 US stocks and 1,400 ETFs for as little as $5 per share.\n* Support for Personal, Joint, and Trust Accounts\n* Daily portfolio optimization and trade execution\n* Recurring or one-time deposits via ACH or Wire\n* ACAT Transfer in an existing brokerage account\n\n#### Get Started Today\n\nWe’re live at . Sign up for a Double account today and start building your own stock index. Please reach out to [founders@double.finance](mailto:founders@double.finance) with any feedback or questions!\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXctLsEGUWaE1ScP7EqAuz0sPPYQDg7Vt1Zlpn5Cx-sfubv0nJvIZertGsNS0zPWoWzzJSw-orkpmSTzIFepxiDziCKdJN6sMXMAS1GSYwcTfiyY3ZqlIA_db-gZX4rHTji2-dZPfMWgdz-qmvb7whdOackQ?key=nGDLEdHNSqYCi809_9DeNQ)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LXV-double-design-your-own-stock-index", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2024-08-07T00:27:48.572Z" } ] }, { "id": 30068, "name": "Stewdio", "slug": "stewdio", "former_names": [ "Cekura" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/76c1ddcd6e0758f1c6b54dc35abad2f336a3c4a2.png", "website": "https://www.stewdio.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Stewdio is a collaborative platform for creative teams to use all the latest image + video generation models in one place. Music video directors, ad agencies, and architects use Stewdio to create everything from rap videos for Quavo and Loco, advertising storyboards, to architectural renderings.", "one_liner": "All-in-one AI creative platform", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1732154471, "tags": [ "Design", "Design Tools", "Video", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stewdio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/stewdio.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cekura", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/76c1ddcd6e0758f1c6b54dc35abad2f336a3c4a2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1946061, "full_name": "Jialiang (JZ) Zhou", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building Stewdio.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jialiang-zhou/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jz2letters", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4d56d45648221cdcd70b281b7f0b9d300d023077.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1690295, "full_name": "Blake Shao", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Stewdio (F24). Brown CS grad, took a consumer AI startup for 0 to 1 as a founding engineer, and won festivals as a filmmaker before startup.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianyi-shao-46597b21b/", "x_url": "https://x.com/rmptmlk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9f1cbcf5f33530fa68a8d32d153893e7124e31ba.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92515, "title": "🍲 Stewdio: All-in-one AI creative platform", "tagline": "Make beautiful visual assets with all the generative tools in one place", "body": "Hi everyone!\n\nWe’re JZ and Blake. We’re tired of seeing people make generic AI slop so we built a platform to make beautiful visual assets with AI.\n\n**TLDR**\n\nStewdio is a collaborative platform for creative teams to use all the generative tools to make stunning images and videos with AI.\n\nTry our platform if you want to use AI to generate beautiful visuals. Use code **LETMECOOK** to get 20% off for 3 months.\n\nWe are also an AI-first creative agency. If you think our launch video is cool, reach out to [founders@stewdio.ai](mailto:founders@stewdio.ai) so we can make one for you.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ZD4Vuk96P54\n\n**😵‍💫 Problem: Too many subscriptions and too little control**\n\n1. Right now, image and video models and tools are scattered across 10+ platforms (Veo, Kling, Hailuo, Flux, Sora, etc.)\n2. The dominant turn-based chat interface makes organizing assets and ideas a mess\n3. Generation feels like a slot machine. Trying the same prompt over and over again to get the perfect result is not only expensive but also draining\n\n**😆 Solution: Realtime Collaborative Canvas**\n\n1. All the best image and video models are in one place, with one subscription\n2. A Figma-like multiplayer canvas workspace to organize assets, work in parallel, and let ideas flow (no more 2-minute freeze and digging through the chat history)\n3. Fine-grained image editing features like inpaint, creative expand, and upscale. So generation no longer feels like pulling a slot machine\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92515&key=user_uploads/1946061/bf7b204c-5226-4f0a-8d88-086451701ab5)\n\n🤼‍♂️ **Team: Creative Technologists**\n\nJZ (CEO): Brown CS, started a consumer AI startup in college, hackathon winner, music producer.\n\nBlake (CPO): Brown CS + Film grad, took a consumer AI startup for 0 to 1 as a founding engineer, won festivals as a filmmaker before startup.\n\nWe became friends in college while making music videos together. We are as much creatives as we are technologists, so we are super excited to see our users use our platform to make music video + visualizers (including work for Quavo and Loco), advertising storyboards, and architectural renderings. Hope to see your work soon!\n\n🙏 **Ask:**\n\n1. Try the platform yourself\n2. Reach out to [founders@stewdio.ai](mailto:founders@stewdio.ai) if you need beautiful videos", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O4B-stewdio-all-in-one-ai-creative-platform", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-07-28T18:39:53.191Z" }, { "id": 85776, "title": "Cekura - Browser Agent That Keeps Your Documentation Up-to-Date 👾", "tagline": "Help knowledge and customer success teams save 100+ hours per week by automating documentation maintenance", "body": "Hey guys! We are Blake and JZ - co-founders of Cekura.\n\n## ⏳TL;DR\n\nCekura built an AI browser agent that can read how-to articles and navigate the product to verify if the articles are still valid. It saves documentation/customer success teams at SaaS companies hundreds of hours per week.\n\n\n\n## 😱 Problem: Things Break When You Move Fast\n\nThe engineering team is releasing a new feature — hoorayyy! Guess who’s not excited — the documentation team. So many help articles are no longer up-to-date. They are now faced with 2 options:\n\n1. Finding and reading through all the relevant product help articles (this will take literally 100+ hours of manual labor per week for some companies), or\n2. Hoping that a dissatisfied customer will file a complaint instead of quietly churning.\n\n## 🤩 Solution: AI Documentation Checker\n\nCekura’s browser agent will check if your documentation is up-to-date by following the instructions in your documentation like a real user! It can:\n\n1. Set up proper sandbox environment (i.e. admin vs non-admin users)\n2. Perform actions like a real person (reading the page, scrolling, clicking, etc)\n3. Record session replays to show you exactly what was wrong with the documentation\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85776&key=user_uploads/1690295/a8b33dd1-efb0-40d5-87cc-d14c798c563a)\n\n## 🤝 Team\n\nBlake and JZ both graduated from Brown with a computer science degree this year. They worked on countless projects together, ranging from independent creative projects to a consumer startup with thousands of users (known by batchmates as the team that pivoted from making music videos to AI browser agents).\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\nDo you work at a SaaS company with a huge knowledge base of help documentation? Email [founders@cekura.io](mailto:founders@cekura.io) to put documentation maintenance on autopilot!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MJU-cekura-browser-agent-that-keeps-your-documentation-up-to-date", "votes": 173, "created_at": "2024-11-21T20:11:14.325Z" } ] }, { "id": 30438, "name": "Beluga", "slug": "beluga", "former_names": [ "Beluga Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/11644b045eb253141d3efc6875010730a886df27.png", "website": "https://www.trybeluga.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Using our 6+ years of creator marketing experience to help companies run their creator campaigns at scale. Fully managed solution to drive real, attributable results to their marketing efforts.", "one_liner": "Creator marketing that scales like paid ads", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1748129784, "tags": [ "Marketing", "Advertising", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beluga", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/beluga.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/beluga-labs-ai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/trybeluga", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/belugaworks", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/11644b045eb253141d3efc6875010730a886df27.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/600581f4d6a2f6f21d447c8a755b595ac315a2ae.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2204818, "full_name": "Fernando Young", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Beluga Labs. Studied Sociology at Harvard and cross-enrolled at MIT Sloan. Perviously part of the GTM team at Meta, led sales at Dare Drop, and was most recently a Senior Account Executive at HubSpot. Now building Beluga Labs to help content creators operate more like a business.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-young-13b713166/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Fern_Y0ung", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/737eec44898287461eef94df920d67a56fb317ca.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2210281, "full_name": "Jack Swisher", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-led AI R&D at Bubble designing a text to app generator in Bubble's native, drag and drop language. Studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard and wrote a thesis on evaluating generative models. Now building Beluga to transform how companies grow through creators.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-swisher-77548a165/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Jack__Swisher", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/86e37ee92739f6fb866f40d6e73bb55913da251c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 107925, "title": "Beluga - Creator Marketing on Autopilot", "tagline": "Run creator marketing like paid ads", "body": "**TL;DR**: We run creator marketing end-to-end so companies can test and scale the channel without needing to hire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/717d980b-6271-4c94-a779-1c60e4277af9)\n\nMarketers do not need to be convinced that distribution matters.\n\nThe harder question is whether a channel can become repeatable before it consumes the whole team.\n\nCreator marketing is one of those channels. It oftentimes performs 3-5x better than traditional digital ads. When it works, it can drive real awareness, clicks, and signups from audiences that are hard to reach through paid ads. But running it well still tends to mean spreadsheets, inboxes, rate negotiations, contracts, draft reviews, tracking links, payment follow-up, and a lot of manual judgment.\n\nThat is what we built Beluga to fix.\n\n---\n\n## Why this problem got under our skin\n\nOne of the largest spenders in creator marketing made the labor problem concrete for us. They are spending in the high six figures each month, and told us they employ 30+ people to run their creator partnerships. Even then, each rep can only manage around 18 creators.\n\nThey also told us that if they had $2M ready to put into the channel tomorrow, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They would need to hire even more people.\n\nThat is a wild ceiling for a marketing channel that should scale with spend.\n\nWe got pulled into this from both sides.\n\nFernando saw the brand side up close at Dare Drop, helping gaming publishers run creator campaigns. The demand was real, but the operating model still looked like a traditional agency: lots of coordination, lots of manual work, and a hard ceiling on how much the team could scale.\n\nWe also spent time on the creator side while trying to build a Rippling for the self-employed. Working with creators on taxes showed us the other half of the problem: even when a brand deal is a good fit, the process around it is painful. Creators have to find deals that match their audience and content style, align expectations with the brand, actually run the campaign, and then hope they get paid on time.\n\nWe kept seeing the same thing from both sides: brands wanted creator marketing to work, creators wanted better deals and less chaos, and everyone was somehow stuck in spreadsheets, email threads, and manual follow-up.\n\n---\n\n## What Beluga does\n\nThe problem is not that creator marketing is mysterious. It works when you find the right creators, give them enough room to make authentic content, track the results properly, and run enough shots on goal.\n\nThe hard part is doing all of that consistently without making it a headcount problem.\n\nBeluga is our attempt to make creator marketing feel more like running a paid acquisition channel: set the target, set the budget, see what is happening, and double down on what works.\n\nWe run campaigns ed-to-end, including:\n\n* Creator sourcing and vetting\n* Pricing and negotiation\n* Contracting\n* Deliverable management\n* Creator payments\n* Performance tracking\n* Post-campaign analysis\n\nThe goal is that a founder or growth team can test creator marketing without building the internal machine. If the results are there, we help them scale the channel without turning it into a hiring plan.\n\nSince starting in March, we have generated over 3M views for clients ranging from YC companies to Series F hyperscalers, and saved over $100k in negotiations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/2dd9d0b8-f197-41aa-aa36-621c473b6569)\n\n_Beluga helped take Freebuff, Codebuff's free coding agent, from roughly 50 to 1,200 daily active users at peak._\n\nFor another Series F company, we drove 3,500+ signups in two weeks.\n\n---\n\n## Who Beluga is for\n\nWe are most useful when you already believe creator marketing could fit your market, but you do not want the channel to require a whole internal team before it can scale.\n\nOur bet is that the traditional operating model is the problem: most of the sourcing, negotiation, coordination, payments, and reporting should not require dedicated headcount inside every company.\n\nThat also changes what is possible. When the work gets cheaper and easier to coordinate, you can test more creators, go after smaller but better-matched channels, and deploy more capital without being bottlenecked by how many deals an internal team can manually manage.\n\nThe signal we look for is simple: can we name a real content audience where your users spend time?\n\n\"Developers who watch AI coding tool reviews on YouTube\" is a clean audience shape. So is a consumer category with obvious creator communities. A niche B2B buyer can still work, but if the buyer is hard to describe in creator and audience terms, or the product only moves through a long enterprise committee, the test usually has less conversion signal.\n\nThe other important thing is seriousness about the experiment. Creator marketing is not one magic post. It takes enough well-matched attempts to learn which creators, formats, and messages work. If distribution is a real priority and you want to test the channel properly, that is the conversation we are best suited for.\n\n---\n\n## Why us\n\nThe reason we think we can make this work is that we have lived the messy parts.\n\nFernando ran millions in ad spend at Meta and then sold creator campaigns at Dare Drop. Zan, our Head of Account Management, led outreach across tens of thousands of creators and is a content creator himself. [@Jack Swisher](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2210281) spent years building AI systems at Bubble and now works on building the infrastructure needed to make our vision a reality.\n\nBetween us, we have seen the agency side, the creator side, the paid acquisition side, and the automation side.\n\nOur mission is simple: make creator marketing as measurable and easy to run as paid ads.\n\n---\n\n## The ask\n\nIf creator marketing is on your roadmap and you do not want the channel to become an internal ops burden, we would love to chat.\n\nAnd if you know another founder or growth lead who already believes distribution matters and is thinking about creator marketing this year, an intro would be hugely helpful.\n\n[Learn more here](https://www.trybeluga.ai/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/S4j-beluga-creator-marketing-on-autopilot", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-07-27T18:18:30.035Z" } ] }, { "id": 30721, "name": "Knowlify", "slug": "knowlify", "former_names": [ "Knowlify", "Ritvik Varada" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f9c7327b2253f8bd8e5f5ae01e113ba12ee0e4bd.png", "website": "https://www.knowlify.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Knowlify is a done-for-you video ads agency for B2B and B2C companies running paid social. We concept, script, produce and edit AI UGC ads, Pixar-style character animation ads and AI commercials, with a human quality check before delivery.\r\n\r\nOur team starts with a 20-minute kickoff call, sends creative direction for approval within 48 hours, and delivers the first batch five days after the first call. New batches arrive weekly, with about 25 finished ads a week on a monthly plan.\r\n\r\nWe also offer end-to-end Meta advertising for Facebook and Instagram, combining creative production with campaign management. Creative-only engagements are available for teams with their own media buyer. 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We also offer Meta campaign management for teams that want creative production and campaigns handled together.\n\n[See our work and book a call](https://www.knowlify.com/).\n\n## What we make\n\n- **AI UGC:** Presenter-led, straight-to-camera ads built around your product and message.\n- **Pixar-style animation:** Original characters and stories that bring your product to life.\n- **AI commercials:** Produced scenes and product shots, created with AI and finished by our team.\n\nWe handle concepts, scripts, production, editing and sound. Every finished ad receives a human quality check before delivery.\n\n## How it works\n\n1. **Brief:** A 20-minute kickoff call about your product, audience, goals and brand assets.\n2. **Approve:** Within 48 hours, we send angles, hooks, scripts and visual direction for your approval.\n3. **Launch:** The first batch of finished ads arrives five days after the first call.\n4. **Keep testing:** New batches follow weekly, with about 25 finished ads a week. Campaign results help shape the next batch.\n\nEach approved variant counts as a finished ad. Drafts, re-exports and minor revisions do not.\n\n## Creative and campaigns, together or separately\n\nFor teams that want end-to-end support, we combine creative production with Facebook and Instagram campaign management. Responsibilities and pricing are agreed in your proposal.\n\nAlready have a media buyer? Use Knowlify for creative production. Your ad account remains yours, media spend is separate, and you keep every finished ad.\n\n## Who we are\n\nWe're Ritam, Jon, Ritvik and Arjun, the founders of Knowlify (YC S25). We built Knowlify for teams that need a steady flow of finished video creative to test.\n\n## The ask\n\nIf you're a founder or marketer running paid social, or preparing to start, we'd love to hear about the ads you need next.\n\n[See examples and book a call at knowlify.com](https://www.knowlify.com/).\n\n*Updated October 14, 2026 to reflect Knowlify's current services.*", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAm-knowlify-done-for-you-ai-video-ads-and-meta-campaign-management", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2025-08-12T21:17:57.709Z" } ] }, { "id": 30822, "name": "Lapis", "slug": "lapis", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/df9bacd59e8691b297a03e4d95b6d05915aa8b7f.png", "website": "https://www.trylapis.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lapis builds, launches, and scales paid ad campaigns for DTC and SaaS businesses.\r\n\r\nLapis agents handle every step of the paid ads journey: writing ad copy (headlines and descriptions), generating the static images used in ads, deploying campaigns across paid channels, creating a custom landing page for each ad, and feeding real user interaction data back into a self-improving ads engine that gets better every day.\r\n\r\nWith Lapis, businesses can rapidly iterate on ads and A/B test at scale, free from the human design and creative bottlenecks that slow teams down. 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Unlike Google which shows you a list of blue links to click on, ChatGPT adds additional context and traditional SEO elements like rank and authority are no longer relevant.\n\nHere’s a fun video that encapsulates this perfectly: https://youtube.com/shorts/A1zkkdpXsjM?si=TIR2PpnO9Du4DV2O\n\n# What is Lapis?\n\nLapis helps you rank on AI Search Engines (we currently support ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok) without generating hundreds of blogs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94694&key=user_uploads/482153/d7152bae-e95b-49de-b222-45d4b18a7359)\n\nWe manage to do this by extensively analyzing Model responses and a combination of real-time content fixes, technical SEO, and linking websites on domains that are mentioned in models.\n\n# Analyzing AI Search Models\n\nWe spend over 650M tokens a day understanding responses for our customers. We construct a super detailed graph of all websites that show up for a given question, analyze the referenced content, and organically insert content on similar pages. This gives us accurate knowledge on what works and what doesn’t work. We want to learn from the models themselves, not create a rough set of heuristics on what might work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94694&key=user_uploads/482153/fd2bcb1a-26e6-4e76-bf93-34b66739c122)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94694&key=user_uploads/482153/cd700a82-7da5-4eb8-9002-fd9152235052)\n\n# Changing Website Content Dynamically\n\nWe dynamically change your website content in real time for AI Search Engines. 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We want them to organically position themselves for this new shift, and to do so without generating spam content that actively harms website reputation.\n\nWe support over a hundred fast growing startups like Warp, Reducto, and Greptile on Lapis, and if you’re a founder or marketer, I think you’ll find a ton of value in using us.\n\nAnd its free to start, so check it out at trylapis.com!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OdK-lapis-the-fastest-most-accurate-ai-search-analytics-platform", "votes": 535, "created_at": "2025-10-16T14:56:34.684Z" } ] }, { "id": 30844, "name": "Uplane", "slug": "uplane", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6f996a4ae5a6f6c50880fc529dd16c13be2500bd.png", "website": "https://uplane.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Uplane replaces marketing agencies with AI. 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Declined McKinsey offer to become right hand of a unicorn founder.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvinabdel-massih/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8dd3a0aef8edb6c177aee2a6a489196365ace23c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 346365, "full_name": "Lukas Vollmer", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Has 15 years of fullstack experience, was Head of Engineering at two former YC companies and won Product of the Month at Product Hunt.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasvollmer/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4c8f2712ca84d086b4785315bf932a42367dd301.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 91103, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist - San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/aFjvQEb-ai-marketing-strategist-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$100K - $130K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 93708, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist Intern - San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/TEEElmy-ai-marketing-strategist-intern-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$4K / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 94434, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist Intern - Berlin (German Speaking)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/Gb8bLOl-ai-marketing-strategist-intern-berlin-german-speaking", "location": "Berlin, Berlin, DE", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "€2.41K EUR / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 96251, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist - Berlin (German Speaking)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/lBJkLEw-ai-marketing-strategist-berlin-german-speaking", "location": "Berlin, BE, DE / Berlin, Berlin, DE", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "€60K - €100K EUR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Marketing design" ] }, { "id": 113831, "title": "Growth Operations", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/GjRkpRq-growth-operations", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Berlin, BE, DE / Berlin, Berlin, DE", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $130K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Pitch Deck: Uplane Raised $4.5 Million to Replace Marketers With AI - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pitch-deck-uplane-raised-funding-to-replace-marketing-agencies-ai-2026-4", "date": "Apr 15, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 94720, "title": "Uplane: Replace your marketing agency.", "tagline": "Uplane increases return on ad spend by 20-50% by automating digital marketing with AI.", "body": "### TL;DR\n\nUplane (YC F25) is building AI software to replace marketing agencies.\n\nTheir AI has already created thousands of ads and landing pages, delivering a 20-50% increase in return on ad spend for their customers.\n\nCompanies waste billions on bad campaigns because they don’t have the time to do the research, personalization, and A/B testing to do the job right.\n\nUplane builds an all-in-one marketing platform that uses AI to create, launch, and test ad campaigns across Meta, Google, Taboola, TikTok, and others. The software delivers new, creative ideas, and gives full flexibility to ensure every marketing message is on brand and compliant.\n\nIn marketing, speed and analytics are essential. Humans simply can’t catch up with the speed and precision of AI.\n\nBook a [demo](https://uplane.com/talk-to-us?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc-launch) now.\\\n\\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUhS6pz4-hs\n\n### Problem\n\nFor years, the promise of digital marketing has been data-driven revenue growth at scale. The reality for most marketers, however, is a losing battle fought with manual work.\n\nMarketing teams and their agencies are drowning in a sea of spreadsheets, unreliable data, and siloed ad platforms. They are buried in repetitive tasks: endlessly creating and testing ad variations, designing new landing pages, trying to make sense of the data, and manually shifting budgets across ads and channels. This makes it impossible to move at the speed and precision the market demands.\n\nThe result: billions of dollars are lost due to low-performing marketing campaigns. No human can do the manual work that is required to do the job right.\n\n### Solution\n\nUplane replaces manual work with AI automations.\n\n💡 **Phase 1) Insight & Creation:** Uplane analyzes the target audience, brand style, ads, competitors' ads, and even real-time market trends. It uses these insights to instantly generate thousands of ads and matching landing pages.\n\n🚀 **Phase 2) Launch & Management:** Select your favorite ads, and with a single click, campaigns go live across all channels. Uplane takes over, managing everything 24/7. It monitors performance and shifts budget to the ads and channels that deliver the highest return.\n\n📈 **Phase 3) Learning & Scaling:** Built-in dashboards give instant transparency. The insights from the data are not just useful for marketers but also for our AI. It continuously tracks ad performance, identifies best value propositions and designs, and gets smarter with every conversion. Thus, it creates better ads with every iteration.\n\n### Our Ask\n\nUplane is working hand-in-hand with ambitious companies that want to scale their marketing profitably, eliminate manual work, and make marketing that their customers love.\n\nWant more customers? Let’s talk.\n\n📅 Book a [demo](https://uplane.com/talk-to-us?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc-launch)\n\n👉🏻 Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplane-com) and [X](https://x.com/uplane_com)\n\n💬 Share this post with people in your network", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Odk-uplane-replace-your-marketing-agency", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-10-17T17:21:33.522Z" } ] }, { "id": 30873, "name": "Tell if AI", "slug": "tell-if-ai", "former_names": [ "Pando Technologies", "Tellif", "Tellif AI", "Tell if AI", "Land.dev" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/da77fda94e244c20522deac6fb0556be091b2804.png", "website": "https://tellif.ai", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "An AI-run performance marketing agency. 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As such, we can help bring together the whole marketing stack into one platform where all you need is a really good prompter and taste.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/abcdeafe-fa89-4ddc-a571-70e9c7b880e5)\n\nLet's say you want to recreate a winning UGC skincare ad. You can first take the URL and automatically de-edit each scene, captions, text and photo overlays. 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Veriad integrates directly into your marketing stack, to ensure that brand equity is protected across all surface areas.\n\n**Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97377&key=user_uploads/891759/79a75d50-6908-41d1-9369-1d2086d23ab5)\n\nWe met working at CoLoop (YC S21) where Rohan joined as employee #7 as a founding engineer and built out the agentic product line, and Anton advised the founders on GTM and Growth, having previously closed 7-figure deals with Fortune 10-500 companies.\n\n**Get in touch**\n\nIf you know/work at a consumer-facing company that fits **any of these** criteria, we’d love to chat:\n\n* Ad spend of $50M or more annually\n* Operates in an industry where advertising is regulated\n* Reviews thousands of marketing assets annually\n* Has a content review team / process\n* Faces bottlenecks in their ad approval workflows, with long waiting times\n\nPlease get in touch with us at [anton@veriad.ai](mailto:anton@veriad.ai) / [rohan@veriad.ai](mailto:rohan@veriad.ai)  or check out our website [veriad.ai](http://veriad.ai) to learn more and book a demo!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PKb-veriad-ai-compliance-officers", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-02-01T21:24:29.420Z" } ] }, { "id": 31409, "name": "InstaAgent", "slug": "instaagent", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1efbbb9a75fe89206f180f9f9d1afb75dba57ca0.png", "website": "https://instaagent.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "InstaAgent helps B2C companies scale a single campaign across hundreds of specific audiences on Meta and TikTok, each with its own content, voice, and targeting. 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We’re repeat founders who burned millions on paid social. We used AI to scale content production, but most of it was generic slop that fell flat. What actually converted was creative tailored to specific niches. But producing that at scale was too slow, too expensive, and no tool existed to do it.\n\n**Lessons from Serving Hundreds of Customers**\n\n1. **80% quality = 0% retention**: There's no \"good enough\" in AI creative. If content feels even slightly off, customers call it slop and churn. High-quality AI creative is harder than people assume — it's not just prompting, it's topics, taste, and iteration. That's why we moved from self-serve to an agency model. Customers do not just want AI tools; they need help producing quality creatives.\n2. **Few people actually like creating**: The first few ideas came easy, then they were stuck. Most brands run 5-6 variations when they should be running 50+. 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Different angle, fresh creatives, smarter targeting — because every cycle inherits what the last one learned.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you know a B2C company scaling on Meta or TikTok, we’d love an intro.\n\nEspecially relevant: CPG, Health, and Apps.\n\nPlease email us at [kyle@instaagent.com](mailto:founders@instaagent.com)\n\n**About Us**\n\n[Kyle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylewong2): Repeat Founder (1M+ users in 1 month) | Ex-GS China TMT | Triple Major @Cornell\n\n[Colin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tseungc): Repeat Founder (Acqui-hired) | Maths @Oxford\n\nFriends for 20 years since middle school:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101195&key=user_uploads/593025/e32fecf3-ea76-4c59-b20a-14c355a4683d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QKB-instaagent-one-marketing-campaign-hundreds-of-personas", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2026-05-11T16:27:44.262Z" } ] }, { "id": 31527, "name": "Revnu", "slug": "revnu", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/37b7a4d126859b0a7edce4eaee5984ecd6f85757.png", "website": "https://revnu.com", "all_locations": "Manchester, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Revnu does the growth work founders never get round to. 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Done overnight.", "body": "Hey! We're [George](https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgejeffers/) and [Art](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artfreebrey/), co-founders of [Revnu](https://revnu.com/).\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n[Revnu](https://revnu.com/) is your AI growth hire. Connect your tools and our agents run every growth channel in parallel. Outbound, SEO, ads, short form content + more. You focus on building, we focus on growing.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nAI solved coding. Building software has never been easier and the cost is collapsing to 0.\n\nThe only moat left is distribution.\n\nFounders don’t want to worry about managing email outbound campaigns, ad budgets, blog articles. They’re busy shipping and talking to customers. \n\nThe options today are: hire a growth hire for $200k/yr or hack your own DIY tool stack together.\n\nUntil now! \n\n**Our solution**\n\nWhat Cursor did for coding, we're doing for growth.\n\n[Revnu](https://revnu.com/) runs every growth channel for you, in parallel, 24/7:\n\n* Cold outbound that finds you leads, drafts emails in your voice and books you calls\n* Runs thousands of ad creative variants on Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok\n* Gets you ranking in Google and AI search\n* Creates short-form video content\n* Catches customers about to churn and wins them back\n\nNow founders can finally focus on getting back to building.\n\n**About us**\n\nWe're George and Art, both from the UK. We met in school when we were 14 years old and have been best friends ever since. We both dropped out of university the same day to join YC P26 and moved to San Francisco.\n\n* Before [Revnu](https://revnu.com/), we bootstrapped multiple businesses and kept on finding growth was the bottleneck.\n* That's why we decided to build [Revnu](http://revnu.com/). To automate the part of every founder's life they hate the most: the growth work.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIf you're a technical founder and you hate doing growth (or you know someone who does), book a demo rn at [revnu.com](http://revnu.com).\n\nLove & Guidance\n\n\\- George and Art\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101688&key=user_uploads/1793674/ba606bb4-cad9-4957-ad1b-b64bf0249806)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QS8-revnu-your-ai-growth-team-you-build-we-do-everything-else", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-05-21T01:51:58.616Z" } ] } ]