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It doesn't solve the underlying problem; it just tries to cover it up. \n\nAllergy immunotherapy is the future. Most people don't realize that allergies are now a **curable** disease. In the future, taking Claritin for allergies is going to seem like taking Tylenol for an ear infection. Why would you treat the symptoms when you could just cure the disease?\n\nOur home allergy therapy builds up your immune tolerance against your allergies. This fixes the root cause of your symptoms, lets you forget about the pills, and provides lifelong relief. This clinically-proven treatment is now available via telemedicine.\n\n* Do you have a pet allergy but want a puppy 🐕?\n* Do you buy Kleenex in bulk?\n* Are you sick of your child’s never-ending cold?\n* Are you tired of allergy shots?\n\nLet Wyndly change your life forever. Our doctors are able to see, test, and treat patients for their allergies across the nation. \n\nStart with our 5 minute [at-home allergy test](https://www.wyndly.com/products/at-home-allergy-test-kit), or use insurance [to see a doctor (in CO, CA, FL only, right now).](https://www.wyndly.com/pages/allergy-consult-with-insurance)\n\n## Why allergies are a big deal\n\n40 million allergy sufferers in the US treat their allergies like a chronic condition — they take multiple medications to manage their symptoms. Imagine medicine cabinets full of Zyrtec, Claritin, Singular, Flonase, and more — all taken regularly. Most sufferers don't realize they can free themselves from these medications and allergies.\n\nManan Shah, is a board-certified ENT and allergist who has fixed thousands of patients of their allergies. During the COVID-19 crisis, we started Wyndly because Manan realized patients loved curing their allergies entirely from home.\n\n## How Wyndly fixes allergies\n\nWyndly uses home allergy immunotherapy to build up your immune system naturally so you can throw away the pills and live allergy-free.\n\nWe made the immunotherapy process as convenient as possible for our patients. Here's what it looks like:\n\n* Our nationally-certified allergy test is taken at home. It only requires a single finger-prick — not dozens of needles like an in-office allergy test.\n* Using these test results, we mix you personalized allergy drops which are taken by mouth. We send them straight to your door.\n* You have unlimited access to our medical care team. Our free online visits can be done on video, phone, or secure chat. 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(i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Clear's journey traces back to my own experiences and passion for technology and skincare. As I transitioned from studying physics at Imperial College London to delving into tech, finance and startups, I encountered a personal struggle with skin issues (cystic acne) that persisted for over a decade. I had tried everything; from diets, to medications, to products to try and improve my skin, but had great trouble in identifying if what I was trying was actually working. Having turned to online social media skincare communities for support, I knew I wasn’t alone. So, this struggle, coupled with a genuine desire to help others navigate their skincare journeys with confidence, ignited the idea behind Clear; an app that helped people to track their skincare routine, skin progress, access a community of like-minded individuals on a similar journey, and get data-driven, unbiased product recommendations.The vision was not only to provide users with personalized skincare recommendations but also to fuel innovation in the industry, enabling brands to create more effective product formulations. My personal connection to the mission, being my own customer, fueled my decision to become a founder. Clear is more than a company; it's a commitment to revolutionizing skincare and empowering individuals on their path to healthier skin." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "The decision to apply to Y Combinator was driven by a combination of factors, including the belief in Clear's mission and the recognition of Y Combinator's unparalleled reputation for nurturing and propelling innovative startups. The application process was rigorous, requiring a clear articulation of our vision, market potential, and the problem we aimed to solve. Going through the Y Combinator batch was a transformative experience, marked by intense mentorship, invaluable insights, and a supportive community of fellow founders.Fundraising at Demo Day was a pivotal moment in Clear's journey. Presenting our vision to numerous, influential investors provided a platform to showcase the potential impact of Clear in the skincare industry. The experience not only facilitated crucial funding but also opened doors to valuable connections and partnerships. Y Combinator played a pivotal role in shaping Clear's trajectory, contributing to its growth and success in the dynamic startup ecosystem." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "Staying connected with the Y Combinator community has been integral to Clear's ongoing success. Post-batch, I actively participate in YC alumni events, forums, and networking opportunities, fostering relationships with fellow founders and leveraging the collective wisdom of the community. The YC network remains a valuable source of insights, mentorship, and potential collaborations.Additionally, Clear continues to benefit from YC resources and programs. From access to YC's extensive network of experts to ongoing mentorship opportunities, these resources have been instrumental in navigating challenges and seizing growth opportunities. The continuous engagement with the Y Combinator ecosystem underscores the enduring support and collaborative spirit that define the YC community." }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "Our journey began with a vision to revolutionize the skincare experience, a vision that culminated in the creation of Clear, a mobile app designed to empower individuals in their skincare journeys. Founded by Ahana Banerjee, an alumna of Imperial College London, Y Combinator, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, Clear is more than an app—it's a community-driven platform reshaping how people buy, track, and share their skincare routines.From its inception, Clear has pioneered features that make it the Strava for skincare, offering users a comprehensive platform with selfie analysis data providing insights to cosmetic brands.Our growth story is one of organic success, with 10,000+ users achieved without any paid acquisition or marketing hires. We've been featured as one of the \"Best New Apps\" in the US App Store in 2023, underscoring our impact and relevance in the skincare space.Our community is at the heart of our success, contributing to over 500,000+ routine check-ins and 32,000+ posts, fostering engagement among skincare enthusiasts. The industry has taken notice, with Clear winning the L'Oréal Beauty Tech for Good Challenge and Beiersdorf Beauty Tech Innovation Summit, leading to invaluable partnerships and recognition.As we continue our journey, Clear remains committed to innovation, community building, and revolutionizing how individuals approach and engage with skincare. We're not just an app; we're a movement reshaping the future of skincare." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "The core problem Clear addresses stems from a lack of clarity and communication within the skincare landscape. Consumers find themselves grappling with uncertainty about which skincare products to use and whether these products are effective. Simultaneously, skincare brands face a challenge in understanding their consumers, hindering industry-wide innovation. Dermatologists, too, encounter difficulties in efficiently communicating with their patients.\\\\This problem is substantial because it permeates the entire skincare ecosystem. For consumers, the ambiguity around product efficacy can lead to frustration and wasted resources. Skincare brands, without a clear understanding of consumer behavior, struggle to innovate and tailor their products to meet genuine needs. Dermatologists, the experts in skincare, face inefficiencies in conveying information and prescribing effective routines.\\\\The decision to tackle this pervasive issue arose from a personal connection and a broader recognition of its widespread impact. I personally endured the challenges of skincare struggles, which fostered a deep empathy for others facing similar dilemmas. Recognizing the industry-wide ramifications of this problem, the decision to create Clear was driven by a passion for revolutionizing skincare journeys, providing clarity for consumers, empowering brands with actionable insights, and facilitating seamless communication between dermatologists and their patients.Clear's mobile app acts as a transformative solution by offering routine tracking and a dynamic social community. This platform enables users to objectively measure their skincare progress, connect with a supportive community, and receive data-driven product recommendations. For skincare brands, Clear becomes a conduit for real-time insights into consumer behavior and sentiment, leveraging product usage metrics and user-generated content. Moreover, Clear facilitates secure sharing of routine and progress data between users and medical professionals, allowing dermatologists to prescribe effective skincare routines seamlessly.In essence, Clear emerges as the bridge that resolves the communication gaps in the skincare industry, providing users with confidence in their skincare choices, brands with valuable insights, and dermatologists with efficient tools to enhance patient care in this $200B industry." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Clear's overarching vision extends beyond being a solution for current skincare challenges. Our aim is to become synonymous with skincare, a pervasive force in a $200 billion market. The long-term vision for Clear envisions a comprehensive ecosystem that transcends conventional boundaries. From being a single source of truth for skincare recommendations and self-tracking to delving into teledermatology, operating an expansive e-commerce marketplace, introducing a rewards program, curating engaging skincare content, entering the skincare market, and fostering industry-wide innovation through data-driven insights – Clear aspires to redefine and elevate every facet of the skincare experience.As Clear achieves its long-term vision, the world of skincare will undergo a transformative shift. The pervasive uncertainty and inefficiencies plaguing the skincare industry will dissipate, replaced by a seamlessly integrated ecosystem that empowers consumers, brands, and dermatologists alike. Individuals navigating their skincare journeys will find clarity and confidence, supported by personalized recommendations and a supportive community. Skincare brands will experience heightened innovation and responsiveness, guided by real-time insights into consumer behavior. Dermatologists will leverage efficient tools for communication and care, enhancing the patient experience. 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Instead of just links, [**Andi**](https://andisearch.com/) gives you **answers** in a fun and friendly way - like chatting with a smart friend.\n\nHey YC fam, we’re Angela and Jed and we’re building [Andi](https://andisearch.com/)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73788&key=user_uploads/673843/6e575206-0716-407f-ba62-8228d473165c)\n\n### **✖️** The Problem\n\nWe all know search is broken, but it also has massive potential. Today, it’s full of ads, misinformation and SEO spam. With AI-powered search and chatbots the problem will get even worse, because LLMs make things up and bury the sources, and a new era of sponsored answers threatens to destroy trust online.\n\nWhat makes the web great is the high quality content that many producers spend hours researching, writing and creating. Google sells ads on their content without giving fair attribution or promotion. Now LLM-based chatbots give even less credit, or make sources up. 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Instructions [here](https://aureatelabs.com/blog/install-pwa-to-device/).\n\nPlease join our community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/andi) 💙", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JC8-andi-making-search-fun-factual-and-interesting", "votes": 366, "created_at": "2023-08-03T21:27:17.152Z" }, { "id": 64519, "title": "⭐️ 🔍 Andi - Search for the next generation", "tagline": "Andi is like a smart friend who answers complex questions simply, and protects you from spam, ads and tracking 🤖 ", "body": "### TL;DR Instead of a page of blue links, Andi gives you answers. It uses language models combined with live data to answer questions and summarize information based on the top sources.\n\nHey Fam, we're Angie and Jed and we're building [Andi](http://andisearch.com/). We're on a mission to unbreak the Internet and save the world from spam and ad tech.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nIt’s become harder to find what you need online. Search is broken because results are overwhelmed with ads, clickbait, and low-quality content marketing. Even when the information you need is in there somewhere, you have to trawl through pages of links to content often buried behind ads and paywalls.\n\n---\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\nAndi is a new type of search engine with an intelligent AI assistant that answers complex questions directly. It has a simple chat interface with visual cards. It's like messaging a smart friend who acts as an intermediary to online knowledge, and keeps you safe and productive online.\n\n### ⚙️ **How it works**\n\nAndi combines large language models with live data, reasoning and common sense. It's like a search of vertical searches and APIs. We use AI to understand questions and predict the best places to find answers, applying blacklist and quality filters. We retrieve and use live content in real time with semantic search ranking, rather than returning outdated information from stale models or a static keyword index. \n\n## **💙 Community fave features**\n\n👉 Get direct answers to questions\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64519&key=user_uploads/673843/4fe6c540-657b-4299-a362-a39ebd481748)\n\n👉 Visual results (a picture is worth 1,000 words!)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64519&key=user_uploads/673843/5723b727-30f2-4473-b9fb-46b3376c9cf8)\n\n👉 Reader mode: See content free from ads and clutter\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64519&key=user_uploads/673843/2f8a8522-6c43-4880-a013-bfb0e7e6dcb1)\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nTry Andi! Start searching [here](https://andisearch.com/). Since we're anonymous, we rely on our users giving us feedback when Andi gets answers wrong to improve. Type /feedback to tell us what you think. 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Perplexity API Platform", "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/api-platform/case-studies/clinikally", "date": "Apr 08, 2025" }, { "title": "Clinikally raises $2.6 Mn from Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, others", "url": "https://entrackr.com/2023/09/clinikally-raises-2-6-mn-from-y-combinator-tribe-capital-and-others/", "date": "Sep 28, 2023" }, { "title": "Soteri Skin And Clinikally Partner To Launch Into $27 Billion Indian Beauty Market - Daily Retail News", "url": "https://retailboss.co/soteri-skin-and-clinikally-india-market-partnership/", "date": "May 24, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 90878, "title": "Clara by Clinikally: Your Full-Stack AI Assistant for Skin & Hair Health", "tagline": "Meet Clara, the AI dermatologist assistant that helps you analyze concerns, build routines, decode prescriptions, and discover the right products, all in one conversation.", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nOver the last 3 years, Clinikally has helped millions of users make better skin and hair health decisions through its **dermatology-led commerce and care platform**. Clara started as an AI skin analysis product, and today it has evolved into a **full-stack AI assistant for dermatology**; combining analysis, guidance, product discovery, routine building, and prescription support in one experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90878&key=user_uploads/480320/ca033475-82fe-42d1-a02f-c81449db06f5)\n\n## 🤕 The Problem\n\n**The global challenge:** 3 billion people face skin issues, yet 90% can't access dermatologists due to cost and availability barriers.\n\nSkin and hair care decisions are still fragmented. Users jump between social media advice, search results, product catalogs, prescriptions they don’t fully understand, and doctor visits that are too expensive or too hard to access regularly.\n\n**India's crisis:**\n\n* 1 [dermatologist](https://clinikally.com/products/video-consult-with-a-skin-hair-specialist?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=290525+yc_launch_post) per 100,000 people\n* Consultations often require long journeys + weeks of waiting + month's skincare budget in fees\n* 70% of Indians live with untreated chronic skin concerns\n\nEven when people know they need help, they usually don’t know where to begin: What is this concern? Which products are right for me? How do I build a routine? What does my prescription actually do? **Clara is built for that exact gap.**\n\n## 💡 Our Solution\n\nClara is your **AI assistant for skin and hair health**. You can start with a face or hair analysis, ask Clara questions in chat, get tailored routines, receive product recommendations, and even upload a prescription to understand what it means and which products match it.\n\nInstead of giving users a static report and leaving them there, Clara helps them move all the way from confusion to clarity to action. That makes Clara useful not just once, but every time someone has a skincare or haircare decision to make.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90878&key=user_uploads/480320/9c355c2d-b7dd-4382-a40e-9f99ee36597d)\n\n**What Clara can do:**\n\n* Analyze face and hair concerns with AI-powered flows.\n* Recommend personalized routines based on user concerns.\n* Suggest relevant products with dermatology-backed guidance.\n* Explain prescriptions and match them to useful products.\n* Answer ongoing skin and hair questions in a conversational interface\n\n## 💡 How Clara Works\n\n1. Start with your concern. Scan your face, choose hair/scalp analysis, upload a prescription, or just ask a question in chat.\n2. Clara understands the context and gives you structured guidance instead of generic internet advice.\n3. You get personalized recommendations across routines, products, and next steps.\n4. When needed, Clara can work as the intelligent layer connecting users to Clinikally’s broader dermatology ecosystem.\n\n## **Why this matters**\n\nMost skincare tools do one thing well: analysis, product discovery, or consultation intake. Clara is designed to unify those moments into one assistant experience. The result is a product that feels less like a calculator and more like an always-available dermatologist copilot.\n\nFor users, that means faster decisions and better clarity. For us, it means Clara can become the highest-intent entry point into personalized dermatology journeys across Clinikally.\n\n## **Try Clara**\n\nYou can now use Clara to:\n\n* Analyze your skin or hair\n* Ask dermatology questions\n* Build a customized routine\n* Get product suggestions\n* Upload a prescription for instant guidance\n\n**⭐⭐ Try Clara here:** [clara.clinikally.com](https://clara.clinikally.com) **⭐⭐**\\\n**Open the assistant directly:** [clara.clinikally.com/chat](https://clara.clinikally.com/chat)\n\n**More exciting features are coming**: Scalp scanning and cross-platform mobile apps for our full-stack e-pharmacy and [dermatologist consult](https://clinikally.com/products/video-consult-with-a-skin-hair-specialist?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=290525+yc_launch_post) platform launching later this year. Stay tuned!\n\n_— Arjun & the Clinikally Team_\n\n## 🚀 Our Ask\n\nWe’d love feedback on where Clara feels most valuable: analysis, routine generation, product guidance, prescription understanding, or conversational support. We’re especially interested in edge cases where users move between multiple needs in one journey, because that is exactly the behavior we are building Clara around.\n\nCheck Clara out at[ ](https://withjanus.com/)[clara.clinikally.com](https://clara.clinikally.com)\n\nEmail us with feedback, thoughts and suggestions at [developers@clinikally.com](mailto:team@withjanus.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ndm-clara-by-clinikally-your-full-stack-ai-assistant-for-skin-hair-health", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2025-05-30T14:05:32.615Z" }, { "id": 65659, "title": "Clinikally: India's one-stop Telemedicine Platform & Online Pharmacy for Dermatology Care", "tagline": "Multi-condition health platform with Telehealth, AI-powered treatment plans, and Rx-grade products in a single place!", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65659&key=user_uploads/480320/228dc38a-82d9-4fe0-a4d5-7c71f908272a)\n\n### **What is** [**Clinikally**](https://www.clinikally.com)**?**\n\nA new kind of digital health, Clinikally is India’s one-stop platform for telehealth & doctor-recommended products in Dermatology, Nutrition and Overall Wellness.\n\nWe routinely treat leading indications like eczema, acne, hyperpigmentation, and pattern alopecia across 500 cities in India.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n* Connect with a specialty provider in under 30 minutes (next-day appointments available as well)\n* Receive doorstep delivery of a personalized treatment plan\n* Get products from our in-house [online pharmacy](https://www.clinikally.com/collections/all)\n* Your treatment plan will include award-winning, patented solutions like a unique DMS technology-based [moisturising cream](https://www.clinikally.com/products/clinikally-hydrasoothe-moisturiser) and [pigmentation cream](https://www.clinikally.com/products/clinikally-pigment-corrector-cream).\n\nOur virtual care is entirely science-based and personalized to each patient, based on previous prescription history, medical parameters, family history, lifestyle, surroundings and preexisting health issues.\n\n**📈 Milestones**\n\n* 30 months since launch: Over 1,000,000 users across 500 cities\n* 50% users from Tier 2 & 3 cities, where dermatology care & nutrition remains grossly underserved **🇮🇳**\n* 4.75 NPS for Telemedicine 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️\n\n**⚡️ The Problem & Our Mission**\n\n300 million Indians face some skin/hair issue, and there is only 1 dermatologist available for every 200,000. While large numbers of patients often visit major dermatology clinics in cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru from far and wide, it becomes cost-prohibitive and inconvenient to consistently follow up in-person.\n\nMoreover, the acceleration of digital health driven by COVID lockdowns has further demonstrated to physicians and patients alike that a growing number of derma conditions can be treated through a combination of telehealth and a preset number of dermatologist-recommended products.\n\nWe are democratizing dermatology in India like never before, condition by condition, and shipping solutions that actually work.\n\n👋 **Team**\n\nFounder is a **Stanford CS Grad + Stanford Med Researcher**; Chief Medical Officer is a **Cambridge-trained dermatologist** who runs one of India’s largest dermatology practices; Head of Ops has 15+ years at **Allergan.**\n\nWe are approaching this problem with extensive experience from the multi-faceted angles of digital health, clinical dermatology, and pharma.\n\n**🤝 Quick Ask**\n\n* Follow us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/clinikallyofficial/?hl=en) & [Twitter](https://twitter.com/weareclinikally), where we constantly disseminate highly informational & scientific content.\n* Conditions or products that you’d like us to expand coverage for?\n* Feedback on the [www.clinikally.com](http://www.clinikally.com) UI/UX is always welcome!\n\n**Talk to us** - Interested in working, learning more, researching or collaborating? 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He loves building community tools, and is the creator of solfaucet.com.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-endacott-26786255/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/RyanEndacott", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e8b3bcb5543192e46af86bf5dc3d6f05bbec96e8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 90596, "title": "Content & Game Builder Intern", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/star/jobs/S0eyAOW-content-game-builder-intern", "location": "Remote", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$20 / hourly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Growth design", "Marketing design" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65578, "title": "🌟SolStar - Venmo for Discord - The easiest way to send crypto in a community", "tagline": "Our tech makes it easy, free, and secure to send crypto to your friends - no wallet required.", "body": "Hey YC community! 👋 We’re Ryan and Drew, and we’re building SolStar 🌟\n\nSolStar builds easy-to-use crypto tools for Discord communities. Our first product, SolStar Tip Bot, is like Venmo for Discord: send crypto to your friends with just a few clicks.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wIoPpjcf2tmVmuPZyaImGkOiYAZ7lQe8CzbPV8lArJdlQekgqnL8nkvZFru0Gf6PDT2FKH-R3_TNgh-ZEBvgwPmE4MYIP3pLSNe_J0FKMPS5CuDW2irjeyj9UhBrIaABn0okVds-gmfSEKKPCt8ZLsI)\n\n**The problem with crypto**\n\nCrypto is confusing and intimidating, with no clear entry point for beginners. To purchase crypto from scratch, a new user needs to:\n\n* Know what a crypto wallet is\n* Know where to sign up for one\n* Understand KYC and buy crypto on an exchange\n* Transfer from exchange to wallet\n* Manage to not lose their seed phrase\n\nIf these steps confuse you, you’re not alone. It’s even confusing to experts. This is ridiculous, and it leaves out 99.9% of internet users who aren’t heavy technical adopters. \n\n**SolStar makes crypto easy 🌟**\n\nSolStar makes it possible for anyone to use crypto—even your grandpa!\n\nAll you need to get started is a credit card. Skip the confusing steps above and dive in right away with a secure, approachable tool that makes crypto fun. You can add SolStar Tip Bot to your Discord, check your balance, and send a tip to a friend all within a few minutes.\n\nWhen you use SolStar, you’ll get a secure custodial wallet and easy access to your balance on our site.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tsVnxrqhqXvhpCffMLIPy_AlF4LSxutr3E2X8kfxEQ8VxrDdNdAae4fq5po1GycpQ5NclXNcsZxPxS04BBY7CAD6xYyGAS1YVFDT-wL7xR8JwHnvXx3fzhP0CSIi8YZNuPp5BVp1BS-w-_AyUvfWtVo)\n\nAnother feature we’re excited about - you can now buy tokens directly in Discord! Make it easy to join your community - no crypto experience required.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/CWak0ftirYZiVuZrqzSW_gaVtLibcCt2VAqVeHgkX4c14K1dTMJkF3cg_OI56KzVNmD55j-mM9VkBJWypGC7CuLNtjikFmBSCzQ_Q-QpTpok8G-43LAOg4P8be0yqRxOltCzWvQG9HOzcVg-NAJjTg8)\n\nAs an added bonus, you can interact with our Ask an AI tool, which features various personalities, including Antagonistic Viking, Honorable Julius Caesar, or Confused Isaac Newton.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IwDm6-BbUGw3_hccj_gJ7CGyOtYOAIrL1iiffZYehQL94uU1w-B_OtvSIQsQhJDfsKayaL_tkHtLxlnUyZhM-xEWTNDTUNzQ73Cxm0j5aOK0EnJ4e6mQEcrTywU1jl7lpstok9QpF2YJiKsKUq_ik8w)\n\n**How It All Began ✨**\n\nWe’re a couple of software engineers who love crypto and gaming. We’ve spent more all-nighters than we can count hanging out in Discord, and we’re big fans of how it’s a user-friendly space to build community.\n\nWe wanted crypto to be more accessible and fun. There’s no better way to onboard people to crypto than to create a simple way for them to start using it in their own communities.\n\nWe wished we had something like SolStar, so we built it ourselves. \n\n**How you can help 💗**\n\n1. If you have a Discord Community, add SolStar for free:  \n2. If you belong to a Discord Community, tell your admin or community manager to check out SolStar:  \n3. Follow us on Twitter to see our dank memes [@SolStarFinance](https://twitter.com/SolStarFinance)\n4. We love feedback! Let us know what you think below or hit us up at [founders@solstar.finance](mailto:founders@solstar.finance) :)\n5. Join our Discord Community and stay updated on our latest features:  \n6. If you care about making crypto more accessible, we’d appreciate the up-vote!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H3i-solstar-venmo-for-discord-the-easiest-way-to-send-crypto-in-a-community", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2022-08-23T18:56:28.418Z" } ] }, { "id": 26708, "name": "Makeasite", "slug": "makeasite", "former_names": [ "WAGMI", "Internet Friends", "Cadence" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/05027c3d0bb4e88dcc6030b97f26a6620fcc55f4.png", "website": "https://makeasite.io", "all_locations": "Orlando, FL, USA", "long_description": "Makeasite is a website you can use to create websites with just prompts. When you're done, you can easily share it with one click.", "one_liner": "Create sites with just a prompt", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1657440605, "tags": [ "Consumer", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/makeasite", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/makeasite.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Orlando", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/05027c3d0bb4e88dcc6030b97f26a6620fcc55f4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 570587, "full_name": "Neo Cho", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neocho/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a7b8789f47c37572e987574306a77b02a3ae69ee.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 75437, "title": "Cadence: Your AI-powered running coach", "tagline": "Cadence is an app that gives you an AI running coach", "body": "**Tl;dr**: Cadence is a running app that gives you an AI coach to motivate you while you run and help you reach your goals!\n\nHey! We’re excited to announce our recent pivot called Cadence. We’ve been working hard at building the best AI-powered running coach, and this is just the beginning.\n\n**What is Cadence?**\\\nCadence is your running coach while you run. Whenever you start a run with Cadence, you’ll run alongside an engaging running coach who feels like he’s with you in real-time. \n\nYou can set your goal pace & distance, and your running coach will chime in to provide motivation and updates on how you’re doing. This is step 1 for building a full-fledged running coach in your pocket, and we’re excited for you to try it.\n\nHere’s a short clip to give you an idea of what it’s like: \n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/e3lbyVgi6zBH2Akgptg67qtLjJGO25QTSXmXCOV61o6UassUPwqyPE4TI9q5mpfvTuxODqLHKE-UayDgI3ub9unhOLMzIsLLDOwJ-HN1C950aO6j1MmRuCkkCXXy2Tf7b7U9IIHLXyTHlpfyUEPUpWs)\n\n**How can I try it?**\n\n[Here’s a link to the testflight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/2y3aGPZC) (currently awaiting app store approval). \n\nCurrently, Cadence is only available on iOS.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nGo for a run and use our app and give us feedback & ideas on how to improve! If you try it, join our [WhatsApp group](https://chat.whatsapp.com/KyezEwrfugaHexs61Ep7ie)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jcj-cadence-your-ai-powered-running-coach", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2023-10-09T13:16:00.316Z" } ] }, { "id": 26724, "name": "Coupl", "slug": "coupl", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b4973d6115fc1220d3b06c0d5b8280d217651cc1.png", "website": "https://coupl.money/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Coupl is a digital joint account for Indian households. We help couples and families easily manage their shared and household payments from one shared account.\r\n\r\nOver 20 million Indians marry each year, creating a $300 billion market opportunity in household expenses. Couples juggle multiple accounts, cards, and expense-tracking tools. Joint accounts involve lengthy paperwork, rejections, and minimum balance requirements, making them inconvenient for modern couples. Beyond married couples, this need extends to engaged partners, live-in couples, roommates, and families seeking simpler ways to manage shared expenses.\r\n\r\nCoupl offers a digital, zero-balance joint account with co-branded debit cards and in-app bill payments, set up in just 60 seconds. Couples can use the account for all shared expenses, with an analytics dashboard to help them stay on top of their finances.\r\n\r\nCoupl is powered by RuPay, NPCI and IDFC FIRST Bank.", "one_liner": "Banking designed for Indian couples.", "team_size": 8, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "launched_at": 1659760442, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Consumer" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Banking and Exchange" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "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/coupl", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/coupl.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/coupl/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coupl", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b4973d6115fc1220d3b06c0d5b8280d217651cc1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b3df2abe96a583e926cf36673879189f640c4331.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 917079, "full_name": "Kushagra Manglik", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Kushagra is the Co-Founder and CEO of Coupl. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2019. \n\nHe was a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research for close to 2 years in their AI for Supply Chain team, building multiple production level APIs for some of the top retail companies in the lifestyle space. During his stint with IBM Research, he published multiple papers at Tier 1 Data Science conferences and has 6 patents to his name.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushagra-manglik-906399120/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/867c39c3f919aceba379f291f7b2d20db48afffd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Coupl", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/coupl/", "date": "May 30, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 76340, "title": "Coupl: India's first neobank for couples ❤️", "tagline": "We help couples easily manage their shared payments from one account.", "body": "Hi everyone!\n\nWe are Srini & Kushagra, co-founders of [Coupl](https://coupl.money)!\n\nCoupl is the easiest & fastest way for any couple to set up a joint account. Using the Coupl: Shared Banking mobile app, couples can open a joint account in under 60 seconds, with no paperwork and start managing money together.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/xrKAKPYu3yoz_fDRCi8096hIMjB5riObQekHQmUq_SP43nRFJFw60bsgUY8xQNOtz6RpJ_QvzG9meJWUSCABLWQygq00kkN3iKFKXzZshEQKOhgvozi4uGa9eUV6p72__hrrOK3pXZ3TgYnglZCiWnQ)\n\n### 😤 **Problem**:\n\n### **Couples have evolved. Yet, the conventional joint account hasn’t kept pace.**\n\nToday, couples start managing expenses together well before tying the knot. They proactively track, split and settle shared expenses. Newlyweds are even more intentional about the way they manage home bills & shared expenses. They end up using multiple tools to manage their shared finances, such as, Splitwise, WhatsApp groups, Google Sheets or Notion.\n\n**So – why don’t people just use traditional joint accounts?** \\\n**Because they’re cumbersome to open & expensive to maintain.**\n\n* They’re only accessible to **married couples**\n* It takes **days** to open the account\n* High chances you’d have to **physically** go the bank\n* Even if you’re married, you’d need **matching** addresses/last names on your IDs\n* They come with **high minimum balance** requirements\n* They come with **zero expense management** features\n* Extremely **outdated** user interface\n\n### \n\n### **💡 Solution:**\n\n### **We fixed the joint account!**\n\nUsing the Coupl: Shared Banking app, you can set up a **zero-balance joint account in under 60 seconds**, and start managing all your shared expenses from it! We offer **two linked RuPay cards** for payments, easy **in-app utility bill payments** and a host of **budgeting & expense categorisation features** that make sense when you’re playing ‘multi-player’ finance **💍**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Th5KLEre8BlwMIYmvKvbKvAcjE9FAiem4qGFf-MYiC5ZJKwI-f7YCegjKM33AzOGnxUidkKsay7gGXGES2XG-05dMgyI7LXgb04etFulYT6u9EOWmD4QmERmthvJOOq-XaxnNULQ-aH98kkGuMl0HRQ)\n\n🤺 **How we compare against traditional joint accounts:**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/xX6TRPbrReV95MrvdTaYcLP7oDwOgPvJ4WgJP1S6RbtSBetaBrG4iMnDS6XGYDyuqVMvijUlKE3yyMH5HdsiAuwGRYIK_SYN9ZqQbuuRKxyIHE02j-VONUs3S3pp6IygSKGG5Ym7UoJ57Kck-xZ1TE4)\n\n### \n\n### **🚀 Early Traction**\n\nWith over **10M weddings taking place in India each year**, and a growing consumer preference for digital payment products in India - we think we’re the right solution for a large market.\\\nSince our low-key launch in September 2023, we’ve opened **8,000 joint accounts** and processed transactions worth over **$400K**. With no advertising spend.\n\n### **👨‍💻 Meet the Team**\n\nKushagra & I founded [Coupl](https://coupl.money) in 2022.\n\nWe’re alums of **IIT Kanpur** and **BITS Pilani**, and have extensive experience in business, finance & technology – having worked at blue-chip management consulting firms and large technology companies.\n\nWe are also engaged & in a live-in relationship with our respective partners, and have spent countless hours in tracking and managing shared expenses. We soon learnt that managing money was the most cited pain-point in long term relationships. Today, our goal with Coupl is to bring the best of technology and banking to modern couples in India – to make shared payments easier.\n\n### 💜 **Want to try out Coupl?**\n\nThe Coupl: Shared Banking app is available across the App Store and Google Play. [Link to Download](https://tinyurl.com/CouplLaunchYC).\n\n**Scan to Download**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76340&key=user_uploads/980959/88baff20-45d6-4ced-8773-0602d9ad30f1)\n\nWe’re always taking feedback on how we can make Coupl even better for you.\\\nReach out to us at [hello@coupl.money](mailto:hello@coupl.money)!\n\n### 👋 **Social Connect**\n\n* [Website](https://coupl.money)\n* [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coupl)\n* [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/paywithcoupl/)\n* [Srini’s LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivas-sarkar/)\n* [Kushagra’s LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushagra-manglik-906399120/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JrI-coupl-india-s-first-neobank-for-couples", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2023-11-20T15:49:15.779Z" } ] }, { "id": 26735, "name": "Dr. Treat", "slug": "dr-treat", "former_names": [ "Urban Pets Inc (DBA Dr. Treat)", "DBA Dr. Treat" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d32db90d7196c1ce3567ce75271b6314a38a8b22.png", "website": "https://www.drtreat.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Dr. Treat is a tech enabled modern veterinary care company offering virtual and in-clinic services to pet parents. We are building the largest pet health company powered by technology and driven by data to offer highly personalized & preventative care for every pet. 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Our technology is designed to offer highly personalized & preventative care for every pet. \n\nWe deliver care that is research-based and personalized to each pet, based on their genetic makeup, health markers, diet, lifestyle, surroundings and any preexisting health issues or other predispositions.\n\nOur first market is San Francisco Bay Area, and we expect to launch across other markets across California and other states.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64798&key=user_uploads/5518/463b20b7-99da-4b86-a04a-b5bb27cbb9c2)\n\n**What makes Dr. Treat, a treat?**\n\nWe are building the next generation pet health company to deliver very personalized care to every pet all while creating a seamless, stress-free customer experience:\n\n* Proprietary Telehealth & Telemedicine platform for 24/7 virtual care, integrated into Dr. Treat’s app for all your pet’s health needs\n* End to end pharmacy integration\n* Easy access to patient data, notifications, reminders and communication between the vets & pet parents\n* Fully integrated experience & workflows\n* Beautifully designed clinics for a stress-free experience\n\n**How it works**\n\nDr. Treat is a membership-based veterinary care practice, designed around your pet’s unique needs. Working like a clinic, but offering so much more through our:\n\n1. 24/7 virtual care platform and beautifully designed clinics\n2. Tailor-made pet care plan to suit your pet’s unique requirements\n3. Breed-specific consultations through a genetic breed test offered as part of the program\n4. Same day or next day appointments\n5. Research-based treatments\n6. Door-delivery of meds all \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64798&key=user_uploads/5518/e13c2ca0-84cd-4fbc-bff7-ec4296d33840)\n\n\n> **A** [**short video**](https://youtu.be/ak_5YxRdfGg) **of Dr. Treat’s experience:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64798&key=user_uploads/5518/3bf98846-57f5-4b6f-bd93-6700bac68ada)\n\n**Our target audience**\n\n* Any cat or dog parents that are in the Bay Area today that want quality care for their pets \n* Gen Z and Millennial who value convenience and seamless customer experiences\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64798&key=user_uploads/5518/506ad20e-ffe9-4ca6-bf7a-24dec28ce5f3)\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n* **Customer acquisition:** Share this post! Please help spread the word, because we want to hear from early adopters who will use this service. \n* **Feedback:** We would love to hear from all of you on your pain points and delight moments as it relates to your pet’s health. \n* **Partnerships:** Connect us with companies that may want to offer Dr. Treat to their employees as an additional perk for increased employee retention.\n\nQuick blurb to copy & paste: A team of entrepreneurs and veterinarians recently launched a very innovative pet health company to offer highly personalized veterinary care through a membership model. Check them out and contact [rakesh@drtreat.com](mailto:rakesh@drtreat.com) for more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gr8-dr-treat-tech-enabled-veterinary-care-for-highly-personalized-in-clinic-and-virtual-care", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2024-01-09T21:08:49.842Z" }, { "id": 64799, "title": "Dr. Treat: Tech-enabled veterinary care for highly personalized in-clinic and virtual care", "tagline": "One Medical for Pets", "body": "**What is Dr. Treat**\n\nDr. Treat is a tech enabled veterinary care company offering virtual and in-clinic services to pet parents. Our technology is designed to offer highly personalized & preventative care for every pet. \n\nWe deliver care that is research-based and personalized to each pet, based on their genetic makeup, health markers, diet, lifestyle, surroundings and any preexisting health issues or other predispositions.\n\nOur first market is San Francisco Bay Area, and we expect to launch across other markets across California and other states.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64799&key=user_uploads/5518/463b20b7-99da-4b86-a04a-b5bb27cbb9c2)\n\n**What makes Dr. Treat, a treat?**\n\nWe are building the next generation pet health company to deliver very personalized care to every pet all while creating a seamless, stress-free customer experience:\n\n* Proprietary Telehealth & Telemedicine platform for 24/7 virtual care, integrated into Dr. Treat’s app for all your pet’s health needs\n* End to end pharmacy integration\n* Easy access to patient data, notifications, reminders and communication between the vets & pet parents\n* Fully integrated experience & workflows\n* Beautifully designed clinics for a stress-free experience\n\n**How it works**\n\nDr. Treat is a membership-based veterinary care practice, designed around your pet’s unique needs. Working like a clinic, but offering so much more through our:\n\n1. 24/7 virtual care platform and beautifully designed clinics\n2. Tailor-made pet care plan to suit your pet’s unique requirements\n3. Breed-specific consultations through a genetic breed test offered as part of the program\n4. Same day or next day appointments\n5. Research-based treatments\n6. Door-delivery of meds all \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64799&key=user_uploads/5518/e13c2ca0-84cd-4fbc-bff7-ec4296d33840)\n\n\n> **A** [**short video**](https://youtu.be/ak_5YxRdfGg) **of Dr. Treat’s experience:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64799&key=user_uploads/5518/3bf98846-57f5-4b6f-bd93-6700bac68ada)\n\n**Our target audience**\n\n* Any cat or dog parents that are in the Bay Area today that want quality care for their pets \n* Gen Z and Millennial who value convenience and seamless customer experiences\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64799&key=user_uploads/5518/506ad20e-ffe9-4ca6-bf7a-24dec28ce5f3)\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n* **Customer acquisition:** Share this post! Please help spread the word, because we want to hear from early adopters who will use this service. \n* **Feedback:** We would love to hear from all of you on your pain points and delight moments as it relates to your pet’s health. \n* **Partnerships:** Connect us with companies that may want to offer Dr. Treat to their employees as an additional perk for increased employee retention.\n\nQuick blurb to copy & paste: A team of entrepreneurs and veterinarians recently launched a very innovative pet health company to offer highly personalized veterinary care through a membership model. Check them out and contact [rakesh@drtreat.com](mailto:rakesh@drtreat.com) for more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gr9-dr-treat-tech-enabled-veterinary-care-for-highly-personalized-in-clinic-and-virtual-care", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2022-07-21T18:23:26.504Z" } ] }, { "id": 26743, "name": "EthosX", "slug": "ethosx", "former_names": [ "Ethos" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/996567c41c2cfe38cba0451d132a3ac62a13e9ec.png", "website": "https://www.ethosx.finance/", "all_locations": "Claymont, DE, USA; Bengaluru, KA, India; Mumbai, MH, India; Remote", "long_description": "EthosX is a decentralized finance platform creating end-to-end financial derivatives on blockchains. No centralized exchanges, clearinghouses, depositories, clearing banks, CSD participants etc. required.\r\n\r\nWe are starting with cryptocurrency options first, with the intention to move towards other crypto derivatives and traditional finance derivatives eventually.\r\n\r\nFor example, one can buy a bitcoin hedging token directly from EthosX without involving any exchange or counterparty and earn profits when the bitcoin price is falling (similar to a put option). It is perpetual and is completely on-chain, end-to-end. It is held as a token in wallets and can be sold/transferred to anyone at any time.\r\n\r\nAt institutional level, using EthosX’s options infrastructure two hedge funds can trade high-value on-chain options with each other directly without involving any banks or brokers with zero counterparty risk and zero settlement risk.\r\n\r\nWe are also providing derivatives infrastructure to other crypto companies who want to use these products as a part of a larger package to their customers.\r\n\r\nGlobal derivatives ecosystem is broken. Derivatives trading in traditional finance has way too many gatekeepers and intermediaries. Crypto was supposed to be free of these issues and a solution to all of this, but it is itself getting more and more centralized with disastrous consequences.\r\n\r\nWe at EthosX intend to pick the best of both worlds and change the way retail and institutional financial derivatives are traded world over.", "one_liner": "The protocol for derivatives on blockchains", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1657620541, "tags": [ "DeFi", "Fintech", "Crypto / Web3", "Consumer", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "India", "America / Canada", "South Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ethosx", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/ethosx.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Claymont", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethosx/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ethosx_finance", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/996567c41c2cfe38cba0451d132a3ac62a13e9ec.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": 626077, "full_name": "Deepanshu .", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Deepanshu is Co-founder and CEO of EthosX. He has been a quantitative finance professional for over 8 years. He is very passionate about using the blockchain technology generally and cryptocurrencies specifically to solve real world problems, especially problems related to financial markets. He was Vice President of Quantitative Research in the Global Derivatives Clearing business at JP Morgan Chase before EthosX . He studied engineering at IIT Kharagpur and obtained his MBA from IIM Calcutta.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/deepanshuiitkgp", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a46bbc8657e6b1f6d4db85c4c6f2938b998912a2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1010765, "full_name": "Smit Patoliya", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Smit did B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras. He has worked in quantitative finance most of his career and has keen interest in financial derivatives. At EthosX, he aims to build end-to-end derivatives solutions on blockchain.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/smit-patoliya", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Smit_Patoliya", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/241179272bc4cbb33dde06052094b1df00b1f51a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65269, "title": "EthosX: Decentralized finance platform for crypto & traditional derivatives", "tagline": "We make it unbelievably easy for financial institutions to trade derivatives and manage financial risk", "body": "Hi all, we are [Smit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smit-patoliya/) & [Deepanshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/) and we are super stoked to announce EthosX!\n\n### \n\n### 🚀TL;DR\n\n \n\nEthosX makes it easy for crypto companies and financial institutions to sell on-chain derivatives to their customers and trade with each other. For example, using EthosX’s options infrastructure two hedge funds can trade high-value on-chain options with each other directly without involving any banks or brokers with zero counterparty risk and zero settlement risk.\n\n \n\n### ❓Problem\n\n \n\n**Global derivatives ecosystem is broken.** Derivatives trading in traditional finance has way too many gatekeepers and intermediaries. This leads to inefficiencies and things falling apart every other day. As insiders, we have seen how much everything hangs by a thread. With **USD 600 Trillion dollars (notional value) at stake**, one would expect things to be better, but they aren’t.\n\nCrypto was supposed to be free of these issues and a solution to all of this, but it is itself getting more and more centralized with disastrous consequences, as was clearly evident in the last few months. With every other crypto exchange/bank running away with user’s funds, one can hardly blame the users/traders/investors if they don’t trust centralized entities for complex products like derivatives.\n\n### 🎯Solution\n\n \n\nWe are bringing the entire derivative trading lifecycle on blockchains end-to-end (trading, clearing and settlement).\n\nInstitutions can trade directly with each other on-chain via smart contracts created by us without involving any banks, brokers or exchanges. These trades have zero counterparty risk as the net payoffs are locked in the code. The settlement of these derivatives is automatic and done with the help of on-chain oracles and therefore the settlement risk is also zero. \n\nWe are also adding a Request-For-Quote system which will help bring more liquidity to these trades.\n\nNow, due to regulatory and technical reasons, this cannot be done yet for traditional finance derivatives, so we are starting with cryptocurrency derivatives first and will eventually go towards traditional finance as well.\n\nWe are providing derivatives infrastructure to other crypto companies as well who want to use these products as a part of a larger package to their customers. E.g. DeFi lending protocols can offer liquidation protection to their borrowers using our solutions.\n\nWe have also created perpetual options which are live (testnet) on our website and can be traded by retail traders and institutions alike. The instructions to trade them are [here](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7wovngMr1uo6ZpBB_1fSluC1bLJnq5DK). \n\n \n\n### 📒Backstory\n\nTogether we have spent nearly 15 years in quantitative finance and have seen, very closely, all the points where the derivatives ecosystem falls apart. Deepanshu was a Vice President at the Quantitative Research team of JP Morgan Chase and Smit was working at a quantitative hedge fund trading options before they came together again for EthosX. **It is kind of an open secret that blockchain tech can potentially eliminate many of the issues in derivatives life-cycle which have persisted for years/decades.**\n\n ‘\n\n# 💁How can you help\n\n \n\n1. If you are at a financial institution and want to understand how large derivative trades can be done on-chain with no settlement risk and zero counterparty risk, please reach out to us at [contact@ethosx.xyz](mailto:contact@ethosx.xyz) or directly [message us on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/)\n2. If you are at a crypto company/protocol and need to use crypto derivatives for hedging your treasury or offering some price-volatility-protection to your customers, we will be happy to help! ([email](http://contact@ethosx.xyz) / [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepanshu1/))\n3. If you are a trader, please try out our (testnet) perpetual options at [www.ethosx.xyz](http://www.ethosx.xyz) (metamask required)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gyj-ethosx-decentralized-finance-platform-for-crypto-traditional-derivatives", "votes": 207, "created_at": "2022-08-10T14:31:41.732Z" } ] }, { "id": 26753, "name": "Lyra", "slug": "lyra", "former_names": [ "NFT Access" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4950fc8f2e99716dad617535576e4ea17c9fb623.png", "website": "https://paywithlyra.com/", "all_locations": "Houston, TX, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Lyra is a crypto-native virtual card provider that allows users to easily create cards and fund them with cryptocurrency. Create virtual cards directly from your browser through our Chrome extension for all your purchases and subscriptions. ", "one_liner": "Spend crypto anywhere online", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1654236501, "tags": [ "Crypto / Web3", "Consumer", "NFT" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lyra", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/lyra.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Houston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/lyrapay_", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4950fc8f2e99716dad617535576e4ea17c9fb623.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1001726, "full_name": "Griffin Wheeler", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Software developer turned serial entrepreneur.\n\nPreviously: Founder & Lead Developer of a seven-figure software development company with a community of over 12,000 users\n\nCurrently: Building Lyra, a crypto payment solution", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/griffintwheeler/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GriffinWheeler2", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63a04c149d6a0e8e46e45a595e14ef8d7122ebba.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65339, "title": "🌕 Lyra – Spend your crypto anywhere", "tagline": "💳 Lyra enables anyone to generate Visa cards using their crypto", "body": "Hi! Kadir and Griffin here to announce the launch of Lyra. 👋\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nLyra is a platform that makes spending Crypto every day possible. The platform provides an intuitive dashboard & chrome extension that allows you to create Visa cards on demand using the most popular crypto currencies.\n\n**Why we built Lyra? 🤔**\n\nThere’s currently only two methods to use your crypto what it was originally meant for, spending it. You have to send your crypto to an exchange and wait days for it to reach your bank account or hope to find a retailer that’s integrated a crypto payment processor. The reality is crypto users need an intuitive way to spend their crypto daily. Currently, there’s no way to spend crypto on the largest e-commerce platforms like eBay, Walmart, Target, etc without jumping through a bunch of hoops.\n\n**Solution - Lyra 💫**\n\nLyra provides a dashboard and chrome extension that makes spending crypto simple. Our chrome extension provides checkout assistance on top of all the functionality of the dashboard. At checkout on major retailers a Lyra checkout button will appear that displays all available cards to the user and auto fills their info with a single click! Lyra users don't have to expose their private keys or personal information. Your crypto, your keys. Choose any of the major cryptos, load up your balance, and generate your card. In three easy steps you’re ready to spend at any retailer of your choice. **_Check it out._** _👇_\n\n**Checkout**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65339&key=user_uploads/1005032/3fccb807-528a-4170-bc18-dd62b6225168)\n\n**Analytics**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65339&key=user_uploads/1005032/144dc451-0779-454f-a840-5bef91abacec)\n\n**Dashboard**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65339&key=user_uploads/1005032/831b6267-6ac1-4fcf-9ac4-bd45c11790c7)\n\n**Card Creation**\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/vYjyVMZ9EKGC8mMz7lB2GujsShPXQgWYCeywTxCHoVF560gUjgUMOjeta3kXeU0OdF21q4FkclkAuiqGctKddCHaduRwnw4NWR7Bf5YuCivAQKqMYpoMr1vTvYipit7iJloWC7RmTTcOxpARWCp5HHU)\n\n**Our Ask 🙏**\n\n1. We would love to hear your thoughts! Has this been a pain point for you? Let us know.\n2. Make sure to share Lyra with anyone you think could benefit from it.\n\n**Website:** \n\n**Email:** [founders@nftaccess.app](mailto:founders@nftaccess.app)\n\n**♾️ If you’re interested in getting in contact regarding our NFT ticketing platform (** [**https://nftaccess.app**](https://nftaccess.app) **) you can contact** **Griffin** **or myself through our personal emails.** 👇\n\n[griffin@nftaccess.app](mailto:griffin@nftaccess.app) & [s@nftaccess.app](mailto:s@nftaccess.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gzr-lyra-spend-your-crypto-anywhere", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2022-08-13T00:03:47.598Z" }, { "id": 64258, "title": "🎟️ NFT Access: Multi-Chain NFT Ticketing Platform", "tagline": "Discover, create, manage & attend events using NFTs 🪙", "body": "Hey everyone!\\\n\\\nKadir and Griffin here! 👋\n\n[NFT Access](https://nftaccess.app/) is a multi-chain NFT ticketing platform that allows anyone to discover, create, manage, and attend events using pre-existing NFTs or new NFTs issued directly from our website.\n\n**Why we built NFT Access**\n\nIn short, traditional ticketing systems are tangled with inherent problems. Fraud is rampant, attendees that purchase tickets on the resale market often can't separate authentic tickets from fake ones and if they're able to purchase from authorized issuers the fees can cost up to 30% - 40% of face value. A traditional ticket has no use past the original event. We believe NFTs should serve the purpose of reusable general access tokens.\n\nThe event hosts have no benefit from the resale of their tickets, have no way to get data of the attendee if the ticket was resold, and the costs associated with issuing tickets is high. NFTs serving as tickets brings more revenue to artists, creatives and event hosts in the form of royalties from sales on the resale market, reduced production cost ( event can be created, new NFTs issued and ready to sell in under 5 minutes ), and prevents fake tickets because the blockchain provides us a trusted decentralized source for authentication.\n\n**Solution - NFT Access**\n\nOn NFT Access anyone can create an event. There's options to create multiple ticket tiers using pre-existing collections ( contracts ) or create tiers with new NFTs directly from the website.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64258&key=user_uploads/1005032/bef3d8ca-33da-43be-b3bb-674b3381ecb9)\n\n**_The event page_**\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64258&key=user_uploads/1005032/47cccf6f-e78a-4794-9d28-c496d29d17e8)\n\n**_On checkout, attendees can view which NFTs have access to the event._**\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=64258&key=user_uploads/1005032/9dfbd9e4-3e7d-4d58-b281-541983f13cc9)\n\n\\\n**Let’s connect** 🤝\\\nTwitter: \n\nEmail: [founders@nftaccess.app](mailto:founders@nftaccess.app)\\\n\\\n**NFT Access is publicly available, anyone can use it! 👇**\\\n[**https://nftaccess.app**](https://nftaccess.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GiQ-nft-access-multi-chain-nft-ticketing-platform", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2022-07-01T04:57:34.592Z" } ] }, { "id": 26795, "name": "Gullak Money", "slug": "gullak-money", "former_names": [ "Gullak (Piggy Bank is known as Gullak in Hindi)", "Gullak" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/02dc5ca39f0b84d551575438e1537fbaa5ba8983.png", "website": "https://gullak.money", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Gullak is a mobile app that automates savings & invests these in Gold. We launched in India 60 days ago and have grown from 0 to 40k transacting users and hit a monthly GTV of $280K already. We are growing 25% week on week.\r\n\r\nIndia is a nation of savers but the way the majority of India saves is non-smart & does not create wealth. There are 200 Mn Indians who save manually in bank deposits, the returns from these instruments do not even beat India's inflation. \r\n\r\nGold is an instrument that India loves - 30Bn worth gold is purchased in India every year by middle income households. Gold has great cultural significance in India & there is high familiarity with the asset class. Despite gold being a familiar asset class & giving 5% higher returns than bank deposits, 200 Mn Indians still save manually in these non wealth creating bank deposits. This is largely because the ways to save in Gold required painful discrete activities such as manually accumulating money to buy gold, going to offline stores to buy this gold, incurring storage charges & more. The minimum ticket size for purchasing gold at these stores is $50 adding to more friction to saving in Gold.\r\n\r\nUsing automated savings, Gullak now makes it extremely easy for users to save small amounts regularly($1/day) in digital Gold.This was not possible a year ago because the underlying infrastructure(UPI Autopay) was missing. \r\n\r\nWith 50 Mn Indians saving $2/day & with gold backed lending, this is a $1.5Bn market opportunity.\r\n\r\nGullak’s Founding team is the team which built BHIM UPI App(10Mn Downloads in 10 Days), this was launched by the PM of India. We built large scale payment systems for partners like GooglePay / Amazon, processing more than 30Mn payments/day. This is the same team that has built more than 40+ consumer brands & their initial growth strategy.\r\n", "one_liner": "Gullak automates savings & invests these in gold", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1659945230, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Consumer" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gullak-money", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/gullak-money.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gullak-money/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/gullakmoneyapp", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/gullakit", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/02dc5ca39f0b84d551575438e1537fbaa5ba8983.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": 1045536, "full_name": "Naimisha Rao", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Naimisha is the co-founder at Gullak Money, leading growth & marketing. Prior to this, she was head of growth marketing at Twin Health - a Sequoia funded Series C company where she handcrafted their growth strategy, contributing to 80% of Twin’s revenue then. Prior to that, she has worked on 40+ brand’s growth/marketing strategies & executed a lot of these strategies herself.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/naimisha-rao/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/de42d01ffb84279065d526c67a8791a66849cbef.jpg" }, { "user_id": 917360, "full_name": "Dilip Jain", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilipjain09", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c1bbc00328374e01967f626653b99656541b1676.jpg" }, { "user_id": 918745, "full_name": "Manthan Shah", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/manthan-shah-12b38a45/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/manthan197", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/37e2c87f8928d7970956cef284a929b13b9d4064.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Savings & Investment Startup Gullak Raises Seed Funding To Offer New Financial Products", "url": "https://inc42.com/buzz/savings-investment-startup-gullak-seed-funding-new-financial-products/", "date": "Jan 19, 2023" }, { "title": "Gullak unveils Rishton ki Gullak campaign | The Financial Express", "url": "https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/gullak-unveils-rishton-ki-gullak-campaign/2616093/", "date": "Nov 08, 2022" }, { "title": "Our 11 favourite companies from YC's S22 Demo Day: Part 1 • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/07/11-favorite-yc-demo-day-s22-startups/", "date": "Sep 07, 2022" }, { "title": "Gullak Raises INR 10 Crore In Pre-Seed Funding", "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/gullak-raises-inr-10-crore-in-pre-seed-funding/429737", "date": "Jun 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65271, "title": "Gullak - Automated savings app designed for India", "tagline": "Gullak is a mobile app that automates savings & invests these in Gold", "body": "Hi everyone, we are Dilip, Manthan, Naimisha & we are here to introduce Gullak.\n\nGullak is a mobile app that automates savings & invests these in gold. With Gullak, users can get started with auto saving just $1/day or with auto saving spare change. \n\nWe went from 200 to 30000 MTU in just 50 days & have hit an MRR of $2000. We are growing 25% Week on Week.\n\n**A little more about us:**\n\nManthan, Built ‘Visa Safe Click’ from scratch, the first one-click card authentication solution in India. Is a power house of ideas & loves experimenting\n\nDilip, In just the first 2 years of his career built India’s first large scale UPI app -  BHIM(10M users in 10 Days, launched by the PM of India). Does not stop till he solves the problem at hand\n\nNaimisha, having worked with 40+ brands comes with a rich experience in handcrafting Consumer Brands. Loves talking to & understanding the users\n\n**India Loves Savings But,** \n\nIndia loves savings but the way the majority of India(next 100 Mn) saves is manual, unstructured & non wealth creating. 200 Mn Indians save manually in assets such as Savings Accounts/FD/LIC Policies and these instruments do not beat inflation.\n\n**Gold SIPs to the rescue**\n\nAutomating savings in Gold using UPI Autopay removes the problem of manual & unstructured savings & hence making it easier for everyone to create more wealth.\n\n**Features our users love**\n\nSave on every spend\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65271&key=user_uploads/1045536/c4455ab2-8344-45ff-b1ac-23b15183182f)\n\n> Daily/Monthly SIPs\n>\n> ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65271&key=user_uploads/1045536/b22d429f-fc67-4101-9b5e-87c4257b4298)\n\n\n> **Here’s a 1 minute Product Explainer**\n\n[Product Explainer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRPymS_2zdE)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n1. Download the [app](https://gullak.app.link/CB7U808Cnsb) & let us know your experience\n2. 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", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80895&key=user_uploads/89898/e5538a15-e8ae-40a9-b9b3-088d1457c12f)\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nBlacktop Hoops is the ultimate VR basketball game and sports experience. Embark on a hoops journey in career mode, ball against bots, hang out with friends in online courts, or climb the rankings in competitive pickup games. Design your perfect avatar with millions of unique combinations. Do you have what it takes to become the GOAT? 🐐\n\n[**Blacktop Hoops has exited Beta and has launched**](https://www.meta.com/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/) launched on **Meta Quest**, **Pico**, and **Steam and is available for purchase for $29.99**!\\\n🥽 [**Play on Meta Quest:**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)\n\n[**🖥️**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)  [**Buy on Steam:**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1945250/Blacktop_Hoops/)\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/3SfRQBX5Ax-UbqsFUnWU8S5qv2Q3B0JkSsytyKD8uAxb3VjY9Pdm9HorEHfyZlLnP1X7GkmsiuKdcmBVOtATz0BtVYnS9iosJJE9bDykiopHvz8u_yU8rSXwHqIu8Lvx2optoJwRqoyfrSXeEIaC9f0)\n\n[**🏀WATCH THE BLACKTOP HOOPS TRAILER HERE**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)\n\n[**😩Problem**](https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/blacktop-hoops/4416817901687071/)\n\nMeta Quest has a similar trajectory to the iPhone but has **60x less apps per user available**. There is a massive gap in high-quality games and application on the platform. \n\n[The most popula](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1945250/Blacktop_Hoops/)r and highest retention genres for VR currently on Quest are competitive first person shooters, social virtual reality experiences, and sports/fitness.\n\nNo one has built a truly all-in-one sports game like NBA 2K, Madden, or FIFA for VR with a career mode, casual lobbies, and ranked competitive play.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/TSn_kUARMCWrpee_nT52Zhf28KPmqiMIrsWWgwspJsFCit0JueFzqQ8iAYf4UivY-eDhR2w8RU8iFV8tFmgtwposkkj8vrqV8GnCVmCWmrH2bI0Ld6qsenweWZThn434DkTSnNZW-iJU48MqGLypC8k)\n\n⛹🏿‍♂️**Solution**⛹🏻‍♀️\n\nBlacktop Hoops was a breakout hit on Meta’s App Lab as the #1 rated App Lab title with over **16,000 reviews**, a **4\\.9 rating** and over **1 million players** across Steam and Quest pre-launch. \n\nIn Blacktop Hoops, players partake in an epic campaign mode featuring 12 unique streetball legends across four iconic streetball courts in Oakland, Los Angeles, New York and Athens. At the end of their journey to become the GOAT, players have a final showdown [against world dunk champion Jordan Kilganon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTEXh4lxfA&t=155s&pp=ygUPam9yZGFuIGtpbGdhbm9u). \n\nFor multiplayer fans, players can hit the courts in casual 1vs1, 2vs2, 3vs3 or 4vs4 matches or climb the rankings in skill-based matchmaking across 9 ranks and 21 divisions.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/sMARIlq83DjNfEYaDAghMSfOjmXt76LmQjeeKwrg3DwmJP1Tbn2aLYZqjMzep9vvbl8-_uAeGZT6iTQ29mZ3xW8eUj037Cs5TjkNb6qNGgq7ffSAY54C7GUTVNJylksMlEKNZteiIJYEUQruhB8Czks)\n\nOne of the biggest additions to Blacktop Hoops is its new customizable avatar system. Players have access to over 600 customizations including body type, faces, skin color, shirts, emotes,  sneakers, glasses, shirts and more. Players can mix and match cosmetics to build their perfect avatar with millions of possible combinations.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/79PAptBHjdfZrcQOJkRFY1-MyN2gi1DJkPspQt-hupQchpGyHVXji2HTgCqKkEWmRoAakdkQBoJzQ7mJhyJCDEHNyC1CYkpKOz7ZfUA8ndroRx3eXma6I1Sw1zyuklk_JttEBwL_87SQ6VkbdseH2zU)\n\nBlacktop Hoops will also be coming soon to Playstation VR 2 and Apple Vision pro. \n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/AFjzN7GkfZlKEPuqYZLtXIRK59QilOfbtbNM61ydvBuo6ByazUuE-2bXnWG9V1ErkDbygorlFJipuGKDuARQHNaMNRfqT4IB__N7RKpppnaguJJBLP1DLxZpyf3oXip3a5rXskTas80wTxRfJKOyC9I)\n\n**We need your help! Please reshare our trailer and announcements below.** \n\n1. [**📹Share Blacktop Hoops Launch trailer**](https://youtu.be/CsNGnDF5nfg?si=fNZ81Ut2FKShBz_r)\n2. 👨‍💼[**Share launch announcement on Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathanielventura_virtualreality-blacktophoopsvr-metaquest-activity-7196887160568905728-hT_W?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)\n3. [🐦**Share launch announcement on X/Twitter**](https://twitter.com/blacktophoopsVR/status/1791121677155221833)\n4. 👴[**Share launch announcement on Facebook**](https://www.facebook.com/BlacktopHoopsVR/videos/276253088816960/)\n5. 📷[**Share launch announcement on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7CJve7PS3q/)\n6. 😄[**Share launch announcement on TikTok**](https://www.tiktok.com/@blacktophoopsvr/video/7369643065579015467)\n\nIn addition, if you know of any consumer brands (i.e Nike, Adidas), location-based entertainment partners/arcades, or athletes that would be interested in partnership with the game please send me an email at [**n@vinci-games.com**](mailto:n@vinci-games.com). \\\n\\\nThank you for the support!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L2l-blacktop-hoops-2-0-nba-2k-for-ar-vr", "votes": 99, "created_at": "2024-05-16T17:53:47.347Z" }, { "id": 64750, "title": "🔥🏀 Blacktop Hoops - Multiplayer VR Basketball for the Metaverse", "tagline": "Blacktop Hoops is a competitive VR basketball game. Think NBA Jam meets NBA 2K in VR. ", "body": "**TL:DR** [Blacktop Hoops](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jBJ-Hnqp8) is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game with the most natural basketball mechanics ever designed for virtual reality. It’s built for VR with plans for full cross-platform play across console, mobile, and desktop. \n\nHi we’re Nathan and Maciej, founders of [Vinci Games](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/blacktop-hoops-by-vinci-games) and developer of Blacktop Hoops. We’re building the first AAA single player and multiplayer basketball game for VR. It’s built with intuitive mechanics so you can shoot just like Steph Curry and dunk like Lebron James.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nOver the last decade sports games have been monopolized across all major platforms with an extremely limited selection of games for players. Games like NBA 2K, FIFA, and Madden release games each year with extremely poor user reviews and limited innovation. With the rapid growth of VR adoption, no true AAA competitive sports franchises exist on VR. \n\n**Solution** \n\nBlacktop Hoops is designed with ultra-natural mechanics which allow players to chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI or real-world opponents in epic games of arcade basketball.\n\nWe’ve worked with pro streetball players and dunkers like [King Handles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkU86a4MUmo) and [Jordan Kilganon](https://www.instagram.com/jordankilganon/?hl=en) for mocap animations for the game so opponents feel realistic and respond dynamically to how you play.\n\nWe also brought on world-class voiceover talent including [Bobbito Garcia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbito_Garcia) (NBA Street), [Dante Basco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5o3NFV5OM) (Avatar the Last Airbender), and [Renee Montgomery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renee_Montgomery) (ex-WNBA Allstar).\n\n### **Founders Backstory**\n\nLast year we had a crazy idea: could you build a VR basketball game that felt as natural as playing in real life? I spent my entire life playing basketball and previously worked at Oculus and Unity. Our CTO Maciej had spent 18 years at CD Projekt RED as the lead game designer on Witcher 1 - 3. Early last year we spent two months building a prototype of a VR streetball game. After we released it on Reddit, it hit the frontpage of every major VR subreddit including /r/Gaming, /r/Virtualreality /r/Oculus, /r/SteamVR, /r/PSVR, and /r/Playstation. From that point we knew we were onto something big.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n1. Download and play **Blacktop Hoops - Alpha** on Quest or Steam. Share your feedback with us at [founders@vinci-games.com](mailto:founders@vinci-games.com). \n 1. [**Play on Oculus**](https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4416817901687071/) or [**Play on Steam**](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1945250/Blacktop_Hoops/)\n2. For **Investors** shoot us an email at [founders@vinci-games.com](mailto:founders@vinci-games.com).\n3. For **Collaborators** with ties to the NBA, sportswear brands (i.e. Nike, Adidas), games, VR, and the music industry send us an email at [n@vinci-games.com](mailto:n@vinci-games.com) if you’d like to partner. \n4. **Share this post!** Please help spread the word about Blacktop Hoops and [join our Discord community.](https://discord.com/invite/jggbR6QDUB)\n\n[Check out our most recent Alpha launch trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1d5vzLtjxs)\n\nLearn more at →  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64750&key=user_uploads/701640/33ac53e3-590a-43af-8216-6695641d39c1)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64750&key=user_uploads/701640/d23ea271-5846-4996-93c2-526fa66f848f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GqM-blacktop-hoops-multiplayer-vr-basketball-for-the-metaverse", "votes": 326, "created_at": "2022-07-20T03:28:21.596Z" } ] }, { "id": 27085, "name": "Roforco", "slug": "roforco", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bc0dd9f83f734b13827ef88ada40e53958962df0.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "Kristiansand, Agder, Norway", "long_description": "Roforco is one of the top game studios on Roblox. The team has launched 7 original titles played by over 100 million users and reaching a peak of 10.2 million monthly active users. Top games include:\r\n\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/10975855395/Korrupt-Zombies-UPDATE\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/9746160797/Sunsilk-City\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/4983678402/Disney-World-Magic-Kingdom-Theme-Park\r\n* https://www.roblox.com/games/6497455705/UPDATE-Iron-Seas\r\n\r\nRoforco drives virality through social reach, with 100K+ TikTok followers, 64K+ Discord members, and tens of millions of views across TikTok and YouTube.\r\n\r\nFounded by two 17-year-old high school dropouts who’ve been building viral consumer products since they were 12. 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We acquire and complete unfinished projects, then cross promote them within our portfolio.\\\n> \\\n> Hey ! [👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand/#:\\~:text=A%20hand%20waving%20most%20commonly,to%20Emoji%201.0%20in%202015.) [Tom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-middleton-22950a212/) and [Brain](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brain-xiang-75b033217/) (aka. the Roblox guys) here to introduce [Roforco](https://www.roforco.com/)!\n\n### 🧨 **The Problem**\n\nThere’s over 200bn$ in (video) gaming. Individual games can pull in hundreds of millions annually. Investors love this opportunity, but **it’s impossible to predict if a studio’s next title will be popular**, make money back or land well. \\\n\\\nGames are expensive to make and are inconsistently successful.\\\n**This is called hit based risk, or as we dubbed it ‘hit-risk’**\n\n### 🤔 **Why Roblox?**\n\n**There will always be at least one popular platform people make games for**. At the moment, it’s Roblox with a 2bn$ market and over 200mm MAU. We’re also deeply familiar with the platform, having **previously built an agency that grossed 500k$ of revenue in 6 mo** and partnered with brands including Unilever.\n\n### 🔎 **The Insight**\n\nIndie game developers **have a tendency to never finish projects they start.** After doing the fun parts like the game loop, closing out the game for release is often too difficult, boring and resource intensive. Every game developer (on Roblox) that we know has at least 2 unfinished or abandoned projects.\\\n\\\n**There are 10 million developers registered on Roblox in comparison to 44k on Steam.** Compared to the years AAA takes to produce one title (or 6-18 months in mobile), **on Roblox the average time to develop a game can be as little as 2-3 months.**\n\n### 🎉 **There's a Solution!**\n\nWe work with these unfinished/abandoned games and we’re able to acquire/ receive **a share of these projects**, while **partnering with the original developer** who is usually **glad to work together** just to see their vision come to life.\n\nThis gives us a much bigger market of unfinished games to acquire and mass **produce for faster and cheaper.** Meanwhile, the original developer gets to make money back from their idea at a fraction of the time and effort.\\\n\\\nEffectively - it’s the revenue of gaming with the predictability of B2B SaaS!\n\n### 🤯 **What next?**\n\nOnce at least a game takes off, it **proves the validity of it’s idea.** Then we can dedicate larger, longterm resources and grow the game’s IP exponentially, turning it into a **multimedia franchise (movies, toys, etc) building more revenue streams beyond the game.**\n\n### 📊 **Our Stats & Games:**\n\n* **51,828,645** total play sessions\n* **84.6%** average like ratio\n* **497,554,992** hours of engagement (#roadto1B)\n* **190,608** daily active users\n* **331,595** favourites\n* **4** original games\n* **3** brand partnership games\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65554&key=user_uploads/1016774/a3806f6e-88a8-4d52-b9d5-a7e31b799d62)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65554&key=user_uploads/1016774/3f72a0a1-34b7-4448-9df1-77b690ad92b5)\n\nThanks so much! \\\n[tom@roforco.com](mailto:tom@roforco.com)\\\n[roforco.com](http://roforco.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H3K-roforco-the-game-studio-without-hit-risk", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2022-08-22T20:39:17.973Z" } ] }, { "id": 27109, "name": "HOMLI", "slug": "homli", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6811479c1b708608fea18dd35850ae5ec8cd5a17.png", "website": "https://thehomli.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "HOMLI is building the first fully autonomous real estate broker, enabling homeowners to sell without agents.", "one_liner": "Sell your home without brokers", "team_size": 20, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "launched_at": 1654707476, "tags": [ "Real Estate", "Consumer", "Proptech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Housing and Real Estate" ], "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/homli", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/homli.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/homli/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/thehomli", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/homli", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6811479c1b708608fea18dd35850ae5ec8cd5a17.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 930002, "full_name": "Antonis Mitropoulos", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Antonis is a Co-Founder at HOMLI. 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He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MEng in Structural Engineering from MIT, and an MSc in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nlegbelos/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/aa3a1a99b8a0503e65990a45cbe4d4b170791dbe.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 54563, "title": "Sales Operations Specialist - Athens, Greece", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/homli/jobs/gNdAntf-sales-operations-specialist-athens-greece", "location": "Athens, Greece", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64175, "title": "HOMLI - Sell, rent, and buy real estate in Europe", "tagline": "HOMLI is a modern brokerage that helps consumers sell, rent, and buy real estate in Europe", "body": "HOMLI is a modern brokerage that helps consumers sell, rent, and buy real estate in Europe. We introduce innovative tech to finally create a client-first, scalable brokerage experience and provide transparency through Europe’s very first “Zestimate” platform.\n\n**Problem**\n\nReal estate brokerage has by far the lowest consumer satisfaction among all industries in Europe. With real estate accounting for more than half of most Europeans’ household assets, this is a problem that affects us all and it does so in major ways. Yet innovation in the space has been rather limited leaving consumers with offerings that haven’t evolved in decades.\n\n**Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64175&key=user_uploads/930002/8c2c5e97-05a1-4d5f-9d3a-c7e39832b71c)\n\nWe are re-gaining consumers’ trust by building Europe’s first “Zestimate” platform through which currently tens of thousands of people every month get transparency around the value of any property they are interested in.\n\nWe couple that with an in-house next-generation brokerage team that is more effective, more productive, and more pleasant to work with.\n\n**Context**\n\nWe have been working on variations of this for almost 3 years now: initially as a hobby to guide some personal investments and full-time in the last few months.\n\nWe are particularly passionate about European Real Estate so if anyone has had first-hand experience, we’d love to hear possible challenges you encountered!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gh5-homli-sell-rent-and-buy-real-estate-in-europe", "votes": 71, "created_at": "2022-06-29T14:06:35.631Z" } ] }, { "id": 27147, "name": "FoodCourt", "slug": "foodcourt", "former_names": [ "CoKitchen" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b310f196c9d3bbee68d94946f5184db3f66e95.png", "website": "https://www.getfoodcourt.com", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores.\r\n\r\nUnderstanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. \r\n\r\nLearn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng ", "one_liner": "Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa", "team_size": 80, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1659104642, "tags": [ "Ghost Kitchens", "Consumer", "Delivery", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "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/foodcourt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/foodcourt.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Lagos", "country": "NG", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinco-kitchen/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/foodcourt_app", "fb_url": "https://web.facebook.com/getfoodcourt/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b310f196c9d3bbee68d94946f5184db3f66e95.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": 741494, "full_name": "Henry Nneji", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Henry is the Co-Founder & CEO of CoKitchen. He is from a very entrepreneurial family and has always had a keen interest for solving problems with technology. Prior to CoKitchen, Henry has been able to accumulate a range of experiences cut across design, marketing, product development/ management & entrepreneurship. In 2019 he co-founded Fashion Map, a quick way for Nigerians to find tailors & fashion designers across the country, dubbed as the “Uber for Tailors” by The Economist. 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As a personal project, built “for food only” an AI Vision app that identifies African food items using image classification.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adokiye-iruene-5537a5163/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bcb01390b60435cb0b6579e41c4c271ae501fb1e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How Nigeria’s FoodCourt is making meals more accessible via cloud kitchen approach - Disrupt Africa", "url": "https://disrupt-africa.com/2023/06/06/how-nigerias-foodcourt-is-making-meals-more-accessible-via-cloud-kitchen-approach/", "date": "Jun 05, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64997, "title": "CoKitchen (FoodCourt) ⚡️ - Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa", "tagline": "Good food, snacks, liquor & essentials delivered in a single order! ", "body": "Hello YC fam,\n\nThis is [Henry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrynneji/) & [Paul](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-adokiye-iruene-5537a5163/) from [CoKitchen](https://www.getfoodcourt.com)!\n\nWe are building the future of on-demand delivery in Africa with Virtual Restaurants & Dark Stores.\n\n**📲 FoodCourt App**\\\nThe [FoodCourt](https://onelink.to/foodcourtapp) app lets people order from a curation of virtual restaurant brands & shops focused on the most popular food & convenience categories wherever you are in Africa. With FoodCourt, you don’t have to decide between burgers, traditional Nigerian food, Chinese food or even liquor & snacks. You can order across brands & have everything delivered in a single order!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64997&key=user_uploads/741494/6447f895-8407-42e9-83a3-3888319ee070)\n\n**❎ The Problem**\\\nDespite the rise of aggregator food delivery apps across Africa, traditional restaurants still find it hard to adapt to the changes in consumer behaviour & keep up with the growing demand for on-demand delivery services. This has led to a **poor experience** for online food delivery users on the continent.\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\\\nWe’ve built a full-stack model where we control different areas of the value chain such as the technology, food production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience.\n\n1. Order on the FoodCourt app - a curation of good food & convenience goods with our unique & easy to use multi-brand ordering experience.\n2. Order gets prepared in our multi-brand delivery hub - Fully optimised for delivery efficiency.\n3. Delivered quickly by our connected last-mile partners - stationed at the delivery hub.\n\n**❤️ Feedback**\\\n[150+ User Stories - Instagram highlights](https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMxODM5NzU2MTc1MTQ2?story_media_id=2872254883829742939&igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64997&key=user_uploads/741494/aa32bd46-0a7d-4c73-aa4a-d462db4af8a1)\n\n**📈 Milestones & Fun Facts**\\\nSince our launch 11 months ago…\\\n250,000+ meals delivered\\\n$500k+ all-time sales\\\n$110k+ sales in June\\\n2,650+ monthly active users (67%+ order between 2 - 50+ times a month)\\\nEvery day in the last 150+ days, we’ve seen 35 - 45 people order 2 - 5 times daily.\\\n100% cashless (52%+ of transactions from saved cards)\n\n**🌍 The Market - Africa**\n\nPopulation: 1.37B+\\\nInternet users: 590m+ \\\nMedian age: 18yrs (wired for convenience, massive room for growth)\n\n**⚡️ Our Mission**\n\nBuilding a future where good food & convenience goods are seamlessly accessible in a few clicks for Africans.\n\n**🤝 Ask**\n\nTry us out - If you are in Lagos, Nigeria (the island), give us a try, we’d love to hear your feedback! [**» Get the app «**](https://onelink.to/foodcourtapp)\\\n\\\nTalk to us - Interested in working, learning more or partnering with us? 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Book an appointment at [www.almondobgyn.com](http://www.almondobgyn.com) or call 424-237-8406. Share with your friends and family to help the women in your life have a better option for ObGyn care. \n\n**Membership is affordable and we take all major insurance.**\n\n* Membership is $250 annually but our founding members can get their first year of membership for $150. \n* For visits, you can either use insurance or pay out of pocket. We accept Cigna, Aetna, Blue Shield, Anthem Blue Cross, and United HealthCare.\n\n### ObGyn today is broken\n\nAs women, we’ve had too many frustrating experiences with our ObGyn care. We may love our doctors but the process _around_ seeing the doctor can be terrible: long hold times to schedule, waiting a month or longer for an appointment, and often leaving an appointment with unclear next steps. Our modern world gives us so many great service experiences, yet when it comes to the most important aspect of our lives – our health – we are forced to put up with a slow, confusing process. \n\nBillions of dollars have been poured into modernizing primary care, yet women are still waiting for a better option for ObGyn care. The overturning of Roe is a harsh reminder that women still aren’t given the resources or the rights to be full decision makers over their own bodies. We are building Almond because women deserve better. \n\n### Why better ObGyn care matters\n\nThe impact of better ObGyn care is massive. There are 130M women in the US and they all need ObGyn care every year. On top of that, ObGyn is where women typically have their first intense, high stakes experiences with healthcare. We spend $200B a year on ObGyn care in the US; it is the second largest specialty by spend, after only primary care. Yet currently, women don’t have a brand they can trust and where they know they’ll have a great experience.\n\nAt Almond we believe women should have an extraordinary care experience: one that offers quality, transparent care, delivered faster. \n\n### We’re freeing up the ObGyn’s time so they can focus on what matters most\n\nOne of the first problems to tackle in ObGyn care is that doctor time is used inefficiently, wasting already limited ObGyn capacity. This makes access to care slow, and patients often feel their questions are unaddressed or they get unfit care.\n\nWe’re able to make care more convenient because we use doctor time better – we build software tools to take unnecessary tasks off their plates and we hire a wider range of care providers, not just doctors. By freeing up time for ObGyns they can spend more time on what matters most – delivering great care in every interaction, and seeing the patients that need their attention sooner.\n\nWe also believe getting [ObGyn](https://almondobgyn.com/) care should feel like a true-self care experience for patients, so our offices and software are designed to be convenient, reliable, and intuitive.\n\n### We would love your help\n\n1. We are hiring engineers. We’re particularly interested in meeting people who are passionate about what we are working on – e.g., they are women that have felt this pain themselves or are energized by the idea of building a better health system in the US. Here are our JDs for [backend](https://www.notion.so/Almond-Back-End-Engineer-423ff23660864e29be34fbd828ff0b6f) and [frontend](https://www.notion.so/Almond-Front-End-Engineer-7280fd76c3664dd1bb52864cc43f0126) eng roles. 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We’re aiming to build the Holy Grail of productivity apps - an AI agent to replace self-control.\n\nHere’s our landing page: [www.overlord.app](http://www.overlord.app)\n\nHere’s the link if you want to chat with it: [chat.overlord.app](http://chat.overlord.app)\n\nImagine you hired someone to stay awake 24/7, sat behind a big computer screen, monitoring you - knowing where you are (GPS), what website you’re on (Mac integration), what you spend money on. They can take actions: texting/calling you, charging you money, blocking your iOS/Android apps, blocking websites on your Mac, texting friends if you’ve fallen off the wagon.\n\nOverlord has been in a closed beta for about a year, and has had hundreds of thousands of messages sent to it by users. It’s specifically meant to be weasel-proof, so we’ve put a lot of effort into making sure there are no easy workarounds. Our target users are the type of people that have their friends manage their Screen Time passcodes, and have web blockers all over their Mac.\n\nHere are a few examples of what Overlord can do:\n\n* **Staying sober:** “Send a video blowing 0.00 on a breathalyser each night at 11pm, or text Jane: “John has skipped his evening check-in. Ensure he’s not relapsed”.”\n* **Undistracted on Mac:** “Lock me in from 9-5 each day on my Mac. Annoy me if I go on anything unrelated to work, and block if I go on any rabbit holes. Work is anything coding related.”\n* **Not skipping cardio:** “When I enter the gym, make sure I send a photo of 10 mins cardio, or charge me $5\".”\n* **My personal screen block:** “Block Instagram at all times, allowing me 1 min an hour, 15 mins if I send a photo of a meal, and unblock on Friday/Saturday nights from 7pm-4am. Charge me $50 if I disable Screen Time Permissions.”\n* **Mac productivity to co-founder:** “Track my Mac. Send a text to my co-founder of my total productive time each day at 11pm.”\n* **Showering after gym:** “When i get home from the gym, make sure I send a selfie if my hair wet within 30 mins or lose $5”\n\n**_No processed food:_** “Each time I spend money at Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, make sure I send a receipt (with the exact amount spent to ensure I’m not cheating) and it must not have anything processed on it. Also no purchases from any dollar pizza store. If I do, charge me $50.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Cr1A0j6LBec\n\n**_Morning routine w/ screen blocking + charging:_**\\_ “Call me to wake me up at 7am, and block my apps at this point. I must send a photo of my fridge at 7:05, a video brushing teeth by 7:10, a photo of a coffee by 7:20, and a photo outside by 7:30 (unblock my phone at this point). If I miss any of these, call me, then if I am not telling you I’m taking action on the phone, charge me $1.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/TVSTbu3jwKA\n\n**_Getting to work immediately:_**\\_ “Once I arrive at the office, I must start a 2hr focus session on my Mac within 15 minutes. If I exit this, or spend more than 10 mins distracted or inactive total, charge me $5 and text my co-founder that I’m distracted. Block all distracting sites.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/I0NvyW7RQYM\n\n**Asks:**\n\n1. Give it a go at [chat.overlord.app](http://chat.overlord.app) ! See if any goals you can set up with it would be useful to you. No login required.\n2. Comment down below if there are any goals/capabilities you’d like to see - there’s a bit of a learning curve to Overlord, but it can be extremely powerful once you get the hang of it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96453&key=user_uploads/254744/79482180-f44e-41da-8397-d2cd197eec85)\n\n\nHappy New Year!\n\nJosh", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P5h-overlord-ai-accountability-partner", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-12-31T00:29:23.091Z" }, { "id": 69854, "title": "📱 Forfeit App - Complete your habits or we take your money", "tagline": "Sent photo/timelapse evidence of you completing your habits, or we take $$$", "body": "**tl/dr:** Forfeit is an iOS/Android app that **takes your money if you don’t do what you say you’re going to do**. You must submit photo/timelapse evidence of you completing said habit, which we then manually verify on our end, or we take your money.\n\nEg, I know there’s a very slim chance I can motivate myself to go to the gym each weekday morning at 6am for the next 4 weeks. I can set a Forfeit to force me to send a photo, inside the gym, each morning at 6am, or lose $20 each time I don’t. It’s pretty much unlimited willpower!\n\n![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/602cf455f72a961cfec0c783/634094c898f0f615c6402033_ezgif.com-gif-maker%20(13).gif)\n\n**💰Opportunity:**\n\nMost people struggle with forming habits, and this is the only thing that truly motivates a subset of these people. We have a very short payback period on our initial ad campaign, and for a while have had a small amount of users that love us and run a lot of their life through our app.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n🚀 Procrastinating on your YC launch (like us)?\\\n🧘‍♀️ Want to meditate consistently for the next 30 days?\\\n🏋️ Want to be more consistent in the gym?\\\n✅ Have a load of boring ToDos that you wish you could be forced to grind out in 5hrs?\\\n📈 Absolutely anything you want to force yourself to do, that you can either self-verify or prove with a photo/timelapse?\n\nGive it a try here!\n\n\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAg-forfeit-app-complete-your-habits-or-we-take-your-money", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-03-01T22:20:12.862Z" } ] }, { "id": 27925, "name": "222", "slug": "222", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e693471ebf0087cdb9edcdba2657ef0066b1a88.png", "website": "https://222.place", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "an IRL marketplace facilitating social experiences at local venues/events through AI recommendations.", "one_liner": "the AI social facilitator for offline human to human interactions", "team_size": 28, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1668648558, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Marketplace", "Consumer", "Social", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "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/222", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/222.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/222place/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/222place", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e693471ebf0087cdb9edcdba2657ef0066b1a88.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 358820, "full_name": "Keyan Kazemian", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "accelerating chance social encounters @ www.222.place", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/kaaazemian", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/keyankazemian", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d8f95a34db333932504c444ea1dc29a1216c4543.jpg" }, { "user_id": 821983, "full_name": "Danial Hashemi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Iranian immigrant building a new solution to social", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danialhashemi/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/danialhashemi4", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/447db14f2a4eb34a08dc0b78a2198aec842543af.jpg" }, { "user_id": 485819, "full_name": "Arman Roshannai", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "engineering serendipity @ 222\n-\nexcited about tech that improves the human experience", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/arman-roshannai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/armanroshannai", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c6b68ebd5b85fb9003bf1fa5fa2de4d0db26b10a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 108551, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/222/jobs/ixxLfJT-backend-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$165K - $275K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "In an Age of AI, This Startup Is Betting on IRL", "url": "https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-an-age-of-ai-this-startup-is-betting-on-irl-69608cd4?st=yG7Yiw", "date": "Dec 23, 2025" }, { "title": "Social platform, 222 looks to connect strangers through AI - Fast Company", "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91356813/222-aims-to-end-loneliness-by-engineering-chance", "date": "Jun 27, 2025" }, { "title": "222 Startup Wants to Bring Social Back to Real Life, Launches App", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/startup-shifting-social-to-real-life-funding-raise-app-launch-2024-2", "date": "Feb 05, 2024" }, { "title": "It's hard to make friends in L.A. 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The comics are free to read with options to buy a subscription.\r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "Read romance comics.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1677185733, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shortbread", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/shortbread.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/shortbreadai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ShortbreadAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/078f1845141c235e73d8a7d865841150d50fcf92.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1139029, "full_name": "Fengjiao Peng", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Epsilab. 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A former comics creator, she pitched her own projects to webcomics platforms and saw the lack of advanced tech in the space. \\\n**Evan** is an AI researcher at the Berkeley AI Research Lab and was SWE at Amazon. He founded Generative AI @ Berkeley and grew it to 70 members + partnerships with Microsoft and YC startups in 7 months. He also built talk2arXiv, an open-source RAG system that reached 1st place on Hacker News, 500 stars on GitHub, and is still used by thousands today.\n\n# **Why Shortbread**\n\n**🩷 We’re building something _women_ want**. We marry the most advanced tech to a centuries-old genre: ROMANCE. A women-led founding team, we deeply understand our audience’s taste and meticulously optimize every algorithm, every storyline, every panel, and every pixel to visualize what today’s women seek. \n\n**📖 Story is king.** Our debut Shortbread Original series are brought to you by bestselling authors from Kindle, Wattpad, and Chapters—collectively with 64+ million views—and webcomic artists with 2+ billion views. Each story undergoes a rigorous revision process with the best minds in the industry to ensure unparalleled quality.\n\n**🎨 We build technology for our creators**. We’re building the best technology to enable artists to express their creativity and be freed by the tedious side of drawing. Enabled by our creative studio tools, our team are bringing best-of-its-kind graphics and artwork to the mobile romantic fictions.\\\nA video of our tools: https://youtu.be/QgYWf9rtBp4\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nDownload the [Shortbread App](https://shortbreadapp.com/) on iOS (Android next week ;) with the code YC2024 and get 100 free coins to read beautiful romance stories :). \n\nInvite friends with your personal code in the app for more free bonus coins!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L6Q-shortbread-app-netflix-for-comics", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2024-05-28T14:04:08.841Z" }, { "id": 70027, "title": "KURUKURU (now Shortbread.ai): 3D engine in the browser for comics creation", "tagline": "One destination for anyone to create, publish and monetize comics stories.", "body": "**TL; DR:** Webcomics platforms like webtoon generate $1.2B+ in ARR, engaging 90M monthly active readers. KURUKURU is a 3D engine in the browser to allow every storyteller to create, publish and monetize comics.\n\nThis is a page of a comics story (aka webtoon, manga, manhwa)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70027&key=user_uploads/1139029/ddde28f5-c960-4ffb-a7ef-8a421be9b6a3)\n\nCreated with KURUKURU\n\n**Reality:**\n\nWebcomic platforms like Webtoon generate $1.2B+ in ARR from comics sales, engaging 90M+ monthly active readers. Tapas, a webcomics platform, was sold for $550M. Over 2B people watch anime globally, and the total market cap of anime, webtoon and comics is $47.3B in 2022.\n\nCurrently, creators make comics by drawing, which requires art skills and is incredibly labor intensive and time consuming.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nDemo: \n\nKURUKURU is an all-in-one 3D engine and platform that enables every storyteller to create, publish and monetize comics. By uploading or generating characters, posing panels, and applying stylized filters, anyone can make comics in minutes, not hours.\n\n**👧🏻 Optimized for comics storytelling.** Characters take up >90% of panel areas. KURUKURU offers easy and detailed control of characters to express those \\~feelings\\~.\n\n**🖼️ Making art in clicks.** Creators want panels that look like hand-drawn art, not photorealism as in traditional 3D engines. KURUKURU has proprietary filters to render webtoon, manga, and comics styles (w/ provisional patent pending), in addition to continuous integration with generative AI.\n\n[**🔮**](https://emojipedia.org/crystal-ball/)**User generated content + oceans of assets.** Comics creation is art asset heavy: character poses, props, backgrounds. KURUKURU offers massive amounts of native assets, and encourages creators to upload, share and trade.\n\n**🧙‍♀️Character generation.** Working with the 3D art teams behind games like Genshin Impact and Onmyoji, we’re building powerful character generation tools with a variety of aesthetics that Gen Z and Gen Alpha love.\n\n[**🚀**](https://emojipedia.org/rocket/)**Share everything through a link**. Collaborate in realtime.\n\n[**💰**](https://emojipedia.org/money-bag/)**Helping creators from distribution to monetization.** Comics creation is a whole journey, and creators need so much more help and support than a great tool!\n\n**Who are we?**\n\nTwo frens who like to draw and write ٩(●˙▿˙●)۶…⋆ฺ\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70027&key=user_uploads/1139029/278f04cb-2d65-4557-a5dd-e6b13ef2be2a)\n\nFengjiao has had a fascination with visual storytelling her whole life. In college she wrote and created several animated films, some of which went viral. 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In 6 months, KURUKURU landed in the hands of the first cohort of creators that the founders befriended on Reddit.\n\nWe are fortunate to be backed by supportive investors and experts in the field, including YC, Joi Ito and Louis Kang @ GMJP, Ben Casnocha, Amrit Rao and Anne Dwane @ Village Global, Habib Haddad and Calvin Chin @ E14. Our founding advisor [Peter Dolch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdolch/) orchestrated content systems & warehouses for HP, Merriam Webster and AT&T, and has been a strategic advisor to numerous startups including WOMP and Gentle Beast.\n\n**Ask**\n\nTell your friends/cousins who love comics, manga, animation, anime, visual storytelling … about us. Say “yc fren“ in the sign up form. 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", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantgangolia/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/hemantgangolia", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c0d7f0c3267a02015478d7ea3bb1330bc4aa26a1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Partaking in India’s economic boom - indica News", "url": "https://indicanews.com/partaking-in-indias-economic-boom", "date": "Jun 24, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 95419, "title": "Rally - The AI Co-Pilot for Proactive Tax Strategy", "tagline": "Stop just filing your taxes. Start strategizing and save $$$.", "body": "Hey everyone, [Hemant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantgangolia/) here — Founder & CEO of Rally Tax.\n\n### 🔴 **Problem**\n\nIf you paid **$50K+ in taxes** last year, you know the pain. You’re probably navigating complex equity (RSUs, ISOs), multiple 1099s, capital investments, K1s, and maybe even foreign income.\n\nYou’re stuck in a \"missing middle\":\n\n* **DIY software (TurboTax)** is too risky. You’re almost guaranteed to make a costly mistake.\n* **Traditional CPAs** are slow, expensive, and reactive. They're just _filers_, not _strategists_, so you're overpaying by thousands and don't even know it.\n\nhttps://youtube.com/shorts/CTFwxZ8TCdw?feature=share\n\n### 💚 **Solution**\n\nRally is the AI-powered tax advisory platform for anyone with a complex tax situation. We’re replacing the broken, reactive CPA model with a proactive, year-round subscription.\n\nWe combine a powerful AI platform that automates 80% of the manual work with elite, in-house CPAs. This allows us to deliver high-value strategic advice (like QSBS planning, CRTs, and solar tax credits) at a transparent, flat fee.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/1ebcc573-0ccd-4186-a9db-95d55782b4ee)\n\n### 🚀 **Our Story & Mission**\n\nI previously worked at Meta. I founded Rally because of the pain I personally felt when I got my first big RSU tax bill. I was shocked, confused, and couldn't find a CPA who would give me proactive advice—only a bill _after_ it was too late.\n\nWe validated this at my last company, iNRI, where our tax pilot for **250+ high-income clients (generating $90k)** proved this problem is universal.\n\n**Our mission** is to stop people from overpaying on their taxes just because they lacked the right strategy. We're building the proactive, transparent financial co-pilot we wish we'd had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/a0b68e9f-6a32-4a3f-87d4-e9d276f0bdf7)\n\n\n### 📹 **Demo: The 60-Second AI Tax Plan**\n\nOur first launch is a **free AI-generated tax plan in 60 seconds.**\n\nInstead of paying a CPA $500+ and waiting two weeks, you can securely link your accounts or estimate your situation. Our AI analyzes your data and builds a personalized plan showing the exact strategies you can use and how much you could save.\n\n**1. Generate tax plan**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/d1fa175c-b1c0-4a0a-bc06-20a563ba96ec)\n\n**2. Ask AI, about your tax plan**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/3a0d485a-b7d7-4f69-8bc6-41a23f93745d)\n\n**3. Download FREE tax plan**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95419&key=user_uploads/840851/462e5b00-365b-4eda-a73c-a8d2944d552d)\n\n### ‼️ **Why Now?**\n\nA perfect storm is hitting the tax industry:\n\n1. **AI Maturity:** For the first time, AI can automate the complex analysis that only human experts could previously do.\n2. **The Great CPA Retirement:** 75% of CPAs are nearing retirement, creating a massive supply crisis for expert advice.\n3. **Market Need:** Complex equity and investments are now mainstream for millions, who are all being underserved.\n\n### 🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n1. **Try it!** If you paid over $50K in taxes (and wish you could keep more of what you earn), try our **free AI Tax Plan** and give us feedback: https://www.rally.tax/\n2. **Share with your network:** We all pay taxes, and wouldn’t it be wonderful to help a friend, too!\n3. **Partnerships:** Intros to leaders at tech companies. We’re building a powerful B2B channel to offer Rally as a financial benefit.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Op1-rally-the-ai-co-pilot-for-proactive-tax-strategy", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2025-11-12T15:44:10.659Z" }, { "id": 76931, "title": "iNRI: Wealthfront for 32M Indians living abroad", "tagline": "Investing in India ‍made easy for Indian expats", "body": "Hi all, \n\nWe’re Hemant and Nishad, building iNRI, Wealthfront for 32M Indian expats abroad. \n\nIndia is set to be the fastest-growing major economy and Indian expats have a unique opportunity to invest in this dynamic growing market. However, for an Indian expat looking to invest in India, it is still a daunting experience, with multiple operational hurdles, and complex tax and repatriation regulations.\n\nInri solves these challenges by providing a seamless investment platform with personalized wealth advisory and tax compliance services.\n\nHere’s a short video explaining what we do:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyABkOht-pI)\n\n### **Our journey so far:**\n\nSince inception in March 2023, we have crossed over $150K invested capital from 3000+ users across 30+ countries including the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76931&key=user_uploads/1132289/e12122fa-88ae-470d-a293-9fb9f45b3db7)\n\nWe provide 3 key solutions that non-resident Indians need to invest in India:\n\n1. **Faster and digital onboarding:** Existing processes require either physical paperwork or even in-person visits in India. In comparison, you can get started with iNRI in just 5 mins, completely online.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76931&key=user_uploads/1132289/ef9d25fd-081f-4b81-8b7a-b3ab168c158a)\n\n2. **Curated portfolios:** If you have been living outside for a few years, you don't know where to invest. Our smart investing tool _(image below)_ helps you generate a funds basket based on your investment horizon, capital allocation, and risk appetite.\n3. **Cross-border compliance:** Navigating taxes across two countries is hard, which is why we have a network of CAs, CPAs, and experts in cross-border taxes to help you.\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76931&key=user_uploads/1132289/1463ada0-855f-42cd-98dc-97c038ca83c1)\n\niNRI’s vision is to become a one-stop platform for the Indian expat community of all things money in India.\n\n### **Why Us**\n\nWe (Hemant and Nishad) have both seen these problems firsthand through our own experience and that of our friends looking to invest in India. We’re committed to solving it for the broader Indian expat community around the world.\n\nWe are both alumni of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad and have a decade of experience working at McKinsey, BCG, Meta, Walmart, and HSBC.\n\nIf you’re an Indian expat looking to invest in India, check us out [here.](https://bit.ly/3v0Ob4P)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K0p-inri-wealthfront-for-32m-indians-living-abroad", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2023-12-15T18:31:01.299Z" }, { "id": 69944, "title": "Inri - Wealthfront for Indian expats", "tagline": "Investment platform for Indian expats to diversify capital in India", "body": "Hey everyone - We’re [Hemant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantgangolia/) and [Nishad](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishad-shah-7776897a/) from [Inri](https://www.goinri.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch). Inri helps Indian expats (NRIs) to invest in personalized portfolios of Indian index & debt funds with hassle-free repatriation and tax compliance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69944&key=user_uploads/840851/fa45867a-93b7-4c0a-8935-a8caf5af3d9b)\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nIndia is set to be one of the fastest growing major economies and Indian expats have a unique opportunity to invest in this dynamic growing market. As an Indian expat looking to invest in India, investing in India is a daunting experience, with multiple operational hurdles, complex tax and repatriation regulations.\n\nInri solves these challenges by providing a seamless investment platform comprising of personalized wealth advisory and compliance services.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nInvesting in India from abroad is broken due to multiple reasons:\n\n1. Lack of awareness - Indian expats often don’t know where to start, what to choose and how to personalize from a plethora of available investment options\n2. High complexity - Being compliant from a taxation and repatriation perspective needs a lot of regulatory knowledge\n3. Physical paperwork - A lot of processes still require paper documents and in-person presence, which makes it impossible to invest hassle-free\n4. Inefficiency - Existing India based funds listed abroad don’t track the Indian market well, leading to an underperformance of as high as 15% over 5 years.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69944&key=user_uploads/840851/f2f9cd57-a1e8-47d1-8507-b21792c75bcd)\n\nInri helps you navigate through these hassles with a simple platform that curates personalized baskets based on your risk appetite, along with services like easy repatriation and tax compliance.\n\nInri provides\n\n* Personalized baskets curated from 8000+ available mutual funds based on your risk preferences\n* Complimentary Taxation & Repatriation Support to help you get done with taxes under 1 day for both India and your home country\n* Faster Onboarding as Inri partners with leading banks to get your accounts opened faster\n* Educational content to enhance awareness about Indian economy and regulatory processes\n\nInri’s vision is to become a one-stop platform for the Indian expat community of all things money in India.\n\n### **Why Us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69944&key=user_uploads/840851/61f93da0-8854-43b1-a3a4-ead608782e4d)\n\nWe (Hemant and Nishad) have both seen these problems first hand through our own experience and that of our friends looking to invest in India. We’re committed to solving it for the broader Indian expat community around the world.\n\nWe are both alumni of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad, and have a decade of experience working at McKinsey, BCG, Meta, Walmart and HSBC.\n\n### **Launch Deal**\n\nGet lifetime free access when you invest by August 31, 2023", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IC8-inri-wealthfront-for-indian-expats", "votes": 183, "created_at": "2023-03-04T19:04:11.878Z" } ] }, { "id": 28097, "name": "Decohere", "slug": "decohere", "former_names": [ "Decoherence" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8b52d23619be197ec836547295f0d1ac0bf36b9.png", "website": "https://decohere.ai", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "Decohere is building product and infrastructure for real-time generative AI. We enable our customers to iterate towards their creative vision without waiting for long-running GPU jobs. ", "one_liner": "Real-time generative AI", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1676581831, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "Video", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/decohere", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/decohere.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Seattle", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/decohere", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/decohere_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8b52d23619be197ec836547295f0d1ac0bf36b9.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": 1216864, "full_name": "Rishi Bhuta", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Decohere, CEO. \n\nReal-time image and video generation. Working on new ways for us all to explore creative abundance.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibhuta/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rbhuta95", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9a9db74a0a3353fa862e8f67ffdefd1bd2851d02.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1216907, "full_name": "Will Stith", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Decohere. Working on realtime generative AI, with an emphasis on AI video. \n\nPreviously at Amazon doing greenfield R&D projects in Robotics and Project Kuiper.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamstith/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/TheStithLord", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f2dbdd8d16b087d96035fcb8da4ca2abdb3b5386.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69403, "title": "▶️ Decohere: Create video with prompts", "tagline": "A purpose-built tool for creating generative video. Video production in minutes, not days.", "body": "# tl;dr: ✍️→🎞️\n\n[Decohere](https://decohere.ai) is the easiest way to create videos with AI by using text prompts and music. We enable creators to quickly generate music videos or B-roll that matches their content.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69403&key=user_uploads/1216864/cd976d12-1661-4738-9eea-fa5bcbb70c0e)\n\n# 😓 **Problem**\n\nContent creators often have audio content (music, podcast, etc.) that struggles with engagement on video platforms like Youtube, Tiktok, and Instagram. They want to use AI video generation to create a compelling visual pair for their content, but existing solutions are not accessible. A combination of costly hardware requirements, programming knowledge, and constant research upkeep prevents them from using the technology.  \n\n# **💡 Solution**\n\nDecoherence is an intuitive, no-setup application to create all of your generative videos. It gives creators the ability to work at 10x the speed: quickly generating B-roll content or animating their music in minutes rather than days. It works by analyzing structure in generated images, converting audio signals into motion effects, applying them over time, and stitching images together to make a full video. \n\nSee the full [product demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDlAyyQDuw8):\n\n# **🤖→🎨 Why us?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69403&key=user_uploads/1216864/f497f999-d57d-4287-9c12-2e3e7f8d7a78)\n\nWe are engineers with experience bringing bleeding-edge technology, autonomous vehicles and next-gen internet satellites, into production at a global scale. \n\nWe met at Amazon Robotics where we shared a deep appreciation for robotics because it was **software that _literally_ moves**. In early 2022, we found a similar spark when we typed in a few words and received back beautiful images from AI image generators. We think things are always more fun when they **move**, so we applied our background in computer vision to bring the images to life in the form of video. \n\nWe learned to turn tech demos and research into products used by thousands at Amazon. We’re applying that experience to Decoherence by building a product that anybody can pick up and use. \n\n# **🙌 Ask**\n\n**Interested in creating video?** Shoot us an email at \\\n[getaccess@decohere.ai](mailto:getaccess@decoherence.co), and mention “**YC Launch**”! We will bump you up the waitlist!\n\n**We are looking to chat with content creators!** If you know any that may be interested in a tool like this, we would appreciate an introduction. Please reach out to [rishi@decohere.ai](mailto:rishi@decoherence.co).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I3P-decohere-create-video-with-prompts", "votes": 86, "created_at": "2023-02-17T19:42:35.860Z" } ] }, { "id": 28329, "name": "Type", "slug": "type", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7055cc5668e741c817315243c78d24ed1bcdd9fd.png", "website": "https://type.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Type.ai is the AI-native storytelling studio for independent authors and creators. We help people craft books, novels, screenplays, and other types of long-form, creative fiction.", "one_liner": "AI-native storytelling studio.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1675912711, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Consumer", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "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/type", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/type.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/type-ai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/typedotai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7055cc5668e741c817315243c78d24ed1bcdd9fd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 211874, "full_name": "Stew Fortier", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO at Type.ai (W23). Previously co-founded Foster (W21). Before that, I served as the CTO of Banzai and an EIR at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier-7422b829/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stewfortier", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d05e60f63691ac1c2a67ef4991b448a2ed3c7ab1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 77152, "title": "Founding Product Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/type/jobs/1idOunL-founding-product-engineer", "location": "NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 5.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "MongoDB", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Type raises $2.8M to build a new kind of document editor", "url": "https://type.ai/blog/type-seed-round", "date": "Jun 14, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69329, "title": "Type – an AI-first document editor", "tagline": "Type is an AI-first document editor that helps you write faster.", "body": "Hi there –\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) and [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) here. We're building Type.ai.\n\nType.ai is an [AI writing tool](https://type.ai). We help marketers and creators write high-quality content remarkably fast.\n\nType makes it effortless to access the most powerful capabilities of today’s large language models. Type’s AI can instantly generate and transform any text – it picks up on your intent and the context of your document as you write.\n\nWe’d love to give you early access [here](https://type.ai/).\n\n## The problem\n\nCompanies spend billions of dollars on content marketing each year, but creating great content is hard. Finding compelling ideas and articulating them in a way that will resonate with an audience requires constant experimentation and iteration.\n\nAI will radically reduce this friction by making it easier to generate and refine ideas, but it's still hard to get today’s large language models to give you what you need.\n\nYou must either become a “prompt engineer” or use AI writing tools with rigid, template-based interfaces that constrain creativity and produce mediocre content.\n\n### The solution\n\nWe've built a flexible, fast document editor that lets a user quickly surface powerful AI commands by hitting cmd + k as they write.\n\nType’s AI commands help with the slowest parts of writing, from generating drafts to rewriting content to suggesting what to create next.\n\nThe more you write, the better Type’s suggestions get. Type’s AI understands the context of a document – it can generate or transform text quickly and accurately. \n\nWe combine the flexibility of a product like ChatGPT with a powerful document editor. The result: Type is fun to write in!\n\n### The founders\n\nWe started building this because we were surprised nobody else had. Writing is not a “one-shot” activity! You need a flexible canvas for refining your ideas as you write.\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) (CEO) is an entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for writing. [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) (CTO) is a software engineer with previous experience building advanced document editors.\n\n### Start writing with Type\n\nIf you are planning to write a bunch this year, please drop your info below and we will send you an invite ASAP:\n\n👉 [Request an invite](https://type.ai/)\n\nThanks!\n\nStew & Stefan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2D-type-an-ai-first-document-editor", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-02-15T23:16:56.973Z" }, { "id": 64183, "title": "Foster – a better way to write.", "tagline": "Tap a button in Google Docs and watch your writing transform.", "body": "Hi, everyone!\n\nStew and Dan here from [Foster](https://foster.co/).\n\nFoster is a button that lives inside Google Docs. Writers can tap it to get collaborative support on their writing within 24 hours.\n\nBehind the scenes, we’ve built a collective of writers, editors, and experts who love jumping into first drafts and helping improve them.\n\nFoster contributors do much more than spot a missing comma; they can give you ideas on how to make a story funnier or how to make an argument air-tight.\n\n### **Quality writing wins**\n\n**Writing on the Internet follows a power law.** The _best_ piece of writing on a topic tends to have an exponentially larger impact than the average piece.\n\n**But writing great stuff is hard.** Most writers publish into the void, hoping for constructive feedback that never comes.\n\n### **We help writers and content teams produce better writing**\n\nFoster’s [Chrome extension](https://foster.co) lets anyone summon editors and experts to appear directly inside of their work and help them produce something great.\n\nAll drafts on Foster are privately routed to vetted contributors who we believe will be able to push them forward.\n\nMost automated writing and grammar tools can only catch relatively minor errors. We’re focused on what we consider to be the harder part of the process: how do you turn a rough draft into something timeless?\n\n### **Foster is easy to use**\n\nWriters never have to leave Google Docs to use Foster.\n\nHere’s what the process looks like:\n\n1. Write.\n2. Share the draft with Foster.\n3. Receive constructive suggestions.\n4. Rewrite and incorporate the best feedback.\n5. Publish.\n\n### **Writers love it**\n\nThe most common word we hear from our early users is “[Amazing](https://share.cleanshot.com/NNMuxM).”\n\nCoincidentally, many of our early users are YC founders or Hacker News regulars. Both of these drafts were sent through Foster prior to being submitted to HN: [We need a middle class for startups](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219),  [What's the Future of IDEs?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304667)\n\nAnd while it’s exciting to see individual pieces improve, many writers tell us that using Foster has elevated their writing skills generally ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1535404631123173376)) and motivated them to write more ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/liuxi/status/1511191555796729862)).\n\n### **We’re ready to support your writing**\n\nToday, we’re ready to help everyone produce better writing.\n\n**You can sign up for one of our new plans and get high-quality support on your next draft here:**\n\n\n\nYou can use the code “FIRSTDRAFT” for a free month of the Hobbyist or Basic plan.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhD-foster-a-better-way-to-write", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2022-06-29T16:10:15.154Z" } ] }, { "id": 28371, "name": "Fetchr", "slug": "fetchr", "former_names": [ "Captivated", "Market", "Kopia", "Fetchr", "fetchr" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1a3711a46cd77a69710a4297505d609c4c20e5a2.png", "website": "https://www.fetchr.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Fetchr is the first personalized shopping app for clothes. 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We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices. Formerly, I was a Launcher & GM at DoorDash, where I helped DoorDash accelerate into the US suburbs and opened the first markets outside of North America (Australia, Japan). M.S. & B.S. Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasstephens64/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0d110f0f766c03910800ba03861a815ed110d0e9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 335104, "full_name": "Andrew Hoskins", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm working to make the everyday climate fight more affordable as Co-Founder/CTO of Upfront. We help retailers sell clean energy products by using government & utility rebates to offer dramatically lower prices. 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Instead of filling out paperwork and waiting 6 months for a check, our software instantly applies rebates and manages the settlement in the background.\n\n# The Problem\n\nClean energy products have higher upfront costs while competing in markets defined by the importance of affordability (e.g. 60% of appliances are financed). Rebates are designed to offset these higher costs, but because rebates are complicated and not surfaced during buying decisions, consumers today choose products that are worse for both the environment and their wallets.\n\n# The Solution\n\nWe solve this problem by partnering with retailers to enable them to transform government and utility rebates into dramatically lower prices for their customers. This solution saves consumers money, increases retailer sales, and helps deploy rebates faster than ever.\n\nStarting with EV Chargers, we qualify consumers for all applicable rebate programs in real-time and advance their savings at checkout. After purchase, we work with the consumer to process the rebate and manage the settlement with the rebate issuer.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69740&key=user_uploads/1202385/15a9b94d-59cc-4ebd-9cd8-2e27ba1df34a)\n\n# The Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69740&key=user_uploads/1202385/124cba11-ebdf-48b4-b7c4-56a3fa67421a)\n\nWe’ve both spent the last half decade helping merchants grow their businesses. Andrew was an engineer at Affirm, building servicing and payment systems scaling to billions of dollars in GMV. Thomas launched and GM’d markets for DoorDash both domestically and abroad. \n\nAs new homeowners we were both struggling to figure out what rebates were available and how they actually worked… and we’d spent weeks researching climate tech! Fellow consumers and retailers agreed, so in January of 2023, we started Upfront.\n\nWe're determined to help make clean energy products the obvious choice for consumers to stamp out the nearly 1 gigaton of CO2E emitted from America’s 124 million homes annually.\n\n# The Ask\n\n* If you sell a product that receives government and/or utility rebates (especially EV chargers)–we’d love to chat! [Book some time with us here.](https://calendly.com/thomas-upfront/upfront-intro-call)\n* Know folks in the EV charger space? Let’s connect! Reach out to [thomas@knowupfront.com](mailto:thomas@knowupfront.com) with any relevant intros.\n\nWe'd love to hear your feedback in the comments below! Also feel free to reach out to us directly at [thomas@knowupfront.com](mailto:thomas@knowupfront.com) or [andrew@knowupfront.com](mailto:andrew@knowupfront.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8q-upfront-turning-rebates-into-instantly-lower-prices", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2023-02-28T00:56:49.517Z" } ] }, { "id": 28382, "name": "Theya", "slug": "theya", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/57042ecd2926bcb4a43d14403b927a2ae844ffdc.png", "website": "https://www.theya.us/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Theya is the world’s simplest Bitcoin self-custody app for users who find crypto exchanges risky and hardware wallets overwhelming. 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No hardware required. No technical experience needed.**\n\n\n\n---\n\n### Why This Matters\n\nManaging bitcoin in a team setting is hard:\n\n* Single-key wallets = single points of failure\n* Custodians = counterparty risk\n* DIY multisig = technical, fragmented, and hard to scale\n\nWe’ve seen finance and ops teams struggle to manage holdings, delegate access, and reconcile activity—securely and collaboratively.\\\n**Theya for Business solves this with a purpose-built, modular platform that scales with your org.**\n\n---\n\n### What You Can Do with Theya\n\n✅ **Collaborative Vaults**\\\n2-of-3 multisig setup—distribute keys and approve transactions across your team.\n\n✅ **Scalable Infrastructure**\\\nCreate vaults for departments, partners, or individual employees—all under one roof.\n\n✅ **Effortless Access Control**\\\nAssign signer roles, onboard your finance team, and rotate access without any engineering overhead.\n\n✅ **Transaction Visibility & Reconciliation**\\\nTrack balances, activity, and approvals from a single dashboard—ideal for ops, accounting, and compliance.\n\n✅ **Modular Setup**\\\nUse single-key for payments, multisig for core holdings. Theya supports both.\n\n---\n\n### Who It’s For\n\n* Bitcoin-native companies\n* Funds, family offices, and exchanges\n* Any organization managing bitcoin across teams, wallets, or jurisdictions\n\n---\n\n### What’s Next\n\n* Built-in bitcoin purchases\n* Automated payroll & bonuses in BTC\n* Credit lines against your bitcoin\n* Advanced finance & compliance dashboards\n\n---\n\n### Why Now\n\nBitcoin is gaining traction with organizations, but the infrastructure hasn’t kept up. Most custody options are built for individuals or require trust in third parties.\n\n**Theya offers a new model: collaborative, self-custodial, and built for scale.**\n\n---\n\n### Try It Today\n\nTheya for Business is live and available globally — [business.theya.us](https://business.theya.us)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NFW-theya-for-business-the-bitcoin-operating-system-for-organizations", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-04-10T13:39:56.679Z" }, { "id": 70576, "title": "Theya: World's simplest Bitcoin multi-sig, self-custody app", "tagline": "We are building the default consumer app for Bitcoin - offering products like accumulation, lending, investments and payments - all built on top of our intuitive self-custody platform.", "body": "### **Tl:dr**\n\nTheya is the world’s simplest Bitcoin self-custody app for whole-coiners (users with >1BTC) who find crypto exchanges risky and hardware wallets overwhelming. We simplify the self-custody UX through our multi-device, multi-sig wallet that users can set up using smartphones, giving you the functionality and convenience of centralized exchanges without sacrificing control and security of hardware wallets.\n\n### **Team**\n\nVikas, Sriram and Smeet have extensive background in founding and scaling tech companies and crypto platforms over the past 10 years. Founders have been friends for over 15 years.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70576&key=user_uploads/1235724/1abfbd7f-b023-47b1-8c54-ddf9bd32371f)\n\nVikas was previously the co-founder and CTO of Porter, India’s largest intra-city logistics marketplace that does over $220M in annual revenue. He raised over $150M from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global during his 7 years at Porter. While studying at Stanford, Vikas founded an ML-driven real estate fund that has invested over $30M.\n\nSriram has led crypto engineering teams at Robinhood, FalconX and GameStop Blockchain. He built crypto custody infra and led the development of self-custody wallets for Robinhood and GameStop. He started his career at Google and has over 10 years of experience building consumer apps. Sriram graduated with Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT Bombay.\n\nSmeet has led marketing and go-to-market teams at multiple early-stage startups. Prior to Theya, he was the first business hire at Prodigal (YC S18). He started his career at Deutsche Bank and has 8+ years of experience trading macro assets like FX, Bonds, Equities and believes that long Bitcoin is the most important trade of the 2020s.\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe protection of your wealth and trust is paramount, which is why we exist. The reality is that centralized crypto platforms like FTX, Celsius, and Voyager have failed to ensure the safety of their users' Bitcoin. More recently, there are renewed concerns about Binance.\n\nAs the saying goes, **\"not your keys, not your Bitcoin\"** and this is more true now than ever before. Every user who stores Bitcoin on popular crypto exchanges faces severe counterparty risks, including:\n\n**Credit Risk:** If your crypto exchange was to go bankrupt (like FTX) or suffer a catastrophic event, your Bitcoin stored there is certainly at risk.\n\n**Regulatory Risk:** Any change in laws or regulations, crypto exchanges may be forced to freeze or confiscate your Bitcoin.\n\n**Cybersecurity Risk:** While centralized exchanges invest in security measures, they are prime targets for cyber attacks. Successful hackers can steal users’ Bitcoin from hot wallets.\n\nSelf-custody hardware wallets are a solution, but they come with their own set of challenges. They have a messy user experience, and users are responsible for managing their own setup, security, and backup keys. Furthermore, they represent a single point of failure. These risks make it crucial to prioritize the protection of your Bitcoin, and we are here to help you do just that.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nOur multisig wallet is like a digital safe where you need multiple keys to unlock it. For example, our 2-of-3 multi-sig wallet requires two out of three keys to approve a transaction before the Bitcoin can be spent.\n\nCustomers will always hold the two keys necessary to approve transactions. Theya holds the third key that can only be used for recovery if you misplace one of your keys, but it can never be used to transfer funds on its own.\n\nTheya is simplifying the self-custody experience through a mobile-first multisig wallet that families can set up using iPhones and Apple Watches. We also support other devices such as NFC cards, hardware wallets, and more that can be used as your additional keys if desired. We make your Bitcoin resilient to phishing and hacking and you retain control of your Bitcoin wealth even if we fail without notice.\n\n### **Ask**\n\n1. If you currently hold Bitcoin on centralized exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, Robinhood, Kraken, Gemini etc. you should definitely consider taking self-custody. Hit us up for a free trial to the simplest Bitcoin self-custody app ever.\n2. 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The software includes a complete platform for patent lawyers to use AI for reviewing patent applications, responding to office actions, and enhancing invention disclosures.**\n\n**🔬 The Problem:**\n\nPatent lawyers spend hours drafting patent applications, which can be dozens and even hundreds of pages long. Patent applications include lots of detailed technical description about inventions in a formalistic way that is slow and laborious to write. Many patent lawyers find writing these technical descriptions to be their least favorite part of the job given that it can be tedious.\n\nMoreover, the time-consuming nature of patent application drafting is also a major business problem for patent attorneys. Budgets per patent application have been on a flat or declining trend over the last two decades due to increased client demands. As a result, patent attorneys find themselves having to write patent applications with a smaller and smaller budget, which has led to increased time pressure. In some firms, patent application drafting has become an unprofitable loss leader that only serves to retain clients for more profitable legal services.\n\nIn addition to drafting patent applications, patent attorneys also deal with large volumes of documents in the other parts of their job. They often have to analyze long patent documents; they have to respond to patent application rejections from the patent office, which can be dozens of pages long; and they have to work with varying levels of invention information, which range from a few sentences to entire manuscripts.\n\n**🪄 The Solution:**\n\nVaero is AI software built specifically for patent lawyers to speed up their patent drafting and other daily tasks:\n\n* Vaero drafts an entire patent application using AI based on the same inputs that patent lawyers use\n* Patent applications are written to the highest legal standards, based on our CEO’s ten years as a patent lawyer including at one of the biggest U.S. law firms\n* Automatically review existing patent applications to assist with legal analysis\n* Enhance invention disclosures from inventors\n\n**⭐️ Why us?**\n\nWe are [Bryant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryant-lee/) and [Earl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/earlhathaway/), 2nd time founders whose prior startups have collectively raised $80M+.\n\n* Bryant has been a patent lawyer for ten years and previously co-founded Cognition IP, a legal tech startup in the patent field which achieved 7 figures of annual revenue and was backed by Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Y Combinator. He was a patent lawyer at Covington & Burling, one of the biggest law firms in the U.S., and graduated from Harvard Law School where he was on the law review. Prior to that he was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.\n* Earl previously co-founded a successful legal compliance startup called DataGrail (Series C, raised $84M), which sells privacy software to the legal departments of large enterprises. Prior to DataGrail, he has been a technical and product leader at many startups.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/WX1askFb1Wr4isgeEJJNjiF-3ksFsLa67Kwt93RZ6TiiDP1b7VxjVq-CCnnk0uIKtCO3_7WucjnKx0xtXdPaiRKu1F7BSyqtTgmAH0CBVdcu6X6NRZEH932WhuTkR4ki404crxQuF0WdWQJMOyRPDLg)\n\n**🎉 Interested?**\n\nIf you’re thinking about how to draft patent applications more efficiently, book a [call](https://calendly.com/bryant-lee-sf/15min) with us or reach out to [founders@vaero.co](mailto:founders@vaero.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHO-vaero-ai-for-patent-lawyers", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-03-14T15:46:27.642Z" } ] }, { "id": 28795, "name": "Magic Loops", "slug": "magic-loops", "former_names": [ "ChatSeed" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/72461fd4d5fd3609cdf2cd37c5c97828c31ab516.png", "website": "https://magicloops.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Magic Loops are the fastest way to automate (almost) anything. 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We’re Adam and Mihai from Magic Loops — a new way to program computers using generative AI.\n\n### **tl;dr**\n\nMagic Loops combine LLMs and code to make simple automations easy to build and run.\n\n### **🙈 The Problem**\n\nYou want to automate a repetitive task or workflow.\\\nToday, you’re likely: \n\n1. Attempting to use a **no-code/low-code** tool but struggling with **limitations**\n2. Trying to use **ChatGPT** but struggling with **numbers and repeatability**\n3. **Calling an engineer** because you’re in over your head\n\n### 🪄 **Magic Loops** ➰\n\nSimply describe your task and we’ll generate a loop that uses a combination of code and LLM “blocks” to handle your workflow.\n\nWe give you full control over the loop, allowing you to change and modify it until it fits your needs.\n\nYou can run the loop at set times or by sending an email or webhook. Each loop can utilize code, LLMs, integrations, and APIs. The output of each loop is a text message, email, or webhook.\n\nOnce you've tested your loop, hit publish and we’ll host it for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74297&key=user_uploads/633171/f484bd0f-3da3-46d3-ac2c-8102d794d722)\n\n### **What are people using Magic Loops for?**\n\n**Investors: Watching YC launches**\n\n* [YC S23 Watcher](https://magicloops.dev/loop/5f524d25-f213-4943-af57-244ead73c15f) will text you the latest YC launches\n\n**Can of Soup: Generating novel pictures**\n\n* [Daily Image Prompt](https://magicloops.dev/loop/4246b18f-f258-44bf-aa2f-145a5eac2703) uses LLMs to generate three meme-worthy prompts\n\n**Bland AI: Demoing your API-based product**\n\n* [Bland AI - Demo](https://magicloops.dev/loop/d8c1ba48-fa78-4599-8d0d-1d5ba8a35368) triggers an AI phone call whenever an email is received\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n[Try out Magic Loops](https://magicloops.dev) and let your imagination run wild!\n\nWe've seen a variety of uses from simple stock watchers all the way to complex customer onboarding flows.\n\nIf you find a loop you can't yet build, [reach out](mailto:help@magicloops.dev) and **we'll build it with you**.\n\nWe're looking forward to seeing what you create!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JKL-magic-loops-easy-automation-with-ai", "votes": 92, "created_at": "2023-08-22T14:08:18.348Z" } ] }, { "id": 28807, "name": "Pointhound", "slug": "pointhound", "former_names": [ "Homies" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d2ca619520c27a962f58e863e40ff3811fb10853.png", "website": "http://www.pointhound.com", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "Pointhound makes it easy to earn and redeem your credit card points for free flights. \r\n\r\nWe're driven by our mission to make the world more accessible through travel.", "one_liner": "Earn and redeem credit card points for free flights", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "launched_at": 1689084374, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Consumer", "Travel", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Travel, Leisure and Tourism" ], "regions": [ "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pointhound", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/pointhound.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pointhound", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pointhound", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d2ca619520c27a962f58e863e40ff3811fb10853.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 190562, "full_name": "Jay Reno", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jay is the co-founder and CEO of Pointhound (S23) and previously founder and CEO of Feather (S17), a furniture rental company for living light. Feather raised $76m from Kleiner Perkins, Bain Capital Ventures, NEA, Spark, Cobalt, SV Angel and others and was acquired in 2022.\n\nJay is also a Co-founder & Partner at Spot VC, backing exceptional YC founders.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayjreno", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jayjreno", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cf407ffa14a214f20121f15fc1a5e6d9afed69a5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1402896, "full_name": "Jake Malone", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I love to build great software and great engineering teams.\n\nCo-founder and CTO of Pointhound (S23) and previously CTO of Feather (S17), a furniture rental company that raised $76m and was acquired in 2022.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jakemalone", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/992edc83f054f49abc56374dad21eb11a9672d18.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 73013, "title": "Frontend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pointhound/jobs/G2tb7bB-frontend-engineer", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$100K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 1.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 76419, "title": "✈️ Pointhound - earn and redeem credit card points for free flights 💳", "tagline": "Do you like free flights? We'll help you get *lots* of them in economy or business ", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\n[Pointhound](https://pointhound.com) helps you earn and redeem your credit card points for free flights to amazing destinations 🛫🏝️🗼\n\nIf you’re like us and like the idea of getting free flights _for free_, read on! 👇\n\n# **🤫 The situation — and a big secret**\n\n120m Americans have credit cards, but almost none of us know how to use them or which one(s) to get. We think that cash back cards are the best because they give us, well, cash back.\n\nThe reality is, instead of cash back, earning **points** when you spend will get you _far, far_ greater ROI than cash back — upwards of 10-15x, in fact, when you use your points to book flights.\n\nBook flights with points, you say? How do I do that? Great question: by **transferring** **your points** from your credit card portal (like Amex) to an airline (like Delta) and booking with an airline.\n\nExample: let’s say you found a flight that retails for $1000. If you booked that flight through your credit card’s travel portal, it would cost you 100,000 points (or $0.01 per point — the industry standard). By transferring your points from your credit card’s portal to the airline flying the route, it might only cost you 90,000 points. Not bad.\n\nBut If you booked the Delta flight through their partner, Air France-KLM’s website, **it might only cost you 10,000 points** — 10x cheaper!\n\n_Yup, really._\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Ybt3eTOD1Q5hY_qPmvTpU0Zr7PRHjgPk-esFb3v5pENdVIscLo6Nx1UQmHWCtw09Xl7m_Se3vOw4U-jXu-l7ChWZlejksxzGW-q-NmmL7Hm9YO5ECgCUfjRvBkq6TKvypbtIQpBDP0ozp8En53VjWSw)\n\n# **❌ The problem**\n\nOk, so now we understand that earning points are better than cash back, let’s talk about the problem:\n\n* Figuring out which point-earning credit card(s) to sign up for is complex.\n* Knowing which card you should use to maximize the points you **earn** is even more complex.\n* And figuring out how to **redeem** your hard-earned points for good, no, _great_ value may be the most complex.\n\nSure, there are the blogs and content-heavy websites that _try_ to help you navigate the world of points. But they require you to read and digest thousands of full-length articles to understand what to do.\n\nAnd there are a few companies who have built flight search tools for points, but none seem to holistically address the complexities of both **earning** points and **redeeming** those points. Oh, and they also charge you a monthly fee.\n\n# **✅ The solution — Pointhound**\n\n[Pointhound](http://pointhound.com) is a _completely free_ way to help you earn and redeem your points for free flights 🏝️☀️\n\nOur goal is simple: to simplify the complex world of credit card points and airline miles. We do this by providing our users with a few delightfully designed tools. Our tools help you:\n\n**Redeem your points**. Not sure how to use your hard-earned credit card points? You’re in luck! Our flight search engine searches over 140 airlines at once and surfaces incredible deals using your points and miles. And our [Top Flight Deals](https://pointhound.com/explore) page shows you the cheapest flights from your home airport to destinations all over the world.\n\nWe then tell you where you should transfer your points from (ex. Chase) and to (ex. Air France-KLM Flying Blue) to get the absolute best deal using your points.\n\nFor example, I just booked a flight from SFO to Tokyo in business class for only 60,000 points, when the retail price was $6500 – more than 10 times cheaper when booking with points! _Now you can too._\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/G-JvDBpItFU2r2HzbXVzxX3jmIAv9YP8nluGgDZ5aFrRdvs20-jrNVTM6ygH38DBfCst80WZOCxapnecQY207t-7zeaHSbkQIJk26v39PM_3QJWNfWmVsxv4NYv8faNMhB12r7c7n7h7xS8xQmS79yo)\n\n**Earn more points**. Newly obsessed with finding and booking free flights and want to get more points? Our personalized credit card algorithm helps you get the right card(s) for you so you can maximize the points you earn (and free flights you can get).\n\nOur goal is to equip the “points beginners” – many of us who have a card or two and would like a simple product to help us earn and redeem our points for free flights.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/1Q51EUtGWI6LLfJtSPthI-q2QN2dSowTFKu_D8_KX5k957PRhe73c01FhSiEKK9wrrA2jymjG-bA-gUk5n91Ym-_-uV8Ywp9JkfrAlZMPWtgxot1uGm3BbNvMUZsEZh3i3B6CtFuWehXmDhbXKfk8eQ)\n\n# **👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Why us**\n\nWe’re a mix of point junkies _and_ point beginners. We understand our user, because we _are_ our user.\n\nWe can relate, but we also ask questions and listen. Learning from our users directly is critical.\n\nWe’ve seen industries in need of a shake up — we’ve been here before. Our founding team previously founded and built the consumer startup, [Feather](https://livefeather.com/), a YC S17 company, where we raised $75 million from Kleiner, Bain and NEA, and sold the business.\n\n* [Jay Reno](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayjreno/) 👨‍✈️ - Co-founder & CEO\n* [Jake Malone](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemalone/) 👨‍🏫 - Co-founder & CTO\n* [Samantha Clark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarksamantha/) 👩‍🎨 - Co-founder & CPO, Design, Brand\n* [Jeffrey Flynn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreynflynn/) 👨‍💻 - Founding Engineer\n\nWe’re combining our consumer experience building Feather with our passion for travel to build a once-in-a-generation travel business.\n\n# \n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. Find and book yourself a [free flight](https://www.pointhound.com/explore). _Is that a real ask?_ It sure is.\n2. Share with your friends who you think might love booking free flights! _Thanks in advance_.\n3. Please share feedback by sending an email to [founders@pointhound.com.](mailto:founders@pointhound.com) _But, like, pls don’t spam_ 🤞.\n\nWe’ve made Pointhound free for everyone, so if you find this at all valuable, your support and upvotes would be super valuable and motivating for us.\n\nHappy (free) flying! 🛫☀️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JsZ-pointhound-earn-and-redeem-credit-card-points-for-free-flights", "votes": 81, "created_at": "2023-11-28T15:00:18.920Z" } ] }, { "id": 28881, "name": "Chow Central Inc", "slug": "chow-central-inc", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b180100ca46fba5b88d5f7f8c9ef48ce2f462433.png", "website": "https://chowcentral.com", "all_locations": "Lagos, LA, Nigeria", "long_description": "Chow Central is building technology to disrupt the food industry in Nigeria. The goal is to profitably provide food to as many people as possible in record time. \r\n\r\nChow Central has launched its first product \"500chow\". A delivery-only quick service restaurant that serves customers in record time. 500chow has 10x lower costs than traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants, and 10x more online orders. \r\n\r\nOur customers love us for our super fast and cheaper deliveries. We are able to do this by launching hyper-locally within a 3km radius.\r\n\r\nWe are very focused on solving real problems in the food industry one scalable product at a time.", "one_liner": "Asset Light Chipotle for Africa", "team_size": null, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1690480530, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Restaurant Tech", "Food", "Food & Beverage" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Nigeria", "Africa", "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/chow-central-inc", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/chow-central-inc.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Lagos", "country": "NG", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/chowcentral", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/500chow", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b180100ca46fba5b88d5f7f8c9ef48ce2f462433.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 902934, "full_name": "Tosin Onafuye", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building tomorrow today.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/tosin-onafuye-241441117", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/28a1fcd7e3444d582622df52e387f87b01a2f3af.jpg" }, { "user_id": 729074, "full_name": "Christopher Obasi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building the future today", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/christopherobasi", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e239f72e94141225485d0fdc93753ac0a763732d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 974857, "full_name": "Adeyemi Onafuye", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Chief Product Officer at Chow Central. I have 8 years of experience in technology and management consulting. I have worked extensively in the tech startup ecosystem in Nigeria. I am a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/adeyemi-onafuye-6b620666", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/27080340b31a4ecdea8ed755be464938b3c14301.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73617, "title": "Chow Central, virtual restaurant chains in African cities", "tagline": "Meet Chow Central, building Chipotle of Africa!", "body": "Hi YC 👋🏾, we’re Tosin, Christopher, and Adeyemi operating from Lagos, Nigeria.\n\nChow Central is building restaurant chains for Millennials and Gen Z living in African cities who want high-quality and healthy meals. Think of us as Chipotle for African meals. \n\nChow Central started as a fun experiment shortly after we graduated from University.  We created a virtual restaurant page on Twitter to sell affordable meals and also help underutilized restaurants get sales during the Covid lockdown.\n\nWe relaunched 18 months ago, currently active in just one region and we are doing over $80,000 in monthly revenue.\n\nWe have modified our approach, we operate a central kitchen to improve quality and maintain consistency. We then partner with highly-vetted underutilized commercial kitchens to serve as our fulfillment centers. \n\nOur customers love our delicious recipes and our faster & cheaper deliveries. Our approach of leveraging underutilized kitchens allows us to initially launch in a location with minimal capital investment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73617&key=user_uploads/902934/4b087e33-4f96-45e7-adf8-2811c6cd3e8b)\n\n\\\nWe operate two restaurant brands:\n\nFirstly, 500chow is a high-quality restaurant that serves delicious local African delicacies. Our second restaurant is a healthy grill, shawarma, and barbecue restaurant.\n\nMillennials and Gen Z in African cities who want to order meals online are still underserved. There are over 50 million of them, if we can serve 5 million of them once every month with an average spend of $8, this represents a $5B market opportunity. \\\n\\\nChris and Yemi previously built industry-leading products at Moniepoint. Tosin previously worked at Vendease (W21) a restaurant supply-chain company.\\\n\\\n**How can you help?** \n\n* Refer us to your friends visiting or living in Lagos, Nigeria\n* [Check out our newly released mobile application](https://chowcentral.onelink.me/bvtE/t8dfjd86) and give feedback on the user experience (Pro tip, set your location to Lekki Phase 1)\n\n Want to talk about food? Shoot us an email [founders@500chow.com](mailto:founders@500chow.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9N-chow-central-virtual-restaurant-chains-in-african-cities", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-07-31T20:28:54.555Z" } ] }, { "id": 28938, "name": "Glade", "slug": "glade", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/39e64fe4e49894144581ae2ef69befe4cb83f6b8.png", "website": "https://gladestudio.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Glade is helping everyone build games with AI. GladeCore powers hundreds of studios and developers with locally powered AI NPCs that include TTS, STT, emotional tuning, and RAG. GladeKit is Cursor for Games - an AI agent that lives directly in your game engine and builds games for you. 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It doesn’t just generate code snippets - it takes direct action inside your project.\n\n**Demo**: \n\n# **The problem**\n\nMost AI tools for game development don’t see your scene hierarchy, prefabs, or existing systems, so developers end up copying code into Unity, wiring components together, fixing errors, and repeating the process.\n\nThis constant context switching slows down shipping real gameplay.\n\n# **The solution: an engine-aware AI agent**\n\nGladeKit connects directly to your Unity project and understands the full context of your game. It reads your scripts, assets, scene hierarchy, and components, then plans and executes changes directly inside the engine.\n\nWhat that looks like in practice:\n\n* 150+ native Unity actions: create prefabs, wire up Animator Controllers, configure physics, build UI, set up lighting, bake NavMeshes - all from natural language\n* Full project awareness: the AI sees your scene hierarchy, active errors, render pipeline, selected objects, and script content before it does anything\n* Three modes built for different workflows: Agent, Debug, and Ask\n* Turn-by-turn revert: every change the AI makes is tracked and reversible, with a built-in script diff viewer so you see exactly what changed\n\nYou describe what you want, and GladeKit builds it inside your project.\n\n# **How it works**\n\nGladeKit indexes your Unity project and builds a structured understanding of:\n\n• Scripts and APIs\n\n• Scene hierarchy and GameObjects\n\n• Prefabs, assets, and components\n\nWhen you request a change (for example: “Create a player controller with WASD movement” or “Fix this null reference error”), it generates a plan and applies the required changes directly to the project.\n\n# **The ask**\n\n1. If you’re building a game in Unity, we’d love for you to try GladeKit.\n2. If you know indie studios or teams experimenting with AI dev tools, intros would be hugely appreciated.\n\nTry it for free here:\n\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98702&key=user_uploads/424004/56ba163b-c05d-45b7-a278-2107abed2ba8)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pfy-gladekit-ai-agent-for-game-development", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-03-12T15:09:48.531Z" }, { "id": 72665, "title": "Glade - Enterprise grade platform for financial planning", "tagline": "We helps companies build, manage, and visualize their financial plan in real-time", "body": "**_Tl;dr:_** _Finance teams spend 75% of their time on manual processes, and existing tools in the market are extremely difficult to adopt. Glade is a user-first, fully integrated platform that helps enterprises and scaling companies streamline their financial planning, reporting, and analytics. Check out our_ [_website_](https://gladetool.com) _to learn more._\n\nHi everyone, we’re Daniel and Aaron, the co-founders of Glade!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72665&key=user_uploads/424004/0b41811b-ce06-4f98-9c81-60bded2fe769)\n\n### **🧨 Problem: Financial Planning is Painful and Tedious**\n\nWithin growing companies and enterprises, there is no single source of truth for financial data, and finance teams are wasting too much time on manual tasks. Daniel was a finance manager at his last company and spent hours every day manually preparing data and handling simple requests from business partners. \n\nExisting tools are also extremely difficult to adopt and implement. Daniel’s previous company implemented Anaplan and paid hundreds of thousands each year for it, yet only one person in his entire company learned how to properly use it. \n\n### **🚀 Solution: A User-First, AI-Powered Financial Platform**\n\nGlade helps companies build, manage, and visualize their financial plan in real-time. \n\nUnlike existing enterprise tools, we fully integrate with all business apps (such as Netsuite, Workday, and Snowflake) to automate the flow of data directly from these apps to your team’s Google Sheets and Excel models. Through our integrations and data enrichment, Glade serves as the central source of truth for all financial data within a company. \n\nOur platform also empowers leaders across the company to make informed decisions and stay aligned. By leveraging AI, we allow users to self-serve financial data through our platform and use natural language to create custom, board deck-ready visualizations in seconds. Want to check how your business is performing in the APAC region? Just ask Glade: “How has my revenue trended in APAC over the last 3 months?” Using AI, we will produce a high-quality chart for you in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72665&key=user_uploads/424004/75f11c06-8d2a-42e8-adc9-08f67408016f)\n\nUsing Glade, companies: \n\n✔️ Speed up financial planning, month-end close, and investor/board deliverables by 2x \n\n✔️ Improve reporting and forecast accuracy by eliminating errors from manual data pulls  \n\n✔️ Align leaders and teams across the company to financial objectives\n\n### **💲Opportunity Size:**\n\nThe total addressable market for enterprise financial planning is $50B. Anaplan is a leader in the space, with a market capitalization of almost $10B. \n\nHowever, with a recorded NPS of -38 and poor user adoption across its customers, legacy enterprise tools like Anaplan are bound to be replaced. \n\n### **❔Our Ask:**\n\nConnect us to CEOs, CFOs, and finance leaders in your network. To contact us, [click here](mailto:daniel@gladetool.com)\n\nIntroduce us to any warm connections you have in fast-growing companies or enterprises. [click here](mailto:daniel@gladetool.com)\n\nAre you a founder and interested in using our software to improve your financial planning process? To schedule a meeting with Glade, [click here](https://calendly.com/danielglade/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Iu1-glade-enterprise-grade-platform-for-financial-planning", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2023-06-29T22:04:03.669Z" } ] }, { "id": 28969, "name": "Studdy", "slug": "studdy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c0821a1683c61a3940f8574e68efe0f27f930177.png", "website": "https://www.studdyai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Studdy, our mission is to unlock the full potential of the next generation by providing a personalized AI tutor for every student.\r\n\r\nStuddy is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, as well as advanced speech, text, and image recognition technology to supercharge students' ability to learn new subjects.\r\n\r\nWe believe that making self-learning as easy as possible for as many students as possible (no matter their cultural, social, or educational background) is the key to unlocking the full potential of students around the world.\r\n\r\nWe're a passionate team of AI experts, educators, and builders - if you also have a passion for transforming education we'd love to hear from you.\r\n\r\nShoot us a message at team@studdy.ai!", "one_liner": "An AI tutor that helps you study", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1688327880, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Education", "Consumer", "Edtech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "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/studdy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/studdy.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/studdyai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/studdyai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c0821a1683c61a3940f8574e68efe0f27f930177.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1332645, "full_name": "Michael Lam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO at Studdy", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mikelam231", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mike_lamma", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/61cd72de6866d065e238857e95103448fbf7eb21.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1383463, "full_name": "Alex Lanzoni", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Self-taught software engineer w/ 13 YoE\nLike building and video games", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alex-lanzoni", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/chad_syntax", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/096acf61a418174fbb54f420fe89ab79e44ad845.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73856, "title": "Studdy: an AI tutor for every student", "tagline": "Snap, ask, and learn anything with Studdy Buddy", "body": "### TL;DR\n\nHave you ever been studying something and **wished you could instantly ask a question** about it to an expert? Now you can, with Studdy.\n\n[Studdy](https://studdy.ai/) is an AI tutor for students. Anytime you need help with schoolwork (or any material you’re reading), **just snap a picture to get instant help from Studdy Buddy**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/ee2a0350-1b1c-4d20-aa05-b79c3254dfb0)\n\n### The problem\n\nStudents are not getting the help they need to succeed in school. Every year, [**65%+ of all U.S. eighth graders**](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/us/math-reading-scores-pandemic.html) score **“below proficient,” in reading comprehension and math.**\n\nThe problem is that **class sizes are too large** for teachers to provide enough 1:1 help to every kid. Districts can’t afford to hire more teachers, and parents are unable to help their kids at home because they don’t know the material either.\n\nWhen a student falls behind for just a couple of weeks, it can lead to a spiral of underachievement that ultimately leads to many kids giving up. Studdy is here to stop the spiral.\n\n### How Studdy Helps\n\nWhen students need extra help understanding material from class, **Studdy is available 24/7 to answer any questions and patiently explain any concepts**. Studdy never gets angry, impatient, or tired - and it loves answering follow up questions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/bcb4d350-5c3e-474d-8a0e-ef6cf0ab1489)\n\nThings Studdy can do:\n\n* **Break problems down** into simple steps\n* Answer **unlimited follow up questions**\n* **Summarize** pages for you\n* **Test** your reading comprehension\n* Quiz you to make sure you **understand the “why”** of what you’re doing and aren’t just regurgitating homework steps\n* Frame problems and **draw relationships** for you\n* Speak to you at your grade level, **in your own language**\n* Plus more!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/bbb5e47e-6f23-4512-8723-d0fedc547559)\n\n\n### Studdy vs ChatGPT\n\nStuddy is purpose built for students:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/ef16271e-a1eb-4ed5-9b53-49a9c4756cca)\n\n### Our Story\n\nAlex and I built Studdy for our former selves (we were not good students back in the day). Too much lecturing would put us to sleep, and that caused issues when it came time to do homework.\n\nWe wished we had a tutor available 24/7 who could answer all of our questions at home - when we would try to catch up on the material we’d missed during class.\n\nAlex dropped out of college at 19 and he’s been plotting how to reform education ever since. I spent the last four years working in ed-tech and AI at Photomath, and then [@Speak](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1443) (W17), where I helped build an AI language tutor on GPT3 & 4. Alex and I previously worked together [@Starcity](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/1431) (S16) before creating Studdy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73856&key=user_uploads/1332645/c0dabeee-b4bf-4ddd-86c1-09d47515fe9b)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n* **Try** **our** [iOS App](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/studdy-ai-pocket-tutor/id6450114499)!\n* **Share this post!** Send it to students, parents, teachers, friends.\n* If you know **any professors** who might want to **partner up on** **AI-Education Research**, we’d love to chat.\n* Shoot us a note at [**team@studdy.ai**](mailto:team@studdy.ai) if you’d like to help us\n* Leave us a kind review on the app store : )", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JDE-studdy-an-ai-tutor-for-every-student", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2023-08-07T14:12:11.395Z" } ] }, { "id": 28978, "name": "Khoj", "slug": "khoj", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/34c0b5b2907cbf1aeb1fbc4283f0011a8b58c86b.png", "website": "https://khoj.dev/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Khoj is an applied artificial intelligence company. We're a tiny team of hackers doing applied research and building safe, useful ai software for humans.", "one_liner": "AI for humans", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1689811773, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "Productivity", "Open Source", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/khoj", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/khoj.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/khoj-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/khoj_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/khoj", "github_url": "https://github.com/khoj-ai/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/34c0b5b2907cbf1aeb1fbc4283f0011a8b58c86b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1334656, "full_name": "Debanjum Singh Solanky", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Previously worked on personal AIs at Cortana (aka Viva Insights) and scaled it from 0 to 20M daily active users at Microsoft. Building open-source tools & communities since a decade. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/debanjum", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/debanjum", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c8c7f7ff3ce0aef83925bd08571aa6e8a9e12e7e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1201614, "full_name": "Saba Imran", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Helping people get answers to their questions.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sabaimran", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sabaimran_go", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fdd1d5d87a3f56dd5aa4b711af6c072271d33ccc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Show HN: Khoj - Chat Offline with your Second Brain using Llama 2 | Hacker News", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933452", "date": "Jul 30, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 74032, "title": "Khoj - Your superhuman companion", "tagline": "Get more done with your open-source, trustworthy personal AI", "body": "Hi folks! We’re Saba and Debanjum from Khoj and we’re working hard to make personal AI accessible to everyone, including your mum and grandad 😇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74032&key=user_uploads/1201614/8190dfd3-b9b1-4314-99ec-b6ce76241019)\n\n## Summary\n\nKhoj is an open-source, personal AI application that helps you extend your digital brain. It's built by a team that scaled personal AI assistance for enterprises to 10s of millions of daily active users at Microsoft. You can try Khoj on WhatsApp at [\\+1 (848)-800-4242](https://wa.me/18488004242)\n\n## The Problem\n\nComputing capabilities have advanced at a staggering rate over the last few decades, but our individual capabilities have stagnated. Petabytes of data have been digitized, and yet our tools to engage with them hover somewhere around fuzzy search.\n\nWhile we were building more advanced tools for enterprise assistance, we realized that there weren’t good equivalents to helping individuals across work and life.\n\nI've to make sense of what is covered by my health insurance plan in some outdated PDF, track down stray notes I made during my 100th daily standup meeting, or look for that one email I sent back in 2018 to Carl. The current set of tools for this just doesn’t cut it.\n\nAll the while, the surface area occupied by our digital interactions is making us less happy and more distracted.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74032&key=user_uploads/1201614/e3d51fab-e8ef-4db1-b3ac-0fddecc6e899)\n\n## The Solution\n\nWith Khoj, we're creating your open-source, superhuman companion to tackle these challenges.\n\nRight now, you can use Khoj’s desktop app to search and chat with your existing notes and docs (see below!). Instead of awkwardly keyword searching, you can have a natural conversation with your knowledge base. Hundreds of technical, advanced knowledge workers are already using this. It supports fully offline chat and search. [See the docs](https://docs.khoj.dev/#/setup).\n\nBut technical capability shouldn’t limit access to great digital assistance. That's why we're rolling out the ability to access [Khoj over WhatsApp](https://khoj.dev/whatsapp) as well.\n\nWe’re building your companion with two key principles in mind:\n\n1. We build in the open with a diverse community from the ground up, so humans stay at the center of it all\n2. Personal AI is coming. We intend to create it in a way that is both trustworthy and accessible\n\n![](https://khoj-web-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/chatdemo.gif)\n\n## The Team\n\nDebanjum and Saba met while building and scaling enterprise personal AI assistance at Microsoft. They became fast friends while bonding over hiking in the PNW and hacking on fun side projects together.\n\nSaba has studied CS @ UIUC, built resilient data pipelines for high-frequency trading at Two Sigma, and developed the ML infrastructure at a YC biotech startup.\n\nDebanjum is a published researcher with a double Masters in Math and CS at BITS and Dartmouth respectively. He helped create Hillhacks, an Indian hacker conference that's been running self-sustained for 9+ years.\n\n## The Ask\n\nTell us what you'd like out of your own personal superhuman companion at [team@khoj.dev](mailto:team@khoj.dev).\n\nChat with Khoj on WhatsApp at [\\+1 (848)-800-4242](https://wa.me/18488004242) or by using the QR code below. You can also send it voice messages! 🎙️\n\n![](https://khoj-web-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/khojwhatsapp.png)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JG4-khoj-your-superhuman-companion", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-08-11T16:59:55.314Z" } ] }, { "id": 29002, "name": "Envelope", "slug": "envelope", "former_names": [ "Envelope Money" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c2e740f2179bdee63c6c4fcdf1727acdeb9510d9.png", "website": "https://envelopebudgeting.com/", "all_locations": "Phoenix, AZ, USA", "long_description": "Envelope is a budgeting app with built-in checking and debit cards. 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Previously worked on the Robinhood and Twitter iOS apps.\n\nOther places I've been\n- Tesla (shop.tesla.com)\n- Microsoft (Edge Browser & Windows Server)\n- Adobe (Adobe Analytics)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/joshuakcockrell", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/joshuakcockrell", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cc0a244447fec1067e4ddfa275afca5536efd587.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73974, "title": "Envelope ✉️ Budgeting app with built-in banking", "tagline": "A budgeting app with a built-in checking account and debit cards, so your money stays organized and managing your finances feels effortless.", "body": "**TLDR** We're a consumer budgeting app with built-in banking.\n\n**PROBLEM**\n\nSaving, investing, and meeting wealth milestones are critical for good financial health, but are often boring or stress-inducing. It doesn’t pack the same dopamine punch as 2% cash back. This leaves us with a gaping disparity between the average total consumer debt of $101,915 and the 63 percent of Americans who don't have enough saved to cover a $500 financial setback.\n\nWe— [**@Josh Cockrell Strobel**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuakcockrell/) and [**@Katelyn Strobel**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelynstrobel/)— run a 75K+ subscriber YouTube channel, and have vlogged our personal finance journey as a couple in Silicon Valley. We were constantly getting asked which tools we recommended for managing our finances. At that point, we had tried everything and were frustrated with the existing solutions. We had nothing we could confidently recommend.\n\nSo, we decided to use our backgrounds in consumer fintech (Katelyn worked on marketing projects for Apple Card, Acorns, and Digit, and Josh worked as a programmer on the Robinhood & Twitter iOS apps) to create our personal finance platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73974&key=user_uploads/226037/e515a2c0-56a8-4a59-ac75-cb2df7c7818f)\n\n**SOLUTION**\n\n**We make good financial behavior fun, measurable, and addicting.**\n\nThrough our banking partners\\*, our app employs an FDIC-insured checking account and Visa card to serve as the central hub of your finances, and our budgeting features and analytics enhance the experience by aligning you with your dream financial life. We facilitate all of this through a digital “cash” envelopes system, custom goals, and tailored analytics.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73974&key=user_uploads/900173/a155aa83-8955-4649-85da-64ecf0cf22a3)\n\n**ASKS**\n\n* **Download our iOS and Android apps** at \n* **Leave us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review** on the App Store and Play Store.\n* **Share this post!**\n\n\\*Banking services provided by Envelope’s partner banks, Members FDIC. 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Our agents can create either structured datasets or fully cited research reports.", "one_liner": "Long-horizon research agents", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1689818569, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "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/webhound", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/webhound.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/webhound", "x_url": "https://x.com/webhoundai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1c9d8480ce32c923dc77fca44069ab19c5dab6eb.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/af083f86bdd2f140667a8be17ea63bf77b6ea035.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1444428, "full_name": "Flynn Traeger", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Software engineer by training but cut my teeth in headhunting so can't stop talking to people. Ex-Stanford rower. 2x All-American. Now I'm trying to make search better.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/flynn-traeger", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ecc1f2dff3dba0c41cd8d3b38dca353c6dc31bd4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1446074, "full_name": "Bryn Hughes", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Stanford CS 2023 grad with previous research in ASL translation with LLMs and model design.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/bryn-hughes-3968b7201", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f3d8a68d7607f020c95d70f2be99b53f17ccd1e4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1444435, "full_name": "Moe Khalil", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Product @ LiteLLM (YC W23). Previously built the first ever commercial deep research product @ Webhound (YC S23). Stanford CS '23", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/moe-khalil-73a2371a1", "x_url": "https://x.com/Mokhalil01", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/71908f66e9da71876cf3cca281a7afd005398c55.jpg" }, { "user_id": 870360, "full_name": "Porter Weisberg", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Previously a C.S. major and all-academic rower at Stanford, and has been building startups since.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/porter-weisberg", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/48f21488c1a9ade1b22a7d7a2c52afb3703b1f4b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Our favorite startups from YC's Summer 2023 Demo Day, Day 1 | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/06/ycombinator-demo-day-one-summer-2023/", "date": "Sep 06, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 99089, "title": "Webhound Agent: A full research assistant with a workspace", "tagline": "An AI research assistant powered by the best deep research money can buy", "body": "\n\n**The problem:** Most deep research products decide for you when to stop. And since they're subscription-based, the less work they do per query, the more they profit.\n\n**What we built:** Webhound is a research agent where you set a dollar budget and it keeps searching until it's used. $5 or $100 — every dollar goes into deeper search, more sources, and real verification. The output is either a cited research report or a structured dataset with source URLs per cell.\n\n**What's new:** Today we're launching Webhound Agent — a full research assistant with a workspace.\n\n* **Start research from chat.** Describe what you need, the agent proposes a session with an editable budget and model. You confirm before anything runs.\n* **Multi-step pipelines.** Chain steps together — \"research X, then extract Y, then write a recommendation\" — and they run automatically in sequence.\n* **Analyze your existing work.** Ask the agent about any report or dataset. It reads the full document and answers with citations.\n* **Organize everything in folders.** Nested workspace with drag-and-drop, working directories, and folder-scoped context.\n* **The agent remembers you.** It learns your research interests, budget preferences, and working patterns across conversations.\n\n**How it works under the hood:** Research sessions run a plan-execute-verify loop. The planner decides what to investigate, the executor searches the web and writes a cited report, and the verifier checks every claim against its sources. When the verifier finds gaps, it sends the work back. This cycle repeats until the budget runs out.\n\n**Pricing:** Pay-as-you-go. No subscriptions. $5 free credits to start. See real example reports at different budgets: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99089&key=user_uploads/1444435/efda94f3-8921-4230-98e9-e26f86b3514c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PmD-webhound-agent-a-full-research-assistant-with-a-workspace", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-03-25T17:52:50.836Z" }, { "id": 97405, "title": "Webhound Reports: Deep research that scales with your budget", "tagline": "Long-running deep research for the highest quality reports", "body": "Hey everyone, Moe here.\n\nWe're building Webhound — AI research agents where you set a budget and the agent keeps researching until it runs out. More budget = more sources, more depth.\n\n**How we got here:** We started with a product (now called Datasets) that builds structured tables from the web. It worked, but we hit a wall: as datasets got bigger, costs exploded and context became unmanageable. And for open-ended datasets, we never had a clean answer for \"when should the agent stop?\"\n\nSo we rebuilt everything around two ideas: costs that stay linear with time, and giving users direct control over depth.\n\nThe new architecture is a **Planner-Executor-Verifier loop**. Executors get fresh context each run. Planner and Verifier work from summaries and can search over what's accumulated. Runs until budget's out.\n\nWe tested it on traditional deep research as a sanity check. At $3-5, it beat the top result on DeepResearch Bench. At $15, it way outperformed it, even running on older models (gemini-2.5-flash). So we shipped it as Reports and put the same architecture into Datasets.\n\n**We now have two products:**\n\n* **Reports** = cited research docs (competitive analysis, market research, system design). Always uses the full budget—more budget means more sources and deeper coverage.\n* **Datasets** = build structured tables from the web, or upload your own and enrich with new columns. We can access LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, and most other sites. Examples: lead lists with company info, competitor feature matrices, lists of VCs filtered by thesis, GTM leads with emails. Stops when complete, or at budget, whichever comes first.\n\n**Asks:**\n\n* **Try it** – [**webhound.ai**](http://webhound.ai), $5 free. Honest feedback welcome.\n* **Spread the word** – if it's useful, share it with anyone you know doing a lot of research (investors, analysts, consultants)\n\n– Moe\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97405&key=user_uploads/1444435/fceaddd4-53f4-438f-930d-a4bf18bf97ce)\n\n(Demo Video for Reports: [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGJBudvmsE**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGJBudvmsE))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PL3-webhound-reports-deep-research-that-scales-with-your-budget", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-02-02T18:32:28.191Z" }, { "id": 92035, "title": "Webhound: An AI Agent That Builds Datasets From the Web", "tagline": "Webhound lets you automate weeks of manual research work by running in the background while you tackle other priorities.", "body": "Hey everyone,\n\nWe’re [Moe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/moe-khalil-73a2371a1/) and [Theo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodor-schmidt/), and we’re building [Webhound](https://webhound.ai).\n\n# TL;DR\n\nWebhound is an AI research agent that builds custom datasets from web research. Instead of spending weeks manually gathering data, simply describe what you need and Webhound automatically finds, extracts, and organizes it into structured datasets you can export.\n\nSome examples are:\n\n* “Find 100 AI/ML YouTubers with 50K-100K subscribers, their email addresses, and latest video view counts.”\n* “Track pricing, features, and customer reviews from both Reddit and Youtube for 30 CRM competitors including Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive.”\n* “Collect 500 vacation rental listings in Bali with photos, pricing, amenities, and guest reviews from multiple platforms to analyze market trends.”\n* “Identify 200 early-stage e-commerce startups on Shopify or WooCommerce, along with founder names, contact emails, and product categories to build a lead list.”\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1SiKznpHs&pp=0gcJCcEJAYcqIYzv\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nData collection is painfully manual and slow. Need to research 100 competitors? That means visiting 100 different websites, copying information into spreadsheets, and repeating this process for every data point.\n\nThis creates two major problems:\n\n* **High effort:** Hours of tedious manual work, clicking through sites, and organizing data\n* **Slow speed:** What should be quick research turns into weeks of work\n\n# **👷 Our Solution**\n\nWebhound makes data collection effortless and fast.\n\n**Effortless:** Simply describe what you need in plain English. Webhound handles everything in the background while you focus on other work.\n\n**Fast:** A fleet of parallel search agents collect data simultaneously across multiple sources, turning weeks of manual work into hours.\n\nExport clean, structured datasets as CSV, Excel, or JSON.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92035&key=user_uploads/1444435/a0229371-c973-42ca-8383-bf35d6bb99c7)\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nWant to try Webhound? Access is currently limited to 5 datasets per week and one at a time, but if you're interested in higher limits to automate your research workflow, please reach out to us at [**team@webhound.ai**](mailto:team@webhound.ai).\n\n# 👬 **The Team**\n\nMoe and Theo have been friends for 6 years and were roommates in college (in the room where Evan Spiegel founded Snapchat).\n\nSince graduating, Moe’s built a bunch of AI search tools, including Instaclass (turn any topic into a full search-backed course) and Remy (think Perplexity, but for video).\n\nTheo went deep on data, building and scaling Quicklime, where he helped film studios and streaming services collect the info they needed to make smart bets.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NwR-webhound-an-ai-agent-that-builds-datasets-from-the-web", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-07-10T00:48:30.310Z" }, { "id": 85709, "title": "Remy: The chatbot that's seen every video on YouTube", "tagline": "Remy searches over billions of videos to build you custom playlists on any topic, finding exactly what you want to watch - and nothing you don't.", "body": "![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=85709&key=user_uploads/1444428/e4dd006c-a312-4c90-9340-6b403f9bd17a)\n\nThe internet is filled with incredible video content, but finding the exact moments you're looking for can feel impossible. \n\nCurrently, typical video search falls into one of two categories:\n\n**1. Searching short-form video content**\n\n* Search TikTok or YouTube Shorts for clips made by creators.\n* Settle for recommended clips that don't quite match what you need.\n* Get filtered back into _the algorithm_.\n\n**2. Manually looking through long-form videos**\n\n* Open ten tabs with the top results on YouTube to look through them all.\n* Waste time scrubbing through long videos looking for the moments you want.\n* Miss valuable insights buried in obscure content.\n* Give up searching altogether.\n\n### We built Remy to solve this.\n\nInstead of treating videos as single units, [Remy](https://www.useremy.com/) understands what's happening inside every second of every video. It's like having a brilliant research assistant who's watched everything on the internet and can quickly find the exact moments you care about.\n\nThink of all the knowledge trapped in hour-long podcasts, conference talks, interviews, and tutorials. Remy sets it free by building you personalized playlists that connects the dots across thousands of sources—turning an overwhelming sea of content into a clear story that matters to you.\n\n\n\n## **🔎 How Remy works:**\n\n1. Tell Remy what you're curious about\n2. Remy searches through the internet's video content\n3. Remy curates a playlist of perfectly clipped moments for you to watch\n\n## **✨ Perfect for:**\n\n* 📚 Learning new skills: **\"Gordon Ramsay explaining expert knife techniques\"**\n* 🎯 Product research: **\"Professional skiers talking about best skis of 2025\"**\n* 🔍 Deep dives: **\"070 Shake talking about the music scene in New Jersey\"**\n* 📰 News & updates: **\"What does Sam Altman think about what's happening with AI regulation?\"**\n\n## **🤨 What makes Remy different:**\n\n* Real-time search across billions of videos\n* Smart clipping that captures full context\n* Conversational interface for natural discovery\n* Playlists that make sense for your search, not just random clips\n\nAs your searches evolve, Remy understands the context and narrows down results in real time, finding clips that otherwise might be buried deep within hours-long videos. Have questions about a clip it found? Just ask in the chat and get answers rooted in the content Remy found for you.\n\n### Give Remy a try today to discover videos you never knew existed.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MIP-remy-the-chatbot-that-s-seen-every-video-on-youtube", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2024-11-19T20:47:39.072Z" }, { "id": 80492, "title": "Instaclass: Make a masterclass on literally anything", "tagline": "Instaclass lets you make a masterclass on anything with the best content on the internet", "body": "[Instaclass](https://myinstaclass.com/) lets you make a masterclass on anything you want, using the best content that's already on the internet.\n\nWe’ve spent the last year building and launching in the AI content consumption space, from games to podcasts to news to videos. What we’ve learned is that we don’t need AI to create content for us. Everything you could possibly need or want to consume has probably already been created; _it’s just hard to find, and you don’t always know what to look for_. Instead of using AI to create content, we believe AI should play a role in curating human-made content.\n\nOn the back of all of this work and these insights, we have built [Instaclass](https://myinstaclass.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80492&key=user_uploads/1444428/f9dbfab3-e0c1-4518-ae87-ba05f3caf9b5)\n\n[Instaclass](https://myinstaclass.com/) lets you build classes on anything you want, no matter how niche, doing the hunter-gatherer portion of research for you so you don't need to spend a day trawling through the internet looking for good content to learn with.\n\nWe use Instaclass daily to learn about [_brewing better coffee_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/0510f5fd-420c-4023-b394-39c3c6074c1e/f4157ffb-def7-44b8-bb6a-80c933ed3054)_, _[_the Fallout universe and lore_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/0c315ab0-a562-46d5-94e5-8013f3be40d3/3b0fdf63-c6a6-4feb-a883-b8f207409810)_, _[_the French Revolution_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/0cf5ac0a-025b-455b-9e17-344d221cec2f/347c6edc-6b41-43c8-8a0b-2ec32471f6a8)_, and _[_cooking tips from Gordon Ramsay_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/0510f5fd-420c-4023-b394-39c3c6074c1e/acbcc328-a9a1-4158-a892-2a04b8d5c830)_._ We’ve joked that this would have been really helpful in the early days of each of our previous pivots - if you know us, then you’d know this one on [_how to build video games_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/1d5a2b90-86c1-471a-933c-6903d1f93206/443c077a-34bc-400a-abc3-6284d6a3e1e7) would have been worth its weight in gold.\n\n_Users have done everything from learning _[_how to give a sales pitch for an interview_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/8ee4cb8a-0ab4-4d88-83c2-50d582fe1adb/9be936bd-c058-4ad8-be2d-f292bd1059e9)_ to _[_how to be nice to your boyfriend_](https://myinstaclass.com/home/1db8a552-515d-4029-9eba-68c807329668/299d2703-4b49-4743-a83a-d9168cbc3874)_._\n\n[Instaclass](https://myinstaclass.com/) pulls in information from across the web on a particular topic and puts it in a course format so you can go in with no idea about a topic and come out decently well-informed.\n\nTry it out, and let us know what you think! We are limiting free credits at the moment, so if you run out, join the waitlist, and we’ll email you when more become available. Looking forward to seeing what you all make!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KwG-instaclass-make-a-masterclass-on-literally-anything", "votes": 172, "created_at": "2024-04-29T17:51:32.573Z" } ] }, { "id": 29155, "name": "jo", "slug": "jo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c9c7f687c3a57d8f3b931f1e760657237991cb95.png", "website": "https://askjo.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "jo is a personal AI agent that keeps up with your work and life, surfaces what matters, and helps you follow through. It remembers relevant context, works proactively, and supports recurring workflows through autopilot while keeping you in control.", "one_liner": "The personal AI agent that keeps up with your work and life.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1734654585, "tags": [ "Consumer", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "jo is a personal AI agent for people who want help keeping up with work and life.\r\n\r\njo connects relevant context from conversations, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, contacts, messages, browser activity, and the Mac when users enable those sources. It uses that context to answer questions, produce daily briefings, surface reminders and follow-ups, keep projects warm, and support recurring workflows through autopilot.\r\n\r\nUnlike a chatbot that starts fresh with every conversation, jo maintains context over time. It can work proactively, but it does not give itself unlimited authority over a user's accounts. Summaries and briefings can run automatically when configured. Sending messages, changing calendars, making purchases, sharing private information, and other consequential actions require user approval.\r\n\r\njo is available on Mac and the web. The Mac app requires Apple Silicon. People can also use the same jo account and memory through mobile web, Telegram, and WhatsApp. Native mobile apps are planned but are not available yet.\r\n\r\njo is private by design. Each user has isolated cloud infrastructure and storage where applicable. Relevant information is sent to jo's services and the selected model provider only when a request or enabled feature needs it. jo uses model-provider endpoints and terms designed for zero retention or equivalent no-retention and no-training treatment. jo does not train AI models on users' raw communications, Google Workspace content, screen context, or voice data.\r\n\r\njo is generally available with no waitlist. It supports individuals and families. Each family member has a separate private jo, memory, boundaries, cloud machine, and storage, with controlled sharing for coordination." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/jo", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/jo.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/askjoai", "x_url": "https://www.x.com/askjoai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/jo-inc", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c9c7f687c3a57d8f3b931f1e760657237991cb95.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 133, "full_name": "Pradeep Elankumaran", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I work on consumer companies.\nCo-founded: jo (w24), farmstead (s16), kicksend (s11)\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/pradeepelankumaran", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/pradeep24", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/08e83c41529ff2af41840a951f6b28fb5ac91835.jpg" }, { "user_id": 132452, "full_name": "Kevin Li", "title": "Founder/CMO", "founder_bio": "ex-CMO @ jo (YC W24), Co-Founder @ Farmstead (YC S16), intern @ Kabam. 🟤 in judo, love gymnastics rings, and video games 🎮", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/liveink", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/liveink", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5ddec76792417d020b389df200be0d7a575a5baf.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 98307, "title": "jo 1.0 - a personal AI that actually knows you", "tagline": "Less \"chatbot\" and more \"a second brain that does things.\"", "body": "**Update:** jo is now generally available on Mac and the web, with no waitlist. It keeps up with your work and life, maintains useful context over time, produces proactive briefings, and supports recurring workflows through autopilot. Family support is available today, while native mobile apps remain planned. See the current product at [askjo.ai](http://askjo.ai).\\\n\\\n====\\\n\\\n**TL;DR -** [jo](https://askjo.ai) is a personal AI that runs on your Mac and a private cloud machine we host for you. It knows your life, improves itself autonomously, chats via  Telegram and WhatsApp, and never shares your data. Less \"chatbot\" and more \"a second brain that does things.\"\n\n\n\nHey YC! We're [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liveink/) and [Pradeep](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepelankumaran/), co-founders for a decade and consumer builders since the mid-2000s. For the last few years, we’ve iterated on an experience that’s zero compromise. It’s easy to use and gives consumers control over their privacy. \n\n🧠 **jo knows you.** jo improves over time as it learns your preferences, kids' schedules, travel habits, and work context. It reviews its own notes nightly and gets better as you use it. We’ve found the continuity over time to be immensely useful.\n\n🏠 **Your machine, your data.** Every jo macOS desktop app user also gets a dedicated cloud machine and storage. Personal data (photos, local files) never leaves your Mac without approval. Powerful cloud inference runs the best available models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, Kimi with more on the way) on top of cloud providers that are barred from training on your data. \n\n⚡ **10x faster, everywhere you already are.** Voice on your Mac. Text & voice on  Telegram and Whatsapp. Consistent  memory and personality, 24/7.\n\n**What it does**\n\n* On your Mac, jo notices your browsing patterns and group chats, then clips related content (runs locally, doesn’t leave your Mac).\n* Sends morning briefings with weather, calendar, and reminders pulled from Gmail and Google Calendar, continuing on from where you left off the night before.\n* Controls a real browser with anti-fingerprinting and a high success rate to check availability, compare prices, and research.\n* Searches across every messaging platform conversation(including groups) and email to find things you've forgotten.\n* Runs background automations you set once: \"Every Thursday, send me a ideas for what to do this weekend\"\n* jo will not send emails or messages, but will draft and suggest your emails (Gmail).\n\n \n\n## **The self-organizing digital you**\n\n* Unlike other AI assistants, jo self improves to maximize  usefulness and fun.\n* Scan back as many months of your browser and messenger history as you want for jo to work with. \n* Scheduled and autonomous recurring work compounds data and preferences, all stored on machines you have access to with strict exfil policies.\n\n \n\n👉 **Sign up for the beta:[ ](https://askjo.ai/signup)[askjo.ai](http://askjo.ai)** (first 100 people skip the onboarding and can download ASAP)\n\n**Other things jo does**\n\n* Find Warriors v Lakers game tomorrow from my email, go on stubhub for tickets, pronounce them expensive, and suggest hockey games instead for that weekend to take a 9yo to.\n* Keep an eye on the “No Priors” podcast every day and send summaries in a specific format whenever there’s a new episode.\n* Mentioned a topic from a friend inside a group chat, found and did deep research on the topic when asked later. \n* Scanned all Gmail receipts and learned a bunch of facts about our families’ preferences, guessed which family members each one applied to and used it for later gift selection.\n* Get the guest list from a Partiful invite in my messages\n* Built a profile of what we like to read and send us recommendations on a schedule\n* Import your OpenClaw folder and settings\n\n## **Coming soon**\n\nNative mobile app, multiplayer (shared family/team assistants), trusted purchases, grocery shopping.\n\n**Built on open-source roots.** We stand on the shoulders of giants and contribute back.\n\n👉 **Sign up for the beta:[ ](https://askjo.ai/signup)[askjo.ai](http://askjo.ai)** (first 100 people skip the onboarding and can download ASAP)\n\nPlease share your feedback. Ask us anything.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98307&key=user_uploads/132452/8512374f-304f-422e-b56b-4fd9bf572d29)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PZb-jo-1-0-a-personal-ai-that-actually-knows-you", "votes": 90, "created_at": "2026-03-01T22:00:59.828Z" }, { "id": 86433, "title": "jo: Your macOS Productivity Sidekick", "tagline": "The personal AI agent that keeps up with your work and life.", "body": "**Update:** jo is now generally available on Mac and the web, with no waitlist. It keeps up with your work and life, maintains useful context over time, produces proactive briefings, and supports recurring workflows through autopilot. Family support is available today, while native mobile apps remain planned. See the current product at [askjo.ai](http://askjo.ai).\\\n\\\n————————————\\\n\\\njo is a voice-first digital personality that works alongside you every day – a smart and efficient new friend who saves you time and money while improving your quality of life.\n\nAs of now, jo runs only on macOS desktop, and only on Apple Silicon. [Sign up for the waitlist here.](https://askjo.ai)\n\n\n\n# **What Makes jo Special?**\n\n_JARVIS_ and _Samantha_ are assistant archetypes created within the scarcity mindset of an obsolete age. Instead of waiting for you to ask, jo helps you proactively at the edge.\n\nAlways a ‘hey jo’ or ‘⌘-j’ away, jo works _alongside_ you, helping with the low stakes but high frequency actions that make up the high stakes ones - keystrokes, taps, speech and screen. A new type of assistance for a new age.\n\njo’s built on top of a set of local and remote LLMs, vector storage and tight audio/network macOS native desktop code that unlock a new set of composable primitives for how humans interact with AI efficiently.\n\nIn practice, jo gets you halfway to most of the way there for common workflows, building user trust for its next phase of development where we push towards autonomous completion of high stakes / low frequency projects.\n\n* **Speak or type to jo, it will speak and type back** – latencies are low enough that you can lean on jo all day as AI on your side that works hard for you.\n* **Ask jo to run pre-filled, custom-integrated searches to get info in seconds**\n * “pull up facebook marketplace to buy a new kettlebell and pull up videos of starter workouts on youtube”\n * “search flights to new orleans next weekend for 3 people”\n * “Arcane on netflix”\n * “new backpack under $100 on amazon”\n * “draft an email to city of sf asking for reimbursement on pothole”\n * “find the email from amazon where i bought the white table”\n* **jo's \"Live Summary\" follows your browsing around and summarizes the three key points of anything you read, rapidly refreshing with each page change.** \n * Generated using local LLMs that will be upgraded quarterly\n * You can also preview links in your browser ‘Arc’-style by pressing ⌘ while hovering over them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86433&key=user_uploads/133/4f2180f8-53ca-4bc2-b7e2-03467bb603fc)\n\n* **jo syncs on the backend with both work & personal Google Calendars to help you manage your time better.**\n * Finds open slots, and helps you plan your day effortlessly.\n * _“Hey jo, find time for lunch with Sarah next week.”_ Done.\n * jo also groups proposed meeting slots smartly with existing meetings to increase long blocks of non-meeting time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86433&key=user_uploads/133/7a0716b3-74a9-4390-97ba-93d54ffda7c3)\n\n* **jo remembers** choice information privately across many facets, uses that on every interaction to build a better picture of you, and actually attempts to be better (with your feedback).\n* jo is also **connected to a curated set of the big cloud LLMs** that you know and love, with comparable and controllable data access. Raw horsepower is available by default.\n* jo has a redundant architecture across LLMs, TTS and STT. As local and remote models improve in capability, **jo will inherit new abilities rapidly** as we build trust & tech towards truly agentic behavior\n\n[Sign up for the waitlist here >](https://askjo.ai). We are sending invites out every day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86433&key=user_uploads/132452/c4be1773-a13c-49f2-be9a-722bd1262175)\n\n# **Why jo Feels Different**\n\n* **Natural and intuitive.** You actually talk to jo like you would a friend. No weird commands to memorize or crazy prompt engineering. No switching models.\n* **Ridiculously fast.** jo works as fast as you can speak. Summaries, browser tasks, calendar checks—it’s all instant since we built the app using native Swift for Apple Silicon and have spent weeks cutting latency across multiple integrated systems.\n* **No distractions.** jo’s got a clean, focused interface that keeps you in flow state.\n\n# **Designed For Composability**\n\njo’s new usability primitives are concise distillations of learnings over the course of a year from preview versions of jo on telegram mobile, group chat experiences, single-player experiences and now macOS desktop.\n\n1. \\*\\*\"Fast comms\"\\*\\*\\\n We speak faster than we type. We can read faster than we can listen. jo uses text and audio in/out, in parallel. Get the gist by listening, get the rest by reading.\n2. \\*\\*\"Async execution\"\\*\\*\\\n jo works _alongside_ you, not blocking your work loop. Handoff stuff for jo to do. If you're an engineer, it’s like spinning up many new Actors for your life.\n3. \\*\\*\"Work before I get to it\"\\*\\*\\\n jo kicks things off for you before you expend more cognitive effort. Start with the gist, then review the main points, then read the details.\n4. \\*\\*\"Save the important\"\\*\\*\\\n jo captures choice information privately in many facets, uses that on every interaction to build a better picture of you, and actually attempts to be better with your feedback.\n5. \\*\\*\"Be my agent\"\\*\\*\\\n jo pushes new info you care about to you, and reaches out on your behalf.\n\nChainable primitives like these wind up being compelling when they're composed into your ad hoc demands. \n\nUsing these primitives is the first step to building daily trust for true “agency”, where jo can execute high stakes goals (ex: organize and pay for expensive things, or draft and send critical emails). \n\nWhile it’s possible even now to “close the loop” with high stakes projects (for example jo sending an email or paying for a flight), we realized the trust building required needs a path, which is the true blocker.\n\n# **New Things You Can Do With jo**\n\n**Improve a low-stakes/high-frequency pattern you may do every day**\\\n“read hacker news” — With jo, you can now command-hover using jo over every interesting link in the list, getting an exec summary inline. Since this type of reading is usually ritualized behavior, jo will prioritize helping you process more info vs saving time. Soon, you can \"clip\" a live summary to save for later.\n\n**Start off a high-stakes, low-frequency request:** \\\n_\"find me a free weekend in the next month and show me new york flights\"_ — jo's connected to both your work & personal calendars and will run this search using google APIs, find the open weekends, and then pull up google flights in your browser with all the relevant info pre-filled. It's faster than you at this and you can chain more steps.\n\n**Complicated ad hoc requests:** \\\n_\"will i see a good sunset tonight in pacifica, and where can i eat after?\"_  — jo will use a pre-connected weather API, find temp and visibility, construct the answer, and will likely present the awesome Taco Bell on the beach as one of the places to eat without opening any browsers.\n\nWe are working towards jo being able to ambiently push you showtimes for this weekend for the new Ghibli movie because it knows (with your permission) that you and your 7yo like watching them together.\n\n## **Engineering at jo**\n\nBuilding jo is an ongoing systems engineering and LLM application/design challenge. We believe latency and quality trumps all for daily-use products like jo and are obsessed with improving both every single day. We’re just now scratching the surface and are sanding down the rough edges with this preview release. We’d love your help with unraveling any unexpected behavior you see.\n\nWe ship very fast with very small, very tight teams. Reach out if you:\n\n* Are a very senior macOS / iOS engineer AND/OR\n* Understand the nuances of fine-tuning local models\n\n# **FAQ**\n\n* **How do I try jo?**\n * [Waitlist is here >](https://askjo.ai)\n * We are sending invites every day. First come, first served.\n* **Why a waitlist?**\n * To ensure our systems keep up with the scale and usage.\n * To find and fix any bugs.\n * To listen to our early adopters and build.\n* **How does jo use LLMs?**\n * We run remote large models on Azure with contracts requiring no data sharing.\n * We run local small models on your machine for just the “live summary” feature (as of now).\n* **How do you save & share my data?**\n * We use hosted Postgres and a local vector data store running on our servers. \n * We send text to remote LLMs that are run on Azure, with “no data sharing” protections in place.\n * In our preview period, we’re using 3P audio transcribers and synthesizers, and you are also subject to their (sometimes changing) policies. More details upon request, and we are working to stabilize this.\n* **Hardware specs needed?**\n * Any Mac with a “M” chip\n * M2+ works best\n * M1 works fine but live summaries are a touch slower\n * At least 8GB shared RAM, more the better.\n* **Will there be mobile apps?**\n * Yes, shortly.\n * They will have similar functionality but will most likely start with just remote LLMs.\n* **Is my mic on all the time?**\n * No, only when you turn it on manually.\n * If you opt-in to the “hey jo” feature – if and only if jo’s mic is enabled, the system mic will remain on listening for the “hey jo” voice trigger\n* **Can I turn off ‘hey jo’?**\n * Yes. jo will still activate when you press ‘⌘-j’\n* **Can I use jo with just a chat window and turn off all audio?**\n * Yup, if you prefer. You can turn the audio input and audio output together and individually, on/off\n* **Is jo always watching my screen?**\n * No. Once you enable live summaries and active screen sharing, jo will only have access to the frontmost window on your desktop.\n * When this feature is turned off, no screen content is transmitted or processed.\n * Any screen that’s being cached remotely expires after 10 minutes.\n* **Why pre-filled searches and not running the searches yourself?**\n * Faster, chainable, more relevant, more control on the user’s side\n* **Can I get more detailed summaries than the short “live summary”?**\n * Yes, you can ask further questions of jo about any browser window/tab or (for now) select apps we support.\n* **Can I get my favorite local model to be the jo LLM?**\n * Not yet, but soon.\n* **Are you working on a local-only jo?**\n * That’s privileged info.\n* **How much does jo cost?**\n * jo is free to use during the preview period for the next 3 months.\n * More pricing details in early 2025.\n\n**Team**\n\njo was created by [Pradeep Elankumaran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepelankumaran) & [Kevin Li](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liveink/). We’ve been building consumer products for over a decade now. We love applying technology to unlock sustainable unit economic structures that improve the lives of every person in the world. \n\n**Available now for macOS. Join the waitlist on the site to get access today.**\n\n[Join the waitlist >](https://askjo.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MU5-jo-your-macos-productivity-sidekick", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2024-12-20T00:46:51.367Z" } ] }, { "id": 29205, "name": "ego", "slug": "ego", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c5177c13126141e3271facbae25104898deb0f7.png", "website": "https://egoai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "we are making AI feel more human starting with voice. ai applied research lab training a novel end-to-end model & productizing what makes AI more personal, persistent, and human. frontier AI, like Claude and ChatGPT, are weak on memory, personality, relationship, and human-like interaction...that's our domain.", "one_liner": "AI applied research lab building synthetic sapience; human-like AI", "team_size": 9, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1709876265, "tags": [ "Consumer", "AI", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ego", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/ego.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/egolive/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ego_ai_", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c5177c13126141e3271facbae25104898deb0f7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/64/1712342606404-j3r1qnxa2v-ef875e3e20ab8060c60a4411ae873f62/6255a6e873c89f4756257bf3e49dc1f7.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022716Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=a87a899a976c9799a202d4fa1075ecfa2c53db308e02c78f53de3a187a5d9e9d", "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/73da23bb26bc01875002450e98c8c5d0ccad4187.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a7e64537d5dd5cfbee78b3d75c9da121321400b4.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1552350, "full_name": "Vishnu Hari", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "previously ai applied research @ fb & product @ horizon, meta reality labs | astrophysics @ utoronto | filmmaker/screenwriter (link to my film - https://youtu.be/7r93LEFjpCA) | huge gamer and space nerd\n| i also enjoy reading hardcore philosophy", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/astrophysicist", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/404vish", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9906ba2ca3b056438f62d50f913b5bff228f3e70.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 101989, "title": "Member of Technical Staff: Agent Runtime", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ego/jobs/kKt14kB-member-of-technical-staff-agent-runtime", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (Tokyo, JP; SG)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - $160K", "equity_range": "1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 101990, "title": "Member of Technical Staff: iOS Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ego/jobs/0Gwm3fO-member-of-technical-staff-ios-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (Tokyo, JP; SG)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "iOS", "salary_range": "$100K - $160K", "equity_range": "1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/news/y-combinator-backed-ego-ai-bags-6-7m-to-launch-human-like-characters", "date": "Oct 16, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 79373, "title": "ego - an ai-native 3d simulation engine: 👾 getting us closer to the matrix, one pixel at a time", "tagline": "An AI-native simulation engine and platform where users can create and share 3D animated characters, worlds, games and scripted interactions all using natural language. ", "body": "**tl;dr**\\\n_ego is an AI-native simulation engine and platform for AI characters where users can create and share 3D animated characters, worlds, games, and scripted interactions all using natural language. Imagine being able to prompt characters that exhibit human-like behaviour into Minecraft, The Sims, or Animal Crossing into existence._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79373&key=user_uploads/1552350/b97ac917-413b-465d-af9a-9d43c9091de3)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpG4LrLf60\n\n# Why Now?\n\nThe advent of large language models and diffusion models presents an incredible opportunity to solve three seemingly intractable problems in open-world games and simulations:\n\n1. It is hard for humans to write code and script interactions between assets, characters, and the environment to design fun games and experiences\n2. It was impossible for NPCs to display human-like behavior and have true agency in these 3D worlds\n3. It is hard to create new 3D assets, worlds, and non-playable characters\n\nWe founded ego to build an AI native simulation engine to solve all three problems - and we’ve started by tackling the first two. \n\n[ego](https://ego.live) is an AI-native simulation/game engine and platform where users can create and share 3D animated characters, worlds, and scripted interactions all using natural language. Imagine being able to prompt games like GTA, The Sims, Minecraft, or Animal Crossing into existence.\n\nIn the age of Gen AI, it is finally possible to build a **game engine that is also a game**.\n\n# Simulations on ego\n\nOver the course of YC, we built and launched two experimental games with our simulation engine: [TownWorld](https://docsend.com/view/ig6t2shuz26z7wha) (a 3D simulation of the Stanford Generative Agents [paper](https://hai.stanford.edu/news/computational-agents-exhibit-believable-humanlike-behavior) - [tweet thread](https://x.com/peggy_wang/status/1767656498212356597?s=20)) and [CharacterIdol](https://www.characteridol.ai/) (a game where user-prompted generative agents compete to entertain American Idol-style judges…also powered by LLMs). All of the character personalities, conversations, memories, and routines/movements in these games are fully generated by AI.\n\n[Townworld](https://youtu.be/6mPWFFTYebU):\n\n[CharacterIdol](https://youtu.be/j-R1am-kOTY):\n\nThis is where we found the massive opportunity to meaningfully make progress toward our vision of gaining usage of our simulation engine - _making it really easy for a user to make and share a game featuring agents in bounded or unbounded 3D space._ We are keenly aware of the sheer amount of time users spend talking to [character.ai](http://character.ai) [characters,](http://character.ai/) as well as the sheer amount of time young creators spend learning Lua code to script simple games and experiences in Roblox. What if we enable humans to interact with agents in immersive 3D worlds without the creators themselves needing to write complex Lua scripts or learn 3D modeling? What if summoning an agent was as simple as filling out a DnD character sheet?\n\n# Why is this a big deal?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79373&key=user_uploads/1552350/4fffe41d-d395-4029-bc04-15e83365f347)\n\nSince time immemorial, humans have built tools to bring their internal worlds to life. The sandbox, the dollhouse, a tree branch shaped like a rifle - all examples of tools we use to bolster our imaginative capacity to dream new worlds, characters, scenarios, and stories into existence. The closest we’ve come as a species to actualizing our imagination has been through the use of game engines to create simulated open-world experiences and games. AI is about to democratize the strongest tool we’ve had to realize our imaginations, and ego will be the simulation platform and engine that will power this new possibility.\n\n_Animal Crossing_, _The Sims_, _Garry’s Mod_, _Skyrim_, _Minecraft_, _Roblox,_ and _GTA_ - all hit games that empower players to explore, create, and roleplay in immersive 3D worlds. However, video games are hard to build and even harder to keep releasing fresh content for. Outside of the studio system, independent [modders](https://www.nexusmods.com/) have spent countless hours extending these games’ shelf life with new experiences and [characters](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/98631), despite heavy technical challenges, and even outright hostility from the original game publishers. \n\n# Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79373&key=user_uploads/1552350/b74846e9-8f20-4c19-9069-4f070a3838b2)\n\n[Vish](https://linkedin.com/in/astrophysicist) led the FB AI Applied Research team and the Meta Horizon Scripting team. He learned how to program by modding video games as a teenager and also wrote screenplays for films ([Acceptance](https://youtu.be/7r93LEFjpCA?si=fIEMyHdLF5E25aqq)).\n\n# Asks\n\n* Sign up for our waitlist at [ego.live](https://ego.live) and join our [discord](https://discord.gg/egoai)\n* Retweet ([this twitter link](https://x.com/peggy_wang/status/1768405809455825342?s=20)), reshare this ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/y-combinator_launch-yc-ego-an-ai-native-3d-simulation-activity-7174147284681564160-taZI))\n* Share the launch with friends and gamers who might be interested in trying this out :)\n* Try out [characteridol.ai](https://characteridol.ai) and tell us what you think\n* Follow [@ego_ai\\_](https://twitter.com/ego_ai_) on Twitter\n* Optionally follow [@peggy_wang](https://twitter.com/peggy_wang) and [@simulacronist](https://twitter.com/simulacronist) on twitter\n* Link us to talented 10x game devs (Unreal engine experience): [JD](https://peggy-wang.notion.site/Senior-Unreal-Engine-Game-Developer-at-Ego-VC-funded-indie-games-studio-making-animal-crossing-with-d02c85bedfa843ef9a2bca81cd58a7c2)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KeD-ego-an-ai-native-3d-simulation-engine-getting-us-closer-to-the-matrix-one-pixel-at-a-time", "votes": 251, "created_at": "2024-03-13T21:12:12.336Z" } ] }, { "id": 29207, "name": "Cora", "slug": "cora", "former_names": [ "PurplePill", "HeyPurple", "PurplePages" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c4d875b70b030b8234a9895a54859da447f55d2e.png", "website": "https://www.corahealth.app/download", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cora is a mobile app that provides personalized fitness coaching using health and wearable data. 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Our customizable AI answers questions directly from your listings and books prospective tenants for tours after only 10 minutes of coaching via chat.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nProperty managers deal with the pain of manually messaging prospective tenants around the clock in order to fill their vacancies. The questions are often repetitive and can come at any hour of the day through multiple channels (SMS, email, Facebook Messenger), adding overhead to their already busy schedule. However, responding to leads instantly is critical to convert quality leads in competitive rental markets.\n\nBig PM companies solve this problem by using structured leasing processes that take advantage of their standardized offerings and policies (i.e. similar floor plans, flexible tour scheduling with on-site leasing offices, etc.). SMBs who run a scrappier business and can’t pay for custom software are left without a solution – we noticed this when we saw a mom & pop PM company we’re working with respond to hundreds of inquiries per week (they even hired a VA to help with the load).\n\n**Solution:**\n\nWe provide a customizable AI leasing assistant that responds to every property inquiry and books prospective tenants for tours.\n\nLLMs and Generative AI provide a critical layer of intelligence required to quickly set up customized leasing assistants for SMBs. Our AI will:\n\n1. Learn about your properties and policies by scraping your data (website, listings, etc.)\n2. Customize the style/flow of its responses through a quick conversation \n3. Answer prospective tenant questions 24/7 and will check with a human when unsure about how to answer\n4. Sync with your calendar and book prospective tenants for a tour\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78171&key=user_uploads/1194190/3e938368-7c6d-4d89-b9e4-3d259a8df6af)\n\n**Founding Team:**\n\n* Josh & Adi grew up together in Palo Alto and have been drinking the startup Kool-Aid for a long time, while Josh and Ryan met and became friends on their first day at Cornell in an economics class\n* Before YC, we worked on a few different projects together – our first was an AI video dubbing tool. Our second was PurplePill, which used AI to automate selling your goods (sold over $25k of goods)\n* After seeing the growing number of small businesses listing rentals on Facebook Marketplace, we realized an opportunity to help solve a larger problem which led us to what we’re working on today!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78171&key=user_uploads/1194190/6def6d14-88b6-43c7-8006-e241254447de)\n\n**Broader vision and why now:**\n\nWhile we’re starting with leasing, our ultimate goal is to equip all types of small business owners with AI virtual employees that can help with everything from digital marketing and sales to customer service and operations. With over 30M small businesses in the U.S. alone, one-size-fits-all software was never going to cut it – we’re creating the AI-first Operating System for SMBs. \n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nWe would love an intro to your property manager or to chat if you’re interested in what we’re building! 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We were sick of weather apps being wrong so we built a better one.**\n\nToday we're launching the next iteration of Precip. It’s anchored on our own minute-by-minute rainfall forecast which is the most accurate in the US. \n\n\n\nIt all started with a gap most people don't know exists: accurate weather history. \n\nWe first ran into it a decade ago, while building a farming data-science startup in YC. \n\nMost weather providers just show you the last forecast and call it history. \n\nWe do it differently. \n\nWe use high-resolution radar to measure what actually fell. \n\nThe result is 60% better rainfall measurements than just using NOAA's HRRR analysis.\n\nToday we're introducing the next evolution of Precip: our own minute-by-minute rainfall forecast. 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Eventually we will distribute these shows on our platform, similar to Netflix.\n\n## 🎥 Focal\n\nFocal manages the entire process of turning a book into a movie, including:\n\n* using language models to adapt books into screenplays\n* generating video clips and stitching them together\n* generating audio clips to match video\n* keeping characters consistent across clips\n* lip-syncing characters with dialogue\n\n## 👥 Team\n\n[Robert](https://linkedin.com/in/robert-cunningham-38b43a129) and [Felix](https://linkedin.com/in/felixwang9817) are high school classmates.\n\nRobert studied math and physics at MIT. He helped build Dark Forest, the first zero-knowledge proof-based game with significant traction.\n\nFelix studied math and computer science at Stanford. He previously worked at Tecton on ML infrastructure.\n\n## 📢 Our Ask\n\n**We would love introductions to anyone with experience in the film or TV industry.** We are specifically interested in meeting with screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, and producers.\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@focalml.com](mailto:founders@focalml.com). Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/focalml) for updates!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KXT-focal-ai-movie-studio", "votes": 86, "created_at": "2024-03-01T20:11:32.612Z" } ] }, { "id": 29421, "name": "Thorntale", "slug": "thorntale", "former_names": [ "DataFlock (formerly EventFlock)", "DataFlock", "thorntale" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a98fa4032269294b4a2694ca5ae7b46bf5c449c2.png", "website": "https://thorntale.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. We've built a super capable AI assistant that can directly edit your slides, and coupled it with an advanced slide design system to keep things beautiful and professional.\r\nThorntale AI is designed to work alongside you as an AI collaborator. It can modify slide design and content, as well as give suggestions on what to improve to make your points clearer for your audience. 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Previously worked on big data at Yelp, and built the entire data platform at Clockwise.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-stimac", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/11789051b4960c35484034b852008ce70cdd1239.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 78798, "title": "📈 thorntale - Presentation software built for data storytelling", "tagline": "Empowering our users to be better data storytellers and make more informed decisions.", "body": "**_TL;DR:_** We’re building software that makes it fast and easy to create persuasive decks with your data. Thorntale connects live to any data source, so you always have pretty, interactive, and up-to-date charts. Our opinionated templates are made explicitly for product, data, and engineering teams, so you don’t have to start from scratch. [**_Try the beta here!_**](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link)\\\n\\\nHey y’all, we’re Dori, Ellen, and John, the team behind [thorntale.](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link) We’re building the software we wish we had in our pre-founder days.\n\n# \n\n# **❌ The Problem: Communicating data is hard. Current tools make it harder.**\n\nCompanies invest heavily in data teams and advanced tooling but still struggle to incorporate their work into decision-making. We believe this is due to where these findings get communicated: the presentation. Existing presentation tools do not integrate with the rest of the data stack, so instead people screenshot charts and copy-paste tables into their decks. This creates situations where data is miscommunicated, missing, or inaccurate. \n\n# 🌟 **Our Solution: Presentation software that integrates with your data stack.**\n\nBy connecting live data to your presentations and starting from professionally curated templates, presentations in thorntale aren’t just pretty, they’re functional. We create charts in-app that match your presentation’s theme, so you can focus on telling a persuasive story instead of formatting. Using thorntale, you’ll save time and make better business decisions. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/f3af5be2-75bf-46ff-9ba4-056c065197cb)\n\n# 🧩 **Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/528f12a3-8f5e-40b0-acfc-1ce5f838135a)\n\nfrom left to right:\n\n[**Ellen**](https://linkedin.com/in/ellenfkh)**:** Backend & Infrastructure. Previously big data at Microsoft, SRE at Cruise, distributed systems, and real-time video at Mux.\n\n[**John**](https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-stimac)**:** Frontend, backend, & data engineer. Worked on big data at Yelp, and most recently did data engineering at Clockwise.\n\n[**Dori**](https://linkedin.com/in/doris-lee-wilson)**:**  Data Scientist turned CEO. Crafted data stories at Uber, CircleCi, Mux, Pave, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask: Try us!**\n\n* Try us out! We’re improving the product every day, and want to know what you think! [Get Started.](https://bit.ly/3uClStS)\n* If you’re a business, we’re more than happy to build custom templates and make documents using your branding. [Book time with us.](https://calendly.com/d/3xd-4y9-km2/chat-with-thorntale)\n* Connect us with the people in your life who regularly make presentations using data by sharing this post or emailing [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)\n\nSend any questions, inquiries, or pretty charts our way at [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUw-thorntale-presentation-software-built-for-data-storytelling", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2024-02-27T07:26:35.110Z" } ] }, { "id": 29440, "name": "Rove", "slug": "rove", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ce5fb2bc6ecc51b550577fdf7ed50f0b62b585d.png", "website": "https://rove.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Earn flexible airline miles on booking travel, shopping, and dining, all on top of your credit card rewards.", "one_liner": "Earn airline miles on hotels and everyday spend.", "team_size": 32, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism", "launched_at": 1701568382, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Travel", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Travel, Leisure and Tourism" ], "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/rove", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/rove.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rovemiles/", "x_url": "https://x.com/rovemiles", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rove-6429", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ce5fb2bc6ecc51b550577fdf7ed50f0b62b585d.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": 815885, "full_name": "Max Morganroth", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Rove | Wharton Entrepreneurship", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/maxmorganroth", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maxmorganroth", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df6ed5633e1fbb63197ce2efe9dfe11a1ae2c16f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1650726, "full_name": "Arhan Chhabra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Rove | Harvard CS & Economics", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/arhanchhabra", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8388bf85862f74b6a0d0e119dd36d9824cdfcbe1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 63606, "title": "Software Engineer (Mid to Senior)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rove/jobs/WOiFl9H-software-engineer-mid-to-senior", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$150K - $300K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Git", "Node.js", "React Native", "Redis", "TypeScript", "Software Security", "Next.js", "LLMs", "AI Agents", "NestJS" ] }, { "id": 102248, "title": "Growth Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rove/jobs/bJWUbv2-growth-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 89835, "title": "Rove: Travel the world for free", "tagline": "Earn Rove Miles—the first ever universal airline mile.", "body": "**TLDR:** Rove Miles is the first universal airline mile program. Earn up to 25x miles on everyday spend, hotel stays, flights, and through partner programs—all on top of your existing credit card rewards. Then, redeem those miles effortlessly across 12 global loyalty programs, 140+ airlines, and 200,000+ hotels at up to 90% off.\n\n[https://youtu.be/LsYKowedGn4](https://youtu.be/LsYKowedGn4?feature=shared)\n\nHey everyone! We're [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmorganroth/) and [Arhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arhanchhabra/), founders of [Rove](http://rovemiles.com), and we're excited to launch the first universal travel loyalty program that works across almost every airline and hotel in the world.\n\nBefore Rove, we founded startups at Wharton and Harvard—connecting people through specialized Bluetooth software and revolutionizing edtech recruiting. Between scaling businesses and attending class, we traveled to over 50 countries for free in business and first class, leveraging credit card points and loyalty transfers. But our friends? They were stuck on the sidelines, locked out by complicated rules, outdated credit requirements, and high fees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89835&key=user_uploads/815885/c7172baa-a6d9-48fd-89c4-deb60b29c891)\n\n_Arhan and Max_\n\n### **The Problem: Gaps in Accessibility and Usability**\n\nTravel rewards today exclude millions, especially young people. Over 70 million Americans can't access premium travel credit cards, leaving a majority of Gen Z—the generation most eager to travel—unable to earn a meaningful number of miles and points across airline and hotel loyalty programs, which provide discounts of up to 90% compared to standard credit card travel portals. Unlike markets like Hong Kong and Singapore, where earning miles is easy and part of everyday life, Americans face unnecessary complexity and high barriers.\n\n### **Our Solution: Rove Miles**\n\nRove Miles makes travel accessible and rewarding for everyone. We've unified 12 major international loyalty programs into a single, universal currency that's easy to earn (always on top of your existing credit card rewards) and simple to redeem:\n\n* Earn miles on over 7,000 merchants by activating the [Rove Shopping](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rove-shopping/jkklhhheomgefgljanpobgabooknjlbf?authuser=0&hl=en) chrome extension before your purchase.\n* Earn up to 25x miles on hotel bookings made through [Rove](https://rovemiles.com), which can be earned instantly for non-refundable stays to cover your flight there or add extra free nights.\n* Earn 3x bonus miles on flights on top of the miles you get from the airline when booking through [Rove](https://rovemiles.com).\n\nSoon, you'll also earn Rove Miles from dining, in-store purchases, and transferring existing points in from partner programs.\n\n### **Rove’s Transfer Partners**\n\nRove’s initial loyalty program partners are:\n\n* Air France-KLM Flying Blue\n* Air India Maharaja Club\n* Accor Live Limitless\n* Aeromexico Rewards\n* Cathay Pacific Asia Miles\n* Etihad Guest\n* Finnair Plus\n* Hainan Airlines Fortune Wings Club\n* Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles\n* Qatar Airways Privilege Club\n* Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus\n* Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles\n\nMore programs are coming soon, with our current partnerships covering all three major airline alliances. With Rove Miles, your points become 2-3x more valuable compared to traditional credit card redemptions, even on hotels where high-value redemptions can be even harder to find. Soon, you will be able to use miles on unique travel experiences, such as events, festivals, private jet charters, or flying in zero gravity!\n\n### **Join Us on This Journey**\n\nWe're building Rove Miles to make free annual vacations accessible to everyone, effortlessly. Stop missing out—turn your everyday spend into unforgettable travel experiences.\n\nStay tuned,\n\nMax and Arhan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NMx-rove-travel-the-world-for-free", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-04-24T17:36:05.224Z" }, { "id": 79108, "title": "Rove: Travel the world for free", "tagline": "The first travel credit card for Generation Z.", "body": "**TLDR:** Rove is the only travel credit card for young adults, leveraging cash-flow underwriting and the first-ever travel points portal to allow the average Gen Z spender to effortlessly travel the world for free.\n\nHey everyone! We're [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmorganroth/) and [Arhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arhanchhabra/), founders of [Rove](https://linkedin.com/company/rovecard/), and we're thrilled to introduce the first travel credit card for young adults. Our journeys began at Wharton and Harvard, where we built ventures around specialized Bluetooth software to connect people at events and a B2B edtech recruiting platform for schools and startups. We scaled our ventures by day and slept on planes by night, traveling the world for free.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79108&key=user_uploads/815885/cf150984-2142-40ce-b084-59f3848706f9)\n\n_Arhan and Max_\n\nDespite travel-hacking our way to over 50 countries, none of our friends could do the same. The barriers? Stringent credit requirements based on outdated underwriting algorithms (FICO), ludicrous fees, and antiquated software systems turned the dream of free travel into a complicated puzzle. We may have been able to hack the system, but we always wished for one that didn’t need to be hacked and rewarded users by default instead.\n\n### **The Problem: Gaps in Accessibility and Usability**\n\nRight now, the travel credit card market fails to serve the people who want to travel the most. Existing cards are like computers were in the early 2000s: they work, but they’re expensive, many people can’t access them, and even those who can struggle to use them without help. We’re building the iPhone of travel cards—one that’s easy to use, readily accessible, and seamlessly intuitive. These two market inefficiencies create one of the best opportunities in consumer credit in decades.\n\n### **Our Solution: Rove**\n\nRove is here to democratize reward travel, finally offering the first-ever no-annual-fee travel card for Gen Z. We use advanced algorithms and data aggregation systems to underwrite users in a radically more accessible way. By using people’s cash flow from connecting to their banks, as opposed to outdated data points like mortgages and decades of credit history, we can more accurately underwrite an entirely untapped demographic of users.\n\nBut we didn't stop there—we want reward travel to not only be available to young adults but easy to use too. Our platform introduces the first-ever portal for direct redemption of airline loyalty deals, making the process of traveling the world for free as effortless as it should be. With our alliance of partner airlines, the average Gen Z spender can earn a free annual trip overseas. Soon after our card launch, we’re leveraging better data and software technology to maximize user rewards across an accessible suite of financial products.\n\n### **Experience Rove**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79108&key=user_uploads/815885/bd0013cf-e9b8-4bff-a03f-719f6ebcf17a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79108&key=user_uploads/815885/6379bf8f-ebfb-4d4f-99e6-e36ba1f54d4c)\n\n### **Join Us on This Journey**\n\nWe're on a mission to make the world more accessible to young adults everywhere by building a financial suite of products geared toward travel. In the short term, that’s our travel card. In the long term, it’s about expanding access to products globally that allow users to travel based on their spending and savings, leveraging our data flywheel to better underwrite the billions of underbanked people across the world.\n\nIf you're tired of missing out on travel opportunities because of credit barriers or complex points systems, Rove is for you. For now, our [waitlist](https://rovecard.com) is only available through the invite code _YCLAUNCH._ The first users to sign up will receive a Founders Edition of Rove.\n\nStay tuned,\n\nMax and Arhan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZw-rove-travel-the-world-for-free", "votes": 85, "created_at": "2024-03-06T15:07:48.320Z" } ] }, { "id": 29450, "name": "Aqua Voice", "slug": "aqua-voice", "former_names": [ "Aqua AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d22bb000a0037079229fda6aeaac2b72cceaff1.png", "website": "https://aquavoice.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Super fast AI dictation that lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal. It starts up in under 50ms, inserts text as fast as 450ms, and has state-of-the-art accuracy. 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I’m excited to show you what we’re building.\n\n> This feels like upgrading voice dictation on my Mac _making it work how it should work_.\n\nThe desktop experience is the best way to use Aqua yet. It lets you talk easily into any app and comes with:\n\n\\- **Fine-tuning:** can have up to 800 custom words/phrases at a time, no pronunciation tuning required.\n\n\\- **Context Awareness:** automatically identifies relevant words and phrases in the active application. This uses system accessibility APIs (not screenshots, like some others) and is heavily processed on device before inference to preserve privacy.\n\n\\- **Command recognition:** the system now shows you what it's going to do before it does it. \"Deleting…\" or \"Adding to list…\" or \"Fixing Spelling…\"\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86308&key=user_uploads/1652937/f10f3395-e52f-487a-a34f-10b598444c68)\n\nWe've also spent a ton of time getting **better out-of-the-box accuracy.** Our core transcription engine is the most accurate real-time system that we know of. **We scored 3.2% WER on Librispeech clean, significantly better than the next best real-time system we tested (Google) at 5.5%.** We also released a benchmark that tests accuracy & human-friendly formatting which showed that out of the box, Wispr Flow makes 10x as many mistakes as Aqua Voice for emails and technical writing. The full write-up including audio and code is available [here](https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86308&key=user_uploads/1652937/9762e173-97c9-46b5-9e2e-e7e8ea073105)\n\nEveryone uses dictation for different reasons - I started in sixth grade (dyslexic) with Dragon Professional and always wanted it to be more than a clunky substitute for the keyboard. Hopefully Aqua Desktop can be that for some of you.\n\n\\-Finn", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MS4-aqua-voice-desktop-write-clear-well-formatted-text-using-only-your-voice", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2024-12-13T21:06:31.018Z" }, { "id": 79717, "title": "🎙️ Aqua Voice - Voice-only text editor", "tagline": "Dictation as seamless as talking to a professional writer", "body": "Edit: Check us out on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686) (currently #1)!\n\n**TLDR:** [**Aqua**](https://withaqua.com/) is a voice-native text editor. Imagine dictating to a professional writer who can clean up your phrasing, fill in words, and understand your intent.\n\n🟩 Watch our demo video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSAKg1YafM):\n\n**🔴 Problem**\n\nDictation still **sucks**:\n\n* It's not very accurate.\n* You have to learn specialized commands.\n* Edits require the keyboard.\n\n[**Finnian Brown**](https://linkedin.com/in/finn-brown-3b0b56113) has never been a very good speller (he’s dyslexic) and has been using dictation software since the sixth grade, when his dad got him set up on Dragon Dictation to write papers for school. It's always been easier for him to dictate—despite the janky software.\n\nDictation has remained surprisingly rigid in the era of LLMs. They make a lot of mistakes (see Siri lmao). All existing dictation services rely on learning a set of specialized commands.\n\nThey struggle to distinguish between filler phrases/commentary and stuff you actually want to write down.\n\n**🌎 Aqua**\n\nAqua innovates on this paradigm by fusing real-time audio and an LLM to understand your intent. It does as much of the writing and formatting as you ask it to.\n\n**Accuracy is King 👑** - Better than Whisper! - we use an MoE transcription architecture to have a lower WER than Whisper-largev3 in real-time.\n\n**Think Don’t Type 🧠** - Aqua can execute arbitrary commands. You don’t need the keyboard. Most people talk **twice as fast** as they can type.\n\n**Make Writing Chill 🏝️** - Aqua reacts naturally to feedback and can recover from mistakes if you tell it to!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79717&key=user_uploads/1653094/f99f4176-5433-45ca-89be-738edeb4746c)\n\n🙏 **Asks**\n\nTry Aqua Voice! No account is needed; just head over to . If you like it, sign up for $10/month after a 1000-token free trial.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kjl-aqua-voice-voice-only-text-editor", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2024-03-26T18:07:25.698Z" } ] }, { "id": 29452, "name": "Fluently", "slug": "fluently", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ac751ae51071034b75af18536b15a7ec51b6c117.png", "website": "https://getfluently.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Imagine a human-like English tutor, but 20x cheaper and available 24/7 - that's Fluently!\r\n\r\nFluently made for people who already know the basics of English but want to feel truly confident in real conversations: whether that’s in an interview, a business meeting, or chatting with friends.\r\n\r\nMost English learning apps are built for beginners and don’t help you improve speaking skills.\r\n\r\nWith Fluently, you get:\r\n- Unlimited real-world speaking practice\r\n- Personalized learning plan\r\n- Free English level assessment and progress tracking\r\n- Real progress in English speaking skills\r\n\r\nWe’re non-native founders who know the stress of speaking English in important moments. 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Later, he founded and grew a deep tech startup from 2 to 50 people. The startup developed state-of-the-art face and voice swap technologies that work on mobile devices in real-time.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/yrebryk", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/yrebryk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b417c4140de90b74edc3df0bcbcba4359bd5a18c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 352716, "full_name": "Stanislav Beliaev", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Stan is the co-founder and CTO of Fluently - your super-human AI English tutor. 20x cheaper than a human tutor and available 24/7.\n\nDuring his university years, Stan interned at Google, Nvidia, where he did ML research. Later, he founded and grew a deep tech startup from 2 to 50 people. The startup developed state-of-the-art face and voice swap technologies that work on mobile devices in real-time.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/stasbel", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stanbeliaev", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1f7b39f4c1364132a330214c23798b73cab59542.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "YC alum Fluently’s AI-powered English coach attracts $2M seed round", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/28/yc-alum-fluentlys-ai-powered-english-coach-attracts-2m-seed-round/", "date": "Jun 28, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78858, "title": "💁‍♀️ Fluently: Your Personal AI English Tutor", "tagline": "Imagine a human-like English tutor, available 24/7 and 20x cheaper", "body": "**TL;DR:** [Fluently](https://getfluently.app/) is your personal AI English tutor — 20x cheaper than a human tutor and available 24/7. Built for people who already know the basics but want to speak fluently.\n\n### **Problem — Getting fluent in English is hard**\n\n* **Fluency only comes from regular speaking practice:** The only way to truly improve is to speak consistently and iterate on your mistakes. There's no shortcut.\n* **Most language apps aren't built for speaking:** They're essentially games for beginners - they won't give you the real-time speaking practice you'd get from actually talking to someone.\n* **Nobody gives you the honest feedback you need:** Most non-natives feel anxious about their mistakes but never actually hear about them - colleagues stay polite, and even tutors rarely provide the detailed, personalized feedback that would help you truly improve.\n\n### **Solution — Get actionable feedback on every call**\n\n* **Learn on the go:** Fluently is always available for a real-time conversation - just open the app and start speaking. No scheduling, no waiting.\n* **Personalized insights:** Fluently analyzes your real speech and pinpoints exactly where you need to improve — whether it's pronunciation, fluency, or vocabulary.\n* **Actionable feedback:** Practice pronunciation, improve fluency, and grow your active vocabulary to boost your English skills.\n\n### **Who is this for?**\n\n* **Non-native speakers** who want to finally speak English fluently and confidently - not just \"know\" the language, but actually use it in real conversations without hesitation or anxiety.\n* **International companies** who understand that communication efficiency directly impacts business results. Companies already invest in language training for their employees - Fluently makes that investment practical and measurable, helping teams communicate more clearly with clients, partners, and each other.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\n* 🎓 **Intros to multinational companies** that invest resources in their employees' growth, **especially in English learning**. Please, email [yrebryk@getfluently.app](mailto:yrebryk@getfluently.app).\n* **👉 Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhnAZ-BAuzcKhaB5QFvtLgYHCt6v1Q-r1hKuBMwMkzs8ykjQ/viewform) to get access.** We’re onboarding our users one by one. DM me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yrebryk/) to get moved to the front of the waitlist.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVu-fluently-your-personal-ai-english-tutor", "votes": 152, "created_at": "2024-02-28T18:27:10.285Z" } ] }, { "id": 29459, "name": "Lumona", "slug": "lumona", "former_names": [ "Scout" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d72c3d83183445e4992cb58763a5f76c303afd5.png", "website": "https://www.lumona.ai", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "Lumona is an AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. 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He is from Ventura, CA and studied computer science and engineering at MIT. He gained insights into how systems and APIs at scale work with experience at Google and Stripe. Not having exposure to traditional avenues of applying to elite colleges, he relied on Reddit and Google to learn about how to maximize his chances of being admitted. Since then, he's been focused on enabling everyone to pursue their goals and equalize the playing field.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/dawalker-24", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SS6_ELL", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/02abc79d6b302c18c2fd7f3482d6c94cdd2215bf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1647712, "full_name": "Qiong Zhou Huang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Qiong is the Co-Founder and CTO of Lumona. \n\nHe previously studied Computer Science at MIT, where he conducted Machine Learning research at the McGovern Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science. He was also co-president of MIT web.lab, a group that teaches web development to hundreds of MIT students over the winter semester.\n\nQiong has extensive experience building products that prioritize user experience, working at startups in diverse areas including computer vision, remote work, and edtech.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/qiong-zhou-huang-627243141", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/qionghuang6", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d5408d70c214e6ffc107d0cd53fff0798eed9827.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1647687, "full_name": "Philena Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Philena is the Co-founder and CFO of Lumona.\n\nShe studied CS with a minor in Math at MIT, where she was one of the lecturers in a student-run web-development class (web.lab) and the Tournament Co-Director of one of the most prestigious math tournaments in the world (HMMT). She had also worked on NLP and ML research projects before exploring LLM-assisted search with Lumona.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/philena-liu", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6e35981f320e1d1e924817259e73e9d090748f72.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84330, "title": "🔍 Lumona: AI-enabled search engine featuring perspectives from social media", "tagline": "Never add 'reddit' to your search again.", "body": "# **TLDR: When you’re looking to buy a new phone, instead of Googling iPhone 16 reviews and opening multiple Reddit threads, blog reviews, and YouTube videos to know if you want to buy it, you can search once on Lumona to get all that info on one page. Try it on our website!**\n\nHey YC, we’re Dylan and Qiong, the co-founders of Lumona. After working on a product search engine, we’ve decided to build a new general search engine that incorporates those insights, and more, to make search better.\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nIt’s hard to find quality information online to help you decide which product to buy, which restaurant to go to, or whether a red flag is beige. You can easily get a list of links, an AI-generated answer, or even a summary of relevant Reddit threads, but you’ll then have to comb through the many new tabs you open, make sure the AI isn’t giving you fake news, and still go to each thread to make sure the commenters weren’t spam themselves. If search engines know so much about their results and users, why can’t they make something better that integrates all 3 into one result so you don’t have to spend your evening opening and closing tabs?\n\n# **✅ Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84330&key=user_uploads/1635225/ab12b1fe-c995-4798-a98e-6a242e913253)\n\nLumona is our answer to that question. We believe that search should be something that builds trust, reflects what you find valuable on the internet, and, most importantly, helps you find the information you need. Instead of expecting you to blindly trust our AI, we give you reasons to by supporting it with information from real people and platforms you already trust. Instead of expecting you to sort through Reddit comments or YouTube videos to find that one comment or moment, we sift through them for you and give you the information you need, all on the same page. Instead of making decisions harder by giving you contradictory ads so that we can make more money, we give you the information you need to make the best decision for _you_.\n\n\n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\nTry it at [lumona.ai](https://lumona.ai). We’d also really appreciate any feedback you have, which you can submit on the website or by joining our [Discord](https://discord.gg/axDKbaUX). Thanks for reading!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LwA-lumona-ai-enabled-search-engine-featuring-perspectives-from-social-media", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2024-09-27T00:57:16.102Z" }, { "id": 79201, "title": "☀️ Lumona - Skincare product search with Reddit and YouTube reviews", "tagline": "Product search featuring recommendations from creators you trust.", "body": "# **TLDR - Our Ask (Try it!)**\n\nLumona simplifies your product research by serving Reddit and YouTube reviews directly alongside products.\n\n### **🔎 Search on Lumona for skincare products at** [lumona.ai](https://lumona.ai/)\n\nJoin our [Discord](https://discord.gg/zUXn5uu3bk) to chat with us or reach out to us via email ([founders@lumona.ai](mailto:founders@lumona.ai)), through the feedback button (top-left), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/LumonaAI), or [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@Lumona-AI).\n\n---\n\n# **🏋️ Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79201&key=user_uploads/1635225/bbb1c779-0cba-46b4-b432-9df92710160d)\n\nI’m [Dylan](https://linkedin.com/in/dawalker-24) (center), co-founder and CEO of [**Lumona**](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumona), a product search engine that brings you high-quality recommendations from the creators you trust. Instead of wading through pages of clickbait Google results or adding ‘reddit’ to your search, we deliver you products you’d otherwise spend hours researching for by compiling Reddit and YouTube reviews about the product.\\\n\\\nI’m working on Lumona alongside two fellow MIT Class of 2024s, [Philena Liu](https://linkedin.com/in/philena-liu) (left), our CPO, and [Qiong Zhou Huang](https://linkedin.com/in/qiong-zhou-huang-627243141) (right), our CTO. We have been working together since meeting during our sophomore year at MIT, recently winning HackMIT this past September. As part of MIT’s student-run Web Lab class, we taught over 300 students modern web development. As Gen-Zers ourselves, we’ve grown up being influenced by the content creators we watch every day and buying products online. We’ve spent hours combing over r/SkincareAddiction posts and watching YouTube videos to get to the skincare routines we have right now, and that’s where we want to help.\n\n---\n\n# **❌ The Problem and ✅ Solution**\n\nProduct research takes time. As a teenager, I had acne that was painful and affected my self-esteem, and to solve this problem I was willing to spend hours looking for the right product because if I was wrong I would break out for weeks and make it worse. Before Lumona, I would’ve had to do this:\n\n1. Research on Reddit, YouTube, and Google for what makes a good face wash for the skin type I have (combination)\n2. Search Amazon for “face wash for combination skin”\n3. Look into each of the individual Amazon products\n4. Cross-reference each product with reviews about it on Reddit and YouTube\n 1. Reddit: Google Search “{product name} reddit”\n 2. YouTube: Search on popular skincare influencer’s channels for the product\n5. Decide which product I want to buy\n\nLet’s look at that same process with Lumona:\n\n1. Search on Lumona for “face wash for combination skin”\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79201&key=user_uploads/1635225/b625fcee-a485-453b-91fa-73094129d95c)\n\n2. Research each product on Lumona, with the Reddit reviews and YouTube videos about the product already being associated with it\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79201&key=user_uploads/1635225/210013d4-23c9-4dfa-83b7-83ff2ed85206)\n\n3. Decide which product I want to buy\n\nBy serving Reddit and YouTube reviews directly alongside the product, Lumona simplifies the product research process into one tab and search while giving you more confidence when you’re buying a product. Right now, we currently support skincare, and are excited to see what you think!\n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\nSearch on Lumona for your skincare products [here.](https://lumona.ai)\n\nWe’d love to hear your feedback! Join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/zUXn5uu3bk) to chat with us or reach out to us via email ([founders@lumona.ai](mailto:founders@lumona.ai)), through the feedback button (top-left), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/LumonaAI), or [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@Lumona-AI).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KbR-lumona-skincare-product-search-with-reddit-and-youtube-reviews", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2024-03-08T03:31:03.531Z" } ] }, { "id": 29473, "name": "OddsView", "slug": "oddsview", "former_names": [ "Lineflare", "OpenOdds" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2d005af7cd2923d6f72a4eb0931818b5877bf89e.png", "website": "https://oddsview.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "OddsView is the one-stop-shop for sports betting tools and media. \r\n\r\nThe OddsView terminal allows users to browse millions of odds updated in real time to find the best bets. 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Akaash graduated from Rutgers Honors college in 2021 and worked at Amazon in their Live streaming shopping startup team Amazon Live. He has experience in product design with some personal projects reaching 5k+ daily returning users.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/akaashp", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d1b6468b1458aa7d4106c4631f034d5dc865016f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1702542, "full_name": "Anthony Ter-Saakov", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Anthony is a Co-Founder and CTO of OddsView. Previously he obtained a math degree and a master's in statistics from Boston University. 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He later stepped down from his software development role at Amazon to become a full-time sports betting consultant, which led him to co-founding OddsView.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/zhanghenri", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/442cc65f3321ff1489ba5ddecfde26a76533a387.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79374, "title": "OddsView 📈 The Bloomberg Terminal of Sports Betting", "tagline": "We are a one-stop shop for sports betting tools", "body": "### **The Problem:  ❌ Growing market, few tools**\n\nSports betting is evolving, but its tools are stagnant.\n\nSince 2018, 30 states have legalized sports betting, empowering 25 million online sports bettors to wager over $85 billion in 2023.\n\nThis paved the way for a new generation of data-driven bettors, creating a parallel between sports betting and early financial markets -- rapid growth contrasted by primitive and fragmented tools. \n\n### **The Solution: ✅** [oddsview.com](http://oddsview.com/?ref=yc_l)\n\nInspired by existing tools in financial markets, OddsView is reinventing the sports betting experience by building a web-based platform that has the look and feel of a trading terminal.\n\nEquipped with real-time data feeds, users can track the price of a bet across different sportsbooks, see charted price history for the first time, and find high-value, profitable bets. By offering cutting-edge tools for professionals and amateurs alike, OddsView is the one-stop shop for all sports bettors.\n\n[Here’s a preview!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDu9O6vXqbg)\n\n### **The Team: 👨🧔‍♂️👨👨👨**\n\n[Henri](https://linkedin.com/in/zhanghenri), [Davis](https://linkedin.com/in/davistong), [Akaash](https://linkedin.com/in/akaashp), and [Ajay](https://linkedin.com/in/ajaykoritala) roomed and studied Computer Science together at Rutgers. They later worked at Amazon in NYC where they bonded with Akaash’s high school friend [Anthony](https://linkedin.com/in/anthony-ter) (Verkada) over entrepreneurship and newly legalized sports betting. Henri eventually quit to become a full-time sports betting consultant, where he experienced firsthand the lack of modern betting tools. Together, he and Davis built a profitable live tennis betting tool for themselves before bringing on the team to build a comprehensive solution that later became OddsView.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/rPtgZ-tnJmvtrGr9TpT2N0qpOsk5cX00C6r3L_7ZKeVx2yE-2NaEAmgxGk0S4QMKqiBU_dKtjoZ0OWZa5pv2moZsY1lxW6heb4ru_lgAeWUYRqmjO8JG0x_hUWXSvXTv56Sx_5T6Qzib_gRibSFU4bY)\n\n### **Our Ask 🙏:**\n\nPlease share our website with any friends or family who sports bet! 🥳\n\nAnd please follow our [twitter](https://twitter.com/odds_view) and [linkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oddsview)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KeE-oddsview-the-bloomberg-terminal-of-sports-betting", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-03-13T21:17:09.046Z" } ] }, { "id": 29523, "name": "K-Scale Labs", "slug": "k-scale-labs", "former_names": [ "dpsh" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a76d2d8803d634b3e622a584f55e531a3e72f45.png", "website": "https://kscale.dev/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We're building humanoid robots to do most of what you find boring or tedious. 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The ability to scrape the internet for large, in-the-wild datasets has brought these fields from working well on academic benchmarks to becoming useful real-world products.\n\nHowever, although [there is evidence](https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io/) that the same scaling laws likely apply to robotics as well, the field is stymied by lack of access to the same large, in-the-wild datasets that work well in other domains, resulting in foundation models with poor cross-embodiment and out-of-distribution generalization. While there has been a [surge of investment](https://agilityrobotics.com/news/2023/opening-robofab-worlds-first-factory-for-humanoid-robotsnbsp-xxna2-g9mhr-rnk52) in trying to grow these datasets, we view the [capital-intensive](https://www.therobotreport.com/figure-raises-70m-to-commercialize-humanoids/), [factory-first](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/figure-announces-commercial-agreement-with-bmw-manufacturing-to-bring-general-purpose-robots-into-automotive-production-302036263.html) approach as unlikely to generate the scale and diversity of data required to make these robotics foundation models match the state-of-the-art seen in other fields.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nWe designed and built a fully-featured humanoid robot that anyone with a 3D printer and some time can build on their own. We are releasing it for anyone to build themself, along with an operating system that will enable the robot to perform basic task and learn from experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79758&key=user_uploads/216598/4ba0e510-77a0-4703-8df4-4d04593c537a)\n\nOur robot, Stompy, is a 4-foot humanoid robot featuring the claw gripper from the recent [Universal Manipulation Interface](https://umi-gripper.github.io/) paper, designed so that each part fits on a 256 × 256 3D printer bed, with a total bill of materials costing less than $10,000. We’re using carbon fiber PAHT, but in principle, any reasonably strong plastic could be used instead. Our actuators are quasi-direct drives with between 6:1 and 8:1 reduction ratios, meaning that all the joints on our robot are low-inertia and back-drivable, with nominal torque values from 3-12 Nm. Each robot features a hot-swappable 48V 15Ah battery pack, which can power it for over an hour.\n\nWe started designing Stompy from scratch shortly after the start of the YC batch. In the last three months, we built five different iterations of the hardware as we’ve ironed out issues with assembly, part reliability, motor torque, and gripper design. Having worked with a number of robots in my professional career, including the Stretch from Hello Robot, the Spot from Boston Dynamics, and the early prototypes of the Optimus from Tesla, I feel confident saying that we have the best general-purpose hardware design for our BOM cost - and we are going to give it away for free.\n\n![Image](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GILolqbaEAAzDUv?format=jpg&name=large)\n\nAdditionally, we have built the software tooling to train policies in simulation, using simulators like Isaac from Nvidia, and translate those policies to the robot. 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Voice dictation is a superpower for anyone who types a lot. It’s 4x faster and easier than manual typing. \n\nWhy isn’t voice the default way we interact with our computers? Because the technology just wasn’t there—until now.\n\nThat insight led us to build Willow: fast, precise, and personalized voice dictation designed for how we work today.\n\n### **The solution: Willow Voice**\n\nWhat makes Willow special is that it’s not just basic voice typing. It’s smart, fast, and sounds like _you_. Here’s how:\n\n* **Context-awareness**: Willow looks at what you’re working on so it can get technical terms, names, and phrases right.\n* **Custom dictionaries**: You can add your own words—like company names, industry terms, or team slang—so they’re always spelled correctly.\n* **Smart correction and formatting**: Willow automatically fixes mistakes and adds structure—like formatting emails, breaking up paragraphs, and handling punctuation.\n* **Personalization** _(beta)_: We’re working on making Willow sound just like you—adjusting tone and style depending on what you’re writing.\n* **Privacy**: Willow runs in the cloud for speed and accuracy, but we never store or collect your voice or data. Privacy is our top priority, and it’s built into everything we do. 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Try it [here](https://assistant.trypassage.com?u=launchyc) for a limited time!\n\n# **⛔️ The Problem**\n\n* Every company that brings goods into the US (e.g., Apple, IKEA) needs to clear it through customs\n* The problem is that clearing customs is super complicated. It has tons of manual work, and if a business screws it up, they face thousands in penalties\n* This leads to businesses spending hundreds of thousands on customs services, only to spend hours on manual data entry and searching complex regulations\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82216&key=user_uploads/1316171/28651bd0-d381-4593-960c-6126aa32cc69)\n\n# **⚙️ The Solution**\n\n* To tackle this, we’ve built a co-pilot to make clearing customs easier than ever for businesses\n* Have teams of people manually keying in data? We’ll help streamline the tedious data entry from shipping documents, so your team can spend time on the things that matter\n* Worried about submitting incorrect data to the government? We’ll check that the data is consistent across all your shipping documents and proactively flag if there’s anything that doesn’t line up\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82216&key=user_uploads/1316171/594ed69f-d766-485a-8692-588eabc34e32)\n\n* Struggle to understand complex regulations or classify products? We plug directly into key government resources like the code of federal regulations and product tariff schedule so you can clear your goods without the fear of huge penalties\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82216&key=user_uploads/1316171/a5bb48d5-bac6-4161-a9a2-020d07676b17)\n\n# **🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The Team**\n\n[Aditya](https://linkedin.com/in/aditya-nadkarni) and I ([Terrell](https://linkedin.com/in/terrellm)) are friends from college and even have a patent for an AI physical therapy platform. Since college, we’ve moved in together as roommates in San Francisco and have worked on AI products at Flexport and Google. 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We help industry and academic researchers read, write, and organize research papers really quickly.\n\nWe launched just over a year ago, and today, we have 1.3M users, including teams at Johns Hopkins, Stanford University, and Roche Pharmaceutical.\n\nTry it here: [unriddle.ai](https://www.unriddle.ai/?utm_campaign=yclaunch)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nUnderstanding the key themes, findings, and gaps in a field often involves sifting through hundreds of research papers. It’s a time-consuming and disorganized process.\n\nAnd when working across multiple disciplines, researchers may lack the contextual or domain knowledge needed to fully grasp a paper’s significance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83362&key=user_uploads/1365789/20c1dfde-aa65-4195-b034-672f74d6d2d4)\n\n### **Solution**\n\nUnriddle uses language models to help researchers quickly and deeply understand papers, write literature reviews, prepare citations, and keep the entire research team on the same page.\n\nIt understands the context behind your research – synthesizing relevant findings, highlighting connections between papers, and suggesting related studies you might have missed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83362&key=user_uploads/1365789/4a10250b-cd45-4731-bce7-5c93d3ae2322)\n\n### **Ask**\n\nIf you read or write research papers in any capacity, [try Unriddle](https://www.unriddle.ai/?utm_campaign=yclaunch) and let me know what you think at [naveed@unriddle.ai](mailto:naveed@unriddle.ai).\n\nIntros to research teams, particularly those in life sciences (e.g., biotech, pharma, and healthcare).\n\n— Naveed\n\n:)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LgY-unriddle-ai-research-assistant-for-industry-and-academic-research", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2024-08-23T21:48:16.163Z" } ] }, { "id": 29762, "name": "Remade", "slug": "remade", "former_names": [ "Pheat AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "website": "https://www.remade.ai/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=YC&utm_campaign=YC_profile&utm_content=YC_profile", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Remade is building an AI-native canvas for creative workflows. \r\nTry it now at: app.remade.ai", "one_liner": "AI-native canvas for creative workflows.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1721201298, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Consumer", "Social Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/remade", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/remade.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104217651", "x_url": "https://x.com/Remade_AI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561070223360", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/remade", "github_url": "https://github.com/Pheat-AI", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2c980220f3649574a4878b6ee1748f655fff36cf.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1226451, "full_name": "Christos Antonopoulos", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Christos Antonopoulos is the Co-founder & CEO of Remade. 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We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/34c8021f-473b-429c-a686-1d0dbbccd54c)\n\nWe are excited to announce our product image-to-video workflow, enabling the transformation of low-quality product images into video hooks that sell.\n\n# How it works:\n\n1. **Upload an image of your product**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/3212644d-c5d4-434d-94ae-c0009f3348dc)\n\n2. **Use “AI Backgrounds” to create a scene for your product video.**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/57fa19f5-3b50-4ad6-b8d9-b047fdae34f7)\n\n3. **Generate your TikTok hook**\n\n [TikTok Hook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrZIN7KDD8)\n\n# Use Cases\n\n**Marketing Teams**\n\nMarketing teams use Remade to generate short-form product reels in minutes. We replace a process that corporations outsource to marketing agencies for thousands of dollars in 3-clicks. \n\n**Marketplaces**\n\nMarketplaces use Remade’s Enterprise API to quickly generate product videos for their catalogs. These videos help sellers showcase products with dynamic, attention-grabbing content, which is proven to boost conversion, reduce bounce rate, and enhance the shopping experience. \n\n**Delivery Platforms**\n\nDelivery platforms use Remade to generate videos for their food listings, enabling a TikTok-style User Experience.  \n\n# **👋**Asks: How you can help\n\nWarm intros to Heads of Image Catalogue at Delivery platforms such as Zomato, Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo and Grubhub.\n\nWarm Intros to CMO’s / Heads of Content of lifestyle product brands.\n\nEmail us at [founders@remade.ai](mailto:founders@remade.ai) for 24/7 support.\n\n**Try it here:**\n\n[**https://app.remade.ai/create**](https://app.remade.ai/create)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ltq-remade-automating-video-ad-workflows-using-ai", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-09-20T15:51:55.133Z" }, { "id": 82235, "title": "Remade: GenAI product photography for businesses", "tagline": "Generate studio-quality product photoshoots from your smartphone.", "body": "[Remade Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5d9S0cmaE)\n\n**tl;dr:** We use AI to generate professional product images from smartphone-quality inputs. These images are then used in marketplaces, social media & ads. Get your first photoshoot for free at [app.remade.ai.](http://app.remade.ai)\n\nHi everyone! We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/f9304638-6681-457f-ad40-a35807205621/image.png)\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nTraditional photography is labor-intensive, slow, and expensive. Enterprises spend thousands on photography, while smaller businesses can't afford it. Existing AI platforms struggle to capture the user's vision and maintain the consistency of input images.\n\n### 🎉 **The Solution**\n\nRemade replaces the entire photography pipeline with 3 steps.\n\n1. Upload 10 photos of your item from different angles.\n2. Direct the photoshoots through text prompts, or let Remade suggest prompts for you.\n3. Receive studio-quality images in minutes.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/1385a61e-b4fb-4535-af01-7dc92efa1706/image.png)\n\nRemade reduces the costs of professional images by 100x and cuts delivery time from weeks to minutes. Work with us to amplify your marketing content across major social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and more.\n\n## **Use Cases**\n\n**Fashion**\n\nHiring photographers, models, studio setups, lighting experts, and stylists can be replaced with three clicks, saving you thousands of dollars.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/3c3d6bae-29cc-45ae-bcda-52a88e8dd30c/image.png)\n\n**Food**\n\nIncrease your coverage of images across multiple sales channels, including food delivery platforms and social media.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/9b7fe9c1-e830-4f59-bbbb-721156c7b7ea/image.png)\n\n**Products**\n\nShowcase your products in scenes, build your brand, and boost advertisement engagement on social media and marketplaces.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/d7f870e3-fa32-419f-934d-b157e16696c0/image.png)\n\n**Cars**\n\nDriving to the desert to get a cool shot of your car isn't a viable option for most car retailers. 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No developers are required.\n\n# **🚀 Introducing Emergent 🚀**\n\nEmergent is your on-demand CTO and founding engineer, reinventing product development. Our state-of-the-art (SOTA) coding agents deliver production-ready, full-stack applications with stunning UI and real backend, transforming ideas into market-ready products. No developers are required.\n\nWe go beyond just prototypes and mockups. Emergent ships fully functional apps with real backend, databases, and integrations -- built and deployed without ever leaving the platform.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/lT2dRng4fc0\n\n### **😖 The Problem:**\n\nShipping products is hard for non-technical builders, due to expensive engineering talent, inflexible no-code platforms, or AI tools that produce half-baked prototypes. As a result, most ideas never make it past the whiteboard or overcome the barriers to real-world execution.\n\n### **🤓 Our Solution:**\n\nEmergent redefines how a product gets built. At its core, Emergent is more than a coding assistant. It's a fully integrated platform that autonomously builds, tests, and ships software. What Emergent stands for: \n\n* Conversation-to-code transformation: Describe your product in plain language — Emergent handles architecture, logic, and implementation.\n* Fully Autonomous End-to-End Development: Our agents plan, build, test, and debug apps fully autonomously to produce shippable apps.\n* Built-in deployment: Ship fast and learn faster. Emergent manages the entire product lifecycle, from concept to customers.\n\n### **👷🏽 Why We're Building This**\n\nEmergent aims to democratize access to advanced software creation, empowering new builders to turn their visions into reality without traditional barriers. We’ve watched great ideas get stuck on whiteboards because building them was too hard, expensive, or slow. As engineers and builders, we saw that AI could change this by writing code, truly understanding what’s needed, and building complete solutions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90629&key=user_uploads/529149/9ae44e4c-78fd-4811-9566-0f53818ded4c)\n\n### **🥷🏼 Emergent In Action**\n\nJust two weeks after our alpha launch, users built over 10,000 apps on Emergent. These range from simple, elegant landing pages to complex SaaS tools like AI notetakers, Slack bots, and Figma plugins — endless possibilities.\n\nHere are some apps built by our users:\n\n* https://youtu.be/coGyUTUrpJY\n* https://youtu.be/yXdk_feMJ4E\n* https://youtu.be/etipqXln6zY\n\n_Please note: Emergent is still invite-only, but we’ll be launching to the public soon. Want early access? Use code: #**EMERGENTFORYC**_\n\n### **🦄 Team**\n\nEmergent was founded by twin brothers **Mukund Jha (CEO)** and **Madhav Jha (CTO)**, who are dedicated to democratizing product development and making it more accessible.\n\n* Mukund was previously Co-Founder/CTO at Dunzo -- India's first quick commerce offering (backed by Google and Reliance). He is a graduate of Columbia Engineering and has experience working at Google.\n* Madhav got his PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from Penn State University and was a von Neumann postdoctoral fellow at Sandia National Labs. He was the founding member of the research team that built and shipped Amazon Sagemaker.\n\nOutside of work, the Jha brothers enjoy spending time with family and friends in both San Francisco and Bengaluru.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90629&key=user_uploads/529149/7a9a91b8-2795-4fb5-87a5-14fc77d238c3)\n\nxoxo\n\nTeam Emergent 🫡\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90629&key=user_uploads/529149/7f26b476-30f1-47f5-bbe1-b042c03c58a5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NZl-emergent-build-ambitious-apps", "votes": 305, "created_at": "2025-05-23T16:02:05.744Z" } ] }, { "id": 29786, "name": "Palmier", "slug": "palmier", "former_names": [ "ProteusAI", "Palmier", "Sado" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0186f2775062552b28ed6bdc42f5d5e89590738e.png", "website": "https://www.palmier.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Palmier Pro is a video editor built for AI, where Claude and Codex can edit your timeline directly: trimming, reordering, and generating footage. 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Now co-founder and CEO of Palmier, building something people want! Documented my journey as a professional swimmer training to make the Paris Olympics on YouTube [155k+].", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosricopeng/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4961a13a98fa80328cc405c4fcc17e7a4848259a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1960944, "full_name": "Harrison Tin", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "cofounder of palmier.\n\nprev microsoft, studied eecs at uc berkeley.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisontin", "x_url": "https://x.com/harrison_t71373", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/55cc1c35caacf4ebca5bc639e650bf3243aafb81.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 103383, "title": "Palmier Pro — an open source video editor your agents can operate", "tagline": "The fastest way to generate and edit videos using AI", "body": "Hey everyone, we're Marcos and Harrison, co-founders of Palmier (YC S24).\\\n\\\n**TL;DR**\\\nPalmier Pro is a video editor built for AI, where Claude and Codex can edit your timeline directly: trimming, reordering, and generating footage. We used it to make 15+ cinematic AI launch videos for YC companies and it's now open-source and free to download at [palmier.io](http://palmier.io).\\\n\\\n**The Problem**\\\nMaking AI videos today means bouncing between tools constantly.\\\nGeneration.\n\n* You generate a clip in Runway or Higgsfield, import it into Premiere, realize one section doesn't work, go back to the generation tool, regenerate, reimport. That loop repeats dozens of times per video.\n\nIteration.\n\n* Because generation and editing live in separate apps, your workspace is a mess and it becomes extremely hard to keep track of good takes, bad takes, reference images, and reference videos.\n\nRepetition.\n\n* You still spend hours sorting through footage, finding the right takes, and manually adding keyframes, effects, and captions. It eats into your productivity and leaves you with less time for the actual creative work.\n\n\\\n**Our Solution**\\\nWe built a full-fledged professional video editor with two things in mind.\n\nWe made AI video a primitive, not an add-on. For each clip, we track the prompt, model, and references so you can iterate directly inside the timeline instead of bouncing between apps.\n\nWe made everything operable by AI. By using our built-in agent, or connecting to yours via MCP, AI agents can help:\n\n* Save hours of work by automating the grunt work in editing: finding key moments in long videos, captions, file organization, and more.\n* Create first draft edits from your footage. The tools let AI understand your videos and draft a first cut directly in the timeline.\n* Use AI generation models to create footage, b-roll, sound effects, voiceovers, and music and drop it directly into your project.\n\n\\\n\n\n\\\n**Asks**\n\nDownload Palmier Pro at [palmier.io](http://palmier.io) — it's free and open source.\n\nFollow us on [X](https://x.com/) and [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/).\n\nIf you work a lot with AI video or are looking to explore it, we would love to chat. You can reach us at [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103383&key=user_uploads/1645879/a49f9c7d-0c0f-4dbf-a1ee-4b35b425f612)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QtT-palmier-pro-an-open-source-video-editor-your-agents-can-operate", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-06-16T19:59:43.822Z" }, { "id": 83365, "title": "Palmier - AI that understands any codebase", "tagline": "Be a 10x developer with Palmier", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/276b05df-577c-4821-b64d-a8a5e6ca80ef)\n\n**☕ tl;dr**: [Palmier](https://www.palmier.io/) is an **AI** tool that **understands any codebase**.\n\n* **Automates code reviews**, **bug detection**, and **code optimization** and implements them for you.\n* Context-aware **code explanations** **and** **natural language** code **search**.\n\nBy the time you finish reading this launch, you could’ve setup **Palmier** already! Reach out to [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io) and/or sign up to the waitlist [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMLX009lTuWnseUHcwFWLq04-BQP-sW9Ytl3I5UBz-iQC5w/viewform) to get started.\n\n# **🔒 Problem**\n\nDevelopers spend only about 30% of their time actually building new features, with the rest of their day taken up by tedious but necessary tasks like understanding code, fixing bugs, and reviewing other people's code. And this only gets worse as the codebases and teams get larger. Furthermore, context switches get more frequent, and general productivity starts to decline.\n\n# **🔑 Solution**\n\nPalmier tackles this by having an individually trained AI model for each unique codebase. This ensures the most accurate and precise understanding of the code.\n\nPalmier lives in your GitHub repository, and thoroughly checks every PR request:\n\n* Palmier automatically creates a concise yet precise description of the changes being made, trains on every past PR made, and opens issues for the most accurate context. No more guessing games trying to find why a change was implemented.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/576e5722-9289-4f48-b894-a8e20662c982)\n\n* Palmier scans your changes and suggests improvements: this can be as simple as variable name changes to more complex changes, such as performance optimizations. With a couple of clicks, you can implement these suggestions and commit them without leaving GitHub.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/4f35aa2d-445f-4ce4-9e79-e2c260aa64db)\n\n* Palmier will scan CI/CD issues and suggest fixes to failed tests that are related to the code changes (coming soon).\n\nWith Palmier chat, you can onboard any codebase 10x quicker. Whether it’s understanding what certain code does, how it interacts with other components, or where in your code a certain feature is implemented, Palmier gives you the most accurate answers and avoids hallucinating by always citing its sources.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/6536e3cb-8477-47b8-85aa-0bd178dd01f4)\n\n# \n\n# **🚀 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/5ce7d590-a9d3-464c-81a3-53f7e30fb4a8)\n\n[Marcos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosrico) CEO (left), [Harrison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-tin-a260321b3/) CTO (right)\n\nThe Palmier team consists of Marcos and Harrison, both graduates of UC Berkeley with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. With experience working at big tech like LinkedIn and Microsoft, we started Palmier to tackle the productivity problems we personally faced while working there: large code review cycles, many review iterations, and onboarding never-ending codebases. We are both extremely passionate about improving software developers’ lives and are on a mission to make every developer do what we love doing most - building! Feel free to reach out to any of us at any time! We'd love to chat.\n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\n* Try out Palmier! You can [schedule a call](https://calendar.app.google/u5pUgv7nkqBLHMMw9) with the founders, reach out to us at [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io) or sign up for the waitlist [here.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMLX009lTuWnseUHcwFWLq04-BQP-sW9Ytl3I5UBz-iQC5w/viewform) We’d love to talk to you and how we can make this customized for your use case!\n* If you know any engineers in large development teams who work with large codebases and push and review PRs often, please connect us with them!\n * Copy & paste blurb: A YC company named Palmier has developed an AI code expert that will automatically review your PRs. It’ll save tons of time for you. You can grab a time [here](https://calendar.app.google/u5pUgv7nkqBLHMMw9) for a demo from the founders.\n\nApproved open-source repositories can install for free! Just reach out to us [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/7e357e4c-4b82-498d-b6d5-b046a8693a37)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lgb-palmier-ai-that-understands-any-codebase", "votes": 471, "created_at": "2024-08-24T17:29:02.951Z" } ] }, { "id": 29789, "name": "Paasa", "slug": "paasa", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/69545faa0fc0f7ee6b89313f1c320d59486f1802.png", "website": "https://paasa.com", "all_locations": "Gurugram, HR, India", "long_description": "Paasa helps wealthy Indians invest in global equities - without middlemen, hidden fees, or paperwork.\r\n\r\nWhile high-net-worths in India often have international expenses from children's education to healthcare, most still save in INR, a currency that depreciates ~2–5% per year against the USD. 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A few cross-border brokerage apps exist, but most customers hesitate due to:\n\n* Lack of guidance on foreign investments\n* Remittance regulations that change every year\n* Cross-border tax filing that their CFAs struggle with\n* Slow outflows from local banks\n\nThese barriers keep global investing out of reach, reserved for the top 0.001% who can afford wealth managers and family offices. We’re changing that.\n\nOur vision is to bring all the opportunities of the 0.001% to the pre-HNI without any hassle.\n\n**Team**\n\n[Sparsh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sparsh-sharma-design/) and I ([Nitish](https://linkedin.com/in/nitishsahni)) grew up in India and have known each other for 5 years. Both personal finance nerds, we previously worked at SoFi, where Sparsh led design on Student Loan Refinance, and I led engineering projects on Data Governance.\n\n**Ask**\n\nIf you’re in India and want to invest globally, [reach out](https://paasa.co/form)! We’re [founders@paasa.co](mailto:founders@paasa.co)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83571&key=user_uploads/1349737/821d0b76-d224-43b7-996d-a539b271dba9)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ljv-paasa-build-wealth-across-borders", "votes": 131, "created_at": "2024-08-29T15:14:04.755Z" } ] }, { "id": 29826, "name": "Orca Client", "slug": "orca-client", "former_names": [ "Titan", "Simplifine", "Orca", "Orca Launcher" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3264c421729b2bff6ef1ef17bf775cafd7c098a6.png", "website": "https://orcaclient.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Orca is a game launcher for Minecraft. Players browse games and experiences and join with one click, no mod installation, no setup. We handle hosting and mod delivery for server owners and game creators, who earn revenue from their games. 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Focus on your research without the hassle of tools that don’t scale with your data.\n\n**No Programming Needed**: Researchers shouldn’t need to learn new languages or wait for engineers to analyze big datasets. Our fine-tuned LLMs enable experts to conduct large-scale analysis using complex techniques—no programming required.\n\n### **Team**\n\nWe’re [Raveen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raveen-kariyawasam-84b368295/), [Ali](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alikav/), and [Ege](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ege-kaan-duman-445731173/)—longtime friends from the University of Oxford. Raveen and Ege are Rhodes Scholars, while Ali is a PhD student in Healthcare AI at Oxford. Together, we’ve authored over 30 publications & articles across 10+ fields at top institutions/organizations like the University of Oxford, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, McKinsey, and the World Health Organization. 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This leads to significant delays, as everyone needs to get up to speed and manage tools for data analysis alongside citation management and figure generation.\n\n### **Solution**\n\n[Simplifine](https://www.simplifine.com) consolidates every aspect of the research process into **one intuitive platform, supercharged with fine-tuned LLMs and Agent Graphs**. Whether you’re conducting a literature search, managing sources, writing, coding experiments, or generating figures across data warehouses—_Simplifine handles it all with natural language._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83568&key=user_uploads/1641010/d3dc15cd-317e-4739-b7f6-3ae5c3476cb6)\n\nDesigned specifically for researchers, our platform eliminates the inefficiencies and frustrations of juggling multiple tools. 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We’re launching first to allow users to pay in Southeast & East Asian markets.\n\n[Join our waitlist for early access.](https://moretapay.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83432&key=user_uploads/1269607/0d6b9a4c-2d2c-46e2-95b1-21fd57ee2057)\n\n❌ **THE PROBLEM**\n\nWhen traveling abroad, do you find yourself asking if merchants accept card? How much cash do you need? Where can you get the best rate?\n\nPayments around the world are very fragmented and rely heavily on cash, or an alternative like QR code digital wallets.\n\nAnd for foreigners traveling, this typically means you need some combination of card and cash. In many countries, merchants may not accept card payments, and when they do, they often charge extra fees. 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Shopify solved the store. Stripe solved payments. TikTok solved distribution. Manufacturing is the one piece that never moved. Launching a single new product still takes 6 to 12 months, tens of thousands of dollars upfront, and a team of specialists. Most great product ideas die before they become something you can hold.\n\nWe are building the orchestration layer for physical product creation, bridging the gap between customer demand and manufacturing supply.\n\nIt works like this. You describe an idea. Our AI visualizes it with you, breaks it into components and manufacturing processes, and matches each step to the right factory in our network. We run production, QC, and fulfillment, going from idea to a growing brand in about a month with no upfront costs.\n\nWe are not putting logos on mugs. We create entirely new consumer products: a digital camera that clips onto a purse, a lava-lamp humidifier, a painting that glows like the sun. We are starting with creators whose audiences have already validated demand; production happens only after demand exists, not before.\n\nSo far we’ve launched hundreds of products, shipped tens of thousands of items, and reached creator audiences totaling more than 90M people. Every product we create makes the network faster and smarter for the next one.\n\nHave a product idea your audience keeps asking for? We'll make it real. [nologo.com](http://nologo.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103396&key=user_uploads/1864416/00357a42-8390-424d-88fd-cf378c0395fe)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qtg-no-logo-turn-any-idea-into-a-real-manufactured-product", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-06-17T22:59:32.498Z" }, { "id": 83615, "title": "Terra 🌎: Instant supply chain creation", "tagline": "Enter Terra, a new world of procurement.", "body": "# **TL;DR -**\n\nUse [Terra](http://useterra.com) as an all-in-one platform to seamlessly **develop, manufacture, and ship your products**. Discover pre-vetted suppliers and instantly create modular supply chains, all while having access to wholesale pricing regardless of order quantity.\n\n—\n\n# **The Team**\n\nHello all! We’re [Dylan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-mcfarland/) and [Lev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lev-glushkovskii/) from Terra, and we’re _really_ passionate about making custom manufacturing accessible to everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83615&key=user_uploads/1859401/1b3de9c2-aefa-40aa-aeeb-7243b3bec363)\n\n# **🚨 The Problem 🚨**\n\nWe’ve been working with suppliers globally since we were freshmen in high school. If you can think of a costly manufacturing or shipping mistake, we’ve likely already made it a dozen times over. But through our experiences building supply chains, we’ve routinely run into the same issues: \n\n⚙️ Way too many moving parts \n\n⚠️ The best factories have high minimum order requirements \n\n👎 Current software is either too rudimentary or ridiculously complex\n\n# **✅ The Solution ✅**\n\n* Forget spending weeks juggling multiple supplier group chats, spreadsheets of shipping quotes, and financial docs. Terra automatically matches you with the right partners through a single dashboard, allowing you to launch products in minutes.\n* We aggregate demand based on similarity, ensuring you’ll get access to the best pricing and factories regardless of order size.\n*  Our platform is completely modular. Build a supply chain entirely from our pre-vetted partners, onboard your existing suppliers, or use a combination of both. No constrictions, only flexibility.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83615&key=user_uploads/1859401/38054f53-5593-4f5e-8f1e-0e80ff948676)\n\n# **🤝 Our Ask 🤝**\n\nAre you or anyone in your network looking to launch/scale/streamline manufacturing processes? If so, hit us at [founders@useterra.com](mailto:founders@useterra.com), we’d love to get in touch.\n\nCurrently looking specifically for anyone selling/manufacturing furniture or home goods! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lkd-terra-instant-supply-chain-creation", "votes": 110, "created_at": "2024-08-30T04:18:41.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 29854, "name": "Keet", "slug": "keet", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7e5e0875c2aab6574b149f12a244bce330c36012.png", "website": "https://trykeet.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Keet is a mobile app that generates courses on any topic, with short videos for explanation and games for reinforcement. Courses mirror a real curriculum to help you learn over an extended period of time.", "one_liner": "An app to create courses on anything. 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Developers use us to connect their customers’ accounts and perform actions on their behalf.\n\n## **Why does this exist?**\n\nIt is difficult to build automations with web platforms, especially those that require authentication.\n\nWe make seamless and stable integrations your competitive advantage.\n\n## **Who is this for?**\n\nYou want to be able to take actions on your users’ behalf.\n\nImagine if you could easily…\n\n* Call an endpoint to submit a form instead of writing a Playwright automation\n* Book Ubers based on your user’s calendar and location\n* Track activity on properties for future homeowners on Redfin\n\nWithout…\n\n* Storing your end user’s credentials\n* Dealing with MFA\n* Writing playwright automations that break when a page gets updated\n\n**There are some other solutions out there. How are we different…**\n\n1. No Chrome extension is necessary for your users to authenticate\n2. We maintain your users’ authenticated sessions\n3. 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Think of it as an LLM-powered feed delivering you useful content in short insights.\r\n\r\nFor example, if you’re building an AI voice agent, you’ll see the latest in speech-to-text models without having to actively search, go through a pile of research papers, or prompt an LLM.\r\n\r\nWe extract key takeaways from long-form content - allowing you to read as little or as much as you like from the original piece of information. With et al., you get to stay on top of breakthroughs in your field, build knowledge, and discover new interests effortlessly.", "one_liner": "Feed of insights extracted from your go-to sources using LLMs.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1725753822, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Consumer", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/et-al", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/et-al.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/company/et-al-app/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d505a9f785d5fbe835969de244a7a0e565f25d58.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": 1953355, "full_name": "Marie van der Klink", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Design engineer graduate from Imperial College London with experience in software and UI/UX design.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-van-der-klink/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d5ece306e8fda28eee6b84037441fd602158fedf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1971381, "full_name": "Carine Fattal", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Masters in design engineering from Imperial College London. Experience in mobile app development and interaction design.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carine-fattal/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8bf49d9136545f833f883624a01d53f179f9028b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83843, "title": "et al. - Knowledge back on a scroll", "tagline": "Your daily feed of insights extracted from your go-to sources using LLMs.", "body": "**TL;DR** - et al. is a mobile app that brings together your newsletters, research papers, podcasts, and more in one place. Imagine a Twitter feed powered by LLMs delivering useful content in short-sentence insights.\n\n**Test our beta** [**here**](https://www.et-al.io/signup) - we need your feedback!\n\n\n\n## 🚫 **Unopened newsletters, lengthy reads, hidden links…**\n\nThere’s a ton of valuable content out there, but key insights are often buried in long formats or hidden behind multiple clicks. With faster consumption habits, finding specific information for work or topics you care about often ends up with you prompting an LLM or typing into a search bar.\n\nYou can subscribe to newsletters, but they tend to be lengthy and rarely specific enough for the applications or areas that matter to you. More than half of them remain unopened, and less than 1% actually lead to a click-through.\n\nThen, there are podcasts, web articles, and blog posts scattered across the web and your different devices. Not to mention research papers, which hold highly valuable insights but are hard to find through a simple browser search and often end up unnoticed.\n\n## 📜 **Knowledge back on a scroll**\n\net al. turns scrolling into a smarter habit. You tell us your interests and what sources you follow and we curate a personalized feed of short insights you can scroll through daily.\n\nWe use LLMs to extract content from your newsletters, research papers, podcasts, and more by navigating through all the relevant links to identify the original piece of information. We then generate insights directly from that source and allow you to read as little or as much as you want from the original content.\n\nWith et al., you get to build your knowledge, discover new interests, and stay on top of the breakthroughs that matter to you - all in one place.\n\n## 👥 **About Us**\n\nHey everyone — we’re [Carine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carine-fattal/) and [Marie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-van-der-klink/)! We’re design engineers who met five years ago during our Masters at Imperial College London. We previously worked together on a research app for students and researchers - through which we realized there’s a ton of valuable content locked away in long formats or hidden in unread emails. Now, we’re using LLMs to turn all this content into a personalized feed for smarter scrolling.\n\n## 💬 **Our Ask**\n\n**Test our beta** [**here**](https://www.et-al.io/signup) and give us feedback so we can turn et al. into your go-to app for knowledge.\n\n**Share the** [**link**](https://www.et-al.io/signup) with others if you like et al. or know someone who’d use it!\n\n**Drop us a message at** [**founders@et-al.io**](mailto:founders@et-al.io) - we’d love to hear your thoughts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83843&key=user_uploads/1953355/ad1bbf2b-07ed-48c8-8e19-e5a5faad34b1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LoJ-et-al-knowledge-back-on-a-scroll", "votes": 161, "created_at": "2024-09-08T02:46:12.668Z" } ] }, { "id": 29955, "name": "BrowserOS", "slug": "browseros", "former_names": [ "Felafax" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8ee9034382624e07d15bb234736662d02dc829f8.png", "website": "https://BrowserOS.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser that runs AI agents locally.", "one_liner": "The Open Source Agentic Browser", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1722468998, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 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/browseros", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/browseros.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/felafax/", "x_url": "https://x.com/browserOS_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8ee9034382624e07d15bb234736662d02dc829f8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 105063, "full_name": "Nithin Sonti", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building open-source agentic browser. 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Privacy-first alternative to Perplexity Comet, Dia.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilvenkatsonti", "x_url": "https://x.com/nv_sonti", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/43035638596d52e37cb76fcf7e3aae5fdb61a504.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93960, "title": "BrowserOS – The Open Source Agentic Browser", "tagline": "Build AI agents that automate any browser task using plain English", "body": "**TL;DR:** **BrowserOS is an open-source, AI-native browser that automates your tedious web tasks**. Just describe what you want in plain English—like \"find software engineers from my LinkedIn requests and add them to a google sheet\"—and watch an AI click, type, and navigate on your behalf, all running locally with your logged-in sessions. We're an open-source and privacy-first alternative to Comet, Dia, Chrome.\n\nWe are grateful for all our early supporters — 4.3k+ Github ⭐, 25,000+ downloads and an active discord community of 1000 folks!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93960&key=user_uploads/105063/b11e5c5f-8e15-4375-a62e-ed1ddbaa428b)\n\n### **🤔 Why Now**\n\nAI coding tools made developers 10x faster. But a billion knowledge workers still grind through browser busywork. Copy-paste. Click. Repeat. Even we spend half our engineering time on mindless browser tasks. It's ridiculous—AI writes our entire codebase but can't click a button.\n\nSo what’s blocking the browser’s ‘Cursor moment’?\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nWe think it comes down to three big problems preventing mass adoption of AI agents for knowledge workers, especially at enterprises:\n\n**1. Can't access your logged-in sessions.** Most agentic solutions today (like ChatGPT Operator, Manus) run on remote computers. They can't log into your Gmail, LinkedIn, or company tools. So they fail at every real task you actually need help with.\\\n**2. Tools are fragmented.** You've got agent builders that use MCP servers. Others that only do browser automation. Some that just call APIs like Zapier. There's no single solution that lets you build an agent using all these approaches together.\\\n**3. Closed source:**  Most other popular browsers come from search/ad companies who want to track you and sell ads. They lock you into their LLMs, hide how things work, and send your data to their servers. That's a dealbreaker for enterprises who can't send sensitive data to third parties.\n\n## **🥳 Our Solution**\n\nBrowserOS is an open-source, privacy-first browser built to solve these problems by design.\n\n1. It's just a normal browser you download and run on your machine. You log into websites like you always do. But now agents can use those logged-in sessions to actually do useful work - they can browse the web just like you would, using your existing logins.\n2. We support both MCP servers and browser automation. You can stitch them together to build agents that handle complex workflows. Need to pull data from a website, process it through an API, then update a spreadsheet? One agent can do it all.\n3. We're fully open source. You can see our system prompts, change them if you want. Bring your own API keys or run models locally with Ollama. Your data stays on your computer.\n\nKey features of BrowserOS:\n\n* **Build agents with plain English** - Just describe what you want. No coding required.\n* **Use any LLM you want** - Bring your own API keys, switch between models, or run everything using local LLMs\n* **Still a normal browser** - It's Chromium underneath. All your Chrome extensions work.\n\n### **🚀 The future**\n\nHere's what excites us: a billion knowledge workers spend 60-80% of their day in browsers. Every enterprise runs on web apps—Salesforce, SAP, Workday, internal tools. These workers waste hours on tasks that make them miserable. Filing expense reports. Extracting data from dashboards. Setting up ad campaigns.\n\n**We think browsers will become new operating system where AI employees live and work alongside humans.** Imagine a world where IT builds an “expense report agent” once, every employee benefits. Someone shares their “Facebook Ads agent” publicly. You fork it, tweak it for your workflow. The mundane work gets automated while humans focus on what matters.\n\nThis kind of automation only works in browsers. Not everything has APIs, but everything has a web UI. If an agent can click and type like a human, it can automate any web app—from legacy enterprise software to the latest SaaS tools.\n\nWe're building the best browser for this future!\n\n### **🏋️‍♂️ Team**\n\nWe're twin brothers who've been building products together for years. We spent the last 6 years as engineers at Google and Meta.\n\nNikhil worked on Instagram Reels and Facebook Feed Ranking backend—deep C++ and systems work. Nithin was an ML engineer on YouTube Recommendations and worked on building Youtube’s first Large Recommender Model (LRM).\n\nWe feel this gives us the perfect mix of experience to tackle a massive C++ codebase like Chromium while building a powerful agent and AI layer on top.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93960&key=user_uploads/105063/5b10f1a2-86df-4154-a02b-52ae465cea00)\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* **Star us on [GitHub](https://git.new/browseros)** to support our mission.\n* **Download [BrowserOS](https://www.browseros.com/)**; it’s available for macOS, Windows, and Linux!\n* **Join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/YKwjt5vuKr)** to help shape our roadmap.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ORU-browseros-the-open-source-agentic-browser", "votes": 1499, "created_at": "2025-09-19T16:05:06.209Z" }, { "id": 82653, "title": "Felafax: Expanding AI Infra beyond NVIDIA", "tagline": "Building open-source AI platform for next-generation AI hardware, reducing ML training costs by 30%.", "body": "**TL;DR:** We are building an open-source AI platform for non-NVIDIA GPUs. Today, we are launching one of the pieces, a seamless UI to spin up a TPU cluster of any size and providing an out-of-box notebook to fine-tune LLaMa 3.1 models. **Try us at **[**felafax.ai**](https://felafax.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch-yc)** or check out our **[**github**](https://github.com/felafax/RoadRunnerX)**!**\n\n## 👋 Introduction\n\nHi everyone, we're Nikhil and Nithin, twin brothers behind Felafax AI. Before this, we spent half a decade at Google and Meta building AI infrastructure. Drawing on our experience, we are creating an ML stack from the ground up. Our goal is to deliver high performance and provide an easy workflow for training models on non-NVIDIA hardware like TPU, AWS Trainium, AMD GPU, and Intel GPU.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82653&key=user_uploads/105063/96b92f10-55b4-4137-a100-23bea3e5c4c6)\n\n## 🧨 The Problem\n\n* The ML ecosystem for non-NVIDIA GPUs is underdeveloped. However, alternative chipsets like Google TPUs offer a much better price-to-performance ratio; **TPUs are 30% cheaper** to use.\n* The cloud layer for spinning up AI workloads is **painful**. Training requires installing the right low-level dependencies (infamous CUDA errors), attaching persistent storage, waiting 20 minutes for the machine to boot up… the list goes on.\n* Models are getting bigger (like Llama 405B) and don't fit on a single GPU, requiring complex **multi-GPU** orchestration.\n\n## 🥳 The Solution\n\nToday, we're launching a cloud layer to make it easy to spin up AI training clusters of any size, from 8 TPU cores to 2048 cores. We provide:\n\n* **Effortless Setup:** Out-of-the-box templates for PyTorch XLA and JAX to get you up and running quickly.\n* **LLaMa Fine-tuning, Simplified:** Dive straight into fine-tuning LLaMa 3.1 models (8B, 70B, and 405B) with pre-built notebooks. We've handled the tricky multi-TPU orchestration for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82653&key=user_uploads/1765/d34757cd-a366-4dcb-9491-0d03f46520a7)\n\nIn the coming weeks, we will also launch our open-source AI platform built on top of JAX and OpenXLA (an alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA stack). We will support AI training across a variety of non-NVIDIA hardware (Google TPU, AWS Trainium, AMD and Intel GPU) and offer the same performance as NVIDIA at 30% lower cost. **Follow us on **[**Twitter**](https://x.com/nikhil_sonti)**, **[**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/felafax/)** and **[**Github**](https://github.com/felafax/RoadRunnerX)** or updates!**\n\n## 🙏 How You Can Help\n\n1. Try our seamless cloud layer for spinning up VMs for AI training – **you get $200 credits** to start off - [app.felafax.ai](https://app.felafax.ai/)\n2. Try fine-tuning LLaMa 3.1 models for your use case.\n3. 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But what fans love has never been about the tech.\r\n\r\nA fan doesn’t fill their apartment with posters because of the lens a movie was shot on. They do it because of the mind behind the camera.\r\n\r\nAI is a power-up. In the wrong hands, more and more of what you see becomes sludge. In the right ones, the good stuff wins.\r\n\r\nDreamRP builds for creatives, from indie artists to global stars, because they’ve always been the real reason fans love what they love.\r\n\r\nIf you get it, message me why.", "one_liner": "Tech and platforms for human creators and the entertainment industry", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1724999023, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "Entertainment", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 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/dreamrp", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/dreamrp.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/dreamrp", "x_url": "https://x.com/dreamrpofficial", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Dream-RP/61564171643804/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3b03e14b8a7d809f05b6579c758dc4fbbe6ff821.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 596461, "full_name": "Phillip Huang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Phillip is the co-founder and CEO of DreamRP.\n\nHe studied Computer Science at Harvard and worked as a Software Engineer and Data Scientist at Meta, where he increased revenue by 6% (~$1B per annum) with US Patent #10,713,094.\n\nPhillip built video games with 3k+ reviews and fan community forums when he worked for What Pumpkin, the company behind Homestuck, a widely popular webcomic with over 1 million unique daily readers.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/philliphuang", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c918c28fe61e59a0b37c3dabaa5b441c859c641d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83756, "title": "DreamRP: Character.ai meets Patreon", "tagline": "DreamRP lets creators earn money by turning their characters into chatbots.", "body": "### What is DreamRP?\n\n[DreamRP](https://www.dreamrp.com/) lets creators earn money by turning their characters into chatbots. For example, George R.R. Martin could charge fans to chat with a Jon Snow bot.\n\n### TL;DR\n\nAI roleplaying is wildly popular, but no existing platform focuses on the most impactful component of the experience: the creators who make the characters. With a more ethical implementation of AI and the right creation and monetization features, DreamRP has unlocked AI roleplaying for the most talented and successful creators.\n\n### What’s up with AI roleplaying?\n\nAI-driven roleplaying chatbots are going through a weird phase right now—grassroots demand for the experience has nearly outpaced the platforms that provide it. Offerings from companies like [Character.ai](https://character.ai/) and even Meta’s new [AI Studio](https://ai.meta.com/ai-studio/) emphasize practical GPT-like assistants, but leaderboards are filled with fantasy heroes, movie villains, and anime waifus. On their coattails are many scrappier alternatives (even the small ones reach hundreds of thousands in ARR), as well as an enthusiastic open-source community [fine-tuning their own roleplaying models](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bv2p89/new_rp_model_recommendation_the_best_one_so_far_i/) for home-brew solutions like [SillyTavern](https://sillytavernai.com/). It’s no surprise that 12 of the top 20 applications using [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/) this month and [6 of the top 20 Gen AI web products](https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-3/) are mainly used for AI roleplaying.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83756&key=user_uploads/596461/49947cd3-0555-403b-ae54-271b3ec1109f)\n\n### What they’re all missing: a creator focus\n\nCompeting in such a crowded space is challenging. With open source now advancing the frontier with models like [Flux.1](https://blackforestlabs.ai/) and [Llama 3.1](https://llama.meta.com/), once-rare levels of performance and innovative features are becoming commonplace. Pushing the boundaries of uncensored content frequently [leads](https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAi_NSFW/comments/1d9fz5f/yodayo_removing_nsfw_content_and_now_its_garbage/) to an [early death](https://www.reddit.com/r/aisekai/comments/1afim30/aisekai_is_shutting_down/?rdt=55501). User acquisition ads that were previously effective are now being [priced out](https://web.swipeinsight.app/posts/temu-s-ad-surge-sparks-dtc-turmoil-unraveling-meta-s-ad-cost-chaos-4612).\n\nAll of these platforms neglect a crucial component of the roleplaying experience: the creators who make the characters. Even with the best models and features, refining the character prompt, image, and scenario to be engaging takes effort and imagination, and users frequently need to dig through junk to find a character that performs well. When the tech is commoditized, the platform with the best creators has the best content and, therefore, the best product.\n\n### Untapped potential\n\nWhere are the best creators? Despite fans' demand for their content, the artists, authors, and other creators who traditionally make works of fiction are nowhere to be seen on these platforms. To them, current platforms are actually taboo: so marred by ethical concerns over industry usage of AI-generated art and the scraping of training data that even being associated with AI would [ostracize them from the creative community](https://x.com/Yuumei_Art/status/1813861897198096886). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83756&key=user_uploads/596461/2e20d054-1d26-4e3c-bc1f-6c56fdbd56b0)\n\nWhat users are left with are inconsistent fan-made renditions of popular characters and a lack of community around the content itself. Stigma over using roleplaying chatbots has limited the sharing and discussion of these experiences in the vibrant fandoms surrounding these creators and their works.\n\n### Enter DreamRP\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83756&key=user_uploads/596461/4f926d9a-c190-4c43-9de7-48e18a52610b)\n\nWe are [Phillip](https://linkedin.com/in/philliphuang) and [Nina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-hu-91a53577/), and we built [DreamRP](https://www.dreamrp.com/) to empower creators in the AI roleplaying landscape. With an implementation of AI that addresses the ethical concerns of the creative community, specialized creation tools, and monetization features that reward creators for their work, DreamRP removes the barrier separating creators and their fans. With our platform, creators who previously would’ve been canceled for even mentioning the syllables “A” and “I” in adjacent sentences have onboarded onto our platform, created characters, and publicly promoted them to their fans on social media. Join us as we transform this exciting new medium of entertainment with the most talented creators and their immensely passionate fanbases.\n\n# **If you’re a creator—or know someone who is—come check us out at **[**dreamrp.com**](https://www.dreamrp.com/)** or get in touch at **[**founders@dreamrp.com**](mailto:phillip@dreamrp.com)**.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83756&key=user_uploads/596461/9bc99028-74fc-4563-b4ec-dc238f1a8e8c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lmu-dreamrp-character-ai-meets-patreon", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-09-04T17:55:01.817Z" } ] }, { "id": 30023, "name": "Streamable", "slug": "streamable", "former_names": [ "PearAI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdee682cffd04f37019b910b81a540343c3ed75e.png", "website": "https://streamable.run", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "https://streamable.run\r\n", "one_liner": "Powering the biggest IRL streamers today.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1727484339, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Social Media", "Live", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "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/streamable", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/streamable.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/streamablerun", "x_url": "https://x.com/streamablerun", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdee682cffd04f37019b910b81a540343c3ed75e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1119010, "full_name": "Nang Ang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "coding https://www.nang88.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/nathanang", "x_url": "https://x.com/not_nang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/608f96f09c1088a868c3323f0b72b7f3fca0dde4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 835644, "full_name": "Manav Bokinala", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "making irl streaming awesome", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbokinala/", "x_url": "https://x.com/mbokinala_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d0ec0eb569cd48eea55432d972cf567abad943a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 89461, "title": "Growth / Marketing / Social Media Intern ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/streamable/jobs/Q0tIIWh-growth-marketing-social-media-intern", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US; 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Their stream will end, and their thousands of viewers get kicked from the stream. By the time they reconnect, most of their viewers have gone on to do something else.\n\nNang, being a streamer himself and being friends with many streamers, felt these issues firsthand and knew that all IRL streamers were frustrated with the current solutions available.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nCloud Hosted Streaming Servers. Our product sits in between the streamer and the streaming platform, which allows for a clean solution to many problems IRL Streamers face:\n\n🔵 100% Stream Drop Protection: When a streamer encounters poor network conditions when streaming IRL, our system automatically switches their screen to display their most popular clips and let the viewers know that connection has been lost and that the streamer will be back soon. \n\n🔵 Remote Stream Management: Bigger streamers have remote teams that are not necessarily at the streaming location. The streaming server allows team members and moderators to edit and manage the stream from anywhere in the world.\n\n🔵 Switch without ending stream: Without Streamable, streamers only have one input to their stream, causing them to need to end the stream in order to switch cameras (for example, switching from Desktop camera to IRL phone camera). With Streamable, they can switch cameras while livestreaming with a press of a button in our UI.\n\n🔵 Collab Stream: Streaming platforms accept one input to the stream, making it impossible for streamers to share the same camera feed when collaborating. Streamable allows streamers to share inputs with other streamers with on-platform friend requests, so that all streamers can share the same camera easily.\n\n# **Progress So Far:**\n\nIn the past 3 months, we’ve gotten a stable product that is the best on the market. We are also powering many of the biggest streamers and working with production teams for Adin Ross’ Brand Risk, Sperm Racing, FaZe Clan, EdwardKSo, etc. \n\nThrough working with these streamers, we’ve discovered that the IRL streaming industry is growing extremely fast, has very underrated cultural relevance, and is currently extremely underserved. We believe streamers deserve so, so much better, and that’s what we’re here to do, starting with this first product!\n\n# **ABOUT US:**\n\n🔵 Nang Ang is a top Twitch streamer in the Software & Game Development category and has a B.S.&M.S @ CMU in Computer Engineering. He has been sharing his startup and entertiaing projects on Youtube and Twitch, and has grown a community of over 200k followers and 30 million total views on social media.\n\n🔵 Manav Bokinala has built across infrastructure, AI, and consumer products — from co-founding an AI-powered app builder, to architecting distributed systems for an AI GTM platform, to shipping a consumer social app. He's now focused on solving the hardest problems in live streaming infrastructure.\n\n# **Our Ask:**\n\nIf you IRL stream or know any IRL streamers - check Streamable out at ! We’re sure you’ll love it\n\n# **More Links if you’re interested:**\n\nFollow Streamable on X: \n\nFollow Streamable on Instagram: [https://instagram.com/streamabledotrun](https://x.com/streamabledotrun)\n\nJoin our Discord: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85482&key=user_uploads/1119010/b1d5c5ca-f339-46ab-a55c-d8c794d10017)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MEk-streamable-never-irl-stream-with-issues-again", "votes": 334, "created_at": "2024-11-12T20:29:31.966Z" }, { "id": 85406, "title": "vly.ai - automated full-stack web development", "tagline": "The easiest way to create custom full-stack software without writing code", "body": "**tl;dr -** [vly.ai](http://vly.ai) makes your entire team technical. We use expert insights & automation to deliver apps that grow faster & perform better, at 10x less cost.\n\n\n\n# **Our ask:**\n\nShare us ([www.vly.ai](https://www.vly.ai)) with people you know who need a custom web application (CRM, customer dashboard, etc)!\n\n# **The Problem: Traditional web development is slow and expensive**\n\n* Time-consuming with high hourly fees\n* Hiring and maintaining a technical team is costly\n* Long wait times for updates and launches\n* Hard to deliver custom features quickly\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n### Experts guide you through development, delivery, & growth\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXddUe6HBnTLfPh_Hylgm9XvCTeATPL2dVc0Y6w_vAMZzWKMuk3nwVLenxnU0vubXyNOy5CaCO1lLF-NfmcGlhnh_HAEHHrpjiE-UDDccTz7s6oVEJUWp56ZnDdeZolEFaCRIytQCQ?key=Rofjj3L0nHor8aOdKiEi1VVm)\n\nWhile typical tools provide no guarantees on solving your issues, we sit down with you to ensure your vision is delivered. 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Our experts also review & test the results alongside you.\n\n### A no-code platform to visually understand your application\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeC4D_XnRcW4V8fWfeRSGxPePWD9cr02esFFuTmxcFNntnneaQWauOaRd310Ct8rin9PAnoEb25CAc9rs_wemeLX9IScwecPtFshELeTy1A373G03vNU2U1VfXE9wf-PkNwi0PeTg?key=Rofjj3L0nHor8aOdKiEi1VVm)\n\nWe go beyond solely writing pure code by building a visual representation of your entire project context, allowing you to easily scale the complexity of your application.\n\n### A point-&-click tool to make changes instantly\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85406&key=user_uploads/1357897/0d4ea8a6-c777-49f1-819a-f5ba0ad40821)\n\nWe provide an effortless way for people who can’t code to make simple changes quickly. 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For the 140 million couples in the US, daily connection is getting harder, not because of a lack of love, but because of emotional drift, missed communication, and growing incompatibility. Careers, social media, and the relentless pace of life turn quality time into background noise. And this problem will only increase for the next generation of couples and friends.\n\nWe believe most relationships don’t end suddenly. They slowly fade from a lack of consistent emotional connection.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nCandle is a private space for couples or friends to connect every day, simply and intentionally.\n\nWhat started as a swipeable question game has evolved into a full platform:\n\n• Daily Prompts and Games: Rotating questions, quizzes, audio, and photo prompt challenges!\n\n• Local Date Ideas and Events: 60 curated ideas that refresh every week, usable anywhere in the world and on any date range!\n\n• Canvas and Countdown Widgets: An interactive way to leave notes, doodles, drawings, and status updates directly on each other's home screens, a playful way to stay connected even when you're apart. Set countdowns directly on your home screen for when you see each other next, trips, dates, and more.\n\n• Streaks and Progress: Reward streaks through small daily or weekly moments of connection together\n\n• Adaptive Decks: Personalized, smarter questions over time\n\n• Shared Albums and Memories: A visual log of your relationship\n\nWhether long distance or living together, Candle helps people create daily emotional momentum, the often overlooked key to long-term connection.\n\nYouTube Launch Video:\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PHArmvw4qw**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PHArmvw4qw)\n\n**Since launching our beta 5 months ago!**\n\n**We’re currently at:**\n\n• 110k MAUs\n\n• 46k DAUs\n\n(active = someone who’s completed a card connection with their partner)\n\n**The Team**\n\nParth (ex Asana, ex Twitter engineer) and I, Alex (ex iOS/Architecture at Apple, ex flight systems at NASA), have been friends for quite a while and have built multiple projects together, including shopencore.ai, a tool to search across hundreds of resale sites in one place.\n\nCandle is the result of everything we learned during our long stretch of pivots and side projects. It’s the first thing we’ve built that people not only use, they come back to daily, and a core problem that we’ve faced ourselves. That’s what makes us excited to keep going :)\n\n**Links**\n\n**• Download the app! —> [https://www.trycandle.app](https://www.trycandle.app/)**\n\n• Join the Community: r/candleapp ([https://www.reddit.com/r/candleapp)](https://www.reddit.com/r/candleapp/\\)%5C)\n\n• Follow the journey: [https://www.instagram.com/candlecouples](https://www.instagram.com/candlecouples/)\n\n• Support email: [support@trycandle.app](mailto:support@trycandle.app)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93206&key=user_uploads/342376/f7d11824-0d56-46ca-b702-4d1932653149)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OFK-candle-the-duolingo-for-relationships", "votes": 55, "created_at": "2025-08-20T21:28:22.854Z" }, { "id": 85412, "title": "🪄👗 Encore – The Perplexity for Online Shopping ", "tagline": "Discover, curate, and elevate your shopping experience with hidden gems from across the internet.", "body": "**TLDR**: Encore is your all-in-one shopping assistant for discovering secondhand gems. We make it easy to find unique treasures from across the internet. With our conversational search engine, you can seamlessly browse and refine your search across hundreds of resale platforms like Depop, eBay, Grailed, Poshmark, and more. Get inspired, follow product influencers, read unbiased reviews, receive styling tips, learn about trends, and even find items inspired by TV shows, movies, or social media—all in one place.\\\n\\\nTry it today: [**www.shopencore.ai**](https://www.chat.shopencore.ai/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85412&key=user_uploads/342376/ac61d819-2a0c-4359-8d8f-da9a5d3b9a22)\n\n### \n\n---\n\n### **✨ The Future of Online Shopping**\n\nAt Encore, we see shopping as an experience that flows naturally, allowing you to start broad, zoom into specifics, or expand to new ideas as you explore. One moment, you’re looking for Rat and Boa dresses; the next, you're after Cartier jewelry and Manolo Blahnik kitten heels to match. This ever-changing experience is where a conversational medium shines. The future of search and discovery in shopping will be a place where you have a personal, 24/7 shopping assistant—and not like those annoying ones you find in stores that push you to buy things, but a guide who senses what you like, adapts seamlessly to your shifts in taste, and offers thoughtful recommendations and inspiration until you find something you truly love.\\\n\\\nOur vision is for everyone to have a personal shopping expert that feels like an extension of yourself, helping you find hidden treasures effortlessly. Eventually, Encore will be able to take care of sourcing and shopping tasks on your behalf, making the experience even more seamless and personalized.\n\n\n\n### \n\n### **🎨 Core Features**\n\n**Encore Chat** (Your personal shopping assistant): Ask Encore for inspo, product recs, unbiased reviews, styling tips, trends, and even find items inspired by TV shows, movies, or social media—all in one place. Eventually it will be able to carry out actions as well.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85412&key=user_uploads/342376/fd3e7447-217a-4161-9f0a-96f5678267bb)\n\n**FYP (For You Page):** Curated, one-of-a-kind finds from across the internet—tailored to your style. Refreshes daily. Unlike traditional feeds tied to one brand, Encore’s FYP pulls in items from a variety of categories—fashion, furniture, collectibles, books, electronics, and more—with fresh recommendations every day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85412&key=user_uploads/342376/037e8a01-6b9b-4622-a762-532d651046f7)\n\n**Curated Boards:** Under trending items, you can find curated collections to help you get inspiration! We'll soon be giving Encore users the chance to submit their own collections. This allows us to lean more into community and discovery driven side of shopping\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85412&key=user_uploads/342376/750675ae-334b-4dc4-9b4a-32665d037563)\n\n---\n\n### \n\n---\n\n---\n\n### **👋 Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85412&key=user_uploads/342376/b63b4f7c-19b2-4e4f-8b68-f9fef9f7a4a2)\n\nWe’re Parth and Alex.\n\n[Parth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthematics/) is a Berkeley EECS alum and has experience in search and ads ranking at Twitter, and most recently led a product engineering team at Asana. \n\nI ([Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-ruber/)) was an architecture software engineer at Apple in the Hardware Division and previously worked as a flight software engineer at NASA JPL on the InSight and Juno Missions.\n\nOur shared passion for shopping, tech, and building meaningful consumer experiences led us to build Encore, bringing the thrill of finding unique treasures to the resale market and making secondhand shopping feel as exciting as buying new. \n\n---\n\n### \n\n### **🤝 Quick Ask**\n\n* Feedback: If you have 10 minutes to chat with us about anything related to Encore, thoughts, advice, feedback, intros to creators/shopping influencers, or anything else please book a time here with us! \n\n As a thank-you, we’ll offer two free months of Encore Pro for helping us refine the experience.\n* You can follow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/shopencoreapp) and [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/encore-ai-labs). [You can also join our community on Discord](https://discord.com/invite/Xesc8Q9D7Y). \\\n \\\n Our DMs/Emails are always open :)\n\n \n\n**Try Encore today at **[**www.shopencore.ai**](https://www.chat.shopencore.ai/)**!** Curious what we’ve got our eyes on? Check out our curated favorites (my [favorites](https://www.chat.shopencore.ai/favorites/115825083761151170559) + Parth’s [favorites](https://www.chat.shopencore.ai/favorites/1c30e0dd-6237-44c4-957b-7d526d1ec7a2))!\n\n✨ _Pro tip: Encore is perfect for finding last-minute vintage ugly sweaters this Christmas or unique holiday gifts!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MDc-encore-the-perplexity-for-online-shopping", "votes": 203, "created_at": "2024-11-10T14:59:11.782Z" } ] }, { "id": 30032, "name": "Darkgrade", "slug": "darkgrade", "former_names": [ "Coblocks" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdfc2cbde82e44ba7028fcc0e806374a31e74349.png", "website": "https://darkgrade.com", "all_locations": "Denver, CO, USA", "long_description": "We're building a protocol for large language models to directly interface with image sensors.", "one_liner": "Let your camera understand the world", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1731328761, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Social Media", "Video", "Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "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/darkgrade", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/darkgrade.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Denver", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/darkgrade", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdfc2cbde82e44ba7028fcc0e806374a31e74349.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1242764, "full_name": "Kevin Schaich", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Let your camera understand the world with Darkgrade", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinschaich/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kevin_schaich", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e4a7f36cfe27ece4494690865ae375e99304778e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 30052, "name": "ISSEN", "slug": "issen", "former_names": [ "Issen", "issen" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7cd641f60601d1542af5d677938a1afb3b727537.png", "website": "https://issen.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "ISSEN is an AI conversational language app that helps you become fluent. Your on-demand voice tutor is personal to you, adapting lessons and chats to your particular interests, learning style, and goals. Our mission is to transform language learning by offering a level of connection, effectiveness and fun that, until now, only human teachers could provide.", "one_liner": "AI realtime voice companion for language learning", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1729707215, "tags": [ "Education", "Generative AI", "Consumer", "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/issen", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/issen.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/105774803/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7cd641f60601d1542af5d677938a1afb3b727537.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 229790, "full_name": "Mariano Sorgente", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder and CEO of ISSEN, your AI foreign language tutor. \nExperienced in crypto and AI, in engineering and VC.\nPreviously a16z partner.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorgente", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sorgente711", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5c9d037f64e01e441fc5d19c5875236b74375809.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85733, "title": "ISSEN - your personalized AI voice language tutor", "tagline": "Your on-demand, realtime voice tutor adapts lessons and chats to your particular skill level, interests, learning style, and goals.", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\nISSEN is an AI realtime voice language app that helps you become fluent in any language. Your on-demand voice tutor is personal to _you_, adapting lessons and chats to your skill level, particular interests, learning style, and goals. Try it at [issen.com](http://issen.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85733&key=user_uploads/2292308/ee13ea2a-72c1-430a-ba4a-12e2dff909bd)\n\n# **The problem:**\n\nConversation is essential for learning a language, yet no app provides truly free-flowing dialogue. At best, current solutions have you respond to preset messages to evaluate your pronunciation and word choice.\n\nThe only effective solution for this is non-technological: a language tutor. Having a tutor can be awesome, but there are real downsides: these can be costly ([$20/hour on italki on average](https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/italki-Salaries-E348674.htm)), difficult to schedule, and have a high upfront cost (finding a tutor you like often forces you to cycle through a few that you don’t).\n\n# **The solution**\n\nWe set out to redefine what a language learning app can be—not by building on existing solutions, but by starting with the experience of a human tutor.\n\nISSEN is a true language tutor, accessible anytime from your computer or phone. Conversations can be as structured or open-ended as you like—dive into focused grammar lessons or have a casual chat about your day. Over time, you build a relationship with your AI tutor, which means that as they get to know you, they tailor conversations and lesson plans to your needs–but will never judge you when you make a mistake! Plus, our AI tutors are deeply multi-lingual, so if you are a Danish/Mandarin Chinese native looking to learn Gujarati, ISSEN is the app for you.\n\nOur mission is to transform language learning by delivering the connection, effectiveness, and fun that, until now, only human teachers could offer.\n\n\n\n# **The team**\n\nWe’re Mariano and Anton, co-founders who met at Stanford and share a passion for language learning. Mariano is a former crypto engineer and VC at a16z, and has dedicated years to mastering Japanese. Anton, a native Spanish, English, and Italian speaker, spent seven years at Palantir kickstarting and building Palantir LATAM and leading infrastructure as Chief Architect of Infrastructure, Security, and Hosting.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85733&key=user_uploads/2292308/a8d89083-8164-46a6-9854-60ad8bae9245)\n\n# **How you can help**\n\nIf you’re serious about improving your foreign language skills—or know someone who is—you can try the app now at [issen.com](http://issen.com). The web app is live (with iOS and Android versions coming soon). Just enter your email, explore the features, and share your feedback with us at [founders@issen.com](mailto:founders@issen.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MIn-issen-your-personalized-ai-voice-language-tutor", "votes": 120, "created_at": "2024-11-20T18:35:35.009Z" } ] }, { "id": 30064, "name": "HYBRD", "slug": "hybrd", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d43a2e4ad2a1d85682aa3ad5a84240ff8cd7dca.png", "website": "https://www.hybrd.com/", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "The mission of HYBRD is to take world-class coaching and make it universally available. \r\n\r\nHealth data has never been more abundant. GPS watches track pace and heart rate, wearables monitor sleep and recovery, and voice logging has made it easier than ever to capture weightlifting and HYROX. \r\n\r\nAnd yet most athletes are still following static PDF plans they found online, or \"adaptive\" apps that fall apart the moment cross-training enters the picture.\r\n\r\nExisting tools feel disappointing because they don’t actually know your goals and constraints, so they can’t do anything meaningful with the data they collect. \r\nHYBRD can. \r\n\r\nWe aggregate your wearable data, fill the gaps with a simple AI logger, and use that complete picture to build personalized training programs from the best coaches in the world, like Alex Viada, who coined the term \"hybrid athlete.\" \r\n\r\nFrom there, the HYBRD agent keeps you on track, adjusting your schedule around weather, travel, and fatigue as you progress. Everything you'd get from a $500/month coach, at a 50x lower price. \r\n\r\nFounded in 2024 by WHOOP and AWS alumni, HYBRD is built by hybrid athletes. Join us for a workout every Monday morning in San Francisco and Boston.", "one_liner": "coaching agents for athletes", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1730403041, "tags": [ "Health Tech", "Consumer", "Fitness", "Digital Health", "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/hybrd", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/hybrd.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Boston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hybrd-do-hard-things/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/hybrd_app", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hybrd", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d43a2e4ad2a1d85682aa3ad5a84240ff8cd7dca.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1851275, "full_name": "Ben Katz", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO of HYBRD. Led growth at WHOOP. VP for fitness portfolio at Appex (mobile app roll-up). Ironman + ultra finisher, but weightlifter at heart. \n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminlkatz/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/benlkatz", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/98aab4327f95225192493100daa02ff730fadc48.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1833503, "full_name": "Matt Ruiters", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "🇿🇦 Co-founder & CTO of HYBRD. Former senior software engineer and “bar-raiser” at AWS. Ironman 70.3 x2, HYROX athlete, junior US national rugby team. \n\nClaude Coach in my spare time. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-c-ruiters/", "x_url": "https://x.com/__ruiters", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/70064392a49241cc874a0ee05c2def112a6a877f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1862703, "full_name": "Caroline \"Shoe\" Shoemaker", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & COO of HYBRD. First analytics team hire at WHOOP, VP for productivity portfolio at Appex (mobile app roll-up company). Ironman and HYROX athlete, former competitive swimmer. On a mission to #BeatTheBoys\n\n\n. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoe-shoemaker/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cf5e4924f31784047bdbb25945f5cd1d81ce98e0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1315661, "full_name": "Mats Terwiesch", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of HYBRD. Led core product teams at WHOOP while training on the US national rowing team. Previously published health + AI research at Harvard. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mats-terwiesch/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b86925b09dffc47f65dd5aa10a82ec296b030894.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 115915, "title": "HYBRD: turn your AI agent into a fitness coach", "tagline": "Connect wearables, understand training history, send plans to smartwatches", "body": "Lifters, runners, triathletes, cyclists: you can now turn your personal AI agent into a fitness coach with HYBRD. Once you connect to the HYBRD MCP, your AI agent will be able to: \n\n* Access and understand all your historical training data\n* Use that data to make workouts and training plans\n* Push those recommendations to your device (watch and/or phone) so you can execute the workouts\n\n**To get set up, just paste this into Claude / Muse / Instinct:** \n\nset up \\\n\\\nMillions of athletes already build training plans inside their favorite AI tool. But those tools have no access to wearable data, no memory from one session to the next, and no way to get a workout from the chat window onto an athlete's watch. HYBRD MCP closes that gap.\n\nThe first thing you should try with HYBRD MCP is to ask something like: \n\n* Across all my runs, when did I have the best ratio between grade adjusted pace and heart rate?\n* What was my most consistent phase ever? \n* What was the difference between my Napa Marathon prep and Boston Marathon prep?\n\nThen have it write you a training plan for your next goal: \n\n* Using the workouts I did most consistently, come up with a plan for Ironman California\n* Help me ramp back up to what I used to lift while maintaining my running volume\n* I’m traveling and will only have access to hotel gyms for a while, modify my current training plan\n\nHYBRD will write those workouts back to your wearable and phone, so you just have to click “start” and you’ll get guided through the plan\n\nYou can also use our companion mobile app to make tracking lifting easy, or track your runs using your phone’s GPS if you don’t have a smartwatch. \n\nHYBRD will manage your wearables connection, be a system of record for your training plan / completed workouts, and steer LLMs towards giving better fitness coaching\n\nThe experience gets especially magical with tools like Muse or Instinct, which can proactively check the local weather, block off time on your calendar, order the right fueling for you etc. \n\nSleep, recovery and nutrition data support are coming in the next few days. \n\nWe have a few thousand athletes on HYBRD so far, check out what they’re doing with it below: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=115915&key=user_uploads/1315661/ba90bd48-3082-495a-97de-a5b4bcb80d5d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=115915&key=user_uploads/1315661/cd6fc55c-c6e3-4cd1-9adc-89e6e0429da4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=115915&key=user_uploads/1315661/df460c1b-8fe8-46bf-b60c-6b13ebbdebd8)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=115915&key=user_uploads/1315661/1fa83022-70ae-49cd-8c18-613955ff486b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=115915&key=user_uploads/1315661/e99327d7-3a83-4373-8ce7-e1948cd1e8d3)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=115915&key=user_uploads/1315661/9a2561b4-c0b7-4d60-822b-05f0184ee4df)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/U9b-hybrd-turn-your-ai-agent-into-a-fitness-coach", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-09-17T20:41:16.655Z" }, { "id": 100595, "title": "HYBRD - agentic coaching for athletes", "tagline": "get faster and stronger", "body": "Hey YC! We’re the team behind HYBRD - Ruiters, Shoe, Ben, Michael and Mats. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100595&key=user_uploads/1315661/b570d491-7243-4a3c-8660-ca425a646339)\n\nWe’re excited to share that today **HYBRD is becoming a coach in your pocket.** It’s like having a $500/month private coach on call 24/7. We provide a world-class training plan, then adapt it based on your life, progress, and recovery to keep you on track. \n\n\\\n[LINK TO DEMO VIDEO](https://youtube.com/shorts/PgPKkJqbYs0)\n\nASK: [TRY IT NOW ON THE APP STORE](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hybrd-get-faster-stronger/id6670271875)\n\n\\\n**Introducing HYBRD Brain**\n\nHYBRD Brain is our AI-powered coach built on top of HYBRD's structured training plans. Tell Brain about your schedule, sport mix, travel, or injuries — and it restructures your entire plan accordingly.\n\n## **⭐ Why HYBRD is different**\n\nThese aren't ChatGPT-slop training plans.\n\nWe've partnered with Alex Viada (creator of the term \"hybrid athlete\") and his Complete Human Performance team to use their world-class programming as HYBRD's foundation. Our agent adapts those plans to you while preserving best-in-class athletic methodology.\n\n(Alex also bought an iPhone just to use HYBRD)\n\n**HYBRD Brain can coach you to achieve anything**\n\n* Training for a marathon but also playing soccer twice a week? HYBRD Brain adjusts your running volume.\n* Tweaked your Achilles and need to back off temporarily? HYBRD Brain rebuilds your training block.\n* Traveling for work and missed three sessions? HYBRD Brain recalculates what comes next so you don’t lose momentum.\n\nInstead of forcing you to follow a plan that breaks on contact with reality, HYBRD Brain builds a plan that adapts to you. \n\n**HYBRD actually does things**\n\nChatting with your health data is cool, but not useful. Most apps just regurgitate your charts back to you (you know how to read a graph) and recommend the CDC's 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week.\n\nThese tools feel disappointing because they don't know your actual goals and constraints, like upcoming races, equipment and your schedule, so they can't do anything meaningful with the data they collect.\n\nHYBRD understands your goals and proactively proposes adjustments that fit your plan. Unplanned workouts, missed sessions, fatigue, cross-training, new PRs… HYBRD recognizes these moments and reorganizes your schedule around them.\n\n**HYBRD uses ALL of your workout data**\n\nEvery workout you do is a puzzle piece in a broader picture of performance. But fitness tracking data is siloed across multiple domains. You might track your running data on a Garmin, your sleep/recovery on WHOOP and your strength training in a spreadsheet. \n\nIt kinda works if you’re _just_ a runner or _just_ a lifter.\n\nBut more and more people are becoming “hybrid” athletes who focus on strength _and_ cardio, so they’re left stitching together multiple data sources to see the full picture.\n\nDo it wrong and you risk “cardio killing your gains”\n\n**HYBRD is adaptive to your history, current level and progress**\n\nHYBRD integrates with all leading wearables and data sources, pulling in your full workout history and deduplicating it. From that data, we give you a holistic view of your strength and cardio fitness, normalized for age, gender, and weight, as a single score you can track over time.\n\nCycling, running, rowing, lifting: we interpret it all to model your physiology and personalize your plan.\n\nSay you want to train more like Alex Viada. You probably aren't deadlifting 700lbs and logging 15+ hours a week (yet?). We scale the fundamentals of his programming down to exactly where you are now.\n\n**FitBench**\n\nOk, it wouldn't be an AI launch without benchmarking.\n\nWe built **FitBench**, a benchmark that evaluates an AI coach across four dimensions: Scientific accuracy, athlete safety, recommendation actionability and conciseness across 25 common coaching scenarios. We used Opus 4.6 as an LLM-as-a-judge to score HYBRD Brain against current ChatGPT and its predecessors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100595&key=user_uploads/1315661/c6e545d7-114b-4cc5-9e1f-806f7197e7d2)\n\nBut how does that compare with human coaches?\n\nWe had HYBRD sit for the **Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)** exam, which is the gold standard in coaching. You need 70% to pass (half of all human test-takers don't make it). HYBRD scored 77%.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100595&key=user_uploads/1315661/4cfa2415-0d8f-4106-850b-f15fcf307d54)\n\n\\\n**Our Story**\n\nBen, Mats, and Shoe all met while working on getting WHOOP to PMF. At the time, outside of work, Mats was training on the US national rowing team and Ben + Shoe were making their first forays into Ironman training.\n\nWe realized that fitness hardware was getting really good, but also was being commoditized. (Just take a look at Coros brutally undercutting Garmin prices)\n\nFor all the data being collected, existing products weren’t providing real coaching to multi-disciplinary “hybrid” athletes like us, partly because none were built to handle strength + cardio data, and partly because models weren’t good enough. \n\nMost athletes are still following static PDF plans they found online, or \"adaptive\" apps that fall apart the moment cross-training enters the picture.\n\nWe teamed up with our co-founder and CTO Ruiters (a senior AWS engineer at the time) and Michael (our founding engineer) to solve that with HYBRD. \n\nIf that problem resonates with you, [try a 7 day free trial of HYBRD!](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hybrd-get-faster-stronger/id6670271875)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QAV-hybrd-agentic-coaching-for-athletes", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-04-30T14:42:21.007Z" }, { "id": 95448, "title": "HYBRD: Get faster & stronger", "tagline": "World-class training plans personalized perfectly to you", "body": "**TLDR:** HYBRD (F24) is launching personalized strength + 5k/10k/half-marathon/marathon plans to make you faster and stronger! The training plans are by world-class coach Alex Viada, the guy who literally wrote the book that started the _hybrid athlete_ movement. We personalize his plans perfectly to you based on your data and preferences.\n\n**You can check out a demo here:** https://youtube.com/shorts/WCzKPLmS_A4?feature=share\n\n**Asks**\n\n* Get ridiculously fit so that you live longer and show up as the best version of yourselves for your friends and families\n* Do this by trying our 7 day free trial (find us on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hybrd-get-faster-stronger/id6670271875))\n* Stay motivated by joining our free weekly workout clubs in San Francisco and Boston (email me at [mats@hybrd.app](mailto:mats@hybrd.app) to join the groupchat)\n* Pay it forward by sharing HYBRD with the most athletic people you know\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/2636ea96-f4e3-4c5a-9fb9-03a49e4d7e30)\n\n(pictured above is Alex Viada - if you’re not familiar, he wrote the first book on hybrid training and an inspiration to many, many coaches and athletes in this space. He bought an iPhone just to try HYBRD and we’ve since launched a partnership to provide his training plans on the platform)\\\n\\\n**Ok.. I want to be strong and fast, but what are you actually building?**\n\nWe break down the silos between your cardio, strength and wearable data to give you a complete view of your performance.\n\nThen we use that data to personalize training plans from world-class coaches to you. We’re ex-WHOOP, ex-US national rowing team, triathletes / ultramarathoners ourselves and are building the training platform that we wish had existed for us.\\\n\\\n**Why do I need a separate app for this?**\n\nEvery workout you do is a puzzle piece in a broader picture of performance. But fitness tracking data is siloed across multiple domains. You might track your running data on a Garmin, your sleep/recovery on WHOOP and your strength training in a spreadsheet.\n\nIt kinda works if you’re _just_ a runner or _just_ a lifter.\n\nBut more and more people are becoming “hybrid” athletes who focus on strength _and_ cardio, so they’re left stitching together multiple data sources to see the full picture.\n\nDo it wrong and you risk “cardio killing your gains”\n\n**What are you guys doing about it?**\n\nFirst, HYBRD integrates with all leading wearables and data sources. We pull in as much historical data as we can. We pull in your workouts and deduplicate them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/ea007cfa-7a37-4fe1-ac3a-cf3766489e8f)\n\nThen, we make it really easy to track your weightlifting, CrossFit, HYROX - things that aren’t well suited for tracking on a wearable.\n\nYou can use text to input your workout to our AI logger - or, simply upload a picture of your training journal, a whiteboard from a HYROX gym, or a screenshot from an app you already use.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/d7b6ae82-a69f-44ef-85de-eafad05467e6)\n\nBased on that data, we provide a holistic view of your strength and cardio abilities, normalized for age/gender/weight and give you a single score (analogous to a chess Elo score) that you can use to track your progress.\n\nCycling, running, rowing, lifting data can all be interpreted and used to model your physiology.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/40a31bf9-1e3d-4cf3-98e1-f8b3ea2cd8a4)\n\nThat gives us all the information we need to know to personalize a training plan for you.\n\nFor example - lets say you want to be more like Alex Viada, the guy I mentioned above. You might not deadlift 700lb+ and be training 15+ hours a week (yet?), so we can scale down the fundamentals of his training plan to whatever is right for you:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/316c1a00-295f-4498-a9a7-52a70ed43a06)\n\nThese training plans have been developed by likely the most reputable coaching organization in hybrid athletics - Complete Human Performance (shout out to Alex as well as Trevor Tartaglia and Ariana Scalfo!)\n\nAnd once you have that workout plan, we can push it directly to your Garmin (Coros + Apple Watch coming soon), so you can easily run through the workout on the go.\n\nYou’ll be motivated to keep making progress by pushing up your Training Score, which is the first metric to encapsulate both strength and cardio training load, developed by us and Anna Cruse, the Director of Applied Health and Performance Science at the University of Utah.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/c04f9964-96e3-457c-a1e5-b03c8fd2fc8c)\n\n**Where is this all going?**\n\nWe’ve already had hundreds of thousands of workouts get processed when HYBRD was a tracking-only app, so we’re really pumped about taking things to the next level by adding in adaptive programming.\n\nWe’re going to keep adding more plan types (HYROX, triathlon coming soon) as well as more personalization levers (probably sleep + recovery etc.)\n\nRight now we’re iOS only but stay tuned on the Android side.\n\n**Who are you to tell me how to get stronger + faster..?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95448&key=user_uploads/1315661/3a16ba00-2b5e-4607-bda2-b0152ec649a2)\n\n**Well, we’ve got a great team!**\n\n(from left to right)\n\n* our CTO [**@Matt Ruiters**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1833503) was a USA Rugby All-American and a former senior SWE at AWS\n* [**@Caroline \"Shoe\" Shoemaker**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1862703) was the first analytics hire at WHOOP, later GM for a productivity app portfolio at Appex and is racing an Ironman this weekend\n* CEO [**@Ben Katz**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1851275) led growth at WHOOP, later GM for a fitness app portfolio at Appex and is also racing an Ironman (against Shoe) this weekend\n* Our founding engineer Michael Battaglia is a former WHOOP software engineer and rowed for Cornell\n* [**@Mats Terwiesch**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1315661) was a core product manager at WHOOP, was concurrently on the US National Rowing Team, ran a 50mi ultramarathon last weekend and previously published health + AI research at Harvard\n\nand we’re just getting started!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OpU-hybrd-get-faster-stronger", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-11-13T19:11:11.440Z" }, { "id": 89832, "title": "HYBRD: the Performance Hub for Modern Athletes", "tagline": "Sync cardio, strength and wearable data for a complete view of athletic performance", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nHYBRD is the performance hub for modern athletes. We break down the silos between your cardio, strength and wearable data to give you a complete view of your performance. We’re ex-WHOOP, ex-US national rowing team, triathletes / ultramarathoners and are building the app that we wish existed for us.\n\nAfter a great invite-only beta with hundreds of paying users, **we’ve just launched publicly on the** [**iOS App Store**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hybrd-hybrid-athlete-tracker/id6670271875)!\n\n\\\nFull demo video here: \n\n**The problem** \n\nEvery workout you do is a puzzle piece in a broader picture of performance. But fitness tracking data is siloed across multiple domains. You might track your running data on a Garmin, your sleep/recovery on WHOOP and your strength training in a spreadsheet. \n\nIt works if you’re _just_ a runner or _just_ a lifter. \n\nBut more and more people are becoming “hybrid” athletes who focus on strength _and_ cardio, so they’re left stitching together multiple data sources to see the full picture.\n\nUntil now. \n\n**Solution**\n\nFirst, HYBRD integrates with all leading wearables and data sources. We pull in as much historical data as we can. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89832&key=user_uploads/1315661/1c56a0fe-5540-48db-9739-8d70739f7503)\n\nThen, we make it really easy to track your weightlifting.\n\nYou can use text to input your workout to our AI logger - or, simply upload a picture of your training journal, a whiteboard from a HYROX/CrossFit gym, or a screenshot from an app you already use.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89832&key=user_uploads/1315661/649eacd0-e23e-4f46-8374-ae3e6a069399)\n\nBased on that data, we provide a holistic view of your strength and cardio abilities, normalized for age/gender/weight and give you a single score (analogous to a chess Elo score) that you can compare with your training buddies.\n\n\\\nWe recently launched a trends feature so you can see all your data from all your data sources over time. And we’re working with one of the best coaches in the country to put together training plans for you (coming soon into the app) \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89832&key=user_uploads/1315661/fbb6c4d1-8d4d-48cb-a263-041ae6de0b43)\n\n**Asks**\n\n1. Try our 7 day free trial! \\[[link to App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hybrd-hybrid-athlete-tracker/id6670271875)\\]\n2. Share our app with the most athletic people you know\n3. Join our free weekly workout clubs in San Francisco and Boston (all welcome, contact us at [founders@hybrd.app](mailto:founders@hybrd.app), and let us know if you want a free Ironman 70.3 or marathon training plan)\n\n**Team**\n\nThree of our founders previously worked at WHOOP, each of us leading teams across product, growth and analytics. Our CTO, Matt, was a senior technical lead at Amazon AWS\n\nWe all are hybrid athletes ourselves - Mats was a member of the US national rowing team and Shoe, Ben and Ruiters have all completed Ironman 70.3s. \n\nEach of us felt underserved by existing fitness apps to the point where we tracked our workouts in Google Sheets, so we decided to build HYBRD.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89832&key=user_uploads/1315661/75a21bcd-311d-43cd-ba33-7451c9bdeb79)\n\nShoutout to the HYBRD Workout Club!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89832&key=user_uploads/1315661/e76b5fdc-8c51-4323-99c6-6b9365326cef)\n\nWhat’s your HYBRD score?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89832&key=user_uploads/1315661/0c7ed21b-29ab-41ba-adee-7279bfe249dc)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NMu-hybrd-the-performance-hub-for-modern-athletes", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2025-04-24T17:25:14.152Z" }, { "id": 85200, "title": "HYBRD: fitness OS for elite athletes", "tagline": "Don't let cardio kill your gains.", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nHYBRD is Strava for elite athletes who do more than just cardio. We’re ex-WHOOP, ex-US national rowing team, triathletes/ultramarathoners, and we are building the app that we wish existed for us.\n\n**Problem**\n\nAthletes who train **both strength and cardio** lack a unified way to track and visualize their training. They track cardio with apps like Garmin, Coros, WHOOP, or Strava and log strength workouts with others like Hevy, Strong, Stronglifts, or even good ol’ pen and paper.\n\nThis fragmented tracking makes it difficult to train effectively and impossible to compete with friends who train in different disciplines.\n\n**Solution**\n\nFirst, HYBRD integrates with **all leading wearables** to pull in your runs, rides, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85200&key=user_uploads/1315661/3c50b8d2-8148-4906-b8a5-05904686ec4a)\n\nThen, we make it really easy to track your weightlifting.\n\nYou can input your workout to our AI logger using text— or simply **upload a picture of your training journal**, a whiteboard from a CrossFit gym, or a screenshot from an app you already use.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85200&key=user_uploads/1315661/7c27a8dd-957c-4b2e-a295-2142cde54835)\n\nBased on that data, we provide a holistic view of your strength and cardio abilities, normalized for age/gender/weight, and give you a **single score** (analogous to a chess Elo score) that you can compare with your training buddies.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85200&key=user_uploads/1315661/073cb4f1-96da-4693-8d15-b482766761a5)\n\nIn the coming weeks, we’ll be adding more detailed analyses and **competitive social features**.\\\n\\\n**Asks**\n\n1. [Apply to join HYBRD](https://www.hybrd.app/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launchyc)\n2. Share this post with the most athletic people you know\n\n**Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85200&key=user_uploads/1315661/3292afcd-5fce-4eeb-a45e-3a0d1e63b059)\n\nThree of our founders previously worked at WHOOP, each of us leading teams across product, growth, and analytics. Our CTO, Ruiters, was a senior technical lead at Amazon AWS.\n\nWe are all hybrid athletes ourselves—Mats was a member of the US national rowing team, and Shoe, Ben, and Ruiters have all completed Ironman 70.3s. \n\nEach of us felt underserved by existing fitness apps— to the point where we tracked our workouts in Google Sheets— so we decided to build HYBRD.\\\n\\\nCheck out our demo video here: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MAC-hybrd-fitness-os-for-elite-athletes", "votes": 73, "created_at": "2024-10-31T22:02:49.644Z" } ] }, { "id": 30065, "name": "Charm", "slug": "withcharm", "former_names": [ "BeerMe" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bdd48a02de2e277524168808bf7edcd14c995ed9.png", "website": "https://charm.cash/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Charm makes sending money as easy as sending email. Most people juggle multiple payment apps and scattered balances. 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He previously led growth at Genie, the first NFT marketplace aggregator, which did $500M in trading volume, before it was acquired by Uniswap. He studied business at the University of Southern California, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Universitá Bocconi. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-newfield-208a40129/", "x_url": "https://x.com/NoahNewfield", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ab5ad62ec89b7acc9b1c30416fa7acadd3fed118.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84970, "title": "BeerMe - A fun, global alternative to Venmo built on USDC", "tagline": "BeerMe is a community payments platform that makes sending money fun and personal. ", "body": "Hey YC! We’re [Gray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gray-newfield-447b9b111/) and [Noah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-newfield-208a40129/), co-founders of [BeerMe](https://beerme.world/).\n\n**The Problem:** Sending money should be as engaging as other forms of digital content.\\\nAs we spend more time online, our options for self-expression (text, audio, photos, video, gifs, emojis, reactions, and stickers) have flourished. But payments feel about the same as they did 10 years ago.\n\n**The Solution:** BeerMe makes sending money fun and expressive.\n\nSend an old friend a couple beers ($16) on his birthday. Text your daughter a coffee ($5) to brighten up her finals week. Slack your team little treats ($4 each) at the end of a long sprint. With a curated library of tokens, any moment becomes an occasion.\\\n\\\n**Demo:**\n\n\n\nLike all social media content, tokens can be sent via private, anonymous links on any platform where people stay connected. Transfers are instant, global, and free. Track and manage tokens, swap for other options, or cash out USDC to any crypto wallet or exchange.\n\nWith BeerMe, there’s a token for every moment.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\n1. **Sign up** with your phone number at [BeerMe.World](http://BeerMe.World) before 10/30 and **we’ll send you a free Founder Mode token** ($1).\n2. **SOGO (Send one, get one)** Send someone a token, tell us about your experience by DMing [@BeerMeWorld](https://x.com/BeerMeWorld) on X or emailing [noah@beerme.world](mailto:noah@beerme.world), and we’ll send you a beer ($8).\n3. Want to send a token that’s not available yet? Reach out to [noah@beerme.world](mailto:noah@beerme.world) and **we’ll custom-make you a token** and add it to the platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84970&key=user_uploads/2246500/bbd835cc-7424-47e8-9b9f-5af96f227157)\n\nIf you’ve already signed up for BeerMe, contact us directly for your Founder Mode token.\n\nAny feedback is appreciated. 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I'm highly product-driven and passionate about UI/UX design. Alongside my professional work, I’ve built an engaged audience of over 100k across social media through my content creation efforts.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/konstantin-paulus", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f81c1be9c2b2d3bcd5cf1f8ef9990ad87e821a16.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85607, "title": "Diffusion Studio - The AI Video Editor", "tagline": "Figma for Video Editing using Webcodecs Browser Acceleration", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nDiffusion Studio is an AI-powered video editing application that automates repetitive editing tasks right in the browser. Diffusion Studio takes advantage of recently released Webcodecs and WebGPU to encode, process, and decode videos with hardware acceleration. \n\n\n\n# The Founders\n\nKonstantin’s last job was developing signal-processing devices for a large German manufacturer. As soon as WebGPU was released, Konstantin started to work on building applications using that technology. This led him to start Diffusion Studio.\n\nMatthias previously built a startup that used AI-driven video processing to detect and track traffic participants on hardware-constrained devices. Through that, Matthias gathered valuable experience in hyper-optimizing video processing AI to run on everyday devices in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85607&key=user_uploads/2235261/0971d314-1bc5-48bc-b89b-0f72212f8f6e)\n\n# The Problem\n\nCreating fully polished and publishable video content is a time-intensive task, with each minute of a finished video requiring about an hour of tedious editing. This often means making several precise, manual adjustments. Some content creators try to solve this by outsourcing editing to low-wage countries but face issues with language barriers, endless back and forth, and reduced quality of the finished videos. \n\nThere’s a need for a simple video editing tool with a set of robust, focused features that enable the production of high-quality videos.\n\n# The Solution\n\nDiffusion Studio fills that need by automating large parts of the editing process. The auto edit feature automatically eliminates filler words, pauses, repetitive starts, and redundant explanations. Further editing the auto-edit draft is also easy with Diffusion Studio’s simple UI, which allows users to edit the video directly using either the transcript or the timeline. 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AI copilots and codegen tools are making developers more productive than ever, yet tech hiring is stuck in the past.\n\nCurrent coding screens reward those who memorize algorithms, not those who can actually build and problem solve. Worse, LLMs can ace many Leetcode problems better than humans, so what are these screens really testing?\n\n## Our Solution\n\n[NextByte](https://youtu.be/bVO5k4ssmGg)\n\nNextByte is an AI-first interview platform that helps companies screen for the skills that actually matter. Our approach ensures that hiring decisions are based on practical ability rather than memorization.\n\n#### Problem Creation\n\nInstead of testing candidates on obscure theoretical concepts, we focus on challenges that reflect real engineering work. Our Magic Import tool helps companies design assessments tailored to their job descriptions, ensuring that candidates are evaluated on the skills they will actually use. We eliminate unnecessary algorithmic puzzles and instead measure problem-solving ability in a way that aligns with on-the-job performance.\n\n#### Candidate Interview\n\nTechnical interviews should reflect how engineers actually work. Our process is interactive, guided, and built to evaluate both technical skill and thought process.\n\n* **Conversational deep dives:** Our AI-driven voice discussions start with fundamental topics and push deeper based on candidate responses. This allows us to evaluate reasoning, adaptability, and true understanding – not just memorized answers.\n* **Vibe Coding:** Our unique system design questions ask candidates to translate an image into text prompts and leverage cursor-like tools to generate code for their solution.\n* **AI pair programmer:** Candidates receive real-time assistance, just like they would from a great colleague (or copilot). The AI helps navigate syntax, debugging, and edge cases, keeping the focus on problem-solving rather than getting stuck on minor details.\n\nBy mirroring a real-world coding environment, we prevent candidates from simply rehearsing answers and instead uncover how they think and work through challenges.\n\n#### Results & Evaluation\n\nA correct answer isn’t enough – we analyze the entire coding process to provide a deeper, more meaningful assessment of candidate ability including\n\n* **Code quality:** Evaluate readability, documentation, and maintainability to ensure candidates write clean, production-ready code.\n* **Efficiency:** Compare runtime and memory usage against other candidates, identifying optimization skills that go beyond just getting the correct output.\n* **Conceptual understanding:** Assess depth of knowledge and ability to articulate complex ideas.\n\n## The Team\n\nWe’re MIT grads, engineers, and longtime friends who have experienced the flaws of technical hiring firsthand.\n\nMatt led post-training efforts for Enterprise LLMs at IBM Research delivering open weight models, including the Granite family which achieved state-of-the-art benchmarks that rivaled Meta's LLaMA 3. 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We’re Praxim.\n\n**The Problem:**\n\nMicrosoft Word serves over a billion users, but Copilot is still stuck in the Stone Age, requiring manual selection just to generate crude, format-ignoring block replacement edits completely devoid of context from your preferences, files, or the web.\n\n**The Solution:**\n\nWith a single prompt, Praxim makes edits across your entire document:\n\n* No required manual selection to edit\n* No more copy-pasting and context switching between different apps\n* No formatting worries\n* Takes into account your preferences\n\nPraxim knows exactly what to change and what to keep and edits with word-level granularity—precisely editing only what needs editing, not making brute block replacements.\n\nMost importantly, Praxim creates real Word formatting:\n\n* Actual lists, tables, and styles—not fake imitation structures that are actually just paragraphs\n* Maintain formatting, or even change it\n\nPull data, research, and edit all without leaving Word, with features that 10x your productivity:\n\n* File and Web context\n* Voice dictation at the speed of thought\n* Intuitive edit previews and clickable references that jump to the location in the document\n\nPraxim is already used for use cases from form filling with data from multiple sources to contract redlining with precise legal edits.\n\n**Why only now?** Programmers left the era crude AI assistance years ago with agentic code editors. 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", "body": "Hey! 👋 Luofei and Aayush here from [**Oki**](https://www.okiapplications.com/).\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nOki reads your team’s code, tickets, docs, and messages, then drops a personalized, interactive update to you every morning. You start the day knowing exactly what’s shipping, slipping, or on fire - no digging required.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/gEc8SP4SmaQ\n\n\\\n**Problem:**\n\nAs a startup grows, the once-lean, founder-led culture slows down: information scatters, teams bloat, and leaders lose line-of-sight on what’s really happening. **Decisions suffer because the right context no longer finds its way to the right people.**\n\nIn an ideal world, you wake up to all the context you need.\n\n[**For our customers, Oki AI is that ideal world.**](https://www.okiapplications.com/)\n\nConnect your apps once, and Oki sends a personalized report daily to every leader at your company. And it’s not just an email; Oki allows you to dig into sources, timelines, and teams, ensuring you always have full context to make every decision.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92002&key=user_uploads/341385/4ef26d26-4622-47b0-a836-29722bc9ca46)\n\n\\\n🚀 **Get your first Oki report today.**\n\n[**Oki AI**](https://www.okiapplications.com/) is fully self serve and only takes 5 minutes to set up.\n\nWe’d also love to show you how awesome Oki is thru a demo:\n\n📅 Calendly: [https://calendly.com/oki-applications/oki-20-minute-chat/](https://calendly.com/oki-applications/oki-20-minute-chat/%5C)\n\n📬 Email: [founders@okiapplications.com](mailto:founders@okiapplications.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nvu-oki-ai-personalized-updates-on-company-progress", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-07-09T13:58:24.508Z" }, { "id": 87868, "title": "Oki AI - Automated Project Tracking for Engineering Leaders", "tagline": "AI Insights to automate project tracking and Boost Eng Productivity", "body": "Hey everyone! Luofei and Aayush here from Oki.\n\n**TL;DR**\\\nOki unifies data from Slack, GitHub, Jira, and more into one AI-powered dashboard, so Engineering leaders can automatically track progress, better allocate resources, and boost org productivity. No more endless hunts for ground truth or time-consuming status updates!\n\n**Demo**\\\n\n\n**The Problem**\\\nCTOs, VPs, and Directors of Engineering can’t truly see what’s happening across their teams. Even with teams of direct reports and countless status meetings, updates get missed, priorities shift, and some projects get overlooked. There’s too much context for any one person to track, leading to incomplete or inaccurate reporting.\n\n**The Solution**\\\nOki aggregates all your project data - no setup or manual input required - and surfaces behind-schedule items, emerging blockers, and under-resourced teams. You can drill down into any issue to see exactly what’s happening, so instead of spending meeting time asking, “What’s the status?” you can focus on, “How do we fix it?”\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* If you’d like to use Oki right away - we’d love to chat! Here’s our email: [founders@okiapplications.com](mailto:founders@okiapplications.com)\n* If you know someone who’d love to use Oki, we would greatly appreciate an intro!\n* Chat with us about anything at [luofei@okiapplications.com](mailto:luofei@okiapplications.com), [aayush@okiapplications.com](mailto:aayush@okiapplications.com) - we’d love any feedback too!\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87868&key=user_uploads/341385/f809168f-a9a4-41b5-bfd4-6acd00fffa9d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MrE-oki-ai-automated-project-tracking-for-engineering-leaders", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-02-20T18:08:22.375Z" } ] }, { "id": 30246, "name": "Swerve", "slug": "swerve", "former_names": [ "Sapien", "Goldfinch" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4cd4e09aaeb1f46dcf793d0eae3575ece7ac1c84.png", "website": "https://www.getswerve.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Play stories in your own words. 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Our users have gotten super creative with Swerve, and we’d love to see what you’ll create.\n\n👇 Check out our iOS app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swerve/id6746973177\n\n🎉 If you like the app, we’d love it if you:\n\n* invite your friends \n* share your favorite clips on X / Instagram / TikTok\n* drop us a rating on the App Store\n\nQuestions, ideas, or feedback?\\\nReach out to us anytime: [founders@getswerve.com](mailto:founders@getswerve.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92574&key=user_uploads/611689/9d3f8e7d-cb44-4354-8b96-255074427b3c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O58-swerve-snap-ai-videos-with-friends", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2025-07-30T16:08:46.771Z" } ] }, { "id": 30262, "name": "Pickle", "slug": "pickle-2", "former_names": [ "Pickle Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ad757e8400d1148cc83fb94eb774347a9fe0f4ad.png", "website": "https://www.pickle.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pickle is a personal AI agent that gets things done for you. Every user has their own Pickle, which they talk to by voice or chat. It works in its own cloud browser, signs in to the services you already use, and finishes everyday tasks end to end: ordering food, booking rides, flights and restaurant tables, shopping, sending money, and handling paperwork. It places phone calls on your behalf in 81 countries, sends a morning briefing, and runs scheduled tasks. Pickles also talk to each other, so you can send yours to a friend’s Pickle to settle a dinner plan or split a bill.\r\n\r\nEvery Pickle earns trust in steps, from small errands to the accounts, cards, and identity it needs to act for you. 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He experienced extreme Zoom fatigue and discovered that it wasn’t just because he hated listening to boring medicine lectures—it also caused [neurophysiological](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45374-y) problems. We imagined there must be [countless people](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-encryption-idUSKBN22C1T4/) suffering from the same issue, desperate to escape the Zoom prison.\n\n\n\n# **Who’s using Pickle?**\n\nSince launching Pickle last October, we’ve interviewed over 400 Picklers worldwide. What surprised us was that not only were people experiencing Zoom fatigue from back-to-back meetings, but even those **who wouldn’t turn on their camera** for a single call were using Pickle.\n\nEngineer moms who have to care for their kids, new employees with severe anxiety disorder, and CEOs who want to look professional no matter where they are—all these people found Pickle essential for their daily work. 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Listing cards on our platform is 20x faster than competitors. Watch it happen:\n\n\n\n### **How it Started**\n\n\\\nEva here! I just wanted to share how this crazy idea came to be.\n\n\\\nI've always loved trading cards—both as a collector and a player. When most people grew out of it in middle school, for some reason I never did. In college, I started making [YouTube videos](https://www.youtube.com/c/evasbinder) breaking down the financial side of Pokémon cards, from undervalued sets to spreadsheets showing the expected values of sealed products. Turns out, other people were into this too! I ended up writing for [TCGplayer](https://infinite.tcgplayer.com/author/Eva-s-Binder) and PSA’s Pop Culture Magazine while working at Goldman Sachs, but as my side hustle selling cards grew, I realized I was making more from Pokémon than my day job. So in July 2024, **I quit my high-paying job at Goldman to go all-in on selling shiny cardboard**, before Misprint was even an idea.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfArFZA5gfAKqzCXiksQZntOGn7edSdz6UxKhKpkIEiIeIsZCadK774R1wvOgmjCXEE9zYZeVpuQ3RwklXt_BLisS-JmFfJ0bRDMLhKP4L3Tozf0z3lUCv1qcYJzZlHwY9r-WRA?key=1zrj1FJsKZGIBB6KR2xeQLPo)\n\n_Me getting a signed poster at the 2024 Pokemon World Championship! So cool!!_\\\n\\\nBy fall 2024, I was selling over **$40K/month** in cards with **$16-20K in profit** – but the process was painful. Sourcing inventory was inefficient, listing cards took forever, and pricing was a mess. I asked my best friend from Exeter, Jon, to help me build a tool to price cards faster. As we gathered millions of sales for 200K+ unique cards, we realized we weren’t just solving my problem – we were onto something bigger.\n\nThat’s when we decided to apply to YC (thanks to a push from my roommate, ty Prady!!). We got in, and this fun side project turned into our entire lives. Jon dropped out of his PhD, and Misprint was born – a real-time, transparent marketplace for trading cards. Now, we’re building the future of collectibles, starting with Pokemon.\\\n\\\nAnd now for the shill…\\\n\\\n**The Problem: Market Inefficiency**\n\nRight now, collectors rely on **scattered, inconsistent data** from eBay, auction houses, and forums to guess at card values. Marketplaces don’t provide real-time analytics, and pricing is often biased or outdated. This leads to **unclear pricing** and **inefficient auctions that sell below market value.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87975&key=user_uploads/2304336/8c635927-b3ff-4ec4-9293-186d405f662a)\n\n### **How Misprint Fixes This**\n\n* **Transparent Pricing via ML** — We analyze **millions of data points** (auction results, grading data, past sales) to provide **real-time, data-backed card values.** No more guesswork.\n* **Two-Sided Exchange (Bid/Ask Marketplace)** — Buyers place **bids,** sellers list **asks,** and the platform **matches orders instantly.** This means **faster trades at fair prices** without the usual back-and-forth haggling.\n* **Fastest listing process** — Sellers can list 10+ cards with a single photo, over **20x faster** than competitors. (see demo above)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87975&key=user_uploads/2304336/e756f831-5d8b-47d8-a73f-d2a78ede5c09)\n\n### **Why We’re the Right Team**\n\n**Eva (CEO)** — **Left Goldman Sachs** to go all-in on trading cards, _before_ even considering applying to YC (or even really know what it was!) Hit **$500K ARR in 3 months** selling Pokémon cards. Runs the Pokemon-finance YouTube channel [Eva’s Binder.](https://www.youtube.com/c/evasbinder) Has written for PSA Pop Culture Magazine & TCGplayer Infinite. Absolutely addicted to shiny cardboard.\n\n\\\n**Jon (CTO)** — Mathematician turned machine learning expert. **Left his PhD** in ML to build cutting-edge pricing algorithms for collectibles. **Published researcher**, now leveraging deep expertise in modeling and optimization to redefine asset valuation in collectibles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87975&key=user_uploads/2304336/429cebde-4bc5-4f46-b89b-e0319a7120f6)\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n📢 **If you collect Pokémon, sports cards, or other collectibles—try out Misprint!** We’d love feedback from any collectors.\\\n📩 **If you know anyone in collectibles, fintech, or marketplaces, intro us!** Always looking to connect.\n\nFinally, here’s a bonus photo. 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Kyler designed GIF Keyboard and helped build the Tenor API that powers search in the world’s largest apps and messengers.\n\nRaymond (George) Kennedy previously built from-to.app, Stems ST-02, and founded Rhythmm (W18). He also founded Sesh (acquired by GoFundMe) and has been an engineering leader at several startups.\n\nMatt Portner previously founded DefendTheHouse (a 700k subscriber YouTube gaming community) and worked in production at SnapChat and Buzzfeed. 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Available in 10+ languages.\n\n1. **Download [Alfi](https://www.text.ai/)**\n2. **Add your people**: your other half, closest friends, your coworkers, or your annoying siblings\n3. **Schedule your next hangout**: dinner, movie night, weekend trip. Let Alfi help.\n\n**We believe the group chat is the real social network.**\n\nIf you've got a group chat that's been a little too quiet lately... this is your sign.\n\n\n\n**🔄 The Rapid Evolution**\n\nYou may remember [**text.ai**](http://text.ai), our AI that lives inside SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram chats. Tens of thousands of users and over 10M+ messages across 150+ countries in a rapid few months showed us something we didn't expect:\n\nPeople didn't just want answers. We realized they wanted a social friend who understands and acts. Together.\n\nNot a sterile bot. Someone with personality and character. Someone who understood their unique group, who's vegan, who hates horror movies, who always wants ramen.\n\nThey wanted a premium chat experience that was inherently social.\n\nWhy?\n\nWe distilled it down to one thing.\n\nThere is a place where we feel our happiest. All of us.\n\nThe group.\n\nHumans are born into them. And thrive in them. But today, there are very few products to support them.\n\nPlaces where groups can live. But not thrive.\n\nAnd so, friends drift apart. Plans go unplanned. The chat fades.\n\nSo, we started building Alfi, our human-first, AI native approach to messaging.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/5d5804e8-4d4d-462d-b9b0-ee26332baaa4)\n\n\\\n**💙 Meet Alfi**\n\nAlfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together. Alfi also has a proprietary framework that knows when to talk (and when not to). We taught Alfi… social skills! No commands required.\n\nIt doesn’t simply process but understands context, group dynamics, and whether you’re actually asking for help or just chatting with friends.\n\nHere's what that looks like:\n\n* **Book restaurants together**, with Yelp built in(exclusive partnership), directly in the chat. No more \"where should we go?\" spirals. Reserve instantly.\n* **Create images _with_ your friends**: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind.\n* **Social calendar**: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone is on the same page. No more managing separate cals.\n* **Group Wrapped**: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know. Something we all have wanted for the longest time!\n* **Reminders & Memory**: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually stay connected.\n* **Customize your Alfi**: Customize how Alfi responds, creates, and helps to fit in with your group’s style. Custom AI for each chat.\n\nOf course, you have your solo Alfi too! The group chat is simply sacred.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/126e5f00-0d43-4168-8675-072d98c8df63)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/60ea2956-bc47-4b79-9dfb-77b8cae6a9e2)\n\nSome beta user testimonies:\n\n* \"_It reminds my bf when he forgets our Farmers Market dates. Finally, someone else keeping him in check_ 😏\"\n* _\"We put ourselves in cute dresses together. So cute. I wanna buy now\"_\n\n\\\n**🌍 Why This Matters**\n\nWe're in the middle of a quiet shift. Gen Z is leaving broadcast social media. They're retreating to group chats, smaller, more intentional and personal spaces where they're honestly themselves.\n\nBut group chats are also where plans go to die. Someone has to be \"the planner\" or nothing happens.\n\n**We believe the group chat is the real social network.** Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often.\n\nThis technology will bring humanity closer than it's ever been before. Not replace connection, deepen it. That's the future we're building toward.\n\n\\\n**👥 The Team On The Mission**\n\nFounded by myself ( [@rushishah](https://www.producthunt.com/@rushishah) , ex-Tesla Youngest Product Lead), [@praharpatel](https://www.producthunt.com/@praharpatel) (Ex-Opentable, Eventbrite, Walmart Labs Engineering Lead ), and [@maniar](https://www.producthunt.com/@maniar) (Former Founder, ex-Gannett Media, McKinsey).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/653a113c-abcb-4199-9887-027bbae6b3eb)\n\nWe're three friends who've been building consumer products together since college. Known each other for years. We're building Alfi because we've experienced firsthand how technology meant to connect people often creates more friction.\n\nWe’re taking a first principles approach. Something I learned firsthand from Elon during my time at Tesla. We believe AI should fit into your life, not the other way around.\n\n---\n\n\\\n**🙏 Our Ask:**\n\n---\n\nPlease try out Alfi and share your feedback.\n\nWe’re on an ambitious mission to build the future of consumer messaging, and your feedback means a lot.\n\nCan’t wait to show you what 2026 has in store. We have some insane product updates coming soon.\n\nWith gratitude (and excitement),\n\nRushi, Prahar, & Paras\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/4d2923ff-443a-49bd-8129-93f37e8dffda)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PHB-alfi-your-group-chat-with-social-skills", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-01-26T18:10:18.874Z" }, { "id": 89968, "title": "Text.ai - AI in your group chats", "tagline": "Discover local eats. Plan group events. Roast friends. Together with AI.", "body": "👋 Hey everyone,\n\nI'm Rushi, CEO & co-founder of [text.ai](http://text.ai). We're thrilled to share what we've been building, **AI that lives where you already chat, no downloads needed**.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n# **💡 What is **[**text.ai**](https://text.ai)**?**\n\nWe've brought AI directly into SMS (US & CA for now), WhatsApp (worldwide), and Telegram (worldwide) which over 5.5 billion people use daily.\n\nNo new apps to download, no learning curve, just text and go.\n\nWatch our YouTube product video:\n\n\n\nWe also just made the top 5 on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/text-ai) this past week! \n\n# **✅ How to try it:**\n\n1\\. Save our contact card: \\[[text.ai](http://text.ai)\\]\n\n2\\. Text directly or add to your group chats\n\n3\\. That's it! Works on \\[[SMS](https://www.text.ai/)\\], \\[[WhatsApp](https://wa.me/15626840069?text=What%20is%20the%20best%20Hawaiian%20city%20to%20visit%20for%20Spring%20Break%3F)\\], | \\[[Telegram](https://t.me/thetextai_bot)\\]\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89968&key=user_uploads/310607/11b0f146-9cef-4d39-9e68-63318cc9299f)\n\n# \n\n**🤔 Why did we build this?**\n\nEver tried explaining to your mom how to download and use a new AI app? Yeah... that's why we built [text.ai](http://text.ai).\n\nI built the first version just for fun, a personal travel companion for when I was hunting for hidden veggie restaurants on my first solo trip to Spain & Portugal (I'm vegetarian) and had no internet. It was ridiculously simple but solved a real problem for me.\n\nThen something unexpected happened. Friends started adding our AI to their group chats. They used it to plan Vegas trips, settle restaurant debates, and even as a digital wingman for date nights.\n\nThe magic? No one had to download a thing. AI just showed up where they already were. In their messages.\n\nNow we're obsessed with one mission: making AI accessible to everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89968&key=user_uploads/310607/2bf7fa71-528a-4991-9028-ee07c428c527)\n\n# \n\n**🚀 Real magic happens in groups**\n\n\"TextAI saved our Friday night! Eight people with different diets, and it found this amazing Thai fusion place everyone loved. Even suggested dishes for our vegetarian friend. Now it's our go-to for plans!\" - Jackie\n\nNo more endless screenshots. No more one person having to take charge. And finally, a solution for that friend who says \"I'm okay with anything\" and then rejects every suggestion!\n\nWe help your group actually make decisions instead of just talking about them.\n\nOr you can use it to roast them.\n\nEither way it works well.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89968&key=user_uploads/310607/0441afac-10f3-4c9a-85de-e6d04f843e7c)\n\n**👥 The team behind the magic**\n\nFounded by myself ( [@rushishah](https://www.producthunt.com/@rushishah) , ex-Tesla), [@praharpatel](https://www.producthunt.com/@praharpatel) (Ex-Walmart Labs, Eventbrite, Opentable), and [@maniar](https://www.producthunt.com/@maniar) (ex-Gannett Media, McKinsey).\n\nWe're three friends who've been building products together since college. We're building [text.ai](http://text.ai) because we've experienced firsthand how technology that's meant to connect people often ends up creating more friction instead.\n\nWe believe AI should fit into your life, not the other way around.\n\n# **🔮 What's next?**\n\nWe're working towards going from just answers to action.\n\nSoon, from that same group chat, you'll be able to book a restaurant reservation directly without ever leaving the conversation, get group reminders, book each other's calendars, and even purchase items together.\n\n# \n\n**🙏 We'd love to hear from you**:\n\n* What is the first thing you’d ask [text.ai](http://text.ai)?\n* What group chat would you add [text.ai](http://text.ai) to first?\n* Which feature would make this indispensable for you?\n* Who in your life would find this most helpful?\n\n👉 Try it now: \\[[WhatsApp](https://wa.me/15626840069?text=What%20is%20the%20best%20Hawaiian%20city%20to%20visit%20for%20Spring%20Break%3F)\\] | \\[[Telegram](https://t.me/thetextai_bot)\\] | \\[[SMS](https://www.text.ai/)(Only US & CA for now)\\]", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NP6-text-ai-ai-in-your-group-chats", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-04-30T11:29:08.014Z" } ] }, { "id": 30553, "name": "Blueshoe", "slug": "blueshoe", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7df632e4878b4cdf452b698c74d065153a45564b.png", "website": "https://blueshoe.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Blueshoe is a full-stack law firm that helps people with everything from everyday legal issues to high-stakes litigation and trial.\r\n\r\nPeople can access legal guidance directly through our web app or the AI interfaces where they are already seeking answers. 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If representation is needed, Blueshoe attorneys handle many cases all the way to resolution, equipped with cutting-edge data, AI-native tools, and operational support.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nEvery year in the United States, billions of dollars in legal needs go unmet because trustworthy, affordable help remains out of reach. Legal technology has been built for law firms and corporations, not the people seeking justice.\n\n**Blueshoe changes that.** \n\nBy bringing technology and legal services together, Blueshoe makes legal help more accessible, effective, and reliable with support across: \n\n* [Employment](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/employment)\n* [Property & Housing](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/property-construction)\n* [Personal Injury](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/medical-injury)\n* [Consumer Protection](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/consumer-financial)\n* [Product Liability](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/product-environment)\n* [Commercial Disputes](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/creators)\n\n**How we do it**\n\n**1. Rebuilding the legal buying experience**\n\nToday, millions of people turn to AI before they ever call a lawyer. Blueshoe meets them there. \n\nAnyone using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or other AI tools can connect directly with a Blueshoe attorney for a timely legal assessment and structured intake. All for a flat fee.\n\n**2. Making elite trial lawyers accessible**\n\nThe lawyers winning the largest verdicts aren't advertising on billboards or chasing clicks on TikTok.\n\nBlueshoe identifies, vets, and partners with exceptional trial lawyers, making high-quality representation accessible to the people who need it most.\n\n**3. Helping lawyers do their best work**\n\nMost lawyers spend too much time running a business and not enough time practicing law.\n\nBlueshoe provides qualified clients, AI-native software, and centralized operations in a single system. Lawyers focus on strategy, advocacy, and outcomes.\n\n**Who and why**\n\nWe're a [Harvard-trained lawyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-og/) and an [MIT engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kywan/).\n\nWe’re building the law firm for a generation that expects everything always-on. A firm where technology doesn't replace judgment, but amplifies it, and where scale makes justice more human, not less.\n\nIf you're up against a legal issue — or you're a lawyer who wants to build the future of law — visit us at [blueshoe.com](http://blueshoe.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103927&key=user_uploads/1499064/d04c7ae1-d263-4f30-9f79-c90ac9aa7c1d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R2F-blueshoe-elite-legal-service-for-everyone", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2026-06-24T17:06:10.563Z" } ] }, { "id": 30569, "name": "Fifth Door", "slug": "fifth-door", "former_names": [ "Placeholder (Gaming + Gen AI)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ccb42373fb1495367c087cca6ae092d6da20baba.png", "website": "https://fifthdoor.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Fifth Door unlocks the power of imagination by making it easy for everyone to create, share, and play games anywhere, with anyone. 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For big shoots, this can eat nearly half the project’s time and budget.\n\nCoCreate is an AI-native tool that does all of that in the background while you back up your footage, so by the time your card is copied, it’s already synced, proxied, organized, and ready to edit in Premiere, Avid, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve.\n\nIf you work with large volumes of footage, we’d love to onboard you as an early user, connect with assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know, and get your feedback on our demo.\n\n**Problem**\n\nMedia prep is the slowest part of post-production. Professional video teams juggle multiple tools to back up, sync, proxy, and organize — a process that’s repetitive, error-prone, and can consume 40% of a project’s time and budget. Existing tools fail at solving this core issue.\n\n**Solution**\n\n\\\nCoCreate is an AI-native video editing and media organization tool that gets professional video editors from SD card to edit as fast as possible. 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The three clicked instantly — not just as musicians playing campus shows together, but also as classmates grinding through late-night problem sets as CS majors.\n\nAll three had been creating music and video content for years before Stanford, and they kept that momentum going on campus — producing projects that have collectively garnered millions of views across platforms. 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Opennote is redefining the space by making learning truly interactive and collaborative.\n\n**The Team**\n\nWe’re a team of three undergrad CS and software engineering students with experience across building software at medtech, fintech, and infrastructure startups — and years spent tutoring and TA’ing. We’ve lived the education grind and built the product we always wished we had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/6716fc0c-983c-4b71-9438-9d1855905c52)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a college student looking for better study tools? Or do you know students who are always looking for smarter, more effective ways to learn? Check us out here: [**https://www.opennote.com/**](https://www.opennote.com/)\n * Use the promo code **YC** for 50% off any subscription for 3 months!\n* Can you introduce us to any groups, clubs, or institutions interested in exploring more interactive and collaborative ways for students to learn?\n\nIf you can help—or want to send us some feedback—feel free to reach out at [**founders@opennote.com**](mailto:founders@opennote.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nwd-opennote-interactive-learning-for-students", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2025-07-10T17:00:26.960Z" } ] }, { "id": 30755, "name": "Pally", "slug": "pally", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/849f2561c7a883d8d5d6523f27f8404ee02820ed.png", "website": "https://pally.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "You text Pally like you’d text a friend, and it connects to everything else: your inboxes, calendar, files, tasks and the web", "one_liner": "Your personal AI Assistant", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1750346506, "tags": [ "Consumer", "B2B", "Productivity", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/pally", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/pally.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pallyai", "x_url": "https://x.com/pally", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pally-6028", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/849f2561c7a883d8d5d6523f27f8404ee02820ed.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 978619, "full_name": "Haz Hubble", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "High-school dropout and super connector. Previously founded the London Founder House. Designer, salesman, engineer, accountant (weird mix but it works). Building at the intersection of AI x Human Relationships.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/hazhubble", "x_url": "https://www.x.com/hazhubble", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c37eee3db110066348edbfa4c228437896100809.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1287862, "full_name": "Wyatt Lansford", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "ML Engineer in robotics & autonomy. Won the DARPA AlphadogFight Trials, built autonomous planes & robots. Acquired by Shield AI. Now building human x AI interfaces.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wyattlansford", "x_url": "https://x.com/wylansford", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d43ddd0152f12a0991b9729192a536030a3ebc00.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 91579, "title": "Pally - AI Relationship Management", "tagline": "All your pals, from all your socials.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91579&key=user_uploads/978619/4443ca80-d250-46a5-8234-98a9d5852a59)\n\nHey 👋, we’re Haz and Wyatt, the founders of Pally.\n\nWe’re building Pally because in a world full of ‘AI SDRs’, our warm connections become more important than ever… Yet today, keeping track of thousands of connections across countless social platforms is impossible. \n\nWe forget to respond, we miss important moments, and we lose touch.\n\nWe’re building Pally to solve that.\n\nIf this resonates, we’d love your early feedback. Download Pally here: [www.pally.com](http://www.pally.com)\n\n# Demo\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g97sd_roD14\n\n## How does it work?\n\nWe bring together all your connections, across all your socials (inc. iMessage, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Email, Calendar, and X), and then our AI researches everything they’ve ever posted online.\n\nPally uses this deep understanding of each relationship to help you:\n\n* Prepare you for meetings\n* Stay in touch with your potential customers/hires/investors (or just remind you to ring your mum from time to time)\n* Search over your network to find the right person for any query (”who do I know in New York that I’ve not spoken to in a while?”)\n* Add people to pipelines\n\nWe also added some fun relationship stats, so you can see how social you are compared to other Pally users, how each relationship is growing/declining over time, how long you take to reply vs how long others take to reply to you, and more.\n\n## Who’s it for?\n\nWe’re mostly focused on founders and investors, but we’ve also seen salespeople, recruiters, agency owners, and creators get a lot of value from Pally; essentially anyone in a role where relationships are a primary focus (and honestly, we believe in the world of AI, that’s _everyone_).\n\n## What's next?\n\nWe're excited to launch this into public beta today, learn from what our users are loving, and where they’re wanting more, and build that. \n\nOur roadmap includes adding integrations with AI meeting note takers, so all your relationship context is in one place, adding an iOS app so you have all your data on the go, and adding more agentic capabilities.\n\n# Ask\n\nPlease upvote us here and on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/pally-ai-relationship-management), and give Pally a test and let us know how you get on! \n\nWe’re also hiring! If you’re interested in working with us, please email [hiring@pally.com](mailto:hiring@pally.com) with your cv.\n\nThanks for your support,\n\nHaz + Wyatt 🫶 ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Np5-pally-ai-relationship-management", "votes": 149, "created_at": "2025-06-24T16:42:07.104Z" } ] }, { "id": 30786, "name": "Munify", "slug": "munify", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/905f3adbeab084e1762af3c3a57f96b6c781d02f.png", "website": "https://munify.ai", "all_locations": "Orlando, FL, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Munify is the cross-border Neobank for the Middle East and its diaspora. 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(i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Jonah and Joe first met as teen tech YouTubers in 2008 and began building iPhone apps together in 2009. At the end of 2024, we started Mixy as a fun way for fans to make mashups of their favorite songs.\r\n\r\nWe publicly iterated prototypes on TikTok, which led to over 350k pre-orders before launch. Mixy debuted on June 19th, hitting #1 in Music and reaching #3 overall in the App Store. Since then, more than 1.5M users have created and shared over 15M mashups." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Derivative musical works are being created at an exponential rate, but artists aren’t getting credited, and billions of dollars are being left on the table.\r\n\r\nEvery year, millions of songs are uploaded to music platforms with uncredited samples. Generative AI has accelerated this problem: music is being trained on artists’ work and re-uploaded without attribution, ownership, or financial stake for the creators who made it possible.\r\n\r\nMixy flips this model. We celebrate artists by letting fans directly manipulate and share versions of their songs. Every time a fan shares their creation, the artist is automatically credited and their work is distributed more widely. Because Mixy owns the creation layer, attribution is native. We auto-credit every source track and pair it with a music-first social network built for playback and discovery.\r\n\r\nThe future isn’t millions of disconnected AI songs or samples, it’s millions of recognizable songs evolving through thousands of shared versions.\r\n\r\nWe’re tackling this because we love music, see a timely problem, and bring a world-class background in creative tools and consumer social." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "If we truly succeed, Mixy will be the platform that redefines music in the age of derivative works. What TikTok is to YouTube, Mixy is to music.\r\n\r\nWe’ll be the first to establish proper licensing and attribution standards for a future where songs constantly evolve into new versions. Every derivative creation, whether a mashup, remix, AI-generated variation, or fan edit, will flow back to the original artist with automatic credit and revenue.\r\n\r\nMusic expression and consumption will no longer be limited to static recordings. Instead, the world will experience songs as living, evolving works. Fans will become co-creators, artists will be celebrated more widely than ever, and the industry will unlock billions in new value.\r\n\r\nIn this future, music is not just listened to. 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We’ve optimized our own local models to produce real time, high quality mashups at no cost.\n\n⁕ Add your songs\n\n⁕ Instantly blend vocals and beats\n\n⁕ Play and share your mashup anywhere\n\n**Since Launch**\n\n⁕ $200k in donations, $20k MRR since launching our subscription last month\n\n⁕ #1 in Music and #3 Top Free overall on the App Store\n\n⁕ 1.5M users in 3 months\n\n⁕ 18M mashups made and growing\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95158&key=user_uploads/42474/cd3aa913-8172-4a48-a472-4d21f4e03eb8)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_6p6g2CdE\n\n**What’s Next?**\n\n⁕ Instantly enable people to create full length mashups and remixes through our own music mixing model\n\n⁕ Create the best listening experience where all of your favorite songs combine and blend into one another in unimaginable ways\n\n⁕ Instantly pay out artists and creators per second on plays\n\n⁕ The music industry will unlock billions in value and Mixy will change how we experience music forever\n\n**Our Story**\n\nJoe and Jonah met as tech YouTubers in 2008, and began building apps together in 2009. They’ve worked at Apple, Instagram, and Skillshare. Recently Jonah led mobile at Tithly (Stripe’s 8th largest customers), and Joe founded a consumer social startup acquired by CoinList ($100M Series A), where he led product.\n\nAt the end of 2024, we started Mixy was started as a fun way for fans to make mashups of their favorite songs. Prototypes were shared on TikTok, which led to over 350k pre-orders before launch. Mixy debuted on June 19th, hitting #1 in Music and reaching #3 overall in the App Store. Since then, more than 1.5M users have created and shared over 18M mashups.\n\n---\n\n**Problem & Vision**\n\nWe believe Remixing is the new Shuffle.\n\nFans are searching for infinite ways to experience their favorite artists, and the tools to remix and create derivatives are far too complicated.\n\nFor artists, derivative musical works are being created at an exponential rate, but artists aren’t getting credited, and billions of dollars are being left on the table.\n\nMixy flips this model. We celebrate artists by letting fans directly manipulate and share versions of their songs. Every time a fan shares their creation, the artist is automatically credited and their work is distributed more widely. Because Mixy owns the creation layer, attribution is native. We auto-credit every source track and pair it with a music-first social network built for playback and discovery.\n\nThe future isn’t millions of irrelevant AI songs, it’s millions of recognizable songs evolving through thousands of shared versions.\n\nIf we truly succeed, Mixy will be the platform that redefines music in the age of derivative works. What TikTok is to YouTube, Mixy is to Spotify.\n\nWe’re tackling this because we love music, see a timely problem, and bring a world-class background in creative tools and consumer social.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oko-mixy-make-mashups", "votes": 150, "created_at": "2025-11-04T17:11:11.326Z" } ] }, { "id": 30816, "name": "Digipals", "slug": "digipals", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a100705513555f60b674edacd7874b01e7bef2df.png", "website": "https://www.digipals.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Social networks are dead. Social media became more media than social. My friends aren't on social media anymore - it's one third ads, one third content from strangers, and one third AI slop. Our social lives are fragmented across dozens of different apps - iMessage, WhatsApp, Find My, Partiful, and Venmo. \r\n\r\nDigipals is the first AI-native social operating system that improves our relationships with friends. We built ambient AI agents that use social context from our location, calendar, and photos to take action and write code in our group chats. We are the last social platform anyone will ever need.\r\n\r\nLaunch Video\r\nhttps://youtu.be/KW2tjLl6sxM ", "one_liner": "The future of Social in the age of AI", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1762213106, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Social Media", "Social", "Social Network", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/digipals", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/digipals.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/digipals-app", "x_url": "https://x.com/digipals_app", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a100705513555f60b674edacd7874b01e7bef2df.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/596d92e81f6404cdae0c6aa3469afe1f4fbee337.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1557194, "full_name": "Peggy Wang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Digipals - building the future of Social in the age of AI\n\nConsumer Social + AI\n\nPrev - ex-cofounder/cto of ego, ai avatars for metaverse @ meta reality labs, behavior planning @ lyft self-driving, stanford cs/ai/robotics", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-wang-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/peggy_wang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1a3b3b69f350c5fb6ff20b88139e7f69ba0c492a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3126807, "full_name": "Mathew Matakovic", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO of Digipals\nPreviously solo game dev on deadshot.io (2m MAU)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/justatree/", "x_url": "https://x.com/GoalieSave25", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/da66bc7fb96324698b9f67cc9d836ac31a69c949.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 80562, "title": "iOS/Android Full Stack Software Engineering", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/digipals/jobs/oZmOW5w-ios-android-full-stack-software-engineering", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "iOS", "salary_range": "$4K - $5K / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Android", "Flask", "iOS", "Python", "React Native" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95189, "title": "Digipals - AI-native Group Chats that get you outside", "tagline": "Where AI makes us more social", "body": "Social media has become more media and less social. When I open up Facebook and Instagram, I don’t see any of my friends on it anymore - it’s one third ads, one third content from strangers on the internet, and one third AI slop. My friends are no longer on social media - I either meet up with them IRL or catch up with them in group chats.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KW2tjLl6sxM \n\nWhat if your group chats could help get you a reservation... and help you split the bill? Now it can.\n\nWe're building an AI-native group chat app that helps you hang out with your friends more. Your AI agent (digipal) knows your location, calendar, relationship history, and photos. It talks with your friends' digipals to coordinate IRL hangouts automatically - suggesting times when everyone's free, finding nearby restaurants and coffee shops, making reservations with AI calls, splitting bills from receipts, and nudging you to share photo memories after hanging out. \n\nRight now, coordinating hangouts with friends takes too much effort. We're removing that friction so you can spend less time planning and more time actually having fun IRL.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/7bae7c14-2266-4d71-82e2-f23716cf4f2a)\n\n**Where We're Going - The First AI-Native Social Operating System**\n\nDigipals work through AI widgets that pop up right in your group chat when you and your friends need them. Talking about dinner? The restaurant widget appears. Someone sends a receipt? The bill split widget shows up. You never have to leave the group chat to coordinate.\n\nWe're starting with widgets that make it easier to hang out IRL - restaurant reservations, movie/concert suggestions, flight/hotel bookings, bill splitting, and sports scores. Here's some sneak peeks:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/91296545-05f9-4057-b324-b600168547b9)\n\nThen we're adding widgets that help you stay close to your friends and make new ones - relive memories from fun times together in the past, post memes/articles/reels your group would actually find funny, surface life updates worth celebrating, and connect with friends of friends.\n\nEventually, anyone can build AI widgets for Digipals. Your group chat becomes the social operating system, and the widgets are the apps that enhance human connection.\n\n**Team**\n\n[Peggy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-wang-ai/) cares deeply about human relationships. For over nine years, she's grabbed dinner monthly with the same friends at Madras Cafe in Sunnyvale - the restaurant their group chat is named after. She's a second time founder who worked on the Metaverse at Meta Reality Labs, where she believed that the future of social connection was in virtual worlds and games. Now, she's convinced the future is simpler - it's showing up IRL.\n\nMathew made a hit solo game called [deadshot.io](http://deadshot.io) which has over 2M+ monthly active users. He enjoys connecting with others through playing music and video games, and joined the team to help make the future a little less lonely for everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/7ee11258-ded8-466d-a9e5-ac5819801ad0)\n\n**Asks**\n\n* Please join the waitlist at [www.digipals.app](http://www.digipals.app) - we’ll be launching soon 👀 If you know Peggy personally, you can DM/text her to get early access :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OlJ-digipals-ai-native-group-chats-that-get-you-outside", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2025-11-05T17:54:23.555Z" } ] }, { "id": 30862, "name": "Sorce", "slug": "sorce", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8b7d8d3ea28624898e277427bd19760e45bd0535.png", "website": "https://sorce.jobs", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tinder for Jobs. 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When you swipe right, our AI agent applies on your behalf on the company's website. It writes cover letters too.\n\nIf you know anyone currently looking for a role, you know it’s really tough. Entering the same information repeatedly on various websites is tedious, and candidates hate it.\n\nA CS student looking for an internship applies to 100-200 openings. In this current job climate, people are applying to even more. Imagine filling out your name and why you want to work at XYZ Company 100 times.\n\nSo far, people like using Sorce. We just crossed 20M swipes and have helped 1000+ people land jobs.\n\nOur users have gotten interviews/offers through Sorce at companies like:\n\nFigma, Ramp, Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI, Lucid Motors, Humane, Twitch (S07), DoorDash (S13), Instacart (S12), Coinbase (S12), Scale AI (S16), Deel (W19), Webflow (S13), Amplitude (W12), Postman, Anduril, Flexport (W14), Mercury, Windsurf, Groq, MoniePoint and many more!\n\n[Download our app here.](http://sorce.jobs/download)\n\n**How you can help us:** Send this to your friend/family member looking for new roles\n\n_or_\n\nif you’re a company that’s hiring, please schedule some time [here](https://cal.com/marvy101/hiring) to tell us about the problems you currently face with hiring. We want to learn as much as we can!\n\n\\\na slice from our [wall of love](https://www.sorce.jobs/love):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94395&key=user_uploads/1252829/b4ccd992-f239-4ad9-a2ab-a3c60834eec5)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94395&key=user_uploads/1252829/c9c2460a-02a0-4668-babb-1f1e08d96f6e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94395&key=user_uploads/1252829/6f92868d-49b1-4541-ab1b-f65a1d9f5d30)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94395&key=user_uploads/1252829/faba1fe7-533a-457c-8702-c8986cefb764)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94395&key=user_uploads/1252829/f5f90c4b-e1cb-4f24-9c83-95d0f72b2c73)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OYV-sorce-tinder-for-jobs-ai-applies-for-you", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-10-06T05:30:09.110Z" } ] }, { "id": 30887, "name": "SellRaze", "slug": "sellraze", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d0c3af40b49318f2b71a98f2764633829b06a75.png", "website": "https://sellraze.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "SellRaze is an AI-powered selling assistant that helps anyone sell anything in seconds. 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Instead of paying attention in math class, I was building custom software to snag Jordan releases. During COVID, I reverse engineered Amazon's anti-bot system and sold it to scalpers... which crashed the supply chain for 30 series graphics cards, PS5s, and Xbox X's.\n\nNow I help people buy and sell online :)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jeff-mao", "x_url": "https://x.com/JeffMao_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3f6c225925514b7f2bf06d9912c61675fdfb3d07.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1591920, "full_name": "Tyler Ma", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder/CTO of SellRaze. I went to Georgia Tech for a year and dropped out to work on SellRaze. I love cars and motorsports, and outdoorsy stuff. 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Instead of paying attention in math class, I would spend hours trying to buy limited-edition Jordans.\n\nAt first, I thought getting inventory was the hard part. But as I scaled to hundreds of items, I discovered the real bottleneck was actually selling them.\n\nEvery item took 30+ minutes: research comparable prices, write descriptions, take photos, fill in product details, post across eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace. Then do it all over again for the next item.\n\nI had thousands of dollars in inventory just sitting there because the listing process was killing me.\n\n**We realized this wasn't just a reseller problem.** The average American household has $4,000 in unused stuff lying around, yet most Americans who've sold online quit after just a few listings. Valuable inventory sits unsold, not because there aren't buyers, but because the listing process is too manual to make sense. With AI, this is finally changing.\n\n🗣️ **What we’ve built**\n\nSellRaze turns a photo into a live listing **in seconds.**\n\nPoint your camera at anything. Our AI identifies the item, determines what it's actually worth, selects the best photos, fills in every detail, and lists it across multiple marketplaces, automatically. Once it sells, we arrange free pickup from your door.\n\nThe entire process, which used to take 30+ minutes, now takes seconds.\n\nWe're building more ways to help sellers make money faster, including our own marketplace where video and social discovery replace static search.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94942&key=user_uploads/1004744/bf667419-2fcf-4f16-9d62-d583ca997790)\n\n**🚀 Traction**\n\n* 200,000+ signups\n* Averaging 30% MoM growth\n\n**Our Team:**\n\nJeff (CEO) likes breaking stuff. In high school he built “sneaker bots” to buy Jordans faster than everyone else. During COVID, he started a company reverse-engineering anti-bot systems from PerimeterX, Akamai, Datadome, and Amazon, then sold the exploits to scalpers. It crashed the supply chain for 30-series NVIDIA GPUs, PS5s, and Xbox X's. He made his first $100,000 before turning 18.\n\nTyler (CTO) spent college writing telemetry and control software for industrial robotics at UGA, then moved to Georgia Tech Research’s CIPHER Lab, working on cybersecurity and hardware evaluation research that protects critical infrastructure. He built the systems Jeff loves to break.\n\nWe both met in college as roommates and have been building software for eCommerce over the past 5 years.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94942&key=user_uploads/89898/c72d5644-48f3-49ed-b9fc-d804dc1f3a60)\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* If you’re moving out, decluttering, or making extra money on the side selling stuff online, give SellRaze a try! Download at . \n* Can you introduce us to any individuals that earn most of their income through online e-commerce?\n* Can you introduce us to any retail/thrift/secondhand stores that are struggling with eCommerce that might be looking for a solution to streamline their process?\n\nContact us at [jeff@sellraze.com](mailto:jeff@sellraze.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OhK-sellraze-sell-your-stuff-in-seconds", "votes": 237, "created_at": "2025-10-27T19:19:33.850Z" } ] }, { "id": 30907, "name": "Logical", "slug": "logical", "former_names": [ "Ignotus" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fb6ea58cacd2d7637cd441b73c8f2e6da92ae97.png", "website": "https://logical.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Logical is a desktop AI that acts as a proactive and largely promptless copilot, designed to reduce the friction of using AI for everyday tasks. It transfers context across apps, and allows taking action on many apps with just a few clicks. Logical can assist with drafting emails, writing docs, noting meetings and can even automatically detect action items. Need to prompt? Logical can understand intent in much fewer words than a regular chatbot. Plus, user data is never sent to Logical servers. Logical is the AI resurrection of Clippy, but actually good.", "one_liner": "A proactive desktop copilot. 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He was a PhD dropout from UCLA before joining NVIDIA. At UCLA, Sam conducted research on AI applications in wireless and cellular domains, across both discriminative and generative models. At NVIDIA, he worked on AI inference and model optimizations for specific hardware. Sam is the best performing Sri Lankan in the history of both the International Physics Olympiad and Asian Physics Olympiad. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samurdhilbk/", "x_url": "https://x.com/SamKaru_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7da125206396ec667a3f86824c54fd9218ff08d8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2844384, "full_name": "Anushka Idamekorala", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Anushka is a co-founder and CTO of Logical. After three years leading B2B SaaS engineering teams, he enrolled in the University of Virginia (UVA) where his research focused on context-aware time-series forecasting.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/anushkaidamekorala/", "x_url": "https://x.com/anushkaidame", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9c0013de048bbf6ed7fc4b05aa9441bfd2dc72dd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95304, "title": "Logical: The Proactive Desktop Copilot", "tagline": "Logical makes every knowledge worker 5x productive", "body": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe’re [Sam](http://linkedin.com/in/samurdhilbk) and [Anushka](http://linkedin.com/in/anushkaidamekorala/), co-founders of [Logical](https://trylogical.ai).\n\n**TL;DR:**\n\n**Logical is a copilot that lives on your desktop and proactively assists with things like drafting emails, meeting insights and tracking to-do items.**\n\nInstead of waiting for you to prompt, Logical suggests context-aware actions in many common apps and services. It’s like Clippy, but actually good.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/XfyPZb14LZM?si=aaJMF37-ipwkJBDV\n\n### Problem\n\nPrompt-first AI is fundamentally flawed. We waste hours every week writing lengthy prompts, context-switching and copy-pasting to get a chatbot to understand what we're doing. The context surrounding our work (emails, meeting notes, knowledge bases etc.) lives in siloed services that don't talk to each other. A truly helpful AI must live where we work: on the desktop.\n\n### Solution\n\nLogical lives on your desktop, observing your work to build an understanding of your intent and the context that surrounds it. As you switch between apps and tabs, Logical transfers that context with you.\n\nIt proactively suggests actions based on what you're doing—whether you're in Gmail, Slack, or Excel. This turns Logical into an all-in-one assistant: it's your email drafter, to-do manager, AI note-taker, and chatbot, all combined.\n\n**📨 Email & Messaging Assistant:** Get quick drafts. Fine-tune, revert, and apply. Works with Gmail, Slack, iMessage and Apple Mail.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/ab0e8f09-c58c-45d7-8eef-0be23b97d326)\n\n**✅ Automatic To-Do Detection**: Detects and drafts deliverables. Plus, it reminds you to get those done.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/afe169f0-7103-4fe7-aec1-a17e72157c74)\n\n**🪄 Logical Lumos:** Get real-time assistance on any task. In Excel, it can suggest formulas and analyze errors; in a doc, it can explain terms as you highlight them. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/596d5046-364b-43b4-86c1-b63ea1b82b1a)\n\n**🔗 Connect your services:** Bridge Gmail or your Calendar for deeper context. Search your email with natural language, or get quick calendar availability lookups.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/2b2a7df8-ff33-41f7-8770-5878ab4070af)\n\n### Our story\n\nSam and Anushka have been friends since they met in grade school at 6 years old.\n\nBefore Logical, Sam worked on AI model optimizations at NVIDIA and previously dropped out of a PhD in applied AI. He's a medalist at both the IPhO and APhO and received a President’s Award for Scientific Research from the Government of Sri Lanka. Anushka dropped out of his PhD in context-aware predictive AI at UVA, and previously led B2B SaaS engineering teams.\n\nWorking in both academia and industry, we saw firsthand how most AI tools create friction and frustrate users. Our unique backgrounds – context-aware AI and AI model optimization – convinced us that an AI agent that lives on the desktop can identify user intent and provide proactive help, without compromising on speed or quality.\n\n### Our Ask\n\nIf you're reading this, Logical can help you (yes, you!) get more done. Try it out at [**https://trylogical.ai**](https://trylogical.ai) – we offer generous free credits. Help us with feedback on how Logical can better fit your workflow.\\\n\\\nIf you’re an enterprise, help your team miss fewer deadlines and spend less time context-switching. Plus, you can stop paying for 10 different AI add-on subscriptions – Logical can do it all. Contact us at [**hello@trylogical.ai**](mailto:hello@trylogical.ai) to learn more and book a demo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/bd182517-615e-4efe-8de7-18985fd8fa32)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OnA-logical-the-proactive-desktop-copilot", "votes": 161, "created_at": "2025-11-07T20:24:35.548Z" } ] }, { "id": 30950, "name": "Narrative", "slug": "usenarrative", "former_names": [ "AdDojo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/db1362ab305e5a74bfdc1a509c929ce8348b2df9.png", "website": "http://www.usenarrative.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "An AI-powered video editor that makes editing dramatically faster. 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When we talked to businesses about their marketing, we kept hearing the same problem over and over: they had incredible footage from events and productions, but it took weeks to turn into content. Smaller teams simply didn’t have the time to edit this footage either. We dove deeper into post-production workflows and realized the entire industry was drowning in grunt work.\n\nPreviously, we’ve worked on computer vision research at Brown and software engineering research at UW, as well as AI infrastructure at Apple and marketing for Vectara.\n\nProfessional video editors spend 90% of their time on work that has nothing to do with creativity.\n\nThey're scrubbing through hours of raw footage, hunting for specific moments, organizing clips, and fighting archaic software — while the actual artistry gets squeezed into whatever time remains.\n\nWe're **Erik, Aryan, and Victor;** we built **Narrative** to fix this.\n\n## **What Narrative does**\n\nNarrative automates the repetitive work:\n\n* Add b-roll to the timeline intelligently for an interview, based on the transcript\n* Search terabytes of footage using natural language and instantly find similar clips\n* Pull selects and create stringouts for social media and long form edits\n* Perform batch iterations through a conversational chat window\n\nProfessionals at corporate post-production teams, wedding videographers, and sports teams already use Narrative to cut hours from their workflow.\n\nWe will also be launching video editing and clipping APIs for businesses soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95083&key=user_uploads/2289348/cb7592c9-1f12-4e1b-96ce-60ab2be96364)\n\n## **How you can help**\n\n**Video editor or creator?** Try Narrative and tell us what you think: [narrative.video](https://www.narrative.video)\n\n**Need to edit videos/find specific moments via an API?** Reach out to us at [founders@usenarrative.ai](https://mailto:founders@usenarrative.ai)\n\n**Can you introduce us to:**\n\n* Post-production teams at studios, agencies, or media companies?\n* Sports teams or content creators producing high volumes of video?\n\nReach us at: [founders@usenarrative.ai](mailto:founders@usenarrative.ai) :)\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ojb-narrative-cursor-for-professional-video-editors", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2025-11-01T16:08:12.079Z" } ] }, { "id": 30978, "name": "Miniswap", "slug": "miniswap", "former_names": [ "Miniswap Technologies Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19d8cd9731e5b803cf28ada75d13c38049717b0e.png", "website": "https://miniswap.gg/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Miniswap a marketplace for complex hobbies, starting with Warhammer.\r\n\r\nIn hobbies as complex as Warhammer, finding what you want on general marketplaces is a huge pain. 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Princeton ECE grad and varsity lightweight rower.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsmcollins", "x_url": "https://x.com/matthewncollins", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e5c9a9fe27e2816cf92ce37d3a3b3c884c9c8736.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 96996, "title": "Corvera 🛒 | AI agents for CPG brands", "tagline": "AI agents that automate retail brand ops and increase profits by 40%", "body": "Hey, we’re [Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwnkong/), [Dirk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirkbreeuwer/) and [Matthew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsmcollins/) - cofounders of Corvera!\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nCorvera is the AI agent workforce for CPG back-office. We help retail brands increase profits by up to 40% by deploying digital workers that run their operations. \n\n**Ask:** Looking for intros to CPG brands that sell into retail, ideally with > $50M in ARR. Direct them to our website to schedule a demo!\n\n**Website:** \n\n**Book a demo:** \n\n\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nRetail CPG brands are drowning in operational debt.\n\n* **Ops is a massive opportunity cost** – US CPG brands waste 40% of their time and spend $78bn managing supply chains when they should be getting their products out there and selling to more customers.\n* **Poor ops is a huge growth bottleneck** – CPG founders typically stem from product, marketing, or sales backgrounds. Therefore, ops handled by non-ops founders = distraction, pain, and time wasted on non-value-add tasks.\n* **Ops pain scales with the brand –** Ops debt and headcount grow as a brand serves more customers, launches more products, and operates in more geographies, further hampering the brand’s growth.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n**Corvera is the fully autonomous command centre managing ops for fast-growing retail brands.** \n\nWe help brands cut wastage, improve margins, and maximise revenue, with an AI workforce that knows exactly how CPG brands work. We automate the 3 core ops workflows which consume the most time and hamper growth:\n\n**1) Sales Order Processing**\n\n_Process orders end-to-end without lifting a finger._\\\n\\\nCorvera plugs into your existing tools and automatically processes sales orders end-to-end, from fulfillment to invoice. It parses email PDFs and text, matches them against known entities in our catalogue, and executes downstream actions with human-in-the-loop approvals.\n\n**2) Inventory Management**\n\n_Track inventory across every location in real time._\n\nCorvera knows exactly where your stock is and how much you’ve got at all times. We seamlessly sync inventory data across all of your warehouses, track shipments and transfers, and suggest actions to rebalance stock across your estate to maximize short-term revenue.\n\n**3) Demand Forecasting & Supply Planning**\n\n_Forecast demand in real time and automatically process purchase orders to prevent stockouts._\n\nCorvera learns from your sales history and, coupled with insights from your team, forecasts demand in real time. With full visibility of your inventory across all locations, Corvera suggests corrective actions to prevent stockouts, so you can maximize your revenue, keep your customers happy, and accelerate your growth. \\\n\\\n**In short:** We take away ops pain from CPG brands, allowing them to do what they do best - market and sell their products to their customers. \n\n### **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96996&key=user_uploads/3038174/4e3af8f4-816c-4f7e-bb27-9a529803d966)\n\nFrom Left to Right:\n\n[**Dirk Breeuwer**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirkbreeuwer/) (Co-Founder & CTO)\n\nFormerly Data and AI Lead at Google with 6+ years of experience. Led Google’s marketing AI transformation, incubating five AI systems, including a multi-agent workflow automation that improved brand compliance review efficiency by 90%.\n\n[**Christopher Kong**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwnkong/) (Co-Founder & CEO)\n\n2x Founder, Forbes 30U30, formerly CEO of Better Nature - one of Europe’s fastest-growing and largest meat-free brands, active in 6 countries and sold in 5,000+ retail stores. Closed every major sales deal and led every fundraise.\n\n[**Matthew Collins**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsmcollins/) (Co-Founder & CPO)\n\nEx-CPO at Rosemark, an AI-powered B2B data analytics and marketing platform, and scaled the Computer Science department at Eton College, the UK’s most prestigious boarding school. A Princeton grad with an MEng in CS. \n\n[**Berk Güngör**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/berk-g%C3%BCng%C3%B6r-35196a14a/) (Founding Engineer & Head of AI Engineering)\n\nAI/ML Engineer with 6+ years of experience, focused on applied LLMs and real-world AI automation. Holds an MSc in AI from the University of Hamburg. An all-round beast and an incredible asset to the team - we’re lucky to have him.\n\n### **What We’re Looking For**\n\n**Introductions to CPG retail brands with >$50M of revenue.** We’ve got a product that’s ready to go. 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On the hardest public text-to-SQL benchmark, it scores 75.2%. The best frontier model alone gets 33%.\n\n**Why I built this**\n\nWe saw the problem while I was at Traba, a staffing marketplace. Traba had a lot of data and not enough analysts. Someone would need a number to make a decision, and the path to that number ran through SQL they couldn’t write or an analyst who was busy. The question would sit for hours. By the time the answer showed up, the decision had already been made on a guess.\n\nThere are AI analytics tools out there now. They all have the same problem: they don’t understand your business. When your PM asks “which accounts are at risk of churning,” there’s no column called that. “At risk” has a formula that lives in someone’s head, or a doc, or nowhere. These tools guess an interpretation and commit. Then someone in a Slack thread acts on the answer before anyone checks whether it was right.\n\n**The semantic layer**\n\nDatost maintains a layer of your team’s definitions, what “churn risk” means at your company, how you calculate NRR, which tables are trustworthy, what that internal acronym stands for.\n\nWhen it hits a term it hasn’t seen, it looks it up the same way a new analyst would ask a coworker. When the semantic layer doesn’t have it either, it asks the user before writing any SQL.\n\nIt learns from mistakes too. When it gets something wrong, it leaves notes on the schema so it doesn’t make the same mistake twice. Teams that have been using it for a few months barely correct it anymore.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99800&key=user_uploads/3433862/f456e145-3c20-47ed-b570-06e70b3c6cda)\n\n**What it actually does**\n\nYour team @mentions Datost in any Slack channel. It searches the semantic layer, explores your schema in a sandbox, writes and tests SQL, then posts the answer in-thread with the work shown. A second model reviews every answer read-only. If the definition says one thing and the SQL does another, the reviewer catches it.\n\nIt also runs on its own. You can set it up to post a pipeline coverage update to #sales every Monday, or flag when a metric moves outside a range you care about. Or if youre old fashioned it can make a beautiful dashboard for you :)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99800&key=user_uploads/3433862/f5c22b08-a608-47cd-a986-785487b6935e)\n\nIt connects to Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks. Also Datadog, Sentry, PostHog, Coda, Notion, GitHub, and anything else via MCP. It reads your Slack history to see how things were answered before. It reads your codebase to understand how a metric is actually calculated. Charts, dashboards, PDFs, exports, whatever format you need. Most answers come back in under a minute.\n\n**The benchmark**\n\nWe ran Datost against BIRD-Interact, the hardest public text-to-SQL benchmark. 600 deliberately ambiguous questions across 22 messy and realistic PostgreSQL databases, published at ICLR 2026. Every question uses terms that aren’t in the schema.\n\nClaude Opus 4.6, the model Datost runs on, gets 33% on its own. Datost scored 75.2%. Same model. The gap is the semantic layer. On analytical questions, 91%.\n\nFull breakdown here: \n\n**Ask**\n\nIf your team has a Slack, Teams, or Google Chat workspace and data people keep asking about, we can get you running in a day.\n\n* [**Book a call**](https://datost.cal.com/founders/30-min)\n* Email me or Jason: [maceo@datost.com](mailto:maceo@datost.com) or [jason@datost.com](mailto:jason@datost.com)  \n* Or reply here\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pxg-datost-the-most-accurate-ai-data-analyst", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2026-04-16T00:27:18.539Z" } ] }, { "id": 31480, "name": "Pops", "slug": "pops", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ff1807225bc4aea4a50ef4d5315e963925c04afd.png", "website": "https://pops.fyi", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pops lets people play, remix, and share AI games with friends.\r\n\r\nDiscover an infinite feed of games, challenges, quizzes, and other fun interactive experiences made by others. Every play instantly becomes a funny gameplay/reaction video you can send to friends, post online, or use to challenge someone to beat your score.\r\n\r\nFor creators, Pops makes it easier than ever to bring ideas to life and get them played. Instead of learning complex game engines, writing code, or fighting for distribution, anyone can create or remix a playable game in seconds. Bring your ideas, and Pops brings the audience.", "one_liner": "Create & play AI games with friends", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Gaming", "launched_at": 1778022680, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Gaming", "Social", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Gaming" ], "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/pops", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/pops.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trypops", "x_url": "https://x.com/pops_fyi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ff1807225bc4aea4a50ef4d5315e963925c04afd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 964621, "full_name": "Alon Zuman", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I’m the founder of Pops, a mobile app where people create, remix, and play AI games with friends.\n\nOver the past 6 years, I’ve built creative tools used by millions of people. Most recently, I worked at Playground AI across product engineering and research.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alonzuman/", "x_url": "https://x.com/alonzuman", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a1bd2e2e5fe7823755f547ece0629f0515774171.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101541, "title": "Pops - AI games with real friends", "tagline": "Turn any idea into a fun mini game to remix, share, and play with friends.", "body": "Hi everyone, I’m [Alon](https://x.com/alonzuman), founder of [Pops.](https://pops.fyi/)\n\nPops is the future of entertainment: AI-native, playful social experiences and games anyone can create, remix, and play with their friends. **Short-form software.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/77b75800-d1a4-4c0d-a32b-d2662e68f1fd)\n\nWith Pops, you can describe (almost) any idea you have and turn it into a fun, playable experience: a Flappy Bird-like game where you flap by raising your arms, a game where you blink to screw the bolt, or a 3D racing game controlled by your head movements. You don't need to code, just a fun idea.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/2a9308df-5961-4bd1-9571-b1518bf8020d)\n\nAnd because Pops is meant to be social, every Pop you play instantly creates a video you can share. Usually the best part is not just the game itself, but the funny reaction video: you can brag about your score, send it back to the creator, or share it because it’s genuinely funny.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/2fda7e52-ea0d-46a7-846b-dec64807ee4b)\n\n## **About me**\n\nI’ve spent the past six years building creative tools, most recently at Playground AI, where the products I worked on were used by millions of people. Pops started as something broader, but a private beta made the direction obvious: AI-native games are the perfect format for social, playful creation, and one of the first places short-form software can become mainstream.\n\nPops is live on iOS and Android, and I’d love for you to try it out:\n\n\n\n## Ask\n\nPlay a few Pops! Make or remix your own Pop, and share it with your friends.\n\nI’d love feedback on what feels magical and what’s confusing.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/c741fdc4-f5f7-4fc1-a97e-eb320607be45)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/ee6a0791-5f65-4349-bb05-c35ea160f33e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QPl-pops-ai-games-with-real-friends", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-05-19T01:41:15.424Z" } ] }, { "id": 31526, "name": "Uno Wallet", "slug": "uno-wallet", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c2393bf402ae2e425fc41cb7f78facb4b67fa9d5.png", "website": "https://myunowallet.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are changing the way that people pay...\r\nFounded by:\r\nSaket Joshi: www.linkedin.com/in/saket-dattatray-joshi/\r\nMordi Shadpour: www.linkedin.com/in/mordi-shadpour/", "one_liner": "The AI mobile wallet that replaces Apple Pay", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1779834493, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Payments", "Consumer", "Infrastructure", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "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? 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California native, based in the Bay Area.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mordi-shadpour", "x_url": "https://x.com/MordiShadpour", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/845444df2aded4c1492d125d61ff8d68a63131cd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 103221, "title": "Founding Engineer - Product & Infrastructure", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uno-wallet/jobs/UsckBfY-founding-engineer-product-infrastructure", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Palo Alto, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $205K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 2.00%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 113112, "title": "Founding Head of Product", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uno-wallet/jobs/VzmlenM-founding-head-of-product", "location": "South San Francisco, CA, US / Palo Alto, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Product", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$125K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 2.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 31923, "name": "tash", "slug": "tash", "former_names": [ "tash." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8fc74afee1c19a4cdde9eb90d55141af2d3baba7.png", "website": "https://www.tradetash.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "tash is building the investment platform for sports and trading cards. We create professionally constructed portfolios of iconic, investment-grade cards, giving investors exposure to the asset class without the hassle of selecting, buying, storing, and selling individual cards.\r\n\r\nTrading card investing remains fragmented, opaque, and difficult to access. tash is building the infrastructure to make the asset class simpler, more transparent, and professionally managed. We are currently pursuing SEC qualification to launch regulated investment offerings backed by trading cards.", "one_liner": "The S&P of Trading Cards", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1785522137, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Investing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "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/tash", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/tash.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tash-cards/", "x_url": "https://x.com/tashcards?s=11", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8fc74afee1c19a4cdde9eb90d55141af2d3baba7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 3101812, "full_name": "John Ohannesian", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder @ tash, Ex-IB & UC Berkeley, working towards bringing collectibles to the public markets ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnohannesian/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c6b96e96f5e445dda3caf1f2abff7f59f82c9287.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1806514, "full_name": "Nathan Borshell", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder at tash (S26). Previously at UBS Global Markets and Seso. Economics and Data Science at UC Berkeley.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanborshell/", "x_url": "https://x.com/nathanborshell", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3b1c74e8d3e948ae7ca10f901214f64bf8331170.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3232492, "full_name": "Victor Shammas", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "UC Berkeley Business & Data Science, Co-Founder @ tash, building the public markets for collectibles.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorshammas/", "x_url": "https://x.com/victorshammas", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b7cbabaeccca0ca1b75e8a04df418281e21aece7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3063171, "full_name": "Nicolas Sharma", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder @ tash. Previously at J.P. Morgan and Capgemini. Econ + Business + Data Science at UC Berkeley.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-sharma/", "x_url": "https://x.com/nico_sharma", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2e299adf7def9e2b63edc2ed408d2da52f937ade.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 109453, "title": "tash - Making the world’s most iconic trading cards investable", "tagline": "Building the financial infrastructure to bring collectibles into public markets. Starting with trading cards.", "body": "**A $50B+ asset class is still being invested in one card at a time. We’re building the investment platform for trading cards.**\n\n**TL;DR:** tash gives investors access to professionally curated portfolios of high-end graded trading cards. tash manages sourcing, verification, vaulting, reporting, and the eventual sale of the underlying assets.\n\n[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bszOZp6uTWIgG29grz1oxflgInfEvpD6](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bszOZp6uTWIgG29grz1oxflgInfEvpD6/view)\n\n## The problem\n\nTrading cards have evolved into a global asset class supported by professional grading, extensive sales data, insured vaulting, and multimillion-dollar transactions.\n\nBut investing has barely changed.\n\nToday, investors still have to research, source, price, verify, store, track, and eventually resell every card individually. Building diversified exposure often means becoming a part-time card dealer.\n\nReal estate has REITs. Gold has ETFs. Equities have index funds.\n\nThe asset class exists. The investment product does not.\n\n## What tash does\n\ntash builds professionally managed trading card portfolios around distinct parts of the market.\n\nInitial portfolios range from broad market exposure through the tash25 Index to focused strategies like GOATs, Rising Stars, Vintage, Pokémon, and TCGs.\n\nInvestors gain diversified exposure while tash manages sourcing, verification, secure vaulting, insurance, reporting, and the eventual sale of the underlying cards.\n\ntash is actively pursuing SEC qualification to make these products available to more investors.\n\n## Why us\n\nWe grew up collecting cards and never stopped.\n\nVictor, Nathan, and John met in high school before attending UC Berkeley, where they met Nico and became roommates. Together, we have bought and sold more than $1M of trading cards and collectibles.\n\nOur professional experience spans finance, data, and marketplaces, alongside years spent buying at card shows, negotiating, tracking prices, and studying the market.\n\n## The broader vision\n\nTrading cards are the starting point.\n\ntash is building the financial infrastructure needed to bring the broader $330B+ collectibles market into public markets, making cultural assets easier to access, evaluate, and invest in.\n\nInterested in investing in trading cards? Reach out to the team or join the waitlist at [**tash.cards**](http://tash.cards).\n\nContact: [founders@tash.cards](mailto:founders@tash.cards)\n\n_For discussion purposes only. This is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to purchase securities. Any offering will be made solely through definitive offering documents and in accordance with applicable securities laws. Investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/STN-tash-making-the-world-s-most-iconic-trading-cards-investable", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-08-06T20:32:51.338Z" } ] }, { "id": 32088, "name": "Roma", "slug": "roma", "former_names": [ "Jan Senderek Newco", "Yamo NewCo", "Milo Mode", ">", "Milo Mode" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0acebf173c06922baca9b12940df90492d951704.png", "website": "https://roma.app", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Roma is the to-do list that does itself. Two of our three founders have been through YC before: Jan built Loom (W12, acquired by Dropbox) and Tobi built Senic (S13, acquired by Gira).\r\n\r\nMost of the work we do starts and ends with a task. So we're rebuilding something everyone already uses: the to-do list that becomes your everyday assistant, the one place that already knows everything you need done.", "one_liner": "Roma is the to-do list that does itself", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1789406521, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Productivity", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "Unspecified" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roma", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2026/roma.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/romaromahq", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0acebf173c06922baca9b12940df90492d951704.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 24212, "full_name": "Jan Senderek", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder / CEO at Roma (YC F26). Previously founder at Loom (YC W12 - acquired by Dropbox).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jansenderek/", "x_url": "https://x.com/jans", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f6b8aa6111b7b998254a944fbae14aa3579ccede.jpg" }, { "user_id": 38750, "full_name": "Tobias Eichenwald", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently Co-Founder of Roma (F26). Previously Co-Founder of Senic (YC S13), acquired by GIRA. Programmer and designer. 3x Red Dot Award winner. Love to run and sketch.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-eichenwald", "x_url": "https://x.com/tobioaks", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bb5d3313e0b9ed803777def82eef8ea4e09e10cc.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3699419, "full_name": "Cody Osborne", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building something new at YC (F26). Writer, director, and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience in brand marketing and creative. Previously agency creative at Goodby Silverstein & Partners and 72andSunny, in-house director at Dropbox, and co-founder of The Goondocks, an award-winning creative studio.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-cody-osborne-3845b54/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e549315d85d54fca6f69b31a030e491588d58a7d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 117892, "title": "Roma: The to-do list that does itself", "tagline": "We're reinventing the to-do list so it does the work for you.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Roma is the to-do list that does itself. It's the original productivity tool reinvented. The task list you already keep, remade so the tasks actually get done.\n\n\n\n### The original\n\nFrom pen and paper to apps on a phone, the to-do list has stood the test of time. It's the original productivity tool, and the one tool everyone has used at least once.\n\nYou can't say that about many things, especially as technology advances. But whether you have one task or seventeen, there's a to-do list in your head, in your pocket, or on your desk right now.\n\nSince the beginning, all to-do lists have made the same promise: write the task down so you can stop worrying about it. The catch is that you always have to come back and do it yourself. So the tasks pile up.\n\n### The problem\n\nWhen AI became smart enough to actually help you get things done, we did what a lot of people did and built our own agents. It was hard. It took forever. Even when it worked, it didn't work the way we wanted. \n\nThen the AI Assistants arrived, promising to handle things for you. People love them. That's the clearest sign the demand is there.\n\nBut the work never stay put. It lives in one chat, then another, then an inbox, then a doc somewhere. Instead of doing the work, you're tracking the work down.\n\n### Reinventing the to-do list\n\nThat's why we're playing the long game and not building another assistant. We're reinventing the original productivity tool: the to-do list.\n\n**Roma is the to-do list that does itself.** \n\nThat sounds possible with AI, but it's really hard to get right. You have to be able to add a task for anything and the system has to figure out what you meant, get to work on multiple things in the background, sort it into the right project, and surface it at exactly the right time. \n\nSo that's where we spent most of our time building Roma. Underneath Roma is a harness built to take a task from idea to execution. And on top, it feels as simple and light as the to-do list that you're used to. \n\n### What it feels like\n\nRoma gets real tasks done. But what you notice first is what it does to your mind. You realize you haven't thought about that one task in hours, because it's being handled. You walk into a meeting prepared. You close your laptop with a clear head.\n\n### Why us\n\nWe're Jan, Tobi, and Cody. Jan previously built Loom (YC W12, acquired by Dropbox), and Tobi built Senic (YC S13, acquired by Gira). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117892&key=user_uploads/24212/d1545e35-9497-4e2f-a4f9-34f6420684e6)\n\n### Where this goes\n\nWe're only scratching the surface of what Roma can do. As Roma takes on more of your work, the to-do list becomes the place you hand off everything. \n\nWe're going to connect with the apps and assistants you're already using. 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The other half just evaporates into your subconscious: what you said, felt, promised, and forgot. It's the more interesting half, and until now nothing could catch it, making it not actionable.\r\n\r\nMoonshot catches your subconscious half and understands you well enough to take actions on your behalf.\r\n\r\nTake life personally.\r\n\r\nThe iOS app is designed around ambient listening and clear user control. Short microphone chunks are sent securely to Moonshot's private transcription service and deleted when transcription finishes. Text and selected context can be sent through Moonshot's server to a model when the app needs to understand a moment. Nothing leaves without your yes. The privacy policy explains every data path, stored copy, permission, and deletion control in detail.\r\n\r\nMoonshot is in early access. 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Most probiotics disappoint because they’re one formula for everyone, and in any gut most of their strains never establish. GutGutGoose makes a probiotic that won’t work for any gut but yours: we sequence your microbiome, find which strains can establish in the microbes you already have, compound those into your formula, and re-sequence you weeks later to confirm they took hold.\n\nIt’s for people who’ve tried things for IBS, bloating, digestion, mood, weight or GLP-1 symptoms without luck. If it doesn’t work you get your money back, and retesting shows how your gut changed, so you know it’s not a placebo.\\\n\\\n\n\nThe innovation is accurately predicting which bacteria will live in a gut, which is extremely hard. It’s built on two peer-reviewed models, MICOM and AGORA2, and more than 7,000 metabolic reconstructions of gut bacteria, and it finds the strains that can hold in your gut’s community. On two published human cohorts, its predictions matched what actually established 84.7% and 76.7% of the time, and we reproduced the first at 78.1% ourselves. Off-the-shelf products manage under 5%. Once we can control which bacteria live where, we can run precision interventions in the gut and engineer it.\n\nWe’re a supplement today and can’t treat disease, but each cycle produces a record of one gut, one intervention, and the result. That record makes each customer’s next formula better, and across thousands of people it becomes the first longitudinal dataset of the human gut responding to known, controlled changes. Our vision is to use changes in metabolic pathways over time to predict Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s a decade before symptoms appear.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108277&key=user_uploads/991771/50caffe3-e0c9-44e5-9212-da1bbabc0e00)\n\n# Traction\n\nWe gave a talk at an endometriosis event, and 20 of the 50 people joined our waitlist. The first night we opened paid deposits, we called five people from that list at 7:30pm. Three picked up, and we managed to get seven sign ups, they were so excited they referred and paid for their families that night. Five of the 20 referred someone else, and our traction has only grown since.\n\n# Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108277&key=user_uploads/991771/13686614-1a12-4b14-a657-d33d042b3ee6)\n\nThe GutGutGoose founders winning the YC product pitch\n\nLeon started university at 14 and spent four years at a $3bn YC unicorn. After we started GutGutGoose, he built a pharmacy, now doing $4M a year, to fund the science behind our engine. Anis joined in September; he co-built the model, runs operations, and is the youngest ever to win Queensland’s Math Olympiad. He’s on a Chancellor’s Excellence Scholarship in AI and Data Science, and (fun fact) was once the world’s number one Catan player.\n\n# The ask\n\nWe’d love introductions to gut-health clinics, patient communities, or microbiome researchers who could help us recruit and shape the 80-person study. Email us at [admin@gutgutgoose.com](mailto:admin@gutgutgoose.com). More at [gutgutgoose.com](http://gutgutgoose.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SAP-gutgutgoose-personalized-probiotics", "votes": 145, "created_at": "2026-07-30T15:49:21.242Z" } ] }, { "id": 32205, "name": "Mochi", "slug": "mochi", "former_names": [ "Mochi", "MOCHI.TV" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49a6b24fc91b9bae1c825be608651c20ecb90c31.png", "website": "https://www.mochi.tv/", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "We're the #1 app for AI anime, where fans make the stories. 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Users can scroll to discover shows and binge bite-sized episodes, unlocking them with either coins or a subscription. We produce new shows daily with AI, and they've hit 300M+ views organically.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nTraditionally, entertainment takes years to go from production to the TV screen. But fans always crave more. With the advent of AI, entertainment cycles become as fast as days, and now we’re able to serve the most underserved audience of all - anime fans.\n\n**What we built**\n\nA mobile app to watch 1 minute anime packed with:\n\n* emotional thrills (_finally_, you get revenge on the bully), \n* plot twists (_turns out_, the bully is your secret long-lost sibling), \n* and cliffhangers (_suddenly_, the bully whispers “without me, they’ll come for you…”)\n\nUnlike traditional anime, our content is built for Gen Z. TikTok doomscrolling and lower attention spans has led to audiences wanting payoffs in seconds instead of seasons. 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