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Shopifolk love it.”\n* Attendees at a recent **Yelp** All Hands said:\n * “Our All hands was absolute 🔥”\n * “#venueforpresident”\n * “Venue was the winner today”\n * “As a hardcore introvert, this all hands was the most comfortable and fun one i’ve ever been to.”\n\n### [**🙏**](https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/#:\\~:text=%F0%9F%99%8F%20Folded%20Hands&text=Two%20hands%20placed%20firmly%20together,Rarely%3A%20a%20high%2Dfive.&text=Android%20once%20showed%20a%20blob,closed%20eyes%20and%20folded%20hands.) **Introduce us to remote companies!**\n\nWe need your help! We want to speak with companies that are: \n\n* Remote-first or hybrid\n* Culture-obsessed \n* Run recurring 100+ person meetings (like All Hands, Town Halls, AMAs, etc)\n\nWe love speaking with leaders from People & Culture, Employee Experience, Internal Communications, Chief of Staffs, Broadcast / AV / IT teams, etc. \n\nIf this describes your company, your previous company, or someone you know, we would love to connect to share what we’ve learned and see how we can help. \n\n**Please reach out to us at** [**founders@venue.live**](mailto:founders@venue.live)**.**\n\n### **🤝 Give us a try!**\n\nWe’re offering to host your next team meeting in Venue for free. No commitments. 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Fiat to Crypto onramps [fail anywhere from 30% to 90% of the time around the world](https://www.pokoapp.xyz/post/success-rates-fiat-onramps). We solve this problem through our Onramp Aggregator and Direct Checkout.\n\n**TLDR**\n\nWe provide wallets and marketplaces infra providers with an [Onramp Aggregator](https://www.pokoapp.xyz/onramp-aggregator) - a single integration for all localized onramps enabling them to onramp with **local payments,** at up to **6x transaction success rates** and [**70% lower costs** than Moonpay/Transak](https://www.pokoapp.xyz/post/problems-with-onramps-fees). We also provide a [Direct Checkout](https://www.pokoapp.xyz/direct-checkout) on local payment rails for users to pay seamlessly into a smart contract (e.g. for NFT purchasing) without the user needing to onramp. This enables far higher user conversion and transaction success rates. Our payment solutions reach 16M+ active wallets.\n\n**Who is it for**\n\nOur users are wallets, marketplaces, wallet- and marketplace-infra providers, and games/DApps seeking a better payments experience and monetization from their end users. For infrastructure partners, we provide features that serve them especially well (e.g. dashboards and data/flexibility to meet multiple use cases) and a revenue share for them to scale with transaction volume.\n\n# \n\n# 💵 **How does it work?**\n\n**Onramp Aggregator**\\\nWe route users to onramps with the highest success rates and lowest transaction costs for a particular currency, payment method, and token for Everytime Lowest Prices. We bring onboard onramps focused on a single country as they provide the highest success rates. This is because localized onramps provide rates, payment methods, and KYC processes that work best for their market. Onramps compete to provide the best rate and highest transaction success. \\\n\\\n_Check out a live demo (and live rates) here:_ \\\n\\\n_Read the product docs:_\\\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71045&key=user_uploads/855612/147e959f-afd1-43fa-9f66-4ff5088da633)\n\n_Live rates with a **1400 basis point difference** between the lowest cost and highest cost onramp (Brazil)!_\n\n**Direct Checkout**\\\nOne-step NFT purchasing using cards and popular payment rails from any wallet or on any marketplace. This enables users to frictionlessly purchase gaming NFTs or other digital goods without onramping (we automate the onramp and swaps and hide this from users). This increases paid user conversion in web3 by 79% as users use the payment rails most available to them and avoid unnecessary friction like KYC or complicated token purchasing and swaps.\\\n\\\n_Check out a demo in staging here:_ \\\n_Product documentation:_ \\\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71045&key=user_uploads/855612/21f3d0f0-3b86-42a1-9133-13a2e1f90175)\n\n**Why we built** [**Pokoapp.xyz**](http://Pokoapp.xyz)\\\nWe believe in giving web3 wallets, marketplaces, and DApps bank-like superpowers by connecting them with local payment rails so that assets can move between tradfi payment rails to crypto rails seamlessly. 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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! 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By creating an engaging chat environment, it empowers decision-makers to gain insights, request reports, and generate visualizations based on their company's metrics. This seamless interaction is made possible by integrating a metric layer that comprehends all your company's metrics. The chat-based exploration simplifies complex data analysis, allowing users to generate comprehensive summaries with a single click, which can be exported to various formats. Furthermore, with the introduction of scheduled chats and action-triggered automations, [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) enhances the autonomy and efficiency of decision-makers. It's more than a tool; it's a decision-making operational system aiming to facilitate decision-makers in achieving their KPIs while spending less time waiting for data.\n\nHello everyone. We are the team behind [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc), an AI chatbot revolutionizing how you understand and interact with your data. Our aim is to facilitate decision-makers in making insightful, data-driven decisions.\n\n# **🧨 The Problem: Delayed Data Analysis**\n\nNon-data savvy users constantly require information, and data specialists, like developers and data analysts, are overwhelmed by data queries instead of focusing on enhancing the product. And even when reports and dashboards exist, these traditional data exploration methods have proven to be time-consuming and challenging to navigate.\n\n# 🎉 **The Solution:** [**Findly.ai**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) disrupts this paradigm by providing a conversational interface for your data. It's as if you're chatting with your business metrics, asking questions, requesting reports, and receiving visualizations that paint the complete picture of your internal business metrics.\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) expedites the process of data analysis by providing a single-click solution to generate a comprehensive written summary after your chat-based exploration. These summaries can be exported easily to document formats, emailed, sent to Slack, or even transformed into PowerPoint presentations.\n\nBut there's more to [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc). It introduces the concept of scheduled chats - pre-programmed interactions that happen automatically over time. This means decision-makers can automatically receive written reports on their company's results without someone manually preparing and sending them. It's like having a personal data analyst working for you around the clock.\n\nIn addition, [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) enables decision-makers to set up automated actions based on the results of these chats. For example, if your revenue sees a month-to-month increase of 20%, automation can be set up to create a Trello card for the revenue team to assess results further and uncover opportunities. The possibilities are endless.\n\n# **💲Opportunity: A Paradigm Shift in Data Analysis**\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) is redefining the data analysis landscape. By making data more accessible and interactive, it enables decision-makers to save time on complex data explorations and concentrate on strategic decision-making.\n\n# **👋 Ask: Unleash Your Data's Potential**\n\nIf you want to transform your decision-making process with quick access to data and automated insights, [**click here**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) ([**https://findly.ai/join**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc)) to get started.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gyc-findly-ai-co-pilot-for-business-intelligence", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2022-08-10T10:25:41.611Z" } ] }, { "id": 27173, "name": "Jamble", "slug": "jamble", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8964c1f86d1269f9dbee0a1067368d0a96636bdc.png", "website": "https://www.jamble.com/", "all_locations": "São Paulo, SP, Brazil", "long_description": "Jamble is a live shopping marketplace for collectibles in Brazil. 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Sneakerhead for more than 15 years, becoming Jamble CTO was nothing else than my destiny.\nRegarding my studies,\nI recently graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, France most prestigious Engineering School and previously graduated from the University of Bath as a Computer System Engineer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5c0aee867ef5cdb08bb9a7636ad3b28ca376989a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65291, "title": "Jamble - The future of fashion resale", "tagline": "We’re creating a new way to buy and sell fashion with video & Live streaming ", "body": "Hi there,\n\nWe’re Aymar, Jeremy and Louis and we’re excited to present Jamble!\n\nJamble is a secondhand fashion marketplace using the power of video & Live streaming.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65291&key=user_uploads/998576/7a357bf4-bbc5-4860-b499-636ce8f606e8)\n\n### ✨ **Why video & Live in secondhand fashion?**\n\nSecondhand clothing is a global phenomenon, growing 8x faster than the overall apparel market, and should overtake fast fashion by 2029.\n\nHowever, C2C marketplaces have hardly been moving with the times. We want to leverage short-form video & Live streaming to create a new buyer & seller experience.\n\n* Live streaming is a game changer in secondhand fashion. Connecting with an audience in real time, answering all questions at once and selling to the highest bidder is the most effective way to move inventories - way more than managing static listings for months. It is also a unique compelling experience for the buyer.\n* Short videos have become one of the most powerful means for discovery in fashion. We developed a social Feed where our community can share inspiration, styling tips, outfits, etc. This is a place for users to find their next fashion ideas and creators to get known.\n\n### 👋 **Meet the Jamble Team**\n\nWe’re 3 French founders 🇫🇷, we grew up in the same Parisian district and have a longstanding relationship together. We’re all experienced resellers - Aymar and Louis used to run an online vintage shop together while Jeremy is a crazy sneakerhead. We started in France in 2021 before relocating to the US.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65291&key=user_uploads/998576/fd6e0c77-e586-4688-ad49-32afe8e03af6)\n\n### 📱**How can I try Jamble out?**\n\nWe launched a couple of month ago on iOS and you can download the App here 👉\n\n\n\n### **☎️ Contact Us**\n\nFeel free to say hi!\n\n[aymar@jambleapp.com](mailto:aymar@jambleapp.com)\n\n[louis@jambleapp.com](mailto:louis@jambleapp.com)\n\n[jeremy@jambleapp.com](mailto:jeremy@jambleapp.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gz5-jamble-the-future-of-fashion-resale", "votes": 242, "created_at": "2022-08-11T07:21:07.179Z" } ] }, { "id": 27184, "name": "Taro", "slug": "taro", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d4584cf3fa0e1a05a89a63ceaa8dab2f4c2d68d0.png", "website": "https://joinTaro.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Taro is a community of 150k+ software engineers looking to grow their careers. 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In high school, I built a YT channel with 50M+ video views.\n\nMy cofounder Rahul and I organically built a community of 17K+ people called \"Tech Career Growth\", which inspired Taro. Prior, I was a TL at Robinhood, Meta, and Course Hero.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-chiou/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AlexChiou", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c008b4de02e11ebbd9322634414fd98e5cb3cc4e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65087, "title": "🧋 Taro - Faster Career Growth for Software Engineers", "tagline": "We get software engineers onboarded and promoted faster", "body": "**tl;dr**: Your career growth shouldn’t depend on your ability to find a good mentor or manager. Taro brings together top SWEs with proven insights to scale your career. **Check out our** [**website**](https://bit.ly/taro_app_web) **and** [**YouTube channel**](https://bit.ly/rahul_yt)**.**\n\nTaro helps full-time engineers get onboarded and promoted faster. We do this through Q&A and case studies from tech veterans, organized by company and level.\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nAs a software engineer, you already know how to code. But **software engineering is so much more than coding**.\n\nOver the last 2 years, Alex and I built a community of 50K software engineers on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/rpandey1234), [Slack,](https://join.slack.com/t/techcareergrowth/shared_invite/zt-1ctxuq8h2-b3nnkQG0MtXyBpvrEFpgqQ) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/71614174/admin/). We talked to hundreds of engineers and found that their career bottleneck was not their coding ability, but how effectively they managed projects, understood the context, and communicated blockers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65087&key=user_uploads/192956/5ded8a2b-c6e4-4a8f-b6e8-039c9d7335a8)\n\nLeft to right:\n\n[📱 Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-chiou/) has mentored dozens of engineers to Senior+ levels across his time at Meta and Robinhood.\n\n[🎓 Rahul](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/) has taught thousands of engineers through his role as a Stanford lecturer, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and YouTube creator.\n\nWhat separates an average engineer from a great engineer is the ability to independently create business impact, and that doesn’t get taught in a CS degree or a bootcamp. Taro fills the gap.\n\n### **💡 Our Solution**\n\n1. A Q&A database from real engineers, with answers from industry experts. **All questions are tagged by company + level, which makes it easy to find relevant content.** [Here’s a sample](https://app.jointaro.com/question/mvMQj8228kuUe38BvdT9).\n2. Case studies from eng leads + managers at top tech companies.\n3. A community of software engineers at top companies who share insights + advice.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65087&key=user_uploads/192956/62f78267-822d-4ab1-a232-5c3f586b48d9)\n\n### **💁🏽‍♀️ Target Audience**\n\nWe already have 100+ Taro Premium members from companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and Amazon (along with thousands of free users).\n\nTaro is a great fit for **full time engineers at fast-moving tech companies**. Taro is **not** a good fit for freelancers or students who are still exploring software engineering.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\n1. Reach out if you’re an engineer starting a new role, or are aiming for a promotion.\n2. 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He spent the last 4 years as a Product Manager at Facebook where he patented half a dozen AI technologies. 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As successful 7-figure course entrepreneurs ourselves, we have reimagined the course platform experience for the next generation of creators with best-in-class gamification tools and proprietary AI to maximize each student's learning. \n\n**⭐️ The Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/03a2e5b1-eace-4b12-beff-4c2c8c8fb1d4)\n\n[**Parth Detroja**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthdetroja/) **(CEO)** is the global bestselling author of [Swipe to Unlock](https://www.amazon.com/Swipe-Unlock-Technology-Business-Strategy/dp/1976182190) and has launched multiple 7 figure courses. He spent the last 4 years as a Product Manager at Facebook where he patented half a dozen AI technologies. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University.\n\n[**Jason Goodison**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlevigoodison/) **(CTO)** is a Software Engineer and [Tech YouTuber](https://www.youtube.com/@JasonGoodison) with 138k subscribers. Before YC, he worked at Microsoft for 3 years and graduated with distinction from the University of Waterloo.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**The average completion rate for online courses is below 9%** because they are not designed for our short attention spans. Oftentimes courses are 20+ hours of content, but only contain 1-2 hours of actionable insights. Students don't want to consume long-winded lectures.\n\n**Today’s generation wants to learn from their favorite creators!** We asked over a hundred top creators what was holding them back from creating a course. The top cited reasons were:\n\n1. The time commitment required to script and film a traditional video course\n2. Not knowing where to start and how to effectively monetize a course\n3. Worries about piracy of video-on-demand courses\n4. Not being able to coach each student to the extent they’d like because their time doesn’t scale\n\n \n\nCourses allow creators massive monetization potential without dependence on advertisers; however, **many of the best creators are deterred from selling information products altogether because no platform today fits their needs.**\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n[**Pair**](https://www.pairai.com/) **is the first mobile video course platform built by creators, for creators.** We are removing all the barriers holding creators back from launching information products.\n\n**Our platform is specifically designed for structured learning through shorter**\\-**form video** with our average video length being about 5 minutes. We pride ourselves on offering more actionable insights through 2 hours of total video than traditional courses provide in 20 hours. Not only is this a much better experience for students, but it also lowers the burden on creators to launch their courses. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/1dddeb6d-e65d-4066-9654-71ce177db429)\n\n**Unlike other platforms, we only make money when our creators make money.** Creators keep a generous 90% of sales and we take 10%. With this alignment of incentives, our product roadmap prioritizes helping course creators maximize their long-term revenue above all else. Our out-of-box white label solution optimizes specifically for course sales and helps any creator seamlessly launch their course and craft a world-class sales funnel. We have handcrafted this experience after spending the last 4 years launching multiple 7 figure courses ourselves.  \n\n**Our platform also allows any creator or educator access to powerful engagement tools like streaks, badges, and leaderboards** to create daily habit and build a lucrative and retentive content business. These tools were previously reserved for unicorn companies like Duolingo, Calm, and Headspace with large in-house engineering teams until we decided to democratize them 🙂\n\n**Pair also offers robust tooling to prevent ripping of your content** and to actively search for and file takedown requests on the off chance piracy does occur. As course creators ourselves, we know firsthand how terrifying piracy is. A ripped copy of your course getting SEO’d to Google could cut your sales in half or worse overnight. Astonishingly, not a single course platform today offers even the most basic anti-piracy solutions—until now.\n\nAnd last but not least, **Pair offers best-in-class AI assistance to help you provide 1:1 coaching and personalized learning assistance to your students at scale.** We do this by ingesting a creator's entire back-catalog of content to craft a chatbot that is fine-tuned to sound exactly like them. Creators can also use this chat experience to deliver push notifications and live content updates to students to support their learning process!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/09f2a0b0-ad6e-40d5-bb6c-a55baa60ffe8)\n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\n**If there’s someone in your network with a large audience who is looking to launch a course,** [**please introduce us.**](https://team@pairai.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9G-pair-ai-monetize-your-knowledge-in-a-scalable-way", "votes": 1248, "created_at": "2023-02-28T18:52:32.886Z" } ] }, { "id": 27906, "name": "1stCollab", "slug": "1stcollab", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "website": "https://1stcollab.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "1stCollab is the first influencer platform that fully automates and optimizes every aspect of your influencer marketing program. We’ve helped hundreds of startups launch their first campaigns and enabled larger brands to scale to thousands of influencers, while saving them over $1M annually in influencer spend.\r\n\r\nWhat we offer:\r\n- Smart search & recommendations – Instantly connect with thousands of relevant influencers.\r\n- Full campaign automation – From outreach and negotiations to contracts, payments, and taxes, we handle it all.\r\n- Real-time performance tracking – Monitor conversions, revenue, and run A/B tests with detailed reporting.", "one_liner": "Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1671641116, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Marketing", "Advertising", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "After working on creator-related products for three years at Pinterest—and talking with dozens of creators about the challenges they faced—Varun and Leon began brainstorming different ways creators could better monetize the enormous value they delivered to their audiences and to brands. After testing a number of concepts, they became excited by the idea of building better discovery experiences to help brands find creators for their campaigns. A mutual friend connected them with Carina, who was independently building something similar. Andrew had also previously worked with Varun and Leon on discovery at Pinterest, and joined the team as well. Soon after, 1stCollab was born!" }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "We’re focused on solving a two-sided marketplace problem, for brands and creators. For brands, their biggest pain point with influencer marketing is discovering and sourcing creators. Platforms that exist today not only cost >$30k each year, but have very limited discovery capabilities. For instance, [Grin.co](http://Grin.co), one of the top two influencer marketing platforms today, does not surface any Instagram influencers as part of their sourcing tools. We’re going to be the first influencer marketing platform that prioritizes discovery and create the best discovery experience for brands by growing a network of authenticated creators and surfacing those creators through industry leading discovery algorithms and experiences. For creators, 99% of creators don’t get brand deals today, because creators don’t have a way to actively apply to relevant campaigns. By creating an open platform that has a broad set of brands, we can help creators apply to campaigns by showcasing those brands and their campaigns to relevant creators. Creators know their audience and content the best, and through encouraging creator participation, we can facilitate better matchmaking between brands and creators than any platform out there." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "From working at social media companies, we know that users engage at much higher rates with sponsored creator content than organic ads. But the market for sponsored influencer content is being held back, because it’s hard to run influencer marketing campaigns and the tools out there today don’t make it much easier. 1stCollab will simplify and automate influencer marketing the same way that Facebook and Google transformed the digital ads market. If we’re successful, we’ll enable a new category of ad spend—helping more brands to leverage influencer marketing and shift more of their budgets towards it. That’s money that goes directly to creators, enabling orders of magnitude more people to make a living as full-time creators. We have the opportunity to make content creation a genuinely feasible career for many, many talented folks out there—and we’re excited to make it happen." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/1stcollab.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1stcollab", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1168808, "full_name": "Leon Lin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Currently working on 1stCollab, the best platform for brands and creators to collaborate on influencer marketing campaigns. I was previously at Pinterest for over nine years, where I watched the company grow from 100 to 3k employees. Most recently, I was Head of Discovery product there where I led our Home, Search, and Pins teams and was responsible for user engagement. Before that, I was a tech lead on the Recommendations team.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e613d2a09dfafba1eedd23a45f5dc7c892ea74a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1168810, "full_name": "Varun Bansal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at 1stCollab, a platform for brands and creators to connect and run marketing campaigns together. Before 1stCollab, I worked at Pinterest, where I was a product manager for the homefeed recommendations team, the international growth team, and—most recently—the creator engagement and community teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3251e49676ec33cca771662e36818914ead68d75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176814, "full_name": "Andrew Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently working on building a network for brands and creators to connect and launch marketing campaigns. Previously, I was a Tech Lead on search and recommendations at Coupang and Pinterest.\n\n\nIf you're interested in search, recommendations, or creators, please reach out :)!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyuliu/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1270d66ac8965363670c2cc98caf2d245db2f2f7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 71585, "title": "Customer Success Manager (CSM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab/jobs/atezDBY-customer-success-manager-csm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94796, "title": "1stCollab - Fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing", "tagline": "Build a community of thousands of creators for your brand–instantly", "body": "**tl;dr**: 1stCollab is the fastest way to test, optimize, and scale your influencer program. Instantly source thousands of creators, and let our platform handle everything — outreach, negotiations, contracting, payments, and taxes — all while maximizing ROI.\n\n**Product Demo:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KI3LN-xqdM\n\n**Ask**: Introduce [leon@1stcollab.com](mailto:leon@1stcollab.com) to companies interested in influencer marketing!\n\n## The Problem\n\nWe’ve spoken with hundreds of startups running influencer programs, and nearly all hit the same roadblocks:\n\n* **Low response rates.** They reach out to about 10-20 influencers and don’t get any responses. \n* **Time-consuming processes.** Even if some creators reply, sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and paying them quickly turns into a full-time job (or an agency retainer).\n* **Scaling is hard.** Early success is exciting, but optimizing and expanding campaigns takes costly tools, headcount, and process.\n\n## What 1stCollab does\n\n1stCollab helps you test out and scale your influencer marketing program to hundreds of creators with an hour of setup work. We do this by automating the exact same influencer process that the world’s best marketing teams run. \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1: Instantly source thousands of influencers**\n\nFree to try out! We’ve indexed all of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube so you’ll quickly be able to find relevant creators using our search and recommendation tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/7c914441-b10e-4367-99c6-253a39f48bf6)\n\n**Step 2: We take care of outreach, negotiations, contracting and payments.** \n\nWe handle everything to bring the right creators on board at the right price. You’ll see the full negotiation history and campaign pipeline. Our pricing engine predicts ROI using real-time engagement signals and proprietary data from hundreds of thousands of deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/05e49138-75eb-4fdc-b941-e24044207a7d)\n\n**Step 3: (Optional) Review content**\n\nCreators submit concepts and draft videos for your approval. All revisions stay organized in one place. Once you give the green light, we take care of payouts and collect performance data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/fc46b925-16b3-4ef8-82df-1380a85dec64)\n\n\\\n**Step 4: Analyze your metrics**\n\nAs creators are going live, we’ll report out on real time engagement and link click metrics. We’ll cut things by ad groups as well so you can experiment with different briefs and creator populations to understand what works well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/90bbd692-5064-454d-a9c4-a20748bd411e)\n\n## Some of our campaigns\n\nWe’ve helped hundreds of startups start their influencer campaigns and scale up to **some of the largest campaigns on social media**. Some interesting case studies to check out include [Framer](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/framer), [Locket](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/locket), [Gamma](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/gamma) and [SnapCalorie](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/snapcalorie)!\n\n## How to get started\n\nStart [sourcing creators for free](https://brands.1stcollab.com/) or schedule [some time with Leon](https://calendar.app.google/Zd88eFtzJF3TKs3k6) so we can discuss campaign strategy and we can share with you best practices\n\nAlready running influencer campaigns? A/B test us against your current program — we’re confident we can improve your performance and efficiency!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/96f60d67-2c55-48e9-9d78-35dcdddb8e28)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oey-1stcollab-fully-automated-roi-optimized-influencer-marketing", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2025-10-21T19:13:55.295Z" }, { "id": 70145, "title": "1stCollab — Run an influencer marketing campaign in less than 30 minutes 🎉", "tagline": "1stCollab is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that automates the process of running an influencer marketing campaign.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nInfluencer marketing is one of the most efficient ways to reach and acquire new customers, but it’s tedious to run campaigns. By leveraging machine learning and our prior campaign data, 1stCollab lets you run a campaign in under 30 minutes. Visit [1stcollab.com](http://1stcollab.com) to get started with your next influencer marketing campaign!\n\n### **Why is influencer marketing hard?**\n\nFrom our time working at large social media platforms, we know that influencer marketing consistently outperforms organic ads. Unfortunately, launching an influencer campaign is a manual and lengthy process. _Launching an influencer campaign takes weeks_, while launching Google ads takes just minutes. \n\nThe first step of every influencer campaign is to find the right creators to work with—which often takes over 50 hours per campaign. Existing solutions cost tens of thousands of dollars and operate off inaccurate data. As a result, the majority of influencer marketers spend hours manually searching on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. From there, they have to manually calculate stats, vet a creator’s audience, evaluate past partnerships, and negotiate rates and contract terms, review creatives, report out campaign metrics, and finally submit payments. This whole process often takes 2+ weeks for a single campaign.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n1stCollab lets you launch an influencer marketing campaign in minutes—not weeks. All you have to do is find a single influencer who's relevant to your brand and target customers. Then:\n\n1. Use our [influencer look-alike discovery tool](https://www.1stcollab.com/) to identify, vet, and save additional influencers you'd like to work with. We do what the best influencer marketers do: identify a single relevant creator, dig through that creator’s community, identify additional relevant creators, and repeat the process—but automatically.\n2. Send us your list of saved influencers and tell us about your campaign goals and budget.\n3. We'll take care of everything from there. All you have to do is approve the content that the influencers will post.\n\nWe support campaigns on all platforms. Our self-serve discovery tool currently supports YouTube, and we’re launching for Instagram and TikTok soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/a5397e58-9fda-4820-8ec8-945d2930f80d)\n\n### **Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/214846e7-6c27-47c6-9213-4ecac24313be)\n\nOur team has built some of the largest and most-used discovery and ML systems in the world, and has led industry-leading influencer marketing programs.\n\n* [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/) spent nine years at Pinterest, where he was most recently Head of Discovery Product. \n* [Varun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/) was at Pinterest for five years, where he led product for both the Creator Engagement and Recommendations teams. \n* [Carina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-cater/) led influencer marketing at Whatnot, Robinhood, and Curology.\n* [Andrew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyu-liu/) was the tech lead for the Recommendations and Search team at Coupang and the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n* [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlau93/) was a Founding Engineer and tech lead for the Machine Learning team at Abnormal Security and earlier, an engineer on the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* **Want to give influencer marketing a try?** We'd love to help! We're the easiest and fastest way to do it. Our discovery tool is free to try and we’re happy to help you run the rest of your campaign.\n* **Know someone doing influencer marketing?** We'd love to be connected. Even if our product isn't the right fit, we’d love to know how we can make their process faster and improve their performance.\n* **No plans to run an influencer marketing campaign?** Feel free to use our discovery tool and explore creators you might want to work with in the future! We'd love to get feedback on the discovery experience.\n\nIf you have any questions, shoot us an email at [hello@1stcollab.com](mailto:hello@1stcollab.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IFN-1stcollab-run-an-influencer-marketing-campaign-in-less-than-30-minutes", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-03-10T18:04:24.429Z" } ] }, { "id": 27907, "name": "Storyboarder", "slug": "storyboarder", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fdaa90707265a548984bceb0ca01f4971e16d6c3.png", "website": "https://storyboarder.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Storyboarder is a tool and a platform for anyone to create, share, and sell webcomics.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is an $12B market and rapidly growing to the rest of the world. Webtoon, the largest company in the space, generates $100M / month in revenue. However, their addressable market is limited by their content creators, who need know how to draw. Readers are desperate for a greater variety of stories in webcomics.\r\n\r\n\r\nThrough years of working with filmmakers, we’ve built extremely easy to use storyboarding software that has 700K users. We’re democratizing visual storytelling to everyone. We’re working on the next generation that, through advances in video game interfaces, ubiquitous 3D compute, and AI, will allow anyone to easily create scenes, pose characters, to create webcomics. \r\n\r\n\r\nStoryboarder is backed by Y Combinator (W23), David Karp (Tumblr Founder), Andrew Kortina (Venmo Founder), and other product focused investors.", "one_liner": "Tool and platform to create and sell webcomics", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1677558181, "tags": [ "Entertainment", "Media", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "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/storyboarder", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/storyboarder.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyboarder", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fdaa90707265a548984bceb0ca01f4971e16d6c3.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": 73262, "full_name": "Charles Forman", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Charles Forman is the co-founder of Storyboarder. With a background in computer science and design, Charles is passionate about building great product experiences that make the world a more enjoyable place. Prior to co-founding Storyboarder, Charles was the founder of OMGPOP (YCS06), a gaming startup that gained international recognition for its popular game \"Draw Something\". OMGPOP attracted millions of users and was ultimately acquired by Zynga for $210 million.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/iminlikewithyou/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/charlesforman", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3227d0e81f001594d91ca5b7060a736acdb6557f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176853, "full_name": "Joe Watkins", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Joe Watkins is the co-founder and CTO of Storyboarder. Prior to Storyboarder, Joe lead a computer vision/machine learning team at Google before working on generating maps with machine learning at Waymo.\nJoe's passion for web-native fiction played a significant role in inspiring Storyboarder's design. As a teenager, he was captivated by the potential of the internet to tell stories in new and exciting ways, and spent countless hours exploring different forms of digital storytelling.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-watkins-06925295", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/292cc2868728f7817b98e5382b45fce1321fd4f8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 66669, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/storyboarder/jobs/hmyhqGZ-backend-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$120K - $140K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 67565, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/storyboarder/jobs/T0QqbIb-backend-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$120K - $140K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69867, "title": "Storyboarder - Create, buy, and sell webcomics", "tagline": "Storyboarder is a tool and platform that enables anyone to create, buy, and sell webcomics.", "body": "# TLDR: Storyboarder is a tool and platform that enables anyone to create, buy, and sell webcomics. Over 650,000 users have used Storyboarder to make movies like Black Panther, Cruella, I Tonya, and Modern Family — and now we're expanding to webcomics.\n\nHi Everyone! We’re [Charles Forman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iminlikewithyou/) and [Joe Watkins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-watkins-06925295/), the founders of [Storyboarder](https://storyboarder.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69867&key=user_uploads/73262/1d6bac9f-7694-4132-b0e9-b6f55630014f)\n\nIf you have an idea for a story, you can use Storyboarder to tell it by adding characters to a scene and typing in dialogue - the tool will automatically generate the shots you need to tell your story. You can post episodes of your story to the platform as part of a series, and other people can buy the episodes to read them.\n\n## 🤬 **Currently, it’s too hard to make webcomics - You have to be able to draw!**\n\nIn East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is a $12B market - and it’s rapidly growing to the rest of the world. People are addicted to reading webcomics. For example, the largest company in the space, Webtoon, has 100M MAU and generates $1.2B in annual revenue. The problem is that the variety and appeal of webcomics is constrained by the number of webcomic artists - you need to know how to draw to make a webcomic.\n\n## 💜 **We make it easy for anyone to make webcomics!**\n\nStoryboarder is a 3D scene editor. You pick a scene. You add characters. You type in what they say. Storyboarder makes the panels for you, and then you can edit them as much as you want. We have a world class rendering system, so everything ends up looking absolutely beautiful!\n\nStoryboarder is also a platform for posting your comics as episodes in series. After your readers read 5 of your episodes, they can pay the equivalent of 20 cents to read additional episodes.\n\n## 🧔🧔‍♂️ **Why are we building this?**\n\nI, (Charles), was working on making a movie. I wanted the story to be good, but I had no experience. Pixar uses storyboarding as a tool to iterate on their stories. They can see each version of their movie and rapidly iterate on it. Being the creative / engineer that I am, I made a storyboarding tool so I could create storyboards without having to draw. I released the tool, Storyboarder, and 700K people use it to storyboard movies and tv shows like Black Panther, Cruella, I, Tonya, and Modern Family.\n\nWe were ready to start shooting my movie in March of 2020 - then the pandemic hit. We realized we wouldn’t be able to make the movie. So I focused on Storyboarder. Working with some of the best writers, directors, and storyboard artists in the world, I saw a bunch of fantastic storyboards for movies that would never be filmed. They were cancelled because of covid. I realized that there are tons of stories that never see the light of day because they can’t get made into movies.\n\nBeing depressed about COVID, I spent time on Clubhouse, where I met my cofounder Joe. We talked a lot about the world of online fiction and webcomics and how it relates to storyboarding. We learned that Webtoon is huge and makes tons of money, but very few of their stories appeal to us, or many people I know. Webtoon creators are a particular type of person that need to know how to draw.\n\nI used to make videogames. I started OMGPOP (YC06). We built 35 games and a game called “Draw Something” We sold the company for $200M. Joe was running a team of ML engineers at Google and worked on computer vision at Waymo. So we thought we could combine forces to build the next generation of storytelling with online 3D tech, game tech, and AI.\n\nJoe and I thought, what if we make a tool where anyone can make webcomics without having to draw? The stories created would appeal to so many more people. We did the math: 3 out of 10 Americans buy e-books: 100M people X $12 (ARPPU on Webtoon). That’s $1.2B. 10X Globally: $12B!\n\n## **Checks all the boxes:**\n\n✅ **Making stories is important and fun!** \\\n✅ **Huge Market: $12B.** \\\n✅ **Built in 650K Users.** \\\n✅ **Previous YC06 videogame company with success: $200M Exit.** **\\#29 Top YC Exit.**\\\n✅ **Investors include**: David Karp (**Tumblr Founder**), Andrew Kortina (**Venmo Founder**), **Jonathan Glick** (NYT), **Andy Artz** (Best man in the world), other top secret celebs and good looking rich people.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69867&key=user_uploads/73262/c4ddcafc-e38e-49f9-8259-b90af30cfb5c)\n\n_Various gingers: Laura (Joe’s partner), Joe, some freakishly tall guy, and Charles._\n\n### **The Ask:**\n\n🚀 Do you want in on this rocket ship? Interested in using our tool? 💌 Email us and we’ll add you to the waitlist or set up a call: [founders@storyboarder.com](mailto:founders@storyboarder.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAt-storyboarder-create-buy-and-sell-webcomics", "votes": 114, "created_at": "2023-03-02T15:10:31.514Z" } ] }, { "id": 29461, "name": "Magic Hour", "slug": "magic-hour", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/57875ffefcede579f19a1952d91ce8fd43305cc7.png", "website": "https://magichour.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Magic Hour is a browser-based creative platform and API for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Creators and teams use more than 100 tools, including face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, text-to-video, image editing, and voice generation. Developers integrate the same capabilities through our REST API, official SDKs, and hosted MCP server.", "one_liner": "AI media creation platform for creators and developers", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1702093402, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Video", "Media", "API", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/magic-hour", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/magic-hour.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/magichour", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/magichourai", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/magichourai", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/magichourhq", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/57875ffefcede579f19a1952d91ce8fd43305cc7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c850c962dae30b049d52afb2443289dfe732c67a.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1040209, "full_name": "Runbo Li", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Runbo is the co-founder and CEO of Magic Hour. Previously, he was a senior data scientist at Meta where he worked on numerous zero-to-one consumer social products at NPE (New Product Experimentation).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/runboli", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/runboli", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/68548808b017cccd2b131be8bc5acf49e1bb563f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1369307, "full_name": "David Hu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "David is the co-founder and CTO of Magic Hour. Previously, he worked as a full stack engineer at Skillz, leading multiple product development teams from Series B to IPO. He worked across the entire tech stack, from user interface down to infrastructure management. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/davidhu2000", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/notdavidhu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f1a09b5a18359980819d0cd5ae3c8e3addcc193e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79051, "title": "Magic Hour - Create engaging videos using AI", "tagline": "Magic Hour makes it easy for anyone to create professional-quality videos", "body": "Hi everyone! We're [Runbo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/runboli/) and [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhu2000/), and we’re building [Magic Hour](https://magichour.ai/), a video creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create professional-quality videos.\n\nImagine swapping your face onto [Anne Hathaway’s](https://vimeo.com/919285653?share=copy) in The Devil Wears Prada, or transforming [Michael Jordan](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0etTFPu82Y/) into a marble statue shooting a game-winner in the Colosseum.\n\n**Try Our Website**: [**magichour.ai**](https://magichour.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/uj-ZNSVmwSdWtWRUhHFLgD15D5jMgY15bfHB-ZqNZqo4widCmOnzG23lk7XMCuZahyrBie0WUW1T6SyhgbAocdpOanu9vfNtZ6Io9DNQdt2ni5BGj1Tth5gy3JMk2PsTtv879SvBJeKxY3UQusUQvYs)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nMany creators, professionals, and businesses struggle to produce enough engaging, high-quality videos due lack of video production expertise and constraints on time and budget.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nWe take the best open-source AI models, figure out the best settings, and put them in a user-friendly UX so anyone can create high-quality videos in three easy steps: **choose a template, customize it, and share it**.\n\n**About Us**\n\nOur moms are best friends and introduced us in 1997 (left). Magic Hour is born out of experiences helping our parents market their small businesses, where we learned how hard it is to create engaging video content.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wO2hXAv9DwXnRIIawRUkI2NMU2Jz4N3pLBWLRahJBSmMQl-tsjBHfEcA3iCanBClT4KculXKeeR0uavWcXtmTRqeKk0sqyMXuVrj-cXbQ3oHPUW16DyTDnYECf0DYdXFuYCc9zN6QKQ8eWdhOYIf_KY)\n\n**Our ask**\n\n* Try \n* Share with friends and family\n* Give us feedback at [founders@magichour.ai](mailto:support@magichour.ai) \n* If you have any connections to businesses that make a lot of video content, especially professional sports teams, we’d love to connect\n\nFeel free to reach out at [founders@magichour.ai](mailto:support@magichour.ai) anytime!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZ1-magic-hour-create-engaging-videos-using-ai", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-03-05T01:39:16.302Z" } ] }, { "id": 30199, "name": "awen", "slug": "awen", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c1f3190ee23bef18e805a06ab238214a0db50d11.png", "website": "https://www.awen.ai/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "AI creative tools became powerful quickly. But they also got complicated. Most of them require creatives to do the engineering.\r\n\r\nPrompts.\r\nParameters.\r\nNode graphs.\r\n\r\nCreative work doesn’t start there. It starts with thinking, exploring directions, and iterating on ideas. 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Most of them require creatives to do the engineering: prompts, parameters, node graphs.\n\nIn many cases, creatives are now expected to think like engineers but creative work doesn’t start there. It starts with thinking, exploring directions, and iterating until something feels right. That’s what we wanted to build around.\n\nWith **Awen**, we’re trying a different approach:\n\nA creative partner that turns intent into exceptional visuals through conversation.\n\nWatch with sound on and join now on \n\n* If you'd like to connect with us directly, please reach out to [thibault@awen.ai](mailto:thibault@awen.ai).\n\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99315&key=user_uploads/1031855/a714a829-87bf-4ddd-9d41-68132f6a201f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ppr-awen", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-04-01T14:46:53.694Z" }, { "id": 88151, "title": "Awen: Imagine Photoshop, but simple?", "tagline": "awen makes creation as natural as having a conversation.", "body": "🎥 **Rather than tell you, we’d rather show you:**\n\n\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nTraditional creative tools are powerful but complex. Awen changes that. Instead of navigating complex menus, creatives can simply describe their vision—_“Draw me a Swiss mountain lake. Now make it sunset. Add a boat. Now animate it.”_\n\nAwen leverages AI reasoning to understand creative intent through voice. Our goal is to redefine how creatives engage with AI technology, balancing power and ease of use for both professionals and newcomers.\n\nWe are rebuilding Photoshop, with an AI-voice interface.\n\n**The Team**\n\nAwen is built by Thibault, Pablo, and Antoine—a unique blend of experts in machine learning, software engineering, and creative production in advertising, fashion, media, publishing, and entertainment.\n\n**Shall we speak?**\n\nOur community is growing with talented minds:\n\n* If you'd like to connect with us directly, please reach out to [thibault@awen.ai](mailto:thibault@awen.ai).\n* Want to join the visionaries on our waitlist? [Sign-up here.](https://www.awen.ai/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88151&key=user_uploads/1031855/fa2e6ae2-1d36-4b99-9ae5-4a12408fd535)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mvn-awen-imagine-photoshop-but-simple", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2025-02-28T17:41:28.908Z" } ] }, { "id": 30438, "name": "Beluga", "slug": "beluga", "former_names": [ "Beluga Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/11644b045eb253141d3efc6875010730a886df27.png", "website": "https://www.trybeluga.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Using our 6+ years of creator marketing experience to help companies run their creator campaigns at scale. 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Studied Sociology at Harvard and cross-enrolled at MIT Sloan. Perviously part of the GTM team at Meta, led sales at Dare Drop, and was most recently a Senior Account Executive at HubSpot. Now building Beluga Labs to help content creators operate more like a business.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-young-13b713166/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Fern_Y0ung", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/737eec44898287461eef94df920d67a56fb317ca.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2210281, "full_name": "Jack Swisher", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-led AI R&D at Bubble designing a text to app generator in Bubble's native, drag and drop language. Studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard and wrote a thesis on evaluating generative models. Now building Beluga to transform how companies grow through creators.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-swisher-77548a165/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Jack__Swisher", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/86e37ee92739f6fb866f40d6e73bb55913da251c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 107925, "title": "Beluga - Creator Marketing on Autopilot", "tagline": "Run creator marketing like paid ads", "body": "**TL;DR**: We run creator marketing end-to-end so companies can test and scale the channel without needing to hire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/717d980b-6271-4c94-a779-1c60e4277af9)\n\nMarketers do not need to be convinced that distribution matters.\n\nThe harder question is whether a channel can become repeatable before it consumes the whole team.\n\nCreator marketing is one of those channels. It oftentimes performs 3-5x better than traditional digital ads. When it works, it can drive real awareness, clicks, and signups from audiences that are hard to reach through paid ads. But running it well still tends to mean spreadsheets, inboxes, rate negotiations, contracts, draft reviews, tracking links, payment follow-up, and a lot of manual judgment.\n\nThat is what we built Beluga to fix.\n\n---\n\n## Why this problem got under our skin\n\nOne of the largest spenders in creator marketing made the labor problem concrete for us. They are spending in the high six figures each month, and told us they employ 30+ people to run their creator partnerships. Even then, each rep can only manage around 18 creators.\n\nThey also told us that if they had $2M ready to put into the channel tomorrow, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They would need to hire even more people.\n\nThat is a wild ceiling for a marketing channel that should scale with spend.\n\nWe got pulled into this from both sides.\n\nFernando saw the brand side up close at Dare Drop, helping gaming publishers run creator campaigns. The demand was real, but the operating model still looked like a traditional agency: lots of coordination, lots of manual work, and a hard ceiling on how much the team could scale.\n\nWe also spent time on the creator side while trying to build a Rippling for the self-employed. Working with creators on taxes showed us the other half of the problem: even when a brand deal is a good fit, the process around it is painful. Creators have to find deals that match their audience and content style, align expectations with the brand, actually run the campaign, and then hope they get paid on time.\n\nWe kept seeing the same thing from both sides: brands wanted creator marketing to work, creators wanted better deals and less chaos, and everyone was somehow stuck in spreadsheets, email threads, and manual follow-up.\n\n---\n\n## What Beluga does\n\nThe problem is not that creator marketing is mysterious. It works when you find the right creators, give them enough room to make authentic content, track the results properly, and run enough shots on goal.\n\nThe hard part is doing all of that consistently without making it a headcount problem.\n\nBeluga is our attempt to make creator marketing feel more like running a paid acquisition channel: set the target, set the budget, see what is happening, and double down on what works.\n\nWe run campaigns ed-to-end, including:\n\n* Creator sourcing and vetting\n* Pricing and negotiation\n* Contracting\n* Deliverable management\n* Creator payments\n* Performance tracking\n* Post-campaign analysis\n\nThe goal is that a founder or growth team can test creator marketing without building the internal machine. If the results are there, we help them scale the channel without turning it into a hiring plan.\n\nSince starting in March, we have generated over 3M views for clients ranging from YC companies to Series F hyperscalers, and saved over $100k in negotiations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/2dd9d0b8-f197-41aa-aa36-621c473b6569)\n\n_Beluga helped take Freebuff, Codebuff's free coding agent, from roughly 50 to 1,200 daily active users at peak._\n\nFor another Series F company, we drove 3,500+ signups in two weeks.\n\n---\n\n## Who Beluga is for\n\nWe are most useful when you already believe creator marketing could fit your market, but you do not want the channel to require a whole internal team before it can scale.\n\nOur bet is that the traditional operating model is the problem: most of the sourcing, negotiation, coordination, payments, and reporting should not require dedicated headcount inside every company.\n\nThat also changes what is possible. When the work gets cheaper and easier to coordinate, you can test more creators, go after smaller but better-matched channels, and deploy more capital without being bottlenecked by how many deals an internal team can manually manage.\n\nThe signal we look for is simple: can we name a real content audience where your users spend time?\n\n\"Developers who watch AI coding tool reviews on YouTube\" is a clean audience shape. So is a consumer category with obvious creator communities. A niche B2B buyer can still work, but if the buyer is hard to describe in creator and audience terms, or the product only moves through a long enterprise committee, the test usually has less conversion signal.\n\nThe other important thing is seriousness about the experiment. Creator marketing is not one magic post. It takes enough well-matched attempts to learn which creators, formats, and messages work. If distribution is a real priority and you want to test the channel properly, that is the conversation we are best suited for.\n\n---\n\n## Why us\n\nThe reason we think we can make this work is that we have lived the messy parts.\n\nFernando ran millions in ad spend at Meta and then sold creator campaigns at Dare Drop. Zan, our Head of Account Management, led outreach across tens of thousands of creators and is a content creator himself. 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We auto-generate creative briefs and video scripts to enable hyper specific campaigns and drive content diversity.\n* **Multi-Platform Integration** - While we dominate TikTok Shop today, we're building the universal platform to power all creator-brand collaborations. Soon, brands selling on TikTok Shop, Amazon, and Shopify will find and manage creators from Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, X all from Reacher.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93070&key=user_uploads/839007/02d2cbe8-0f3e-43e3-99d4-b47824431757)\n\n# **Why this is the future**\n\nNowadays, most brands are discovered through creator content, sell products through creator affiliates, and build their entire customer acquisition around user generated content at scale. \n\nEvery company will eventually need creators making content across every platform. We're building the infrastructure so any brand can instantly find and work with creators on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Snapchat and even Pinterest - wherever their customers are.\n\n# **How to get started?**\n\nWe power creator collaborations for any company from small businesses to household name enterprise brands. Learn how we can help your business grow through creator content. Book a demo [HERE](https://meetings.hubspot.com/reacher).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93070&key=user_uploads/839007/12ea83ee-9e59-45da-ab46-3a5b78113ebd)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93070&key=user_uploads/839007/1a0ef1a7-7c2b-4296-b843-7450be56cdb7)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OD8-reacher-marketing-agent-for-creator-collaborations", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-08-17T04:29:07.122Z" } ] }, { "id": 30870, "name": "Koyal", "slug": "koyal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6be5eec5520358437374d48ae33d4a26eadd56.png", "website": "https://koyal.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. 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As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views!\r\n\r\nWe've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.", "one_liner": "Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1759263547, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Entertainment", "Video", "Media", "Creator Economy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/koyal", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/koyal.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/koyal-ai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/KoyalAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6be5eec5520358437374d48ae33d4a26eadd56.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1057149, "full_name": "Mehul Agarwal", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO, Koyal, Agentic AI Filmmaking\nCMU CS & ML / part-time Standup comedian \n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehul-agarwal-a274a0287/", "x_url": "https://x.com/meh_agarwal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9bb654b37951dd53ebadfe160fd6ed4af5cc280e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2383496, "full_name": "Gauri Agarwal", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO, Koyal AI, Audio to Video GenAI \nMIT Media Lab '25 | Meta Instagram Video | CMU SCS '20", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauri-agarwal", "x_url": "https://x.com/gauriagarwal99", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63da06468651d4cd0b94dfecca3d207565f4682d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 102118, "title": "Founding Engineer @Koyal", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/koyal/jobs/N7tedzJ-founding-engineer-koyal", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Machine learning", "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 3.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94569, "title": "Koyal: The Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform", "tagline": "Turn your script or audio to short films, music videos & launches", "body": "https://youtu.be/j5t8kEuZpSc?si=q_Jcbcnanrjl4h-N\n\nTL;DR\n\nCreate cinema that feels real. Koyal captures emotional tone from your audio, turning emotion into cinematic scenes with consistent characters and settings. You can storyboard, direct, and edit every scene to perfection.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nFilmmakers, musicians, and creators spend **weeks to months scripting, shooting, and editing** or pay **$100,000+** to agencies to get something that feels right.\\\n\\\nEven with new AI tools, you’re still wrestling with prompting, uncanny performances, and inconsistent characters.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nKoyal lets you speak your story once, and watch it come to life.\\\nWe capture the **emotional tone** in your voice or script and translate it into expressive, cinematic performances with consistent characters, settings and storylines.\n\nYou can **storyboard, reshoot, and refine** each scene naturally, like directing your own crew: no complex prompts, no model wrangling, no editors needed.\\\n\\\nJust your voice, your script, and your vision.\n\n# **How Koyal Works**\n\n[Demo Video](https://youtu.be/6Slhq8fbQ1c?si=9OaAU2xVKzhEbre8)\n\n* **Upload your script or record your voiceover**: Koyal understands the emotion, pacing, and intent behind every line.\n* **Design your characters**: Create an AI character or safely place yourself in the film using **CHARCHA: our Character Captcha protocol** that ensures your likeness is used **with verified consent.**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94569&key=user_uploads/2383496/0f411243-c4be-4b15-af57-b5ae3f957e2d)\n\n* **Craft your world:** Create or find real-life locations to shoot your movie in, add assets and choose art styles (animated, realistic, etc.)\n* **Auto-generate cinematic scenes**: complete with consistent characters, environments, and shot logic.\n* **Storyboard and edit visually**: adjust lighting, camera angle, or emotion directly with simple directions like “make it more hopeful” or “change the setting to night.”\n* **Export your finished film**: ready to share across YouTube, socials, or investor decks.\n\n# **In Action**\n\nWe’ve battle-tested Koyal across **music, media, and startups**.\n\n* Worked with **Universal Music**, **T-Series**, and major Bollywood studios.\n* Created videos for **Grammy and Oscar-winning artists** like [A.R. Rahman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeaAHxFl-6A), [Ricky Kej](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT7NTK_Y_TY), and [Shankar Mahadevan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSkpEaud9-o), each crossing **1.5M+ views**.\n* Partnered with **22 YC companies** to create their [launch videos](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/y-combinator_brickanta-isthe-construction-estimator-and-activity-7378775629376364544-A2vW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABZ8s4EB2S4yNxvn-aoVAyfMlfkG_me_3f8) in days, not weeks.\n\n**Who We Are**\n\nWe’re **Mehul and Gauri Agarwal**, a brother-sister team obsessed with reimagining how stories are told. \\\n\\\nWe are a team from MIT, CMU and Meta with experience building in AI video. Koyal evolved directly from our [research published at Neurips 2024](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02610).\n\n# **The Future of Filmmaking**\n\nKoyal is inspired by how **Pixar builds stories** : audio first, visuals second.\\\nWe aim to replace the camera with intelligent AI systems that understand how to **translate human intent into cinematic storytelling**.\n\nYou no longer need cameras, expensive sets and set pieces, or prompts: just your voice and imagination.\n\nTry it now at[ ](https://koyal.ai)[koyal.ai](https://koyal.ai/)\n\nWe can’t wait to see what _you_ create.\\\nMehul & Gauri \n\n\\- kookoo\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94569&key=user_uploads/2383496/5dba594a-7e70-48a9-b4de-f9c967f5701c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ObJ-koyal-the-agentic-ai-filmmaking-platform", "votes": 125, "created_at": "2025-10-10T19:53:21.591Z" } ] }, { "id": 30884, "name": "Flick", "slug": "flick", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9f96ddb243962497e60383676b01ce3b0cd4cb76.png", "website": "https://flick.art", "all_locations": "Santa Barbara, CA, USA", "long_description": "Flick is an AI filmmaking software that lets people create Hollywood-level short films completely using AI end-to-end.\r\n\r\nThere are many AI tools that can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to creating truly high-quality films with coherent storylines, consistent characters, and cinematic aesthetics, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow.\r\n\r\nFounded by an award-winning filmmaker and a founding engineer at Instagram, Flick defines an interface specifically designed for native AI filmmaking that feels natural and enables end-to-end creative flows. Think of Flick as Figma for AI filmmaking.\r\n\r\nThere are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards in international film festivals already and our early creator residency community are generating several AI short films every week.\r\n\r\nWe are also building a community where we produce our own AI films as well as collaborating with other well-known filmmakers to share their “behind-the-scenes” workflows as resuable templates to inspire users in our community. We not only build product, we also build world-class content.\r\n\r\nThe whole film industry will be revolutionized by AI and our goal is to be “the product” that defines this category.", "one_liner": "We Handle AI. 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It needs original IP, recurring series, creative direction, production workflows, and a place for audiences to discover the best work.\n\nFlick is building both sides:\n\n\\- AI filmmaking platform for creators: go from idea → script → storyboard → shots → edit → finished film in one workspace, with more creative control across characters, styles, scenes, and production workflows.\n\n\\- Flick TV, the home for original AI films and series\n\nTry it now: [flick.art](http://flick.art)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104559&key=user_uploads/2980671/54220433-4453-4294-b014-440b4c91378c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RCR-flick-tv-the-future-home-of-original-ai-films", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-07-02T17:04:26.501Z" }, { "id": 95208, "title": "Flick = Figma + Cursor for AI Filmmaking 🎬", "tagline": "AI Filmmaking tool for anyone who cares about aesthetics, control, and flexibility", "body": "👉 **Other AI tools generate clips** — **Flick lets you direct Films**\n\n👇 **All launch video content made with Flick** by ourselves | 🔊+🎧 recommended\n\nhttps://youtu.be/daVI0yscN94?si=iEhip6dPkn8E4rwu\n\n👉 Make your first film: [flick.art](https://flick.art/?invite_code=YCLAUNCH) with code: YCLAUNCH\n\n### **Problem**\n\nMany AI tools can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to making high-quality films, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow.\n\nCreators think very differently from consumers. Creators think in a non-linear way — moving back and forth freely to iterate, making decisions at every step. To direct a film, creators need not just visual and character consistency, but also character movement, shot angles, camera language, and emotional arc.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nFlick puts creative power back in the hands of filmmakers:\n\n1. **Infinite Canvas + Chat**\n\n An infinite canvas where users upload or generate text, images, and video as connected nodes. We integrate multiple models, but instead of prompt-to-video, we let filmmakers think in terms of scripts, characters, and scenes and give them a natural “chat to create on canvas” experience.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/b8812b5c-bb57-4071-9c06-8fe98632f7d0)\n\n2. **Editing while creating**\n\n Creators like to go back and forth when making shots, so we built editing tools directly into the canvas. So, they can define exactly what kind of shot they want to add or delete to ensure a stronger narrative.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/03442527-7251-4885-9368-05ebffdb3191)\n\n3. **Studio + Perplexity for film scenes**\n\n No one creates from nothing, we’ve needed inspiration since the beginning of humanity. That’s why we’re building [Studio](https://flick.art/studio/experiments-too-boring?from=home), where we produce our own [AI films](https://flick.art/studio/short-films-a-letter-in-early-fall?from=home) and collaborate with leading filmmakers to share their behind-the-scenes workflows as reusable canvases and templates for our community members.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/9c2e48c5-fdcc-4228-9782-250c0b8325d6)\n\n And integrated Perplexity for film search, allowing users to find classic film shots as references.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95208&key=user_uploads/2980671/508c6b70-0b8d-4c27-8f40-74481ffde11f)\n\n\n### **Connect Hollywood？**\n\n[**John Rosenberg**](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742239/) is a Hollywood filmmaker, producer, and production executive with over 30 years experience. He has worked at studios including 20th Century Fox, Orion, and New Line. His films have premiered at Sundance.\n\nJohn also is a professor at [USC’s School of Cinematic Arts](https://cinema.usc.edu/directories/profile.cfm?id=33682) and a member of ACE (American Cinema Editors). His editing books, published by Routledge / Focal Press, are widely used by film students around the world.\n\nJohn joins Flick as our advisor to connect Hollywood filmmaking craft with the next generation of AI storytellers.\n\n### **Now**\n\n👉 Make your first film: [flick.art](https://flick.art/?invite_code=YCLAUNCH) with code: YCLAUNCH\n\n[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flickart) | [X](https://x.com/flickart_ai) | [Discord](https://discord.gg/SPYgXej78k) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/flickart_ai) | [TikTok](https://tiktok.com/@flick_art)\n\n### **About Us**\n\n[**Ray**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruiwang3/) was a founding engineer at Instagram AI team, who helped build the first version of Instagram Stories, launched it and helped grow it from 0 to 400M DAU in 2018. As main contributor, wrote almost all the backend code in the first year. Have built multiple profitable AI products in the past venture.\n\n[**Zoey**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/z0ey/) has been a filmmaker since 2013, graduated from Brown and RISD. She is an award-winning filmmaker and product designer. Previously her creations include commercials for Mercedes-Benz, viral short films with millions of views, an award-winning documentary, and collaborations with leading film talents such as cinematographer Thierry Arbogast (_Léon_). Her AI filmmaking research was published at [SIGGRAPH 2025](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721250.3742968).\n\nFlick was emerged from the creation of Zoey’s first AI film that got best visual award at [MIT film festival](https://mitaifilmhack.com/winners/). Since then, there are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards at international film festivals and our early creator residency are generating several AI short films every week.\n\n---\n\n### **Mission**\n\nThe next generation of creators won’t think about “prompting models” at all, they’ll just direct, compose, and feel, and the tools will disappear into their creative flow. That’s the future we’re building toward. 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All of it is handled by us and our AI agents.\n\nToday, 120+ restaurants are subscribed and have had 2,500+ videos posted for them. We nearly doubled one restaurant's revenue in their first month, and owners tell us people walk in every day saying \"we saw you on TikTok.\" Almost half our new restaurants now come from other owners referring us.\n\nOur launch video: \n\n## **The problem**\n\nThere are about 1 million restaurants and cafes in the US. Most of them are invisible in the places people actually decide where to eat.\n\nThe options an owner has today:\n\n* Agencies cost thousands a month and often don’t drive real results\n* Influencers work, but finding the right local ones, negotiating, and doing it again every month is a job by itself\n* Creating their own content is a second full-time job they don't have time for, or a full-time hire they don't have the budget for\n\nAnd here's the thing: _the algorithm doesn't reward a business talking about itself. It rewards people talking about the business._\n\nSo the thing that actually works — someone who lives nearby posting about your food — happens once or twice, or not at all.\n\nAnd the platforms keep rewarding the ones who show up. TikTok's new Local Feed ranks by location and recency, so the restaurants getting fresh content every month reach their own neighborhood. The ones who don't, disappear.\n\n## **The solution**\n\nTryNearby is a subscription that puts local creators inside local restaurants every month, and their followers through the door.\n\n$399/month. Every month we automatically schedule a new group of vetted creators who live nearby. They come in, film, edit, and post. The restaurant just serves the food.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/7721f4f4-96e4-4a68-b860-841fee782765)\n\n### **Part 1 — They sign up, creators start showing up**\n\nThe moment a restaurant joins, our matching agent finds the creators nearby who fit that spot and sends the invites. Sometimes a creator is scheduled to visit within five minutes of a restaurant signing up. Creators pick their own time from the restaurant's availability. The restaurant doesn't coordinate anything or answer a single message.\n\n### **Part 2 — An AI agent runs every creator relationship**\n\nEvery creator on TryNearby is managed over iMessage by an agent we built. Onboarding, match invites, booking, reminders, reschedules, questions. It handles over 10,000 texts a month.\n\nIt also learns as it goes. Every conversation teaches it more about that creator: what they like to eat, where they'll actually drive, when they're free, what they turn down. That context feeds the matching, so the invites get better the longer someone is on the platform.\n\nFor creators, it's a personal assistant that helps them become better creators while bringing collaborations straight to their iMessage instead of them chasing restaurants.\n\n### **Part 3 — Restaurant owners get their own AI agent to text**\n\nOwners get an assistant in iMessage too. It watches every video, comment, and review, and tells them what's happening: who's visiting this week, how the last video performed, what people are saying. So when a dish sells out the week after a creator posted about it, the owner knows exactly why.\n\nOur team sits behind both agents. Anything either one can't handle gets flagged to us in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/5ff964f8-9013-42d7-9617-29d6ccb2164a)\n\n## **Traction**\n\n10 months in:\n\n* 120+ paying restaurants across Southern California\n* 37% month-over-month growth with over 90% monthly restaurant retention since November\n* 2,500+ videos posted by local creators → \\~35M views, almost entirely from people within a few miles\n\nWhat that turned into for the restaurants:\n\n* A restaurant in San Diego nearly doubled revenue in a single month\n* Another had a whole new demographic of customers drive a 50% increase in sales\n* Dishes featured in creator videos hit record sales the following week\n\nEvery single owner tells us the same thing: **people are walking in and saying they saw them on TikTok.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/3301e743-2fef-43c4-9138-aaa5631d1eb8)\n\n## **Team**\n\n**Yousef** co-founded FaZe Clan after starting as a 14-year-old YouTuber in 2010. 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Volaren: bringing the hedge fund to retail investors", "tagline": "Describe an investment thesis or strategy in plain English and Volaren's AI analysts research, build, and backtest it for you.", "body": "**TURNING IDEAS INTO TRADES**\n\n**TL;DR:** Volaren is putting a hedge fund in your pocket. You describe a thesis, a strategy, or a view of the world in plain English, and Volaren's AI analysts do the research, build it, and backtest it for you. Try it at .\n\nDEMO: \n\n**The problem**\n\nInstitutions turn a view of the world into real positions using teams of analysts and expensive tooling like Bloomberg and Capital IQ. Everyone else does it by hand, or does not do it at all. The data and the methods already exist, but nobody had built the product that puts them in the hands of small teams and active retailers investing their own money.\n\n**What Volaren does**\n\nYou tell Volaren a thesis, a strategy, or a view of the world in plain English, and its agents go do the research for you. They handle all the heavy lifting of the analysis, and they build it and backtest it across both fundamental work (models, comps, thesis building) and quantitative strategies (momentum, style factors, custom rules). You can delegate as much as you want and expand how much you take on, so you grow from a single investor or small team fund into an entire research team. You see every step and can change anything, so the judgment stays yours, and your work stays with you in one place you can keep building on.\n\n**Who we are**\n\nWe are Martin Pestana and Akshat Mittal, and we ran this exact process on the inside at Goldman Sachs and AQR. Volaren exists to give a person with real conviction and a real portfolio the leverage of a full research team.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIf you invest your own money, run a small fund, or you know someone who does, try Volaren at . We would love your feedback, and you can reach us directly at [martin@volaren.ai](mailto:martin@volaren.ai) and [akshat@volaren.ai](mailto:akshat@volaren.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UDJ-turning-ideas-into-trades-volaren-bringing-the-hedge-fund-to-retail-investors", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-09-28T16:24:00.151Z" } ] } ]