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Its AI-powered extraction engine identifies and extracts linear features — including curbs, pavement edges, guardrails, and barriers — and learns from each user's edits to improve accuracy over time.\n\nSurvey and engineering teams at Langan, Olsson, HDR, Woolpert, Michael Baker International, and major utilities and state DOTs already use it in production.\n\nCheck out our Digital Surveyor 2 Launch Video:\n\n[**https://youtu.be/XoISK5nx87E?si=mzcrxg5uI3hynSm2**](https://youtu.be/XoISK5nx87E?si=mzcrxg5uI3hynSm2)\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nEvery road, bridge, fiber network, and utility corridor project starts with a survey. Increasingly, that survey is done with LiDAR scans encompassing millions of points.\n\n**But here's the thing**: Collecting data isn't the hard part anymore, turning it into engineering ready deliverables is. Today, that work is being done manually. Skilled technicians sit in front of a screen and trace features one by one across potentially thousands of features. 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As users draw, the software picks up on their patterns and refines its suggestions in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99241&key=user_uploads/311199/ca66f2e8-267b-4693-83ec-81b92eabb558)\n\n🔹 **Field-to-finish in one environment**. \n\nIngest point cloud data from any system such as RIEGL, Trimble, or Leica scanners. Extract features with AI-assisted workflows and precision tools. Easily QA everything in 3D. Export directly into AutoCAD, MicroStation, or ESRI. No switching between tools. No preprocessing pipeline.\n\n🔹 **Built for the people who do this work**. \n\nDS2 was designed so that a surveyor who knows where points go in the field can be productive on day one. Surveyors, field techs, and project managers can easily be working in it with minimal ramp time or CAD expertise.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99241&key=user_uploads/311199/e5e82676-f1fd-4bcd-bd86-fcca46636e29)\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* **👉 Follow us** — Stay up to date with what we're building. Follow Mach9 on[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mach9)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mach9geo).\n* **🔗 Intro us** — Know someone at a electric / telecom utility, data center owner, DOT, or survey/engineering firm that works with LiDAR or mobile mapping data? A warm intro goes a long way. We're especially looking to connect with survey and engineering leaders, mobile mapping teams, CAD/GIS technicians, and geospatial production leads.\n* **🚀 Try it yourself** — If your team is turning point clouds into deliverables today, we'd love to show you what DS2 can do. [Get started here](http://mach9.ai/get-started?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=launch_post).\n* 💼 **We're hiring** — We're building engineering software to transform the $3 trillion global infrastructure industry. If you want to work on hard problems at the intersection of AI, geospatial, and computer graphics, we're scaling across GTM, engineering, and operations. Check out our open roles [here](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mach9).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99241&key=user_uploads/311199/d7592b72-f824-4cf8-9921-48b5b14674fc)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pof-mach9-make-maps-fast-ai-powered-cad-software-for-reality-capture", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2026-03-30T20:07:04.564Z" } ] }, { "id": 25472, "name": "Ozone", "slug": "ozone", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/91e83d954beb45df9be14abf04cf2403d8a8572c.png", "website": "https://ozone.pro", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Ozone is the world’s first collaborative video editor in the cloud. 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Sign up now and move all of your content workflows to Ozone in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81725&key=user_uploads/693933/d87084c8-86ff-48c6-b975-04f42facd54b)\n\n—\n\nHey YC!\n\n[Ozone](https://ozone.pro/) is the fastest way to edit video with the help of AI. After nearly 3 years of building and 6 months of testing, Ozone is finally coming out of its beta phase. With it, you can:\n\n✨ **Generate AI media** like videos, images, sound effects, music, and speech directly within our editor.\n\n🎥 **Edit like a pro** by removing silences, generating captions, animating and keyframing your videos, color grade, crop — leverage pro features without needing to be a pro!\n\n🏞️ **Store and organize all your media** in one unified place in the cloud.\n\n👥  **Share and collaborate** on your video projects with your team by leaving comments, approving videos, and making final edits in real time.\n\n\\\n**What can I use Ozone for**\n\n📱Short-form product or marketing videos on TikTok, IG Reels, or YouTube Shorts\n\n🪄Generative AI stock and art\n\n🎥 YouTube company content, podcasts and updates\n\n\\\n**Get access for your team**\\\n\\\nSend me an email at [hello@ozone.pro,](mailto:max@ozone.pro) and we’ll set up an onboarding call with your team! If you’d like to try Ozone individually, sign up [**here**](https://app.ozone.tech/register) and get set up in minutes. Feedback is much appreciated!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LG9-ozone-the-fastest-way-to-edit-videos-with-ai", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-06-25T14:57:54.188Z" } ] }, { "id": 25522, "name": "Unlayer", "slug": "unlayer", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fcefc5d17d05bbb0fe7c4b9b5875db24dc093a45.png", "website": "https://unlayer.com", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Unlayer helps companies add AI-powered content creation into their products without building it from scratch. Developers can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to AI agents, templates, asset storage, exports, and APIs. 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Write once in React, render everywhere.\n\nToday, we’re launching something new and open source:\n\n# Unlayer Elements\n\nAn open-source React content layer for developers and AI agents to create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \\\nDemo: \n\n## **The Problem**\n\nEvery SaaS product eventually needs content creation.\n\nAt first, it’s just one transactional email.\n\nThen it becomes welcome emails, password resets, receipts, invoices, reports, landing pages, PDFs, internal templates, previews, exports, and visual editing.\n\nMost teams end up maintaining separate systems for each output:\n\n* one system for email templates\n* one system for web pages\n* one system for PDFs\n* one system for visual editing\n* one system for exports\n\nThe content is often similar, but the implementation is different.\n\nThis becomes even more important now that AI agents are generating more code and content. Agents can create fast, but teams still need the output to be structured, reusable, version-controlled, and production-ready.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105004&key=user_uploads/105300/5911c2cd-ca33-48e8-86ff-72e1ce4fcfe7)\n\n## **What We Built**\n\nWe built Unlayer Elements: open-source React components for creating emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nDevelopers can use familiar components like:\n\n* <Email>\n* <Page>\n* <Document>\n* <Row>\n* <Column>\n* <Heading>\n* <Paragraph>\n* <Button>\n* <Image>\n* <Custom>\n\nEach output mode is tuned for where the content will live:\n\n* <Email> renders email-safe table HTML\n* <Page> renders responsive web HTML\n* <Document> renders print-ready HTML for PDFs and documents\n\nSame component system. Different surfaces.\n\nA few examples of what you can build:\n\n* Transactional emails\n* Landing pages\n* Web versions of emails\n* Invoices\n* Receipts\n* Reports\n* Internal template galleries\n* PDF documents\n* AI-generated content flows\n\nElements also connects with the broader Unlayer platform. Developers can define content structure in code, and when visual editing is needed, teams can bring that work into Unlayer’s Builder so marketers, admins, or end users can edit without touching code.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\nWe’re open sourcing this early because we want feedback from people building with React, Next.js, email, PDFs, templates, and AI-generated content.\n\nWe’d love for you to:\n\n1. Try it and tell us what feels useful or missing.\n2. Star the GitHub repo if you want to support the project.\n3. Share examples of emails, pages, PDFs, invoices, reports, or AI-generated content workflows you’d want Elements to support.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \n\nWould love feedback from the YC community.\n\nEmail: [founders@unlayer.com](mailto:founders@unlayer.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJc-elements-by-unlayer-open-source-react-components-for-emails-pages-and-pdfs", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-07-08T19:42:04.469Z" }, { "id": 102816, "title": "Unlayer: AI-powered content creation for your product", "tagline": "Let your users create beautiful emails, pages or documents with AI.", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Unlayer**](https://unlayer.com) is an AI-powered content creation platform for developers. It gives you **embeddable builders**, templates, APIs, and AI toolkit so your users can create **emails**, **pages**, **documents**, and other content directly **inside your product**.\n\n\n\n—\n\n## The Problem\n\nAlmost every software product eventually needs users to create content.\n\nEmails, landing pages, proposals, invoices, documents, announcements, templates, PDFs, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/df31db0c-923c-4ac3-977d-bd881f9586d1)\n\nAt first, this looks like “just add an editor.” Then you need responsive rendering, templates, merge tags, asset management, permissions, versioning, exports, personalization, localization, and now AI generation.\n\nA small feature quietly becomes an entire content creation platform.\n\n—\n\n## What We Built\n\n**Unlayer gives developers the building blocks to add AI-powered content creation into their own products.**\n\nYou can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to templates, file storage, exports, APIs, and AI workflows.\n\nYour users can visually create and edit content. Your AI agents can generate, personalize, translate, and modify that content through APIs and skills.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/c9995728-e131-44cd-93cc-d295f255cf1b)\n\nOver time, Unlayer has grown to **1,000+ customers**, from startups to teams at **Netflix**, **Fidelity**, **Bank of America**, **Mastercard, Twilio, Chargebee**, and others.\n\nThat has given us a front-row seat into the same pattern: almost every product eventually needs users or AI to create content inside the product itself.\n\n—\n\n## Why AI Changes This\n\nContent creation is moving from manual editing to assisted and automated workflows.\n\nA user should be able to say:\n\n* **_“Create a launch email for this feature.”_**\n* **_“Translate this landing page into Spanish.”_**\n* **_“Turn this proposal into a branded PDF.”_**\n* **_“Personalize this announcement for each customer segment.”_**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/639a8626-7790-4094-b684-c4800407a6c6)\n\nBut for AI to do this well inside a product, it needs more than a text box. It needs access to templates, design structure, brand rules, assets, exports, and the final builder where humans can review and edit.\n\nThat is what we are building with Unlayer.\n\n—\n\n## Our Vision\n\nWe think the future of content creation inside software has two interfaces:\n\n1. A visual builder for people\n2. An action layer for AI agents\n\nPeople should be able to drag, drop, edit, approve, and fine tune.\n\nAI should be able to create, rewrite, personalize, translate, export, and eventually ship content automatically.\n\nUnlayer is the infrastructure layer that connects both.\n\n—\n\n## Backstory\n\nWe started Unlayer because we kept seeing teams rebuild the same content creation stack over and over.\n\n**Email HTML is painful**. Landing pages need **forms** and scripts. Documents need **PDF generation**. Templates need **permissions**. Assets need **storage**. Every product needs customization. And now AI needs to work across all of it.\n\nWe have spent years solving these problems so other teams do not have to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/87ce4023-46cd-4d48-8e8a-06774d6c6bc4)\n\n—\n\n## Our Ask\n\nIf your product has users creating emails, pages, documents, templates, or customer-facing content, Unlayer will be useful for you. [Try it out](https://unlayer.com/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QkK-unlayer-ai-powered-content-creation-for-your-product", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-06-09T21:37:01.868Z" } ] }, { "id": 25984, "name": "Rally", "slug": "rallyuxr", "former_names": [ "Rally", "Rally UXR" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/86f4764834a702e043cc7dc0faf2375ffa49f308.png", "website": "https://www.rallyuxr.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Rally is agentic user research infrastructure. Our agent runs recruitment end to end, from finding participants through scheduling and sending incentives. Underneath, our infrastructure enforces the guardrails enterprises require: consent, permissions, templates, data governance, and more. 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At Facebook, he led a team driving strategic growth, and at Palantir he led several teams including core search, pharma, and user research.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-xie-0208b46/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/da8d5485780de095844ec4fe19653b4ad8507c51.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69110, "title": "{🟦} Blocksfabrik: Create your own design system without all the work", "tagline": "Generate a design system complete with Figma assets, a private NPM package for your components, and documentation.", "body": "Hi! Alex and Ryan here - we’re super excited to launch [Blocksfabrik](https://blocksfabrik.com/#ref=yclaunch)!\n\n---\n\n**TLDR: We built a way to create design systems that stay in sync across design and code. Teams are using us to design better interfaces and develop them as fast as using an off-the-shelf component library, but with the flexibility of a bespoke design system and none of the tech debt.**\n\n**Ready to ship better product experiences? We would love to help, so please book a slot for a quick chat** [**here**](https://calendly.com/d/zkc-hbp-8n2/blocksfabrik-founders)**, or reach us directly via email at** [alex@blocksfabrik.com](mailto:alex@blocksfabrik.com) or [ryan@blocksfabrik.com](mailto:ryan@blocksfabrik.com)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCreating your own design system takes a ton of effort and experience that is hard to come by. And once they’re built you’ll have to maintain them in design and code indefinitely. Off-the-shelf component libraries get you off the ground, but are disconnected from design and hacking around their limitations becomes a liability as your product grows.\n\nWhat if you can design and build as fast as with a component library, but with the flexibility and quality of a bespoke design system?\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nConfigure your design system in the Editor and Blocksfabrik will take care of the rest — creating the component code, Figma assets, and documentation. It’s like having a full-time design system team, without needing the budget.\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n**(1)** Define your design tokens in the Editor (including color palette, sizes, fill styles, etc) and the specifics of your interface components (from shapes to interaction patterns).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69110&key=user_uploads/919864/31b5b5d1-c6a8-4fca-b639-1a203bcab90b)\n\n**(2)** Publish your design system, and you’ll get a private NPM package, Figma assets, and documentation that are all in sync.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69110&key=user_uploads/919864/56ce7431-2f21-40d9-932c-dd2c1edbf728)\n\n**(3)** Since Blocksfabrik creates components for both Figma and code, your Figma assets will share the same properties, and behave identically to the components in code. The designer → developer handoff becomes fast and seamless.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69110&key=user_uploads/919864/e6fce859-0bb6-4b2c-b4fa-f1502029add2)\n\nNeed to update something? Simply make edits and publish a new version that you can start using in Figma and code.\n\n### **How We Can Help You**\n\nIf you or someone in your network is struggling to build a product interface or design system, we’d love to help! Please book a quick chat [**here**](https://calendly.com/d/zkc-hbp-8n2/blocksfabrik-founders), or email us at [alex@fabrikant.tech](mailto:alex@fabrikant.tech), [ryan@fabrikant.tech](mailto:ryan@fabrikant.tech)\n\nThank you!\n\n---\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hyg-blocksfabrik-create-your-own-design-system-without-all-the-work", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2023-02-08T00:11:07.932Z" } ] }, { "id": 27774, "name": "Versive", "slug": "versive", "former_names": [ "Mirio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c576ccab62c99fd845635ad445e0305d08a2681.png", "website": "https://www.getversive.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Versive is an all-in-one research platform that helps teams make faster customer-informed decisions.\r\n- Collect richer insights: AI-moderated studies that deliver interview-quality results at the survey speeds\r\n- Accelerate your analysis: AI-assisted analysis that instantly turns transcripts into shareable insights\r\n", "one_liner": "AI-first user research platform", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677539488, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Design Tools", "Market Research", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/versive", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/versive.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getversive", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c576ccab62c99fd845635ad445e0305d08a2681.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": 239074, "full_name": "David Correa Orozco", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "David is the CEO of Versive. He started his career as a PM at Microsoft working on the Windows Build System. He then became one of the founding engineers at Bread (NYSE: BFH) where he developed multiple fin-tech products. Most recently, he spent the last 3 years working on Serverless Networking systems at Google Cloud. He is now focusing on building an AI-survey platform that enables teams to gather better user insights, faster.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e0b4b18e7029206e3b43fc16489fc4d5745b682b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 322456, "full_name": "Eric Li", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Eric is the co-founder of Versive. Previously, he led product and design at Vareto, designed marketplace products at Uber Eats, and was the first designer at Bread (NYSE: BFH). In a past life, he studied Economics at UChicago and was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. 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Plus, use AI chat to dive deeper and get answers to specific questions.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nTalking to users helps companies make better decisions, but the process of conducting and analyzing user research is slow and manual.\n\nImagine you’re a researcher who just interviewed 10 users. To share your findings, you need to watch each recording, summarize the conversations, extract key themes and quotes, consolidate your notes into a single report, and then package everything into a polished document. It’ll take at least a week before you can share actionable insights with your team, and you’ll have spent hours that could have been used to drive actions or launch new studies.\n\n# **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/bf2ff14a-662f-4762-be93-3ec32360a76b)\n\nVersive’s mission is to help companies make faster, customer-informed decisions by making it easier to conduct high-quality user research. Our [AI-moderated interviews](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K81-versive-ai-powered-surveys-that-collect-interview-quality-insights) have already helped leading brands gather in-depth feedback from thousands of users. However, we believe that human-moderated interviews are still key for capturing nuanced feedback and building customer empathy.\n\nThat’s why we’re launching a new product that enables research teams to instantly synthesize interview recordings into shareable reports and summaries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/4bd673aa-28a0-439e-a631-23f32c25dc7f)\n\n# **How it works**\n\n1. **Customize your reports:** Tailor the structure of your reports to fit the needs of your study, no coding or prompting expertise required.\n2. **Upload interviews:** Import audio/video recordings or VTT transcripts.\n3. **Get instant summaries:** You’ll get consistent, shareable summaries for each interview, complete with quotes and actionable takeaways.\n4. **Get an aggregate report:** We’ll also generate a report for your entire study, with citations that link back to your transcripts.\n5. **Chat with your results:** Have more questions? Chat with your study data and get immediate, citation-backed answers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/d8ce7917-30ea-4966-85d6-a746146e5410)\n\n## **Get in touch**\n\nWe’re already working with leading research, design, product, and customer experience teams to accelerate their user research. If you’d like to learn more:\n\n* [Request a demo on our website](https://www.getversive.com/) or reach out to us directly at [hi@getversive.com](mailto:hi@getversive.com).\n* [Follow us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq/) for product and company updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lb2-versive-ai-powered-synthesis-for-user-interviews", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-08-14T01:39:13.325Z" }, { "id": 77377, "title": "Versive - AI-powered surveys that collect interview-quality insights", "tagline": "We make it easy to gather high-quality user insights and customer feedback", "body": "**tl;dr:** _Versive makes gathering user insights and customer feedback easier. Our AI-powered surveys ask intelligent follow-up questions to give you interview-quality insights in a fraction of the time._\n\nHi everyone, we’re David and Eric, the founders of Versive.\n\n## **The problem**\n\nMost companies don't speak to their users enough, especially as they scale. As a result, it's difficult to make informed product and marketing decisions.\n\nIn Eric’s past life as a product manager and designer, he conducted dozens of user studies at startups and public companies. Each time, it took weeks of scheduling, interviewing, and synthesizing to get from questions to answers. As a result, his teams collected feedback and validated ideas far less than they would have liked.\n\nExisting tools don't solve this problem well. Interviews and focus groups are time-consuming and expensive to set up. Surveys only yield surface-level insights and are cumbersome to build. Even at companies with dedicated research teams, few requests get approved, leaving most PMs, designers, and marketers on their own.\n\n## **The solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77377&key=user_uploads/322456/1c77cc3e-958b-4f93-9803-ec92b67eadfe)\n\nVersive enables teams to collect interview-level insights at the scale and speed of a survey. We support voice interviews, dozens of languages, concept and design testing, structured questions, branding customization, and more.\n\n1. Build your survey in Versive, or ask our AI assistant to generate one in seconds.\n2. Our AI moderator administers your survey and asks intelligent follow-up questions to dig deeper into user responses.\n3. We'll auto-generate summaries and insights, plus give you transcripts for each response.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77377&key=user_uploads/322456/96a56e72-eb80-41d8-a926-8474268d77ce)\n\n## **Who is this for?**\n\nWhether you’re creating B2B software or selling consumer products, we can help.\n\n* **Product and design teams:** you'll validate designs, roadmaps, and requirements in hours instead of weeks.\n* **Marketing and customer teams:** you'll conduct market research and collect customer feedback more efficiently and with higher quality.\n* **Research teams:** you'll be able to offload simple requests so you can focus on high-value studies.\n\n## **Our team**\n\nWe're David Correa and Eric Li. We met as early employees of Bread (NYSE: BFH) and became fast friends. Eric is a designer and product manager who's experienced these problems firsthand at Uber and several startups. David is a software engineer who's worked at Google and Microsoft.\n\n## **Our asks**\n\n* If you’re interested in trying us out, sign up at [getversive.com](https://www.getversive.com/) or email us at [founders@getversive.com](mailto:founders@getversive.com) for a demo.\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getversive) for product updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K81-versive-ai-powered-surveys-that-collect-interview-quality-insights", "votes": 106, "created_at": "2024-01-09T22:16:01.952Z" }, { "id": 69820, "title": "🪄 Mirio - Spin up personalized demos for your API product in minutes", "tagline": "Mirio is the easiest way to create personalized demos for your API product", "body": "**tl;dr: Mirio enables sales teams at API companies to spin up and personalize demo apps in minutes. Stop demoing docs and show every customer a personalized use case.**\\\n[**👉 Book a demo**](https://trymirio.com)\n\nHi everyone, we’re [David Correa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/) and [Eric Li](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictli/), the founders of Mirio.\n\nMirio is a demo platform for sales teams at API companies. Instead of bugging engineers to build custom demos or screen-sharing documentation, sales teams can use our no code-platform to clone, deploy, and personalize demo apps in minutes.\n\n### **For sales teams selling API products**\n\nWe spoke to account executives and SDRs at API companies and heard the same problems:\n\n* Developers are okay with documentation but decision-makers want to visualize the impact on their business and product.\n* Sales tries to convince engineers and designers to create custom demos but are usually told no (When David and I were asked to help create demos, we hated it too)\n* As a result, they only personalize demos for top prospects and end up demoing the same documentation and code for most customers, which often doesn’t land.\n\n### **Create personalized demos in minutes with Mirio**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69820&key=user_uploads/322456/74b71732-cae7-4f78-a69e-c02341ab8cb3)\n\nMirio empowers sales teams to spin-up and personalize real apps (connected to your API) so they can convey the magic of your product to every customer.\n\n1. Connect your demo apps to Mirio, we’ll help you set them up so they can be customized.\n2. From your Mirio dashboard, account executives and SDRs can clone and deploy demo apps in one click. They can then personalize branding, content, and more using our no-code editor.\n3. Use your personalized demos in live meetings, SDR outreach, website embeds, leave-behinds, and more. Track demo engagement from your dashboard.\n4. Wow more customers and close more deals! **🚀**\n\n### **Why us?**\n\nDavid and Eric met at as early employees of Bread Financial (NYSE: BFH) where the sales team bugged us every week to help create custom demos for Bread’s developer-facing product. 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I'm Simon Kubica, CEO of Alloy. I co-founded the company with Christian Iacullo after our time working at Canva and Atlassian. We founded the company with one mission: give product leaders new superpowers.\n\nWe started with prototypes that look exactly like your product, captured from the browser. But we kept hearing the same thing from our users: the prototype was never the finish line. The moment something looked right, PMs wanted it in the real product — and that meant handing it back to engineering and starting over.\n\nThe problem is that cloud agents today are built for engineers. Cursor, Devin, and Claude Code are powerful, but they assume you can configure environments, read diffs, and live in a terminal or IDE.\n\nWe felt that going from idea to pull request shouldn't require a development environment.\n\nSo starting today, it doesn't.\n\n### Get started with Cloud Agents\n\nWith cloud agents, you build with your actual codebase in the cloud: describe a change in chat, click through a live preview of your real app (not a pixelated remote desktop), share the session with a link, and open a pull request your engineers review in GitHub like any other change. Early users like [Rallied](https://rallied.ai/) and are already using Cloud Agents to ship PM-built prototypes directly to production.\n\nToday we're launching cloud agents to the YC community. Just visit the Alloy website to get started!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SMD-cloud-agents-alloy", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-08-04T14:29:27.961Z" }, { "id": 95014, "title": "Alloy · AI Prototyping for Product Managers", "tagline": "Prototype with your real product", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95014&key=user_uploads/1045840/a045e46f-3258-44e5-aca1-be340830028c)\n\n### **AI prototyping for product teams**\n\nAlloy is the world’s first tool for prototypes that look exactly like your product:\n\n➤ Capture your existing product from the browser in one click\\\n➤ Chat to build your feature ideas in minutes\\\n➤ Share a link with teammates and customers\\\n➤ 30+ integrations: Linear, Notion, Jira Product Discovery, and more\n\n### **Get started in 30 seconds**\n\nChoose the starting point that suits your team best:\n\n* Use our [website cloner](https://alloy.app/website-cloner) to capture any public page\n* Add the [browser extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/alloy-%C2%B7-ai-prototyping-fo/phenpkgkiaibdlfgllchgfhdfiephpdi?hl=en) for logged-in pages\n* Start with [cloud agents](https://alloy.app/cloud-agents) to use your codebase directly\n\n### **The story behind Alloy**\n\nHey! I’m Simon Kubica , CEO of Alloy. I co-founded the company with Christian Iacullo after our time working at Canva and Atlassian. We founded the company with one mission: give product leaders new superpowers.\n\nInitially, we focused on the workflow of planning and prioritization. But with AI, we started to notice PMs could finally _do_ the work, rather than just plan it. We completely re-oriented the company to build a dedicated tool for this new PM workflow.\n\nThe problem is that even with new AI app builder tools, PMs are struggling with off-brand prototypes. Using chat to prototype is powerful, but the outputs didn’t look anything like their existing app.\n\nWe felt that your prototypes should look like your actual product.\n\nSo starting today, they actually can.\n\n### **The [best AI prototyping tool](https://alloy.app/library/best-ai-prototyping-tools) of 2026**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95014&key=user_uploads/1045840/349afb11-0231-4544-a718-7db1eefa603c)\n\nProduct leaders at top companies have signed up shockingly fast:\\\n➤ 42% of the Forbes Cloud 100 \\\n➤ 17% of the Fortune 500\\\n➤ Growing usage at Harvey, Hubspot, Canva, SeatGeek, Linktree, and thousands more\n\nToday we’re launching to bring the power of Alloy to the YC community. We couldn’t be more excited to hear what you think!\n\nWe couldn’t be more excited to hear what you think!\n\n_Updated August 4, 2026_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OiU-alloy-ai-prototyping-for-product-managers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-10-29T21:21:57.629Z" } ] }, { "id": 27875, "name": "Aqueduct", "slug": "aqueduct", "former_names": [ "Iliad" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9942f88e0ad31a3c3da6a0f408886f28f73dabbd.png", "website": "https://aqueduct.sh", "all_locations": "Pittsburgh, PA, USA", "long_description": "Aqueduct is a browser-based procedural material engine and editor.\r\n\r\nThink Substance Designer, with live-sync to Unreal, agents that can read and edit material graphs, and shareable links to those graphs.", "one_liner": "Create, edit, and share procedural material graphs.", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1674524413, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Gaming", "Design Tools", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/aqueduct", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/aqueduct.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Pittsburgh", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/92719250/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9942f88e0ad31a3c3da6a0f408886f28f73dabbd.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": 330916, "full_name": "Matthew Turnshek", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Matthew Turnshek is the founder and CEO of Aqueduct.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-turnshek-4bb618174/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4c8b976c989d544c3b7e98e464e776b569062546.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 28930, "name": "Midrender", "slug": "midrender", "former_names": [ "Haven", "Revideo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ae8f20158b0233edf45f926bd2ba47a325fa7fd6.png", "website": "https://midrender.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Midrender is a visual editor for creating motion graphics, powered by AI. Point the agent at your codebase, it reads your code, understands the feature, and creates an animated walkthrough you can ship. A full timeline and design editor lets you fine-tune every detail.", "one_liner": "Turn product features into launch videos", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1688598945, "tags": [ "Design", "Design Tools", "Video", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/midrender", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/midrender.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/haven-ml", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/redotvideo", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/redotvideo", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ae8f20158b0233edf45f926bd2ba47a325fa7fd6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1910964, "full_name": "Konstantin Hohr", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Konstantin is the founder of Revideo. Previously, he studied computer science at RWTH Aachen while simultaneously working as a software engineer at Jodel, where he built content moderation and abuse detection systems. At DynamoAI (W22), he spearheaded development on vertical federated learning based products.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/konsti-h", "x_url": "https://x.com/hkonsti_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2460ec366c0cb31c35af99c68b748be0c790cbb3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 80105, "title": "Revideo - Create videos with code", "tagline": "An open source toolkit to build web-based video apps.", "body": "### TLDR:\n\nWe are building [Revideo](https://re.video/), a web-based open-source framework that lets you create videos using the animation library Motion Canvas. It exposes basic video & audio editing functionality through a typescript API and lets you render videos with dynamic inputs. You can find our code on [**Github**](https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo)!\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nWe believe that AI will drastically change how people produce video and that huge amounts of video will soon be created in an automated manner. Initially, we wanted to build applications in this space ourselves and started to work on a few ideas. For example, we worked on an AI-based app to automatically create highlight videos for Twitch streamers, as well as a platform that lets companies A/B test video ads.\n\nWhile building these products, we noticed that we weren’t really happy with the tooling we used. Most video editing frameworks lacked essential features, and the tools we liked were not open source. Therefore, we decided to build Revideo.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nWe built Revideo by extending the animation library Motion Canvas and adding features that are essential for automatically creating videos. These features include support for audio, substantially faster video rendering, and an API for programmatically rendering videos with dynamic inputs.\n\nHere is a code example of a basic video created with Revideo:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80105&key=user_uploads/1023703/4f0ca7c8-30c6-402a-a087-2b2829275c40)\n\nThe code above produces the following result:\n\n\n\n### **Our Asks:**\n\n* Check out [Revideo](https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo) on Github and give us a ⭐ if you like it!\n* We’d love to chat with anyone building video products! If you are building one or know people who do, please reach out ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kq1-revideo-create-videos-with-code", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-04-11T15:49:45.395Z" }, { "id": 76501, "title": "Haven: Fine-tune and run open source LLMs super fast ⚡", "tagline": "Haven lets you build open source LLMs that are specialized for specific tasks", "body": "# TLDR:\n\nWe are excited to launch [Haven](https://haven.run/)’s fine-tuning platform for open source LLMs!\n\n* Haven lets you fine-tune open source LLMs such as Llama or Mistral without writing code or setting up infrastructure. We charge $0.004/1k training tokens, and you get $5 in free credits after signing up\n* You can host models for testing with <1s cold start times. We achieve this by running hundreds of model adapters on a single GPU and hot-swapping them based on user requests (will write more about this in a blog post)\n\nYou can get started [**here**](https://app.haven.run/) - alternatively, reach out to [**hello@haven.run**](https://app.haven.run/) or watch our [demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpyVKUyt7k8) if you want to learn more!\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nOver the last months, we’ve identified two big pain points that make it hard to work with open source models:\n\n1. Open source models work best when they are trained for specific use cases, but the fine-tuning process with existing tools is super annoying. We have found that most of our time is spent setting up infrastructure to go from finishing a training run to actually testing our models, rather than actually writing code and improving our models\n2. Hosting custom models is expensive. Running a single Llama-7B model in float16 requires at minimum an A10 GPU, which costs $700+ per month. To run ten or a hundred specialized models for common tasks, this would mean that we have a monthly AWS bill of $7,000 or $70,000, respectively.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nHaven’s platform offers a super simple way to fine-tune models without managing infrastructure or writing code, and to test and run them with low costs and without any additional work.\n\nWe are able to provide a super short feedback loop of going from training to running a fine-tuned model by hosting multiple lora adapters in parallel. This makes it possible for us to host hundreds of fine-tuned models on-demand on a single GPU. For our users, this reduced model cold start times to <1s and internally, we are able to host a single fine-tuned model for a couple of dollars per month. We also enable our users to export their model weights to Huggingface, so that they can run models entirely on their terms.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nFeel free to check out our [**platform**](https://app.haven.run/) and give us feedback! After signing up, you’ll receive $5 in credits to train a couple of models :) We are also happy to answer questions at [**hello@haven.run**](https://app.haven.run/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jtt-haven-fine-tune-and-run-open-source-llms-super-fast", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2023-11-29T17:29:33.896Z" }, { "id": 73716, "title": "🔮 Haven - Run LLMs on Your Own Cloud", "tagline": "Haven makes it easy to deploy LLMs on your own infrastructure", "body": "**TL;DR:** Haven makes it easy to deploy LLMs in your GCP / AWS environment. We provide the user experience of serverless solutions like Replicate or Huggingface Inference Endpoints - but instead of running your models on Haven’s servers, we just manage your infrastructure for you. This gives you full control over your data and you get to use your precious cloud credits!\n\n### **🤕 The Problem**\n\nMany companies want to use large language models but do not want to rely on third-party providers as it makes them dependent on external services and comes with significant privacy risks.\n\nHowever, deploying models in-house is just not easy: engineers have to figure out CUDA environments, write and containerize efficient serving code, and expose it as an API server. And let’s not even talk about scalability…\n\nHaven solves this problem. We offer the simplicity, reliability, and scalability of third-party providers while allowing our users to securely run models on their own infrastructure.\n\n### **🤯 How It Works**\n\nHaven is built on top of Kubernetes, which makes it easy to scale and reliable in production settings. Deploying a model with Haven consists of just three steps:\n\n**1\\. Upload a Service Account Key**\n\nUploading a service account key gives Haven permission to manage your cloud resources for you. Under the hood, Haven will now set up a Kubernetes cluster running in your cloud environment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/6b35bcd0-f0f5-4f4b-b3ab-dbb6a46261ff)\n\n**2\\. Configure Your Deployment**\n\nYou can now choose your model, select the GPUs you want it to run on, and configure the scaling behavior of your deployment. Haven will accordingly set up the model in your Kubernetes cluster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/59c94edb-14a5-4e4e-b173-a4b19223ebdb)\n\n**3\\. Enjoy Your Model**\n\nYour LLM is up and running in minutes! Our deployments offer super-fast inference and advanced features like input batching for efficient serving. This way, you can immediately integrate them into your application.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/773c461a-05ba-48b2-ba96-6b4c88d23cbf)\n\n### **💪 The Team**\n\nWe’re Konstantin and Justus. The two of us met as freshmen in college, and have since built multiple projects together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/95a23ea8-c105-4d8d-af62-f2a527bb50f7)\n\n[Justus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justus-mattern-a04230184/) is an AI researcher and has been working on LLMs since 2020. As a member of AI labs at UC Berkeley and ETH Zürich, he has published multiple papers at leading research conferences.\n\n[Konstantin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/konsti-h/) has already been a full-time software engineer before starting his university studies. At Germany’s biggest social networking company, he built infrastructure handling requests from millions of daily users.\n\n### **💜 Our Ask**\n\n**Sign up **[**here**](https://vkg6c80ex61.typeform.com/to/IMCFY5Cf)** to work with us!**\n\nWe are working closely with our users to fully understand the needs of companies aiming to integrate LLMs into their products. Beyond giving access to our deployment tool, we partner with early customers to evaluate their use cases and fine-tune models for their needs. If this sounds interesting, sign up for early access or contact us at [hello@haven.run](mailto:hello@haven.run)!\n\n**Refer us to companies looking to use LLMs!**\n\nIf you have connections at companies looking to use LLMs, we’d highly appreciate introductions! You can reach us at [hello@haven.run](mailto:hello@haven.run).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JAy-haven-run-llms-on-your-own-cloud", "votes": 229, "created_at": "2023-08-02T16:28:57.262Z" } ] }, { "id": 29150, "name": "Tempo", "slug": "tempo-2", "former_names": [ "Tempo Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/860f478b7cd2ea33eefb86e90c9c693abef2997f.png", "website": "https://www.tempo.new", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Tempo is a visual editor for react that gives PMs, designers, and engineers the ability to collaborate visually on code. It offers the familiar UX of a design tool but functions like an IDE under the hood. Tempo is optimized for Vite and Tailwind.", "one_liner": "Visual Editor for React, powered by AI", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1689887097, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "B2B", "Design Tools", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "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/tempo-2", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/tempo-2.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Toronto", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tempo-labs/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Tempo_Labs", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/860f478b7cd2ea33eefb86e90c9c693abef2997f.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": 186561, "full_name": "Kevin Michael", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Spent the last 5 years as founding engineer and head of product at Perpetua ($150M exit). Previously product fellow at Social Capital and engineer on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft.\n\nI've tried every low-code tool on the market and not a single one does a good job integrating with existing production codebases. I'm obsessed with solving this problem at Tempo and using AI to turn anyone into a 10X engineer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/kevin1michael", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Kevin1Michael", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8c7830f8663eab5c6d02ae78b8d45d215d44e638.jpg" }, { "user_id": 187455, "full_name": "Peter Gokhshteyn", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Passionate about building great products fast. Joined Perpetua ($150M exit) 6 years ago as employee #3 and led the engineering team from idea to PMF. Previous worked as a software developer at Google, Bloomberg & Zynga.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/petergokhshteyn", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/736fd7198b0fd99e0e711bdeb7288da5fbf5e458.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 68263, "title": "Software Engineer, Full Stack (In-Person - Toronto)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tempo-2/jobs/fszRm52-software-engineer-full-stack-in-person-toronto", "location": "Toronto, ON, CA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$160K - $200K CAD", "equity_range": "0.35% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React" ] }, { "id": 68264, "title": "Software Engineer, LLMs & AI Agents (In-Person - Toronto)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tempo-2/jobs/C9xH3JW-software-engineer-llms-ai-agents-in-person-toronto", "location": "Toronto, ON, CA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$160K - $200K CAD", "equity_range": "0.35% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React" ] }, { "id": 83825, "title": "Founding Product Designer ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tempo-2/jobs/Hia3MVk-founding-product-designer", "location": "Main Office - Toronto", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Web design", "salary_range": "$125K - $200K CAD", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "React", "TypeScript", "Figma", "Tailwind" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Tempo's $5M Seed To Empower The Design Engineering Movement", "url": "https://www.tempo.new/blog/5m-seed-design-engineering-movement", "date": "Oct 22, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 88483, "title": "Tempo V2: Build React Apps 10X Faster With AI", "tagline": "Tempo is where designers and developers collaborate on code", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nTempo is a visual IDE that enables designers, PMs, and developers to collaborate on code with the help of AI. In addition to prompting, Tempo gives you the fine-grain control that comes from a traditional design editor or code editor.\n\nIn V2, we introduce our [Figma Plugin](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1463689183126672406/tempo-ai-powered-figma-to-code-react), new AI reasoning + Gemini Search, [pre-built SaaS templates](https://tempolabsinc.mintlify.app/SaasTemplates) (for Stripe, Polar, Supabase, Convex+Clerk), and Expo support for react-native mobile apps. Watch our demo, [here](https://youtu.be/Sup921tMUf4).\n\n**The problem?** \n\n“Low-code” and “design to code” tools suck. As much as they accelerate the development process for simple apps, none have succeeded at helping serious software companies ship production-grade software. \n\nNew AI-powered web app builders take a code-first approach that is superior, however, they still struggle with complex apps and large codebases.\n\n**How we are solving it**\n\nTempo redefines the development workflow by combining the best of an IDE (like VS Code), a design tool (like Figma), and an AI chat assistant that enhances both—creating a single source of truth for designers and developers. Whether you’re a non-technical builder or a seasoned engineer, Tempo streamlines the process from concept to production.\n\nWith **V2, Tempo introduces:**\n\n🎨 **A fine-grain design panel** for pixel-perfect control\n\n🖼️ **A Figma plugin** that converts your designs to code in Tempo\n\n🧠 **Enhanced AI reasoning + Gemini Search** for faster debugging and development.\n\n⚡ **Pre-built SaaS templates** for Stripe, Polar, Supabase, Convex + Clerk.\n\n📱 **Expo support** for mobile app development with react native.\n\n**Teams use Tempo to:**\n\n* Build production grade applications.\n* Rapidly generate and refine prototypes.\n* Visually collaborate on production code.\n* Ship UIs that are pixel-perfect, every time.\n\nThe interface feels like your favourite design tool but works like an IDE. Teams using tempo ship to production 10x faster by adopting a code-first workflow.\n\n**What are we looking for?** \n\nSimply put—build, share, and showcase what you’ve created. Tag us in your [X](https://x.com/Tempo_Labs), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tempolabs/), or other posts, and we’ll amplify it to the community. Also please share your feedback.\n\nNeed additional support to accelerate your product roadmap? [Agent+](https://www.tempo.new/ai-agent-plus) can help accelerate your roadmap—designing and shipping 1-3 features per week. YC companies get $500 off for the first 3 months. Let’s build faster, together.\n\n**About Us:** \n\nFounders [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin1michael/) and [Peter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergokhshteyn/) previously worked at Microsoft, Google, and Perpetua. They are building Tempo to help teams go from idea to production in minutes.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N19-tempo-v2-build-react-apps-10x-faster-with-ai", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2025-03-11T17:41:51.665Z" }, { "id": 73362, "title": "Tempo Labs - Build UIs 10X faster with AI", "tagline": "AI design & prototyping tool which contributes react code directly to your codebase", "body": "**TL;DR:** [_Tempo_](https://www.tempolabs.ai/) is an AI design & prototyping tool which contributes high-quality react code directly to your codebase. You can use tempo to generate complete views using simple AI prompts, polish & control design details visually, and build a high quality design system using your existing components. Sign up here to give it a try: [**_https://www.tempolabs.ai/_**](https://www.tempolabs.ai/)_._\n\nHere’s a 2-min demo: [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qQJKQJq7Jk**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qQJKQJq7Jk)\n\nHey Everyone, [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin1michael/) & [Peter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergokhshteyn/) here, we’re the founders of [Tempo Labs](https://www.tempolabs.ai/).\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=73362&key=user_uploads/186561/3de21c2f-8b73-4db8-8f65-5e2b61ea3670)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nWhile building our last startup (Perpetua), we spent a lot of time looking for ways to speed up the pace of our development and prototyping. We tried every low-code tool on the market and were constantly disappointed by how poorly they integrated with our existing codebase. Figma ended up being our de facto tool for testing concepts but Figma prototypes always felt low-fidelity and took way too long to ship to production.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nTempo is the design and prototyping tool we wish existed. Tempo integrates with any react project and empowers designers to collaborate with engineers directly on the codebase. Powered by AI, tempo generates 60%-80% of the front-end code required for any feature so engineers are free to focus on writing business logic rather than css. By eliminating the design->code translation process we help teams ship their ideas to production 10X faster.\n\n### **The Ask**\n\nIf you’re building a react app and are interested in testing us out please email me at [**kevin@tempolabs.ai**](mailto:kevin@tempolabs.ai). If you already have a design system we’ll give you a visual playground to build new views, if you don’t, we’ll help you implement one! If your app looks like crap, or your codebase feels hard to maintain, get in touch - we’ll help you level up your front-end using AI :)\n\n### **The Deal**\n\nSign-up before demo day and get 70% off for the first 6 months!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J5G-tempo-labs-build-uis-10x-faster-with-ai", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2023-07-24T18:15:59.327Z" } ] }, { "id": 29239, "name": "ion design", "slug": "ion-design", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19ac79a5dd7e79b8d3e0a7794a401a7673116ee9.png", "website": "https://www.ion.design/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We're a website platform for Ecommerce brands. ION pairs your website with AI agents that design, launch, and learn from on-brand experiments that increase revenue per visitor.\r\n\r\nBrands that use ION learn and grow faster than if they were using a traditional CRO team. It's like a growth team working 24/7 to help drive and convert more traffic.\r\n\r\nWe're trusted by $1b+ companies and leading Ecommerce brands.", "one_liner": "AI Website platform that grows revenue automatically", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1698787268, "tags": [ "Design Tools", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/ion-design", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/ion-design.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ion-dot-design", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/iondotdesign", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/ion-design", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19ac79a5dd7e79b8d3e0a7794a401a7673116ee9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 608990, "full_name": "Samraaj Bath", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO @ ion design.\n2x YC founder. ex CTO, PM, design team manager, full stack engineer. \nobsessed w/ making it easier to build beautiful products.\n\nI previously founded an ice cream company, bootstrapped a birthday wishing app, danced professionally, and rebuilt a 1981 motorcycle.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/samraajbath", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/samraaj", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9082d26518ac83af8a93212228a3de1b2b71bcad.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92019, "title": "Ruby: The 1st Autonomous AI Product Designer", "tagline": "AI Agent that improves your product while you sleep", "body": "We want you to [meet Ruby.](https://ion.design/ruby)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92019&key=user_uploads/608990/d2392f00-7f84-408c-b2dd-3ad45be16407)\n\n**tl;dr:** You can assign Ruby design tasks right in slack, like optimizing a flow or creating a new page.\n\nShe clarifies requirements, researches, designs multiple options, iterates with you, and ships PRs to your codebase. She will then monitor performance and suggest future improvements.\n\nShe’s like Devin, but for Product Design work.\n\n2 min demo - [**https://youtu.be/0MccwmsZOOc?si=FqSIPUbiX-Y160h8**](https://youtu.be/0MccwmsZOOc?si=FqSIPUbiX-Y160h8)\n\n### Problem\n\n“Over the next decade, as new coding tools make it easier than ever to build and ship products quickly, great design is going to matter even more.” - Aaron Epstein, latest YC RFS\n\nWe agree, and good design takes a LOT of time, money, and care. Ruby can leverage your design thinking and execute against it 100x faster.\n\nWhenever you build a flow, you can be sure Ruby will make it as good as it can be.\n\n### How ruby helps\n\nWhen assigned a task, ruby works through a flow to solve the problem:\n\n1. **Clarify:** Ruby asks your team the right questions until the requirements are clear.\n2. **Research:** Ruby scans usage data, research docs, personas, and finds external inspo.\n3. **Design & Test:** Ruby generates multiple concepts that follow your brand and design system. She simulates usage and discards weak options. She will iterate until she is confident the problem is being solved.\n4. **Iterate:** Ruby presents her work, takes feedback, and refines. She can iterate endlessly.\n5. **Ship:** Opens a PR when you approve a design.\n6. **Improve:** Ruby will monitor your analytics and propose upgrades whenever she spots opportunities.\n\n### Why did we build this?\n\nOur team was early in generative code & design. I’ve been shipping ai design-to-code tools since 2021, and we recently built an AI visual builder called ion.\n\nInternally, we trained an AI that uses our visual builder itself, and taught it the design process.\n\nIt blew us away.\n\nWe named her Ruby, put her into slack, and started giving her to our customers. Her results look promising so we’re sharing her more 🙂\n\n### Our ask\n\n[**Ruby**](https://ion.design/ruby) is meant for fast moving startups who are serious about getting product changes in the hands of customers faster.\n\nIf you want faster experimentation and world‑class design without extra headcount, [**grab a slot on our calendar.**](https://cal.com/samraaj/15min) We are personally onboarding the first batch of customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92019&key=user_uploads/608990/b1b1f820-9458-4ab6-a945-8ad107904847)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NwB-ruby-the-1st-autonomous-ai-product-designer", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2025-07-09T18:31:45.892Z" }, { "id": 89341, "title": "ion - AI development for your non-technical team", "tagline": "We turn your PMs and Designers into shipping machines", "body": "**tldr:** ion is a **visual editor for your codebase** that lets non-engineers (PMs, designers, marketers) safely **edit, refine, and ship** UI changes—while maintaining code quality.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89341&key=user_uploads/608990/2f3dfe27-827f-4c3e-8076-dddc335cdf65)\n\n[Demo (2 minutes)](https://youtu.be/qF0Ery_eqRA)\n\n### Safe “vibe coding”, made for your team\n\n* **Built for your codebase:** ion connects to your github and understands your set up (design system, tokens, components, version control) to ensure changes use existing patterns and fit architecture. Setup takes seconds.\n* **Easy for non-technical team:** ion serves a figma-like experience, so PMs and designers have a familiar interface to make product changes. ion automatically opens PRs so your usual review process stays intact.\n* **Faster Iteration:** No more endless backlogs, Figma → Dev → QA loops, or “design doc limbo.” ion makes smaller (but crucial) changes easy, and keeps your engineers focused on the big stuff.\n\n### Problem\n\nProduct teams are split in to two camps:\n\n* Those who can ship (engineers).\n* Those who can’t ship (PMs, designers, marketers, etcc)\n\nSmall changes—marketing pages, design tweaks, growth experiments—get stuck behind bigger features and developer bandwidth.\n\nBut they’re inherently different work and shouldn’t be at odds with one another.\n\n### Solution\n\nWith ion, your entire product team gains the ability to ship through a simple visual editor.\n\nYour team can either point and describe their changes through natural language, or enter “design mode” to get a Figma-like editor built on top of your codebase.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89341&key=user_uploads/608990/d37e63ab-9b64-4323-b5cc-01b434303621)\n\nion automatically wires everything into GitHub branches/PRs, so you still maintain engineering rigor.\n\nEngineers are freed up to focus on **high-leverage** work (architecture, data, business logic), while non-technical folks self-serve on UI changes, experiments, front end, and other changes.\n\n### How it’s being used today:\n\n* **Rapid Product Iteration**\n * Instead of back-and-forth on Slack or Loom videos, designers/PMs can open an ion link for a given branch, visually tweak what’s needed, and ship updated PRs.\n* **Design Fixes**\n * Designers fix design issues directly within ion rather than piling up a backlog of styling tickets. Some teams even skip Figma altogether for minor tweaks.\n* **Growth & Marketing**\n * Launch new landing pages, promotions, or experiments at lightning speed. No more waiting on the dev queue for something as simple as a copy change.\n\n### Our ask\n\nion has already shipped thousands of lines of code at companies of all sizes. If you’re interested in unlocking the development productivity of your team, please reach out:\n\n* Email us at founders@ion.design\n* [Book some time to chat on my calendar](https://cal.com/samraaj/15min)\n* [Download ion now - it’s free to start 🙂](https://ion.design/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NEz-ion-ai-development-for-your-non-technical-team", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-04-08T18:16:40.189Z" }, { "id": 78764, "title": "⚡️ ion design - Instantly turn Figma designs into clean React code", "tagline": "A design system that writes and maintains your code for you, automatically.", "body": "Hi everyone 👋🏽🧡. [Samraaj](https://linkedin.com/in/samraajbath) and [Samuel](https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-barnholdt-a480b3179) here from [ion design](https://www.ion.design/). We’re super excited to share what we’ve been working on with you!\n\n**tldr:**\n\nion design automatically turns Figma designs into pixel-perfect, production-ready code, speeding up front-end implementation time by at least 40%.\n\nWe accomplish this by serving a fully featured Figma design system and matching React component library. This allows our generations to come out with incredibly high-quality, functional code that saves hours of time.\n\nThink of us like UntitledUI and Shadcn on steroids - we speed up both the design and implementation processes.\n\n**Deal:**\n\nOur design system with 5,000+ custom components is available for just $10 for the first 100 customers - [get access here](https://buy.stripe.com/28o1739KTcx59Vu8wB?prefilled_promo_code=YCLAUNCH24)\n\nHere’s a quick demo of our design system being used to generate a production-ready application:\n\n[DEMO](https://youtu.be/81kUjZUXaxQ)\n\n[Demo Application - Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/LncZWxVTpD4svqEUVk63pC/ion-demo-application?type=design&node-id=105%3A4665&mode=design&t=CW5GRxhuZBUGbc6t-1)\n\n[Demo Application - GitHub](https://github.com/ion-design/ion-demo-application)\n\n[Demo Application - Live Link](https://ion-demo-application.vercel.app/)\n\n# The Problem - implementing designs is expensive, painful, and monotonous.\n\nDesign and front-end engineering is re-doing the same work twice. We think this is ridiculous, and a total waste of time for businesses that leads to a multitude of problems:\n\n* **Engineers feel like they are wasting their time** monotonously writing CSS to match pixels in Figma. They would prefer to focus on more interesting work that drives value - like business logic, architecture, and data. They also hate working with primitives and want useable components out-of-the-box.\n* **Designers feel that there’s always a disconnect** between what they made and production. They’re constrained by engineering bottlenecks and their fixes will never be live. Many want a system they can put in place so the organization can be more structured and consistent.\n* **PMs & Founders hate having to prioritize design changes** against product iterations and new feature releases. They wish that the design work could just get done.\n\n# ⚡ Solution - The ion system\n\nion serves a customizable design system & component library that can be synced with your codebase ✨automatically✨.\n\nWe’re the first UI-kit that’s tightly coupled between Figma and React and works with out-of-the-box code generation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78764&key=user_uploads/608990/40106740-b0ff-42ca-8502-5f2138f80e84)\n\nHere are some killer features:\n\n* ion automatically re-uses your existing components and writes READABLE code that your engineers can interface with.\n* ion writes stub functions and state handlers for your buttons, inputs, text areas, tabs, and other complicated components, automatically.\n* ion raises merge conflicts for design changes and soon will be able to create pull requests directly in your repo.\n* ion keeps you consistent, clean, and quick in your development. Oftentimes, the generated code is cleaner and easier to work with than what I write.\n\nUsing ion also saves your designers thousands of hours by serving 5,000+ well-built Figma components. This empowers you to design faster and maintain consistency across your application. Here’s a gif of me creating a screen in a matter of minutes:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78764&key=user_uploads/608990/87b26b94-5a26-4e5e-bec1-fe31c3a8e742)\n\nOur design system is endlessly theme-able and syncs directly with the CSS variables in your codebase. Light mode and dark mode are baked into the system.\n\nSay goodbye to re-writing classnames and pulling your hair out to get things to look good. You can even add whatever custom themes you want.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78764&key=user_uploads/608990/8f4f009c-a9e8-423a-ace6-db1a05008e4c)\n\n# 💲 Special Deal\n\n* JUST $10 for access to our design system with 5,000+ Figma components and the matching React+tailwind code. [Ready to go for any project - get started here.](https://buy.stripe.com/28o1739KTcx59Vu8wB?prefilled_promo_code=YCLAUNCH24)\n* Personal hands-on help from our team to use the design system and integrate generated code for you.\n\n[Sign up for early access here.](https://www.ion.design/)\n\n[or - book a call with me directly here.](https://cal.com/samraaj/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUO-ion-design-instantly-turn-figma-designs-into-clean-react-code", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-02-26T19:15:51.663Z" } ] }, { "id": 29502, "name": "renderlet", "slug": "renderlet", "former_names": [ "Coordinate Labs", "Renderlet" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c34b0727ce76497f1f02b8f378c53e7f5d7ab8f.png", "website": "http://renderlet.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "renderlet is a framework that makes it easy to develop interactive applications.\r\n\r\nBuilding applications with high-performance graphics is very hard – existing tools are cumbersome and aren’t truly platform agnostic, leading to frequent rework. \r\n\r\nWith renderlet, developers can write high-level code to describe 2D and 3D graphics without having to use low-level, platform-specific APIs.\r\n\r\nrenderlet automatically compiles graphics code to WebAssembly and embeds a portable rendering engine inside any app, enabling graphics to safely and automatically render on any platform’s GPU.\r\n\r\nOur runtime is open-source: https://github.com/renderlet/wander", "one_liner": "Build interactive applications that run anywhere", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1708655277, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Design Tools", "Data Visualization" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/renderlet", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/renderlet.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/renderlet", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/renderlet/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c34b0727ce76497f1f02b8f378c53e7f5d7ab8f.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": 1759368, "full_name": "Sean Isom", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Sean is the Founder of renderlet. He previously built Developer Platforms at Adobe as a Lead Engineer and Sr. Engineering Manager, building the core infrastructure that powers apps like Photoshop and Acrobat. He has over a decade of technical experience in browsertech and real-time graphics and is currently involved in standardization efforts for WebAssembly’s WASI GPU support.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/isom", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/theisomizer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a3cfd53d423d8c2e04727b0f7566266acbefa8b1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79415, "title": "renderlet: Making graphics programming easy", "tagline": "Write graphics code that automatically runs anywhere", "body": "**Building interactive graphics is really hard**. Developers need expert-level knowledge of GPU programming just to build code that is not portable to new environments such as Web or Mobile or reusable across applications.\n\nRenderlet is a WebAssembly framework for **writing graphics code that runs anywhere**. Describe your graphics pipeline using a **higher-level abstractions** and use renderlet to generate low-level, cross-platform rendering code.\n\nWith renderlet, developers can easily embed GPU-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics into cross-platform applications.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79415&key=user_uploads/1759368/4ce27e3c-1c68-456d-a0bd-eedd272c1712)\n\n## How it works\n\nWith renderlet, **we compile graphics to portable WebAssembly modules** and provide a runtime that abstracts away the underlying GPU architecture to the code.\n\nDevelopers can take advantage of modern technologies like **WebGPU** without having to learn the intricacies of yet another standard. 2D and 3D graphics are fully decoupled from the application and device and can ship decoupled from the applications code in a format that **runs anywhere**.\n\nRenderlet is:\n\n* A **compiler** that takes a high-level specification of your graphics pipeline - including custom assets, functions, and libraries - and builds self-contained WebAssembly rendering modules\n* A **renderer**, _wander_, that embeds into any application on any platform that and safely runs rendering modules with the GPU\n* A **visual editor** that makes it easy to build entire graphics and visualization pipelines out of reusable rendering modules\n\n**Anybody should be able to build interactive applications** without having to be a graphics programming expert.  \n\n## About Us\n\n[Sean Isom](https://linkedin.com/in/isom) previously built developer platforms at Adobe as a Lead Engineer and Sr. Engineering Manager. He helped bring products to the cloud and web using tools like WebAssembly and is currently involved in standardization efforts for WebAssembly GPU support.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79415&key=user_uploads/1759368/36bcf46c-edd6-4b90-9124-45c3c81ec64b)\n\n## What’s next?\n\nOur cross-platform rendering engine, **wander**, is open source:  \n\nWe’re kicking off with a **live demo** today of renderlet at Wasm I/O!   \n\nWant more info on cross-platform graphics? **Get in touch**! - [sean@renderlet.com](mailto:sean@renderlet.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ket-renderlet-making-graphics-programming-easy", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2024-03-15T16:53:22.280Z" } ] }, { "id": 29577, "name": "Variant", "slug": "variant", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dd64bca7fac097523dd134d6167e96f5fb79ab98.png", "website": "https://variant.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Creative intelligence", "one_liner": "Creative intelligence", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1732310413, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Design Tools", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/variant", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/variant.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/variantui/", "x_url": "https://x.com/variantui", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dd64bca7fac097523dd134d6167e96f5fb79ab98.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": 436496, "full_name": "Benjamin South Lee", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building Variant. 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Rivet translates precise design intent into clean, reviewable code you can merge.\n\n# [→ Try Rivet today at rivet.design](https://rivet.design)\n\n# **Watch a customer polish their product with Rivet:**\n\nHere’s an example of how [Item](https://www.item.app/) (a design-first, AI native CRM) used Rivet to refine details in their UI.\n\n1. **Select any element** on a web application. Use your styles to change it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94987&key=user_uploads/206350/344678ec-87c2-4928-a80d-fed1f623d329)\n\n2. **Refine your UI**. Change spacing, colors, layouts. Get it pixel-perfect.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94987&key=user_uploads/206350/6d172766-1402-44fa-952a-9d3d5dd067ae)\n\n3. **Ship it.** When you’re done, Rivet pushes quality code to your repo just like a frontend engineer on your team would.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94987&key=user_uploads/206350/2da40da6-c814-4bb7-90d3-396c4995a894)\n\n# **The problem: Design debt piles up, even at the best companies.**\n\nEvery software company has a growing list of polish issues that never get fixed.\n\n* Broken loading states\n* Buttons that look wrong on mobile\n* Colors that don't match your app’s styles\n* Spacing that's off by 4px\n\nProduct designers live in these details, and they’ve been gated out of making real changes to real apps. Instead, they spend time crafting details that get lost when it comes to implementation.\n\nRivet helps designers own the quality of their interface, and frees up engineers to do more engineering work.\n\n## **Why I built Rivet**\n\nI’m a repeat founder and former early product engineer at Snorkel AI. I owned AI products for non-technical users as Snorkel scaled to Series D over 3 years. I started my career as a product designer and built at the intersection of design & engineering for the last 7 years.\n\nI built Rivet because I watched the work of brilliant designers get diluted. I think product designers today are like artists without a paintbrush. They have to ask others to paint for them instead. We should just give product designers a brush, and let them paint their masterpiece in code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94987&key=user_uploads/206350/c566632e-8fc8-40c4-9d4c-a867bbfaa557)\n\n# **Designers → Start shipping today!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94987&key=user_uploads/206350/4616fcce-815a-4ee8-b1d4-885386e67fe9)\n\n**Are you a product designer?** \n\n# **🎨  [Go to rivet.design and sign up](https://rivet.design)**\n\n**Not a designer? That’s great too!**\n\nSend [rivet.design](https://rivet.design) to your designer and let them start burning down your polish items\n\nYC startups and design studios are already using Rivet to shortcut design handoffs and fix every UI polish item they can think of. Designers are shipping their own work. And engineers are getting their time back.\n\n🟧 **YC deal:** We'll fast-track you off the waitlist & apply a YC discount\n\n✏️ Want to just rant about design handoffs or your growing backlog? Send your worst story to [sam@rivet.design](mailto:sam@rivet.design)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oi3-rivet-burn-down-your-design-backlog", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2025-10-29T01:26:52.491Z" } ] }, { "id": 31395, "name": "Deep Interactions", "slug": "deep-interactions", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2150b2f6e149aef04ef65b7381c3bd0b77037221.png", "website": "https://deepinteractions.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Deep Interactions is a collaborative AI builder. We don't leave you with a spaghetti mess of a code. We bring product intelligence and power the context layer that enables your team to build in sync - saving companies tokens, time, and nerves. 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PhD in Computer Science from Oxford. Prev. Built : AI Trainer as CTO at The Spaceship AI, AI Scientist at Autoscience Institute & AI Therapist at Limbic AI. Was Research Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe and Google. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sruvis", "x_url": "https://x.com/_sruvis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a4593a7424e64f74828b20e0f15f5d406e007a3e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101487, "title": "Deep Interactions — Collaborative AI Builder for Teams", "tagline": "We turn messy ideas, data, and agents into shipped products before your team logs off.", "body": "Hello! I'm [Sruthi Viswanathan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sruvis/), founder of [Deep Interactions](https://www.deepinteractions.ai).\n\n### TL;DR\n\n### **Deep Interactions is a collaborative AI builder for teams. We turn messy ideas, data, and tools into working AI products in a single afternoon — so companies stop burning months and millions on pilots that never ship.**\n\n**_Ask:_** Intros to CEOs, CTOs, COOs, CFOs, or Heads of AI with an initiative stuck in pilot purgatory — especially in healthcare, fintech, consumer, applied AI, and ops-heavy businesses. → [sruthi@deepinteractions.ai](mailto:sruthi@deepinteractions.ai)\n\nLaunch video: \n\n### The Problem\n\nProduct development hasn't changed in 20 years. Write a PRD, throw it at engineering, hope it matches what users actually need.\n\nNow teams have layered AI on top: vibe-coding through the night, stitching prompts, tools, and agents. Same problem, faster and more expensive:\n\n* Burned tokens\n* Burned out teams\n* Spaghetti code that still misses the customer\n\n**95% of businesses walk away from their AI pilots. Hundreds of billions in wasted AI spend, every year.**\n\nThe bottleneck isn't models or prompts anymore. It's shared understanding of the customer, the product, and the codebase. Until now, there was no way to keep humans, agents, and code in sync as a product is being built. With today's reasoning models and multi-agent orchestration, couple with situated context, there is.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nYou bring the problem. We ship the product the same afternoon — alongside your team, inside the tools they already use (Slack, Figma, GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, You name it).\n\nWe don’t leave you with a spaghetti mess of a code. We bring product intelligence and power the context layer that enables your team to build in sync.\n\nAlready live with **12 businesses and 50k+ real-world usage hits.** Saving companies months of work and millions in AI spend.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101487&key=user_uploads/3138588/8b1080f6-4249-41e9-856c-626cee704905)\n\n\n### **How can you help?**\n\nIf you can warmly introduce us to any of the following, I'd be grateful:\n\n* **Operators** with a stuck AI initiative (Heads of AI, CPOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering)\n* **Healthcare & wellness** companies looking to ship patient- or clinician-facing AI\n* **Consumer** companies (dating, fitness, fertility, social) ready to put AI in the product, not just the pitch deck\n* **Applied AI startups** burning tokens on coding agents that don't ship\n* **Angels and operators** who've shipped AI products at scale\n\nPlease contact me at [sruthi@deepinteractions.ai](mailto:sruthi@deepinteractions.ai)\n\n### Team\n\nI'm a Human-Centred AI researcher and DPhil in Computer Science at Oxford, with cutting-edge experience across Big Tech, AI labs, startups, and academia — spanning software engineering, UX, ML, and AI research. Recognised by 100 Women in AI (2025).\n\nAround me: a founding AI designer reshaping how humans and agents collaborate, a founding engineer with decades in production systems, and GTM operators who's built customer success from zero. Advised by leading Human-Centred Computing professors, AI scientists, and brilliant Angels.\n\nI started Deep Interactions because I kept watching brilliant teams ship broken AI. The future of AI work isn't more prompts — it's better human-AI collaboration.\n\nBook a call → 🕷️ [www.deepinteractions.ai](http://www.deepinteractions.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101487&key=user_uploads/3138588/0004eb4a-4f58-4ffe-849a-c746c2d9c01c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QOt-deep-interactions-collaborative-ai-builder-for-teams", "votes": 98, "created_at": "2026-05-18T03:36:32.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 32123, "name": "HERA", "slug": "manufacturingintelligence", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/caa902826145e78311e27007937976e8663a9265.png", "website": "https://www.manufacturingintelligence.org", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Hera, we build tools that help heavy engineering teams bring products to market up to 20× faster. Today, we work with manufacturers of data center ancillary equipment, renewable energy systems, robotics, heat exchangers, power plants and pressure vessels.\r\n", "one_liner": "We make sure every factory in the world builds without mistakes.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials", "launched_at": 1784416117, "tags": [ "B2B", "Design", "Design Tools", "Manufacturing", "Industrial" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "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": "American manufacturers lose an estimated $285,000 annually to poor quality for every $10 million in revenue. At the same time, the industry is losing the engineers who know how to prevent those losses. Nearly 4 million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2033 as experienced workers retire, and almost half are expected to go unfilled. Much of the expertise required to review complex engineering drawings exists only in the heads of senior engineers who are leaving the workforce.\r\n\r\nWe're both engineers who grew up watching this firsthand. After more than 200 conversations with manufacturing engineers, quality engineers and machinists, we're building software that captures that expertise by automatically reviewing engineering drawings against ASME standards and company-specific rules before they ever reach the shop floor." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? 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Former machine learning and industrial engineering researcher at UW.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelle-so-055474140/", "x_url": "https://x.com/noelleyso", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2a0cf52a331c47b6a753767b0bdf41c846502342.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 108320, "title": "Industrial Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manufacturingintelligence/jobs/ffZp9fi-industrial-software-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "JavaScript", "CAD Design", "AI Agents" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 107030, "title": "HERA: catches thousand-dollar drawing mistakes before the shop floor.", "tagline": "Hera reviews every drawing against your factory's own standards and the ASME code, catching expensive mistakes and preventing rework 10x faster than manual review.", "body": "**TL;DR: Every custom metal part starts as a drawing, and every drawing gets checked by hand before anyone builds it. Hera does that check in minutes instead of a full day, and catches the mistakes that turn into scrapped parts.**\n\n[**https://youtu.be/J_5NRjkou3Y**](https://youtu.be/J_5NRjkou3Y)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nCustom mechanical parts run on 2D drawings. Whether you're an OEM releasing drawings to suppliers, or an aerospace supplier answering to source inspection, every drawing has to be checked against ASME/ISO standards and GD&T requirements before it goes anywhere near a machine.\n\nRight now, that review is done by hand, and usually by the most senior engineer in the building. And a single missed tolerance callout or an ambiguous datum reference can mean a scrapped part, a blown schedule, or a shipment that fails inspection.\n\nWe heard the same story from a pressure vessel fabricator, a semiconductor tooling shop, and a medical device manufacturer: reviews take days. This isn't because the work is hard. There's simply no good way to do it faster without cutting corners, and nobody cuts corners on a drawing that could scrap a $40,000 part.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nHera is a brain for manufacturing. Any real advance in manufacturing has to be grounded in two things: the standards parts are held to and the reality of the shop floor. So that's what we built Hera on.\n\nUpload a drawing and Hera checks GD&T callouts, tolerance stack ups, and title block requirements against ASME Y14.5, relevant ISO standards, and your own design intent. The result is a drawing your shop can build right the first time, without the delays and rework that eat margins. Every review also makes Hera more valuable, creating a system of record for drawing errors that helps teams build better models for engineering processes.\n\n**While the current review takes days, Hera takes minutes… and gets better by the drawing.**\n\n**Us**\n\n**Noelle** grew up in an industrial park her family runs in the Philippines and has been on factory floors her whole life. At 19, she built a water-treatment facility that added 40 L/s of capacity to the park. \n\n**Meera** has spent years around manufacturing: at her family's plants, and on projects at Pfizer and TE Connectivity, where she built a SOTA discrete-event simulation. She taught herself PLC programming and C++, and has published ML research at UW.\n\nWe actually met on a bus to a factory tour, and have been best friends ever since!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107030&key=user_uploads/3352287/d05e9e1a-57c8-4e43-91d7-75e42a004261)\n\n**Our Ask** If you run or work at a factory (aerospace, semiconductor, medical device, pressure vessel, or custom machinery), we want to visit you! If you invite us out to see your shop, we’ll come by in person and bring you a **customized Hera Swiss Army knife**.\n\nReach out to us at [**founders@manufacturingintelligence.org**](mailto:founders@manufacturingintelligence.org).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RqI-hera-catches-thousand-dollar-drawing-mistakes-before-the-shop-floor", "votes": 138, "created_at": "2026-07-24T15:18:23.996Z" } ] } ]