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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": 28882, "name": "Repaint", "slug": "repaint", "former_names": [ "AutoEmber", "Repaint", "Vigilant" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a40c666dc622907d8af3f29f4b78c554dba156c9.png", "website": "https://repaint.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Repaint lets you build professional websites by chatting with AI. It interviews you, researches you online, and generates a custom websites. Then you can edit anything by asking the AI. 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I used to be the Lead Game Designer for https://playthebazaar.com/ \nAnd before that, I was a competitive strategy gamer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-shumaker-9b2620238/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BenShumaker_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0c44197f46f2dc63bf54ec0b9ab698a60fca9254.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1315306, "full_name": "Izak Fritz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "founder of Repaint", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/izak-fritz-3b8579120", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3bc98a4b2d6b965d3a9fce343742ba33c6405b24.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 98979, "title": "Repaint: The AI Website Builder", "tagline": "Build a website by chatting with AI", "body": "We’re [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-shumaker-9b2620238/) and [Izak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/izak-fritz-3b8579120/), and we’re proud to introduce the new Repaint (S23).\n\nRepaint is the best AI tool for creating professional marketing websites. You chat with Repaint, plan the style and pages, and import your content. Then Repaint generates a custom website in minutes.\n\n**Demo:** \n\n**The Problem**\\\nAI coding tools are incredibly powerful now, but most people still make websites with Wix and Squarespace. Vibe coding tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit can generate a webpage from a prompt in a few minutes, but beyond that they’ve focused more on app building than marketing sites:\n\n* They generate single pages with generic content, leaving you to build the rest.\n* The visual style is hard to control, with few resources for inspiration.\n* They surface technical details like code, hosting providers, and github integrations.\n* They charge per edit, so finishing a large marketing site is expensive.\n\nThere’s no major AI tool focused on making polished websites for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and marketers. That’s what we’re building.\n\n**The Solution**\\\nRepaint is an AI website builder designed to get you to a finished site, not just a starting point.\n\n* **It starts by learning about you.** Repaint interviews you about your business, what pages you need, and what style you're going for. It can research your company online and import existing content.\n* **You control the style.** You can pick a theme, provide reference links, and upload inspiration images. Or, you can let Repaint design it for you.\n* **It generates a complete site.** Repaint makes full websites with your real information. And it can recreate the same pages from an existing website.\n* **You edit with chat.** Restyle the whole site, add pages, update info across every page, redesign sections.\n* **It writes real code.** So it can build things template-based builders can't like custom animations, interactive components, calculators, and complex forms.\n* **Flat monthly pricing.** No per-edit credits.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98979&key=user_uploads/1045360/65931443-8184-450c-876c-89dcaf327f5f)\n\nWe opened Repaint about a month ago, and we’ve had hundreds of people make sites for tons of different businesses including YC startups, bakeries, cycling coaches, and more.\n\n**Our Background**\\\nRepaint is actually our second website builder. During YC S23, we built a different website builder with a drag-and-drop interface inspired by Figma. Despite our best efforts, we never got it off the ground. The existing website builders were already heavily optimized, and the AI wave was rapidly making manual no-code tools obsolete.\n\nBut those years gave us deep expertise in web layout, editor UX, and what actually makes people give up on building a site. We think that's exactly what AI website building needs — not just better models, but a team that understands the challenges well enough to make it reliable.\n\n**Our Ask**\\\nIf you or someone you know needs a website, you can try it at [repaint.com](https://repaint.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98979&key=user_uploads/1045360/3fb2e2fb-d58e-41a9-89a1-c8afe08c8e21)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PkR-repaint-the-ai-website-builder", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-03-21T14:06:43.659Z" }, { "id": 89065, "title": "Vigilant - Observability for modern software teams", "tagline": "Helping startups with application monitoring through logs, metrics, errors, and more.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89065&key=user_uploads/1045360/2eaee34c-2e65-45e6-a296-d923eb287b1c)\n\n# **What is Vigilant?**\n\n[Vigilant](https://www.vigilant.run/) helps developers monitor their applications and fix issues without overwhelming complexity.\n\nWe provide a unified platform for log management, error tracking, metrics visualization, and smart alerting - everything needed for complete application visibility.\n\nWe obsess over the user experience end-to-end, from integration to alerting. It makes Vigilant a strong choice for startups looking to monitor their product without a massive investment in learning and integration.\n\n[You can try it yourself here](https://vigilant.run)\n\nㅤ\n\n# **Why Vigilant?**\n\nHowdy, I’m Ben Shumaker, the cofounder of Vigilant. I cofounded Vigilant with my best friend, Izak Fritz. Our goal is to make observability easier.\n\nAfter experiencing the frustrations of juggling multiple observability tools at Robinhood and using painfully clunky default options in our cloud providers, we grew tired of tools that seemed designed for experts. Most dedicated platforms assume you already have tons of specialized knowledge about what to monitor and how—but most developers don’t know.\n\nWe built Vigilant to be the first observability tool prioritizing simplicity, not just comprehensive features.\n\nㅤ\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nObservability platforms feel overwhelming, end-to-end:\n\n* Complex agent installation and configuration requirements\n* Huge variety of integration methods without clear guidance\n* Cluttered interfaces full of random information and endless configurations\n* Tedious manual queries for simple searches and graphs\n* Multi-variable pricing that's unpredictable and expensive\n\nㅤ\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89065&key=user_uploads/1045360/86936056-dc52-4c4e-8178-7f518ea9c0ad)\n\nVigilant is the opposite of a traditional observability tool:\n\n* SDK-based integration that only requires a few lines of application code\n* Auto-capture so you can send logs and errors without changing every file\n* Smart defaults that minimize setup time\n* Focused interface that surfaces relevant info, and nests complexity\n* Genuinely predictable pricing with a simple equation\n\nㅤ\n\n# **How It Works**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89065&key=user_uploads/1045360/fbb74c68-1c6a-4611-9ec7-5fa85719d2ce)\n\n1. **Installation** – Download our SDK for your tech stack\n2. **Integration** – Add a few lines to start sending logs, errors, or metrics\n3. **Manage in Vigilant** – After you've sent data, you view it and search it in Vigilant\n4. **Build Dashboards** – Create graphs and counters to visualize your data\n5. **Get Notifications** – Use integrations to get alerts when issues occur\n\nㅤ\n\n## **Ready to Simplify Your Observability?**\n\nYou can try Vigilant entirely on our free tier. If you're tired of complex monitoring tools and want something you'll enjoy:\n\n* Get started: \n* Book a call: \n* Email us: [founders@vigilant.run](mailto:founders@vigilant.run)\n\nAlready using a platform? We'll manually help you migrate and setup your observability in Vigilant. [Book a call to explore your options.](https://calendly.com/ben-rep/vigilant-intro)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NAX-vigilant-observability-for-modern-software-teams", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-03-28T14:15:06.574Z" }, { "id": 73608, "title": "AutoEmber - A visual design tool for making real websites", "tagline": "Instead of making mockups, just make the real thing!", "body": "Hi everyone. We’re Ben and Izak, cofounders of [AutoEmber](https://autoember.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73608&key=user_uploads/1045360/88bf4baa-cd9a-451d-8fe7-8af58389c929)\n\n_(Left to Right)_\n\nBen: Former competitive gamer. Was on the MTG Pro Tour at 14. Rank 1 Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Lived with Reynad (CEO and Twitch streamer) and spent 2 years as lead game designer at TempoStorm. \n\nIzak: Built a crypto trading platform at Cove Markets, acquired by Robinhood in 2021. Previously, JP Morgan software engineer. Computer science at the University of Michigan.\n\nWe met over a decade ago playing Magic the Gathering in Holland, Michigan.\n\n### **😓 The Problem:**\n\nMaking websites is hard. To make a website today, you either:\n\n1. Learn html, css, and javascript –> Months of learning, hours of coding to make minor changes\n2. Use a template website builder –> Can’t customize, get a generic website\n\nMeanwhile, there’s thousands of designers who can make pixel-perfect mockups, but then they have to pass it off to a coder who can actually build it.\n\n### **💫The Solution:**\n\n[AutoEmber](https://autoember.com) - a visual design tool that makes real websites\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73608&key=user_uploads/1045360/6d4a6b5f-aab5-4949-ac45-737d003cb4c7)\n\nWe spent the last couple months building a web app that lets anyone make a custom website, end to end, without coding. The user experience:\n\n1. Make an account\n2. Design your website in the editor\n3. Push “Publish”\n\nToday, you could make a good looking website with a few pages in a couple hours. We’re constantly adding features to make it more 🥧 easy, 💪 powerful, and 💅 pretty\n\n### **Who its for:**\n\nYou’ll find it especially useful if you’re: \n\n* A designer who uses tools like Figma\n* A backend dev who doesn’t like frontend\n* A business owner who wants a custom website without coding\n\nBut anyone making a website should check it out.\n\n### **How you can help**\n\nGive it a try! It’s free. We love feedback. [AutoEmber.com](http://AutoEmber.com)\n\nIf you’re in the market for a website, please reach out! We’d be happy to help you design your website. Contact: [ben@autoember.com](mailto:ben@autoember.com) 👋\n\nThanks, Ben and Izak", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9E-autoember-a-visual-design-tool-for-making-real-websites", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-07-31T18:05:29.431Z" } ] }, { "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. 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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": 28994, "name": "Vango AI", "slug": "vango-ai", "former_names": [ "vango (like Vincent “Van Gogh” ☺️)", "Vango AI", "Vango", "Vango AI", "vango ai", "Vango AI", "Vango" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/81c4b7cfa70455fe6fc21054b703c4fd719269b2.png", "website": "https://vango.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We built Vango excited by the future where generative visual AI models like stable diffusion dramatically reduce the barrier to create content. While spending 8 months building products for creatives, we found ourselves building hacky tools to address many of frustrations we had with visual AI. \r\n\r\nSo we decided to build the devtool we needed: Vango is a flexible evaluation platform that makes it 10x improve visual models. Developers using visual AI models at scale use Vango to learn quantitative ways to improve their model, saving them ~10 hours per week. \r\n\r\nMajor companies building visual products have already begun integrating diffusion models, including Adobe, Disney, Activision Blizzard, Canva, and Snap. By 2025, it is estimated that 1 billion images per day will be AI-generated. 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", "body": "**tl;dr:** _Vango makes it 10x easier to build and evaluate Stable Diffusion workflows in your app. Developers use Vango to deploy Stable Diffusion in minutes and achieve high-quality images faster than any existing solution._\n\n_Hello world_ — Eshaan and Rajen here!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74170&key=user_uploads/887154/c555fc75-23e2-4ba7-9384-8d74b8378765)\n\nWe’re thrilled to show y’all what we’ve been working on, let’s begin!\n\n### 🐷 Problem:\n\nWe’ve all seen how unique, highly customizable, and beautiful AI art can be — **but it’s incredibly tedious to deploy and maintain Stable Diffusion in your app.**\n\nBuilding apps on top of stable diffusion is an unnecessarily tedious and manual process. You have to:\n\n* **Select the right models, hyperparameters, and prompts:** These have huge impact on the content, quality, and style of outputs. To achieve the best results, developers spend hours testing each model, parameter, or prompt individually.\n* **Add guardrails:** Ensuring that your model does not generate unintended NSFW or discriminatory images takes hours of careful testing.\n* **Deploy on GPUs:** Like everything in AI right now, developers must obtain and configure a juicy high-VRAM GPU to run Stable Diffusion fast.\n\n  \n\n### **💜 Solution:**\n\n**Vango empowers developers to build and evaluate stable diffusion models faster than ever.**\n\n## 🧱 Build workflows & deploy as API\n\nWatch us build a corgi generator and deploy it as a scalable API in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74170&key=user_uploads/887154/36fc2f9f-0d81-4e81-aeca-f849103d2652)\n\n## 🤖 Perfect the hyper-parameters\n\n**Vango helps you evaluate models quantitatively.** Vango will track metrics across thousands of prompts — including NSFW content, crossed eyes, disfigured limbs/fingers, cropped faces, and prompt alignment.\n\n1. Specify your models (either as `.safetensors` or `.ckpt` file, Cog container, API endpoint, or Vango workflow)\n2. Provide us your prompts or _use one of our prompt datasets with thousands of examples_.\n3. Use our quantitative features to learn how models compare\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74170&key=user_uploads/887154/dcd39f7d-6900-4402-91d7-8fc530ca3b0e)\n\nAnd for more granular analysis, you can filter all the images based on failure modes. In the video below, you can see us finding the images that have deformed hands.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74170&key=user_uploads/887154/6c83e176-d63b-4e23-8cbc-a5cac60bfb2f)\n\n### 🐻 About us:\n\nWe’re best friends, neighbors back home in Maryland, and college roommates (and literally sharing a triple in SF right now)! We’ve been doing class projects + side projects together for over 3 years now 🙉.\n\nEshaan has researched multimodal models at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), low-compute visual detection systems at NASA JPL, and anomaly detection at Citadel Securities. And Rajen has built wide-ranging software at Amazon, Nuro, Two Sigma, and Solana.\n\nAnd we both graduated from UC Berkeley a year early to work on Vango! We discovered this problem while developing our own diffusion apps after noticing first-hand how AI can help creatives in VFX.\n\n### 📩 Asks:\n\nIf you are (or know anybody that is) building apps with stable diffusion, we’d love to chat and see how we can help! We’re currently onboarding our early partners.\n\nIf you’re interested, sign up for our waitlist [here](https://forms.gle/ExYEf2HTeNBWJfa19) or shoot us an email at [founders@vango.ai](mailto:founders@vango.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JII-vango-build-with-evaluate-stable-diffusion-fast", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2023-08-16T21:38:41.929Z" } ] }, { "id": 29367, "name": "Draftaid", "slug": "draftaid", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0f9c73afb8a385d3fa57d5e1f327411fc22e4445.png", "website": "https://draftaid.io/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "DraftAid is the world's first generative AI for CAD manufacturing drawings, akin to GitHub Copilot but for CAD. It drastically shortens drawing creation time, turning hours into seconds.\r\n\r\nEvery product that is manufactured - from construction to aerospace, automotive, durable goods, and electronics—relies on drawings. Currently, engineers and designers painstakingly make these essential drawings manually. Draftaid streamlines this process saving teams millions in time and quality. \r\n\r\nThe idea was born out of Abdullah's experience as a mechanical design team member, where he created thousands of drawings and longed for a more efficient process. Partnering with Tahsin, a neighbour with a PhD in AI, and Mohammed, a seasoned engineering VP with experience in construction software, they turned the dream into reality.\r\n\r\nSince their launch in August, DraftAid has engaged customers through targeted outreach and word-of-mouth, securing paid pilots with subsequent contracts valued at $150,000.\r\n\r\nBe a part of ushering in the new era of CAD designs!", "one_liner": "Go from 3D models to CAD drawings using AI", "team_size": 14, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1704853466, "tags": [ "Construction", "Design", "Manufacturing", "Architecture", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "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/draftaid", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/draftaid.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Toronto", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftaid", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0f9c73afb8a385d3fa57d5e1f327411fc22e4445.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 290663, "full_name": "Mohammed Al-arnawoot", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder and CEO of DraftaidHe studied Mechatronics engineering at University of Waterloo with a focus on manufacturing systems. Before DraftAid, Mohammed worked as a Director of Engineering at Dozr, a Series B construction tech company. Where he wore many hats building a rockstar engineering team to deliver a new category of product. Before that he was a VP of eng. at Emagin (acquired by Innovyze), where he lead product solution development.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mohammed-al-arnawoot-6a102a66", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6247127378655c8621e18a32e6f6f8b7fbef2766.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1653010, "full_name": "Abdullah Elqabbany", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Abdullah is an electromechanical engineer with years of experience in design and manufacturing. In his last role Abdullah led manufacturing process automation where he worked to bridge the gap between design and manufacturing. Prior to that, he worked as a drafter where he made thousands of CAD drawings shaping Toronto’s skyline. DraftAid is the culmination of years of experiences solving the biggest challenges facing teams trying to go from design to manufacturing as efficiently as possible.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/abdullah-elqabbany-8160551a8", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/614a2af2b5de0ecb967e2380328587e7589ba936.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1653070, "full_name": "Tahsin Rahman", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder and CTO of Draftaid, Tahsin has a PhD from the University of Toronto in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has pioneered algorithms and machine learning techniques at the intersection of geometry, wireless communications, and quantum computing. Previously, he led a team of engineers and researchers in developing cyber security AI/ML systems for the Canadian Department of National Defence. Rewind 10 years and you would see him orchestrating instrumentation systems in Oil and Gas.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/muhammed-tahsin-rahman", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1eeb12f305ad162c2f4ffd7d8e0c120896b8fa2b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 78878, "title": "DraftAid: Automate your CAD drawings with AI!", "tagline": "Engineers designing everything from cars to skyscrapers use our software to turn 3D models into the detailed 2D fabrication drawings that manufacturers require.", "body": "# TLDR\n\nMechanical engineers and designers dedicate around 40% of their time to the labor-intensive process of converting 3D models into 2D fabrication drawings, crucial for manufacturers. Using [**DraftAid**](https://draftaid.io/), teams can automate this process with a single click and:\n\n* Save considerable time\n* Direct their focus toward more value-added tasks\n* Cut down on drawing errors, preventing expensive manufacturing mistakes\n\n# **The problem**\n\nModern design teams initiate their design by 3D modeling. To get their design manufactured, they need to make 2D drawings that look something like this:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78878&key=user_uploads/89898/590e3017-c1e8-4987-a30a-2c8469a2a8d6)\n\nMaking 2D drawings for what’s already been modeled in 3D takes up considerable time and energy. Design teams find themselves stuck investing 40% of their time in this manual task. This causes project delays while keeping talented designers busy doing repetitive tasks.\n\nLike any other repetitive manual task, making drawings can also be quite error-prone. Even with accurate designs, errors often sneak in and are only found when fixing them is an expensive endeavor.\n\n# **Enter DraftAid:**\n\nOur innovation streamlines the drafting process making it as effortless as a single click. Once engineers complete their 3D design, a single click swiftly produces a manufacturing-ready 2D drawing within seconds.\n\nThe resulting drawing is entirely editable, allowing engineers to make any necessary adjustments before sending it off for manufacturing.\n\nDraftAid allows teams to slash their current drawing time by up to 90% and eliminate common drawing errors. This not only enhances efficiency but also ensures consistency in drawings throughout the company, improving overall readability.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78878&key=user_uploads/290663/9f289b2c-ea8a-4f13-9a4e-f317ac9cd804)\n\n# **Meet the Power Trio:**\n\nWe are Mohammed, Abdullah, and Tahsin, a formidable team with a bond forged over three dynamic years of collaboration.\n\nBefore the inception of DraftAid, [**Mohammed Al-arnawoot**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammed-al-arnawoot/)’s journey included roles as a software engineer and later as a VP of engineering (@ Emagin, acquired by Innovyze) and a Director (@ Dozr) in several start-ups. Navigating the challenging terrain from pre-seed to Series X.\n\n[**Abdullah Elqabbany**](https://linkedin.com/in/abdullah-elqabbany-8160551a8) is an electro-mechanical engineer who boasts a career marked by the creation of tens of thousands of drawings. Frustrated by the absence of a suitable drawing automation tool in his last role, he took matters into his own hands and built one from scratch.\n\n[**Tahsin Rahman**](https://linkedin.com/in/muhammed-tahsin-rahman) is a distinguished PhD graduate from the University of Toronto, who brings a wealth of experience in developing cutting-edge machine-learning solutions. In his previous role, he spearheaded an engineering team within the Canadian National Defence, crafting an AI-powered cybersecurity solution.\n\n# Our Ask:\n\n* Share our solution with any Construction or Automotive design companies you know.\n* Warm intros to design companies that spend a lot of time making drawings — email us at [mohammed@draftaid.io](mailto:mohammed@draftaid.io).\n* Follow us on [**Linkedin.**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftaid)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWE-draftaid-automate-your-cad-drawings-with-ai", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-02-28T23:52:36.882Z" } ] }, { "id": 29466, "name": "Overheard", "slug": "overheard", "former_names": [ "FlowState", "Unidata", "OpenFoundry" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8cc29d94168b1ca418d0d8737e0185bb99095a7.png", "website": "https://withoverheard.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tell Overheard what you're deciding, like how to fix churn or which feature to build next. 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We’re [Tyler Lehman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-lehman/) and [Arthur Chi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-chi-000/) from OpenFoundry. **We’re building the fastest developer experience for building on open source AI.** Imagine Hugging Face if it were built from the ground up for startups instead of ML researchers.\n\n**Our first product ([live on GitHub](https://github.com/openfoundry-ai/model_manager)) is a command-line tool to deploy open source models onto your own cloud with a single line of code.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79580&key=user_uploads/1579075/6f0eccb2-7717-484c-8b4e-070258698d0c)\n\n[Here’s a demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ay9Gqbc1U) where we ship Microsoft’s Phi-2 model to our cloud. A couple of lines of code to deploy, and in just minutes the server is ready for inference.\n\n# **🔮 Open source AI is the future**\n\nAI is the new layer in the tech stack. It’s as big a shift as cloud and mobile were two decades ago. **We believe open source AI will dominate this market**. Open source is catching up to the competition, and there’s a compelling business case for it: it’s faster & cheaper for many use cases, it can be self-hosted, and it reduces platform risk.\n\n# **❌ But there’s a big problem: the developer experience is _rough_**\n\nAs great as open source models have become, the developer experience around them is bad. You have to cobble many components together and must trudge through poor documentation, flaky APIs, hacked-together solutions, and clunky cloud configs. **All of this slows developers down.**\n\nIn contrast, closed source companies like OpenAI provide an easy developer platform that just works out of the box with almost zero effort.\n\n**We’ve talked to many startups who are interested in moving more of their workloads onto open source models, but they feel stuck** with their expensive closed source solutions because it’s so painful to switch.\n\n# **✅ We’re solving this by making the experience effortless**\n\nOpenFoundry makes working with open source AI awesome so that it’s as easy to fine-tune, deploy, and scale products on open source models as it is on OpenAI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79580&key=user_uploads/1579075/8a7ebec0-82cc-44e3-b7b2-8a8dab90b519)\n\nWith OpenFoundry, you’ll be able to:\n\n* **Ship to your cloud in just a few lines of code** _\\[We’re starting here!\\]_\n* **Find the best models, datasets, and practices for your use cases**\n* **Prototype and fine-tune in minutes**\n\nWithin the first week of launching we **already have customers putting critical workloads into production with our first product**. Several customers have even asked to invest in us, which we see as a clear sign that we’re building something important that people want.\n\n# **💪 We’ve done this before**\n\n**We built developer tools and communities at our previous jobs!** Prior to YC, Tyler built developer platforms for Instagram and WhatsApp that are used by more than a million developers. Arthur built large-scale APIs at Slack for products used by more than 350K customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79580&key=user_uploads/1579075/66b3d66c-f252-49d5-b466-e198fcc4da2b)\n\nWe’ve spent the last several months building products with open source AI and know first-hand the challenges of getting everything to work together. We’re excited to build a first-class developer experience to make building on AI faster.\n\n# **🎤 Our ask**\n\nWe’re excited to talk to more startups building with AI who are already using open source models or are interested in learning how to build on them!\n\nWe’d love to chat! 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Onlook’s open-source visual editor was the **[**#1 trending repo**](https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/)** on GitHub, and has over 6.8k stars.**\n\n➡️ [Try Onlook today](http://onlook.com/download?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc_launch) ⬅️\n\nHere’s a [sneak peak of what it’s like to design with Onlook.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDity8UrIxE)\n\nHey there, we’re Daniel and Kiet, and we’re building Onlook ([onlook.com](http://onlook.com/?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc_launch)), the Cursor for Designers. \n\n### **The Problem**\n\nThere have been many attempts at solving the problem of design to dev handoff. But for so many tools in the market, there was always compromise. Either the tools were too complex for designers or too cumbersome for engineers to implement.\n\nThey were all built to abstract away code, but we’re in a new era of product development—where code isn’t the barrier. The real challenge is giving builders the best way to work with it. In other words, creating things with code has become more of a UX problem than a technical one.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87467&key=user_uploads/137575/f4e651b1-8cc2-4f41-8512-09500cf2cd0d)\n\nOur product can be best described as a visual IDE – you can either start with building a new app from a prompt, or import your existing NextJS / Tailwind app with Onlook. Once you run your app, you can start designing the interface directly as it’s rendered.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87467&key=user_uploads/137575/7a85a948-73c8-418f-9420-155cdec6d2de)\n\nWant to change a color? Want to move a div? Want to create a new page? You can do it yourself, or ask Onlook’s AI chat to do it for you. Because everything is one-to-one in code, you’re creating the real product with your edits, and you can always right-click to view your code in your preferred code editor.\n\nAnd, when you’re ready to share your creation with the world, you can host your project through Onlook with just a click.\n\n### **How we got here**\n\nWe started Onlook because we had experienced both sides of the design / engineering gap. Daniel has been a designer for over a decade, and Kiet was an engineer at ServiceNow and Amazon working directly with designers. \n\nKiet reached out to Daniel on YC’s Cofounder matching platform after starting the company in January of 2024, and shortly after we decided to team up and work together. If you’re looking for a cofounder, we [wrote a bit](https://onlook.substack.com/p/how-to-find-a-cofounder) about that process that you may find useful on our company Substack. \n\nWe [launched on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904862) and the project quickly earned over 1k GitHub stars. People were compelled by the idea of an open-source visual editor for code, and it felt like the timing was right. Since launching, we’ve continued to refine our editor to make it even better, and have since earned **6.8k stars**, tons of contributions.\n\nAlso, Onlook was recently ranked as the **#1 trending repo on GitHub**!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87467&key=user_uploads/137575/79a6fb56-14c8-4c1e-b815-9261e651199a)\n\n### **Use Onlook**\n\nYou can get started today by [downloading Onlook](http://onlook.com/download?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc_launch). \n\nPeople use Onlook for **prototyping ideas**, for **building their product**, and for **hosting their website**. Thanks to [Paratus Health](https://paratushealth.com/), [SalesPatriot](https://salespatriot.com/), [Calltree.ai](http://Calltree.ai), [NextByte](https://trynextbyte.com/), [Casixty](https://casixty.com/), [TrainLoop](https://trainloop.ai/), and [Scout](https://www.scoutforschools.com/) for being early partners and for using Onlook to build their sites and products! \n\n### **Asks**\n\n* **Try Onlook** out and reach out to us with your feedback and questions. We love when people send us screen recordings, written feedback, and ideas. Email Daniel – [daniel@onlook.com](mailto:daniel@onlook.com).\n* **Contribute** – Help us build the future of design and development tools! We have an active community of contributors from all over the world, and working on a design editor is very fun. Feel free to [browse our open issues and contribute](https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/issues), or [support the project with a star](https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook/)! ⭐  \n* **Follow us** – We put out a lot of content in a lot of places:\n * Join our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/ZZzadNQtns)\n * Follow [Onlook on X](https://x.com/onlookdev)\n * Follow [Onlook on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/onlook-dev/)\n * Subscribe to [Onlook on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@OnlookDev)\n * Subscribe to [Onlook on Substack](https://onlook.substack.com/) – we like sharing our learnings of building a company in detail here\n\nOnlook is building **the uncompromising design and development tool** – One familiar to designers and infused with AI to make excellent code that developers love.\n\nWith Onlook, we hope to empower anyone to make incredible websites, incredibly fast, and we can’t wait to see what you create!\n\n### **About Us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87467&key=user_uploads/137575/a2562297-969e-420b-b563-adea12dea8be)\n\nOnlook is founded by Daniel Farrell ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielrfarrell/)), a designer with a decade of design consulting experience, a first 100 Bird employee, and former Head of Growth at DIMO, and Kiet Ho ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiet-ho/)), a former engineer at Amazon and ServiceNow.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mkl-onlook-cursor-for-designers", "votes": 71, "created_at": "2025-02-06T15:20:12.926Z" } ] }, { "id": 30040, "name": "supercontrast", "slug": "supercontrast", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/790820337661ae1bc9c065bae89b47e0ad126432.png", "website": "https://supercontrast.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "At Hive we worked on a product called Gencraft, an ai art generator we ramped from 0 to $1M ARR in 6 months. 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We also built a Component Generator, like **v0 but for React Native**, so you can quickly create and export screens with clean, production-ready code. Check out a quick demo video👇.\n\n\n\n# **The Problem:** _Building Apps is Hard_\n\nLaunching a mobile app is much harder than releasing a website. Setting up your project, coding every screen, managing state, and integrating the backend can take **weeks**.\n\nAnd if you’re building for iOS, you need a Mac to run Xcode, deal with provisioning profiles, and compile your app—just to test it.\n\n[**a0.dev**](http://a0.dev) removes these barriers. We generate your app’s front end in minutes and let you preview it right away—no Mac, no complicated setup, no waiting.\n\n# **Our Solutions:**\n\n**#1 Full App Generator –** Build a complete React Native app\n\n[a0.dev](http://a0.dev) takes care of the entire front end of your mobile app—so you can go from idea to working UI in minutes.\n\n✅ **Instant App Generation** – Describe your app, and we generate a complete React Native project with navigation, state management, and essential UI screens.\n\n✅ **Live Preview & Hosting** – Share your app instantly with anyone, no need for TestFlight or manual builds. We host your app so you can test and iterate faster.\n\n✅ **Remote Development Environment** – Work on your app from anywhere via an SSH-powered cloud IDE, with real-time reload and collaboration.\n\n🚀 **Faster to Market** – We’re proving that high-quality mobile apps can be built in record time. 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Our first launch is our Text to CAD editor. Some of our early users have called it the **Vercel V0 for CAD**. You simply put a prompt in on our web-app and we generate a parametric CAD file for you. Check out our fun promo vid 👇.\\\n\\\nhttps://youtu.be/Pw6KGqgygqw\n\n**TL;DR:**\n\n* 🔧 Use our **Text-to-CAD** model to accelerate your mechanical design workflows\n* 🪛 Adjust the **Parametric CAD** with our dynamically generated sliders\n* 🛠 Export and **ready to 3D print in seconds**\n\n### **Problem**\n\n**Slow**\\\nLegacy CAD software is weighed down by antiquated UX and outdated geometry rendering from the early 90s.\n\n**Repetitive** \\\nMechanical engineers and design professionals spend hours everyday restarting projects due to rigid workflows. The current tools are clunky and slow to iterate in meaning the iteration process is greatly slowed down.\n\n**Demands significant expertise**\\\nThe complexity of CAD tools hinders rapid prototyping and wider adoption.\n\n### \n\n### **Solution**\n\nDesign professionals spend hours every week converting ideas into CAD design and its complexity often creates barriers for both professionals and newcomers. The Adam web-app provides a frictionless experience to start rapidly prototyping and shipping out great ideas.\n\n**We support two different modes of interaction**\n\n_1. Conversational design through chat_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87143&key=user_uploads/1626462/6c4b0839-2b67-4e55-b857-ae6e11f20703)\n\n_2. Parametric edits through sliders_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87143&key=user_uploads/1626462/e97bde5c-d49a-4be9-b1b0-4e0fc329a5fa)\n\n### **One more thing..**\n\nWe are building an Adam Co-Pilot that integrates seamlessly within professional-grade CAD workflows. Think of this as the **Cursor for CAD.** It takes in the context of your CAD environment and is able to make directed edits for you. 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He studied Computer Science at Stanford, where he conducted high performance computing research and won top hackathon awards for building voice agents. \n\nIn the past, Pratham has been internationally recognized for his work in using ML for AI plagiarism detection, biological analysis, and cancer detection.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathamhombal/", "x_url": "https://x.com/prathamhombal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/228b7b013d4267ef38d2d12403286d1f8567f64a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90668, "title": "Stratify - The AI User Researcher", "tagline": "The AI-powered user research platform that discovers the why behind every customer decision, behavior, and preference.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Siddhartha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhartha-javvaji-23b81617a) and [Pratham](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathamhombal/), co-founders of [Stratify](https://www.trystratify.com) and we’re saving companies millions by helping them understand their users better.\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nFailing to understand _what_ your users truly want can kill a company. Stratify uses AI agentic workflows to instantly recruit participants, conduct dynamic user interviews, analyze responses, and provide actionable feedback. With simple queries like \"What do users think of our new checkout flow?\" or “Which prototype resonates most with users?”, Stratify delivers authentic customer feedback within a few hours.\n\n[Stratify Launch Video](https://youtu.be/j0Py7pKyuy4)\n\n---\n\n# **🤦‍♂️ The User Research Problem**\n\n**Here's the brutal truth**: 90% of product failures happen because teams don't truly understand their users. You can’t really blame them because traditional user research **is broken**:\n\n1. **💸 Focus groups are expensive:** $15K+ for 8 people in a room for 2 hours. Half of them drop out last minute, and you're left wondering if these insights represent your actual users.\n2. **📅 Manual interviews take weeks:** Booking user interviews feels like herding cats. Calendars stay empty for weeks while your launch deadline approaches. And big ideas _cannot_ wait.\n3. **📝 Surveys are unresponsive and impersonal:** Generic forms with dropdown menus can't capture the _why_ behind user behavior. You get some data, but absolutely no story.\n\n**The result?** Teams ship based on assumptions, not insights. Features flop. Users churn. Millions of dollars wasted.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90668&key=user_uploads/2549216/0e975083-d540-4aed-91ac-ea337164777b)\n\n---\n\n# **✨ Introducing Stratify**\n\nWhat if you could ask \"What do users think of our new product?\" and get answers from hundreds of real users in under a few hours? That's exactly what Stratify does.\n\n1. **🚀 Define your Research Questions:**\n\n Simply describe what you want to learn about your product or upload product materials: _\"How do millennials feel about our pricing?\"_ Our vetted AI researcher transforms your query into a comprehensive study framework in seconds.\n2. **🎯 Smart Participant Matching:**\n\n Set demographic and behavioral parameters or simply specify a query like \"U.S., Gen Z, Online Shopper, Foodie\". Our AI automatically finds the perfect participants from our network of millions of real users or directly within your own company’s customers.\n3. **🎥 Uncover Real Insights:**\n\n Watch our AI agents conduct hundreds of interviews simultaneously, asking follow-up questions that dynamically adapt to each participant’s unique responses. Uncover the _why_ behind user behaviors that surveys and focus groups miss completely.\n4. **🧠 Instant Analysis:**\n\n Transform hours of interview content into actionable intelligence instantly. Search conversations semantically, generate reports and slides presentations, or simply chat with your data to find exactly what you need to know.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **🎉 Our Ask**\n\n* **🚀 Building something new?** Try Stratify before your next feature launch, whether that’s your website, onboarding flow, product prototypes, etc. It could save you months of building the wrong thing—seriously.\n* **💬 Know any product managers, product designers, or founders?** They'd love this. User research is their biggest pain point.\n* **🙌 Support us** with a follow or share. Every bit helps us reach more teams who are tired of guessing what users want.\n\n---\n\n# **👥 The Team**\n\n[**Siddhartha**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhartha-javvaji-23b81617a) (CEO) and [**Pratham**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathamhombal) (CTO) have studied computer science at Stanford, where they’ve conducted AI and high performance compute research at renowned labs. They met in their freshman dorm at Stanford and have been roommates and building together since.\n\nThey’ve been in your shoes. They’ve launched features that flopped, ignored user feedback until it was too late, and learned the hard way that assumptions kill products. Now they’re making sure no other team has to learn it the hard way.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n**_Users have opinions. Are you listening?_**\n\n* **Try Stratify:** [https://www.trystratify.com](https://www.trystratify.com/%5C)\n* **Questions?:** [sid@trystratify.com](mailto:sid@trystratify.com) & [pratham@trystratify.com](mailto:pratham@trystratify.com)\n\n ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NaO-stratify-the-ai-user-researcher", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-05-22T22:15:46.972Z" } ] }, { "id": 30637, "name": "Design Arena", "slug": "design-arena", "former_names": [ "Arcada", "Design Arena", "Arcada" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4ac909ee76924412f3072f355a4f8129e69e1478.png", "website": "https://www.designarena.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "World's largest crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1753857560, "tags": [ "Design", "Crowdsourcing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/design-arena", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/design-arena.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/design-arena-ai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/designarena", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4ac909ee76924412f3072f355a4f8129e69e1478.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 876530, "full_name": "Grace Li", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CS & Neuroscience @ Harvard", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-li-721a4017b/", "x_url": "https://x.com/grx_xce", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01f581fa21b7552b096fa6252e4bb1b2ba6fd17e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2782978, "full_name": "Kamryn Ohly", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CS & Education @ Harvard", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamrynohly/", "x_url": "https://x.com/kamrynohly", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/633ccddcd39c16143d431fd5dad73fcf4fe14039.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/designarena-creators-raise-7-9-million-to-bring-taste-to-ai-models/", "date": "Aug 03, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 92609, "title": "Design Arena - #1 Benchmark for AI Design", "tagline": "Attracted 47K+ users across 136 countries in 4 weeks", "body": "**📣 TLDR**\n\n[**Design Arena**](https://www.designarena.ai/) **is the first crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design.**\n\nWe evaluate how models perform on real-world design tasks - frontend, audio, image, video and more - with live, organic users. It’s the first step of our broader **mission at [Arcada Labs](http://Arcada.dev) to** **distill and understand the human experience.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92609&key=user_uploads/876530/8919d5ba-9d0e-47e0-9cb9-83ed83b21630)\n\n**❌ Problem**\n\nLLMs can pass bar exams and win IMO gold, but they still generate UIs with white text on a white background. \n\nThere’s no standard to measure taste, usability, or aesthetics, and no benchmark means no pressure to improve.\n\n**🏆 Solution**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay89pA_wUHM\n\nWe’re building the definitive benchmark for AI-generated design.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92609&key=user_uploads/876530/134587f7-3fb8-4a2f-9a8b-d001c05d68da)\n\n**🫶 Ask**\n\nKnow someone you want to see on the leaderboard? 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If you’re a front-end developer email us at [founders@tryinspector.com](mailto:founders@tryinspector.com) so we can learn more about how you work!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95471&key=user_uploads/1799847/22f1298d-56d2-4949-a642-6443a28c4b0f)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95471&key=user_uploads/1799847/69870ad5-f57d-48f0-85fe-ef1b9382ea52)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Opr-inspector-ai-ide-for-front-end", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-11-12T23:10:49.777Z" } ] }, { "id": 30987, "name": "Lightberry", "slug": "lightberry", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e293e7e459ca366271fd5317cd8af37ed2cd6625.png", "website": "https://lightberry.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build brains for robots.\r\n\r\nWe work with manufacturers like Unitree to make robots listen, speak, and act. 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", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95161&key=user_uploads/187048/b726300c-0e1d-4190-87ac-44a8bc4a2ed3)\n\nGreetings dear humans – we’re building **Lightberry: the social brain for robots.**\n\nWe work with manufacturers like Unitree and Booster to make robots listen, speak, and act. You can program your robot out of the box by literally talking to it, no coding involved.\n\nRobots running Lightberry are:\n\n* emotionally intelligent\n* always on\n* fully autonomous\n\nJust like in Star Wars!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZ3pcFyfg4\n\n### **Why?**\n\nWe’ve seen robots on stage: folding laundry, serving popcorn, doing backflips… But before robots get deployed in homes, offices, and shops, they need to become good at **interacting with people**.\n\nSlapping ChatGPT realtime on it is not enough, every manufacturer tried that already. It responds to every little noise, lacks personality, and needs to be teleoperated.\n\nLightberry makes robots **contextually aware**, **customizable**, and **autonomous**.\n\n_We’ll let our robot Mini-Pi say it in its words:_\n\n[**https://youtu.be/e1gD57WY74s**](https://youtu.be/e1gD57WY74s**)\n\n### **Is it just a voice pipeline on top of a robot?**\n\nNo. Lightberry robots have agency. They **decide** when they want to speak or move. Our robots can **see the world** around them, **navigate it** without hitting obstacles, and have an internal **monologue of thoughts**.\n\n_Here’s our robot Koko’s hot-take:_\n\n[**https://youtu.be/Y7SN58Cdvs4**](https://youtu.be/Y7SN58Cdvs4**)\n\n### **What can your robots do?**\n\nRobots running Lightberry are being deployed to interact with people: homes, offices, shops, conferences, etc. Our software works on many different robots: Unitree G1, Fourier GR-2/N1, Booster T1/K1, High Torque Mini-Pi/Mini-Pi+ …\n\n_Here are a few robots we’ve deployed Lightberry on – meet Koko, Synthia, Alfred, Blake, Minnie, and Bradford:_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95161&key=user_uploads/187048/60dd09f1-41ed-488c-bb73-546727f5d606)\n\n### **Ask**\n\n**We want to deploy as many robots in the real world as possible.** If you want to:\n\n* Hire a robot for a people-facing gig (conference, sales, marketing, receptionist, concierge…)\n* Integrate Lightberry into your robot (if you’re building hardware!)\n\n**Please email us at [founders@lightberry.com](mailto:founders@lightberry.com).**\n\nThanks,\n\n[**@Ali Attar**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/255747) & [**@Stephan Koenigstorfer**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/187048)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95161&key=user_uploads/187048/c6837400-65bf-4cb7-a943-52615e648ae8)\n\n_Yes, it walks around me!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Okr-lightberry-robots-with-soul", "votes": 178, "created_at": "2025-11-04T17:34:27.623Z" } ] }, { "id": 31013, "name": "Rivet", "slug": "rivet-design", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/28bd19a3fc057798d00b7402f78d585553560d40.png", "website": "https://rivet.design/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Rivet helps designers explore dozens of directions from their agent. \r\n\r\nLearn more at rivet.design", "one_liner": "Explore dozens of design directions with your agent", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1759433421, "tags": [ "Design", "Design Tools", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "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/rivet-design", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/rivet-design.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rivetdesign", "x_url": "https://x.com/designrivet", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/28bd19a3fc057798d00b7402f78d585553560d40.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/0a224c9217b4243fcff40b07d583ade8ee8c4660.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 206350, "full_name": "Sam Gorman", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder of Rivet. 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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. 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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? 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Instead of applying your changes to a single element, you can see how your change to a line of JSX code would be applied globally.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95312&key=user_uploads/3082625/f911aeb0-3a85-4e30-9042-d49fd4a06d61)\n\n**LSP Integrations:** JSX Tool ships with a lightweight IDE for manually editing code, but still an IDE that does some heavy lifting. The JSX Tool IDE integrates in language servers for common React development tasks, so you can have things like type-checking, auto-complete, and linting upon save. 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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! 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Click [here](https://marengox.com/).\n\n**The problem\\[s\\]:**\n\nHuge **expenditure on design**: $6.7T of data center capex by 2030 - engineering design fees are a massive 12% of construction cost, meaning $800B in design spend alone.\n\nHuge **time waste**: engineering design takes 12-36 months (feasibility, due diligence, FEED/permitting design, detailed design); it’s done manually, meaning a design firm can only handle 3-4 different concepts per site, leading to suboptimal designs, worse decisions and higher risk.\n\n**The Solution:**\n\nAI alone doesn’t have the engineering, know-how or trust to be effective here. A step change is needed. Marengo is needed.\n\nTo customers, we’re **_the engineering firm for accelerated data center development_.** Internally, we have developed AI-native tooling designed for in-house use by professionals. 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Published researcher on AI for complex systems engineering design.\n\n**Gad Marconi** - Built and deployed on-site data center infrastructure at the 25MW Swiss Flumenthal hydroelectric plant. Ex-AI software engineer at Nuclear and Energy EPC. Ex-TU Delft.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf any of these describe you or your organization, we'd love to talk:\n\n* A neocloud, hyperscaler, developer or similar\n* A professional engineer working in data centers - architects, civil, mechanical, electrical; we’re hiring!\n\n---\n\nVisit to learn more! 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Voyager enables people to do this all from one place: no juggling API keys, providers, and apps.\n\n\n\n# How it works\n\n1\\. Download Voyager at [voyager.so](http://voyager.so) and connect the tools, models, and subscriptions you already use.\n\n2\\. Describe what you want to do - edit existing footage, ideate on commercials for your product, make a launch video…\n\n3\\. Voyager works with you just like Codex. It comes with built-in apps for motion graphics, music, and editing - or it can use tools like Blender, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, etc on your computer\n\n# Team\n\nWe're second-time founders, and previously worked on Dover YC S19 and Heap W13. \n\nOur team of 6 is obsessed with building tools for the next generation of creative work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117923&key=user_uploads/128290/622d1c8f-4e9c-4b7b-802e-4a4d92334e1e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ufz-voyager-ai-harness-for-video-and-creative-work", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-10-08T18:04:25.814Z" } ] } ]