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As successful 7-figure course entrepreneurs ourselves, we have reimagined the course platform experience for the next generation of creators with best-in-class gamification tools and proprietary AI to maximize each student's learning. \n\n**⭐️ The Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/03a2e5b1-eace-4b12-beff-4c2c8c8fb1d4)\n\n[**Parth Detroja**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthdetroja/) **(CEO)** is the global bestselling author of [Swipe to Unlock](https://www.amazon.com/Swipe-Unlock-Technology-Business-Strategy/dp/1976182190) and has launched multiple 7 figure courses. He spent the last 4 years as a Product Manager at Facebook where he patented half a dozen AI technologies. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University.\n\n[**Jason Goodison**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlevigoodison/) **(CTO)** is a Software Engineer and [Tech YouTuber](https://www.youtube.com/@JasonGoodison) with 138k subscribers. Before YC, he worked at Microsoft for 3 years and graduated with distinction from the University of Waterloo.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**The average completion rate for online courses is below 9%** because they are not designed for our short attention spans. Oftentimes courses are 20+ hours of content, but only contain 1-2 hours of actionable insights. Students don't want to consume long-winded lectures.\n\n**Today’s generation wants to learn from their favorite creators!** We asked over a hundred top creators what was holding them back from creating a course. The top cited reasons were:\n\n1. The time commitment required to script and film a traditional video course\n2. Not knowing where to start and how to effectively monetize a course\n3. Worries about piracy of video-on-demand courses\n4. 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Creators can also use this chat experience to deliver push notifications and live content updates to students to support their learning process!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69766&key=user_uploads/1052399/09f2a0b0-ad6e-40d5-bb6c-a55baa60ffe8)\n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\n**If there’s someone in your network with a large audience who is looking to launch a course,** [**please introduce us.**](https://team@pairai.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9G-pair-ai-monetize-your-knowledge-in-a-scalable-way", "votes": 1248, "created_at": "2023-02-28T18:52:32.886Z" } ] }, { "id": 27899, "name": "GoodCourse", "slug": "goodcourse", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b9c215571177dfa178d439924a339c97899b894a.png", "website": "https://www.goodcourse.co", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "GoodCourse is the TikTok-style corporate learning platform achieving 10x better completion rates, training employees on topics like compliance and inclusion.", "one_liner": "The TikTok style corporate training platform", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1669845357, "tags": [ "eLearning" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "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/goodcourse", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/goodcourse.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goodcourse", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GoodCourse_", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goodcourse", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b9c215571177dfa178d439924a339c97899b894a.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": 901497, "full_name": "Chris Mansfield", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of GoodCourse, the TikTok-style micro-learning platform used by universities to engage students. 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We’ve all had to click through some sort of long, deeply uninspiring course, right?\n* **But why does employee engagement matter?** Well, beyond the moral case for a more equitable and harassment free world - negative workplace behaviors lead to lawsuits, lower productivity, and higher employee churn.\n\n### **How GoodCourse works**\n\nLearners love our courses because they look and feel like the social media platforms we use every day, but you can’t 10x learner engagement with cringe-free content alone. It takes:\n\n* **Peer-led content:** delivered in a way that speaks to your employees.\n* **Learning pathways:** designed in partnership with our team of leading academics\n* **Personalized**: content relevant to your organizational needs\n* **Benchmarking:** across your sector to learn how to better engage your employees\n* **Intelligent delivery:** nudges spaced across days & channels to maximize completion rates\n\n### **YC Deal**\n\nOur product works best for companies that have at least a few hundred employees (usually Series C onwards). Any YC Alumni companies that **sign up on our website will get a 25% discount** on our standard rates.\n\nWe are also extending this deal to any friends of YC. If you know L&D leaders, Chief People Officers or HR Directors that would find this useful, please shoot us an email 🙏\n\nIf you have any questions, email me at [chris.mansfield@goodcourse.co](mailto:chris.mansfield@goodcourse.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4I-goodcourse-compliance-training-for-modern-teams", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2023-02-20T21:28:45.069Z" } ] }, { "id": 28997, "name": "Read Bean", "slug": "read-bean", "former_names": [ "Refond", "Glace", "Glaze" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2edb78c6c7dfbdc3b8cbd1632fcf94f82d5bf32d.png", "website": "https://readbean.app/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Read Bean helps intermediate-advanced language learners and heritage speakers improve their literacy using real-world content. The app measures your initial reading level and automatically transforms texts into bite-sized lessons at your level. 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Studied CS @ MIT and previously bootstrapped an e-comm business to 200k followers, quant traded at virtu, built software at bloomberg, and was in management consulting at bain. \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/maggiezhang84", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maggieqzhang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d3555cec5732ad76fcc4fc7f589cf2fd9f53df80.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1383254, "full_name": "Savannah Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "COO at Read Bean. 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Instead of needing to know exactly what you want when shopping, you can find relevant and cool items from queries like “[simple and elegant dinner party outfit](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=simple%20and%20elegant%20dinner%20party%20outfit)” and “[what would Barbie and Ken wear to an investor meeting](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=what%20would%20barbie%20and%20ken%20wear%20to%20an%20investor%20meeting)”. We are 3 MIT founders who love fashion as much as we love coding. \n\n### **The Problem**\n\nWho knew spending money on clothes could be so full of friction and painful —\n\nyou are looking for a pair of linen pants, \n\nyou go on google shopping or an aggregator like Nordstrom, \n\nyou get literally 1000s of listings fed to you, \n\nyou go down the listings, 95% of which are pure noise and only 5% are actually interesting, \n\nyou couldn’t quite decide on anything, yet wasted 2 painful hours in the process. \n\n# **Glaze**\n\n### [**useglaze.com**](https://www.useglaze.com/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73733&key=user_uploads/1371943/1b54d204-385e-4626-b268-4e94faed94cb)\n\n[Glaze](https://useglaze.com) makes finding clothes from trending, unique, high-quality brands easier and more fun. \n\nSearch anything — _we mean anything_ — to shop products from accurate search results powered by our AI. \n\nSome past queries from our real users\n\n* “[Y Combinator broke startup founder](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=y%20combinator%20broke%20startup%20founder)”\n* “[lit san francisco black sweater](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=lit%20san%20francisco%20black%20sweater)”\n* “[I'm Luke Skywalker](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=im%20luke%20skywalker)”\n* “[I like techno](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=I%20like%20techno)”\n* “[Male guest at a wedding in Italy this summer](https://www.useglaze.com/mens/search?query=Male%20guest%20at%20a%20wedding%20in%20Italy%20this%20summer)”\n* “[Comfortable, hip, and classy clothes for 40 years old](https://www.useglaze.com/search?query=Comfortable,%20hip,%20and%20classy%20clothes%20for%2040%20year%20old)”\n\n# **Our Team**\n\nWe became best friends while studying computer science at MIT. We’ve had many adventures together but our favorite was running campus-wide clothing pop-ups our senior year. We sold over 1000 pieces of clothes in <24 hrs and built a clothing reselling app for students.\n\nNow wanting to use AI to shape the future of online shopping, we’re building [Glaze](https://www.useglaze.com/) together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73733&key=user_uploads/1371943/572d11e3-6d03-45bb-8b48-0bfed801b608)\n\n_the team from left to right_\n\n[Savannah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/savannah-liu-291674197/): Built the refund payment pipeline at Amazon Advertising that handles $1.7B cash volume annually. Fun fact, she is also a fashion/lifestyle influencer with 100k+ followers. \n\n[Maggie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggiezhang84/): Wide range of industry experiences ranging from Bain to Bloomberg. She had a side hustle building her own slime e-commerce business, growing it to 200k+ Instagram followers. \n\n[Pearl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearlli98/): The ML goddess of the team. She optimized LLM training for an open-source chatbot at FAIR (Facebook AI Research) and built an ML pipeline for mobile game LTV prediction at Assetario. \n\n# **The Ask**\n\n* Try [useglaze.com](http://useglaze.com)\n* Share with friends and family \n* Give us feedback and schedule a shopping session with us at \n* Request more [brands](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBbv9SS_R6GKY-YxjFNy0pIdt3gp9kGgISglgW7jnSs7MzVQ/viewform)\n* If you have any connections to clothing brands, we would love to connect.\n\nWe hope you all have fun! Feel free to reach out to [founders@runglaze.com](mailto:founders@runglaze.com) anytime!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JBF-glaze-what-would-barbie-and-ken-wear-to-an-investor-meeting", "votes": 339, "created_at": "2023-08-02T19:59:41.139Z" } ] }, { "id": 29644, "name": "VideoGen", "slug": "videogen", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67133b6c1025c9a5557fc657b87ed61ad2b540c5.png", "website": "https://videogen.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "VideoGen makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Our AI video generator turns a prompt, script, or article into a finished video, complete with AI voiceover, subtitles, and b-roll, powered by the latest models like Seedance, Veo, ElevenLabs, and Kling. 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Before this, I studied Computer Science and Applied Math at Brown and interned at Palantir.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/dg314", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/54f092f9c892e50799efcc00ad5c1c9e6a007afd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 98091, "title": "Founding Growth Lead", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/videogen/jobs/F4gBXxU-founding-growth-lead", "location": "San Francisco, CA / Remote (US; GB)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$175K - $225K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 0.75%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83780, "title": "VideoGen – Generate professional videos in seconds", "tagline": "Introducing VideoGen, the world's first AI that can create and edit videos for you.", "body": "\n\n**TLDR:** [VideoGen](https://videogen.io) makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Today, we serve thousands of customers, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance. Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive when outsourced. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83780&key=user_uploads/1009656/0cd0d883-05cf-413b-b11b-aca79175e512)\n\n👋 Hello, we’re Anton and David. We bootstrapped VideoGen out of our college dorm rooms to over 1 million users in under a year. We met at a tennis academy in middle school and became friends through our shared passion for building web apps and playing tennis. Now, we’re changing how the world creates videos with the help of AI.\n\n### **The Problem: Creating videos is tedious, painful, and hard.**\n\nMaking videos is hard. Each step of the process—scripting, recording voice-overs, finding and licensing high-quality footage, and editing—is extremely time-consuming.\n\nVideo editing products today are hard to use and have too many buttons. Paying someone to make videos for you is expensive and slow.\n\n### **The Solution: AI that creates videos for you.**\n\nVideoGen can automatically edit professional videos together in a few seconds, saving our customers time and the pain of hiring a video editor.\n\nIn just a few clicks, VideoGen can:\n\n​​🧠 Take in company/brand knowledge and media\n\n​​✍️ Write a video script\n\n🗣️ Generate a lifelike voice-over\n\n✂️ Edit together relevant, copyright-free footage\n\n💬 Add captions\n\nVideoGen does this all in over 100 languages and accents for a global user base.\n\nOnce your video is done, you can add your finishing touches in an easy-to-use, web-based video editor.\n\n### **Try the API – Get $1,000 in free credits (YC Deal)**\n\nAre you interested in integrating VideoGen with your app? 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We are [Guang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guang-cui/) and [Tyrone](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyroned3/) - cofounders of Miyagi Labs.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nWe use AI to transform YouTube content into complete, interactive courses—imagine a 3Blue1Brown video turned into an online course with quizzes and study material. We help people learn better with active practice and personalized feedback.\n\n[Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8AfVemdtr0)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nLearning is flawed: online resources are everywhere, but 1-1 tutoring (which most people can’t afford) is still 2 standard deviations more effective than other methods. \n\nYouTube has top-notch content on everything for free, but how do you turn that passive watching into active learning?\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nContent creators, educators, and learners can instantly convert educational videos into structured, interactive courses that drive real learning.\n\nOur [platform](https://miyagilabs.ai/) automatically generates short-answer and multiple-choice questions, quizzes, and AI-driven feedback, turning passive watching into an active, engaging experience. Learners receive instant responses to their answers and can access an AI voice tutor for additional guidance.\n\nCreators and educators, who love sharing knowledge but don’t have time to create entire courses, can focus on what they do best while we handle the active learning and engagement.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd_zOqR1Y2oqnOjlrJ5PjjmfRbYTBbY-iXt5YHOD7JgVvrvtYAMp-5ydGudljDOetpB5lxXpzZ9cLZR-7BFYogL-UY91D-SwsyByTND5ge_amUhxg1z36k3CzMHUdiEPwDI2ySMUQ?key=JK8gbU_5XOAH5k3bm1TXYGo-)\n\n**The Team**\n\nGuang and Tyrone met in college at MIT studying Computer Science and both are extremely passionate about learning and teaching.\n\nTyrone became a chess master in 4 years just from watching YouTube, has learned 4 languages, and has taught computer science around the world.\n\nGuang has taught algorithms (as a TA), math, physics, and music to hundreds of students. He has also become an elite American Ninja Warrior and coached students at multiple gyms. \n\nBecause of our experiences, we have unique insights on how to learn and teach effectively.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcZGlsLXlxt9UIr3jpoxf_jhxX2KJnG75yF9hN2hzm3aiGL_y96LBErUiCn6V1aDxuGFbLA9w8P9Eq2zd2UrDZsN9Otld5mCOmjPw3qhUyQgtrREpnlsgpEaYeLyckr-k0WtvQs?key=JK8gbU_5XOAH5k3bm1TXYGo-)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you know…\n\n* Businesses that want to convert internal product videos or notes into online training courses for employees\n* Educators or content creators who want to turn their videos into interactive courses\n* Anyone interested in learning something new\n\n…we'd love to hear from you.\n\nEmail: [founders@miyagilabs.ai](mailto:founders@miyagilabs.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mr9-miyagi-labs-ai-to-transform-youtube-content-into-interactive-courses", "votes": 83, "created_at": "2025-02-20T16:40:13.520Z" } ] }, { "id": 30618, "name": "Golpo", "slug": "golpo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/918421e6cceeb8c0fe7223230f5345ddad2d5145.png", "website": "https://video.golpoai.com/", "all_locations": "Stockton, CA, USA", "long_description": "Golpo AI is the world's best platform to create fully produced whiteboard explainer videos from just a prompt or document. 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Golpo is the world's best platform to create fully produced whiteboard explainer videos from just a prompt or document.\n\nInstead of hiring an agency, you simply input a prompt or document explaining what you want, and in minutes you get a whiteboard explainer video in a style similar to Khan Academy or RSA Animate — in 50+ languages.\n\nAfter creation, you can edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. Perfect for training, faceless YouTube, marketing, technical, and educational videos — any video where understanding is important.\n\nAsk: Create your first video for free:[ ](https://video.golpoai.com)[video.golpoai.com](http://video.golpoai.com)\n\n# The Problem\n\nIf you want a whiteboard explainer video today, you either hire an agency for thousands of dollars and wait weeks, learn professional video editing software which takes months to get good at and still requires a ton of time per video, or use a DIY whiteboard animation tool where you'll spend hours dragging elements around and the result still looks amateur.\n\n# Our Solution:\n\nPut in a prompt or document, get a professional fully produced whiteboard explainer video in minutes. After generation, you can edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. Videos can be anywhere from 15 seconds to 30 minutes (via API).\n\nWith our proprietary video generation engine, Golpo produces videos that feel authentic and engaging in a way no other AI video generator does.\n\nCreate your first video free and look at other videos created with Golpo at [video.golpoai.com](http://video.golpoai.com)\n\n# The Team\n\nWe are both brothers and **Stanford CS students** and have been building together our entire lives. \n\nShreyas Kar (CEO):\n\n* Researcher at Stanford’s Vision & Learning Lab under Dr. Fei-Fei Li\n* Co-Founder of the Stanford AI Club\n* USA Math Olympiad qualifier, RSI scholar, and ISEF Grand Prize winner\n\nShraman Kar (CTO):\n\n* International AI Olympiad bronze medalist (Team USA)\n* Research at Stanford Translational AI Lab (on foundational AI Vision models) and with Harvard Medical School Portal Group\n* Co-founder of Community AI (active in 38 countries and all U.S. states) with Shreyas\n\n# Our Ask:\n\n* Create your first video free at [video.golpoai.com](http://video.golpoai.com) \n* Book a Demo: \n* If you liked our product, tell your friends about it\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/golpo-ai/) and [Twitter](https://x.com/GolpoAI)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O3f-golpo-create-whiteboard-explainer-videos-with-ai-from-a-prompt-or-document", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-07-26T23:11:57.654Z" } ] }, { "id": 32551, "name": "Bloomy", "slug": "bloomy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/209c1fdd9d657cb4fad05300bbb0faf304f4d29c.png", "website": "https://bloomylearning.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bloomy is the best way to teach anything in school. 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In early pilots, students grew \\~2x faster than the national average.**\n\n[Bloomy](https://bloomylearning.com) is an AI-powered mastery learning platform for K-12 students. We diagnose students’ skill gaps, place students on a personalized learning path, and give them standards-aligned lessons and a Socratic AI tutor that helps without just giving away the answer.\n\nLaunch video: \n\n**Why I'm building this**\n\nI started as a teacher. I taught 7th grade English and Writing with Teach For America, and every day I struggled to deliver differentiated instruction to 30 students with 30 different sets of needs.\n\nSome students needed remediation, some needed acceleration, and many needed a tutor sitting next to them helping them reason through the next step. Benjamin Bloom's 2-sigma result always felt obviously true to me; the hard part was making that kind of tutoring affordable and available to every child.\n\nThen AI changed the cost curve. \n\nWhen I saw innovative school concepts such as Alpha School, the model clicked: mastery-based learning, personalization, and high-agency students. But I kept thinking about the families and schools that already exist: homeschool families, microschools, hybrid schools, and regular classrooms where most kids are today.\n\n**What Bloomy does**\n\nBloomy starts with a diagnostic (we integrate with third-party diagnostics and provide our own in-house one) and places each student onto a personalized learning path. Students work one skill at a time, get a short, standards-aligned lesson, practice, ask BloomyBot for Socratic help when they're stuck, and only move forward after showing 90%+ mastery. The skill path updates live based on the student’s performance and our own knowledge graph.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104376&key=user_uploads/3410278/aff91335-737d-4b76-bcc2-40414d3f3c08)\n\n_Our knowledge graph informs skill progression to make learning more efficient._\n\nParents and teachers can see what the student has mastered, what's in progress, and where they need support.\n\n**Where we are**\n\nWe're being adopted in many different contexts: districts with traditional schools, charter schools, hybrid schools, microschools, homeschools, and even families who just want some extra academic support for their kids.\n\nFamilies can subscribe to Bloomy monthly or annually, and families using ESA/EFA funds may also qualify for direct pay or reimbursement depending on their state’s rules.\n\nBefore Bloomy, I taught with TFA, earned my Master’s in Education, designed GMAT and GRE curriculum for Manhattan Prep, led Lyft’s driver growth team for New England, earned an MBA from Stanford, and managed AI transformation engagements at McKinsey. Bloomy is the thing that combines all the aspects of my career: learning design, go-to-market, and AI.\n\nIf you want to reach out, you can email me at [alex@bloomylearning.com](mailto:alex@bloomylearning.com) or follow our updates on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomy-yc-s26/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104376&key=user_uploads/3410278/9c55515e-0577-460d-955d-e1c3cb587f06)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R9U-bloomy-ai-powered-mastery-learning-for-k-12", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-07-01T15:05:35.719Z" } ] } ]