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Many of these devices find a second life on the resale market, extending their usefulness and reducing their environmental footprint.\n\nHowever, the process – inspection, data-wiping, reprogramming, and packaging – is **extremely** **tedious and time-consuming**, limiting how many devices can actually re-enter circulation.\n\nWe’re changing that. With robotics, computer vision, and AI, we’re breaking down these barriers and advancing a more circular electronics industry 💻\n\nWe just completed our first pilot project last month, and we are excited to be iterating and gearing up for our second pilot at the end of February!\n\n**Ask**: Introductions to e-waste recycling facilities or IT asset management/disposition companies. Please reach out if there’s someone you think we should speak to! 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Motor controllers with 3x higher power densities, that remain cost competitive with existing solutions.\n\n\n\n# The Problem\n\nAutomotive manufacturers are quickly transitioning to electric vehicles but initial offerings remain expensive and are largely unprofitable. This has led to slow adoption compared to their combustion engine counterparts.\n\nWe have both witnessed while working at Tesla, the immense difference in design and cost between Tesla's vehicles, and EVs from existing vehicle manufacturers. Incumbent part suppliers and manufacturers are skilled in the intricate mechanical design of combustion engine vehicles, but lack the electrical expertise for EVs which are primarily chips and PCBs.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nAt Steinmetz, we are starting with the inverter (motor controller). This lies between the battery of the vehicle and the motor--it converts the DC power from the battery into 3 phase AC for the motor. Using modern power electronics techniques and tight systems integration, we are able to deliver a motor controller which achieves 3x greater density than the state of the art, at equal or greater efficiency. This allows us to bring down not only the unit cost of inverters in vehicles today but, through greater density and higher efficiencies, the cost and performance of the whole vehicle.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88019&key=user_uploads/1381592/997953eb-7e3b-4ba7-9d07-6a1d21f3c43f)\n\nTo give context for the density improvements here, our bandgap product is able to drive a peak power of 200kW through the equivalent volume of 3 yerba mate cans. 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Swap out your LLM connector URL with ours.\n\n2\\. We intercept every prompt and output, displaying them in our UI.\n\n3\\. Where necessary, you give high-level feedback, like your preferred tone or how a tool should actually be used.\n\n4\\. We continuously post-train the model to match up to your feedback.\n\n5\\. Once you deem it good enough and want to switch over to the model, you can do that with a click of a button, no changes to your code required.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’d love your input and are looking for early users to test-drive Augento. Shoot us a message at [**founders@augento.ai**](mailto:founders@augento.ai)\n\n**The Team**\n\nLinus previously studied CS @ ETH in Zurich and did research in complexity theory. During his studies, he worked as an ML Engineer & as a Quantitative Developer in High-Frequency Trading.\n\nHannes previously studied CS @ ETH Zurich and worked on decentralized and distributed systems. 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Seriously.", "tagline": "We help startups who want to integrate their tech into enterprise legacy systems by expediting the process of discovery + rewrite by months.", "body": "Hi, we’re Samai and Nand — Co-Founders of Axal 👋\n\nIf you're selling to a sticky product to enterprises, you've probably run into this:\n\n“We’d love to use your product, but our stack is too old...”\n\nThat’s where we come in.\n\nAxal reverse engineers legacy codebases (Java, C#) to generate **functional requirements and user stories in hours** — essentially helping your clients expedite the discovery process of their modernization. A beta version of our tool then figures out what needs to be rewritten and makes an outline for your team so you can easily rewrite their code and integrate your product. \n\nMongoDB already does this to land enterprise deals — they rewrite the client’s legacy system _just enough_ to make it so they can integrate their product and switch up the DB. Then they are sticky forever.\n\nGet setup in less than 1 hour guaranteed. \n\nAxal Demo - Creating Functional Requirement Document and User story of 30k line Java codebase \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWTFxfw2vE\n\nWe make that process instant and repeatable so if you have a sticky product you can integrate with enterprise codebases easily.\n\n**Why it matters to you (YC founder):**\n\nYou’re not just selling software. You’re selling _change_.\n\nIf legacy tech is blocking your deal, let us unblock it — so you can close faster and look like a hero.\n\nTo get started, email me - [samai@joinaxal.com](mailto:samai@joinaxal.com)\n\nJoin the waitlist rewrite tool: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NpC-axal-legacy-code-understood-in-hours-seriously", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2025-06-24T14:50:34.452Z" }, { "id": 86865, "title": "Axal - Automate identifying and fixing architectural tech debt", "tagline": "Break down monoliths, identify tech debt, and fix it with AI at scale!", "body": "Hey everyone, I’m Nand - Founder at Axal👋\\\n\\\nWe built a tool that uses deterministic methods to **automate the hardest parts of application modernization**— identifying architectural bottlenecks and prioritizing those issues based on business value. Once the issues are broken down by Axal, AI can autonomously collaborate with your team to resolve them.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nEveryone knows that software teams cut corners in development over time, resulting in accumulation of debt tech overtime that slows them down and raises costs. Until now, to address this problem there needed to be long modernization efforts, where stakeholders spent months finding possible solutions to the problem, if you could even find and train the team members needed to do the work. \n\n# **Our Solution: One platform for Application Modernization**\n\nAxal uses deterministic methods to provide teams with clear observability into architectural technical debt.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86865&key=user_uploads/570999/5453ac1a-0928-4ba2-91f1-665ad2c142fd)\n\nWe show tech debt scores tailored to your goals. 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We're [Borong](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/boronghu) and [Catherine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathjeong/), co-founders of NODI Energy!\n\n**TL; DR:**\n\nNODI is building distributed energy infrastructure to rewire the grid. We are deploying and aggregating batteries at the edge. All these distributed nodes are orchestrated to make the existing rigid grid more flexible, reducing grid congestion and unlocking more capacity at specific constrained locations. So data centers can get **_on-grid_** connection in weeks instead of waiting on grid reinforcement for decades. ⚡ ️ **Gigawatts unlockable on the way!**\n\nLaunch video: \n\n### **Problem**\n\nThe existing power grid was built for the fossil-fuel era, not for tomorrow’s economy. 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Three layers: \n\n* **Hardware:** originating from the edge, we deploy our own plug-in batteries and aggregate energy assets from third parties.\n* **Software:** orchestrating and operating as these distributed nodes to enable real-time locational flexibility in the grid.\n* **Intelligence:** modeling the grid from edge data, reducing grid congestion, and delivering capacity at the right time and place.\n\n### **It’s giving main character energy**🌟\n\nResults in 6 months:\n\n* 2,000 plug-in batteries on the way, per month!\n* Onboarding >1 GW of batteries in 2026.\n* Secured a pipeline to aggregate 10 GW of assets in 2027.\n* Soon to be one of the largest multinational VPPs.\n\n### **Team**\n\nBorong Hu, PhD in power electronics from Warwick and postdoc at Cambridge University, with 60+ papers, IEEE awards, and government grant funding. Built power conversion systems for AI data centers and one of the world's largest offshore wind turbines. 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Based on proprietary technologies, our power supply systems can reduce energy loss by up to 50%. We’ve built working prototypes and are piloting with world-leading partners.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nAI computing heavily relies on data centers where every watt of electricity is processed and converted by multiple stages of power supplies—from the power grid to processors.\n\nCurrently power supply solutions face significant challenges:\n\n* **Inefficiency:** Data centers consume 5% - 10% of global electricity, while 20% of that (100TWh) is wasted on power supplies.\n* **Size Constraints:** Power supply is given very limited space in server trays and on GPU board surface but required to provide much higher power.\n* **Performance Gaps:** It is required to provide a voltage conversion ratio over 100 and provide 1A/ns dynamics for robust operation of future advanced AI computing processors.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nBased on proprietary technologies, we provide the reverlutionary **single-stage vertical power delivery solution:**\n\n* **Single Stage:** directly convert high voltage to <1V low voltage, eliminating inefficiencies multiple stage power conversion chains.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90889&key=user_uploads/2116203/943302c9-5ff6-4189-8cd3-47d80cd3b6d0)\n\n* **Vertical Power Delivery:** minimize power transfer loop, locating directly underneath computing chips.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90889&key=user_uploads/2116203/a4ce171d-72bb-4bfe-b640-23d7eb2db1d6)\n\n\nResults vs. incumbents:\n\n* **80%** smaller form factor\n* **50%** less energy wasted\n* **10×** faster dynamic response\n\nDeploying our modules can save customers **$10 B** annually, cut **30 TWh** of electricity waste, and avoid **100 Mt** of CO₂ emissions each year.\n\n# Team\n\nWe have more than ten years of experience in power electronics and are dedicated to solve the most challenging tasks in this area.\n\nBorong did a Postdoc at the University of Cambridge and got his PhD in power electronics from the University of Warwick. 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