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There are also a lot of alluring activities that they partake in with their friends & colleagues which just adds up to a big amount at the end of the month.\n\nIn all these scenarios there is usually only one person who pays, then he/she tracks/splits the amount, then constantly asks for their money back (only to get it back after 2 months), and in the entire duration they suffer a dent which disrupts their monthly budget and there is almost negligible savings (Gosh! Even sounds painful).\n\n**The current banking system does not understand this!**\n\n### **💡The Solution:**\n\n**⚡One-Stop Financial App for all the needs of Young Professionals⚡**\n\nAs a Neobank, Shelf not only caters to your banking & payments needs, but we also help you manage your spending and pay as a group from the getgo! When you’re using Shelf, you need not have 4 different apps for banking, payments, tracking expenses, and splitting bills, you can just keep your money on Shelf and pay anywhere with a simple slide.\n\nWe’re helping you:\n\n1. Pay for only your share even in a group payment ✅ \n2. Save more and have increased spending capacity ✅ \n3. Reduce the Time and Effort needed for banking ✅ \n\nYeah, Shelf gets you. It’s a Neobank for Young Professionals made by Young Professionals ;)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65508&key=user_uploads/365732/265fa696-b0c6-4a05-9a1f-65710f6a87d5)\n\nThe products we are providing:\n\n* **Personal Shelf:** Budget what you’re gonna spend and where.\n* **Shared Shelf:** For common expenses with your friends\n* **Shelf Cards (launching soon):** A super card to serve all your payment-related needs (Interchangeable Group & Personal card)\n\n### **👨‍💻 The Team:**\n\nParas & I, are 2021 graduates from IIT Roorkee and have known each other since 2017. We have worked on multiple projects together in and out of college. Being Young Professionals ourselves and frustrated by the shortcomings of the current banking system, we have set out to solve the financial problems faced by this user segment 🎯\n\n### **💛 Liked the Product?**\n\n[Sign Up](https://bit.ly/shelf_earlyaccess) for early access. We would really appreciate your suggestions & feedback!\\\nReach out to us at [vedant@shelfpay.in](mailto:vedant@shelfpay.in) & [paras@shelfpay.in](mailto:paras@shelfpay.in)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H2a-shelf-neobank-for-young-professionals-in-india", "votes": 311, "created_at": "2022-08-20T08:38:23.553Z" } ] }, { "id": 29824, "name": "Assembly HOA", "slug": "assembly-hoa", "former_names": [ "Assembly Technologies Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/251db0cfd3ffbbbe376cb8fa8066246654b8bd87.png", "website": "https://assemblyhoa.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Assembly is an AI-native HOA management company on a mission to fix homeowner associations. Traditional HOA management is often reactive, confusing, and inefficient. Assembly takes a different approach by combining professional expertise with intelligent software to make communities run smoothly and decisions easier.\r\n\r\nWe exist to build trust, create transparency, and ensure well-run communities that protect and enhance property values.\r\n\r\nAssembly simplifies day-to-day operations, automates routine tasks, and delivers the right knowledge at the right time. Our platform gives boards and homeowners clarity to make smarter, more confident decisions. \r\n\r\nWe manage HOAs in San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles. 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He worked as a real estate agent for several years, managing client relationships and transactions. In startups, he specialized in customer success and implementation, focusing on improving client experiences and efficiency.\n\nGrowing up in a townhome community, Allen has firsthand insight into HOA governance challenges and opportunities. This perspective, combined with his expertise, drives his passion for creating innovative HOA management.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/allenliou1", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/allenliou_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77f12e3c595734f30784d24dcd1bb86bcdfd3fa8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 279288, "full_name": "Shreyas Bharadwaj", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Shreyas has a strong background in AI/ML, having worked as a data scientist at startups and most recently at the RAND Corporation, where he developed experimental ML products for the DoD.\n\nHis journey with HOAs began with his own condo ownership, where encountering massive inefficiencies in community operations led him to join the HOA board. At Assembly, Shreyas leverages his technical expertise and passion for safeguarding homeowners' investments to build the next-generation of HOA management.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/shreyas-assembly", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c10e44e5bedc8e30346a2fa04931f64b404ce67b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 67836, "title": "Senior Community Association (HOA) Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/assembly-hoa/jobs/zfZd80w-senior-community-association-hoa-manager", "location": "Glendale, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $90K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.10%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 69860, "title": "Founding Engineer (Full-Stack) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/assembly-hoa/jobs/9R7bAZy-founding-engineer-full-stack", "location": "San Mateo, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 2.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Google Cloud", "Kubernetes", "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript", "Firebase", "Docker", "Next.js" ] }, { "id": 88866, "title": "Senior Community Association (HOA) Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/assembly-hoa/jobs/D9FlMf3-senior-community-association-hoa-manager", "location": "Long Beach, CA, US / Riverside, CA, US / CA, US / Remote (CA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $90K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.10%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 101992, "title": "Director of Business Development, San Francisco Bay Area", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/assembly-hoa/jobs/UMqAWkR-director-of-business-development-san-francisco-bay-area", "location": "San Mateo, CA, US / Remote (San Mateo, CA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$90K - $140K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 113865, "title": "Founding Engineer (Full-Stack) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/assembly-hoa/jobs/enznpU7-founding-engineer-full-stack", "location": "Los Angeles, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 2.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82995, "title": "🏘️ Assembly HOA: Modern tech-enabled HOA management", "tagline": "Your HOA probably sucks. We can help.", "body": "TL;DR; [Assembly](https://assemblyhoa.com/) provides tech-enabled HOA management for your community and [Atlas](https://atlas.assemblyhoa.com/sign-in), a free AI-copilot to help you navigate your HOA.\n\n[Allen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenliou1/) and [Shreyas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreyas-assembly/) here from Assembly!\n\nWe started Assembly because we were fed up with slow, inefficient, and costly HOAs that often make homeowners feel like renters, powerless against poor management. What’s the point of homeownership if you feel this way?\n\nAssembly leverages the latest in fintech and AI to automate HOA operations and provide real-time information to homeowners. Our cutting-edge software, combined with top-tier HOA managers, ensures that your most valuable asset is protected while delivering a modern, transparent experience you’d expect in 2024.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82995&key=user_uploads/383321/c99c2211-0986-4274-a34b-2471debedbf8)\n\nWe’re live with 26 communities across Greater Los Angeles and SF Bay Area and a [4\\.9 star rating on Google.](https://g.co/kgs/kYqnUpb)\n\n**Ask:** If you or anyone you know is an HOA board member or a homeowner struggling with their HOA, we’d love to bring your HOA over to Assembly! Please reach out to us at 213 282 8809 or [allen@assemblyhoa.com](mailto:allen@assemblyhoa.com) to learn how we can help or book time directly: \n\n### But wait, there’s more!\n\nTo help any homeowner faster than waiting for the HOA to switch HOA management companies, we’re launching Assembly Atlas, your free AI HOA copilot to help you navigate your HOA. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82995&key=user_uploads/383321/e676505c-c487-4d70-8596-8ee0566e2745)\n\nAtlas reads through your HOA’s governing documents (CC&Rs, Bylaws, and Rules & Regs) and generates simple cards to help you get clarity about what you can and can’t do in your community. You can also ask Atlas directly if you have other questions or want to go into more detail.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82995&key=user_uploads/383321/c5a6eee8-f635-45b6-b8d4-9d1428fec34f)\n\n**Ask:** Try or share Atlas with any homeowners you know: and let us know your thoughts ([founders@assemblyhoa.com](mailto:founders@assemblyhoa.com)). ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lad-assembly-hoa-modern-tech-enabled-hoa-management", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2024-08-13T18:05:16.137Z" } ] }, { "id": 30290, "name": "Tire Swing", "slug": "tire-swing", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/954a6e03dc3be9737df64c792b63e036b1c580cf.png", "website": "https://gettireswing.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Tire Swing uses AI to power resident and applicant eligibility evaluations for affordable housing.\r\n\r\nOur software manages the resident certification and recertification process end-to-end for public and private properties supported by Project Based Rental Assistance, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and Housing Vouchers. It serves as a drop-in replacement for third-party consultants and auditors, and helps compliance staff complete their work faster and more accurately. 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I led the memory forensics working group and was a member of the malware analysis working group.\n\nGraduated from Princeton with a Bachelors in Computer Science 2019\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/paul-witten-39579715a", "x_url": "https://x.com/pdubz96", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7e8b659e953c13f6341ab1542908089c109c7f7e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2402276, "full_name": "Lucas Irvine", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder Tire Swing (W25)\n\nPreviously a Senior Software Engineer for Instacart, where I worked on everything on the front page of Instacart. Before that worked at Capital One on the open-source rules engine Cloud Custodian.\n\nGraduated from Princeton with a Bachelors in Computer Science in 2019.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-i-b20187128/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0c22bc565cdc37513ad5a76e49631f52536d1824.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 108324, "title": "Tire Swing - AI Compliance for Affordable Housing", "tagline": "The AI platform for Affordable Housing operators to review and qualify applicants and residents", "body": "Hi! We are Lucas and Paul, cofounders of Tire Swing: the AI compliance platform for Affordable Housing.\n\n\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nEvery Affordable Housing move-in and recertification requires applicant income verification and a strict eligibility review. In addition to the high labor costs and regulatory burden, delays in reviewing applications and thoroughly screening applicants can cause weeks of lost rental revenue.\n\nLost revenue on a single move-in can accumulate to thousands of dollars, and penalties for non-compliance can cost millions in credit recaptures and fines.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTire Swing uses AI to bring compliance expertise to the point of leasing. It turns weeks of reviews and approvals into a minutes-long process. The platform:\n\n* **Reviews evidence as it is collected.** Tire Swing processes documentation in minutes, allowing problems to be addressed before the applicant leaves the office.\n* **Performs the eligibility analysis.** It calculates household income, applies all applicable property, state, and program eligibility rules, and links every finding to its supporting evidence.\n* **Automates certification compliance.** Tire Swing flags missing, inconsistent, or incorrect information with steps to resolve the problem from a library of thousands of deterministic and AI driven compliance checks.\n\n**Tire Swing means faster move-ins and recertifications, reduced consulting budget, and more consistent, audit-ready files.** \n\n## **Looking ahead**\n\nWe believe Affordable Housing is the first application of a much larger needs-based eligibility opportunity. Federal, state, and local governments distribute more than $1.5 trillion annually through needs-based programs including Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, utility assistance, and tax credits.\n\nThese programs share a common underlying workflow: collect documents, convert them into structured facts, apply eligibility rules, and resolve missing or contradictory information.  The administration costs for these services are approximately $20B annually.\n\n## **The Team**\n\nTire Swing is founded by Paul and Lucas, college friends and Princeton computer science graduates. Prior to founding Tire Swing, Lucas worked as a software engineer at Instacart and Capital One, and Paul worked as a cybersecurity consultant at Stroz Friedberg.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108324&key=user_uploads/990814/102ac484-df2c-4314-a766-c778a91c6b50)\n\n\n## **The Ask**\n\nWe would appreciate introductions to Affordable Housing property managers, developers, public housing authorities, and state housing agencies.\n\nPlease feel free to reach out at [**paul@gettireswing.com**](mailto:paul@gettireswing.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBA-tire-swing-ai-compliance-for-affordable-housing", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-07-30T06:17:34.365Z" } ] }, { "id": 37533, "name": "HABU", "slug": "habu", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/afbe75a6c02bccd51c23fca509a7ba3de70f6920.png", "website": "https://buildhabu.com", "all_locations": "Phoenix, AZ, USA", "long_description": "HABU is an AI-native real estate development firm that helps real estate investors deploy capital to build housing faster, at lower cost, and with higher yield. \r\n\r\nWe're building an internal AI-native operating system that completes 90%+ of development tasks at 95% faster processing speeds while delivering the same outcomes customers expect externally: high yield, low risk projects. 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Developers naturally have high operating margins and we are building to be the most operationally and capital efficient developer in the country. \r\n\r\nStarting first with multifamily in Phoenix and then expanding nationally. 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Before that, worked in technology consulting at Accenture and managed aviation logistics and operations in the U.S. Navy. Immigrant, Navy veteran, and first-generation college graduate.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/junhchen", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/31bca6d5626d235ffeffe6da227e18cc6d89dec4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 117228, "title": "HABU - The AI-Native Real Estate Developer", "tagline": "We build apartment buildings 20% faster and 15% cheaper by running the entire development process on AI", "body": "Hello, World 👋 We're **Bryan** and **Jun**, co-founders of **HABU**.\n\n**TL;DR:** HABU is an AI-native real estate development firm that helps real estate investors deploy capital to build housing faster, at lower cost, and with higher yield. \n\nInstitutional Investors (investment firms, family offices, high-net-worth individuals) hire us to find land, construct an apartment building, operate it and then sell it. Every step of that process runs on an AI operating system we built ourselves instead of the legacy process of Excel files, PDFs, emails, and a surprisingly high amount of manual knowledge work that the rest of the industry still uses.\n\nWe are **the developer**. Not a SaaS product. The actual developer. We work for institutional investors to go build physical assets and we get paid to do it on their behalf.\n\n\n\n**🏗️ What a developer actually does**\n\nReal estate development has historically been an opaque industry and generally not well understood. Here’s how it works. White-collar investors like investment funds, private equity, family offices, etc., deploy about **$160B a year** into multifamily projects. They can either buy one that already operates (—> call a broker) or build a new one from the ground up (—> call a developer). A developer finds the land, gets the permits, hires the architect and builder, manages construction, and delivers a finished building.\n\nThat’s where we fit in. HABU is not a software product for developers. **We are the developer.** \n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nNew housing has never been slower or more expensive to build. The high cost of new housing increases everyone's cost of living while also making it hard to finance a project. \n\nA single apartment project involves 700+ discrete internal tasks and over 1,000+ hours of manual desk work: pulling data from a dozen public databases by hand, calling brokers, architects, engineers, and lawyers for quotes, and tracking it all in spreadsheets, word docs, and even physical paper.  \n\nThe biggest technological jump for commercial real estate over the past 40 years was Excel. Seriously, Excel! \n\n**🤖 How HABU works**\n\nWe built an internal AI-native operating system that completes projects up to 10-20% faster, lowers total project costs by 10-15%, and lets us manage 5x more projects per development manager. The end-to-end process is automated and autonomously ran:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117228&key=user_uploads/1280882/4abab095-10ec-442f-8d93-b2fd3cd8bfbb)\n\n**💵 We are not long term property owners**. Just the service provider. That keeps us extremely capital light, operationally efficient, and lets us scale in a way that legacy developers could never do.\n\n**👫 The Team**\n\n**Bryan**- worked on $310M+ of projects (industrial, datacenter land, and mostly multifamily). Top-ranked grad in the Master’s of Real Estate Development (MRED) program at ASU. Long career in sales leadership at VC-backed startups like Mutiny: employee #5, raised $75M from YC, Sequoia, Insight, Tiger Global, Cowboy Ventures, Uncork, etc. Started first company at age 23 redeveloping brownfield sites and environmental remediation. Double-undergrad of Economics and Sustainability. \\\n**Jun** spent 4.5 years at Meta building AI data systems used across global operations and product teams. Previously managed aviation logistics and complex supply chains in the U.S. Navy and led enterprise transformation work at Accenture. Technical builder with experience taking AI products from 0 to production. M.S. in Analytics. Immigrant, Navy veteran, and first gen college graduate.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* Know an investment firm, family office, or high-net-worth individual (founders, VCs, executives) looking to invest in real estate? Introduce us.\n* Own land in Phoenix? Let's talk.\n* Interested in working for HABU and building the future of buildings? Hit up Bryan or Jun!\n\n👉 [www.buildhabu.com](http://www.buildhabu.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UUm-habu-the-ai-native-real-estate-developer", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-09-29T18:00:00.173Z" } ] } ]