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Try this instead.", "body": "Hey YC 👋 We’re John and Angelo — former Unity Technologies ads, analytics, and data leads — and we’re building **PlayAbly**: the AI-powered gamification layer that turns website traffic into high-intent, high-converting journeys. The confluence of shopping and entertainment.  \n\n🧠 At Unity, we personalized gameplay for 2B+ users across thousands of titles. Now we’re bringing that same behavioral insight to B2B brands and ecommerce — where most sites still feel too generic, not an engaging experience\n\n🎯 We saw it firsthand: brands burning cash on top-of-funnel, only to leak it through lifeless landing pages, collection pages, and generic lead forms. So we built PlayAbly — a conversion layer that feels like fun but performs like performance marketing.\n\n🌍 Used by both B2B and DTC:\n\n* **Classkick (B2B tool for teachers)**: to qualify and convert education leads via smart quiz games.\n* **Skout (DTC Kid’s Snacks)**: to increase AOV and conversion rates with fun product discovery\n\n🧨 TL;DR: Replace \"Spin to Win\" with a game your online customer _actually_ wants to play.\n\n---\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nBrands spend on Meta, TikTok, SEO — but don’t _retain_ attention once shoppers land. Today’s customers ignore pop-ups, abandon forms, and bounce from even the best-looking sites. Why?\n\nBecause passive web experiences can’t compete with the dopamine drip of social and mobile gaming. And standard segmentation flows — quizzes, email captures — are too slow, too boring, or too static to convert attention into action.\n\nRetargeting is expensive, email/SMS open rates are tanking, and most stores don’t know who their customers really are.\n\n🕳️ Most marketing funnels are:\n\n* Bland → no interaction, no retention\n* Blind → poor data on why visitors bounce\n* Bloated → costly retargeting with low ROAS\n\n### **✅ Our Solution**\n\n**PlayAbly** creates opportunities for engagement —online, in-store, and everywhere in between.\n\nWe help brands turn passive moments into active engagement—whether that’s on a website, at a retail display, with a QR code at a restaurant, or in a B2B lead funnel. 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Since then, we’ve helped thousands of teams improve sender reputation and inbox placement.\n\nToday, we’re building a broader email deliverability ecosystem:\n\n* **Mailwarm** helps teams build sender reputation through real inbox interactions.\n* **mailX** helps humans and AI agents diagnose deliverability issues.\n* **MailAdept** helps companies fix and monitor deliverability continuously with AI agents and human experts.\n\nToday we’re launching [mailX](https://themailx.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101509&key=user_uploads/422675/836ee2bb-f82d-4b97-9c90-c77c6d0d62f0)\n\n---\n\n## TL;DR\n\n**mailX tells you why your emails go to spam and how to fix it.**\\\nYou can run a deliverability check from the web, use it through a JSON API, or plug it directly into AI agents through MCP.\n\nNo signup.\\\nNo API key.\\\nFree to use.\n\nTry it here: [**https://themailx.com**](https://themailx.com)\\\nMCP endpoint: [**https://themailx.com/mcp**](https://themailx.com/mcp)\n\n---\n\nYou can also book a call with one of our email deliverability expert [HERE](https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx).\n\n## 🚨 The Problem\n\nEmail deliverability is technical, your marketing team can’t handle it.\n\nEmail is still one of the most important growth channels for startups.\n\nFounders use it for cold outreach.\\\nSales teams use it for outbound.\\\nMarketing teams use it for campaigns.\\\nProducts use it for onboarding, activation, and transactional emails.\n\nBut when emails start going to spam, most teams don’t really know why.\n\nThey check random tools.\\\nThey look at raw DNS records.\\\nThey ask ChatGPT.\\\nThey change things blindly.\\\nThey wait and hope inbox placement improves.\n\nThe problem is not only that deliverability is technical.\n\nThe real problem is that most tools show data, but don’t explain what matters or what to fix.\n\nAnd now, with AI agents sending emails, monitoring systems, and managing workflows, this problem gets bigger.\n\nAgents need access to live deliverability tools too.\n\n---\n\n## 💡Our Solution\n\n**mailX is a free deliverability diagnostic platform for humans and AI agents.**\n\nWith mailX, you can analyze a domain in seconds and get a clear report showing:\n\n* What is working\n* What is broken\n* Why it matters\n* What to fix next\n\nThe web app gives founders, marketers, sales teams, and developers a simple way to understand why emails may go to spam.\n\nThe API and MCP server make the same tools available to AI agents and developer workflows.\n\nSo instead of copying DNS records into different tools, your agent can directly check email authentication, blacklist status, mail server configuration, and deliverability signals.\n\n---\n\n## ⏳How it works\n\n1. Enter a domain on [**themailx.com**](http://themailx.com)\n2. mailX runs a live deliverability audit\n3. You get clear issues, explanations, and fixes\n4. Developers can use the JSON API\n5. 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We handle the rest, letting your personal brand flourish while you focus on what you do best.\n\n**Fundraise Easier**\n\nPosition yourself as an industry authority. Our content showcases your thought leadership, attracting investors eager to support visionaries with proven insights and innovation track record.\n\n**Attract Top-Level Hires**\n\nWhen your personal brand shines, so does your appeal to high-caliber talent. They'll be lining up to work with you, drawn by the promise of being part of a visionary-led future.\n\n**Build Credibility and Status**\n\nAs your stories and insights circulate, your status as an industry leader solidifies. 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They struggle with customer service due to budget constraints and often lose potential customers because of slow responses and negative experiences. Larger e-commerce sites need help managing the right team size to handle thousands of customer queries during peak times.\n\n### **✨** The solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/d93d84a5-928d-40ad-a758-3b7a22f2ac73)\n\nWe developed advanced AI models to automate critical tasks in e-commerce, such as handling customer queries, processing orders, managing payments, scheduling appointments, and providing shipping updates, and integrated them into a user-friendly admin dashboard that integrates with Shopify, allowing businesses to easily manage their orders, customers, and products while monitoring the AI's performance.\n\n### **⚙️** How it works\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/1c825d1c-50e6-4ea2-8ccf-3ac042824dce)\n\nThe AI displays products, answers questions, handles payments, and gives shipping updates via messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Email, and soon iMessage). 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With Positional, our goal is to connect the workflow from end to end, from keyword research to analytics, and the actions that users take that ultimately drive revenue for a business. We are building the toolset we’ve always wanted. **Get started with **[**Positional**](https://www.positional.com/)**!**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/QF-DahK75XYQ8xgTgYaqDd904aT5bYQ77DL2-hsdNfQHSV7zioFI-8ULa6h4H4ti6UNxeKtejnElqq7tKMvirI5Y5_2TUBsSfyUOBPikH048lAFBxFxPCkgqOFBAXS8PfFw8I-a-vIWfg-HvR4EczX8)\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Nate](https://www.linkedin.com/in/natematherson/) and [Matt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-lenhard-0babb037/), co-founders of Positional.\n\nWe’ve been working on Positional for about 13 months. Our company, however, was actually in Y Combinator’s S21 batch. In short, we spent two years building something _that people didn’t want_. We decided to make a hard pivot, and that ultimately led us to Positional.\n\n## [🌲](https://emojipedia.org/evergreen-tree) We are back to our roots. \n\nAbout ten years ago, we fell in love with inbound marketing, particularly content marketing and SEO. Since then, we’ve built and scaled content channels in some of the world’s most competitive industries (e.g., consumer finance, and developer tools).\n\nWe’ve wanted to start Positional since at least 2019. As content marketers and SEOs, we found ourselves constantly jumping between 6-7 separate tools throughout the day. We had one toolset for keyword research, another for content optimization, yet another for internal linking, and then an entirely different set of tools for measuring the success of our channel and analytics.\n\n**With Positional, our goal is to bring the entire workflow together. Positional takes you from start to finish, from ideation to optimization and analytics.** \n\n## [💪](https://emojipedia.org/flexed-biceps) One platform to do the job.\n\nToday, Positional has 11 thoughtfully built features. Of course, we have tools for keyword research and tracking. But we also have a number of really unique experiences and workflows for internal linking, content optimization, content analytics, and mapping buyer journeys.\n\n### [🔎](https://emojipedia.org/magnifying-glass-tilted-right) Ideation\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wKWlHN4QsHDSc7i2e6zMreZIBxr6t6sY3zpsiJ194ZiittqTC23FtizQb3UDjpQFN_62ZYOQ-KSNByQpWRSDh6zVe8L_famgs7uyXXsYhPQkxoYDPCIXxGUdnDlaZN5zjGcSLeJQcVQfdoJZMf5fQHU)\n\n_Keyword Tracking within Positional._\n\n* **Keyword Research** — An intuitive keyword research toolset, providing advanced insights into how your audience searches, engages, and converts.\n* **Keyword Tracking** — Monitoring keyword performance has never been easier.\n* **Competitor Research** — Quickly identify the keywords your competitors are ranking for that you aren’t.\n* **Keyword Clustering** — Never manually check the SERPs again. Keyword clustering is done for you. SERP-based.\n* **Editorial Calendar** — A simple editorial calendar that works alongside your core SEO toolset.\n\n###  🙌 Optimization\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/h6wnsHzX4AsQqITCoUN88N1_Dun_-dSLg_c2Hjt7XoggRNQ0H_EABz9n9Npb5HhCydMnh2TS4gOktbOj-xwVSy73OB959e2AWienrATsFLTi7zWcsLsRXIKypqrRepJnbafhW-b9zXMz17fgysgkiTs)\n\n_Optimize within Positional. Highlighting Unanswered Questions._\n\n* **Optimize** — A data-driven approach to creating fantastic content that actually ranks.\n* **Internals** — Internal linking has never been this easy.\n* **AutoDetect** — Check the originality of content before it goes live. **To be upfront:** Our toolset is certainly not 100% accurate, although we are constantly improving. False positives and false negatives will regularly occur.\n\n### [📈](https://emojipedia.org/chart-increasing) Analytics\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/7kQjFkMmOn1VS7Nnk2M2ek6Tr0je3g_qVnbdCX9bKmOn39jMlnj4928ezn8geKeWF5FeYNjfcCiSqG8dg1e9rdu8y1KpoFd4PD8HAHLwe8_v6vtivopXIXGsIiNv1XEs7l_M8wT60W8aAfc2EZFeBV8)\n\n_Content Analytics within Positional. Highlighting Readmap._\n\n* **Content Analytics** — Know exactly which pages to improve and where to make those improvements. Kinda like a heatmap but more granular for in-article insights.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/UDhG3cNIWCFyO8DHsTEAnih3KbfKrpSrvgNfrDn3c5n2ldGkktkiVWOTJV_TeYreYUr2T1Vfwqg7vBXz2iZ5LUGqZk9Lk48LhS00_CfskG5DhAB4VBWF6xDNH1IIHnPR2dZmk2i7_VaMsfxWain3M9o)\n\n_Buyer Journeys within Positional._\n\n* **Buyer Journeys** — Analyze user flows from entry points to conversion pages. Use data to optimize content within your most common user paths.\n\n### [🚨](https://emojipedia.org/police-car-light) Socials\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/E07-g96asIuclXlLrw0MP9aZYwfTxYDcdzm2l2ohVGYy4k4eTkJE7VFOpczg-Hfl6mCRKskbfS0GI5-DSuY1FAOzc9AmwDW927A3gSO8uPcxA9WntO4UTXNcY_sSWUMd91B8oIU04o7mXBovDimhdAo)\n\n_Social Listening within Positional._ \n\n* **Social Listening** — Social listening across your favorite platforms (ex Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter, Hacker News). The first toolset within our social platform!\n\n## 👋 Getting Started with Positional\n\nWe’d love for you to give us a try! Positional was launched publicly today, and there is a trial. \n\nSign up at [Positional.com](http://positional.com)!\n\nAlternatively, we’d love to hear from you. We’d be happy to show you around our toolset if you’d like a quick demo. You can book a call with Nate using this [Calendly link](https://calendly.com/positional)!\n\nBy the way, if you’ve made it this far, know that we’ve got a pretty awesome [SEO blog](https://www.positional.com/blog) and [weekly SEO podcast](https://www.positional.com/podcast), too! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KjV-positional-a-modern-platform-for-content-marketing-seo", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-03-26T14:46:15.545Z" } ] }, { "id": 23979, "name": "Replo", "slug": "replo", "former_names": [ "Alchemy", "Alchemy Commerce", "Alchemy", "Alchemy Commerce" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/60f75a909cd4fe5c8368c1b60a2257626955c988.png", "website": "https://replo.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Agents that help you sell anything on the internet. 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With our cutting-edge technology and experienced marketers, we deliver ad campaigns 10x cheaper, better and faster than traditional agencies. 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With our cutting-edge AI and experienced marketers, we deliver your campaigns 10x cheaper, better, and faster than traditional agencies or freelancers.\n\n### **🧨 Problem**\n\nStartups need paid ads to grow, but building a full-stack marketing function takes years and significant funding. Most companies end up hiring traditional agencies, freelancers, or in-house teams and face these problems:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82580&key=user_uploads/719782/92924144-4967-4efa-a7ad-83bd60a9e10f)\n\n### **✅ Our Solution**\n\nKaya delivers a seasoned team and marketing analytics from the get-go, saving you significant time and money.\n\n* **Campaign management services:** We launch and optimize your marketing campaigns across multiple channels (Google, LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok Ads).\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82580&key=user_uploads/719782/3f54641a-8033-4bf5-8a0d-cd7214991d2e)\n\n* **Marketing analytics platform:** Customized dashboard and Slack bot to track CAC and all marketing KPIs.\n* Slack channel with Kaya’s founders and marketers for seamless collaboration.\n\n# \n\n### **💖 Why Founders Love Us**\n\n* **Results**: See campaigns launched in 2 weeks and performance improvements within 1 month.\n* **Speed:** Our internal tools utilize data science and AI to optimize campaign performance. Our SLA is 1-3 days, depending on task complexity.\n* **Work quality:** Despite using AI in our workflow, our experienced marketers further amend and ensure everything is of top-notch quality. We also provide unlimited revisions.\n* **Pricing:** Our technology enables us to deliver better results with minimal overhead costs, and we pass those savings back to you.\n* **Cultural fit:** We're a startup ourselves, so we prioritize experimenting in a structured way and working iteratively.\n\n...and more. [**Read testimonials →**](https://www.usekaya.com/reviews?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch-yc-ads-management-service)\n\n# \n\n### **🚀 Interested?**\n\nTell us your marketing goals and get a tailored marketing plan featuring:\n\n* Practical paid ads strategy and sample ad copies\n* Insights about competitor paid ads you can’t find anywhere else\n* CAC forecast\n\n[**Get a free proposal here →**](https://app.usekaya.com/start?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch-yc-ads-management-service)\n\n### 🤗 **Our team**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Brian and Jee– the team behind [Kaya](https://www.usekaya.com/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch-yc-ads-management-service).\n\nAt Kaya, we've built our team and services with founders in mind. We initially started with a SaaS product and quickly learned that most marketing tools are designed for experienced marketers, not busy entrepreneurs. 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It automatically builds your ideal customer profile, tracks buyer intent in real-time, and provides actionable insights for SDRs and decision makers.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Cru5GSrRfHQ\n\n### The Team\n\nWe’re Matt & Jonty, the team that helped build Voxbone to a $519M exit and we’re now building the GTM platform we wish we’d had. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Crane, and Cocoa.\n\n### The Problem\n\n**92% of your best leads don't fill out forms.**\n\nThey do deep research, and show real buying intent, but we never know who they are until it’s too late. By the time we realize they were interested, they’ve already signed with someone else who actually saw them coming.\n\nMeanwhile your SDR drowns in unqualified “MQLs” that will never close.\n\nCustomerOS solves this problem.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nCustomerOS surfaces high-fit leads that are actually evaluating your product in real-time. It scores buying stage and intent from their behavior and alerts sales with content and messaging to share at exactly the right moment to drive deals forward.\n\nWith CustomerOS you have a squadron of purpose-built AI agents, engineered to \n\n1. Outsmart your competition\n2. Accelerate your pipeline\n3. Turn every touchpoint into revenue firepower\n4. Help SDRs focus on the leads that actually convert\n\n### Here’s How it Works\n\n### Your Ideal Customer Profile\n\nCustomerOS automatically generates your ICP based on your website, content, and existing customers.  Then we score every lead  based on how well they fit your ICP.\n\nOnly high-fit leads make it into your pipeline so you don’t waste time on prospects who are never going to convert.  Everything on your screen is a qualified lead we actually WANT to close.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/0508be1e-076a-4b1a-87b6-073b8d7ed078)\n\n### See Who's Ready to Buy\n\nWith our easy-to-setup web tracker, you can follow each lead's intent in real time. This allows you to know where they are in their journey and who’s ready to buy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/861fca57-630d-4eab-ab5b-f22ae5cbe953)\n\n### Competitive Intelligence for SDRs\n\nEach lead comes with tailored battle cards showing how big the opportunity can be, who else they’re likely evaluating, and what we need to do to win.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/bf890845-4aeb-4f3e-b770-d5ad51ae7287)\n\n### Insights for Decision Makers\n\nWe automatically pull together insights from your lead behaviour, content engagement, and ad spend, and turn them into strategic recommendations that show decision-makers exactly where to double down and what to cut.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94089&key=user_uploads/995798/51b3828a-21e3-43f1-a1d2-3e8993be5122)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n* Introduce us to a B2B VP of Marketing, or Head of SDR who would like to build a repeatable, high quality lead pipeline.\n* Try the **Estimate my leads** tool and see how many ICP fit prospects are already evaluating you anonymously.\n* Book a walkthrough.  Most customers book their first meeting in under a week.\n\n \n\n**See who’s ready to buy right now at** [customeros.ai](http://customeros.ai)\n\n### Proof\n\nOne of our early users put it simply:\n\n> This thing prints meetings. 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But Notion lacks many basic features of a website builder.\n\nWe started with a simple tool to turn existing Notion pages into websites. The response was great, but we also quickly realized the limitations of that approach. We took everything we learned from it and built a fully independent website builder.\n\n\\*\\*\\*\n\n### **Asks**\n\nOur only ask is to check it out and give us some feedback. What's the one thing you're missing the most?\n\nDM me on Twitter at 👉 \\\nOr email us at 👉 [founders@popsy.co](mailto:founders@popsy.co)\n\nThank you and happy building! 😊🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/1d1d9e3d-365a-419e-bfb7-dee8f32da480)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/539fe163-5e4a-4fd2-a908-38243e8bb78c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/513b9234-3c49-4889-87f7-d82819121c74)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H85-popsy-no-code-website-builder-that-works-like-notion", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2022-09-05T16:42:31.958Z" } ] }, { "id": 27097, "name": "Ad Army", "slug": "ad-army", "former_names": [ "Conversion Pattern", "Findly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aba1aa30f9ea19c4283a2cbd34673bd680b92532.png", "website": "https://ad.army/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Ad Army is an AI creative tool for brands that need a constant supply of ad creative.\r\n\r\nYou build your brand's world once — characters, products, locations — each with locked descriptors and reference images. Then you generate against it: @-mention an entity in a prompt and its references are pulled into the model call, so the same product, the same face and the same location hold across images, video, and dozens of variants. Save any chain of steps as a recipe and replay it on the next campaign.\r\n\r\nWe're model-agnostic by design — video, image, text and audio providers sit behind one interface, and new models land as they ship. 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Lourenço specializes in advertising, tracking, and attribution with a strategic focus on driving profitable advertising spend, having spent over 50M in ads throughout his career. In 2021, he taught himself to code and developed a system that kept his business attribution working and helped secure 35M in revenue.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/lourencomaciel", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_loumaciel", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77ee6509541d212b862a8b68093477e9a86ffb1e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 393383, "full_name": "Pedro Nascimento", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Pedro is passionate about creating functional teams, great culture and helping people to become the best version of themselves. He has deep interest in computer science, machine learning and math, having large experience on them in both academic and corporate environments. Pedro expertise is to use a strong theoretical framework to solve real world problems. He is a former Google and Twitter engineer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-paulo-nascimento-5792426b/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/pedromnasc", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/59b9ebb740deb88fb6d4a8b2a0c515d9ece6a07e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Conversion Pattern receives funding from Y Combinator - Swiss Trade", "url": "https://swisstrade.com/news/detail/news/conversion-pattern-erhaelt-foerderung-von-ycombinator/", "date": "Sep 03, 2022" }, { "title": "Conversion Pattern erhält Förderung von Y Combinator - punkt4", "url": "https://punkt4.info/social-news/news/conversion-pattern-erhaelt-foerderung-von-ycombinator.html", "date": "Sep 03, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65262, "title": "Findly.ai - Co-pilot for Business Intelligence 📊💯", "tagline": "Empower your decision-makers with 85.7x faster - accurate - insights while saving 97% of technical time", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) is the co-pilot for Business Intelligence that revolutionizes how businesses understand and interact with their data. By creating an engaging chat environment, it empowers decision-makers to gain insights, request reports, and generate visualizations based on their company's metrics. This seamless interaction is made possible by integrating a metric layer that comprehends all your company's metrics. The chat-based exploration simplifies complex data analysis, allowing users to generate comprehensive summaries with a single click, which can be exported to various formats. Furthermore, with the introduction of scheduled chats and action-triggered automations, [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) enhances the autonomy and efficiency of decision-makers. It's more than a tool; it's a decision-making operational system aiming to facilitate decision-makers in achieving their KPIs while spending less time waiting for data.\n\nHello everyone. We are the team behind [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc), an AI chatbot revolutionizing how you understand and interact with your data. Our aim is to facilitate decision-makers in making insightful, data-driven decisions.\n\n# **🧨 The Problem: Delayed Data Analysis**\n\nNon-data savvy users constantly require information, and data specialists, like developers and data analysts, are overwhelmed by data queries instead of focusing on enhancing the product. And even when reports and dashboards exist, these traditional data exploration methods have proven to be time-consuming and challenging to navigate.\n\n# 🎉 **The Solution:** [**Findly.ai**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) disrupts this paradigm by providing a conversational interface for your data. It's as if you're chatting with your business metrics, asking questions, requesting reports, and receiving visualizations that paint the complete picture of your internal business metrics.\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) expedites the process of data analysis by providing a single-click solution to generate a comprehensive written summary after your chat-based exploration. These summaries can be exported easily to document formats, emailed, sent to Slack, or even transformed into PowerPoint presentations.\n\nBut there's more to [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc). It introduces the concept of scheduled chats - pre-programmed interactions that happen automatically over time. This means decision-makers can automatically receive written reports on their company's results without someone manually preparing and sending them. It's like having a personal data analyst working for you around the clock.\n\nIn addition, [Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) enables decision-makers to set up automated actions based on the results of these chats. For example, if your revenue sees a month-to-month increase of 20%, automation can be set up to create a Trello card for the revenue team to assess results further and uncover opportunities. The possibilities are endless.\n\n# **💲Opportunity: A Paradigm Shift in Data Analysis**\n\n[Findly.ai](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) is redefining the data analysis landscape. By making data more accessible and interactive, it enables decision-makers to save time on complex data explorations and concentrate on strategic decision-making.\n\n# **👋 Ask: Unleash Your Data's Potential**\n\nIf you want to transform your decision-making process with quick access to data and automated insights, [**click here**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc) ([**https://findly.ai/join**](https://findly.ai/join?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=launch_yc)) to get started.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gyc-findly-ai-co-pilot-for-business-intelligence", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2022-08-10T10:25:41.611Z" } ] }, { "id": 27141, "name": "Avina", "slug": "avina", "former_names": [ "Mesh Interactive", "Mesh Analytics" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/79195177640dfecbfedb5a0b006bbe3683aa1f14.png", "website": "https://avina.io", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Avina uses AI agents to find prospects that are ready to buy, surface the warmest ones to your team and automate outreach to the rest.\r\n\r\nCompare us to tools like Unify or Common Room.", "one_liner": "GTM signals engine for sales teams. Automate warm outbound with AI.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1673552937, "tags": [ "B2B", "Sales", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "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/avina", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/avina.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/avinaio/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/79195177640dfecbfedb5a0b006bbe3683aa1f14.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": 185378, "full_name": "Vivek Sudarsan", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Automate warm outbound with signals.\n\nI'm the CEO and co-founder of Avina. Previously I was the CPO of Bowtie which was acquired by Mindbody, and helped scale the product to thousands of customers after our acquisition.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/viveksudars/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a8d1f7a3f9e46e6c093611606faab814ed599008.jpg" }, { "user_id": 972936, "full_name": "Mike Wang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hi! I'm the CTO & Co-founder of Avina. Previously I was CTO & Co-founder of Bowtie, an AI receptionist that we sold to Mindbody. Would love to chat about new tech, startup life, AI, social impact, sci-fi, philosophy, or the latest Netflix show :)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelzw/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mikero_manager", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7f83de07f9c253915fb0b92901155a2e68e9918a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99611, "title": "Avina: GTM Agents to Reach Your Next Customer", "tagline": "Avina finds the companies that actually need your product right now, qualifies them, and automatically engages them with personalized AI outreach", "body": "**TL;DR:** Create your dream GTM motion at the speed of thought. Describe your ideal buyer or buying trigger in a single sentence. Avina finds matching companies 24/7, enriches them with verified contacts, writes personalized sequences tied to the exact signal, and syncs leads wherever your team works. Signal to AI outbound, fully automated. Starting at $149/mo.\n\n👋 Hey friends, we're Vivek and Mike (YC S22). We previously built and sold Bowtie to Mindbody, and now we're building Avina to fix outbound.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nGeneric outbound is dying, but doing smart outbound is still painfully hard.\n\nThe pitches that get replies are the ones that arrive right when something happening at the prospect's company makes your product feel relevant. The hard part has always been finding those moments at scale and acting on them fast.\n\n**Our solution**\n\nAvina finds the companies that actually need your product right now, qualifies them, and automatically engages them with personalized AI outreach. All synced with your existing sales stack.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99611&key=user_uploads/185378/d34b49d3-f41b-4940-83da-11472e593ba8)\n\n**How it works**\n\nDescribe your ideal buyer or buying trigger in a single sentence:\n\n* _Selling usage-based billing?_ \"PLG companies that just launched an API in the last 3 months\"\n* _Selling compliance automation?_ \"Companies awarded a prime DoD contract in the last 30 days\"\n* _Selling cybersecurity?_ \"Healthcare companies that experienced a data breach in the last 6 months\"\n* _Selling voice AI?_ \"Mid-market home services companies with recent negative reviews mentioning 'long wait times' or 'understaffed'\"\n\nIt works for first-party intent too. Website visitor de-anonymization is built in (RB2B, Vector, and more), so you can act on inbound signals like \"prospects that visited our pricing page for more than 2 min.”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99611&key=user_uploads/185378/601dc08e-720f-4466-9deb-433c0902d7df)\n\nAvina takes it from there. Four agents handle the full pipeline:\n\n1. **Signals Agent** monitors the web 24/7 for matching companies: press releases, job posts, LinkedIn posts, technographics, inbound site visitors, and more\n2. **Qualification Agent** scores leads against your ICP, finds your target contact at the company, and enriches them with verified contact details.\n3. **Outbound Agent** researches each company, writes personalized emails tied to the specific trigger, and sends via your existing sequencer (Instantly, HubSpot, Lemlist, Smartlead) so you keep your warmed domains\n4. **Workflow Agent** syncs every lead to the rest of your stack: CRM lists, Slack, Clay, Zapier, and more\n\n**Try it free!**\n\nStart a 14-day free trial at [avina.io](http://avina.io).\n\nNot sure what signals to start with? Our in-product **Signal Recommender** analyzes your website and suggests high-impact buying triggers, and we have a[ library of 250+ examples for inspiration](https://avina.io/signals-library).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pud-avina-gtm-agents-to-reach-your-next-customer", "votes": 73, "created_at": "2026-04-09T19:01:26.818Z" }, { "id": 86233, "title": "Avina - X-ray vision for your sales team 🩻✨", "tagline": "See what your leads are reading on your site, and use AI to move those deals forward - fast.", "body": "# **⚡️ TL;DR**\n\nAvina is an AI sales companion for full-cycle sellers.\n\n* Use Avina’s advanced reasoning to get custom buying signals on your accounts. Don’t waste $$ on stale databases that aren’t tailored to your business!\n* Get x-ray alerts on **exactly what your prospects are reading** on your site to turn marketing engagement into booked meetings.\n* Use every insight to draft perfect messages using Avina’s in-context email and LinkedIn drafting.\n* Get pre and post-meeting briefs tailored to your business and playbooks so you never miss a deal-moving detail.\n* Avina fills out all your CRM fields after every call, saving you 5-10 hours a week.\n\nUsing Avina, sellers get help at every step of the journey to move deals forward - fast. \n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nThe predictable revenue model is dead, and AI SDRs are flooding channels with noise. Sellers need a better way to break through without wasting hours trying to comb through various systems to find the right insights to move a deal forward.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\n\n\n**AI isn’t here to replace you. It’s here to guide you to take the optimal action and free you of tedious, repetitive labor.**\n\nStep 1. Use Avina’s AI crawler to get the exact signals you need to prioritize accounts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/6c3dd813-590a-4f4a-9597-4939b6a6a4cf)\n\nStep 2. Draft the perfect email or LinkedIn message using Avina’s Chrome extension to get your target leads to notice you and drive them to your site!\n\nStep 3. Get real-time x-ray alerts on _exactly what they are reading or screenshotting on your site._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/654fbc30-d36f-4a97-b0ab-9aec38987e9a)\n\nStep 4. Use Avina’s Slack bot to research and craft messaging for accounts on the topics that matter most to them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/e7ef2eca-1eae-4af7-b480-d7f69c9c49be)\n\nStep 5. Get the meeting!\n\nStep 6. Get a pre-call brief from Avina with the full context about the account.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/e6daea04-a598-4c32-82b9-a4acc3c9477b)\n\nStep 7. Record, transcribe, and extract key information from the call using Avina’s call bot.\n\nStep 8. Get a post-call brief mapped to your playbook, tracking everything that moves your deals forward.\n\nStep 9. Push info that Avina captured on the call to your CRM right from Slack!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/dcedfb04-ce60-4f96-8896-a30f5d100ee3)\n\n\\\n**Avina is plug-and-play. Go live in as little as 30 minutes.**\n\n📈 Businesses see a 30% increase in opportunities created.\n\n⏳ Sellers save 5-10 hours of manual work a week.\n\n💡 Execs get the data they need to make the best decisions.\n\n**The Team** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86233&key=user_uploads/989537/aac13df0-3550-4f0b-8d90-eb6bcc481b03)\n\nWe’re Mike, Vivek, and Ron, 2x co-founders who have seen how useful data there is for sellers, if only they had a little help making use of it. \n\nWant X-ray vision or your team? [Book time with us here](https://calendly.com/meshwithron/avina-x-ray-vision-for-your-sellers)\n\nOr reach out directly: [ron@avina.io](mailto:ron@avina.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MQr-avina-x-ray-vision-for-your-sales-team", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-12-11T18:46:22.133Z" } ] }, { "id": 27154, "name": "Superbar", "slug": "superbar", "former_names": [ "Caddie", "Caddie AI", "Superbar (Formerly Caddie)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/00fd47f91143cc8393a67e9aa539ee075762df08.png", "website": "http://www.superbar.ai", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote", "long_description": "Superbar instantly answers questions on your website and drives conversions 24/7.
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He previously was a Head of Product for the payments and mobile business at FreshBooks. He started as a PM and built the unit from $0 to $30M+ in annual revenue in under 5 years. Alan later joined NinjaCat as a VP of Product Management and member of the executive team. 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More recently, we asked ourselves:\n\n* Why does conversion in B2B websites suck (from Visitor to a Demo Booked)?\n* Why do we keep hearing complains that customer just “want a F\\*&!ng demo!”?\n\nWe explored solutions to fix this and Caddie hit us in the face.\n\n### **🤬** Problem → Too Much Friction to Request a Demo\n\n* **Friction is Killing Leads** → 83% of interested buyers never make it to a demo because there are too many steps to get a demo.\n* **Speed Matters →** 74% of buyers purchase from the first company they see a demo from.\n* **Have SDRs do Qualification Calls? →** Adding an SDR qualification step leads to 30% drop-off in pipeline. In addition, they are expensive and hard to hire.\n\n## 🚀 Solution → Make It Easy to Schedule & Qualify\n\n* Build a personalized **demo** **scheduling experience.**\n* **Qualify inbound** leads by asking simple questions.\n* Using logic and point scoring, **route** to the right Account Exec.\n* Finally, allow qualified prospects to **schedule a demo** on the spot.\n\nTry a demo by going to [trycaddie.com](http://trycaddie.com)\n\n**Using Calendly? →** We allow you to qualify prospects before bad leads jam your calendar. In addition, we shorten your contact form by getting key insights from a database of 200M+ records so you don’t need to ask for “First Name”, “Company”, “# of employees”. The result is 50%+ more qualified leads than with Calendly.\n\n## 💰 The Impact → 2X More Demos, Faster Deal Speed, No Need for SDRs to Qualify Manually.\n\n* Book 2X more demos by removing friction.\n* Improve speed from lead to opportunity by 50% by cutting steps.\n* Have SDRs qualifying leads? → Cut $100,000s in costs.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhO-caddie-schedule-meetings-qualify-inbound-leads", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2022-06-29T20:32:47.116Z" } ] }, { "id": 27685, "name": "Syncly", "slug": "syncly", "former_names": [ "Deep BlueDot" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a79c1285a2d784965cac2f7d6a820ded7c6499f2.png", "website": "https://syncly.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Syncly co-founders (former founders of Sualab, a video AI startup, $200M exit) are building agentic AI to automate video marketing for the world’s largest CPG brands (Tiffany, Clorox), a market where brands spend hundreds of billions on agencies today. 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Today, we're launching **Creator Discovery**, a new way for brands and agencies to find the right influencers by analyzing what's actually inside their content.\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\n* 🎯 Describe your ideal creator in plain English – Syncly finds them by analyzing video content, not just profiles\n* 🔍 Search by visual aesthetic, storytelling style, spoken mentions, and more - things no filter can capture\n* 🚀 Discover organic brand advocates who mention you without tags or hashtags\n* ⚡ What used to take hours of manual scrolling now takes seconds\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/b5ed5c9d-8ded-464c-b93f-ff4ce144df33)\n\n**Ask:** If you run influencer marketing at a brand or agency,[ try it free](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) and tell us what you think. We'd love your feedback.\n\n**Offer:** Book a demo through Launch YC, and we'll include a personalized social listening audit alongside your creator discovery walkthrough →[ Book a demo](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\n \n\n---\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nInfluencer marketing is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a core growth channel. But finding the right creators is still painfully manual.\n\nThe current process looks like this: you open a platform, set some filters (follower count, category, location), scroll through hundreds of profiles, and then manually watch their content to figure out if they're actually a good fit. Does their aesthetic match our brand? Have they worked with competitors? Do they tell stories in a way that resonates with our audience?\n\nThese are the questions that matter most, and none of them show up in metadata.\n\nTraditional discovery tools search profiles. They can tell you a creator has 50K followers in the beauty category. But they can't tell you whether that creator films in a warm, cozy bedroom aesthetic or a bright studio setup. They can't tell you that a creator mentioned your competitor's product in a GRWM last Tuesday, without a hashtag or tag.\n\n---\n\n# **🛠 How Syncly Solves This**\n\nSyncly Social analyzes what's actually happening inside the content – every frame, every word, every sound. Instead of filtering by metadata, you describe what you're looking for in natural language, and Syncly finds creators whose content matches.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/5f564bfa-9007-4d33-8a16-a08eef2493ae)\n\n### Here's what you can search by:\n\n* **Visual mood & aesthetic** - \"clean minimal apartment with natural lighting\"\n* **Creator persona** - \"fitness-forward creator, athletic build, gym setting\"\n* **Content format** - \"GRWM morning routine\" or \"before-and-after transformation\"\n* **Spoken mentions** - find creators who organically mention your brand in their videos, no tags required\n* **Storytelling style** - conversational, educational, high-energy, or laid-back\n* This means you can find creators that genuinely fit your brand's identity - not just creators who check the right demographic boxes. And because you never have to watch a single video yourself, it scales.\n\n---\n\n# **🏢 Who This Is For**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/38e3c357-5fb2-4172-97e7-85fc6eba9532)\n\n**Brand marketers:** Find creators who match your brand's specific criteria - visual style, tone, values - without spending hours on manual research. Just describe what you want and get results.\n\n**Agencies:** Turn vague client briefs into concrete creator shortlists. Discover rising creators early and deliver them to clients before anyone else does.\n\n---\n\n# **🚀 Try It Now**\n\nCreator Discovery on Syncly Social is live and free to try:\n\n👉[ **Start your free trial**](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\nIf you want a personalized walkthrough or want to see how it works for your specific use case:\n\n👉[ **Book a demo**](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) - book a demo through this link, and we'll include a social listening audit + personalized creator discovery session.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pp2-syncly-social-find-creators-by-what-s-actually-in-their-content", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-01T05:33:08.094Z" }, { "id": 93013, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening for video", "tagline": "The first social listening platform for the video era", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\nSyncly Social - AI Social listening platform for Videos like TikTok, Reels, etc. We’re trusted by leading brands, such as Brita, Logitech, adn Laura Geller.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/300cd2ad-0740-4e0f-8d9b-4beb5f2a7ce5)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening 1.0:** Limited to text-based social media contents.\n\n* In today’s world where video dominates, this is no longer valid.\n* Unable to analyze what’s being said or shown, or gather demographic intelligence on creators.\n\n# **What you can do with Syncly social (Social listening 2.0)**\n\n* **Competitive Analysis**: Decode the video strategies driving your rivals' success. Outsmart your competition with data-driven social campaigns.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/10cf6f9b-6296-4899-b365-205da5b00456)\n\n* **Brand Perception**: Measure how well your brand is landing with your customers. Instantly identify the gap between your intention and customer perception, then close it with data-driven, timely action.\n* **Influencer Discovery**: Uncover and partner with influencers who truly resonate with your brand. Amplify your brand's reach with authentic voices that drive engagement.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/d1db78fb-a26a-420c-9555-eed8191dda65)\n\n\n# **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how leading brands achieves competitive advantage through Syncly social, book a demo [HERE](https://syncly.app/demo-social-yc).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCD-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-for-video", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-08-14T23:52:42.170Z" }, { "id": 87956, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening platform for modern brands", "tagline": "970K+ Mentions, 10+ Social Platforms, 1 Breakthrough Solution.", "body": "Introducing [Syncly Social](https://www.syncly.app) - AI social listening platform for modern brands. We aggregate reviews, posts, and conversations from socials and e-commerce (Amazon, Instagram, Reddit, retailer-specific reviews, and many more) for market, competitor, and consumer intelligence, and provide actionable insights, faster and more accurate than ever.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/f0894f43-dfd0-4b93-bb57-828ad0328971)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening platform 1.0**\n\n**High volume of Noise data:** Legacy platforms rely on simple keyword queries to gather data. The problems are:\n\n* **Time-consuming**: Takes up to a couple of months to setup, repetitively.\n* **Less than 10% data is relevant:** For example, product names or sub-brands with generic or common imagery (like Discover and United) can lead to irrelevant content being collected.\n\n**Lack of Granularity in Analysis:**\n\n* Let’s say \"picture quality\" may be frequently mentioned for mobile brand. So what? To translate that into specific product or marketing insights, the insight should be more granular, but what you can get from legacy platform is the summary, at most, like “_People generally praise the picture quality on Samsung phones, particularly on their high-end models.”_\n\n**One-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis:** Traditional sentiment analysis often fails to capture the full context, especially when posts contain mixed emotions.\n\n* For example, a review that says, \"It’s not as bright as {product name}\" might seem negative, but since {product name} is a brand’s another product, it isn’t necessarily a critique of the brand as a whole. This inaccuracy complicates efforts to identify precise product improvements or refine marketing messages.\n\n# **Why we need Social listening platform 2.0 - Syncly social**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/daffa167-4b77-47ae-8b0a-edf4809e5be5)\n\n* **⚡️ 90% Faster Setup:** Forget tedious keyword lists of what to include and exclude that often take up to a couple of months🤯. Syncly's AI automatically filters irrelevant chatter.\n* **🎯 Hyper-Targeted Insights:** Brands went _beyond_ basic sentiment to identify specific product issues and opportunities.\n* **😊 Nuanced Sentiment Analysis:** Syncly pinpointed _exactly_ which features customers loved (or hated) with aspect-based analysis.\n* **🌎 Language Agnostic Brand Tracking:** Global consumer brands, like LG Electronics, could track brand mentions in different languages without needing to translate keywords.\n\n# **Impact**\n\nInsights that once took **months** now surface in just **days**, enabling your brand to refine products, optimize marketing, and stay ahead of competitors, fast.\n\n# **Learn more use case**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how Modern brands achieve competitive advantage through social listening, [schedule a demo](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with me.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mse-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-platform-for-modern-brands", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-02-24T18:23:58.940Z" }, { "id": 81714, "title": "Syncly - Get product insights from everyday customer communication for fast-growing companies", "tagline": "Bringing AI to help CX and Product team to understand customer issues before they churn.", "body": "[Syncly](https://syncly.app/) is an AI customer feedback analysis platform. I know you are running a customer-driven product. But do you understand in detail what’s driving negative customer sentiment and what needs to be done to elevate the experience?\n\nHere’s how Syncly helps top B2C companies like:\n\n* **Logitech, Boundless, Gamma,** and many others\n\nand fast-growing YC companies like:\n\n* **Speak**, **Ello**, **Navattic**, and many others.\n\n# **The Challenge: Do you know what’s driving negative customer experiences on your product and how to address them?**\n\nIt’s difficult to get visibility into the user sentiment trends and what can be done to elevate customer experience from a product perspective. Even when you get it, it’s not actionable. Why?\n\n* **Product insight is not granular enough:** unable to pinpoint customers/customer groups at risk and understand the details of their issues on your product.\n* **It takes loads of manual effort** to read and analyze customer feedback data. By the time you have it, it’s too late. Tagging provides stats but no story.\n* **Scattered data sources:** Difficult to aggregate various customer touch points (i.e., Zendesk, Intercom, Front, [gong.io](http://gong.io), Slack, Discord, reviews, and many others)\n\n# **The Solution: Syncly AI surfaces trending/urgent product** **issues automatically, based on all your customer touch points. Syncly does it with minimal effort from users and provides a granular level of insight on a customer level.**\n\n* With [**Smart Insight**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoTigJI9F4), identify the most critical product gaps and issues that hinder customer experience without having to read all customer interactions across multiple channels (Zendesk, Intercom, gong.io, Front, Slack, Discord, reviews, and others).\n* Ask **Syncly AI** to pinpoint the positive and negative sentiment drivers and get instant action items to elevate the customer experience.\n* With **Customers AI**, monitor sentiment trends by account and individual user, to proactively engage with customers with underlying issues before they become at-risk.\n\n ![](https://framerusercontent.com/images/uTiFzlfEY2imgMwq5c8r1XDKCrE.png)\n\n\n### Learn more use cases\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases and getting a free trial:\n\n* [**schedule a call**](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with Co-Founders at Syncly!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LFy-syncly-get-product-insights-from-everyday-customer-communication-for-fast-growing-companies", "votes": 174, "created_at": "2024-06-24T19:17:19.745Z" }, { "id": 69973, "title": "🚀 Syncly — AI customer feedback analytics that drives retention", "tagline": "Syncly enables Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity. ", "body": "Hey, We are Joseph, Kwan, Jongsoo from [Syncly](https://www.syncly.app) (YC W23).\n\nOur team founded and sold an AI startup for $200M, and decided to bring our technology to help Revenue team drive retention by delivering the right value for customers.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nSyncly uses AI and Chat-GPT to enable Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity.\n\n### **The Challenge**\n\n* **Manual tagging and insights:** Your revenue team wants to understand the most impactful product or operational feedback, but the team spend a lot of time manually aggregating and analyzing. As a result, you come to learn what had gone wrong _AFTER_ the damage.\n* **Measuring team efficiency**: Hard to track most of what problems your Revenue team is doing, but seems your team is doing a lot. Currently, done by 1-on-1 meetings or manual tagging, which is not scalable.\n* **Post-action impact:** Hard to measure how customer feedback has changed after certain actions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n* **Automating feedback insight:** Syncly finds urgent and impactful customer issues. Your team can proactively engage with customers _BEFORE_ the damage.\n* **Boosting team efficiency:** Spread best practices within the organization to help Account managers, Customer success & support managers focus on delivering more value to the customer.\n* **Post-action visibility:** By monitoring customer feedback trend, you can measure the impact of each release and action.\n\n\\*Syncly’s integrations include **Intercom, Slack, Salesforce**, and other customer communication platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/777aa42c-a17a-40a9-8418-feaf2f342c4d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/ab5abf25-c974-4eed-8e29-1f07e7bff28c)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n* If you wanted to get as many actional insights from your customers feedback, schedule a call with us here: [https://www.syncly.app](https://www.syncly.app/) (Click “Book a Demo”)\n* Feel free to shoot me an email at [joseph@deepbluedot.io](mailto:joseph@deepbluedot.io) if you want to chat more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICb-syncly-ai-customer-feedback-analytics-that-drives-retention", "votes": 138, "created_at": "2023-03-06T19:49:55.810Z" } ] }, { "id": 27818, "name": "Gluetrail", "slug": "gluetrail", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/655e9f2acbaad108c6e7539ecb81f7a1ce60e8cc.png", "website": "https://www.gluetrail.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "Gluetrail is a chrome extension that allows you to create support/training/marketing assets 10x faster, just from a screen and audio recording. 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Have a look at our [**template library**](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) or contact us with any use case you’d like help with; sign up [**here**](https://www.gluetrail.com/) to request free trial access.\n\n### **🛠️ THE PROBLEM WITH BUILDING INTERNAL TOOLS**\n\n* **Operational teams rely heavily on internal tools.**\n* They know best the challenges they need these tools to solve, and have **the most urgency** for them.\n* But **they are not autonomous to build and maintain them**.\n\nWhy? Because building internal tools requires knowing how to write and maintain code.\n\n_A short story about a simple use case is worth a thousand words…_\n\nJohn from the Ops team wants to drive his sales team’s productivity by building and sending forms on Slack (with buttons, input, datetime etc.) and process that information back to his CRM, HubSpot. For example, sending a form like this to update deals’ close dates that are past due:\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/-4DOLazJmJHGcHsg7aHXz2Ssy1rlRWy3zkaHokyGVxRQ8K05Cz56ohVxpjpkX_qd4RFynIJUOEBIW2dgkIKaPG31AugDRGZEQENIL7nNp-LoeqXd6fUiF3JsEotM1Kdt1jpHjWGL-IoIGI2xFerDYkw)\n\nHe looks at options to build this but none of them are suitable:\n\n* **Ask his dev team**: his request is low priority in the backlog and he knows he’ll have to go back often to the dev team for maintenance after the tool is built.\n* **Leverage internal tools builders**: these tools are built for developers and require knowing how to code. The technical bar is too high for John to get started and build quickly.\n* **Use no-code workflow tools**: his use case requires building end-user interfaces (Slack notifications with a form and buttons), which is something these tools don’t handle easily without having to code.\n\n### **🤖 THE SOLUTION**\n\nHere's a [**1mn video demo**](https://www.gluetrail.com/use-case/video-demo) of how John built, in Gluetrail, his Slack notifications allowing reps to update HubSpot, without any code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/7e6a88e2-b8e6-4f67-94b4-fd7f5abc2685)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/cc1c8bf2-c3f7-4835-a999-4a0fc67a17aa)\n\n[Gluetrail](https://www.gluetrail.com) empowers non-technical teams to build business critical internal apps autonomously, literally in minutes. 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Our pricing is license based for internal tool builders and front-end users, and comes with unlimited app builds and runs.\n\nYou can get in touch with us by **signing up on our** [**website**](https://www.gluetrail.com) (we’ll follow up quickly!) or emailing us directly at [annecharlotte@gluetrail.com](mailto:annecharlotte@gluetrail.com).  ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HnT-gluetrail-empowering-non-tech-teams-to-build-internal-tools-in-minutes", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-01-13T11:01:42.171Z" } ] }, { "id": 27843, "name": "Gooseworks", "slug": "gooseworks", "former_names": [ "Magik Labs", "Magik Labs - Fast Web3 Checkout", "Magik Labs - Fast NFT Checkout", "Magik Labs", "Magik", "Athina AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be25b5e55711ba973cd7f6c514b56a10ab3da20e.png", "website": "https://gooseworks.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Goose is an AI marketing brain that understands your company's marketing context deeply and makes it accessible to agents. \r\n\r\nWe index your existing materials — videos, product shots, testimonials, ad performance data — into a context layer that AI agents can then use to make creatives, webpages, write emails, social content and more.\r\n\r\nThe engine compounds: the agent learns from campaign performance, competitors, trends, and human feedback, so your creative gets better every month.", "one_liner": "Self-Improving Marketing Harness", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1667592357, "tags": [ "Video", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/gooseworks.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gooseworks-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/GooseworksAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/gooseworks-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be25b5e55711ba973cd7f6c514b56a10ab3da20e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 739633, "full_name": "Himanshu Bamoria", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Gooseworks AI (https://gooseworks.ai) - 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It's hard to evaluate and compare the quality of retrievals and responses.\n\n2\\. Non-technical users like PMs cannot prototype pipelines or run experiments effectively, creating a bottleneck on engineers.\n\n3\\. Managing experimenting is messy, requiring teams to maintain scripts and spreadsheets.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### 😁 The Solution: Athina IDE\n\n**🧪 Athina IDE is a collaborative editor for AI teams to prototype, evaluate, and experiment with AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/d86504e7-ba8e-4b65-a872-a0dafeabfa0b)\n\n.\n\n### 🎯 Core Philosophies\n\n
**1\\. Great AI products are a team effort:** PMs, Data Scientists, SWEs, MLEs, QA teams, etc., all have to come together to build something great

\n\n...so we made sure that **_non-technical users could experiment, prototype, and run tests on Athina just as easily as technical users._**


\n\n**2\\. Great AI products are built around great data**

\n\nThis is why the entire editor revolves around your data and gives you powerful controls like a spreadsheet.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n### _What can you do with Athina IDE?_\n\n.\n\n## **✨ Prototype Complex Pipelines with Dynamic Columns ✨**\n\n![](https://athina.ai/develop/prototype.png)\n\n**⚡️ Dynamic Columns** in Athina IDE let you prototype complex pipelines in a UI that feels like a spreadsheet. Dynamic columns can be used to:\n\n* Run prompts\n* Execute code\n* Retrieve data from a vector DB\n* Make API calls\n* Classify text / extract entities\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/1a18b5ba-2b6a-4a41-b5d5-7c702af3bd2d)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Evaluations**\n\nPlug in any eval from our library of over **50+ preset evals**, or use custom evals. Run evaluations in seconds with just a few clicks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/9288258e-9ce9-4e65-9f16-8de55405807c)\n\n.\n\n## **Run Experiments**\n\nIn just a few clicks, anyone can experiment with a different prompt, model, or retriever.\n\nIf you are technical, you can run even more powerful experiments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/7694a57b-ab7d-4444-b568-a2eb2944d503)\n\n.\n\n##### **Compare Everything Side-by-Side**\n\n* Compare datasets side-by-side with an optional diff-view!\n* Run evaluations on multiple datasets simultaneously and compare metrics!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81492&key=user_uploads/731066/131fe29f-828d-48d5-aae7-f9f7a470c9ce)\n\n.\n\n## **How can you use it?**\n\nYou can start using Athina IDE for free!\n\n* Create an account at and go to the **Develop** tab.\n* For a personal demo and to learn more about how Athina IDE can accelerate your AI development, book a demo with us: .", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LCO-athina-ide-experiment-with-ai-pipelines-in-a-spreadsheet-like-ui", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-06-13T20:09:26.820Z" }, { "id": 77263, "title": "Athina AI: The Ultimate Monitoring and Evaluation Platform for LLM Developers", "tagline": "A suite of tools to supercharge LLM development and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications", "body": "### **TL;DR: Athina helps you monitor and evaluate your LLM powered app. Plug and play evals in production. 5 minute setup.**\n\n—-\n\n👋 Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of [Athina AI](https://docs.athina.ai/), a suite of tools for LLM developers to ship and develop AI products with confidence.\n\n### What is Athina AI?\n\nAthina AI is a **Monitoring & Evaluation platform** for LLM developers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77263&key=user_uploads/731066/30a27eb5-a787-46d2-8420-cb2c30da24e2)\n\nDevelopers use Athina’s evaluation framework and production monitoring platform to improve the performance and reliability of AI applications through real-time monitoring, analytics, and automatic evaluations.\n\n### 🔴 The Problem\n\n* It is difficult to measure the quality of Generative AI responses.\n* Eyeballing responses is tedious, leading to slow development cycles\n* No easy way to detect unreliable or bad outputs (especially in production).\n* Difficult to make changes to prompt or retrieval pipeline with confidence without introducing regressions.\n* Poor visibility into all the steps in your LLM inference pipeline\n\nLLM developers typically have to build and maintain lots of in-house infrastructure for monitoring and evaluation.\n\n### 🟢 Our Solution: Athina AI\n\n[Athina](https://docs.athina.ai) is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\n* **Quick Setup**: [Get started](https://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api) in just 5 minutes! The entire integration is 1 simple POST request _(and we don’t interfere with your LLM calls)_\n* **Comprehensive Monitoring Platform**: Full visibility into your LLM touchpoints. Search, sort, filter, compare, debug.\n* **Prebuilt Evaluations**:\n * You can configure automatic evaluations in just a few clicks - use one of our preset evals or define a custom eval.\n * These evals will run against logged inferences automatically.\n * You can also use our [**open-source library**](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals) to run evals and iterate rapidly during development.\n* **Granular Analytics**:\n * Tracks usage metrics like response time, cost, token usage, feedback, and more.\n * Athina also track metrics from the evals, like Faithfulness, Answer Relevance, Context Sufficiency, etc\n * You can segment these metrics by any property: customer ID, environment, model, prompt, etc.\n * For example, you could use Athina to see how **prompt/v4** is performing for customer ID **nike-usa** and how **gpt-4** performance compares to a **llama-finetune**.\n\n**Who is this for?**\n\nAthina is designed for developers building AI products.\n\nIf you’re in the prototyping or development stage, you can use Athina to get visibility and [rapidly test](https://docs.athina.ai/evals/develop_dashboard) the LLM generated responses.\n\n![](https://docs.athina.ai/develop-ui-results.png)\n\nIf you have launched your AI in production, you can use Athina to monitor and evaluate your LLM in production.\n\n### 🌟 Our Story\n\nAs a team of engineers and hackers, we spent a summer trying to build various LLM-powered applications for developers.\n\nWhile working with LLMs, we found that the most challenging part was evaluating the Generative AI output and systematically improving model performance.\n\nOn speaking with other AI developers, we discovered a major gap in the tools that engineers need to effectively build production grade applications using LLMs, and set out to solve this problem.\n\n### 🚀 Get Started\n\nAthina AI is a comprehensive suite of tools to supercharge your LLM development lifecycle and help you ship high-performing, reliable AI applications with confidence.\n\nHere’s how you can get started:\n\n* 🌟 Sign up for a free account at [app.athina.ai](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/knowledge/Eq-launch-yc#compose-your-launch-yc-post)\n* Log your inferences using [this guide](http://docs.athina.ai/logging/log_via_api).\n* Try our [open source evals](http://github.com/athina-ai/athina-evals).\n* [Schedule](https://cal.com/shiv-athina/30min) a call with us", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K6B-athina-ai-the-ultimate-monitoring-and-evaluation-platform-for-llm-developers", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-01-09T17:07:26.255Z" } ] }, { "id": 27894, "name": "Booth AI", "slug": "booth-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4b3a15112db36cea4190b3079ddeba5278c19f7f.png", "website": "https://booth.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. Booth AI replaces complicated, labor intensive, time consuming and expensive commercial product lifestyle photoshoots. 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MIT '16 grad. \n\nI enjoy running, playing sports [golf, pickleball], and fashion,", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-locascio/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Nick_Locascio", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6c263c5b096ff3e309950290f255b3e53a7aa3bd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 339466, "full_name": "Ian Baldwin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ian is an ML practitioner with experience across industries, ranging from self-driving cars to cameras on Mars. He has a PhD from Oxford, and has fielded technology at Zoox and NASA. He is a co-founder at Booth.ai, bringing generative machine-learning to e-commerce. 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Check out our [demo video](https://framerusercontent.com/assets/OuoBfiorNSCbVJarMwG4I1GATaU.mp4), where we go from prompt to Gen AI application in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/1f931ce6-71d9-410b-901d-1ab36b6255e7)\n\nWhether you need an internal tool for categorizing customer inquiries, need to do fuzzy PDF analysis at scale, or want to automate and schedule a Custom GPT - [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) has you covered.\n\nChoose from our library of 165 different nodes that can be connected in infinite ways. You can build it yourself with our no-code interface or use our AI Auto-Build feature to go from prompt to application in a single shot! We auto-create a dynamic interface UI so you can share your creation as a single-page app with a link.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/bada6f09-f346-43ea-8d32-a0d0412a791c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81851&key=user_uploads/96513/dd5bfa1a-8677-4c8a-88a3-a89630336d6b)\n\n**✋ Our asks**\n\nIf you're looking to build an AI internal tool or simplify your AI experimentation process - reach out, give [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) a try, and book a demo with us. We’re loading up all new accounts this week with 500 free credits. If you know a founder or operator who would benefit from [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai), please contact us at [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai).\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIB-booth-ai-build-no-code-gen-ai-apps", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-07-01T17:51:21.810Z" }, { "id": 69552, "title": "Booth.ai - Easy product photography with Generative AI", "tagline": "Create unique, engaging product images - all without a photographer", "body": "**Hi YC 👋**\n\nHigh quality product photography is a must for E-Commerce stores, but it gets costly fast - with an average of $300/SKU for new photography. That’s why [Ian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianabaldwin/) and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-locascio/) started [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) to make quality product photography scalable and accessible to sellers of all sizes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/be88ecd8-fcd0-4309-a67d-519c46eced99)\n\n### **🔥 TL;DR**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) is your personal product photographer, powered by Generative AI. Just describe your photoshoot in text, and we’ll place your product naturally in the generated scene.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/e48ceaf4-8262-4c1f-a250-8853b7f9ef1c)\n\n### **🧠 How does it work?**\n\n[Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) makes incredible Gen AI technology accessible and easy to use. Customers connect their Shopify stores to auto-import all of their products. Then they describe, in text, how they want their product to appear. [Booth.ai](http://Booth.ai) handles the rest by generating a scene around the product and producing a 4k image. We even support bulk image generation for stores with thousands of SKUs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69552&key=user_uploads/96513/2edcd9c9-723f-4ce4-8dc5-95cd38973df6)\n\n### **🛍️ Who is** [**Booth.ai**](http://Booth.ai) **for?**\n\nOur ideal customer profile is an e-commerce business that sells a physical product, and currently spends > $10k yearly on visual imagery. This includes e-commerce aggregators, independent stores on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magenta, FBA, and larger brands with SKU counts that eclipse their photography budgets.\n\n### [✋](https://emojipedia.org/raised-hand/) **Our asks**\n\n1. If you run an E-Commerce business - reach out, give us a try, and book a demo [here](https://share.hsforms.com/1dSi0_0YSTLC4ic4tpeY42Ae1qx8?__hstc=121515287.d8ace17c3feac80f7acec81ca9243dd8.1673563844280.1676356189520.1676398984590.70&__hssc=121515287.1.1676398984590&__hsfp=1945899485)! Use our YC-network discount code YC30 for 30% off our plans.\n2. If you know a founder/operator in this space who would be interested in using Booth AI, please connect us to them - [founders@booth.ai](mailto:founders@booth.ai)\n\n### ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5o-booth-ai-easy-product-photography-with-generative-ai", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-02-22T17:49:37.585Z" } ] }, { "id": 27906, "name": "1stCollab", "slug": "1stcollab", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "website": "https://1stcollab.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "1stCollab is the first influencer platform that fully automates and optimizes every aspect of your influencer marketing program. We’ve helped hundreds of startups launch their first campaigns and enabled larger brands to scale to thousands of influencers, while saving them over $1M annually in influencer spend.\r\n\r\nWhat we offer:\r\n- Smart search & recommendations – Instantly connect with thousands of relevant influencers.\r\n- Full campaign automation – From outreach and negotiations to contracts, payments, and taxes, we handle it all.\r\n- Real-time performance tracking – Monitor conversions, revenue, and run A/B tests with detailed reporting.", "one_liner": "Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1671641116, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Marketing", "Advertising", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "After working on creator-related products for three years at Pinterest—and talking with dozens of creators about the challenges they faced—Varun and Leon began brainstorming different ways creators could better monetize the enormous value they delivered to their audiences and to brands. After testing a number of concepts, they became excited by the idea of building better discovery experiences to help brands find creators for their campaigns. A mutual friend connected them with Carina, who was independently building something similar. Andrew had also previously worked with Varun and Leon on discovery at Pinterest, and joined the team as well. Soon after, 1stCollab was born!" }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "We’re focused on solving a two-sided marketplace problem, for brands and creators. For brands, their biggest pain point with influencer marketing is discovering and sourcing creators. Platforms that exist today not only cost >$30k each year, but have very limited discovery capabilities. For instance, [Grin.co](http://Grin.co), one of the top two influencer marketing platforms today, does not surface any Instagram influencers as part of their sourcing tools. We’re going to be the first influencer marketing platform that prioritizes discovery and create the best discovery experience for brands by growing a network of authenticated creators and surfacing those creators through industry leading discovery algorithms and experiences. For creators, 99% of creators don’t get brand deals today, because creators don’t have a way to actively apply to relevant campaigns. By creating an open platform that has a broad set of brands, we can help creators apply to campaigns by showcasing those brands and their campaigns to relevant creators. Creators know their audience and content the best, and through encouraging creator participation, we can facilitate better matchmaking between brands and creators than any platform out there." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "From working at social media companies, we know that users engage at much higher rates with sponsored creator content than organic ads. But the market for sponsored influencer content is being held back, because it’s hard to run influencer marketing campaigns and the tools out there today don’t make it much easier. 1stCollab will simplify and automate influencer marketing the same way that Facebook and Google transformed the digital ads market. If we’re successful, we’ll enable a new category of ad spend—helping more brands to leverage influencer marketing and shift more of their budgets towards it. That’s money that goes directly to creators, enabling orders of magnitude more people to make a living as full-time creators. We have the opportunity to make content creation a genuinely feasible career for many, many talented folks out there—and we’re excited to make it happen." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/1stcollab.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/1stcollab", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38bfe8c1abadf254cda7e353f68089f57109eaec.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1168808, "full_name": "Leon Lin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Currently working on 1stCollab, the best platform for brands and creators to collaborate on influencer marketing campaigns. I was previously at Pinterest for over nine years, where I watched the company grow from 100 to 3k employees. Most recently, I was Head of Discovery product there where I led our Home, Search, and Pins teams and was responsible for user engagement. Before that, I was a tech lead on the Recommendations team.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e613d2a09dfafba1eedd23a45f5dc7c892ea74a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1168810, "full_name": "Varun Bansal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at 1stCollab, a platform for brands and creators to connect and run marketing campaigns together. Before 1stCollab, I worked at Pinterest, where I was a product manager for the homefeed recommendations team, the international growth team, and—most recently—the creator engagement and community teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3251e49676ec33cca771662e36818914ead68d75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1176814, "full_name": "Andrew Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Currently working on building a network for brands and creators to connect and launch marketing campaigns. Previously, I was a Tech Lead on search and recommendations at Coupang and Pinterest.\n\n\nIf you're interested in search, recommendations, or creators, please reach out :)!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyuliu/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1270d66ac8965363670c2cc98caf2d245db2f2f7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 71585, "title": "Customer Success Manager (CSM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/1stcollab/jobs/atezDBY-customer-success-manager-csm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94796, "title": "1stCollab - Fully-automated, ROI-optimized influencer marketing", "tagline": "Build a community of thousands of creators for your brand–instantly", "body": "**tl;dr**: 1stCollab is the fastest way to test, optimize, and scale your influencer program. Instantly source thousands of creators, and let our platform handle everything — outreach, negotiations, contracting, payments, and taxes — all while maximizing ROI.\n\n**Product Demo:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KI3LN-xqdM\n\n**Ask**: Introduce [leon@1stcollab.com](mailto:leon@1stcollab.com) to companies interested in influencer marketing!\n\n## The Problem\n\nWe’ve spoken with hundreds of startups running influencer programs, and nearly all hit the same roadblocks:\n\n* **Low response rates.** They reach out to about 10-20 influencers and don’t get any responses. \n* **Time-consuming processes.** Even if some creators reply, sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and paying them quickly turns into a full-time job (or an agency retainer).\n* **Scaling is hard.** Early success is exciting, but optimizing and expanding campaigns takes costly tools, headcount, and process.\n\n## What 1stCollab does\n\n1stCollab helps you test out and scale your influencer marketing program to hundreds of creators with an hour of setup work. We do this by automating the exact same influencer process that the world’s best marketing teams run. \n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1: Instantly source thousands of influencers**\n\nFree to try out! We’ve indexed all of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube so you’ll quickly be able to find relevant creators using our search and recommendation tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/7c914441-b10e-4367-99c6-253a39f48bf6)\n\n**Step 2: We take care of outreach, negotiations, contracting and payments.** \n\nWe handle everything to bring the right creators on board at the right price. You’ll see the full negotiation history and campaign pipeline. Our pricing engine predicts ROI using real-time engagement signals and proprietary data from hundreds of thousands of deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/05e49138-75eb-4fdc-b941-e24044207a7d)\n\n**Step 3: (Optional) Review content**\n\nCreators submit concepts and draft videos for your approval. All revisions stay organized in one place. Once you give the green light, we take care of payouts and collect performance data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/fc46b925-16b3-4ef8-82df-1380a85dec64)\n\n\\\n**Step 4: Analyze your metrics**\n\nAs creators are going live, we’ll report out on real time engagement and link click metrics. We’ll cut things by ad groups as well so you can experiment with different briefs and creator populations to understand what works well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/90bbd692-5064-454d-a9c4-a20748bd411e)\n\n## Some of our campaigns\n\nWe’ve helped hundreds of startups start their influencer campaigns and scale up to **some of the largest campaigns on social media**. Some interesting case studies to check out include [Framer](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/framer), [Locket](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/locket), [Gamma](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/gamma) and [SnapCalorie](https://brands.1stcollab.com/customers/snapcalorie)!\n\n## How to get started\n\nStart [sourcing creators for free](https://brands.1stcollab.com/) or schedule [some time with Leon](https://calendar.app.google/Zd88eFtzJF3TKs3k6) so we can discuss campaign strategy and we can share with you best practices\n\nAlready running influencer campaigns? A/B test us against your current program — we’re confident we can improve your performance and efficiency!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94796&key=user_uploads/1168808/96f60d67-2c55-48e9-9d78-35dcdddb8e28)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oey-1stcollab-fully-automated-roi-optimized-influencer-marketing", "votes": 140, "created_at": "2025-10-21T19:13:55.295Z" }, { "id": 70145, "title": "1stCollab — Run an influencer marketing campaign in less than 30 minutes 🎉", "tagline": "1stCollab is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that automates the process of running an influencer marketing campaign.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nInfluencer marketing is one of the most efficient ways to reach and acquire new customers, but it’s tedious to run campaigns. By leveraging machine learning and our prior campaign data, 1stCollab lets you run a campaign in under 30 minutes. Visit [1stcollab.com](http://1stcollab.com) to get started with your next influencer marketing campaign!\n\n### **Why is influencer marketing hard?**\n\nFrom our time working at large social media platforms, we know that influencer marketing consistently outperforms organic ads. Unfortunately, launching an influencer campaign is a manual and lengthy process. _Launching an influencer campaign takes weeks_, while launching Google ads takes just minutes. \n\nThe first step of every influencer campaign is to find the right creators to work with—which often takes over 50 hours per campaign. Existing solutions cost tens of thousands of dollars and operate off inaccurate data. As a result, the majority of influencer marketers spend hours manually searching on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. From there, they have to manually calculate stats, vet a creator’s audience, evaluate past partnerships, and negotiate rates and contract terms, review creatives, report out campaign metrics, and finally submit payments. This whole process often takes 2+ weeks for a single campaign.\n\n### **How does it work?**\n\n1stCollab lets you launch an influencer marketing campaign in minutes—not weeks. All you have to do is find a single influencer who's relevant to your brand and target customers. Then:\n\n1. Use our [influencer look-alike discovery tool](https://www.1stcollab.com/) to identify, vet, and save additional influencers you'd like to work with. We do what the best influencer marketers do: identify a single relevant creator, dig through that creator’s community, identify additional relevant creators, and repeat the process—but automatically.\n2. Send us your list of saved influencers and tell us about your campaign goals and budget.\n3. We'll take care of everything from there. All you have to do is approve the content that the influencers will post.\n\nWe support campaigns on all platforms. Our self-serve discovery tool currently supports YouTube, and we’re launching for Instagram and TikTok soon.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/a5397e58-9fda-4820-8ec8-945d2930f80d)\n\n### **Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70145&key=user_uploads/1168808/214846e7-6c27-47c6-9213-4ecac24313be)\n\nOur team has built some of the largest and most-used discovery and ML systems in the world, and has led industry-leading influencer marketing programs.\n\n* [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonqlin/) spent nine years at Pinterest, where he was most recently Head of Discovery Product. \n* [Varun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bansalvarunb/) was at Pinterest for five years, where he led product for both the Creator Engagement and Recommendations teams. \n* [Carina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-cater/) led influencer marketing at Whatnot, Robinhood, and Curology.\n* [Andrew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyu-liu/) was the tech lead for the Recommendations and Search team at Coupang and the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n* [Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlau93/) was a Founding Engineer and tech lead for the Machine Learning team at Abnormal Security and earlier, an engineer on the Recommendations team at Pinterest.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* **Want to give influencer marketing a try?** We'd love to help! 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We'd love to get feedback on the discovery experience.\n\nIf you have any questions, shoot us an email at [hello@1stcollab.com](mailto:hello@1stcollab.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IFN-1stcollab-run-an-influencer-marketing-campaign-in-less-than-30-minutes", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-03-10T18:04:24.429Z" } ] }, { "id": 28178, "name": "Vector", "slug": "vector", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbf1d46970daada2c04ef49b49592227799f0224.png", "website": "https://vector.co", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "B2B advertising is broken: poor targeting, wasted ad spend, bot traffic, and 3rd party-cookies. 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Building, Vector to help founders find, prioritize, and track the accounts they're most likely to turn into their customers!\n\nPreviously:\n- Built the SC team @ Drift from Series B - Vista acquisition 🦄\n- Exited GrowthStack - A hybrid RevOps agency + SaaS company 🎉\n- Exited GoCable - A rapid prototyping SaaS for subsea cables 🐙\n- Served as an intel analyst in the USAF ✈️", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaperk/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Joshua_Perk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01ae9001b4bf60327a6d483ff6069964ce123d9c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1125363, "full_name": "Nick Masters", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and COO of Vector, on a mission to revolutionize how marketing builds a contact based strategy. A US Air Force Veteran and former Instructor Pilot with over 15 years of leadership experience building and training sales teams. Previous to Vector, Co-founder and CEO Josh Perk and I served as executives in charge of Sales Engineering at Drift helping drive a $1.3B acquisition. 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Buyers are inundated with noise. Modern “solutions” only automate the problem:\n\n* 2% cold call success = automated power dialers 🤮\n* 1% cold email success = mass sales engagement sequencers 👎🏼\n* Costly SDR team = AI prospecting + “virtual SDRs” that “personalize” at scale 🙅‍♂️\n\nPersonalization does not matter if no one opens your email or answers your call. There’s a monumental shift in the industry of B2B prospecting - and CROs are searching for a new playbook.\n\n# **Vector: Less Volume, More Quality**\n\nWe believe in an AI-enabled world where authentic relationships rule all.\n\nVector is the world’s only Relationship Intelligence platform — using AI to analyze 400M+ signals in real-time to identify meaningful relationships across your company’s entire network to win, retain, and expand deals.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/V8oj_wAPmeAT7ayqDcRBSOPMM66QEMPMd0Tlwd-kgcEBr9ijOnSmtE-OOxC-4TOZQno7GE118BQwF2qJsA-Z1Mv8F-Pa7KY6Ver8YvvT4n6PnP_5I8Q1P5ahY4k7EziCs79zTJVDcEwddDbLvquKWok)\n\n# **The Shared Experience Graph™**\n\nAt Vector’s core is the Shared Experience Graph™ — a powerful data engine analyzing hundreds of signals _per relationship_ and a proprietary AI model purpose-built to find the most authentic relationships for your sales team.\n\nStop relying on manual spreadsheets, meaningless mutual LinkedIn connections, or expensive, glorified champion tracking tools that only tap a fraction of your network.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/_WqZpni8euVAwRbQBinwgZW9xlhK3WKp3HX1mj8cppFi5ii6F_zgsONXutIpuwxqNgVbMzAe1s-F5SGaHh3aDvkKEhdMaCltw5a3Wki53OxLPpMn0-pALETUoDn1QqgZqEYqvenY8VySx8zrQ17qmOE)\n\nLet’s talk, because **84% of your B2B decision-makers start their buying process with a referral**, but finding the right trusted person to open the door for your team is extremely hard.\n\nFollow us, [Joshua](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaperk/) and [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasamasters/). We lived with this problem for years as GTM executives, and now we’re fixing it at [Vector.](https://vector.co/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=Launch&utm_campaign=2024&utm_id=YC+Launch%2C+2024)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KGY-vector-turn-your-company-s-network-into-pipeline", "votes": 90, "created_at": "2024-01-29T00:12:47.168Z" } ] }, { "id": 28589, "name": "HockeyStack", "slug": "hockeystack", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90725285723955c6a718c11c6de42fac109093c5.png", "website": "https://hockeystack.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "HockeyStack improves sales outcomes for B2B companies by helping them record and understand every interaction their customers have with their marketing, sales reps, CSMs, and products. \r\n\r\nWe map every customer touchpoint from ad impression to closed won and to upsell using our own tracking script and native integrations to the B2B GTM tech stack. \r\n\r\nBuilding this source of truth allow us to give companies previously hidden insights that generate incremental revenue, such as:\r\n\r\n- Deploy marketing budget: \"Launch this ad campaign to this audience to generate $XM in pipeline\"\r\n- Target the right accounts with the right messaging: \"These accounts have the highest likelihood to convert, put them on this email sequence\"\r\n- Convert more of the pipeline: “Pied Piper hasn't visited the site for 8 days; give Jim a phone call”\r\n", "one_liner": "The operating system for inbound B2B revenue", "team_size": 32, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1680648195, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "Sales", "Marketing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hockeystack", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/hockeystack.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hockeystack", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90725285723955c6a718c11c6de42fac109093c5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 307556, "full_name": "Buğra Gündüz", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO @ HockeyStack. I started learning to code as a child, started selling digital products online in my freshman year of high school in Turkey, went to the US for college & dropped out during my first quarter to build HockeyStack.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgrgndzz", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/506413169722e10ebea15acaf30cc5a40730f0a7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 703243, "full_name": "Arda Bulut", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "co-founder and cto", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardabulut-627211/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c269aabd8c3f15b21d379d87cd354b0c90d225df.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "HockeyStack raises $20 million for marketing analytics and attribution", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/hockeystack-revenue-analytics-software", "date": "Jan 28, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 73647, "title": "🏒 HockeyStack — Revenue intelligence & attribution for B2B", "tagline": "How Whatfix, Cognism, and 35+ others analyze marketing and sales performance & generate more pipeline", "body": "### _TL; DR,_\n\n1. _Customers connect all data sources (CRM, ads, web, and product analytics…) to HockeyStack to create a source of truth for customer engagements. No engineering work required._\n2. _HockeyStack shows which channels, campaigns, content, segments, etc. drive the most revenue and active customers._\n3. _HockeyStack creates lists of high-intent accounts that customers can use to launch the most efficient sales & marketing campaigns._\n\nWe’re Arda, Buğra, and Emir. We came from Turkey & dropped out of our first semester of college in the US to build [HockeyStack](https://www.hockeystack.com/?utm_source=launchyc), because we realized that every single B2B enterprise has the same exact #1 problem.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73647&key=user_uploads/307556/5a0ce469-00e7-416a-8af0-ba3a7b9f0718)\n\n### Problem\n\nRevenue-facing teams in B2B companies run all their operations on customer data, whether it is managing an advertising budget, launching integrated campaigns, closing deals, or retaining customers. But there is no central system of record for customer data that they can use to run their operations, so instead, they rely on tens of different data tools and spreadsheets.\n\nThe CRM was built for this purpose, but over 20 years it got outdated, and companies found themselves either having to find hacks to format their data to fit the CRM, or build a data warehouse from scratch.\n\n### Solution\n\nHockeyStack collects all data about customer interactions through a web analytics script, a set of integrations to revenue-related business systems (CRM, ads, marketing automation, email, etc.), and data partners.\n\nAny non-technical person in a B2B company can use HockeyStack’s reporting interface to answer complex questions like:\n\n* What marketing channel had the best unit economics this quarter?\n* Which segment of companies do we have the highest account penetration in?\n* What makes a customer buy our software faster?\n* Who are the highest intent companies who have not yet booked a demo with us?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73647&key=user_uploads/307556/d86c6313-72ee-42ce-9500-4875f29a8a3b)\n\nThey click into the numbers, and can see a list of accounts behind the report, all of which have their entire history of engagement with the company displayed alongside important firmographics.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73647&key=user_uploads/307556/25f109b6-83e0-44d3-bb45-3a5ae267d2de)\n\nThis information can be used to create and export lists of high-intent accounts based on different segmentations out to various marketing and sales platforms to start or accelerate the sales conversation.\n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\nWe’d love to be introduced to marketing and sales leaders at B2B enterprises or scale-ups!\n\n### 🤲 **Give**\n\nWe’d be happy to help any B2B founder with advice in generating inbound pipeline.\n\nYou can reach me at [bugra@hockeystack.com](mailto:bugra@hockeystack.com) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgrgndzz/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9r-hockeystack-revenue-intelligence-attribution-for-b2b", "votes": 124, "created_at": "2023-08-01T15:53:50.382Z" } ] }, { "id": 28852, "name": "Kite", "slug": "kite", "former_names": [ "MockRocket" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bfa0b0578ef53f45eaff933ccf7f9f6f80f2b0f.png", "website": "https://kite.video", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Kite is a screen recorder that makes your demo videos look like Apple commercials in minutes.\r\n\r\nSimply record your app (works for iPhone recordings too!). Kite will track your cursor and keyboard inputs, so it can automatically zoom in on the action with professional 3D animations.\r\n\r\nKite is as easy as Canva, but your videos will look like they came out of OpenAI or Figma.\r\n\r\n- One-click cinematic 3D animations\r\n- Display recordings on 3D mockup devices (MacBooks, iPhones etc)\r\n- Combine unlimited recordings into one video\r\n- Edit, adjust speed and trim recordings\r\n- Add text scenes and text annotations alongside recordings\r\n- AI voiceovers using state of the art text to speech models\r\n- Free music library\r\n- Brand kit–upload your logos, colors and fonts\r\n- Start from our template library or start from scratch\r\n\r\nKite is used by hundreds of YC companies for launch videos, social media posts, landing page demos, changelog updates, feature releases and more.", "one_liner": "Screen recorder for stunning product demo videos", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1691634049, "tags": [ "Video", "Media", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/kite", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/kite.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/kitevideo", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kitevideohq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bfa0b0578ef53f45eaff933ccf7f9f6f80f2b0f.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": 282294, "full_name": "Derek Feehrer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Kite (YC S23)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/feehrer", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DerekFeehrer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ebf28b52304644fa15b45fffef219e167d402601.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1432840, "full_name": "Todd Ashley", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO @ Kite", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddashley/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/toddashleyk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/364ed2da8f58a673c40ff44e66c17f8fc3b9381b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74042, "title": "Kite: Apple-style product videos in minutes", "tagline": "Kite helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes.", "body": "### 🏎️ TLDR\n\nKite helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes. Take a screen recording of your product and turn it into a polished video–no experience required.\\\n\\\n👉 Try out Kite on Mac OS (alpha): [**https://kite.video**](https://kite.video?ref=launchyc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/6bca3709-f628-4c2b-a533-6fb825209d17)\n\n👋 Hey there!\n\nDerek and Todd from Kite here.\n\n### 🥲 The Problem\n\nTop companies know that the way they present themselves to the world matters. **Great storytelling amplifies great products**.\n\nWhen Apple launches a product—or even the tiniest feature—they don’t just put out a press release or a Tweet. They put on something closer to a cinematic film premiere—using video to craft a story and make their audience truly appreciate their features, one by one.\n\nMost of us aren’t Apple, but need to tell our story all the same. **Nearly every software company needs marketing videos**, not just once, but continuously.\n\nUsers prefer video to text and social algorithms boost it heavily.\n\nThe world is noisy. Every feature release is an opportunity to relaunch your product and tell your company’s story once again.\n\n(Some companies we think crush it with frequent feature launch videos: Framer, Brex, and Vercel).\n\n**The thing is, making great marketing videos is still _really_ hard.**\n\nDerek has been pulling out his hair making startup marketing videos for over a decade, both for his own products and as a contractor.\n\nExisting solutions are either **bland**, **tedious**, or **expensive**:\n\n* **Simple screen captures** work well for internal communication but aren’t great for grabbing attention externally, and tend to all look the same. Attention spans are short, and a lot of software just…isn’t that engaging on its own.\n* You can cobble together **powerful video tools** (After Effects, etc), but you’ll probably spend way longer than you’d like, end up with a janky result, and feel like you should have earned a film degree by the end.\n* Or, you can **hire a video creator** (contractor, agency, or full-time). Tech companies spend a LOT on marketing video creation (We know, we’ve talked to your video people!).\n\n### 🪁 The Solution\n\nOur goal with Kite is to help any software company create studio-quality marketing videos—no studio required.\n\nHere’s a quick Kite video we made for our Product Hunt launch this week:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Gz6JI2KSk)\n\nWe start with **screen capturing** your product. It’s easy. If you can take a Loom, you can take a Kite.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/e83335c6-d414-483e-a806-fd7726d03239)\n\nThen we turn it into a ridiculously professional video—semi-automatically.\n\n* Show off your app on the screen of a **3D device model** (like a laptop).\n* Kite **automatically moves the camera** to follow the action and highlight the features your cursor is interacting with.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74042&key=user_uploads/282294/c491535d-1987-4417-a0aa-fca72a90b324)\n\n* Add **animated text** (kinetic typography) with two clicks.\n* Sync it all together to the beat of a music track from our **music library**\n* Check out our tutorial video for more detail:\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lhSIGDW98)\n\n(**This entire video was made in Kite**, you can explore the full project file in the app).\n\n### 🛣️ Roadmap\n\nWe want to make Kite more comprehensive and automatic with each update–abstracting away all the tedious parts of making great videos, and giving you all the cool stuff you see in big co-marketing videos for free, so can let your creativity run wild.\n\nWe've only been working on Kite for a few months, but there's a lot coming!\n\n* **AI-assisted video creation**\n * **LLMs** – Chat with Kite like you’d chat with a video creator. Get help with everything from copy editing and storytelling to animations and fonts.\n * **Generative AI** – narrations, music, graphics, 3D objects\n * 3D object scans for physical product demos\n* More **customization**–animations, text effects, music, 3D devices, backgrounds, cursors, etc\n* **Mobile videos** & iPhone screen capture\n* Designer **templates**\n\n### 🔮 The future\n\n* We’re starting with software videos because it’s an area we know well, but we’re not stopping there. We think the web is a more engaging place where everyone can create great videos and we're excited to help create the next generation of **AI-first video tools**.\n\n### 👉 Try out Kite on Mac OS (alpha): [**https://kite.video**](https://kite.video?ref=launchyc)\n\nYou can use the entire product **for free**, just upgrade to remove watermarks.\n\nSend us feedback, bug reports, and questions! 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Berkeley IEOR (2x)\n\nPrevious: 250+% season ROI sports betting hedge fund.\n\nLove snowboarding, design, and awesome UX.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/bennett-cohen-95ab49132", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/94dd7ae955221a6ffc939193991a08119b4a5b60.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 93011, "title": "Founding Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maintouch/jobs/lzBZeVR-founding-account-executive", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$100 - $150", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 97629, "title": "Founding Sales Development Representative (SDR)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maintouch/jobs/YQpARzo-founding-sales-development-representative-sdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80 - $120", "equity_range": "0.01% - 0.10%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73645, "title": "✨ 🫴 Hidden Hand: AI-powered client intake for law firms", "tagline": "Faster intake, less labor, better advocacy.", "body": "Hi everyone, I’m Bennett from [Hidden Hand](https://hiddenhand.io).\n\n**TLDR: Hidden Hand uses AI to reduce client intake time by 30%, allowing law firms to focus on providing better advocacy for all their clients.**\n\n# \n\n# **The Problems**\n\nThere are \\~450,000 law firms in the US, many of which are _boutique_ law firms that focus on one practice area, like personal injury or workers’ compensation.\n\n* **Client Intake Bottleneck**: The key bottleneck is their client intake process - efficiently identifying suitable clients and onboarding them with contracts, insurance, documents, etc.\n* **Importance of Empathy:** Lawyers are here to help people. Nobody wants a robot to represent them. Empathy and human connection are crucial to signing and keeping a client.\n* **Antiquated Tech, Low-Risk Appetite:** Law firms are built on outdated technology, which translates to outdated workflows. Many are hesitant to change systems because of the importance of the human side of law.\n\n# **AI + Human = Better Advocacy**\n\nHidden Hand provides a hybrid solution that combines the best parts of both automated intake and human-led intake to increase speed without sacrificing human connection.\n\n* **Offload easy tasks to AI:** We build customized messaging chatbots and beautiful intake forms for tasks that don’t require human involvement. Don’t worry, we always give clients the ability to talk to a real human. _Less labor, more time for what matters._\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73645&key=user_uploads/396461/f19dc744-87be-413e-9ca2-ee5c807ce40e)\n\n* **Automated communication**: Hidden Hand can automatically follow up with clients to get any missing information via text or email. Messages are automatically connected to any case management software, and everything is kept in one place.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73645&key=user_uploads/396461/1e026afd-2d30-4f12-8a1f-e94e9eb55ee1)\n\n* **Automatic Data Entry:** Instead of manually entering information into case management software, we can extract data or documents from conversations, and automatically enter it, saving hours for paralegals. Most importantly, _we maintain the security and privacy of these conversations under attorney-client privilege_ in accordance with the American Bar Association (ABA) guidelines.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73645&key=user_uploads/396461/1fd844f2-8669-4615-9537-e2a48941aa72)\n\n\n# **Backstory**\n\nI’m Bennett, founder of Hidden Hand. My background is in building end-to-end machine learning systems for reliable decision-making.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73645&key=user_uploads/396461/b820a52f-ff66-4d60-a65f-6cfc0cc791a6)\n\n### Sports Betting Fund (250% Returns)\n\nPreviously, I had a sports betting fund that earned 250%+ returns each NBA and MLB season for the last few years. I decided to license my algorithms out to a large-cap betting group that is able to move a lot more investments without being limited in the US.\n\n### I’m Not a lawyer, but…\n\nJust about everyone in my family is a lawyer (parents, brothers, uncles, cousins). I’ve spent my whole life listening to the marketing and operations of boutique firms.\n\nMy expertise in machine learning + boutique firms made this a super clear direction to go down. **I might not be a lawyer, but I am the engineer in the family who can help them be more efficient.**\n\n# **Hidden Hand’s Ask**\n\n1. If you work at a boutique firm and know the struggles of client intake, [book a demo with us](https://calendly.com/bennett-cohen/hidden-hand-demo)! We want to help save 30% on intake time.\n2. If you know somebody at a boutique firm, share us with them! We want to solve their problems.\n\nBook a demo [HERE](https://calendly.com/bennett-cohen/hidden-hand-demo) or request one at !\n\n\\-BC ✨ 🫴", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9p-hidden-hand-ai-powered-client-intake-for-law-firms", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2023-08-01T15:27:19.855Z" } ] }, { "id": 28921, "name": "Surface Labs", "slug": "surface-labs", "former_names": [ "Surface" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d1c735d9ba6a64fce2c94cba6690c524ea7f778.png", "website": "https://withsurface.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Surface Labs helps B2B companies capture, qualify, and convert inbound leads through intelligent contact forms. We replace tools like HubSpot Forms, Zapier, and Chili Piper with a single platform that embeds on any site with one line of code.\r\n\r\nOur AI agents handle lead capture, enrichment, routing, follow-up, and CRO testing — automating what used to require full marketing ops teams. Customers see a 30% lift in conversions in under 2 weeks, and our partial response capture feature collects 50% more emails from form drop-offs.", "one_liner": "Building the AI-powered marketing ops platform that turns website…", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1693007377, "tags": [ "Sales", "Marketing", "Advertising", "AI", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Arjun and I met as freshman at UC Berkeley when we were assigned to be lab partners for our introductory electrical engineering class. We quickly became friends/ project partners/ roommates over the next several years. I always knew I would start a company someday, but didn’t know what problem to solve. After getting into YC with Arjun and going through a couple pivots, we finally decided to work on something we had first-hand experience with, and that’s what has led to our current intelligent forms idea." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/surface-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/surface-labs.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/surface-labs", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/surfacelabs_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/surface-labs-cb05", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d1c735d9ba6a64fce2c94cba6690c524ea7f778.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b6252c3bbc3d38b1b30b29ce871fef3000422803.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1179226, "full_name": "Saharsh Agrawal", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Surface Labs. \n\nBuilding AI Marketing Agents for B2B.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/saharshagrawal", "x_url": "https://x.com/saharsh_wal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4f91894e8aaa56eb4663bd97e2f17acf32c4fa19.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1424271, "full_name": "Arjun Sahai", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Arjun is a UC Berkeley EECS alum. \n\nHe joined Snowflake's first growth team where he deployed and optimized signup.snowflake.com. \n\nHe boosted conversion rates for sign ups by 70% through form and funnel optimization. \n\nThis inspired the founding of Surface Labs!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/arjun-sahai", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/29a24d3fa0cd65d7c35c2bffe05e956c0af8f729.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 93375, "title": "AI GTM Engineer Intern", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/surface-labs/jobs/k6SbAbd-ai-gtm-engineer-intern", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Internship", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Devops", "salary_range": "$10K - $20K / monthly", "equity_range": "0.01% - 1.00%", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 115146, "title": "Chief of Staff", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/surface-labs/jobs/utlT6TV-chief-of-staff", "location": "San Francisco, CA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$120K - $140K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93874, "title": "Surface Labs — AI Workforce for Marketing Operations", "tagline": "Team of AI agents that boosts lead conversions by 30% by taking over marketing ops (ads, routing, follow-ups, etc)", "body": "For too long, marketers have been stuck fixing ops instead of building campaigns. [**Surface Labs**](https://withsurface.com/) is building the first **AI Workforce for Marketing Ops** — a team of AI Agents that run your inbound workflows, boost conversions, and cut workloads by 80%.\n\nOur AI Agents are already live in production, handling **50k+ leads every month**. \\\n\\\nMeet one of the first: the **Form Agent**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93874&key=user_uploads/1179226/4f068f22-c1da-43c6-a00a-132cea0b6259)\n\n### **🙅‍♂️ Problem**\n\nMarketing teams spend millions on ads, tools, and headcount… but still lose **30–50% of inbound leads** to spam, bad routing, and slow follow-ups.\n\nEveryday reality:\n\n* Endless spreadsheets and duct-taped workflows.\n* Hours wasted fixing ops instead of building campaigns.\n* Pressure from leadership while growth stalls and leads slip away.\n\nMarketers weren’t hired to babysit forms and CRMs. They were hired to **create, inspire, and drive growth**.\n\n### **👌 Solution: The AI Workforce for Marketing Ops**\n\nWe’re building an AI Workforce that handles the repetitive, manual parts of marketing ops so that marketers can focus on strategy and creativity. Here are some of the members of the Workforce:\n\n* **Forms Agent** → builds high-converting funnels that capture every lead.\n* **Follow-Up Agent** → responds instantly, with personalized outreach.\n* **CRM Agent** → routes and updates deals in Salesforce/HubSpot.\n* **Experiments Agent**→ runs CRO tests automatically to boost conversions.\n* **Ads Agent** → optimizes ad spend and performance in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93874&key=user_uploads/1179226/d5785765-ad9a-4de4-a619-72393b38ca91)\n\n### **📊 See Results within 2 weeks**\n\n* **Agent-powered** inbound funnels boost conversions by 30%\n* **80%+ spam eliminated;** replaces expensive ad fraud prevention & lead routing tools (e.g. ChiliPiper, LeanData)\n* **Does the work of 3+ ops hires** at a fraction of the salary cost\n\n### **Want to hire our agents (& get free lunch)?**\n\n**👉 Stop letting leads slip away.** Book a demo/ free strategy call with our founders [**here**](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/15-min-intro-call-with-surface)**.**\n\nWe’ll audit your inbound funnel/ ops and if we can’t build you a form + workflow funnel that beats your current setup, **lunch is on us.**\n\n### **Want to work with us?**\n\n[**_Surface Labs_**](https://withsurface.com/) _is an applied AI lab building the next generation of marketing technology._ _Our core product grew 70% in the last month, with 500k+ website visitor sessions and 50K+ leads captured every month. Surface AI agents are live in production and usage is 📈📈📈._\n\n_Email [**saharsh@withsurface.com**](mailto:saharsh@withsurface.com) with 3 bullet points on why you want to work with us._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OQ6-surface-labs-ai-workforce-for-marketing-operations", "votes": 130, "created_at": "2025-09-16T18:12:22.299Z" }, { "id": 81386, "title": "Surface Labs: AI that turns Leads into Customers", "tagline": "Boost conversion rates by up to 40% using AI.", "body": "**TL;DR** We previously built intelligent forms for businesses to **_boost website conversions by up to 40%_**, but found them still struggling to close sales because they _couldn’t **scale manual human tasks**_ against increased lead volume. _We give every site visitor a dedicated AI agent to convert more leads into customers across the entire funnel._\n\n---\n\n—\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **The Problem.**\n\n**Over 40% of ad spend is wasted.** Businesses spend money on ads to drive traffic to websites/ PPC pages, but businesses struggle to convert visitors into leads if the page fails to convey value and collect lead data. This results in **leads leaving to visit competitors' websites** and **wasted ad spend.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/f96972a0-9b96-420e-afcb-eb33ed6f4957)\n\nEven if a lead does initially convert on the site, it’s not enough. Businesses still need to\n\n* **filter out unqualified leads/ fake form fills**\n* **decrease speed-to-lead**\n* **repeatedly** **engage the lead**\n\nThis problem is most severe for businesses in **competitive ad spaces** with commoditized offerings (e.g. services, lending, higher education, home services, etc).\n\nAs a result, many businesses end up **buying low-quality leads in bulk** from lead gen services or just **spray-and-pray** cold outbound campaigns.\n\n—\n\n# **Our Solution.**\n\nWe’re building an **_intelligent lead management system_** — a better way to track and engage every lead that clicks on an ad & lands on your website.\n\nWe’ve achieved this by building:\n\n* super customizable, **high-converting** lead forms\n* dedicated AI agents to **qualify and engage every lead** on your website\n* better **ad targeting and personalization** using first-party data collected on your website\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/c72a7f9c-8b56-47ab-8c8d-0eb0e222bb54)\n\nThe platform includes a highly customizable, multi-step form builder, agent configuration UI, and data + analytics dashboards that provide granular details for every lead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/c8ca819f-6e77-44b7-ac87-a1629bcacc49)\n\n—\n\n## **The Backstory.**\n\nWe (**Arjun and Saharsh**) are both engineers who met at UC Berkeley 🐻 and have helped growth teams at multiple startups and companies like **Snowflake** ❄️ boost funnel conversion rates.\n\nWe launched our high-converting forms product last September, **booked 300+ customer calls** in just a few days, and have helped hundreds of businesses ranging from **law firms, real-estate** and **high-ticket coaching services** to **B2B SaaS companies** spending millions on ads boost conversion rates on their website.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81386&key=user_uploads/1179226/d96a94aa-8abd-4359-9bd8-6a4994841385)\n\nAre you ready to optimize your ad spend and engage every lead using AI?\n\nWe’d love to chat! Reach out at [saharsh@withsurface.com](mailto:hello@plyhealth.com), fill out the contact form on our [website](https://withsurface.com/), or book a demo directly [here](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/25-min-intro-call-w-surface-labs). We’d also appreciate sharing our launch and following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/96129512)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LAg-surface-labs-ai-that-turns-leads-into-customers", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-06-08T15:17:11.558Z" }, { "id": 74412, "title": "🏓 Surface: Intelligent Forms that Boost Conversions", "tagline": "We're building a better way to buy products, starting with forms.", "body": "👋 Hey everyone - we’re Saharsh and Arjun from [Surface Labs](http://withsurface.com)!\n\n### **🏆 TL;DR**\n\nWe’re building intelligent forms designed to help B2B companies collect richer customer data and convert more site visitors to customers via AI-powered content personalization.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/feb58565-fcf9-442d-9cd7-9a2b8cfbcd40)\n\n### **🤔 The Problem**\n\n**You’re losing out on the opportunity to collect valuable first-party data from your customers and increase conversions due to suboptimal forms on your landing page.**\n\n* It’s difficult to personalize content on a form using existing solutions, despite this being one of the most effective methods for converting customers\n* Solutions like Typeform don’t fit seamlessly into your product’s design/ styling and can look out of place 🤢\n* HubSpot or custom-built forms can easily lack an optimal UX that drives form conversions 🥱\n\nOptimizing page forms to collect rich user data that your marketing and sales teams can use to drive conversions is important but is an ongoing task that takes resources away from developing your core product.\n\n### **✨ Our Product**\n\nWe’re building intelligent forms designed to help companies collect richer customer data and convert more site visitors to customers through AI-powered content personalization.\\\n\\\nOur forms can be embedded in minutes on your site as a pop-up or even take over the entire page and provide your business with a managed “Contact Sales” page!\\\n\\\nHere are some example of early forms that we’re building:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/f2cdf1f7-1166-4d67-8ffa-6008adac73c2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/14aa7de7-73ea-43cb-986c-79b2bec5499c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/6179b0ec-94eb-43d8-b97a-c93f33167b90)\n\nOur platform has helped our customers:\n\n* add targeted messaging to a form to easily enable personalization at scale\n* reduce the burden of data entry for customers to improve form completions by up to 70%\n* manage their entire inbound sales pipeline with our managed “Contact Sales” page experience\n* enrich customer responses with external data sources and ask personalized follow-up questions that allow sales teams to instantly filter, qualify, and book meetings with leads\n\n### **⚙️ Features**\n\nAt their most basic, our forms are customized to match your site’s theme and branding, but here are some additional things our forms can do:\n\n* Intelligent form routing logic\n* AI-Powered A/B testing of questions\n* Automatic lead enrichment and scoring\n* Slack bots that inform you when an important lead has signed up\n* Integrations with your CRM, CDP, analytics, email, and scheduling tools\n\n### 👏 **Our Team**\n\nArjun and I met as freshmen at UC Berkeley 🐻 where we both studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74412&key=user_uploads/1179226/3f2b4e0b-a5f2-438c-aa96-5b853b512322)\n\n[Arjun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjun-sahai/) spent much of his time at Snowflake on the growth team optimizing their self-serve flow, starting with the form on [signup.snowflake.com](http://signup.snowflake.com).\n\n[Saharsh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saharshagrawal/) received his M.S. in EECS from Berkeley where he studied privacy-preserving systems and has worked at early-stage startups where he built products from 0-to-1.\n\nThey’ve both worked with marketing/ sales/ growth teams to perform experimentation around content personalization, onboarding flows, and form templates to help optimize improve response rates/conversion rates. After directly experiencing how powerful personalized business forms can be, Saharsh and Arjun decided to start Surface.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nIf you are currently using a custom form/ Typeform/ Hubspot form, have had to disable your Calendly booking screen due to spam bookings, or are struggling to collect rich user data from inbound leads, check us out!\n\nWe’re onboarding a limited number of companies over the next 2 weeks and are custom-building forms for them prior to our self-serve product launch.\\\nBook time to chat with us [here](https://calendly.com/surfacelabs/15-min-intro-call-with-surface?month=2023-09) or reach out at [founders@withsurface.com](https://founders@withsurface.com)!\n\nVisit our website at [withsurface.com](http://withsurface.com) to check out one of our forms!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JMC-surface-intelligent-forms-that-boost-conversions", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2023-08-25T23:49:16.378Z" } ] }, { "id": 28930, "name": "Midrender", "slug": "midrender", "former_names": [ "Haven", "Revideo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ae8f20158b0233edf45f926bd2ba47a325fa7fd6.png", "website": "https://midrender.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Midrender is a visual editor for creating motion graphics, powered by AI. Point the agent at your codebase, it reads your code, understands the feature, and creates an animated walkthrough you can ship. A full timeline and design editor lets you fine-tune every detail.", "one_liner": "Turn product features into launch videos", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1688598945, "tags": [ "Design", "Design Tools", "Video", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/midrender", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/midrender.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/haven-ml", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/redotvideo", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/redotvideo", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ae8f20158b0233edf45f926bd2ba47a325fa7fd6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1910964, "full_name": "Konstantin Hohr", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Konstantin is the founder of Revideo. Previously, he studied computer science at RWTH Aachen while simultaneously working as a software engineer at Jodel, where he built content moderation and abuse detection systems. At DynamoAI (W22), he spearheaded development on vertical federated learning based products.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/konsti-h", "x_url": "https://x.com/hkonsti_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2460ec366c0cb31c35af99c68b748be0c790cbb3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 80105, "title": "Revideo - Create videos with code", "tagline": "An open source toolkit to build web-based video apps.", "body": "### TLDR:\n\nWe are building [Revideo](https://re.video/), a web-based open-source framework that lets you create videos using the animation library Motion Canvas. It exposes basic video & audio editing functionality through a typescript API and lets you render videos with dynamic inputs. You can find our code on [**Github**](https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo)!\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nWe believe that AI will drastically change how people produce video and that huge amounts of video will soon be created in an automated manner. Initially, we wanted to build applications in this space ourselves and started to work on a few ideas. For example, we worked on an AI-based app to automatically create highlight videos for Twitch streamers, as well as a platform that lets companies A/B test video ads.\n\nWhile building these products, we noticed that we weren’t really happy with the tooling we used. Most video editing frameworks lacked essential features, and the tools we liked were not open source. Therefore, we decided to build Revideo.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nWe built Revideo by extending the animation library Motion Canvas and adding features that are essential for automatically creating videos. These features include support for audio, substantially faster video rendering, and an API for programmatically rendering videos with dynamic inputs.\n\nHere is a code example of a basic video created with Revideo:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80105&key=user_uploads/1023703/4f0ca7c8-30c6-402a-a087-2b2829275c40)\n\nThe code above produces the following result:\n\n\n\n### **Our Asks:**\n\n* Check out [Revideo](https://github.com/redotvideo/revideo) on Github and give us a ⭐ if you like it!\n* We’d love to chat with anyone building video products! If you are building one or know people who do, please reach out ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kq1-revideo-create-videos-with-code", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-04-11T15:49:45.395Z" }, { "id": 76501, "title": "Haven: Fine-tune and run open source LLMs super fast ⚡", "tagline": "Haven lets you build open source LLMs that are specialized for specific tasks", "body": "# TLDR:\n\nWe are excited to launch [Haven](https://haven.run/)’s fine-tuning platform for open source LLMs!\n\n* Haven lets you fine-tune open source LLMs such as Llama or Mistral without writing code or setting up infrastructure. We charge $0.004/1k training tokens, and you get $5 in free credits after signing up\n* You can host models for testing with <1s cold start times. We achieve this by running hundreds of model adapters on a single GPU and hot-swapping them based on user requests (will write more about this in a blog post)\n\nYou can get started [**here**](https://app.haven.run/) - alternatively, reach out to [**hello@haven.run**](https://app.haven.run/) or watch our [demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpyVKUyt7k8) if you want to learn more!\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nOver the last months, we’ve identified two big pain points that make it hard to work with open source models:\n\n1. Open source models work best when they are trained for specific use cases, but the fine-tuning process with existing tools is super annoying. We have found that most of our time is spent setting up infrastructure to go from finishing a training run to actually testing our models, rather than actually writing code and improving our models\n2. Hosting custom models is expensive. Running a single Llama-7B model in float16 requires at minimum an A10 GPU, which costs $700+ per month. To run ten or a hundred specialized models for common tasks, this would mean that we have a monthly AWS bill of $7,000 or $70,000, respectively.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nHaven’s platform offers a super simple way to fine-tune models without managing infrastructure or writing code, and to test and run them with low costs and without any additional work.\n\nWe are able to provide a super short feedback loop of going from training to running a fine-tuned model by hosting multiple lora adapters in parallel. This makes it possible for us to host hundreds of fine-tuned models on-demand on a single GPU. For our users, this reduced model cold start times to <1s and internally, we are able to host a single fine-tuned model for a couple of dollars per month. We also enable our users to export their model weights to Huggingface, so that they can run models entirely on their terms.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nFeel free to check out our [**platform**](https://app.haven.run/) and give us feedback! After signing up, you’ll receive $5 in credits to train a couple of models :) We are also happy to answer questions at [**hello@haven.run**](https://app.haven.run/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jtt-haven-fine-tune-and-run-open-source-llms-super-fast", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2023-11-29T17:29:33.896Z" }, { "id": 73716, "title": "🔮 Haven - Run LLMs on Your Own Cloud", "tagline": "Haven makes it easy to deploy LLMs on your own infrastructure", "body": "**TL;DR:** Haven makes it easy to deploy LLMs in your GCP / AWS environment. We provide the user experience of serverless solutions like Replicate or Huggingface Inference Endpoints - but instead of running your models on Haven’s servers, we just manage your infrastructure for you. This gives you full control over your data and you get to use your precious cloud credits!\n\n### **🤕 The Problem**\n\nMany companies want to use large language models but do not want to rely on third-party providers as it makes them dependent on external services and comes with significant privacy risks.\n\nHowever, deploying models in-house is just not easy: engineers have to figure out CUDA environments, write and containerize efficient serving code, and expose it as an API server. And let’s not even talk about scalability…\n\nHaven solves this problem. We offer the simplicity, reliability, and scalability of third-party providers while allowing our users to securely run models on their own infrastructure.\n\n### **🤯 How It Works**\n\nHaven is built on top of Kubernetes, which makes it easy to scale and reliable in production settings. Deploying a model with Haven consists of just three steps:\n\n**1\\. Upload a Service Account Key**\n\nUploading a service account key gives Haven permission to manage your cloud resources for you. Under the hood, Haven will now set up a Kubernetes cluster running in your cloud environment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/6b35bcd0-f0f5-4f4b-b3ab-dbb6a46261ff)\n\n**2\\. Configure Your Deployment**\n\nYou can now choose your model, select the GPUs you want it to run on, and configure the scaling behavior of your deployment. Haven will accordingly set up the model in your Kubernetes cluster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/59c94edb-14a5-4e4e-b173-a4b19223ebdb)\n\n**3\\. Enjoy Your Model**\n\nYour LLM is up and running in minutes! Our deployments offer super-fast inference and advanced features like input batching for efficient serving. This way, you can immediately integrate them into your application.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/773c461a-05ba-48b2-ba96-6b4c88d23cbf)\n\n### **💪 The Team**\n\nWe’re Konstantin and Justus. The two of us met as freshmen in college, and have since built multiple projects together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73716&key=user_uploads/1023703/95a23ea8-c105-4d8d-af62-f2a527bb50f7)\n\n[Justus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justus-mattern-a04230184/) is an AI researcher and has been working on LLMs since 2020. As a member of AI labs at UC Berkeley and ETH Zürich, he has published multiple papers at leading research conferences.\n\n[Konstantin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/konsti-h/) has already been a full-time software engineer before starting his university studies. At Germany’s biggest social networking company, he built infrastructure handling requests from millions of daily users.\n\n### **💜 Our Ask**\n\n**Sign up **[**here**](https://vkg6c80ex61.typeform.com/to/IMCFY5Cf)** to work with us!**\n\nWe are working closely with our users to fully understand the needs of companies aiming to integrate LLMs into their products. Beyond giving access to our deployment tool, we partner with early customers to evaluate their use cases and fine-tune models for their needs. If this sounds interesting, sign up for early access or contact us at [hello@haven.run](mailto:hello@haven.run)!\n\n**Refer us to companies looking to use LLMs!**\n\nIf you have connections at companies looking to use LLMs, we’d highly appreciate introductions! You can reach us at [hello@haven.run](mailto:hello@haven.run).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JAy-haven-run-llms-on-your-own-cloud", "votes": 229, "created_at": "2023-08-02T16:28:57.262Z" } ] }, { "id": 28983, "name": "Converge", "slug": "converge", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ddaa5bebf2aae550b90599e16a46dc1f877c755.png", "website": "http://www.runconverge.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "We're building the unified marketing measurement stack for online stores. We make it easy for marketeers to understand where their customers come from, cut unprofitable channels, and scale when things are working.\r\n\r\nWe are vertically integrating the modern data stack for marketing teams of online stores by consolidating customer data collection, consent management, identity resolution, transformations, attribution, data forwarding, and analytics into a single platform.", "one_liner": "All-in-one marketing measurement for B2C", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1687127368, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Analytics", "E-commerce", "Marketing", "Infrastructure" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/converge", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/converge.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/81685997/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/runconverge", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/run-converge", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ddaa5bebf2aae550b90599e16a46dc1f877c755.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 559019, "full_name": "Jan-Henrik Lambrechts", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "co-founder and ceo @Converge -- worked on ml vision models @TsinghuaU before that", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/janhenrik-lambrechts", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/janhenriklamb", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ef7a2e2909a4692230ff50a73fb74c4526156c45.jpg" }, { "user_id": 772323, "full_name": "Jerome Billiet", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at Converge - 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No technical expertise required.\n\nBecause conversions are being tracked on the store backend rather than the browser, Converge can track 100% of conversions and forward these to relevant ad platforms and analytics tools.\n\nUnlike Segment or other CDPs, Converge allows non-technical ecommerce operators to set this tracking up in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72382&key=user_uploads/772323/7f38e933-f6ce-489f-abf6-cd11149e83d1)\n\nOnce tracking is set up, Converge aggregates data from all sources and provides a single overview of ecommerce KPIs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72382&key=user_uploads/772323/5eb15873-3ea8-4e32-8e96-2efa057df4d7)\n\nUsers can also break down attribution metrics across channels, campaigns, adsets, and even ads, showing what is driving growth on a granular level.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72382&key=user_uploads/772323/eb78601f-2d1a-4a75-a35b-f5e7db168d3f)\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n* Sign up for [**Converge**](https://www.runconverge.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=launch-yc) today and test it for free!\n* If you know any **ecommerce brands or agencies**, we would love to chat!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IpS-converge-segment-for-ecommerce", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2023-06-20T14:03:45.650Z" } ] }, { "id": 28992, "name": "Rankai", "slug": "rankai", "former_names": [ "LineUp" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/32ccd0a8e163e6c0cf404e4f9c6202d57317315c.png", "website": "https://rankai.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Websites used to be static billboards, passive and waiting to be found.

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Its 1st agent automates the entire SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.\n\n\n\n# **What’s the insight?**\n\nMarketing agencies grew and made $400B in 2024, despite the rise of affordable marketing tools. We talked to 100+ SMB owners, and found that many would still pay thousands for marketing agencies. They want to pay for a service – for someone to think about what to do, then just execute and deliver results. \n\n# **What did we build?**\n\nRankai is building AI Agents to strategize and execute on marketing objectives, just like an agency. It’s first AI Agent automates the SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable.\n\nHow it works:\n\nStep 1: Crawl through your website pages and understand your business.\n\nStep 2: Suggest technical SEO fixes based on Google SEO Guide.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85538&key=user_uploads/804786/38787d8a-f2b6-4192-a390-978a58725a1e)\n\nStep 3: Research for target keywords tailored to the business.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfvDlVknS_1BOO7TT6rVukxlz7ROXbt8sg9mLlsqMfsV8HLNjiq-JQUS43zNtq1_98fFFygSLSg83emG0O55j8afS0CegUWoP1N2xHwxkAvaiqDxuCKmvwE9QVKISbciRQFVd0jzw?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz)\n\nStep 4: Craft keyword-optimized SEO content.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeLgTVPuUR6tTMOOeGGqoUsueqcHs_RtCr_cPyHDG4MriprwfgzlzAeCm_v5WVNkJfSXLoOoiUAlaM9fYUmvH4CrVXyJMll_LTFmhO2KcdL00vswJK5VUCnQPK0i40YjIUVIXPTCA?key=_60rhAaWD9CT0jrsgoEW3IYz)\n\nStep 5: Finally, Rankai publish the technical SEO fixes and weekly blogs straight to your website.\n\n# **The Team**\n\n[Boyuan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyuan-deng/): Built and scaled FlowGPT from 0 to 4M users via SEO & organic traffic, EECS at UC Berkeley\n\n[Hugo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-z-21197a122/): Engineering at Amazon, National Junior Math Olympiad Team, Blockchain Dev at Eluvio, Research at BAIR, Math & CS at UC Berkeley\n\n[Dyllan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyll/): Ex-McKinsey, Engineering at Amazon, Built an education platform serving 1500+ rural students, Business & DS at UC Berkeley\n\n# **Our Ask (and Offer)**\n\nTry it yourself: [rankai.ai](http://rankai.ai)\n\nDemo/SEO Strategy Session: [Book here](https://calendly.com/rankai/rankai-ai-demo)\n\nIntro: Any SMBs that aren’t SEO-optimized for organic traffic (Ecommerce owners, startups, agencies, local businesses, freelancers, etc.)\\\n\\\nEmails: [dyllan@rankai.ai](mailto:dyllan@rankai.ai) and [hugo@rankai.ai](mailto:hugo@rankai.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFe-rankai-ai-agents-that-replace-marketing-agencies", "votes": 238, "created_at": "2024-11-13T21:43:46.169Z" } ] }, { "id": 29080, "name": "Smobi", "slug": "smobi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d332393d7c5b5f27e1a2f82f8ec54fa8b38e21a1.png", "website": "https://smobi.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Smobi is the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We help businesses send rich, personalized messages that drive engagement, build trust, and create real conversations.", "one_liner": "Send texts your customers actually want over RCS", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1689048246, "tags": [ "B2B", "API", "Marketing", "SMS", "Telecommunications" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/smobi", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/smobi.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getsmobi/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GetSmobi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d332393d7c5b5f27e1a2f82f8ec54fa8b38e21a1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 846621, "full_name": "Kunal Puri", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I spent 4 years building out communication systems for Amazon Advertising, and got my first taste of entrepreneurship when I created a Minecraft server that generated over 250K at the age of 15.\n\nNow I'm building Smobi - the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We help businesses send rich, personalized messages that drive engagement, build trust, and create real conversations.\n\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thekunalpuri", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/740e9a422d9032c9b4ac7fd1f5a56c7fce81ce02.jpg" }, { "user_id": 275990, "full_name": "Michael Ning", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder and CTO @ Smobi (YC S23), a business for sale marketplace with verified buyer and listing data.\n\nFormerly Dover (YC S19)\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mning1598", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3a4ea26d5c55edcd9053b9cb13537a889dbc4576.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93769, "title": "Smobi - Business Texting Reimagined.", "tagline": "We help businesses 5x their engagement with interactive & conversational texts over RCS.", "body": "Hey everyone, I’m [Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1/) - founder of Smobi 👋\n\n# **📖 TLDR**\n\nSmobi is the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We **help businesses send rich, personalized texts** that build trust, drive engagement, and create real conversations.\n\nIf SMS messaging is part of your strategy, we’d love to show you how you can do more!\n\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n# **🎬 Our Launch Video:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJkl6m7RxgI\n\n# **‼️ Why This Matters**\n\nModern customer engagement is broken. Despite the abundance of messaging channels - email, SMS, WhatsApp, in-app notifications, and voice - most brand communications feel impersonal, transactional, and spammy. **Consumers are overwhelmed with noise**:\n\n* 82% of consumers received a spam text in the past week\n* 70% of consumers will penalize a business for a poor communication experience\n* 35% of consumers are annoyed by impersonalized and irrelevant content\n\nMessages go unread. Calls go unanswered. Engagement is at an all time low. The problem is clear, all of us have felt it.\n\n# **🛠 Our Solution**\n\nRCS addresses these issues with verified, branded, and interactive messages and it is finally here in the US. However most businesses don’t know it exists, and the few that do are still figuring out how to use it.\n\n**Smobi changes that**. We know exactly how to unlock RCS to drive real value.\n\nWith Smobi, you can:\n\n* 👷 Create complex AI-powered conversational flows in minutes\n* 🚀 Launch them via API or campaign\n* 📊 Analyze every tap, interaction, and read\n\nWe also handle the strict carrier vetting and compliance, so you don’t have to.\n\n**The results speak for themselves**:\n\n* ⚡ On average, 5 - 10x the engagement vs SMS\n* 🎯 4x higher CTR than SMS\n* 💳 Up to 3x increase in purchase intent\n\n# **🙏 Join Us**\n\nWe’re already helping innovative businesses in industries such as healthcare, entertainment, and fintech, leverage RCS to provide the most unique experiences for their customers. \n\nIf you’re interested in doing the same, let’s talk.\n\n\\\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93769&key=user_uploads/846621/98237455-fafd-4894-959d-7b955b4fde85)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OOP-smobi-business-texting-reimagined", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-09-11T16:36:35.923Z" }, { "id": 73135, "title": "Smobi - New age marketplace for businesses for sale", "tagline": "Bringing main-street business acquisitions to the 21st century", "body": "# Overview\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1/) and [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mning1598/) from [Smobi](https://smobimarket.com/)!\n\nSmobi is a marketplace that makes it **easy for buyers** to purchase brick & mortar small businesses. We do this by **verifying business listing data** and **managing deal-flow** on our platform.\n\nWebsite: [smobimarket.com](http://smobimarket.com)\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc69c6f56-e67a-45b9-904d-ee8c7ea7f4f0_3456x1812.png)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n* Buyers have to go through numerous listings to find quality businesses because most listings are **incomplete and misrepresented**\n* Business brokers and owners who are looking to sell, **waste their time** working with buyers who aren’t qualified to purchase their business\n* In the past 30 years, technology has only changed the business for sale market in **two** ways:\n * Listings have moved online instead of being in the local newspaper\n * Financial documents are emailed instead of being sent via mail\n* The baby boomer generation is retiring over the next decade, who owns **1\\.4 million businesses** that will close their doors unless they are sold to someone willing to buy them\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nFor those looking to buy, we utilize first and third party data to screen listings, so buyers are looking at the complete picture of the business that is for sale. Buyers can keep track of the state of each of the listings they are interested in and manage deal flow on the platform.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c68aba5-bbb6-4d50-9daf-4afef20fb191_3456x1822.png)\n\nAdditionally, we create NDA protected data rooms with more in-depth documents for each listing on our website. If the broker / seller of the business thinks you’re a good match for buying the business, we send the data room to the buyer.\n\nFor those looking to sell their business, we create a comprehensive profile for each buyer that is interested in a listing that the seller has created. Using data that the buyer has provided and our internal business logic, we classify how well of a match a person is for your business, ultimately saving time in your search for a buyer.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F465d0d7a-7313-4cb9-a80a-e6011294ea8c_3454x1828.png)\n\n### **Our Vision:**\n\nOur long term vision is to **digitize the entire acquisition process** for main-street businesses, ultimately making small business ownership attainable for everyone.\n\n### **Who Are We?**\n\nHi everyone, we are Kunal and Michael, and we are building Smobi. Our mission is to make small business ownership attainable by everyone.\n\nKunal formerly worked in Amazon Advertising, where he built several notification delivery channels that supported 10B+ communications annually. Kunal spent over 6 months in 2022 looking to purchase multiple SMBs and found the process of finding and purchasing a business to be extremely complex, especially for a first time buyer.\n\nBefore Smobi, Michael worked at another YC startup, Dover, as an early engineer where he worked on growth initiatives and building AI products.\n\nKunal and Michael grew up together, have known each other for 10 years, and now both reside in NYC. Together, we are attempting to simplify the small business acquisition process for all parties involved.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73135&key=user_uploads/846621/2ed626b9-972e-4a72-84c0-fe19ecf48dee)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\nThank you for reading about Smobi! We welcome any feedback for our platform as we are just beginning!\n\n* **Sign up today**: Sign up and browse 700+ businesses for sale and get notified when businesses come up for sale tailored to your preferences.\n* **Join our newsletter**: Sign up for our [blog](https://smobi.com/blog) for guides on how to buy and sell SMBs!\n* **Give us your feedback**: Tell us more about what criteria and information you would want before purchasing a SMB\n* **Connect us**: Help us connect with SBA approved lenders, business brokers, people looking to purchase small businesses, and owners looking to sell their business", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1b-smobi-new-age-marketplace-for-businesses-for-sale", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:37:58.227Z" } ] }, { "id": 29117, "name": "Twine", "slug": "twine", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b3e6d9ef44b5a30957092f779906587404458335.png", "website": "http://www.usetwine.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Twine helps service businesses turn more leads into booked revenue. 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Helping small, service-based businesses transform missed calls into paying customers. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/omar-ahmed-imtiaz", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d0bfa30fcaf47182be5204f80261897736c1f745.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74112, "title": "Twine 🪡 AI text conversations for SMBs", "tagline": "Turning missed calls into bookings.", "body": "**tl;dr**: We make sure small businesses never miss out on potential customers because of missed calls. We use conversational AI to engage customers over text, find out what they need, and book them for a service.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74112&key=user_uploads/406208/e4650e95-528b-4a3f-97ed-babcf0965a2f)\n\nWe’re Divyesh, Omar, and Anand, and we’re building [Twine](https://www.usetwine.com/).\n\n# **Problem: Missed Calls = Missed Business** 💸\n\nSmall businesses are missing out on thousands of dollars because they can’t immediately pick up the phone. Customers often work with the company that responds to them the fastest. To solve the problem of missed calls, businesses employ expensive solutions, such as a receptionist or an outsourced answering service.\n\n# **Solution: Missed Calls** ☎️ **→ Immediate AI Text Message Conversations** 💬\n\nIf a business misses a call, Twine texts the customer to find out why they were calling and can get them on their calendar. We integrate with existing VOIP and cell phone services with minimal setup time.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/qSsWRMEkZekNQrHrrkMPALcUeWoAmQKigcw8cNoskTKe2Ereo8Y96_x_EhzqCBhHqKQCFe5gwC9pmZ7s0JuEgFpXQca_qG2iujVLOQzB_HWxR07-NCXHuR0TvUHhHj3P9_vgCmxSzEzRQIpUhvzJwt0)\n\n_Twine understands natural language and follows up with customers to get details and book services._\n\n### **How we got started**\n\nAnand started a networking & audio/visual company in high school that eventually grew to six figures. He sold phone systems to small businesses and saw the revenue his customers left on the table due to missed calls.\n\n# **The Ask** 👋\n\nDo you know a small business owner that could benefit from Twine? If so, we'd be grateful for an introduction!\n\nQuick blurb to copy and paste:\n\n> Twine uses AI to make sure that businesses like yours never miss out on potential customers when calls go unanswered. Check out their website at [www.usetwine.com](http://www.usetwine.com) or email them at [founders@usetwine.com](mailto:founders@usetwine.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JHM-twine-ai-text-conversations-for-smbs", "votes": 331, "created_at": "2023-08-15T15:30:23.196Z" } ] }, { "id": 29119, "name": "Nowadays", "slug": "nowadays", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a04edfc3d5a9b0bb3ae585010c50f7f39fdc2a1.png", "website": "http://nowadays.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Nowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate meetings and events. Our AI doesn't just assist planners – it does the work. It emails and calls venues, negotiates rates in 22 languages, parses 50-page hotel proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and surfaces unmanaged meeting spend across your entire org.\r\n\r\nWe work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic company kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify.\r\n\r\nUnlike legacy platforms like Cvent that bolted AI onto decades-old infrastructure, Nowadays was built from the ground up for the AI era.", "one_liner": "AI-native platform for corporate meetings and events", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1687830204, "tags": [ "B2B", "Logistics", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "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/nowadays", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/nowadays.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowadays-ai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a04edfc3d5a9b0bb3ae585010c50f7f39fdc2a1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/ba2fac5a9acaec8c27991d725107ea149c9ea2a6.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/25148f53122cadc55082e163406f58434e1fa741.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1347384, "full_name": "Anna Sun", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO at Nowadays. Previously PM & SWE at Datadog, DoorDash, and Amazon. Studied Computer Science and graduated from MIT. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/annasun19", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ba62c93f728ad98f33d467d4fb1fe23184c39a89.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1374367, "full_name": "Amy Yan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "COO at Nowadays. 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We're Anna and Amy, sisters, co-founders, and the people who used to manually call 20 hotels for a single offsite.\n\nWe launched Nowadays on YC S23 as an \"AI copilot for event planning.\" Two years later, we want to show you what we actually built :)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/709549e5-8a04-4b5c-8557-76886ff145a0)\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nNowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate retreats and meetings. Tell us what you need: we handle venue sourcing, contract negotiation, room blocks, attendee logistics, and post-event reconciliation. Fortune 500 teams and fast-growing startups use Nowadays to run offsites they're proud of, without burning out their ops team.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/53908cc7-1f81-4c15-afe7-5e0f11b7ad59)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nPlanning a corporate offsite is a second job nobody signed up for.\n\nYour EA or ops lead spends weeks cold-emailing hotels, chasing RFPs, deciphering hotel contracts, and manually tracking room blocks in spreadsheets, only to do it all over again next quarter.\n\nThe vendors in this space are slow and expensive. Many of our customers have said the same thing: \"I got paired with a planner worse than myself.\"\n\nThe result: overpriced venues, cancellation penalties nobody caught, and an ops team that's exhausted before the event even starts. And for most enterprises, 65% of meeting spend is completely unmanaged, buried in expense reports, booked by admins outside any system.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nNowadays replaces the entire event planning stack with one AI-native platform, backed by a team that actually executes on your behalf. You tell us what you need. We handle the rest. Your team just shows up.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/67abf2bb-7640-4684-9bbf-c2bfb3a85d4a)\n\n## **1. AI-powered venue sourcing**\n\nDescribe your event, dates, headcount, vibe, budget, and we generate a curated shortlist of venues with proposals in 24 hours, not weeks. We have relationships with 400K+ hotels globally and we're a certified IATA travel agency.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/cedeb56d-e591-4eed-a1f6-b75d1eabf9b5)\n\n## **2. Contract negotiation, handled**\n\nWe negotiate directly with venues on your behalf, pushing on room rates, F&B minimums, attrition clauses, and cancellation terms. Our AI knows market rates from thousands of events and pushes back when hotels overcharge. Clients routinely save 20-30% vs. going direct.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/1156b34d-e9b9-4e1d-bc9a-7736a13901a9)\n\n## **3. Exclusive rates**\n\nWe aggregate demand across all our clients to secure rates individual companies can't get on their own.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/592bb426-c3e7-4457-ab13-860504f2fc0e)\n\n## **4. End-to-end logistics**\n\nRoom blocks, cutoff dates, rooming lists, supplier coordination, tracked in one place, managed by us. Nothing falls through the cracks while you're onsite.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/49563edb-1c99-4cc1-afbd-d590b691258f)\n\n## **5. Attendee registration and logistics**\n\nCustom registration forms, dietary needs, t-shirt sizes, room assignments, all in the platform. Your ops lead is not managing 12 spreadsheets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/302d0f5a-5d1c-4b01-8cdc-32bffe7d01e8)\n\n## **6. Expert support**\n\nEvery client gets a dedicated Nowadays partner who knows your program, your preferences, and your budget. Our AI acts, and when you need a human, we're there.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/2afea73a-7a20-4209-b1b7-e2ded68d6a13)\n\n## **7. Post-event reconciliation**\n\nWe audit the final folio, catch billing errors, and close the loop financially. No more surprise charges two weeks after everyone's home.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/836fcdff-8837-4754-b447-cda95c651c11)\n\n## **Why we're different**\n\nEvery competitor you've heard of bolted AI onto infrastructure built decades ago. We built around AI from day one, which is why a small team can do at scale what legacy platforms need armies of account managers to do.\n\nOur AI calls venues in 22 languages, parses 50-page proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and routes every meeting through approval workflows, including the small ones EAs used to book on their own.\n\nOne Fortune 500 VP uncovered $18M in previously unmanaged meeting spend just by turning Nowadays on.\n\n# **Use Cases**\n\n* Quarterly offsites: for remote-first teams who need to meet all their new employees\n* Leadership retreats: for executive teams running strategic planning sessions\n* Sales kickoffs: with complex AV, F&B, and multi-day programming needs\n* International group travel: we handle the complexity of multi-country logistics end to end\n\n# **Where We Are Now**\n\nWe work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify.\n\nWe've run retreats from San Diego to Thailand, from 20-person leadership offsites to 500+ person company kickoffs.\n\nWe won both judges' choice and people's choice at Business Travel Show America 2025 and Business Travel Show APAC 2026, the two biggest innovation competitions in corporate travel.\n\n# **Why Now**\n\nCorporate travel spend is back and growing. But the infrastructure for planning events hasn't caught up. Legacy travel companies are slow, opaque, and not built for the modern distributed workforce. We're rebuilding this from scratch with AI at the core and a team that treats every event like it's our own.\n\n# **We're growing!!**\n\nWe're hiring across the board for founding team members, engineers, operators, and account executives who want to work on a problem that's genuinely hard and unsolved, with a really fun team in San Francisco.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/6174eee6-ebce-4c88-8465-b443a7584c55)\n\nSee open roles: [nowadays.ai/careers](https://nowadays.ai/careers)\n\n# **Get started**\n\nBook a call: [meetings-na2.hubspot.com/amy-yan](http://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/amy-yan)\n\nEmail us: [events@nowadays.ai](mailto:events@nowadays.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/ee979b76-ff7a-42cc-99f8-18f3034a7d95)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qrm-nowadays-ai-ai-native-platform-for-corporate-meetings-events", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-06-16T13:51:25.690Z" }, { "id": 73488, "title": "🎉 Nowadays: AI copilot for event planning", "tagline": "Take the hassle out of organizing corporate events", "body": "Hi everyone! We’re Anna and Amy, sisters and co-founders of [Nowadays](https://www.getnowadays.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73488&key=user_uploads/1374367/8abc167e-68ed-4057-ab7a-4f39e5f961ec)\n\n_From left to right:_\n\n[Anna](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annasun19): Software engineer from MIT, with PM & SWE experiences at DoorDash, Amazon, and Datadog. Organized events for 1300+ students as class president at MIT.\n\n[Amy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amysunyan/): 7+ years in strategy & operations roles at Google, Meta, and McKinsey. Organized events for 2000+ students as class president at Johns Hopkins.\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nCorporate event planners are bombarded with endless calls and emails while planning events. Stressing over tight schedules, planners are paying for full-time assistants or tools that cost them $100,000+ a year.\n\nWhat if we could transform this time-consuming and expensive process, making it not just simple, but enjoyable and efficient?\n\n### **🙌🏼 The Solution**\n\nMeet [Nowadays](http://getnowadays.com/), the first AI co-pilot for event planning. Recover hours lost to manual, repetitive tasks, and spend time focusing on what really matters.\n\n**Here’s how it works:** Share event details, and we'll automatically reach out to venues and vendors, manage emails and calls, and stay within budget.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73488&key=user_uploads/1347384/482a0ef3-b7e2-4569-bd63-3e15548b608d)\n\n_Want a venue with an onsite golf course? Done ✅_\n\n_Activities within walking distance? Booked ✅_\n\n_Keeping your costs under a certain budget? You got it ✅_\n\nBut that’s not all. Our AI doesn't just offer a one-size-fits-all approach. It adapts to unique tastes and needs, providing a truly personalized event planning experience.\n\nWe're not just offering a tool; we're offering a smarter way to celebrate, connect, and create unforgettable moments.\n\n### **👋 Ask: How you can help**\n\n1. Know anyone planning corporate events (e.g. retreats, happy hours, holiday parties)? We’d love to speak to any event planners, office managers, or executive assistants about their day-to-day experiences. Send any leads to [founders@getnowadays.com](mailto:founders@getnowadays.com). 🙏\n2. Follow along on our journey [here](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getnowadays/)!\n\n### Transform the way you plan events with **Nowadays** **🚀**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J7I-nowadays-ai-copilot-for-event-planning", "votes": 662, "created_at": "2023-07-27T14:15:04.307Z" } ] }, { "id": 29239, "name": "ion design", "slug": "ion-design", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19ac79a5dd7e79b8d3e0a7794a401a7673116ee9.png", "website": "https://www.ion.design/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We're a website platform for Ecommerce brands. ION pairs your website with AI agents that design, launch, and learn from on-brand experiments that increase revenue per visitor.\r\n\r\nBrands that use ION learn and grow faster than if they were using a traditional CRO team. It's like a growth team working 24/7 to help drive and convert more traffic.\r\n\r\nWe're trusted by $1b+ companies and leading Ecommerce brands.", "one_liner": "AI Website platform that grows revenue automatically", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1698787268, "tags": [ "Design Tools", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ion-design", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/ion-design.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ion-dot-design", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/iondotdesign", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/ion-design", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19ac79a5dd7e79b8d3e0a7794a401a7673116ee9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 608990, "full_name": "Samraaj Bath", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO @ ion design.\n2x YC founder. ex CTO, PM, design team manager, full stack engineer. \nobsessed w/ making it easier to build beautiful products.\n\nI previously founded an ice cream company, bootstrapped a birthday wishing app, danced professionally, and rebuilt a 1981 motorcycle.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/samraajbath", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/samraaj", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9082d26518ac83af8a93212228a3de1b2b71bcad.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92019, "title": "Ruby: The 1st Autonomous AI Product Designer", "tagline": "AI Agent that improves your product while you sleep", "body": "We want you to [meet Ruby.](https://ion.design/ruby)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92019&key=user_uploads/608990/d2392f00-7f84-408c-b2dd-3ad45be16407)\n\n**tl;dr:** You can assign Ruby design tasks right in slack, like optimizing a flow or creating a new page.\n\nShe clarifies requirements, researches, designs multiple options, iterates with you, and ships PRs to your codebase. She will then monitor performance and suggest future improvements.\n\nShe’s like Devin, but for Product Design work.\n\n2 min demo - [**https://youtu.be/0MccwmsZOOc?si=FqSIPUbiX-Y160h8**](https://youtu.be/0MccwmsZOOc?si=FqSIPUbiX-Y160h8)\n\n### Problem\n\n“Over the next decade, as new coding tools make it easier than ever to build and ship products quickly, great design is going to matter even more.” - Aaron Epstein, latest YC RFS\n\nWe agree, and good design takes a LOT of time, money, and care. Ruby can leverage your design thinking and execute against it 100x faster.\n\nWhenever you build a flow, you can be sure Ruby will make it as good as it can be.\n\n### How ruby helps\n\nWhen assigned a task, ruby works through a flow to solve the problem:\n\n1. **Clarify:** Ruby asks your team the right questions until the requirements are clear.\n2. **Research:** Ruby scans usage data, research docs, personas, and finds external inspo.\n3. **Design & Test:** Ruby generates multiple concepts that follow your brand and design system. She simulates usage and discards weak options. She will iterate until she is confident the problem is being solved.\n4. **Iterate:** Ruby presents her work, takes feedback, and refines. She can iterate endlessly.\n5. **Ship:** Opens a PR when you approve a design.\n6. **Improve:** Ruby will monitor your analytics and propose upgrades whenever she spots opportunities.\n\n### Why did we build this?\n\nOur team was early in generative code & design. I’ve been shipping ai design-to-code tools since 2021, and we recently built an AI visual builder called ion.\n\nInternally, we trained an AI that uses our visual builder itself, and taught it the design process.\n\nIt blew us away.\n\nWe named her Ruby, put her into slack, and started giving her to our customers. Her results look promising so we’re sharing her more 🙂\n\n### Our ask\n\n[**Ruby**](https://ion.design/ruby) is meant for fast moving startups who are serious about getting product changes in the hands of customers faster.\n\nIf you want faster experimentation and world‑class design without extra headcount, [**grab a slot on our calendar.**](https://cal.com/samraaj/15min) We are personally onboarding the first batch of customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92019&key=user_uploads/608990/b1b1f820-9458-4ab6-a945-8ad107904847)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NwB-ruby-the-1st-autonomous-ai-product-designer", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2025-07-09T18:31:45.892Z" }, { "id": 89341, "title": "ion - AI development for your non-technical team", "tagline": "We turn your PMs and Designers into shipping machines", "body": "**tldr:** ion is a **visual editor for your codebase** that lets non-engineers (PMs, designers, marketers) safely **edit, refine, and ship** UI changes—while maintaining code quality.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89341&key=user_uploads/608990/2f3dfe27-827f-4c3e-8076-dddc335cdf65)\n\n[Demo (2 minutes)](https://youtu.be/qF0Ery_eqRA)\n\n### Safe “vibe coding”, made for your team\n\n* **Built for your codebase:** ion connects to your github and understands your set up (design system, tokens, components, version control) to ensure changes use existing patterns and fit architecture. Setup takes seconds.\n* **Easy for non-technical team:** ion serves a figma-like experience, so PMs and designers have a familiar interface to make product changes. ion automatically opens PRs so your usual review process stays intact.\n* **Faster Iteration:** No more endless backlogs, Figma → Dev → QA loops, or “design doc limbo.” ion makes smaller (but crucial) changes easy, and keeps your engineers focused on the big stuff.\n\n### Problem\n\nProduct teams are split in to two camps:\n\n* Those who can ship (engineers).\n* Those who can’t ship (PMs, designers, marketers, etcc)\n\nSmall changes—marketing pages, design tweaks, growth experiments—get stuck behind bigger features and developer bandwidth.\n\nBut they’re inherently different work and shouldn’t be at odds with one another.\n\n### Solution\n\nWith ion, your entire product team gains the ability to ship through a simple visual editor.\n\nYour team can either point and describe their changes through natural language, or enter “design mode” to get a Figma-like editor built on top of your codebase.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89341&key=user_uploads/608990/d37e63ab-9b64-4323-b5cc-01b434303621)\n\nion automatically wires everything into GitHub branches/PRs, so you still maintain engineering rigor.\n\nEngineers are freed up to focus on **high-leverage** work (architecture, data, business logic), while non-technical folks self-serve on UI changes, experiments, front end, and other changes.\n\n### How it’s being used today:\n\n* **Rapid Product Iteration**\n * Instead of back-and-forth on Slack or Loom videos, designers/PMs can open an ion link for a given branch, visually tweak what’s needed, and ship updated PRs.\n* **Design Fixes**\n * Designers fix design issues directly within ion rather than piling up a backlog of styling tickets. Some teams even skip Figma altogether for minor tweaks.\n* **Growth & Marketing**\n * Launch new landing pages, promotions, or experiments at lightning speed. No more waiting on the dev queue for something as simple as a copy change.\n\n### Our ask\n\nion has already shipped thousands of lines of code at companies of all sizes. If you’re interested in unlocking the development productivity of your team, please reach out:\n\n* Email us at founders@ion.design\n* [Book some time to chat on my calendar](https://cal.com/samraaj/15min)\n* [Download ion now - it’s free to start 🙂](https://ion.design/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NEz-ion-ai-development-for-your-non-technical-team", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-04-08T18:16:40.189Z" }, { "id": 78764, "title": "⚡️ ion design - Instantly turn Figma designs into clean React code", "tagline": "A design system that writes and maintains your code for you, automatically.", "body": "Hi everyone 👋🏽🧡. [Samraaj](https://linkedin.com/in/samraajbath) and [Samuel](https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-barnholdt-a480b3179) here from [ion design](https://www.ion.design/). We’re super excited to share what we’ve been working on with you!\n\n**tldr:**\n\nion design automatically turns Figma designs into pixel-perfect, production-ready code, speeding up front-end implementation time by at least 40%.\n\nWe accomplish this by serving a fully featured Figma design system and matching React component library. This allows our generations to come out with incredibly high-quality, functional code that saves hours of time.\n\nThink of us like UntitledUI and Shadcn on steroids - we speed up both the design and implementation processes.\n\n**Deal:**\n\nOur design system with 5,000+ custom components is available for just $10 for the first 100 customers - [get access here](https://buy.stripe.com/28o1739KTcx59Vu8wB?prefilled_promo_code=YCLAUNCH24)\n\nHere’s a quick demo of our design system being used to generate a production-ready application:\n\n[DEMO](https://youtu.be/81kUjZUXaxQ)\n\n[Demo Application - Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/LncZWxVTpD4svqEUVk63pC/ion-demo-application?type=design&node-id=105%3A4665&mode=design&t=CW5GRxhuZBUGbc6t-1)\n\n[Demo Application - GitHub](https://github.com/ion-design/ion-demo-application)\n\n[Demo Application - Live Link](https://ion-demo-application.vercel.app/)\n\n# The Problem - implementing designs is expensive, painful, and monotonous.\n\nDesign and front-end engineering is re-doing the same work twice. We think this is ridiculous, and a total waste of time for businesses that leads to a multitude of problems:\n\n* **Engineers feel like they are wasting their time** monotonously writing CSS to match pixels in Figma. They would prefer to focus on more interesting work that drives value - like business logic, architecture, and data. They also hate working with primitives and want useable components out-of-the-box.\n* **Designers feel that there’s always a disconnect** between what they made and production. They’re constrained by engineering bottlenecks and their fixes will never be live. Many want a system they can put in place so the organization can be more structured and consistent.\n* **PMs & Founders hate having to prioritize design changes** against product iterations and new feature releases. They wish that the design work could just get done.\n\n# ⚡ Solution - The ion system\n\nion serves a customizable design system & component library that can be synced with your codebase ✨automatically✨.\n\nWe’re the first UI-kit that’s tightly coupled between Figma and React and works with out-of-the-box code generation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78764&key=user_uploads/608990/40106740-b0ff-42ca-8502-5f2138f80e84)\n\nHere are some killer features:\n\n* ion automatically re-uses your existing components and writes READABLE code that your engineers can interface with.\n* ion writes stub functions and state handlers for your buttons, inputs, text areas, tabs, and other complicated components, automatically.\n* ion raises merge conflicts for design changes and soon will be able to create pull requests directly in your repo.\n* ion keeps you consistent, clean, and quick in your development. Oftentimes, the generated code is cleaner and easier to work with than what I write.\n\nUsing ion also saves your designers thousands of hours by serving 5,000+ well-built Figma components. This empowers you to design faster and maintain consistency across your application. Here’s a gif of me creating a screen in a matter of minutes:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78764&key=user_uploads/608990/87b26b94-5a26-4e5e-bec1-fe31c3a8e742)\n\nOur design system is endlessly theme-able and syncs directly with the CSS variables in your codebase. Light mode and dark mode are baked into the system.\n\nSay goodbye to re-writing classnames and pulling your hair out to get things to look good. You can even add whatever custom themes you want.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78764&key=user_uploads/608990/8f4f009c-a9e8-423a-ace6-db1a05008e4c)\n\n# 💲 Special Deal\n\n* JUST $10 for access to our design system with 5,000+ Figma components and the matching React+tailwind code. [Ready to go for any project - get started here.](https://buy.stripe.com/28o1739KTcx59Vu8wB?prefilled_promo_code=YCLAUNCH24)\n* Personal hands-on help from our team to use the design system and integrate generated code for you.\n\n[Sign up for early access here.](https://www.ion.design/)\n\n[or - book a call with me directly here.](https://cal.com/samraaj/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUO-ion-design-instantly-turn-figma-designs-into-clean-react-code", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-02-26T19:15:51.663Z" } ] }, { "id": 29323, "name": "Zaymo", "slug": "zaymo", "former_names": [ "Zaymo Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5f257204d98f9d544a5265e0aac1efeeae4f1f3.png", "website": "https://zaymo.com", "all_locations": "Lehi, UT, USA", "long_description": "Zaymo is a full-stack retention marketing agency for the largest brands on Shopify. We bring all your data in house, remove the guess work, and automate the busy work. Agents find opportunities, build content, and iterate autonomously while expert retention marketers help you set strategy and oversee outputs.", "one_liner": "Zaymo is building an AI marketing agency", "team_size": 18, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1701370559, "tags": [ "E-commerce", "Marketing", "Email", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/zaymo", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/zaymo.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Lehi", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zaymo", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GetZaymo", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zaymo", "github_url": "https://github.com/getzaymo", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5f257204d98f9d544a5265e0aac1efeeae4f1f3.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1176709, "full_name": "Brice Douglas", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I believe that to create is core to humanity, so I love to build things.\n\nIn college, I was very involved at the world's largest student-run venture firm and worked in the corporate strategy group of a public YC company. I met Santiago and Danny at a university hackathon, and we decided to work together on Zaymo before dropping out to raise a pre-seed.\n\nI like to be outside. Catch me skiing, rock climbing, and running when I'm not building.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/bricedouglas", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thebricedouglas", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/84ff27df7702e931b3a54dc6d1e637f898ab9cd7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1217059, "full_name": "Daniel Jones", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder and CTO of Zaymo with previous experience in AI and biotech at Harvard Medical School. I won $900k+ in pitch competitions throughout undergrad, published several research papers, and was a competitive pianist. Before Zaymo I did enterprise software sales for an early startup and started a coaching program. I've lived in Germany, New Zealand, and Russia and enjoy trail running, big ideas, and chess", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-kj", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/danielkentjones", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8e3112f10207e6607bd8f4159f05b0c10b13b46c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 71456, "title": "Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zaymo/jobs/xGeVSF8-software-engineer", "location": "Lehi, UT, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$80K - $130K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 81361, "title": "Senior Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zaymo/jobs/tLztjfJ-senior-software-engineer", "location": "Lehi, UT, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$130K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 104129, "title": "Product Support Lead", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zaymo/jobs/sKOuuDH-product-support-lead", "location": "Lehi, UT, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$55K - $75K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.10%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Gozney Increases Abandoned Cart Revenue 27% with Zaymo", "url": "https://zaymo.com/blog/gozney-case-study", "date": "Oct 23, 2023" }, { "title": "Zaymo Raises $700K Pre-Seed Round - TechBuzz News - Utah Tech News", "url": "https://www.techbuzz.news/zaymo-raises-700k-pre-seed-round/", "date": "Aug 16, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78528, "title": "📧 Zaymo: Shop directly inside emails", "tagline": "Lift email conversion rates 27% by embedding Shopify directly in the email", "body": "**tl;dr:** _Recent changes to email protocols allow websites to be embedded in emails. _[_Zaymo_](https://zaymo.com/)_ is the first email design tool that allows users to complete actions, like shop for products, directly inside an email. Our interactive emails have brought in 27% more revenue than existing solutions._\n\n[**🧠**](https://emojipedia.org/brain) **no-brainer ask**: If you’re reading this, you can **gift a free trial with Zaymo.** We don’t offer free trials outside of this post. Intro a Shopify brand to [founders@zaymo.com](mailto:founders@zaymo.com) and you’re good to go :)\n\n### problem\n\n* **1 - 3% conversion rates** at best from e-commerce emails\n* However, e-commerce stores attribute **\\~20 - 30% of total revenue** to email marketing\n* Interactive emails work well, but cross-platform compliance means **implementation requires several hours of coding** for a single email\n\n### solution\n\nMarketers can build reliable interactive emails in minutes with Zaymo. Here’s an email that increases orders for subscription brands and improves retention.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/e8941b14-5a3b-4569-b423-c76a17cd1f83)\n\nZaymo supports the following:\n\n* In-email abandoned cart recovery\n* In-email one-click subscription upsell\n* In-email Campaigns\n* In-email Review collection\n* In-email Forms\n\nEventually, we’ll support hundreds of use cases.\n\n**Case study:** [**A/B test with Zaymo increases revenue by 27% for Gozney**](https://getzaymo.com/blog/gozney-case-study)\n\n### backstory\n\nAs a PM, Co-founder [Santi](https://linkedin.com/in/gomezpaz) led Turing.com to adopt interactive emails after proving out a 3x conversion rate boost in A/B tests. After unsuccessfully searching for 3rd-party tools, his team built the functionality into their internal tool.\n\nSanti knew in-email interactivity should be more accessible to marketers, and Zaymo was born.\n\n### ask\n\nIf you’re reading this, you can **gift a free trial with Zaymo.** We don’t offer free trials outside of this. Just intro a Shopify brand to [founders@zaymo.com](mailto:founders@zaymo.com) and you’re good to go :)\n\n### additional examples\n\nAbandoned cart recovery\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/9321eac7-7585-4376-a089-2b0fbc627217)\n\nReviews\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/612e7605-7ef5-4673-9989-d1debfaeeb68)\n\nEmail builder\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/3b2e6c72-b81b-453d-a6a1-fd94b8201e0b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KQa-zaymo-shop-directly-inside-emails", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-02-19T19:09:25.446Z" } ] }, { "id": 29353, "name": "Resonance", "slug": "resonance", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f32584f82882e696b3984dfcf4bd700cce69fd5f.png", "website": "https://www.useresonance.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Resonance hyper-personalizes MarTech campaign content and automatically refreshes and stores high performing content for re-use.", "one_liner": "Self-improving content bank for marketing", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1709332105, "tags": [ "Reinforcement Learning", "SaaS", "Subscriptions", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/resonance", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/resonance.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/99332802/admin/feed/posts/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f32584f82882e696b3984dfcf4bd700cce69fd5f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 570574, "full_name": "Jonathan Ou", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jonathan is the CEO of Resonance. Before Resonance, he worked at DoorDash on a voice AI to automatically place customer orders over the phone. Prior to DoorDash, he worked at Dropbox to help build an internal in-product messaging platform that generated $100 million ARR. Prior to Dropbox, he worked at Microsoft helping build a platform that enabled doctors and patients to meet virtually using Microsoft Teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jto98", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e6a93656f11045a21c1ba0ab1bac3a79a69bcd6a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79089, "title": "Resonance - Optimally upsell users within your product", "tagline": "Effortlessly boost net revenue retention in your product post user onboarding.", "body": "> **TL;DR:**\n\n[_Resonance_](https://www.useresonance.com/) _is an ad server for house ads (self-promotional marketing). Companies use Resonance as a one-stop shop for campaign creation, intelligent experimentation/prioritization, analytics, and impression management to boost net revenue retention following user onboarding._ [_Schedule a demo_](https://calendly.com/jonathantou/quick-chat) or [_get in contact_](https://www.useresonance.com/contact).\n\n> **The Team:**\n\nI used to work as a SWE at Dropbox, DoorDash, and Microsoft. In particular, I helped build a similar platform to Resonance at Dropbox that generated $100 million ARR. I wanted to start Resonance because 1) I felt there were many ways to improve that particular tool and 2) I wanted to bring that tool to other companies that need it but don’t have the bandwidth to build it themselves.\n\n> **The Problem:**\n\nFor companies that depend on product-led growth (primarily consumer/SMB/startup-centric companies), their website remains their most valuable marketing channel. Post-user onboarding, these companies rely on in-product messaging to drive feature adoption so they can retain users.\n\nUnfortunately, this sort of strategy only works at scale, and there are many challenges in doing so. Below are some non-trivial functionalities that modern companies require to launch effective campaigns with velocity:\n\n1. Code-based and no-code workflows for launching campaigns\n2. Campaign performance analytics\n3. Intelligent campaign targeting and experimentation\n4. Sophisticated campaign impression management\n5. UX flexibility (i.e. messaging should not be limited just to overlays)\n\nSolving this problem is crucial, as millions in ARR is left on the table if companies cannot properly scale their in-product feature discovery/awareness/education. Companies like Dropbox that have built tooling to address the above challenges have generated up to $100 million ARR from the increased user retention.\n\n> **The Solution:**\n\nSolving this problem requires building a centralized system where any stakeholder (technical or non-technical) can effortlessly launch campaigns to drive in-product feature adoption.\n\nHolistic assessment of campaign performance, global impression management, and optimized campaign targeting can only work at scale if there is a single system that serves as a repository for all campaigns and governs campaign creation.\n\nResonance addresses this by providing a central platform where developers and non-developers can both easily launch in-product feature adoption campaigns within minutes, with the above functionalities provided out of the box.\n\nBelow are screenshots of some important features in our UI (and there are many more).\n\n* No code builder with live preview on your website and experimentation\n * (**NOTE**: The preview will obviously be with your website and UI components - disregard my modal and website)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/7339d733-3683-43bd-9fac-f23d881bfdf4)\n\n* Complex User Targeting\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/cc3cd9e1-809f-499e-b871-934e27807a38)\n\n* Sophisticated Frequency Management\n * (**NOTE**: We also have similar rules that apply globally for all campaigns)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/f1b8a942-dc12-440f-8680-6c4dee517be4)\n\n* Global Analytics\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/62457d65-c845-48ff-8877-569dfa707544)\n\n* Intelligent Experimentation (experiment up to 7x faster with 4-8x more variants)\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/53430985-a9d3-4c17-97eb-52bc56285c86)\n\n\n> Our Ask\n\n1. If you are a product-led company, shipping a lot of features, or are using something like Intercom or Pendo, I’d love to set up some time here to chat about improving your user retention. I’m familiar with existing tools and I believe I can do a much better job.\n2. If not, I’d appreciate an intro to anyone in your network who works in a senior role within growth or product if possible.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZd-resonance-optimally-upsell-users-within-your-product", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2024-03-06T01:22:47.987Z" } ] }, { "id": 29377, "name": "Toma", "slug": "toma", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/30c720ae0d8e011f3d717a623f88d12d48f2a84c.png", "website": "http://www.toma.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "AI Applied Research", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1702419018, "tags": [ "Marketing", "Customer Support", "AI", "Automotive", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/toma", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/toma.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tomavoice/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/toma_voice", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/tomavoiceai", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/toma-so/toma", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/30c720ae0d8e011f3d717a623f88d12d48f2a84c.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": 92912, "full_name": "Monik Pamecha", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Toma", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/monikp", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/monikkinom", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/56ce271920b124dc06b81841d029159e118ab97e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 416691, "full_name": "Anthony Krivonos", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder @ Toma", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/anthonykrivonos", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/blandthony", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8bf89d456fa5f911d7ec946fe688db1da1d8917f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Car Dealerships Are Replacing Phone Staff With AI Voice Agents", "url": "https://futurism.com/car-dealerships-ai-voice", "date": "Jun 08, 2025" }, { "title": "Holman invests in Toma's dealership call automation platform - Automotive News", "url": "https://www.autonews.com/retail/an-toma-raises-17-million-0605/", "date": "Jun 05, 2025" }, { "title": "Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships -- and attracted funding from a16z | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/tomas-ai-voice-agents-have-taken-off-at-car-dealerships-and-attracted-funding-from-a16z/", "date": "Jun 05, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 92511, "title": "Toma, an AI Platform for the $2T Automotive Industry", "tagline": "Toma is on a mission to build world-class communication and support tools for America's high ticket industries, starting with automotive.", "body": "### **Next-Gen Voice AI in a $2T Industry that Silicon Valley Overlooks**\n\nWe’re thrilled to share that Toma [**raised a $17M Series A**](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/tomas-ai-voice-agents-have-taken-off-at-car-dealerships-and-attracted-funding-from-a16z/), led by **Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)**, who chose us after vetting every voice AI company in automotive. The wild part is that we got here through just word-of-mouth sales, without a sales team, and now power **hundreds of customers** across the U.S.\n\nSince graduating from YC, we’ve gone knee-deep into a trillion-dollar industry historically neglected by Silicon Valley––automotive dealerships. We’ve spent half a year **living in them** to learn how they communicate with their customers, run their day-to-day operations, and provide both great and (usually) not-so-great customer experiences. To put it simply, **things are broken**.\n\nSo we built AI agents that fix it by:\n\n* Deploying **personalized agents**\n* **Automating inbound calls** with a low-latency, natural-sounding voice AI\n* Running **outbound SMS** campaigns that generate new revenue\n* **Deeply integrating** with automotive-specific software\n* Offering **insights and reporting** into every AI/customer interaction\n* Intelligently **alerting customers** when human intervention is needed\n\nWe’re now the **fastest-growing** AI platform in automotive, and we’re just getting started.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92511&key=user_uploads/416691/65a56669-51b7-40ff-ad8e-4c443df5a09c)\n\n### **From YC Hack Project to Must-Have AI Employee**\n\nWe started Toma as **two engineers** ([Monik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/monikp/) & [Anthony](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonykrivonos/)) who didn’t want to build another generic chatbot. We flew around the country, shadowing advisors in hot service bays, listening to call recordings, and mapping dealership workflows in Figma. We **wrote code inside dealerships** as bugs and feature ideas were discovered alongside our users.\n\nWe took a YC prototype and turned it into a real product. Today, dealerships such as [Martin Management Group](https://www.toma.com/resources/case-study/how-ai-doubled-operational-margins-for-martin-management-group) and [Middletown Honda](https://www.toma.com/resources/case-study/how-toma-helps-middletown-honda-save-100k-annually) rely on Toma to handle **tens of thousands of calls** monthly. Calls that were previously missing entirely or requiring thousands of dollars to outsource to call centers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92511&key=user_uploads/416691/3a60abaf-e5fd-437a-8b4c-f38d911f215e)\n\n### **The Results Are Wild**\n\n* **Martin Management Group:** 9,000 service appointments booked in 90 days. $2M+ in revenue. 40% reduction in BDC workload.\n* **Middletown Honda:** 53% of inbound calls handled by AI. $100K+ saved annually. Zero missed calls during recall events.\n* **Nationwide:** Over 1 million call minutes handled by Toma since launch. Hundreds of thousands of hours of human time saved.\n* **Growth:** Surpassed 7-figures in ARR in less than one year while approaching 8 figures with over 100 dealerships using Toma across the U.S.\n\nThe best part is that vehicle owners love it, dealers love it, and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) love it because **Toma works very well**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92511&key=user_uploads/416691/85178e79-dde7-4ec7-b19e-b28691d601a4)\n\n### **Why This Industry Matters (and Why It’s Underserved)**\n\nCars are essential to how Americans live, work, and move, and they’re getting older. The average vehicle on the road is 12.6 years old. That means **more maintenance, more service calls, and more pressure** on dealerships to deliver better experiences.\n\nSilicon Valley has historically **ignored this space**. It’s messy, full of edge cases, and utilizes antiquated software, requiring a deep understanding of real-world operations. **That’s where we thrive.** We see a gold rush in how AI can revolutionize the automotive retail industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92511&key=user_uploads/416691/e94c67ce-14f4-4b8a-8648-3b105052b1d9)\n\n### **Why This Industry is Just the Beginning**\n\n**Automotive** is one of many high-ticket, operationally complex industries in the U.S.—alongside insurance, home services, logistics, and healthcare—where communication is still largely **manual**, software is **legacy**, and workflows are deeply **idiosyncratic**.\n\nThese industries are slow-moving but massive, with billions of dollars lost every year due to inefficiencies. While we’re laser-focused on fixing communication in dealerships, Toma is **building the horizontal foundation for deploying production-grade AI assistants** across every high-value, high-friction service industry. We believe the future of operations will be AI-augmented, and we’re laying the rails.\n\n### **The Tech**\n\n**In-house**, we have built:\n\n* A SOTA **voice AI orchestration** pipeline\n* **Dynamic integration platform** for connecting to legacy software\n* Production-grade **agentic workflow** engine\n* **Agent evaluation** pipelines\n* **Prompt management** tools that allow us to support hundreds of customers as a 3-person ops team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92511&key=user_uploads/416691/2c4115f8-a2bf-433b-b7f3-30f4fa6ca0c3)\n\n### **Our Culture: Builders First, Always**\n\nToma was **built by engineers**, and we hire technically-minded people across all responsibilities. We move quickly, fix things, and build from the ground up. We care deeply about real-world impact and meticulous attention to detail.\n\nWe’re backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Scale Angels, Flex Capital, Holman Automotive, and more. But more than anything, we’re backed by many of our own dealerships and their staff, who trust us to communicate with their customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92511&key=user_uploads/416691/9eeaaa4c-ba17-4927-82b9-230c362a3684)\n\n### **Who We're Looking For**\n\nYou might be a fit if you:\n\n* Want to build **cutting-edge AI features** and work on SOTA everything\n* Are **disillusioned by AI slop** products and want to solve real-world problems\n* Want **excessive ownership** of critical systems and infrastructure\n* Have a **high bar of excellence** and want to work with people who match your energy\n\nIf you’re curious, please join us in building the future of AI-powered automotive retail operations. We’re a small team, but we punch above our weight and are having a blast doing it.\n\n👉 [www.toma.com/jobs](http://www.toma.com/jobs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O47-toma-an-ai-platform-for-the-2t-automotive-industry", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-02-07T06:49:05.753Z" }, { "id": 92512, "title": "Toma: AI Platform for the $2T Automotive Industry", "tagline": "Toma is on a mission to build world-class communication and support tools for America's high ticket industries, starting with automotive.", "body": "### **Next-Gen Voice AI in a $2T Industry that Silicon Valley Overlooks**\n\nWe’re thrilled to share that Toma [**raised a $17M Series A**](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/tomas-ai-voice-agents-have-taken-off-at-car-dealerships-and-attracted-funding-from-a16z/), led by **Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)**, who chose us after vetting every voice AI company in automotive. The wild part is that we got here through just word-of-mouth sales, without a sales team, and now power **hundreds of customers** across the U.S.\n\nSince graduating from YC, we’ve gone knee-deep into a trillion-dollar industry historically neglected by Silicon Valley–– automotive dealerships. We’ve spent half a year **living in them** to learn how they communicate with their customers, run their day-to-day operations, and provide both great and (usually) not-so-great customer experiences. To put it simply, **things are broken**.\n\nSo we built AI agents that fix it by:\n\n* Deploying **personalized agents**\n* **Automating inbound calls** with a low-latency, natural-sounding voice AI\n* Running **outbound SMS** campaigns that generate new revenue\n* **Deeply integrating** with automotive-specific software\n* Offering **insights and reporting** into every AI/customer interaction\n* Intelligently **alerting customers** when human intervention is needed\n\nWe’re now the **fastest-growing** AI platform in automotive, and we’re just getting started.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92512&key=user_uploads/416691/65a56669-51b7-40ff-ad8e-4c443df5a09c)\n\n### **From YC Hack Project to Must-Have AI Employee**\n\nWe started Toma as **two engineers** ([Monik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/monikp/) & [Anthony](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonykrivonos/)) who didn’t want to build another generic chatbot. We flew around the country, shadowing advisors in hot service bays, listening to call recordings, and mapping dealership workflows in Figma. We **wrote code inside dealerships** as bugs and feature ideas were discovered alongside our users.\n\nWe took a YC prototype and turned it into a real product. Today, dealerships such as [Martin Management Group](https://www.toma.com/resources/case-study/how-ai-doubled-operational-margins-for-martin-management-group) and [Middletown Honda](https://www.toma.com/resources/case-study/how-toma-helps-middletown-honda-save-100k-annually) rely on Toma to handle **tens of thousands of calls** monthly. Calls that were previously missing entirely or requiring thousands of dollars to outsource to call centers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92512&key=user_uploads/416691/3a60abaf-e5fd-437a-8b4c-f38d911f215e)\n\n### **The Results Are Wild**\n\n* **Martin Management Group:** 9,000 service appointments booked in 90 days. $2M+ in revenue. 40% reduction in BDC workload.\n* **Middletown Honda:** 53% of inbound calls handled by AI. $100K+ saved annually. Zero missed calls during recall events.\n* **Nationwide:** Over 1 million call minutes handled by Toma since launch. Hundreds of thousands of hours of human time saved.\n* **Growth:** Surpassed 7-figures in ARR in less than one year while approaching 8 figures with over 100 dealerships using Toma across the U.S.\n\nThe best part is that vehicle owners love it, dealers love it, and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) love it because **Toma works very well**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92512&key=user_uploads/416691/85178e79-dde7-4ec7-b19e-b28691d601a4)\n\n### **Why This Industry Matters (and Why It’s Underserved)**\n\nCars are essential to how Americans live, work, and move, and they’re getting older. The average vehicle on the road is 12.6 years old. That means **more maintenance, more service calls, and more pressure** on dealerships to deliver better experiences.\n\nSilicon Valley has historically **ignored this space**. It’s messy, full of edge cases, and utilizes antiquated software, requiring a deep understanding of real-world operations. **That’s where we thrive.** We see a gold rush in how AI can revolutionize the automotive retail industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92512&key=user_uploads/416691/e94c67ce-14f4-4b8a-8648-3b105052b1d9)\n\n### **Why This Industry is Just the Beginning**\n\n**Automotive** is one of many high-ticket, operationally complex industries in the U.S.—alongside insurance, home services, logistics, and healthcare—where communication is still largely **manual**, software is **legacy**, and workflows are deeply **idiosyncratic**.\n\nThese industries are slow-moving but massive, with billions of dollars lost every year due to inefficiencies. While we’re laser-focused on fixing communication in dealerships, Toma is **building the horizontal foundation for deploying production-grade AI assistants** across every high-value, high-friction service industry. We believe the future of operations will be AI-augmented, and we’re laying the rails.\n\n### **The Tech**\n\n**In-house**, we have built:\n\n* A SOTA **voice AI orchestration** pipeline\n* **Dynamic integration platform** for connecting to legacy software\n* Production-grade **agentic workflow** engine\n* **Agent evaluation** pipelines\n* **Prompt management** tools that allow us to support hundreds of customers as a 3-person ops team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92512&key=user_uploads/416691/2c4115f8-a2bf-433b-b7f3-30f4fa6ca0c3)\n\n### **Our Culture: Builders First, Always**\n\nToma was **built by engineers**, and we hire technically-minded people across all responsibilities. We move quickly, fix things, and build from the ground up. We care deeply about real-world impact and meticulous attention to detail.\n\nWe’re backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Scale Angels, Flex Capital, Holman Automotive, and more. But more than anything, we’re backed by many of our own dealerships and their staff, who trust us to communicate with their customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92512&key=user_uploads/416691/9eeaaa4c-ba17-4927-82b9-230c362a3684)\n\n### **Who We're Looking For**\n\nYou might be a fit if you:\n\n* Want to build **cutting-edge AI features** and work on SOTA everything\n* Are **disillusioned by AI slop** products and want to solve real-world problems\n* Want **excessive ownership** of critical systems and infrastructure\n* Have a **high bar of excellence** and want to work with people who match your energy\n\nIf you’re curious, please join us in building the future of AI-powered automotive retail operations. We’re a small team, but we punch above our weight and are having a blast doing it.\n\n👉 [www.toma.com/jobs](http://www.toma.com/jobs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O48-toma-ai-platform-for-the-2t-automotive-industry", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-07-28T17:47:22.350Z" }, { "id": 77697, "title": "🪄 Toma automates your phone calls with AI ✨", "tagline": "Voice AI Agents to handle phone calls and perform tasks for your business", "body": "### **TLDR;**\n\n[**Toma**](https://toma.so/) offers AI Agents that can autonomously handle phone calls for your business.\n\n🗣️ A natural-sounding voice experience over the phone\\\n🪄 A simple way to design call flows and manage AI agents\\\n🧩 Easy integration into your existing software to pull information and perform tasks on/off call\n\nToma is live and automating calls for companies in industries ranging from healthcare to automotive.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nCustomers call businesses expecting a superior experience over other channels. Instead, they have to put up with:\n\n❌ Long wait times\\\n❌ Repeated transfers to different agents without any context\\\n❌ Robotic call flows (read: Press 1 for English.. Sorry.. I didn’t catch that... Let me repeat the options)\n\nBusinesses find phone call operations **labor-intensive**, **expensive**, **inconsistent in quality**, and **hard to scale**.\n\nThe main challenges for businesses include:\n\n* Training agents\n* Ensuring quality and consistency across calls\n* Access control & compliance\n\n### **Our Solution:** [**Toma**](https://toma.so/)\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5SvyAHtyyU**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5SvyAHtyyU)\n\n* **Realistic call experience**: customizable human-like voices with low latency tested in noisy, real-world environments\n* **Integrations**: integrate with your CRM, knowledge bases, and third-party software to pull and push data\n* **Observability**: monitor calls with recordings, summaries, and granular analytics\n* **Live 24/7**: always on, no breaks\n* **Transfer**: intelligently transfer to humans if needed\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77697&key=user_uploads/92912/75ed5b30-3ec8-4de2-a6af-9d53e9d84c7e)\n\n### **TEAM**\n\nWe’re Monik & Anthony. We’re best friends who have worked together and known each other for many years.\n\nWe believe that voice will be the best way for consumers to interact with AI in the future. The ubiquity of phones, advancements in AI, and the friction of traditional interactive voice systems have set the industry up for disruption.\n\nWe have extensive experience building large-scale customer messaging software, LLM applications, and conversational AI working at Scale, Uber, Lyft, and Braze, and we believe we can make the experience 10x better.\n\n### **Asks:**\n\n* If your business makes or receives phone calls, please set up a call with us [**here**](https://www.toma.so/contact) if you’d like to explore automation\n* Intros to any businesses that run their own call centers or outsource those operations (you can reach us at [founders@toma.so](mailto:founders@toma.so))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KDB-toma-automates-your-phone-calls-with-ai", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-01-22T16:50:46.263Z" } ] }, { "id": 29407, "name": "JustAI", "slug": "justai", "former_names": [ "Choice", "Choice AI", "just words", "Just Words" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/166536f94d496e2b50084b3b8edf8b6d9e29040b.png", "website": "https://getjust.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Always-on AI agents for 1-1 personalization at scale", "one_liner": "Agentic Marketing Platform", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1704840202, "tags": [ "Reinforcement Learning", "Workflow Automation", "Personalization", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? 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Every campaign is a one-off experiment.\r\n\r\nIn the world we’re building, **AI-marketers** will handle this entire loop — strategy, creation, optimization, and learning — with humans acting as orchestrators, not operators.\r\n\r\n* Campaigns will **self-evolve**: AI agents will detect new opportunities, write and test messages, measure outcomes, and continuously improve.\r\n* Brands will move from **batch campaigns** to **living systems** — always-on, hyper-personalized, cross-channel journeys that adapt in real time.\r\n* Every marketer, no matter their company size, will have access to enterprise-level intelligence — a strategist, a creative, an optimizer, and a data scientist — all in one AI team.\r\n\r\nThe world will shift from “humans using tools” to **humans teaming with AI agents**.\\\r\nAnd in doing so, we’ll make personalization not just scalable, but truly human again — every message relevant, every experience intelligent, every brand empathetic at scale." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/justai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/justai.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getjustai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getjustai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/166536f94d496e2b50084b3b8edf8b6d9e29040b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/64/1712293254075-oa1quvatg4-d244daa8dd4b243426185eb8f60afd01/97ff172a722b3330829f91f059c8a6fa.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022718Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=9d901f8c8d5a89ffbc8593efcbecbf2e7710642a848ee8af318bba6194c23a5a", "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Pete Koomen", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/pete-koomen" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1381391, "full_name": "Neha Mittal", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Neha Mittal is the CEO & Co-founder of JustAI. She was the head of product for Retention & Growth at Pinterest and at Twitter. She also co-founded CityStructure and was the founding engineer at Sensorflow. She has also held product & engineering roles at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Goldman Sachs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/neha01mittal", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/neha01mittal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/163592976aa66718aaf2fdbb6a4f09a93ea4efb0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 89154, "title": "Full Stack Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/justai/jobs/BmBq81w-full-stack-software-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $160K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 89155, "title": "Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/justai/jobs/NOV6eqU-account-executive", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$150K - $350K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Just Words Gets Funding From Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator", "url": "https://inc42.com/buzz/former-x-executives-startup-just-words-nets-funding-to-automate-personalised-messaging-for-enterprises/", "date": "Aug 27, 2024" }, { "title": "YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/ycs-latest-demo-day-shows-fascinating-wagers-on-healthcare-chip-design-ai-and-more/", "date": "Apr 04, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 77393, "title": "just words - Scale Hyper-personalized Messaging with AI", "tagline": "Maximize growth velocity with automated message refresh on emails and push.", "body": "**tldr:** We’re building an AI-first marketing tech stack for enterprises. We are on a mission to rethink growth by turning content into conversations. Our core product allows companies to auto-refresh content on growth channels like emails using reinforcement learning, artificial intelligence, and causal inferences. Companies have 10X their speed of experimentation, and have seen stat sig engagement lift with our technology. \n\n```\n❌ the problem\n```\n\n1\\. Traditional A/B testing is slow. It can take 3-6 months to run one test because of organizational decision-making and lack of ML infrastructure. \n\n2\\. Content and copy selection is based on vibes. \n\n3\\. Prioritization of the biggest opportunities is decided by the loudest voice in the room. \n\n```\n✨ our solution\n```\n\n1\\. Enrich CRM with ML powered personalization \n\n2\\. Auto-refresh content on the fly. Auto-tune underperforming content with newly generated dynamic content in real time\n\n3\\. Use insights from infinite testing to predict the next best action.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77393&key=user_uploads/1381391/30b40cc4-6a73-4e12-9a09-5cbba4930fb3)\n\n```\n🙏 asks\n```\n\n1\\. Check out [justwords.ai](http://justwords.ai) and book a demo for your use case (email, sms, push, landing page titles).\n\n2\\. Connect us to your growth & marketing teams. Book a [30 min slot](https://calendly.com/just-words) with us or drop us an email at [founders@justwords.ai.](mailto:founders@justwords.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K8H-just-words-scale-hyper-personalized-messaging-with-ai", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2024-01-10T20:48:09.601Z" } ] }, { "id": 29501, "name": "Latted", "slug": "latted", "former_names": [ "Fume Test", "Fume" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9b29e2d502cf6d25b0468bc3a78f72aad18346f8.png", "website": "https://latted.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Latted is an all-in one tool to generate and edit professional AI video projects.\r\n\r\nAll professional AI video projects take more than a single generation. You need to juggle between hundreds of images and videos and use multiple tools to edit your project.\r\n\r\nWith Latted, you can generate a 10-minute long video from a single prompt or generate and edit your project from scratch.\r\n\r\nThousands of creators use Latted for marketing videos, content creation and educational content. Create your first project today at latted.com!", "one_liner": "A Unified Editor For AI Video", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1705822020, "tags": [ "B2B", "Video", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/latted", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/latted.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/home", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9b29e2d502cf6d25b0468bc3a78f72aad18346f8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1573638, "full_name": "Emre Gucer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "co-founder and CEO @ Fume. former Northwestern student, now an LLM aficionado.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/aegucer", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2bb275cf7d93d7330b81813fa3640a9cbd381268.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1611827, "full_name": "Metehan Öz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO @ Fume. A former NYU student. Now hacking around with LLMs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/metehan-oz-a39981251", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ef7c033e9400f58d04bed6d46f48e40d9c0d42da.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79085, "title": "Fume - AI SWE that solves bugs within Slack", "tagline": "A Slack bot that you can assign software tickets and get full PRs in response", "body": "**TL;DR** You can tag @Fume under any feature or bug ticket in Slack. Fume will make a plan, write code, and submit a PR in minutes. [**Try it now! No waitlist. No 'contact sales'.**](http://fumedev.com)\n\nHey folks! We are [Emre](https://linkedin.com/in/aegucer) and [Mete](https://linkedin.com/in/metehan-oz-a39981251). We’re currently building Fume to automate the boring parts of developing software. Before that, we were roommates in high school and partners in crime, building fighting bots.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79085&key=user_uploads/1573638/314fd0c9-7a62-4aa6-9e91-6d29c4cec454)\n\n### 💥**Problem**\n\nNot every software task requires human creativity. Some are just boring and have to be done. Engineers end up procrastinating on them at the cost of user experience. On the other hand, doing them costs companies thousands of dollars every year.\n\n### 🤩 **Not Anymore**\n\nFume automates mundane software work like fixing bugs, error logs, or minor features through Slack. A non-technical team member can send screenshots & reproduction steps for a bug and an engineer can tag @Fume to solve it within minutes without opening a code editor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79085&key=user_uploads/1573638/85ea9b9a-969c-4552-9e19-e1437d3f5d55)\n\n### 🙏 **Our Ask**\n\nGive Fume a try right now! Go to [fumedev.com](http://fumedev.com) and enjoy the free trial. If you think you are not ready to start using Fume, tell a friend about it 😉\n\nIf you are in a larger organization but want to try Fume in your team, contact me at [emre@fumedev.com](mailto:emre@fumedev.com). ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZZ-fume-ai-swe-that-solves-bugs-within-slack", "votes": 508, "created_at": "2024-03-05T21:32:54.482Z" } ] }, { "id": 29510, "name": "Yarn", "slug": "yarn-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ecaa1199b6d124b85c33c51f6a249e1fff1b0f96.png", "website": "https://www.yarn.so", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Yarn is a new kind of video product that lets anyone on your team ship videos: feature launches, custom demos, walkthroughs and explainers, ABM.\r\n\r\nYarn is the first agentic video system that doesn't compromise on quality or ease of use.", "one_liner": "Yarn is the video product for agentic GTM teams.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1708454742, "tags": [ "B2B", "Sales", "Video", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yarn-2", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/yarn-2.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/yarn-so", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/yarn_so", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ecaa1199b6d124b85c33c51f6a249e1fff1b0f96.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Pete Koomen", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/pete-koomen" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1048212, "full_name": "Jasper Story", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Yarn – create pro-level product and sales videos with AI. 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Now, we're on a mission to let anyone create great video shorts for work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78573&key=user_uploads/1156578/aaa64aca-cfe0-4625-a108-e078c37ad82d)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\n## **Great videos are too hard to make**\n\nVideo is the most compelling medium for sales and marketing: on LinkedIn, [videos are shared 20x more](https://www.linkedin.com/business/marketing/blog/social-media-marketing/how-to-grow-your-organic-following-on-linkedin) than any other post type. But making videos is still way too hard:\n\n* **Legacy video editing workflows take 1-4 hours to make even short videos** – you'll chain together multiple tools, and your videos will be hard to update, reuse, or personalize.\n* **Self-recording a compelling 60-second video is almost impossible** – and your prospects won't watch your 4-minute Loom. Some tools add fancy effects, but these can distract from your product, your story, and your brand.\n* **Agency videos are super-expensive and go out of date immediately** – save the $10k+ and weeks of email back and forth for your splashy Series A announcement.\n\n—\n\n## **How does Yarn work?**\n\n* **Yarn uses AI** to help you make videos like Notion or Linear.\n* **No video experience required** – you make and edit your video like a doc.\n* **Voiceovers are all AI magic** – choose from a library voice or match your own – so it's easy to tweak, reuse, and personalize.\n* **Everything looks great out of the box** and is branded specifically for your startup. \n* **Add founder video intros** for when the personal touch matters.\n\n[Yarn Demo (made in Yarn)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EnVL2P0_M)\n\n—\n\n## **How are teams using Yarn?**\n\n* DriverAI (W24) is building per-role sales demos as they sell into Fortune 500.\n* Replo (S23) is making new marketing content faster than ever.\n* Forge (W24) is creating sales collateral to transform procurement for rocket companies.\n* [Example: Introducing Abel (00:58)](https://www.yarn.so/v/Introducing-Abel-sNlnxSF4aG1IlgOhwm0ggZqI)\n* [Example: Driver AI (1:01)](https://www.yarn.so/v/Driver-AI-Demo-0kuSVcD2t1FaWHS0PvYTz7zl)\n\n—\n\n## **How do I get access?**\n\n[Book a 15 minute demo](https://calendly.com/jasper-yarn/yarn-demo) or email [jasper@yarn.so](mailto:jasper@yarn.so) to try Yarn with your team.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KRJ-yarn-make-pro-quality-product-and-sales-videos-with-ai", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2024-02-20T20:17:10.425Z" } ] }, { "id": 29513, "name": "GetCrux", "slug": "getcrux", "former_names": [ "Crux", "getcrux" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e441803edd599221aeb0cd1571b07115de1320cb.png", "website": "http://getcrux.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "GetCrux is the AI Creative Strategist to launch winning ads.\r\n\r\nCreatives have become the biggest lever to win on ad platforms. 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You end up guessing and replicating the best performing ad, only to see it fail - high CAC & wasted budget. \n\nOur AI Creative Strategist:\n\n1. **Finds patterns that you miss**: by analysing 1000s of creatives (down to the last pixel) and their performance data\n2. **Builds a winning playbook**: which hooks, messaging, format, music, CTAs, storylines, influencers etc. really work for you\n3. **Recommends what to launch next:** with a detailed creative brief that you can execute instantly\n\n[Talk to us](https://calendly.com/atharva-getcrux/30min) if you want to bring structure & intelligence to creative testing.\n\n\n\n# **Some ads work. Most don’t. Why?**\n\nPicture this. \n\nYou finally find a winning creative and you replicate it - make 5 variations. But almost all of them fail - high CAC and wasted $ on production.\n\nWhy? _Because you didn’t really know WHAT made the ad work!_\n\nCreatives have 100s of moving parts and it’s impossible to find patterns manually. 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Marketers are overburdened with manual, repetitive tasks like debugging technical issues and tracking campaigns, which leaves no time for planning and executing experiments. With getcrux, they can take the right action at the right time and exceed their performance targets. Watch our demo [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shohyPZB3sk).\n\n# Why is this a problem?\n\n1. Google & Meta’s combined ad revenues have crossed $350B in 2023, and over 90% of this ad spend is wasted (i.e., shown to audiences that are irrelevant/non-intent )\n2. Performance marketers are struggling to meet performance targets consistently because of changes in platform algorithms, rising competition, and, most importantly, inefficient operations\n3. On average, a performance marketer spends 70-80% of their time doing operational, repetitive tasks like debugging technical issues, creating 10s of reports, and following up with design and compliance teams. 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We’ve been through more than 15 pivots before shaping getcrux to its current form.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84654&key=user_uploads/852875/93a8e554-4195-40d9-b318-354f462e39a1)\n\n_Our team at our newly inaugurated office in Bangalore, India._\n\n* Our history with performance marketing dates back to 2022, when we were building ‘Google Ads for Web3’ to help games built on decentralized networks acquire users. Since traditional channels don’t work for web3 projects, there was a need for a predictable and trackable way of marketing.\n* ⁠When we got into YC in W24, we were trying to build a general-purpose AI Copilot for analytics but soon realized that most of our customer demand was coming from performance marketers. So, we decided to focus our attention ONLY on performance marketers.\n* Our vision is to make data analysis faster, accessible, and explainable for every non-technical user. 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Before that, he ideated & built multi-data source capabilities for Flux (language) at InfluxData (YC W13) as one of their first interns, and studied EECS at UC Berkeley for 3 years.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/roshan-kumaraswamy", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/roshan_k_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3b8cfc6f85af36d943e5baaead1673d8ac42ad32.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 80696, "title": "Founding SDR", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apten/jobs/Wh8L33A-founding-sdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$75K - $145K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 83503, "title": "Software Engineer (Full Stack)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apten/jobs/9vu8UGR-software-engineer-full-stack", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Node.js", "Python", "React", "Prompt Engineering" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94921, "title": "Apten: omni-channel AI agents for B2C sales/marketing", "tagline": "Convert more leads across text, call, email, and webchat.", "body": "TLDR: Apten is an **omni-channel AI agent** that engages and nurtures leads across **text, call, and email, and webchat.**\n\nWebchat specifically has been around for ages - but when a lead starts a conversation on the website and leaves halfway through, **they’re** **gone.**\n\nApten is not only able to start a conversation through webchat, but **proactively reach out via SMS/voice/email once the lead goes inactive.**\n\nToday, Apten automates sales/marketing for hundreds of thousands of leads each month - we work with some of the largest enterprises in consumer services (industries including home services, healthcare, education, financial services, and insurance).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63At2HXNX4k\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, email/sms marketing automation systems to convert new leads.\n\nThese systems fall short because:\n\n* Human teams are required to scale up dialing/call efforts (leads slip through the cracks)\n* SMS/email automations are typically one-way, static sequences without personalization\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nApten automates sales and marketing for B2C enterprises with:\n\n* **Omni-channel capabilities**: set up a single conversational flow that works across SMS, voice, email, and webchat.\n * Apten maintains unified memory across SMS, voice, emai, and webchat (just like a human does) to **personalize conversations at scale**\n * Apten can also **switch between channels** at anytime to **meet a lead where they want to be met**\n * Move leads through different conversational flows depending on **where they are in the customer/lead journey**\n* **Intelligent follow-up:** Apten will not only personalize follow-ups based on what it knows about a lead or a past conversation, but it will also dynamically adjust **when to follow-up based on a lead’s repsonse**\n * Personalized AI voicemails can be left on dial attempts that go to an answering machine\n * Apten is able to use local presence dialing to auto-match the number it dials from to one that best matches the lead’s area code\n* **AI tools:** Apten can take actions with your systems (scheduling, dialers, quote APIs, etc)\n* **Human in the loop:** Handles transfers to your human team at any time (cold or warm). Apten can also dynamically transfer to specific numbers depending on\n* **Reliability:** setup custom guardrails that automatically detect non-compliant messages and proactively fix them before they’re sent to the lead\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re an enterprise that:\n\n* Falls in a consumer services industry (home services, financial services, insurance, education, healthcare, auto, law, etc)\n* Generates a high volume of leads (5k+ leads / mo)\n* Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences) + a sales team/call center to engage leads over the phone\n\nWe’d love to chat - you can find us at http://apten.ai.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ogz-apten-omni-channel-ai-agents-for-b2c-sales-marketing", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-10-27T15:16:24.244Z" }, { "id": 91362, "title": "Apten: Omni-channel AI Agents for Sales and Marketing", "tagline": "Engage and nurture leads across text, call, and email", "body": "TLDR: Apten is an **omni-channel AI agent** that engages and nurtures leads across **text, call, and email.**\n\nToday, Apten automates sales and marketing conversations across hundreds of thousands of leads.\n\nIt responds at any time, automatically follows up with personalized messages, and **dynamically switches between channels** to meet leads where they want to be met.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EX6BxpnAVQ\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, email/sms marketing automation systems to convert new leads.\n\nThese systems fall short because:\n\n* Human teams are required to scale up sales operations\n* SMS/email automations are typically one-way, static sequences\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nBuilt for enterprise, Apten comes with:\n\n* **Omni-channel capabilities**: set up a single conversational flow that works across SMS, voice, and email\n * Apten maintains unified memory across SMS, voice, and email (just like a human does) to personalize conversations at scale\n * It also processes existing data/context about leads from your CRM to nurture leads with relevant follow-ups\n* **AI tools:** Give Apten an API, and it will take actions with your systems (scheduling, dialers, quote APIs, etc)\n* **Human in the loop:** Handles transfers to your human team at any time (cold or warm)\n* **Reliability:** includes a native guardrail system that automatically detects non-compliant messages and proactively fixes them before they’re even sent out\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Generates a high volume of leads (2k+ leads / mo)\n* Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences)\n* Is scaling up a sales team\n\nWe’d love to chat with you - you can find us at http://apten.ai.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nla-apten-omni-channel-ai-agents-for-sales-and-marketing", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2025-06-17T13:40:44.819Z" }, { "id": 87585, "title": "Apten - AI SMS + voice agents to convert leads", "tagline": "An AI agent that texts & calls in the same way as a human", "body": "**TLDR:** We help B2C companies automate sales and marketing with custom AI SMS and voice agents. Apten handles inbound/outbound calls + texts 24/7, automatically follows up at the right time, and syncs with your knowledge base/systems.\n\nHey everyone - we’re Daniel and Roshan, the founders of Apten :)\n\nOver the last 8 months since launching, we’ve helped companies engage tens of thousands of new leads each month.\n\nToday, Apten becomes an AI agent that can both text and call in the exact same way a human does.\n\n\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, and automated text systems to convert new leads.\n\nFollow-ups are not personalized or are manually done by humans, and leads do not get immediate responses 24/7.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nApten is an AI agent that:\n\n* Handles inbound/outbound texts + calls, 24/7\n* Can switch from SMS to voice (and vice versa) at any time in the conversation\n* Guides leads down customizable conversational flows\n* Takes actions with your systems (e.g. pull in quote premiums from an insurance company’s API)\n* Syncs with your knowledge base to pull in relevant info at any time\n\nWhite glove onboarding/support included for every customer!\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Generates a high volume of leads\n* Uses SMS or phone calls to engage/follow-up w/ leads\n* Wants to introduce AI into their sales and marketing process :)\n\nYou can find us at [http://apten.ai.](http://apten.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mmf-apten-ai-sms-voice-agents-to-convert-leads", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-02-11T18:52:47.642Z" }, { "id": 81132, "title": "Apten 💬📲 - AI SMS agents", "tagline": "Apten helps businesses automate communication with customers and leads over SMS text", "body": "**TLDR:** We help B2C businesses automate sales, marketing, and customer service through SMS text. Customize Apten, and it’ll **proactively reach out, respond at any time, and never forget to follow up.**\n\nHey everyone - we’re [Daniel](https://linkedin.com/in/danielho799) & [Roshan](https://linkedin.com/in/roshan-kumaraswamy), the founders of [Apten](https://www.apten.ai/)! 👋 \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81132&key=user_uploads/1547400/595aa8ba-e1da-4e01-b095-a4182f7b1836)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nBusinesses currently rely on humans or traditional SMS automation (drip texting) to qualify and nurture leads. This applies to both inbound leads (e.g., ad -> website -> fills out contact/quote form and leaves phone number) and the re-engagement of existing leads in a CRM. \n\nExample industries where this happens: real estate, insurance, home services\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nAn AI SMS assistant that qualifies and nurtures leads in a **personable way** while responding 24/7 and automatically following up. \n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMYEZ4jYHE**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMYEZ4jYHE)\n\nCustomize:\n\n* Apten’s knowledge (FAQs, info about your business, specific instructions/rules)\n* Specific conversation flows and follow-up schedules for **different types of leads**\n\nApten won’t just chat - it’ll **take actions** in a way a human would to help your business by proactively:\n\n* Categorizing/tagging leads based on the conversation\n* Creating notifications based on conditions you define\n* Determining the appropriate time to follow-up based on a lead's response\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81132&key=user_uploads/1547400/6db38255-433a-4ddb-9826-20ffd76ebd45)\n\nWe’ll provide white-glove onboarding and support the whole way! \n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Collects phone numbers from leads\n* Employs virtual assistants or a contact center\n* Leverages drip texting campaigns or other SMS automation\n\nWe’d love to [talk to you!](https://calendly.com/daniel-attent/20min)\n\nYou can also email us at [founders@apten.ai](mailto:founders@apten.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L6a-apten-ai-sms-agents", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-05-28T14:21:44.061Z" } ] }, { "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. Today, over 5 million users trust VideoGen, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance.\r\n\r\nMaking videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive if you hire someone to do it for you. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks! 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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 over a shared passion for building web apps and playing tennis. Now, we’re changing the way the world creates videos with the help of AI." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Making videos is hard. Each step of the process—scripting, recording voice-overs, finding and licensing high-quality footage, and editing—is extremely time-consuming. Video editing products today are hard to use and have too many buttons. 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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. 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What do you want a marketing agent to do for you that it can’t do today?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98751&key=user_uploads/323364/04c1c5f3-b97f-4ab7-b69e-e463ac8e7187)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pgl-gauge-your-marketing-agent-for-organic-paid-and-ai-search", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2026-03-12T18:10:29.538Z" }, { "id": 90559, "title": "Gauge - Show up in more AI answers", "tagline": "💡 Gauge helps your company show up in more AI answers", "body": "**Gauge helps your company show up more in AI answers.**\n\n### ⚠️ Why should you care?\n\n* [Google searches are falling for the first time ever](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ais-threat-to-google-just-got-real-8280b4ee?utm_source=chatgpt.com) ([and Google itself is moving to AI answers](https://www.theverge.com/news/655930/google-q1-2025-earnings))\n* [Gartner predicts AI chatbots will capture 25% of search volume by next year](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-19-gartner-predicts-search-engine-volume-will-drop-25-percent-by-2026-due-to-ai-chatbots-and-other-virtual-agents)\n\nWith traffic leaving search, traditional SEO is dying. Our customers are seeing inbound AI traffic **double every quarter**.\n\n### 💡How do we help?\n\nWe measure how often you and your competitors are referenced by AI, and derive insights from changes in the data over time.\n\nLet’s take a look at how this works:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXcshLuQD4\n\nWe came across this problem through an Open Source Day hosted by YC. There, we heard from a huge range of speakers, including Vercel, Elastic, Resend, and Airbyte. A consistent theme across every speaker was the new inbound they were seeing from ChatGPT.\n\nWe decided to run an experiment: [productrank.ai](http://productrank.ai).\n\n[productrank.ai](http://productrank.ai) lets you search for a topic, and see how the top models rank them. [Check it out here!](https://productrank.ai)\n\nIn just a few weeks, we reached the front page of HN, saw over 40,000 organic users, and found our first design partners.\n\nOur early customers include LendingTree, ChartHop, Resend, Helius, Standard Metrics, and more. If you’re curious in how often AI mentions your brand, [grab 15 minutes here and we’ll show you.](https://cal.com/caelean/15)\n\n### **❓Asks**\n\n* Play around with [**productrank.ai**](http://productrank.ai)!\n* Curious how often AI mentions your brand? [**Grab 15 min here!**](https://cal.com/caelean/15)\n* Know any marketers or SEO specialists? We’d love an intro! 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Let's chat! 🙂\n\n# **🔒 Problem**\n\nYou’re an engineer of an LLM app, trying to get the prompts just right. Every time you type something in, the output changes—so you tweak a word here and there, and it changes again. Sometimes the outputs looks better, sometimes not. But you’re never sure. Hours go by, all spent on prompt engineering.\n\nGetting the outputs you want can feel like an endless game of trial and error. And you’re not alone. Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked to over 100 YC companies, and a lot of them are facing the same challenges:\n\n* **Measuring output quality is hard** (You’re heavily relying on manual evaluations at the moment.)\n* **Prompt engineering does not work as you want** (You hate spending 5-7 hours a day searching for that one great prompt.)\n\n# **🔑 Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/ddf5778d-78d0-4ff2-a4aa-b84624aeebc0)\n\nWe solve the problem with one simple formula:\n\n```\ngood input + right guidance = better prompts\n```\n\nToday, we launch Ape, your first **AI Prompt Engineer**. Inspired by DSPy, Reflexion, Expel and other research papers, Ape iteratively improves your prompts. Here’s how Ape works:\n\n1️⃣ Log your inputs and outputs to Weavel (with a single line of code!)\n\n2️⃣ Let Ape filter the logs into datasets.\n\n3️⃣ Ape then generates evaluation code and uses LLMs as judges for complex tasks.\n\n4️⃣ \u001dAs more production data is added, Ape continues refining and improving prompt performance.\n\n### **How to use**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/0c1eeedd-ac08-40e7-ad35-acff6766c2c1)\n\n**Create a Dataset**\n\nChange just one line of code to start logging LLM calls with the Weavel Python SDK. The SDK supports sync/async OpenAI chat completions and OpenAI structured outputs.\n\nYou can also import existing data or manually create a dataset.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/bdfc79bd-edeb-4dbf-8c9b-7d432007fa3a)\n\n**Create a Prompt**\n\nWrite a prompt that corresponds to your dataset. You can add an existing prompt as the base version, or if you prefer, create a blank prompt and provide a brief description for Ape to create a prompt from scratch.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/1bfacea3-c2d9-4ac8-90d7-9a6d3e37fd60)\n\n**Optimize Prompts**\n\nTo optimize your prompt using Ape, fill in the necessary information (e.g. JSON schema as you want) and then run the optimization process. An enhanced version of your prompt will be created and available soon.\n\nTa-da! It’s that easy. Ape outperforms with a remarkable 94.5% score on the GSM8K benchmark, surpassing Vanilla (54.5%), CoT (87.5%) and DSPy (90.0%). With Ape, you can optimize the prompt engineering process, saving tons of time and cost while increasing performance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/2002273/45b5ec84-f89d-4d57-9e20-ad349f521c97)\n\nApe is **open source**. [Check out our repository on GitHub.](https://github.com/weavel-ai/Ape) (We’d appreciate a star 🌟)\n\n# **🚀 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/201595e0-e85e-4931-81aa-a9947754b1b4)\n\nFrom left to right: [**Jun**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-park314/), [**Andrew**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sounhochung/), and [**HyunJie**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyunjiejung/) — together we’re building Weavel.\n\n**Andrew** and **Jun** built 10+ LLM-based products, open-sourced a prompt engineering platform, and co-authored a paper at a NeurIPS workshop last year. **HyunJie** worked on data analytics and optimization at Chartmetric and DevRev, and focused on growth marketing at Liner.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n* Try Ape! [Schedule](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) a walkthrough with the Weavel team or email [hyunjie@weavel.ai](mailto:hyunjie@weavel.ai).\n* Share thoughts on our [Discord](https://weavel.ai/discord) or DM us on [Twitter](https://x.com/weaveldotai).\n* If you know anyone struggling with prompt engineering or evaluations for LLM apps, connect them with us!\n * Copy & paste blurb: A YC company named Weavel has developed an AI prompt engineer (Ape in short) which continuously improves your prompts. It’ll save tons of time for you. 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[Affil](https://affil.ai/) monitors affiliate content, enabling companies to expand marketing efforts and maximize revenue.\n\n_What is financial affiliate marketing?_ When you see content by The Points Guy or Forbes that talks about credit cards, checking accounts, etc, they get a kickback from the financial brand for anyone who successfully applies for the product.\n\n### ⚠️ The Problem\n\nFinancial institutions (e.g., Capital One) or consumer fintech companies (e.g., Acorns) want to grow their affiliate programs but are completely blocked by compliance barriers. However, it’s expensive and time-intensive to do manual affiliate compliance & management.\n\nOn the flip side, affiliates are also dissatisfied with these financial affiliate programs. The majority have to work with disorganized & outdated middlemen hired by financial brands who take a significant cut of payouts.\n\n### 🛠️ The Solution\n\nOur AI compliance software monitors affiliate content so that financial companies know exactly what’s being said about them so that they can expand their marketing efforts:\n\n* Track thousands of affiliate pages \n* Quickly identify compliance violations without needing human intervention\n* Create support tickets for every issue, so affiliates & brands can keep track of errors\n\nWe’re also improving the affiliate experience:\n\n* Offer higher payouts for conversions (since we have a lower cost structure)\n* Provide a beautiful user experience & working APIs\n* Proactively identify compliance risks & offer automated suggestions to minimize risk\n\nFor example (see below), the AMEX Gold Card underwent significant changes on July 27, 2024, but outdated affiliate content still exists on the internet (that’s not good). We caught this issue that both AMEX and Bankrate missed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83537&key=user_uploads/723194/ba92939d-54dd-48e3-96e2-92f6fd687240)\n\nThe big vision is to become the affiliate network that powers all financial institutions out there.\n\n### 🧍‍♂️Our Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83537&key=user_uploads/723194/876b50d9-2679-48a5-a7ae-e4623f56d47a)\n\n[Vivek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-olumbe/) & [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnta2000/) first met at Penn and cofounded the first personal finance nonprofit at 8 different colleges, accumulating 2.5k+ users and $25k+ in funding. 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We’d love an intro! \n* **Banking:** We are having particular struggles getting in contact with some of the key stakeholders at some of the major banks (think Chase, Wells Fargo, USAA…), so if you can make any warm intros to folks on the consumer banking side, I’ll buy you dinner!\n\nContact: founders@affil.ai", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LjN-affil-ai-compliance-for-financial-affiliate-marketing", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2024-08-28T14:35:12.697Z" }, { "id": 83176, "title": "Affil - AI Affiliate Marketer 🤝", "tagline": "Launch & scale affiliate programs with ease", "body": "**TLDR;** Our AI Affiliate Marketer helps companies launch & scale affiliate programs at a fraction of the cost.\n\n**⛔️ The Problem**\n\nRunning a successful affiliate program is hard. Some common challenges brands face:\n\n1. Competing with thousands of other brands on networks like Impact, CJ, or Awin\n2. Reaching out to (many) content creators\n3. 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No worries—we’ll get that up and running for you. \n\nDo you have an affiliate program set up in-house or on Impact, CJ, Awin, or elsewhere? We can build on top of them to help grow your program (or we’ll help you migrate your existing program to our network).\n\n**🤝 Our Ask**\n\n* **Demo:** [Book a chat](https://calendly.com/john-affil/30min) & see if we can help you with your affiliate program needs.\n* **Leads:** Know anyone with an affiliate program? Put us in touch!\n* **Banking:** Have connections at major banks like Chase, Citi, or BOFA? We’re aiming to become a financial affiliate network and need help reaching key stakeholders.\n\nBlurb: Affil is building an AI affiliate marketer that can help you launch & scale your affiliate program, with compliance and monitoring built in. Contact [john@affil.ai](https://john@affil.ai) to see a demo from the founders.\n\n**🧍‍♂️Our Team**\n\nHi! 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This is the first “AI Relations” tool – public relations for AI models.\n\n**The problem:**\n\nEvery day, your customers rely more on ChatGPT for their buying decisions. \n\nGetting tools like ChatGPT to send you leads is a lot more than GEO/AEO; it’s more like running a PR campaign – strategically building credibility and authority with models themselves.\n\n**The solution:**\n\nWe built a platform that helps you improve AI’s holistic picture of your brand – what we’re calling “AI Relations.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/EIkyCu3kTt4 \n\nWe break this into three components, all of which Unusual manages:\n\n1. Filling key knowledge gaps – publishing LLM-optimized content full of information LLMs are searching for, but don’t have: like a reference manual for your company. Check out ours here: https://llms.unusual.ai  \n2. Getting you on the map – flagging the 3rd party media sources LLMs look to in your industry.\n3. Nuanced reporting – analyzing how LLMs think about your company, and giving you extremely detailed reports on why they make the recommendations they do.\n\nUnusual also track AI crawls of your content, so you can measure when it’s getting picked up and referenced by LLMs, helping you track ROI.\n\n**Results:**\n\nQuality wins fast with AI systems – content with rich and needed information is quickly picked up and referenced.\n\nFor [Parley](https://parley.so), an early customer, Unusual identified a key gap in what Perplexity knew about the space of SOC2 compliant AI for law firms. It automatically published pages to fill the gaps ([Model Use, Data Flows, and Isolation by Firm](https://ai.parley.so/model-use-data-flows-firm-isolation), [Encryption, Access Controls, and Audit Logging](https://ai.parley.so/encryption-access-controls-audit-logging)) and within a month, those two pages were within the top 3 most important citations for the topic area.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94065&key=user_uploads/317891/2da445ae-819c-4443-b491-c094c14c1fe4)\n\n**Try it out!**\n\nEmail us for a demo: [founders@unusual.ai](mailto:founders@unusual.ai)\n\nTry it for free:[ app.unusual.ai/sign-up](http://app.unusual.ai/sign-up) \n\nOur website:[ unusual.ai](http://unusual.ai) \n\nOur own AI subdomain: [llms.unusual.ai](http://llms.unusual.ai) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OTB-unusual-ai-relations", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2025-09-23T16:30:36.000Z" }, { "id": 87418, "title": "Unusual - AI Generated Websites for Each Visitor", "tagline": "We’ve boosted conversions up to 4x. 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Just drop a script in your site, and you're good to go!\n\n**Automatic personalization from any source of traffic**\n\n* Unusual can serve a unique version of your site for every single ad, blog post, social media post, email and more. \n* If you highlight a particular feature of your product in a blog post, that feature will be prominently displayed on the page the users see.\n\n**Personalize your outbound sales**\n\n* Include a custom version of your site in emails to prospects.\n* Depending on who they are, their position at the company, the industry, etc…\n\n**Create one-off versions of your site in seconds**\n\n* Create new landing pages with a prompt\n\n**Create custom sites via API**\n\n* All of Unusual’s personalization features are available via API, so you can programmatically create variants of your website (think attaching a custom page to LinkedIn or Email outreach)\n\n**Want to try it out?**\n\n* It’s a two line of code integration, it works with every kind of website, and we’re happy to help you get set up.\n\n📧 [founders@unusual.ai](mailto:founders@unusual.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mjy-unusual-ai-generated-websites-for-each-visitor", "votes": 66, "created_at": "2025-02-04T22:19:28.840Z" }, { "id": 85552, "title": "Aditto: Launch search engine marketing with the click of a button", "tagline": "Generate and manage hundreds of ads and landing pages without hiring a marketer.", "body": "**TL;DR** Aditto lets you run search engine marketing without marketers. 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Companies like Snowflake and PagerDuty use Cuckoo in Zoom and in-person meetings for even the most technical discussions. \n\nHere an example of us having a product, sales, and partner meeting with our W25 batchmates and one of our partners in Japan: [**https://youtu.be/7fq7wr_S8p0**](https://youtu.be/7fq7wr_S8p0)\n\n— \n\nHey everyone! We are [Yong Hee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryyongheelee/) and [Gunwoo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunwooterry/) and we are building Cuckoo to help global teams talk to their customers worldwide. [Give it a try](https://www.cuckoo.so) in your next global meeting 🌏\n\n### **Why?**\n\n**Language barriers are a big challenge even for global companies.** We experienced this firsthand in Korea, where we hosted community meetups, inviting product leaders around the world.\n\nOn the one hand, many nuances and details can get lost between languages, especially during technical conversations. On the other hand, speakers often felt isolated, unable to follow Korean discussions, and missed valuable opportunities to network and promote their products.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nTake Matt, a Solutions Engineer at PagerDuty APJ, who engages weekly with customers in Korea and Japan. These conversations are complicated not just by language barriers but also by technical details—think complex troubleshooting scenarios.\n\n### **Solution**\n\n**Cuckoo provides real-time translation tailored for you and your customers.** It instantly learns technical details from your documents—pitch decks, meeting notes, API docs—and delivers context-aware translation in 20+ languages.\n\n### **How it works**\n\nInvite Cuckoo to your online meeting. For in-person conversations, you can capture audio directly from your laptop.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87400&key=user_uploads/427995/829469eb-8895-44f0-b686-b2c45bb2f716)\n\nUpload relevant documents (pitch decks, API docs, user manuals, etc.) to help Cuckoo understand the general context and key terms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87400&key=user_uploads/427995/64f98ba9-db35-43ca-b791-45ca41cd442f)\n\nAs the conversation unfolds, your and your customer can view live translations in your preferred languages.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87400&key=user_uploads/427995/cd8cd259-5e60-4bb2-bfd1-808ea19577bc)\n\n### **How our customers use Cuckoo**\n\nWe—_our first customer_—use Cuckoo everyday to demo and collect user feedback. Here’s how other teams use Cuckoo. \n\n* Snowflake — Hosting global customers at their Customer Experience Centers\n\n\n* PagerDuty — Troubleshooting with local cloud partners in Korea and Japan\n* ClickHouse — Team sync between the APAC and HQ office\n* dbt Labs — Webinars for APAC customers and partners\n* Weights & Biases — Hosting Seoul and Tokyo meetups with HQ executives\n\nCuckoo is also used by enterprises beyond the tech industry, including healthcare (SNOMED), manufacturing (SeAH Steel), and retail (GS).\n\n### **Asks**\n\nAre you dealing with cross-regional operations? Do you work with international customers regularly, or are you planning to expand into new markets?\n\n* **Try out Cuckoo** at [www.cuckoo.so](http://www.cuckoo.so) — your first conversation is on us!\n* **Let’s chat!** — We can hop on a quick call—we’ll speak in Korean and Japanese so you can see how Cuckoo works with different languages.\n* [**Schedule a meeting**](https://cal.com/cuckoohq/30min) — We’d love to learn more about your language challenges and how we can help. \n* **Email us** at [founders@cuckoo.so](https://mailto:founders@cuckoo.so) — Tell us how your first meeting went, and send any feedback or thoughts!\n\n### **A bit about us**\n\n[Gunwoo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunwooterry/) and [Yong Hee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryyongheelee/) first met in 2015 through a student club at KAIST, where we organized an annual international conference for undergraduate students. 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We help ecommerce and retail brands become the answer AI chooses.", "body": "**Traction:** 20+ Brands live. On average brands see a 5X increase in AI search revenue after 30 days.\n\n**TL;DR:** [Wildcard ](https://wild-card.ai/)helps brands and retailers rank first across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Amazon Rufus/Alexa, and Walmart Sparky. We audit and action on how your brand, products, and collections show up across every AI search and shopping platform. Wildcard creates the roadmap, and our AI agents execute on it. We create the content AI looks for, including enriching the product catalog, new blogs, collection pages, outreach to publications, and even Reddit and YouTube content to close the gap. Operators can review, approve, and measure how actions tie back to revenue.\n\n**Launch Video:** \n\n**The Problem:** Shoppers are googling less and less. They want an experience where they can ask questions, like talking to an in-store rep. They're prompting about what to buy, the model names a few, people purchase those, and you're left relying on Meta's rising ad spend to acquire new customers or retain existing ones. Producing content for millions of SKUs is beyond human scale, and what we found is that millions in revenue was lost because of it. Below is what we learned after 7 months talking with brand owners.\n\n**What We Learned:**\n\n1. It's not about training the model. Everyone gets this wrong. When someone asks, the model runs a live search, reads what it finds, and picks. What decides it is boring and specific: a catalog structured so the model can trust it, and the right content on the sources it reads.\n2. Existing tools were built for SaaS. They hand you a score and stop. That playbook breaks the moment you have 5,000 SKUs and variants. A brand and retailers unit of AEO is the catalog, not a homepage.\n\n**The Solution:** Our solution is simple. First, we run a full audit of how you show up across AI search. Second, we build your roadmap. Lastly, we optimize your product catalog and create the content that gets you recommended. After 30 days, we tend to see a 5x increase in revenue.\n\n**Our Ask:** Try a free trial of our tool [here](https://wild-card.ai/). And if you know any brands, retailers, or agencies, an intro would be great!: [kaushik@wild-card.ai](mailto:kaushik@wild-card.ai)  \n\n**About Me:** Kaushik Mahorker (Founder & CEO). Previously, I was an Engineering Manager at Scale AI, where I led the GenAI Allocation team and built the ecommerce enrichment engine that structured 2.4M attributes across 400K SKUs, helping close $15M+ in retail and marketplace contracts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106605&key=user_uploads/2074409/ca4bbe7c-d2fd-428f-8c09-f0fc965f7c9d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RjR-wildcard-aeo-geo-and-ai-search-for-ecommerce-brands", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-07-20T18:00:46.367Z" } ] }, { "id": 30438, "name": "Beluga", "slug": "beluga", "former_names": [ "Beluga Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/11644b045eb253141d3efc6875010730a886df27.png", "website": "https://www.trybeluga.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Using our 6+ years of creator marketing experience to help companies run their creator campaigns at scale. 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Studied Sociology at Harvard and cross-enrolled at MIT Sloan. Perviously part of the GTM team at Meta, led sales at Dare Drop, and was most recently a Senior Account Executive at HubSpot. Now building Beluga Labs to help content creators operate more like a business.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-young-13b713166/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Fern_Y0ung", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/737eec44898287461eef94df920d67a56fb317ca.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2210281, "full_name": "Jack Swisher", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-led AI R&D at Bubble designing a text to app generator in Bubble's native, drag and drop language. Studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard and wrote a thesis on evaluating generative models. Now building Beluga to transform how companies grow through creators.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-swisher-77548a165/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Jack__Swisher", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/86e37ee92739f6fb866f40d6e73bb55913da251c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 107925, "title": "Beluga - Creator Marketing on Autopilot", "tagline": "Run creator marketing like paid ads", "body": "**TL;DR**: We run creator marketing end-to-end so companies can test and scale the channel without needing to hire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/717d980b-6271-4c94-a779-1c60e4277af9)\n\nMarketers do not need to be convinced that distribution matters.\n\nThe harder question is whether a channel can become repeatable before it consumes the whole team.\n\nCreator marketing is one of those channels. It oftentimes performs 3-5x better than traditional digital ads. When it works, it can drive real awareness, clicks, and signups from audiences that are hard to reach through paid ads. But running it well still tends to mean spreadsheets, inboxes, rate negotiations, contracts, draft reviews, tracking links, payment follow-up, and a lot of manual judgment.\n\nThat is what we built Beluga to fix.\n\n---\n\n## Why this problem got under our skin\n\nOne of the largest spenders in creator marketing made the labor problem concrete for us. They are spending in the high six figures each month, and told us they employ 30+ people to run their creator partnerships. Even then, each rep can only manage around 18 creators.\n\nThey also told us that if they had $2M ready to put into the channel tomorrow, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They would need to hire even more people.\n\nThat is a wild ceiling for a marketing channel that should scale with spend.\n\nWe got pulled into this from both sides.\n\nFernando saw the brand side up close at Dare Drop, helping gaming publishers run creator campaigns. The demand was real, but the operating model still looked like a traditional agency: lots of coordination, lots of manual work, and a hard ceiling on how much the team could scale.\n\nWe also spent time on the creator side while trying to build a Rippling for the self-employed. Working with creators on taxes showed us the other half of the problem: even when a brand deal is a good fit, the process around it is painful. Creators have to find deals that match their audience and content style, align expectations with the brand, actually run the campaign, and then hope they get paid on time.\n\nWe kept seeing the same thing from both sides: brands wanted creator marketing to work, creators wanted better deals and less chaos, and everyone was somehow stuck in spreadsheets, email threads, and manual follow-up.\n\n---\n\n## What Beluga does\n\nThe problem is not that creator marketing is mysterious. It works when you find the right creators, give them enough room to make authentic content, track the results properly, and run enough shots on goal.\n\nThe hard part is doing all of that consistently without making it a headcount problem.\n\nBeluga is our attempt to make creator marketing feel more like running a paid acquisition channel: set the target, set the budget, see what is happening, and double down on what works.\n\nWe run campaigns ed-to-end, including:\n\n* Creator sourcing and vetting\n* Pricing and negotiation\n* Contracting\n* Deliverable management\n* Creator payments\n* Performance tracking\n* Post-campaign analysis\n\nThe goal is that a founder or growth team can test creator marketing without building the internal machine. If the results are there, we help them scale the channel without turning it into a hiring plan.\n\nSince starting in March, we have generated over 3M views for clients ranging from YC companies to Series F hyperscalers, and saved over $100k in negotiations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107925&key=user_uploads/2204818/2dd9d0b8-f197-41aa-aa36-621c473b6569)\n\n_Beluga helped take Freebuff, Codebuff's free coding agent, from roughly 50 to 1,200 daily active users at peak._\n\nFor another Series F company, we drove 3,500+ signups in two weeks.\n\n---\n\n## Who Beluga is for\n\nWe are most useful when you already believe creator marketing could fit your market, but you do not want the channel to require a whole internal team before it can scale.\n\nOur bet is that the traditional operating model is the problem: most of the sourcing, negotiation, coordination, payments, and reporting should not require dedicated headcount inside every company.\n\nThat also changes what is possible. When the work gets cheaper and easier to coordinate, you can test more creators, go after smaller but better-matched channels, and deploy more capital without being bottlenecked by how many deals an internal team can manually manage.\n\nThe signal we look for is simple: can we name a real content audience where your users spend time?\n\n\"Developers who watch AI coding tool reviews on YouTube\" is a clean audience shape. So is a consumer category with obvious creator communities. A niche B2B buyer can still work, but if the buyer is hard to describe in creator and audience terms, or the product only moves through a long enterprise committee, the test usually has less conversion signal.\n\nThe other important thing is seriousness about the experiment. Creator marketing is not one magic post. It takes enough well-matched attempts to learn which creators, formats, and messages work. If distribution is a real priority and you want to test the channel properly, that is the conversation we are best suited for.\n\n---\n\n## Why us\n\nThe reason we think we can make this work is that we have lived the messy parts.\n\nFernando ran millions in ad spend at Meta and then sold creator campaigns at Dare Drop. Zan, our Head of Account Management, led outreach across tens of thousands of creators and is a content creator himself. [@Jack Swisher](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2210281) spent years building AI systems at Bubble and now works on building the infrastructure needed to make our vision a reality.\n\nBetween us, we have seen the agency side, the creator side, the paid acquisition side, and the automation side.\n\nOur mission is simple: make creator marketing as measurable and easy to run as paid ads.\n\n---\n\n## The ask\n\nIf creator marketing is on your roadmap and you do not want the channel to become an internal ops burden, we would love to chat.\n\nAnd if you know another founder or growth lead who already believes distribution matters and is thinking about creator marketing this year, an intro would be hugely helpful.\n\n[Learn more here](https://www.trybeluga.ai/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/S4j-beluga-creator-marketing-on-autopilot", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-07-27T18:18:30.035Z" } ] }, { "id": 30439, "name": "Clarm", "slug": "clarm", "former_names": [ "Dialin - Dialogue Insights", "dialin", "dialin ai", "Dialin AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a20bfc6fd0067cd630d43fa83552c610e2a0c0d2.png", "website": "https://www.clarm.com", "all_locations": "ZH, Switzerland", "long_description": "Clarm Atlas 10xes productivity for non-technical operators in high-trust, regulated teams - banks, healthcare, insurance, publicly listed companies - by letting them build their own, fully governed AI agents. Teams build agents on their own approved data: every answer cites its source, all primitives are deterministic and highly governable, every action is logged for audit, and you bring your own AI model.", "one_liner": "Build governed AI agents on your own data, without code", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1747978633, "tags": [ "Sales", "Marketing", "Customer Support", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "Switzerland", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clarm", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/clarm.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": null, "country": "CH", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/clarm", "x_url": "https://x.com/clarm_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a20bfc6fd0067cd630d43fa83552c610e2a0c0d2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Andrew Miklas", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2476585, "full_name": "Marcus Storm-Mollard", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I speak 8 languages.\n\nBuilt Clarm to fix productivity (2025-?).\nBuilt the world's most accurate consumer goods forecasts using AI at NielsenIQ (2022-24). $0-7m ARR in 2y.\nVisiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford; published AI swarm research with a MIT journal (2021).\nLed AI at Deutsche Bank SeS before AI was cool (2019-21). $10m ARR in 2y.\nBanker at Deutsche Bank. Financed bridges, markets, hospitals etc from Peru to Taiwan.\nMSci Physics, Imperial College London.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-storm-a0514aa1/", "x_url": "https://x.com/marcus1storm", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/90701d0f760ff3006a303fc596914f21bd8fa4fd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90682, "title": "Clarm - Zero Hallucination AI Deep Research agents", "tagline": "Build fully automated workflows for high-trust environments", "body": "# **Things can only get better. 📈**\n\nHey, we’re [Marcus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-storm-mollard-a0514aa1/) and [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-usher/) at ◮ [Clarm](https://clarm.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=1). We've worked on AI since the 2010s and in industries where perfect workflows are critical to company survival (Deutsche Bank, Amazon).\n\n# **Problem ❌**\n\nDeep research agents could replace much of white-collar work, but companies can't deploy them because they lack trust in the data sources and control over the reasoning process. Legal and Compliance teams block adoption because existing AI tools make things up.\n\n# **Solution 💡**\n\n[Clarm](https://clarm.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=1) is your AI deep research agent builder for high-trust environments. Our platform connects across 40+ enterprise integrations - CRMs, email, knowledge bases - and lets you build precise, repeatable workflows that transform how teams work without the risk.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90682&key=user_uploads/2476585/fc020dbb-e97a-4980-b074-69a20242c1ef)\n\nWe’re actively developing [Clarm](https://clarm.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=1) for customers such as:\n\n* law firms to find relevant information within the thousands of emails and documents\n* asset managers to evaluate proxy voting preferences across 90,000 shareholder meetings\n* luxury goods retailers to increase client response rate from 5% to 50% through deep personalization (as compared to standard Hubspot-generated marketing copy)\n* fast-growing startups to onboard new hires instantly with bespoke training material created on their own customer calls\n* top open source startups to increase engagement with their Github repo and knowledge base\n* services firms to instantly answer '000s of client support questions, driving up engagement and turning curious prospects into committed customers\n\nhttps://youtu.be/on2OVIuO62M\n\n# **Team 👏**\n\nMarcus led the first AI team at a major Corporate Bank, growing it to $10m ARR in 2 years. After a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, he built the world’s most accurate consumer goods forecasting model for the world’s largest market researcher, scaling it from 0 to $7m ARR in 2 years. Marcus has worked all over the world and speaks 8 languages (on a good day).\n\nAlex built and maintained payment systems at Amazon Prime Video, processing $bns per year. He was top of his class at Imperial College London and holds numerous industry awards and publications.\n\n# **Our ask 🙏**\n\nWe’d like intros to buyers at high trust firms, like finance, luxury, and law.\n\nWe’d also be open to working with you directly if you sell into these firms and need precise, on-prem deep research agents to power your products.\n\nWe’d love to hear from you! Get in touch at [marcus@clarm.com](mailto:marcus@clarm.com). **Thank you.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nac-clarm-zero-hallucination-ai-deep-research-agents", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2025-05-23T18:03:03.761Z" } ] }, { "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. Instead 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. After creation, you have the ability to edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. \r\n\r\nIt's perfect for training, faceless YouTube, marketing, technical, and educational videos — any video where understanding is important. Trusted by over 170,000 users as of July '26, Golpo features include but are not limited to: \r\n\r\n1) Convert your narration into an explainer video (with your narration as audio and the video time aligned) \r\n2) Input your document or prompt. Document can be of virtually any format or type (text, audio, video etc.) \r\n3) Script-to-video with matching audio\r\n4) Videos up to 10 minutes\r\n5) 50+ languages\r\n6) dead-simple editing after generation\r\n7) Insert your own videos and images into the generation, used as-is without alteration.\r\n8) 10+ visuals styles, including pen in hand, voice cloning, vertical video, custom branding and more! 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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. 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We also offer Meta campaign management for teams that want creative production and campaigns handled together.\n\n[See our work and book a call](https://www.knowlify.com/).\n\n## What we make\n\n- **AI UGC:** Presenter-led, straight-to-camera ads built around your product and message.\n- **Pixar-style animation:** Original characters and stories that bring your product to life.\n- **AI commercials:** Produced scenes and product shots, created with AI and finished by our team.\n\nWe handle concepts, scripts, production, editing and sound. 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Unlike Google which shows you a list of blue links to click on, ChatGPT adds additional context and traditional SEO elements like rank and authority are no longer relevant.\n\nHere’s a fun video that encapsulates this perfectly: https://youtube.com/shorts/A1zkkdpXsjM?si=TIR2PpnO9Du4DV2O\n\n# What is Lapis?\n\nLapis helps you rank on AI Search Engines (we currently support ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok) without generating hundreds of blogs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94694&key=user_uploads/482153/d7152bae-e95b-49de-b222-45d4b18a7359)\n\nWe manage to do this by extensively analyzing Model responses and a combination of real-time content fixes, technical SEO, and linking websites on domains that are mentioned in models.\n\n# Analyzing AI Search Models\n\nWe spend over 650M tokens a day understanding responses for our customers. 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Now with multi-seat team coordination.", "body": "Hey YC.\n\nWe're Sky and Neo from Imagine AI.\n\nWe just launched multi-member team content for B2B companies.\n\nMost companies try LinkedIn GTM with one founder posting alone. It works, but it's slow. One voice. One network. Limited reach.\n\nWhat actually moves the needle is coordinated team effort. Multiple executives posting aligned content, amplifying each other, creating a ripple effect across the org.\n\nThat's what we built.\\\n\\\n\n\n**TL;DR:** We build 100+ page personas for each person on your team, then run your entire content pipeline: LinkedIn posts, strategic comments, coordinated team cadence. Every client gets a dedicated Content Engineer backed by our AI platform. $31M in revenue generated across 40+ B2B companies.\n\n**Ask:** B2B company doing sales-led growth? Book a demo at [imagineai.me](http://imagineai.me) or email [**sky@imagineai.me**](mailto:sky@imagineai.me)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nB2B buyers trust people, not logos. But most companies have zero content infrastructure.\n\nFounders and execs are juggling product, sales, and fundraising. Content falls to the bottom. Hiring an agency costs $150K+ and takes months to onboard per person. Generic AI tools produce robotic content that damages your brand. And even when someone does post, there's no coordination across the team. Your CEO and VP of Sales are operating in silos instead of running coordinated campaigns.\n\n**What's New**\n\n1️⃣ **Multi-seat access with coordinated cadence.** Your whole leadership team posts through Imagine AI. Not just the CEO. VP Sales, VP Marketing, Head of GTM, whoever needs to be building their presence. Your CEO posts the vision, your VP of Sales posts the proof, your Head of Marketing posts the framework. Same theme, different angles, coordinated ripple cadence.\n\n2️⃣ **100+ page Persona Reports for each person.** We go through transcripts, interviews, podcast appearances, posts, and conversations for every person on your team. The result reads more like a biography than a brief. That's why the content sounds like each person actually wrote it. Not a polished corporate version. Them.\n\n3️⃣ **Dedicated Content Engineer per account.** Every client gets a real person who owns your strategy. They set the pace, coordinate your team's content cadence, and ensure what we ship makes sense for your business. A senior content strategist with an AI platform behind them.\n\n4️⃣ **AI-powered analytics that track pipeline, not pageviews.** You can see which posts start real conversations with your ICP. Audience activation, conversation quality, inbound meeting requests. Actual numbers, not vibes.\n\n5️⃣ **Cut content creation time by 95%.** Executive post creation reduced from 1 hour to 5 minutes. Content prep reduced from 8 hours to 30 minutes. Most clients spend 2-4 hours per month on the platform. The rest runs on its own.\n\n**Our Traction**\n\nLaunched November 2025. Now serving 40+ paying B2B companies from pre-seed to publicly traded.\n\nClients include Rippling, Corgi Insurance, Campfire AI, Fondo, Paramify, and others.\n\n📈 Results across all clients:\n\n* **$31M** in revenue generated\n* **431** qualified inbounds in 1 month for one client\n* **$53K** inbound revenue in 1.5 weeks for another\n* **12M** total impressions generated\n* **10,400** hours saved so far\n\nWe built all of this because our customers kept asking for it. They wanted their whole team posting, but couldn't justify the time investment for each person.\n\nNow they can.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nKnow a B2B company doing sales-led growth that needs a content engine for their team? 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The result is content that drives qualified inbounds.\n\nOne client got 200 qualified inbounds in a month. Another landed a $5M deal from a single post. A third generated 40K in revenue from inbounds in 10 days.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/SiAtXolPFmY\n\n**The Problem**\n\nB2B founders know content drives pipeline. But you're juggling product, sales, and fundraising. You don't have time to make B2B content. Hiring an agency costs $150K and takes months to onboard. Generic AI tools produce robotic content that damages your brand.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nWe don't just write posts for you. We perform content engineering to get you to content market fit.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94851&key=user_uploads/1654391/15084825-fe7a-42f5-a032-78c90d251f6a)\n\nHere's what that means:\n\n**Step 1: Build a high-fidelity persona** We extract everything about how you think, write, and sell from your transcripts, articles, and interviews. The result is a persona document literally the length of a Harry Potter book. This isn't surface-level voice cloning. It's deep context about your worldview, your clients' pain points, and your unique insights.\n\n**Step 2: Content engineering to market fit** We use that persona to build your entire content pipeline: 4 LinkedIn posts per week, strategic comments on prospect posts, category defining blogs that rank. Then we optimize based on engagement data until we hit content market fit, where your content consistently drives qualified inbounds.\n\n**Step 3: Measure what matters** We track qualified conversations, not vanity metrics. We closed 10M in revenue so far for our clients.\n\nThat's content market fit.\n\n**Our Traction**\n\nWe launched in mid-July, now serve 30+ paying customers including 16 YC companies plus VCs, global franchises, and ghostwriting agencies (Conduit W24, Freya AI S25, AthenaHQ W25, Itworks, Fuwa Fuwa). 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More at [absurd.com](https://absurd.com).\n\nㅤ\n\nHey everyone — we'll make your launch video!\n\nWe’re Philip, Damian, and Daniel, co-founders of Absurd.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nAbsurd turns your ideas into viral AI ads. \\\n\\\nHere’s an ad we made that blew up on X ([690K views](https://l.gourl.es/l/68f21298ba10b07930efb63b9484bfe66f06080e?notrack=1&u=12901289)). Another one ([470K views](https://l.gourl.es/l/7a5ee89d2fb57e15d431d5a5fe413c280db4db76?notrack=1&u=12901289)). Here’s a more artsy one ([150K views](https://l.gourl.es/l/3ddd171616572212dc8e8000d70af58f6c5dcc49?notrack=1&u=12901289)). Our [portfolio](https://absurd.com).\n\nWe built a multi-agent system that plans, generates, and edits campaigns in real time.\n\n[philip@absurd.com](https://mailto:philip@absurd.com)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nMaking entertaining AI videos is hard.\n\nScripting. Breaking an idea into scenes, pacing it, and keeping a story coherent takes real creative skill. Most people underestimate how much of a craft that is.\n\nGeneration. There are dozens of AI video models out there, each good at something different — one nails motion, another nails faces, another gets the lighting right. Knowing which one to use, and how to deal with their quirks takes serious trial and error.\n\nBecause of these factors, most AI-generated ads look generic and perform poorly.\n\n---\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nAutonomous AI agents handle the creative process — while we stay in the loop, stepping in to steer the output when needed. This all happens inside an interactive platform where you can step in anytime to review progress, give feedback, or steer the direction alongside our team.\n\n\n\n### **Asks**\n\n1. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/absurdco) and [X](https://x.com/dopadealer).\n2. 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Book a demo here:**\n\n\n\n**Our Launch Video:**\n\n\n\n**Why This Matters**\n\nCompanies spend $1T on ads every year. $100B is wasted on ineffective ads due to non-compliance with brand guidelines, regulations, and platform best practices. So millions of lawyers, marketers, and compliance officers manually review every piece of content.\n\nThis process is slow, expensive, and about to break - AI tools are letting teams create 100x more content and human reviewers won’t be able to keep up.\n\n**Our solution**\n\nVeriad automates the entire process at scale. Our agent ingests brand policies, industry guidelines, and precedents, then analyzes every piece of content automatically - providing instant feedback to marketers. Veriad integrates directly into your marketing stack, to ensure that brand equity is protected across all surface areas.\n\n**Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97377&key=user_uploads/891759/79a75d50-6908-41d1-9369-1d2086d23ab5)\n\nWe met working at CoLoop (YC S21) where Rohan joined as employee #7 as a founding engineer and built out the agentic product line, and Anton advised the founders on GTM and Growth, having previously closed 7-figure deals with Fortune 10-500 companies.\n\n**Get in touch**\n\nIf you know/work at a consumer-facing company that fits **any of these** criteria, we’d love to chat:\n\n* Ad spend of $50M or more annually\n* Operates in an industry where advertising is regulated\n* Reviews thousands of marketing assets annually\n* Has a content review team / process\n* Faces bottlenecks in their ad approval workflows, with long waiting times\n\nPlease get in touch with us at [anton@veriad.ai](mailto:anton@veriad.ai) / [rohan@veriad.ai](mailto:rohan@veriad.ai)  or check out our website [veriad.ai](http://veriad.ai) to learn more and book a demo!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PKb-veriad-ai-compliance-officers", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-02-01T21:24:29.420Z" } ] }, { "id": 31409, "name": "InstaAgent", "slug": "instaagent", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1efbbb9a75fe89206f180f9f9d1afb75dba57ca0.png", "website": "https://instaagent.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "InstaAgent helps B2C companies scale a single campaign across hundreds of specific audiences on Meta and TikTok, each with its own content, voice, and targeting. 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We’re repeat founders who burned millions on paid social. We used AI to scale content production, but most of it was generic slop that fell flat. What actually converted was creative tailored to specific niches. But producing that at scale was too slow, too expensive, and no tool existed to do it.\n\n**Lessons from Serving Hundreds of Customers**\n\n1. **80% quality = 0% retention**: There's no \"good enough\" in AI creative. If content feels even slightly off, customers call it slop and churn. High-quality AI creative is harder than people assume — it's not just prompting, it's topics, taste, and iteration. That's why we moved from self-serve to an agency model. Customers do not just want AI tools; they need help producing quality creatives.\n2. **Few people actually like creating**: The first few ideas came easy, then they were stuck. Most brands run 5-6 variations when they should be running 50+. MEDVi (controversial, but instructive) scaled by running ads across 800+ Facebook pages. Few brands can produce personalized ads at that scale.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nInstaAgent generates hundreds of on-brand creatives from your brief — each tailored to a specific persona, informed by what's trending and distributed across hundreds of social accounts engineered to reach each niche.\n\nIn hours, performance data starts flowing back. Winners scale. Underperformers are replaced by new variants. The optimization loop that used to take weeks now runs continuously.\n\nIn days, you launch the next campaign. Different angle, fresh creatives, smarter targeting — because every cycle inherits what the last one learned.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you know a B2C company scaling on Meta or TikTok, we’d love an intro.\n\nEspecially relevant: CPG, Health, and Apps.\n\nPlease email us at [kyle@instaagent.com](mailto:founders@instaagent.com)\n\n**About Us**\n\n[Kyle](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylewong2): Repeat Founder (1M+ users in 1 month) | Ex-GS China TMT | Triple Major @Cornell\n\n[Colin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tseungc): Repeat Founder (Acqui-hired) | Maths @Oxford\n\nFriends for 20 years since middle school:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101195&key=user_uploads/593025/e32fecf3-ea76-4c59-b20a-14c355a4683d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QKB-instaagent-one-marketing-campaign-hundreds-of-personas", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2026-05-11T16:27:44.262Z" } ] }, { "id": 31463, "name": "Armature", "slug": "armature", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cafd940f7349e6c612893fad752013b10458ce39.png", "website": "https://armature.tech", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor now decide which tools get installed in a codebase. 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You can also try our product self-serve **for free** directly at [armature.tech](http://armature.tech)._\n\n\n\n### ❌ The Problem: The Missing Agent Experience (AX)\n\nWe have 30 years of tooling to optimize User Experience (UX), from session replays and funnel analytics to live support chat. But as products are increasingly operated by **AI agents** rather than humans, we lack the equivalent tooling for **Agent Experience (AX)**.\n\nRight now, companies have **zero visibility** into how each agent (Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, etc.) interacts with their products. And when a bad AX causes an agent to fail silently, the end-user simply churns.\n\nBut it goes deeper. As agents become the primary users, the fundamental mechanics of software products simply stop working. Because if a human isn’t looking at the screen:\n\n* _How do you upsell a premium feature to an AI?_\n* _How do you build brand loyalty with a user that doesn’t feel emotions?_\n* _How do you offer customer support when an agent fails?_\n\nWe are building Armature to solve these exact problems and so many more questions related to this shift!\n\n### 💡 Our Solution: Armature\n\nArmature helps companies monitor, analyze, and optimize how AI agents experience their products.\n\n**What we do today:**\n\n* **Automated testing:** We run complex sessions against your MCPs/CLIs across all major harnesses and models to catch broken workflows before your users do.\n* **AX analytics & benchmarking:** No more black boxes. We trace agent sessions to show you exactly what the model \"thought\", what context it missed, and why it failed. We measure your AX against competitors to ensure you remain the preferred platform for agents to use.\n* **Auto-remediation:** Our MCP lets your internal coding agents plug into Armature to autonomously fix your product's AX based on our run data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101594&key=user_uploads/3408440/5642c5dd-a3b1-46e1-865d-a0425ceba1d5)\n\n**Our vision for tomorrow:**\n\nReaching full understanding of how agents use your product and how you can improve it is only step one. \n\nThe next step is to provide the **foundational infrastructure for the Agent Experience**, powering agent-native revenue, lifecycle marketing, and customer support for the next generation of software.\n\n### 🙏 Our Ask: If you’re building apps for agents, let’s talk!\n\n1. **Audit your MCP or CLI:** If you are building for agents, you can start by running your first audit & benchmark on [**armature.tech**](http://armature.tech) **for free** to see how they actually experience your app.\n2. **Let’s chat:** If you are facing challenges to make your app usable by agents or optimize the agent experience, please reach out to [**founders@armature.tech**](mailto:founders@armature.tech). 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That $150B market is moving toward local creators.", "tagline": "Word of mouth at scale for local restaurants", "body": "Hey everyone,\n\nWe're Yousef, Obaida, and Ahmad, the founders of **TryNearby**.\n\nYousef co-founded FaZe Clan and spent 15 years creating content for 10M+ followers alongside hundreds of other creators. Ahmad and Obaida co-founded one of the first social media clipping companies, building the infrastructure that tracked billions of views across thousands of videos for creator campaigns. We've watched creator content become the most powerful distribution channel on the internet, and we're bringing it to local businesses.\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\n84% of small businesses on TikTok say it helped grow their business. Almost every restaurant owner we meet knows that and has no idea how to act on it.\n\nTryNearby handles it. Every month we send a new group of creators who live nearby to visit, film, and post a review, for a $399 subscription. All of it is handled by us and our AI agents.\n\nToday, 120+ restaurants are subscribed and have had 2,500+ videos posted for them. We nearly doubled one restaurant's revenue in their first month, and owners tell us people walk in every day saying \"we saw you on TikTok.\" Almost half our new restaurants now come from other owners referring us.\n\nOur launch video: \n\n## **The problem**\n\nThere are about 1 million restaurants and cafes in the US. Most of them are invisible in the places people actually decide where to eat.\n\nThe options an owner has today:\n\n* Agencies cost thousands a month and often don’t drive real results\n* Influencers work, but finding the right local ones, negotiating, and doing it again every month is a job by itself\n* Creating their own content is a second full-time job they don't have time for, or a full-time hire they don't have the budget for\n\nAnd here's the thing: _the algorithm doesn't reward a business talking about itself. It rewards people talking about the business._\n\nSo the thing that actually works — someone who lives nearby posting about your food — happens once or twice, or not at all.\n\nAnd the platforms keep rewarding the ones who show up. TikTok's new Local Feed ranks by location and recency, so the restaurants getting fresh content every month reach their own neighborhood. The ones who don't, disappear.\n\n## **The solution**\n\nTryNearby is a subscription that puts local creators inside local restaurants every month, and their followers through the door.\n\n$399/month. Every month we automatically schedule a new group of vetted creators who live nearby. They come in, film, edit, and post. The restaurant just serves the food.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/7721f4f4-96e4-4a68-b860-841fee782765)\n\n### **Part 1 — They sign up, creators start showing up**\n\nThe moment a restaurant joins, our matching agent finds the creators nearby who fit that spot and sends the invites. Sometimes a creator is scheduled to visit within five minutes of a restaurant signing up. Creators pick their own time from the restaurant's availability. The restaurant doesn't coordinate anything or answer a single message.\n\n### **Part 2 — An AI agent runs every creator relationship**\n\nEvery creator on TryNearby is managed over iMessage by an agent we built. Onboarding, match invites, booking, reminders, reschedules, questions. It handles over 10,000 texts a month.\n\nIt also learns as it goes. Every conversation teaches it more about that creator: what they like to eat, where they'll actually drive, when they're free, what they turn down. That context feeds the matching, so the invites get better the longer someone is on the platform.\n\nFor creators, it's a personal assistant that helps them become better creators while bringing collaborations straight to their iMessage instead of them chasing restaurants.\n\n### **Part 3 — Restaurant owners get their own AI agent to text**\n\nOwners get an assistant in iMessage too. It watches every video, comment, and review, and tells them what's happening: who's visiting this week, how the last video performed, what people are saying. So when a dish sells out the week after a creator posted about it, the owner knows exactly why.\n\nOur team sits behind both agents. Anything either one can't handle gets flagged to us in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/5ff964f8-9013-42d7-9617-29d6ccb2164a)\n\n## **Traction**\n\n10 months in:\n\n* 120+ paying restaurants across Southern California\n* 37% month-over-month growth with over 90% monthly restaurant retention since November\n* 2,500+ videos posted by local creators → \\~35M views, almost entirely from people within a few miles\n\nWhat that turned into for the restaurants:\n\n* A restaurant in San Diego nearly doubled revenue in a single month\n* Another had a whole new demographic of customers drive a 50% increase in sales\n* Dishes featured in creator videos hit record sales the following week\n\nEvery single owner tells us the same thing: **people are walking in and saying they saw them on TikTok.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110956&key=user_uploads/3490413/3301e743-2fef-43c4-9138-aaa5631d1eb8)\n\n## **Team**\n\n**Yousef** co-founded FaZe Clan after starting as a 14-year-old YouTuber in 2010. 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