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", "body": "Today on [Outpaint](https://outpaint.com/ad-reframe) we are launching **Ad Reframe**, the easiest way for advertisers to convert their winning UGC (9:16) for connected TV (16:9). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103954&key=user_uploads/579262/0d9469eb-a8fe-4035-82b5-8b8101014f76)\n\n**The problem**\n\nAdvertisers test endlessly to find a winning UGC video, then want to squeeze every bit of value from it, including running it on TV. But converting vertical to horizontal for the big screen today means black bars from pillarboxing or a smeared side blur.\n\n**The solution**\n\nInstead of adding black bars, we expand the content so it looks like it was shot natively for TV.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103954&key=user_uploads/579262/9c2c0fed-b0bb-4904-a4f4-55b28373782d)\n\nOutpainting wins on everything advertisers measure: engagement (skip rate falls to 17%, the lowest tested), quality (55% say it looks professionally produced vs. under 40% for the alternatives), and brand lift (consideration at 51%, favorability at 58%), because filling the screen with real content beats hiding the gap behind bars or blur. Report [link](https://outpaint.com/case-studies/ctv-format-test)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103954&key=user_uploads/579262/79d0f1d7-f541-4f01-9255-c811dde479f9)\n\n**How it works**\n\nThe conversion generates new content where the black bars used to be. We support any aspect ratio, resolutions up to 8K, any frame rate, and any color space.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103954&key=user_uploads/579262/b9f35bc8-49fc-4b12-ac11-e2cb85002956)\n\nHave an ad you want to convert? Grab 15 minutes on my calendar and we'll set you up. ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R2g-outpaint-com-ad-reframe-convert-winning-ugc-ads-to-ctv", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-06-25T14:53:02.827Z" }, { "id": 102813, "title": "Outpaint.com - Expand any video to fit any screen", "tagline": "Cinema grade video outpainting models", "body": "I’m Daniel from [**Outpaint.com**](http://Outpaint.com) (W21) and we are putting an end to **black bars** around videos, from vertical ads to big theater screens.\n\n**Problem**\n\nPeople consume video on many different devices, but video can only be shot for a single screen at a time.\n\n**Solution**\n\nOur models expand any video to fit any screen by generating content to fill the extra space, while preserving every pixel of the original video.\n\n**Examples**\n\n9:16 →16:9 (Ads and Micro-dramas)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102813&key=user_uploads/579262/e014ce0f-23db-4ee6-a6ee-f2e4269bd9c5)\n\n16:9 → 1.43:1 (Premium big screens and IMAX full frame)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102813&key=user_uploads/579262/ab682ded-ee2d-4cb6-838b-b8f024ed41be)\n\n16:9 →180° Fisheye (Domes & VR)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102813&key=user_uploads/579262/4e182eb6-7782-4047-bc53-6ed83af33ca1)\n\n**How [_outpaint.com_](http://outpaint.com) works**\n\nSimply send us a video link and your target aspect ratio, and we'll send back the expanded version. Our models handle any duration, resolution, frame rate, and color space.\n\nWe've expanded everything from vertical ads for horizontal CTV spots to full films for immersive screens like IMAX and dome venues. We even got a [**shoutout on Rogan**](https://youtu.be/D_ZGWj_38uA?si=hY74cps5IN5THreL&t=8415) for some of our VR conversions.\n\n**Have a video you want to expand?**\n\nSend me an email at [**hello@outpaint.com**](mailto:daniel@outpaint.com) with a link to your video, and I'll follow up within 24 hours with a quote.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QkH-outpaint-com-expand-any-video-to-fit-any-screen", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-06-09T16:17:02.245Z" }, { "id": 81306, "title": "🎥 QuickVid Autopilot - Post 1 viral clip per day to your socials", "tagline": "Autopilot curates, edits, and posts the best clips from your existing video content.", "body": "Hey everyone,\n\nI’m Dan, and I’m super excited to share that we are starting to roll out QuickVid [**Autopilot**](https://www.quickvid.ai/autopilot)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81306&key=user_uploads/579262/891b19bb-7b43-492c-b234-ee213cd4a28b)\n\n### The Problem\n\nConsistently posting clips to your socials is just too time-consuming and expensive.\n\n🕗 Time Intensive: Curating and editing a 40-second clip from a 30-minute video can take up to 1-2 hours.\n\n💰 Expensive: A decent video editor can cost upwards of $200/clip\n\n🖥️ Difficult to get started: Editing requires specialized software like Adobe Premiere\n\n😰 You are too busy: Consistently posting to your socials is something that busy founders just don’t have time for!\n\n📊 Trends are always changing: What works on each social channel is always changing. We stay on top of trends, so you don’t have to.\n\n### The Solution\n\nConnect Autopilot to your long videos and desired posting locations, and you’re done! Autopilot will find the best clip from all your video sources and post it on your behalf every day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81306&key=user_uploads/579262/a608e70e-d60d-4a25-98f6-97912f52d317)\n\n**Connect your video source**\n\nThese are the locations QuickVid will pull clips from. QuickVid checks for new content daily. (YouTube, Drive, Zoom, etc.)\n\n**Connect your video destinations**\n\nThis is where Autopilot will post your clips every day (YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc)\n\n**Choose your cadence**\n\nEither post once per day or let our AI decide the best time and cadence to post\n\n### About the Clips\n\nClips are:\n\n* Automatically cropped to a vertical 9:16 aspect ratio\n* Auto-Reframed to focus on the speaker\n* Baked with captions to help keep a viewer’s attention\n* Personalized with your branding\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81306&key=user_uploads/579262/27645561-3a5a-4e38-af3a-0445c2ea712a)\n\n### Who is Autopilot for?\n\nIf you consistently create long **_talking_** videos (podcasts, interviews, zoom meetings, etc.) and are struggling to keep up with posting clips, sign up for Autopilot, and I will personally onboard you!\n\n[Sign Up Here](https://www.quickvid.ai/autopilot)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L9O-quickvid-autopilot-post-1-viral-clip-per-day-to-your-socials", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2024-06-04T21:01:38.894Z" }, { "id": 77477, "title": "QuickVid 🎥 Cut up long videos into viral clips", "tagline": "A generative AI video tool that repurposes long videos into shorts in one click. ", "body": "**Tl;dr:** QuickVid makes growing your Youtube channel effortless by creating ready-to-post shorts out of _talking_ videos (Video Podcasts, Interviews, etc.). For anyone looking for a hands-off solution, checkout our autopilot add-on! \n\nHey everyone, I’m Daniel Habib.\n\nI just pivoted and am re-launching QuickVid (w21)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77477&key=user_uploads/579262/c54acda5-8765-4d5b-8272-36a515c77504)\n\n## **🧨The Problem**\n\nIf you’re looking to grow aggressively on LinkedIn, Youtube, or TikTok,  you should be posting **1-2 shorts per day**\n\nFor a busy founder, this can feel like an impossible task because:\n\n* Clipping shorts out of your videos takes too much time\n* Hiring a video editor is too expensive (sometimes over $300 per clip!)\n\n## **🎉The Solution**\n\nQuickVid is your automated video production studio. We take all of your source video content and repurpose it for different platforms at 1/1000th of the cost and time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77477&key=user_uploads/579262/77ffd30d-f607-44e8-a4d5-6955d2233e1b)\n\nClips are:\n\n* Auto-reframed so the main subject is always in focus\n* Branded with subtitles and special effects\n* Spliced with B-Roll to keep engagement high – driving algorithm pickup\n* Supported in over 10 video languages\n* Editable, if you want to adjust a clip it’s easy to tweak\n* HD - 1080p supported\n* Graded with a Virality Score to help you find the best clips\n\n## **How it works**\n\nWe use our own proprietary models alongside multiple LLM and video processing chains to find and spice up the best clips.\n\nTo use, simply drop a link to your video and once processed, you’ll have dozens of clips ready for publishing.\n\n## **Full Autopilot (Beta)**\n\nFor those that are too busy to post their own shorts, we have an Autopilot add-on. Autopilot edits and posts one short a day on your behalf, it’s completely hands-off after initial setup. 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Recurring credit card charges are declined [15% of the time](https://www.chargebee.com/blog/making-sense-credit-card-declines/#:\\~:text=According%20to%20Visa%20and%20Mastercard,card%20machines%20of%20the%20web.) and account for [48% of churn](https://www.pymnts.com/subscriptions/2021/almost-half-of-subscription-churn-caused-by-preventable-friction-in-failed-payments/), making them the single largest source of churn for most subscription businesses.\n\n### 💸 Processing Fees\n\nAmerican businesses spent over [$138B on credit card processing fees](https://nilsonreport.com/mention/1586/1link/) last year, which is only growing. With Visa and Mastercard controlling more than 70% of the market, they have no incentive to reduce these fees themselves. This is especially painful for businesses that sell high-ticket items or operate on low margins, where every single percentage point can move the needle.\n\n# Our Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69567&key=user_uploads/82730/6478a091-1af2-4a1c-b14f-1660f235b380)\n\ncoil tackles both of these problems by getting to the root of the issue: credit cards. We’re building a new, seamless experience to help you collect payments via bank transfer (ACH/RTP) instead of credit cards and handling all of the complexity behind the scenes.\n\nOur first product is a “Pay with coil” button that can be added directly to your pre-existing checkout flow for one-off or subscription payments. When a customer uses coil for the very first time, they’ll securely link their bank through Plaid. Afterward, they can verify their identity through an SMS or Email verification code, allowing authenticated payments in seconds. You can checkout the returning flow here:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69567&key=user_uploads/82730/f090bdc8-de04-437a-a8a6-daf8abc36a06)\n\nThis is already a huge improvement over today’s ACH experience, and we’re just getting started. Over the coming months and years, we’ll continue to flesh out the scenarios and integrations necessary to become the default payment method for a post-credit card world.\n\n# Asks\n\n* Reach out if you're looking to reduce your processing fees or eradicate churn from credit card declines — all YC companies will receive priority onboarding.\n* Share with anyone you think might be interested in moving past cards to reduce fees & churn.\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@trycoil.com](mailto:founders@trycoil.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I63-coil-cut-fees-kill-churn-with-seamless-bank-payments", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2023-02-22T20:35:24.403Z" } ] }, { "id": 27907, "name": "Storyboarder", "slug": "storyboarder", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fdaa90707265a548984bceb0ca01f4971e16d6c3.png", "website": "https://storyboarder.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Storyboarder is a tool and a platform for anyone to create, share, and sell webcomics.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is an $12B market and rapidly growing to the rest of the world. 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Prior to Storyboarder, Joe lead a computer vision/machine learning team at Google before working on generating maps with machine learning at Waymo.\nJoe's passion for web-native fiction played a significant role in inspiring Storyboarder's design. 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Over 650,000 users have used Storyboarder to make movies like Black Panther, Cruella, I Tonya, and Modern Family — and now we're expanding to webcomics.\n\nHi Everyone! We’re [Charles Forman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iminlikewithyou/) and [Joe Watkins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-watkins-06925295/), the founders of [Storyboarder](https://storyboarder.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69867&key=user_uploads/73262/1d6bac9f-7694-4132-b0e9-b6f55630014f)\n\nIf you have an idea for a story, you can use Storyboarder to tell it by adding characters to a scene and typing in dialogue - the tool will automatically generate the shots you need to tell your story. You can post episodes of your story to the platform as part of a series, and other people can buy the episodes to read them.\n\n## 🤬 **Currently, it’s too hard to make webcomics - You have to be able to draw!**\n\nIn East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is a $12B market - and it’s rapidly growing to the rest of the world. People are addicted to reading webcomics. For example, the largest company in the space, Webtoon, has 100M MAU and generates $1.2B in annual revenue. The problem is that the variety and appeal of webcomics is constrained by the number of webcomic artists - you need to know how to draw to make a webcomic.\n\n## 💜 **We make it easy for anyone to make webcomics!**\n\nStoryboarder is a 3D scene editor. You pick a scene. You add characters. You type in what they say. Storyboarder makes the panels for you, and then you can edit them as much as you want. We have a world class rendering system, so everything ends up looking absolutely beautiful!\n\nStoryboarder is also a platform for posting your comics as episodes in series. After your readers read 5 of your episodes, they can pay the equivalent of 20 cents to read additional episodes.\n\n## 🧔🧔‍♂️ **Why are we building this?**\n\nI, (Charles), was working on making a movie. I wanted the story to be good, but I had no experience. Pixar uses storyboarding as a tool to iterate on their stories. They can see each version of their movie and rapidly iterate on it. Being the creative / engineer that I am, I made a storyboarding tool so I could create storyboards without having to draw. I released the tool, Storyboarder, and 700K people use it to storyboard movies and tv shows like Black Panther, Cruella, I, Tonya, and Modern Family.\n\nWe were ready to start shooting my movie in March of 2020 - then the pandemic hit. We realized we wouldn’t be able to make the movie. So I focused on Storyboarder. Working with some of the best writers, directors, and storyboard artists in the world, I saw a bunch of fantastic storyboards for movies that would never be filmed. They were cancelled because of covid. I realized that there are tons of stories that never see the light of day because they can’t get made into movies.\n\nBeing depressed about COVID, I spent time on Clubhouse, where I met my cofounder Joe. We talked a lot about the world of online fiction and webcomics and how it relates to storyboarding. We learned that Webtoon is huge and makes tons of money, but very few of their stories appeal to us, or many people I know. Webtoon creators are a particular type of person that need to know how to draw.\n\nI used to make videogames. I started OMGPOP (YC06). We built 35 games and a game called “Draw Something” We sold the company for $200M. Joe was running a team of ML engineers at Google and worked on computer vision at Waymo. So we thought we could combine forces to build the next generation of storytelling with online 3D tech, game tech, and AI.\n\nJoe and I thought, what if we make a tool where anyone can make webcomics without having to draw? The stories created would appeal to so many more people. We did the math: 3 out of 10 Americans buy e-books: 100M people X $12 (ARPPU on Webtoon). That’s $1.2B. 10X Globally: $12B!\n\n## **Checks all the boxes:**\n\n✅ **Making stories is important and fun!** \\\n✅ **Huge Market: $12B.** \\\n✅ **Built in 650K Users.** \\\n✅ **Previous YC06 videogame company with success: $200M Exit.** **\\#29 Top YC Exit.**\\\n✅ **Investors include**: David Karp (**Tumblr Founder**), Andrew Kortina (**Venmo Founder**), **Jonathan Glick** (NYT), **Andy Artz** (Best man in the world), other top secret celebs and good looking rich people.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69867&key=user_uploads/73262/c4ddcafc-e38e-49f9-8259-b90af30cfb5c)\n\n_Various gingers: Laura (Joe’s partner), Joe, some freakishly tall guy, and Charles._\n\n### **The Ask:**\n\n🚀 Do you want in on this rocket ship? Interested in using our tool? 💌 Email us and we’ll add you to the waitlist or set up a call: [founders@storyboarder.com](mailto:founders@storyboarder.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAt-storyboarder-create-buy-and-sell-webcomics", "votes": 114, "created_at": "2023-03-02T15:10:31.514Z" } ] }, { "id": 27947, "name": "Shortbread", "slug": "shortbread", "former_names": [ "KURUKURU" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/078f1845141c235e73d8a7d865841150d50fcf92.png", "website": "https://www.shortbread.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Shortbread app is Netflix for romance comics built by a team of women writers, artists and engineers. We work with bestselling authors on Kindle and #BookTok to turn their romance fictions into comics. Our content specialize in viral romance fiction tropes such as mafia and dark romance. The comics are free to read with options to buy a subscription.\r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "Read romance comics.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1677185733, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/shortbread", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/shortbread.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/shortbreadai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ShortbreadAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/078f1845141c235e73d8a7d865841150d50fcf92.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": 1139029, "full_name": "Fengjiao Peng", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Epsilab. Previously co-founded Shortbread (YC W23), generating $500K revenue and 2M episodes sold for AI-created comics. Founding member of Vimeo's AI team, pioneering multi-modal deep learning and RL for video streaming. Researcher at MIT Media Lab. 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A former comics creator, she pitched her own projects to webcomics platforms and saw the lack of advanced tech in the space. \\\n**Evan** is an AI researcher at the Berkeley AI Research Lab and was SWE at Amazon. He founded Generative AI @ Berkeley and grew it to 70 members + partnerships with Microsoft and YC startups in 7 months. He also built talk2arXiv, an open-source RAG system that reached 1st place on Hacker News, 500 stars on GitHub, and is still used by thousands today.\n\n# **Why Shortbread**\n\n**🩷 We’re building something _women_ want**. We marry the most advanced tech to a centuries-old genre: ROMANCE. A women-led founding team, we deeply understand our audience’s taste and meticulously optimize every algorithm, every storyline, every panel, and every pixel to visualize what today’s women seek. \n\n**📖 Story is king.** Our debut Shortbread Original series are brought to you by bestselling authors from Kindle, Wattpad, and Chapters—collectively with 64+ million views—and webcomic artists with 2+ billion views. Each story undergoes a rigorous revision process with the best minds in the industry to ensure unparalleled quality.\n\n**🎨 We build technology for our creators**. We’re building the best technology to enable artists to express their creativity and be freed by the tedious side of drawing. Enabled by our creative studio tools, our team are bringing best-of-its-kind graphics and artwork to the mobile romantic fictions.\\\nA video of our tools: https://youtu.be/QgYWf9rtBp4\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nDownload the [Shortbread App](https://shortbreadapp.com/) on iOS (Android next week ;) with the code YC2024 and get 100 free coins to read beautiful romance stories :). \n\nInvite friends with your personal code in the app for more free bonus coins!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L6Q-shortbread-app-netflix-for-comics", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2024-05-28T14:04:08.841Z" }, { "id": 70027, "title": "KURUKURU (now Shortbread.ai): 3D engine in the browser for comics creation", "tagline": "One destination for anyone to create, publish and monetize comics stories.", "body": "**TL; DR:** Webcomics platforms like webtoon generate $1.2B+ in ARR, engaging 90M monthly active readers. KURUKURU is a 3D engine in the browser to allow every storyteller to create, publish and monetize comics.\n\nThis is a page of a comics story (aka webtoon, manga, manhwa)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70027&key=user_uploads/1139029/ddde28f5-c960-4ffb-a7ef-8a421be9b6a3)\n\nCreated with KURUKURU\n\n**Reality:**\n\nWebcomic platforms like Webtoon generate $1.2B+ in ARR from comics sales, engaging 90M+ monthly active readers. Tapas, a webcomics platform, was sold for $550M. Over 2B people watch anime globally, and the total market cap of anime, webtoon and comics is $47.3B in 2022.\n\nCurrently, creators make comics by drawing, which requires art skills and is incredibly labor intensive and time consuming.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nDemo: \n\nKURUKURU is an all-in-one 3D engine and platform that enables every storyteller to create, publish and monetize comics. By uploading or generating characters, posing panels, and applying stylized filters, anyone can make comics in minutes, not hours.\n\n**👧🏻 Optimized for comics storytelling.** Characters take up >90% of panel areas. KURUKURU offers easy and detailed control of characters to express those \\~feelings\\~.\n\n**🖼️ Making art in clicks.** Creators want panels that look like hand-drawn art, not photorealism as in traditional 3D engines. KURUKURU has proprietary filters to render webtoon, manga, and comics styles (w/ provisional patent pending), in addition to continuous integration with generative AI.\n\n[**🔮**](https://emojipedia.org/crystal-ball/)**User generated content + oceans of assets.** Comics creation is art asset heavy: character poses, props, backgrounds. KURUKURU offers massive amounts of native assets, and encourages creators to upload, share and trade.\n\n**🧙‍♀️Character generation.** Working with the 3D art teams behind games like Genshin Impact and Onmyoji, we’re building powerful character generation tools with a variety of aesthetics that Gen Z and Gen Alpha love.\n\n[**🚀**](https://emojipedia.org/rocket/)**Share everything through a link**. Collaborate in realtime.\n\n[**💰**](https://emojipedia.org/money-bag/)**Helping creators from distribution to monetization.** Comics creation is a whole journey, and creators need so much more help and support than a great tool!\n\n**Who are we?**\n\nTwo frens who like to draw and write ٩(●˙▿˙●)۶…⋆ฺ\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70027&key=user_uploads/1139029/278f04cb-2d65-4557-a5dd-e6b13ef2be2a)\n\nFengjiao has had a fascination with visual storytelling her whole life. In college she wrote and created several animated films, some of which went viral. A veteran from MIT Media Lab, Adobe and Vimeo, she made algorithms on generative animation and AI.\n\nIn 2019, she co-created a webcomics series, 少女，香草，及其他易燃物 (Girl, Herbs and Other Inflammable Objects), which was accepted to Dongman, a Chinese webcomics platform. Trying everything out there to get her comics done, Fengjiao developed deep insights in the comics creation process, from story to art, and saw the total vacancy of advanced technology in this space.\n\nIn 2022, she teamed up with Yiping, a fellow creative, and financial engineering guru, who developed large-scale trading systems for SMBC Capital Markets, & former analyst at Alliance Bernstein since graduating from Columbia University. In their bedrooms, the two concocted the first prototype of KURUKURU. In 6 months, KURUKURU landed in the hands of the first cohort of creators that the founders befriended on Reddit.\n\nWe are fortunate to be backed by supportive investors and experts in the field, including YC, Joi Ito and Louis Kang @ GMJP, Ben Casnocha, Amrit Rao and Anne Dwane @ Village Global, Habib Haddad and Calvin Chin @ E14. Our founding advisor [Peter Dolch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdolch/) orchestrated content systems & warehouses for HP, Merriam Webster and AT&T, and has been a strategic advisor to numerous startups including WOMP and Gentle Beast.\n\n**Ask**\n\nTell your friends/cousins who love comics, manga, animation, anime, visual storytelling … about us. Say “yc fren“ in the sign up form. We’ll help them skip the waitlist and turn their stories into comics.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDT-kurukuru-now-shortbread-ai-3d-engine-in-the-browser-for-comics-creation", "votes": 395, "created_at": "2023-03-07T23:21:47.841Z" } ] }, { "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!). 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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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Previously, he was a senior data scientist at Meta where he worked on numerous zero-to-one consumer social products at NPE (New Product Experimentation).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/runboli", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/runboli", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/68548808b017cccd2b131be8bc5acf49e1bb563f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1369307, "full_name": "David Hu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "David is the co-founder and CTO of Magic Hour. Previously, he worked as a full stack engineer at Skillz, leading multiple product development teams from Series B to IPO. He worked across the entire tech stack, from user interface down to infrastructure management. 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We're [Runbo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/runboli/) and [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhu2000/), and we’re building [Magic Hour](https://magichour.ai/), a video creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create professional-quality videos.\n\nImagine swapping your face onto [Anne Hathaway’s](https://vimeo.com/919285653?share=copy) in The Devil Wears Prada, or transforming [Michael Jordan](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0etTFPu82Y/) into a marble statue shooting a game-winner in the Colosseum.\n\n**Try Our Website**: [**magichour.ai**](https://magichour.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/uj-ZNSVmwSdWtWRUhHFLgD15D5jMgY15bfHB-ZqNZqo4widCmOnzG23lk7XMCuZahyrBie0WUW1T6SyhgbAocdpOanu9vfNtZ6Io9DNQdt2ni5BGj1Tth5gy3JMk2PsTtv879SvBJeKxY3UQusUQvYs)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nMany creators, professionals, and businesses struggle to produce enough engaging, high-quality videos due lack of video production expertise and constraints on time and budget.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nWe take the best open-source AI models, figure out the best settings, and put them in a user-friendly UX so anyone can create high-quality videos in three easy steps: **choose a template, customize it, and share it**.\n\n**About Us**\n\nOur moms are best friends and introduced us in 1997 (left). Magic Hour is born out of experiences helping our parents market their small businesses, where we learned how hard it is to create engaging video content.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wO2hXAv9DwXnRIIawRUkI2NMU2Jz4N3pLBWLRahJBSmMQl-tsjBHfEcA3iCanBClT4KculXKeeR0uavWcXtmTRqeKk0sqyMXuVrj-cXbQ3oHPUW16DyTDnYECf0DYdXFuYCc9zN6QKQ8eWdhOYIf_KY)\n\n**Our ask**\n\n* Try \n* Share with friends and family\n* Give us feedback at [founders@magichour.ai](mailto:support@magichour.ai) \n* If you have any connections to businesses that make a lot of video content, especially professional sports teams, we’d love to connect\n\nFeel free to reach out at [founders@magichour.ai](mailto:support@magichour.ai) anytime!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZ1-magic-hour-create-engaging-videos-using-ai", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-03-05T01:39:16.302Z" } ] }, { "id": 29596, "name": "Comfy Deploy", "slug": "comfy-deploy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a731bcc797807541c6c51d10993125ff2f77823.png", "website": "https://comfydeploy.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "ComfyUI is the most popular open-source framework to build media generation workflows. However, it's a single-player experience that needs to run on a local GPU. Everyone has different environments and sharing workflows to someone else can take days to get setup.\r\n\r\nComfy Deploy fixes this by creating a collaborative workspace, where a teams environemnt, models and workflows can be shared as easily with a link.\r\n\r\n**Team ComfyUI workspace**\r\n\r\n• Replacing cobbled-together solutions with a unified, team-focused environment. When it works for you, you can be sure it works for your team.\r\n\r\n• Eliminate \"works on my machine\" issues with version control.\r\n\r\n• Share storage for models and outputs.\r\n\r\n• Leverage the power of ComfyUI without the complexities of self-hosting\r\n\r\n**Powerful GPU Infrastructure**\r\n• Access managed GPUs that grow with your teams needs\r\n\r\n• Tailor the platform to your requirements by easily installing custom nodes and models\r\n\r\n\r\n**Custom configuration**\r\n\r\n• Download the models you want, stored privately in your personal volume\r\n\r\n• Install the custom nodes your workflow needs\r\n\r\n• Train models on your own datasets.\r\n\r\n\r\n**API Deployments: From workflow to production in seconds**\r\n\r\n• Transform any workflow into a fully functional API immediately without extra engineering\r\n\r\n• Comprehensive observability on every run\r\n\r\n• Built-in API authentication\r\n\r\n• TS/JS/Python/Ruby SDKs for seamless integration\r\n", "one_liner": "ComfyUI for everyone on your team", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1721586531, "tags": [ "Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 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/comfy-deploy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/comfy-deploy.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/comfy-deploy", "x_url": "https://x.com/comfydeploy", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/comfy-deploy", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a731bcc797807541c6c51d10993125ff2f77823.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": 1100490, "full_name": "Nicholas Kao", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building an image generation platform.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-kao-468540174/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/nicholaskkao", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d3473ace5b059fce9ce86571237c719520c6520.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82360, "title": "Comfy Deploy - ComfyUI for product teams", "tagline": "The best way for product teams to build and tailor AI video and image workflows using ComfyUI, then instantly deploy those workflows as APIs.", "body": "**Tl;dr: ComfyDeploy is the best way for product teams to build and tailor AI video and image workflows using ComfyUI, which can instantly deploy custom workflows as APIs.**\n\nHey everyone, we're Nick and Benny, the team building [Comfy Deploy](https://comfydeploy.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82360&key=user_uploads/1100490/8f04abf6-fad0-4b26-a47e-787c90a1d353)\n\n**Problem**\n\nProduct teams struggle to build AI video and images in their workflows using fragmented tools and inflexible controls from off-the-shelf solutions. ComfyUI is a powerful tool that solves this and gives control back to the user, but there are challenges for teams to use it.\n\n1. Complex Self-Hosting: Setting up and maintaining ComfyUI for teams is technically demanding and time-consuming, distracting teams from their core product development.\n2. Collaboration: ComfyUI wasn't built for teams, making it challenging to share, edit, and run workflows between team members\n3. Hardware Limitations: Running complex AI workflows requires powerful GPUs.\n4. Slow Deployments: Deploying ComfyUI workflows as scalable, production-ready APIs requires significant engineering effort.\n\n**Solution**\n\nWe’ve created the best way for product teams to use ComfyUI to build and tailor their AI image and video workflows with ComfyUI.\n\nKey Benefits:\n\n* Managed platform: Managed ComfyUI workspace, which can install any custom node and model.\n* Team Collaboration:  Work together seamlessly with a team workspace designed for sharing, editing, and running workflows across your team.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcNRhTqv7BviU3qfODU-KaFSok52ydkxWCrMV813y5m-skIialDxcdGtRwCbzf5A0010pone4K9hksZ6T6jXMFnnKzfcXePzLSyxDBGPRgC8Be93EFNBvXiwIOntNTRn7h8YEgTTBrKW-KDdGvwK347o7qx?key=rJuA09IIbMJlhk3fsFUSzQ)\n\n* Scalable Infrastructure: Powerful cloud GPUs on-demand, with auto-scaling to grow with your team's needs.\n* Instant Deployment: Transform your ComfyUI workflows into scalable, production-ready APIs with just one click; no additional engineering required, with multi-language SDKs.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXc-5ZvNaanpRaps6zvQgIoHsV0fSEbCQ_RLAiUc36ghCGQPPGFGZJ6zHcEuiFmX982pwWewX8QCbvZxc8QxDid-u-wV3-XJBktmUpkeD_pLsnlY_GFY_oMnmz8kcjHEl-Zq1OJ4xhGWrb56FM8ejUl9pMZ3?key=rJuA09IIbMJlhk3fsFUSzQ)\n\nSome wins and testimonials from our users\n\n* _Production time is now up to 300% faster. Producing a complete character pack for Mighty Action Heroes used to take 6 man-weeks. It now takes 1.5 man-week_ - Ben, Chief AI officer, Mighty Bear Games.\n* _ComfyDeploy has laid a lot of the groundwork for us, allowing us to move quickly and save on our engineering budget which is crucial in our fast-paced environment. 10/10, I would highly recommend it_ - Javid, CEO, Secret Desires.\n* _Comfy Deploy comes in and addresses the main barrier to using ComfyUI while also taking it a step further and allowing us to deploy our unique ComfyUI workflows. This allows us to seamlessly integrate image generation into our product, freeing up time to focus on developing our product. Comfy Deploy also comes with tools for sharing, editing, and managing workflows in a collaborative environment, enabling more of our team to get involved in the process of building image generation processes_ - E, AI Applied Engineer, VC backed in stealth.\n\n**How it works**\n\nAccess our managed ComfyUI environment, with pre-configured machines and models. Share and manage your workflows in your team, install custom nodes and models as needed. Deploy your workflows instantly as API and integrate them into your products. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82360&key=user_uploads/1100490/6aed708b-21a8-4dcf-a827-596e0f48e13e)\n\n**Why we’re building this**\n\nProduct teams have much to gain from owning and iterating on their own AI pipelines. Benny created the v1 of Comfy Deploy when, as CTO at his previous startup, he saw the issues with the handoff between applied AI artists and engineering. We think this is an exciting tool for product teams to take the first step and develop their skill sets and capabilities with these exciting new tools.\n\n\\\n**The Offer 🤝**\n\nIf your team is interested in using the best way to use ComfyUI for product teams, sign up for a free trial here at and schedule an on-boarding call with us \n\nContact us at [founders@comfydeploy.com](mailto:founders@comfydeploy.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LQO-comfy-deploy-comfyui-for-product-teams", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2024-07-23T15:22:01.808Z" } ] }, { "id": 29963, "name": "Capitol AI", "slug": "capitol-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d21edd589862cd64f905545df119c53426538c8d.png", "website": "https://www.capitol.ai/", "all_locations": "Washington, DC, USA", "long_description": "Capitol AI is building a sovereign operating system for intelligence, designed for regulated, high-stakes institutions such as professional services firms, financial services, and government agencies. These organizations are overwhelmed by data and experimenting with generic AI tools that lack auditability, repeatability, and secure deployment. As a result, critical decisions are increasingly shaped by systems they do not fully control.\r\n\r\nCapitol runs entirely inside enterprise infrastructure and transforms proprietary data into structured, decision-grade artifacts such as due diligence reports, regulatory documentation, and executive intelligence. The platform is model-agnostic, fully auditable, and operates with no data egress, giving institutions durable control over their data, workflows, and standards.", "one_liner": "Capitol: the sovereign operating system for intelligence.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1724724761, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Workflow Automation", "Analytics", "Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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": [ { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Brian Chesky encouraged us to apply. He hired Shaun at Airbnb. We wish we had done it earlier, but in some ways, the timing of this couldn’t be better. Brian believes the position we are in is very similar to Airbnb's right before they joined YC. And even similar dynamics to when Justin Kan made the last-minute referral for Airbnb’s founders (Brian, Joe, and Nate) to join YC. Going through the batch has been an incredible experience. Garry, Ooshma, and Aaron are phenomenal partners to work with and boil down opportunities and challenges to overcome to their essence. We’ve made huge strides in the batch regarding product velocity and customer acquisition. We’ve signed a $1.3m customer term sheet with one of the most influential media brands during YC! " }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "Tom and I were collaborating on Covid-19 logistics applications leveraging AI models for HHS and the US DoD and the interfaces that prime USG integrators like IBM, SAP, and Deloitte produced were unusable. We saw an opportunity to develop integration and design standards for creating intelligent content leveraging models, and Capitol AI was born. We started the company with a contract from the 2nd largest health insurer in the US to automate data storytelling for their self-insured employer business line. We approached this problem with a mix of classical and bayesian statistical analysis and automating insight generation leveraging DBT. After GPT 3.5 was released we saw an opportunity to center our product stack around LLMs. We made a pivot away from healthcare and so that we could collect user data and feedback to move the product forward as quickly as possible. We now have built a product that is in high demand we just closed a $1.3m enterprise contract, with more to come. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "In the future, all content and data publishers will have an AI research layer. Capitol will be the category-defining product that unlocks this transformation, creating a more useful and personalized internet." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/capitol-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/capitol-ai.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Washington", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitolai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/capitolai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d21edd589862cd64f905545df119c53426538c8d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/465a03d7bd6b7776b9cae31229834db61e7d8ffe.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/1614cd0180f33e702e1313ecfc979563ffa836d8.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 23932, "full_name": "Shaun Modi", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Shaun Modi is the founder and CEO of Capitol AI, an infinitely smart research assistant that instantly generates high-quality content from your documents. One of the founding designers of Airbnb, Shaun has been named one of Business Insider’s Top 75 Designers in Technology. Shaun has designed software products for technology giants, the government, and its agencies, including Google, the White House, DoD, NASA, CDC, and Motorola. At Airbnb, Shaun worked side by side with CEO Brian Chesky. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmodi/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/shaunmodi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9ae194cbc0574b7170365c07d2b00ca313f7747a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2079920, "full_name": "thomas hallaran", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Software engineer and technical manager with a product mindset. Two decades of experience, including IC and Director positions in academia, venture backed startups, and the US Federal Government.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhallaran/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2c1845b565cbe70e5f79c64541e056727aa150fc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83810, "title": "Capitol AI - Create powerful content from data", "tagline": "Infinitely smart research assistant + document editor that generates content from your data.", "body": "Hey! We're Shaun and Tom from [Capitol AI](https://www.capitol.ai), and we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Capitol 2.0.\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nAfter we got into YC, we asked ourselves: “What would Microsoft Word look like if it were built in the age of AI?” Our answer: A product that seamlessly combines deep research, generative images + text, and AI-assisted editing.\n\n[**This is Capitol 2.0**](https://www.capitol.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcBHZ-cSYPZzPy48Nm-rz78AXUraAmaYG7sk-AXyR5-_p4cYGaj0-5uztAEO_pXY0r56gOz_hbUB-4-rhfcnbiBW5hV-31m9crYfEFGFfPmP-Zlcm7xFLJAdQgA0njg42wh1M8cPNv84VoBlZ4LmGBRoiN3?key=F5l7R5NSBH7WxKd4nIiTpg)\n\n**The Business Problem**\n\nContent creation for business users is a slow, disjointed process involving multiple tools like search, proprietary databases, spreadsheets, slides, PDFs, and word processors. This complexity limits businesses with data-driven content creation workflows from scaling their content production and selling more products.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nCapitol simplifies content creation by integrating research and editing into one seamless experience—automating tasks to supercharge productivity.\n\nCapitol AI empowers enterprise customers with an API/SDK that automates the research and content creation process. It gives them the tools to personalize and scale their product offerings with less headcount.\n\n[**Watch the video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFymrPfE-nk)\n\n# **B2B Customers**\n\n**Enterprise** \\\n[Politico](https://www.politico.com), the global authority on the intersection of politics, policy, and power has exclusively partnered with Capitol to empower all [Politico Pro](https://www.politicopro.com/) users with AI content creation for policy and regulatory analysis.\n\n**Startups & SMB**\\\nFor startups and small businesses with repeatable data-driven processes like Cloud GTM provider [Invisory](https://invisory.co/) and the innovative AI-powered grant platform [AI Grants](https://www.aigrants.app/), Capitol is automating the creation of **revenue-generating** business documents with our API-accessible artifact generation pipeline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83810&key=user_uploads/23932/0950a826-5715-468c-b4f8-f00190aa1a77)\n\n# **Why Now?**\n\nIn a time when publishers are increasingly being courted by AI model builders for licensing deals, Capitol AI is arming the rebels—helping publishers compete for attention and grow their customer base by automating content generation from their high-value data. Capitol will be the category-defining product to unlock this transformation.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeIy5Y14hTVoYbNBzaWtye7QpqmqdiBdbKm2y2gR9eXkUoA3T5QxSunxXgkx5_xbhjBb1pvLJM8ob_XM73c0CHtCHUldMDuoFzZjctfWKOoyzJForUKh3CcS2kI8o1S3JG9TyVrGZsCgyDPF_1KpgZjniI?key=F5l7R5NSBH7WxKd4nIiTpg)\n\n# \n\n# **Tech**\n\nCapitol includes a proprietary model orchestration, eval framework, chain of thought reasoning, and RAG pipelines that work together to enable our customers to generate and iterate on content in our product or via API.\n\n# **How Capitol Works** \n\nRewrite, reformat, & transform your content\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfnE4np5a5RdEIJQCWpT_4uN5J7iIdkrQ5lgeGgyDcZp0it1eAwRI7XKVti4Kzbm_bqn_JXf39BlJhRwEvxy7vbpHSaxWiCX1Oz8KpmZzmay4tz7DXc8U_Rj5RXioSH1JxZaFSFUG-eAMK_jt0qmrLjBVkx?key=lcBvgZFvISlTTsrwNwpBug)\n\n\nType ‘/’ anywhere to generate new content in-line\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXexmXK1RLuHucEMVk-ervnI0_dyyjJCU5JvPdpOPnnBl0gi0IYBBrsNZqz5A-5gqP42_ablQrRdWE9eqlLQMxYQRIrKoTG6ew8P464tXf_Ucs9WUfYHa-kBj-RItpCXa_w7Y2BdLpyt61eVKLVfBovnl3A?key=lcBvgZFvISlTTsrwNwpBug)\n\n\nGenerate new content with a single click \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeeLUmH9cppVSN5FGD9L1TfC8X5rDCgTyhx6hunL-s1wZLSq5kPzLWvvMkPCHrupc2z3efQfrO4wFzCq4Gqq1cJ9heMp1v9XXPeChbvN2bwMfZW2vLJT8E3weKkPwtov5b1nNUQ0A21qLfTTGIrOrUUvxoE?key=lcBvgZFvISlTTsrwNwpBug)\n\n### **🙏🏽 Our asks**\n\n# **1\\. Try Capitol**\n\nHead to [www.capitol.ai](http://www.capitol.ai) and try Capitol today. \\\nGet 3 months free with the special YC discount code **FOUNDERMODE**\n\n# **2\\. Integrate Capitol Into Your Product!**\n\nCapitol’s embedded content generation will transform your application’s user experience with real-time RAG and document creation from your data. By leveraging Capitol’s API/SDK, you can drive more engagement with your product and have more time with your users. Common use cases include:\n\n* Give your users the ability to create bespoke reports and insights, pulling forward hard-to-find data\n* Turn enterprise document search into a content generation flow\n* Transforming your knowledge base or help center into a more helpful experience for your customers\n* Let your users create social media content directly on your site\n\nContact us at [founders@capitol.ai](mailto:founders@capitol.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcQrF-ciwjn96Unv9Js-UbJ4o1bJLuLzP_2Ihg1yGe45RIxjluJG0mzQ2j1tweHYGwRX8UOeOBC1HGmbmqnbi_KPK-38xKhxlpp6qeBisC54g56Tj3BArNJKgZbG8VnRRkK9loy__0DHmRR_D_Gf56pMPoD?key=F5l7R5NSBH7WxKd4nIiTpg)\n\n# **Founders**\n\n* [Shaun Modi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmodi/), CEO. One of the first product designers hired at Airbnb. Worked side by side with CEO Brian Chesky crafting the user experience of Airbnb. Fmr Google, Fmr Nasa, named one of Business Insider's Top 75 Designers in Technology. BFA from RISD.\n* [Tom Hallaran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhallaran/), CTO. Fmr Director US AI Center of Excellence, Fmr VP of engineering at acquired adtech startup Selectable Media, Initial technical lead and architect of the largest political payment app in US. Undergrad from Columbia.\n\n[X](https://x.com/usecapitol), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitolai/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/capitol.ai/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lnm-capitol-ai-create-powerful-content-from-data", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2024-09-06T04:52:46.055Z" } ] }, { "id": 29964, "name": "Overlap", "slug": "overlap", "former_names": [ "Vastly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4998b9bdb179ae20d8af8c2a3631f5ca038a41d2.png", "website": "https://www.overlap.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Overlap builds multimodal AI agents that can do literally anything you want related to video, such as finding specific moments, generating clips, or analyzing your video library. \r\n\r\nWhat takes media companies thousands of hours, we do in seconds. 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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. If your team needs a studio-grade launch video with fast turnaround, we’d love to help.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94646&key=user_uploads/795572/fab19a66-c5f0-4a03-ac02-44517f88e858)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OcY-absurd-the-production-canvas-for-ai-video", "votes": 147, "created_at": "2025-10-14T19:07:34.746Z" } ] } ]