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Today, we're announcing our new AI vision, and I'm excited to share it with the Launch YC community.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nOneSignal first went through YC as a mobile gaming company called Hiptic Games.\n\nAfter pivoting away from mobile games, we used our experience to uncover an opportunity to truly \"Make something people want,\" and began working toward a mission to Democratize Customer Engagement for B2C companies.\n\nFor years, most B2C marketing automation products have had lengthy implementation processes, dated interfaces, and a learning curve steep enough that many teams hire a full-time expert. Many of them were also built in a world where email was the dominant channel, and have zero or weak support campaigns that span across Email, Mobile Push, SMS/RCS, and other channels.\n\nIn contrast, we made OneSignal incredibly easy to use from the start: customers can get going for free with an intuitive product experience, a powerful suite of tools for omni-channel messaging, and the performance to support some of the largest brands in the world. Today, OneSignal sends billions of daily messages for hundreds of thousands of active apps.\n\nBut no matter how easy and powerful we made the product, marketers still needed to bring a lot of their own time and expertise to get the best results from their campaigns.\n\n**The solution**\n\nToday, I'm excited to announce our vision and the products that will make lifecycle marketing autonomous. Our mission is still to Democratize Customer Engagement, but with AI we can achieve it in ways that were never possible before. This AI vision enables us to empower under-resourced marketing teams with the time and expertise that has seemed always out of reach.\n\nWe've broken this mission into phases, which we think of as an autonomy ladder. Most marketers don't want to hand the keys to an autonomous system on day one, so we'll roll out features that build the systems and trust needed at each step.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105807&key=user_uploads/5571/09a43a18-3ca8-4268-bd70-ab1798220546)\n\n**Level 0 — Manual.** The dashboard. A marketer drives every click, and the team scales by hiring. This is where the entire category has lived.\n\n**Level 1 — Assistance.** AI drafts copy, suggests audiences, and explains your analytics in plain language. You review and ship. This is live today.\n\n**Level 2 — Expert Assist.** AI becomes proactive. It recommends campaigns to fill lifecycle gaps, flags mistakes, and checks your work. Your input is still required.\n\n**Level 3 — Agentic Autopilot.** You delegate bounded work, and AI does it within the scope and rules you've defined. You approve work in batches.\n\n**Level 4 — Full Operator.** You set the goals and the guardrails. AI plans, sends, tests, and improves campaigns against them, reaching out only when it needs you.\n\n**What we're launching today**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105807&key=user_uploads/5571/da0aff66-9335-4ac3-87bf-d61aaa95b014)\n\n**OneSignal AI** — An in-product agent that can do everything a person can: generate message copy, design emails, analyze message performance, and recommend next steps to maximize user engagement. 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SaaS companies in health, finance, education, and property management use Embedded Components to give their users the power to automate messaging.\n\n✋ Ask - If you are/know a **vertical SaaS founder, product manager, or engineering manager** who doesn’t want to spend a year developing workflow builders, user segmentation, SMS and email template editors, etc. reach out! [chandler@dittofeed.com](mailto:chandler@dittofeed.com)\\\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GrR1TtbDA\\\\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GrR1TtbDA%5C)\n\n**☣️ Problem**\n\nOn any given day, somewhere in the world, there’s an engineer reimplementing a low code messaging automation tool for the nth time.\n\nDrag and drop workflow builders, user segmentation engines, and email template editors are seemingly ubiquitous among SaaS.\n\nThis is especially true for vertical SaaS. Consider the example of an app for healthcare providers - the providers may want to automate SMS to patients when a prescription refill is available. Or you might have an app for property managers, and you need to let them email tenants when their lease is up for renewal. It’s a non-trivial lift to build this suite of tools, and it can end up taking engineering teams 6-12 months to implement, plus ongoing maintenance.\n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nDittofeed’s [Embedded Components](https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started) wrap up our existing open-source messaging automation so that they can be embedded within your own application.\n\nYou can consume these components using styled iframes, unstyled react components, or by using Dittofeed as a headless API to rebuild your own components from scratch.\n\nThese embedded components can be served by Dittofeed cloud, or by self-hosting Dittofeed. Self-hosting is great for highly regulated industries like health and finance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/fd063652-db40-41f5-aaa5-ca4096131e2b)\n\n**How to get Embedded Components**\n\nContact [**support@dittofeed.com**](mailto:support@dittofeed.com), and we’ll send you an admin API key. Check out our Embedded Components [documentation](https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started) to learn more.\\\n\\\n🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️ **The Founders**\\\nMax and Chandler have been friends since high school – 20 years and counting! They founded Dittofeed in 2023 with a mission to make a great open-source alternative to Klaviyo, Braze, and MailChimp.\n\n**Max** was previously a senior software engineer at OpenTable and Braze where he helped architect infrastructure that scaled their automated messaging services to billions of end users.\n\n**Chandler** was previously a marketing manager at Sony Music and various B2C startups where he became a power user of marketing automation software, seeing a need for change in the industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/2be1b40c-c1a5-46eb-b75b-9b99d21a2104)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91935&key=user_uploads/917851/ff7093e7-2d18-455d-8bf9-7d92e6c17e55)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nup-dittofeed-embedded-messaging-features-for-your-saas", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-07-07T19:18:21.762Z" }, { "id": 70363, "title": "Dittofeed - The first open-source customer engagement platform with developer tools", "tagline": "We’re building the world's first open-source customer engagement platform with a fantastic developer experience.", "body": "**Tl;dr**: Dittofeed is a developer-focused, open-source alternative to platforms like Iterable and Customer.io. Dittofeed’s streamlined developer experience allows growth engineers to send better-performing marketing messages. Additionally, self-hosting Dittofeed delivers large cost savings to power users who are constrained by existing providers’ volume-based pricing.\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re Max and Chandler, and we're equipping the next generation of technical growth teams with the tools they need to ensure their marketing messages look great and get delivered correctly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/2732dae6-eed4-4b8e-99b7-88266c3aa80e)\n\n### **The Problem**: Customer engagement platforms are expensive and error-prone.\n\nIf you’ve ever received marketing emails with broken links, or opted out of a company’s texts, only to receive an “exclusive offer” text the next day, there’s a reason. And it’s not (for the most part) because growth teams are bad at their job.\n\nCurrent customer engagement platforms give growth teams the low-code tools they need to automate marketing messages at scale, but none of the technical tools they need to make sure they’re sending the right messages, to the right customers, at the right time. This results in reduced customer conversion and retention rates, as well as frustrated growth engineers.\n\n### **The Solution**: An open-source customer engagement platform that empowers growth engineers.\n\nGrowth teams are becoming increasingly technical, and with that, comes a huge potential for fixing buggy marketing messages. We’re building a future where growth engineers can finally version control email templates and test messaging automations in CI, and where, simultaneously, non-technical growth team members still have access to the low-code tools they’re comfortable with.\n\nUsing Dittofeed, you get industry-standard features like a drag-and-drop customer journey builder, a segmentation interface, and a web-based template editor, helpful for non-technical marketers. You ALSO get technical features like:\n\n* **git-based workflows** 😎\n* **a first-in-class testing SDK** 🤯\n* **an OpenTelemetry integration** 🥳\n* **a self-hostable platform** 🥹\n\nSet your growth engineers up for success. Retain more customers. Save money. Everyone wins!\n\n_Jest Test Example_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/36c3f478-9e0f-4494-a81c-6cf7c0ac4a60)\n\n_Journey Builder Example Workflow_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70363&key=user_uploads/917851/57a4c636-7de0-4849-a2cf-532f5a016bf0)\n\nCompanies using Dittofeed can:\n\n1. Save up to thousands of dollars a month by self-hosting, avoiding volume-based pricing.\n2. Reliably build high conversion, high-retention marketing campaigns.\n3. Make their growth engineers happier.\n\n### **Our ask**:\n\n🤩 Star us on [Github](https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed)\n\n🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 Connect us (Max & Chandler) with growth and marketing teams [via email](mailto:founders@dittofeed.com)\n\n🗓️ Schedule a [demo](https://calendly.com/d/zy7-8d5-jdq/dittofeed-demo-founders)\n\n💬 Contact us with any feedback! [max@dittofeed.com](mailto:max@dittofeed.com) / [chandler@dittofeed.com](mailto:chandler@dittofeed.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IIt-dittofeed-the-first-open-source-customer-engagement-platform-with-developer-tools", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2023-03-16T22:49:31.527Z" } ] }, { "id": 26742, "name": "Boostly", "slug": "boostly", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png", "website": "https://boostly.com", "all_locations": "Lehi, UT, USA", "long_description": "Boostly provides everything necessary for restaurants to attract new guests and turn them into regulars. From AI-powered SEO, paid ads, behavioral-based text marketing with gamified engagement, and AI driven reputation management, Boostly provides 10x greater guest engagement when compared to others in the industry. \r\n\r\nBoostly’s patented processes enables them to build opted-in subscriber lists bigger and faster than anyone on the market.", "one_liner": "Premier growth platform for restaurants", "team_size": 50, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1652482383, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Messaging", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boostly", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/boostly.json", "year_founded": 2017, "city": "Lehi", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goboostly", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/GoBoostly", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boostly", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/5e039700f2731963afc99ec46a1952f286752f9e.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/45c56c7a4899941a8d23de68a8eaaaddc6f36fbc.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 365280, "full_name": "Shane Murphy", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Shane is the Co-founder and CEO of Boostly. He previously ran sales for Jolt, a restaurant operations software company (acquired by Digi for $145M), and was a sales leader, early team member, and investor in American HealthCare Lending (acquired by Prosper Marketplace for $21M). 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We’re just getting warmed up and plan to grow our marketing channels during YC. \n\n## **Problems**\n\n* Restaurants live or die based on their ability to get their customers ordering regularly, but over 60% of a restaurant's customer base never make it in for a 2nd visit.\n* Customer data is notoriously hard for restaurant owners to access because it’s in several different systems with various accessibility challenges.\n* Restaurant owners are strapped for time and often lack any marketing know-how.\n* Most restaurant marketing lacks good tracking to know exactly how it’s working.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\n* We aggregate customer data from several data sources for the restaurant & get customers to opt in to receive texts from the store.\n* We put text marketing on autopilot with weekly offers, birthday deals, & relevant reminders.\n* While the customer eats, we solicit feedback via a 2 click survey and help to connect the restaurant with the guest if there was an issue or generate a 5 star review on Google.\n* We track the restaurant’s ROI across all of their sales channels (online, over the phone, or in-store).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gee-boostly-s22-text-marketing-feedback-on-autopilot-for-restaurants", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2022-06-23T19:13:00.409Z" } ] }, { "id": 29778, "name": "Praxos", "slug": "praxos", "former_names": [ "Praxos Intelligence, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/133daa5976316fea8822213f5f71c6bc57c7cc88.png", "website": "https://praxos.ai", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Praxos is team messaging where customer conversations, product decisions and agent conversations stay in context.", "one_liner": "Team messaging with built-in memory", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1723170275, "tags": [ "B2B", "Messaging", "AI", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "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/praxos", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/praxos.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/praxos-intelligence/", "x_url": "https://x.com/PraxosInc", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/133daa5976316fea8822213f5f71c6bc57c7cc88.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/76417e446ef8f6cf5abf534030b5d45c0dc0c60a.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 658480, "full_name": "Lucas Urbisaia", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Harvard Applied Math. Argentine. Loves History. Locked in an eternal feud with Soheil Sadabadi, the Al Khwarazmi wannabe.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/lucas-urbisaia", "x_url": "https://x.com/LMUrbisaia", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e2b25ccba7cf9a3327bfb905e21dd9258b1d4ad5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 727857, "full_name": "Soheil Sadabadi", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Computer Scientist and Al-Khwarazmi wannabe. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/soheil-sadabadi-3bb378135", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/72bfa61fa827212d983fecba0e8ca937f02e46f0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 111504, "title": "Praxos - team messaging with built-in memory", "tagline": "A team messaging platform for humans and agents working together", "body": "Hey YC community! What does a normal workflow at a startup look like?\n\nProbably like this:\n\n_> One founder talks to customers_\n\n_> Another founder builds_\n\n_> A customer asks for something. The first founder explains it to the second. The second founder explains it to Claude_\n\n_> Two weeks any one of the founders asks one of the following questions:_\n\n* _Why are we building it this way?_\n* _What happened here?_\n* _What did we promise ACME we’d do?_\n* _How far along are we on X?_\n\n_> Then you scream on the inside because you have to figure out what happened…_\n\nBefore agents, the person who did one part of the work usually held a mental map. They could share the context with other people. Increasingly, they can’t.\n\nSmall teams can run far more work in parallel than ever before thanks to AI, but someone now has to connect all that context manually. The reasoning behind one product change might now be scattered across a customer call, two emails, a Slack thread, and four Claude conversations.\n\n[Soheil Sadabadi](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/727857) and I have been obsessed with solving these problems for a long, long time now.\n\n[Praxos](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29778) is a team messaging app. \n\nIt has channels, groups and threads like you’d expect. However, places where work happens—Github, harnesses, email, calls—get linked and converted into a living record of your company. This means everyone is always up to date with the latest developments.\n\nAgents can join conversations and inherit the same context humans do.\n\nHere are examples we’ve seen in production:\n\n1. You talk to a customer. Later, when an engineer or coding agent works on the feature, your conversation and the customer’s information are already in context.\n2. A new engineer picks up an existing project. They have immediate access to info about who worked on what part of the code base, the deltas across changes, and a granular view of their conversations with coding agents. There’s no need to interrogate the CTO.\n3. Three weeks later, someone asks why the engineer made a certain decision about the feature. Praxos fetches the engineer’s convos, the original feature request and call logs between the founder and the engineer. Then it contextualizes the work.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=111504&key=user_uploads%2F658480%2F7022badd-c8fc-437c-8e20-0f27d8e6b3d5&variant=large)\n\nWe’re early, but the core product already works and is in use. You get messaging, search, memory and connectors. You can bring your own agents, use ours, or both.\n\nA desktop app is going live next week. We’re building native calls and mobile apps, so that all the communications that go into a company’s history can happen on Praxos.\n\n**Our ask:** if you’re a 2 to 10 person team where one person is spending all day with customers while the rest of the team is shipping with Claude/Codex, we’d love to personally onboard you.\n\nEspecially if you’ve already caught yourself asking “what did the customer want?” or “what’s going on with X?” last week.\n\nThe first 10 teams get\n\n[Praxos](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29778) for free for 6 months ;)\n\nEmail me at [lucas@praxos.ai](mailto:lucas@praxos.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/T0S-praxos-team-messaging-with-built-in-memory", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-08-21T17:05:12.305Z" } ] }, { "id": 30065, "name": "Charm", "slug": "withcharm", "former_names": [ "BeerMe" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bdd48a02de2e277524168808bf7edcd14c995ed9.png", "website": "https://charm.cash/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Charm makes sending money as easy as sending email. Most people juggle multiple payment apps and scattered balances. Charm lets you pay anyone — no matter what app they use — and earns you 5% interest on your balance, automatically.", "one_liner": "Charm is the universal payments app — send money to anyone.", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1729059342, "tags": [ "Crypto / Web3", "Payments", "Consumer", "Messaging", "Social Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/withcharm", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/withcharm.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bdd48a02de2e277524168808bf7edcd14c995ed9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 992626, "full_name": "Gray Newfield", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Gray Newfield is the co-founder and CEO of BeerMe. He previously worked as a software engineer at Uniswap, the most widely used decentralized exchange on Ethereum. Before that he was a software development engineer at Amazon.com for four years, working on core retail experiences across shopping, promotions, and checkout. Gray holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gray-newfield-447b9b111/", "x_url": "https://x.com/gray_newfield", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6a345f9aebf19b21e0610d24604d69ecfdefc3ce.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2246500, "full_name": "Noah Newfield", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "Noah is co-founder and COO of BeerMe. He shaped strategy at Uniswap Labs, maker of the largest decentralized exchange on Ethereum, for 2 years and led GTM for the Uniswap wallet. He previously led growth at Genie, the first NFT marketplace aggregator, which did $500M in trading volume, before it was acquired by Uniswap. He studied business at the University of Southern California, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Universitá Bocconi. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-newfield-208a40129/", "x_url": "https://x.com/NoahNewfield", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ab5ad62ec89b7acc9b1c30416fa7acadd3fed118.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84970, "title": "BeerMe - A fun, global alternative to Venmo built on USDC", "tagline": "BeerMe is a community payments platform that makes sending money fun and personal. ", "body": "Hey YC! We’re [Gray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gray-newfield-447b9b111/) and [Noah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-newfield-208a40129/), co-founders of [BeerMe](https://beerme.world/).\n\n**The Problem:** Sending money should be as engaging as other forms of digital content.\\\nAs we spend more time online, our options for self-expression (text, audio, photos, video, gifs, emojis, reactions, and stickers) have flourished. But payments feel about the same as they did 10 years ago.\n\n**The Solution:** BeerMe makes sending money fun and expressive.\n\nSend an old friend a couple beers ($16) on his birthday. Text your daughter a coffee ($5) to brighten up her finals week. Slack your team little treats ($4 each) at the end of a long sprint. With a curated library of tokens, any moment becomes an occasion.\\\n\\\n**Demo:**\n\n\n\nLike all social media content, tokens can be sent via private, anonymous links on any platform where people stay connected. Transfers are instant, global, and free. Track and manage tokens, swap for other options, or cash out USDC to any crypto wallet or exchange.\n\nWith BeerMe, there’s a token for every moment.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\n1. **Sign up** with your phone number at [BeerMe.World](http://BeerMe.World) before 10/30 and **we’ll send you a free Founder Mode token** ($1).\n2. **SOGO (Send one, get one)** Send someone a token, tell us about your experience by DMing [@BeerMeWorld](https://x.com/BeerMeWorld) on X or emailing [noah@beerme.world](mailto:noah@beerme.world), and we’ll send you a beer ($8).\n3. Want to send a token that’s not available yet? Reach out to [noah@beerme.world](mailto:noah@beerme.world) and **we’ll custom-make you a token** and add it to the platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84970&key=user_uploads/2246500/bbd835cc-7424-47e8-9b9f-5af96f227157)\n\nIf you’ve already signed up for BeerMe, contact us directly for your Founder Mode token.\n\nAny feedback is appreciated. 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