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We’re [Mark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbuckler/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinparus/), and [Diandre](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diandre-ruiz/) and we’re thrilled to introduce you to [Soundry AI](https://soundry.ai/): **a text-to-sound AI generator for musicians**. Our AI creates musical building blocks perfect for reducing friction in the music creation process.\n\n# \n\n# 🦸‍♂️ The Team\n\nAll three co-founders are united in their love of music. After completing his PhD in AI at Cornell, Mark got his start in the music industry by founding the [Codex Collective](https://codexcollective.co/press-kit), a live music event production company in Seattle. Justin quickly joined, and all three founders met for the first time when Diandre came to Seattle to perform as [Bandlez](https://www.instagram.com/bandlez/), the music project he co-founded. Justin is an engineer extraordinaire, first cutting his teeth on large-scale data processing during his time at Microsoft Azure. Diandre is a professional musician who has performed all over the world and written music with big names, including [Shaquille O’Neal](https://open.spotify.com/track/2oCzWh04Rt4WBr7StVUCHe)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78937&key=user_uploads/1320080/71009b68-f2c7-400e-afbc-466111c5784a)\n\n# **🔇** The Problem\n\nMusic production technology has become increasingly democratized over the years, but creating a piece of music that you are proud of is just as challenging as it’s ever been. These days, most music is made by combining multiple audio recordings of individual instruments (called music samples) into a full song. Music sample libraries are easy to use which has led to massive growth for companies who provide them ([Splice,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/splice) [Output,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/output) etc), but they have a few key issues:\n\n* Professional music producers are often prohibited from using sample libraries due to [copyright strike concerns](https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/17/21140838/justin-bieber-changes-running-over-asher-monroe-synergy-splice-sample-melody).\n* Amateur music producers feel a lack of authenticity when using sounds made by someone else and struggle to make meaningful changes to them.\n\nGenerative AI offers a unique opportunity to build music creation tools that are easy to use and offer fine-grained artistic control. 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Try it now at \n\n# For example, in a few minutes with Sonauto you can:\n\n(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)\n\n* Make a sick Y Combinator Power Metal Anthem:\\\n \\\n \n* Or lament the \"Type 2 fun\" we founders love so much: \\\n \\\n \n* Or hear from a 60s rocker about the time he pivoted: \\\n \\\n \n* Or discover ChatGPT’s content policy: \\\n \\\n \n\n# Team\n\nRyan graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open source researchers.\n\nHayden was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.\n\n# Problem\n\nRecords, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remains out of the hands of millions of would be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.\n\n# Product\n\nStarting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at !\n\nSonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.\n\nOur first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.\n\n# Asks\n\n1. Make some songs at ! For example, you can make a song about:\n 1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!\n 2. Your pet\n 3. Your company, startup, or side project\n 4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday\n2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI\n3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kb4-sonauto-make-hit-songs-with-ai", "votes": 0, "created_at": "2024-03-08T20:54:50.000Z" }, { "id": 79179, "title": "Sonauto 🎸 Make hit songs with AI", "tagline": "Meet Sonauto, which turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in seconds.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79179&key=user_uploads/564530/4dc23bf4-4a7e-482d-bd25-06758a81c803)\n\n# \n\n# TL;DR: Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in any style. [Try it now](https://sonauto.ai/)!\n\n## January 2025 update: Here are some great songs from our v2 model…\n\n(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)\n\n* How do you like me now?:\n\n \n\n \n* Ghost in My Mind by whosthere:\n\n \n\n \n* When The Lines Are Drawn by gonesvan:\n\n \n\n \n\n## Team\n\n[Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tremblay-62429a86/) graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open-source researchers.\n\n[Hayden](https://linkedin.com/in/hhousen) was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open-source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.\n\n## Problem\n\nRecords, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remain out of the hands of millions of would-be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.\n\n## Product\n\nStarting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at [https://sonauto.ai](https://sonauto.ai/)!\n\nSonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.\n\nOur first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.\n\n## Asks\n\n1. Make some songs at [https://sonauto.ai](https://sonauto.ai/)! For example, you can make a song about:\n 1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!\n 2. Your pet\n 3. Your company, startup, or side project\n 4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday\n2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI\n3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kb5-sonauto-make-hit-songs-with-ai", "votes": 94, "created_at": "2024-03-07T20:00:48.344Z" } ] }, { "id": 29508, "name": "CrowdVolt", "slug": "crowdvolt", "former_names": [ "Mirage Match" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49d2b2fe60b70ec0fe7e8a8f8b9fc420d26c4098.png", "website": "https://crowdvolt.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "CrowdVolt is rebuilding the infrastructure for live events, starting with an automated marketplace for raves and electronic dance music.", "one_liner": "The integration layer for live events infrastructure ", "team_size": 12, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1708402036, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "Entertainment", "Social Network", "Music", "Infrastructure" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/crowdvolt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/crowdvolt.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdvolt/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/CrowdVolt", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49d2b2fe60b70ec0fe7e8a8f8b9fc420d26c4098.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/925b83be77ddf7d77eda8bf61b56eff8a4b877d9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1410116, "full_name": "Max Hammer", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CEO of CrowdVolt (W24)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/max-hammer-2360571b2", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a9b1a595fa8a67948701694f466eb8cd8538ce44.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1153773, "full_name": "Josh Karol", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "I'm originally from Connecticut and am a Co-Founder and the CTO at CrowdVolt. I previously was a Software Engineer at Millennium. In my free time I like to go skiing and fishing.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/josh-karol-4b1a97143", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1145713ea731701d221159a4a8320d99498f901f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1167277, "full_name": "Aria Mohseni", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder at CrowdVolt", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ariamohseni", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4a57541bb3ff2e253f7efd142f7a24b7e7be8c02.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "YC-backed CrowdVolt shakes up the secondary ticket market with its bid-ask model | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/16/yc-backed-secondary-ticketing-startup-crowdvolt/", "date": "Jul 16, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78886, "title": "⚡️ CrowdVolt - StockX for live event tickets", "tagline": "Exchange tickets to see your favorite DJs, electronic music shows and festivals!", "body": "**Tl;dr** [CrowdVolt](https://crowdvolt.com/) ⚡️ lets fans resell tickets to events, starting with raves & EDM concerts. We are a social, bid/ask style marketplace with counterparty security and favorable financing terms.\n\n❌ **The problem**\n\nThe secondary ticketing marketplace is fundamentally broken. Fees have skyrocketed, while the user experience has deteriorated. As giants such as Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have moved towards lucrative primary sales in partnership with large venues, they have disenfranchised a whole class of live event attendees.\n\nMany have naturally aggregated themselves on grey markets on legacy social media platforms (think Facebook marketplace and Reddit) to avoid institutional barriers and attempt to find better pricing/execution. These social platforms are not designed to house this type of exchange.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78886&key=user_uploads/1410116/aaead000-ef6c-4e10-ac85-0cc03a7a3b9c)\n\n🔥  **Our solution – the StockX of tickets** (StockX uses a bid/ask style model for collectible sneakers and streetwear)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78886&key=user_uploads/1410116/8ae6c463-3456-4f1c-83c5-4c63c4626f4d)\n\n* A two-sided marketplace for tickets: buyers can opt to “buy now” or bid, while sellers can opt to “sell now” or ask for a higher price, all with a publicly viewable transaction book\n* Counterparty security: CrowdVolt intermediates transactions with secure payment processing, avoiding fraudulent activity and scams; third-party issued tickets are automatically transferred between counterparties\n* Social: gone are the days of buying or selling from an anonymous blue dot on Ticketmaster; concerts are communal events meant to be experienced with others, so we’ve made buying and selling a social experience with social media integration and messaging\n* Financing: sellers do not wait until event occurrence to receive payouts, but rather receive payment within days, alleviating the cash flow burden\n\nCheck out our promo [here](https://youtu.be/WszI6Jfi650)!\n\n**🌃 Background**\n\n[Josh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-karol-4b1a97143/) and [Max](https://linkedin.com/in/max-hammer-2360571b2) grew up down the street from each other, while [Aria](https://linkedin.com/in/ariamohseni) and Josh met in college. We have diverse professional backgrounds across tech, finance, and consulting, but a common love for EDM (Aria is also a DJ, having played at iconic New York venues including the Williamsburg Hotel and Virgo Night Club in front of crowds numbering 2k+). We are avid attendees of this genre of events (80+ in 2023), and know the secondary marketplace experience through the existing mediums is poor, so have opted to rebuild it ourselves.\n\n_A few years ago…_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78886&key=user_uploads/1410116/adf1e869-6351-48ec-b912-d88b7b01efa3)\n\n_Now!_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78886&key=user_uploads/1410116/a49dd802-e56f-44fa-8d9c-64d0af809737)\n\n**Our ask 🙏**\n\nWe’ve started in our hometown, New York, with our favorite genre of music, and will look to expand to other geographies and primary point of sale in the future.\n\n* If you know anyone working in the live events space – ranging from artists to event managers to promoters – let us know! We’d love to connect.\n* If you’re a fan of dance music, festivals, or raves (or have friends who are!) – hit us up at [founders@crowdvolt.com](mailto:founders@crowdvolt.com)!\n* Sign up now at [https://www.crowdvolt.com](https://www.crowdvolt.com/) if you’re in New York, or join the waitlist for your city at !", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWM-crowdvolt-stockx-for-live-event-tickets", "votes": 93, "created_at": "2024-02-29T04:04:02.829Z" } ] }, { "id": 30812, "name": "Mixy", "slug": "mixy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0b427a11c01acc7be86bdfb9bf97f62e7e9151a7.png", "website": "https://usemixy.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Live out your DJ dreams with Mixy, the mind-blowing music app that lets you mash-up any song in seconds.\r\n\r\n⁕ Add your songs\r\n⁕ Instantly blend vocals and beats\r\n⁕ Play and share your mashup anywhere\r\n\r\nThere’s no limit to your imagination!\r\n\r\n⁕ Launched to #1 in Music on June 19th\r\n⁕ 1.5M users in 3 months\r\n⁕ 15M mashups made and growing", "one_liner": "Make mashups without knowing how to DJ", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1758155628, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Social", "Music", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "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": "Jonah and Joe first met as teen tech YouTubers in 2008 and began building iPhone apps together in 2009. At the end of 2024, we started Mixy as a fun way for fans to make mashups of their favorite songs.\r\n\r\nWe publicly iterated prototypes on TikTok, which led to over 350k pre-orders before launch. Mixy debuted on June 19th, hitting #1 in Music and reaching #3 overall in the App Store. Since then, more than 1.5M users have created and shared over 15M mashups." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Derivative musical works are being created at an exponential rate, but artists aren’t getting credited, and billions of dollars are being left on the table.\r\n\r\nEvery year, millions of songs are uploaded to music platforms with uncredited samples. Generative AI has accelerated this problem: music is being trained on artists’ work and re-uploaded without attribution, ownership, or financial stake for the creators who made it possible.\r\n\r\nMixy flips this model. We celebrate artists by letting fans directly manipulate and share versions of their songs. Every time a fan shares their creation, the artist is automatically credited and their work is distributed more widely. Because Mixy owns the creation layer, attribution is native. We auto-credit every source track and pair it with a music-first social network built for playback and discovery.\r\n\r\nThe future isn’t millions of disconnected AI songs or samples, it’s millions of recognizable songs evolving through thousands of shared versions.\r\n\r\nWe’re tackling this because we love music, see a timely problem, and bring a world-class background in creative tools and consumer social." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "If we truly succeed, Mixy will be the platform that redefines music in the age of derivative works. What TikTok is to YouTube, Mixy is to music.\r\n\r\nWe’ll be the first to establish proper licensing and attribution standards for a future where songs constantly evolve into new versions. Every derivative creation, whether a mashup, remix, AI-generated variation, or fan edit, will flow back to the original artist with automatic credit and revenue.\r\n\r\nMusic expression and consumption will no longer be limited to static recordings. Instead, the world will experience songs as living, evolving works. Fans will become co-creators, artists will be celebrated more widely than ever, and the industry will unlock billions in new value.\r\n\r\nIn this future, music is not just listened to. 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We’ve optimized our own local models to produce real time, high quality mashups at no cost.\n\n⁕ Add your songs\n\n⁕ Instantly blend vocals and beats\n\n⁕ Play and share your mashup anywhere\n\n**Since Launch**\n\n⁕ $200k in donations, $20k MRR since launching our subscription last month\n\n⁕ #1 in Music and #3 Top Free overall on the App Store\n\n⁕ 1.5M users in 3 months\n\n⁕ 18M mashups made and growing\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95158&key=user_uploads/42474/cd3aa913-8172-4a48-a472-4d21f4e03eb8)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_6p6g2CdE\n\n**What’s Next?**\n\n⁕ Instantly enable people to create full length mashups and remixes through our own music mixing model\n\n⁕ Create the best listening experience where all of your favorite songs combine and blend into one another in unimaginable ways\n\n⁕ Instantly pay out artists and creators per second on plays\n\n⁕ The music industry will unlock billions in value and Mixy will change how we experience music forever\n\n**Our Story**\n\nJoe and Jonah met as tech YouTubers in 2008, and began building apps together in 2009. They’ve worked at Apple, Instagram, and Skillshare. Recently Jonah led mobile at Tithly (Stripe’s 8th largest customers), and Joe founded a consumer social startup acquired by CoinList ($100M Series A), where he led product.\n\nAt the end of 2024, we started Mixy was started as a fun way for fans to make mashups of their favorite songs. Prototypes were shared on TikTok, which led to over 350k pre-orders before launch. Mixy debuted on June 19th, hitting #1 in Music and reaching #3 overall in the App Store. Since then, more than 1.5M users have created and shared over 18M mashups.\n\n---\n\n**Problem & Vision**\n\nWe believe Remixing is the new Shuffle.\n\nFans are searching for infinite ways to experience their favorite artists, and the tools to remix and create derivatives are far too complicated.\n\nFor artists, derivative musical works are being created at an exponential rate, but artists aren’t getting credited, and billions of dollars are being left on the table.\n\nMixy flips this model. We celebrate artists by letting fans directly manipulate and share versions of their songs. Every time a fan shares their creation, the artist is automatically credited and their work is distributed more widely. Because Mixy owns the creation layer, attribution is native. We auto-credit every source track and pair it with a music-first social network built for playback and discovery.\n\nThe future isn’t millions of irrelevant AI songs, it’s millions of recognizable songs evolving through thousands of shared versions.\n\nIf we truly succeed, Mixy will be the platform that redefines music in the age of derivative works. 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UCLA dropout. Previously ML and robotics research at Berkeley & UCLA. CoRL 2026, AIME, USNCO National Qualifier, Science Olympiad medalist.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinyao05/", "x_url": "https://x.com/truekyt", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6b8f9e448bffb8c0d943b9076a1772de16fd6644.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 117104, "title": "🎵 MusicArena - the arena for AI music-making 🎵", "tagline": " The crowdsourced benchmark for AI systems that make music", "body": "**Paucis verbis:**\n\nThe idea is simple: give two systems the same music task, listen to what they make, and vote for the better result.\n\nWe’re starting with AI agents producing music inside a DAW.\n\nGive two agents the same task, watch them work, listen to the finished tracks, and vote for the winner.\n\n\n\n**Why start with LLMs?**\n\nMost existing AI music benchmarks focus on models that generate audio end-to-end.\n\nWe think there’s another category that’s going to become increasingly important: general-purpose models that can hear music, reason about it, and operate the same creative tools humans use.\n\nFrontier models are already becoming much better at computer use, and we expect audio to increasingly become a native modality as well.\n\nToday, these agents are largely operating through tool calls/computer use rather than actually listening to their own output. But as audio becomes a native modality for frontier models, we expect agents to increasingly be able to hear the music they’re making and iterate on it directly.\n\nMusic makes for an especially interesting test because there often isn’t an objective answer, so human preference matters.\n\n**WE NEED YOU!**\n\nPull up to our website and try it out yourself! [musicarena.io](http://musicarena.io)\n\nWant your model on the leaderboard? Forward us an email at [founders@musicarena.io](mailto:founders@musicarena.io) 🦁", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/USm-musicarena-the-arena-for-ai-music-making", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-09-28T14:55:16.503Z" } ] } ]