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View our full press release on the funding here: \n\nWe’ll use the money to continue investing in product & engineering. Our top priority is improving our task planning automation algorithm. We believe the prioritization algorithm (the way in which Motion plans your tasks) is the real differentiation that no one else has nailed yet.\n\nSolving scheduling is a difficult engineering problem. There are so many variables to account for when personalizing a schedule to each user, and this must be done while satisfying performance and efficiency constraints. Solutions today ask users to do this manually. It’s easy for a team to dump all their tasks (which they’ll never finish) into an app. It’s difficult to figure out a great execution plan.\n\nImproving Motion also means improving everything around the algorithm that makes it useful, including the product, design, and infrastructure that allow people to use Motion. So we are aggressively hiring exceptional engineers who want to help double the world’s productivity with us. If that sounds like you, [please apply](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion)!\n\nOver time, Motion will automate more and more of our days. Motion will help manage and automate everything from top-level OKRs to individual projects and tasks, to daily planning, calendaring, meeting scheduling, and coordination. Currently, companies use half a dozen different tools to manage all of that manually, and it is very cumbersome to integrate them. Motion will integrate all of this functionality into one comprehensive view that is constantly re-prioritizing automatically.\n\nWe believe that fundamentally magnifying human output without increasing input (e.g. time) is a trillion-dollar market with billions of users.\n\nWe want to give a huge thank you to all of our users who make Motion possible. 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Then, a team leader guesses consensus and prioritizes. **This typical brainstorming process is far from ideal and has the following flaws:**\n\n1. **Single-threaded** - With only one person talking at a time, there is a single train of thought, and many good ideas are left unsaid and unexplored\n2. **Groupthink** - The desire for quick decisions and group cohesion can make bad decisions seemingly unanimous\n3. **Controlled by Leaders and Extroverts** - The loudest team members or those with the most authority can drown out the opinions of the more introverted and junior team members.\n4. **Self-censorship** - Fear of judgment and social anxiety can cause some members to withhold crazier ideas.\n5. **Poor engagement** - Doing nothing and waiting for the meeting to end passively is easy, especially remotely.\n\n—\n\n### **✅ The Solution**\n\nWe created a brainstorming tool for remote teams with built-in design thinking best practices from expert facilitators.\n\nIt’s a quick, customizable step-by-step process to unleash your team's creativity and prioritize.\n\n**Pathspace is easier to use than a “digital whiteboard” and more robust than a doc:**\n\n1. **Structured and intuitive** - Rather than a single generic interface like a doc or whiteboard, each step in the process has a unique user interface.\n2. **AI suggestions** - Leverage the power of GPT-3 to generate more out-of-the-box ideas.\n3. **Anonymous (no groupthink)** - Discover the best ideas and reach a democratic consensus with anonymous ideas and voting.\n4. **Organized and exportable** - Instead of scattered stickies that are hard to parse, we automatically keep everything organized so you can easily understand results and export them.\n5. **Customizable** - Create and customize Pathspace to your process by mixing and matching different tactics.\n\n![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/62d313720e07abf87ece7618/62df4aafd1d3f877f7a7d04d_Step%205.png)\n\n—\n\n### **Brainstorm for free. 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If you’d like to try Ozone individually, sign up [**here**](https://app.ozone.tech/register) and get set up in minutes. Feedback is much appreciated!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LG9-ozone-the-fastest-way-to-edit-videos-with-ai", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-06-25T14:57:54.188Z" } ] }, { "id": 25519, "name": "Fieldproxy", "slug": "fieldproxy", "former_names": [ "Fieldproxy (Snippt Media Private Limited)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/29d280b26b9013cd722967a3c3239ae0da94db1c.png", "website": "http://fieldproxy.ai/", "all_locations": "Chennai, TN, India", "long_description": "Fieldproxy is Retool for Field Teams. Our no-code SaaS application allows organizations to build internal mobile applications to manage field teams of any size.\r\n\r\nFieldproxy's vision is to be the Operating System for Field teams.", "one_liner": "Building AI agents for complex operations", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1643264607, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fieldproxy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/fieldproxy.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Chennai", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/snipp", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fieldproxy", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/fieldproxy", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fieldproxy", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/29d280b26b9013cd722967a3c3239ae0da94db1c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 494169, "full_name": "Swaroop Vijayakumar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2x enterpreneur, love solving problems for customers, IIM Kozhikode", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaroopcmc/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/swaroop_vij", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/87f7aa0750246d2db3a2732f12e48934409c4454.jpg" }, { "user_id": 160377, "full_name": "Balakrishna Balasubramanian", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Worked across a variety of roles in software development, as expected of a tech co-founder.\nLove working on new products and ideas. If it changes the world, great. If it doesn't, at least I'd have some fun.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/balakrishna-b-a624a8106", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2e848526d36ce366d98c61638bfc6f527b427224.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator leads $750k round of India-based SaaS firm | techinasia", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/combinator-leads-750k-indias-saas-firm", "date": "Jul 13, 2022" }, { "title": "Streamlining On-Ground Teams, DIY Style | Outlook Business", "url": "https://www.outlookbusiness.com/enterprise-3/big-idea-14/streamlining-on-ground-teams-diy-style-6358", "date": "Jan 09, 2022" }, { "title": "SaaS Startup Fieldproxy Raises INR 2 Cr Seed Funding Round", "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/383795", "date": "Sep 06, 2021" }, { "title": "[Funding alert] SaaS platform Fieldproxy raises Rs 2 Cr in seed round", "url": "https://yourstory.com/2021/09/saas-platform-fieldproxy-raises-seed-round/amp", "date": "Sep 05, 2021" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64305, "title": "🚀 Fieldproxy — Retool for field teams", "tagline": "Meet Fieldproxy, the platform that helps you build internal apps using no-code", "body": "**👋 Hi All!**\n\nThis is [Swaroop](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaroopcmc/) and [Bala](https://www.linkedin.com/in/balakrishna-balasubramanian-a624a8106/) and we are extremely stoked to launch [Fieldproxy](http://fieldproxy.com/) to the world\n\n---\n\n💡 **Problem**\n\nWe ran a product development agency prior to this where we had built around 60 internal apps across 20 companies to manage their on-ground teams. These companies were across legacy industries like consumer goods, mining, telecom, pharma and energy.\n\nOrganisations across these industries have been using archaic decades-old ERP systems to manage their on-ground field teams. These systems are extremely rigid and inflexible. There are very limited options for such companies to choose.\n\n80% of the mobile workforce is deskless, but the majority of the productivity and internal SaaS tools are being built for 20% of desk workers. Hence the need for these companies to build reach out to development agencies to build bespoke internal applications or hire an in-house internal tech team - both of which are bound to lead to disastrous results, given technology is not the forte’ of such industries\n\n---\n\n💛 **What We Do**\n\nWe help businesses with field teams build internal mobile applications within 10 minutes to streamline their on-field operations.\n\nThink giving the power of building tools similar to what Uber or Doordash may use to manage their on-ground workforce to some of these traditional industries!\n\nYou can check out our detailed product overview page [here](https://www.fieldproxy.com/product)\n\n---\n\n💪**Product Demos/Walkthrough of Use Cases**\n\n1. Quick Product Overview - click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/t5JWAkAwEnG3dJiJsnfap_pEOhi1ZH8tokDbs9lhJ6k?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446641)\n2. If you are in the Logistics space and want a take a look at the detailed location intelligence possible on the platform - click [here](https://www.loom.com/share/21288e2dcadf421981f09921f9294578?sharedAppSource=personal_library)\n3. If you run a Field servicing or field operations, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/mH8rVjfpdDG-V1yHuwtjmkjedPkNUnVFegAPVZlC5ZA?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to\n4. If you manage a Field Sales team, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/WBhOyuWNfypZKDTx5_B_SEYNZeV3WpxVHJwSjGTsO94?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to build a simple app with CRM-like functionality for your on-ground sales team\n\n---\n\n---\n\n💁‍♂️ **Asks**\n\n* **No-Code experts**/Founders of No-Code companies - If you are in the no-code space, would love to connect. We are still figuring out our GTM - and would love to have a quick 20-minute chat with people who have been there and done that. We will ensure we keep the questions very concise and specific!\n* **Industry Experts -** We are scaling up our template library in the consumer goods and field service verticals. If you are targeting similar industries or know someone in these industries who is up for a 40-hour paid consulting gig, please do let us know!\n* **Users** - Finally, if you do manage an on ground team, please do let me know! Would love to get on a call and help setup the workflows and applications that can help you get visibility and streamline your field operations\n\nIf there are any queries, feel free to drop a mail at [swaroop@fieldproxy.com](mailto:swaroop@fieldproxy.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjB-fieldproxy-retool-for-field-teams", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-07-04T13:04:03.510Z" } ] }, { "id": 25587, "name": "Dart", "slug": "dart", "former_names": [ "Pivot", "Keeple" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/83756d8c7862167a3ed5773168260fe15640608c.png", "website": "https://www.dartai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Dart is a fully-featured project management tool that lets you chat with AI to create tasks, plan roadmaps, generate reports, and handle any other PM work. You can then use customizable agents to complete work across every role. 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We grew very quickly so I hired out a full team, building and managing an org of dozens of engineers, product managers, and others.\n\nWould love to chat about Dart (which typically saves teams about a third of their PM time) or anything else--ping me!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zswafford/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/002dc8dccaa5ef692336818dcdf4102b3e9f360c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 51781, "title": "Frontend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs/AMpkzCj-frontend-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$40K - $100K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Bash/Shell", "Dart", "Git", "JavaScript", "React", "TypeScript", "Software Architecture", "Vue.js", "Prototyping" ] }, { "id": 75538, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs/fY0s284-backend-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$40K - $100K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Bash/Shell", "Dart", "Django", "Git", "PostgreSQL", "Python", "Redis", "Software Architecture" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93995, "title": "🎯 Dart: Cursor for Project management", "tagline": "Plan projects by chatting with Dart, then hand tasks to AI agents to get things done.", "body": "Hey, we’re Dart, and we’re launching AI Chat and Agents on YC and [ProductHunt.](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dartai)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/wdOTDKvaZS0\n\n# **Problem**\n\nProject management involves many hurdles. Tasks falling through cracks, team members wondering what they should be working on, and PM work that takes up more time than the projects themselves. Most project management tools force you to spend an inordinate amount of time on the “management” side instead of talking to users and building products.\n\nLegacy productivity and PM tools have been slow to adapt to LLMs, and even the newer, better ones have only recently begun clumsily tacking on AI features in an attempt to keep up with the trend.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe built Dart with AI incorporated from the ground up so teams stop managing logistics and start delivering outcomes. Most PM tools add “AI features.” Dart is fundamentally designed around AI: chat is the UI and agents are first-class collaborators.\n\n* **AI Chat:** Chat to create projects, tasks, subtasks, timelines, specs, and reports. Then conversationally manage your projects as you go\n* **AI Agents:** Invite our built-in or third-party custom agents to handle tasks across all roles such as marketing, design, sales, and coding\n* **Plug into your stack:** Connect all your tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, n8n, Slack, Discord, GitHub and more\n\n# **Our asks**\n\n* 🎯 Try out Dart today! Sign up at [dartai.com](https://dartai.com/) and leave us some feedback.\n* 😻 Support [our Product Hunt launch](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dartai)\n* We’re hiring for dev and marketing roles! [Apply here.](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OS3-dart-cursor-for-project-management", "votes": 286, "created_at": "2025-09-20T10:56:55.553Z" }, { "id": 78558, "title": "Dart - AI-powered project management", "tagline": "The AI tool that will save you seven hours per week in project management overhead", "body": "# tl;dr\n\n[Dart](https://www.dartai.com) is a fully-featured project management tool that uses AI to assist with roadmap planning, report generation, breaking tasks into subtasks, and executing on basic writing and design tasks. Teams use Dart in order to plan better and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78558&key=user_uploads/850757/7bf68dfc-c1d3-409b-8b7d-995cca92e54c)\n\n# The problem\n\nIt's critical for teams to have some sort of project management system that works in order to stay organized and keep making progress. The issues arise when that project management process begins to take up an undue amount of time. Common processes like filling out and categorizing tasks, writing PRDs, cleaning out the backlog, and other ‘work about work’ are seen as simply the cost of doing business when using legacy tools.\n\n# Solution\n\nDart provides a more intelligent project management suite that will save each person on your team seven hours a week in standard PM busywork. In addition to best-in-class management for tasks, documents, roadmaps, calendars, and more, Dart also boosts your productivity with a suite of helpful AI enhancements.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/CMsBAv9CCyU\n\nThese AI functions include:\n\n\\- Automatic standup, changelog, and project report generation\n\n\\- Roadmap planning\n\n\\- Duplicate task detection\n\n\\- Subtask generation\n\n\\- Automatic Task execution with agents (currently for writing and design tasks)\n\n\\- Task categorization and filling (e.g. automatically assigning tasks to the right person)\n\n\\- AI-powered brainstorming\n\n\\- ChatGPT integration\n\n# Our Ask\n\nTry it out! [Dart is freely available](https://app.dartai.com/sign-up) to use now and start managing tasks with your team. We'd love to support and are always welcome to ideas or feedback.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KR4-dart-ai-powered-project-management", "votes": 424, "created_at": "2024-02-20T16:06:22.408Z" } ] }, { "id": 25616, "name": "Stackshine", "slug": "stackshine", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2f75e99dea11ca83cb5f3e5de76cf447b57d842e.png", "website": "https://www.stackshine.com", "all_locations": "Portland, OR, USA; Providence, RI, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Stackshine is creating mission control for enterprise IT teams. We discover all the software being used across their organization and then automate workflows related to onboarding/offboarding, cost savings, and security. 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For reps, this eliminates hours of admin work a week spent reviewing calls and updating the CRM (instead of selling). For sales leaders, this is the only way to ensure that high-quality data is produced and logged from every sales call.\n\nHi everyone, I’m Max - the founder of Pilot AI.\n\nI’ve previously worked as a software engineer at Salesforce, built and scaled Tech & Product at Clipboard Health (W17), and then built out Revenue Operations at Welcome (S20), where it was my job to chase down sales reps every week to update Salesforce. Our reps could spend two hours a day going back through calls to take detailed notes and update the CRM - they all complained loudly about it, and they could have spent that time selling more.\n\nPilot frees up all of this wasted time through automation and makes it possible to maintain a clean CRM that can be used to produce accurate forecasts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65138&key=user_uploads/1028295/b95d6aca-12e8-4c0f-b641-c01c8d281c49)\n\n## **What’s the problem?**\n\nSalespeople can spend 25% of their day writing up notes and updating the CRM, which they could spend generating more revenue. Every salesperson despises this part so much that frequently, they just don’t do it. This causes numerous problems including making deals difficult to review, handoffs impossible and forecasting inaccurate.\n\n## **The Solution?**\n\n**Stop relying on salespeople to take notes and update the CRM**.\n\nPilot is an AI assistant that generates detailed notes and structured data that call that updates the CRM for every call. The notes are easy to read and don’t include the rambling, small talk and pauses of the conversation but instead capture the most important points. \n\nForm every conversation, Pilot produces:\n\n1. A scannable summary\n2. Datapoints that map to CRM fields\n3. Every question asked by the rep and the most important parts of the prospect's answer\n4. Additional essential points that the prospect made during the call\n\n## **We'd love to hear from you!**\n\nIf you’re facing this problem in your organization - we’d love to show you our magic trick. [Schedule a demo!](https://calendly.com/max-pilot-ai/30min)\n\nIf you’re thinking of a sales leader that this would help, we’d love an intro! [max@getpilot.ai](mailto:max@getpilot.ai)\n\nWe’re always interested in talking to reps as well; send me an email if you’d like to use Pilot!\\\n\\\n\\\n[max@getpilot.ai](mailto:max@getpilot.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwc-pilot-ai-turns-your-sales-calls-into-crm-data-automatically", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2022-08-04T17:48:02.591Z" } ] }, { "id": 26756, "name": "Midplane", "slug": "midplane", "former_names": [ "Deekard", "IvyCheck", "WithIda" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5fda9dc0196ef666a5a460e8ffbc29dddfc27396.png", "website": "https://midplane.ai/", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Remote", "long_description": "Companies are connecting AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude directly to their databases — where one wrong command can delete data or leak customer records. 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Dustin has 8.5 years of industry experience at Amazon as Machine Learning Scientist and Applied Science Manager. He founded a team that built tools for data quality measurement and cleaning, including Deequ (2.4k+ stars on GitHub). Dustin later owned data products powering the Amazon product search page, used by millions of users every day. 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Our specialized machine-learning models ensure the safety and quality of your AI app in real-time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79742&key=user_uploads/825709/1100f870-2ce1-44f4-a45f-2c1f640a2867)\n\n### What are AI risks?\n\nAI-powered interfaces such as chatbots emerge and pose **new AI risks:**\n\n* **Prompt Injection Attacks:** Attackers try to manipulate language models to execute unauthorized actions or access sensitive data. These attacks exploit the way AI interprets inputs as natural language text. Prompt injection attacks create a risk that spans from data exfiltration to influencing decision-making processes.\n* **PII Data Leakage:** Customers may include sensitive data in requests that are then sent to LLM providers. Companies must ensure that sensitive data is detected and redacted from requests.\n* **Hallucinations:** Chatbots in RAG applications use context retrieved from document stores, posing the risk of hallucinated, inaccurate, off-topic, or made-up information to users. IvyCheck evaluates whether chatbot answers are faithful to the provided context.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79742&key=user_uploads/825709/84a94c2d-9885-461e-a9f0-0724ccf1748a)\n\n### How does IvyCheck help?\n\nIvyCheck provides a library of checks for managing AI risks in your application. IvyCheck is:\n\n* **Flexible**: You can add checks to your LLM app with **just 2 lines of code** and protect your users and your data from prompt injection attacks, PII data leakage, and hallucinations. Works regardless of which LLM provider you use in your app.\n* **Secure**: We use customized, fine-tuned models for the checks. We self-host all our models and your data is not sent to third-party model providers.\n* **Fast**: Since the models are small and specialized, you can expect a latency under 100-200 ms. If you require even faster endpoints, please get in touch!\n\n### The founding team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79742&key=user_uploads/825709/6e2a1539-300a-4ab5-ac5a-46318b4e89d2)\n\nWe’re [Tammo](https://de.linkedin.com/in/tammo-rukat-34529471) (left) and [Dustin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin--lange/) (right). We met at Amazon, where we were part of the Core Machine Learning team in Berlin. We worked on systems for large-scale data quality checks, missing value imputation, and search filter optimization. We’re both obsessed with delighting our customers and solving their toughest challenges! Let’s create a safer world with AI.\n\n### How do I get started?\n\nVisit [https://ivycheck.com](https://ivycheck.com/) or [book a call](https://ivycheck.com/request-demo) directly with us. We’d love to get in touch and help you make your AI app safe today!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KkA-ivycheck-guard-against-ai-risks-with-real-time-checks", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2024-03-27T14:54:09.208Z" }, { "id": 74336, "title": "Deekard - Instant answers from your database with AI", "tagline": "Stop waiting on data teams, guessing at undocumented schemas, and debugging SQL. Start getting answers.", "body": "**TLDR:**\n\nDeekard is your one-stop shop for fast and easy data analysis. Just enter your database details, ask your burning questions, and let Deekard do the rest. Forget waiting on your data team - it’s time to get your answers fast.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nYou are collecting data about your business and want to become more data-driven in your decision-making. But you’re hitting some speed bumps:\n\n* **Waiting game:** You’re stuck in a queue, waiting for your data team to free up and handle your request. They can’t update the dashboards fast enough or don’t have time to work on your ad-hoc data requests.\n* **No time to write SQL**: You’ve got a business to run, not a course in SQL to take. It should be simple to run your database queries, not a guessing game.\n* **Documentation? What documentation?** You look at your team’s data warehouse and you don’t understand what’s in there. There’s no documentation and you have no idea if that column really contains the data you hope for.\n\n**Solution**\n\nDeekard gives you a powerful, integrated analytics experience - powered by AI. Connect your database and you’re ready to go.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74336&key=user_uploads/825709/f9b112f8-94be-4f61-a329-3ce789b49b53)\n\n* **Requests in plain English**: Get started with your request in natural language and Deekard takes care of translating it into a database query. Refine your request with a graphical query builder - or just edit the plain English request. You can also switch to SQL mode - _and back -_ whenever you like.\n* **Explore your database**: See what’s _inside_ your database. Deekard automatically profiles your data and creates that missing documentation for you. This helps with writing queries that actually work.\n* **Team effort**: Share the AI-powered query editor and unblock your whole team. They can instantly reuse your database connection and ask their own questions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74336&key=user_uploads/825709/3623b336-0a6f-44ec-a3f8-9c8d5babf861)\n\n**Ask:**\n\nTry Deekard! Start at [deekard.com](https://www.deekard.com). Tell us what you think at [founders@deekard.com](mailto:founders@deekard.com).\n\nIf you have a few min for a chat about Deekard, please book time with us [here](https://calendly.com/d/dxz-ddm-67k/deekard-call).\n\nThank you!\\\nDustin and Tammo", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JKy-deekard-instant-answers-from-your-database-with-ai", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2023-08-23T13:49:23.717Z" }, { "id": 71231, "title": "🤖 Deekard - Your autonomous assistant for data science and analytics", "tagline": "We use generative AI to make all data tasks effortless and accessible: extract, transform, analyze, and visualize data using only natural language.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Tammo and Dustin from [Deekard](https://www.deekard.com/).\n\n**_TL;DR:_** _Deekard is an all-in-one data science and analytics assistant. Connect your data source and get any question answered and any task executed, using only natural language. Powered by GPT-4, our AI model understands your intent, plans workflows, and executes them step-by-step._\n\n**The Problem**\n\nData science involves a wide range of skills, tools, and formats, which can be challenging to learn and manage. Tasks like extracting data with SQL, training machine learning pipelines with Python, and visualizing data using frameworks such as Vega are time-consuming, iterative, and error-prone.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nDeekard simplifies data science by offering a chat interface where you simply state what you want to do and watch the AI select the right tools in the right order. Like in a data science notebook, you can refer to previously created datasets and refine or combine them later in the conversation. Data science has never been easier or more approachable.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71231&key=user_uploads/825709/1d06fb3a-336e-4c6f-b93a-ce38f4a0a6f1)\n\n**Features**\n\n📚 Database: Write queries in natural language and let Deekard translate them into SQL for you! Simply state your query, and you'll receive the result table.\n\n🐍 Python: Transform data or apply machine learning models with ease. Just write your request, and Deekard translates it into Python code and executes it. You'll get the results in no time.\n\n📊 Visualization: Generate charts with natural language. Deekard translates your request into Vega-Lite specifications and creates beautiful visualizations. Apply changes to charts just by writing them down.\n\n🧠 Wikipedia: Enrich your datasets by retrieving tables from Wikipedia. Just write your request, and Deekard will access the world's greatest knowledge base for you.\n\n🎯 Task Organization: Write complex requests, and Deekard will split them into multiple tasks that are executed in the right order.\n\n**Start Today**\n\nYou can start using Deekard today at [deekard.com](http://deekard.com). \n\nThank you for your support, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on Deekard! 🎉", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IWt-deekard-your-autonomous-assistant-for-data-science-and-analytics", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2023-04-27T14:07:14.366Z" } ] }, { "id": 26780, "name": "Stellar", "slug": "stellar", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8637fd38a327a3ebbaa10c637c194c7c1aec16b.png", "website": "http://www.stellarapp.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "A fool-proof goals platform using GPT to help teams write and track SMART goals at every level. 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Before Stellar, she was a Product Management leader with almost a decade of experience scaling high growth startups. As an early product manager at Affirm, she scaled its nascent consumer product to $2B in annual volume, launched the Affirm Marketplace, and grew their omnichannel vertical by 2x. She was also an early product manager at Earnin, a fintech unicorn, where she launched the mobile app to multiply WAUs and transform unit economics.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/angeladao", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d84dda4eae68872f400b861d5f72b928077cc420.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1053750, "full_name": "Elise Nguyen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Elise is the co-founder and CPO of Stellar. Before founding Stellar, she was a Product Design leader at LinkedIn where she grew and scaled the Career’s design team (Job seekers, Salary, Talent brand, and Equity team) for LinkedIn's $6B Talent Solutions business. She has also worked at Symphony, the Slack for bankers, where she launched the first mobile experience for financial bankers, enabling bankers to work from anywhere. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetnguyen/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f83a81c5d146fd4dae177bab8a695052d4ba9605.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1012066, "full_name": "Quan Zhou", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Quan is the technical cofounder of Stellar and is passionate about technology that makes teams more effective and collaborative. Prior to Stellar, he was an early engineer at an HR unicorn Pave (S20) and built the technology stack from the ground up. Quan previously worked at Affirm (where he met Angela) and was on Bridgewater Trading technology team. He holds an engineering degree from Princeton. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/quanzhou1", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ed058aa01e4420a5f959543568edcdaeb9ea7971.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 72653, "title": "Stellar 📈 - AI-powered OKRs", "tagline": "Turn your strategy into company-wide goals with AI", "body": "**TL;DR** - Implementing an OKR process that works for your team can feel impossible. [Stellar](https://www.stellarapp.io) drives alignment with an AI-powered OKR platform that simplifies writing and tracking goals.\n\nHi everyone - we’re Angela, Quan and Elise! Stellar is launching an AI product to tackle the biggest obstacles startups face when implementing OKRs.\n\n### **Problem**\n\n* **Writing cascading goals is hard -** after defining topline lagging metrics (revenue, churn, LTV, etc), each team member might not know how to write SMART goals that ladder up to them.\n* **Operational best practices are a mystery -** it’s hard to know where to start when creating a goal management process.\n* **A hero is required to drive accountability** - someone needs to step up to implement and enforce the process throughout the quarter, in addition to their full time job.\n\nIntroducing Stellar AI – a copilot for every employee that simplifies writing SMART, cascading goals and derisks them throughout the quarter.\n\n### **How it works**\n\nAnswer 4 simple questions and Stellar spins up a customized OKR workspace. An integrated experience uses GenAI to write your unique inspiring top-line goals and cascading domain-specific goals at all levels.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/6097185e-9f26-4846-aaea-cdea8c355d6f)\n\nOnce goals are written, Stellar automates a recurring check-in process for your team throughout the quarter and year. These updates create an agenda for business reviews.\n\nStellar’s smart notification system drives accountability, resulting in an average of 85% of all goals being updated weekly. Additionally, If someone is stuck on a goal, Stellar AI recommends domain-specific next steps to help unblock them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/a2337bf7-ef1d-44d1-989d-d05a59590a07)\n\n### **Want to learn more?**\n\nBook [a demo](https://www.stellarapp.io) or reach out to [founders@stellarapp.io](mailto:founders@stellarapp.io), we’d love to show you what we’re building!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/445e9f52-6e46-4c50-9096-0a099bb32ab2)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Itp-stellar-ai-powered-okrs", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2023-06-29T17:35:17.450Z" }, { "id": 65966, "title": "Stellar - Don’t let your team’s OKRs slip in 2023! 📈🌟", "tagline": "A goal tracking platform that drives agile collaboration and accountability. ", "body": "👋 We’re [Angela](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeladao/), [Elise](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetnguyen/) and [Quan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quanzhou1/), the co-founders of [Stellar](https://www.stellarapp.io/)! We were early hires at multiple unicorns and saw OKRs both fail and succeed. The orgs that get it right are those that act quickly and adapt to new information consistently over time.\n\nStellar is a goal tracking platform focused on agile communication so your team has a fighting chance of hitting their OKRs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/a7331fc6-b81e-4306-90a5-15f1ff0d625f)\n\n### **The problem with OKRs**\n\nSetting business goals is easy, but iterative execution is hard.\n\nToo many companies set OKRs, forget them in an isolated document and then realize they haven’t made sufficient progress. When OKRs aren’t reassessed openly on a recurring basis, you miss the opportunity to motivate your team, collaborate and unblock progress together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/ed098364-c2e7-449f-9436-f637d0041fc2)\n\nThe designated responsible person (usually a founder or Chief of Staff) spends hours a week running this process, when they could be working on strategic work.\n\n### **Achieve your goals with confidence**\n\nIf you’re ready to embed OKRs and agile collaboration in your organization, Stellar will help you:\n\n1. Stay focused and organized by linking your goals in an OKR tree\n2. Raise and remove blockers quickly through effective, asynchronous check-ins\n3. Save time with scheduled notifications and automatic reminders about missing updates\n\n### **Interested?**\n\n**We’re offering 50% off for the next 20 companies!**\n\nIf you’d like a demo: grab time on our [Calendly](https://calendly.com/angdao/stellar-demo?month=2022-12) or reach out directly to [founders@stellarapp.io](mailto:founders@stellarapp.io)! We’re excited to learn more about your unique use case and help you crush your 2023 goals.\n\n### **Our Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/f5922eac-b00b-4274-9ce9-9e125fbf2136)\n\n**👐 Quan is our hands, building exceptional products:** founding software engineer at Pave (YC S20), tech lead at Affirm, and engineering degree from Princeton. \n\n**👁️ Angela is our eyes, looking toward the future:** early product manager at Affirm and Earnin. \n\n**👂 Elise is our ears, listening and designing for users:** product design leader at LinkedIn.\n\n\\- Angela, Elise & Quan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H9y-stellar-don-t-let-your-team-s-okrs-slip-in-2023", "votes": 89, "created_at": "2022-09-09T23:59:31.166Z" } ] }, { "id": 26847, "name": "Slauth.io", "slug": "slauth-io", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/004f2f17d69c6a7d9b09c060c1c5711e24251d97.png", "website": "https://slauth.io/", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Slauth.io generates and rightsizes IAM policies in order to save engineering time and secure the organization. We use PR's to suggest what good functional and secure IAM policies should look like and integrate with IaC (Terraform) to have a seamless end-to-end IAM policy creation and deployment. 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Someone sends a request; it reads the message, looks up the real order or account in your own systems, takes the action, and replies. Anything it shouldn't touch goes to a human. It works across email, chat, WhatsApp and social, and is MCP-native.\r\n\r\nUntil now, that took a proper setup project, which is why it was mostly larger companies using it. Nova does the setup for you. You describe how you want things handled, in plain sentences:\r\n- \"Handle refunds under €50 yourself.\"\r\n- \"Anything about enterprise pricing goes to a human.\"\r\n- \"Turn bug reports into Linear issues and assign them to the Excellence team.\"\r\n\r\nNova connects the tools, configures the agents, tests them against your past conversations, and shows you what it got wrong before anything goes live. Nothing ships without your approval. First deployment takes 15 minutes. After that, it keeps going: it surfaces what customers keep complaining about, proposes fixes, and ships the ones you approve. We call it an AI Operator because it doesn't just answer customers; it keeps the entire operation working and improving. Across live accounts, that means 90% of requests resolved without human involvement.\r\n\r\nYour team stays in control of what it may do on its own. Hybrid intelligence handles partial hand-offs, review-before-send, and context-preserving resumption.\r\n\r\nWe're YC S22 and work with companies like Superhuman and Unilever. Fortune 500 brands such as Unilever and DPD use Typewise to cut support effort by 50%+ while increasing CSAT and NPS. Run it natively in Typewise Ticketing or inside Zendesk, Salesforce or Freshdesk, with a CRM-embedded copilot for your human agents. 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Lived in 7+ countries.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaeberle/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0f5bccd963d19ce567c373299e21d47232612d36.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1013251, "full_name": "Janis Berneker", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CTO at Typewise, formerly Lead Data Science at Swiss National Broadcaster SRF. Loves coding since he was a kid. Speaks 5+ languages.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linked.com/in/janis-berneker", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5cd060c2a79e056c66620c8ad28109f92fab314e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "7 AI startups that stood out in YC's Summer '22 batch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/08/7-ai-startups-that-stood-out-in-ycs-summer-22-batch/", "date": "Sep 08, 2022" }, { "title": "How Typewise got into YC after pivoting to b2b productivity – TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/typewise-yc/", "date": "Aug 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 114656, "title": "Typewise Nova: The customer operator for fast-growing teams", "tagline": "Customer service that runs itself, so you can keep building.", "body": "At YC, we move fast. But staying on top of customer requests can quickly turn into a second job, and it takes time away from building and growing.\n\nWe're **Typewise (S22)** and we built Nova to remove that tradeoff. Typewise resolves customer requests end-to-end. Nova is the AI operator that sets up, runs, and improves that system for you. Your first deployment takes about 15 minutes.\n\nTell Nova how you want customer requests handled, in plain language:\n\n* \"Handle refunds under $50 automatically.\"\n* \"Send enterprise-pricing questions to Sales.\"\n* \"Create a Linear issue for every bug report and assign it to Engineering.\"\n\nNova connects the relevant tools, configures the agents and workflows, and tests them against your past conversations. It shows you what it got wrong before anything goes live. Nothing ships without your approval.\n\nOnce live, Typewise handles requests 24/7. It understands the message, looks up the information in your systems, takes approved actions, and replies. Anything outside the boundaries you've set goes to a human.\n\nNova keeps improving the system. It spots recurring questions, complaints, and cases Typewise couldn't resolve, then proposes changes to the knowledge and workflows. You approve the changes before they go live.\n\n**See it in action, in hi-fi:**\n\n\n\n**Or in lo-fi:**\n\n\n\n### Our launch gift\n\nWe strongly believe the product should do the talking, so **your first 1,000 resolutions or your first 3 months are on us**, whichever comes first.\n\nGive it a try!\n\nJanis & David", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TpI-typewise-nova-the-customer-operator-for-fast-growing-teams", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-09-10T14:10:07.715Z" }, { "id": 67181, "title": "Typewise Text Prediction API", "tagline": "Supercharge your software with \"Gmail smart compose\"-like predictions", "body": "Hi guys, we’re Janis and David on a mission to make daily lives easier by decoding human thoughts. We build text prediction software, which is used in various customer service and sales teams of large enterprises.\n\nWe’re now making the underlying API accessible to other developers, in case you’d like to supercharge your software with text prediction and autocorrect.\n\n### Features\n\n* 🔮 Sentence Prediction\n* 🖋️ Autocorrect & Grammar Check\n* 🧠 Custom AI Models\n* 🌎 Language Detection (40+ languages)\n* 🕵️‍ Emoji Search\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67181&key=user_uploads/737174/60471b62-a6f4-40af-9ca8-4ac7fb0c01d8)\n\n### Try for free\n\nAccess the API: \n\n👉 The language models are fully customizable to your specific use case, [get in touch](https://mailto:info@typewise.app) to learn more.\n\nCheers,\\\nJanis & David", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HTZ-typewise-text-prediction-api", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2022-11-08T12:28:26.612Z" }, { "id": 64168, "title": "Typewise – 🔥 boosting customer service & sales productivity by 2-3x", "tagline": "AI writing solution for businesses to save cost, increase customer satisfaction and sales conversion.", "body": "[**Typewise**](https://typewise.app/) **is a powerful AI writing solution for customer service and sales teams.**\n\nTypewise helps customer service and sales teams to:\n\n* Increase writing efficiency by >20%\n* Eliminate >97% of mistakes\n* Ensure brand coherence & tone of voice\n* Improve customer satisfaction (CSAT, etc.) & sales conversion\n* Save >8 hours per employee per month\n* Get 3-4X ROI\n\nOur AI text prediction technology outperforms Google & Co and was initially developed through our smartphone app with >2 million downloads.\n\nWe already work with Fortune 500 companies (software, e-commerce, logistics, insurance, telco).\n\n**What can Typewise do?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64168&key=user_uploads/737174/1a0256c1-10b5-4def-a67d-40ac30271153)\n\n* Sentence prediction (autocomplete) and smart snippets\n* Proofreader (autocorrect and grammar check)\n* Auto replies\n* Real-time translation\n* Analytics & quality control\n\nOur AI language model gets trained on your company’s data to ensure consistent, on-brand communications across your business. We also incorporate your business metrics (CSAT, etc.) to surface what type of wording, phrases, etc. leads to better business outcomes, and suggest the most effective language automatically.\n\n**How does Typewise work?**\n\n💻 Browser extension + server-side API\\\n✅ Works with any CRM (e.g., Salesforce)\\\n🌐 Support for 40+ languages\\\n👍 No IT implementation effort / <8h setup time\\\n🔒 100% data privacy\n\n**Get a risk-free trial:**\n\nSchedule a 15-min live demo to discuss how we can boost your business!\n\n👉👉 [Get in touch with our CEO David](https://mailto:david.eberle@typewise.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ggy-typewise-boosting-customer-service-sales-productivity-by-2-3x", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2022-06-29T07:37:38.350Z" } ] }, { "id": 26863, "name": "Provision", "slug": "provision", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/385a0231f7ab5d980e79ffdfbfa16bc2183b283d.png", "website": "https://provision.com", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Provision is building the AI Estimator for construction. We identify risks and obligations in contracts, specs, and drawings so contractors can reduce time spent reviewing documents and focus on winning and delivering projects profitably. 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Before co-founding Provision, he worked in the construction industry for seven years between Arup (a multi-disciplinary engineering design firm) as a civil engineer and Plenary (infrastructure developer) as a Director. He managed $3B+ of large infrastructure projects with some of the most sophisticated stakeholders across the value chain (owners, GCs, sub-contractors, facility managers). 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", "body": "We’re Brendan and Luigi and we’re the co-founders of Provision.\n\n**Problem**\\\nThe construction industry spends $500B annually (\\~4% of market value) on issues stemming from document complexity. Documents are becoming longer, harder to read, and contain obligations that go unchecked eroding profitability. Currently, people use CTRL+F to navigate thousands of pages and Excel to extract information, often resulting in missed obligations, and unexpected costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65358&key=user_uploads/280788/8f4cc15a-b090-4ac2-a0d5-a9eee38cc0eb)\n\n\n**Need**\\\nConstruction professionals need to understand and manage all of the requirements held within these documents, because missing them means delays, budget overruns and even failed projects.\n\n**Enter Provision**\\\nProvision ingests contracts, specs and drawings, and gives users tools to manage risks, obligations and compliance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65358&key=user_uploads/280788/edbcd4d6-2298-48c2-9025-edcd7959b3d4)\n\n\n**Backstory**\\\nBoth Luigi and Brendan worked in the construction industry for years before starting Provision. Brendan left the industry, and built two startups over a couple of years but always had aspirations to go back to construction. Luigi worked as a Director at an infrastructure developer for 6 years, where he saw even the most sophisticated constructors fail to understand their documents. We came together in December of 2021 through YC to build something impactful. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65358&key=user_uploads/280788/dc0bd0eb-5339-4efa-9159-cd50050156cb)\n\n\\\n**Ask**\\\nUpvote this post! :)\n\nAnd if anyone has any warm connections to GCs or subcontractors in North America who builds big projects (50M+), we would love an intro. [founders@getprovision.co](mailto:founders@getprovision.co)\n\nAlso, we’re hiring for Data Engineer and SWE roles. [careers@getprovision.co](mailto:careers@getprovision.co) \n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/86033411), and drop us a line if you want to chat.\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0A-provision-ironclad-for-construction", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2022-08-14T15:53:59.802Z" } ] }, { "id": 27095, "name": "Relay Health", "slug": "relay-health", "former_names": [ "Relay" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/30d3e979e397be92cd1208bf6710469387ba0593.png", "website": "https://www.joinrelay.app", "all_locations": "Salt Lake City, UT, USA", "long_description": "Nearly 7 billion hours are spent on porn every year.\r\n\r\nRelay provides a modern solution to one of the most widespread yet hidden epidemics of our time: pornography. Despite being one of the biggest drains on focus, relationships, and mental health, it remains one of the most silent and stigmatized problems in society. We are tackling this head-on.\r\n\r\nRelay helps people break free through private, anonymous groups that provide accountability and community. Members join a small, confidential team that replaces isolation with connection, offering shame-free accountability, evidence-based tools, and daily reflection.\r\n\r\nOur mission goes beyond quitting porn. 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The person might turn to friends and family, but they overreact or aren’t able to effectively support because they can’t relate. On top of that, professional help or in-person groups can be expensive, and it takes a lot of courage to get there.\n\n**Even those attending in-person groups (e.g. AA) feel isolated between weekly meetings**\n\nFor the minority who do join a group-based program, meetings are usually held only once a week — leaving participants largely on their own the other six days of the week.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nRelay helps users…\n\n* Get matched into a team of 5-8 peers\n* Experience meaningful connection and avoid slipping back into isolation\n* Find shame-free accountability\n* Train emotional awareness and understand patterns/triggers\n* Throw a red flag (i.e. SOS) with a single tap to let their team know they need help when feeling vulnerable\n\nSince launching in September 2021, 79% of our users have reported seeing improvement within their first month of using the app.\n\n## **Why we’re tackling this**\n\nMembers on our team have struggled personally with addiction and saw first-hand the power that comes from forming an effective team of peers for connection and accountability. 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These tasks are important but tedious.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nSonnet uses AI to do all your meeting work that can be automated (note taking, follow-up emails, CRM) and brings you all the information you need for tasks that can’t (pre-meeting research, meeting reminders).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79677&key=user_uploads/912744/2082970c-374f-49d2-9960-a4daeea7ee47)\n\n### **How is this different?**\n\n* Sonnet speeds up your pre-meeting research and post-meeting follow-ups, not just your during-meeting note-taking.\n* Meeting bots are distracting; Sonnet records without one.\n* Sonnet has a built-in CRM, auto-updated with your conversation data.\n* Existing AI notes tend to be too broad to replace human notetaking. 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[Monterey AI](https://monterey.ai) is the most powerful AI native insights platform for decoding the voices of customers and the next growth opportunities.\n\n# [**⭐ Click here to book a demo call ⭐**](https://cal.com/chunonline/monterey-demo)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80330&key=user_uploads/809138/ef5f3408-f42f-413f-a1f0-cf5d659ecd44)\n\n**🤕 Problem**\n\nAlmost all customer conversations in all customer channels have enormously valuable user insights that have never been mined to their full potential. Most companies are not utilizing them enough; this damages the speed of decision-making and slows down execution. Breaking down the problem into three key issues:\n\n* Support tickets, transcripts, and surveys are extremely messy (format, scale, and cadence);\n* Too much noise to filter - everyone wants to listen to users more, but listening at scale is hard;\n* It’s high-stakes decision-making and has a low-risk tolerance towards hallucination.\n\n# [**⭐ Click here to book a demo call ⭐**](https://cal.com/chunonline/monterey-demo)\n\n**🎉 Solution**\n\nWith Monterey AI, you can connect with data sources like **Zendesk, Front, Intercom, Gong, Salesforce, HubSpot, App Store, Google Play Store, and Snowflake, in one click or via API**. Monterey AI automatically extracts, categorizes, and triages the conversations based on company or business concepts.\n\n* **Proactive insights delivery:** Instant, accurate answers. 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You don’t need to depend on giant model improvement, bear any risk from “human annotation” services from vendors, and spend extra internal engineering resources making it work.\n\n# [**⭐ Click here to book a demo call ⭐**](https://cal.com/chunonline/monterey-demo)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kte-monterey-ai-2-0-ai-native-user-insights-platform-feedback-survey-roadmap-and-more", "votes": 120, "created_at": "2024-04-22T17:39:43.610Z" }, { "id": 64189, "title": "🐳 Monterey - Co-pilot for product development", "tagline": "Monterey boosts and guards product velocity for hyper growing teams, smartly.", "body": "👋 [Chun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chunonline/) and [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmkramer/) here introducing [Monterey AI](https://www.monterey.ai/) to you!\n\n### **TL;DR:**\n\n🐳 Monterey is building the **co-pilot for product development**. We do this by replacing documents with smart use-case-centric workflows that help you strategize, measure, and align.\n\n### **Who is it for**\n\nProduct leads (whether a founder, engineer, product manager, designer, etc.) who are looking to escape from burdensome documents and get back to what they are good at. No more spending hours and days on\n\n1. looking for best practice of product development online\n2. convincing your team to adopt the process\n3. repeatedly communicating and reporting strategies and progress\n4. worrying about cross-team dependencies\n5. managing several products in numerous documents and task management tools\n\n### **How it works**\n\n1. Pick a product template based on your use case\n2. Configure input and share with your team\n3. Check dependencies and solve conflicts\n4. 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Knowtex is changing the game by making AI measurable and explainable, ensuring clinicians and healthcare systems can understand and trust every AI-driven recommendation.\n\n**What This Means for Healthcare Teams**\n\nWith the Model Evaluation Platform, Knowtex can now:\n\n* Evaluate AI performance in real-world clinical workflows for accuracy and reliability\n* Enhance traceability by surfacing insights into model predictions and decisions\n* Strengthen accountability with structured benchmarking and continuous monitoring\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcWhj4wXNN6O4XKxH85tksdXx469QoqDrlorbk5r4Z_uuiwI_hTMzeAX4a4yfyikYpLGKwm4gel84baxTcEa6kILyK4y_nxq7MMnOFMmvAr7FmocYgGxsTPRuATxto9XWZU8fwnyg?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\n**Trust, But Verify**\n\nInnovation in AI isn’t about chasing what’s new—it’s about measurable progress. Knowtex doesn’t just release updates; we test them against real-world clinical benchmarks to ensure every iteration is an improvement. Our benchmarking gauntlet allows us to pit the latest-and-greatest against our tried-and-true models, ensuring that Knowtex isn’t just keeping up—we’re leading the charge in rapid iteration and continuous improvement.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXetEQTUDcqPf954aHWHsmolvU5-QBqtMAEvsuA4RTcKUTNuaJ1M6-HPANSPkJuQR3d1PNvWqAVobaz0DLVgy--L3Qr7tgWx6EUT8Htdvlal64jbWI7LB-4ioma4clTtiQzdITqO9g?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXesQhl_ORLRLMQn1ZAzQKnmHVyziix2px5YivuMSAO74X8TJ61Nh537JeDS8om07m4mGoIdVoIdpyF5fR8yN8km71y19eY-SFN2Z3Oaq21ARKZ0hWHnAZOcMRkQJie9fZGlBbr0Qg?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXek2LkdtRHW22jTpy-JAtYsJeW-ZKkNhrayHjn4EqHnfKOJQww_o46SrsRLbNilTYPyz60OmZd8XLz4byR-8i0KdOMBHimNH5EoPuYEg_AxlNFWOFyy1jSM28t2pMkKC8IlTHwvVw?key=S8aaCf-5dF0d1mRQ7mAPtwJR)\n\nKnowtex’s benchmarks are built on insights from providers across multiple disciplines and focus on areas that matter most to them, such as:\n\n* **Style** – How well does the AI-generated note match the clinician’s voice? Over time, the model learns and adapts to improve precision.\n* **Note Length** – Does the AI capture the necessary details while avoiding unnecessary verbosity?\n* **Summarization Faithfulness** – How accurately does the summarized note convey the entirety of the clinical encounter?\n* **Structure** – Does the AI-generated note align with the expected template and clinical formatting?\n\nAt Knowtex, **AI isn’t just a tool—it’s a trusted partner in patient care.** Accuracy, clarity, and alignment with clinician needs are non-negotiable.\\\n\\\nThank you to Muhammad Khalifa and Nicholas Talbot for leading this project.\n\nStay tuned as we continue pushing the boundaries of explainable AI in healthcare!\n\nSimply head to [app-knowtex.com](http://app-knowtex.com) to create your account, and you’ll have full access to our voice AI documentation and coding solution supported by this Model Evaluation Platform. 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Our ambient, AI-driven billing solution helps clinicians avoid leaving revenue on the table—all while keeping them focused on patient care, not paperwork.\n\nMedical coding is complex, and the rules and codes are constantly changing. Missed or inaccurate coding can dramatically impact a health system’s bottom line. That’s where Knowtex comes in. **Knowtex is a clinician’s partner in revenue:** capturing the full range of codes a visit is eligible for and keeping your documentation up-to-date with the latest standards. The result is an optimized, accurate billing workflow that catches every code, every time.\n\n**Unlike other solutions that simply analyze documentation to generate codes, we’ve spent the last two years developing Knowtex into a deeply integrated, personalized coding model based on the visit conversation that is tailored to clinicians and organizations. We create custom models trained on each clinic’s historic coding data so Knowtex tailors its suggestions to the unique needs of every clinician. This level of personalization allows Knowtex not only to generate accurate codes but also to prescriptively suggest coding updates that are finely tuned to the specific workflows and nuances of the practice.** \n\nKnowtex is a truly adaptive partner in coding at the point of care. It captures information correctly upfront and continuously improves and aligns with each clinic’s standards for maximized revenue and streamlined workflows.\n\n## Customer Results\n\nOne health system integrated Knowtex and observed significant improvement in revenue retention. With Knowtex identifying and correcting undercoded visits, they successfully capture approximately **$92,800 per month** in previously lost revenue.\n\nOne of our oncology practices with 50+ providers saw substantial improvement in billing outcomes with Knowtex. Before implementing Knowtex, their daily billing average was $7,101.60. Following integration, the mean daily billing rose to $7,893.70, an increase of almost **$800/provider/day**.\n\n## Features\n\n**🩺 Streamlined intelligent Code Selection**\n\nOur interface is designed for simplicity and speed and makes it easy for clinicians to confirm suggested codes instantly. As a clinician speaks with a patient, Knowtex listens, prompting relevant codes based on the conversation. For E&M codes, it analyzes encounter elements like time, medical decision-making complexity, risk, and data, guiding clinicians to the correct documentation with zero interruptions.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcd1urRt3iovIjG_hdQrkbwJ0U0xMAQcrWNBMJvXj06EkCgVa7VeHot38yjpzGpMDDBPR0lRG_9jLd5bd2tIp2dB-GRbjIs8t723zatJ3OfZ3R8oPR2QKz7NPr7Jh59qYpFC11K?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\nIn addition to live prompting, Knowtex provides targeted suggestions to help clinicians optimize coding accuracy. When assessing complexity, risk, or data documentation, Knowtex offers text snippets to update E&M codes based on the conversation info and historic data. These snippets guide providers by suggesting personalized updates that increase documentation complexity where applicable.\n\nFor example, with MDM:\n\n\\- Complexity: Knowtex can prompt providers to consider documenting any updates on the patient’s status under treatment with a pre-created snippet like “Patient is improving on current chemotherapy treatment but not yet at goal.”\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcB9XivMlmiJrkMbi5KzqYfO-Lpw7SwG7zRg_xyeF8bzfkchHb1PmC2GLx7I3smiTrzp-jAdSVUO-AG9c4haq4U_iKAHBESxngh4YyXel7RnFHHk_l9k-_ACkd-i8RpvCIvjJqOow?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\n\\- Risk: Knowtex may suggest inserting the text snippet, “reviewed liver function tests and discussed present chemotherapy effects with the patient,” to increase the documented level of decision-making complexity.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeXpD_K-hlG10Z0vGGn19NSs-AZsiDcePhUU0X70VZm0z8pwM2J7BovTaTPqum80I2l549WFgkPMTw8SO4z0XoogcljVNKSkbWNaXxA7VqsUfwin2gDF0jvxM-N0BkZB9JRLqalHw?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\n\\- Data: If the clinician reviewed imaging during the conversation, Knowtex will identify this and suggest a clearer way of documenting it: “CT images were **personally reviewed and interpreted**.”\n\nThese real-time, customized tips help clinicians capture all relevant information to substantiate the appropriate billing codes.\\\n\\\n**🔍 Accurate & Personalized Diagnosis Capture and Search**\n\nImagine a clinician is treating anemia. Most physicians would code the patient with D50.9 (Iron deficiency anemia, unspecified). While this can be accepted by insurance and reimbursed, there can be more precise codes that would be a better choice based on the patient’s symptomatology and history. \n\nKnowtex can capture and synthesize conversation and EHR data in real time as the clinician talks through symptoms and treatment with the patient to suggest precise ICD-10 codes like D63.1 (Anemia in chronic kidney disease). \n\nWe also provide intelligent search functionality for clinicians that surfaces the best and most detailed ICD-10 code based on the conversation detail and EHR information.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdYFAYWrvmJgndLiffAJCyQFPnu7fMM796mKPIZQKlQWSrlLdAD3Xoco727I2aEvOA82tfjAHm8-NwP-QKH9Ja9DjI0BSTH6xGxJCd6IoFsCnt-BzBsxaEfwAbxkEgFjEHBhhKn?key=PrSNha-uknkZVns6FaLUE8yc)\n\nKnowtex makes sure every detail is captured without breaking focus for clinicians, especially in complex specialties like hematology and oncology. It’s a seamless experience that helps practices keep up with fast-evolving coding standards and prevent revenue leakage.\n\n**📊 Complimentary Financial Gap Analysis**\n\n**We’re offering a free financial gap analysis to the first 10 new clinicians/organizations that sign up.** Knowtex will deeply analyze your last 3 months of billing data and pinpoint specific opportunities where Knowtex can capture missed revenue through optimized documentation and code selection. \n\nUsers will also get **free** **full** access to our state of the art, customizable, ambient scribing solution for those three months. \n\nContact [sales@knowtex.ai](mailto:sales@knowtex.ai) to learn more.\n\nThank you to our engineers Muhammad Khalifa, Andrea Green, and Azeem Ghumman for their work pioneering ambient billing at Knowtex.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFY-knowtex-ambient-billing-for-clinicians", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2024-11-13T16:48:55.533Z" }, { "id": 65893, "title": "Knowtex: Creating Visit Notes from Doctor-Patient Conversations", "tagline": "Making doctors 2x more efficient with automating note-taking & charge capture", "body": "👋 We’re [Jocelyn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynkang/) and [Caroline](https://www.linkedin.com/in/czhang21/), the co-founders of [Knowtex](https://www.knowtex.ai/)!\n\n**tldr;** Knowtex automatically creates visit notes with billing codes from doctor-patient conversations. We built our ML solution in under two months and are working with healthcare organizations to save doctors time and prevent revenue leakage from improper documentation and coding. Our ask is for help connecting with private clinics (with 8+ doctors) in any specialty, digital healthcare companies with providers, and PE firms with medical roll-ups.\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nDoctors are spending more time on taking notes than seeing patients, and aren’t taught how to code their notes optimally for proper reimbursement. This leads to physician burnout and revenue leakage for healthcare organizations (up to $125 billion a year in the US).\n\n### **Our Solution:**\n\nKnowtex creates visit notes with the proper codes for reimbursement automatically from doctor-patient conversation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65893&key=user_uploads/556751/cbde38bb-69a5-49a9-b723-fc0b8bf65864)\n\n(The automatically generated note output from a conversation Caroline had in real-time with a cardiologist!)\n\n**Wait, doctors code?**\n\nWe’re not talking about software coding, but medical coding, which means assigning the right diagnostic (ICD-10) and procedural codes (CPT) to a note to allow a claim to be created and submitted to insurers for appropriate payment. Correct coding is also critical for demographic assessments and studies of disease prevalence, treatment outcomes and accountability-based reimbursement systems.\n\nWith Knowtex, we can cut the time doctors currently spend on admin work in half, and allow them to focus on what they love: patient care.\n\n### **Our Team**\n\nWe met day one of Stanford freshmen year. Caroline received her master's degree in Computer Science concentrating in AI and an undergraduate degree in Economics (in just 4 years!). Jocelyn received an interdisciplinary degree in CS specializing in Linguistics and has worked at startups in a variety of positions including leading AI/ML teams.\n\nAfter graduating during the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to apply our technical skills to build solutions for our healthcare system. We heard about the problem of physician burnout from medical documentation, and **became medical scribes ourselves to experience it firsthand. 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It takes forever to dig into the page code to build the right XPath or locator. And even when these are found, they are likely to change over time as the product continues development.\n\n# **⚡️Our solution**\n\nWe use computer vision to look at the screen, like an end user, and find the element you want to interact with. Then, in real-time, we find the element and return it so all your existing automation can keep working with it. We make this easy to use by extending Selenium with a `findByAI()` method where you just put a human readable name and let the AI do the hard work.\n\nWe even let you see the elements from within your IDE!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65540&key=user_uploads/1076464/bb8100b8-b570-4aeb-8bae-fd49cd8d470d)\n\n# **🎉 Bonus Features**\n\n### Work on Games\n\nTraditional automation has trouble working with games as most games render within a canvas element. Because we only use the screenshot, and not page source, we can play games like LooneyToons!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65540&key=user_uploads/1076464/3feb64e1-36cd-47c0-93f5-a8c3e98d10d1)\n\n### Crawl for Errors\n\nMonkey Testing for errors comes standard with Android, but there isn’t a default one for Web. We added that functionality to our SDK so that you simply call `scan_domain()` and it will crawl your page and look for errors like broken links, 404s, console errors, etc. Learn more in our [blog](https://www.dev-tools.ai/blog/site-sacnner) about the feature.\n\n# **Our Ask - Try it out and give us feedback**\n\nIf you write or have written Selenium or UI tests, we would love your feedback on the tool.\n\nJoin us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/2J9WEYdq5C), or follow us on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dev-tools-ai)!\n\nIf you have any questions or automation challenges, reach out to us anytime! 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Have a look at our [**template library**](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) or contact us with any use case you’d like help with; sign up [**here**](https://www.gluetrail.com/) to request free trial access.\n\n### **🛠️ THE PROBLEM WITH BUILDING INTERNAL TOOLS**\n\n* **Operational teams rely heavily on internal tools.**\n* They know best the challenges they need these tools to solve, and have **the most urgency** for them.\n* But **they are not autonomous to build and maintain them**.\n\nWhy? Because building internal tools requires knowing how to write and maintain code.\n\n_A short story about a simple use case is worth a thousand words…_\n\nJohn from the Ops team wants to drive his sales team’s productivity by building and sending forms on Slack (with buttons, input, datetime etc.) and process that information back to his CRM, HubSpot. For example, sending a form like this to update deals’ close dates that are past due:\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/-4DOLazJmJHGcHsg7aHXz2Ssy1rlRWy3zkaHokyGVxRQ8K05Cz56ohVxpjpkX_qd4RFynIJUOEBIW2dgkIKaPG31AugDRGZEQENIL7nNp-LoeqXd6fUiF3JsEotM1Kdt1jpHjWGL-IoIGI2xFerDYkw)\n\nHe looks at options to build this but none of them are suitable:\n\n* **Ask his dev team**: his request is low priority in the backlog and he knows he’ll have to go back often to the dev team for maintenance after the tool is built.\n* **Leverage internal tools builders**: these tools are built for developers and require knowing how to code. The technical bar is too high for John to get started and build quickly.\n* **Use no-code workflow tools**: his use case requires building end-user interfaces (Slack notifications with a form and buttons), which is something these tools don’t handle easily without having to code.\n\n### **🤖 THE SOLUTION**\n\nHere's a [**1mn video demo**](https://www.gluetrail.com/use-case/video-demo) of how John built, in Gluetrail, his Slack notifications allowing reps to update HubSpot, without any code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/7e6a88e2-b8e6-4f67-94b4-fd7f5abc2685)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68415&key=user_uploads/1188344/cc1c8bf2-c3f7-4835-a999-4a0fc67a17aa)\n\n[Gluetrail](https://www.gluetrail.com) empowers non-technical teams to build business critical internal apps autonomously, literally in minutes. We do this with:\n\n* **A no-code interface**\n* **Automations and UI components** to build web, Slack or Chrome extension based interfaces \n* **Integrations** with 3rd party systems like HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, OpenAI, Slack, Postgres, BigQuery and others.\n\nOur [template library](https://www.gluetrail.com/templates) features some use cases you can replicate in Gluetrail. \n\n### **🚀 Give it a try!**\n\nWe offer **14-day free trials to get started**. Our pricing is license based for internal tool builders and front-end users, and comes with unlimited app builds and runs.\n\nYou can get in touch with us by **signing up on our** [**website**](https://www.gluetrail.com) (we’ll follow up quickly!) or emailing us directly at [annecharlotte@gluetrail.com](mailto:annecharlotte@gluetrail.com).  ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HnT-gluetrail-empowering-non-tech-teams-to-build-internal-tools-in-minutes", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-01-13T11:01:42.171Z" } ] }, { "id": 27836, "name": "LinkGrep", "slug": "linkgrep", "former_names": [ "Reactline", "Warlin" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/36b1df36488e8c11a87320ccb0a8a66e9313c5bd.png", "website": "https://linkgrep.com", "all_locations": "Jacksonville, FL, USA; New York, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Modern teams work in the browser. But browsers weren't built for teams 😔. \r\n\r\nThis leads to a bunch of problems like:\r\n- Knowledge/info that is hard to find (links that get lost, documentation that gets, buried, silos, etc)\r\n- Poor collaboration\r\n- Inefficient workflows\r\n\r\nLinkGrep is an AI browser copilot that solves those problems by making your browser team friendly.\r\n\r\nSpecifically we help teams:\r\n1. 🔗 Keep track of links, documents, and more automatically. With LinkGrep you'll never have to manually add or save a link.\r\n2. 🔍 Find information that matters. LinkGrep connects with your existing tools like Notion and Slack and will automatically suggest relevant information to you as your browse (we have semantic search that you can fallback on). Demo: https://youtu.be/jwcPGDRy4oQ\r\n3. 👥 Collaborate better. LinkGrep lets you leave notes and comments directly on web pages — you won't ever have to copy paste a link into Slack ever again. \r\n4. 🤖 Automate team actions like opening up the right links before a meeting. Never disrupt a meeting to send a link again. 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", "body": "**TL;DR:** LinkGrep is a browser extension that automatically keeps track of your links, suggests helpful information from your tools (like Slack & Notion) while you browse, opens links for you before meetings, and offers collaboration tools that are built directly into the browser.\n\nInterested? Reach out to us at [founders@linkgrep.com](mailto:founders@linkgrep.com) or book some time with us using \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70677&key=user_uploads/6421/abb769f8-6421-42d5-bbac-beda81559866)\n\n👋🏽 Hi YC, we are [Divyagnan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/divyagnan/) and [TJ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjkandala/) and we are excited to share LinkGrep — an AI browser copilot for teams!\n\n# **What does LinkGrep do?**\n\n### **🔗 Automatically keeps track of all of your teams links**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70677&key=user_uploads/6421/29f93fd5-7b6a-4a72-b26f-028ca3a1b595)\n\nLinkGrep automatically keeps track of all of your links and ranks them by viewership across your team. This allows you to easily stay on top of every important document. LinkGrep also provides a command palette that is available on every site to help you navigate the browser more quickly.\n\n### **✨ Suggests information from your knowledge bases while you browse**\n\n\n\nLinkGrep can automatically connect the dots for you and will display related information from your browser history + team knowledge bases (like Slack & Notion) while you browse. LinkGrep also offers traditional semantic search if you ever want to manually search for things too.\n\n### **🤖 Opens up the right links before your meetings**\n\n\n\nLinkGrep can figure out what links and tabs you need before your meeting and automatically opens them up for you. Everyone on your team will be on the same page when a meeting starts.\n\n### **👥 Makes collaboration easier through contextual notes on webpages**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70677&key=user_uploads/6421/e2ad9827-f5fe-432e-990c-38914347924f)\n\nCollaborate directly from webpages. Leave notes, tag teammates, and more. You will no longer need to context switch to other apps or copy paste links to collaborate.\n\n# **Our Ask:**\n\nWant to use LinkGrep for your team? Know a team that would benefit from LinkGrep? Want to invest?\n\nDrop us a line at [founders@linkgrep.com](mailto:founders@linkgrep.com) or schedule a call with us using ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/INx-linkgrep-ai-browser-copilot-for-teams", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2023-03-31T17:28:34.684Z" } ] }, { "id": 27873, "name": "Floworks", "slug": "floworks", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b971472cf0d2638ad01eeaaf35f5a56a8abd2541.png", "website": "https://floworks.ai/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Floworks (https://floworks.ai) is building a suite of AI employees that helps business to run several business functions such as sales, on autopilot.\r\n\r\nOur flagship product, Alisha is an AI SDR that performs the full outbound SDR job- fully autonomously without any human involvement. \r\n\r\nOur AI SDR Alisha can perform ICP research, find out prospect lists, research about each prospect across 180 web sources, write highly personalized emails to each, follow and engage, and finally coordinate like a human to book sales calls.\r\n\r\nBusinesses using Alisha get 3 key benefits:\r\n1.⁠ ⁠They get 12x output from your existing sales team.\r\n2.⁠ ⁠⁠Are able to scale to 8 figure revenues with just a single AE.\r\n\r\nAlisha is built on our proprietary function calling model ThorV2 (https://floworks.ai/research) that outperforms both Claude 3 and GPT-4 function calling in accuracy by 13% and 43% respectively. At the same time, ThorV2 uses only a fraction of the cost (<40%) and time/latency (<78%) as the other models.\r\n\r\nOur second AI employee, Ashley, is an AI Executive Assistant that keeps you reminded and on top of your on your schedule. Works on your whim- just command Flowy to book a meeting, move a meeting or write a email, and it does without you having to navigate through every apps. You can teach Flowy specific workflows such as ‘inform me immediately if i receive a reply from xyz’, “show my unread emails from last day every morning 7am” and much more\r\n\r\nOur third AI employee, Romona is a helpful AI Revenue Operations Manager that keeps track of every CRM data updation on behalf of your team, works on your instruction to update notes, next steps, MEDDIC after every call, does periodic CRM reporting and much more.", "one_liner": "Hire the best AI Sales employees | AI SDR | AI RevOps | AI EA", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1678165264, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Productivity", "Sales", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "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/floworks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/floworks.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/floworkssolutions", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Floworks4", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b971472cf0d2638ad01eeaaf35f5a56a8abd2541.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/f50d4456c49d307250c3f621a16bd0a9f7d6ad36.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 767160, "full_name": "Sarthak Shrivastava", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "An 2X entrepreneur and problem solver with experience in the e-commerce, logistics, and financial services industries of India, Singapore, and Philippines markets. I have built and scaled multiple business verticals in now unicorn startups in India with annual revenues of over US$30M.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarthak-shrivastava/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sarthaks92", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4e0b04e496a997be434709a07d603907245c4456.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1052632, "full_name": "Sudipta Biswas", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a startup junkie, who loves to build stuffs. I'm passionate about physics and technology, I previously built an AI referee, holds a patent and journal publication.\n\nI am a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp). I started my career at Goldman Sachs as a Quantitative Strat. My first startup was Engphile Labs where I utilised AI to solve umpiring errors in live sports. I have also built multiple tax filing products for India’s business at Cleartax.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudipta-biswas/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/265e006088e2d3eccf183c62a60170c7a01912cd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "YC-backed Indian Startup Claims its AI Agent is Better than OpenAI’s GPT-4o", "url": "https://analyticsindiamag.com/aim-exclusive-yc-backed-indian-startup-claims-its-ai-agent-is-better-than-openais-gpt-4o/", "date": "Jul 19, 2024" }, { "title": "Floworks is building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/floworks-is-building-an-ai-assistant-to-change-how-workers-use-software/", "date": "Aug 31, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 86791, "title": "Floworks AI SDR: Alisha v2", "tagline": "Alisha v2 automates the entire outbound sales workflow —lead research, sequencing, objection handling, followups. ", "body": "**TL;DR**\\\nIn the v2 of [Floworks](https://floworks.ai/) AI SDR,\n\n1. **High Precision Lead Research:** Alisha AI SDR performs hyper-focused research on prospects by connecting with 10+ sales databases and finding intent signals across 20+ sources.\n2. **Run sequencing across email and LinkedIn _simultaneously_**: Reach, engage, sequence your prospects over both email and linkedin.\n3. **Automated objection handling:** Objection/question/query- our AI SDR handles all responses. Every response is grounded in your business data.\n4. **Automate meeting scheduling:** Our AI SDR, being linked with your calendar, can coordinate on your behalf to book meetings fully _autonomously_.\n5. **Two way CRM Sync:** Alisha AI SDR keeps your CRM updated with every outreach sequencing data. It also runs new campaigns automatically based on the deal progression.\n\nTo get started with Alisha AI SDR, book an intro call with us [here](https://calendly.com/alisha-2ome/30min?embed_domain=floworks.ai&embed_type=Inline&hide_landing_page_details=1&hide_gdpr_banner=1&text_color=000000&primary_color=9209f3&back=1&month=2024-11). We are offering 10% additional discount (with annual plans) on the [listed price](https://floworks.ai/pricing) for customers coming through YC listing.\n\n### **High Precision 🎯 Lead Research**\n\nAlisha AI SDR goes beyond traditional spray and paint approach. With a ChatGPT like interface, you can instruct Alisha to find and pinpoint the exact lead persona.\\\\\n\n* “Find me VP of Sales at UK based healthcare SaaS companies that have recently entered a deal with NHS”\n* “Find me VP of Sales of Fintech companies that recently got Federal Reserve licenses” \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/d26f8751-b536-46c7-85d1-1f72a3d9888f)\n\n### **Multi Channel (Email+Linkedin) Sequencing**\n\nThe \"Media Synergy\" principle says that advertising impact is enhanced when consumers encounter messaging across multiple touchpoints, as each channel reinforces and complements the others.\n\nYes! That quite literally is this feature.\n\nIf your prospect does not respond to emails, Alisha reaches out over Linkedin. If your prospect asks for contracts, Alisha switches back to email again- all while maintaining the context of the conversations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/9abc5fa8-287e-46e4-a210-b7ccefbf0d62)\n\n_Prospect: Ujjwal, while Aishwarya is communicating through our AI SDR product Alisha_\n\n### **Instant ⚡ Objection Handling with Grounded AI response**\n\nHow many times have we seen leads dying off because we couldn’t reply to them in time. _A recent HBS study says any response after 15 min of receiving a query reduces the chances of conversion by 80%._ Hence, we introduce Instant Objection Handling.\n\n_Here’s how it works:_\n\nWhile setting up the sequence, you provide AI SDR (a.k.a. Alisha) with all and any of your product/sales info. Supported format of files includes **PDF, Websites, CSV, Plain text, Docs.**\n\nNow, lets say your prospect asks a question “How much does your pricing look like?”, “Can you share some case studies relevant to our industry”. Our AI looks into all the documents and provides an answer. In case it does not find the answer, it does not hallucinate, instead alerts the user.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/020e1df3-1465-414d-8cc0-dd5f1d10be3e)\n\n> We ensure our model doesn't hallucinate and always provides grounded answers by using our proprietary function calling engine, Thor v2. Read More about this on our [Arxiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17950v1)\n\n### **Calendar Coordination without Calendly**\n\nSending over Calendly links and asking your prospect to book is never considered a sales best practice. First of all, it shifts the burden of work to the prospect (they have to click through, check your availability, and book). And naturally many people won't take the effort, so conversion suffers.\\\n\\\nPlus, in many cultures and settings, it's actually considered rude. It's like saying \"have your people call my people\". \\\n\\\nSo here we come. Alisha AI SDR is integrated with your calendar and goes on to suggest vacant slots to the prospects. Based on the response of the prospect, Alisha AI SDR coordinates like a human and books a meeting accordingly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/00fe4265-117c-432e-afcc-f53826036dae)\n\n_Prospect: Ujjwal, while Aishwarya is communicating through our AI SDR product Alisha_\\\n\\\n**Further** **Improvements on v1**\n\n### **Even more control in Composing Messages**\n\nWe found out that AI is not really great at composing Sales emails. However, it is great at collating information from multiple sources and plugging them appropriately in a specific format.\n\nSo, we decided to give the control back to the user. Instead of having Alisha AI SDR write up email from scratch, we provide multiple “recipes” (a.k.a. collection of best cold email formats). Alisha can start from a template and then create personalised copies based on the profiles of each lead.\n\nAlisha can now plug in inline images, links seamlessly in the email body.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86791&key=user_uploads/1052632/64ccb343-eb07-4751-b5ca-bd135cf6bab3)\n\n**To get started, book an intro call with us **[**here**](https://calendly.com/alisha-2ome/30min?embed_domain=floworks.ai&embed_type=Inline&hide_landing_page_details=1&hide_gdpr_banner=1&text_color=000000&primary_color=9209f3&back=1&month=2024-11)**.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MZr-floworks-ai-sdr-alisha-v2", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2025-01-13T20:18:58.956Z" }, { "id": 69995, "title": "Floworks: Close more deals with CRM on Slack", "tagline": "Update CRM, take meeting notes, get reminded of important follow-ups, send customer emails - all from Slack channels.", "body": "**TLDR: Floworks helps sales teams close more deals and stay on top of leads by bringing their CRMs over Slack. For example, after an important sales meeting, a rep can post the summary via slack instead of waiting to get back to their desk to log into Salesforce or HubSpot.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69995&key=user_uploads/1052632/6a48f096-7350-48b0-9cbf-87c889ef35c9)\n\n🤔 **The Problem:**\n\n20% of every salesperson's time is spent doing CRM updates, follow-ups, and administrative tasks. **This time could have been spent doing actual sales.**\n\nEven after investing such time and effort in CRM, have you ever wondered\n\n* **how many crucial follow-ups did your team miss last week?**\n* **how many valuable contacts never converted into opportunities?**\n* **how many lucrative deals slipped through the cracks because of neglected logs and updates?**\n\n**👤Who is it for:**\n\nEvery B2B companies starting with 2 person sales team (like founder led sales)  to 100 and beyond.\n\n## [😊](https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/)**The Solution:**\n\nSales teams today live and breathe on Slack. Floworks brings your entire CRM on top of Slack.\n\nIt does so by integrating your existing CRMs like Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive with your Slack workspace. \n\n![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69995&key=user_uploads/1052632/1bce61f1-ed81-435d-abb1-93171ca4b0f8)\n\n**Benefits for Sales teams:**\n\nWith Floworks, sales teams can set up customized flows that\n\n1. Notify about critical tasks like customer follow-ups, stuck deals, escalations etc.\n2. Keeps the team and leaders on top of high value deals in slack based dealrooms.\n3. Alerts the team in timely manners for leads going cold.\n4. Enable you to send customer emails, set up meetings, follow-up tasks- all from Slack.\n\nand much more.\n\nAll our slack alerts are bi-directional in nature. What it means is that you don’t just get notified but **are also able to update, or take follow-up actions (such as moving the deal stage, sending customer emails, updating close date etc.) right from Slack.**\n\nAnd because it’s Slack, the whole team can instantly collaborate on the deal simplifying activities like coaching BDRs and AEs, highlighting key issues, collaborating to solve them etc.\n\n**Benefits for Salespersons:**\n\nWith Floworks, sales folks reclaim **45 minutes to 1 hour everyday**, earlier spent in manual CRM updates, by:\n\n1. Quickly adding contacts, accounts and deals.\n2. Searching and updating deal status and information.\n3. Logging meeting notes.\n4. Seeking approval or escalate issues.\n\nand more- all by giving natural language commands directly from Slack.\n\n![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69995&key=user_uploads/1052632/7f183864-f995-40ce-812d-eaad233abd0f)\n\nWith Floworks there are no more Hubspot or Salesforce related delays. No more manager intervention and follow ups for updating CRMs.\n\nOur customers have told us that they they are closing **15-25%** more deals every month with Floworks.\n\n**Fave features of our customers:**\n\n* Getting setup in minutes with pre-built automations off the block:\n * Get reminded of pending tasks every morning for each deals.\n * Get reminded of stuck deals in custom slack channels\n* Add contacts and accounts into CRM on the go- directly from Slack.\n\n**Asks:**\n\nStart using Floworks immediately, and in return, we promise improved sales. \n\nSign up at .\n\nBook a meeting with us [here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/sudipta-biswas).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICx-floworks-close-more-deals-with-crm-on-slack", "votes": 531, "created_at": "2023-03-07T05:01:24.665Z" } ] }, { "id": 27898, "name": "Overlord", "slug": "overlord", "former_names": [ "Forfeit" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6794908867671327914d0ac60da63f7da4549e15.png", "website": "https://www.overlord.app/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Overlord knows everything about you (location, Mac data, health data, +dozens more), and can take actions (block Mac/iOS/Android, text/call you, text your friends, take your money) to force you to stay on track with your habits.", "one_liner": "AI Accountability Partner", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "launched_at": 1677791396, "tags": [ "Mental Health Tech", "Consumer", "Fitness", "Productivity", "Digital Health" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Home and Personal" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/overlord", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/overlord.json", "year_founded": 2022, "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/6794908867671327914d0ac60da63f7da4549e15.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": 254744, "full_name": "Josh Mitchell", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Grew up in a village near Manchester, England. 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We’re aiming to build the Holy Grail of productivity apps - an AI agent to replace self-control.\n\nHere’s our landing page: [www.overlord.app](http://www.overlord.app)\n\nHere’s the link if you want to chat with it: [chat.overlord.app](http://chat.overlord.app)\n\nImagine you hired someone to stay awake 24/7, sat behind a big computer screen, monitoring you - knowing where you are (GPS), what website you’re on (Mac integration), what you spend money on. They can take actions: texting/calling you, charging you money, blocking your iOS/Android apps, blocking websites on your Mac, texting friends if you’ve fallen off the wagon.\n\nOverlord has been in a closed beta for about a year, and has had hundreds of thousands of messages sent to it by users. It’s specifically meant to be weasel-proof, so we’ve put a lot of effort into making sure there are no easy workarounds. 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Send a text to my co-founder of my total productive time each day at 11pm.”\n* **Showering after gym:** “When i get home from the gym, make sure I send a selfie if my hair wet within 30 mins or lose $5”\n\n**_No processed food:_** “Each time I spend money at Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods, make sure I send a receipt (with the exact amount spent to ensure I’m not cheating) and it must not have anything processed on it. Also no purchases from any dollar pizza store. If I do, charge me $50.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Cr1A0j6LBec\n\n**_Morning routine w/ screen blocking + charging:_**\\_ “Call me to wake me up at 7am, and block my apps at this point. I must send a photo of my fridge at 7:05, a video brushing teeth by 7:10, a photo of a coffee by 7:20, and a photo outside by 7:30 (unblock my phone at this point). If I miss any of these, call me, then if I am not telling you I’m taking action on the phone, charge me $1.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/TVSTbu3jwKA\n\n**_Getting to work immediately:_**\\_ “Once I arrive at the office, I must start a 2hr focus session on my Mac within 15 minutes. If I exit this, or spend more than 10 mins distracted or inactive total, charge me $5 and text my co-founder that I’m distracted. Block all distracting sites.”\n\nhttps://youtu.be/I0NvyW7RQYM\n\n**Asks:**\n\n1. Give it a go at [chat.overlord.app](http://chat.overlord.app) ! See if any goals you can set up with it would be useful to you. No login required.\n2. Comment down below if there are any goals/capabilities you’d like to see - there’s a bit of a learning curve to Overlord, but it can be extremely powerful once you get the hang of it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96453&key=user_uploads/254744/79482180-f44e-41da-8397-d2cd197eec85)\n\n\nHappy New Year!\n\nJosh", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P5h-overlord-ai-accountability-partner", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-12-31T00:29:23.091Z" }, { "id": 69854, "title": "📱 Forfeit App - Complete your habits or we take your money", "tagline": "Sent photo/timelapse evidence of you completing your habits, or we take $$$", "body": "**tl/dr:** Forfeit is an iOS/Android app that **takes your money if you don’t do what you say you’re going to do**. You must submit photo/timelapse evidence of you completing said habit, which we then manually verify on our end, or we take your money.\n\nEg, I know there’s a very slim chance I can motivate myself to go to the gym each weekday morning at 6am for the next 4 weeks. I can set a Forfeit to force me to send a photo, inside the gym, each morning at 6am, or lose $20 each time I don’t. It’s pretty much unlimited willpower!\n\n![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/602cf455f72a961cfec0c783/634094c898f0f615c6402033_ezgif.com-gif-maker%20(13).gif)\n\n**💰Opportunity:**\n\nMost people struggle with forming habits, and this is the only thing that truly motivates a subset of these people. We have a very short payback period on our initial ad campaign, and for a while have had a small amount of users that love us and run a lot of their life through our app.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n🚀 Procrastinating on your YC launch (like us)?\\\n🧘‍♀️ Want to meditate consistently for the next 30 days?\\\n🏋️ Want to be more consistent in the gym?\\\n✅ Have a load of boring ToDos that you wish you could be forced to grind out in 5hrs?\\\n📈 Absolutely anything you want to force yourself to do, that you can either self-verify or prove with a photo/timelapse?\n\nGive it a try here!\n\n\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAg-forfeit-app-complete-your-habits-or-we-take-your-money", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-03-01T22:20:12.862Z" } ] }, { "id": 28071, "name": "Epsilon", "slug": "epsilon", "former_names": [ "Backprop", "planar", "Planar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e47843584052deeed1fa6de8329bc470a1152265.png", "website": "https://www.epsilon-ai.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Get answers to research questions with citations from the academic literature. 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Don’t skimp on a good user interface; it’s the first impression you don’t get to make twice! Try it [here](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeParrot-ai.codeParrot).\n\n—\n\nHi, we are **Royal** and **Vedant**. We have worked as CTOs and EMs and started CodeParrot with a mission to improve developer productivity and happiness!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/bf10e92c-2a6e-442f-a81a-3343bca809e6)\n\n[Royal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/royal-jain) (on the right) loves computer networking and building compilers. Talk to me about all things computer science and football (soccer for some of you)    \n\n[Vedant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vedantsopinions) (on the left) loves building efficient user interfaces and cryptography (eth) and has OCD with coding practices. \n\n### ⚠️ Problem\n\nShipping fast often comes with cutting corners. When you cut too many corners, you end up going in circles. Just look at our old website \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/ada2d484-ada0-4248-a058-938611a65d31)\n\nwhich we are now changing to\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/b4c42892-e730-4845-9dfc-8834ceb0cdb5)\n\nBuilding a really good-looking product is hard! And with so many products out there, the user expectations have never been higher.\n\n### ⚡ Solution\n\nCodeParrot converts Figma Designs and screenshots to production-ready code. Why choose us?\\\n\\\n**We understand Figma** - we parse your Figma file to extract layout, style, and semantic information to give the most accurate results.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/11a99a0f-9b33-42e6-aa89-9002971deb94)\n\n**We know you have code preferences** - specify how you like your code exactly. Only once.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/9966735b-534c-4045-809a-a181061b74b4)\n\n**We build on your existing work** and reuse your existing components, libraries, and coding standards. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81056&key=user_uploads/329126/badbb145-a7e1-42e3-ba37-0f4ccd119f38)\n\nAll aligned to a single goal to help developers build stunning UI lightning fast ⚡️\n\n### Getting started\n\nSimply install the product from [vscode marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeParrot-ai.codeParrot). Join our [discord](https://discord.gg/pX3Mbghevg) for feature requests and more!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L5M-codeparrot-ai-ship-stunning-ui-lightning-fast", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2024-05-23T15:03:44.200Z" }, { "id": 69620, "title": "CodeParrot 🦜 - Automate API Testing using production traffic", "tagline": "Take back hours spent in testing, let CodeParrot generate and maintain intelligent test cases. ", "body": "**TL;DR** [CodeParrot](https://www.codeparrot.ai/) uses production traffic to generate intelligent test cases. What’s more? It can mock downstream dependencies like databases, external APIs, so you don’t need to set up a test environment to run these tests. If this sounds useful, **book a demo** [**here**](https://calendly.com/royaljain0203/30min) to learn more **📅**\n\n**About Us**\n\nHello everyone! We’re Royal and Vedant and we couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce CodeParrot to our fellow devs!\n\n**Problem**\\\nNobody likes writing tests. Why? 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Checkout our [Demo Video](https://www.loom.com/share/dd6c12e23ceb43f587814a2fbc165c1f).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69620&key=user_uploads/329126/0519dc8a-d821-42ea-bd60-f13a0e79ca67)\n\nCodeparrot is a auto-updating test suite for your backend services.\n\n**Our Ask - Give us a chance 🚀**\n\nWe want you! Interested in CodeParrot’s solution? Contact us at [royal@codeparrot.ai](mailto:royal@codeparrot.ai) or book a [demo](https://calendly.com/royaljain0203/30min) here", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6u-codeparrot-automate-api-testing-using-production-traffic", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2023-02-23T20:32:04.700Z" } ] }, { "id": 28329, "name": "Type", "slug": "type", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7055cc5668e741c817315243c78d24ed1bcdd9fd.png", "website": "https://type.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Type.ai is the AI-native storytelling studio for independent authors and creators. We help people craft books, novels, screenplays, and other types of long-form, creative fiction.", "one_liner": "AI-native storytelling studio.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1675912711, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Consumer", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "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/type", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/type.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/type-ai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/typedotai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7055cc5668e741c817315243c78d24ed1bcdd9fd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 211874, "full_name": "Stew Fortier", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO at Type.ai (W23). Previously co-founded Foster (W21). Before that, I served as the CTO of Banzai and an EIR at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier-7422b829/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stewfortier", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d05e60f63691ac1c2a67ef4991b448a2ed3c7ab1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 77152, "title": "Founding Product Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/type/jobs/1idOunL-founding-product-engineer", "location": "NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 5.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "MongoDB", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Type raises $2.8M to build a new kind of document editor", "url": "https://type.ai/blog/type-seed-round", "date": "Jun 14, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69329, "title": "Type – an AI-first document editor", "tagline": "Type is an AI-first document editor that helps you write faster.", "body": "Hi there –\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) and [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) here. We're building Type.ai.\n\nType.ai is an [AI writing tool](https://type.ai). We help marketers and creators write high-quality content remarkably fast.\n\nType makes it effortless to access the most powerful capabilities of today’s large language models. Type’s AI can instantly generate and transform any text – it picks up on your intent and the context of your document as you write.\n\nWe’d love to give you early access [here](https://type.ai/).\n\n## The problem\n\nCompanies spend billions of dollars on content marketing each year, but creating great content is hard. Finding compelling ideas and articulating them in a way that will resonate with an audience requires constant experimentation and iteration.\n\nAI will radically reduce this friction by making it easier to generate and refine ideas, but it's still hard to get today’s large language models to give you what you need.\n\nYou must either become a “prompt engineer” or use AI writing tools with rigid, template-based interfaces that constrain creativity and produce mediocre content.\n\n### The solution\n\nWe've built a flexible, fast document editor that lets a user quickly surface powerful AI commands by hitting cmd + k as they write.\n\nType’s AI commands help with the slowest parts of writing, from generating drafts to rewriting content to suggesting what to create next.\n\nThe more you write, the better Type’s suggestions get. Type’s AI understands the context of a document – it can generate or transform text quickly and accurately. \n\nWe combine the flexibility of a product like ChatGPT with a powerful document editor. The result: Type is fun to write in!\n\n### The founders\n\nWe started building this because we were surprised nobody else had. Writing is not a “one-shot” activity! You need a flexible canvas for refining your ideas as you write.\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) (CEO) is an entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for writing. [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) (CTO) is a software engineer with previous experience building advanced document editors.\n\n### Start writing with Type\n\nIf you are planning to write a bunch this year, please drop your info below and we will send you an invite ASAP:\n\n👉 [Request an invite](https://type.ai/)\n\nThanks!\n\nStew & Stefan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2D-type-an-ai-first-document-editor", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-02-15T23:16:56.973Z" }, { "id": 64183, "title": "Foster – a better way to write.", "tagline": "Tap a button in Google Docs and watch your writing transform.", "body": "Hi, everyone!\n\nStew and Dan here from [Foster](https://foster.co/).\n\nFoster is a button that lives inside Google Docs. Writers can tap it to get collaborative support on their writing within 24 hours.\n\nBehind the scenes, we’ve built a collective of writers, editors, and experts who love jumping into first drafts and helping improve them.\n\nFoster contributors do much more than spot a missing comma; they can give you ideas on how to make a story funnier or how to make an argument air-tight.\n\n### **Quality writing wins**\n\n**Writing on the Internet follows a power law.** The _best_ piece of writing on a topic tends to have an exponentially larger impact than the average piece.\n\n**But writing great stuff is hard.** Most writers publish into the void, hoping for constructive feedback that never comes.\n\n### **We help writers and content teams produce better writing**\n\nFoster’s [Chrome extension](https://foster.co) lets anyone summon editors and experts to appear directly inside of their work and help them produce something great.\n\nAll drafts on Foster are privately routed to vetted contributors who we believe will be able to push them forward.\n\nMost automated writing and grammar tools can only catch relatively minor errors. We’re focused on what we consider to be the harder part of the process: how do you turn a rough draft into something timeless?\n\n### **Foster is easy to use**\n\nWriters never have to leave Google Docs to use Foster.\n\nHere’s what the process looks like:\n\n1. Write.\n2. Share the draft with Foster.\n3. Receive constructive suggestions.\n4. Rewrite and incorporate the best feedback.\n5. Publish.\n\n### **Writers love it**\n\nThe most common word we hear from our early users is “[Amazing](https://share.cleanshot.com/NNMuxM).”\n\nCoincidentally, many of our early users are YC founders or Hacker News regulars. Both of these drafts were sent through Foster prior to being submitted to HN: [We need a middle class for startups](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219),  [What's the Future of IDEs?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304667)\n\nAnd while it’s exciting to see individual pieces improve, many writers tell us that using Foster has elevated their writing skills generally ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1535404631123173376)) and motivated them to write more ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/liuxi/status/1511191555796729862)).\n\n### **We’re ready to support your writing**\n\nToday, we’re ready to help everyone produce better writing.\n\n**You can sign up for one of our new plans and get high-quality support on your next draft here:**\n\n\n\nYou can use the code “FIRSTDRAFT” for a free month of the Hobbyist or Basic plan.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhD-foster-a-better-way-to-write", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2022-06-29T16:10:15.154Z" } ] }, { "id": 28415, "name": "moonrepo", "slug": "moonrepo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3de25b12e8aab670255b22d53c12d30ccd142ae5.png", "website": "https://moonrepo.dev", "all_locations": "Portland, OR, USA; Remote", "long_description": "moonrepo is a developer tool that reduces build/test/deploy times, and maintenance costs for companies. We’ve achieved this through moon, our open source build system and repository management tool. moon can be paired with moonbase, our paid service that provides cloud caching, CI insights, code ownership, and health score related metrics. The company is founded by Miles Johnson and James Pozdena who have a combined 25+ years in the software development industry with tenure at Airbnb and Coinbase.", "one_liner": "Open source build tool for monorepos and large codebases", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1675878806, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Productivity", "Open Source", "Enterprise" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": [ { "question": "Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.\n", "answer": "We build solutions for common devx/tool problems." }, { "question": "What is your company going to make? 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Are you struggling with large codebases? Well, look no further! We built moonrepo to simplify repository management, project ownership, task running, and everyday developer and productivity workflows.\n\n### 🧑‍💻 Who is it for\n\nFor companies or individuals that maintain monorepos or large codebases (or any size really), and want to reduce build and CI times, and ensure their repository stays healthy.\n\n### 🚀 How we’re solving it\n\nAfter more than a decade in the industry, with many of those years working on infrastructure and developer tooling-related products, we weren’t happy with the status quo of tooling or ad-hoc solutions that companies are required to build. As such, we set out to build moon, a language-agnostic task runner that is smart enough to only run against affected code changes, and [moonbase](https://moonrepo.dev/moonbase), an upstream service for monitoring CI pipelines. We wanted our products to be enjoyable to use and easy to understand.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69492&key=user_uploads/1247217/8945b4a3-e49c-410b-ae5f-5c59794fbbea)\n\n### 🛰️ How it works\n\nAt a high level, we are putting an immense focus on the developer experience. For example, the configuration is in YAML, which everyone is familiar with, and is **_not_** a proprietary syntax. Tasks are defined and run as if you were running them in the terminal; there are no more abstractions. We automate common and everyday workflows. We manage a toolchain, ensuring the correct version of languages is used (no more “works on my machine”). And lastly, our foundation is built on Rust and Tokio, so performance is first-class, the runtime is reliable, and memory safety is guaranteed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69492&key=user_uploads/1247217/c5d3c251-0768-493b-8bed-28c9fc60bc6a)\n\n### Try it today!\n\nOur moon task runner is free and open source, and will always be! Start adopting today and see the immediate benefits in your codebase. \n\nOur moonbase service is also available under our free tier (with reasonable limits). Join today in 1-click! \n\nIf you have any questions or would like a demo, feel free to join our Discord community and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tothemoonrepo)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4q-moonrepo-simplifying-codebase-management-and-organization", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2023-02-21T19:13:22.175Z" } ] }, { "id": 28416, "name": "Pierre", "slug": "pierre", "former_names": [ "Umbrella Company" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b78dca2b9a7dd83a3f06b2d4efd75eb21f68233b.png", "website": "https://pierre.co", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are re-building code hosting, code review, and CI primitives from the metal, for the next generation of professional developers: Small, focused teams, working closely, augmented by AI.", "one_liner": "Pierre is a new, opinionated, git platform.", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677182558, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Developer Tools", "B2B", "Productivity", "Collaboration" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pierre", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/pierre.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/pierredotco", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b78dca2b9a7dd83a3f06b2d4efd75eb21f68233b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1253715, "full_name": "Jacob Thornton", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jacob Thornton has been doing software development in the bay area for over a decade, as an early employee at startups like Twitter, Medium, and Coinbase.\n\nDuring this time he contributed to several large open source projects (most notably as the co-creator of Twitter Bootstrap), given talks around the world (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os), and written several chapters in technical books (beautiful javascript, if Hemingway wrote javascript).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-thornton-13a6a5162/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fat", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/12170102c839a10c7f7a28f061f7b97c3d70f378.jpg" }, { "user_id": 46928, "full_name": "Ian Ownbey", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I have worked for a number of consumer tech companies ranging from Twitter in 2010 to Coinbase in 2018. I started as a backend engineer using Ruby on Rails and then eventually moved up the stack to iOS engineering, React Native engineering and now mostly React. I enjoy hanging out with my cat when not working.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-ownbey-4aa5ba117", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/beda0dcd17ad0f5ebb42b391b4c8c1b7cc8560f1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69619, "title": "Pierre - A new way to review code", "tagline": "Pierre enables engineers, designers and business team members to discuss new features before they're merged.", "body": "Hi Everyone —\n\nWe are Ian and Jacob, and we are on a mission to modernize code reviews. Sign up for the alpha on [**HeyPierre.app**](http://heypierre.app/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69619&key=user_uploads/46928/b1f1d6e0-88b1-4a2e-b17c-0d5982d2543d)\n\nJacob (CEO) and Ian (CTO) met as early engineers at Twitter 14 years ago.\n\nJacob is the co-creator of Bootstrap (one of the largest and most popular open source communities on GitHub) and later went on to work as one of the first engineers at Medium. Ian was the first intern at Twitter, dropping out of college at 19 to TL the Twitter platform team.\n\nJacob and Ian co-founded a mobile app called Bumpers in 2016, which was eventually acquired by Coinbase. For the next 5 years, they led the Product Platform team at Coinbase and were the company-wide web and mobile DRIs.\n\n### Github doesn’t solve today’s biggest engineering problems\n\nIn the decade+ since Github was built, tools that prioritize real time collaboration and discussion (Figma, Notion, and Linear) have exploded in popularity, but the circa-2006 code review experience hasn’t materially changed.\n\nWe’re building a new way to review code, and we’re starting with pull requests. As engineers with more than 15 years of experience, we’ve seen firsthand how cumbersome a pull request review is using Github — often, pull requests lack necessary context, take too long to approve, and cannot be viewed by non-engineers for feedback. Github’s comment features make it difficult to manage a conversation over time, and discussion is lost when engineers switch to Slack or Hangouts.\n\n### Your code, conversations, and collaborators. Together.\n\nPierre enables engineers to shape the way that their code is reviewed. We’re starting with two of the biggest problems that engineers have:\n\n1. How do you set better context?\n2. How do you better manage discussions?\n\nWe’re taking features of the products you love most — the organized chats of iMessage, the real time collaboration of Figma, and the narrative structure of Notion — and we’re bringing it to code reviews.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69619&key=user_uploads/46928/2f0b02fe-d44b-4605-a704-f66aa7736c4f)\n\nUsing Pierre, code review creators can:\n\n* Set context next to the code\n* Reorganize diffs intuitively\n* Break up large pull requests into digestible bites\n\nAnd code reviewers can:\n\n* Be anyone — no more waiting for the bug bash to get design and product feedback\n* Comment on anything — code, images or text\n* Conduct real-time conversations right next to the code\n* Get up-to-speed on changes more quickly\n\n### Why we built Pierre\n\nWe’ve been intimately using GitHub since it’s inception (Ian’s user id is #91). There’s been a lot to love about GitHub over the years, but innovation on the core experience is lagging and other pieces of our toolchain are making us expect more. This is only exasperated by Ian living in NYC and Jacob in SF.\n\nEngineers deserve a realtime, collaborative software platform optimized for productivity - instead of a slow, feed-based social network for coding.\n\n### Try Pierre Out!\n\n* Head to [**HeyPierre.app**](http://heypierre.app/) and sign up for our waitlist. We’re in closed alpha, but we can’t wait for you to try us out.\n* We’re looking for a handful of fast growing teams (with \\~25-50 engineers) to pilot us. If you know a team that could be a good fit, email [rachel@heypierre.app](mailto:rachel@heypierre.app). **Earn a $200 referral bonus for each paying team you bring in.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6t-pierre-a-new-way-to-review-code", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2023-02-23T20:27:31.367Z" } ] }, { "id": 28795, "name": "Magic Loops", "slug": "magic-loops", "former_names": [ "ChatSeed" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/72461fd4d5fd3609cdf2cd37c5c97828c31ab516.png", "website": "https://magicloops.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Magic Loops are the fastest way to automate (almost) anything. 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We’re Adam and Mihai from Magic Loops — a new way to program computers using generative AI.\n\n### **tl;dr**\n\nMagic Loops combine LLMs and code to make simple automations easy to build and run.\n\n### **🙈 The Problem**\n\nYou want to automate a repetitive task or workflow.\\\nToday, you’re likely: \n\n1. Attempting to use a **no-code/low-code** tool but struggling with **limitations**\n2. Trying to use **ChatGPT** but struggling with **numbers and repeatability**\n3. **Calling an engineer** because you’re in over your head\n\n### 🪄 **Magic Loops** ➰\n\nSimply describe your task and we’ll generate a loop that uses a combination of code and LLM “blocks” to handle your workflow.\n\nWe give you full control over the loop, allowing you to change and modify it until it fits your needs.\n\nYou can run the loop at set times or by sending an email or webhook. Each loop can utilize code, LLMs, integrations, and APIs. The output of each loop is a text message, email, or webhook.\n\nOnce you've tested your loop, hit publish and we’ll host it for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74297&key=user_uploads/633171/f484bd0f-3da3-46d3-ac2c-8102d794d722)\n\n### **What are people using Magic Loops for?**\n\n**Investors: Watching YC launches**\n\n* [YC S23 Watcher](https://magicloops.dev/loop/5f524d25-f213-4943-af57-244ead73c15f) will text you the latest YC launches\n\n**Can of Soup: Generating novel pictures**\n\n* [Daily Image Prompt](https://magicloops.dev/loop/4246b18f-f258-44bf-aa2f-145a5eac2703) uses LLMs to generate three meme-worthy prompts\n\n**Bland AI: Demoing your API-based product**\n\n* [Bland AI - Demo](https://magicloops.dev/loop/d8c1ba48-fa78-4599-8d0d-1d5ba8a35368) triggers an AI phone call whenever an email is received\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n[Try out Magic Loops](https://magicloops.dev) and let your imagination run wild!\n\nWe've seen a variety of uses from simple stock watchers all the way to complex customer onboarding flows.\n\nIf you find a loop you can't yet build, [reach out](mailto:help@magicloops.dev) and **we'll build it with you**.\n\nWe're looking forward to seeing what you create!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JKL-magic-loops-easy-automation-with-ai", "votes": 92, "created_at": "2023-08-22T14:08:18.348Z" } ] }, { "id": 28902, "name": "Sidenote", "slug": "sidenote", "former_names": [ "Agent", "Ube" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/949b8814325dbb3fbd3160ffb4215cc58351724a.png", "website": "https://www.sidenote.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Stanford, CA, USA", "long_description": "Sidenote is a Chrome extension that turns meeting notes into drafted emails, calendar invites, tickets, and reminders.", "one_liner": "Meeting follow-up, automated", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1689906842, "tags": [ "Productivity", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/sidenote", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/sidenote.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/96152063", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/949b8814325dbb3fbd3160ffb4215cc58351724a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 969556, "full_name": "Jason Lin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Computer Science @ Stanford (Human-Computer Interaction). Led team to build the US's first vaccination tracker.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jason-lin-0463ab110", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jclin22009", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6d66477f88ba2106cd86cb0ed5f572e2c1523815.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1078742, "full_name": "Scott Hickmann", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a technical founder at the edge of hardware and AI, focused on building a future where creating physical products feels as immediate as creating software.\n\nI studied electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford, where I built the viral motorized couch, worked on Robosub, and developed Chirpy Cardinal at Stanford AI Lab.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/scott-hickmann", "x_url": "https://x.com/ScottHickmann", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5e7a21893ca419bdd8c54b7632e00af2e03f8740.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1381763, "full_name": "Schwinn Saereesitthipitak", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Deep Learning Research @ Stanford AI Laboratory and NVIDIA. Ex-Cryptography Researcher @ Stanford EE.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/szawinis", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/szawinis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/081e34ee3e0e7527dcab04e21cc1f8b3dc2d7b95.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73281, "title": "✍️ Sidenote: Meeting follow-up, automated", "tagline": "Sidenote is a Chrome extension that turns meeting notes into drafted emails, calendar invites, tickets, and reminders.", "body": "📝 **TLDR**: After a meeting, Sidenote’s AI copilot analyzes your notes, finishes your tedious action items, and keeps track of the rest, so that you never miss a todo. [**Try here**](http://sidenote.ai/chrome)!\n\n## ❌ **The Problem**\n\nEver forget to follow up on something you promised during a meeting? We can do it automatically for you, freeing up your mind and time.\n\n## ✨ **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73281&key=user_uploads/969556/d6f9f0cb-d24b-4f5b-973e-f08301f42da4)\n\n**Sidenote** takes the burden of remembering todos off your shoulders by analyzing your notes, detecting your action items, and completing them. Currently, we can:\n\n* 📅 Create a follow-up meeting for next week\n* 🗒️ Assign a task to design team in project management software\n* ✉️ Draft an email to the project team with the new deadlines\n* 🔔 Add a todo to finish my proposal\n\nWe support **Notion**, **Google Docs**, **Google Calendar**, **Linear**, and more.\n\n## 🚀 **What’s Next?**\n\nStarting with meetings, we envision Sidenote becoming your work copilot, automating all repetitive parts of your personal work. This means integrating with more platforms and allowing users to create custom automated actions for unique workflows. Request a specific automation [here](mailto:contact@sidenote.ai).\n\n## 💜 **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73281&key=user_uploads/969556/40d687f6-b94f-44ed-bdc3-e2936dff1340)\n\nWe're [**Jason**,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-chen-lin/) [**Scott**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hickmann), and [**Schwinn**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/szawinis/). We met at our dorm at Stanford and have been hacking together ever since!\n\n🙏 **We Want Your Input**\n\n* Overwhelmed by meetings and todos (especially in CX)? Let's chat on [cal.com/jasonlin](http://cal.com/jasonlin)!\n* Take Sidenote for a spin at [**sidenote.ai/chrome**](http://sidenote.ai/chrome).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3x-sidenote-meeting-follow-up-automated", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2023-07-21T02:14:12.033Z" } ] }, { "id": 28978, "name": "Khoj", "slug": "khoj", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/34c0b5b2907cbf1aeb1fbc4283f0011a8b58c86b.png", "website": "https://khoj.dev/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Khoj is an applied artificial intelligence company. We're a tiny team of hackers doing applied research and building safe, useful ai software for humans.", "one_liner": "AI for humans", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1689811773, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "Productivity", "Open Source", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/khoj", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/khoj.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/khoj-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/khoj_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/khoj", "github_url": "https://github.com/khoj-ai/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/34c0b5b2907cbf1aeb1fbc4283f0011a8b58c86b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1334656, "full_name": "Debanjum Singh Solanky", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Previously worked on personal AIs at Cortana (aka Viva Insights) and scaled it from 0 to 20M daily active users at Microsoft. Building open-source tools & communities since a decade. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/debanjum", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/debanjum", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c8c7f7ff3ce0aef83925bd08571aa6e8a9e12e7e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1201614, "full_name": "Saba Imran", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Helping people get answers to their questions.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sabaimran", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sabaimran_go", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fdd1d5d87a3f56dd5aa4b711af6c072271d33ccc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Show HN: Khoj - Chat Offline with your Second Brain using Llama 2 | Hacker News", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933452", "date": "Jul 30, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 74032, "title": "Khoj - Your superhuman companion", "tagline": "Get more done with your open-source, trustworthy personal AI", "body": "Hi folks! We’re Saba and Debanjum from Khoj and we’re working hard to make personal AI accessible to everyone, including your mum and grandad 😇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74032&key=user_uploads/1201614/8190dfd3-b9b1-4314-99ec-b6ce76241019)\n\n## Summary\n\nKhoj is an open-source, personal AI application that helps you extend your digital brain. It's built by a team that scaled personal AI assistance for enterprises to 10s of millions of daily active users at Microsoft. You can try Khoj on WhatsApp at [\\+1 (848)-800-4242](https://wa.me/18488004242)\n\n## The Problem\n\nComputing capabilities have advanced at a staggering rate over the last few decades, but our individual capabilities have stagnated. Petabytes of data have been digitized, and yet our tools to engage with them hover somewhere around fuzzy search.\n\nWhile we were building more advanced tools for enterprise assistance, we realized that there weren’t good equivalents to helping individuals across work and life.\n\nI've to make sense of what is covered by my health insurance plan in some outdated PDF, track down stray notes I made during my 100th daily standup meeting, or look for that one email I sent back in 2018 to Carl. The current set of tools for this just doesn’t cut it.\n\nAll the while, the surface area occupied by our digital interactions is making us less happy and more distracted.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74032&key=user_uploads/1201614/e3d51fab-e8ef-4db1-b3ac-0fddecc6e899)\n\n## The Solution\n\nWith Khoj, we're creating your open-source, superhuman companion to tackle these challenges.\n\nRight now, you can use Khoj’s desktop app to search and chat with your existing notes and docs (see below!). Instead of awkwardly keyword searching, you can have a natural conversation with your knowledge base. Hundreds of technical, advanced knowledge workers are already using this. It supports fully offline chat and search. [See the docs](https://docs.khoj.dev/#/setup).\n\nBut technical capability shouldn’t limit access to great digital assistance. That's why we're rolling out the ability to access [Khoj over WhatsApp](https://khoj.dev/whatsapp) as well.\n\nWe’re building your companion with two key principles in mind:\n\n1. We build in the open with a diverse community from the ground up, so humans stay at the center of it all\n2. Personal AI is coming. We intend to create it in a way that is both trustworthy and accessible\n\n![](https://khoj-web-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/chatdemo.gif)\n\n## The Team\n\nDebanjum and Saba met while building and scaling enterprise personal AI assistance at Microsoft. They became fast friends while bonding over hiking in the PNW and hacking on fun side projects together.\n\nSaba has studied CS @ UIUC, built resilient data pipelines for high-frequency trading at Two Sigma, and developed the ML infrastructure at a YC biotech startup.\n\nDebanjum is a published researcher with a double Masters in Math and CS at BITS and Dartmouth respectively. He helped create Hillhacks, an Indian hacker conference that's been running self-sustained for 9+ years.\n\n## The Ask\n\nTell us what you'd like out of your own personal superhuman companion at [team@khoj.dev](mailto:team@khoj.dev).\n\nChat with Khoj on WhatsApp at [\\+1 (848)-800-4242](https://wa.me/18488004242) or by using the QR code below. You can also send it voice messages! 🎙️\n\n![](https://khoj-web-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/khojwhatsapp.png)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JG4-khoj-your-superhuman-companion", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-08-11T16:59:55.314Z" } ] }, { "id": 28981, "name": "Energent AI", "slug": "energent-ai", "former_names": [ "WAN", "WAN.ai", "CambioML" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bae38d9d5867168b2fe49799661efe7a7f64d1d1.png", "website": "https://energent.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Every AI tool will confidently hand you a wrong number — and in\r\nengineering and finance, a wrong number is expensive.\r\n\r\nEnergent.ai is an AI teammate that does your data work on a secure\r\ndesktop: reading documents and engineering drawings, cleaning messy data,\r\nwriting code, building charts. Then a second, independent agent audits\r\nthat output against your original source files and flags every claim that\r\ndoesn't hold up — catching roughly 3x more hallucinations than the model\r\nalone in our internal evals.\r\n\r\nEngineering teams check drawing sets before issue. Finance teams tie\r\nnumbers back to source. The best teams encode their own checking\r\nstandards as reusable rules, so it checks the way their firm checks.", "one_liner": "AI that audits AI — catching hallucinations before you ship them.", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1690762424, "tags": [ "Productivity", "Big Data", "Enterprise Software", "Automation", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/energent-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/energent-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/96598226", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/cambioml", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/CambioML", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bae38d9d5867168b2fe49799661efe7a7f64d1d1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 315284, "full_name": "Rachel Hu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Energent.ai. 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We're excited (and honestly, a little proud) to introduce our newest feature: **Energent Audit**.\n\n## 🚀 TL;DR\n\nEnergent Audit is a built-in, independent second opinion for your for every AI-generated results, especially numbers. Ask Energent to \"prove it,\" \"double-check that,\" or \"show me where this number came from,\" and Audit spins up a completely fresh sub-agent — one with zero stake in the original answer — to retrace every number back to its source and hand you a clean HTML report on whether it holds up.\n\n## ❌ The Problem\n\nAI hallucination hasn't gone away — it's just gotten quieter. It shows up in the reports people care about most: financial analysis, health recommendations, board decks, the numbers real decisions get built on.\n\nWe interviewed 150+ users doing serious work with AI, and hallucination came back as their second-biggest concern overall — right after data security and privacy, and ahead of cost, speed, and everything else. The message was clear: people don't just want AI that's fast. They want AI they can stand behind.\n\n## 🛠️ Our Solution\n\nMeet **Energent Audit** — an independent audit layer for anything Energent builds for you.\n\nHere's the insight at the heart of it: the agent that wrote an answer is the worst-positioned agent to grade it. So instead of asking Energent to mark its own homework, Audit calls in a brand-new AI sub-agent with no memory of how the analysis was built and no attachment to the outcome. Its only job is to verify.\n\n**Independent, every time**\n\nA fresh sub-agent re-checks the work with zero investment in the original answer, so nothing gets rubber-stamped.\n\n_\"The agent that built it doesn't get to grade itself.\"_\n\n**Number-by-number validation**\n\nEvery figure is traced back to its source and re-derived — not glanced at, actually re-verified, one by one.\n\n_\"Trust, but verify, down to the decimal.\"_\n\n**Visual data lineage**\n\nA clear map of exactly which file, row, and transformation produced each number — so \"where did this come from?\" always has an answer.\n\n_\"Show your work, automatically.\"_\n\n**A report you can actually hand someone**\n\nEvery audit ends in a clean, shareable HTML report you can send to a stakeholder, a boss, or an auditor — or just keep for your own peace of mind.\n\n_\"Confidence you can forward.\"_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104955&key=user_uploads/315284/d0fb4f45-98f2-4687-b4a7-b777d6700ed6)\n\nAudit is purpose-built to check work Energent has already done in your conversation — it's not a general web fact-checker, and it won't review a plan before it's run. It's laser-focused on one question: does this answer, and every number in it, actually hold up?\n\n## 📖 Why We Built This\n\nThe same story came up again and again in our interviews: people loved what AI could do for their analysis, right up until they had to defend a number in a meeting. That gap — between \"the AI said so\" and \"I can prove it\" — is exactly what Audit closes. We believe trust in AI shouldn't be something you hope for. It should be one click away.\n\n## 🎯 Our Ask\n\n👉 Try Energent Audit today at [app.energent.ai](http://app.energent.ai) — run an analysis, then ask us to prove it.\n\n👉 Reach out directly at [admin@energent.ai](mailto:admin@energent.ai) to see it live.\n\nCheers, The [Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) Team ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RIp-energent-ai-audit-the-fact-checker-for-every-ai-generated-result", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-07-08T00:33:54.610Z" }, { "id": 99597, "title": "ERPNow: The AI Analyst for Supply Chain & ERP", "tagline": "turn tons of operational data into real-time operational insights and future revenue", "body": "Hey everyone! We're Rachel and Kimi, the founders of CambioML. We are excited to introduce **ERPNow**.\n\n🚀 **TL;DR**\n\nERPNow is an AI analyst that sits on top of your existing ERP (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) to turn tons of operational data into real-time operational insights and future revenue. It doesn’t just show you charts; it detects risks, explains root causes in plain language, and recommends exactly what to do next.\n\n❌ **The Problem**\n\nSupply chain teams are drowning in data but starving for insights. Traditional ERP systems are powerful but static—reports are slow, forecasts break the moment reality changes, and analysts spend weeks answering \"why did this happen?\" instead of \"what should we do next?\" By the time an exception is surfaced in a dashboard, the damage (stockouts or delays) is often already done.\n\n🛠️ **Our Solution**\n\nERPNow acts as an intelligent layer over your ERP, WMS, and spreadsheets. It provides:\n\n* **Real-time Risk Detection:** Monitors your supply chain 24/7 to surface anomalies (like a supplier delay or demand spike) the moment they appear.\n* **Plain-Language Root Cause Analysis:** Ask \"Why is this SKU at risk?\" and get a cited answer explaining that a specific supplier lead time increased by 40%, rather than just seeing a red bar on a chart.\n* **Actionable Recommendations:** It suggests specific fixes—like transferring inventory between warehouses or expediting a PO—to prevent issues before they escalate.\n* **Zero Workflow Disruption:** No ERP replacement required. It’s read-only by default and deploys in weeks, not quarters.\n\nYou can find a demo here: \\\n\\\n🧑‍🏫 **Meet Our Team**\n\n* **Rachel Hu, CEO:** Former ML scientist at AWS AI, UC Berkeley alum, Forbes 30 Under 30.\n* **Kimi Kong, CTO:** Former research engineer at Google DeepMind, Microsoft & AWS; Stanford alum.\n\n📖 **Our Story**\n\nAfter building [Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) to handle general data analysis, we realized that supply chain and operations teams faced the most \"messy\" data challenges. ERP systems are often black boxes. We built ERPNow to give operations leaders the \"explainable AI\" they need to move from firefighting to proactive planning.\n\n🎯 **Our Ask**\n\n👉 **Try it out:** If you’re managing complex supply chains or struggling with ERP reporting, visit [**www.erpnow.io**](http://www.erpnow.io).\n\n👉 **Get a Demo:** Reach out directly to [**admin@cambioml.com**](mailto:admin@cambioml.com) to see how we can sit on top of your specific ERP setup.\n\n👉 **Spread the word:** If you know any Operations or Supply Chain VPs, we’d love an introduction!\n\nCheers,\n\nThe ERPNow Team ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PuP-erpnow-the-ai-analyst-for-supply-chain-erp", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2026-04-09T18:42:59.948Z" }, { "id": 95030, "title": "Energent.ai: The Most Accurate AI Agent for Data Analysis", "tagline": "Meet Energent: a Roomba-with-a-PhD for messy data, with its own desktop to turn chaos into clean, cited insights. It ranks at the top of Hugging Face’s Best Data Agent benchmark.", "body": "Hey everyone! We're [Rachel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsonghu/) and [Kimi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xlingjiekong/), founders of CambioML. We are excited to introduce [**Energent.ai**](http://Energent.ai) Data Specialist.\n\n**🚀 TL;DR**\n\n[**Energent.ai**](http://Energent.ai) — a Roomba-with-a-PhD for messy data, with its own desktop to turn chaos into clean, cited insights. It ranks at the top of Hugging Face’s Best Data Agent benchmark.\n\n\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nMost businesses can’t afford a full data team, yet they’re drowning in scattered spreadsheets, PDFs, and ad-hoc reports. Decisions end up driven by gut feel or partial numbers because cleaning, joining, and validating data is slow, brittle, and expensive. The result: missed opportunities, inconsistent KPIs, and shaky confidence in the metrics that matter—especially when stakeholders ask, “Where did this number come from?”\n\n# **🛠️ Our Solution**\n\n[Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) is our answer: an AI data scientist with its own desktop that turns messy inputs into clean, cited insights you can trust. It ingests files and databases, profiles and fixes issues, performs joins and transformations in SQL/Python, and produces analysis with transparent, clickable sources. You get repeatable workflows, audit-ready lineage, and decision-grade dashboards—without hiring a costly team or waiting weeks for a custom query.\n\n**The most accurate data agent**\n\n* Rank No.1 on the [Huggingface Data Agent leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/adyen/DABstep).\n* 30% more accurate than the second best data agent from Google, and 4x more accurate than vanilla OpenAI’s agents.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95030&key=user_uploads/315284/f757ff0b-47f7-4ac4-b021-e298de2922ed)\n\n\n**Real-time visibility & control**\n\n* Transparent operations with real-time status visibility.\n* Easy intervention and clear workflow controls.\n* _“Stay in the loop, stay in control.”_\n\n**Works across desktop common apps**\n\n* Puts advanced automation in everyone’s hands, regardless of technical level.\n* Increases productivity and agility team-wide.\n* _“Automation without learning a new app.”_\n\n**Private and secure virtual machine access**\n\n* Gives full control of sensitive data usage and storage, ensuring data stays secure and private.\n* Provides transparency on how data is handled, promoting user trust and compliance.\n* _“Your data protected, your privacy respected.”_\n\n# \n\n**🧑‍🏫 Meet Our Team:**\n\n* [**Rachel Hu**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsonghu/)**, CEO**: Former LLM scientist at AWS AI, UC Berkeley alum, Forbes 30 Under 30.\n* [**Kimi Kong**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xlingjiekong/)**, CTO**: Former Google DeepMind, Microsoft & AWS research engineer; Stanford alum.\n\n# **📖 Our Story**\n\nWe saw firsthand that while AI has gotten smarter, it's still too passive—and rarely built to do real data analysis . [Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) was born to change that.\n\nWith [Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai), no complex integrations, no black-box automations — just real, hands-on data analysis collaboration between you and AI to save hours of manual work every day.\\\n\\\n[Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) has been using by \n\n* [ERPNow.io](http://ERPNow.io): an AI-powered Supply Chain and ERP Analytics platform;\n* [teamvibe.io](http://teamvibe.io/): an HR Software for Automated Payroll & Performance;\n* [goodtenant.io](http://goodtenant.io/): an AI PropTech for Smarter Property Management;\n* [esgverify.io](https://esgverify.io/): an AI Reporting platform for ESG, Sustainability,Biodiversity and Carbon Credits.\n\n# **🎯 Our Ask:**\n\n👉 Get your AI Teammate at today!\n\n👉 **Reach out directly** at [admin@energent.ai](mailto:admin@energent.ai) to schedule a call.\n\nCheers,\\\nThe Energent.ai Team ❤️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89797&key=user_uploads/89898/15f66cbf-b96f-4477-9643-fd3a3c846ce5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oik-energent-ai-the-most-accurate-ai-agent-for-data-analysis", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-11-03T15:09:00.249Z" }, { "id": 89797, "title": "Energent.ai: Your AI teammate, co-working with you to get things done", "tagline": "Getting real work done on a real desktop. Visible. Controllable. Secure.", "body": "Hey everyone! We're [Rachel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsonghu/) and [Kimi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xlingjiekong/), founders of CambioML. We are excited to introduce [**Energent.ai**](http://Energent.ai) — the AI teammate that actually gets things done on a real desktop, without integration or coding.\n\n**🚀 TL;DR**\n\n[Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) works side-by-side with you on a secure desktop to automate data-heavy multi-step workflows, without integration or coding — from gathering public info online, to cleaning messy format data, to coding and drawing plots.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/U2lWqpPqs7w\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nManual, multi-step workflows are still the default across operations, finance, and research teams, professionals spend hours every day:\n\n* Sourcing data from websites, cleaning formats, reconciling spreadsheets, and manually applying formulas or macros.\n* Setting up automation often requires: multiple tools, API connections, complicated setups across SaaS platforms\n* Automating complex workflows traditionally requires either writing custom scripts (Python, VBA, etc)\n\nThe barrier to entry of being productive and secure with AI tools is too high. It’s expensive, it needs integration, it’s not insecure — by giving every knowledge worker a hands-on AI teammate who gets the work done, visibly, controllably, and without coding.\n\n# **🛠️ Our Solution**\n\n[Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) equips every knowledge worker with an AI teammate that drives results — streamlining workflows without integration, democratizing automation without coding, and surpassing the limits of text-only chatbots.\n\n**Real-time visibility & control**\n\n* Transparent operations with real-time status visibility.\n* Easy intervention and clear workflow controls.\n* _“Stay in the loop, stay in control.”_\n\n**Works across desktop common apps**\n\n* Puts advanced automation in everyone’s hands, regardless of technical level.\n* Increases productivity and agility team-wide.\n* _“Automation without learning a new app.”_\n\n**No-code, no integration**\n\n* Automation is accessible without coding or tech expertise.\n* User-friendly, intuitive UI empowers everyone.\n* _“Automation for everyone.”_\n\n**Private and secure virtual machine access**\n\n* Gives full control of sensitive data usage and storage, ensuring data stays secure and private.\n* Provides transparency on how data is handled, promoting user trust and compliance.\n* _“Your data protected, your privacy respected.”_\n\n# \n\n**🧑‍🏫 Meet Our Team:**\n\n* [**Rachel Hu**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelsonghu/)**, CEO**: Former LLM scientist at AWS AI, GGV Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30, UC Berkeley alum.\n* [**Kimi Kong**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xlingjiekong/)**, CTO**: Former Google DeepMind, Microsoft & AWS research engineer; M.S. in MechE & CS from Stanford.\n\n# **📖 Our Story**\n\nWe saw firsthand that while AI has gotten smarter, it's still too passive—and rarely built to do real work. [Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai) was born to change that.\n\nWith [Energent.ai](http://Energent.ai), no complex integrations, no black-box automations — just real, hands-on collaboration between you and AI to save hours of manual work every day.\n\n# **🎯 Our Ask:**\n\n👉 Get your AI Teammate at https://app.energent.ai/ today!\n\n👉 **Reach out directly** at [admin@energent.ai](mailto:admin@energent.ai) to schedule a call.\n\nCheers,\\\nThe Energent.ai Team ❤️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89797&key=user_uploads/89898/15f66cbf-b96f-4477-9643-fd3a3c846ce5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NML-energent-ai-your-ai-teammate-co-working-with-you-to-get-things-done", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-04-24T16:16:55.385Z" }, { "id": 83080, "title": "AnyParser: Accurate, private and configurable LLM for documents", "tagline": "Extract hidden insights from any type of documents without missing details.", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nAnyParser streamlines document parsing and extraction using a state-of-the-art large vision language model (VLM). Given a batch of any type of documents including PDFs, PPTs, Word, and images, AnyParser can accurately parse it and export to TXT, Markdown, Excel or JSON.\n\n# **💯** Team Introduction\n\n* Meet Rachel, a data whiz who's been crunching numbers longer than most smartphones have existed! With a Berkeley brain and AWS superpowers, she's been teaching machines to “learn and think” for over 8 years!\n* Meet JoJo, a Stanford smarty-pants went from juicing up Teslas to juicing up our code. He’s got a knack for keeping things charged, whether it's batteries or customer satisfaction!\n\n# **❌** The Problems\n\n### Painpoint #1: Data Privacy Predicament\n\nSafeguarding user information has become a critical imperative for companies. Implementing stringent protocols to prevent data leaks and avoid devastating regulatory fines is essential, yet this process proves to be both resource-intensive and financially burdensome. The challenge lies in balancing security with operational efficiency.\n\n### Painpoint #2: Document Extraction Dilemma\n\nNavigating the labyrinth of document data extraction presents a formidable challenge. Extraneous elements like page numbers, headers, and references often confound OCR systems and human workers alike. Companies find themselves caught in a costly cycle of continual worker training and protocol updates, struggling to adapt to diverse document types and extraction tasks.\n\n### Painpoint #3: Visual Data Extraction Challenge\n\nIn the realm of information retrieval, a perplexing obstacle emerges. While beautifully crafted figures, charts, and infographics enhance whitepapers and industry reports, they simultaneously create a paradox. The more visually appealing the presentation, the more arduous and time-consuming the data extraction process becomes, stumping OCR systems and taxing human resources.\n\n### Painpoint #4: OCR's Achilles Heel\n\nIn the realm of information extraction, even seemingly straightforward tasks can become unexpectedly complex. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems, while promising, often falter in the face of subtle challenges. Minute discrepancies in figures or slightly ambiguous layouts can derail the entire process, turning simple retrieval into a frustrating ordeal.\n\n# **✨** The Solutions\n\n### Solution #1: 🔐 Privacy Protection\n\nActivate the \"Remove Private Information\" feature, and AnyParser will automatically redact P.I.I. (Personally Identifiable Information) during the document extraction. \n\n### Solution #2: 🔧 Configurability\n\nYou can instruct the model to include or omit page numbers, headers, footers, figures, charts, etc.\n\n (Jojo’s PH showcase video starting at 36 seconds, showcasing the configuration capability of omitting certain data)\n\n Jojo’s PH showcase video starting at 89 seconds, showcasing the input key automatically mapping with the table headers)\n\n### Solution #3: 📊 Diverse Extraction\n\nAnyParser doesn’t just extract text and tables, it also retrieves figures, charts, and footnotes packed with vital information 2X more accurate\\*.\n\n\\*2X more accurate based on our experimental testing against OCR benchmarks on financial statements. Check the Whitepaper: \n\n### Solution #4: 🎯 High Accuracy\n\nBid farewell to jumbled tables and chaotic layouts that plague traditional OCR-based models with 2X more precision and 2.5X more recall than the industry average. (Suggest a visual showcase, or infographic to compare AnyRetriever’s precise retrieval and OCR’s inaccurate retrieval)\n\n## **🙏** Try it for FREE\n\n1. Non-code effortless data extraction—[Try our user-friendly interface for FREE!](https://www.cambioml.com/playground)\n2. Or [try our API for FREE today!](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lc0-anyparser-accurate-private-and-configurable-llm-for-documents", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2024-08-15T16:07:29.174Z" }, { "id": 78890, "title": "CambioML - Enterprise data gold mining", "tagline": "Accurately retrieve and transform data from PDFs and forms at ease!", "body": "Hey YC fam 👋 We’re Rachel and Jojo from [CambioML](https://www.cambioml.com/).\n\n**TLDR:** Data scientists spend over half their time cleaning data for LLM training, battling to extract and structure text from varied document formats. Uniflow, an open-source Python library, simplifies this process by providing tools for extracting and structuring text from PDF docs.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n## **Our Asks**\n\n* Star, install, and test [**Uniflow**](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering) on your laptop.\n* Report edge use cases via [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/cambiomlworkspace/shared_invite/zt-1zes33rmt-20Rag043uvExUaUdvt5_xQ) or [email](https://info@cambioml.com). We would like to hear your (constructive) feedback!\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nCleaning ML training data takes over 50% of ML scientists’ time. Even the top-tier AI firms who are pretraining their foundation models have more than 50% of their workforce building a data-cleaning pipeline.\n\n* **Extract information from legacy docs**. Existing PDF parsers often struggle to extract text from documents ACCURATELY. Consequently, ML scientists have to invest tremendous effort to extract the text, as it cannot be used directly to train LLMs.\n* **Transform to different text structures.** After obtaining the \"extracted\" text, transforming it into a format suitable for training is not straightforward. Specifically, when fine-tuning LLMs using feedback-based learning methods (such as RLHF and RLAIF), it's necessary to develop a dataset that includes both a preferred answer and a rejected answer for each question (a sample shown below). This task demands significant human labor to create pairs of positive and negative examples from enterprise proprietary documents.\n\n ```\n {\n \"question\": \"How do you cheat in poker?\",\n \"preferred\": \"What do you mean by cheating?\",\n \"rejected\": \"I’ll be happy to just think about it together...\"\n }\n \n ```\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTo address these pain points, we built [**Uniflow**](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering) - an open-source Python library to extract and transform unstructured text data. You can input multiple raw PDF/HTML files or URLs, and Uniflow will 1) accurately extract the content from the files using our home-trained models; 2) transform to the desired text structure using LLMs, including single pair QAs and preference data for RLHF finetuning. Uniflow is LLM-agnostic and supports both open-source LLMs including Mistral-7B/Mixtral-8x7B and LLaMA, and proprietary models including OpenAI GPT4, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and Azure.\n\n**Feature 1. Extract text from PDF/HTML files**\n\nTo get started, you can use the default ExtractClient to parse your PDFs as below.\n\n```bash\nmy_pdfs = [{\"filename1\": \"...pdf\"}, ...]\nextract_client = ExtractClient(ExtractPDFConfig())\nextracted_pdfs = extract_client.run(my_pdfs) \n```\n\nCheck the full examples of\n\n* [extracting from PDFs](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering/blob/main/example/extract/extract_pdf_with_recursive_splitter.ipynb)\n* [extracting from HTML files or URLs](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering/blob/main/example/extract/extract_html.ipynb)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78890&key=user_uploads/315284/112e152e-098a-4e47-8073-f39bbe379f69)\n\nUniflow provides two options to extract text from PDFs/HTML:\n\n* Uniflow open-source: the deep learning-based layout analysis model, or\n* Uniflow Pro (API): the more powerful Document Large Vision Model we homegrown (free for the first 1000 pages/month).\n\n**Feature 2. Transform to your desired format**\n\nUniflow enables you to convert the \"extracted text\" into your desired format, suitable for various purposes such as fitting a database schema, building LLM training datasets, or generating custom prompts for your data format. Moreover, Uniflow allows you to compare data outputs across different LLMs (including OpenAI's GPT-4, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Mistral MOE, and LLaMA) by offering an LLM-agnostic interface.\n\n```bash\ntransform_config = TransformHuggingFaceConfig()\ntransform_client = TransformClient(transform_config)\noutput = client.run(extracted_pdfs)\n```\n\nCheck the full examples of\n\n* [transform using various LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini, AWS, Azure, Mistral, and LLaMA)](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering/tree/main/example/transform)\n* [End-to-end extract and transform examples](https://github.com/CambioML/cambio-cookbook/blob/main/examples/10K_Evaluator/10K_PDF_Summary.ipynb)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78890&key=user_uploads/315284/b3080566-a5d9-4464-b75e-006d864a64c0)\n\n## Call to actions\n\n* Star, install, and test [**Uniflow**](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow-llm-based-pdf-extraction-text-cleaning-data-clustering) on your laptop.\n* Report edge use cases via [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/cambiomlworkspace/shared_invite/zt-1zes33rmt-20Rag043uvExUaUdvt5_xQ) or [email](https://info@cambioml.com). We would like to hear your (constructive) feedback! 👋", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWQ-cambioml-enterprise-data-gold-mining", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2024-02-29T16:07:20.382Z" }, { "id": 73664, "title": "CambioML - the \"Private ML Scientists\" for Large Enterprises", "tagline": "Transform messy multi-modality data to MOE (mixed of experts) LLM/LVM", "body": "## **TL;DR**: CambioML enables ML practitioners to build AI agents on enterprises’ confidential data with two open-source libraries:\n\n* [Uniflow](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow) provides hands-on code to transform unstructured data from different modalities to structured trainable data;\n* [Pykoi](https://github.com/CambioML/pykoi) provides code for fine-tuning, evaluation, and UI functionality for feedback data collection.\n\n## Our end-to-end SaaS solutions enable Fortune 500 companies to build self-owned AI agents based on their massive, multi-modal and confidential data. We’re building what we wish we had when developing foundation models at Amazon.\n\n\\\nHi everyone, we’re Jared and Rachel and our mission is to make building foundation models as easy as possible. We met while working at AWS AI, where we developed models serving \\~1 million Amazon employees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73664&key=user_uploads/315284/71923c0b-e3d1-499f-9fe6-053af3a80668)\n\n## **The problem**\n\nDuring our 8 years of building models at Amazon, we have been constantly frustrated by the lack of quality tools for developing and deploying large machine learning models.\n\nTaking a foundation model from development to production in big tech requires multiple specialized job roles: Scientists develop the model. Data annotators label data for model improvements. Research engineers manage the labeled data for fine-tuning. Software engineers deploy the model to scalable resources. Front-end engineers build web interfaces for model usage and monitoring.\n\nThis resource-intensive separation of concerns exists because current tools don't solve common pain points in the end-to-end process:\n\n* Cleaning and transforming messy, unstructured data takes over 80% of ML practitioners’ time.\n* RLHF finetuning tools are still early, requiring management of multiple models, datasets, and resource stacks in conjunction.\n* Evaluating foundation models is difficult beyond academic metrics.\n* Annotators often provide data in mismatched formats for model training and, not being model end-users, produce less than ideal annotation quality.\n* Deployment poses many questions: environment selection, resource management, availability, etc.\n\n**The solution**\\\nWe're building the tools we wish we had. Our open source libraries, [Uniflow](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow) and [Pykoi](https://github.com/CambioML/pykoi), make it easy for ML practitioners to iterate on, evaluate, and eventually deploy foundation models to production:\n\n* **Easy data transforming**: Say goodbye to tedious work, like cleaning messy, unstructured and multi-modal data.\n* **Closing the loop on active learning**: Once you've annotated enough data, you can run our RLHF functionality directly on your model, with just a few lines of code. Other fine-tuning & augmentation options are also provided.\n* **Clear evaluation and benchmarking**: Compare and understand your models before and after fine-tuning with our compare interface and visuals.\n* **Simple data annotation & collection**: Create your own custom annotation tasks or share a UI directly on your model. Gone are the days of moving annotated data from excel sheets to models.\n* **Deployment**: We're including deployment options to run managed execution, maximum cost saving batch jobs on any cloud.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tyxdESYua0U9V5xRwpPsAy7VB2-70IsS_Yj7EX9wRQNPGSey-iDUD9-qDltHrPanS5yKR_pNZCDGN-AfBxN8RXLcoZdvoCSBWc0ApyrOuZbEnREgp70CV41bVzamBbdo7hdQNh4JOReoR0zBxbTdKu0)\n\n**A Quick Demo** \n\nHere's a quick video to showcase what we've developed in the last few weeks!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73664&key=user_uploads/315284/3faf28a5-a216-43c8-84e4-9bd64f5be667)\n\nWe execute rapidly, and new features are being released weekly. Upcoming features include cloud-agnostic deployment, built-in observability, SOTA fine-tuning options, and additional UI/visual options.\n\n**Our Ask** \n\nWe're open-source and building out our feature set in public. Check out our project on Github (_we'd appreciate a star!_) and feel free to contribute!\n\n* Install and play with Uniflow via the [installation](https://github.com/CambioML/uniflow/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#installation) guide\n* Install and play with Pykoi via the [installation](https://github.com/CambioML/pykoi/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#installation) guide\n* Follow our [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/96598226)\n* Connect via [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/cambiomlworkspace/shared_invite/zt-1zes33rmt-20Rag043uvExUaUdvt5_xQ)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JA8-cambioml-the-private-ml-scientists-for-large-enterprises", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-08-01T18:49:59.435Z" } ] }, { "id": 29121, "name": "Constructable", "slug": "constructable", "former_names": [ "No-Idea", "Jem", "Superset OS" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9d0ff3f692bfb08031dfe4107b5c7695d63a7d30.png", "website": "https://www.constructable.ai/", "all_locations": "Santa Barbara, CA, USA", "long_description": "Constructable is the modern alternative to Procore, Autodesk, and Fieldwire. We help mid-size general contractors manage the entire lifecycle of a commercial project from bidding to closeout.\r\n\r\nWith Constructable, teams can accelerate field, project, and financial management in one intuitive system. RFIs, submittals, drawings, daily logs, punch lists, change orders—everything lives in one place, with AI-powered search to find answers instantly.\r\n\r\nGCs and builders across the U.S. and Canada are already running smoother projects on Constructable.\r\n\r\nLearn more at constructable.ai", "one_liner": "Building the next Procore", "team_size": 6, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Construction", "launched_at": 1690913303, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Construction", "B2B", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Construction" ], "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/constructable", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/constructable.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Santa Barbara", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/constructableapp", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9d0ff3f692bfb08031dfe4107b5c7695d63a7d30.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/06f6d7b7738c240ac104a14aea1da7e34f5e616c.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/d9b27270e91087df9f210676fea0429f8cd0849b.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1393936, "full_name": "Emma Nazim", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I am a co-founder and CEO at Constructable. Previously I was a VP of Product at Appfolio and led the product team for Appfolio Investment Manager from 0 to 1500 customers. I love working with customers and building vertical software, but outside of that, you can find me making mugs and bowls where no two ever look the same.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/emmamedjuck", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4574159362e7a87c20a3b181e6d7fd5bef5aac43.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1401911, "full_name": "Molly Abbott", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I am a co-founder and CPO at Constructable. Since 2010, I have had the privilege to work along side amazing leaders in Product, Operations and Partnerships at both Mindbody and AppFolio. Growing up in a construction family, and then marrying into one, I'm excited to be in both tech and construction. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/molly-abbott-41b03037", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/baa58c8d1ebd4f3c386bd9ab68d104583bf6663d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1401905, "full_name": "John Yoder", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I am a co-founder and CTO at Constructable. Prior to this, I was the VP of Engineering for AppFolio Property Manager where I grew the team from 65 engineers to 250 engineers over 4 years. I am most satisfied when my team can hear the joy in a customer's voice because of something we accomplished together.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/john-yoder-92595985", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/052caf905a556bf74bf97c2691c9778df2d8894f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94471, "title": "Constructable - Modern Construction Management Software", "tagline": "Constructable is an all-in-one construction management software for mid-size general contractors who are tired of outdated, clunky, and overpriced solutions.", "body": "**TLDR:** [Constructable](https://constructable.ai/) is a field, project, and financial management software for mid-size GCs whose projects are too complex to manage over email and shared drives, but who are frustrated with the complexity and pricing of Procore and Autodesk. Constructable supports every stage of a commercial project, from bidding to close out, with powerful tools and intuitive workflows.\n\n# \n\n# **The Problem**\n\nCommercial general contractors spend too much time on administrative work in legacy platforms, using only a fraction of the features they pay for, and still relying on point solutions to handle everyday tasks.\n\n# \n\n# **The Solution**\n\n[Constructable](https://constructable.ai/) brings field, project, and financial management together in one fast, intuitive platform. Teams can manage bidding, active construction, and financial closeout in a single system. \n\nWe’ve already helped top construction companies across the US and Canada migrate off of incumbent solutions they found slow, hard to use, and not worth the price tag. To date, Constructable has powered over 500 construction projects. Over the past year we’ve expanded Constructable so it’s robust enough to support $60M+ projects, while still being intuitive and easy to use in the field and the office.\n\n# \n\n# **How We’re Different**\n\n**Collaborate right on the plans** - Share markup and comments with specific people or  publish to the full team, so you can keep coordination documented right on the drawings instead of buried across email threads.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94471&key=user_uploads/1393936/cc5fd0c7-4302-461c-aa61-50f88ba01fbf)\n\n\\\n\\\n**Quickly review drawings all in one place** - Overlay any two sheets, compare sheets side by side, get measurements and takeoffs without exporting to other tools, and flip through hundreds of sheets without waiting for them to load.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94471&key=user_uploads/1393936/d50e11ec-c723-4a84-ba0b-9d440845f774)\n\n\\\n\\\n**Built-in search and Q&A** - Find answers instantly across all your data. We make everything searchable including your photos and scanned documents.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94471&key=user_uploads/1393936/dd20ff09-afa9-4294-b47b-bca3bce7d86d)\n\n\\\n\\\n**AI and automations that save real time** - Copy a door schedule from the drawings to a spreadsheet with one click, fill in punch list items as you narrate, automatically organize bids sent to your email, and so much more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94471&key=user_uploads/1393936/b7b37a44-77ec-4108-b524-1a06b613fe1f)\n\n\\\n\\\n**Built on modern software practices** - No more loading spinners, waiting for an email to get your PDF download, or refreshing the page to see what’s changed. Everything updates in realtime.\n\n**Pricing that’s straightforward** - Get unlimited projects, users, and construction volume for one flat monthly subscription.\n\n# **Our Customers**\n\nWe’ve seamlessly migrated companies to Constructable from Procore, Autodesk, Fieldwire, and Buildertrend. Here’s a quote from a customer on how it’s gone:\n\n> The transition to Constructable was very smooth. The tools are so user friendly that our team and our trade partners were up and running in no time.\n\n_- Jordyn Nelson Fox, Holladay Construction Group_\n\n# **Ask**\n\nKnow any general contractors? Send them the link to our launch or [website](http://constructable.ai). Thanks for the support!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OZj-constructable-modern-construction-management-software", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2025-10-08T14:29:13.711Z" }, { "id": 73724, "title": "🏗️ Constructable - The AI copilot for construction teams", "tagline": "We integrate construction management tools, email, chat, and documents to create an AI powered knowledge-base for construction projects", "body": "**_Tl;dr:_** _Constructable aggregates documents and communication from multiple sources so construction teams can answer questions quickly and accurately about their projects, saving them critical time and preventing costly mistakes._\n\nHi everyone,\n\nWe are [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-yoder-92595985/), [Molly](https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-abbott-41b03037/), and [Emma](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmamedjuck/), former proptech product and engineering leaders and the team behind [Constructable](https://www.constructable.app/). We’re on a mission to give everyone on a construction project the information they need at their fingertips to deliver a project safely, accurately, and efficiently.\n\n## **🧨 The Problem**\n\n**Construction teams are spending too much time digging through data spread out in many places**\n\nConstruction projects are complex and constant change means a single project will have a huge amount of documentation. Take the San Francisco team we’re working with that just finished a major 3-year project. By the end of the project, they had a 2000-page plan that had changed hundreds of times, 2300 change orders, and thousands of bids, RFIs, and submittals going back and forth between the general contractor, developer, architect, engineers, and 93 specialty contractors. The team spent hours each week trying to find information across email, Procore, chat conversations, and document management systems.\n\nLook at all the folders one of our customers has for just 1 project!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73724&key=user_uploads/1393936/d805b330-519c-4775-a2c5-c6699a58a99c)\n\n**Not finding accurate information quickly can be detrimental to a project**\n\nMany teams waste time and hire additional people to sort through data and search for the answers they need, yet still mistakenly use outdated or incorrect information. A [**study**](https://www.constructiondive.com/news/contractors-lost-18-trillion-globally-in-2020-due-to-bad-data-new-report/606939/) by FMI found that “bad data” – including data that is inaccessible, inconsistent, or untimely  – **cost the global construction industry $1.85 trillion** in 2020. Operating off of outdated plans or missing information can lead to costly delays, expensive re-work, and in the worst cases can cause dangerous conditions for the crews on the ground.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\nConstructable is the central place to find any information and get questions answered about a construction project. We aggregate documents and communication from file management systems like OneDrive and Dropbox, construction management software like Procore and Autodesk, email, and chat apps and make it quick for teams to answer any question and find the relevant documentation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73724&key=user_uploads/1393936/9318d182-f037-4d41-a7cd-f6f4a7a90581)\n\nConstructable makes it easy to:\n\n* Compare bids from multiple specialty contractors and see if they are missing key components in their bid\n* Find the most recent steel plan and highlight what has changed since the last revision\n* See RFIs that have been outstanding for more than 2 weeks and the contact information of the requestee\n* Find the change order that involved adding an additional wall to the lobby, link to the before and after plans, and list the difference in takeoffs because of the change\n* Get the schedule of all specialty contractors working the following week and which supplies are still on backorder for each contractor\n* Get data from the appliance manuals needed for maintenance teams once the project is delivered\n\n## **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73724&key=user_uploads/1393936/05c0d913-f492-43de-babd-97f415d5c860)\n\nWe spent the past 10 years working together at Appfolio (Nasdaq: APPF), where Emma was a VP of Product, John was a VP of Engineering, and Molly was a product growth leader. We loved supporting the businesses that provide millions of people with exceptional living and workplace experiences and we’re excited to bring our experience to empower today’s builders to construct tomorrow’s communities.\n\nMolly has first-hand experience in the world of construction. Her dad, husband, and brother-in-law are general contractors and specialty contractors and she previously worked for a large specialty contractor. She’s experienced the chaotic highs and lows that go into completing a large project, which has fueled her passion to bring new technology to the industry.\n\n## **👋 Ask:**\n\nConnect us to general contractors, owner’s reps, large specialty contractors, or developers. We’d love to get their feedback! Pass along our [website](https://www.constructable.ai) or send us an email, [founders@constructable.app](https://mailto:founders@constructable.ai). We appreciate the support!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JB6-constructable-the-ai-copilot-for-construction-teams", "votes": 64, "created_at": "2023-08-02T18:23:44.705Z" } ] }, { "id": 29136, "name": "Autotab", "slug": "autotab", "former_names": [ "42 Labs", "Planetary Computers Inc.", "Planetary Computers", "ztool", "autotab" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4967676cdc6058f952822347fafe9d59a61218fb.png", "website": "https://autotab.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Autotab is a drop-in AI knowledge worker that uses a mouse and keyboard like you—so anything you can do, it can do. 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BA in Rationality from Harvard (convinced them to let me create a new major). Built data-driven applications at Palantir and Taktile (YC S20). Started and sold the first oracle for zero-knowledge rollups on Ethereum.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jonas-nelle", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jonas_nelle", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d63eedbe6cd0f00992a1305f591f790b81102d67.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 91808, "title": "Autotab: The first AI agent you onboard, not integrate", "tagline": "Infinitely scalable remote workers that you onboard via a simple screen recording", "body": "tl;dr: You can now teach AI to do your work by simply recording a short video explaining the task. Once trained, you can run an entire fleet of parallel instances to complete weeks of work in a few hours.\n\nDownload the app and put Autotab to work—no sales call or credit card required to get started: [https://www.autotab.com](https://www.autotab.com/)\n\n### \n\nhttps://youtu.be/JTniG6K30UU\n\n### Problem\n\nToday’s models have the intelligence required for most work—but they are bottlenecked by context, tools, and their ability to operate over long time horizons.\n\n### Context: Teaching, not prompting\n\nAutotab learns like a human colleague–by watching demonstrations, reading SOPs, and taking feedback on its past work.\n\nReal work is rarely zero-shot, so Autotab is designed to ask clarifying questions as it is learning, and to be good at taking feedback.\n\n### Tools: UI-first control\n\nAutotab interacts directly with existing applications and internal tools using a mouse and keyboard—no technical integration required.\n\n### Long tasks\n\nAutotab is able to work for days at a time, using scaffolding and checkpoints to stay on track, just like an SOP.\n\n### Superpowers: Better than human\n\nOnboarding Autotab is designed to feel like onboarding a remote human worker, but running Autotab is an entirely different experience.\n\nFor sensitive tasks, Autotab can be run in a dedicated local browser with support for enterprise authentication and SSO—credentials never leave your device.\n\nAutotab can also be run at scale in the cloud, with an entire fleet of parallel instances working together to complete weeks of work in a few hours.\n\n### Accessible to everyone\n\nFor the past 6 months, we’ve helped companies like DoorDash scale work that previously required humans, running years worth of continuous computer use.\n\nNow, you can download the app and put Autotab to work—no sales call or credit card required to get started.\n\n### Use cases\n\nIf you’re looking for some inspiration for how to use AI agents like Autotab, here are a few examples of common tasks others are using Autotab for.\n\n* Collecting and enriching data: For example finding the payment options offered by e-commerce websites, or researching the technology vendors used by local businesses.\n* Filling out forms: For example government forms to request documents, or forms to request quotes from businesses such as insurance carriers.\n* Taking action: For example updating leads in a CRM, processing customer support tickets or sending messages to leads.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nsm-autotab-the-first-ai-agent-you-onboard-not-integrate", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2025-07-02T18:51:11.029Z" }, { "id": 84840, "title": "Autotab: AI agents reliable enough to do real work", "tagline": "Not a chatbot: Autotab handles repetitive tasks end to end using a keyboard and mouse, with human-level reliability.", "body": "# TLDR\n\nAutotab is a drop-in AI knowledge worker that uses a mouse and keyboard like you—so anything you can do, it can do. It achieves superhuman reliability, and can scale up on demand so your team doesn’t have to.\n\nAutotab is already handling complex tasks thousands of steps long, from messaging customers to triggering payments and updating data across core systems of record like Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and Jira.\n\n### Open beta launch\n\nStarting today you can download the beta version of the [app](https://www.autotab.com/) and get started right away. Or sign up for a [personalized onboarding](https://www.autotab.com/request).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84840&key=user_uploads/414353/c701bf1e-2f28-4bb2-ac4b-779b02be0a8b)\n\n### Autotab is built for real work\n\n“We were promised digital robots, and all we got was tab complete.”\n\nSo far, AI agents have not been reliable enough to do meaningful work without supervision.\n\nAutotab is the first system for building extremely reliable agents that can execute any repetitive task fully autonomously. Show it how to perform your task, train it to be hallucination-proof by adding examples and providing feedback, and then run it on demand or on a schedule—either locally or in the cloud.\n\n### Hallucination Proof\n\nReal work is hard. To push the frontiers of autonomy, we have developed multiple systems that work together to achieve the improbable.\n\n1. **Digital Robot**: For AI to do real work, it needs to be able to use a computer. Autotab is driven by more than 16 unique models, from fast on-device models to vision-based robotics and the largest frontier models in the world.\n2. **Demonstration Learning**: Telling an AI to book flights for you is a cool demo, but real work is nuanced and difficult to explain in a prompt. You teach Autotab by _showing_ it how to do your task the same way you would a human colleague. This means Autotab has 100-1000X more data than prior approaches, providing the deep context required for full autonomy.\n3. **Action Scaffold**: Each task that Autotab learns is composed of a series of steps and sub-goals. This makes it easy to understand what Autotab is doing and gives you fine-grained control.\n4. **Memory**: As it runs, Autotab prompts you for feedback and provides opportunities to steer its behavior. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab’s world model and allowing it to work autonomously with extremely high reliability for hours on end.\n5. **Bare Metal Control**: Autotab uses a custom browser for secure, bare metal task execution—locally and in the cloud. This also lets us avoid most bot detection.\n\nThe result is an AI system that learns and works like a human colleague. It uses a browser, so it can handle any repetitive task you can—there is no list of integrations, just teach it to use whichever apps you want. It asks for clarification when it is uncertain, and you can correct it if it gets something wrong.\n\n### Case studies\n\nHere are a few specific examples of how customers have been using Autotab to get more done:\n\n* A fast-growing startup saves 10+ hours of their team’s time each week using Autotab to find customers at risk of churning in an internal product analytics tool and then has Autotab reach out to them with personalized emails.\n* One customer uses Autotab to handle dozens of support tickets every day, such as updating vendor permissions and assigning training tasks to new employees across different applications.\n* Another customer has trained Autotab to gather research data across different sources, which used to take their employees hours of time to do every week.\n\n### Get started today\n\nYou can download the beta version of the [app](https://www.autotab.com/) and get started right away or sign up for a [personalized onboarding](https://www.autotab.com/request).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M4O-autotab-ai-agents-reliable-enough-to-do-real-work", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2024-10-17T22:07:57.122Z" }, { "id": 79917, "title": "Autotab: Digital robot to do your repetitive work", "tagline": "Autotab can run thousands of steps with 98%+ reliability, 24/7/365 (no lunch breaks needed)", "body": "**TLDR**: Hire Autotab to do your repetitive work for you, starting at just $1/hour. Autotab is a digital robot that learns like a human—just demonstrate how to perform the task once.\n\nToday, Autotab reliably handles complex tasks with 1000s of steps, saving users hours each day. **Sign up **[**here**](https://78348iv5tyv.typeform.com/to/PFjNcLqW?utm_source=launchyc&utm_campaign=launchyc)** to request early access to Autotab!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79917&key=user_uploads/414353/b923cf51-551f-4232-94c4-f84fc951252c)\n\n### Problem\n\n“I love clicking and typing the same things over and over again,” said no one ever.\n\nNobody likes repetitive work, clicking and typing the same thing over and over again. But writing software to automate it is often too expensive or simply not possible. So we’ve had to do suck it up and grind through (or pay someone else to)—until now.\n\n### Solution\n\nAutotab is a desktop app for teaching AI to do the work you don’t want to do. You simply show it how to do the task once, and Autotab uses AI to learn how to do it for you. Once it has learned a task, Autotab can do it as many times as you want, 24/7/365. No lunch breaks needed.\n\nAutotab is built for real work: It excels at tasks that are **repetitive, such as doing the same thing for every item in a list, and complex, e.g.,** involving many steps across different software applications. Autotab currently is able to do any task that can be done in a browser, with capabilities to control any application on your computer coming soon.\n\nOn top of it all, you only pay for the time that Autotab actually spends doing work for you—starting at $1/hour!\n\n# Digital robot, real work\n\nWe built Autotab with an extreme focus on reliability and the ability to execute complex workflows.\n\n**Bare metal control:** Autotab has its own browser that gives it the bare metal control needed to deliver 98%+ reliability without any site-specific fine-tuning. This also lets us avoid most bot detection.\n\n**Show, don’t tell:** Most other approaches try to have an agent autonomously plan novel chains of actions based on natural language instructions (e.g., “Order me a Domino’s pizza”). While Autotab can do that too, for most important automations it is much easier to show Autotab the workflow than it would be to write a paragraph describing all the steps. If you were to train a human, would you explain where to click or just share your screen & explain with a voiceover?\n\n**Discrete, auditable actions:** Each task that Autotab learns is composed of a series of steps. This makes it easy to understand and have fine-grained control over what Autotab does. It also allows Autotab to work autonomously with extremely high reliability for hours on end.\n\n### Ask\n\nHire Autotab to do your repetitive work for you. **Sign up **[**here**](https://78348iv5tyv.typeform.com/to/PFjNcLqW?utm_source=launchyc)** to request early access!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kmz-autotab-digital-robot-to-do-your-repetitive-work", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-04-03T16:54:31.984Z" }, { "id": 73240, "title": "ZTool - Create data tools & scripts with just a few words", "tagline": "ZTool.co is the personal developer for entrepreneurs, analysts, and marketers", "body": "**tl;dr**\n\n**Describe** the tool you need **in** **one sentence** and ZTool will create the code, run it, and present the output. We particularly focus on all things **CSV** **files**: anything from exporting csvs, to merging files and enriching data is possible. Over time, users can edit, build out and share their library of tools with each other.\n\n**Problem**\n\nPython scripts for tools like scrapers or workflow automations have been written thousands of times before. Reusing that code — and saving time — should be easy but it’s not: finding the relevant scripts is hard, and adapting it to your specific case requires a certain level of skill at which one can just write the code from scratch. ZTool solves both the search problem and the skill problem; it will give you the exact script you need, specific to your use case, and regardless of your technical ability.\n\n**Solution**\n\nAll the user has to do is describe the script they want, for example: merge two CSV files. ZTool, powered by LLMs, will ask specifying questions, ask for the input files, and then create an output file. That’s it!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73240&key=user_uploads/1377594/f6494391-8d41-4a73-8e81-01d797eef7e3)\n\n**How we came up with this**\n\nWhile working as an analyst at a VC firm many years ago, Jonas hacked together a script to process csv data for a deal analysis. It was a simple script but it **saved him days worth of manual work**. Over time the initial script proved useful for more and more deals and grew into an entire library of Python scripts for automating different tasks, from data analysis to web scraping. It took Jonas a week to create that initial script and he had to learn Python, regex, SQL, Docker, cloud, and more—with ZTool anyone could have done it in 5 minutes.\n\n**Concrete ask**\n\nZTool has a blessing and a curse, and they turn out to be the same thing: it is super powerful and can be used to generate all sorts of scripts. Help us figure out what we should focus on [**by trying it out**](https://www.ztool.co/) and showing us what tools are most useful to you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3I-ztool-create-data-tools-scripts-with-just-a-few-words", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-07-19T19:41:52.401Z" } ] }, { "id": 29261, "name": "malibou", "slug": "malibou", "former_names": [ "Malibou" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d58137f5ea9c3d97a49e190602fc6dd4331ccf6d.png", "website": "https://www.malibou.com", "all_locations": "Paris, IDF, France", "long_description": "malibou is a web application helping French SMBs to manage employees, run payroll and track compliance in a single app.\r\n\r\nWhen processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between an accountant with good advice but no way to connect an HRIS with him, or a good HRIS that does not include payroll services. It was time for a change, to finally bring payroll and HR at the same place. \r\n\r\nDue to increasing competition in the space, French payroll engines have just opened their APIs. 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Graduated from Science Po in Paris, France. After school, I started working in SF helping French tech startups to land in the U.S.. Then joined a VC fund in Paris called Breega, went from associate to Partner, stayed there 5 years and opened their office in the U.K.. Wanted to go to the other side of the table, this time as an entrepreneur!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/maxence-drummond-485057b4", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0e112998a6941561b4e6fee85ef6841d00a68404.jpg" }, { "user_id": 330417, "full_name": "Alexandre Pernin", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO @malibou 🌴. Spent my college days studying Maths and Computer Sc. at CentraleSupelec, followed by a second master at the Paris School of Economics. After school, I co-founded a first YC startup in the data space, then joined Theodo (Thoughtworks equiv.) to build various B2B tech products. Now I'm back at YC for round #2, this time as CTO in the HR & Payroll space.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alexandre-pernin-602308a3", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/008ce59d345cee77feb1fe4fe3163a3a5bdaf2cd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Malibou: French Payroll Startup Raises $3.3 Million From Breega and YC - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/malibou-french-payroll-startup-raises-3-million-from-breega-yc-2024-6", "date": "Jun 04, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 79030, "title": "🌴 malibou - Simple French payroll", "tagline": "Meet malibou, the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs", "body": "\\[**tl;dr**\\] French payroll is so complex that no one has been able to build the Justwork or Gusto for France. This is coming to an end— we’re building the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for every French startup and SMB.\n\nHey y’all, we’re Max and Alex, the team behind [malibou](https://www.malibou.co/). We’re here to fix French payroll.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79030&key=user_uploads/89898/9981454f-3181-4baa-b681-a0fb9d76168d)\n\n**❌ The problem**\n\nRunning payroll in France is tough! There are 800 different labor agreements with its own set of rules, and each company belongs to a different one.\n\nSo when processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between\n\n1/ an accountant with good advice but no way to connect a good HRIS with him. Everything is manual (excel file, emails…)\n\n2/ a good HRIS that does not include payroll services— no one wants to deal with French payroll\n\n**✅ The solution**\n\nMalibou is the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for every French startup and SMB.\n\nOur promise is the following: 1/ We provide best-in-class HRIS designed for local compliance and 2/ We provide expert help so that HR managers and CEOs don’t have to deal with bureaucracy.\n\nThanks to malibou, companies can manage employee repositories, onboard newcomers in a few clicks, accept leave requests, validate and distribute payslips, pay their team from the app, and ask any questions related to social laws to our experts. Employees benefit from direct access to malibou.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79030&key=user_uploads/1585512/bc7eac7b-0867-422b-b423-d459248f6c2d)\n\n**👥 The team**\n\n[**Max**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxence-drummond-485057b4/) and [**Alex**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-pernin-602308a3/) here, originally from France 🇫🇷.\n\nMax was a VC partner at Breega, where he opened the London office.\n\nAlex is a software engineer and also an ex-YC founder.\n\n**🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Share this with anyone you know who is employing people in France\n* If you have questions or requests, email us at [maxence.drummond@malibou.co](mailto:maxence.drummond@malibou.co)\n* You can also book a meeting with Max [here](https://calendar.app.google/1raqzyT4ufWPmrxeA)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KYg-malibou-simple-french-payroll", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2024-03-04T18:55:43.779Z" } ] }, { "id": 29283, "name": "Wavelength", "slug": "wavelength", "former_names": [ "Assembly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/db2155f0e58d43be7fbf11024f78067345664004.png", "website": "https://wavelength.cx/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "The AI-native Customer Intelligence Platform purpose built for post sales teams.\r\nWavelength brings your entire customer data stack into one place - with powerful AI agents that uncover important signals and act instantly", "one_liner": "Build Magical Customer Experiences", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1703119093, "tags": [ "B2B", "Productivity", "Customer Success", "Customer Support" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wavelength", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/wavelength.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavelengthcx/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/db2155f0e58d43be7fbf11024f78067345664004.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1541225, "full_name": "Pranav Mallampalli", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Assembly, Cal Grad, and SF foodie", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavmallampalli/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/05911a85f5205dbdce9337dfc22f70c3ac7640d3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1634801, "full_name": "Deepali Jain", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Assembly. 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After graduating MIT with a degree in Computer Science, she was an engineer, engineering manager, and product lead at Pinterest, Meta, and Stripe building brand new products that often started out as small teams and grew to thousand person organizations.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/NikkiAShah", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b318adcc777fb5524d83e8a7fca2248ff7922812.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 78819, "title": "Patchwork - Your team's AI powered communication tool", "tagline": "Replace your Slack with a ranked feed of information and AI assisted post creation", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Nikki](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah/) and [Dhruhin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruhin/) from [Patchwork](https://www.atpatchwork.com/)!\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nPatchwork supercharges your team’s communication — we replace your Slack with a ranked feed of information, AI assisted post creation, and chat for urgent needs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/fb3c9788-fb77-4ea7-a5b0-766d51a58935)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Do it all.**\n\nThose are the words etched in our brains during YC, and we know that it only gets worse. We spend our time figuring out how to talk to users, sell to customers, pitch to investors, and meet other founders, all at the same time. Oh, and don’t forget, while doing all of this, you also need to continue building the product.\n\nWe found that the most inefficient part of a company is poor communication. A ping on Slack can take us out of flow and leave us context-switching. While one team member is wrestling with RAG pipelines, another is messaging them about feedback from a user interview. If you choose to respect heads-down time, you’ll end up writing notes in docs that are lost to the ether, never to be looked at again. With more team members, it gets exponentially worse.\n\nIn the end, we’re either left with incomplete information or left sifting through a swamp of chat messages, doc links, and notifications to get the information we need.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n**LLMs, Posts, and a Ranked Feed.**\n\nPatchwork, with the help of LLMs, allows you to quickly post meeting notes, updates, thoughts, and information into relevant groups.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/2d37f318-48cd-4dc1-953b-5fd4728377c9)\n\nHere’s the best part — **every team member has a smart feed, specifically curated for them**, that ensures they get the most important information first. 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From the beginning, good communication that allowed engineers to stay in flow and also get the information they needed was the secret to both speed and growth.\n\nNow, they’re on a mission to supercharge every team with better communication tools.\n\n### **Our Ask: Try Us!**\n\nIf you’re building a product, talking to users, fundraising, selling to customers, and just trying to do it all — let Patchwork help.\n\nEmail [info@atpatchwork.com](mailto:nikki@atpatchwork.com) and we’ll onboard you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVH-patchwork-your-team-s-ai-powered-communication-tool", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2024-02-27T18:50:20.637Z" } ] }, { "id": 29383, "name": "Aftercare", "slug": "aftercare", "former_names": [ "Kontractify" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/24db1f3b2c957bd0e1551d1e58afec1ea05426a4.png", "website": "https://getaftercare.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Aftercare helps you run surveys with AI-powered follow-up questions to dig into responses for deeper insights—it’s like having a skilled interviewer for every survey. 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We’re [Anand](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-nanduri/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinseanmay/), and [Aidan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-cj-lee/), co-founders of [Aftercare](https://www.getaftercare.com/).\n\n**TL;DR:** We’re building a generalizable survey tool that uses intelligent AI follow-up questions to gather better insights.\n\n## **🔭 How we got here**\n\nWhile we were building an eCommerce post-purchase survey platform, one of the most valuable features for our customers was using AI to ask follow-up questions to dig into survey responses and uncover deeper insights—almost like having an interviewer ask good questions live for every survey. We realized this powerful feature could be applied to all surveys, so expanded the survey platform so anyone could use it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85495&key=user_uploads/1355492/f34a1950-734e-4956-b96d-4232807f1ff0)\n\n## **🧐 Problem**\n\n* Traditional surveys can’t react to respondent answers and ask follow-up questions, leaving behind incredibly valuable insights. Often, the first response to an open-ended question does not tell the whole story.\n* Good open-ended feedback is incredibly useful, but difficult to view in a structured format, especially when you have many responses. If you’ve ever used Google Forms, open-ended responses are presented as a data dump.\n\n## **🚀 Our Solution**\n\n* Easily create surveys, and turn on AI follow-up questions for any topic you want to dig into - Aftercare will ask intelligent follow-up questions automatically.\n* AI summaries surface key information from your responses automatically, and open-ended responses are categorized into data visualizations of your choice.\n\n## **Team**\n\nWe’ve been friends for 18 years and have deep engineering and ops experience at companies like Palantir, Datadog, Affirm, and Nextdoor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85495&key=user_uploads/1355492/8ec74a7b-6c3e-4840-88fa-480c4d9af138)\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n* Try it out, we’d love to hear your honest feedback!\n* If you have a generalized survey use case (surveying customers, your employees, etc) I’d love to learn more about it over a quick chat: \n* If you know anyone running a survey, tell them to try [www.getaftercare.com](http://www.getaftercare.com) 🙂", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MEx-aftercare-conversational-ai-surveys-with-intelligent-follow-up-questions", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-11-12T18:49:41.643Z" }, { "id": 82218, "title": "Aftercare - Conversational post-purchase surveys using AI", "tagline": "Conversational post-purchase surveys using AI. Open-ended text, voice, and SMS surveys for eCommerce.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Anand](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-nanduri/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinseanmay/), and [Aidan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-cj-lee/), previously co-founders of Kontractify, coming back as [Aftercare](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aftercarecompany/).\n\n**TL;DR:** We help eCommerce stores run conversational post-purchase surveys using AI to capture open-ended customer feedback and marketing attribution data.\n\n# **🍪 Problem**\n\nWith the “death of the cookie” rapidly approaching, eCommerce stores must rely more on 1st- and zero-party data to inform marketing decisions like where best to spend money on ads (Meta vs. TikTok vs. Google, etc.).\n\nBecause of this, eCommerce stores are more widely adopting tools like post-purchase surveys. However, the current post-purchase survey landscape is lacking in several ways:\n\n* Limited: mainly offers multiple-choice questions that don’t provide enough context to be useful for marketing teams.\n* Static: asks the same questions regardless of the user’s segment (e.g., new vs. returning user) or the user’s previous responses within a single survey.\n* Disjointed: integrates poorly with the rest of the marketing stack.\n\n# **✨ Solution**\n\nAftercare is a modern post-purchase survey tool that uses AI to go beyond the traditional multiple-choice survey. It:\n\n* Asks open-ended questions to capture more detailed and candid feedback.\n* Changes what it asks based on the user’s previous responses so you can ask smart follow-up questions in real time.\n* Summarizes all insights in a single dashboard to inform product and marketing teams at a glance.\n\nOur MVP is a Shopify App, but we want to meet merchants and customers where they’re at, so we’re building out other channels, including a generalized web Iframe, SMS, and voice.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82218&key=user_uploads/1355492/b067a353-1293-4bcd-84b9-d42f441c6447)\n\n## **Team**\n\nPreviously known as Kontractify, we’re coming back as [Aftercare](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aftercarecompany/). We’ve been friends for 18 years and have deep engineering and ops experience at companies like Palantir, Datadog, Affirm, and Nextdoor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82218&key=user_uploads/1355492/bc67ac78-45af-4926-a10d-978fa60fcdff)\n\n# **🙏 Our ask:**\n\nPlease reach out if you know anyone who does marketing at or runs an eCommerce store - we’d love a warm intro! Email us at [aidan@getaftercare.com](mailto:aidan@getaftercare.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LO6-aftercare-conversational-post-purchase-surveys-using-ai", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-07-17T17:52:36.986Z" }, { "id": 79017, "title": "Kontractify - Painless RFPs, powered by LLMs 📢", "tagline": "We use LLMs to help enterprises run Request for Proposals (RFPs)", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Justin](https://linkedin.com/in/justinseanmay), [Anand](https://linkedin.com/in/anand-nanduri), and [Aidan](https://linkedin.com/in/aidan-cj-lee) – childhood friends and co-founders of Kontractify.\n\n**TL;DR** [Kontractify](https://www.kontractify.com/) uses LLMs to help enterprises run RFPs. We generate questions, manage workflows, evaluate proposals, and facilitate reverse auctions.\n\n## 🧨 **The Problem**\n\nEnterprises buy large amounts of goods and services through RFPs—competitive bid processes where they invite multiple sellers/service providers to participate. These buyers launch RFPs on extremely outdated platforms, often costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and have UI/UX stuck in the ‘90s.\n\nBuyers get so frustrated with these tools that they ignore using them altogether and revert to Excel spreadsheets and emails. Wasted time, frustration, information loss, and lack of user participation are common.\n\nOn the other side, sellers who receive RFP notifications hate filling out responses on these platforms, leading many to not participate.\n\n## 🎉 **Our Solution**\n\nKontractify provides a painless experience for enterprise buying teams to run and collaborate on RFPs, using LLMs to speed up particularly tedious processes. Buyers can build, launch, and manage all seller communications through the platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79017&key=user_uploads/1355492/bed9d3f3-1454-460b-957d-a46f3630192a)\n\n**For Buyers:**\n\n* ⚙️ Simple workflow and question builders help buyers painlessly curate events\n* ✍️ Tedious activities like writing question lists are automated away with the help of LLMs\n* 📣 Advanced eBidding events such as Reverse Auctions can be easily launched, allowing for greater savings\n\n**For Sellers:**\n\n* 📫 RFP questions can be responded to directly by email and LLMs assist in converting the unstructured text into a templated response\n\n⭐️ Consumer-grade UI and LLMs greatly improve velocity for both buyers and sellers. Buyers can develop new supplier relationships, run more events, and save more money. Sellers can quickly respond to RFPs and focus on their next sale.\n\n## **Team**\n\nWe’ve been friends for 18 years and have deep engineering and ops experience at companies like Palantir, Datadog, Affirm, and Nextdoor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79017&key=user_uploads/1355492/4b7de3a9-c552-4543-a8f3-2599bfd849c8)\n\n## **Ask**\n\n* Intro us to sourcing or procurement professionals! Drop us a line at [aidan@kontractify.com](mailto:founders@kontractify.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KYT-kontractify-painless-rfps-powered-by-llms", "votes": 124, "created_at": "2024-03-04T18:10:59.295Z" } ] }, { "id": 29404, "name": "Diana", "slug": "diana", "former_names": [ "DianaHR" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/020f142d48a9efde3733971776a68c441557dfe7.png", "website": "https://getdiana.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "The first business-ready OpenClaw platform. 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Before Diana, she was Head of Engineering for Gusto's HR Platform, and before that, Salesforce and a string of startups.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/upeka/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/upekabee", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4c99381b1238cb20482c9e6ec548e0acb1d74129.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "DianaHR Raises $3.7M Seed Round to Redefine HR for Startups with AI Agents | DianaHR", "url": "https://www.getdianahr.com/blog/dianahr-raises-3-7m-seed-round-to-redefine-hr-for-startups-with-ai-agents", "date": "Sep 15, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 99731, "title": "Diana - Give Your Employee An Employee", "tagline": "The first business-ready OpenClaw platform. A governed AI assistant for every employee, embedded directly into Slack.", "body": "Hey YC! 👋\n\nWe're [Upeka](https://x.com/upekabee) and [Dilan](https://x.com/dilan), co-founders of [Diana (W24)](https://x.com/getdiana).\n\nEvery OpenClaw today is an intern with root access and no oversight. ☠️🏴‍☠️\n\n**So we built the first one that has a boss.** 🦞\n\nDiana is a business-ready OpenClaw with a Governor monitoring every action - that can shut it down mid-task, before damage is done. \n\n\n\n**TL;DR:**\n\n**🛡** Diana is a business-ready OpenClaw with a Governor monitoring every action\n\n**⚡** Connect 3,000+ tools via API, or log into any app via Browser Logins\n\n**🔒** Per-user credential isolation. Every employee gets their own sandboxed agent\n\n**🏗** Built by engineers from Google, Gusto, MIT, CMU, and Yale\n\n## **The Governor**\n\nHere's the thing about OpenClaw: it talks directly to your tools. Slack, Notion, your APIs. No filter. No oversight. If it hallucinates or gets prompt-injected, it acts on your systems before anyone can stop it.\n\n**Diana never talks to Slack, Notion, or your APIs directly.**\n\nEvery action routes through the Governor first. It checks intent, filters output, and watches for drift in real-time. If something is off, the Governor kills the action before it reaches your systems. Not after. Before.\n\nThe architecture:\n\n→ Slack ingress hits the Governor (trust boundary)\n\n→ Governor routes to isolated agent sandboxes\n\n→ Agent has zero DB access, zero secrets\n\n→ Every LLM and tool call goes back through the Governor\n\n→ Governor filters output before it reaches Slack\n\n## **3,000+ Integrations + Browser Logins**\n\nDiana connects to Slack, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Linear, GitHub, and thousands more via API.\n\n**And if there is no API? Diana logs in with a browser, just like you would.**\n\nHRIS portals, benefits platforms, 401k providers, state registration websites. If you can click it, Diana can work it. All through the Governor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99731&key=user_uploads/128506/e04c3454-71cc-4c21-a942-3ba81aa51cd3)\n\n## **Give Your Employee Their Own Employee**\n\nDon't replace your team. Give them superpowers.\n\nDiana is simple to install and use: Install to Slack → connect your tools → **just ask**:\n\n**_→_** _\"Show me our Hubspot pipeline by stage and expected close date\"_\n\n**_→_** _\"Build me a revenue dashboard in Google Sheets for our March Investor Update. Send me a revenue dashboard every month.\"_\n\n**_→_** _\"Review these 5 invoices against the tracking spreadsheet let me know if there are any discrepancies\"_\n\n**_→_** _\"Every Monday at 9am, send me a summary of the #general Slack channel from last week\"_\n\n**_→_** _\"Onboard Sarah Chen as Senior PM into HRIS Payroll. Here’s the offer letter.\"_\n\n**Diana works across finance, operations, sales, product, engineering, marketing, and HR. Built for every employee on earth. Hire humans, and help them to 10x.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99731&key=user_uploads/128506/48d04c0d-9f5e-4983-80a5-d3a5382d8eb3)\n\n## **The Backstory**\n\nBefore Diana, we built DianaHR, a fractional HR service for SMBs. Running that business, we saw firsthand how much time operations teams waste on repetitive tasks: onboarding new hires into HRIS systems, chasing unsigned documents, answering the same benefits questions, filing state registrations.\n\nWhen OpenClaw exploded, we saw the opportunity: an AI agent that could actually do this work. But the security gaps were a dealbreaker for business use. So we built a Governor on top, added per-user credential isolation, and created Browser Logins so Diana could work with tools that don't have APIs.\n\nBacked by Y Combinator (W24), General Catalyst, and SNR Ventures. Built by a team from Google, Gusto, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Amazon.\n\n**And this is just the start. Our goal is an AI employee so trusted you can hand it an entire business function and let it run.**\n\n## **Our Asks**\n\n**Try Diana for free.** If you want an OpenClaw agent AND peace of mind: [**getdiana.com**](http://getdiana.com)\n\nFor YC founders we are giving one month free of our assistant tier. Ping me on Bookface or email for a code!\n\n**Feedback.** If you try Diana and something breaks or feels off, tell us. DM me on Slack, email [upeka@getdiana.com](mailto:upeka@getdiana.com), or find me on X at @upekabee\n\nLet's go. 💚\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99731&key=user_uploads/128506/8868ea14-86aa-45c3-916e-6a194d45de54)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PwZ-diana-give-your-employee-an-employee", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-14T16:01:32.173Z" }, { "id": 77951, "title": "✅ DianaHR - Give us your people ops and take back your time", "tagline": "Put your company's people ops on autopilot and save 10+ hours a week", "body": "Hey everyone! We are [Tim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-kral-512b5b3/) and [Upeka](https://linkedin.com/in/upeka) and today we are launching [DianaHR.](https://getdianahr.com/) We offer businesses an expert HR and Operations team to **manage tedious people ops tasks.**\n\n**Tl;dr**\n\nWe are building a better way to support business owners with back-office tasks like compliance, HR, state registrations, employee onboarding/offboarding, and payroll and benefits administration. We add a human expert to your team, who'll run everything using your own software tools. Prices start at $99/month.\n\n**❌ The Problem** \n\nOnce you hire your \\~5th employee, you find yourself spending hours each week dealing with people ops - managing all the software yourself, spending hours on the phone with customer support, and pulling your hair trying to deal with those state registration letters. You signed up for a PEO hoping things will get better, but you don’t have any control and spend more hours dealing with their central hotline. \n\nAll you want is to focus on your business. And all this stuff gives you anxiety and you worry that you are doing something wrong. Just to make things worse, New York State has sent you a letter with a $10,000 fine.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77951&key=user_uploads/128506/d50c0995-aa60-4326-8160-f7426de967ad)\n\n**✨ Our Solution**\n\nMeet DianaHR. We offer you a fractional HR and Ops team that has seen it all. They will do what’s needed to keep you compliant, take busy work off your plate, and help you and your team focus on what matters - your business. Prices start at $99/month and are tailored based on your company's needs. Behind the scenes, we have a series of AI assistants to help scale our DianaHR experts. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77951&key=user_uploads/128506/026703cd-3aaa-439f-ac9f-e22d0ab601db)\n\n\\\n**🧑🏻‍🍳 Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77951&key=user_uploads/128506/d91c3663-d7dd-4180-9ccc-2d902728af27)\n\nWe are Tim and Upeka. \n\nWe met at Carnegie Mellon 17 years ago. This is the third time we have worked together. \n\nBefore DianaHR, Upeka was at Gusto where she was the Head of Engineering for their HR platform. Her teams built the feature set that put Gusto on the map as an HR provider beyond payroll and benefits. Before that, she worked at Salesforce and other startups. \n\nTim was the VP of Engineering at Relay Payments, a FinTech startup. Before that, he worked as an engineer at Salesforce, Medium, and other startups. \n\n**🙌 Our Asks**\n\n* Share this with anyone you know who does compliance and HR back-office tasks and needs help! Book time [here](https://calendly.com/upeka/30min) to discuss. \n* You can follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dianahr).\n\nEmail us to [founders@dianahr.ai](mailto:founders@dianahr.ai), for any questions.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KHH-dianahr-give-us-your-people-ops-and-take-back-your-time", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2024-01-30T02:40:38.048Z" } ] }, { "id": 29419, "name": "Lumetric", "slug": "lumetric", "former_names": [ "PocketPod", "Tredit IQ", "Lumetric", "Luminate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5db3d216f8cd442c59153d1bbdb9467d0b132e28.png", "website": "https://www.lumetric.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "An AI coworker for business professionals that actually does the work. 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Whether it's a daily news update or a deep dive into a specific topic, we allow people to consume information in a familiar podcast format. To start, we are creating fully personalized news podcasts delivered right to your Spotify every day.\n\n[Example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGZMiLgk9Q)\n\nSign up [**here**](https://news.pocketpod.app/) to get your very own daily news podcast tailored to your interests!\n\n# **😣 What’s the problem?**\n\n**There is a ton of information** widely available, in diverse formats, that was previously not feasible to have delivered via podcast-style audio\n\n**Human creators face inherent limitations** in the volume of information they can turn into high-quality content\n\n# **🎙️ The Solution - PocketPod**\n\n\\- Advances in LLMs and data processing allow us to comb through incredible amounts of information, aggregate, and process what’s important to you, and transform it into engaging new podcast formats.\n\n\\- Combined with advancements in text-to-speech models and it’s now possible to give everyone podcasts made just for them, on the information they care about.\n\n\\- Seamless integration with existing platforms, like Spotify, ensures quick, easily accessible, and personalized distribution\n\n# **Meet the Team**\n\n[**Davis Palmie**](https://linkedin.com/in/davispalmie) and [**Ross Cefalu**](https://linkedin.com/in/rcefalu) met freshman year at Georgia Tech. Ross was one of the first ten engineering hires at Flock Safety (YC17), and then worked at Microsoft, rebuilding the app launching experience used by 150M DAUs. Davis worked on Visa’s Next Generation Services team and also built the pioneering innovation lab tech team for a billion-dollar consulting firm.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78911&key=user_uploads/1318752/ceb17713-c244-4654-9b49-cd129b951b51)\n\n# **Our Ask: Try us out!**\n\nSign up [**here**](https://news.pocketpod.app/) to get your very own daily news podcast tailored to your interests!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWl-pocketpod-ai-generated-podcasts-tailored-to-your-interests", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2024-02-29T19:14:38.244Z" } ] }, { "id": 29420, "name": "Alai", "slug": "alai", "former_names": [ "Speakwell AI", "alai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f420df99f30c9be088cc4680dd53ce0144913d41.png", "website": "https://getalai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Alai makes it easy and quick to create high quality presentations with AI. 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You either spend hours pixel-tweaking in traditional tools or settle for low-quality AI-generated slides.\n\n**What Alai feels like**\n\nPaste rough notes and, in seconds, Alai gives you the best first draft you’ve seen. No more template hunting, blank page problem or making slides that are too text heavy.\n\n**Demo:** [**https://youtu.be/X86y9Mk3MJ4**](https://youtu.be/X86y9Mk3MJ4)\n\n**Our motivation**\n\nDesign should not come in the way of storytelling. We built Alai so that everyone can be proud of what they present.\n\n**Our ask**\\\nIf you’re making decks for fundraising, sales, marketing, product, or engineering, we’d love for you to try Alai. [Try now](https://getalai.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OcZ-alai-create-high-quality-presentations-quickly-with-ai", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2025-10-15T06:51:23.744Z" }, { "id": 79304, "title": "Alai: Create high quality slides with AI", "tagline": "Alai is an AI first presentation software that helps you build well designed slides quickly", "body": "Hey everyone! We are [Krishna](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnagupta21/) and [Anmol](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anmolsood/) from [Alai](https://getalai.com/)! \n\n### ⭐ TLDR\n\nAlai helps **tech professionals** create **high-quality** **presentations** **quickly** using AI. Today, we are launching the **first part** of our experience: a tool to create and iterate on **funnel** slides with the ability to **export** them to Google Slides in one click. \n\n### 🚨 The Problem\n\nOver **30 million** presentations are created **daily**. Countless important decisions are made at companies every day based on a presentation. However, it takes **too long** and most people **lack** the **skill** to make a presentation that effectively gets the point across.\n\nWe believe that this is because of 3 main reasons:\n\n1. **“Blank page” problem**:  It’s hard to get started staring at an empty deck. In our experience at tech companies, most information required to create the presentation already existed in other docs/tools and it still took a lot of time to get started.\n2. **Busywork:** A lot of time is spent finding the right slide template, fitting content into it, and struggling with other design details. This is especially painful when trying to change the structure like splitting a slide into multiple slides etc. \n3. **Too much text, not enough visuals:** Creating good visuals is hard and therefore a lot of presentations are text-heavy. People find it challenging to think of the right visual as well as being able to put it together.\n\n \n\n### 🎯 The Solution\n\nAlai is an AI-first presentation experience:\n\n1. Get **multiple** slide **options**: Just put in text and Alai will show you multiple high-quality options to choose from. \n2. Built-in **iteration loop** with **AI**: Iterate on the complicated design elements of your slide using natural language. AlaI also considers your manual edits when suggesting new options.\n\n **Yet another AI presentation tool?**\n\nWe think most of these tools are missing the point. Generating an entire presentation in one go leaves you with low-quality slides that still require a lot of polishing. We believe we can do better! \n\n **Our Launch Today**  \n\n We are launching our first tool today which helps you create funnels from text as well as edit them. You can also export them to Google Slides in one click.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79304&key=user_uploads/802359/cbd845b6-2f6b-44c1-aec2-515cd64c14a9)\n\n### 💪 Meet Krishna and Anmol\n\n[Krishna](https://linkedin.com/in/krishnagupta21) and [Anmol](https://linkedin.com/in/anmolsood) met in middle school and have been best friends for the last 17 years. Anmol was previously a staff software engineer at Meta where he worked on building presentation software in VR amongst other things. Krishna was an early engineer at Replicant where he worked on building the core experience as the company crossed over $10 million in revenue. \n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/UoER-kmSfH-egXrtMnQVrwgdmO7M0VC5btKF23Mjfvdgogzkspv1Dh0KICZ-XxtdP7RcSyp56vQofpdp1139-o_puUAiZfisKUWYH4mSUirDPMU5MorprtzKD05RBOGyhnyEkwvBQ_qF9txmYFI267w)\n\n### 🙏 Our asks\n\n1. Looking to create a funnel slide for one of your presentations? [Try us](https://getalai.com/) today and share feedback with us at [founders@getalai.com](mailto:founders@getalai.com) \n2. Did you recently create a presentation that took you a frustratingly long time to create? Reach out and share your experience with us!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kd6-alai-create-high-quality-slides-with-ai", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2024-03-12T15:32:33.751Z" } ] }, { "id": 29421, "name": "Thorntale", "slug": "thorntale", "former_names": [ "DataFlock (formerly EventFlock)", "DataFlock", "thorntale" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a98fa4032269294b4a2694ca5ae7b46bf5c449c2.png", "website": "https://thorntale.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. We've built a super capable AI assistant that can directly edit your slides, and coupled it with an advanced slide design system to keep things beautiful and professional.\r\nThorntale AI is designed to work alongside you as an AI collaborator. It can modify slide design and content, as well as give suggestions on what to improve to make your points clearer for your audience. 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[**_Try the beta here!_**](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link)\\\n\\\nHey y’all, we’re Dori, Ellen, and John, the team behind [thorntale.](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link) We’re building the software we wish we had in our pre-founder days.\n\n# \n\n# **❌ The Problem: Communicating data is hard. Current tools make it harder.**\n\nCompanies invest heavily in data teams and advanced tooling but still struggle to incorporate their work into decision-making. We believe this is due to where these findings get communicated: the presentation. Existing presentation tools do not integrate with the rest of the data stack, so instead people screenshot charts and copy-paste tables into their decks. This creates situations where data is miscommunicated, missing, or inaccurate. \n\n# 🌟 **Our Solution: Presentation software that integrates with your data stack.**\n\nBy connecting live data to your presentations and starting from professionally curated templates, presentations in thorntale aren’t just pretty, they’re functional. We create charts in-app that match your presentation’s theme, so you can focus on telling a persuasive story instead of formatting. Using thorntale, you’ll save time and make better business decisions. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/f3af5be2-75bf-46ff-9ba4-056c065197cb)\n\n# 🧩 **Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/528f12a3-8f5e-40b0-acfc-1ce5f838135a)\n\nfrom left to right:\n\n[**Ellen**](https://linkedin.com/in/ellenfkh)**:** Backend & Infrastructure. Previously big data at Microsoft, SRE at Cruise, distributed systems, and real-time video at Mux.\n\n[**John**](https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-stimac)**:** Frontend, backend, & data engineer. Worked on big data at Yelp, and most recently did data engineering at Clockwise.\n\n[**Dori**](https://linkedin.com/in/doris-lee-wilson)**:**  Data Scientist turned CEO. Crafted data stories at Uber, CircleCi, Mux, Pave, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask: Try us!**\n\n* Try us out! We’re improving the product every day, and want to know what you think! [Get Started.](https://bit.ly/3uClStS)\n* If you’re a business, we’re more than happy to build custom templates and make documents using your branding. [Book time with us.](https://calendly.com/d/3xd-4y9-km2/chat-with-thorntale)\n* Connect us with the people in your life who regularly make presentations using data by sharing this post or emailing [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)\n\nSend any questions, inquiries, or pretty charts our way at [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUw-thorntale-presentation-software-built-for-data-storytelling", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2024-02-27T07:26:35.110Z" } ] }, { "id": 29450, "name": "Aqua Voice", "slug": "aqua-voice", "former_names": [ "Aqua AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d22bb000a0037079229fda6aeaac2b72cceaff1.png", "website": "https://aquavoice.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Super fast AI dictation that lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal. 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I’m excited to show you what we’re building.\n\n> This feels like upgrading voice dictation on my Mac _making it work how it should work_.\n\nThe desktop experience is the best way to use Aqua yet. It lets you talk easily into any app and comes with:\n\n\\- **Fine-tuning:** can have up to 800 custom words/phrases at a time, no pronunciation tuning required.\n\n\\- **Context Awareness:** automatically identifies relevant words and phrases in the active application. This uses system accessibility APIs (not screenshots, like some others) and is heavily processed on device before inference to preserve privacy.\n\n\\- **Command recognition:** the system now shows you what it's going to do before it does it. \"Deleting…\" or \"Adding to list…\" or \"Fixing Spelling…\"\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86308&key=user_uploads/1652937/f10f3395-e52f-487a-a34f-10b598444c68)\n\nWe've also spent a ton of time getting **better out-of-the-box accuracy.** Our core transcription engine is the most accurate real-time system that we know of. **We scored 3.2% WER on Librispeech clean, significantly better than the next best real-time system we tested (Google) at 5.5%.** We also released a benchmark that tests accuracy & human-friendly formatting which showed that out of the box, Wispr Flow makes 10x as many mistakes as Aqua Voice for emails and technical writing. The full write-up including audio and code is available [here](https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86308&key=user_uploads/1652937/9762e173-97c9-46b5-9e2e-e7e8ea073105)\n\nEveryone uses dictation for different reasons - I started in sixth grade (dyslexic) with Dragon Professional and always wanted it to be more than a clunky substitute for the keyboard. Hopefully Aqua Desktop can be that for some of you.\n\n\\-Finn", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MS4-aqua-voice-desktop-write-clear-well-formatted-text-using-only-your-voice", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2024-12-13T21:06:31.018Z" }, { "id": 79717, "title": "🎙️ Aqua Voice - Voice-only text editor", "tagline": "Dictation as seamless as talking to a professional writer", "body": "Edit: Check us out on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39828686) (currently #1)!\n\n**TLDR:** [**Aqua**](https://withaqua.com/) is a voice-native text editor. Imagine dictating to a professional writer who can clean up your phrasing, fill in words, and understand your intent.\n\n🟩 Watch our demo video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSAKg1YafM):\n\n**🔴 Problem**\n\nDictation still **sucks**:\n\n* It's not very accurate.\n* You have to learn specialized commands.\n* Edits require the keyboard.\n\n[**Finnian Brown**](https://linkedin.com/in/finn-brown-3b0b56113) has never been a very good speller (he’s dyslexic) and has been using dictation software since the sixth grade, when his dad got him set up on Dragon Dictation to write papers for school. It's always been easier for him to dictate—despite the janky software.\n\nDictation has remained surprisingly rigid in the era of LLMs. They make a lot of mistakes (see Siri lmao). All existing dictation services rely on learning a set of specialized commands.\n\nThey struggle to distinguish between filler phrases/commentary and stuff you actually want to write down.\n\n**🌎 Aqua**\n\nAqua innovates on this paradigm by fusing real-time audio and an LLM to understand your intent. It does as much of the writing and formatting as you ask it to.\n\n**Accuracy is King 👑** - Better than Whisper! - we use an MoE transcription architecture to have a lower WER than Whisper-largev3 in real-time.\n\n**Think Don’t Type 🧠** - Aqua can execute arbitrary commands. You don’t need the keyboard. Most people talk **twice as fast** as they can type.\n\n**Make Writing Chill 🏝️** - Aqua reacts naturally to feedback and can recover from mistakes if you tell it to!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79717&key=user_uploads/1653094/f99f4176-5433-45ca-89be-738edeb4746c)\n\n🙏 **Asks**\n\nTry Aqua Voice! No account is needed; just head over to . If you like it, sign up for $10/month after a 1000-token free trial.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kjl-aqua-voice-voice-only-text-editor", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2024-03-26T18:07:25.698Z" } ] }, { "id": 29452, "name": "Fluently", "slug": "fluently", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ac751ae51071034b75af18536b15a7ec51b6c117.png", "website": "https://getfluently.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Imagine a human-like English tutor, but 20x cheaper and available 24/7 - that's Fluently!\r\n\r\nFluently made for people who already know the basics of English but want to feel truly confident in real conversations: whether that’s in an interview, a business meeting, or chatting with friends.\r\n\r\nMost English learning apps are built for beginners and don’t help you improve speaking skills.\r\n\r\nWith Fluently, you get:\r\n- Unlimited real-world speaking practice\r\n- Personalized learning plan\r\n- Free English level assessment and progress tracking\r\n- Real progress in English speaking skills\r\n\r\nWe’re non-native founders who know the stress of speaking English in important moments. 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Built for people who already know the basics but want to speak fluently.\n\n### **Problem — Getting fluent in English is hard**\n\n* **Fluency only comes from regular speaking practice:** The only way to truly improve is to speak consistently and iterate on your mistakes. There's no shortcut.\n* **Most language apps aren't built for speaking:** They're essentially games for beginners - they won't give you the real-time speaking practice you'd get from actually talking to someone.\n* **Nobody gives you the honest feedback you need:** Most non-natives feel anxious about their mistakes but never actually hear about them - colleagues stay polite, and even tutors rarely provide the detailed, personalized feedback that would help you truly improve.\n\n### **Solution — Get actionable feedback on every call**\n\n* **Learn on the go:** Fluently is always available for a real-time conversation - just open the app and start speaking. No scheduling, no waiting.\n* **Personalized insights:** Fluently analyzes your real speech and pinpoints exactly where you need to improve — whether it's pronunciation, fluency, or vocabulary.\n* **Actionable feedback:** Practice pronunciation, improve fluency, and grow your active vocabulary to boost your English skills.\n\n### **Who is this for?**\n\n* **Non-native speakers** who want to finally speak English fluently and confidently - not just \"know\" the language, but actually use it in real conversations without hesitation or anxiety.\n* **International companies** who understand that communication efficiency directly impacts business results. Companies already invest in language training for their employees - Fluently makes that investment practical and measurable, helping teams communicate more clearly with clients, partners, and each other.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\n* 🎓 **Intros to multinational companies** that invest resources in their employees' growth, **especially in English learning**. Please, email [yrebryk@getfluently.app](mailto:yrebryk@getfluently.app).\n* **👉 Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhnAZ-BAuzcKhaB5QFvtLgYHCt6v1Q-r1hKuBMwMkzs8ykjQ/viewform) to get access.** We’re onboarding our users one by one. DM me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yrebryk/) to get moved to the front of the waitlist.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVu-fluently-your-personal-ai-english-tutor", "votes": 152, "created_at": "2024-02-28T18:27:10.285Z" } ] }, { "id": 29647, "name": "Party", "slug": "party", "former_names": [ "Maitai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/338e5b72183a79e0cc2f337341f8e76e89c641a2.png", "website": "https://party.build", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Party is the secure workspace for your team and agents to build together, in the open. Agent Flows handle 95% of the work and your team can see it all happen and step in when needed to steer. It's built for teams and collaboration first, but caters to the solo builder as well. Use any harness/model - your keys or ours. Cost observability. Memory. Dual-level session sandboxing.\r\nSlack/Teams are comm-first with agents as second-class citizens. Party is work-first and the communication happens where the work is being done. Party is for teams who want to build better and faster than their competition. 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My thing is leading teams that build and scale new products alongside users.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/christian-dalsanto", "x_url": "https://x.com/dalsanto_c", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/76da4d6ad72c409df7fcf91869de99f70fec020b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Phonely’s new AI agents hit 99% accuracy—and customers can’t tell they’re not human | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/phonelys-new-ai-agents-hit-99-accuracy-and-customers-cant-tell-theyre-not-human/", "date": "Jun 03, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83311, "title": "Maitai - Reliable AI without the heavy lift", "tagline": "Real-time autocorrections and load balancing to solve your LLM issues today + tailored models that improve over time.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Maitai is an ultra-lightweight layer between your app and LLM providers, ensuring reliability and passive continuous improvement.\n\n[Try Maitai](https://portal.trymaitai.ai)\n\n# The Problem:\n\nGetting LLMs into production is complex and time-consuming. Teams today spend much of their time-fighting hallucinations, suboptimal output, and mitigating problems plaguing their providers. Though this is necessary for a production-ready application, it can be a massive distraction from building and expanding the core product, not to mention a sizable investment. Hallucinations can quickly deteriorate the user experience and are difficult or impossible to fully fix. Model outages or degraded performance make any meaningful traffic a nightmare. Consistent response times are usually only solved today with dedicated compute environments, which can be too costly for most companies to consider. The more you make progress on these issues, the more you become locked into a provider.\n\n# The Solution: A Dependable Middleman\n\nMaitai integrates seamlessly between the application and model providers to handle the heavy lifting behind the scenes. The result? Higher quality, reliable model output with passive incremental improvement - without any new code. We leverage our robust real-time evaluation engine to build a deep understanding of the customer's application, as well as the capabilities of all major models, in order to deliver consistent, dependable results. This abstraction layer is essential as the AI landscape evolves and new models emerge.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/d9d0ba25-8ae2-48c4-b5ae-6a9f891d493c)\n\n**Real-time Evaluations**\n\nFor each application, we build an understanding of the expectations that the user has for each request. We then evaluate all model output to ensure it adheres to these expectations, in under 200ms. Detected faults can be surfaced to the user in a callback or webhook. Users can also allow Maitai to leverage these evals to autocorrect any faulty output we find, ensuring clean, reliable responses.\n\n_Example:_ One of our customers is a voice-ordering company for restaurants. They use Maitai to ensure the model always requests consent from the customer before sending a text message. Failure to do so would put them out of compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, resulting in heavy fines and lawsuits. Maitai has prevented this from happening 14 times.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/858792ed-11e9-40b8-92c2-d46c244ae91b)\n\n**Highly-available Inference**\n\nAs AI adoption grows, all providers are having trouble keeping up with the demand. As we continuously profile all models we support, we see this manifest as outages and degraded performance many times throughout each day. Maitai uses our model health data to preemptively fall back to a similar model if we notice degraded performance or an outage. Avoid failed responses and get more consistent response times without shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars on dedicated compute.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/d10bbf2a-7fd4-47c3-8788-1a8aeffdeb0b)\n\n_Our health checks on gpt-4o from us-west2 show consistent performance only \\~90% of the time, with frequent spikes to 400%+ usual response times._\n\n**Passive Incremental Improvement**\n\nWith Maitai, you gain access to models that are higher quality than GPT-4o, 5x faster, and 10x cheaper — tailored specifically for your application. Our evaluation data not only allows us to immediately improve output quality and reliability, but also lends way to passively building application-specific models that are higher quality, more performant, and cost less than closed-source alternatives. Access the best models for your application, with updates as often as every few days.\n\n**Actionable Alerts**\n\nGet briefed on problems as they occur to quickly remedy a bad situation. Maitai surfaces real-time faults or session summaries right in Slack, then allows you to chat with your data to explore deeper. Never miss a chance to improve a potentially negative customer experience ever again.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/c93ad111-9921-4213-a32e-4c13fcf00573)\n\n**Micron Thin**\n\nWe've invested heavily in making our presence as light as possible. Maitai adds <30ms to each request (and improving!). Get all the benefits of using Maitai without any drawbacks.\n\n# Our Ask:\n\n* If you're building with LLMs, let us help. It takes 2 minutes to integrate, and you can bring your own keys. We can even do it for you while you browse Slack/Reddit/HN. [Get Started](https://portal.trymaitai.ai)\n* Host LLMs or experts at fine-tuning? Let's chat!\n* Let us know your biggest problems building with LLMs.\n\n[founders@trymaitai.ai](mailto:founders@trymaitai.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/06d87dd9-3243-4c88-b4bd-5430256d5e79)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lfj-maitai-reliable-ai-without-the-heavy-lift", "votes": 69, "created_at": "2024-08-22T17:08:56.471Z" } ] }, { "id": 29666, "name": "Willow", "slug": "willow", "former_names": [ "Willow", "Willow Voice" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d1a38295742d380ffb6bd899dae457066824da5.png", "website": "https://willowvoice.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Willow is an AI dictation app that lets you type with your voice. Built to 4x the productivity of anyone spending too much time on email, docs, and AI prompting workflows.\r\n\r\nWe’re Mac-only for now. 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This makes them impractical to deploy at scale.\n* Closed source model lock-in means customers can’t tweak or tune their own model, or deploy on-prem for sensitive data solutions. \n\n### The Solution\n\nModel Distillation:\n\n* In model distillation, a large **teacher model** effectively fine tunes a smaller **student model** without the need for _labeled_ or _structured_ datasets. This ‘condenses’ large models down to the compute cost of small models.\n* Distillation results in near-frontier model quality, with efficient performance. This means we can achieve 5x the speed at 1/10th the cost.\n* With the release of Llama 405b in late July, open source frontier distillation became available to the public for the first time. \n\n### Growth & Market\n\n* Llama model downloads have grown 10x in the last year and are approaching 350 million downloads to date. 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Software engineers spend 70% their day reading existing code to gather context - we’re fixing that. \n\n**Our Ask:** Try our [VS Code Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeViz.codeviz#review-details), [tell us](https://calendly.com/liam-codeviz/15min) what you think, or [set up](https://calendly.com/liam-codeviz/15min) CodeViz for your team!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83115&key=user_uploads/885544/6ee8d3c7-0363-426c-ac46-c0a861aa4f7e)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Liam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-prevelige/) and [Will](https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamlmccall/), and we’re building CodeViz, the dev tool we wish we had at Tesla. 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With et al., you get to stay on top of breakthroughs in your field, build knowledge, and discover new interests effortlessly.", "one_liner": "Feed of insights extracted from your go-to sources using LLMs.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1725753822, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Consumer", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/et-al", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/et-al.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/company/et-al-app/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d505a9f785d5fbe835969de244a7a0e565f25d58.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": 1953355, "full_name": "Marie van der Klink", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Design engineer graduate from Imperial College London with experience in software and UI/UX design.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-van-der-klink/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d5ece306e8fda28eee6b84037441fd602158fedf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1971381, "full_name": "Carine Fattal", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Masters in design engineering from Imperial College London. Experience in mobile app development and interaction design.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/carine-fattal/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8bf49d9136545f833f883624a01d53f179f9028b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83843, "title": "et al. - Knowledge back on a scroll", "tagline": "Your daily feed of insights extracted from your go-to sources using LLMs.", "body": "**TL;DR** - et al. is a mobile app that brings together your newsletters, research papers, podcasts, and more in one place. Imagine a Twitter feed powered by LLMs delivering useful content in short-sentence insights.\n\n**Test our beta** [**here**](https://www.et-al.io/signup) - we need your feedback!\n\n\n\n## 🚫 **Unopened newsletters, lengthy reads, hidden links…**\n\nThere’s a ton of valuable content out there, but key insights are often buried in long formats or hidden behind multiple clicks. With faster consumption habits, finding specific information for work or topics you care about often ends up with you prompting an LLM or typing into a search bar.\n\nYou can subscribe to newsletters, but they tend to be lengthy and rarely specific enough for the applications or areas that matter to you. More than half of them remain unopened, and less than 1% actually lead to a click-through.\n\nThen, there are podcasts, web articles, and blog posts scattered across the web and your different devices. Not to mention research papers, which hold highly valuable insights but are hard to find through a simple browser search and often end up unnoticed.\n\n## 📜 **Knowledge back on a scroll**\n\net al. turns scrolling into a smarter habit. You tell us your interests and what sources you follow and we curate a personalized feed of short insights you can scroll through daily.\n\nWe use LLMs to extract content from your newsletters, research papers, podcasts, and more by navigating through all the relevant links to identify the original piece of information. We then generate insights directly from that source and allow you to read as little or as much as you want from the original content.\n\nWith et al., you get to build your knowledge, discover new interests, and stay on top of the breakthroughs that matter to you - all in one place.\n\n## 👥 **About Us**\n\nHey everyone — we’re [Carine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carine-fattal/) and [Marie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-van-der-klink/)! We’re design engineers who met five years ago during our Masters at Imperial College London. We previously worked together on a research app for students and researchers - through which we realized there’s a ton of valuable content locked away in long formats or hidden in unread emails. Now, we’re using LLMs to turn all this content into a personalized feed for smarter scrolling.\n\n## 💬 **Our Ask**\n\n**Test our beta** [**here**](https://www.et-al.io/signup) and give us feedback so we can turn et al. into your go-to app for knowledge.\n\n**Share the** [**link**](https://www.et-al.io/signup) with others if you like et al. or know someone who’d use it!\n\n**Drop us a message at** [**founders@et-al.io**](mailto:founders@et-al.io) - we’d love to hear your thoughts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83843&key=user_uploads/1953355/ad1bbf2b-07ed-48c8-8e19-e5a5faad34b1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LoJ-et-al-knowledge-back-on-a-scroll", "votes": 161, "created_at": "2024-09-08T02:46:12.668Z" } ] }, { "id": 29951, "name": "Rowboat Labs", "slug": "rowboat-labs", "former_names": [ "RowBoat Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c4e76ac514dde1b24f29f53724cc0f032c90a91.png", "website": "https://www.rowboatlabs.com", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India; Remote", "long_description": "Rowboat is an AI coworker for everyday work - email, meetings, projects, and people. It builds a local knowledge graph from your work and uses it to draft emails, prep meetings, track projects, and get work done on your own computer. It comes with batteries included - meeting note capture, in-app browsing, search, and app integrations - plus MCP support for custom tools.", "one_liner": "Open-source AI coworker with memory ", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1723615480, "tags": [ "Productivity", "Open Source", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rowboat-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/rowboat-labs.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rowboat-labs/", "x_url": "https://x.com/rowboatlabshq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c4e76ac514dde1b24f29f53724cc0f032c90a91.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 189004, "full_name": "Arjun Maheswaran", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building Rowboat. Previously co-founded Agara AI (acquired by Coinbase). Ex-Twitter. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/arjunmaheswaran", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/segmenta", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/38d4e161e8555a535628f2d0009b45fa977801bc.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2094073, "full_name": "Ramnique Singh", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at RowBoat Labs. Helping companies supercharge CX using LLMs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramnique", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2d40ef90b40e63de1f4b45cea972300dc268904b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 106800, "title": "Rowboat – Your AI coworker, with memory", "tagline": "Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop: an AI coworker with a memory of your work as plain Markdown, and work surfaces you can build yourself.", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nRowboat is an open-source AI coworker with two parts. (1) Memory: it turns your email, meetings, and notes into a living knowledge graph, saved as plain Markdown files on your disk. (2) Work surfaces: a built-in email client, meeting notetaker, notes, and browser, plus apps you can build or install from the community. The assistant helps inside the work itself, not just in chat.\n\n16,600+ GitHub stars - Front page of Hacker News twice in 2026.\n\n ·[ https://www.rowboatlabs.com](https://www.rowboatlabs.com)\n\n\n\nHey, we're Arjun and Ramnique.\n\nAt our previous startup, we built a deep-learning product for enterprise support reps at Fortune 100 brands like P&G. The models took live notes, suggested replies, and recommended actions while reps were on calls or handling emails. Coinbase acquired us in 2021. One lesson stuck: it's not enough for the AI to be right. The help has to show up where the work is happening.\n\nSo we built Rowboat around what we call \"work surfaces\": dedicated areas for email, meetings, notes, browser, and parallel coding, where the assistant helps inside the workflow itself rather than only through chat.\n\n* **Email client:** Rowboat has a simple email client that sorts incoming emails into important vs. everything else, and pre-creates drafts for important emails. As you edit and send emails, it takes notes on your style, so future drafts get closer to your voice.\n* **Meeting notes:** We built a Granola-style local meeting notetaker. Notes are stored as plain Markdown files on your machine. After a meeting, Rowboat feeds the notes back into the knowledge graph and updates the relevant people, project, and topic notes.\n* **Browser:** We added a built-in browser, isolated from your main one, where you can log in only to the accounts you want the assistant to help with. The assistant uses browser-use skills to navigate websites.\n* **Parallel coding:** The code-mode inside Rowboat lets you spin up multiple instances of Claude Code or Codex and either work with them directly or let Rowboat use your work context to orchestrate them. We built an ACP (Agent Client Protocol) client in Rowboat for this.\n* **Notes:** Rowboat has an Obsidian-style local note-taking system. It comes with graph view, bases view, and voice notes. You can also sync Google Docs files and edit them inside Rowboat.\n\nAn example email work surface - triage plus pre-drafted replies in your voice:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106800&key=user_uploads/189004/b957ae9a-2186-42a4-a0cd-3e56554221c7)\n\nYou can also build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (web apps). Each app gets its own UI and a background agent, and can use all of Rowboat's tools, product integrations, and your work memory. For instance: an app to manage GitHub activity, project tracking, or ads campaign management. There are a few community apps at launch that you can search and install. Publishing your own is one click from inside Rowboat: connect your GitHub and it creates the repo and registers the app for you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106800&key=user_uploads/189004/1c8fea41-3dbe-4a41-8202-9a1564531d71)\n\nAll of this is powered by the Brain: a knowledge graph of your work that Rowboat builds and maintains automatically, so every surface starts with full context. We did a Show HN on it a few months back: .\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106800&key=user_uploads/189004/ed015055-6816-4b6f-b9de-ab17364f7ddf)\n\nAs an example that ties some of these together: you can create an app inside Rowboat that collects feature requests from your email, meetings, and Slack and ranks them, then uses Claude Code to draft a first version of the top-ranked feature, pulling prior context about it from your knowledge graph.\n\nRowboat is local-first: data is stored as plain Markdown files you can read, edit, or delete anytime. It is Apache-2.0 and works with any LLM, including local models through Ollama or LM Studio. You can also use your ChatGPT subscription. It works on Mac, Windows and Linux.\n\n**Shipped in public**\n\nEvery major Rowboat release has launched on Hacker News:\n\n* **Rowboat CLI** (Nov 2025): front page, 131 points. A Claude Code-style CLI agent for everyday work, two months before Anthropic's Cowork.\n* **Rowboat Knowledge** (Feb 2026): front page, 205 points, #1 on GitHub Trending. A living knowledge graph as plain Markdown, two months before Karpathy's viral LLM-wiki post.\n* **Rowboat Work Surfaces** (Jul 2026): front page, 219 points.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106800&key=user_uploads/189004/8a836991-df20-47b8-a5a0-eb4a07f3fb1e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106800&key=user_uploads/189004/cfd23cbb-905a-499f-9f67-60ae77b0f219)\n\n**How you can help**\n\n* Try it:[ https://www.rowboatlabs.com](https://www.rowboatlabs.com) (Mac, Windows, and Linux)\n* Star the repo:[ https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat](https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat)\n* Send it to one friend who lives in email and meetings", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Rma-rowboat-your-ai-coworker-with-memory", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-07-21T16:59:26.062Z" }, { "id": 83046, "title": "RowBoat Labs - LLM agents for human-like customer support", "tagline": "Faster resolutions and improved customer satisfaction with AI.", "body": "**Tl;dr:** [RowBoat](https://www.rowboatlabs.com/) is a pre-trained customer support LLM agent that seamlessly plugs into your systems, handles customer conversations, and performs tasks just like an expert human agent would.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nCustomer support is one of those rare opportunities for a brand to connect directly with its users. The best brands know this and invest heavily in coaching their human agents to deliver a great support experience.\n\nBut when it comes to automated support, most solutions rely on LLMs that aren’t specially designed for customer support and can’t learn from experience. This often leaves users stuck with impersonal and long FAQ-style responses in small chat windows, often missing the help they actually need.\n\nInternal teams might see some early wins with a public LLM + RAG setup, but that progress usually hits a wall fast. Before long, engineers are spending more time debugging common LLM issues instead of focusing on what actually matters: delivering great customer support. As a result, customer satisfaction rates (measured by surveys) get nowhere close to that of human agents.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nRowBoat is built and fine-tuned specifically for customer support\n\n* **Pre-Trained:** RowBoat is trained on a vast corpus of support conversations and further refined through self-play. It's like hiring a highly experienced customer support agent right from day one.\n* **Brand-Aligned:** RowBoat automatically indexes your public and internal knowledge, fine-tuning itself to align with your brand.\n* **Continuous Improvement:** RowBoat learns from every user interaction. When connected to your user metrics, such as resolution rates, RowBoat critiques its own performance to optimize for them continuously.\n\n… for internal engineering teams to build exceptional customer experience\n\n* **Plug & Play:** A drop-in replacement for GPT-4+ class LLMs, RowBoat offers immediate improvements in resolution accuracy. Our SmartRAG system readily integrates with your existing Elasticsearch or embedding-based retrieval systems for improved grounding.\n* **Tool Use & Personalization:** Equipped with a library of predefined functions, RowBoat can interact with and perform tasks on internal and external APIs. This makes RowBoat’s conversations highly contextualized to the user. \n* **Self-hostable:** RowBoat can be hosted inside your company’s cloud, especially for privacy-sensitive use cases.\n\nSeamless conversations…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83046&key=user_uploads/189004/99fef1b6-674c-4deb-902b-15ecdc895efe)\n\n… with continuous coaching\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83046&key=user_uploads/189004/cdb3fce5-1446-45c0-afaa-fa8b49135deb)\n\n# **Who we are**\n\nWe're a team of three engineers who have worked together for the last 7 years. [Arjun](https://linkedin.com/in/arjunmaheswaran) co-founded Agara, a customer support AI startup where [Ramnique](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramnique) and [Akhilesh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhilesh-sudhakar/) were part of the founding team. In 2021, Agara was acquired by Coinbase, where we built their automated customer support. We have published research and hold patents on LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, embeddings, and customer support.\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf your company has a customer support function, we’d love to connect with your CX or engineering team. Please reach out to us at [founders@rowboatlabs.com](mailto:founders@rowboatlabs.com). We’ll bring an LLM agent trained for your brand to our call 😊\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83046&key=user_uploads/2094077/7073cc25-f959-458c-a8e2-bcac591dfd2f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LbS-rowboat-labs-llm-agents-for-human-like-customer-support", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2024-08-14T19:39:27.540Z" } ] }, { "id": 29969, "name": "OrgOrg", "slug": "orgorg", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3fb29e15efef66c7b44bb861d2b14c2d4cc13ca4.png", "website": "https://orgorg.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "OrgOrg is a suite of apps that keeps teams productive and healthy regardless of the size of your organization. Founded by the creator of Zenter (YC 07, acquired by Google and became Google Slides), OrgOrg is designed to be a natural extension of Google Workspace Apps to help run organizations collaborate better leading to higher productivity.\r\n\r\nToday the suite includes apps like:\r\n \r\n• Go links: Go links allows anyone in the org to easily name any link so team members can jump directly to the information that matters most: go/sales, go/production, go/anything-you-want.\r\n• Profiles with Personality: OrgOrg profiles are as insightful as they are delightful. They not only show you the expected org chart data, but also highlight accomplishments, how you like to work, and who you are as a person.\r\n• Goal tracking: Track, share, and collaborate on \"big rock\" goals on the cadence that makes sense for your team from daily to annually.\r\n• Branded New Tab: Keep the team focused the next major milestone, broadcast announcements, and keep important links top of mind every time a new browser tab is opened.\r\n• All Hands Q&A: Crowdsource questions, anonymously if desired, for large team meetings to make sure everyone's voice is heard, and the most top of mind questions are answered and recorded.\r\n• Smart Groups: Create rules based groups of people and use them to make sure the right people are in the right conversations and have the right access. For example, anyone with the title of \"Software Engineer\" should be in the #eng slack channel and eng@ google group.\r\n• On-call: Schedule smart rotations that take into account balancing the load and using signals from calendar schedules to make sure you don't waste time figuring out who can cover what in a fair way. Easily page the on-call from slack, API, or OrgOrg directly.\r\n• And more...\r\n\r\nAll the tools you need so you can spend more time focusing on your core business, and less time focusing on the complexity that comes from running an organization.", "one_liner": "Organizational productivity suite for companies", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1722926943, "tags": [ "B2B", "Productivity", "Collaboration", "Operations" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully 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": "OrgOrg is the culmination of 25 years of being an operator. OrgOrg is the third company I’ve founded. My first, Zenter (YC S07), was acquired by Google and turned into Google Slide. I led much of the G Suite in the early days and grew the product to Google’s 4th billion dollar, and billion user product. As good as Google Workspace is as an employee productivity suite, it misses the mark as an organizational productivity suite. The tooling and applications needed to run organizations is largely missing from the suite. So, when I founded my second company in 2016, Humu, I found myself having to rebuild all the internal tools I’d come to rely on to run a productive organization. Things like great employee profiles, anonymous all hands Q&A software, go links, rules based groups of people, and about a dozen more tools and apps that are required run the organization were all absent from existing productivity suites. While there are point-wise solutions to solve some of these problems, it’s clear organizations need a suite of them that seamlessly operate together. In much the same way as the market for the employee productivity suite of docs, sheets and slides is larger than sum of the parts, so to is the market for an organizational productivity suite that brings the best tools together in a cohesive way." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "OrgOrg is solving the problems that arise from organizational complexity, so we can all be more productive and have a bigger impact. I’ve always had a passion for making work better for people. I believe working is fundamental to the human experience. We have a natural propensity to come together and build things that are bigger than what we could do by ourselves. In it’s purest form, work gives us a sense of purpose and joy. However, as organizations add people and grow linearly, the complexity that comes from each addition team member grows exponentially. The added complexity of having to interact with more people causes inefficiencies in communication, reduced focus and velocity, and erodes the sense of purpose that is critical to building successful teams. These problems can be mitigated with the right tooling and technology. With the advent of AI, it’s clear we are on the brink of a change in the labor market as big as the industrial revolution. But, make no mistake, work isn’t going away — because humans will always find ways to work together. The companies that embrace the fundamental reasons why we work, and embrace the technology to help mitigate the challenges of working together, are going to be the ones that are successful. 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His first startup, Zenter (W07), was acquired by Google and became Google Slides. Wayne spent 10 years at Google building GSuite, Sign-In with Google, Google+, Applied Machine Intelligence, and more. In 2016, Wayne founded Humu, a company focused on making work better by using software and behavioral change. Humu was acquired by Perceptyx in 2023. Wayne has also been a visiting partner at YC for S23 & W24 batches.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wcrosby/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/wcrosby", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a30dc9b080313e10ac0d3c8615e22d6fe7b9393a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87985, "title": "OrgOrg Screen Recording", "tagline": "Stop using Loom, Screen recording is now part of the OrgOrg Suite", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87985&key=user_uploads/39282/c43abadc-1483-4304-9217-ea072bc5b8db)\n\nThere are too many point wise SaaS products to run your org! Every couple of months, we knock off another one and include it in the OrgOrg suite. Today I'm excited to announce our Loom competitor, the Screen Recorder! 🚀\\\n[See a demo of in action, using the product itself](https://orgorg.com/recorder/33/34mxOUCLCWgqNYRUFZfnGk).\n\nWhether you need to record demos, pitches, bugs, or customer journeys, the Screen Recording app makes capturing and sharing information easy and engaging - connect OrgOrg to Slack to react with all your Slack emojis, too.\n\nIf you use loom today, this is an easy drop-in replacement. Now available to everyone, it streamlines communication and boosts productivity without paying for another product.\\\n\\\nThe OrgOrg suite now includes go/ links, an all-hands AMA, on-call, branded company new tabs, great employee profiles, an org chart, goals tracking, screen recording, and more is on its way. Let’s make all those internal tools work together better for WAY less.\n\nYou can sign up for a free OrgOrg account today at [orgorg.com](http://orgorg.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mt7-orgorg-screen-recording", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2025-02-25T00:07:37.549Z" }, { "id": 82924, "title": "OrgOrg - The Organizational Productivity Suite", "tagline": "Stop paying for all those pointwise internal tools", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82924&key=user_uploads/39282/98481f54-27d9-4673-8d6c-89454b13b5af)\n\n**TLDR;**\n\nWe’re building all the internal operational tools you need to run your company, no matter the size. My first startup (Zenter YC W07), sold to Google and became Google Slides. We changed the way more than a billion people work, and I’m doing it again with OrgOrg. Try it [here](https://orgorg.us).\n\n**The Problem - There are too many SaaS pointwise solutions! Seriously.**\n\nThe world over-rotated to point solutions in SaaS. It’s not unusual to have 20+ minor SaaS products to do various organizational chores. It’s easy to see why this happened because you need different tools at different sizes, but it’s also not what users want. It’s expensive, annoying to manage, and none of them work together to create a better user experience.\n\n**The Solution - OrgOrg!**\n\nOrgOrg draws on 25 years of experience leading high-performing teams from founding to big tech. We're building a suite with all the internal SaaS tools that you need for each stage of your company. You save money, time, and they all work together nicely.\n\nFor early stage companies, [Go links](https://orgorg.us/apps/shortlinks), “Big Rock” [Goal tracking](https://orgorg.us/goals), and branded [New browser tabs](https://orgorg.us/apps/new-tab) (with countdowns to your next milestone — like Demo Day) are great ways to stay focused and efficient. For larger teams, add in [Profiles with personality](https://orgorg.us/apps/peopleprofiles), [Smart Groups](https://orgorg.us/apps/rosters) (eg, add all engineers to the #eng channel & eng@ group), [All Hands Q&A](https://orgorg.us/apps/qa), and smart [On-Call management](https://orgorg.us/apps/on-call) to fight the problems that come with the complexity of larger teams. Our roadmap is full of high utility internal apps and tools that build on each to help you run your company better. No matter the size of your org, you can be confident that the right internal tools will be in place when you need them.\n\nJust as no one buys Google Slides alone, buying just an All-Hands Q&A product isn’t enough. OrgOrg’s suite offers significantly more value than the sum of the parts of existing pointwise solutions. At $5/person/month, it's easy to get started and join over 400 organizations already using OrgOrg today.\n\n**Asks**\n\nWant your team to move faster at every size? 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We take simple, deterministic instructions, and translate them into a code-based decision tree, which can be continuously run to automate correctness checks for complex rules systems.\n\nTake the example in our video: we get a glimpse at how extensive these rules worksheets can become today, and see how quick & easy it is to automate a rule for claims from a particular location, containing a particular code, billed to a particular insurance payer with Chorrie.\n\n# **Backstops-as-a-service**\n\nOur approach of plaintext ➡️ decision tree ➡️ code generation is a scalable technique that can be used to provide backstop checks (and ultimately automate) high-leverage, deterministic manual processes that are prone to human error (think contract review for legal documents, trade confirmations, etc.).\n\nTo automate checks for these today, you’d need a team of engineers to write the logic into code, and keep them on staff to ensure that code can be updated when the rules change. **With Chorrie, you get:**\n\n* A no-code solution: turn your SMEs into SWEs\n* No hallucinations in your automated workflows\n* Intrinsically deterministic & fully explainable conclusions\n\nWhile the focus today is on reducing claims denials to 0% for our healthcare clients, we plan to explore use cases in other fields in the future.\n\n# **About us**\n\nWe are Chris (the **Ch**) and Jorrie (the **orrie**), old friends who met in undergrad at MIT. 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So, like a human assistant, Friday will draft responses, perform outreach and follow up, text you when you get urgent emails, get rid of clutter, and more, so you can focus on the dozen or so actually important emails in your inbox.\n\nFriday is meant for anyone who would benefit from having an assistant manage their inbox. If you want to automate 99% of your emails, [try Friday](https://www.fridaymail.ai/) right now!\\\n\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nEmail sucks. You either spend hours dealing with all the emails in your inbox, or you ignore them.\n\nIt takes forever, and hiring a human assistant is costly and introduces privacy concerns.\n\n### **The Insight:**\n\nThe reality is that almost all of the emails you receive resemble emails that you have dealt with before.\n\nSo, you can just tell an AI what kind of emails you get, and tell it exactly how to handle those emails, and it can just do it for you.\n\nNow, you only have to deal with the important, fun, or unique emails, forever eliminating the chore of going through your inbox.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\n# **Smart Inbox**\n\nYou can tell Friday the kinds of emails you get using natural language, and then define actions that Friday should take once those emails come in.\n\nFor example:\n\n* When you get an investor email, Friday gives personalized answers to their questions and sends them a meeting link.\n* If a customer has an urgent request, have Friday text you so you can respond to them immediately.\n* Follow up with clients that take forever to answer their email, until they respond (they should use Friday).\n* If you get customer support emails, Friday answers their questions based on its memories and forwards the interaction to your cofounder.\n* Summarize all the notifications from GitHub, Linear, Google, etc., and then archive those emails\n* Whenever you get a new customer, Friday can search the web and write a personalized email to all of them, answering any questions they may have, immediately\n* And so much more!\n\nJust take a look at your inbox, see the emails that aren’t extremely important, and let Friday handle those emails from now on, so your inbox is left with the 5 emails a day that you want to personally handle.\n\n# **Personal Assistant**\n\nFriday also lets you chat with your personal assistant. You can have it reply to emails, check your inbox, send out personalized outbound, and more!\n\nFor example, if you wanted a meeting with Garry, you could ask Friday to go through your previous email history with Garry, perform a web search to learn more about Garry, and using what it knows about you, write a personalized email to him.\n\nYou can give it a dozen names or emails, and it’ll do research and write personalized emails to all of them that can be approved and sent out with a single message.\n\nGetting this right is difficult, so everyone else settles with trying to help you go through your email twice as fast. If you want to go 100x as fast, you shouldn't spend even a second on useless emails.\n\n### **Our Ask:**\n\n**This product is meant for anyone who would benefit from having an assistant manage their inbox. 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We’re building an AI-native platform that streamlines enterprise software implementations.\n\n**TL;DR:**\\\nEnterprise software implementations (Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, etc.) are messy and expensive, plagued by shifting requirements, misaligned teams, and obsolete documentation. Auctor's AI agents solve this by automatically capturing requirements, generating artifacts (like SoWs, proposals, architecture docs, user stories, and more), and seamlessly syncing everything across your tools, eliminating costly delays and change orders.\n\n🎬 **Launch Video:** https://youtu.be/A-T2gwZCOMM\n\n## **🚨 The Problem**\n\nEvery implementation team—whether at software vendors or tech consultancies—knows this pain:\n\n* Fuzzy, incomplete requirements at kickoff\n* Tribal knowledge buried in notes and scattered docs\n* Endless manual edits across SOWs, user stories, test plans, and more\n* Costly rework, misalignment, and change orders\n\nDespite billions invested annually, over 70% of enterprise implementations still experience significant delays, overruns, and failures.\n\n## **🚀 Our Solution**\n\nAfter over 300 customer calls, we've spent the last several months building what we think every implementation team needs:\\\n🧠 AI agents that join your discovery/refinement calls,\n\n✍️ capture every requirement,\n\n📄 generate artifacts—from SOWs & design docs to user stories & configs,\n\n🔁 and keep it all in sync every time something changes.\n\n**It’s like having a sales engineer, solutions architect, and a delivery lead...all working 24/7, automatically.**\n\n# 👫  **The Team**\n\nWe are four best friends who gave up our jobs at Meta, Google, AWS, and Apple, and dropped out of Johns Hopkins to tackle the broken implementation process head-on. \n\nWe're building a new intelligence layer that leading mid-market and enterprise customers are leveraging today to reshape how implementations get done, faster than ever.\n\nOh—and meet our fifth cofounder (Chief Bark Officer 🐶) in the photo!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90211&key=user_uploads/1780083/82da5007-0632-4ce8-9bad-43b68de9ee9b)\n\n## **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* Know any professional services, customer success, or tech consulting leaders struggling with complex implementations? We'd love an intro 👉 [will@getauctor.com](mailto:xinan@getauctor.com)\n* Curious how Auctor can transform your own implementations?[ Book a live demo here!](https://www.getauctor.com)\n\nThank you—more to come!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NT1-auctor-ai-agents-that-streamline-enterprise-software-implementations", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-05-08T15:15:31.679Z" } ] }, { "id": 30450, "name": "Kestral", "slug": "kestral", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/434f06dd5cbc21fd8688f57eddd151366b355c44.png", "website": "https://kestral.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Kestral makes it clear what your customers want most, prioritizes those tasks for highest leverage, and closes the loop with those customers.\r\n\r\nWe (Brian and Bernard) have been close friends since university, and most recently worked together at Asana, leading AI and Authorization efforts. There we realized AI can completely disrupt the $50B Work Management Market, but it required a fresh start.\r\n\r\nWhat work we even choose to manage in the first place is critical, and the most important insights from customers are silo-ed in sales/CS while R&D gives their best shot at roadmaps meant to deliver impact. Significant requests sit in a backlog, duplicate asks flood the system, months wasted on \"strategic investments\". We want to bridge this gap.\r\n\r\nThis message is resonating with heads of sales, heads of product, CEOs, as well as individuals, all trying to make sure the most important things get done, with less wasted effort and more revenue/retention.\r\n\r\nKestral works by automatically take in customer data like sales call transcripts & feature request messages and a team of agents:\r\n1. analyze them for actionable takeaways, deal blockers, and nice to haves\r\n2. consolidate them and manage all the asks with citations\r\n3. prioritize them by impact and frequency to cut through the noise so you can see the biggest opportunities clearly\r\n4. connect them to your existing strategic roadmap so when the work gets done, we can automatically follow back up with your customers and win them over\r\n\r\nThis is just step one of our mission to revolutionize how work gets done -- starting with what we choose to work on, and hope you follow us along for the ride!", "one_liner": "We automate your entire product development lifecycle.", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1746827982, "tags": [ "Productivity", "Team Collaboration", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kestral", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/kestral.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/kestral-team/", "x_url": "https://x.com/KestralTeam", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/434f06dd5cbc21fd8688f57eddd151366b355c44.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Andrew Miklas", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 12690, "full_name": "Brian Kim", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO - Building Kestral - the future of work in the AI era\n\nAfter studying Computer Engineering at USC, I was an early engineer at GoFundMe, started my own company in corporate sustainability, and most recently led AI Workflow initiatives at Asana.\n\nLet's talk about human/AI collaboration, for-profit for-good business models, and endurance sports (USA Nationals qualifying triathlete).\n\nAlso rap in a band and like dancing at parties/weddings.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-y-kim-16b7aa63/", "x_url": "https://x.com/BrianYKim_BYK", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/12e2c8d504d44d23205def342d4b812c4c9d4b83.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90532, "title": "Kestral - Your AI Work Prioritizer", "tagline": "Helping companies win more customers, faster.", "body": "Hey YC, we’re [Brian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-y-kim-16b7aa63/) and [Bernard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiebernard), and we’re building [Kestral](https://kestral.team/), your AI Work Prioritizer!\n\n**TLDR;** We make it clear what matters most to your customers and your business to guarantee your work has impact. (how? gotta read more)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/R8Q5qOWRv2I\n\n# **❌ The Problem** 😟\n\nCompanies spend too much money on Sales and R&D teams just for them to 🥤**suck🥤** at communicating with each other and this costs millions of dollars in blocked deals, churned customers, and time wasted on irrelevant roadmaps.\n\nThere’s gold in customer data in all its forms, yet even the most revered companies we talked to commonly lose sight of blockers and spend hours updating spreadsheets of feature requests.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90532&key=user_uploads/12690/c0a42d49-4b96-4711-b33e-50ebfa2b1d41)\n\n📣 “We have deep anxiety if we’re deploying our product teams appropriately…” - C-Suite @ a Public Company\\\n📣 “All my calls… in Gong. Feature requests … in Notion. We’ve got Salesforce. Why, in 2025, am I still grepping around for feature requests like a caveman?” - Head of Sales @ a Series B Startup\\\n📣 “… we’re tracking feature requests on spreadsheets” - GTM @ a Major LLM Provider\n\nCompanies KNOW they should do better… but without the right tools, they are:\n\n* Getting outmaneuvered by competitors by failing to adapt to customer trends as they come up\n* Wasting hours manually tracking and escalating tasks that end up sitting in a backlog\n* Worrying if users will care about their “strategic investments”.\n\n# 💭 📖 **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90532&key=user_uploads/12690/7fd4ffb6-0954-4fb8-b661-3063088bae79)\n\nWe instantly bridge this divide between customer-facing roles and product development by:\n\n1\\. Extracting ALL actionable tasks from a variety of sources (transcripts, Slack/Discord messages, GitHub issues…)\n\n2\\. Consolidating duplicate asks and prioritizing them by theme\n\n3\\. (optionally syncing to project management platforms like Linear/Notion until we displace them…)\n\n4\\. Closing the loop with them, so you go from feature launch to immediate customer engagement & guaranteed impact\n\n**We’re building teams of AI agents that:**\n\n🤖 - understand the context of roles, projects, companies, and customers\n\n🤖 - rank work on various heuristics like opportunity size, effort, and team goals\n\n🤖 - make direct connections between customer asks and R&D’s work\n\n🤖 - personally follow up with users or revitalize the pipeline to guarantee a positive business impact of work\n\nOur technology can also easily transition to save orgs countless hours by eliminating work about work, like updating the state of tasks from meeting transcripts/messages and giving status updates while reprioritizing.\n\n# 🤜💥🤛 **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90532&key=user_uploads/12690/f58ce5b7-6361-4c95-9035-6fd470b271d3)\n\n(pre-YC vacation together in Jeju)\n\nWe’re close friends since college and multiple-time founding members of prior startups. We recently crossed paths at Asana, where Brian was an AI Tech Lead, while Bernie led Enterprise Authorization projects.\n\nWe’re leveraging our experience to combine the cutting edge of memory and knowledge base management with AI Agent Permissions for Enterprise to build the future of work.\n\nWe fully understand that work management structures are crucial to providing the necessary context for AI to deliver real enterprise value, and we’re not scared of any existing players in this space.\n\n# 💡 The Opportunity\n\nOur mandate is to disrupt the work management industry that has a **$50B TAM**, but we’re starting first by truly understanding and prioritizing what a company works on. As agents get better and commoditized, we aim to be best positioned to help companies get the work done faster.\n\nThe existing tools in this space can charge 5-6 figures a year for speculative and limited insights from customers at best, and they don’t even make the connection to R&D’s real work. We can instantly help validate/derisk costly roadmap plans, as well as help companies adapt to their customers’ needs immediately, providing millions in value.\n\nWe’re also personally seeing some very large investments (millions) in hiring teams to build internal systems to try to connect impact to work that is still manual at heart. Our partner said that if you’re seeing someone build something painful just for themselves… you’re on to something.\n\n### 🟠 CALLING THE YC COMMUNITY 🧡\n\nWe’d love to meet more of you!\\\n🗣️ In a CRO, Sales, GTM, or Customer Success role, and want your requests prioritized? \\\n🗣️ Product Leader wanting to validate your strategy and get measurable results?\\\n🗣️ Building the latest in AI knowledge bases and memory?\n\nLet’s talk!\\\n\\\nWould appreciate any **warm intros** to the above as well! 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We have limited pilot spots.\\\n✉️ Email: [founders@bondapp.io](mailto:founders@bondapp.io)\\\n💬** **Text:** +1 (415) 418-4017\\\n**\\\n👉** For more info: [**bondapp.io**](http://bondapp.io)\\\n\\\n**Your time is too valuable to waste.** \\\n_Stop talking about work—let BOND be your CoS so you can actually get things done._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ncl-bond-ai-chief-of-staff-for-ceos-and-busy-execs", "votes": 195, "created_at": "2025-05-28T16:33:41.699Z" } ] }, { "id": 30655, "name": "Frizzle", "slug": "frizzle", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3daf2d29bc3da3d9f526ade87b3daa93b0d6a6cd.png", "website": "https://www.frizzle.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Frizzle uses AI to grade handwritten math assignments for teachers and transform them into rich analytics and differentiated assessment to help personalize instruction for every student. 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Also holds a patent for his work in LLM applications.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyamsai", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3dfece5ae465d4bdefcbb25defd3d01c1e17b6ec.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93211, "title": "Frizzle 📝 AI Grading for Math Teachers", "tagline": "Frizzle uses AI to grade math worksheets and assignments for teachers", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe’re [Abhay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhaygupta-/) and [Shyam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyamsai/) – co-founders of [Frizzle](https://www.frizzle.com/).\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n**Frizzle uses AI to instantly grade math worksheets and assignments for teachers**. Teachers have already graded thousands of worksheets and saved hundreds of hours using Frizzle! \n\n**Frizzle is an official [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/edai/) partner for bringing AI into education!**\n\n**Ask**: Can you introduce us to any math teachers, schools, or districts that would benefit from Frizzle? Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zx_mCw8soI\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nTeaching is one of the most important jobs in society, yet teachers are among the most overworked professionals. Many work 50–70 hours a week, often grading late into the night and on weekends.\n\nAcross the U.S., there’s a national teacher shortage where 1 in 8 teaching roles remain unfilled. Superintendents and principals consistently mention that teacher time is now their most valuable resource. But teachers lose 10+ hours every week just grading math assignments, time that could be spent supporting students. 25% of all their work is spent grading!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93211&key=user_uploads/332377/7654e581-e8c4-4cf2-b330-6f78bddfd521)\n\nExisting grading tools handle essays or multiple-choice questions, but fail with math, especially handwritten step-by-step work. Classrooms are also moving back to pen and paper, but teachers are left with more paperwork than ever and no scalable way to manage it.\n\nThis has created a massive bottleneck in the classroom, adding to burnout and pushing talented teachers out of the profession.\n\nUntil now…\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Frizzle, we’re a team of former math nerds and AI experts building the first system that actually handles math grading at scale.\n\nTeachers simply upload or snap a photo of student work and instantly get back:\n\n* **Accurate grading** ✏️: Every step graded in seconds, whether it’s handwritten or typed.\n* **Actionable insights** 📊: A class dashboard highlighting where each student is struggling across assignments.\n* **Student-friendly feedback** 🧑‍🏫: Clear explanations that help students learn from their mistakes, not just see a score.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfy5uI9ZGxksf8CXCUL5xLmMc9MdRY5IM3WmuBqz9HFynZMzwCudL_y5ydsK41z55RDJksFqnHEEw3aU48mgTUx4bm_VXnAZlSS7pbenqW9JOQIef6oQIZ4IWpTAdQ_LcW_Nh8oJg?key=q7LswlE0gngKWIM4LuJkjQ)\n\nFrizzle eliminates the 10–15 hours a week teachers lose to grading, giving them time back to focus on what matters most - teaching.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Do you know any math teachers that would benefit from an extra 10 hours in their week?\n* Do you know any schools or districts that would benefit from saving their teachers 10+ hours a week?\n* Have you scaled B2B SaaS into K–12 districts or worked closely with educators?\n\n👉 Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference in bringing Frizzle to more teachers. Thank you!\n\n**👬 The Team**\n\nAbhay and Shyam have been best friends and roommates since high school, where they met 10 years ago at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.\n\nAbhay (CEO) has helped scale an e-learning platform to millions in revenue and was previously a Product Manager at Coinbase, where he drove $50M in incremental revenue. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University.\n\nShyam (CTO) was a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, holds a patent in LLM applications, and co-founded the Midwest Math Circle, which has served hundreds of students for more than a decade. 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Slashy can do everything from writing drafts in your tone, texting you when an important email comes in, prepping you for calls, to the things you expect from a true email client like keyboard shortcuts, open tracking, a mobile app and more. All while continuously learning about you and your preferences, so it only gets better over time. The average user takes 5 minutes to get set up and saves an extra hour a day. Read an independent review from Tom’s guide (1m+ subscribers) [here](https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/slashy-is-the-ai-email-app-replacing-notion-mail-heres-why).\n\nYou can get started for free at [slashy.com](http://slashy.com), and use our YC deal for a long-term discount.\n\n**Launch Video:** \n\n## **Problem**\n\nMost founders we speak to, have one of two problems (sometimes both)\n\n1. They spend too much time manually handling email, and not enough building their company.\n2. They don’t spend enough time on email, and lose important deals/hires due to things slipping.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nThat’s why we built Slashy, the first email platform that reliably gets work done for you, whether it be drafting emails, notifying you when a prospect replies, schedule meetings, or more. Slashy works wherever you work best, so onboarding is seamless (just ask some of our users). It takes 10 minutes to set up, and saves the average email power user an extra one hour a day. It does this by:\n\n1. **Doing all the basic things right:** Stuff like keyboard shortcuts, open tracking, unified inbox, team comments, availability links, all come part of Slashy. So you don’t lose anything transitioning from Gmail, Superhuman, Front and more. ([@Jayme Hoffman](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/60463) actually switched to Slashy being surprised just that a new email client could match the speed, shortcuts of something like Superhuman)\n2. **Writing drafts that sound like you:** Claude drafts sound like slop because they just look at the thread. Slashy does a lot more, it looks at the linkedin/web of recipients, past emails you’ve sent, past changes you’ve made to prior drafts, and more including using our own custom-built memory system for email. (Fun fact we have a special tool for handling suggesting times/scheduling as base llms are very bad at this). ([@Michelle Marcelline](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/379052) pretty much just hits send on all her Slashy drafts with minimal edits)\n3. **A powerful sidebar:** Slashy comes with a cursor-like sidebar. That lets you do things like search, draft, schedule and more. So you no longer need to keep flipping between ChatGPT and your email. ([@Yahia Bakour](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2538368) loves this to power thorugh drafts and replies)\n4. **Integrations:** Slashy connects to not just your email, but your meeting notes (Granola, Fathom, Circleback, etc.), crm (Attio, Hubspot, Salesforce, etc.), Notion and more since the context to handle email isn’t just in email. ([@Pavlos Markesinis](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2511438) loves how Slashy connects to his Attio and makes life simple)\n5. **Automations:** The best assistants also know when to handle things in the background. So Slashy can also automatically do things like prep you for calls, text you when an important email comes in, and more. ([@Owen Botkin](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2579867) relies on Slashy to prep him from calls, and [@Pranav Madhukar](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1531197) doesn’t even check his email anymore unless Slashy alerts him an email comes in)\n6. **iMessage/Slack Bot:** One of the worst parts of traditional clients? You need to open them to see if something important comes in. Slashy can ping you on text/slack so you don’t even need to context switch. (@devansh is one of our bigger Slack fans, while [@Abhinav Gopal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/979064) for iMessage).\n7. **Voice:** Sometimes it’s easier to speak your mind than write (or you’re driving and just can’t haha). So Slashy lets you dictate your thoughts, and our AI will make it sound like a much better version of you. Or you can talk with our voice to voice agent when you’re commuting (@vishruth is one of our power users for our voice drafts).\n8. **Personalized Memory:** Slashy gets better the more you use it. It keeps notes on how you write, who you talk to, when you schedule, and also it learns from every edit you made before hitting send. It even once a week goes back and rewrites its notes to better match you. After all you'd expect a human assistant to be smarter after a few months, why not your ai one. ([@Devraj Gopal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2057015) loves how Slashy has grown to know him more and more).\n9. **Natural Language Labels:** A common complaint we hear is the rise of the AI SDR, and how everyone’s inbox is inundated with emails. The problem with traditional labelling systems is they don’t adjust over time, leading to important emails getting missed. Slashy’s labelling system does, leading to a much better filtering rate, and fewer dropped balls. ([@Nazli Danis](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/520906) was drowning in spam before Slashy)\n\n## Security and Privacy\n\nWe take security/privacy as an email client very seriously.  We’ve already gotten CASA, and SOC II. We also get monthly pen-tests done by [@Casco](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30477) to ensure our users' data is safe. None of our AI providers train on your data as well.\n\n## Getting Started\n\nNow if you want to get started just go to[ slashy.com](http://slashy.com), or you can book a time here if you’d like me to demo the product/ask any questions just shoot an email to [founders+ea@slashy.com](mailto:founders+ea@slashy.com), and Slashy will schedule a time that works for both of us :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SIh-slashy-start-saving-2-hours-a-day-on-email", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2026-08-03T03:07:19.686Z" }, { "id": 92851, "title": "Slashy: The AI for Work", "tagline": "Slashy is the AI assistant that slashes through repetitive work", "body": "Slashy is the AI assistant that slashes through repetitive work: meeting prep for sales, automatic JIRA ticket creation, updating your CRM, and more.\n\nWe built Slashy after watching brilliant people waste hours every day on tasks that should be automated. They weren't trying to build another AI tool, they wanted to build the AI that makes all your other tools finally work together.\n\nSlashy gets users 10+ hours back every week to focus on the work that actually matters.\\\n\\\nBook a meeting: https://cal.com/slashy/30min or try it out at [slashy.ai](http://slashy.ai)\\\n\\\nhttps://youtu.be/F5ptH79YvNM", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O9b-slashy-the-ai-for-work", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-08-08T20:59:23.348Z" }, { "id": 91949, "title": "Dash: AI That Actually Gets Work Done", "tagline": "Meet Dash: An AI agent that connects to your Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more to complete work autonomously.", "body": "**We built an AI agent that connects to your Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more to complete work autonomously.**\n\n# [usedash.ai](http://usedash.ai) | [founders@usedash.ai](mailto:founders@usedash.ai)\n\n## The Problem\n\nKnowledge workers spend 90% of their time on manual, repetitive tasks that could be automated. Current AI tools like ChatGPT operate in isolation; they can't update Notion databases, search across Slack, or send emails.\n\n## Our Solution\n\nDash is an AI agent that connects to your tools (Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Google Docs, HubSpot, calendar, and more) to complete entire tasks.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/kFPAxXAUlq8\n\n## Real Examples from Beta Users\n\n**\"Weekly team update\"**\n\n* Reads Slack channels for key discussions\n* Checks Linear tickets for sprint progress\n* Pulls metrics from HubSpot and Notion\n* Compiles and emails formatted report\n\n**\"New enterprise lead follow-up\"**\n\n* Adds leads to Hubspot with enriched data\n* Creates qualification tasks in Linear\n* Schedules follow-up calls in calendar\n* Notifies team in Slack with context\n\n**\"Daily standup agenda\"**\n\n* Pulls yesterday's completed Linear tickets and today's planned work for team members\n* Generates standup summary in Notion\n\n## We're Looking For\n\n**Know someone who is tired of switching between tools instead of making a real impact?**\n\nWe're perfect for folks who are tired of context-switching between Notion, Slack, emails, docs and more.\n\nPerfect for:\n\n* **Founders** \n* **PMs** \n* **Operations folks**\n\n**Try it for free:** [usedash.ai](http://usedash.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91949&key=user_uploads/2067448/a58c2bd9-c956-48b3-a2e3-632b5cfbc418)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nv3-dash-ai-that-actually-gets-work-done", "votes": 83, "created_at": "2025-07-08T06:16:45.784Z" } ] }, { "id": 30684, "name": "Doe", "slug": "doe", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c4f710ccf11734c2c75ffd07ca7442b64c2f35ab.png", "website": "https://doe.so/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Doe is where AI agents actually do your work. 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Actual execution: pull data, update records, send messages, run workflows across your systems. When you do things yourself, like modifying spreadsheets or writing an email, agents work alongside you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96000&key=user_uploads/1867926/622bda3c-17da-4c86-b127-9e495e250a54)\n\n\\\nhttps://doe.so\n\n**What we're building toward**\n\nKnowledge working is changing as you read this post. Not \"AI answers your questions\" change. More like: you wake up and agents have already reconciled your expenses, flagged at-risk deals, and drafted the weekly update. You review, adjust, and move on. The tedious stuff happened while you slept.\n\nWhen you do want to dig in or do stuff yourself, you're augmented with sets of tools. A good example is cursor’s tab/autocomplete. Your work platform has context and every action you take is faster because of what's running in the background.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96000&key=user_uploads/1867926/23d9a617-3216-4243-8198-3f6a8ae8e52d)\n\nThat's the vision. A workspace where agents do work and humans get augmented.\\\n\\\n**What you can do today**\n\n1. **Ask anything about your data.** No SQL. No dashboards. Just ask.\n2. **Get boring work done.** Agents update your CRM, send Slack messages, create Linear tickets, pull reports, and create financial models. You watch in the preview pane and step in when you want.\n3. **Set up Loops.** Agents that run on a schedule. Daily pipeline reviews. Weekly reconciliation. Continuous monitoring. Set it once.\\\n \\\n We like having Doe go through our linear + github to create a performance review each day :)\n\n**Enterprise stuff**\n\nSOC 2 Type II. HIPAA-ready. Zero data retention with LLM providers. SSO, SCIM, audit logging.\n\n**Our asks**\n\n**Try it:** [doe.so](http://doe.so) - it’s free\n\n**Tell us what's broken:** We're building fast and want to know what doesn't work\n\n**Intros:** If you know ops, sales, or finance folks, we'd love to meet them. We think this can be a cursor", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OyO-doe-a-new-productivity-platform", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-12-04T22:23:34.811Z" } ] }, { "id": 30687, "name": "Trace", "slug": "trace-so", "former_names": [ "Trace AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c08d892e148caaaf2ce4e85ef39beddd97353a8.png", "website": "https://www.trace.so/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Trace is a workflow orchestration platform that gives agents shared context across systems and lets teams build visual processes combining AI and humans. It automatically identifies which tasks can be AI-automated and which need human input, so non-technical teams build and run workflows without engineering involvement.", "one_liner": "Context-aware orchestration between humans and AI.", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1754919932, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Productivity", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trace-so", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/trace-so.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trace-so/", "x_url": "https://x.com/trace_so", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c08d892e148caaaf2ce4e85ef39beddd97353a8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1016719, "full_name": "Tim Cherkasov", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Trace. Former product manager at Copper, a digital asset custodian, where he delivered an institutional offering for State Street. Fintech background across hedge funds and scaleups as a data scientist. Built startups since 17 in retail tech, travel, and web3.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcherkasov", "x_url": "https://x.com/timcherkasov", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/44c6b4427ed9b36aafd3d7aa691f504dec9e921f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1620833, "full_name": "Artur Romanov", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Trace. Former senior engineer at Deliveroo who built the grocery data-enrichment ML pipeline (millions of items, thousands of retailers). Multi-time founder; led backends in logistics and finance, and deployed workflow automation across engineering and ops.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-romanov", "x_url": "https://x.com/K1ngArtes", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f53f493a8993cf308d79af67cdb1fee7ba9dac4d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/trace-raises-3-million-to-solve-the-agent-adoption-problem/", "date": "Feb 25, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 92892, "title": "Trace 👾 Route repetitive tasks to AI agents", "tagline": "Trace helps teams map existing workflows and automate repetitive tasks using AI agents", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe’re [Tim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcherkasov/) and [Artur](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-romanov/) – co-founders of [Trace](https://www.trace.so/).\n\n**📙 TL;DR**\n\nTrace is a workflow automation platform that routes tasks to the right agent – human or AI.\n\nBy connecting to tools like Slack, Jira, and Notion, Trace breaks down existing workflows, spots automation opportunities, and embeds AI agents to handle repetitive tasks – without disrupting how your team works. More than 30 companies already use Trace to automate gruntwork.\n\n**Ask**: If you’re currently working in operations, product, or support teams, we’d love to talk. Email us at [founders@trace.so](mailto:founders@trace.so) ‼️\n\nhttps://youtu.be/RfJerH9r2-8\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nMost teams lose ≈ 40% of their productivity on repetitive manual tasks. \n\nRoutine work like chasing updates, filling docs, coordinating teams, and handling support drains hours, breaks focus, and slows execution.\n\nMeanwhile, employees aren’t sure which tasks can be automated, which agents to use, or which tools to trust – problems made worse by fragmented data and lost context.\n\nEven worse, most AI tools work alone, disconnected from both teams and the people using them.\n\n✅ **Our Solution** \n\nTrace is an AI-native workspace that breaks down existing workflows, assigns repetitive tasks to AI agents, and routes the rest to the right people.\n\nWith Trace, AI works across your entire team – passing tasks between agents and people without disrupting operations.\n\nIt respects permissions, learns from past and ongoing work, tracks progress with a full audit trail, and lets you review, edit, or reroute tasks in a simple interface.\n\n**Connect and Prompt Away**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/794551f2-0e27-4ccf-a406-326622b90d15)\n\n**Create, Curate and Replicate**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/75f7fd26-b38a-4420-b7dc-1a7fe5bea7e6)\n\n**Route and Execute**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/4490fdd4-1ff7-47dc-887b-cab413a3b51c)\n\n**🦄 How It Works**\n\nHow? – Through a company wide context engine!\n\nBy integrating with your systems, our context engine analyzes your internal wiki, activity logs, and people data to understand your team’s work.\n\nTrace then builds a unified index of your company and provides rich context for every new workflow, making it easy to route tasks between people and AI agents.\n\nWe’re on a mission to build CompanyOS – a cognitive layer that ingests internal signals and drives intelligent action across every team.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nReady to ditch the busywork? – Please try [demo.trace.so](http://demo.trace.so) for free and tell us which workflows you’ve tried to automate.\n\nIf your team is suffering from repetitive manual workflows, or you work in operations, product, or support roles, we’d love to talk.\n\nEmail us [📨 founders@trace.so](mailto:%F0%9F%93%A8founders@trace.so) or [book a call](https://calendly.com/trace_so/20min) ☎️\n\n**👥 The Team**\n\nTim and Artur met at university and have worked together on countless projects, papers and startups over the last 10 years.\n\nTim (CEO) – Former product manager at Copper, a digital asset custodian, where he delivered an institutional offering for State Street. Fintech background across hedge funds and scaleups as a data scientist. Built startups since 17 in retail tech, travel, and web3.\n\nArtur (CTO) – Former senior engineer at Deliveroo who built the grocery data-enrichment ML pipeline (millions of items, thousands of retailers). Multi-time founder; led backends in logistics and finance, and deployed workflow automation across engineering and ops.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/b774ddc3-03f9-4008-b443-bef97237826e)\n\nps: Thank you for taking the time to read this and show your support ❤️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/457742b1-bb72-48ff-9d4c-029b6bc8b033)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAG-trace-route-repetitive-tasks-to-ai-agents", "votes": 1038, "created_at": "2025-08-11T19:45:04.234Z" } ] }, { "id": 30694, "name": "Epicenter", "slug": "epicenter", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15e87b5dae1ddc0ace7595505c49a86f51b6979a.png", "website": "https://epicenter.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Epicenter is an ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps that share a memory. We store all your work—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite. Every tool we build shares this memory: your text editor, personal assistant, etc.. It's open, tweakable, and yours. Grep it, open it in Obsidian, host it wherever you like. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\nOur vision is to build a personal workspace where you own your data, choose your own AI models, and replace siloed apps with open, interoperable alternatives. All while preserving authenticity and being free and open source. ❤️", "one_liner": "ChatGPT's memory feature in an open, portable format", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1754070642, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Productivity", "Open Source", "Note-taking", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "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/epicenter", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/epicenter.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/EpicenterHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/EpicenterHQ/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15e87b5dae1ddc0ace7595505c49a86f51b6979a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1027274, "full_name": "Braden Wong", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "At 18, I taught myself to code while studying ethics, politics, and economics at Yale. Since then, I’ve averaged ~10k commits/year and worked at three YC startups. I wrote my 65-page senior thesis on open-source governance and digital platforms. I care deeply about data ownership, open-source, and interdisciplinary thinking.\n\nhttps://github.com/braden-w/\n\nI build tools to help automate the boring parts of my writing. Hopefully, something good comes from it!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-wong/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4361c8f572e6fec96bcca807fe2078068a909ea9.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92919, "title": "Whispering: Local-First, Open-Source Speech to Text at Your Fingertips", "tagline": "Own your data. Use any model you want. Free and open source.❤️", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋 It's Braden, and I'm excited to introduce Whispering—a fully open-source, local-first speech-to-text app, and the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem. You can [give it a star](http://go.epicenter.so/github), install it [here](https://go.epicenter.so/install/whispering), and start using it today.\n\nI use Whispering multiple hours daily for voice coding, writing, and thinking out loud. I churned from Wispr Flow and Superwhisper after I built it.\n\nI think the ergonomics are quite delightful, and I hope you will too!\n\n[Voice coding workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpix588SeiQ)\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou use a transcription app, but you have no idea what happens to your data.\n\nThey’re not open-source. They might call themselves “local” or say “inference stays on device”—but you still can’t see the code. It’s a black box, and for all you know, _you’re the product_.\n\nYour voice recordings might be sitting on their servers and sold to other providers. You're locked into their ecosystem. When they pivot, get acquired, or shut down, your workflow will break.\n\nMany “AI transcription” startups are just API or local inference wrappers with subscription pricing. You speak into their app, they send your audio to a transcription API like Whisper, then charge you monthly for what you could run yourself. Some run locally, but none I found were open-source with the UX I needed.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTruly free and open-source transcription software that matches (or surpasses) the ergonomics of paid, closed-software alternatives. I think Whispering is now at that stage.\n\n## **What makes us different:**\n\nThere are many other applications in the transcription landscape. Whispering offers some notable features:\n\n* **Hands-free, voice-activated dictation**: One of our most ergonomic features so far. Press once to start the session, and it will automatically start and stop as you speak. No button-holding or toggling nonsense. Perfect for dictating when your hands are full\n* **Custom AI transformations with any prompt, any model:** Design custom transformations that chain multiple AI models to fix grammar, translate, or refactor your transcribed text\n* **Unbeatable price:**  Nothing beats free. If you bring an API key from [Groq Cloud](https://console.groq.com/keys), you’ll get nearly instantaneous transcription at $0.04/hour plus a generous free tier. And of course, if you run locally with Speeches, it’s completely free. We hope to expand our models soon.\n* **Open-source**: MIT licensed. Fork it, examine it, roast it. We pride ourselves in our code quality.\n* **Everything is local-first**: In Whispering, everything is local-first. Recordings are stored in IndexedDB, and settings are stored in local storage. Built with Svelte 5 and Tauri, and it's tiny (\\~22MB) and fast.\n\n## **Real Daily Usage**\n\n* **Talking to Claude in my room** (3-4 hrs/day): I use dictation to prompt Claude Code significantly faster than typing. I have a custom post-processing transformation set up so that every text blob that I dictate is passed through a Gemini 2.5 Flash prompt, making the output more Claude-Code-friendly (bullet points, etc.). Once done, I paste into Claude Code.\n* **While carrying pizza boxes back from the Y Combinator office:** My hands are full, so I’ll open the web app on my phone, turn on voice activated dictation, and then start yapping as thoughts come up. The words are waiting when I get back in my room\n* **Other custom transformations**: I have a common writing workflow of speech → Transcribe (Groq) → Fix Grammar (Claude 4 Sonnet) → Format (Gemini 2.5 Flash).\n\n## **Why This Matters**\n\nFundamental tools shouldn’t require trusting a black box. And they shouldn’t charge you rent for something you could run yourself.\n\nWe believe productivity apps should be open-source and transparent with your data, and we want to destroy their business models with open-source alternatives.\n\nThese alternatives will need to match them feature-by-feature, have a great UX, and eventually, be built on top of our shared memory layer.\n\n## **Where This Is Going**\n\nWhispering is the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem: local-first, open-source tools built on top of a shared memory of plain text and SQLite. We hope to replace siloed, data-driven tools with local-first alternatives that share a single, user-owned memory layer.\n\nWe also hope to support many more offline models over time, giving you maximum flexibility in how and where your data is processed.\n\nWe’re not stopping at transcription. While most transcription apps tinker with static dictionaries or custom word lists, our eventual goal with Epicenter is to leverage that shared memory. We could connect transcription to everything you think, write, and build, all within a trustworthy, local-first environment.\n\nWhispering would pick up your common phrases, technical terms, and more. Over time, you create custom transformation pipelines that adapt to your writing style, your voice, and your world.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\n* 🌟 [**Upvote on Product Hunt**](https://www.producthunt.com/products/whispering?launch=whispering). Help others discover open-source alternatives\n* 💻[ **Download the desktop app**](https://go.epicenter.so/install-whispering) from our [installation guide](https://go.epicenter.so/install/whispering), or directly from our latest [releases](https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/releases)\n* ⭐ [**Star on GitHub**](https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering). Back local-first software. Fork it, break it, improve it. Everything’s MIT licensed. Copy whatever you want.\n* 💬 [**Join our Discord**](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). Shape what we build next\n\nTry it, and let us know what’s up. I hope Whispering becomes a part of your workflow!\n\n[Full Setup Guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jYgBMrfVZs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAh-whispering-local-first-open-source-speech-to-text-at-your-fingertips", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-08-12T00:53:13.916Z" }, { "id": 92752, "title": "Epicenter: A Database for Your Mind, Built on Plain Text", "tagline": "A shared workspace for everything you think, write, and build.", "body": "**TL;DR:** if you're a hacker, a generalist, a cracked Svelte/Typescript developer, or a local-first/open-source/privacy enthusiast, join our [Discord and DM me](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). I would love to build with you.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNOH5yKxO0\n\nHey everyone! 👋 It’s[ Braden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-wong/), and I’m building Epicenter.\n\nEpicenter is an open-source suite of tools built around a single idea:\n\n**Creativity thrives when you blur the lines between disciplines.**\n\nYour tools should reflect that. Most tools divide you—one for writing, one for planning, one for research. We’re building tools that talk to each other—so you can stay in flow across every kind of work. \n\nEpicenter will be a growing software ecosystem—a text editor, a CRM, a personal assistant, and more—all built around a shared local memory.\n\n**The problem**\n\nModern knowledge work is fragmented.\n\nI journal into an app I don’t trust. I plan my week in a calendar app I’ll abandon next month. My notes drift aimlessly in systems I’ve outgrown. And every time I switch apps, the app forgets what I was working on.\n\nNotes, code, and ideas live in isolated tools that don’t talk to each other, breaking flow and burying context.\n\n**The solution**\n\nA suite of open-source tools that share a single memory: a folder on your machine. Open-source, open-format, and fully yours.\n\nThe tools share so you can make connections across disciplines. Your ideas and data are never locked in.\n\n[**epicenter.sh**](http://epicenter.sh)\n\nI just launched [epicenter.sh](http://epicenter.sh): a local-first assistant you can chat with. It lives in a folder, and we want to make it the access point to everything you’ve ever written, thought, or built.\n\n[epicenter.sh](http://epicenter.sh) is the first addition to Epicenter. This is your new shell: your second brain becomes your dialogue partner. You type; it thinks. You ask; it searches. Under the hood, it’s powered by a modified version of [Opencode](https://github.com/sst/opencode), an excellent open-source coding agent. We’ve made our own CLI and UI to simplify configuration and the user experience. It’s rough around the edges, but it’s our first step in laying the foundation for our future applications.\n\n**Where We’re Headed**\n\nIn a world where every app wants to trap you and your data, we’re building the opposite.\n\nEpicenter is open-source, local-first, and plain-text native—so you can trust it, tweak it, or take it with you. We’re building tools that support intentional, interdisciplinary thinking: software for people who read, write, build, and connect.\n\nA renaissance workflow, built on plain text and real ownership.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’re early. But if you think like a generalist, build like a hacker, and value tools that respect your mind—we’d love to hear from you.\n\n**→ if you’re a cracked Svelte/Typescript developer, please[ DM me](https://go.epicenter.so/discord)**\n\n**→ star / fork / dive into the code on GitHub: [https://github.com/epicenter-md/epicenter/](https://github.com/epicenter-md/epicenter/)**\n\n**→ join the community on [Discord](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). share what you’re excited to build**\n\nSign up and tell us which tools you’d be most excited to use. Your input will shape what we build next.\n\n**About me:**\n\nAt 18, I taught myself to code while studying ethics, politics, and economics at Yale. Since then, I’ve averaged \\~10k commits/year and worked at three YC startups. I wrote my 65-page senior thesis on open-source governance and digital platforms. I care deeply about data ownership, open-source, and interdisciplinary thinking.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92752&key=user_uploads/1027274/a3ef7b07-ca73-4d27-bf0a-53e194f9f587)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O80-epicenter-a-database-for-your-mind-built-on-plain-text", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2025-08-05T21:49:16.393Z" } ] }, { "id": 30711, "name": "Char", "slug": "char", "former_names": [ "Hyprnote" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aca02a57c5f38896120f1fe6767d1975b6a6b522.png", "website": "https://char.com", "all_locations": "Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; Remote", "long_description": "Char is a daily notepad that finishes your todos for you. Type a checkbox, and an agent picks it up — researching, drafting, or scheduling on your behalf. Stay in command. 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Enterprises banned them because they violated data sovereignty.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/15cd071d-825d-49a9-a1fe-b078d3e2f2b5)\n\n### **How Hyprnote Flips the Script**\n\n[**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) runs entirely on your laptop, server, or air-gapped network:\n\n* **Private by default**: not a single byte leaves your system, ever.\n* **AI-powered notes**: clear, actionable summaries.\n* **Enterprise-ready**: HIPAA, SOC2, ITAR, FedRAMP-friendly.\n* [**Open source**](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote): transparent and extensible.\n* **Flexible deployment**: run it where you want.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/e9e59bd3-9993-4029-b8ab-de8bde4a1ea1)\n\n### **Why We Built This**\n\nWe saw enterprise employees stuck taking manual notes because “AI notetakers” weren’t actually enterprise-ready. [**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) exists so teams can finally use AI without giving up control of their data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/df8a57c6-74fb-4f4f-a455-0091527206b6)\n\n### **What You Can Do**\n\n1/ Introduce us to **_VPs or Directors_** driving **_digital transformation_** in regulated industries.\n\n2/ Start using it **_FREE FOREVER_** — and spread the word.\n\n3/ Star us on [**GitHub**](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/2119f8f8-575f-4a5c-aa1c-295bfe57a15c)\n\n### **NEED an AI notetaker you can actually trust?**\n\n[**Try Hyprnote — where conversation stay yours**](http://hyprnote.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/a2e52475-b1e0-47de-8e1b-ba56959bdae5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEu-hyprnote-open-source-ai-notetaker-for-enterprises", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2025-08-20T14:56:21.706Z" } ] }, { "id": 30743, "name": "Opennote", "slug": "opennote", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5a57c2d57c9bd745bb44f95e1f930dda18b6c534.png", "website": "https://opennote.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Opennote is a notebook with an AI thinking partner built in.\r\n\r\nFeynman lives in your work: it edits your writing, references your knowledge and the web, runs background tasks, and gives feedback as you work. 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Our tutor, Feynman, analyzes your writing and thinking patterns in real time, guiding you with Socratic questions, targeted feedback, and visual explanations right where you’re working—helping you truly understand, not just memorize.\n\nYou can study on your own or invite friends to join you—discuss your thoughts, share your journals, and publish your learning in real time for others in the community to see! Opennote makes learning more engaging, social, and effective.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/dd596675-705e-4000-bbdc-5c559f3206d0)\n\n**Why This Matters**\n\nExisting tools are either static note-takers, passive quiz generators, or outdated LMS systems. Students are demanding smarter, more social ways to learn. Opennote is redefining the space by making learning truly interactive and collaborative.\n\n**The Team**\n\nWe’re a team of three undergrad CS and software engineering students with experience across building software at medtech, fintech, and infrastructure startups — and years spent tutoring and TA’ing. We’ve lived the education grind and built the product we always wished we had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/6716fc0c-983c-4b71-9438-9d1855905c52)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a college student looking for better study tools? Or do you know students who are always looking for smarter, more effective ways to learn? Check us out here: [**https://www.opennote.com/**](https://www.opennote.com/)\n * Use the promo code **YC** for 50% off any subscription for 3 months!\n* Can you introduce us to any groups, clubs, or institutions interested in exploring more interactive and collaborative ways for students to learn?\n\nIf you can help—or want to send us some feedback—feel free to reach out at [**founders@opennote.com**](mailto:founders@opennote.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nwd-opennote-interactive-learning-for-students", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2025-07-10T17:00:26.960Z" } ] }, { "id": 30755, "name": "Pally", "slug": "pally", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/849f2561c7a883d8d5d6523f27f8404ee02820ed.png", "website": "https://pally.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "You text Pally like you’d text a friend, and it connects to everything else: your inboxes, calendar, files, tasks and the web", "one_liner": "Your personal AI Assistant", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1750346506, "tags": [ "Consumer", "B2B", "Productivity", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/pally", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/pally.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pallyai", "x_url": "https://x.com/pally", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pally-6028", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/849f2561c7a883d8d5d6523f27f8404ee02820ed.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 978619, "full_name": "Haz Hubble", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "High-school dropout and super connector. 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Now building human x AI interfaces.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wyattlansford", "x_url": "https://x.com/wylansford", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d43ddd0152f12a0991b9729192a536030a3ebc00.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 91579, "title": "Pally - AI Relationship Management", "tagline": "All your pals, from all your socials.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91579&key=user_uploads/978619/4443ca80-d250-46a5-8234-98a9d5852a59)\n\nHey 👋, we’re Haz and Wyatt, the founders of Pally.\n\nWe’re building Pally because in a world full of ‘AI SDRs’, our warm connections become more important than ever… Yet today, keeping track of thousands of connections across countless social platforms is impossible. \n\nWe forget to respond, we miss important moments, and we lose touch.\n\nWe’re building Pally to solve that.\n\nIf this resonates, we’d love your early feedback. Download Pally here: [www.pally.com](http://www.pally.com)\n\n# Demo\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g97sd_roD14\n\n## How does it work?\n\nWe bring together all your connections, across all your socials (inc. iMessage, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Email, Calendar, and X), and then our AI researches everything they’ve ever posted online.\n\nPally uses this deep understanding of each relationship to help you:\n\n* Prepare you for meetings\n* Stay in touch with your potential customers/hires/investors (or just remind you to ring your mum from time to time)\n* Search over your network to find the right person for any query (”who do I know in New York that I’ve not spoken to in a while?”)\n* Add people to pipelines\n\nWe also added some fun relationship stats, so you can see how social you are compared to other Pally users, how each relationship is growing/declining over time, how long you take to reply vs how long others take to reply to you, and more.\n\n## Who’s it for?\n\nWe’re mostly focused on founders and investors, but we’ve also seen salespeople, recruiters, agency owners, and creators get a lot of value from Pally; essentially anyone in a role where relationships are a primary focus (and honestly, we believe in the world of AI, that’s _everyone_).\n\n## What's next?\n\nWe're excited to launch this into public beta today, learn from what our users are loving, and where they’re wanting more, and build that. \n\nOur roadmap includes adding integrations with AI meeting note takers, so all your relationship context is in one place, adding an iOS app so you have all your data on the go, and adding more agentic capabilities.\n\n# Ask\n\nPlease upvote us here and on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/pally-ai-relationship-management), and give Pally a test and let us know how you get on! \n\nWe’re also hiring! 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Not just better dictation for the 1% of the time your hands are tied up and you have to dictate. You start _defaulting_ to dictation every single time you have to type, and you end up saving a ton of time!\n\nGet it right now: heyblue.com/download", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QLv-introducing-the-blue-smart-dictation-keyboard-for-iphone", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-05-13T21:02:17.121Z" }, { "id": 93147, "title": "Blue: The voice assistant your phone has been missing.", "tagline": "Blue uses your apps to finish tasks, hands-free and on the go. ", "body": "[heyblue.com](http://heyblue.com)\n\n**TL;DR**\\\nBlue is the only voice assistant on iOS and Android that can control every app on your phone, so you can get work done hands-free.\n\nWhen you’re driving, you can say things like “Catch me up on Slack,” “Pay the power bill from my email,” “Help me order DoorDash”, and anything else you could ask someone in your passenger seat, and Blue will help you do it hands-free.\n\nAt launch, Blue focuses on communications journeys: messages and email across apps.\n\n## **Why We Built Blue**\n\nOur phone assistants peaked at setting timers and checking the weather, but we’ve got a mountain of messages and emails to work through. We built Blue because we actually want to be productive on the way to work – and for the 70% of Americans commuting just like us.\n\n## **How Blue Works**\n\nBlue enables full, hands-free phone control via a voice-first computer-use model. On iPhone, our tiny USB-C plug-in gives Blue the ability to tap and type on your behalf. \n\nBlue doesn't wait for developers to build special integrations. It just uses your apps, all of them, hands-free, so you can tackle your todo list when your hands are busy doing literally anything else.\n\n**See it in action:**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PJV27Nd9eiI\n\n**Team**\n\n* **Omar Abdelaziz**: Led Google Assistant’s transition to LLMs; holds one of the earliest patents in LLM-based computer control.\n* **Peter Krogh**: Decades designing voice-first dialog systems; multiple design patents; most recently design lead at Google DeepMind serving actions on Gemini Live.\n* **Farhan Hossain**: Helped ship Apple Vision Pro; 50+ patents in hardware/systems; led products from prototyping to mass production and global fulfillment.\n\nWe’ve built systems used by billions. Now we’re on to defining the next era of computing.\n\n## **Ask**\n\n* **Try Blue:** Request early access at [heyblue.com](http://heyblue.com)\n* **Reach out**: [founders@heyblue.com](mailto:founders@heyblue.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93147&key=user_uploads/2770643/31255b69-1672-4404-83d4-0db5869d0b5f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEN-blue-the-voice-assistant-your-phone-has-been-missing", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2025-08-19T21:45:01.737Z" } ] }, { "id": 30907, "name": "Logical", "slug": "logical", "former_names": [ "Ignotus" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fb6ea58cacd2d7637cd441b73c8f2e6da92ae97.png", "website": "https://logical.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Logical is a desktop AI that acts as a proactive and largely promptless copilot, designed to reduce the friction of using AI for everyday tasks. 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It’s like Clippy, but actually good.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/XfyPZb14LZM?si=aaJMF37-ipwkJBDV\n\n### Problem\n\nPrompt-first AI is fundamentally flawed. We waste hours every week writing lengthy prompts, context-switching and copy-pasting to get a chatbot to understand what we're doing. The context surrounding our work (emails, meeting notes, knowledge bases etc.) lives in siloed services that don't talk to each other. A truly helpful AI must live where we work: on the desktop.\n\n### Solution\n\nLogical lives on your desktop, observing your work to build an understanding of your intent and the context that surrounds it. As you switch between apps and tabs, Logical transfers that context with you.\n\nIt proactively suggests actions based on what you're doing—whether you're in Gmail, Slack, or Excel. This turns Logical into an all-in-one assistant: it's your email drafter, to-do manager, AI note-taker, and chatbot, all combined.\n\n**📨 Email & Messaging Assistant:** Get quick drafts. Fine-tune, revert, and apply. Works with Gmail, Slack, iMessage and Apple Mail.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/ab0e8f09-c58c-45d7-8eef-0be23b97d326)\n\n**✅ Automatic To-Do Detection**: Detects and drafts deliverables. Plus, it reminds you to get those done.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/afe169f0-7103-4fe7-aec1-a17e72157c74)\n\n**🪄 Logical Lumos:** Get real-time assistance on any task. In Excel, it can suggest formulas and analyze errors; in a doc, it can explain terms as you highlight them. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/596d5046-364b-43b4-86c1-b63ea1b82b1a)\n\n**🔗 Connect your services:** Bridge Gmail or your Calendar for deeper context. Search your email with natural language, or get quick calendar availability lookups.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/2b2a7df8-ff33-41f7-8770-5878ab4070af)\n\n### Our story\n\nSam and Anushka have been friends since they met in grade school at 6 years old.\n\nBefore Logical, Sam worked on AI model optimizations at NVIDIA and previously dropped out of a PhD in applied AI. He's a medalist at both the IPhO and APhO and received a President’s Award for Scientific Research from the Government of Sri Lanka. Anushka dropped out of his PhD in context-aware predictive AI at UVA, and previously led B2B SaaS engineering teams.\n\nWorking in both academia and industry, we saw firsthand how most AI tools create friction and frustrate users. Our unique backgrounds – context-aware AI and AI model optimization – convinced us that an AI agent that lives on the desktop can identify user intent and provide proactive help, without compromising on speed or quality.\n\n### Our Ask\n\nIf you're reading this, Logical can help you (yes, you!) get more done. Try it out at [**https://trylogical.ai**](https://trylogical.ai) – we offer generous free credits. Help us with feedback on how Logical can better fit your workflow.\\\n\\\nIf you’re an enterprise, help your team miss fewer deadlines and spend less time context-switching. Plus, you can stop paying for 10 different AI add-on subscriptions – Logical can do it all. Contact us at [**hello@trylogical.ai**](mailto:hello@trylogical.ai) to learn more and book a demo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95304&key=user_uploads/2175254/bd182517-615e-4efe-8de7-18985fd8fa32)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OnA-logical-the-proactive-desktop-copilot", "votes": 161, "created_at": "2025-11-07T20:24:35.548Z" } ] }, { "id": 30949, "name": "Crunched", "slug": "crunched", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/386111466c0c67b245d52cdab2fb675d0a73799e.png", "website": "https://usecrunched.com/", "all_locations": "Oslo, Oslo, Norway", "long_description": "Crunched is the Excel AI analyst for power users - in consulting, investment banking, and private equity. 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Openroll ends that. Our AI agents reveal exactly how competitors pay – company by company, role by role – and guide leaders through salary decisions in real time.\n\nEarly customers are already closing candidates they used to lose, retaining their best people, and seeing 3X ROI in week one and six-figure P&L impact.\n\nKnow any tech People/HR leaders, CFOs, or CEOs? Let’s connect: [mattias@openroll.com](mailto:mattias@openroll.com)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/WfrVYtrUWmM\n\n**Problem**\n\nImagine playing chess without seeing the board.\n\nThat’s how companies set pay today. Salaries decide who joins, who stays, and who leaves – yet leaders still move blindly.\n\nIn fast-moving markets, the stakes are extreme. Miss the mark and:\n\n• The candidate you need takes a competing offer.\n\n• A top performer walks when they discover they’re underpaid.\n\n• Replacements cost months of time and resources.\n\nDespite salaries being the largest spend in business, companies still rely on industry averages, gut feeling, and overpriced consultants. By the time they get an answer, it’s already too late.\n\nThe consequences of guessing on pay are brutal: lost candidates, frustrated teams, and six-figure mistakes. And even the biggest, most sophisticated companies still make them.\n\n**What We’ve Built**\n\nOpenroll is an agentic AI platform that brings real transparency into compensation for the first time:\n\n* **See competitor pay, company by company:** Know exactly what your peers pay their employees. No averages. No black boxes. Just transparent data.\n* **AI-guided pay decisions:** From setting starting salaries to balancing cash vs. equity, agents guide leaders through the toughest calls.\n* **Speed is survival:** Weeks of manual work and spreadsheets collapse into seconds – giving you the edge to win and keep the people who matter most.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94293&key=user_uploads/1762740/cabffc7c-4a3c-4956-be6d-db93d501d7b4)\n\n**Why This Matters**\n\nHere’s what our users say:\n\n“Candidates we used to lose now close in days.”\n\n“We finally know where we stand in the market.”\n\n“Comp decisions that dragged on for weeks now take minutes.”\n\n“For once I know what my competitors actually pay”\n\n**Employees** love Openroll because they know pay is fair and transparent. **Managers** love it because they can act instantly and with confidence instead of wrestling with spreadsheets and guesswork. **Executives** love it because it keeps their teams together and turns compensation into a driver of growth, not risk.\n\nThe pull from tech companies has been great but any organization competing for talent is starting to see Openroll as essential infrastructure.\n\n**Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94293&key=user_uploads/1762740/3c74d2d1-d720-4719-953e-8d0b235a3d29)\n\nWe are **Mattias Lindell** and **Porsev Aslan**. Over the past year, we’ve lived inside the world of compensation – shadowing HR teams, interviewing leaders, and building alongside early adopters.\n\nWe’ve sat in the rooms where offers were lost and talent walked away, and we’ve refined Openroll hand-in-hand with the companies fighting to keep their people.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nKnow any CHROs, Heads of People, CFOs, or CEOs who care about retaining top talent? Please connect us.\n\nHave you ever been frustrated by surveys, consultants, or guessing games around pay? We’d love to hear your stories.\n\nReach out at: [mattias@openroll.com](mailto:mattias@openroll.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OWr-openroll-the-ai-that-shows-exactly-what-your-competitors-pay", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-10-02T01:47:21.804Z" } ] }, { "id": 31022, "name": "Coasts", "slug": "coasts", "former_names": [ "JSX Tool" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/14423e406f790420f115f8958c1af6eb85b97201.png", "website": "https://coasts.dev", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "A Coast (containerized host) is a local development runtime. Coasts let you run multiple isolated environments for the same project on one machine. As AI coding agents increasingly work in parallel across git worktrees, developers hit painful conflicts — clashing ports, duplicated databases, and fragile per-branch setup. 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WithAI helps institutional investors use AI to research stocks and manage their portfolios. We forward-deploy to set up Multiplier, a secure platform that teaches AI how the fund works and connects it to all the needed tools, files, data, and context, so that investors can use the full strength of today's agents without taking on a second job as Claude-wrangler. After three months, we're live with multiple clients, doing >$100k ARR. If you know a fundamental equity investor, we'd love to meet them. Email [ian@withai.co](mailto:ian@withai.co).\n\n\n\nAI has radically transformed coding. But in finance, super-sharp, highly-paid people are spending 2026 combing through an inbox full of PDFs, updating models in Excel, and eyeballing Bloomberg charts. Multiplier packages everything necessary to change that! It includes secure inference endpoints, changelogs, ontology maintainance, guardrails, and VM infrastructure, and it's all hosted on client servers. 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It catches churn months before renewal, builds QBR decks on your playbook, and tells your team exactly what to say.\n\n# Our story\n\nAt our last startup (Wudpecker), we had 25K users, 1,000+ customers, and zero idea who was about to churn. We flew blind. Accounts died quietly, and we only found out at renewal. So we built the tool we wished we had.\n\n# Userlens - Your 100x CSM that prevents churn\n\nUserlens watches every account the way your best CSM watches your top five.\n\nIs a renewal coming up at one of your accounts? Userlens already knows 5 users stopped using your new AI feature last month, the champion changed roles, and there's a frustration thread buried in Slack your team never saw.\n\nBefore your CSM opens the account, the talking points and QBR deck are ready — built on your team's templates and playbook.\n\nIt does this across your entire book of business. Every account gets the attention that your best CSM gives your top 5.\n\n# Why our customers love us:\n\n* **Quartr (10M ARR):** went from **40 accounts per CSM to 200** — with the same team, all while growing from **1M to 10M ARR in a year**. Their NRR has increased by **18% in 3 months** with us.\n* **Smartly (200M ARR):** their performance of CSMs in customer meetings and QBRs has gone absolutely vertical. We’ve predicted (and prevented) **23 6-figure deals** in churn risk already in a month!\n\nConnects to your **Product analytics** (Posthog, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment), **CRM** (HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio), **Billing** (Stripe), and Support tools (Intercom, Pylon).\n\n**Setup takes a day**. And we do up to 3 months of historic data import during pilots.\n\nWe lost accounts at our last startup because nobody told us what was happening until it was too late. Userlens makes sure that never happens to you.\n\n**For YC companies — free for 3 months.** We'll get you set up in a day.\n\nBook demo: \n\n**Know CS leaders at a B2B SaaS company?** We'd love a warm intro.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Psr-userlens-ai-csm-that-never-misses-churn", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2026-04-07T19:18:01.670Z" } ] }, { "id": 31495, "name": "Mentlio", "slug": "mentlio", "former_names": [ "Adjoint" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f7a733c432ee3fbe8a11ed5dec1520431b7f8d09.png", "website": "https://mentlio.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. 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We help engineering organizations cut AI costs by up to 30% and finally see what ROI that spend is actually producing. All without ever collecting your prompts or source code.\n\n**Launch Video**\n\n\n\n**Problem**\n\nEvery engineering org is now an AI org. Token usage is growing exponentially, and so is the bill. The following questions have been largely unanswered:\n\n* How can we cut our usage-based AI spend without bottlenecking usage or efficiency?\n* What ROI are we getting for every dollar of AI spend?\n* To what extent is AI-generated code creating quality debt?\n\nBrian Armstrong recently laid out how Coinbase is reducing AI spend while token usage grows exponentially on X: better defaults, smarter routing, cache awareness, lean context, and full visibility into usage and impact. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111055&key=user_uploads/2693539/7bf48740-dd37-4015-9da9-ec0f9bd900ed)\n\nCoinbase built a custom harness, LLM gateway, routing, and usage visibility internally. We believe they have the right thesis, but most engineering orgs don’t want to run on a custom harness. **Mentlio gives every eng team a better version of those savings & visibility without changing any workflows.**\n\n**Solution**\n\nMentlio gives you:\n\n1. **ROI.** We translate every PR into normalized units of work: Delivery Points. We consider associated spend, code reusability, and historical patches to turn \"we spend $X on AI\"  -> \"we spend $X per impact point.” compared to industry data. \n2. **Cost intelligence + optimization.** See exactly where AI spend goes across teams, tools, and models. Optionally catch and cut waste across cache misses, oversized models on trivial tasks, bloated context and cut it without capping/bottlenecking accuracy. \n3. **Quality signal.** AI-assisted code that ships fast but breaks later isn't a win. We connect AI usage to delivery and quality outcomes so you can see the full picture\n\nWe’re the only platform with the above capabilities that never collects prompts or source code.\n\n**Our Asks**\n\nIf you are or know a Head of Eng, VP Eng, CTO, or platform lead at a 15+ engineer org with real AI spend, reach out! You can book a demo at[ mentlio.com/intro](http://mentlio.com/intro) or reach us at [founders@mentlio.com](mailto:founders@mentlio.com).\n\n**The Team**\n\nAshank and Ahmet met while studying Computer Science at Caltech while they were working part-time Founding Engineer roles at Series A and Seed stage startups. Ashank previously researched generative image AI & graph deep learning for pathology, genomics, and drug design at Dartmouth & Purdue and won internationally at the International Science & Engineering Fair & Junior Science & Humanities Symposium. Ahmet previously published his research in transformers and AI in IEEE, BMC AI, and ACM and also won internationally at the National AI Olympiad, International Science & Engineering Fair, and was named a Top 300 Science Scholar by Regeneron.   \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111055&key=user_uploads/2693539/d04ec655-df84-4d43-836d-160313b4b133)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/StD-mentlio-engineering-intelligence-token-optimization-for-the-ai-coding-era", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2026-08-18T22:00:00.168Z" } ] }, { "id": 32088, "name": "Roma", "slug": "roma", "former_names": [ "Jan Senderek Newco", "Yamo NewCo", "Milo Mode", ">", "Milo Mode" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0acebf173c06922baca9b12940df90492d951704.png", "website": "https://roma.app", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Roma is the to-do list that does itself. 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Writer, director, and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience in brand marketing and creative. Previously agency creative at Goodby Silverstein & Partners and 72andSunny, in-house director at Dropbox, and co-founder of The Goondocks, an award-winning creative studio.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-cody-osborne-3845b54/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e549315d85d54fca6f69b31a030e491588d58a7d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 117892, "title": "Roma: The to-do list that does itself", "tagline": "We're reinventing the to-do list so it does the work for you.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Roma is the to-do list that does itself. It's the original productivity tool reinvented. The task list you already keep, remade so the tasks actually get done.\n\n\n\n### The original\n\nFrom pen and paper to apps on a phone, the to-do list has stood the test of time. It's the original productivity tool, and the one tool everyone has used at least once.\n\nYou can't say that about many things, especially as technology advances. But whether you have one task or seventeen, there's a to-do list in your head, in your pocket, or on your desk right now.\n\nSince the beginning, all to-do lists have made the same promise: write the task down so you can stop worrying about it. The catch is that you always have to come back and do it yourself. So the tasks pile up.\n\n### The problem\n\nWhen AI became smart enough to actually help you get things done, we did what a lot of people did and built our own agents. It was hard. It took forever. Even when it worked, it didn't work the way we wanted. \n\nThen the AI Assistants arrived, promising to handle things for you. People love them. That's the clearest sign the demand is there.\n\nBut the work never stay put. It lives in one chat, then another, then an inbox, then a doc somewhere. Instead of doing the work, you're tracking the work down.\n\n### Reinventing the to-do list\n\nThat's why we're playing the long game and not building another assistant. We're reinventing the original productivity tool: the to-do list.\n\n**Roma is the to-do list that does itself.** \n\nThat sounds possible with AI, but it's really hard to get right. You have to be able to add a task for anything and the system has to figure out what you meant, get to work on multiple things in the background, sort it into the right project, and surface it at exactly the right time. \n\nSo that's where we spent most of our time building Roma. Underneath Roma is a harness built to take a task from idea to execution. And on top, it feels as simple and light as the to-do list that you're used to. \n\n### What it feels like\n\nRoma gets real tasks done. But what you notice first is what it does to your mind. You realize you haven't thought about that one task in hours, because it's being handled. You walk into a meeting prepared. You close your laptop with a clear head.\n\n### Why us\n\nWe're Jan, Tobi, and Cody. Jan previously built Loom (YC W12, acquired by Dropbox), and Tobi built Senic (YC S13, acquired by Gira). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117892&key=user_uploads/24212/d1545e35-9497-4e2f-a4f9-34f6420684e6)\n\n### Where this goes\n\nWe're only scratching the surface of what Roma can do. As Roma takes on more of your work, the to-do list becomes the place you hand off everything. \n\nWe're going to connect with the apps and assistants you're already using. So whatever you're working on, Roma becomes the center of how it gets done. \n\nWe're only scratching the surface of what Roma can do, and we can't wait to hear what you think.\\\n\\\n**Try Roma:**\n\n* Website: \n* Mac & iOS: \n\nWe're very excited to hear what you all think!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UfU-roma-the-to-do-list-that-does-itself", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-10-06T14:00:02.142Z" } ] }, { "id": 32121, "name": "Moonshot", "slug": "moonshot-computer", "former_names": [ "Moonshot", "OpenTrade" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/609d8457269ad1be9496a28a67f4cd8fd8c26af1.png", "website": "https://moonshot.computer/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We want to bring AI agents to a billion people.\r\n\r\nTo do this, we believe it needs to be 1. proactive and 2. personal. A billion people already carry the right device, but none of them have the right connector.\r\n\r\nMoonshot is personal intelligence that lives on your iPhone and listens to you 24/7. It continuously builds up a greater understanding of you through constantly listening and building context. It just pays deep attention, the way a good friend does. Through this, Moonshot monitors your conscious and subconscious life, figuring out what you need before you know, reminding you about open loops, identifying life and emotional trends before you recognize it, and covering a lot more of what we gloss over in daily life.\r\n\r\nFor fifty years, software has waited to be asked. We think tools are just good enough to flip this, and the next great software will provide value before asking for something first. We're doing it through Moonshot.\r\n\r\nOur thesis is simple: you're only living half your life. The half that you actively remember. The other half just evaporates into your subconscious: what you said, felt, promised, and forgot. It's the more interesting half, and until now nothing could catch it, making it not actionable.\r\n\r\nMoonshot catches your subconscious half and understands you well enough to take actions on your behalf.\r\n\r\nTake life personally.\r\n\r\nThe iOS app is designed around ambient listening and clear user control. Short microphone chunks are sent securely to Moonshot's private transcription service and deleted when transcription finishes. Text and selected context can be sent through Moonshot's server to a model when the app needs to understand a moment. Nothing leaves without your yes. The privacy policy explains every data path, stored copy, permission, and deletion control in detail.\r\n\r\nMoonshot is in early access. 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