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Our solution not only saves operators money but helps them better manage operations and boost revenue.\n\n\\\n**The Ask**\n\n* **Own a car wash? … We’d love to give you a demo**\n* **Don’t own a car wash? … Refer anyone in your network, especially your favorite car wash, please.**\n* **Car wash enthusiast? … We’d love to chat.**\n\nReach us at [karan@flexwashtech.com](mailto:karan@flexwashtech.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICY-flexwash-an-operating-system-for-car-washes", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-03-06T18:25:19.584Z" } ] }, { "id": 29117, "name": "Twine", "slug": "twine", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b3e6d9ef44b5a30957092f779906587404458335.png", "website": "http://www.usetwine.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Twine helps service businesses turn more leads into booked revenue. 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Helping small, service-based businesses transform missed calls into paying customers. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/omar-ahmed-imtiaz", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d0bfa30fcaf47182be5204f80261897736c1f745.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74112, "title": "Twine 🪡 AI text conversations for SMBs", "tagline": "Turning missed calls into bookings.", "body": "**tl;dr**: We make sure small businesses never miss out on potential customers because of missed calls. We use conversational AI to engage customers over text, find out what they need, and book them for a service.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74112&key=user_uploads/406208/e4650e95-528b-4a3f-97ed-babcf0965a2f)\n\nWe’re Divyesh, Omar, and Anand, and we’re building [Twine](https://www.usetwine.com/).\n\n# **Problem: Missed Calls = Missed Business** 💸\n\nSmall businesses are missing out on thousands of dollars because they can’t immediately pick up the phone. Customers often work with the company that responds to them the fastest. To solve the problem of missed calls, businesses employ expensive solutions, such as a receptionist or an outsourced answering service.\n\n# **Solution: Missed Calls** ☎️ **→ Immediate AI Text Message Conversations** 💬\n\nIf a business misses a call, Twine texts the customer to find out why they were calling and can get them on their calendar. We integrate with existing VOIP and cell phone services with minimal setup time.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/qSsWRMEkZekNQrHrrkMPALcUeWoAmQKigcw8cNoskTKe2Ereo8Y96_x_EhzqCBhHqKQCFe5gwC9pmZ7s0JuEgFpXQca_qG2iujVLOQzB_HWxR07-NCXHuR0TvUHhHj3P9_vgCmxSzEzRQIpUhvzJwt0)\n\n_Twine understands natural language and follows up with customers to get details and book services._\n\n### **How we got started**\n\nAnand started a networking & audio/visual company in high school that eventually grew to six figures. He sold phone systems to small businesses and saw the revenue his customers left on the table due to missed calls.\n\n# **The Ask** 👋\n\nDo you know a small business owner that could benefit from Twine? If so, we'd be grateful for an introduction!\n\nQuick blurb to copy and paste:\n\n> Twine uses AI to make sure that businesses like yours never miss out on potential customers when calls go unanswered. Check out their website at [www.usetwine.com](http://www.usetwine.com) or email them at [founders@usetwine.com](mailto:founders@usetwine.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JHM-twine-ai-text-conversations-for-smbs", "votes": 331, "created_at": "2023-08-15T15:30:23.196Z" } ] }, { "id": 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. This allows us to offer a unified payroll and HR solution, which wasn't possible before.", "one_liner": "the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1708619599, "tags": [ "B2B", "Productivity", "HR Tech", "Payroll", "SMB" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "France", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/malibou", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/malibou.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Paris", "country": "FR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/malibou-hr/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d58137f5ea9c3d97a49e190602fc6dd4331ccf6d.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": 1585512, "full_name": "Maxence Drummond", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO @malibou 🌴. 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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": 29390, "name": "OffDeal", "slug": "offdeal", "former_names": [ "Sidekick Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/23d3f5ab2e3955f14083478510c8a7ab18cb9f8f.png", "website": "https://offdeal.io", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "OffDeal is an AI-native investment bank, offering small business owners a faster, cheaper way to sell their companies at premium prices. Our AI technology automates most of the grunt work typically done by analysts at larger Wall Street banks, enabling our in-house M&A advisors to focus more on strategic client interactions, leading to better outcomes for both sellers and buyers.", "one_liner": "AI-native investment bank for small businesses", "team_size": 25, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1709626394, "tags": [ "Fintech", "B2B", "SMB", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/offdeal", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/offdeal.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/offdeal/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tryoffdeal", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/23d3f5ab2e3955f14083478510c8a7ab18cb9f8f.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": 1297689, "full_name": "Ori Eldarov", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder / CEO @ OffDeal \n\nbuilding an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. \nprev. mba @ harvard + couple of startup stints. \nlover of carbs and espresso martinis. avid runner and cyclist. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/eldarov", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/leveredvlad", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1390b2e045e15cf7d2fe8b69181bc657c34ffe19.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1553916, "full_name": "Alston Lin", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Founder / CTO @ OffDeal.\n\nPreviously, \nFounder / CTO @ Bizwise, \nSWE / SWE Intern @ Meta, Google, Yelp, PagerDuty, IBM, and Encircle. \nSoftware Engineering @ University of Waterloo.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alstonlin", "x_url": "https://x.com/alstonthelin", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2b3963f281dfb2544459d8ef63aa668b52d0ea61.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 80117, "title": "Full Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/offdeal/jobs/B8lTBlY-full-stack-engineer", "location": "New York", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$180K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 80744, "title": "Full Stack Engineer (New Grad)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/offdeal/jobs/c2sQf8D-full-stack-engineer-new-grad", "location": "New York", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "These AI-Native Companies Have Tiny Staffs and Fewer Bosses", "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-companies-staffing-c9029343", "date": "Jul 18, 2026" }, { "title": "I Took a Calculated Risk and Left JPMorgan for an AI Investment Bank - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/left-jp-morgan-analyst-join-ai-investment-bank-startup-advice-2025-10", "date": "Oct 11, 2025" }, { "title": "Wall Street's new AI era: OffDeal CEO on using AI to disrupt investment banking", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/08/04/wall-streets-new-ai-era-offdeal-ceo-on-using-ai-to-disrupt-investment-banking.html", "date": "Aug 04, 2025" }, { "title": "OffDeal Pioneers AI-Native Investment Banking for the Middle Market", "url": "https://www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/ai-video/2025/offdeal-pioneers-ai-native-investment-banking-for-the-middle-market/", "date": "Aug 04, 2025" }, { "title": "How OffDeal’s Viral ‘$12M Series A’ Broke Wall Street’s Brains", "url": "https://www.sourcery.vc/p/how-offdeals-viral-12m-series-a-broke", "date": "Aug 03, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 79184, "title": "OffDeal - AI broker for buying small businesses", "tagline": "Custom-built AI agents to find, vet, and engage SMB acquisition targets", "body": "Howdy folks 👋🏻 We’re [Ori](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eldarov/) and [Alston](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alstonlin/) from [OffDeal](http://www.offdeal.io) and we’re building an AI broker that helps individual buyers find and acquire small businesses. \n\n# tl;dr\n\nFinding the right small business to acquire is painfully manual and tedious - an average buyer takes almost two years to buy one! 🫨\n\nOffDeal puts SMB deal sourcing on autopilot. Our AI broker\n\n* Screens through millions of SMBs using semantic search on dozens of data points to identify potential targets \n* Automatically researches each one to ensure criteria match using custom AI web agents\n* Crafts and sends hyper-personalized emails to maximize response rate\n\nSince launching our closed beta two weeks ago, we have about a dozen buyers using OffDeal to source $10-50 million SMB acquisitions.\n\n# **❌ Problem: Buying a small business takes 18-24 months**\n\nThe current process of finding a small business to buy is painstakingly slow and tedious. Today, buyers rely on a combination of expensive SMB databases (e.g. Grata, Sourcescrub) and manual research, often involving a makeshift \"deal team\" of unpaid interns and offshore assistants. \n\nThis cobbled-together system creates a major bottleneck, typically allowing buyers to only assess 100-150 businesses per week (and that's considered good!). Since buyers usually need to go through \\~10,000 businesses before finding “the one”, the entire process becomes incredibly time-consuming, frustrating, and expensive.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution: AI Broker to find, diligence, and engage 10x more SMB targets**\n\nOur AI broker acts much like a human M&A advisor would - it finds targets, diligences them, and then reaches out to them on your behalf. However, unlike a human, our AI broker is powered by proprietary recommendation engines and custom-built AI agents and can do this for thousands of companies at a time 👀\n\nHere is how it works:\n\n**Step 1.** 🔎**Preliminary target list** \n\nOur AI screens through millions of SMBs on dozens of data points using LLM-powered semantic search to uncover off-market hidden gems that match your exact acquisition criteria.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79184&key=user_uploads/1297689/3137a403-b062-4ac1-a4ac-d6f626df2c51)\n\n**Step 2. 🧠 Offload tedious research**\n\nOur web-enabled AI agents conduct automated diligence, vetting thousands of companies to deliver a precision-targeted shortlist in minutes, not days.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79184&key=user_uploads/1297689/b2aae969-b311-4a27-80f3-1be6afde6f4b)\n\n**Step 3.⚡Automate personalized outreach**\n\nOur AI uses dozens of data points to craft and send hundreds of hyper-personalized messages each week, helping you stand out from other buyers and fill your calendar with owner calls.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79184&key=user_uploads/1297689/e224acfd-e6f7-459c-b4f3-81b2933cbb57)\n\n# **Our first customers**\n\nTo start we’re focusing on “search funds”. These are individuals (typically MBAs from top programs) who raise money from institutional investors to acquire a small business.\n\nThis is an ideal first customer because: \n\n1. They only have 2 years to find a business (or have to return capital)\n2. 30% of searchers fail to find a deal within that timeframe\n3. They are happy to pay finder fees for successful introductions\n4. Ori personally knows dozens of them from his time at HBS and working in finance, making for a much easier GTM 🙂\n\nBeyond search funds, we plan to expand to private equity firms, which buy thousands of SMBs each year, as well as to a rapidly growing number of individuals choosing to leave the rat race and pursue acquisition entrepreneurship.\n\n# \n\n# 🤝🏻**Team**\n\n[Ori Eldarov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eldarov/) (CEO) first came across this problem in 2019 - when he attempted (unsuccessfully) to acquire a business. A couple of years later, he saw dozens of his classmates at HBS go through the same struggles. \n\n[Alston Lin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alstonlin/) (CTO) also struggled to find the right SMBs in the previous startup he founded - using existing tools that relied on broad industry buckets resulted in most outreach going to irrelevant businesses. However, with his experience working with big data and ranking engines at Facebook and Google, he knew he could build a better solution.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79184&key=user_uploads/1297689/e260dfb2-5b95-467d-8d5d-e61094feec02)\n\n# **The Ask**\n\nIf you or anyone you know is looking to acquire a small business ($10-50M) please introduce us! We can be reached at [founders@offdeal.io](mailto:founders@offdeal.io) or this [form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyDLNDz41cP1l404c8ESodrN0lCDM7_HgfOBS2BC2x5F64EA/viewform). \n\nThese can be any of the following: \n\n* Individual buyers / “search funds” \n* Lower middle market PE firms \n* Companies looking to make an add-on acquisition\n\n \n\n**Thanks everyone for your support 🙂**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KbA-offdeal-ai-broker-for-buying-small-businesses", "votes": 103, "created_at": "2024-03-07T21:50:22.985Z" } ] }, { "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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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. 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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! 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That $150B market is moving toward local creators.", "tagline": "Word of mouth at scale for local restaurants", "body": "Hey everyone,\n\nWe're Yousef, Obaida, and Ahmad, the founders of **TryNearby**.\n\nYousef co-founded FaZe Clan and spent 15 years creating content for 10M+ followers alongside hundreds of other creators. Ahmad and Obaida co-founded one of the first social media clipping companies, building the infrastructure that tracked billions of views across thousands of videos for creator campaigns. We've watched creator content become the most powerful distribution channel on the internet, and we're bringing it to local businesses.\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\n84% of small businesses on TikTok say it helped grow their business. Almost every restaurant owner we meet knows that and has no idea how to act on it.\n\nTryNearby handles it. Every month we send a new group of creators who live nearby to visit, film, and post a review, for a $399 subscription. All of it is handled by us and our AI agents.\n\nToday, 120+ restaurants are subscribed and have had 2,500+ videos posted for them. We nearly doubled one restaurant's revenue in their first month, and owners tell us people walk in every day saying \"we saw you on TikTok.\" Almost half our new restaurants now come from other owners referring us.\n\nOur launch video: \n\n## **The problem**\n\nThere are about 1 million restaurants and cafes in the US. Most of them are invisible in the places people actually decide where to eat.\n\nThe options an owner has today:\n\n* Agencies cost thousands a month and often don’t drive real results\n* Influencers work, but finding the right local ones, negotiating, and doing it again every month is a job by itself\n* Creating their own content is a second full-time job they don't have time for, or a full-time hire they don't have the budget for\n\nAnd here's the thing: _the algorithm doesn't reward a business talking about itself. 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Off your plate.", "body": "Hey everyone 👋 We’re Onur and Ece, founders of **Spine (F26)**. We previously founded companies together with over $1B in value, and Spine is the company we wish we’d had while building them.\n\nWe run **benefits, people ops, and compliance for startups for free**.\n\nInstead of giving founders another piece of software to manage, we give every company dedicated senior HR and benefits specialists who actually do the work, on top of the HRIS they already use — Rippling, Deel, Gusto, ADP, and others.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\n* Dedicated senior HR + benefits specialists working directly with your team in Slack\n* Works on top of the HRIS you already use \n* We implement better-fit, more cost-effective health plans and have reduced healthcare costs by around **15% on average**\n* We run open enrollment, benefits administration, payroll, compliance, onboarding/offboarding, and employee support \n* It’s free for startups: we become your benefits broker and are paid by insurance carriers\n* **30+ startups already use Spine, many of them YC companies**\n\nwatch here: \n\n### **The problem**\n\nRippling, Deel, Gusto, and other HR platforms are great software. But someone still has to operate them, deal with issues, coordinate with carriers, answer employee questions, manage compliance, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.\n\nAt an early-stage company, it usually falls on the founder, COO, finance lead, or whoever happens to know the most about it. That work quickly becomes a second job.\n\nSoftware helps. But someone still has to do the work.\n\n### **What we built**\n\n**Spine does the work for you. For free.**\n\nEvery company gets a dedicated senior HR lead and benefits specialist who works directly with the team, primarily through Slack, on top of the systems they already use.\n\nWe:\n\n* Review your existing health plans and run the market for better options\n* Benchmark coverage and pricing to reduce healthcare spend\n* Run open enrollment and benefits administration\n* Handle employee benefits questions directly\n* Run payroll and resolve payroll issues\n* Handle compliance, onboarding/offboarding, and ongoing people ops\n\nYou don’t need to migrate away from Rippling, Deel, Gusto, ADP, or whatever HRIS you already use. **We operate on top of it.**\n\nFor benefits, we become your broker of record. Insurance carriers already pay broker commissions, so we use those commissions to provide the rest of the service for free.\n\n### **Why we started Spine**\n\nWe spent years building and operating startups ourselves and kept running into the same problem: as our companies grew, we accumulated more software for payroll, benefits, compliance, and HR, but **the work itself never disappeared**.\n\nWe thought startups shouldn’t need to build an internal HR team just to make all of this work.\n\nSo we built Spine.\n\nToday, **30+ startups use us**, and we’re taking this work completely off their plates while also reducing what they spend on healthcare.\n\n### **Our ask 🙏**\n\nIf you’re running a startup, **get a senior HR and benefits team dedicated to you, for free.**\n\nYou can use us if:\n\n* your health insurance renewal or open enrollment is coming up\n* you’re thinking about leaving a PEO\n* you want to know whether you’re overpaying for healthcare\n* you need help with payroll, compliance or benefits\n* or you’re simply tired of spending time on work that has nothing to do with building your company\n\n**Send us what you have and we’ll start working for you right away, for free.**\n\nWe’d also really appreciate introductions to founders, CFOs, or people/ops leaders who could use the help.\n\nStart here: or reach out to me directly here: [onur@joinspine.ai](mailto:onur@joinspine.ai)\n\nWould love feedback from the YC community ❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/URD-spine-we-run-hr-backoffice-benefits-for-startups-for-free", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-09-28T20:00:00.217Z" } ] } ]