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We handle the rest, letting your personal brand flourish while you focus on what you do best.\n\n**Fundraise Easier**\n\nPosition yourself as an industry authority. Our content showcases your thought leadership, attracting investors eager to support visionaries with proven insights and innovation track record.\n\n**Attract Top-Level Hires**\n\nWhen your personal brand shines, so does your appeal to high-caliber talent. They'll be lining up to work with you, drawn by the promise of being part of a visionary-led future.\n\n**Build Credibility and Status**\n\nAs your stories and insights circulate, your status as an industry leader solidifies. Building a brand isn't just about being seen; it's about being recognized as the go-to expert in your field.\n\n**Reduce Your Acquisition Costs**\n\nWith every post, tweet, and update, you're not just reaching an audience but building a community that lowers your overall acquisition costs as your organic reach grows.\n\n**See tangible ROI**\n\nWhere the magic happens, the engagement, followers, and leads all translate into an organic sales funnel with a quantifiable impact on your startup's growth and valuation.\n\n### **📈 Traction**\n\n25k MRR, 0% churn, launched 4 months ago.\n\n### **🤝 The Team**\n\nEdu has founded 4 startups with 2 successful exits, bringing deep expertise in consumer and B2B SaaS and web3 space and an extensive network within the startup ecosystem.\n\nLev combines a rare mix of software engineer, copywriter, and ghostwriter skills with high proficiency in coding and crafting compelling narratives.\n\n### **💌 Our Offer**\n\nWe are opening 5 spots in May!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kz4-rethoric-founder-led-content-as-a-service", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2024-05-07T14:58:15.597Z" }, { "id": 70338, "title": "⚡Superteam – AI that manages Customer Service & Sales for you", "tagline": "Set Customer Service and Sales in autopilot with action-based AI models ", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/302b90ca-afc4-4567-8e3f-1c9101816fec)\n\n# TL;DR\n\n**Superteam enables e-commerce businesses with action-based AI to provide instant customer service and conversational sales at a fraction of the cost.**\n\n### Here is how it works:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/899c7b8a-2f21-4ed5-b7fe-5ec5b0eb61cb)\n\n### **❌** The problem\n\nOver 50% of e-commerce stores are small businesses with less than 10 employees. They struggle with customer service due to budget constraints and often lose potential customers because of slow responses and negative experiences. Larger e-commerce sites need help managing the right team size to handle thousands of customer queries during peak times.\n\n### **✨** The solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/d93d84a5-928d-40ad-a758-3b7a22f2ac73)\n\nWe developed advanced AI models to automate critical tasks in e-commerce, such as handling customer queries, processing orders, managing payments, scheduling appointments, and providing shipping updates, and integrated them into a user-friendly admin dashboard that integrates with Shopify, allowing businesses to easily manage their orders, customers, and products while monitoring the AI's performance.\n\n### **⚙️** How it works\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70338&key=user_uploads/517243/1c825d1c-50e6-4ea2-8ccf-3ac042824dce)\n\nThe AI displays products, answers questions, handles payments, and gives shipping updates via messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Email, and soon iMessage). 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Today, we're launching **Creator Discovery**, a new way for brands and agencies to find the right influencers by analyzing what's actually inside their content.\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\n* 🎯 Describe your ideal creator in plain English – Syncly finds them by analyzing video content, not just profiles\n* 🔍 Search by visual aesthetic, storytelling style, spoken mentions, and more - things no filter can capture\n* 🚀 Discover organic brand advocates who mention you without tags or hashtags\n* ⚡ What used to take hours of manual scrolling now takes seconds\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/b5ed5c9d-8ded-464c-b93f-ff4ce144df33)\n\n**Ask:** If you run influencer marketing at a brand or agency,[ try it free](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) and tell us what you think. We'd love your feedback.\n\n**Offer:** Book a demo through Launch YC, and we'll include a personalized social listening audit alongside your creator discovery walkthrough →[ Book a demo](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\n \n\n---\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nInfluencer marketing is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a core growth channel. But finding the right creators is still painfully manual.\n\nThe current process looks like this: you open a platform, set some filters (follower count, category, location), scroll through hundreds of profiles, and then manually watch their content to figure out if they're actually a good fit. Does their aesthetic match our brand? Have they worked with competitors? Do they tell stories in a way that resonates with our audience?\n\nThese are the questions that matter most, and none of them show up in metadata.\n\nTraditional discovery tools search profiles. They can tell you a creator has 50K followers in the beauty category. But they can't tell you whether that creator films in a warm, cozy bedroom aesthetic or a bright studio setup. They can't tell you that a creator mentioned your competitor's product in a GRWM last Tuesday, without a hashtag or tag.\n\n---\n\n# **🛠 How Syncly Solves This**\n\nSyncly Social analyzes what's actually happening inside the content – every frame, every word, every sound. Instead of filtering by metadata, you describe what you're looking for in natural language, and Syncly finds creators whose content matches.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/5f564bfa-9007-4d33-8a16-a08eef2493ae)\n\n### Here's what you can search by:\n\n* **Visual mood & aesthetic** - \"clean minimal apartment with natural lighting\"\n* **Creator persona** - \"fitness-forward creator, athletic build, gym setting\"\n* **Content format** - \"GRWM morning routine\" or \"before-and-after transformation\"\n* **Spoken mentions** - find creators who organically mention your brand in their videos, no tags required\n* **Storytelling style** - conversational, educational, high-energy, or laid-back\n* This means you can find creators that genuinely fit your brand's identity - not just creators who check the right demographic boxes. And because you never have to watch a single video yourself, it scales.\n\n---\n\n# **🏢 Who This Is For**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/38e3c357-5fb2-4172-97e7-85fc6eba9532)\n\n**Brand marketers:** Find creators who match your brand's specific criteria - visual style, tone, values - without spending hours on manual research. Just describe what you want and get results.\n\n**Agencies:** Turn vague client briefs into concrete creator shortlists. Discover rising creators early and deliver them to clients before anyone else does.\n\n---\n\n# **🚀 Try It Now**\n\nCreator Discovery on Syncly Social is live and free to try:\n\n👉[ **Start your free trial**](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\nIf you want a personalized walkthrough or want to see how it works for your specific use case:\n\n👉[ **Book a demo**](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) - book a demo through this link, and we'll include a social listening audit + personalized creator discovery session.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pp2-syncly-social-find-creators-by-what-s-actually-in-their-content", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-01T05:33:08.094Z" }, { "id": 93013, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening for video", "tagline": "The first social listening platform for the video era", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\nSyncly Social - AI Social listening platform for Videos like TikTok, Reels, etc. We’re trusted by leading brands, such as Brita, Logitech, adn Laura Geller.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/300cd2ad-0740-4e0f-8d9b-4beb5f2a7ce5)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening 1.0:** Limited to text-based social media contents.\n\n* In today’s world where video dominates, this is no longer valid.\n* Unable to analyze what’s being said or shown, or gather demographic intelligence on creators.\n\n# **What you can do with Syncly social (Social listening 2.0)**\n\n* **Competitive Analysis**: Decode the video strategies driving your rivals' success. Outsmart your competition with data-driven social campaigns.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/10cf6f9b-6296-4899-b365-205da5b00456)\n\n* **Brand Perception**: Measure how well your brand is landing with your customers. Instantly identify the gap between your intention and customer perception, then close it with data-driven, timely action.\n* **Influencer Discovery**: Uncover and partner with influencers who truly resonate with your brand. Amplify your brand's reach with authentic voices that drive engagement.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/d1db78fb-a26a-420c-9555-eed8191dda65)\n\n\n# **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how leading brands achieves competitive advantage through Syncly social, book a demo [HERE](https://syncly.app/demo-social-yc).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCD-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-for-video", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-08-14T23:52:42.170Z" }, { "id": 87956, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening platform for modern brands", "tagline": "970K+ Mentions, 10+ Social Platforms, 1 Breakthrough Solution.", "body": "Introducing [Syncly Social](https://www.syncly.app) - AI social listening platform for modern brands. We aggregate reviews, posts, and conversations from socials and e-commerce (Amazon, Instagram, Reddit, retailer-specific reviews, and many more) for market, competitor, and consumer intelligence, and provide actionable insights, faster and more accurate than ever.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/f0894f43-dfd0-4b93-bb57-828ad0328971)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening platform 1.0**\n\n**High volume of Noise data:** Legacy platforms rely on simple keyword queries to gather data. The problems are:\n\n* **Time-consuming**: Takes up to a couple of months to setup, repetitively.\n* **Less than 10% data is relevant:** For example, product names or sub-brands with generic or common imagery (like Discover and United) can lead to irrelevant content being collected.\n\n**Lack of Granularity in Analysis:**\n\n* Let’s say \"picture quality\" may be frequently mentioned for mobile brand. So what? To translate that into specific product or marketing insights, the insight should be more granular, but what you can get from legacy platform is the summary, at most, like “_People generally praise the picture quality on Samsung phones, particularly on their high-end models.”_\n\n**One-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis:** Traditional sentiment analysis often fails to capture the full context, especially when posts contain mixed emotions.\n\n* For example, a review that says, \"It’s not as bright as {product name}\" might seem negative, but since {product name} is a brand’s another product, it isn’t necessarily a critique of the brand as a whole. This inaccuracy complicates efforts to identify precise product improvements or refine marketing messages.\n\n# **Why we need Social listening platform 2.0 - Syncly social**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/daffa167-4b77-47ae-8b0a-edf4809e5be5)\n\n* **⚡️ 90% Faster Setup:** Forget tedious keyword lists of what to include and exclude that often take up to a couple of months🤯. Syncly's AI automatically filters irrelevant chatter.\n* **🎯 Hyper-Targeted Insights:** Brands went _beyond_ basic sentiment to identify specific product issues and opportunities.\n* **😊 Nuanced Sentiment Analysis:** Syncly pinpointed _exactly_ which features customers loved (or hated) with aspect-based analysis.\n* **🌎 Language Agnostic Brand Tracking:** Global consumer brands, like LG Electronics, could track brand mentions in different languages without needing to translate keywords.\n\n# **Impact**\n\nInsights that once took **months** now surface in just **days**, enabling your brand to refine products, optimize marketing, and stay ahead of competitors, fast.\n\n# **Learn more use case**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how Modern brands achieve competitive advantage through social listening, [schedule a demo](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with me.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mse-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-platform-for-modern-brands", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-02-24T18:23:58.940Z" }, { "id": 81714, "title": "Syncly - Get product insights from everyday customer communication for fast-growing companies", "tagline": "Bringing AI to help CX and Product team to understand customer issues before they churn.", "body": "[Syncly](https://syncly.app/) is an AI customer feedback analysis platform. I know you are running a customer-driven product. But do you understand in detail what’s driving negative customer sentiment and what needs to be done to elevate the experience?\n\nHere’s how Syncly helps top B2C companies like:\n\n* **Logitech, Boundless, Gamma,** and many others\n\nand fast-growing YC companies like:\n\n* **Speak**, **Ello**, **Navattic**, and many others.\n\n# **The Challenge: Do you know what’s driving negative customer experiences on your product and how to address them?**\n\nIt’s difficult to get visibility into the user sentiment trends and what can be done to elevate customer experience from a product perspective. Even when you get it, it’s not actionable. Why?\n\n* **Product insight is not granular enough:** unable to pinpoint customers/customer groups at risk and understand the details of their issues on your product.\n* **It takes loads of manual effort** to read and analyze customer feedback data. By the time you have it, it’s too late. Tagging provides stats but no story.\n* **Scattered data sources:** Difficult to aggregate various customer touch points (i.e., Zendesk, Intercom, Front, [gong.io](http://gong.io), Slack, Discord, reviews, and many others)\n\n# **The Solution: Syncly AI surfaces trending/urgent product** **issues automatically, based on all your customer touch points. Syncly does it with minimal effort from users and provides a granular level of insight on a customer level.**\n\n* With [**Smart Insight**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoTigJI9F4), identify the most critical product gaps and issues that hinder customer experience without having to read all customer interactions across multiple channels (Zendesk, Intercom, gong.io, Front, Slack, Discord, reviews, and others).\n* Ask **Syncly AI** to pinpoint the positive and negative sentiment drivers and get instant action items to elevate the customer experience.\n* With **Customers AI**, monitor sentiment trends by account and individual user, to proactively engage with customers with underlying issues before they become at-risk.\n\n ![](https://framerusercontent.com/images/uTiFzlfEY2imgMwq5c8r1XDKCrE.png)\n\n\n### Learn more use cases\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases and getting a free trial:\n\n* [**schedule a call**](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with Co-Founders at Syncly!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LFy-syncly-get-product-insights-from-everyday-customer-communication-for-fast-growing-companies", "votes": 174, "created_at": "2024-06-24T19:17:19.745Z" }, { "id": 69973, "title": "🚀 Syncly — AI customer feedback analytics that drives retention", "tagline": "Syncly enables Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity. ", "body": "Hey, We are Joseph, Kwan, Jongsoo from [Syncly](https://www.syncly.app) (YC W23).\n\nOur team founded and sold an AI startup for $200M, and decided to bring our technology to help Revenue team drive retention by delivering the right value for customers.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nSyncly uses AI and Chat-GPT to enable Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity.\n\n### **The Challenge**\n\n* **Manual tagging and insights:** Your revenue team wants to understand the most impactful product or operational feedback, but the team spend a lot of time manually aggregating and analyzing. As a result, you come to learn what had gone wrong _AFTER_ the damage.\n* **Measuring team efficiency**: Hard to track most of what problems your Revenue team is doing, but seems your team is doing a lot. Currently, done by 1-on-1 meetings or manual tagging, which is not scalable.\n* **Post-action impact:** Hard to measure how customer feedback has changed after certain actions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n* **Automating feedback insight:** Syncly finds urgent and impactful customer issues. Your team can proactively engage with customers _BEFORE_ the damage.\n* **Boosting team efficiency:** Spread best practices within the organization to help Account managers, Customer success & support managers focus on delivering more value to the customer.\n* **Post-action visibility:** By monitoring customer feedback trend, you can measure the impact of each release and action.\n\n\\*Syncly’s integrations include **Intercom, Slack, Salesforce**, and other customer communication platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/777aa42c-a17a-40a9-8418-feaf2f342c4d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/ab5abf25-c974-4eed-8e29-1f07e7bff28c)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n* If you wanted to get as many actional insights from your customers feedback, schedule a call with us here: [https://www.syncly.app](https://www.syncly.app/) (Click “Book a Demo”)\n* Feel free to shoot me an email at [joseph@deepbluedot.io](mailto:joseph@deepbluedot.io) if you want to chat more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICb-syncly-ai-customer-feedback-analytics-that-drives-retention", "votes": 138, "created_at": "2023-03-06T19:49:55.810Z" } ] }, { "id": 29297, "name": "Eggnog", "slug": "eggnog", "former_names": [ "Fielder" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/192e30253e4b85adfd668365bd902971b258835c.png", "website": "https://www.eggnog.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Interactive AI video apps where users create and play.", "one_liner": "AI-native entertainment", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1710803454, "tags": [ "Entertainment", "Social Media", "Video", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/eggnog", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/eggnog.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/eggnogai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/eggnog_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/192e30253e4b85adfd668365bd902971b258835c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/01c857d63fd4c9045ae54d3f32f5abd9ddef5312.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b72f0878ce5a5f564359db84790e36e37805ee22.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 649987, "full_name": "Sam Plank", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of Eggnog. Previously at Meta and Quora. Studied applied math at Harvard.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sam-plank-042b1199", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SamuelMGPlank", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77ee6465b6a95fa09e99a7cc6a6ef174eb4c31b1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79488, "title": "Eggnog — YouTube for AI-generated content", "tagline": "We let anyone create, watch, and remix AI videos", "body": "Hi YC! We’re Sam and Jitesh, and we’re building [Eggnog](https://www.eggnog.ai/). We’re on a mission to enable everyone to create, share, and enjoy the magic of AI-generated videos with consistent characters.\n\nCheck out [the most popular video](https://youtu.be/WnAzSG9PFO8) made with Eggnog - it got 100k views on Twitter in 24 hours! Paul Graham even said it was funny!\n\n### AI Videos don’t have consistent characters\n\nAI videos exploded in the past year, and we saw a deluge of content that was funny, spooky, and whimsical. But one thing has held these videos back from really being ready for primetime – AI video creators can’t create scenes with consistent characters.\n\nCreators try every trick in the book to give their wizard the same wizened face from one scene to the next, but no matter, the wizard always looks different.\n\nInconsistent characters kill so much of the magic of AI videos. It’s hard to get invested in the protagonist of a story if they look different in every scene!\n\n### Eggnog\n\nEggnog gives creators the control to design their characters exactly how they imagine and lets them use those characters in cinematic scenes. This unlocks AI video creation that is immersive with characters that viewers get attached to.\n\nCreators can also use and remix characters made by other Eggnog users, allowing creators to build worlds in a collaborative and social way.\n\nWe use a special mix of open-source diffusion models and post-processing to give creators control. Until now, the average creator couldn’t make a truly cinematic scene without a Hollywood budget for actors, sets, cameras, etc. Scenes from Interstellar, Dune, and Jurassic World were impossible to make without millions of dollars and months of time. But Eggnog changes that.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79488&key=user_uploads/587051/bc4cf951-1c5c-422f-9a80-46b6f92c4b1f)\n\n### What’s next?\n\nCharacter consistency is the foundation of entertaining AI video, but it’s only the beginning. We’re excited about a future where users can remix characters and scenes to build infinite storylines.\n\nWe’re going to make it possible for viewers to get engrossed in a cinematic universe and then expand on that universe in a collaborative and social way.\n\n### Team\n\nWe’re excited to empower the most creative people to tell the best stories.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79488&key=user_uploads/587051/f0cf8ab7-c747-44a8-87d6-c442985384c8)\n\nA bit about us— \\\n[Sam](https://linkedin.com/in/sam-plank-042b1199): BA in Applied Math from Harvard. Previously worked on creator monetization tools at Quora that grew from 0 to $1M ARR in under a year and built an AI assistant for podcasters.\n\n[Jitesh](https://linkedin.com/in/jitesh-m-62a533b3): BS, MEng in CS from MIT, trained a language model to generate music lyrics and worked on image models to help pulmonologists. Previously a consultant at McKinsey and PM at Flexport\n\n### Asks\n\n[Eggnog](https://www.eggnog.ai/) is live! Make a video, post it on Twitter, and tag @jitsvm and @SamuelMGPlank", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kg4-eggnog-youtube-for-ai-generated-content", "votes": 137, "created_at": "2024-03-19T14:35:26.569Z" } ] }, { "id": 29382, "name": "Soundry AI", "slug": "soundry-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7a8248327c7bdfb14b2d547e4250131e4353d614.png", "website": "https://soundry.ai/", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "We build generative AI tools that enhance the fan engagement experience. Want to remix Taylor Swift in the style of Slayer? Now you can with our new product Groove. 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I’ve made contributions in many fields including robotics, biomedical imaging, computer vision, hardware acceleration, and computer architecture, and generative AI. My passion for AI was super-charged during my PhD at Cornell University where my thesis focused on hardware-accelerated deep neural networks.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/markbuckler", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6224ca5ad5d49c88aeff81d41d1688a65410f145.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1427219, "full_name": "Justin Parus", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Our team is building technology to democratize professional music production. I used to work on the cloud.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/justinparus", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f93c6cfafefa0fb71549581e7d68c19b2cdb5a3c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "The 18 most interesting startups from YC’s Demo Day | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/ycs-winter-2024-demo-day-confirms-that-we-are-indeed-in-an-ai-bubble", "date": "Apr 03, 2024" }, { "title": "Seattle's Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced music creation – GeekWire", "url": "https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-soundry-ai-creates-text-to-sample-generator-to-help-prompt-enhanced-music-creation/", "date": "Mar 30, 2024" }, { "title": "The Journal by Fondo | 🔊 Soundry AI launches generative AI for musicians", "url": "https://www.tryfondo.com/blog/soundryai-launches", "date": "Mar 26, 2024" }, { "title": "Bandlez's Diandre Ruiz Launches Generative AI Program for Creating Samples - EDM.com - The Latest Electronic Dance Music News, Reviews & Artists", "url": "https://edm.com/gear-tech/bandlez-launch-generative-ai-creating-samples", "date": "Jul 31, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78937, "title": "🔊 Soundry AI - Generative AI for musicians", "tagline": "We provide a music sample generator for music creators", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Mark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbuckler/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinparus/), and [Diandre](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diandre-ruiz/) and we’re thrilled to introduce you to [Soundry AI](https://soundry.ai/): **a text-to-sound AI generator for musicians**. Our AI creates musical building blocks perfect for reducing friction in the music creation process.\n\n# \n\n# 🦸‍♂️ The Team\n\nAll three co-founders are united in their love of music. After completing his PhD in AI at Cornell, Mark got his start in the music industry by founding the [Codex Collective](https://codexcollective.co/press-kit), a live music event production company in Seattle. Justin quickly joined, and all three founders met for the first time when Diandre came to Seattle to perform as [Bandlez](https://www.instagram.com/bandlez/), the music project he co-founded. Justin is an engineer extraordinaire, first cutting his teeth on large-scale data processing during his time at Microsoft Azure. Diandre is a professional musician who has performed all over the world and written music with big names, including [Shaquille O’Neal](https://open.spotify.com/track/2oCzWh04Rt4WBr7StVUCHe)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78937&key=user_uploads/1320080/71009b68-f2c7-400e-afbc-466111c5784a)\n\n# **🔇** The Problem\n\nMusic production technology has become increasingly democratized over the years, but creating a piece of music that you are proud of is just as challenging as it’s ever been. These days, most music is made by combining multiple audio recordings of individual instruments (called music samples) into a full song. Music sample libraries are easy to use which has led to massive growth for companies who provide them ([Splice,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/splice) [Output,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/output) etc), but they have a few key issues:\n\n* Professional music producers are often prohibited from using sample libraries due to [copyright strike concerns](https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/17/21140838/justin-bieber-changes-running-over-asher-monroe-synergy-splice-sample-melody).\n* Amateur music producers feel a lack of authenticity when using sounds made by someone else and struggle to make meaningful changes to them.\n\nGenerative AI offers a unique opportunity to build music creation tools that are easy to use and offer fine-grained artistic control. Unfortunately, existing AI music platforms ([Suno,](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/suno-279f) [Boomy](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boomy), etc) offer very little customization and next to no ability to modify any generated output.\n\n# **🎵** Our Solution\n\nOur team at Soundry AI has led the charge by launching the first-ever text-to-sample generator. Our proprietary foundational latent diffusion transformer offers state-of-the-art audio quality due to the efforts of our research team and partnerships with leaders in electronic music production. As you can see in [the video below](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3k4VV5yrs&ab_channel=SoundryAI), musicians like Diandre can use our tool to create unique, high-quality, copyright-free samples perfect for their music projects.\n\nThis past week we released our newest product: [Infinite Sample Packs](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fEfYkkon7YI). Now, all that a user needs to do is click a button to get accurate stylized sounds. Professionals have praised the quality and specificity of the sounds, and amateurs have been thrilled with the simplified interface.\n\n# **📢** Call to Action\n\nIf making music is your thing, we’d love for you to try our sample generator [here!](https://soundry.ai/) We’d be so thankful if you to share our product with all of your musical friends, and if you have any questions then please reach out via [founders@soundry.ai.](mailto:founders@soundry.ai) We can’t wait to hear from you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KXB-soundry-ai-generative-ai-for-musicians", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2024-03-01T04:30:54.397Z" } ] }, { "id": 29403, "name": "HeartByte", "slug": "heartbyte", "former_names": [ "WonderfulWorld", "HeartByte", "Storio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/603343e9fbe2c77651ae60c3646960caf9463a12.png", "website": "https://www.storioai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Storio is a content platform where creators can create original fiction or derivative works based on other fictional worlds. Creators write fictions 10 times faster on Storio. It's a place for community to fully indulge in the fictional world that they wish they were in.", "one_liner": "GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1710193888, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Social Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/heartbyte", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/heartbyte.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/heartbyteworld", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/603343e9fbe2c77651ae60c3646960caf9463a12.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": 1548764, "full_name": "Rachel Wang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Rachel Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Storio, which she started in 2023. Before founding HeartByte, Rachel was the Chief Data Officer at Wish, a cross border e-commerce marketplace. Rachel graduated from the Columbia University where she received a Master of Data Science and Peking University where she received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Why does she work on HeartByte? She thinks the world can be a bit boring and needs more imagination. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelshuyanwang", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2f8b23a2fbcd76fe5a8397444132192f47105940.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79279, "title": "HeartByte 📚🪄 A global community creating the future of fictional universes", "tagline": "HeartByte uses GenAI to make fiction writing easy and fun", "body": "**TL;DR: **[**HeartByte**](https://heartbyte.ai/)** is a community where people can write novels effortlessly using AI-assisted tools and share them.**\n\nHey YC friends, we are Rachel and Xinyue building [HeartByte](https://heartbyte.ai)!\n\n\n\n👥 **The team**\n\n🦸‍♀️[Rachel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelshuyanwang): CEO. 8 years working with data and building product. ex-Chief Data Officer at Wish. ex-Columbia University. Blog writer with 40K followers.\n\n🥷[Xinyue](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinyue-liang-2b5a60295/): CTO. Tech lead at Instagram and Google. ex-Carnegie Mellon University. A fanfiction OG for the past 15 years.\n\n😮‍💨 **The Problem**\n\nEveryone wants to be a writer, but no one wants to ✍️ write a book 📚. Writing a book is hard— **writers on average take 8-12 months to complete a 100,000-word novel. That’s too slow!** For the rest of us non-writers, we have fleeting passions wanting to turn those interesting fantasies 🧚‍♂️ in our minds into stories. Most of the time, these fantasies remain in our brains 🧠, never shared with others. Because of that, there are fewer good stories in the world, which is why Harry Potter or Game of Thrones seem so precious.\n\nBut it doesn’t have to be this way.\n\n🪄 **The Solution**\n\n**With HeartByte, we make it 10 times easier and faster to write fiction.** 🤩 We build an effortless flow that guides a creator through writing an entire novel 💅. We help users overcome writer’s block ✌️, and provide editing support and workflow management. We enable users to spend more time imagining 👁 and less time writing word by word.\n\nWe want using HeartByte to be like having your **personal writer's studio**, where you can easily exchange ideas, get inspired, and complete each other's sentences with AI. Instead of the old long grind 🥱, writing a novel becomes easy and fun 🤗.\n\n📚🔮 **The Magic**\n\nOur users are loving ❤️ the product. **We've seen users who previously published a chapter every five days now able to publish one chapter per day, with better writing!**\n\n📣 **Our Ask**\n\n* **Try our product** at [heartbyte.ai](http://heartbyte.ai). Share your feedback with us [rachel@heartbyte.ai!](mailto:rachel@heartbyte.ai)\n* **Share this post** if you think someone might be interested in effortless creative writing.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kch-heartbyte-a-global-community-creating-the-future-of-fictional-universes", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-03-11T22:13:22.500Z" } ] }, { "id": 29431, "name": "Treblo", "slug": "treblo", "former_names": [ "Sonauto" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/06f5522b7fa85084b0dbcbf4b215da1780123f6f.png", "website": "https://treblo.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Treblo is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs in any style. 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Previously, a software engineering intern at Vocode (YC W23) and an intern on the Machine Learning Team at Ada.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/hhousen", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b7fc92b3708043568124634f955d3227262d6642.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 72033, "title": "ML Engineer/Researcher", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/treblo/jobs/b34gnqK-ml-engineer-researcher", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Machine learning", "salary_range": "$120K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 2.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "JavaScript", "Python", "React", "Torch/PyTorch" ] }, { "id": 80519, "title": "Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/treblo/jobs/UQAJuQ8-summer-2026-ml-engineer-research-intern", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Internship", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Machine learning", "salary_range": "$6K - $9K / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "JavaScript", "Python", "Torch/PyTorch", "Machine Learning", "CUDA", "GPU Programming" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79178, "title": "Sonauto 🎸 Make hit songs with AI", "tagline": "Meet Sonauto, which turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in seconds.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79178&key=user_uploads/564530/4dc23bf4-4a7e-482d-bd25-06758a81c803)\n\n# \n\nTL;DR: Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, melodies into full songs in any style. Try it now at \n\n# For example, in a few minutes with Sonauto you can:\n\n(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)\n\n* Make a sick Y Combinator Power Metal Anthem:\\\n \\\n \n* Or lament the \"Type 2 fun\" we founders love so much: \\\n \\\n \n* Or hear from a 60s rocker about the time he pivoted: \\\n \\\n \n* Or discover ChatGPT’s content policy: \\\n \\\n \n\n# Team\n\nRyan graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open source researchers.\n\nHayden was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.\n\n# Problem\n\nRecords, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remains out of the hands of millions of would be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.\n\n# Product\n\nStarting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at !\n\nSonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.\n\nOur first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.\n\n# Asks\n\n1. Make some songs at ! For example, you can make a song about:\n 1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!\n 2. Your pet\n 3. Your company, startup, or side project\n 4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday\n2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI\n3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kb4-sonauto-make-hit-songs-with-ai", "votes": 0, "created_at": "2024-03-08T20:54:50.000Z" }, { "id": 79179, "title": "Sonauto 🎸 Make hit songs with AI", "tagline": "Meet Sonauto, which turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in seconds.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79179&key=user_uploads/564530/4dc23bf4-4a7e-482d-bd25-06758a81c803)\n\n# \n\n# TL;DR: Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, and melodies into full songs in any style. [Try it now](https://sonauto.ai/)!\n\n## January 2025 update: Here are some great songs from our v2 model…\n\n(Note: Use our website to hear the songs without YouTube compression)\n\n* How do you like me now?:\n\n \n\n \n* Ghost in My Mind by whosthere:\n\n \n\n \n* When The Lines Are Drawn by gonesvan:\n\n \n\n \n\n## Team\n\n[Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tremblay-62429a86/) graduated in December with CS and History degrees from Cornell, though was also nearing completion of an early masters program focusing on ML. He also spent a year and a half researching music AI on the side in collaboration with the HarmonAI (by Stability) and open-source researchers.\n\n[Hayden](https://linkedin.com/in/hhousen) was a Junior at Cornell until December. He was previously published at NeurIPS, the author of one of the first open-source transformer summarization libraries, and support unicorn Ada's youngest ML engineer intern at eighteen.\n\n## Problem\n\nRecords, radio, digital, streaming, TikTok. The music industry is well acquainted with transformation. However, participation has remained exclusive throughout. The software and sound engineering skills necessary to produce music at the quality mainstream listeners expect remain out of the hands of millions of would-be musicians. Accordingly, humanity is missing out on countless incredible songs and musical styles that could have been.\n\n## Product\n\nStarting today, everyone is a professional musician. Make your first song right now at [https://sonauto.ai](https://sonauto.ai/)!\n\nSonauto is training a music foundation model to allow you and musicians of any skill level to produce radio-quality songs with no prior knowledge. We're calling it Melodia.\n\nOur first release is a text-to-music service reminiscent of Midjourney, along with a sharing platform. You can enter a description of the musical and lyrical qualities of the music you're imagining and receive a fully-produced song in seconds, or keep editing for something even more special. In addition, you can share, comment on, and remix the creations of others.\n\n## Asks\n\n1. Make some songs at [https://sonauto.ai](https://sonauto.ai/)! For example, you can make a song about:\n 1. Your S/O - makes for a great surprise gift!\n 2. Your pet\n 3. Your company, startup, or side project\n 4. A song for your friend/family member with an upcoming birthday\n2. Post lyrics videos (Editor → Share → Download → Video) of your favorite songs on X and ping us there @SonautoAI\n3. Let us know if any words (esp. technical terms) are consistently mispronounced. We can fix them very quickly once we're aware of them.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kb5-sonauto-make-hit-songs-with-ai", "votes": 94, "created_at": "2024-03-07T20:00:48.344Z" } ] }, { "id": 29762, "name": "Remade", "slug": "remade", "former_names": [ "Pheat AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "website": "https://www.remade.ai/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=YC&utm_campaign=YC_profile&utm_content=YC_profile", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Remade is building an AI-native canvas for creative workflows. \r\nTry it now at: app.remade.ai", "one_liner": "AI-native canvas for creative workflows.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1721201298, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Consumer", "Social Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/remade", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/remade.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104217651", "x_url": "https://x.com/Remade_AI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561070223360", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/remade", "github_url": "https://github.com/Pheat-AI", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2c980220f3649574a4878b6ee1748f655fff36cf.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1226451, "full_name": "Christos Antonopoulos", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Christos Antonopoulos is the Co-founder & CEO of Remade. 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He has contributed to earning £700k+ in revenue/ funding in past ventures.\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-matthews-1b282918b/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8822923a3a2cd2bf1903b30cba6be376db5552b5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1928468, "full_name": "Blendi Bylygbashi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Blendi is the co-founder of Remade, a company focused on creating professional videos using AI. He holds a BA and an MEng in Information and Computer Engineering from the University of Cambridge. At Transport for London, he developed deep learning models for CCTV event detection. His research on intra-cranial hypertension was published in the Lancet Neurology Journal.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/blendibylygbashi/", "x_url": "https://x.com/BlendiByl", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/44cd7ddcc78ee7bf957650363e156203011be0cf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1824343, "full_name": "Rehan Sheikh", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Rehan is the CTO and co-founder of Remade, researching Diffusion Models. He holds a BA and MEng in Information & Computer Engineering from the University of Cambridge!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rehan-sheikh-1102", "x_url": "https://x.com/rehan_shei", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df91a3b800bf1e7cddc60d1f814fbd19791bad88.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84186, "title": "Remade: Automating video ad workflows using AI", "tagline": "Create engaging TikTok hooks for your products.", "body": "[Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zndokGv8Lk)\n\n**Tl;DR: Remade automates visual marketing workflows. Lifestyle product brands generate TikTok hooks that land 130% higher clickthrough rate.** \n\n**Try it now:**\n\n[**https://app.remade.ai/create**](https://app.remade.ai/create)\n\nHi everyone! We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/34c8021f-473b-429c-a686-1d0dbbccd54c)\n\nWe are excited to announce our product image-to-video workflow, enabling the transformation of low-quality product images into video hooks that sell.\n\n# How it works:\n\n1. **Upload an image of your product**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/3212644d-c5d4-434d-94ae-c0009f3348dc)\n\n2. **Use “AI Backgrounds” to create a scene for your product video.**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/57fa19f5-3b50-4ad6-b8d9-b047fdae34f7)\n\n3. **Generate your TikTok hook**\n\n [TikTok Hook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrZIN7KDD8)\n\n# Use Cases\n\n**Marketing Teams**\n\nMarketing teams use Remade to generate short-form product reels in minutes. We replace a process that corporations outsource to marketing agencies for thousands of dollars in 3-clicks. \n\n**Marketplaces**\n\nMarketplaces use Remade’s Enterprise API to quickly generate product videos for their catalogs. These videos help sellers showcase products with dynamic, attention-grabbing content, which is proven to boost conversion, reduce bounce rate, and enhance the shopping experience. \n\n**Delivery Platforms**\n\nDelivery platforms use Remade to generate videos for their food listings, enabling a TikTok-style User Experience.  \n\n# **👋**Asks: How you can help\n\nWarm intros to Heads of Image Catalogue at Delivery platforms such as Zomato, Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo and Grubhub.\n\nWarm Intros to CMO’s / Heads of Content of lifestyle product brands.\n\nEmail us at [founders@remade.ai](mailto:founders@remade.ai) for 24/7 support.\n\n**Try it here:**\n\n[**https://app.remade.ai/create**](https://app.remade.ai/create)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ltq-remade-automating-video-ad-workflows-using-ai", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2024-09-20T15:51:55.133Z" }, { "id": 82235, "title": "Remade: GenAI product photography for businesses", "tagline": "Generate studio-quality product photoshoots from your smartphone.", "body": "[Remade Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5d9S0cmaE)\n\n**tl;dr:** We use AI to generate professional product images from smartphone-quality inputs. These images are then used in marketplaces, social media & ads. Get your first photoshoot for free at [app.remade.ai.](http://app.remade.ai)\n\nHi everyone! We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/f9304638-6681-457f-ad40-a35807205621/image.png)\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nTraditional photography is labor-intensive, slow, and expensive. Enterprises spend thousands on photography, while smaller businesses can't afford it. Existing AI platforms struggle to capture the user's vision and maintain the consistency of input images.\n\n### 🎉 **The Solution**\n\nRemade replaces the entire photography pipeline with 3 steps.\n\n1. Upload 10 photos of your item from different angles.\n2. Direct the photoshoots through text prompts, or let Remade suggest prompts for you.\n3. Receive studio-quality images in minutes.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/1385a61e-b4fb-4535-af01-7dc92efa1706/image.png)\n\nRemade reduces the costs of professional images by 100x and cuts delivery time from weeks to minutes. Work with us to amplify your marketing content across major social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and more.\n\n## **Use Cases**\n\n**Fashion**\n\nHiring photographers, models, studio setups, lighting experts, and stylists can be replaced with three clicks, saving you thousands of dollars.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/3c3d6bae-29cc-45ae-bcda-52a88e8dd30c/image.png)\n\n**Food**\n\nIncrease your coverage of images across multiple sales channels, including food delivery platforms and social media.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/9b7fe9c1-e830-4f59-bbbb-721156c7b7ea/image.png)\n\n**Products**\n\nShowcase your products in scenes, build your brand, and boost advertisement engagement on social media and marketplaces.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/d7f870e3-fa32-419f-934d-b157e16696c0/image.png)\n\n**Cars**\n\nDriving to the desert to get a cool shot of your car isn't a viable option for most car retailers. Take some pictures of your car in a parking lot, and let Remade do the rest!\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/426ab5fa-54f5-481f-870a-40fa47d733c5/image.png)\n\n### **👋** **Ask: How you can help**\n\n* If you or anyone you know is struggling with photography, [please reach out to us](https://www.remade.ai/contact-us)!\n* Connect us to Delivery platforms (e.g. DoorDash, Uber Eats)\n* Connect us to Enterprise leaders (Fashion Brands, Marketplaces, Car Manufacturers) that aim to reduce photography operational costs!\n* Connect us to small businesses (e.g. Restaurants) that need help with Photography / Social Media management\n* Give us product feedback [here](https://www.remade.ai/contact-us).\n\nThanks - we hope to see you on our platform! 😊🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LON-remade-genai-product-photography-for-businesses", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-07-17T23:18:37.426Z" } ] }, { "id": 29813, "name": "Argil", "slug": "argil", "former_names": [ "Argil.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cf382116d588dbabcc46212f251dbd019d511071.png", "website": "https://www.argil.ai/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "The video generation engine for the creator economy ", "team_size": 8, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1720111633, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Social Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/argil", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/argil.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Paris", "country": "FR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/argilai", "x_url": "https://x.com/argildotai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cf382116d588dbabcc46212f251dbd019d511071.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": 1144769, "full_name": "Laodis Menard", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Create content for social media with your deepfake on Argil.ai\nFascinated by stories, creative (wrote a SF novel and directed a thriller)\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/laodis", "x_url": "https://x.com/LaodisOfficial", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a527459fc948ea41e2339f548eddb3da189973b0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 964467, "full_name": "Brivael Le Pogam", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Hacker building the best video avatar for content creators.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/brivael-le-pogam-bbbb7185", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/brivael", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7a4bd6fb28fd8dad8a627f0ffe7cae19dd705faf.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82652, "title": "Argil - Generate videos with your AI clone in 2 minutes 🤳", "tagline": "Video is about to become your strongest marketing & branding channel", "body": "**tl;dr:** You’re probably a great dev but a terrible marketer, and you should use video because we’re making it cheap and easy thanks to our SOTA deepfake model and platform.\n\n[Check out my video message to you:](https://youtu.be/q8xAigH8HbE)\n\n### **The problem**\n\n**Video is expensive** to produce. It is used for branding rather than performance and is usually the last resort employed after everything is exhausted (ads, SEO, etc.). Yet, it is the **highest performing media** out there. It can engage leads and clients (branding, masterclasses), sell (UGC), and make internal documents more engaging (FAQ, trainings).\n\n### **The solution**\n\nBy building a **SOTA deepfake model** and a **platform to generate videos**, we’re making it insanely easy to create and grow your audience with video, regardless of your goals: \n\n* **Clone yourself** with 2 minutes of video, or use one of our avatars\n* Input a text or voice script \n* Generate a **fully edited, engaging video** complete with subtitles & media in a few clicks\n\nAll of it is also **available via our API** 👀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82652&key=user_uploads/1144769/9d686868-b27d-40d5-94b4-16e0e1fa3731)\n\n**What’s magic?**\n\n* Make it engaging with body language control & camera angles\n* Preview your video before generating it\n* Get a ready-to-post video in 2 minutes (subtitles, media, etc.)\n\n### **Use cases**\n\n**Branding**\n\nSocial media is where you can do the most business. **Even if you’re shy**, you should leverage video on social media to share stories, knowledge, and engage. **If you record ONE good 2-minute video** of yourself, you’re **set for life.** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82652&key=user_uploads/1144769/70427a3a-f3ea-45f2-859f-60f892b2107a)\n\nWe just released a feature that will help you generate your **first LinkedIn video** and get ahead of the release of their “shorts” feature - try it out!\n\n**Education** \n\nOne of the most effective marketing strategies is to **educate your prospects** on how to solve their pain - you can use lead magnets (free training videos in exchange for their email or action on their part), or generate video documentation on your platform to convert/upsell.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82652&key=user_uploads/1144769/8b5b68a7-bd2f-4ab5-8373-a0ee0b8ac075)\n\n**Promotion (screencasts, UGC)**\n\nHaving influencers sell your product is a huge pain: you need to find them, brainstorm ideas with them, pay them, give them an affiliate plan, etc. How cool would it be to generate **100 ads for your product effortlessly**? That’s what we allow doing with our UGC avatars. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82652&key=user_uploads/1144769/71bf797c-5bed-4da8-a407-280d16a53e49)\n\n**Entertainment**\n\nYouTuber Kwebblekop (15m subscribers) has created an automated pre-production pipe that then calls our API. He generates **1000 shorts/month** with the platform, and his channel is growing with an entirely automated workflow.\n\n### **The founders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82652&key=user_uploads/89898/1996a343-1054-43cf-b460-7ae01c51e5e3)\n\nWe met 10 years ago while working at French scale-up Teads. After our first failed startup together in 2016, I (Laodis) worked on several projects involving video: movies, masterclasses, TikTok (25k subscribers)… But during all of it, **the hardest part was production**. Working on AI projects last year, it became obvious that the single pain that was the most meaningful to solve was helping people access video without the production costs and effort getting in the way. \n\n### **Our Asks 👇**\n\n* You can generate your first videos right now by [filling out this form](https://tally.so/r/mOGgLK) to **get an onboarding code** and pinging me on Twitter ([@LaodisOfficial](https://x.com/LaodisOfficial))\n* If you want to play around **with our API**, reach out to [@BrivaelLp](https://x.com/brivaellp) on Twitter", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LV6-argil-generate-videos-with-your-ai-clone-in-2-minutes", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2024-08-01T19:21:32.915Z" } ] }, { "id": 29830, "name": "Typa", "slug": "typa", "former_names": [ "Weavel", "Typa - by Weavel" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9922edca2847f43aae8a7cd38ca5819ed482590a.png", "website": "https://typa.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We help businesses capture what resonates, make it repeatable, and turn attention into lasting momentum. With Typa, you can build a scalable inbound growth engine with content that compounds.\r\n\r\nWe make this possible through three pillars:\r\n\r\n1. A tone of voice that always sounds like you. Typa learns your style, cadence, and perspective so every piece of content reflects your authentic voice.\r\n\r\n2. A knowledge base that updates in real time. Your digital clone continuously absorbs everything you say and create, ensuring your content always reflects your latest thinking.\r\n\r\n3. A personal ghostwriter that’s always just a call away. 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Prior to that, Jun studied computer science & engineering at Seoul National University.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-park314/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/86523643442bce39c00d3d15cef503596ae4d2b9.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83213, "title": "Weavel - Ape 🐒 Your first AI Prompt Engineer", "tagline": "Get fast (7 hours → 10 minutes🔻) & efficient (70% → 93%🔺)", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/8f68d0d9-5e48-46ee-852f-a6a841232f11)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/d1d98093-7792-4954-bd9d-a588f0658a53)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/85f4ffe2-bf2f-4cb2-966c-2501c2b4fbe2)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/9cf399d9-e818-4bfb-9da4-42ac9ed3736f)\n\n# **☕️ TL;DR**\n\n* **Ape** is the ultimate **AI prompt engineer** 🐒, designed to optimize your prompts by reducing cost and latency while increasing performance.\n* Ape achieves an **impressive 94.5%** on the GSM8K benchmark, surpassing Vanilla (54.5%), CoT (87.5%) and DSPy (90.0%).\n* **Easy to set up evaluation**: Ape can auto-generate evaluation code and use LLMs as a judge, or you can use your own eval metrics.\n* Get set up in less than 15 minutes and see the difference.\n * [Schedule a meeting](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) to discover more. Let's chat! 🙂\n\n# **🔒 Problem**\n\nYou’re an engineer of an LLM app, trying to get the prompts just right. Every time you type something in, the output changes—so you tweak a word here and there, and it changes again. Sometimes the outputs looks better, sometimes not. But you’re never sure. Hours go by, all spent on prompt engineering.\n\nGetting the outputs you want can feel like an endless game of trial and error. And you’re not alone. Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked to over 100 YC companies, and a lot of them are facing the same challenges:\n\n* **Measuring output quality is hard** (You’re heavily relying on manual evaluations at the moment.)\n* **Prompt engineering does not work as you want** (You hate spending 5-7 hours a day searching for that one great prompt.)\n\n# **🔑 Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/ddf5778d-78d0-4ff2-a4aa-b84624aeebc0)\n\nWe solve the problem with one simple formula:\n\n```\ngood input + right guidance = better prompts\n```\n\nToday, we launch Ape, your first **AI Prompt Engineer**. Inspired by DSPy, Reflexion, Expel and other research papers, Ape iteratively improves your prompts. Here’s how Ape works:\n\n1️⃣ Log your inputs and outputs to Weavel (with a single line of code!)\n\n2️⃣ Let Ape filter the logs into datasets.\n\n3️⃣ Ape then generates evaluation code and uses LLMs as judges for complex tasks.\n\n4️⃣ \u001dAs more production data is added, Ape continues refining and improving prompt performance.\n\n### **How to use**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/0c1eeedd-ac08-40e7-ad35-acff6766c2c1)\n\n**Create a Dataset**\n\nChange just one line of code to start logging LLM calls with the Weavel Python SDK. The SDK supports sync/async OpenAI chat completions and OpenAI structured outputs.\n\nYou can also import existing data or manually create a dataset.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/bdfc79bd-edeb-4dbf-8c9b-7d432007fa3a)\n\n**Create a Prompt**\n\nWrite a prompt that corresponds to your dataset. You can add an existing prompt as the base version, or if you prefer, create a blank prompt and provide a brief description for Ape to create a prompt from scratch.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/1bfacea3-c2d9-4ac8-90d7-9a6d3e37fd60)\n\n**Optimize Prompts**\n\nTo optimize your prompt using Ape, fill in the necessary information (e.g. JSON schema as you want) and then run the optimization process. An enhanced version of your prompt will be created and available soon.\n\nTa-da! It’s that easy. Ape outperforms with a remarkable 94.5% score on the GSM8K benchmark, surpassing Vanilla (54.5%), CoT (87.5%) and DSPy (90.0%). With Ape, you can optimize the prompt engineering process, saving tons of time and cost while increasing performance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/2002273/45b5ec84-f89d-4d57-9e20-ad349f521c97)\n\nApe is **open source**. [Check out our repository on GitHub.](https://github.com/weavel-ai/Ape) (We’d appreciate a star 🌟)\n\n# **🚀 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/1564365/201595e0-e85e-4931-81aa-a9947754b1b4)\n\nFrom left to right: [**Jun**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-park314/), [**Andrew**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sounhochung/), and [**HyunJie**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyunjiejung/) — together we’re building Weavel.\n\n**Andrew** and **Jun** built 10+ LLM-based products, open-sourced a prompt engineering platform, and co-authored a paper at a NeurIPS workshop last year. **HyunJie** worked on data analytics and optimization at Chartmetric and DevRev, and focused on growth marketing at Liner.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n* Try Ape! [Schedule](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) a walkthrough with the Weavel team or email [hyunjie@weavel.ai](mailto:hyunjie@weavel.ai).\n* Share thoughts on our [Discord](https://weavel.ai/discord) or DM us on [Twitter](https://x.com/weaveldotai).\n* If you know anyone struggling with prompt engineering or evaluations for LLM apps, connect them with us!\n * Copy & paste blurb: A YC company named Weavel has developed an AI prompt engineer (Ape in short) which continuously improves your prompts. It’ll save tons of time for you. You can grab a time [here](https://cal.com/team/weavel/weavel-onboarding) for a demo from the founders.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83213&key=user_uploads/2002273/d937ab74-d39f-44cb-82f8-8454bf017ed1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Le9-weavel-ape-your-first-ai-prompt-engineer", "votes": 111, "created_at": "2024-08-20T14:56:52.551Z" } ] }, { "id": 30023, "name": "Streamable", "slug": "streamable", "former_names": [ "PearAI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdee682cffd04f37019b910b81a540343c3ed75e.png", "website": "https://streamable.run", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "https://streamable.run\r\n", "one_liner": "Powering the biggest IRL streamers today.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1727484339, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Social Media", "Live", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/streamable", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/streamable.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/streamablerun", "x_url": "https://x.com/streamablerun", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdee682cffd04f37019b910b81a540343c3ed75e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1119010, "full_name": "Nang Ang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "coding https://www.nang88.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/nathanang", "x_url": "https://x.com/not_nang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/608f96f09c1088a868c3323f0b72b7f3fca0dde4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 835644, "full_name": "Manav Bokinala", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "making irl streaming awesome", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbokinala/", "x_url": "https://x.com/mbokinala_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d0ec0eb569cd48eea55432d972cf567abad943a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 89461, "title": "Growth / Marketing / Social Media Intern ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/streamable/jobs/Q0tIIWh-growth-marketing-social-media-intern", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US; New York, NY, US)", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$1K - $5K", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Marketing design" ] }, { "id": 89463, "title": "Design / UX Internship", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/streamable/jobs/IbXxmgg-design-ux-internship", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Internship", "role": "Design", "role_type": "UI / UX", "salary_range": "$1K - $5K", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Figma" ] }, { "id": 93125, "title": "Short-Term Design Contractor (Product Design + Brand Kit)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/streamable/jobs/e6pgefZ-short-term-design-contractor-product-design-brand-kit", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Contract", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Brand/graphic design", "salary_range": "$1K - $3K / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 94201, "title": "Social Media / Growth Intern (Remote)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/streamable/jobs/yfmkPYC-social-media-growth-intern-remote", "location": "Los Angeles, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$1K - $2K", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85482, "title": "Streamable 🔵 Never IRL Stream with Issues Again.", "tagline": "Powering the biggest IRL streams today", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\nStreamable makes sure many of the biggest IRL streams stay alive under poor network conditions.\n\n# **The Main Problem:**\n\nWithout [Streamable.run](http://Streamable.run), streamers that stream outside and encounter poor network conditions, will disconnect from Twitch or Kick. 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We’re [Gray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gray-newfield-447b9b111/) and [Noah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-newfield-208a40129/), co-founders of [BeerMe](https://beerme.world/).\n\n**The Problem:** Sending money should be as engaging as other forms of digital content.\\\nAs we spend more time online, our options for self-expression (text, audio, photos, video, gifs, emojis, reactions, and stickers) have flourished. But payments feel about the same as they did 10 years ago.\n\n**The Solution:** BeerMe makes sending money fun and expressive.\n\nSend an old friend a couple beers ($16) on his birthday. Text your daughter a coffee ($5) to brighten up her finals week. Slack your team little treats ($4 each) at the end of a long sprint. With a curated library of tokens, any moment becomes an occasion.\\\n\\\n**Demo:**\n\n\n\nLike all social media content, tokens can be sent via private, anonymous links on any platform where people stay connected. Transfers are instant, global, and free. 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When I open up Facebook and Instagram, I don’t see any of my friends on it anymore - it’s one third ads, one third content from strangers on the internet, and one third AI slop. My friends are no longer on social media - I either meet up with them IRL or catch up with them in group chats.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KW2tjLl6sxM \n\nWhat if your group chats could help get you a reservation... and help you split the bill? Now it can.\n\nWe're building an AI-native group chat app that helps you hang out with your friends more. Your AI agent (digipal) knows your location, calendar, relationship history, and photos. It talks with your friends' digipals to coordinate IRL hangouts automatically - suggesting times when everyone's free, finding nearby restaurants and coffee shops, making reservations with AI calls, splitting bills from receipts, and nudging you to share photo memories after hanging out. \n\nRight now, coordinating hangouts with friends takes too much effort. We're removing that friction so you can spend less time planning and more time actually having fun IRL.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/7bae7c14-2266-4d71-82e2-f23716cf4f2a)\n\n**Where We're Going - The First AI-Native Social Operating System**\n\nDigipals work through AI widgets that pop up right in your group chat when you and your friends need them. Talking about dinner? The restaurant widget appears. Someone sends a receipt? The bill split widget shows up. You never have to leave the group chat to coordinate.\n\nWe're starting with widgets that make it easier to hang out IRL - restaurant reservations, movie/concert suggestions, flight/hotel bookings, bill splitting, and sports scores. Here's some sneak peeks:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/91296545-05f9-4057-b324-b600168547b9)\n\nThen we're adding widgets that help you stay close to your friends and make new ones - relive memories from fun times together in the past, post memes/articles/reels your group would actually find funny, surface life updates worth celebrating, and connect with friends of friends.\n\nEventually, anyone can build AI widgets for Digipals. Your group chat becomes the social operating system, and the widgets are the apps that enhance human connection.\n\n**Team**\n\n[Peggy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-wang-ai/) cares deeply about human relationships. For over nine years, she's grabbed dinner monthly with the same friends at Madras Cafe in Sunnyvale - the restaurant their group chat is named after. She's a second time founder who worked on the Metaverse at Meta Reality Labs, where she believed that the future of social connection was in virtual worlds and games. Now, she's convinced the future is simpler - it's showing up IRL.\n\nMathew made a hit solo game called [deadshot.io](http://deadshot.io) which has over 2M+ monthly active users. 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As such, we can help bring together the whole marketing stack into one platform where all you need is a really good prompter and taste.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/abcdeafe-fa89-4ddc-a571-70e9c7b880e5)\n\nLet's say you want to recreate a winning UGC skincare ad. You can first take the URL and automatically de-edit each scene, captions, text and photo overlays. Then, you can use our asset maker to recreate all the shots exactly.\n\nThen you can save all your workflows as templates in our node based canvas.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/758866c5-48a3-47c4-b396-723ed16f203f)\n\nWe allow you to split screen to work between assets and editing seamlessly - including a creative agent and capabilities like auto captioning.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/dc015a6b-b975-47ed-94bf-ae78dfe24ae2)\n\nYou can also clone slideshows and create multiple variations in one canvas.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/cf3abd59-aede-4eb9-a48c-0033bd3c007c)\n\n**Our ask**\n\nWe'd love for you to try out our product! It is still in beta and any type of feedback is greatly appreciated. There is no waitlist or paywall and you can try starting today at .\\\n\\\nLinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluma-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluma-ai/)\\\nTwitter: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98704&key=user_uploads/2724981/4e8170c8-5ad0-44ab-bf86-58710f4e77dd)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pg0-bluma-ai-ugc-maker", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-03-12T15:09:58.820Z" }, { "id": 95662, "title": "Bluma: The AI short form content engine", "tagline": "Your entire consumer marketing strategy run with content templates", "body": "Hey all - this is [Alisa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wu-alisa/) and [Stephen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-ni/) from Bluma!\n\n**TL;DR** Bluma automates your entire consumer marketing strategy with content templates - a library of automated video workflows that turn scripts and assets into finished videos at the click of a button.\n\n[https://youtu.be/Pi69Jd-fnok](https://youtu.be/Pi69Jd-fnok%5C)\n\n\\\n**Problem**\n\nIf you’re building in consumer, you know that it is super hard to get eyes on your product.\n\nIn a post-AI world, attention is the most valuable commodity. Social media is only growing faster and faster, and we're still early.\n\nShort form has a high barrier of entry due to cost (UGC costs $35/video + $1 CPM, editors are $50/video) and operations as shown below:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95662&key=user_uploads/2724981/ade8a7fd-4114-4164-ae5c-f0b389922684)\n\n**Solution**\n\nInstead of manually assembling a video in CapCut, Bluma works like this:\n\n1. Create template format by chatting with AI\n2. Generate videos on autopilot\n3. Push traffic to product/service\n\nOur biggest client runs 8 templates across 16 accounts, posting 2x daily. Bluma is growing 100% w/w and went from 0 to 28k MRR in 4 weeks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95662&key=user_uploads/2724981/c5fd4e08-2eb3-4c12-80ea-bcf74db92c92)\n\nUsing templates, we can replicate proven formats and A/B test scripts for you cheaper, faster and more scalable than human creators (UGC, editors).\\\n\\\n**Our Vision**\n\nMake video effortless and accessible to anyone through (video automation) templates.\n\n**Team**\n\nAlisa was the youngest engineer at 19 working on self-driving at Zoox. Stephen scaled payment infrastructure to millions at Shopify. Having generated over 6.7M views and been featured on New York Times, we have taste for scalable virality.\n\nWe met 3 years ago when we snuck into the Collision Tech Conference and spent the entire summer building in WeWork offices before both heading into the University of Waterloo. Dropped out and planned to bootstrap until we applied 21 days late and went into YC F25.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95662&key=user_uploads/2724981/cc17438d-9b2f-46a2-8827-2d2f96863dba)\n\n**Our Ask**\\\nIf you’re looking to start or scale your editing pipeline with templates, contact us at https://getbluma.com/book-a-call\n\nWarm intros to your cap table investors in the video or marketing space!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95662&key=user_uploads/2724981/7db5999c-dddc-41ca-95f1-31c39b7889af)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Osw-bluma-the-ai-short-form-content-engine", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-11-20T18:51:47.338Z" } ] }, { "id": 36279, "name": "Native", "slug": "native", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/150e28c9ae3ba8f6c0bac4696c53752a638f59ff.png", "website": "https://native.no/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Native is building an autonomous marketing platform where business can do all of their marketing within one platform using our artificial intuition model called Norn, that predicts what people will respond to, researched and built in house.", "one_liner": "Artificial Intuition for marketing", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1791575550, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "Social Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/native", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2026/native.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trynative/", "x_url": "https://x.com/trynativeapp", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/native.no", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/wepost-no", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/150e28c9ae3ba8f6c0bac4696c53752a638f59ff.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b0877b1c3a7ec9ee92d9b60a7be6118d6b8f77a4.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/3eea1a8bb874e54e6a55502c860a90103ed95d66.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1927795, "full_name": "Benjamin Bekken", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Native (YC F26). 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Early experience in AI/ML at DNV and Norconsult, working on computer vision and radar technology applications.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakon-grasberg/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8d9e84db93a4997f1891723f024b7138970d206e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1927747, "full_name": "Trond Hauga", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of Native (YC F26). First co-founded and sold out music festival at 17, then founded marketing agency while doing master's degree in Tech Venture from NTNU (Norwegian MIT). Last year at college I cofounded Wepost which we built for 2.5 years, merging that to start Native in January 2026.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/trondha/", "x_url": "https://x.com/Tronhauga", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cb29c298c9dc5f35f7963e6eddab95195dc305c6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 121621, "title": "Native: Artificial intuition for marketing", "tagline": "Native predicts what you should post, and then runs it across your socials and ads.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nBen, Håkon and Trond here, founders of Native (YC F26). \n\nToday we're introducing Norn, a model that predicts which marketing ideas are outliers, before the content is made. We call it artificial intuition, and have our first model live in Native helping over 2000 companies run their marketing. By dogfooding we've reached $2M ARR within our first 6 months.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nAI has made it much easier to produce text, images and video. But you still have to decide what’s worth saying, which angle fits your brand and what your audience might care about.\n\nProducing more content doesn’t answer those questions. It just produces more noise.\n\nOur bet: knowing what to say becomes more valuable as creating it gets cheaper.\n\n**How Norn works**\n\nJust type in your website. Native gathers your business and brand context, and Norn ranks ideas using four signals:\n\n* Brand personality: your voice, positioning and style\n* Social performance: what happened after content was published\n* Trends: what people are paying attention to\n* Taste: which ideas you approve, rewrite or reject\n\nNorn’s output is an idea: the point to make, the angle and the format. Native uses frontier models to turn it into images, video, ad creatives and social posts. You review the results, and Native handles scheduling and publishing.\n\nThe original idea, your feedback and the published result become part of the learning loop.\n\n**Already live**\n\nMore than 2,000 businesses use Native, and Norn v1 is already working inside it.\n\nThat gives us something useful to build on: feedback from the whole creative process, from the first suggestion to what happens after publishing.\n\n**Why us**\n\nBen comes from YouTube and agency work, with 15 years in content and marketing. Trond built a marketing agency and founded a music festival. Håkon built machine learning models for visual imagery and brings the AI and engineering background.\n\nBetween us, we’ve spent years creating content and building the software behind it. Native brings those experiences together.\n\n**Next: the Norn API**\n\nWe’re developing an API so other products can ask for ranked ideas before creating content: a marketing tool, an agency workflow or an AI agent deciding what to make next. Like Jev for marketing.\n\nIn the video, we explain the model and where we want to take it.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIf you’re building a product that creates content, join the Norn API waitlist and tell us what you’d build: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Vdd-native-artificial-intuition-for-marketing", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-10-13T16:00:00.176Z" } ] } ]