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Anyone could describe an idea, turn it into a mini app, and publish it from their phone.\n\nWhile building it, we realized the problem was much larger.\n\nThe internet is already full of remarkable interactive work: games, simulations, visual explanations, data stories, music toys, and 3D worlds. But it is scattered across personal websites and temporary links.\n\nWe usually discover these experiences through screen recordings on X, watch someone else use them, and lose them when the timeline moves on. There is no simple place to discover this work, follow its creators, or find what they make next.\n\nSo today, we’re launching Whip Web.\n\nIt is a YouTube-style feed where every post is an interactive experience. You can play directly in your browser, search by creator or interest, explore creator channels, and like, comment, or see play counts.\n\nFor creators, Whip turns a link into a channel and an audience. For everyone else, it makes the interactive internet easier to explore.\n\nHow you can help\n\nTry a few experiences and tell us what we should improve or add next.\\\n\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Tlb-whip-web-youtube-for-interactive-web-experiences", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-09-09T17:06:16.672Z" }, { "id": 101722, "title": "Whip - Social feed of interactive AI apps and games", "tagline": "Scroll, play, remix, and publish interactive creations from your phone.", "body": "## TL;DR\n\nWhip is a social feed where every post is an interactive AI creation you can actually play with. \\\n\\\nInstead of just posting a photo or video, you can post a tiny app: a game, a quiz, or something completely random. You can play with what others make, remix it, or describe your own idea and publish it to the feed.\\\n\\\n\n\n## **Hey, we're Samagra and Agam**\n\nWe met in high school and have been building and hacking together for the last 4 years. \\\n\\\nWe built Whip because over the past few years, we noticed a growing community of people using AI to vibe-code things purely for self-expression and entertainment.\\\n\\\nBut most existing vibe-coding tools are like individual workspaces. You make something, share a link, and then it disappears into a group chat, a tweet, or a folder. There is no real place for these creations to live, spread, get remixed, and build a community around them.\\\n\\\nSo we built Whip. Its a mobile app where the feed itself is made of interactive AI creations. Every post is something you can tap, swipe, or play with. A trivia game for your friends. A countdown for your event. A tiny game someone made in 2 minutes because it was funny.\\\n\\\nAnd if you like something, you can remix it into you own version and publish it back to the feed. Creating something new is just as simple. Describe what you want and whip builds it on your phone. \\\n\\\nWe want Whip to become the social home for people who make with AI. Not just serious tools or productivity apps, but playful, weird, useful, disposable, personal things too.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101722&key=user_uploads/396588/53d04b8b-a89f-466f-8128-6ef25128455f)\n\n\n## How you can help\n\nDownload Whip and make your first app. Scroll the feed, try a few creations, remix one you like, or describe your own idea and publish it.\\\n\\\nDownload Whip: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QSg-whip-social-feed-of-interactive-ai-apps-and-games", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-05-21T16:56:39.104Z" }, { "id": 78531, "title": "🚀 Tensorfuse - Deploy and scale LLM pipelines on your own cloud", "tagline": "Tensorfuse makes it easy to deploy and manage LLM pipelines on your own cloud", "body": "### **Tl;dr**\n\n[Tensorfuse](https://tensorfuse.io/) makes it easy to deploy and manage LLM pipelines on your own cloud. Simply connect your cloud to Tensorfuse, select your model, point to your data and click deploy. Tensorfuse will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you. Behind the scenes, we manage K8s + Ray clusters, enabling you to scale without LLMOps overhead.\n\n### **About us**\n\nWe are [Agam](https://linkedin.com/in/agam-jn) and [Samagra](https://linkedin.com/in/samagra-sharma-4476bb135). We have experience deploying production machine learning systems at scale at Adobe and Qualcomm. You can see some of our work while using Adobe Scan. Additionally, Samagra authored the Java implementation of \"AI: A Modern Approach,\" which is a widely used AI textbook in over 1,500 universities worldwide. Agam worked as a Computer Vision researcher at Qualcomm, where he published a paper and obtained a patent for image upscaling.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78531&key=user_uploads/396588/ca4c5c9f-32d4-4e65-92f3-5d12a3fcfce5)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nCompanies in regulated spaces are constrained to build LLM apps on their cloud to maintain control over their data. However, managing and Scaling LLM infra is hard and it requires LLMOps expertise. Companies face the following issues: \n\n❌ Deployment complexities increase development time and operational overhead\n\n❌ Auto-scaling requires sophisticated solutions and there are not enough LLMOps experts in the market \n\n### ✅ **Solution**\n\nTensorfuse provides a single API to manage your infra. Simply connect your cloud to Tensorfuse, select your model, point to your data and click deploy. Tensorfuse will provision and manage the underlying infrastructure for you. \\\n\\\nOne of our clients managed to deploy a production-ready retriever in just 6 days, a process that would have otherwise required months of experimentation.\n\n### ❇️ **Ask**\n\n1. If you are facing issues in deploying LLM apps on your infra, contact us at [founders@tensorfuse.io](mailto:founders@tensorfuse.io) \n2. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tensorfuse) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tensorfuse) for more updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KQd-tensorfuse-deploy-and-scale-llm-pipelines-on-your-own-cloud", "votes": 75, "created_at": "2024-02-19T21:11:18.598Z" } ] }, { "id": 29422, "name": "Deep24", "slug": "deep24", "former_names": [ "Versify", "Amber AI", "Ultra" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0586276952946e7eb368770c1670669a2ac319d6.png", "website": "https://deep24.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Deep24 is a coach that syncs with all your data source, understanding you and then coming up with plans to improve your life. 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We’ve already matched some very hungry and capable top 1% high school students to VC firms and YC startups as interns; we’d love to partner with more companies who are interested in building a talent pipeline here or otherwise interested in working with high schoolers. Contact us at [oliver@tryultra.org](mailto:oliver@tryultra.org) \\\n\\\n \\\n\\\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nAmbitious students are underserved. A hungry high schooler is capable of so much more than APs and creating fake non-profits to get into a college.\\\n\\\nBut the guidance is often nothing or directly negative. Schools and counseling departments are already overwhelmed, so they have to focus their advice on the low-performing students. What is possible for a high schooler has also changed so much that a lot of previously sound advice has aged out. \\\n\\\nCollege remains the primary goal for ambitious high schoolers. And the best way to get in is to be shockingly impressive, which also helps later in life, too. But access to guidance on how to make yourself stand out to colleges is expensive (private college consultants) or not well packaged.\\\n\\\n[**👷**](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) **Our Solution**\\\nWe’ve created an AI advisor that helps students become extraordinary.\n\n1. Firstly, we simulate the process that elite colleges use to evaluate profiles to give students an idea of what their odds are (Naviance but better).\n2. Secondly, we give recommendations that students can iterate on. This pulls from a database of 3000+ opportunities, including opportunities exclusive to our platform, like high school-specific internships with venture-backed startups.\n3. Finally, we have a 24/7 AI coach that calls users to check in with them and help them plan and reflect.\n\nAI will make the top performers produce a larger and larger proportion of human work. We will help create this next generation of top performers from the most ambitious students of today.\\\n\\\n**🙏 Our Ask**\\\n\\\nWe’d love to hear from you if you fall into these categories:\n\n* Are you interested in working with or reaching the most ambitious high schoolers? We’ve got a range of partnership-led products coming up, working with startups and enterprises to help them recruit talent, get talent to use their products, and more. This could be as simple as posting opportunities to our platform and being able to recruit the best of the best at their scrappiest or creating job simulations.\n* You’re in education and can help us reach school districts and counselors. We want to give our product for free to schools!\n* If you’re a parent and can help us reach other parents with middle school to high school aged kids.\n* And of course, if you found this as a high schooler: [useultra.ai](http://useultra.ai) is for you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N8i-ultra-advisor-for-ambitious-students", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-03-25T22:57:49.442Z" } ] }, { "id": 29508, "name": "CrowdVolt", "slug": "crowdvolt", "former_names": [ "Mirage Match" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49d2b2fe60b70ec0fe7e8a8f8b9fc420d26c4098.png", "website": "https://crowdvolt.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "CrowdVolt is rebuilding the infrastructure for live events, starting with an automated marketplace for raves and electronic dance music.", "one_liner": "The integration layer for live events infrastructure ", "team_size": 12, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1708402036, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "Entertainment", "Social Network", "Music", "Infrastructure" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/crowdvolt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/crowdvolt.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdvolt/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/CrowdVolt", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49d2b2fe60b70ec0fe7e8a8f8b9fc420d26c4098.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/925b83be77ddf7d77eda8bf61b56eff8a4b877d9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1410116, "full_name": "Max Hammer", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CEO of CrowdVolt (W24)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/max-hammer-2360571b2", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a9b1a595fa8a67948701694f466eb8cd8538ce44.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1153773, "full_name": "Josh Karol", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "I'm originally from Connecticut and am a Co-Founder and the CTO at CrowdVolt. 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We are a social, bid/ask style marketplace with counterparty security and favorable financing terms.\n\n❌ **The problem**\n\nThe secondary ticketing marketplace is fundamentally broken. Fees have skyrocketed, while the user experience has deteriorated. As giants such as Ticketmaster and SeatGeek have moved towards lucrative primary sales in partnership with large venues, they have disenfranchised a whole class of live event attendees.\n\nMany have naturally aggregated themselves on grey markets on legacy social media platforms (think Facebook marketplace and Reddit) to avoid institutional barriers and attempt to find better pricing/execution. 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Available in 10+ languages.\n\n1. **Download [Alfi](https://www.text.ai/)**\n2. **Add your people**: your other half, closest friends, your coworkers, or your annoying siblings\n3. **Schedule your next hangout**: dinner, movie night, weekend trip. Let Alfi help.\n\n**We believe the group chat is the real social network.**\n\nIf you've got a group chat that's been a little too quiet lately... this is your sign.\n\n\n\n**🔄 The Rapid Evolution**\n\nYou may remember [**text.ai**](http://text.ai), our AI that lives inside SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram chats. Tens of thousands of users and over 10M+ messages across 150+ countries in a rapid few months showed us something we didn't expect:\n\nPeople didn't just want answers. We realized they wanted a social friend who understands and acts. Together.\n\nNot a sterile bot. Someone with personality and character. Someone who understood their unique group, who's vegan, who hates horror movies, who always wants ramen.\n\nThey wanted a premium chat experience that was inherently social.\n\nWhy?\n\nWe distilled it down to one thing.\n\nThere is a place where we feel our happiest. All of us.\n\nThe group.\n\nHumans are born into them. And thrive in them. But today, there are very few products to support them.\n\nPlaces where groups can live. But not thrive.\n\nAnd so, friends drift apart. Plans go unplanned. The chat fades.\n\nSo, we started building Alfi, our human-first, AI native approach to messaging.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/5d5804e8-4d4d-462d-b9b0-ee26332baaa4)\n\n\\\n**💙 Meet Alfi**\n\nAlfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together. Alfi also has a proprietary framework that knows when to talk (and when not to). We taught Alfi… social skills! No commands required.\n\nIt doesn’t simply process but understands context, group dynamics, and whether you’re actually asking for help or just chatting with friends.\n\nHere's what that looks like:\n\n* **Book restaurants together**, with Yelp built in(exclusive partnership), directly in the chat. No more \"where should we go?\" spirals. Reserve instantly.\n* **Create images _with_ your friends**: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind.\n* **Social calendar**: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone is on the same page. No more managing separate cals.\n* **Group Wrapped**: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know. Something we all have wanted for the longest time!\n* **Reminders & Memory**: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually stay connected.\n* **Customize your Alfi**: Customize how Alfi responds, creates, and helps to fit in with your group’s style. Custom AI for each chat.\n\nOf course, you have your solo Alfi too! The group chat is simply sacred.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/126e5f00-0d43-4168-8675-072d98c8df63)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/60ea2956-bc47-4b79-9dfb-77b8cae6a9e2)\n\nSome beta user testimonies:\n\n* \"_It reminds my bf when he forgets our Farmers Market dates. Finally, someone else keeping him in check_ 😏\"\n* _\"We put ourselves in cute dresses together. So cute. I wanna buy now\"_\n\n\\\n**🌍 Why This Matters**\n\nWe're in the middle of a quiet shift. Gen Z is leaving broadcast social media. They're retreating to group chats, smaller, more intentional and personal spaces where they're honestly themselves.\n\nBut group chats are also where plans go to die. Someone has to be \"the planner\" or nothing happens.\n\n**We believe the group chat is the real social network.** Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often.\n\nThis technology will bring humanity closer than it's ever been before. Not replace connection, deepen it. That's the future we're building toward.\n\n\\\n**👥 The Team On The Mission**\n\nFounded by myself ( [@rushishah](https://www.producthunt.com/@rushishah) , ex-Tesla Youngest Product Lead), [@praharpatel](https://www.producthunt.com/@praharpatel) (Ex-Opentable, Eventbrite, Walmart Labs Engineering Lead ), and [@maniar](https://www.producthunt.com/@maniar) (Former Founder, ex-Gannett Media, McKinsey).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/653a113c-abcb-4199-9887-027bbae6b3eb)\n\nWe're three friends who've been building consumer products together since college. Known each other for years. We're building Alfi because we've experienced firsthand how technology meant to connect people often creates more friction.\n\nWe’re taking a first principles approach. Something I learned firsthand from Elon during my time at Tesla. We believe AI should fit into your life, not the other way around.\n\n---\n\n\\\n**🙏 Our Ask:**\n\n---\n\nPlease try out Alfi and share your feedback.\n\nWe’re on an ambitious mission to build the future of consumer messaging, and your feedback means a lot.\n\nCan’t wait to show you what 2026 has in store. We have some insane product updates coming soon.\n\nWith gratitude (and excitement),\n\nRushi, Prahar, & Paras\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97165&key=user_uploads/310607/4d2923ff-443a-49bd-8129-93f37e8dffda)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PHB-alfi-your-group-chat-with-social-skills", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-01-26T18:10:18.874Z" }, { "id": 89968, "title": "Text.ai - AI in your group chats", "tagline": "Discover local eats. Plan group events. Roast friends. Together with AI.", "body": "👋 Hey everyone,\n\nI'm Rushi, CEO & co-founder of [text.ai](http://text.ai). We're thrilled to share what we've been building, **AI that lives where you already chat, no downloads needed**.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n# **💡 What is **[**text.ai**](https://text.ai)**?**\n\nWe've brought AI directly into SMS (US & CA for now), WhatsApp (worldwide), and Telegram (worldwide) which over 5.5 billion people use daily.\n\nNo new apps to download, no learning curve, just text and go.\n\nWatch our YouTube product video:\n\n\n\nWe also just made the top 5 on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/text-ai) this past week! \n\n# **✅ How to try it:**\n\n1\\. Save our contact card: \\[[text.ai](http://text.ai)\\]\n\n2\\. Text directly or add to your group chats\n\n3\\. That's it! Works on \\[[SMS](https://www.text.ai/)\\], \\[[WhatsApp](https://wa.me/15626840069?text=What%20is%20the%20best%20Hawaiian%20city%20to%20visit%20for%20Spring%20Break%3F)\\], | \\[[Telegram](https://t.me/thetextai_bot)\\]\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89968&key=user_uploads/310607/11b0f146-9cef-4d39-9e68-63318cc9299f)\n\n# \n\n**🤔 Why did we build this?**\n\nEver tried explaining to your mom how to download and use a new AI app? Yeah... that's why we built [text.ai](http://text.ai).\n\nI built the first version just for fun, a personal travel companion for when I was hunting for hidden veggie restaurants on my first solo trip to Spain & Portugal (I'm vegetarian) and had no internet. It was ridiculously simple but solved a real problem for me.\n\nThen something unexpected happened. Friends started adding our AI to their group chats. They used it to plan Vegas trips, settle restaurant debates, and even as a digital wingman for date nights.\n\nThe magic? No one had to download a thing. AI just showed up where they already were. In their messages.\n\nNow we're obsessed with one mission: making AI accessible to everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89968&key=user_uploads/310607/2bf7fa71-528a-4991-9028-ee07c428c527)\n\n# \n\n**🚀 Real magic happens in groups**\n\n\"TextAI saved our Friday night! Eight people with different diets, and it found this amazing Thai fusion place everyone loved. Even suggested dishes for our vegetarian friend. Now it's our go-to for plans!\" - Jackie\n\nNo more endless screenshots. No more one person having to take charge. And finally, a solution for that friend who says \"I'm okay with anything\" and then rejects every suggestion!\n\nWe help your group actually make decisions instead of just talking about them.\n\nOr you can use it to roast them.\n\nEither way it works well.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89968&key=user_uploads/310607/0441afac-10f3-4c9a-85de-e6d04f843e7c)\n\n**👥 The team behind the magic**\n\nFounded by myself ( [@rushishah](https://www.producthunt.com/@rushishah) , ex-Tesla), [@praharpatel](https://www.producthunt.com/@praharpatel) (Ex-Walmart Labs, Eventbrite, Opentable), and [@maniar](https://www.producthunt.com/@maniar) (ex-Gannett Media, McKinsey).\n\nWe're three friends who've been building products together since college. We're building [text.ai](http://text.ai) because we've experienced firsthand how technology that's meant to connect people often ends up creating more friction instead.\n\nWe believe AI should fit into your life, not the other way around.\n\n# **🔮 What's next?**\n\nWe're working towards going from just answers to action.\n\nSoon, from that same group chat, you'll be able to book a restaurant reservation directly without ever leaving the conversation, get group reminders, book each other's calendars, and even purchase items together.\n\n# \n\n**🙏 We'd love to hear from you**:\n\n* What is the first thing you’d ask [text.ai](http://text.ai)?\n* What group chat would you add [text.ai](http://text.ai) to first?\n* Which feature would make this indispensable for you?\n* Who in your life would find this most helpful?\n\n👉 Try it now: \\[[WhatsApp](https://wa.me/15626840069?text=What%20is%20the%20best%20Hawaiian%20city%20to%20visit%20for%20Spring%20Break%3F)\\] | \\[[Telegram](https://t.me/thetextai_bot)\\] | \\[[SMS](https://www.text.ai/)(Only US & CA for now)\\]", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NP6-text-ai-ai-in-your-group-chats", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-04-30T11:29:08.014Z" } ] }, { "id": 30816, "name": "Digipals", "slug": "digipals", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a100705513555f60b674edacd7874b01e7bef2df.png", "website": "https://www.digipals.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Social networks are dead. Social media became more media than social. My friends aren't on social media anymore - it's one third ads, one third content from strangers, and one third AI slop. Our social lives are fragmented across dozens of different apps - iMessage, WhatsApp, Find My, Partiful, and Venmo. \r\n\r\nDigipals is the first AI-native social operating system that improves our relationships with friends. We built ambient AI agents that use social context from our location, calendar, and photos to take action and write code in our group chats. 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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. He enjoys connecting with others through playing music and video games, and joined the team to help make the future a little less lonely for everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95189&key=user_uploads/1557194/7ee11258-ded8-466d-a9e5-ac5819801ad0)\n\n**Asks**\n\n* Please join the waitlist at [www.digipals.app](http://www.digipals.app) - we’ll be launching soon 👀 If you know Peggy personally, you can DM/text her to get early access :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OlJ-digipals-ai-native-group-chats-that-get-you-outside", "votes": 88, "created_at": "2025-11-05T17:54:23.555Z" } ] } ]