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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. 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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. 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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": 30812, "name": "Mixy", "slug": "mixy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0b427a11c01acc7be86bdfb9bf97f62e7e9151a7.png", "website": "https://usemixy.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Live out your DJ dreams with Mixy, the mind-blowing music app that lets you mash-up any song in seconds.\r\n\r\n⁕ Add your songs\r\n⁕ Instantly blend vocals and beats\r\n⁕ Play and share your mashup anywhere\r\n\r\nThere’s no limit to your imagination!\r\n\r\n⁕ Launched to #1 in Music on June 19th\r\n⁕ 1.5M users in 3 months\r\n⁕ 15M mashups made and growing", "one_liner": "Make mashups without knowing how to DJ", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1758155628, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Social", "Music", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Jonah and Joe first met as teen tech YouTubers in 2008 and began building iPhone apps together in 2009. At the end of 2024, we started Mixy as a fun way for fans to make mashups of their favorite songs.\r\n\r\nWe publicly iterated prototypes on TikTok, which led to over 350k pre-orders before launch. Mixy debuted on June 19th, hitting #1 in Music and reaching #3 overall in the App Store. Since then, more than 1.5M users have created and shared over 15M mashups." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Derivative musical works are being created at an exponential rate, but artists aren’t getting credited, and billions of dollars are being left on the table.\r\n\r\nEvery year, millions of songs are uploaded to music platforms with uncredited samples. Generative AI has accelerated this problem: music is being trained on artists’ work and re-uploaded without attribution, ownership, or financial stake for the creators who made it possible.\r\n\r\nMixy flips this model. We celebrate artists by letting fans directly manipulate and share versions of their songs. Every time a fan shares their creation, the artist is automatically credited and their work is distributed more widely. Because Mixy owns the creation layer, attribution is native. We auto-credit every source track and pair it with a music-first social network built for playback and discovery.\r\n\r\nThe future isn’t millions of disconnected AI songs or samples, it’s millions of recognizable songs evolving through thousands of shared versions.\r\n\r\nWe’re tackling this because we love music, see a timely problem, and bring a world-class background in creative tools and consumer social." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "If we truly succeed, Mixy will be the platform that redefines music in the age of derivative works. What TikTok is to YouTube, Mixy is to music.\r\n\r\nWe’ll be the first to establish proper licensing and attribution standards for a future where songs constantly evolve into new versions. Every derivative creation, whether a mashup, remix, AI-generated variation, or fan edit, will flow back to the original artist with automatic credit and revenue.\r\n\r\nMusic expression and consumption will no longer be limited to static recordings. Instead, the world will experience songs as living, evolving works. Fans will become co-creators, artists will be celebrated more widely than ever, and the industry will unlock billions in new value.\r\n\r\nIn this future, music is not just listened to. It’s played with, passed around, and endlessly reinterpreted, with artists always at the center." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mixy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/mixy.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0b427a11c01acc7be86bdfb9bf97f62e7e9151a7.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": 42474, "full_name": "Joe Kennedy", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Making Mixy", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekndy", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/joekndy", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9f7fc8528354984cf5755d40bdabce2a00649320.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2876566, "full_name": "Jonah Siegle", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Building Mixy, the new way to make music.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jonahsiegle", "x_url": "https://x.com/jonahsiegle", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3254f9c6ea8002c211112defb0f7e93841b6e3d3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How to get viral song mashup music app Mixy all over Twitter", "url": "https://thetab.com/2025/05/12/ok-so-heres-how-to-get-the-viral-music-mashup-app-thats-all-over-twitter-right-now", "date": "May 12, 2025" }, { "title": "\nMixy (App) | Know Your Meme\n", "url": "https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/mixy-app", "date": "May 12, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 95158, "title": "Mixy - Make Mashups", "tagline": "Remix your music without knowing how to DJ", "body": "We’re [Joe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekndy/) and [Jonah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahsiegle/), cofounders of [Mixy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mixy-make-mashups/id6739403586).\n\nMixy lets anyone remix music without knowing how to DJ. We’ve optimized our own local models to produce real time, high quality mashups at no cost.\n\n⁕ Add your songs\n\n⁕ Instantly blend vocals and beats\n\n⁕ Play and share your mashup anywhere\n\n**Since Launch**\n\n⁕ $200k in donations, $20k MRR since launching our subscription last month\n\n⁕ #1 in Music and #3 Top Free overall on the App Store\n\n⁕ 1.5M users in 3 months\n\n⁕ 18M mashups made and growing\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95158&key=user_uploads/42474/cd3aa913-8172-4a48-a472-4d21f4e03eb8)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_6p6g2CdE\n\n**What’s Next?**\n\n⁕ Instantly enable people to create full length mashups and remixes through our own music mixing model\n\n⁕ Create the best listening experience where all of your favorite songs combine and blend into one another in unimaginable ways\n\n⁕ Instantly pay out artists and creators per second on plays\n\n⁕ The music industry will unlock billions in value and Mixy will change how we experience music forever\n\n**Our Story**\n\nJoe and Jonah met as tech YouTubers in 2008, and began building apps together in 2009. They’ve worked at Apple, Instagram, and Skillshare. Recently Jonah led mobile at Tithly (Stripe’s 8th largest customers), and Joe founded a consumer social startup acquired by CoinList ($100M Series A), where he led product.\n\nAt the end of 2024, we started Mixy was started as a fun way for fans to make mashups of their favorite songs. Prototypes were shared on TikTok, which led to over 350k pre-orders before launch. Mixy debuted on June 19th, hitting #1 in Music and reaching #3 overall in the App Store. Since then, more than 1.5M users have created and shared over 18M mashups.\n\n---\n\n**Problem & Vision**\n\nWe believe Remixing is the new Shuffle.\n\nFans are searching for infinite ways to experience their favorite artists, and the tools to remix and create derivatives are far too complicated.\n\nFor artists, derivative musical works are being created at an exponential rate, but artists aren’t getting credited, and billions of dollars are being left on the table.\n\nMixy flips this model. We celebrate artists by letting fans directly manipulate and share versions of their songs. Every time a fan shares their creation, the artist is automatically credited and their work is distributed more widely. Because Mixy owns the creation layer, attribution is native. We auto-credit every source track and pair it with a music-first social network built for playback and discovery.\n\nThe future isn’t millions of irrelevant AI songs, it’s millions of recognizable songs evolving through thousands of shared versions.\n\nIf we truly succeed, Mixy will be the platform that redefines music in the age of derivative works. What TikTok is to YouTube, Mixy is to Spotify.\n\nWe’re tackling this because we love music, see a timely problem, and bring a world-class background in creative tools and consumer social.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oko-mixy-make-mashups", "votes": 150, "created_at": "2025-11-04T17:11:11.326Z" } ] }, { "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" } ] }, { "id": 31480, "name": "Pops", "slug": "pops", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ff1807225bc4aea4a50ef4d5315e963925c04afd.png", "website": "https://pops.fyi", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pops lets people play, remix, and share AI games with friends.\r\n\r\nDiscover an infinite feed of games, challenges, quizzes, and other fun interactive experiences made by others. Every play instantly becomes a funny gameplay/reaction video you can send to friends, post online, or use to challenge someone to beat your score.\r\n\r\nFor creators, Pops makes it easier than ever to bring ideas to life and get them played. Instead of learning complex game engines, writing code, or fighting for distribution, anyone can create or remix a playable game in seconds. Bring your ideas, and Pops brings the audience.", "one_liner": "Create & play AI games with friends", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Gaming", "launched_at": 1778022680, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Gaming", "Social", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Gaming" ], "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/pops", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/pops.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trypops", "x_url": "https://x.com/pops_fyi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ff1807225bc4aea4a50ef4d5315e963925c04afd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 964621, "full_name": "Alon Zuman", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I’m the founder of Pops, a mobile app where people create, remix, and play AI games with friends.\n\nOver the past 6 years, I’ve built creative tools used by millions of people. 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You don't need to code, just a fun idea.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/2a9308df-5961-4bd1-9571-b1518bf8020d)\n\nAnd because Pops is meant to be social, every Pop you play instantly creates a video you can share. Usually the best part is not just the game itself, but the funny reaction video: you can brag about your score, send it back to the creator, or share it because it’s genuinely funny.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101541&key=user_uploads/964621/2fda7e52-ea0d-46a7-846b-dec64807ee4b)\n\n## **About me**\n\nI’ve spent the past six years building creative tools, most recently at Playground AI, where the products I worked on were used by millions of people. Pops started as something broader, but a private beta made the direction obvious: AI-native games are the perfect format for social, playful creation, and one of the first places short-form software can become mainstream.\n\nPops is live on iOS and Android, and I’d love for you to try it out:\n\n\n\n## Ask\n\nPlay a few Pops! 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