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Download us from the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devyce/id1504660924) or [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devyce.client&hl=en&gl=UK) and sign up in-app\n\n### The Problem 🚩 \n\nCompanies have three ways of getting phone calls to and from remote, hybrid, and offsite workers:\n\n* They can give their employees a **costly second handset** 📱📱\n* They can require that their employees use their **personal number for work** calls, hitting their privacy (and possibly regulatory requirements)🕵️\n* They can persevere with a **legacy office phone system**, with the configuration difficulties and poor quality mobile apps that come with it 📟 - on top of a 50% typical missed call rate.\n\nIn all of these cases, companies struggle to understand user behaviour and performance, and they risk customer loss if an employee leaves.\n\n### The Devyce Solution⚗️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65611&key=user_uploads/982968/87c27f9a-1901-4c85-9f59-269aa9e01ba8)\n\nDevyce customers use a portal to instantly allocate (and deallocate) numbers to employees, auto-attendants and call groups. They see calling stats and have the option to record calls and view a detailed call history.\n\n* Our monthly charge of around **$20 per user** is significantly lower than the price of a second handset.🪙\n* Users can be given **one or many mobile or landline numbers** instantly, from the UK, several European countries, and the US. 🌍\n* Our product is designed for **mobile first**, and our apps get fantastic [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/devyce/id1504660924) and [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devyce.client&hl=en&gl=UK) reviews. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\n\n### Our Magic Beans 🪄\n\nDevyce has a close relationship with a UK mobile network operator. This not only gives us unbeatably low call costs (we’re paid to receive calls), but as we are expanding it lets us overcome regulatory issues in territories outside the UK.\n\nOur tech’s second to none. We’re not just building a phone system, we’re redefining what it does. With **automated call summarization, CRM integrations and smart call routing** all in development we’re delighting both our customers _and their customers_. We’re reducing the number of missed calls, which means our customers get more sales opportunities and win twice by switching to us.\n\n### Our Story 📖\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65611&key=user_uploads/982968/dc616887-712d-40c4-b296-cf41f714b9ca)\n\nNick’s background is in investment banking. However, while studying for his qualifications, he dabbled briefly in both real estate and recruitment. This gave him an insight into the pain points faced by both of those phone-intensive businesses, something that stayed with him until the opportunity to fix it arose.\n\nEd graduated from Cambridge with a Computer Science degree in 2004. 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We **help businesses send rich, personalized texts** that build trust, drive engagement, and create real conversations.\n\nIf SMS messaging is part of your strategy, we’d love to show you how you can do more!\n\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n# **🎬 Our Launch Video:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJkl6m7RxgI\n\n# **‼️ Why This Matters**\n\nModern customer engagement is broken. Despite the abundance of messaging channels - email, SMS, WhatsApp, in-app notifications, and voice - most brand communications feel impersonal, transactional, and spammy. **Consumers are overwhelmed with noise**:\n\n* 82% of consumers received a spam text in the past week\n* 70% of consumers will penalize a business for a poor communication experience\n* 35% of consumers are annoyed by impersonalized and irrelevant content\n\nMessages go unread. Calls go unanswered. Engagement is at an all time low. The problem is clear, all of us have felt it.\n\n# **🛠 Our Solution**\n\nRCS addresses these issues with verified, branded, and interactive messages and it is finally here in the US. However most businesses don’t know it exists, and the few that do are still figuring out how to use it.\n\n**Smobi changes that**. We know exactly how to unlock RCS to drive real value.\n\nWith Smobi, you can:\n\n* 👷 Create complex AI-powered conversational flows in minutes\n* 🚀 Launch them via API or campaign\n* 📊 Analyze every tap, interaction, and read\n\nWe also handle the strict carrier vetting and compliance, so you don’t have to.\n\n**The results speak for themselves**:\n\n* ⚡ On average, 5 - 10x the engagement vs SMS\n* 🎯 4x higher CTR than SMS\n* 💳 Up to 3x increase in purchase intent\n\n# **🙏 Join Us**\n\nWe’re already helping innovative businesses in industries such as healthcare, entertainment, and fintech, leverage RCS to provide the most unique experiences for their customers. \n\nIf you’re interested in doing the same, let’s talk.\n\n\\\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93769&key=user_uploads/846621/98237455-fafd-4894-959d-7b955b4fde85)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OOP-smobi-business-texting-reimagined", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-09-11T16:36:35.923Z" }, { "id": 73135, "title": "Smobi - New age marketplace for businesses for sale", "tagline": "Bringing main-street business acquisitions to the 21st century", "body": "# Overview\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1/) and [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mning1598/) from [Smobi](https://smobimarket.com/)!\n\nSmobi is a marketplace that makes it **easy for buyers** to purchase brick & mortar small businesses. We do this by **verifying business listing data** and **managing deal-flow** on our platform.\n\nWebsite: [smobimarket.com](http://smobimarket.com)\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc69c6f56-e67a-45b9-904d-ee8c7ea7f4f0_3456x1812.png)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n* Buyers have to go through numerous listings to find quality businesses because most listings are **incomplete and misrepresented**\n* Business brokers and owners who are looking to sell, **waste their time** working with buyers who aren’t qualified to purchase their business\n* In the past 30 years, technology has only changed the business for sale market in **two** ways:\n * Listings have moved online instead of being in the local newspaper\n * Financial documents are emailed instead of being sent via mail\n* The baby boomer generation is retiring over the next decade, who owns **1\\.4 million businesses** that will close their doors unless they are sold to someone willing to buy them\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nFor those looking to buy, we utilize first and third party data to screen listings, so buyers are looking at the complete picture of the business that is for sale. Buyers can keep track of the state of each of the listings they are interested in and manage deal flow on the platform.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c68aba5-bbb6-4d50-9daf-4afef20fb191_3456x1822.png)\n\nAdditionally, we create NDA protected data rooms with more in-depth documents for each listing on our website. If the broker / seller of the business thinks you’re a good match for buying the business, we send the data room to the buyer.\n\nFor those looking to sell their business, we create a comprehensive profile for each buyer that is interested in a listing that the seller has created. Using data that the buyer has provided and our internal business logic, we classify how well of a match a person is for your business, ultimately saving time in your search for a buyer.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F465d0d7a-7313-4cb9-a80a-e6011294ea8c_3454x1828.png)\n\n### **Our Vision:**\n\nOur long term vision is to **digitize the entire acquisition process** for main-street businesses, ultimately making small business ownership attainable for everyone.\n\n### **Who Are We?**\n\nHi everyone, we are Kunal and Michael, and we are building Smobi. Our mission is to make small business ownership attainable by everyone.\n\nKunal formerly worked in Amazon Advertising, where he built several notification delivery channels that supported 10B+ communications annually. Kunal spent over 6 months in 2022 looking to purchase multiple SMBs and found the process of finding and purchasing a business to be extremely complex, especially for a first time buyer.\n\nBefore Smobi, Michael worked at another YC startup, Dover, as an early engineer where he worked on growth initiatives and building AI products.\n\nKunal and Michael grew up together, have known each other for 10 years, and now both reside in NYC. Together, we are attempting to simplify the small business acquisition process for all parties involved.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73135&key=user_uploads/846621/2ed626b9-972e-4a72-84c0-fe19ecf48dee)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\nThank you for reading about Smobi! We welcome any feedback for our platform as we are just beginning!\n\n* **Sign up today**: Sign up and browse 700+ businesses for sale and get notified when businesses come up for sale tailored to your preferences.\n* **Join our newsletter**: Sign up for our [blog](https://smobi.com/blog) for guides on how to buy and sell SMBs!\n* **Give us your feedback**: Tell us more about what criteria and information you would want before purchasing a SMB\n* **Connect us**: Help us connect with SBA approved lenders, business brokers, people looking to purchase small businesses, and owners looking to sell their business", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1b-smobi-new-age-marketplace-for-businesses-for-sale", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:37:58.227Z" } ] }, { "id": 29284, "name": "AveryIQ", "slug": "averyiq", "former_names": [ "Starlight Charging", "Avery HQ", "Avery" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e9858815bbd831276cdcb1d662f0a88316f786e6.png", "website": "https://averyiq.com", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "Avery helps property managers fill vacancies faster and resolve maintenance requests automatically. 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We [built tools](https://partner.starlightcharging.com) to help you launch and scale your EV charging business – everything from site analysis and installation management (through our national network of certified electrical contractors) to payment collection.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87003&key=user_uploads/157923/54fdff9a-ce05-4576-aa6f-2e7f72d01086)\n\n\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe US needs 100x more EV charging stations to be installed in the next 10 years if gasoline cars will be replaced by EVs. Rather than leaving this work up to the oil companies, who will drag their feet, we think blitzscaling charging needs to be done right, and done soon. \n\nAs with most real estate, not all locations are created equal. It’s hard to predict which potential installation sites will see high utilization and profitability. 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Voicemails left using Terrakotta are personalized to every contact and generate more callbacks than generic scripts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79253&key=user_uploads/1032568/e407487e-18cb-4c20-b6ba-0c2257e42252)\n\n👋Hey Everyone! We’re Kus, Vincent, and Gabe (from left to right) and we are the founders of Terrakotta. Terrakotta lets users leverage their unique voice (yes, their literal voice) to grow their business. We’re calling it ‘voice nurture’.\n\n**Problem**\n\nVoicemail is a great growth channel to generate interest and callbacks from leads, but historically it hasn’t scaled well. Leaving voicemails during call sessions is: \n\n* Time-consuming\n* Repetitive\n* Tiring\n\n \n\n**Solution: ☎️⚡️Here’s what a call session looks like in Terrakotta⚡️☎️**\n\nWith Terrakotta users can clone their voice, load up a contact list, and set a dynamic AI voicemail script that will be personalized for unanswered calls. From there, users can flip on the auto-dial feature and zoom through their call list, reaching up to 100 contacts/hour.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/BPwVoxEx28ZdtBWjg-vbJvTtJ3SncmfG5Y2vNv-DYP0X7qPheGSAbrc5TMvgnmDEt2N_oyJtj8d5GCCZQyDy5yPi3n_qB6dmfGEwooFBt4v1-97h87uaAX-X0-Ktx6i3VLfrnLYdDic7lzURlNuhyxs)\n\n_(Don’t worry: the contacts are not real people; the phone numbers are our many test lines)_\n\n**About the squad**\n\n* [**Vincent**](https://linkedin.com/in/vincent-wilson-5105141b7) was an incoming Software Engineer at Palantir before dropping out of college to found Terrakotta.\n* [**Kus**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kusiima-boswell-84a1a5151) was a Senior Analyst at McKinsey where he wrote custom data solutions and advised principal investors / GTM execs on strategy. \n* [**Gabe**](https://linkedin.com/in/gabriel-wilson-2b480914b) was a software engineer for Lyft Business and Human Interest (S15).\n\n \n\nWe (strangely) have lots of friends in commercial real estate, and the number one thing they complain about is making outbound phone calls. We’re using our experience with software development and GTM in different contexts to take on this problem in commercial real estate and prove the ability of voice nurture as a growth channel.\n\n**Our asks**\n\n* **If you’re making lots of cold calls and want to do it more efficiently** - try it out!: \n* **Get in touch with us** **if you’re looking for new channels** like voicemail to grow your business\n* **Give us feedback on what you think of the voice-cloning feature - how accurate do you think it is?**\n\n[Email us](mailto:vincent@terrakotta.ai) if you want to check it out.\n\nOr schedule a demo here \n\nThanks for reading!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KcH-terrakotta-add-voice-as-a-channel-to-grow-your-business", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-03-11T14:19:47.987Z" } ] }, { "id": 30107, "name": "Surge", "slug": "surge", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f4a489f75647f08676e6de181d0f4d27016b18f.png", "website": "https://surge.app", "all_locations": "Lehi, UT, USA", "long_description": "Surge is Stripe for telephony. 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Then you still have to wait 2-3 weeks for approval before you can actually send messages.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85595&key=user_uploads/97400/2bd7755f-cbb7-4d0d-ad1f-bfd7f8804db9)\n\nThe big SMS APIs are all now focused on big companies paying them millions of dollars per year. Startups are left with a terrible user experience, unresponsive email support, and a feeling of helplessness when trying to add SMS functionality to our applications.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85595&key=user_uploads/97400/17af9950-2bdc-46d5-b7ae-83f4194fbd42)\n\nBy incorporating the new compliance standards into our product from the beginning, Surge lets developers send texts without having to become experts on the registration process first. We provide white glove onboarding to get you through carrier registration or toll-free verification, and we can do it in 1-2 business days (sometimes even same day) instead of the typical 2-3 weeks. And we can get you up and running with a trial in minutes.\n\nOur intuitive REST API and webhooks are designed at a higher level of abstraction than other providers, which helps you simplify your application logic. And if you’d rather write as little code as possible, we even have embeddable low-code UI components that make two-way texting a breeze to set up. On top of that, we offer responsive support to help you figure out any issues you have, no matter your size.\n\n# **Our Team**\n\n[Dennis](https://linkedin.com/in/dnsbty) and [Brett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-t-beatty) are brothers who spent a combined 11 years at Podium (W16) where they worked on communications infrastructure for small businesses. Brett was a senior engineer on the Phones product, and Dennis was a tech lead and senior engineer on the Messenger platform. 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We're solving the industry's biggest challenge: 50% annual member churn caused by poor post-enrollment engagement.\r\n\r\nOur multi-agent AI teams work together to handle the entire customer journey - from initial contact through enrollment and ongoing care. When a lead comes in after hours, one AI agent answers and schedules a callback, another calls at the perfect time, a third captures qualifying information, and a fourth handles the warm transfer to a licensed agent. This approach helped a leading FMO write over $2M in renewals during AEP 2024 while reducing agent talk time by 20% per sale.\r\n\r\nWe've pioneered a purpose-built solution for Medicare's unique compliance requirements. Unlike generic AI platforms, our system features built-in HIPAA/CMS compliance, real-time data structuring, and seamless CRM integration. 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Our early customers are achieving 37% better retention while saving thousands of agent hours.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88449&key=user_uploads/2032692/c5b3b836-cf5f-41da-ab78-e560a6cb9949)\n\n\n\n## Medicare Agencies are **Bleeding**, and Seniors are Left in the Dark.\n\nMedicare agencies face a devastating 50% annual member churn rate due to poor post-enrollment engagement. Licensed agents are forced to chase new sales instead of nurturing existing relationships, creating a vicious cycle that hurts both agencies and seniors.\n\nIt’s so bad that agencies we’ve spoken with actually **_lost money_** after selling thousands of policies in Q4 2024.\n\n## The Solution: Autonomous Member Care Teams that Make Seniors Feel Heard.\n\nWe've built multi-agent AI teams that work together across the full customer journey:\n\n**Pre-Screening:**\n\nBecause of increasingly aggressive marketing angles used to generate inbound calls, agencies drop hundred or thousands of inbound calls each day.\n\nOn top of this, agents spend previous time speaking with beneficiaries who might not be eligible or interested in their plan, who are at risk of being sold something they will cancel anyway.\n\ncareCycle takes calls 24/7, pre-screening callers, and seamlessly warm transferring to available licensed agents to assist them. If nobody’s available, we simply schedule an appointment that another AI team member automatically fulfills.\n\n**Post-Enrollment:**\n\nOur AI teams play a critical roll in keeping customers up to date on their policy application; something a shocking number of agencies don't have time to do.\n\nIn the process, we'll provide them a space to feel heard and get any questions about their new plan answered.\n\nAfter verifying the answer with a human-in-the-loop system, we deliver the message through another personalized and HIPAA complaint touchpoint.\n\n## Early Results\n\nSince launching in Q4 2024, careCycle has:\n\n* Helped a leading FMO write over $2M in renewals\n* Talked with 50,000+ medicare beneficiaries\n* Saved 4,000+ agent hours\n* Achieved 5x increase in after-hours conversion rates\n* Improved 90-day retention by 37%\n\n## Why Now?\n\nBefore founding careCycle, I led GTM at AI Rudder, a leading horizontal voice AI company.\n\nI saw firsthand how generic AI solutions failed in highly regulated industries like Medicare. agencies need purpose-built solutions that maintain strict compliance while delivering exceptional customer experiences.\n\n_Beyond expanding bandwidth for agencies, this technology allows us to **invent new touch points** previously unimaginable._\n\n## Our Ask\n\nIf you know any:\n\n* Medicare agency owners or executives\n* FMOs looking to provide better tooling for their agents\n* Healthcare compliance officers exploring AI solutions\n* Insurance industry professionals interested in contact center automation\n\nPlease reach out at [alex@carecycle.ai](mailto:alex@carecycle.ai) or book time [here](https://calendly.com/carecycle/30min).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N0b-carecycle-voice-ai-teams-for-medicare-agencies", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-03-11T00:48:01.554Z" } ] }, { "id": 30314, "name": "Pinch", "slug": "pinch", "former_names": [ "Duo Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c2b1286659e2efa47062a920134725070dce12f1.png", "website": "https://startpinch.com", "all_locations": "VC, Spain; Remote", "long_description": "Video/audio dubbing that preserves your tone and timing. 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We just launched our Mac app designed to make every meeting as natural as it would be in your native language.  The app transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when to translate your voice as speech into the meeting.\n\nIt's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any meeting bots. Try it at [**startpinch.com**](http://startpinch.com)!\n\nHere’s a live demo, without cuts: \\\n[**https://youtu.be/ltM2p-SosLc**](https://youtu.be/ltM2p-SosLc)\n\n**Our story**\n\nWhen we first launched Pinch, we shipped a video conferencing solution with a human-like AI interpreter that was an active participant in your call. Our users hold the spacebar down while speaking to the translator, and when they release the spacebar the translator speaks out to the entire room.\n\nThat design was intentional - it puts the task of context selection on the user and prevents people from interrupting each other (only one person can press spacebar at a time).  It also comes with heavy tradeoffs, such as longer meeting lengths and friction with first-time users.\n\n**Why we're excited about the desktop app:**\n\n1. No vendor lock-in, invisible to others, and works everywhere - just select Pinch Microphone.\n2. Fast transcription+translation means you can understand what's going on in real-time and interrupt where necessary.\n3. After you start speaking, the others will hear your translated audio as fast as we can generate it, without interrupting your flow.\n\nThe last few months, our focus has been on building a translation model and UX that would support fast and accurate cross-lingual meetings, and we’re incredibly excited to open the public beta today.\n\nJoin the MacOS beta at [**startpinch.com**](http://startpinch.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93183&key=user_uploads/1002282/795fd05a-a176-44e2-ba6a-c6afc13cd20f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEx-pinch-desktop-voice-translation-for-real-time-conversations", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-08-20T14:28:50.672Z" }, { "id": 87820, "title": "Pinch - Immersive real-time translation", "tagline": "Video conferencing with real-time voice translation", "body": "Hey everyone, we’re Christian and Keyu — co-founders of [Pinch](https://startpinch.com).\\\n\\\n**TL;DR**\\\nPinch is an online meeting platform that enables immersive international video calls. Our platform translates your voice in real-time so you can speak and understand over 30 languages. Watch our demo [here](https://youtu.be/Cu7KlbZ3gjw), or try it for free on our [website](https://startpinch.com).\n\n**The problem**\\\nWe’ve felt first-hand how language barriers can actively limit a team’s productivity. High bandwidth communication is vital for collaboration, and while we’ve all moved from IRC → VoIP → Video Conferencing, the existing translation tools still operate in low-bandwidth mediums (mostly caption transcriptions). This makes conversations difficult because 1) converting audio to text before translation is slower, 2) you lose all information of how something was said, and 3) you’re no longer having a face-to-face meeting.\\\n\\\n**Our solution**\\\nWe knew there had to be a better way to connect across different languages and cultures, so we started building Pinch. Shortly after, we found out how challenging translation truly was.  Balancing latency/accuracy for chunk-based audio translation, capturing inflection and tonality per statement, handling culturally specific phrasing, and making a seamless meeting experience are all unsolved problems we're taking on. \\\n\\\nWe’re currently in public beta with our own meeting platform, supporting live use-cases in personal connections (e.g. meeting in-laws for the first time), as well as business (foreign clients, international sales, inter-team comms.).\\\n\\\n👥 **Our team**\\\n[Christian](https://linkedin.com/in/christiansafka) — 10 years of experience launching software and AI-native products 0→1, ex-TPM at Microsoft and most recently the Head of ML at Tavus (YC S21).\\\n[Keyu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/keyu-chen-3a3026143/) — Multimodal and computer vision researcher for over 7 years, working across academia and industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87820&key=user_uploads/89898/790a942f-0522-46b9-ab92-ce14b69c8abf)\n\nWe met at Tavus, and together have led engineering, research, and product teams from seven countries!\\\n\\\nAfter a long experience building conversation AI video/audio, we're incredibly excited to see what these technologies can unlock for human<>human communication.\\\n\\\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* **Try Pinch!** You can demo it alone or invite a friend to a call for the full experience: \n* **Share this post!** Do you know anyone in your network facing language barriers?\n* **Let us know how we’re doing.** You can reach us at [founders@startpinch.com](mailto:founders@startpinch.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87820&key=user_uploads/1002282/e8fe6fc5-8ab5-4688-a342-98024c780599)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MqS-pinch-immersive-real-time-translation", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-02-19T16:53:02.664Z" } ] }, { "id": 31366, "name": "Nine Fives", "slug": "nine-fives", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/12cace5da5d5e5852e19a386d33613f3f8222281.png", "website": "https://ninefives.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Nine Fives produces modern radio frequency test equipment and solutions to disrupt the $130B test equipment industry. 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After the legacy vendor left your email on read for a week they gave you access and sent you a [VB.NET](http://VB.NET) script that they think should work. You ran it and now all 8 of that vendor’s devices in your rack have tried to enumerate as “COM11” in device manager. Now you have 8 broken pieces of equipment instead of just 1!\n\n**Solution:** We’re Noah Levy and Andrew Kurtz and we are building Nine Fives. Together we have spent a decade at SpaceX designing radio frequency hardware and test systems for multi-million dollar products. 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We’ve booked our first launch next April and signed hundreds of millions in LOIs with customers across six nations. We’re looking to connect with operators interested in sovereign networks and AI infrastructure. Email us: [founders@exosat.com](mailto:founders@exosat.com)**\n\nExosat is building thousands of low-cost communication satellites to provide a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink. \n\nWe launch our first satellite **next April**, have signed **$400M in LOIs** with customers across 6 nations, and hold an ITU filing for 11,000 satellites to build the largest comms network outside of the United States and China.\n\n[Video](https://youtu.be/aABRZfcYAFQ)\n\n### **⏰ Problem**\n\nNations and enterprises are wary about depending on Starlink.\n\nThese concerns aren’t without merit. In 2022, Starlink access was suddenly cut to stop a Ukrainian counteroffensive. As a result, nations have realized that a foreign superpower owning your satellites makes you ultimately dependent on their continued permission to access it.\n\nIn Europe, telecoms are warning about the danger of relying on foreign-owned AI and satellite infrastructure:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109889&key=user_uploads/689300/9dc3272a-bf85-4710-ad4d-e4592100ca1e)\n\nIn Indonesia, telecoms are lobbying for a Starlink ban:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109889&key=user_uploads/689300/5596ba12-4d01-4acd-b11c-8b1e777bb663)\n\nIn India, Starlink rollout has been delayed due to security concerns:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109889&key=user_uploads/689300/e4e7cd9a-e67d-42f8-bd8a-c1a78a0f4034)\n\nAnd even nations like Canada are moving off of dependence on American space infrastructure:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109889&key=user_uploads/689300/b73fbed9-3742-4105-8a86-de42843dbd1b)\n\nBut even if they don’t trust Starlink, that doesn’t mean they necessarily trust constellations like Qianfan or Guowang that are owned and operated by Chinese state enterprises.\n\nHowever, other alternatives outside of the U.S. and China face years of delay or need millions of dollars just to build a single satellite, which leaves hundreds of millions people still without reliable connectivity. \n\n### **🛰️ Our Solution**\n\nExosat fixes this problem by building thousands of satellites at a tenth of the usual cost.\n\nWe focus entirely on civil and commercial customers outside of the United States or China and fly our satellites in lower orbits versus incumbents like AST and Iridium, enabling us to take advantage of better link budgets, faster latency, and a milder radiation environment.\n\nThese factors let us use global manufacturing hubs or local partners to build our satellites using automotive-grade parts and **zero** ITAR/EAR-controlled supply chains, enabling us to seamlessly launch from other nations to bypass capacity bottlenecks and access equatorial orbits.\n\nAs a result, we can deploy a communications satellite with a 3-5 year lifespan for **\\~$300k instead of $5M** and in days instead of months, enabling us to manufacture and deploy a mega-constellation at near cost-parity to Starlink.\n\n**Our thesis is simple: we’re building a satellite at <10% of the cost to dominate 80% of the market instead of going after everyone.**\n\n### **👋 About Us**\n\nI’m a second-time space founder who previously built Aethero, a company developing satellite edge computers. We scaled to millions of dollars in revenue from defense primes like Blue Origin and Booz Allen Hamilton, won multiple SBIR awards, launched two satellites to orbit, and did radiation research on GPUs with the Aerospace Corporation and AFRL.\n\nI started Exosat and moved to Singapore because I think a future where SpaceX and China monopolize the space economy is a bleak one. I’m willing to go for broke, and put down the deposit for our first launch slot next year with my own money.\n\n### **📈 What have we done?**\n\nSince starting out this summer, we’ve:\n\n* **Booked our first launch** for next April, with early pilots underway to start initial commercial service for satellite IoT no later than the end of 2028.\n* **Added $400M+ in LOIs** from early customers across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia to either lease future network capacity from our dedicated constellation or build and launch their own sovereign networks with our satellites.\n* **Published ITU filings to build an 11,000 satellite constellation** to build the biggest satellite network outside of the United States and China.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109889&key=user_uploads/689300/2420ddf1-1da9-4f74-b6ef-15dd51f24eb2)\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf any of these describe you or your organization, we'd love to talk:\n\n* Network operators interested in space-based capacity\n* National space agencies interested in sovereign space capabilities\n* Industrial users in maritime, energy, mining, logistics, who rely on satellites for tasks such as AIS or remote connectivity\n* OEMs producing satellite-connected devices and gateways\n\n👉 Reach us at [info@exosat.com](mailto:info@exosat.com)\n\n**Fun fact:** We’re the first YC space company to be based in Asia.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SaP-exosat-building-a-sovereign-starlink", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2026-08-10T20:30:00.246Z" } ] }, { "id": 35356, "name": "sintem", "slug": "sintem", "former_names": [ "Sintem", "sintem", "sintem inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/754de4c0d947ee0ffec143a04381c7d7cdcc0667.png", "website": "https://sintem.co", "all_locations": "BY, Germany", "long_description": "Most phones are built to keep you on them. 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