stuck in an elevator at
@TransAmericaBlg
true story
operator: are you in yc? have you presenting at demo day? are you fundraising?
anyways the best part of yc, more than the connections and money is the community ❤️ every one of u
@brackin
@garrytan
After being in SF again, it’s not just a nicety to be here, it’s a true competitive advantage for any early stage tech company. The caliber of people building here is unparalleled, feedback quality and cycle is super quick and casual with networking events.
seeing yc interview apps gives me nostalgia, was at
@hack_harvard
when we got ours and literally jumped out of my seat even though i was on ~40h of no sleep
congrats to those who’ve gotten it! happy to give advice in dms
@Austen
This! University is great if you’re looking to become an academic. But for the vast majority of people that want to go into the industry, you’re better off putting more than half your time into side projects, hackathons and trying to find internships/get industry experience.
Game changer. Was skeptical about yet another analytics platform but getting a demo, Dawn has real insights into the problem. These are features that I wouldn't have even thought about, but are super useful for seeing user intent at scale. A no brainer if you're building an AI
today we're launching
@dawnanalytics
-- the first product analytics platform built for ai products.
with daily slack digests, automatic topic detection, powerful filtering, and semantic redaction rules, we're making it easier than ever to keep a pulse on your ai product.
as a yc company, we decided to make the hard decision of pivoting last week, less than a month away from demo day. launched yesterday and onboarding our first paying customers today.
@bilawalsidhu
This is ridiculous, they’re going to such great lengths to protect user data at even the 99th percentile. I doubt the vast majority of users will even care having this level of data protection. Huge props to Apple.
@levelsio
Problem with CMD K is that the edits are generally worse, probably because chat does thinking/chain of thought before it generates edits. Not sure what the former does before generating edits
Super hyped to finally launch Paige. I’ve definitely felt like the time sink for frontend was something that could be solved with AI, more than any other facet.
We're excited to announce Paige, our new AI Frontend Engineer.
Paige can autonomously create new websites and modify large, existing websites end-to-end.
Went to the xAI hackathon to try out Paige for building out frontend from scratch. Didn't expect to be one of the grand prize winners.
Still a ton of work to do to make the world's best AI Frontend Engineer! Got some great insights, and we're excited to show you all some huge
@prtwoa
usually you’re fighting fires in a ton of different fronts, id love to tinker around with our site more or use twitter more but no time to do so. we’re seed stage but it only gets harder the bigger you get
@nealkhosla
We’re building this at
@speck_ai
- here’s our launch YC from yesterday that has more info. Had this same problem before so now we’re building the solution :)
for the first time i was almost annoyed that people keep buying our product. we haven’t done a single outbound sale yet.
obviously its great that people love the product enough to fork over money, but god damn is it hard to balance support + onboarding + feature dev!
@BiankaB_0011
@verge
I’m not sure if this sentiment is shared by the average user. I don’t think most of my non-tech friends care about privacy other than very surface level. Doesn’t seem like many people opt out of tracking and telemetry.
In the past 24h we onboarded 4 new customers and grew our waitlist another 400 people. Our AI agent now works better on LinkedIn and it's only getting better!
Here’s a video we recorded this morning (yes this is fully realtime)
@amasad
We were thinking of something similar with the idea we got into YC with (developer collaboration tool, pivoted out). Glad to see it come to fruition!
This for code debugging will be a definite value add
@Austen
Started doing this entirely for better or worse. Whiteboard arch -> comments -> cursor chat to generate blueprint -> iterate with cursor inline prompter
why'd we pivot? we realized that the issue we were solving was too small of an issue, and we weren't solving a burning problem that people had. maybe if we stuck at it long enough it could've proved fruitful, but the timing for it wasn't great.
With the news of Gemini 1.5 Pro it made me realize the way we architect agentic systems now is vastly different than last yr. Earlier last year we used to just toss every task into gpt-4 no matter what, but now we’re using a ton of different providers/models for different tasks.
YC changed the way we approached our startup for the better. We wouldn’t be so confident without it. I’ll be giving as much advice as possible, feel free to DM me if you’re applying.
@samir_vasavada
Not sure about this. I think the general ethos of SF truly does make you work harder and opens your perspectives more than anywhere else on earth — but I definitely think a lot of people do end up chasing the hype/VC money vs solving a real problem.
@AbhayVenkatesh1
Noticed a ton of junior engineers taking early ownership/not being afraid to voice their opinions, something that I don’t see much in regular tech hierarchies. Obviously leaves some room to be desired for your own self interests though.
We’re introducing Gemini Live, a more natural way to interact with Gemini. You can now have a free-flowing conversation, and even interrupt or change topics just like you might on a regular phone call. Available to Gemini Advanced subscribers.
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