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building @AsideAI (YC F25) | eng since age 9, prev founding team @AirbridgeHQ 🇺🇸🇰🇷
San Francisco
Joined January 2022
we got into @ycombinator after 6 rejections a month ago, we had $300 left after 5 pivots. no network, no backup - just three broke immigrants in SF. my story: > started coding at 9, built my own OS at 12 to beat Bill Gates > founding eng of a B2B startup at 17, scaled it to
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got a lot of DMs asking how i got into YC after 6 tries. here’s my take on writing the app: (sorry @garrytan 😉) 1) clarity. clearly say what it does and who it's for. if it's hard to write, that's a sign you need to talk to users instead of polishing. 2) founder-market-fit. YC
ycombinator.com
To apply for the Y Combinator program, submit an application form. We accept companies in batches four times a year. The program includes weekly dinners, office hours with YC partners and access to...
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people forget Spotify started just bc "Torrent sucks and is full of viruses" not "imma invent digital music industry" big things start with uncool but real problems so let's just build something people want
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is there an AI blog writer agent that also captures (or searches) relevant images? (e.g., assets in how-to articles, competitor posts)
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12 months ago: omg what is YC thinking, space data centers? They’re finding anything these days 1 month ago: space data centers are never going to work, $10M is nothing Now: wait a minute Google is launching TPUs into space? Maybe YC was early to this after all Every single
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i built an agent in mantle that predicts churn before it happens. it cross-checks unpaid stripe invoices, low product usage in posthog, and your email history and sends you a report in slack every week this took just one prompt - book a call at https://t.co/IogIFJDJRb!
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saw a lot of founders in the yc batch growing beards and dark circles as they get more traction
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usually people hate Liquid Glass, but i'm a stan why? because it's freakin gorgeous. @AsideAI
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broke: eat chicken & beer FAANG guys: flex at Michelin on first dates billionaires: eat chicken & beer
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun having some beers at a chicken restaurant in Seoul. Caption this.
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everyone says @AsideAI is a YC Cluely funny, we're actually doing something what Cluely never did roasting users on call with... live coaching
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been getting a lot of DMs recently, to clarify we’re not YC Cluely, Cluely is a16z’s Aside i'm sorry but @im_roy_lee would agree 😉
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so we had to choose: (1) join the war or (2) go vertical. we picked sales. where reps freeze on technical questions and deals die in silence. we're building a new layer for live conversations- making sales not just easier, but actually fun again. https://t.co/B1A0pp0XQb
asidehq.com
Aside helps you to answer technical questions during a sales call, by showing real-time suggestions from your docs.
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