Hacker News with Generative AI: Startups

Show HN: 1-844-HEY-VAPI – voice AI platform for developers (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, I’m Jordan, founder of Vapi. For the past 1.5 years, we've been building voice infrastructure designed to help developers easily create, test, and deploy voice agents.

Voice AI, Developer Tools, Startups, Show HN

12 points by jordandearsley 11 hours ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: Could you help me find an old post? (ycombinator.com)
I remember there was an old but popular post on HN front page about a failed startup project. The project is about distilling biology science. The conclusion was that there is no money in science distillation.

Hacker News, Startups, Science, Business

6 points by billconan 1 day ago | 1 comments

Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we’re Daniel and Daniel (the Daniels) from aSim (https://asim.sh/). aSim is a mobile app that can generate immediately usable and shareable mobile apps from your phone.

YC, Startups, Artificial Intelligence

83 points by dli123 1 day ago | 60 comments

We replaced all our managers with AI (yolodex.ai)
Yolodex, a word-of-mouth growth engine for DTC businesses, has made a bold move: we eliminated all human managers and replaced them with a bespoke, multimodal AI management system.

Artificial Intelligence, Management, Business, Startups

11 points by hazzadous 2 days ago | 3 comments

OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B (cnbc.com)

OpenAI, Funding, Artificial Intelligence, Valuation, Startups

51 points by rvz 2 days ago | 12 comments

Launch HN: Augento (YC W25) – Fine-tune your agents with reinforcement learning (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN, we’re the cofounders of Augento (https://augento.ai/). We’re building Deepseek R1-like fine-tuning as a service. You connect your agent, tell us when it’s right or wrong, and we deliver an LLM optimized for that agent.

Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Startups, AI, SaaS

100 points by lmeierhoefer 2 days ago | 60 comments

Temporal Raises $146M Series C to Power the Future of Durable Applications (temporal.io)

Temporal, Funding, Series C, Software, Startups

18 points by kodablah 2 days ago | 1 comments

Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight (nasaspaceflight.com)
Isar Aerospace, based near Munich, Germany, made the first-ever launch attempt of its Spectrum two-stage rocket on Sunday, March 30, at 10:30 UTC from the Orbital Launch Pad at the Andøya Space Center in Norway.

Spaceflight, Germany, Startups, Rocket Launches

95 points by tretiy3 3 days ago | 57 comments

First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes after launch (theguardian.com)
A test rocket aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded less than a minute after takeoff from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday, in what the German startup Isar Aerospace had described as an initial test.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, Europe, Startups, Accidents

17 points by chha 4 days ago | 3 comments

Isar aerospace first test-flight (live) (isaraerospace.com)
Satellite launch service company Isar Aerospace has become the first European commercial space company to launch an orbital rocket from Continental Europe.

Space Exploration, Aerospace, Germany, Europe, Startups

19 points by amelius 4 days ago | 5 comments

CoreWeave raises $1.5B in scaled back IPO as investors' AI enthusiasm cools (ft.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Technology, Startups

10 points by TheAlchemist 6 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: No one cares about observability costs (ycombinator.com)
Morning HN - - I have a quick story about building a startup and misreading the market, and an ask. (The ask: Try out our product>> https://app.datable.io/auth/sandbox) My name is Julian Giuca and I was an early employee at New Relic, where I led their Logging product until 2022. It’s safe to say I have opinions about logs. Sometimes I think they are great. Too often I think we can do much better.

Observability, Startups, Software Development, New Relic

13 points by julian-datable 6 days ago | 7 comments

eBay backs WunderGraph to build open source GraphQL federation (techcrunch.com)
A fledgling open source startup that’s setting out to tackle API sprawl in the GraphQL ecosystem has secured the backing of e-commerce giant eBay.

Open Source, GraphQL, Startups, E-commerce

8 points by SlickStef11 6 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How Do You Deploy? (ycombinator.com)
If you're just starting, are a YC startup or similar, where and how do you deploy/ship your apps?

Deployment, Startups, Software Development, Web Development

12 points by canto 7 days ago | 21 comments

If only someone told me this before my first startup (johnrushx.substack.com)
1. Validate. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Advice

35 points by mixmastamyk 8 days ago | 10 comments

Vertical farming company Plenty files for bankruptcy after raising nearly $1B (techcrunch.com)
Vertical farming company Plenty has filed for bankruptcy, the company said in a press release on Monday.

Vertical Farming, Startups, Business, Bankruptcy

14 points by iancmceachern 9 days ago | 7 comments

11x has been claiming customers it doesn't have (techcrunch.com)
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.

Sales Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Business

14 points by coloneltcb 9 days ago | 2 comments

Zero ASIC launches first open standard eFPGA /w open-source bitstream, toolchain (zeroasic.com)
Cambridge, MA – March 18, 2025 – Zero ASIC, a U.S. semiconductor startup on a mission to democratize silicon, has announced PlatypusTM, the world’s first open-standard eFPGA IP product.

Open Source, Hardware, FPGA, Semiconductor, Startups

36 points by transpute 10 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one (heyopenspot.com)

Social Media, Web Development, Startups

470 points by fliellerjulian 10 days ago | 377 comments

Vibe Coder – AI Engineer YC Job posting: Satire or not Satire? (ycombinator.com)
The more I read this job posting, the more I think it is satire: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jobs/hwWsGdU-vibe-coder-ai-engineer> At least 50% of the code you write right now should be done by AI; Vibe coding experience is non-negotiable.> Ready to grind long hours, including weekendsAll of this to "Automate debt collection calls for banks". Am I out of touch here?

Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Humor, Job Market, Startups

13 points by gouthamve 11 days ago | 5 comments

Improved ways to operate a rude crawler (marginalia.nu)
Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their user-agent and ignore robots.txt. In my opinion, if this is all the AI startups can muster, they’re losing their touch. wget can do this. You need to up your game, get that crawler really rolling coal. Flagrant disregard for externalities is an important signal to the investors that your AI startup is the one.

Artificial Intelligence, Web Scraping, Ethics, Startups

75 points by doruk101 11 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Calmer – from surfing accident to building an anxiety relief app (gocalmer.com)
Calmer is a new anxiety relief app packed with research-based tools and ideas for managing anxiety and panic attacks.

Mental Health, Mobile Apps, Anxiety, Startups

10 points by lauriswtf 12 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: What podcast episodes changed the way you think about startups? (ycombinator.com)
I am asking for episodes here and not the entire podcast.I feel like there are a lot of podcasts and in case of audio is very hard to find specific episodes that are really good or skim their content to assess if it is high-quality.I want to improve or better say upgrade my general knowledge about business/marketing/sales/startups.

Startups, Podcasts, Business, Marketing, Sales

7 points by gls2ro 12 days ago | 8 comments

Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Startups, Y Combinator, Entrepreneurship

73 points by khaledg 13 days ago | 31 comments

Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! We're the team behind Modernbanc (https://modernbanc.com). Today we’re introducing our modern accounting software designed for startups and small businesses.

Software, Startups, Business, Finance, YC

123 points by gregorygev 14 days ago | 114 comments

Flexport accuses former employees of stealing source code to start rival startup (techcrunch.com)
Creating a startup that competes with your former employer can be risky. Apple, for example, once sued a former chip design executive who founded his own chip startup in a case that was dropped in 2023.

Business, Lawsuits, Startups, Technology

5 points by drx 15 days ago | 0 comments

Are you VC-funded? No, we're profitable (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Startups, Business, Profitability

98 points by jabo 15 days ago | 38 comments

Rama, the 100x developer platform, is now free for production use (redplanetlabs.com)
I’m excited today to announce we’re ending our private beta and making Rama free for production use!

Software, Development Tools, Open Source, Startups

18 points by nathanmarz 15 days ago | 1 comments

Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder's fund to make AI agents less bad (techcrunch.com)
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures.

Artificial Intelligence, Funding, Startups, AI Agents

13 points by rdegges 15 days ago | 3 comments

Designing Electronics That Work (hscott.net)
Over the last 5 years, I’ve been putting together a 300+ page book with basically everything I learned the hard way over the last 10 years founding and working at several hardware startups.

Electronics, Hardware, Startups, Design

286 points by teleforce 15 days ago | 115 comments