Hacker News with Generative AI: Startups

Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder (labadal.com)
AI feels like a nightmare for a lot of us software engineers. Everyone wants it to replace us. I have always been a naysayer when it comes to AI in software engineering. Not that it can’t eventually be something that replaces me, just that it slows me down right now. I understand the thing I’m building and why I’m building it. I can call out bad requirements (unlike our favorite yes-man, ChatGPT).
Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Startups
15 points by labadal 15 hours ago | 3 comments
Jony Ive's AI Product 'Third Core Device' After MacBook and iPhone (macrumors.com)
Details have leaked about the device that OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI is acquiring io, the hardware-based AI startup co-created by Jony Ive, and the first product is one of a family of devices the company intends to launch.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Apple, Design, Startups
3 points by retskrad 16 hours ago | 2 comments
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales (ft.com)
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales
Microsoft, Startups, Business, Artificial Intelligence, Finance
27 points by frereubu 19 hours ago | 8 comments
Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! We’re Dmitry, Sergey, and Alex, co-founders of WorkDone. In one sentence: we built an AI product that audits medical documentation in real time to catch and fix errors before they turn into treatment mistakes or denied insurance claims.
Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Startups, Medical Records
66 points by digitaltzar 21 hours ago | 52 comments
We sold our first AI agent to a legacy industry–now we're stuck. Help us Advice? (ycombinator.com)
My co-founder and I recently launched an AI startup building custom agents for manufacturers in old-school industries (think: industrial suppliers, factory ops, regional distributors, etc.).
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Industry, Advice
9 points by goldmanX 21 hours ago | 12 comments
Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel (news.mit.edu)
Allium Engineering, founded by two MIT PhDs, is tripling the lifetime of bridges and other structures with a new technology that uses a stainless steel cladding to make rebar resilient to corrosion.
Civil Engineering, Materials Science, Startups, Construction
3 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 0 comments
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is buying an AI device startup co-founded by Apple veteran designer Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, Startups, Business
811 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 1103 comments
Launch HN: SIM Studio (YC X25) – Figma-Like Canvas for Agent Workflows (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! We're Emir and Waleed from Sim Studio (https://simstudio.ai). We did a Show HN a few weeks ago about our open-source project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43823096). Today, we’re launching our hosted platform—a collaborative interface to build and deploy agent workflows. We just removed the waitlist (with 5,000+ people) and you can sign up and access it at: https://simstudio.ai
AI, Startups, Software, User Interface, Open Source
53 points by waleedlatif1 2 days ago | 32 comments
Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget? (ycombinator.com)
Marketing, Personal Projects, Budgets, Entrepreneurship, Startups
121 points by javafactory 2 days ago | 86 comments
Show HN: Super (YC W18) - Turn company data into answers & agents for your team (super.work)
Super is how AI curious companies get to action. Connect all your tools, get the best enterprise search experience, prebuilt assistants, and bring it in your own workflows.
AI, Enterprise Software, Productivity, YC, Startups
15 points by christophepas 2 days ago | 3 comments
EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Startups, Europe, Media, Business
106 points by ryzvonusef 2 days ago | 92 comments
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai enters insolvency proceedings (techcrunch.com)
AI software company Builder.ai is entering insolvency proceedings, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch.
Insolvency, Microsoft, AI, Startups, Software
26 points by upupupandaway 3 days ago | 4 comments
Launch HN: Opusense (YC X25) – AI assistant for construction inspectors on site (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN, we're Roya and Michael, co-founders of Opusense AI (https://www.opusense.com/), a tool to help engineers and consultants automatically generate construction site reports from typed or voice notes, plus photos.
Construction, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Software
33 points by rcody 3 days ago | 19 comments
Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai to Enter Insolvency Proceedings (bloomberg.com)
Builder.ai, the British artificial intelligence startup backed by Microsoft Corp. and the Qatar Investment Authority, will file an insolvency case after overstating sales figures it provided investors.
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Startups, Finance, Insolvency
14 points by helsinkiandrew 3 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Do people actually pay for small web tools? (ycombinator.com)
Hey all, there's a lot of web stuff and tools I'd love to make that I think would honestly be worth a small subscription ($5/mo maybe). I'm always a bit wary of approaching these ideas though because I feel like nobody would ever pay for small web stuff?
Business, Startups, Web Development, Monetization
58 points by scratchyone 5 days ago | 65 comments
How startups build trust (191 examples) (socialproofexamples.com)
Disover strategies to build trust, drive conversions, and grow your brand.
Startups, Trust, Business, Marketing
6 points by carouselhero 6 days ago | 1 comments
Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016) (zamzar.com)
Entrepreneurship, History, Startups, 1980s
69 points by gscott 6 days ago | 20 comments
The Baffling Return of WeWork's Adam Neumann, Megalandlord (curbed.com)
When Adam Neumann launched Flow, his residential real-estate venture, a little over three years ago, a lot of people were skeptical.
Real Estate, Business, Leadership, Startups
4 points by randycupertino 7 days ago | 1 comments
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA (ycombinator.com)
I'll be here for the next 5-6 hours. As usual, there are countless topics given the rapidly changing immigration landscape and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with.
Immigration Law, Startups, Legal Advice, AMA
255 points by proberts 7 days ago | 453 comments
Ground control to Major Trial (virtualize.sh)
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
Software, Aerospace, Startups, Humor
522 points by plam503711 7 days ago | 190 comments
Oh Shit, My App Is Successful and I Didn't Think About Accessibility (2024) (jacobstechtavern.com)
When you have a genius app idea, a brand-new job, or a fresh injection of venture capital, the temptation to tunnel-vision on shipping new features can be overwhelming.
Software Development, Accessibility, Startups
5 points by jakey_bakey 8 days ago | 2 comments
O(n) vs. O(n^2) Startups (rohan.ga)
I recently saw a tweet[1] about how people should go about starting startups/businesses, and it caused me to formalize my intuitions around two distinct types of tech businesses I am familiar with. I’ll call them $O(n)$ startups and $O(n^{2})$ startups.
Startups, Business, Computer Science, Algorithm Analysis
80 points by ocean_moist 8 days ago | 87 comments
How the economics of multitenancy work (blacksmith.sh)
In the early days of Blacksmith, back when we were just a scrappy YC startup building a serverless cloud platform for CI workloads, we ran simulations to model our margins.
Economics, Cloud Computing, Startups, SaaS, Serverless
186 points by tsaifu 9 days ago | 46 comments
The world needs more modest, linear growth companies (signalvnoise.com)
14 years of linear growth at Basecamp.
Business, Startups, Growth, Technology
20 points by ezekg 10 days ago | 8 comments
Remote workers more likely to start their own business (theregister.com)
Companies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found.
Remote Work, Entrepreneurship, COVID-19, Startups, Economics
55 points by rntn 10 days ago | 87 comments
Common MVP mistakes: How to build smart without overbuilding (erlang-solutions.com)
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is your first real signal to the market, your team, and your investors that you’re solving the right problem in the right way.
Startups, Software Development, Business, Product Management
15 points by unripe_syntax 10 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? (ycombinator.com)
I am building a B2C AI SaaS with $50/month price. How would you go about getting with first 100 users and then the next 500 users.
Startups, User Acquisition, SaaS, Marketing, AI
573 points by amanchanda 10 days ago | 354 comments
Dia – An Early Review (fldr.zip)
The Browser Company of New York (BCNY), known for Arc, has just launched Dia through their alpha program – their latest take on the web browser.
Web Browsers, Software, Startups, New York
32 points by wyxuan 10 days ago | 21 comments
The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail (commoncog.com)
Let me tell you a startup horror story. If you’ve been around startups for long enough, you’re likely to recognise this narrative. You may have — like me — lived something like it before.
Startups, Failure, Innovation, Business
17 points by rishsriv 10 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups (lumoar.com)
Get audit-ready faster. Lumoar provides the essential tools your startup needs to organize SOC 2 compliance today, paving the way for seamless automation tomorrow.
Security, SaaS, Startups, Compliance, Automation
91 points by asdxrfx 11 days ago | 32 comments