jasperstory

Yarn (YC W24) | Founding Software Engineer | NYC INSITE | Full-time | 160 - 200k + 1-2%

We're building a new LLM-supercharged video product, backed by General Catalyst (Stripe, Snap, AirBnb) and angels from Roblox, Meta, and Pika Labs.

Just hit in inflection point with growth and need help ASAP. You'd be FTE #1.

We’re all experienced developers, ex-Cambridge, ex-Uber etc. and we're looking for ambitious, experienced engineers who want to own products, have a founder mindset with strong equity, invent some cool shit that doesn't exist, and build the technical foundations of a $1bn+ company.

Email jasper [at] yarn [dot] so or apply here https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yarn-2/jobs/zEjJAYN-fo...

Yarn (YC W24) | https://www.yarn.so | Founding Engineers | NYC In-Person | Full Time

Yarn is Figma for video.

We're taking a novel approach in the video space. We think making videos is reasoning-heavy, so we're focusing on using LLMs and interfaces to orchestrate the best domain-specific models. We want to help people create high-end output, not programmatic AI slop.

We believe in small, in-person, talent-dense teams.

We're looking for smart generalists that enjoy picking up new challenges and learning new tech.

If you're interested in learning more, get in touch jasper @ yarn.so or apply at https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/66928

Yep although to be precise it's a pay-for-a-year-of-updates model, and the underlying macOS APIs in this space change significantly between minor and major macOS releases, so ymmv in terms of "pay once forever". (For upcoming features like shareable links, they'll presumably move to a part-subscription pricing model.)

The problem is that a lot of the details requires macOS accessibility permissions (identifying active window, measuring cursor movements), so there's non-trivial platform specific code.

For product demos specifically, best bet might be a Chrome-extension-based product like Arcade!

Not sure. Hopefully next 4-6 weeks. Building as fast as possible with current teams – but lots of tricky webGL, Swift, and headless Chrome involved.

Many of the apps are macOS only unfortunately. For Windows, there's Descript or Camtasia. Linux not sure, but Descript and Veed are browser-based.

That one is ScreenStudio - it's a great product!

I'm a founder at Yarn (YC W24) – we're building in this space and launching on HN soonish.

We often see teams combining ScreenStudio with products like iMovie, AfterEffects, or Veed. Other products in the space to check out are Tella.tv, Kite, or Descript.

For more advanced motion graphics, you'll often need a freelancer or agency.

Feel free to drop me a message (email in bio) to talk through options!

Ah sorry for clarity I didn't mean "currently attend", and agree "smartest" here was probably excessively casual.

I think there's different benefits at different ages, and agree on importance of determination and obsession. A good market is the only thing that might be more useful.

Just finished W24 batch with no Ivy/FAANG background.

Everyone I met in our batch was very friendly, curious, and razor-sharp. Many people have credentialed backgrounds, many people do not.

I generally buy YC’s justification that many of the smartest people happen to go to Stanford/Ivy which is why they are over-represented.

YC is leaning into in-person heavily.

But e.g. there was a great team in our batch (W24) with very young kids who flew to SF for in-person events. Some people were unable to come to the US (visa issues) that took part remotely.

No requirement to intend to stay in the US – many foreign teams heading back, but many more haven chosen to stay in SF on O1 and other visas (YC helps with this).

I think YC admissions see the intention to be based in SF as a net positive, because SF is in most situations the very best place to start a startup (regardless of YC).

SEEKING FREELANCER | San Francisco, CA | Remote

Yarn is building a video maker for startups.

Our pipeline is Three.js, ffmpeg, Electron, Swift, React.

We’re looking for a graphics programmer and webGL pro to help us solve hard problems in our export pipeline, explore post-processing, and help across the webGL stack.

If you’re interested, get in touch at jasper@yarn.so

No. I was there – I wouldn't read much into the tweet, it's heavily editorialized for engagement.