valianter

Wrote this small blog on how it has been to run my YC startup. Lots of learnings about myself since this is my first job

Does this solve Captcha? Or is this only for people who are trying to maintain browser sessions in very niche use cases. Pen Testing is cool but I feel like the main use case is by allowing agents to work across the web on any website.

Is chat always the best interface for all of these apps? I feel like search is the natural first step, but chat-based search has been around for a while. Feel like an MCP-based version of Glean/Onyx/Moveworks/Dashworks is interesting, but unsure how much better it makes the product. Curious to see why your product is better

I get that this is a completely new idea so adoption is going to be slow but I'm curious to see how your user interviews and user research is going. I'm a young dev but I'm not even sure if I would use this because the way I've learned to code is already so ingrained into the traditional IDE. Nevertheless, congrats on the launch!

Is there a big enough "Internet access" fund by the UN yet? I feel like AI is a fun word but how can AI be accessed without the original building blocks needed?

Really like this! What did you use for the demo?

> No matter how fast Searle is, he won't be able to come up with a beautiful and original Chinese poem that has the creative spark special to humans.

This analogy seems flawed to me. Searle is in an empty room but LLMs are not. They are constantly learning from user inputs and data is continuously being made more available for LLM ingestion. I still don't think that an LLM will completely replace humans at pure creativity but I don't see why it can't come close. Especially since we're only 2 years in to this craze.

I learned web development while Supabase was the de facto standard for most hobby projects. However, I used Firebase and it seemed pretty easy to use.

I realize that Supabase is supposed to be the open-sourced Firebase, but is that the only reason? While the Firebase UI isn't as "sleek" as Supabase, but I'm not convinced that it's enough to beat a giant like Google. I'm pretty new to the open-source and hobby computing world; would love to see everyone's perspective.

Is this a fork of the YouTube project

This is so cool! OG images are the worst to make

What about during live interviews though? Not sure if I see the justification for DSA interviews there anymore

I'm curious to see the types of founders in NYC vs. SF. Is it true that the NYC founders are more "worldly" and "human"??

Oh shoot! Didn’t know that I’ll delete the post and just put the GitHub demo. Thank you!