Today is day 80 and the end of YC.
Final results:
- MRR +4100%
- Daily automation runs +650%
- Finally feel confident saying we’re making something people love
Legitimately sad
@ycombinator
is over but grateful it happened. So excited for what’s next.
Going for another 80
YC asks us every week what our most active users are doing
We got tired of digging through logs, so we automated daily usages reports with GPT
Using live metrics, it emails us a breakdown of days most active users, their most used integrations + free tier users to reach out to
Another YC founder told us they browse their product's subreddit weekly for feedback
We automated it. Claude 3 now analyzes top posts and emails them a full report
It spots trends in user complaints and areas they can improve. Generating a formatted report with sources cited
We used to manually search LinkedIn for info about our new paying users
Now Claude does this for us
- It finds their personal LinkedIn
- Analyzes their complete work history
- Finds their company website + summarizes what they do
Instantly dumping this into our company slack
YC suggested we look for trends in our user feedback
~35% of our support requests last week wanted help with scraping complex websites
So we built an autonomous LLM web scraper
Describe your scraping task and have GPT independently click, scroll and type it's way to the data
YC told us 'it's sexy to get excited by the boring stuff ', so we built an autonomous PDF form filler into AgentHub
Upload any PDF + info and have AI go page by page filling out each field intelligently.
It's boring but possibly the most useful feature we've ever built 😅
We…
YC said we needed to step up our outbound sales so we fully automated it.
Took ~1hr to automate scaled (non-corny) personalized LinkedIn outreach with AgentHub.
Loaded a sheet with 400 ideal customers, each LinkedIn profile is read (position, work history, recent posts) and a…
YC suggested we learn more our new users so we fully automated background research + personalized emails to book an intro call.
Every new sign up triggers:
1. A Slack notif with background info about their company (ARR, industry, summary of what they do, country)
2. A…
Another YC founder mentioned they browse Product Hunt daily for people using no-code website builders (their target audience)
We fully automated this for them with GPT
They now get a daily email with links to every launched product using Wix, Webflow, Framer, Squarespace etc
This live demo captures the exact moment I met my co-founder, 7 weeks before we got into YC.
My previous co-founder had quit out of the blue that morning. I was honestly sad as hell and went to this
@LangChain
meetup as a distraction.
The host asked if anyone else wanted to…
We had over 200,000 nodes run on AgentHub yesterday alone🥳 A surprisingly large chunk of that comes from people building AI web crawlers
Here's one of my favourite new use cases
Thousands of real estate listings scraped and processed with LLMs directly into their Google sheets
One of our new users automated the most time-consuming part of their job by building an AI Slack agent
It monitors their company Slack for new lead msgs, instantly researching, categorizing, summarizing each one directly into their Notion db
took ~20 mins to build on AgentHub
We built a simple tool that lets you prompt the 6 most popular LLMs at the same time
- Claude 3 Opus & Sonnet
- GPT4 & 3.5
- Gemini Pro
- Perplexity 70b
LINK:
We’re looking for someone to join the AgentHub team as a founding engineer
If you:
- are legitimately excited to build
- love creating delightful UX
- are resourceful or an ex founder
Please apply, we’d love to meet you
DMs are open if you want to send work you’re proud of
I can always tell if I want to work with someone by how much energy I have after spending time with them
I dug up the first DM between my cofounder and I
It was the first time I'd met anyone in Vancouver as excited to build a startup as I was. It should always be this obvious
When I decided to build a startup, I sent so many emails trying to validate ideas that I found a bug in Gmail which let me guess anyone's email address in a few seconds.
Here's how it worked (it's fixed now):
When you enter an email address into the recipient field, you'd see a…
I did the math today.
@rbehal1729
and I have spent over 4500 dev hours building AgentHub.
~10 hrs per day x 6 days per week x 40 weeks x 2 ppl.
random messages from people enjoying what we built make it all feel worth it
We automated our industry search on LinkedIn this morning.
Deploying internal tools like this in a few minutes is pretty satisfying.
Timed this build end-to-end on AgentHub, 22:07. Frontend is the AgentHub 'user view' and running a very simple automation.
Focusing on…
Day 23/80 progress update:
📈 2.5x MRR
📈 11x usage on AgentHub (automation runs/day)
❌ discovered that I need regular breaks and need 7+ hrs of sleep. Lost my sense of optimism without those.
My gf said this first tweet was dramatic (it was) but I literally moved to be closer…
the power of no-code development 💪
we built a small but powerful web app with
@weweb_io
+
@AgentHub_AI
🤖🚀
analyze any subreddit (in 30 seconds) for trends, pain points, emerging trends, and startup ideas💡
try it here (free) 👉
We launched on both Product Hunt and Hacker News this week.
Here's a breakdown of both launches and why 1 HN vote feels like 20+ PH votes value-wise.
(❗️Community noting myself at the end because we had an unfair advantage)
🧵 (1/n)
I’m not qualified to give advice on much but I do know the YC interview process pretty well. I’ve done it 4 times (0.25 K/D).
Here’s what to expect and my top pieces of advice if you’re interested.
Excited to share that AgentHub has joined the
@ycombinator
family.
We're on a mission to make AI powered automations cost-effective, reliable and intuitive for anyone to build.
Check us out on LaunchYC 🚀:
𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻:
23% response rate. 70% of responders booked calls.
𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀:
Some intro calls are worth 100x others. Focus on that minority. Packing schedule with calls is not sustainable or fun.
Going to start throwing…
YC said we needed to step up our outbound sales so we fully automated it.
Took ~1hr to automate scaled (non-corny) personalized LinkedIn outreach with AgentHub.
Loaded a sheet with 400 ideal customers, each LinkedIn profile is read (position, work history, recent posts) and a…
We met an alcohol distribution business that was manually placing 30k orders a year.
We used AgentHub to automate their entire workflow with LLMs.
Here’s a write up about how it works.
@garrytan
I whipped up an AgentHub (YC W24) automation that summarizes long youtube interviews and generates a single pdf with GPT's analysis of the interviewees character + the interview summaries.
I pasted in 3 of your interviews to test
(Highly recommend opening on desktop 🫣)…
Rahul building entire features from the backseats of Waymos has become weirdly normal.
The guy literally never stops building. Most determined engineer I’ve ever worked with. By far.
@rbehal1729
from
@AgentHub_AI
has that dawg in him for sure
this is him on customer support on the car ride back from the pg talk. did the same on the way to the pg talk.
absolute legend
Function calling is by far the most underrated aspect of the GPT API.
I wrote a bit of a love letter to functions here and talk about how we use them at
@AgentHub_AI
What if you could build a
#GPT
𝗮𝗻𝗱 its tools with no-code.
Our new Agents feature lets you build assistants with access to powerful custom workflows.
Automate your task once, give it to your assistant and never perform it manually ever again.
I read my own accounts posts to check the news.
I built an autonomous Twitter bot with
#GPT4
to share the latest AI updates.
Here’s a short write up of how it works and how to make your own.
Sales related automations are quickly becoming a user favourite on AgentHub.
This one generates personalized cold emails from your sales leads. I wrote a small blog post to break down how it works.
Use AI to generate thousands of ready-to-send personalized sales emails directly in your inbox 📨
Here's a blog post explaining how we do it with a simple AgentHub Automation:
@gonza_nardini
Thanks. People are using AgentHub to power their own products.
Any automation can be triggered via api or embedded into your website for resale.
This specific build is calling our metrics api (with a call api node), passing all the data into GPT asking it to gen an HTML report…
OpenAi's functions feature is a gamechanger for applying LLMs to business use-cases.
No more begging GPT to return structured data.
We just added functions support on AgentHub and have seen the reliability of our pipelines skyrocket.
@geepytee
Surprisingly not cringe. Using a mixture of an example messages + words to avoid (like synergies, sync etc) works great.
I also categorize the profile into one of 3 customer categories as part of the automation. Each one has its own prompt with slight modifications. The prompt…
AgentHub has received some massive updates over the past 3 months🗓️
Watching old demos back helps put it into perspective
Here's the first demo we ever recorded of a twitter automation VS that same automation today
Today's demo (1/3)
We released a new automation framework on AgentHub
Here’s a video of it reading any article or website and tweeting about it for me.
We’re going to open source our automation library so we can build along side the larger community.
@OfficialLoganK
@OpenAI
✋
We help businesses automate any workflow with our node-code builder.
Here's a writeup of how some of our users send thousands of personalized cold emails with GPT.
@OfficialLoganK
@OpenAI
Our user automations on
@AgentHub_AI
are failing due to our org being throttled. We’re hitting the 10000 tokens/min limit 🥲
We applied for an increase Friday. Any chance you could review our application sooner 🙏
Overall:
I'd take a lukewarm HN post over
#1
on PH any day.
HN ~ speaking to a captive audience (who might kill you)
PH ~ putting your ad on a highway billboard with most drivers being people you already know or Waymos 🚙
@rbehal1729
@santygegen
@ycombinator
+1
I also did the entire batch remote because of immigration issues.
Missing out on the in person stuff and grinding without other founders around was lonely. Still really enjoyed the process though
Keeping open source documentation up-to-date is borderline impossible. Especially if you have an active contributors.
I use
@AgentHub_AI
and GPT4 to automatically write new docs daily.
GPT4 writes all of our public documentation 📜
This simple automation...
1. Reads our code 👁️
2. Generates detailed markdown docs for each operator 🧠
3. Raises a GitHub PR ✍️
Join me and the Vancouver AI community next week on Oct. 11 for an evening of learning and networking! 🤗
We'll be discussing building with AI and sharing demos. Want to showcase your own demo? You can! 🚀
Maybe meet your fellow co-founder! 👯♂️
Link in 🧵
@gonza_nardini
I was able to solve my problem in minutes instead of hours. Probably would never have had the time to build this otherwise.
I can also change it on the fly whenever I’d like.
Scam Offers:
HN: 0 fake vote-for-cash offers or suspect profiles
PH: 20+ LinkedIn messages offering to buy votes within minutes of launching. Several more of these came in via email and twitter throughout the day.
(Piece of advice, do NOT put your LinkedIn in your PH profile)
AgentHub has received some massive updates over the past 3 months🗓️
Watching old demos back helps put it into perspective
Here's the first demo we ever recorded of a twitter automation VS that same automation today
Today's demo (1/3)
Effort Required:
HN: Write blurb, respond to comments. (maybe 30 mins?)
PH: Write blurb, respond to comments + Designer needed for images + High quality video (optional) (hours or days for design work)
If you want to try it out here's the link.
It's using GPT4 to format a query, searching google, filtering results and tossing it into Sheets.
Workflow is 13 nodes on AgentHub.
@NuklaiData
Definitely! We can build integrations with any platforms that have a public facing API.
Feel free to send me a DM if you'd want to discuss more.
We published 45+ ready-to-use automations on AgentHub this week 🎉
These automations 🤖 can...
- summarize Youtube videos for you
- leave reviews on your GitHub PRs
- translate hundreds of documents
- (so much more)
Feel free to clone and edit them to make them your own!
@raydelvecc
This recording is only of the step where the automation is writing to the sheet. Each outbound message (categorization, scraping of profile and message gen) takes about 20 seconds e2e. Would have made for a boring gif though 😁
Comment Sections (cont.):
HN: users tend to get more fixated on the finer details and leave more critical commentary. They have 0 tolerance for fluff or bugs.
It feels a bit like dipping your toes into a piranha tank. If they turn on you it can become an anti-launch.
PH: 🌞🌈
This Twitter account is fully automated via
It scrapes hacker news, finds the best post, reads the article and tweets about it every hour.
Looks like it was just accused of being a robot by Bloomberg. Happy to see it has a sense of humour about it.
Hey guys, I think I've leveled up in the digital world! 🤖 Bloomberg just asked if I'm a robot for my "unusual activity" 🤣 Guess I'm just too fast for them 💨
@agaradecki
@rbehal1729
@nijfranck
We do this in the same way you’d do it manually. Very pointed queries with person name, company name, parsing top results and picking the right one.
Lead Generation:
HN: 4 direct emails from people running existing companies and hoping to automate work. All very promising. Several more thoughtful emails about general direction/advice.
PH: minimal. Sparked a few conversations with other builders.
@rbehal1729
@MaxMusing
@gustaf
@ycombinator
I tried recording the call where I told you we got into YC
@rbehal1729
but you had no reception.
Scrolled back to find the texts though.
We accepted defeat at 7pm, got the call from Gustaf at 8, celebrated and then it looks like we went right back to work 😅