[phildougherty]

Honestly surprised something like this can get funded

[Weves]

"Chat UI" can "feel" a bit thin from an eng/product when you initially think about, and that's something we've had to grapple with over time. As we've dug deeper, my worry about that has gone down over time.

For most people, the chat is the entrypoint to LLMs, and people are growing to expect more and more. So now it might be basic chat, web search, internal RAG, deep research, etc. Very soon, it will be more complex flows kicked off via this interface (e.g. cleaning up a Linear project). The same "chat UI" that is used for basic chat must (imo) support these flows to stay competitive.

On the engineering side, things like Deep Research are quite complex/open-ended, and there can be huge differences in quality between implementations (e.g. ChatGPTs vs Claude). Code interpreter as well (to do it securely) is quite a tricky task.

[gip]

My understanding of YC is that they place more emphasis on the founders than the initial idea, and teams often pivot.

That being said, I think there is an opportunity for them to discover and serve an important enterprise use case as AI in enterprise hits exponential growth.

[mritchie712]

w24, those were different times.

[koakuma-chan]

Yeah that's like so long ago. But yeah, good luck competing with ChatGPT.

[kurtis_reed]

why?

[xenospn]

there's a million other project just like this one, many that are much more advanced and mature, including from Vercel. There's no moat.

[phildougherty]

I wasn't trying to be a hater, i think it is great they got funded for this. It just felt like there are so many free options and alternatives out there that are addressing basically the same things (and look almost exactly the same) it genuinely surprised me.