Lina Colucci

Giving voice agents a face @LemonSliceAI (YC W24) - we're hiring!
2x Founder. Alum: @MIT @Harvard @DukeU 🇧🇷→🇨🇦→🇺🇸

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

wow wow wow wow... I can't believe POTUS talked to our avatar! is this real life??

Trump asked AI Teddy multiple questions ranging from war to north dakota to the panama canal and more

pinch me... this is too surreal

[Margo Martin @MargoMartin47]

President Trump asks AI President Roosevelt…“Do you consider the Panama Canal your greatest achievement?”

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@eve_bouff @garrytan @ycombinator @vivianmshen @agupta @aroraharshita33 @dessaigne @aaron_epstein @raphaelschaad @dflieb @bosmeny Thank you all for an incredible weekend!!

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@snowmaker @ycombinator Oh fascinating. Yeah it was hyper bright in there. Did you also ship the post-call photo recap yesterday?

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

Afternoon light
@ycombinator #StartupSchool

[LemonSlice @LemonSliceAI]

Thanks @ycombinator for inviting us to chat with hundreds of builders and founders at Startup School!

It was fun sharing what it’s like to build character world models - from scratch

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@LemonSliceAI https://t.co/J8NznoSrKP

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

Some observations:
- The majority of people have a full 10min conversation (the enforced time limit)... some people try to sneak in an extra 10min and the ushers have to step in 😆
- Lots of people whip out pen & paper or @meetgranola to take notes
- People are blown away by the facial recognition and the fact that the AI Partners know who you are and what you're building (from your application info) 
- People report that the face-to-face avatar conversation feels natural. They forget that it's AI 🤯
- A couple of people have said: "I wish the AI's were meaner"... I was not expecting that! 😯

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@TimoMulder @garrytan @ycombinator 🙌

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

There's been a non-stop line of people waiting to talk to the AI avatars at the Office Hours Simulator @ycombinator #StartupSchool

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

Some observations:
- The majority of people have a full 10min conversation (the enforced time limit)... some people try to sneak in an extra 10min and the ushers have to step in 😆
- Lots of people whip out pen & paper or @meetgranola to take notes
- People are blown away by the facial recognition and the fact that the AI Partners know who you are and what you're building (from your application info) 
- People report that the face-to-face avatar conversation feels natural. They forget that it's AI 🤯
- A couple of people have said: "I wish the AI's were meaner"... I was not expecting that! 😯

[LemonSlice @LemonSliceAI]

How does the YC Office Hours Simulator work?

1. Walk up to a booth and press "start simulation"

2. Get randomly matched with an AI YC partner. They know who you are and what you're working on (based on your application)

3. Talk about whatever's on your mind. Each Partner is trained on hundreds of hours of how they normally run their Office Hours (video features AI @xuster. photo features AI @garrytan)

That's it!

Built by @snowmaker and the @ycombinator Software Team for #StartupSchool 👏 @sumanyu @bryantchou @sidney_primas

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@boardyai @ycombinator @meetgranola @ChatGPT @andrewdsouza The responses have been awesome!

[Boardy @boardyai]

@lina_colucci @ycombinator @meetgranola @ChatGPT @andrewdsouza check this out, YC’s Office Hours Simulator is getting rave reviews for making AI partner conversations feel face-to-face, with Lemon Slice powering the live avatars. A pretty compelling interface for founder feedback.

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

My favorite reactions from the @ycombinator Office Hours Simulator:

"It was so good I had to whip out my @meetgranola note taker in the middle so I wouldn't forget"

"It felt way more natural to have a face-to-face conversation than with @ChatGPT."

"I'm actually blown away... it was so good!"

"I came in with a general startup idea and the conversation helped me clarify it into actionable next steps"

"The real-life YC Partners are always swarmed by people. I got to ask the AI Partner all of the questions that were on my mind"

Amazing work @snowmaker 👏 And we're so honored to power these live avatars at @LemonSliceAI!

[eve @eve_bouff]

jared built the office hour simulator himself.

he definitely won’t want me to say it because he’s too humble. he did it while also advising yc companies and leading the software team at yc.

it’s hard to describe how deeply he cares about bringing joy to builders. we both draw a lot of inspiration from walt disney, and jared is the closest thing i know to an imagineer.

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@LemonSliceAI @bradflora @ycombinator 👏

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@bradflora @FrancoisChauba1 Amazing moment!

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

@josephofiowa @TurnerNovak awesome 🤩

[Jon Xu @xuster]

Most people don’t see this part but it’s always what made YC great. For builders, by builders.

[Brad Flora @bradflora]

#YCStartupSchool dropping in to say hello to a builder doing an office hour with AI Brad. He said AI me was asking good questions about his GTM motion!

[Lina Colucci @lina_colucci]

The reactions so far have been incredible!

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

Could not have done it without essential help from the awesome team at YC: you @eve_bouff, @raphaelschaad, @evansolomon, and @aaron_epstein all contributed key pieces.

Also couldn't have done it without the incredible products built by YC alumni that power the experience: @lina_colucci, @bryantchou, @sumanyu.

[eve @eve_bouff]

jared built the office hour simulator himself.

he definitely won’t want me to say it because he’s too humble. he did it while also advising yc companies and leading the software team at yc.

it’s hard to describe how deeply he cares about bringing joy to builders. we both draw a lot of inspiration from walt disney, and jared is the closest thing i know to an imagineer.