Suchit Dubey

CEO @ Narrative (YC W23) - AI testing that replaces Playwright

[Suchit Dubey @SuchitDubey_]

I got into @ycombinator in my mid-30s, a decade after walking past their office as an intern and thinking "someday, I'll start my own company."

But instead of going for it, I took job after job and ended up working at Palantir, Thumbtack, Crew and Uber Freight.

At 35 I ran out of excuses and built Narrative, a workflow tool. GOAT, SKIMS, and others ran their business on it, which meant every bug we shipped hit my phone at 10pm on a weekend (customers were catching them before we were, which humbles you fast).

Testing was the one problem I'd circled my whole career.
So we pivoted and rebuilt around it.

Now Narrative catches bugs before your customers do, every time your engineers ship.

Starting today, expect more posts about Narrative, and some about me. I've been told the algorithm wants both.

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Founders ask me for YC application advice all the time, and it's almost always the same question: "is my idea good enough?"

I usually just tell them what happened to me.

I got into YC in 2023 and on the very day they accepted me, they told me they didn't like my idea and that I should pivot.

The idea you apply with will most likely die anyway. So they don't spend much time judging it.

What they're really checking is whether you can talk to users, get people to try your product, and explain what you're building without confusing everyone in the room.

If you can do all that, the idea can always be fixed later.

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@ionleu new fear unlocked - my cold DMs are too formal

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@craigweiss correct. source: they let me in

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@hthieblot Pest control for code ( was that 4?)

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@FoxRick01 sure. would love to

[Suchit Dubey @SuchitDubey_]

Hi, I'm a YC founder building Narrative, an AI testing tool.

New to X, 13k followers on LinkedIn.

Looking to connect with people interested in:

- QA and software testing
- AI testing and evals
- Building in public
- Non-technical founders building in tech
- Design
- Fellow YC Founders

I'll be posting about building my company and whatever goes on behind the scenes. If you're building something, or still figuring it out, let's connect :)

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@yacineMTB the kid does not care about the singularity. grounding honestly

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@danielcberk can't argue with the classics

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@mirandanover as someone on the receiving end, this is absolutely true.
also, 3. get to the point, fast.

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@DanielleMorrill damn. I automated the one thing that counted as taste. for myself and everyone else

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@creatine_cycle attacked

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@paulg learned this the hard way lol

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@ti_morse congrats man, 200k is huge

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@garrytan finally, a trend I'm early to

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@TTrimoreau Warm intros. the poll needs a fifth option

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@benln love this, congrats. SF next?

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@lightsilver323 AI testing

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@wh0sumit @ycombinator @rightfitso Whatever happens, this is a cool milestone. Good luck 🤞

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@pmitu Nor should it be..

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@lightsilver323 Getting people to trust it enough to change how they work.