Adeel Raza

CEO at Unlayer, Mailmunch. Entrepreneur, Software Engineer.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

Most teams underestimate how much work goes into "just adding an editor."

It quickly becomes builders, templates, rendering, permissions, storage, personalization, and now AI.

That’s what we’re solving with Unlayer.

Excited to launch on @ycombinator today 🚀

[Unlayer @unlayerapp]

Most products eventually need users to create content.

Emails. Pages. Documents. Templates. PDFs.

What starts as "just add an editor" quickly becomes a full content creation stack.

Today we’re launching Unlayer on @ycombinator: AI-powered content creation infrastructure for apps.

Watch the video and upvote us here 👇

https://t.co/FqGeJgX4pl

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

The biggest mistake people made with mobile:

They thought it was a smaller desktop.

The biggest mistake people are making with AI:

They think it’s a smarter search box.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

AI will need more than better prompts and better models. It will need shared formats, editable outputs, review interfaces, export pipelines, and workflows that humans and agents can both operate on.

That is how we think about Unlayer: a visual builder for people, an action layer for AI agents, and a shared content layer underneath both.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

I think AI products are approaching a similar moment.

Models can now generate text, code, emails, pages, reports, proposals, designs, and workflows.

But generation is rarely the end. It is usually the beginning.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

After AI creates something, it still has to be reviewed, edited, approved, personalized, translated, exported, published, stored, and reused.

That is where many AI workflows break.

The bottleneck is not always the model. Sometimes the bottleneck is the handoff.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

Before shipping containers, global trade was messy. Cargo was loaded and unloaded by hand at every port. Every shipment had different packaging. Every handoff created delays, damage, theft, and cost.

The container changed that by creating one shared interface between trucks, ships, trains, ports, and warehouses.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

Claude Fable 5 is impressive, but it reminded me of something completely different:

In 1956, a truck driver changed global trade with a box.

Not a ship. Not a faster route. Not a new engine.

A standardized metal box.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

📢 Unlayer Agent Skills are now live! 🚀

Your AI helpers (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) can now reason about the Unlayer SDK; not guess.

✨ Auto-suggest integrations
✨ Build custom drag-and-drop tools
✨ Help you move faster without errors

Docs 👉 https://t.co/8bQbj0jAzp

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

Oops…

[Bruno Lemos @brunolemos]

the ceo made a pull request using claude code

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

@haroon Interesting! Didn’t think of that one 🤔

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

@Suhail Try https://t.co/vOWr9JXgrT - hands down the easiest way to create responsive HTML emails

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Welcome to YC W22, @adeelraza, @umairsiddique, and team @unlayerapp!

Unlayer makes embeddable design tools such as an email editor and page builder.

https://t.co/jzKKRsIUfp

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

Congrats @Nash! Love what you’re building and happy to be early customers 🙂

[Nash @Nash]

Folks, today I'm very excited to announce our seed round led by @bqueener at @bonfire_vc along with @dscheinm, @mallun, @AndreaFunsten, @namekz

If you're a product team working on integrations, read on 👇

https://t.co/oI4EC4WGsv

[Unlayer @unlayerapp]

Which email design element is the most important for conversions?

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

@haseeb @EricBranner @hnshah @unlayerapp @hiten was the one who helped us rename to Unlayer! =) we are not an ESP though, we are an email design tool.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

Today I officially became a US citizen, at the very heart of entrepreneurship, the Silicon Valley. The last 10 years have been wonderful. I met amazing people filled with generosity, started multiple companies, and created hundreds of jobs. The American dream is alive!

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

10 years ago, I was a fresh graduate trying to navigate the world of entrepreneurship. USA was a country I dreamed to visit some day because all the amazing startups and entrepreneurs I followed lived here.

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

@haseeb I have been using Aeron by Herman Miller for the past year. Love it!

[Adeel Raza @adeelraza]

I am a big believer in this.

[Shervin @shervin]

The only funding that matters is the funding that comes from customers believing in your company, products and brand, not investors.