Ben Reilly — e/dm

YC Alum, ask me about UGC stuff

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

these guys are super cracked

[Manny Hernandez @m9rcn]

Excited to announce that @ploid_ai is part of the YC F26 batch!

Ploid is a people data company.

We've built one of the fastest people search APIs out there, with realtime fetching on top of the richest data on 2B+ people.

If you're building anything that needs to know who someone is, DM me or check out https://t.co/7EOLZIm2YW

[Diane E. McCormack @dianeemccormack]

Full house today for the @Fondocom @thestartpod 🤓

[Luel @LuelCompany]

The Luel data marketplace is becoming agent-native.

Buying data is still one of the slowest parts of building — procurement threads, licence review, a sample weeks later. We're taking that friction out.

Now your agent does it. Buy rights-cleared datasets, quality-assured through Luel's QA pipeline.

Have data to sell? Same workflow, same pipeline.

We're launching with our most popular datasets, with regular catalogue updates to follow

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@dianeemccormack @kmkaric @m9rcn @skygodkingdom @li_francis50547 @danylo_dev so fire

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@Aslanmammadli welcome to club

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@putrikarunian @lunagraphHQ Congrats, this is hella dope

[Putri Karunia @putrikarunian]

it's happening 🥹

@lunagraphHQ is open

not just a design canvas, but a visual editor for React

this means you can design the full experience: from exploration to defining every state, interaction, and flow. and when it feels right, hand devs nicely packaged code, UX and all

come design with code this weekend 🌸

(sound on 🔊)

[naïve @usenaive]

Introducing Vetta, the most efficient harness for long-horizon agent tasks.

Same model, same tasks. Only the harness changed:
🥇 Vetta: $0.298 per finished task
🥈 claude-code: $0.872
🥉 hermes: $1.095

Highest finish rate, a third of the price. Autonomous companies only happen when the cost makes sense.

Here's how we get there:

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@henloitsjoyce treating every view the same is what a lot of startups get wrong. a lot of agencies get compensated by views which causes a huge misalignment.

the content needs to be crafted with your icp in mind. brainrot doesn’t convince millennials to try an email assistant for example

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@kmkaric 🔥🔥🔥

[Allen Naliath @AllenNaliath]

Friday is no more. We spent $150K to buy @FreestyleDotAI

Today we launch the most powerful email memory system in the world.

With it, I handled a week's worth of email without typing a word.

All within native Gmail. Email is solved. Reply for access.

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@AllenNaliath @FreestyleDotAI Super dope man

[Arthouse Creative Engineering Studio @madebyarthouse]

We are Arthouse, a creative engineering studio based in Vienna, Austria!

Our work spans strategy, (software) engineering, design, and creative production.

https://t.co/eM4lS0t4LQ

[naïve @usenaive]

Naïve Lab is live

four benchmarks on the substrate agents actually run on.

Serverless agent runtime hosting: what a million agents cost to keep alive, at 100,000 tenants × 10 agents per month.

🥇 Naïve · serverless — ~$44–60k
🥈 Self-host Hermes / Eve — ~$740k
🥉 Self-host OpenClaw / Paperclip — ~$1.5M
VM per tenant (AWS) — ~$14M

Every runtime here is free to licence. The cost is the box staying awake between turns, and agent work is bursty — a turn, then nothing for an hour.

We want an agent running continuously for every workspace. That is a hosting problem before it is a model problem.

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@heon_connect @speedrun @kaylasemiilee super bullish, lfg

[naïve @usenaive]

https://t.co/LIGu93dPCj

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@barre_of_lube do you mean shippers?

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

i feel like ai in your messages space has well evolved into a back alley knife fight. the winner will be the one that spams the most short form

[Cognition @cognition]

Cognition is acquiring @Interaction, the makers of Poke.

If you've ever used Poke, you know why we're so excited.

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@bercankilic shift

[Ben Reilly — e/dm @benjamin_really]

@shubhgupta let me put you on game