Connor Loi

making ai 2027 real - (yc p26)

[Connor Loi @connortbot]

I joined Y Combinator with 14 users, building a dev tool for myself.

Then @SaaiArora joined as CTO, and we started growing and shipping 2x faster. It forced us to rebuild product and infra from the ground up for teams, not solo devs.

We are ending the batch with >300k agent minutes per week, and teams like @mintlify, @knowunity, and @modaflows shipping through Replicas every day.

Today we're launching Replicas V2.

[Connor Loi @connortbot]

@Ydj79 @SaaiArora yes we are very similar products, but off of their docs alone we seem to have very different approaches and ICPs

grateful to be compared to them :)

[Connor Loi @connortbot]

I joined Y Combinator with 14 users, building a dev tool for myself.

Then @SaaiArora joined as CTO, and we started growing and shipping 2x faster. It forced us to rebuild product and infra from the ground up for teams, not solo devs.

We are ending the batch with >300k agent minutes per week, and teams like @mintlify, @knowunity, and @modaflows shipping through Replicas every day.

Today we're launching Replicas V2.

[Connor Loi @connortbot]

@chiefofautism it is a skill issue

its also not uncommon at big tech companies for new hires to take weeks to be onboarded

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@KaiCianflone35 @SaaiArora Yes you can!

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@skeptrune @mintlify hes only gonna take 2 shots at everything

bearish...

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@agenticmachine @ycombinator @SaaiArora tell him to DM me!

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@rayhanadev @SaaiArora yk like 3 months ago i promised you i'd make something open source and i still haven't

i promise i will after we raise

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@charlieholtz @SaaiArora thanks charlie :)

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@zlwaterfield @SaaiArora we have good angels

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@sabir_huss50540 @SaaiArora Emphasis on shareability! For the longest time we built the platform to be used solo, then the larger teams started asking for security policies, personal automations, personal credentials, etc.

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@KyleFinken @SaaiArora

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@mlejva @SaaiArora we couldn't do a lick of it without @e2b

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@bennewgen @SaaiArora thanks goat

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@jia_seed @SaaiArora no way is this my first ever jia comment

huge day

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@lindszng @SaaiArora thanks linds

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Upvote us on Product Hunt!
https://t.co/lBnWH6Kct5

What's new in V2:

→ Automations & API. Trigger agents from Slack, Sentry, Linear, GitHub, cron, or any webhook. Teams automate E2E testing, code review, and pen testing on top of us.

→ Environments. Warm pool infra from the ground up, fully customizable across dependencies, MCPs, skills, system prompts, and secrets.

→ Computer Use. Agents drive a Linux desktop and close the loop on product tickets with screenshots and recordings.

[Connor Loi @connortbot]

@rsdgpt read only access, but it can't read credentials tables or anything that is PII / secrets

[Connor Loi @connortbot]

while we don't do realtime multiplayer (which is something i REALLY want to work on), we do focus a lot of our roadmap on collaboration

e.g slack, linear, "sharing" workspaces, letting certain users build personal skills and share them, that kind of thing

so @tryreplicas 🙋but a long ways to go

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@fujacobb holy crap finally

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Whenever Replicas takes a screenshot using Computer Use, it now gives to you in cleanshot/screen studio-style!

here was a screenshot it took playing the Ubuntu Star Wars: