Dydema

Making consumer brain-computer interfaces. YC F26

[Dydema @dydema]

We've launched!

[Julian Weaver @juliver]

Today we’re launching @dydema (YC F26).

We’re building personal, programmable brain-computer interfaces: you pick a thought and bind it to anything, like a key, a game or an agent. No surgery required.

[Gabriel Jarrosson @GJarrosson]

People think YC is 200 AI SaaS startups in a trench coat.

The current batch includes:

- glasses that track your eye health
- a wearable that types what you silently say to yourself (@AarushYadav47)
- a consumer brain-computer interface (@dydema)
- 2 different attempts at an AI-first phone (@AdamZinebi1, @isausmanov)
- drones that both fly and swim
- reusable heavy-lift rockets (@_charlieweise)

Hardware is so back.

[Dydema @dydema]

@juliver we are followers of the cult of the hardware demo

[Julian Weaver @juliver]

Today we’re launching @dydema (YC F26).

We’re building personal, programmable brain-computer interfaces: you pick a thought and bind it to anything, like a key, a game or an agent. No surgery required.

[Dydema @dydema]

these are fun to make so we're just gonna make this a series

[Dydema @dydema]

RT @juliver: scenes from the @dydema talk @ UT Austin, where we launched our first API

[Dydema @dydema]

yesterday chris played 2048 with his thoughts. today he’s using tiktok!

[Dydema @dydema]

we keybound chris's thoughts to 2048

[Dydema @dydema]

we keybound chris's thoughts to 2048

[Dydema @dydema]

our founding story involves the freshest ben franklin cut you've ever seen

[Julian Weaver @juliver]

in college, my friend @ChristopherOo10 let me shave his head for a neuro experiment

now we're cofounders in @ycombinator F26 🧠

neurotech barely has any data, so we're building @dydema to go get it and train decoding models on it

(his hair did eventually grow back)