Kev Wang

founder @touchyapp (yc s26), bringing personal AI to the physical world

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

woah this is crazy: https://t.co/eovfDrlnCJ

[Rohit Agarwal @Rohit_Writes]

Your smartphone has a camera, your location, your calendar, and the apps you use every day—but today’s assistants understand very little of that context and rarely take action across it.

Today, @landrew7363, @kevwangz and I are launching @touchyapp as part of @ycombinator S26 to change that.

Try Touchy today: https://t.co/7nl1NHrS0N 📷

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

after much too long in app store review, we’re finally live!! download today: https://t.co/TpR0URerVa

[Rohit Agarwal @Rohit_Writes]

introducing: @touchyapp is now live on the app store at https://t.co/sXQ7Q5MIcq, so you can bring your iPhone's context right into your assistant. try it out for free, we'd love to get some more feedback!

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

@RhysSullivan electron apps be like

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

@contextconor im human i swear

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

hi

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

@ramannoodlez @TownAI would love a code!

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

someone tell me how to post HDR photos on twitter because i swear it wasn't this grey on my phone

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

got my pebble time 2 in the mail today!

also found out today that Pebble was a YC company, and the founder's story is crazier than any other founder...

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

and now a piece of this journey sits on my wrist. can't wait to put @touchyapp on this thing

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

.@ericmigi
- did YC winter 2011, absolutely blew up with $10m pledged on Kickstarter
- bought by Fitbit in 2016
- became YC partner in 2018
- left the position to do YC again in 2021 😮
- now back full circle building Pebble once again

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

@Rohit_Writes @landrew7363 @touchyapp @ycombinator @touchyapp plz fix my twitter handle

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

200% agree. fastest i've churned are from apps that just have a chat box on the home screen with no info about what I can actually do with it.

unless I'm on ChatGPT, chat just feels like a bandaid around being unable to produce a good UI

[Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda]

probably the biggest misconception today is that everything will be chat
chat is bad for discovery, chat is bad for repeating usecases, bad for multiplayer
people love GUI. people love being passive. people love to scroll and tap-tap-tap vs. type. voice only works when you're by yourself. the list goes on.
build a Mac, not MS-DOS!

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

codebases these days are just for agents to talk with each other, everything else is just a side artifact

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

@Rohit_Writes touchy 😳

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

it's still not merged...

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

coping with PR delays by sending memes to GPT

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

Introducing Touchy 🙌!

I built Touchy for me more than anything, but I hope you like it too :)

Touchy isn't just another voice assistant, it's a preview of what we think personal AI will look like in the future - smart, unobtrusive, and interacts with the world around you.

[Rohit Agarwal @Rohit_Writes]

Introducing Touchy (YC S26). With the touch of a button, you can have an assistant help you out day-to-day!

Touchy is free for a small group of beta testers for a few days here: https://t.co/qhCoo39GaW. Download now before it's too late!

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

@twinkowensphd can’t believe i’ve been caught in 4k like this

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

we're on the front page of HN, go check us out!

[Kev Wang @kevzwang]

A sneak peek into the architecture of our model router. More in-depth blog post coming soon 👀

[Rohit Agarwal @Rohit_Writes]

Introducing Tokenless--going beyond model astrology and enabling anyone to tokenmaxx on a budget. We dropped a post on why we built @usetokenless and how it works!