Max Henry Xie 🇸🇪

Vetnio (YC W25)

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Something big coming soon...

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everyone says the moat in vertical ai is integrations. nobody mentions that "building integrations" is actually emailing a german pms developer your terms & conditions at 5pm on a wednesday. shipped

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the part of vertical ai nobody puts in the pitch deck: a vercel overage, an aws budget alert, and a call center integration that needs to ship before the next demo. this is what enterprise rollout actually looks like from the inside.

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everyone talking about ai letting 10 engineers do the work of 100. nobody talking about how it also lets you ship the wrong thing 10x faster. the rollback button is the most underrated tool in 2026

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new moat in vertical ai: patience. anyone can ship the model. very few founders will spend 6 months earning a single legacy integration. the unsexy part is the part

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everyone signs pilots now. nobody wants to write the integration. that's the entire moat

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everyone on here: ai agents will replace entire teams

my inbox today: a vet asking whether to upload pdfs or jpegs

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everyone screaming about copilot's new billing missed it. the flat $10/mo era was microsoft eating the inference bill. now you finally see what your workflow actually costs. for most devs that's the most useful feedback github has shipped in years

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pms integrations are the boring part. no demo screenshots, no twitter likes, just 6 months of arguing about field mappings with a vendor who didn't want to share api docs. which is exactly why they're the moat

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a chinese vet hospital chain with 1500 clinics is launching their own ai platform in the us. trained on 100m of their own clinical cases. the next real competitor in vet ai isn't another yc scribe, it's whoever already owns the data

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vet ai in 2026: 50+ ai scribes, ~0 founders who actually want to build pms integrations. the moat was never the scribe

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Sam Altman offering tokens for equity to every YC company is creative. But tokens depreciate. Equity doesn't.

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@hicasamadim 72

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interested in a nobel prize? found the best website this week for that: https://t.co/gNr0Fbxlg2

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The British Veterinary Association just released official AI guidelines for vets. A year ago the question was whether AI belonged in a clinic at all. Now it is becoming the standard.

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your cloud bill hitting 100% of budget in the middle of the month is a bad feeling and a good sign, usually both at the same time.

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three years ago we got told vet tech was too niche to build a company around, last week we signed Evidensia. Still figuring out what niche means

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with vibe coding hiring for competence is less important, hiring for vibes is much better

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we just signed the largest AI deal in the history of veterinary medicine, so big that DI (biggest industry news in Sweden wrote about it)!

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