Noelle So

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

@founderleague @antonlivaja @lockedincheetah we had a long day🫂

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

@auriinx0 i cant believe this is becoming a yc trend😭✋

[Meera @lockedincheetah]

One of the biggest reasons customers like Hera is that it stupid-proofs their drawings before they go out to contract manufacturers. And they need that protection: roughly 30% of the time, the shop botches the part badly.

There's an adjacent startup idea in here: a third-party certification agency for contract manufacturers, something that tells buyers which shops can actually be trusted with their parts.

Here's how it would work: instead of auditing paperwork like ISO or AS9100 does, the agency tests shops directly. Once a year, every shop machines a benchmark part: a deliberately hard-to-manufacture design with tight tolerances, tricky datums, difficult features. Parts get harder as you move up levels, and your certification tier reflects the hardest part you can actually produce to spec.

[Meera @lockedincheetah]

who knew building b2b SaaS is so fun

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

@hawaalidrammeh HAHAHAHA

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

“this feels like confession”

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

@_guglielmo @founderleague @FirasKhalifa @lucasyuan007 reformer pilates 🩰

[Founder League @founderleague]

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[Meera @lockedincheetah]

concluded week 1 of yc s26.

Highlights:
- heard from @sama about parenting
- found a way to 10x our outbound
- too many 6 am workouts
- a fun little thing w @GaddipatiHarsha

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

Couldn’t be more proud to work work work with @lockedincheetah 🙌

[Meera @lockedincheetah]

HERA is in YC!

We automate pre-production for engineer to order manufacturers.

Insanely inspired by @grx_xce learned that it’s only embarrassing if you think it’s embarrassing.

If you’re a manufacturer or know many manufacturers, please reach out!

[Meera @lockedincheetah]

company culture is very important

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

Eating out in SF:

meera: im already full
me: me too
meera: it’s in the air…chinese peptides

[Meera @lockedincheetah]

i've been thinking a lot about emissions as a systems problem. if critical industries are being pushed toward net zero, we should be able to model what that transition actually looks like at the facility level. scope 1, 2, and 3 breakdowns, process-specific emission factors, and scenario modeling for abatement pathways. so i built a facility-scale carbon emissions calculator with dynamic emission factor mapping and bought a cool very cool .com domain

try https://t.co/k61nAsc8ZN, i hope this helps someone!

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

@lockedincheetah lmaoo

[Noelle So @noelleyso]

it’s a beautiful day to be a founding engineer