Okibi

Turns products into CLIs and agents into customers

[Okibi @okibi_ai]

agents will be your new customers 🔥

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

we’re finally launching https://t.co/aZoUDTlZ8W on YC!

most apps were designed for people, not for agents

@Okibi_ai turns your product into a CLI, so AI agents can use it just like your users do.

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

over the weekend I wanted to set up my @t3dotcodes properly to fully move to it and try out Opus 5.5

so I decided to rewrite @SigmaOS fully from scratch and implement Chromium for it instead of WebKit

result -> spent ~8B tokens, made ~200k changes, and I have a fully working SigmaOS with Chromium now

it uses a lot more AppKit/Objective-C instead of heavy SwiftUI, fully supports chrome extensions out of the box, and it also fixed a bunch of performance issues with Chromium itself to make it snappy

I think @AnthropicAI finally released a model post Fable and Astra that can genuinely be a daily driver without needing to constantly reach for the highest model

also will probably release this very soon, and maybe even open source it so others can mod it how they like it

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

for anyone that wants this, every CLI (and MCP soon) that @okibi_ai generates comes with /feedback baked in, with proper error messages for agents so they know what went wrong

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

I want agents to become paying customers.

but taking their money and deciding what they're allowed to do are two different things.

if you're building for agents, what can they spend on without asking, and when do they need to ask the human again?

https://t.co/ISCdLdraeK

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

Can it take my dentist appointment too?

Check my insurance, find somewhere nearby, make the call. I just show up.

This is the future I actually want

https://t.co/yNUXMa5udt

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

checked my security cam and my dog’s walking around the house wrapped in a blanket like a tiny monk

pays no rent but somehow I feel like I’m staying at his place

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

this was our first day in the SF office vs now. back then we only had two chairs and a floor. we were still pre-desk

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

these are some of my favourite bits of advice from @paulg:

• “when you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem”
if you can't explain what you're building in one sentence, do you actually know what you're building?

• “a company is defined by the schleps it will undertake”
the annoying stuff is still annoying even if it's a great business. If other founders avoid solving a problem because it's a pain in the ass, that's a chance for you to build a business around it

• “do things that don't scale”
go find your first customers and help them yourself. It's fine to onboard people one by one and fix things for them manually. You don't need to automate everything before anyone is using it

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

i still want your product. i just want my agent to use it.

i'm already giving my agent context throughout the day. why should I move it all into another app?

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

being a second-time founder meant unlearning a lot of what I thought I knew.

@thesauravmitra and I ended up going back to fundamentals instead of trusting the old playbook.

one thing survived: a real customer tells you more about whether you’re building something useful than a famous investor thinking you’re a hot shot.

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

one of my favourite employees left my previous startup to become a stand-up comedian.

he's still a close friend and he's doing really well.

we both get laughed at for a living. he's the only one who planned it.

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

CLI for agents🔥

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

when I design a CLI for agents, I don't want every command to just mirror an API endpoint.

the agent wants to finish a task. that might mean several calls, waiting, then checking the result.

i want the command to handle that work, not just expose it

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

imagine your API endpoint needs three inputs. you change it to require four, but the CLI still sends three.

the command breaks. the agent hasn't got worse, but your product changed and its interface didn't.

this is why I care about maintenance, not just CLI generation

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

i did @ycombinator two times.

my tip: before the batch starts, talk to founders who've already done it. ask what they'd do differently with those 10 weeks.

you'll arrive knowing what to ask for instead of spending a month working it out.

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

this time last year we finished our S25 demo day

we weren’t doing great, so we kept pivoting

I remember our group partners @gustaf, @xuster, @bradflora told us: just don’t give up

Yesterday our new product went viral!

Congrats S26 founders for finishing, just don’t give up

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

I'm 33, YC Alum and non-solo founder

Looking to connect with more engineers trying to make products usable by agents!

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

a swarm of OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face. Dario wrote an essay about it.

an agent should not be able to sign up for your product anonymously. ever.

every agent on an Okibi CLI is tied to a real, verified human. one human, N agents. no exceptions.

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

last week was YC demo day

made me think, what about a demo day where founders can pitch other founders and content creators their product?

I think this is something people like @theo could pull off well

[Mahyad @MahyadGhassemi]

when a founder tells me they can build their own CLI, I believe them. that's not the part I'm worried about.

i'm worried about who updates it when the API changes and the team has moved on