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Day 55 · Oct 19control your life like it's a video gameor you're lowkey self-sabotaging.Day 54 · Oct 9the first ai you can trust like a friendshe remembered what you forgot to write downDay 49 · Sep 29rip opentrade. prologue: moonshotwhy we shut down our YC startup, and what we're building instead.

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Written for the hours off your screen.

We write about building an AI that listens, so you can look up.

Two friends laughing together on a quiet street.
Louder.The joke lands better out loud.
Two friends sharing a laugh outside.
Closer.Say it to a face, not a feed.
A grandmother and her granddaughter baking at the kitchen counter.
Slower.Some recipes only live in someone’s hands.
A dad laughing with his baby on the beach.
Here.Eyes up for the first laugh.
Ojas, Dylan, Tario and Suraj together in Y Combinator tees.
From the founders

Ojas, Dylan, Tario and Suraj.

OpenTrade got us into Y Combinator on our third try. By the end of August, we'd walked away from it.

These letters are what came next.

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What we're building

Meet Samantha, the first AI companion that makes you SUPERHUMAN.

Your legends hear your day and talk about you. Join anytime.

  • she hears your day and keeps it
  • you pick the squad: ai legends, or anyone you add
  • they talk it through with you, by text or on a call
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