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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
gm legends, happy Tuesday.
A YC startup built Cursor for mainframe developers; OpenBMB fit a vision model into 1.3 billion parameters that runs on a phone; Kelviq wants to be the one button that handles payments, tax, and billing for SaaS teams; and we're announcing the Vercel Day winners and opening the door for Friday's.
gm legends, happy Monday.
Google finally shipped Snapseed 4.0 after years of near-silence — free, non-destructive, with a built-in camera; MiroMiro v2 lets you inspect and edit any live website like a Figma file; The Pitch by Deel lands in Singapore tonight; and we teamed up with Vercel to make this Friday a launch day worth showing up for.
gm legends, happy Friday.
77 builders launched this morning for a shot at YC S26 — Gustaf Alströmer is reviewing the top ones on the special leaderboard; one wants to replace the resume with your GitHub commits; one breaks AI agents on purpose before users do; and forum founders are sharing their wildest launch horror stories.
gm legends, happy Thursday.
Luma's new reasoning model says it understands what you want before it generates anything; reMarkable shipped a $399 tablet with fewer features than its own Pro on purpose; OpenAI swapped ChatGPT's default model again.
P.S. Don't forget to schedule your launch by midnight tonight for a chance to nab a YC interview
gm legends, happy Wednesday.
Agents have their own wallets now; two Stanford dropouts — one came from NASA, one from McKinsey — are fixing recruiting; OpenAI is running ads; and we teamed up with YC to give builders who missed the deadline one more shot.
gm legends, happy Tuesday.
Sid Sijbrandij — who ran GitLab — forked a coding agent and now has 2M users; ex-UiPath founders who left to fix the part UiPath never solved; Valve shipped new controller hardware; and The Pitch by Deel hits New York today.
gm legends, happy Monday.
An agent platform betting that human oversight is the actual product, a comic store paying 80% to creators without asking for exclusivity, 20,000 AI coding sessions turned into trading cards, and a thread on whether self-hosting is a tax or just something your particular brain enjoys.
gm legends, happy Friday.
A decade-long code editor hit 1.0, AI agents are publicly arguing about stocks, your phone can be a subwoofer now, and our resident forums queen, Nika, wants to know how to spot the human-made content in a hay-stack of AI slop.
gm legends, happy Thursday.
OpenAI open-sourced how they actually run Codex agents; four cryptographers launched the private AI chat you can audit yourself; there's a flyable universe in a browser with no login; and the final two regional events for The Pitch by Deel are coming up. Want your chance at winning $1M+? Apply below.
Gm legends, happy Wednesday.
A Polish agency open-sourced the wearable health layer — including the scoring algorithms your Oura ring won't explain. A 4-person startup has Microsoft doing its AI evals. Netlify shipped a Postgres database that branches with your code. And Orhan (@orhan_kilic) got 16% App Store conversions by making his app more boring.
