What it’s a fave: Misprint has a cool origin story — its co-founder, Eva Herget, quit her job at Goldman Sachs to sell Pokémon cards full-time, raking in $40,000 a month. Now, Herget and her co-founder have launched a platform for selling cards and other collectibles that allows users to treat them more like stocks, using a bid/ask system. It’s not a small market: $3.5 billion of secondhand Pokémon cards are sold every year, Misprint says.
What it does: uses AI to find the best vibe coders
Why it’s a fave: AI-assisted “vibe coding” is all the rage, with a YC partner recently saying that a quarter of YC startups have codebases that are 95% AI-generated. But AI-assisted coding isn’t just cheating: it’s a skill in and of itself. NextByte says it helps companies find the best “vibe coders” thanks to an AI model that powers interview questions testing coders’ skills at leveraging AI.
What it does: AI clone for Zoom calls
Why it’s a fave: Who hasn’t popped into a Zoom meeting for work with a bad case of bed hair or barely concealed pajama pants? Pickle solves this by letting you “clone” an ideal version yourself and putting that much better-composed individual onto the screen, lip-syncing to your voice in real time. As a (mostly) remote team, we really hope Pickle — which says it has over 1,500 paying users so far — can pull this one off.
What it does: AI agents to automate restaurant management
Why it’s a fave: We’ve worked enough jobs waiting tables to know that managing a restaurant is not an exact science. Managing restaurant inventory is often done in Google Sheets, and involves lots of calling and emailing with suppliers. Rebolt tries to automate some of that work with AI agents, and the company says it’s in pricing discussions with the parent company of Burger King.
What it does: a Roomba for weeds on a farm
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