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Introducing Vendo (YC S26), the customization layer that lets your users build their own features and micro-apps on top of your product For 50 years, software has been shipped one way for everyone. That era is over. With Vendo, every user shapes your product into exactly what they need.... show more

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islam1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah building software where power users can just script their own ideal layout instead of begging product managers for edge-case features is huge

Yousef1 month ago

@ishzhv @runvendo @nourzahzah 100%

Yousef1 month ago

Check Vendo out at:

Yousef1 month ago

And star the repo here (go crazy with the builds):

Nour Zahzah1 month ago

@runvendo The future of dynamic software is here.

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo yes it is

Sam Z Liu1 month ago

I love the vision of GenUI but think it’s a difficult space for start ups to play: People like predictability in products and on demand generation feels worse than hand crafting a perfect user experience Moreover, the Pareto principle suggests that the niche use cases you can’t manually design for are almost definitely a small percentage of users. Maybe worth it for a large company but premature optimization for a small one.

Yousef1 month ago

Interesting points! The goal is not just to generate the UI, agreed that that alone is not enough. The goal for Vendo is to give users the *outcome* they want, which is why we connect to your existing API and can generate full-on micro-apps that can do real things. Most B2B businesses will tell you about all the different customizations and workflows that their customers request so I'd think you'd be surprised how much even basic customizations are needed.

Sam Z Liu1 month ago

yeah that's fair! - definitely custom dashboards & widgets are huge in enterprise software I've found that most people within enterprises are pretty bad at describing what they want - which is why something like an FDE is needed to translate that into product requirements. Would be cool if an agent could be that translation interface as well!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah absolutely and good points!

BABA Khalid | Youmake.dev1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah This is a unique and innovative way to personalize the user experience within any software application. Congrats @yousefhll on the launch!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thank you!

jinjingliang1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Congrats on the launch!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks!

Vendo (YC S26)1 month ago

@nourzahzah I have arrived :)

Bahij Nemeh1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Wow this amazing. Congrats on the launch 🚀🚀🚀

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thank you!

Arish1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Insane launch video, congrats

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah appreciate you arish!

Kaya Hickin1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah let's go, this is sick

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks!

Alvaro L1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Very useful idea 💡

sensho1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah fire

shrish1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah 🔥🔥

Rhys1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah congrats on the launch!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah appreciate you rhys!

Basly1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah keep it up guys!!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thank you!

Rania Rimali1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Fire stuff

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks!

maz1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Dope

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks maz!

Vik Petrov1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah love the idea! Being in b2c, users are different, but power users would love it and they'd pay premium to have that. Awesome, good luck guys!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thank you for the insights vik, much appreciated!

Adil1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Legend

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah jazakallahukhairan appreciate you adil!

Justin Liao1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah super cool! the era of creative SAAS has begun.

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah BRING IT ON

Miles Nash1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah My goat

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Ur OUR goat Miles

Shubham Srivastava1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah this is actually super cool, a great example of a win-win product 👏🏻

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thank you!

Mohamed Habib1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Great ship team

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah appreciate it!

Mohamed Habib1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah DMing you some feedback

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah on it! jazakallahukhairan

Amgad1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Super smart. Changes the entire software experience.

Yousef1 month ago

@LastTechnicalPM @runvendo @nourzahzah big things coming

Daniel Foch1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Great concept - @AhmadShehmeer @AnzaAnza would be interesting to see how this stacks on for real estate brokerages looking for custom builds

Mikhaeel1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Very cool

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah appreciate you!

Aaliya1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah This could make software much more flexible.

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah facts!

marc tuinier1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah awesome guys!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah appreciate you marc!

𝅙1 month ago

@ycombinator @runvendo @nourzahzah Legends

Yousef1 month ago

@ycombinator @runvendo @nourzahzah appreciate you!

olumide1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah 🔥

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks!

Anas Kabila🌪🇲🇦1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah 👏👏👏

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thank you!

arun1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah I wrote about this evolution a year ago as an idea and am glad to see it taking shape.

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah great write-up!

arun1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah Thank you

Ryan Morrissey1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah sick launch congrats

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks ryan!

Soar1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah fire

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah WE SOARING

Mouad1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah congrats!! LFG!!!!

Yousef1 month ago

@runvendo @nourzahzah thanks!

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The race to own AI is on and Big Tech is winning. They want your data. Your value. Your control. FORK THAT. NEAR was built to flip the script: 🔓 Open-source agents 🤖 AI you control ⚡️ Infra that just works No middlemen. No friction. Just AI for everyone. Hold it NEAR. This is what it means to build the User-Owned Future:

NEAR Protocol

263,354 views • 1 year ago

Re-introducing 8090... Two ways to work with us: → [BUILD] Software Factory: the platform for consulting and technology businesses building software with AI agents. The documentation stays alive because the system keeps it alive (no one ever updates the PRD on their own). → [BUY] 8090 Enterprise: AI-native custom software we design, build, and host tailored to your exact business needs. Give us a problem and we go execute. What part of your current SDLC is the most overdue for a rebuild?

Re-introducing 8090... Two ways to work with us: → [BUILD] Software Factory: the platform for consulting and technology businesses building software with AI agents. The documentation stays alive because the system keeps it alive (no one ever updates the PRD on their own). → [BUY] 8090 Enterprise: AI-native custom software we design, build, and host tailored to your exact business needs. Give us a problem and we go execute. What part of your current SDLC is the most overdue for a rebuild?

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307,638 views • 4 months ago

The rules of professional product development are being rewritten in real time. - PMs and designers can ship software as easily as engineers. - Software is no longer just built for humans—it’s also built for agents as first-class citizens. To better understand how we build products in this world, I invited Mike Krieger (Mike Krieger) on Every 📧’s AI & I podcast. Mike cofounded Instagram and is now a member of the technical staff at Anthropic, co-leading Anthropic Labs, their internal incubator for experimental products. He's been at the frontier of two transformative technology waves: mobile/social and now agent-native software. We discussed: - How to build a truly agent-native product. The best products today, like Claude Code, allow users to do things that their creators never intended. But that requires hard trade-offs between freedom and safety/reliability for frontier products, an issue that Mike's team is learning how to solve. - What's different about building now versus building Instagram. At Instagram, it took months to hit dead ends and learn what to cut. Now, that cycle runs in hours. - The trap of building too much, too fast with agents. You can go from idea to a nearly-shipped product in a day, but that process doesn’t give you the incremental feedback that used to tell you what not to build. The models are great at adding features, but can create a product that lacks coherence. - How Anthropic Labs structures product teams. New product experiments are led by only two people, usually a product manager or designer paired with an engineer. Mike says bigger teams tend to be too slow because of coordination costs. - Why you need to throw out your product and start over every three to six months. AI progress means most of your harness will be outdated quickly—the best teams build this into their product strategy. And much more! You should watch this one. Timestamps Introduction: What's gotten easier—and what hasn't—about building products in the age of AI: Why vibe coding creates "indoor trees": How rewrites have become a normal part of the development process: What "agent native" product design means: How Mike's labs team is structured and the cofounder model: The best signal for a product bet is someone with "break through walls" conviction: Navigating enterprise customers while keeping pace with rapid AI change: OpenClaw, personal agents, and the product question defining 2026:

The rules of professional product development are being rewritten in real time. - PMs and designers can ship software as easily as engineers. - Software is no longer just built for humans—it’s also built for agents as first-class citizens. To better understand how we build products in this world, I invited Mike Krieger (Mike Krieger) on Every 📧’s AI & I podcast. Mike cofounded Instagram and is now a member of the technical staff at Anthropic, co-leading Anthropic Labs, their internal incubator for experimental products. He's been at the frontier of two transformative technology waves: mobile/social and now agent-native software. We discussed: - How to build a truly agent-native product. The best products today, like Claude Code, allow users to do things that their creators never intended. But that requires hard trade-offs between freedom and safety/reliability for frontier products, an issue that Mike's team is learning how to solve. - What's different about building now versus building Instagram. At Instagram, it took months to hit dead ends and learn what to cut. Now, that cycle runs in hours. - The trap of building too much, too fast with agents. You can go from idea to a nearly-shipped product in a day, but that process doesn’t give you the incremental feedback that used to tell you what not to build. The models are great at adding features, but can create a product that lacks coherence. - How Anthropic Labs structures product teams. New product experiments are led by only two people, usually a product manager or designer paired with an engineer. Mike says bigger teams tend to be too slow because of coordination costs. - Why you need to throw out your product and start over every three to six months. AI progress means most of your harness will be outdated quickly—the best teams build this into their product strategy. And much more! You should watch this one. Timestamps Introduction: What's gotten easier—and what hasn't—about building products in the age of AI: Why vibe coding creates "indoor trees": How rewrites have become a normal part of the development process: What "agent native" product design means: How Mike's labs team is structured and the cofounder model: The best signal for a product bet is someone with "break through walls" conviction: Navigating enterprise customers while keeping pace with rapid AI change: OpenClaw, personal agents, and the product question defining 2026:

Dan Shipper 📧

58,849 views • 5 months ago

YC Partner Kevin Hale: Marketing is a tax you pay for not making your product remarkable YC Partner and former Wufoo founder (acquired by SurveyMonkey) Kevin Hale is asked how founders should balance working on product with other company priorities like marketing. He gives the following response: “My feeling is you having to spend money on marketing and advertising is usually a tax you pay because you haven’t made your product remarkable. Word of mouth growth is the easiest kind of growth, and it’s how a lot of the great companies grow.” He advises companies: “Figure out how to have a story that people want to tell about your product where they’re the most interesting person at the dinner table. And then that person is your sales force.” Video source: Y Combinator (2014)

YC Partner Kevin Hale: Marketing is a tax you pay for not making your product remarkable YC Partner and former Wufoo founder (acquired by SurveyMonkey) Kevin Hale is asked how founders should balance working on product with other company priorities like marketing. He gives the following response: “My feeling is you having to spend money on marketing and advertising is usually a tax you pay because you haven’t made your product remarkable. Word of mouth growth is the easiest kind of growth, and it’s how a lot of the great companies grow.” He advises companies: “Figure out how to have a story that people want to tell about your product where they’re the most interesting person at the dinner table. And then that person is your sales force.” Video source: Y Combinator (2014)

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37,892 views • 10 months ago