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alright, X, it's time for a reintroduction. i'm Aayan -
- led my HS tech club to win 100+ awards in 1 year
- moved to the US when I was 17
- founded the world's first humanoid robot club as a freshman
- we built a walking humanoid in just 1 year
- scaled it to 2k+ members and raised $500K+ in 2 years
- hosted the world's largest hardware hackathon this April
- spent 2 summers interning at Meta shipping 4 projects
- met Lisa Su, Mark Zuckerberg, and Kunal Shah
- now hosting the world's largest collegiate TEDx conference
you need to have a positive outlook on the world in order to succeed. Pessimists may be right, but optimists are successful.
the world is a great place; let's make it greater.
such a cool product. would genuinely so many of my issues - compares products + compares vendors and selects the best credit card for me.
today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh
a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon).
we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems:
* coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store.
* reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something.
* speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.
if you have a cool idea you want to share w the world, give a TEDx talk!
@TEDxPurdueU is hosting a student speaker competition on nov 14.
apply by oct 31, 11:59 PM ET.
purdue students only!
its been 2 days since YC came to Purdue, and at Starbucks people are talking about AI, Startups, and every convo seems like its a date AND a networking chat. the effect is insane.
i've always been wary of capitalism but after spending a summer in the tech capital of the world — none of which can exist w/o the level of capitalism the US has — I'm a firm believer it is the greatest economic system ever.
just wrapped up the first-ever @ycombinator event at Purdue!!
we booked a room for 180 people, but then 300+ people showed up lol, with a line stretching the entire hallway
tysm to everyone who showed up!
last chance to escape the matrix and the permanent underclass
join us for a fireside chat with yc partner @aroraharshita33 at Purdue!
10/26; 5:30 PM. link below
j finished reading this book. Amazing read. Anyone building a product or wanting to build one should read it. It’s by @tfadell who invented the iPod and the iPhone
united has been on such a generational run lately. never loved a company more. the app is amazing, the wifi is amazing. generally i pay 10% extra if i get to fly them.
We already have @Starlink on more planes than any other airline in the world, which means nearly half of our daily U.S. departures have it. And it's free for MileagePlus members. Use our new our tracker to see if your next flight has Starlink *and* follow along to watch our progress as we turbocharge getting these installations done by the end of 2027: StarlinkTracker.United.com
(This would be a good time to let the non-United flyers in your orbit know we've extended our status match offer: united.com/switchtobetterwif…)
proud to finally bring @ycombinator to Purdue with @TEDxPurdueU 💪
register now:
events.ycombinator.com/yc-pu…
A NASA helicopter uses what he built, and so do every computer and phone in the world.
meet Daniel Stenberg on Zoom, the creator of cURL, this Saturday!
luma.com/ovmbfrtu?utm_source…
