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What’s the last product that genuinely made you go: 'Whoa — this is smart'?
I m always on the lookout for those aha moments where a product nails the timing, design, or simplicity so well it just clicks.
What s the last product that made you pause and think:
Damn this is clever ?
Bonus points if it s something small but brilliant. Curious to see what s been impressing you lately
Are Vertical AI Agents still worth building?
I recently came across some news:
Claude for Financial Services officially launched in mid-July. It s designed specifically for the finance industry, integrating data from platforms like PitchBook, Morningstar, Snowflake, S&P Global, and Databricks to support market research, due diligence, and investment decisions. During early testing, Claude Opus 4 hit 83% accuracy on complex Excel tasks.
It really makes me question how much room there is left for AI Agent startups ----LLMs are getting better at handling more and more tasks on their own.
For an AI Agent to have long-term value, it must be able to understand, remember, and adapt to a user's evolving preferences and context ---- something LLMs still struggle with due to their limited memory and continuity.
How We Built a Solution Runs Long-Lived LLM Agents
Introduction
Most cloud platforms AWS, GCP, Azure are optimized for stateless web apps or short-lived serverless functions. But deploying long-lived, stateful LLM agents is another beast entirely. You need durability, resilience, and observability. When we tried to push our own multi-agent AI system to production, we hit walls with all the complex infrastructure work that not only took hours but unstable.
YC deadline in <2 weeks; Who's applying?
If you're applying, reply below with what you're building so we can cheer you on!
If you're doing a startup and not applying, why aren't you applying?
YC deadline in <2 weeks; Who's applying?
If you're applying, reply below with what you're building so we can cheer you on!
If you're doing a startup and not applying, why aren't you applying?
Anyone else running into same problem deploying long-running AI agents?
I ve been working on some AI projects recently things like scheduled agents, API responders, and multi-agent systems that need to run continuously. One of the biggest headaches I ve run into is deployment.
Most cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.) are built for stateless apps or short-lived functions. But for long-running, stateful agents, the kind that need to persist data, auto-recover from crashes, and expose custom endpoints it gets surprisingly messy. I ve spent so much time setting up VMs, Docker configs, and recovery logic than actually writing agent behavior logic.

