now i can post my design stuff again @AsideAI
we decided not to be a yc cluely
we decided to build a fkin great product
stay tuned
Mar 27
we started YC as an AI sales call assistant. we were wrong
now we're building: a browser you don't have to use.
wait WTF is this pivot? here's the story:
real-time AI in sales calls breaks in practice. we had to deliver answers within ~0.8s, with high accuracy. today's models can't do both.
the only way is to connect everything: HubSpot, Slack, past calls.
but who would do that for a new AI agent? it never really works.
meanwhile, our team's strength was very clear:
we're good at crafting products with deep engineering.
e.g. we didn't use Electron. we forked Chromium and modified the Blink engine just to support Liquid Glass.
but sales wasn't where this mattered
and honestly, we didn't enjoy building sales tools
bc my dream since age 9 was building a software everyone uses
then we realized: our work lives in browser tabs
and if we already know how to fork Chromium, why not build the browser?
so we’re building a new kind of browser that:
- as beautiful as Arc
- as light as Firefox
- can run long tasks like Claude
- as proactive as OpenClaw
coming soon.
we're hiring:
- design engineer
- agent harness engineer
if you want to build the browser everyone uses in 5 years, DM me > aside.computer
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