Asteroid

1/ Asteroid is featured in Anthropic's Computer Use launch post! Massive kudos to both the @AnthropicAI and @asteroid_inc teams. As early-access participants in Anthropic's new computer use tool, we tested and deployed it into the most challenging healthcare systems. Seriously impressed! 🧵

Today we're launching Asteroid Integrate! Hundreds of pre-built healthcare integrations with the EHRs, payer portals and government systems that lack usable APIs. If a human can use it, we can connect you to it. Live in days, not months.

The Asteroid engineering house is successfully warmed up. 🔥

I'm glad @ycombinator is advising founders to be truthful about their revenue numbers. I remember our first office hours with @harjtaggar who I believe gave us a demo day goal of $10k MRR, a few paying customers who love us and more importantly figuring out who exactly our customers are. (Getting revenue is easier than that:) I felt $10k MRR is nothing, I saw Twitter filled with exponentials of $$$ in 5 days. I felt YC was lowering our ambitions. Only later when we reached $10k MRR, I realized how hard the actual 0 -> $10k MRR in 3 months is and that it's a great achievement.

Asteroid is hiring!! We're building for a world where agents outnumber humans at work. 3 roles at Asteroid (YC W25) -- Product, GTM, and Engineering. Our computer-use agents already run 1000s of workflows daily across healthcare, insurance, and finance. We can't keep up with demand. 🧵

We just shipped desktop automation at Asteroid. 🖥️ Our AI agents can now control full Windows and Linux desktops, not just browsers. Here's why this changes everything for healthcare 🧵

You can get it done in 4 mins using platform.asteroid.ai/, we can split the $500k

I bought my first Raspberry Pi at 15 -- it’s how I learned how small computers + sensors actually work. Now EF is hosting an Accessibility Hackathon in London (Jan 17) with Asteroid sponsoring alongside @Raspberry_Pi . I'm super happy about supporting this one. Build voice + vision AI prototypes that improve quality of life for unsighted people. 👉 luma.com/jp9aruxj

1 week since launching Astro ✨ 1000s of agents built. Iteration speed is the real bottleneck for browser agents. 2 months → 30 minutes. That’s how long it took teams to build an agent before compared to with Astro. I was surprised myself. That’s the difference between demos and shipping. Can’t wait to see what Astro becomes! Huge shoutout to the team @simulated_land @edasteroid @davidelct @tomdiacono1999

We’re introducing Astro. Astro is an AI agent builder that lets anyone create complex, multistep browser agents! For the first time, agents can learn directly from domain experts.

This is crazy. I pinged a few Asteroid users if they want to try Astro in Beta...the response has been crazy...this is going to be huge... building something people want, thanks @ycombinator @paulg for the tip.

Building browser agents takes too long. (And most other agents aren’t much better.) There’s still no tool that lets non-technical experts build complex, multistep browser agents. Prompts break. Edge cases explode. Teams get frustrated. People don’t want to build agents, they want to manage them like employees. Next week, that finally changes.

You add AI to your product. It works… kind of ... until it needs to do real work. Then the “annoying” customer asks:

Browser agents aren’t the future; they’re already doing real work. Our engineers explain how the real world runs on hybrids -- DOM-first, vision fallback, continuous learning...AGI 🚀 🔗 infoworld.com/article/408139…

OpenAI launched Agent Builder today. Not the first time they’ve come for Asteroid - they already “killed” us once with Operator. VCs said we were done. Six months later, Operator’s gone and Asteroid’s growing fast. The moat’s obvious: cooler agent builder, faster growth 😎🚀

As a YC founder, I talk to a lot of other @ycombinator voice agent companies. The story is almost always the same... They nailed the wedge with voice. But when it’s time to scale the product, they hit a wall. After the voice agent call ends, all that’s left is a transcript, but no way of putting it into the systems of record! That’s why voice agents need browser agents. Real healthcare examples in our new blog post!

We’re #1 on @ProductHunt right now… but we might still lose... This morning we launched Asteroid (YC W25): 🚀 #1 Product of the Day 🧑‍💻 100s of new users 🤖 1000s of browser agents deployed 📰 Featured organically in the PH newsletter But..