Automating phone calls & drive-thrus for restaurants with voice AI: https://teapawt.net/t.co/xGav9G13n2 | Backed by @fdotinc
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gurbaz retweeted
Excited to announce that @ploid_ai is part of the YC F26 batch!
Ploid is a people data company.
We've built one of the fastest people search APIs out there, with realtime fetching on top of the richest data on 2B+ people.
If you're building anything that needs to know who someone is, DM me or check out ploid.com
May we find product-market fit like Zareen’s has on Palo Alto!
We’ve been lucky to work with Sahlik Khan and the Zareen’s team to bring voice AI into one of the Bay Area’s busiest restaurants.
The problem was simple: they were too busy to answer every phone call.
Today, AI handles 90%+ of their calls: answering questions, taking orders, handling catering requests, and more. All while customers who want to speak with someone can still reach the restaurant if they prefer.
Huge thank you to Sahlik for giving us a shot…and for giving us another excuse to eat at Zareen’s!
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Mylapore has the best dosas in the Bay Area...and we're lucky to have them as our early customer.
Indians love to call, and our voice agent handles everything: ordering, catering, questions in Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi etc.
Might have to rename to DosAI, we've done 300k+ calls for Indian restaurants!
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gurbaz retweeted
We’ve raised $5.2M to build the default AI assistant over text.
Most AI assistants understand your email inbox. They don’t understand you as a person.
Pally is the first AI assistant with access to your personal iMessage and WhatsApp inboxes.
That means it understands the conversations, relationships, commitments, and context that make up your actual life.
AI agents are incredibly powerful, but for most people, they’re still too complicated or unfamiliar to use every day.
We believe the path to bringing agents to everyone is to make them deeply personal, proactive, and, above all, simple.
That’s what we’re building with Pally. One text away from done.
See the fully story from Business Insider here: businessinsider.com/meet-yc-…
Thanks to the incredible investors who have backed us: @cyberfund @ycombinator @fdotinc @pioneer_fund @468Capital @Multimodal_Vent @iamcal @karimatiyeh @Thom_Wolf @taro_f @mytechceoo @brycent and 100+ others!
Try Pally today, here's a free month of pro: my.pally.com/r/GIFTX-TXKHM4
gurbaz retweeted
introducing... a brand new pally 👋
pally is an ai assistant that lives in your texts, it connects to your DMs and helps you stop ghosting people
pally sees who you've left on read and replies for you, in your tone, with your context, while escalating to you if it needs to
it's also a full general agent, so it can automate your manual workflows, book your flights, buy things with locked one-time cards, and drive a browser to do basically anything else
use this link for a free month of pro: my.pally.com/r/GIFTX-TXKHM4
stop ghosting people. text pally today. 🫶
arc 4 when?
We scored 36.08% on ARC-AGI-3 in one day using the Agentica SDK.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The title is misleading, this score is for the public demonstration set - quoted as being "intentionally easier for both humans and AI, with a stronger emphasis on clarity and fun".
arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_…
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gurbaz retweeted
We scored 36.08% on ARC-AGI-3 in one day using the Agentica SDK.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The title is misleading, this score is for the public demonstration set - quoted as being "intentionally easier for both humans and AI, with a stronger emphasis on clarity and fun".
arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_…
gurbaz retweeted
In 2026, I’m inviting 1,000 founders to San Francisco to start their companies.
Are you in?
These toilets are provided/maintained for FREE by jcdecaux in exchange for advertising real estate. So, this cost is purely labour for the attendant. Not bad i’d say.
We can do even better by adopting better solutions to drive up usage - these toilets arent exactly pleasant to use tbh. @ThroneBathrooms is worth considering.
In San Francisco, we have 30 freestanding toilets that are available for free public use.
They cost the city $14M last year, and recorded 750,000 visits, ~$19 per visit.
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The $14.1M funded the Pit Stop program (60+ toilets at 30+ sites), including staff and needle disposal. Their 2026 budget has already been cut to $5.7M, including $4M in rollover funds from last year.
The 750K visits were also for the last 9 months, not for the entire year.
sfstandard.com/2025/04/07/pub…
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Also, many don’t want to use these because they aren’t clean. So they go into a cafe, hotel etc. we all have our “secret” spots :)
Since SMBs end up filling the gap (unfairly), we should give them a subsidy for making their bathroom unofficially public. And the city can provide support in maintaining their bathrooms, and dealing with misuse.
Just an idea on how to get more bathrooms for an affordable price!
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I’ve stopped typing completely when prompting AI while coding
I can get so much more context in, ramble, change my mind etc. as if i’m talking to a person
Don’t think i’ll go back
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