Two Brothers Want AI Agents to Finally Get Their Own Phone Numbers

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AI agents can write code, manage workflows, and browse the internet on their own now. But ask one to call a customer, send a text, or handle a verification code, and everything suddenly breaks apart. That problem pushed Meet Modi and Manav Modi to start AgentPhone. The startup gives AI agents something simple but surprisingly … Read more

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Three Engineers Got Tired of Kafka Headaches and Started S2.dev (YC F25)

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Three engineers saw something developers hate: battling live data streams. Shikhar Bhushan, Stephen Balogh and Dwarak Govind Parthiban had all built massive systems at Etsy and Meta, so they know how quickly an app can choke on real-time data. Now their startup, S2.dev, is live – it just announced general availability and a $3.85M seed … Read more