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0:00 /0:57 1× We just raised a $2.7M seed round to fix one of the most boring but expensive problems in business: manual browser work. Every company has "that" workflow. Maybe it’s a team logging into vendor portals to download invoices. Maybe it’s navigating a 10-page government form that hasn't been updated since 2005. We built Skyvern to automate this. Think of it as AI with hands. The Problem: The "Maintenance Tax" of Automation For the last deca

You might be wondering.. "Isn't Skyvern Open Source?" "Why do they need to be SOC-2 Compliant?" "What's Type 2 compliance"? Our codebase has always been publicly available, meaning anyone could review our security practices. But that's not enough. We conducted an in-depth independent audit, validating that our controls meet rigorous AICPA standards for security, availability, and confidentiality. The assessment covered everything from encryption keys to incident-response workflows, providing o

Founders who want 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 are doubling down on open-source AI stacks. Here are 8 open-source AI tools launched or majorly upgraded in 2023–24 that can supercharge your business — across product, ops, marketing, and dev — without locking you into anyone’s platform. 👇 1. Llama 2 (Meta): Industry-grade LLM, open and fine-tunable. Build your own GPT-like assistants or AI products without paying API fees — and stay in control of y

0:00 /0:57 1× We just raised a $2.7M seed round to fix one of the most boring but expensive problems in business: manual browser work. Every company has "that" workflow. Maybe it’s a team logging into vendor portals to download invoices. Maybe it’s navigating a 10-page government form that hasn't been updated since 2005. We built Skyvern to automate this. Think of it as AI with hands. The Problem: The "Maintenance Tax" of Automation For the last deca

You might be wondering.. "Isn't Skyvern Open Source?" "Why do they need to be SOC-2 Compliant?" "What's Type 2 compliance"? Our codebase has always been publicly available, meaning anyone could review our security practices. But that's not enough. We conducted an in-depth independent audit, validating that our controls meet rigorous AICPA standards for security, availability, and confidentiality. The assessment covered everything from encryption keys to incident-response workflows, providing o

Founders who want 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 are doubling down on open-source AI stacks. Here are 8 open-source AI tools launched or majorly upgraded in 2023–24 that can supercharge your business — across product, ops, marketing, and dev — without locking you into anyone’s platform. 👇 1. Llama 2 (Meta): Industry-grade LLM, open and fine-tunable. Build your own GPT-like assistants or AI products without paying API fees — and stay in control of y

Back at the end of 2023, we were pivoting and were trying to figure out what idea to work on. The idea space is massive, but we knew we wanted to focus on a hard technical problem to solve. We are technical founders, and we were pretty confident in our ability to solve anything we put our heads to. We started searching around to see what kinds of problems people had, and stumbled on something we heard over and over again: web scraping is hard. Maintaining scrapers is hard. Browser automations

Here's O3's definition: Nirvana fallacy: rejecting a workable solution because it isn’t perfect—an easy way to stall real progress while chasing an imaginary ideal. This is a common pitfall that engineers like me run into "But it won't work in this edge case" "But did you consider this situation that's only going to occur if 5 other things happen in a row?" This line if thinking is important when you're designing system for scale If you're working at Google with 1 billion users, even a 0.1

⭐ We hit 13K GITHUB STARS!!! What a big milestone!! But.. what if we told you that we stopped tracking star count as a top line metric 6 months ago? Star count is similar to user signups. It's a vanity metric. It's a great metric that's guaranteed to be up-and-to-the-right, and help you feel good, but you can't eat Github stars for dinner It's a representation of "this is interesting and cool!" which doesn't always translate well to "this will become a sustainable business" What are better

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Got invited to a private YC Open Source conferences last week Here are my top 10 takeaways from it! 1 - The old age of open source (pre-2015) was crazy 2 - Apparently it was normal to donate your open source project to the Apache organization? 3 - There are big differences between Apache 2.0 and GPL-3 as a license. 4 - Cloud providers stealing your project is largely a myth (see Redis + Azure partnership). GPL-3 Makes it impossible for this to happen 5 - OSI approved licenses matter to the com

How do you know you built something people wanted? When you get users start using it and complaining before you even have a chance to announce its launch This has happened at Skyvern many times... but the most recent is the most fascinating We secretly launched support for credentials almost 2 weeks ago. As soon as the deploy went live, we got a message: "Hey this isn't working". We had a ton of bugs but we figured we could fix them before people noticed they were there.. 1. The error mess

Hit a major Skyvern milestone Skyvern finished its first autonomous order. End to End. This wasn't a demonstration -- this was a real order being placed to automate something very core to a business we've been working closely with Here are all of the steps it has to perform for it to work correctly: 1. Navigate to an e-commerce website 2. Log in 3. Clear the cart if there's already products there 4. Go through a list of products 5. Check if the specified variant exists and is avail

🌟 TWELVE THOUSAND 🌟 Here are some interesting star milestone facts 1. Going from 0 - 5K took as long as going from 5K - 12K 2. We stopped looking at star count as a top line metric when we launched Skyvern Cloud 3. Star count is not correlated with our discord user growth 4. Companies stopped caring about our star count after 5K Github stars -- 5K hit the sweet spot of credibility 5. Star count is not the same as product market fit 6. It is a great proxy for market pull + interes

We ended up #3 in the day, only a stone's throw away from dethroning OpenAI's DeepResearch launch launch Here was our checklist to make this magic happen: 1. We started preparing ~1 week in advance 2. We created specific visuals highlighting Skyvern's features that conformed to the style of past launches 3. We created an interesting launch post that (1) taught people how AI agents work under the hood, and (2) how they might use a system like Skyvern 4. We created a special coupon code for P

Ever had a software project complete ahead of schedule? I've never seen it. There's this philsophy in project planning that says: projects will always find a way to fill all of the time allocated towards them. This is natural inertia that exists. When you hear a deadline, you say "oh ok I'll do X Y Z to hit that deadline". The deadline becomes the focal point, not the doing of X, or Y, or Z This is why we try our best to either: not set deadlines, or set unrealistically fast deadlines at Skyv

I'm not very good at looking back and reflecting on things – the future is usually too exciting to pause and reflect. This year.. I'm going to change that! Looking back at everything we've accomplished: 1. Pivoted and launched a new product into the world (Skyvern) 2. Open sourced it 3. Went from 0 -> 11K Github Stars in <9 Months 4. Went from 0 -> >10 paying customers 5. Went from 0 -> Six figures ARR in Skyvern Cloud revenue I wasn't alone in accomplishing all of this We have had a wonder

Posting on socials / blogging feels really unnatural for me. I've always been the kind of person that focuses on their own thing, keeps quiet and moves along in life But.. after reading a lot about how marketing / sales works.. I decided to give this a try "I signed up for your platform in September but we didn't need it until now.. but I kept reading your weekly blog posts!" I heard this in a customer call the other day and it floored me. I had read theories about why posting regularly was i