Shaan Goswami

Shaan GoswamiAug 11, 2026

I meet with the founders of Bullet (YC S26), Alex Sima and Aditya Kulkarni, a Y Combinator backed start-up that is all about building the fastest coding assistant available. Their motto was revealed to me as I chatted with them Fast, by design. I think I learned more about their product from their actions than their words. They use fast models for simple tasks, and only turn to bigger models when the task requires it. They pull only the relevant context for a query, as opposed to forcing developers to run the whole code base through the agent. They enable tool calling in parallel, with built-in loops and duplicate detection, so you don’t waste effort on redundant calls. All in all, it’s a product that recognizes that the number one enemy of the developer is the wasted second, whether that’s waiting for a large model to think, or for multiple tools to complete serial requests. With this being Y Combinator, I think it says a lot about the founding team that they chose to enter the competitive space of coding assistants. Their product, at the moment, has a lot of clever design decisions that speak to a certain maturity and restraint. They didn’t spend their energy hyping up the 95.8% score on their SWE-bench. Much of our chat revolved around the question of retention. It is the classic acquisition conundrum for any creator of developer tools, especially now, when the space is getting more crowded by the day. Retention, at the end of the day, is about turning a feature set into a story that developers will want to tell others. And that is always a challenge for technical products especially when the product has to compete with its own momentum. I’m personally very excited to see how they grow, and how their story unfolds. checkout their product and page follow them they are launching for windows soon. https://lnkd.in/grwZ9tqK #YCombinator #StartupGrowth #GrowthMarketing #AIOps #BuildInPublic

Shaan GoswamiAug 24, 2026

🚀 Exciting news - I am joining Frizzle (YC S25) a Y Combinator backed startup as an Growth Fellow! I am beyond thrilled to join Frizzle (frizzle.com) and contribute to solving an education system foundational problem -grading. Teachers should not be spending +10 hours a week grading and students should not have to wait +72 hours to get their grades back in. At Frizzle, I will be working on eliminating these grading roadblocks, saving teachers +10 hours/week while providing students with instant feedback. The opportunity to work at a YC-backed company and help get a product to market is unparalleled. I want to thank Satvik Srivastava for giving me this opportunity and having faith in me to do this job. If you are interested in becoming a Frizzle Fellow, there are still some spots open. 📩 You can reach out to Satvik Srivastava to learn more. Eager to get started! Let's go. 🚀 #Frizzle #YCombinator #Yc #Fellowshipp #EdTech #Growth #AI #Education #sf

Shaan GoswamiAug 17, 2026

Hi Everyone me and my friend Pankaj Sharma built that might help many people who are building their side project just you have to use an free api 🎙️ VoiceForge we were learning LiveKit by amazing founders by David Zhao and Russ d'Sa Open-source, self-hostable voice AI agent starter kit. Build ultra-low latency, real-time voice agents in minutes. 🌟 Overview (test and improve it ) VoiceForge is a complete starter kit for building bidirectional, real-time voice AI agents. Built on top of LiveKit Agents, it orchestrates Speech-to-Text (STT), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) into a seamless, interruptible voice pipeline. The true value of VoiceForge lies in its onboarding layer: a guided CLI setup wizard, curated defaults, and ready-made persona templates that get you from git clone to a working voice conversation in the browser in under 10 minutes. 🚀 Features BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys): No proxying, no storage. Your keys stay on your machine. Guided Setup Wizard: A beautiful, interactive CLI that walks you through getting and validating API keys. Ready-Made Personas: Start instantly with templates like Study Buddy, Voice Journal, or Meeting Notes. Modern Web Frontend: A sleek, dark-themed React + Vite interface with Framer Motion animations. Groq Integration: Blazing-fast inference using Groq for STT, LLM, and TTS. Self-Hostable: Optional Docker Compose setup for running your own LiveKit server and local TTS (Kokoro). checkout at GitHub #opensourse #voiceagent #github https://lnkd.in/edeUTgyE