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Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Re: Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Post by adit_a »

echelon wrote: post #12
jackienotchan wrote: post #10

I saw your recent $24M series A and was kind of surprised to only see you launching now, congrats! YC seems to fund quite many document extraction companies, even within the same batch: - Pulse (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pulse-3 - OmniAI (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai - Extend (YC W23): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/extend How do you differentiate from these? And h…

How do you raise Series A before launch / PMF? I assume y'all launched before this to select partners? Or perhaps this is a new product on top of the core product? Congrats! Keep at it!

Thank you!

To clarify, our API was already fully launched and in prod with customers when we raised our series A. This launch is specifically for the platform we're building around the API :)

Re: Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Post by wilson090 »

kbyatnal wrote: post #20
jackienotchan wrote: post #10

I saw your recent $24M series A and was kind of surprised to only see you launching now, congrats! YC seems to fund quite many document extraction companies, even within the same batch: - Pulse (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pulse-3 - OmniAI (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai - Extend (YC W23): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/extend How do you differentiate from these? And h…

Founder of Extend ( https://www.extend.ai/ ) here, it's a great question and thanks for the tag. There definitely are a lot of document processing companies, but it's a large market and more competition is always better for users. In this case, the Reducto team seems to have cloned us down to the small details [1][2], which is a bit disappointing to see. But imitation is the best form of flattery I suppose! We though…

I've used instabase before which has had the same UX for years. What about benchmarks between the two on extraction performance?

Re: Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Post by b0a04gl »

if reducto leans in fully as the layer that remembers every correction, every edge case, every shift in layout or wording across document versions it starts becoming more than a pipeline. it becomes institutional memory for unstructured data. none of the other players really do that. they extract, maybe evaluate once, then forget.

but the real pain is always in the second and third batch. when formats change subtly. if reducto becomes the system that adapts without you babysitting it, that's where it may win. continuity's the moat imo among the competitors

Re: Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Post by raunakchowdhuri »

b0a04gl wrote: post #25

if reducto leans in fully as the layer that remembers every correction, every edge case, every shift in layout or wording across document versions it starts becoming more than a pipeline. it becomes institutional memory for unstructured data. none of the other players really do that. they extract, maybe evaluate once, then forget. but the real pain is always in the second and third batch. when formats change subtly.…

this is exactly where we're going with this! glad you see the vision :)

Re: Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Post by nicodjimenez »

For accurate and easy PDF to Markdown / LaTeX / JSON check out:

https://github.com/mathpix/mpxpy

Disclaimer: I'm the founder. Reducto does cool stuff on post processing (and other input formats), but some people have told me Mathpix is better at just getting data out of PDFs accurately.

Re: Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

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Post by adit_a »

kbyatnal wrote: post #20
jackienotchan wrote: post #10

I saw your recent $24M series A and was kind of surprised to only see you launching now, congrats! YC seems to fund quite many document extraction companies, even within the same batch: - Pulse (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pulse-3 - OmniAI (YC W24): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai - Extend (YC W23): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/extend How do you differentiate from these? And h…

Founder of Extend ( https://www.extend.ai/ ) here, it's a great question and thanks for the tag. There definitely are a lot of document processing companies, but it's a large market and more competition is always better for users. In this case, the Reducto team seems to have cloned us down to the small details [1][2], which is a bit disappointing to see. But imitation is the best form of flattery I suppose! We though…

Hey, we've never used or even attempted to use your platform. Respectfully I think you know that, and that you also know that your team has tried to get access to ours using personal gmail accounts dating back to 2024.

A schema builder with nested array fields has been part of our playground (and nearly every structured extraction solution) for a very long time and is just not something that we even view as a defining part of the platform.

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