This isn't a business
Curious what you mean, why not? Business is just a group of people creating a product or service so valuable people are willing to pay more for it than it cost to build. In what way do you think Hyper does not fit that model?
Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
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Re: Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
#32Hey! This looks great and congratulations on the launch. I am also building in this space and wanted to get your views on a few things. 1. Are you building your own connectors to 3p systems? 2. How are you finding the sales motion? I found people to get the problem fast, but actually converting them seems rather slow. Good luck!
Thanks! We build as much in-house as possible. We've found that this is the only way to really build an excellent end-user experience without putting any of the burden on the user. Regarding sales, we've found that the most useful thing has just been putting the product in people's hands and demonstrating that it gives upfront value. The hard part with memory is that most of the value comes with compounding, so we've…
Thanks for the replies!
Would love to swap notes at some point if you are up for it?
Re: Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
#33Congrats on the launch! How are you handling cases where multiple sources of truth contradict each other? Does Hyper assume best guess or is there any human in the loop verification?
The current conflict resolution is fairly simple: always trust humans, and trust recent human info more than old human info. We're very aware that as the knowledge system gets more complex, we'll need more sophistication, including: - Human-in-the-loop verification - Role-based ranking, i.e. be more skeptical when an intern contradicts the CEO Unlike many other memory systems, Hyper never actually deletes memories. I…
The intern probably knows more about their work than the CEO in 99% of orgs. The leaf nodes who do the work know more about anything than their managers (who think they know everything but, in most organisations, understand very little). Your system must keep the managers happy to be successful, which could prove a tricky circle to square.
Re: Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The current conflict resolution is fairly simple: always trust humans, and trust recent human info more than old human info. We're very aware that as the knowledge system gets more complex, we'll need more sophistication, including: - Human-in-the-loop verification - Role-based ranking, i.e. be more skeptical when an intern contradicts the CEO Unlike many other memory systems, Hyper never actually deletes memories. I…
The intern probably knows more about their work than the CEO in 99% of orgs. The leaf nodes who do the work know more about anything than their managers (who think they know everything but, in most organisations, understand very little). Your system must keep the managers happy to be successful, which could prove a tricky circle to square.
fair enough :) that's why it's a hard problem! different people have different levels of "trustworthiness" and this is exactly the kind of implicit mental model that employees form over years of working at a company. Hyper aims to learn these things by being an active listener, and make decisions based on that knowledge.
Re: Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
#35arent there a bunch of products just like this one?
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#36Interesting product. I know others building in this space. How are things going with existing customers? And how are you measuring deltas vs standard agentic processes? Are you using RAG under the hood?
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#37why not just vibe code this?
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#38Pretty cool. I understand the concept, but I wasn't able to get a clear answer on what the app actually does. Is it an MCP server? Or some viewer for my agent-compiled notes? Or just a UI for me to set up integrations? I got to the integrations page, but I'd like to understand what the app does before I just start connecting all my data.
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#391. Have you measured the value provided by the knowledge graph layer over straight enterprise search (e.g., https://www.glean.com/ ) Benchmarks, please. 2. How do you deal with conflicting facts? In tech, the new is constantly replacing the old. 3. Is knowledge extraction real time? How fast is it in general?
Appreciate the thoughtful questions. 1. I'll address this in two parts. (a) Memory vs. Enterprise Search. I consider search to address targeted, stateless retrieval whereas memory solves temporal, tacit, and derived problems. Glean can tell you why a ticket was filed or answer a specific question regarding a customer call. But in many companies, important questions are broader: "What went wrong the first time we went…
I made a mistake; apparently Glean uses knowledge graphs too: https://www.glean.com/resources/guides/glean-knowledge-graph
This raises a follow-up question: what is your differentiation?
Re: Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
#40why not just vibe code this?
several of our customers have tried. Turns out the long tail is very long, and the amount of maintenance/edge cases/access control issues/quality issues explodes dramatically. It's a tremendous amount of work to get right, especially as a company grows. If you have been able to vibe code this and see great results, would love to learn what you've done!