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Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by danoandco »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #59
cocoflunchy wrote: post #58

Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full comp…

Sent you some feedback from the app, I can't get GitHub to connect. Feel free to contact me over email to troubleshoot!

Mmh this works on my end. Sending you an email. Ty

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by woeirua »

auszeph wrote: post #33

I built an internal version of this for my workplace. Something very useful that will be harder for you most likely is code search. Having a proper index over hundreds of code repos so the agent can find where code is called from or work out what the user means when they use an acronym or slightly incorrect name. It's quite nice to use and I'm sure someone will make a strong commercial offering. Good luck

Why not connect to the GitHub MCP?

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by woeirua »

I think Cloud Agents are the future, but I’ll be honest I don’t see how a third party provider survives in this space.

1. It’s really not that hard to stand this up on your own. GitHub agentic workflows gets you 95% of the way there already. 2. Anthropic and Cursor are already playing in this space and likely will eat your lunch.

IMO, the only way you can survive is to make this deployable behind the firewall. If you could do that then I would seriously consider using your product.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by danoandco »

woeirua wrote: post #63

I think Cloud Agents are the future, but I’ll be honest I don’t see how a third party provider survives in this space. 1. It’s really not that hard to stand this up on your own. GitHub agentic workflows gets you 95% of the way there already. 2. Anthropic and Cursor are already playing in this space and likely will eat your lunch. IMO, the only way you can survive is to make this deployable behind the firewall. If you…

On gh-aw: it looks solid for the event-driven automation shape (triage, docs sync, CI fix). We're after a slightly different shape: interactive back-and-forth, steering from Slack or Linear, persistent sandboxes with a booted dev server for live previews. Thanks for the pointer, I'll dig into it more.

On labs eating our lunch: it's definitely a risk. Our bet is that reusing lab-native CLIs is enough to position ourselves in the market

On behind the firewall: it's something we're looking into. We open-sourced agentbox-sdk in that direction.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by lmeyerov »

hmokiguess wrote: post #3

> Run the same agent n times to increase success rate. Are there benchmarks out there that back this claim?

We find it true in Louie.ai evals (ai for investigations), about a 10-20% lift which meaningful. It'd measured here: botsbench.com .

Unfortunately, undesirable in practice due to people being token-constrained even before. One case is retrying only on failure, but even that is a bit tricky...

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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woeirua wrote: post #63

I think Cloud Agents are the future, but I’ll be honest I don’t see how a third party provider survives in this space. 1. It’s really not that hard to stand this up on your own. GitHub agentic workflows gets you 95% of the way there already. 2. Anthropic and Cursor are already playing in this space and likely will eat your lunch. IMO, the only way you can survive is to make this deployable behind the firewall. If you…

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Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by wcdolphin »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #58

Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full comp…

I’ve been hacking on something in this vein and would love your feedback. What if you could reuse your CI env by using Github Actions as your sandbox. You can reuse the caching, any oidc based roles and self host via runs-on.com for cost and performance. We expose a claude code web experience of interactive low latency chat. I have a working prototype I’m happy to share if you think it would be interesting.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Post by crohr »

wcdolphin wrote: post #67
cocoflunchy wrote: post #58

Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full comp…

I’ve been hacking on something in this vein and would love your feedback. What if you could reuse your CI env by using Github Actions as your sandbox. You can reuse the caching, any oidc based roles and self host via runs-on.com for cost and performance. We expose a claude code web experience of interactive low latency chat. I have a working prototype I’m happy to share if you think it would be interesting.

I’m the founder of runs-on.com, we should talk!
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