Startup Videos
The launch videos, explainers, founder stories, pitches, ads, and keynotes founders study before making their own. Ranked by how many founders recommend each. Tap a video to play it right here.
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Monogram launch
The app generating a fresh visual interface on the fly instead of a text wall makes the UI for AGI thesis real.
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Wispr Flow launch
Offering a Porsche to anyone who can make it mistype turns a dictation demo into a dare people wanted to test.
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1X NEO home robot launch
NEO doing quiet chores inside a real home sells a humanoid you would actually let through the front door.
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Airbound launch
The fixed wing drone taking off then landing vertically answers the range versus landing tradeoff on camera.
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Anthropic research launch
A calm, research first reveal that lets the capability speak with no hype, on brand for a safety lab.
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bolt.new launch
Prompt to a running full stack app in one unbroken take, the demo that pushed vibe coding into the mainstream.
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Cardboard launch
Raw clips reordering themselves into a finished cut shows the editor doing the tedious part for you.
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Celltype launch
The model labeling cell types straight from raw data makes a dense biotech pitch legible in seconds.
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Claude x Blender MCP launch
A silent, sped up 23 seconds of Claude driving Blender lets the aha land without a single word.
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Cluely launch
Cluely leans all the way into the taboo, staging the tool feeding lines in a real social moment so you have to react.
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ElevenLabs launch
Stacking uncannily human voices across languages back to back makes you double check it is not a real actor.
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Endex AI financial analyst launch
Watching the agent build a full model inside real Excel cells sells an AI analyst to finance skeptics.
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Figma launch
The keynote crowd gasp as a prompt becomes a working design in seconds makes vibe coding feel here already.
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FLORA launch
Opening on AI tools built by non creatives, then gliding across the canvas, frames it as the creator's tool.
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General Agents Ace launch
Ace racing through real apps with the cursor at superhuman speed makes not a chatbot land instantly.
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General Intuition launch
Reframing game agent footage as spatial reasoning training makes agents that understand the world click.
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Goodfire Ember launch
Opening on the safety thesis before the product frames interpretability as a mission, not a feature.
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Introducing Grade
A quick YC demo that grades a real stack of student work on screen, so the hours saved are shown, not narrated.
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Introducing Manus
A split screen of Manus screening resumes and building a stock report shows agency, not another chatbot.
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Introducing Notion 3.0 Agents
Handing an agent a whole project and watching it draft docs and databases reframes Notion as a teammate.
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Lovable launch
Prompt to a shipped app inside the clip, the sheer speed is the entire argument for the product.
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Oboe launch
A full course generated on the fly from one prompt shows learning built for you, not pulled off a shelf.
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OpenAI Devs launch
A crisp dev keynote cut where the new API ships a working agent on stage, capability over talk.
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OpenSesame launch
A drop from space intro and a sharp thesis to camera give a dev tool the polish of a hardware keynote.
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Pencil launch
A rough sketch snapping into a finished layout in canvas sells the AI design promise without a word of pitch.
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Perplexity launch
The assistant clicking and completing tasks by itself reframes search as something that acts for you.
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Pomp AI agent launch
His AI clone runs a real interview so smoothly you stop knowing who is speaking, which is exactly the hook.
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Proliferate launch
Agents fanning out to finish real tasks in parallel makes scaling your work visual instead of abstract.
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Replit Agent launch
Typing an app idea and watching it deploy live turns anyone can build from slogan into on screen proof.
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Runway Gen-4 launch
Holding one character consistent across wildly different shots answers the exact thing video models kept failing.
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Shortcut superhuman Excel agent launch
Under fifteen seconds of founder, then the agent finishing an Excel task faster than a human carries the pitch.
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Skillsync launch
Roles and candidates matching in real time on screen turns the hiring claim into something you can see.
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Solana campaign launch
A Wall Street pastiche film treats a chain like a consumer brand, ambition signaled by the production itself.
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Stability AI audio launch
Generating a full music bed from a text prompt in the clip makes the audio leap audible right away.
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Webild launch
An app assembling itself live from a spoken idea keeps the vibe coding promise literal and fast.
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xAI launch
A moody, high production reveal treats a model drop like a headline event and makes the lab feel inevitable.
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Bland launch
A stranger calls the number on an SF billboard and cannot tell the AI from a human, the reveal is the ad.
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Daylight DC-1 launch
Warm lit shots of a paper like screen running at 60fps sell calm, the restraint itself is the message.
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Introducing Devin
Showing Devin fix a real Upwork job end to end unassisted made the first AI software engineer claim feel earned.
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Introducing friend
The pendant answering a lonely hiker's mutter turns a gadget demo into a Black Mirror short, which is why it spread.
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Ola Electric Roadster Launch (LIVE)
Bhavish Aggarwal unveils the Roadster e-motorcycle line from a ninety-nine rupee starting story, India's Apple-style keynote for EVs.
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Supermemory launch
A developer piping scattered notes into one recall API, the demo doubles as the docs devs trust.
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