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Skyvern – We raised $2.7M to fix browser automation (open source)

Skyvern – We raised $2.7M to fix browser automation (open source)

0:00 /0:57 1× We just raised a $2.7M seed round to fix one of the most boring but expensive problems in business: manual browser work. Every company has "that" workflow. Maybe it’s a team logging into vendor portals to download invoices. Maybe it’s

Skyvern x SOC-2

Skyvern x SOC-2

You might be wondering.. "Isn't Skyvern Open Source?" "Why do they need to be SOC-2 Compliant?" "What's Type 2 compliance"? Our codebase has always been publicly available, meaning anyone could review our security practices. But that's not

Why Open Source SaaS?

Why Open Source SaaS?

Founders who want 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 are doubling down on open-source AI stacks. Here are 8 open-source AI tools launched or majorly upgraded in 2023–24 that can supercharge your business — across product, ops, marketing, and dev — without locking you into anyone’s platform. 👇 1. Llama 2 (Meta): Industry-grade LLM,

Startup Story: How we got our first 4 customers

Startup Story: How we got our first 4 customers

Back at the end of 2023, we were pivoting and were trying to figure out what idea to work on. The idea space is massive, but we knew we wanted to focus on a hard technical problem to solve. We are technical founders, and we were pretty confident in our

Startup Learnings: Nirvana Fallacy

Startup Learnings: Nirvana Fallacy

Here's O3's definition: Nirvana fallacy: rejecting a workable solution because it isn’t perfect—an easy way to stall real progress while chasing an imaginary ideal. This is a common pitfall that engineers like me run into "But it won't work in this

13K Github stars and why star count isn't our primary metric

13K Github stars and why star count isn't our primary metric

⭐ We hit 13K GITHUB STARS!!! What a big milestone!! But.. what if we told you that we stopped tracking star count as a top line metric 6 months ago? Star count is similar to user signups. It's a vanity metric. It's a great metric that'

Launch checklist (in case you're thinking about launching)

Launch checklist (in case you're thinking about launching)

Learn about the tips and tricks the Skyvern team uses to launch new features across many different social media channels

10 Insights from YC's Open Source conference

10 Insights from YC's Open Source conference

Got invited to a private YC Open Source conferences last week Here are my top 10 takeaways from it! 1 - The old age of open source (pre-2015) was crazy 2 - Apparently it was normal to donate your open source project to the Apache organization? 3 - There are big differences

Shipping Fast and Furiously

Shipping Fast and Furiously

How do you know you built something people wanted? When you get users start using it and complaining before you even have a chance to announce its launch This has happened at Skyvern many times... but the most recent is the most fascinating We secretly launched support for credentials almost

Skyvern's first autonomous order

Skyvern's first autonomous order

Hit a major Skyvern milestone Skyvern finished its first autonomous order. End to End. This wasn't a demonstration -- this was a real order being placed to automate something very core to a business we've been working closely with Here are all of the steps it has

Huge milestone alert: 🌟 12K GITHUB STARS 🌟

Huge milestone alert: 🌟 12K GITHUB STARS 🌟

🌟 TWELVE THOUSAND 🌟 Here are some interesting star milestone facts 1. Going from 0 - 5K took as long as going from 5K - 12K 2. We stopped looking at star count as a top line metric when we launched Skyvern Cloud 3. Star count is not correlated with our discord user growth

Product Hunt Launch Checklist

Product Hunt Launch Checklist

We ended up #3 in the day, only a stone's throw away from dethroning OpenAI's DeepResearch launch launch Here was our checklist to make this magic happen: 1. We started preparing ~1 week in advance 2. We created specific visuals highlighting Skyvern's features that

Ever had a software project complete ahead of schedule?

Ever had a software project complete ahead of schedule?

Ever had a software project complete ahead of schedule? I've never seen it. There's this philsophy in project planning that says: projects will always find a way to fill all of the time allocated towards them. This is natural inertia that exists. When you hear a

New Years Reflections

New Years Reflections

I'm not very good at looking back and reflecting on things – the future is usually too exciting to pause and reflect. This year.. I'm going to change that! Looking back at everything we've accomplished: 1. Pivoted and launched a new product into the world

ROI of posting regularly (or why I started blogging more often)

ROI of posting regularly (or why I started blogging more often)

Posting on socials / blogging feels really unnatural for me. I've always been the kind of person that focuses on their own thing, keeps quiet and moves along in life But.. after reading a lot about how marketing / sales works.. I decided to give this a try "I

Skyvern's operating principles (as they are today)

Skyvern's operating principles (as they are today)

This is a list of operating principles we've observed to work well in our startup. I imagine this will will get longer and longer as the company scales.. but it's cool to capture and share as it is today 1. Treat every project like a research

How to manage by Ben Horowitz

How to manage by Ben Horowitz

I've been rewatching Ben Horowitz's lecture on How to Manage (YC + Stanford how to start a startup -- link in comments) There are so many insights in here that are counterintuitive for me. It all starts from viewing each complex decision from the perspective of the whole

Startups and Type-2 fun

Startups and Type-2 fun

Ever have a bad day and wonder how you're gonna get over it? Happens every day in startup land. Just last week: 😵 Our entire browser infrastructure started crumbling under the weight of new users trying it out. There was a memory leak that went undiagnosed, and 20% of

How we got to 10,000 stars (+ why you should be launching as often as you can)

How we got to 10,000 stars (+ why you should be launching as often as you can)

Why does YC keep talking about "launch early, launch often"? By default.. people don't know that you exist. It's your job to be the squeaky wheel, and let people know "HEY I EXIST", "HEY I CAN SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM" You

High conviction bet on open sourcing Skyvern

High conviction bet on open sourcing Skyvern

Back in February.. I did my first podcast appearance ever with Mike Bifulco We had just decided we were going to open source.. but hadn't pulled the trigger yet It's crazy to watch it back and realize how big of a bet we were making. We

9000 Stars and a thank you

9000 Stars and a thank you

For anyone who's been following along our journey for the past 2 years.. you'll know it's been a long one We wouldn't be here today without the help of all of our friends (ie YOU) who rallied behind us in our super

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Compliance Skyvern is now HIPAA Compliant!! This has been a long time coming We've known that we would have to become HIPAA compliant for a long time. We kept talking to healthcare company after healthcare company.. all with the same painpoint "I need help integrating with

6,000 Github stars and why we open sourced

6,000 Github stars and why we open sourced

We just hit a milestone I never dreamed of – 6,000 Github stars ⭐️ I remember back in february we had heated discussions about whether we should Open Source Skyvern or not There were a ton of reasons not to do it: 1. What if someone stole our code? Rebranded it

Investor Update Templates

Investor Update Templates

Most startups send Investor updates to their investors. It's a great way to stay connected with the people who believed in you.. especially the ones that believed in you when nothing was working! It also holds you as a founder accountable. You're forced to write down

Juggling balls as a startup

Juggling balls as a startup

I remember I read a post from my friend Abhay a few months ago about juggling balls in your career. He mentioned that early on in your career, you admire the people that seem to always have their sh*t together. They have a ton of projects going on in