Yahia Bakour
@mynameisyahia
Founder @getcontextdev (YC S26) - One API to scrape, enrich, and understand the web.
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ia gonna be so unbelievably good (already is)
Yahia doesnt know it but he is the biggest inspiration to be right now
Very excited about this new era of models, especially knowing what we’re about to ship at
We’ve been getting our infra ready for what comes next.
Going to be a pretty crazy month ahead :)
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super bullish on jev + @getcontextdev
agents need:
-web search
-powerful scraping
-intelligent bulk classification
this last one wasn’t obvious to people until this week, but i’ve had jev’s capabilities in for a while.
it was just impossible to offer it for free until now
jev is cheap enough for me to offer free bulk classification to personal agents forever
ask your agent to classify all your tweets. all your emails. all your codex chats.
soon i’ll add image support as well.
this makes your local agent 10x more powerful.
and i suspect soon this will be built into harnesses like claude code/codex, kinda like web search/scraping/page summarization/compaction
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“Pls book me a call with your grumpiest engineer.”
That’s my answer whenever a CEO wants to use but is worried about engineering buy-in.
Win over Mr. Grumps and the rest of the team follows, always!
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just got cooked in a sales call
the call with the cto is so hard
There is a handful of companies I have the pleasure working with for Notra with insane reply rates
(ofc)
@WorkOS
@compai
@unkeydev
@Inth
and @hoplite_sh
to name a few, makes me want to stay loyal to them so much and tell all my friends about them
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Excellent time to announce that we're now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant! 🔒
Big thanks to @compai for helping us get this over the line.
Back to shipping :)
Today was our last day at YC, and the start of a new chapter for
The partners sent us off with one last talk about what comes next
47 batches of wisdom, summed up in three words:
“Just don’t die.”
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This is excellent
how it felt when @michael_chomsky joined slack with his very professional headshot
we're gmi
the most important part of doing a startup is having fun. it’s very hard to beat people who are enjoying it.
Somehow @nikhilrado got Typesafe access for our company account
how does our youngest engineer have more aura than us
Are you in NYC?
Do you like espresso tonics?
If yes, go to @UseCorgi's new NYC Cafe and grab one of these bad boys
PSA: New (very cool) case study unlocked
@pbteja1998 was already using to power SiteGPT
When he needed to give Squad’s AI agents access to the web, he integrated us AGAIN
5 minutes later, they could read webpages, take screenshots, and extract structured data at scale
The best customers bring you everywhere they build
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Today we’re officially launching on YC.
The web was built for humans to browse, not agents to understand.
We turn the live web into structured, continuously refreshed data for AI agents through one API.
Trusted by 400+ customers.
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Guess when i started YC + went psycho on growth
Landed 2 new customers in the most YC way possible
Yesterday a YC alum DM’d me asking how to solve a few problems that were going to cost him $200K/year with another provider (in a semi related space)
I had YC kickoff all day, so we met at 10PM at Hogpatch (YC coworking space)
By midnight, he became a customer because he needed Context’s infra to build his own solution and save a ridiculous amount of money
Then I kept working till 2AM and saw a group of guys in my batch nearby brainstorming growth ideas
They asked for my opinion, so I shared a few things I’ve done that worked
One of the ideas involved a ton of web extraction
The next day, they subscribed too
Turns out being a semi-decent person pays
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