{"id":647326,"date":"2024-12-21T01:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/after-causing-outrage-on-the-first-day-of-y-combinator-ai-code-editor-pearai-lands-1m-seed\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:40:19","slug":"after-causing-outrage-on-the-first-day-of-y-combinator-ai-code-editor-pearai-lands-1m-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/after-causing-outrage-on-the-first-day-of-y-combinator-ai-code-editor-pearai-lands-1m-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"#After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the first day of Y Combinator\u2019s winter 2024 session \u2014 right after orientation and a photo in front of the YC sign \u2014 the founders of PearAI got \u201ccanceled,\u201d as founder Nang Ang described it to TechCrunch,\u00a0receiving an outpouring of online hate.<\/p>\n

But they survived and graduated the YC\u2019s winter 2024 cohort earlier this month with a modified idea and a new initial product. Now they\u2019ve also made their goal of $1 million in seed funding, Ang tells TechCrunch, raising a total of $1.25 million, including YC\u2019s standard deal of $375,000.<\/p>\n

To recap: On that Saturday in September, Ang and his co-founder, Duke Pan, released a proof-of-concept, minimal viable product version of their AI code editor on GitHub. They launched with a chest-pounding tweet and an influencer-style YouTube video<\/a> (the founders are YouTube<\/a>rs).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Within hours, someone accused their project of basically being a copy of another open source code editor, Continue, with very few changes. (The PairAI founders were even accused<\/a> of doing a mass search-and-replace to remove Continue\u2019s name and add theirs in.)\u00a0Worse than that, they released their product under a funky, made-up license written with ChatGPT<\/a>. The surest way to piss off the open source community is to mess with licensing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely did have a lot of mistakes with licensing,\u201d Ang told TechCrunch, insisting that licensing has since been fixed.<\/p>\n

Pan\u2019s bravado tweet<\/a> discussing how he quit his high-paying Coinbase job to do this startup and boasting that the product was \u201calready better than Copilot\u201d further fanned the outrage.\u00a0Continue \u2014 another YC company \u2014 got involved to criticize<\/a> them, while YC CEO Garry Tan defended them.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

By Sunday, the young founders had apologized<\/a>, moved to a standard open source license, and better documented the open source work that underpinned theirs, among other concessions.<\/p>\n

But they were also left with the obvious feedback that there may not be room for yet another code editor.\u00a0\u201cWe love coding, and we want to see it be done better,\u201d Ang said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So they took lemons and made AI coding lemonade, using the feedback in the hate to modify their product idea. Instead of an editor itself, they are now building\u00a0a \u201cframework\u201d that will curate AI coding tools, allowing programmers to use multiple tools. In the back end, it allows the tools to communicate \u201cand actually work well together,\u201d Ang said. The front end will standardize the user interface so that it \u201cseems like I\u2019m using one product instead of 10,\u201d he said. The tool will integrate with many AI coding tools, including Continue.<\/p>\n

While there are some public skeptics<\/a>, PearAI has also gotten kudos<\/a> \u2014 a starkly different experience to the last time it launched.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seed round investors include Goodwater Capital, Multimodal Ventures, Orange Fund, Exitfund, and some unnamed angel investors, Ang says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n