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AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator Mar 16, 2026 · 32 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 Mukund Jha So I think now we are just truly seeing this unlock where people who, who were like really close to problem domain expert and, but have been blocked by, you know, technology barrier to sort of really express themselves are using emerging…
• ▶ 0:49 unnamed speaker Uh, they're both twin brothers and founders of emergent, which went through YC in summer, 2024. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:24 Mukund Jha That sort of set the foundation for Emergent. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 4:32 Mukund Jha And at the same time, we were internally started using Emergent's platform to build internal tools and internal software.
• ▶ 6:55 Mukund Jha And I think, and, and when we, we were starting, um, uh, emergent, we realized that like a lot of the users that are going to, you know, um, some of these, these, these apps, they wanted to actually really build an app that works.
• ▶ 8:15 unnamed speaker Like, were you also thinking about just focusing on personas and specific sub types of users you wanted to go after that weren't, like either weren't being targeted by Lovable or others or, or Emergent was a better fit for them?
• ▶ 8:58 Mukund Jha We would also use the common errors that you would see on other platform, you know, like, hey, don't, don't see, don't face this error on emerging. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 18:21 unnamed speaker Could we see a demo of emergent? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:13 Madhav Jha And so like one of the unique things for emergent is that before agent goes off to build things, it asks you for some clarification because agent wants to make sure that it understood your, your, uh, requirements properly.
• ▶ 21:47 Madhav Jha And, uh, so this is actual real emergent data. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 22:39 unnamed speaker Has anybody actually edited the code for this or is just a hundred percent built, built with a merchant? 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:42 Mukund Jha And second headwind is obviously like, you know, like people would want more and more customized software, like which they can build on emergent, just like we built, um, you know, um, our own do it, uh, project management tool. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:04 unnamed speaker Users built seven million apps with a merchant. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 39:01 Mukund Jha Like, I think, I think this, this explanation is going to grow and, and, and we'll see larger and larger, you know, projects being built on, uh, emergent.