Ploy

“This is definitely a Google VO video and all these sort of prompts and sort of knowledge about how to create these type of videos are embedded into play.”

“You can't create a hundred websites and then expect Google to think that, Hey, you're an authoritative source and just creating content for content's sake is not the goal.”

“We've got about like, 12% of the YC batch using Ploy”

“If you go and work with the agency of freelance web designer, some of the best might come up with something incredibly bespoke and unique that no one's ever seen before, but a lot of them, you know, they get inspiration and that's essentially what we're trying…”

“AI is here and I'm really replicating myself, not just In the products, not just in the technology that we're building, but also in the company, then also in some of the sort of really AI native ways that we're trying to build the company as well.”

“Like, it's not just prettier, which obviously it is. Like, the, obviously, like, the visual design is much better, but actually, the content, It's better too. And we always hear about like AI slop, but like if it was AI slop, that wouldn't have worked.”

“So it actually went to the Wayback Machine's URL, understood the contents and then understood the context of your business. And then it was like, oh, cool. We're bringing this business back. Let's go and redesign it for the modern era.”

“And in about 75 seconds, we would have slurped the existing site, recreated all the components, refactored it, and you get this.”

“I think we're going to do a CLI with skills. So an MCP would be really good if we had more constrained sort of things. However, I think with the number of things that you can do employ, I think the CLI is going to be the way we do it.”

“We've used a collection of models, open AIs, ChatGPT images, but then we've created 3500 prompts for web designs that then Ploy takes inspiration from.”

“We spent about I think like 750,000 dollars worth of tokens to create what's called the ploy slurper.”

“In web design, there's so many AI tells. I would like to say that Floyd eliminates all of them, but you can't necessarily eliminate all of it with all the prompts and guardrails and steering.”

“Interestingly, like we're sort of entering this other moment where, because ploy exists, you know, you might have someone who's like, 200 IQ you know, nearly nonverbal, like, codexes. They're able to make some sort of hardware, software that literally no one e…”