Wordware (YC S24)

today marks a very special moment - I'm beyond excited to announce ????????????????'?? $?????? ???????? ?????????? led by Spark Capital (followed by Felicis & Y Combinator) for decades, coding was the only way to create in our digital world. but AI is changing everything - it thinks in beautiful shades of grey, not just 1s and 0s. with this shift, we saw an opportunity to reimagine who gets to build. there are 30 million software engineers worldwide, but we've always believed that creativity isn't limited to those who can code. wordware is for the next 500m builders - the dreamers, experts, and innovators who've been waiting for their moment to create AI Agents (check out the video for our definition of what that means ??) it's been quite a journey to get here. 3 years full-time with my brilliant cofounder (Robert Chandler), a decade in the AI space, countless failed experiments with transformers, major pivots, sleepless nights, and 100-hour weeks that tested everything we believed in. but today, I want to pause and celebrate what our incredible team has achieved: - 350k builders bringing their AI visions to life - 10 million people running agents built with wordware - amazing clients like instacart, runway & metadata - breaking Product Hunt's servers (sorry, not sorry!) - raising one of the largest seeds (if not the largest) out of Y Combinator we still have mountains to climb, but watching our community build things we never imagined possible... that's what keeps us going. what makes wordware different? we've turned English into a programming language for AI. no coding bootcamp required - if you can express ideas clearly, you can build sophisticated AI solutions. our take on reimagining the development stack as a full-stack os for building AI: - unified notion like IDE - built-in tools for rag, speech-to-text, image gen, data analysis, scraping & more - proper engineering concepts for power users (loops, conditionals, function calls, code execution, version control) - open source community: fork, share & customize AI solutions ???????? ??????'???? ???????? ??????????????????, ???????????? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ?????????? ???????? ???? ?????????????? ???? ?????????????? ???????? ???? ?????????? ???? ?? ???????????????? to our incredible team who made this possible - thank you to the believers who backed us (Nabeel Hyatt, Paul Graham, Astasia Myers Vlad Magdalin, Nicolas Dessaigne, Azeem Azhar, Ben Parr, Matt Schlicht, Ben Tossell, Siqi Chen, Mathilde Collin, Kulveer Taggar, Soleio, Dan Westgarth, Bartek Pucek, Tomasz Karwatka, Piotr Karwatka & many more) - thank you thinking about that AI workflow, product feature, or full-fledged AI company? let's chat: https://www.wordware.ai/ ps: we're hiring across all roles! join us in rebuilding how humans create with ai: https://lnkd.in/d-8giWyA

We’re thrilled to announce our $30M seed round to accelerate Wordware’s mission of empowering anyone to build in AI with plain English.??? With Wordware, anyone—from seasoned engineers to non-technical domain experts—can build AI agents that streamline processes, enhance operations, and solve real-world problems—20x faster. By providing the infrastructure to turn ideas into production-ready solutions, we’re making AI development faster, more intuitive, and accessible to everyone. This round was led by Spark Capital (Nabeel Hyatt), with support from Felicis (Astasia Myers, Aydin Senkut) and Y Combinator (Nicolas Dessaigne). With participation from Day One Ventures (Masha Bucher), 20SALES (Kim Graves, Maggie Hott), SV Angel (Beth Turner, Topher Conway), Theory Forge Ventures (Matt Schlicht, Ben Parr), Friends & Family Capital (John Fogelsong), Figma Ventures, Innovation Nest, and J4.Ventures. We’re incredibly grateful for the trust and support of our amazing angels: Siqi Chen, Jason Boehmig, Vlad Magdalin, Mathilde Collin, Kulveer Taggar, Paul Graham, Terrence Rohan, Ben Tossell, Azeem Azhar, Swyx, Theo Browne, Walter Kortschak, Soleio, Paul Daugherty, Don Stalter, Jeff Henriod, John Cassidy, Dan Westgarth, Jay Reno, Michele Grazioli, Matt Brown, Tod Sacerdoti, Nicholas Elledge, Thijn Lamers, Andrew Milich, Robin Choy, Stan Boland, Nicholas Pilkington, Paul Stahura, Bartek Pucek, Tomasz Karwatka, Piotr Karwatka, Brian Jacobs, Chia Jeng Yang, J?drzej Szcze?niak, Kacper Szczesniak, Neil Shah, Grzegorz Kossakowski, and Rahul Mehta. This is just the beginning—let’s build the future together!?

today marks a very special moment - I'm beyond excited to announce ????????????????'?? $?????? ???????? ?????????? led by Spark Capital (followed by Felicis & Y Combinator) for decades, coding was the only way to create in our digital world. but AI is changing everything - it thinks in beautiful shades of grey, not just 1s and 0s. with this shift, we saw an opportunity to reimagine who gets to build. there are 30 million software engineers worldwide, but we've always believed that creativity isn't limited to those who can code. wordware is for the next 500m builders - the dreamers, experts, and innovators who've been waiting for their moment to create AI Agents (check out the video for our definition of what that means ??) it's been quite a journey to get here. 3 years full-time with my brilliant cofounder (Robert Chandler), a decade in the AI space, countless failed experiments with transformers, major pivots, sleepless nights, and 100-hour weeks that tested everything we believed in. but today, I want to pause and celebrate what our incredible team has achieved: - 350k builders bringing their AI visions to life - 10 million people running agents built with wordware - amazing clients like instacart, runway & metadata - breaking Product Hunt's servers (sorry, not sorry!) - raising one of the largest seeds (if not the largest) out of Y Combinator we still have mountains to climb, but watching our community build things we never imagined possible... that's what keeps us going. what makes wordware different? we've turned English into a programming language for AI. no coding bootcamp required - if you can express ideas clearly, you can build sophisticated AI solutions. our take on reimagining the development stack as a full-stack os for building AI: - unified notion like IDE - built-in tools for rag, speech-to-text, image gen, data analysis, scraping & more - proper engineering concepts for power users (loops, conditionals, function calls, code execution, version control) - open source community: fork, share & customize AI solutions ???????? ??????'???? ???????? ??????????????????, ???????????? ???? ???? ?????? ???? ?????????? ???????? ???? ?????????????? ???? ?????????????? ???????? ???? ?????????? ???? ?? ???????????????? to our incredible team who made this possible - thank you to the believers who backed us (Nabeel Hyatt, Paul Graham, Astasia Myers Vlad Magdalin, Nicolas Dessaigne, Azeem Azhar, Ben Parr, Matt Schlicht, Ben Tossell, Siqi Chen, Mathilde Collin, Kulveer Taggar, Soleio, Dan Westgarth, Bartek Pucek, Tomasz Karwatka, Piotr Karwatka & many more) - thank you thinking about that AI workflow, product feature, or full-fledged AI company? let's chat: https://www.wordware.ai/ ps: we're hiring across all roles! join us in rebuilding how humans create with ai: https://lnkd.in/d-8giWyA

And you? Do you know the fastest way to build an AI stack? The folks in Times Square definitely do! ?????? With a thriving community of over 300,000 users, Wordware is making waves and proving that building in AI is easier than ordering a bagel in NYC. ?? Don’t get left behind—hop on the AI express and join the revolution today! Special thanks to Brex for helping us shine bright in Times Square!?

Building voice features into your AI app shouldn't be so hard. Read about how you can get started without the need to code. https://lnkd.in/d3PuiAeT #ai #voice #tts #texttospeech #wordware

"I'm no longer gonna program computers with C++, I'm gonna program AIs with prompting" Jensen Huang recently discussed the potential of natural language programming on the BG2 podcast. He explained how he sees work develop, and echoed what is our belief in Wordware: That the future of work is in natural language. We are excited to continue making Wordware the best tool for this new work paradigm. #NaturalLanguageProgramming #AIProgramming #FutureOfWork #Wordware #BG2Podcast #JensenHuang #NewWorkParadigm #ProgrammingRevolution #LanguageIsTheFuture

It's rather flattering when the founder of a $30B company is inspired by what we've been cooking at Wordware (YC S24)

Wordware is all about chaining prompts and building AI programs. Today we go through how to build a simple researcher app using Wordware.

We had a great time preaching the Wordware gospel last night at the SF Tech Week Hack Night. The highlight was of course the winning hackathon project being built using Wordware! We are making Wordware the fastest and most frictionless way to build with AI, which makes it the perfect tool to use in hackathons. Just in a matter of hours you could have your AI feature ready to ship too! Shout out to FriendliAI Dify APARAVI for presenting alongside us, to Weaviate for hosting, and to the winning team simply for crushing it ?? PS: You can check out the winning submission here, and even clone it using the "Make your own version" button: https://lnkd.in/dA43M2Vr #wordware #ai #hackathon

What will your organization look like in 5 years? Companies across the globe are in an arms race to implement AI in their operations, and it's not clear who will come out on top. Here are some of our thoughts around how we think it will play out in different industries. https://lnkd.in/eJeSG9XF