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Rune

Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform. Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code. They launch their game on Rune and instantly, thousands of passionate friend groups play it together on voice chat right inside th

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Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform. Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code. They launch their game on Rune and instantly, thousands of passionate friend groups play it together on voice chat right inside th

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Unifold

match 65

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shared product terms: best, app, developer, sdk; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hyperpad

match 65

Hypercard for iPad. Allows non-technical people to create media rich interactive apps like mobile games then publish them to the App store as native apps with out writing a single line of code.

shared product terms: mobile, game, app, out; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Skillsync

match 62

Skillsync is a real-time multiplayer coding agent with shared memory. Teams build with coding agents together, live, in the terminal or a Discord-like app, then every session becomes searchable memory the whole team and its agents can reuse. Today, all the thinking behind your code lives inside individual agent sessions and evaporates the moment they close. The reasoning, what was tried, what was rejected, the taste that sets your best engineers apart, just becomes tribal knowledge stuck in a fe

shared product terms: best, multiplayer, app, shar; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Toymail

match 57

The only kid-friendly WIFI toy messenger. Use our free app to message our toys from your phone & your child can reply right back! After securing funding from both Amazon and Verizon and getting into Y Combinator, Toymail has just launched the "Talkies"​ - a quirky new line of plush toys that let friends and family exchange messages with kids for two-way voice talk. With Toymail's Talkies kids can: • Send messages to grownup's phones with the free Toymail app • Send messages directly to other fri

shared product terms: talk, friend, app, voice; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Replika

match 57

Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California. The company created Luka app, a new messenger with AI-powered chatbots. They help you find places to eat, do web search, make plans together, pick places to eat, play trivia games and lots of other things in a messenger. In 2016 Luka launched a closed testing of Replika, a new app that allows to create a personal AI friend that helps people deal with loneliness. The app is powered by a proprietary deep learning architectu

shared product terms: app, place, together, play; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Bump

match 49

Bump was acquired by Google in 2013. The Bump and Flock apps were shut down, but our unreleased Photoroll app went on to become the basis for Google Photos, which we led from inception to more than 1B users. Bump let you exchange contact info and photos by bumping phones together. Bump was one of the all-time top mobile apps, amassing more than 150M installs by 2013. Flock was a semi-automated photo sharing app that figured out which photos you took with which friends and created private shared

shared product terms: app, together, mobile, shar; shared affiliation: Y Combinator