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smol machines

Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine. Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.

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Y Combinator
competitors
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last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #474

Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine. Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.

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High Signal interpretation

smol machines is classified as Enterprise SaaS from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Smol machineSmol machinesweb applightweight virtual machineElectronsoftware
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Enterprise SaaS · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Wasp

match 41

Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. If a developer wants to build an app like Instacart, they need to know a dozen different technologies and how to make them work together - Wasp solves this problem while still letting developers use React, Node.js and their other favourite tools. We will enable enterprises to build modern apps quickly at scale, like Databricks did for data management.

shared product terms: solve, problem, app, enable; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

LinkGrep

match 33

Modern teams work in the browser. But browsers weren't built for teams 😔. This leads to a bunch of problems like: - Knowledge/info that is hard to find (links that get lost, documentation that gets, buried, silos, etc) - Poor collaboration - Inefficient workflows LinkGrep is an AI browser copilot that solves those problems by making your browser team friendly. Specifically we help teams: 1. 🔗 Keep track of links, documents, and more automatically. With LinkGrep you'll never have to manually ad

shared product terms: solve, problem, but, browser; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Browser Use

match 25

We enable AI to control the browser. Browser-use is the biggest open-source web agent project. We got 40k stars in the last 3 months.

shared product terms: enable, browser, web; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Agency

match 25

Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI without replacing your existing tools. Our platform is operated by forward-deployed engineers who run your entire security and compliance program including full virtual CISO coverage on your behalf. All powered by our proprietary AI agents. Agency is a vertically integrated AI platform and services company that enables organizations to achieve and maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, HITRUST, ISO 42001, a

shared product terms: enable, virtual, entire; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

GoScale

match 17

Dynamical Scaling Virtual Machines as a Service

shared product terms: virtual, machine; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Jade Hosting

match 11

Building the world's first general hosting platform. If it runs on your machine, it runs on Jade.

shared product terms: machine; same category: Enterprise SaaS