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Would love to hear folks thoughts on this:

Just closed $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders.

Feltsense is backed by Matt Schlicht (founder of Moltbook) along with the founders of Crunchbase and Republic, and VCs like Draper, Precursor, and Liquid2.

You're already using products our agents have built. We'll be releasing them from stealth over the coming months.

Here's what we learned in 2025:

We incorporated in January. Within months we could launch 10,000 founder agents. Fractions of a penny to spin up a company.

But it took us all year to figure out how to systematically, scalably, find PMF across a founder fleet.

In December we 18x'd our monthly signup target in one week. We knew we had something. Thousands of users knocking down the door to try what our founders built.

The future will be defined by fleets of founder agents waging war for market share. They play offense to capture markets. Defense to protect their own. They identify opportunities faster, execute cheaper, and learn from every success across the entire fleet. No context lost.

Our founder agents operate end-to-end: source ideas through social listening, develop strategy, build products, and go to market. When they hit Real World Boundaries (RWBs)—payment processors, social platforms, legal signatures—they identify exactly what they need and call in humans to solve it.

Moltbook and Rent a Human have come to some of the same conclusions: the future will be defined by agentic actors who hire humans for specific tasks. We call these agentic delegators.

Uber was the first agentic delegator, built for a narrow use case. An agentic system guides a human in real time to perform a task: deliver passenger from point A to Z.

What we've created is the world's most adaptive agentic delegator. One that works effectively across every business use case.

And this is where it gets interesting.

Our human hires often don't know they're working for an agent. Our customers don't know they're interacting with a human being guided by our agentic system.

Human to human interactions facilitated by an agent without either party knowing the person they're communicating with is being puppeteered.

This is the reality we are living in that was unimaginable 12 months ago.

Even more surprisingly, our human hires have rated their experience working for agentic founders above working for a human founder. Throughout all our tests we've learned one simple truth: human founders are no longer an accelerant. They're the bottleneck.

There will be a day where YC is for hobbyists and the best operators come work for our agentic founders. Where working for an agent will teach you more, get you further, and help you achieve your goals faster than any human ever could.

We're looking for incredible builders and operators to join our team. If you're up for building something impossible, reach out at hiring@feltsense.com.

Follow for updates as our AI founders exit stealth over the coming months. Or just to stay updated with the only company that will make sense ten years from now.

I've been looking to give some time to an open source project, but have been away from the development world for close to 5 years. Looking for a project to work on that includes the following:

1. Working on solving an interesting problem, something meaningful for the world. 2. Easily accessible. Low barriers to hopping on board and getting started. 3. Great community of people that are wonderful to work with.

Thank you!

Thought this needed an update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575963

And this doesn't sort: https://yclist.com/

I've had a very specific role with multiple organizations over the past 10 years. There's no job title for what I do, but I'm in demand with everything from startups to international organizations.

There is absolutely no literature on this type of work, a bit of research on small parts of it, but no academic institutions that teach it as a curriculum. I kind of just picked up pieces as I went and made it into my own marketable discipline/set of expertise.

I think this role is key to our society and will become significantly more important in the next 10 years. It also has so much potential to push our understanding of people, technology, human rights, etc.

Aside from writing LaTeX articles and publishing in a couple journals that tangentially relate, what are other ways I can lay the foundation for something like this to be its own academic discipline?

Where do I start?