Humwork × YC
On demand Human Experts for AI Agents.
Great video, great product idea - but too many undisclosed paid partnerships and they got slack for it...
So my career plan is now 'wait for a Claude to get stuck and venmo me.' Finally a use case for my LinkedIn.
The tweet buried the lede. 'AI agents will pay you to chat with them' should have been the whole landing page, the product name, and Yash's bio.
The whole pitch of agents was that they replace the expert. You're selling the bug as a feature.
ok wait, an MCP server that hot-swaps a human in 30 seconds is actually the funniest dev tool pitch of the year, and I mean that as a compliment.
building something adjacent and honestly the thread structure here is clean, one hook tweet and a demo, no 11-part saga. taking notes for my own launch in (checks notes) 3 weeks
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naive question but what stops the agent from just asking another agent pretending to be a human? asking for my side project
MCP as the integration surface is the right call, but I want to see p95 latency on that 30 second number when half the expert pool is asleep in a different timezone.
Two sided marketplace where one side is a moody LLM and the other is a senior engineer with a day job. The matching logistics alone are going to be a whole company.
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Every automation eventually hires back the humans it replaced, just with worse titles and better margins.