StarSling: 'Cursor for DevOps' launches with 400+ companies in private beta in under a month

next person. You want to come on? Let's let's let's come on. Okay, we got some people coming into the stream. The YC Demo Day stream 2025. Welcome to the stream. Come on. Come on and sit down. You're going to have to rush off all the confetti. What's up? We got a little excitement. What's up? What's up?

Hey, how you doing, man? What's going on? All right. Hey, congrats. What's happening? So, so we've emailed or or chatted before, right? Yes. Yes. Back in the Stack Share days. People don't know your history, by the way. I I I was talking to a bunch of founders. They were like, "What? " He did what?

Crazy around uh around Silicon Valley for uh over a decade. YC 2012, my batch good times. But this we're here to talk about your batch. What are you building? Introduce yourselves. All right. So, we are building cursor for DevOps. Okay.

Basically, the challenge right now is you're using cursor and it's like this futuristic agentic experience, right?

And then as soon as you leave the code editor the microphone up a little bit you're back in the past and so you're dealing with broken CI builds you're dealing with exceptions you're dealing with outages like service outages from pager duty. All of those things are manual.

So what we're doing is we're bringing AI agents to all of your developer tools outside of the code editor. Okay. Walk me through how how that actually works because in cursor I'm in the IDE. Am I am I are you puppeteering the AWS dev, you know, like interface or are you operating at a lower level?

Um what's the actual interfaces? Is this are you run pill? Is this like a text is the universal interface play? Yeah. So basically you land on a developer homepage and you see all of your tasks from across those tools. So like exceptions from Sentry and then you see an autofix button for each of those tasks.

So it's like a priority inbox, right? that prioritizes everything across those developer tools and then gives you oneclick actions.

How much of what you're doing requires just uh building on top of an API for something like pedag duty or actually doing a deal with them to integrate at a deeper level or just uh puppeteering and computer use and not even know they they they're never known the wiser. Yeah. So so we're actually doing both, right?

Um, so some of the dev tools haven't built out a lot of agentic features. So we're building on top of their API and then other partners like one of our first integrations is with Sentry. Um, and we integrate with Century. Yeah. Okay. I remember Century. Yeah. Cop is actually here. Oh, cool.

Uh, so did you guys come in with this idea? Did you have to iterate to it? How what did that look like? Yeah. Yeah, we did. We came in with it. So, so before this uh uh Daniel here um at Netflix uh I I was on the team that built the internal developer portal which was the most used engineering tool at Netflix.

Um that helped accelerate the company. You probably heard like you know they shipped like ads and live streaming and all these things and it really helped the organization move faster.

Everyone thought that they were going to have to partner with Microsoft and I think they wound up doing it internally because they move so fast. Right. Yeah. That's a great narrative about Netflix. Exactly. Right. So it really helped accelerate the team and that had no AI. Yeah. No AI in it. Right?

And you can squeeze all that productivity. So then Yonas and I were chatting. We're like, "Wait, what if we did this developer first? We did it with AI. How productive could you make engineers? You just go from cursor to stars sling and you're just talking to agents. Slanging slang.

How uh what is the go to market motion? Cursor obviously just goes bottoms up directly to the dev. Is this something that like a DevOps engineer can bring in or do you need to go through a CTO get approval before you do an enterprise deal? any developer can actually just sign up, connect your account and start using it.

The beautiful part is this isn't for DevOps engineers. This is actually for all the engineers that have to touch those tools. And so it's like pretty much every engineer at the modern software engineering or can just sign up on their own without talking to anyone else and start using the product. Uh how's the progress?

Are are you live? Are you growing? What metrics did you share with the demo day crew today? Yes. So less than a month ago we launched and we have over 400 companies that have signed up for the private beta including Congratulations Snowflake. Congratulations [Music] Golden up for big agents. Everyone wants agents. Yeah.

Yeah. Uh that's crazy. Where are you guys going from here? Did you you close the round already? Yes, we have closed. Oh, there we go. There we go. Yes. Yes. We were happy to give you these ramps. Awesome. Thanks for living. Put the money in ramp. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. Awesome. That's incredible.

What's What's next for the company? You guys hiring, scaling? We're hiring very slowly. How big is the company right now? It's just the two of us. Just the two of you. Old school YC. This is the way it was. Now there's folks coming through with 25 employees. Yeah. No, no, we incorporated right after getting into YC.

No way. Awesome. We were like, "All right, the team that's great. Build the MVP. " What were you doing before, by the way? So I started a company called stack share is a developer community. Um we scaled it to over a million developers.

By the end of the journey it was used by over 40 million developers and we I think we did like a interview or something. It was an interview of the Soilent tech stack. Yeah that's how the hell are you shipping all these calories and so we talked about all the tools.

So yeah it was a big developer community and then sold the company last year. Awesome. Congrats. That's amazing. You guys are in an incredible position. Feeling feeling really good about this. Yeah, you you should be confident. It's going to be hard, but I think the the confidence should be high.

I mean, it's it's amazing how much we can get done now just with like two, right? It's a it's it's it's never been done before. So, yeah, we're excited. It also feels like an interesting market in that uh we've seen like it's just less monopolistic.

It's not like trying to break through a social network where it's like you're either a trillion dollar company or zero. Like I feel like in DevOps, in enterprise, like you can understand the road map ahead, chop wood, create a great product, and carve out like a fantastic business.

That's why we see so many companies going public every year. So many decacorns in this category. So congratulations. I'm really keep in this batch. Yeah, we're huge TV fans. Come on the next should be watching if you're a founder. There we go. Love you. Have a great rest of every day. Good luck. Thank you guys soon.

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