Nozomio builds context APIs for coding agents — 25% of current YC batch paying, $11.5K MRR

live. How you doing? Of course. How you doing? Great. Great. Yeah. Very coded. I love it. I love it. Introduce yourself. What who are you? What do you do? Uh my name is Arlon. I am building Nomio which is an API uh that gives more context to agents. Okay.

So if you're a cursor user, you can pretty much just go to cursor index any documentation or codebase and give it as a context to an agent. We uh what exactly is happening? I I I know cursor does kind of rollups of what's happening. There's there's some rag infrastructure that's popular.

What else is going on in in the actual product to unlock value? Yeah. So, the two reasons I built this is because like I was so pissed where I would like go to Google, copy paste all the docs and paste them right in the cursor. We've all been there. Yeah. The memory is not persistent.

So, they will forget that in like 2 seconds. And second one is that you also pollute context window which like causes context rot. It's actually a study done by Chroma which is like a company. Oh, yeah. We know. Yeah. saying like post 4,000 tokens. I think like the performance of any goes like this. Yep.

So that's like the reason I build this. That makes sense. Wait, do do you have a take on uh Jeff Jeff's take on like context windows and and and the need for rag?

Like h how do you think about the the tradeoffs in where the frontier models are scaling like there's one world where you just throw bigger and bigger context windows endlessly. Maybe that doesn't work. Yeah. You know what? There are two different architectures right now.

So if you look at cursor and cloud code, cloud code doesn't index your codebase. So they only do agency crack which like only uses terminal tools like grab grab and cursor they use both they use local index and also vector store.

So like rack uh it's really hard to say right now a lot of people started hating on rack but I think it's still effective if you're like combining it with like graph rack which is also a very good approach. Okay. Uh what's the traction of the business been like? Yeah.

So in the past 3 weeks I send up 25% of the current batch paying and let's go. Congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. and 5% of the spring badge. Amazing. So yeah, total like more than 90 companies. Uh and yeah, about like 11. 5k MR. There we go. Congratulations. Are you profitable? Yes, sir. Let's go. Let's go.

Yeah, cuz like deals cover everything like all the infrastructure cost and Yeah. So yeah, I guess Oh, yeah. Yeah, it covers the infrastructure cost. Okay. Incredible. What were you doing? You you have a crazy story, right? What were you doing before this?

So I was bored of high school when I was 17 and I wanted to build. So I dropped out, raised a million in couple days in London. Couple days. How did that go? Yeah. So usually like people race like it takes weeks to race in London.

Especially in Europe because they're so slow, but like if you find the right approach and like good people. So in my case it was Local Globe. They're really really good and they're really fast. So I guess I just got lucky. Uh I built from London for a couple couple months and then applied for OC. Okay. So same company.

Same company. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Applied for YC for my third time. Uh yeah, third time rejected the first. My dad applied 3 years ago. He got rejected. So I sort of like put a goal for myself to like apply again and again and Yeah. Yeah. That's that's incredible. It's amazing.

How did how did you make your first dollar on the internet? Yeah. On the internet. Yeah.

So when I was 15, I was a student and I wanted to build something and I needed some domain expertise and since I was a student, atteol database for high school students uh from like underrepresented backgrounds to go and apply to summer programs in US. Mhm.

Uh, so I did a couple of those myself, like at Berkeley and then at UPUPAN, came back, scaled it to 20,000 active users and made like $2,000 or something. That's amazing. Take it to the bank. Last question. Uh, who's your favorite entrepreneur of all time? Yeah. Who the the most money, bro? Like Elon Musk. Yeah. Yeah.

He was the richest man, bro. Yeah. Yeah. But otherwise, yeah, Brian Chesky is my goat. I love Brian Chesky. Brian Chesky. Founder mode. There you go. Fantastic. BoG. How's the fundraiser gone? Uh, I closed it a couple weeks ago. Yeah. couple weeks ago. Okay. Incredible. That's great. Um, crushing it, dude. Fantastic.

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