Riff is cursor for music production — AI-native DAW hits 400 DAUs with songs already on Spotify

time to meet you. Who are you? What do you do? Hey, uh I'm Audit. I'm building Riff, which is cursor for music production. Oo, that's fun. Uh are you sitting So, Cursor sits on top of an open- source IDE. Are you sitting on top of Ableton or something? That doesn't exist for music.

So, we actually built everything from scratch. Uh trained our own models. We have our own like editor. It kind of looks like GarageBand, but you can use AI tools to generate sounds and mess around. Interesting.

Uh, do you bring your own like samples or do do you plug into a sample library like where or is all the are all the samples AI generated? Yeah, we have like a user community of samples but we also like let you generate your own. Cool. And also like lots of bells and whistles to make it easier.

Like for example, um, you can hum out a melody and we'll play it on an instrument for you. That's very cool. Um, uh, what's your most popular song? You make music, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, I, uh, let me see. Uh, I produced a song for this artist named Rio Craig. Um he's he's pretty big.

He works with like a lot of EDM artists. Yeah, that's awesome. We'll have to play it uh off the So, so uh what what's like how do you see the market here? Is there a million people that you think will pay for a product like this or do you want to get go more enterprise work with labels? Like what's the play?

Yeah, I mean so like you know we're definitely targeting pros. It's a pro tool. Yeah. But pros for us means pro tools. Oh yeah, a good one. Um, like it doesn't just mean music producers. It's really anyone who releases music on the internet. Like imagine you're just a singer.

Instead of paying thousands of dollars for your producer, you can produce your own music. Yeah, that's great. Um, and that's like a, you know, 80 million people release music on the internet. Yeah. Uh, how's traction? How's demay going? Great. I mean, yeah, we grew grew to 400 DAUs.

People are already dropping songs on Spotify that were made on riff and uh getting some getting some listens already. Fantastic. Um, yeah, the raise is fantastic. I honestly like have to like really pick the investors now. Like the round is completely filling up. So, great spot. Great. Last last question. Wrist check.

Oh yeah. What is this? Yeah, it's it's a red light. Looks wonderful. Not enough watches on the wrist here at YC. Lightning round questions. Favorite entrepreneur in history, live or dead. Dr. Dre. Dr. Good. I knew I had to ask you. Anyway, thank you so much for coming on. Great to meet you. Let's bring in the next one.

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