Slashy automates repetitive workflows via APIs — 40% of YC batch and 30% of demo day VCs are users

bring in our next guest at YC Demo Day 2025. Welcome to the stream. How you doing? Thank you for hopping on the stream. I'm John. Nice to meet you. Uh, please introduce yourself. What do you do? What are you building? Yeah. Um, I'm Prali. I'm building Slashy. What is Slashy?

Slashy is a general agent that connects to your apps. Okay. Like your calendar, Gmail, Notion, Slack, stuff for you. Android, iOS, both. It's on the browser. It's on the browser. Okay. Uh, so is this a Chrome plugin or is or are you engaged in the browser wars? Are you going up against Chrome directly?

We're not in the browser wars. We're actually built on a APIs. APIs. Yeah. No MCP, no browser. No MC, no browser. Right. So, does that mean I have to go through like 25 different oaths to actually log into every single app with you once and then you have the freedom to move around with your agents and stuff?

There's ways to get around it. There's ways to get around. Um, you know, Google Sith Lord magic. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Right now, it's very basic. We just don't want to, you know, unleash our power to the world. Of course. Of course. Well, uh, speaking of power, how powerful is the best? What is the value?

Like, what is the value that you're that you're uh telling users they'll get out of the product? Is it more B2B focused, more consumer? Where where's the focus? The the focus just you know your 9 to5 the that you don't like doing and you just like have slashy do the automating of the repetitive tasks.

So so specifically I I have a workflow that I'm doing where I'm going from this document to this app to this calendar to this email and I do that every single day and so I'm going to use Slashy to automate that. Well, yeah. I mean that's that's a great workflow.

Yeah, except Slashy writes the prompt for you and thinks of the edge cases for you as well. And well, one thing you should try on it is people search. I know you're meeting lots of founders today. Um, but yeah, we made we made a specific template for you for we alike to be like find everything about Xfounder. Okay.

Okay. Uh, Atlassian just bought the browser company. Do you think they're kind of going after a similar opportunity to what you guys are going after? I think I think the issue is just it's really hard to build habits around browsers.

It's really hard to get people to use browsers and switch from like what they've already been using. Yep. So better to integrate at a deeper level. That's exactly it. You need to you really need to just, you know, be like useful and be something that people want to use.

So once I once I authenticate and you're you're hooked into my digital life, are you going to just automatically detect things that could be workflows? You said you're going to write the prompt to yourself.

So you're going to notice that every time I get an email from someone saying, "Hey, I'd like to meet, I open up LinkedIn and I search them and I go over here and I look at their website. " And then you might do that automatically for me in the future. Yeah.

I asked you to do one thing and then it'll be like do you want me to set this up for you every single day? Fantastic. That's nice. How uh how did you meet your co-founders and what were you guys doing before this? We met at college. Uh all three of us I'm 18 freshman.

Uh my co-founder is sophomore and then the other one is junior. Wow. Um what school? Georgia Tech. Nice. Yeah. Before that I had dropped out. Sorry. Dropped out. Dropped out. There we go. Freshman drop out. For that freshman dropout very far. Fantastic. How do how do your parents feel about the the dropout?

They're both PhDs. It's uh you know, it's a little bit of an uphill battle, but you know, they're supportive. So, what what metrics did you share uh during your pitch? What metrics I share? Well, uh 40% of the batch uses us. That's great. Growing 30% week over week.

30% of the VCs in demo day are using us for meeting prep. No way. Okay. Really good. Okay. Very cool. Yeah. You you came in with a pretty broad pitch, but you narrowed down really well. I like this. Amazing. Uh, how's the fund raise going? Fundrais going well. We're almost almost done with closing. Um, yeah. Yeah.

Fantastic. That should make your parents feel a little bit better. It's like, okay, like she dropped out, but she raised, you know, the bags in the river. Um, uh, we have a lightning round. We asked two questions. Uh, who's your favorite entrepreneur? Who's my favorite entrepreneur? Someone you look up to? Elon Musk.

Lucy Guo. Whoa. Whoa. Wait, somebody somebody's asking a question. Freshman dropout on September 9th is wild. Did you go did you go for a week or were you a freshman tech or not? I did a year. Oh, you did one year. Okay. Okay. Okay. It would be funny.

And then the last question we ask is uh how did you make your first money online? Although normally that's like people much younger a decade ago. But uh yeah, what was your first introduction to entrepreneurship? Was it this company or did you make money in some other way?

Some people, you know, did some stuff on eBay or built an app or built a built a website or something. I know. I started a company when I was 14 that Lucy Grow funded actually. No way. We went to Age of Zero. Very cool. Okay. What did you actually do? How'd you make money? Like what what did someone pay you for?

Uh summarizing research papers. No way. There we go. Well, crazy. All right. Well, one shot by Deep Research eventually. Legend in the making. Well, congratulations. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Uh we will talk to you soon. Have a good rest of your demo days.

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