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Axelrod launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Boutique Hotels that run themselves

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

axelrod.live ↗

See their funding details ↗

Axelrod on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Autonomous software for hotels that takes over all front-of-house and back-of-house tasks with zero integrations, running operations better than your staff would. Axelrod is trusted by Michelin Key awarded boutique hotels and is live across 4 continents. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Axelrod coordinates the work behind boutique, independent, and luxury hotels and resorts across the systems and teams already in place." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Adrian Lucas Tariel Stoica, Founder: Founder at Axelrod (YC S26). Previously research on AI Awareness. Co-produced records totaling 40M+ streams at Sony Music. (source)
  • Saman Sayahpour, Founder: Founder at Axelrod (YC S26). Dropped out of Carnegie Mellon's B.S. in Logic & Computation. Previously researched causal machine learning, prediction markets, photonic computing and collective decision-making. Admitted to study mathematics at the University of Vienna at 14. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Axelrod

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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