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

What they're building

AI-Native Social Platform, Starting with Games

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Consumer
Team size
4
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

instaplay.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Instaplay on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Over 25k creators and 100k players are on Instaplay, playing and making games. We work with the leading frontier labs to improve their game generation and coding capabilities. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Instaplay is the free AI game maker at instaplay.ai for turning text prompts into playable browser games. No coding, no download, no game engine to learn." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Akhil Aggarwal, Founder: Prev Investor at Bain Capital Ventures (source)
  • Frank Liu, Founder/CTO: Prev SWE at Instagram (source)
  • Gary Wu, Cofounder: Prev APM at Salesforce (source)

Timeline

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

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