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

What they're building

Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs

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

Founders

markovstudios.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Markov on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Markov sells expert computer-use data to frontier labs. We’ve sold more than 33k+ hours and our open-source datasets have got over 200k+ downloads on hugging face. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Data and environments for training computer-use AI: screen recordings, synchronized inputs, annotations, and open datasets." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Dev Mandal, Founder/CEO: Co-Founder & CEO at Markov. Prev at Sarvam, Aerospace engineering at IIT Madras (source)
  • Harish Ashok, Founder/CTO: Co-Founder at Markov. Previously founded Zenith, a robotics company building AI-assisted hardware workflow tools. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2025-11-21: "Show HN: Markov Models and Dynamical Systems – Software and Book" posted to Hacker News by fraserphysics, 4 points and 0 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch Markov

  • 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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