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

What they're building

Distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
Seattle, WA, USA

Founders

openrelay.inc ↗

See their funding details ↗

OpenRelay on the record

What they shipped

  • Its own site describes it as: "OpenRelay provides hosted model inference and dedicated GPU VMs, with per-token and usage-based pricing." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Jaden Wang, Founder/CEO: ex Voltage Park Engineering HPC, ex TensorDock, Founder@Heaviside Compute, UW Dropout (source)
  • Prashant Patel, Founder/CTO: Founder at OpenRelay (YC S26). Previously Staff Engineer at Voltagepark building managed Inference and Orechestration software for 10,000+ GPU clusters and serverless compute that scaled to 10M+ executions/month. Founding member of Amazon Bedrock at AWS, led Custom Model Import from 0 to multi-million ARR and scaled inference infrastructure for models up to trillions of parameters. MS CS from NYU. (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch OpenRelay

  • 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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