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

What they're building

Helps build social skills through daily practice

Batch
Y Combinator Fall 2026
Industry
Consumer
Team size
1
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

quippyapp.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Quippy on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Quippy is a daily practice app for your social life. You run short, realistic practice conversations, like pushing back on a boss or talking during a first date, and get line-by-line feedback on what landed and what backfired. The curriculum adapts to each person's patterns, reshaping itself around their weak spots, ensuring steady improvement in the conversations that matter most. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Ten minutes a day. Realistic scenarios. Honest feedback. Practice the conversations that actually matter." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Jonathan Li, Founder/CEO: Founder of Quippy. Most recently Head of Product at Luvu (a16z-backed), scaling from $0 to $1.5M ARR in 4 months. Previously APM at Duolingo, delivering $50.4M in ARR growth and helped build features including Video Call with Lily and Duolingo's first monolingual English course (280K DAUs in 4 months). Dual degree in CS and Business from the University of Michigan. (source)

Timeline

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

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