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shotwell.ai launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Annotations for robotics data

Batch
Y Combinator Spring 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
4
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

shotwell.ai ↗

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shotwell.ai on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Shotwell AI is building the data QA layer for dexterous robotics. We work with teams collecting teleoperation and egocentric data to provide dense semantic annotation and validate task adherence. This lets teams compress feedback loops from weeks to hours and iterate on models much faster. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Shotwell provides fast, accurate and dense annotations for robotics training data. We segment long videos into discrete steps and detect failures in each step." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Farhan Khan, Founder/CEO: Previously worked on humanoid robots at Sunday Robotics and self-driving cars at Tesla (source)
  • Ali Abid, Founder/CTO: Previously found Gradio (acq. by HuggingFace) Now interested in robotics. (source)
  • Nour Eldifrawy, Founder: Currently working on unlocking robotics teams. Formerly @ Merge.dev, Roblox, Tarjimly (yc w18) (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-08-10: "Over 415 Hours of annotated and segmented robotics data" posted to Hacker News by aliabd, 2 points and 0 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch shotwell.ai

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
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  • BetaList ↗
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  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
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    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Invincible Product Hunters (Global) ↗
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    Audience: Telegram channel readers; URL-first, attention-light
  • Launching Next ↗
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  • LaunchPedia ↗
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  • MicroLaunch ↗
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