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

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What they're building

AI iOS assistant that instantly uses voice and video to take action

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Consumer
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

touchyapp.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Touchy on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Touchy is your personal AI assistant that lives on your iPhone. One button press and you're talking to an assistant that sees what you see, remembers what you tell it, and takes action across 1,000+ apps--so you can get back to living in the moment. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "The AI assistant that handles it quietly, so you can stay in the moment. Ask a quick question, then put your phone back away." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Rohit Agarwal, Founder: Founder at Touchy (YC S26). CS PhD student at Princeton PLI, Hazan Lab, Google Deepmind. Previously at Duolingo and theory research at Berkeley, was EECS #1 BS grad in 2024. (source)
  • Andrew Liu, Founder: Founder at Touchy (YC S26). Formerly a researcher at UC Berkeley working on language documentation tools. BA in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Linguistics from UC Berkeley. Previously TA'd CS61C. (source)
  • Kevin Wang, Founder: Founder at Touchy. Previously Founding Engineer at Eventual (raised $30M Series A), building Daft, the data engine for AI. Led LLM batch inference infra, distributed joins, and query optimization powering petabytes of daily AI data processing. Software Engineer at SkyPilot optimizing 4k+ GPU training jobs. BS EECS from UC Berkeley. (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch Touchy

  • 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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