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

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What they're building

Let your users build their own features on top of your product

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

Founders

vendo.run ↗

See their funding details ↗

Vendo on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Vendo is the customization layer that lets your users build their own features and micro-apps directly on top of your product. Rather than waiting on an ever-growing feature backlog, your users can personalize the product to exactly how they work, create their own automations, and integrate hundreds of external tools, all without your team writing a line of code. Everything runs on your existing API, renders natively in your own theme and components, and executes inside secure sandboxes within your existing security guardrails, so your source code is never touched. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Vendo embeds an agent in your product that lets every customer automate their work, build their own views, and connect their tools, inside your brand and your guardrails." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Nour Zahzah, Founder/CEO: Co-Founder & CEO at Vendo (YC S26). MechE at UC Berkeley. Previously founded a company building in-store AI shopping assistants for retailers. Played professional academy soccer at SJ Earthquakes for 7 years. (source)
  • Yousef Helal, Founder/CTO: Co-Founder at Vendo (YC S26). I graduated top of my class from UC Berkeley at 19, and then went and got an MS from Stanford. I previously designed software and hardware at Apple (FPGA infrastructure) and AMD (Microblaze V), and then founded a startup building in-store AI shopping assistants for retailers. Before that, my teachings methods as a TA at Berkeley won awards and got published in a paper. (source)

Code

  • GitHub organization runvendo: 4 public repositories, 609 stars in total, mostly TypeScript; most starred is vendo (605 stars, TypeScript); last push 2026-09-01 (read 2026-09-06). (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch Vendo

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • 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

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