Openmart (YC W24)

Excited to hear that a customer closed two cargo sales of golf carts worth around $30k from Openmart! Many customers have shown us that sales is a volume game, and starting with cold calling SMBs or sending Instagram DMs works better than other approaches. If you want to chat more, please check out www.openmart.ai and click on "Get Access" to chat with me.

We'd love to welcome Michael Xing to our team as a software engineer intern for the summer. The philosophy of hiring at Openmart (YC W24) is that we value builders more than people who are good at LeetCode. We were super impressed by the AI video generation product Michael built in a short amount of time. Michael just finished his freshman year at Northwestern University. We're very excited to be part of his growth. 🚀

Two months and 10 days away from Y Combinator's demo day. We talked to a lot of startups who tried to sell to niche retail, paying scrapers thousands of dollars. We help many startups by giving genuine advice on selling and narrowing down in the niche retail industry. It's not a mass volume game; our sales research can help you narrow down the list. Working smarter is always better than working harder. We're going to launch publicly within a month, and I might not have time to chat with many startups to offer my advice. So, if you still want some personalized help from me, please visit www.openmart.ai and click on "Get Access" to chat with me directly. We still get sometime to chat 1:1!

Excited to share that Openmart (YC W24) was recently featured by Forbes! 🌟 We had an insightful conversation with senior contributor at Forbes, Jack Kelly. Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gTtNm4Hr

Thank you so much for the mention, Jack Kelly , and your kind words regarding Y Combinator startups!!:)

At Openmart (YC W24), we care about our data quality. Stay tuned for the Openmart 1.0 release in June. 🫡 Guess what score it is for? Chat with me -> www.Openmart.ai

One of the challenges VC-backed, pre-pmf founders faced: staying laser focused Don't broaden your offerings until you've validated your current product actually works.

The Startup Tech Stack: Alternative Platforms Last week, I mapped out the hero type of platforms which founders use to build, grow and operate their startups on a daily basis. However, there are hundreds of founders out there, building better, cheaper and potentially more suitable alternatives. So, I'm excited to be releasing: The Startup Tech Stack - Alternative Platforms. Throughout this market map, we discover 👇 🔍 The typical tech stack for startups 👀 150+ alternative tech stack platforms 💰 A breakdown of how much each platform costs Startups are spending thousands a month on their current tech stack and some of these alternative platforms may be just as good vs what they are using today. What to do next 🛎 1. Tag a founder who might find this useful! 2. Tag a founder and their startup if we should include them next time! In the next edition of New Economies, we'll be unpacking AI Agents. Stay tuned! Read the market map in full 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUm_D_e2

🚀 Just launched an AI app that can guess where any pictures were taken (down to the street level) using only visual cues. It's eerily accurate. Try it out at https://where.openmart.ai 🌍📸 I built the entire app with just 2 GPT-4o prompts and 100 lines of code in an hour. Pre-LLMs, this would've taken thousands of hours. We're in an era where anyone can be a 10x or 100x engineer, even without coding background. 🧠💡 The AI app takes in any outdoor picture as an input and guess where the picture is taken using only visual cues (no GPS data given). Check it out at https://where.openmart.ai #streamlit #AGI #OpenAI #ycombinator #Openmart Shameless plug: we are building an intelligence layer for SMB data. Check out Openmart (YC W24) and get 10M+ AI-powered local business insights. 

🌟 Startup Spotlight - Openmart (YC W24) Founded by Richard He and Kathryn Wu - the ultimate AI-powered solution for every industry. Openmart’s AI enrichments put powerful tools at your fingertips, making sales research a breeze. Sales teams no longer need to spend days manually researching and qualifying leads across multiple platforms. Openmart's AI agent automates sales research, helping you quickly find and filter high-compatible leads based on your self-defined data enrichments. Key features: -Effortless lead discovery and qualification. -Advanced data enrichment tailored to your needs. -Real-time filtering of high-potential leads. -Seamless integration with your existing sales processes. 📺 Explore more: Openmart (YC W24) #startup #innovation #sales #AI #business