Turning down YC to find the right idea. Not because they didn't want it. But because they weren’t willing to waste the opportunity. Here's the untold story of how @BansalDhruva and Hemang are building FlowGen Labs to create the first generation of zero-touch enterprises: 🔹 Meeting in 4th grade in Mumbai, losing touch, and reuniting as Georgia Tech roommates years later 🔹 Hemang working on post-training at Meta, Dhruva as a Founding ML Engineer at Refuel AI, until an acquisition forced a decision 🔹 Choosing their idea by scoring each one like engineers would 🔹 Getting offers from both YC and SPC, and turning them both down 🔹 Betting on one of the most entrenched markets in enterprise software: legacy ERPs like SAP 🔹 Losing a major proof-of-concept deal and what got them back up 🔹 Closing a seed round within two weeks of demo day 👉 Full story here: finta.com/founders/magicpatt…

playing around with logo loaders @finta !

Last week, 5 new interns across engineering, growth, and design kicked off their summer at @finta. What better way to welcome them than a bike tour around SF with our founder @andywang ☀️ Fall co-op postings are live on the Waterloo job board. Go check them out!

i just had one of those “this is how software should feel” moments… building my startup, i’ve tried a lot of tools. most are fine. some are painful. but every once in a while you run into something that’s just… smooth. like everything clicks, nothing fights you, and you actually enjoy the process. i’ve had that feeling with @mercury. same with @finta. and recently, with @mintlify. and it got me thinking — shouldn’t that be the bar? like seriously, why isn’t “this feels amazing to use” the default goal for every product? for me, that experience came while building my docs with mintlify. everything from setup to writing to publishing just felt frictionless. no weird configs, no fighting the tool, just flow. anyway, that experience helped me ship something i’m really excited about: @PandaProbe docs are now live 🐼 docs.pandaprobe.com/get-star… if you’re building anything dev-facing, highly recommend giving mintlify a shot. this is what great product feels like.

Finta's API is now available for every customer under any plan. Here are 6 specific ways I'm already using it to solve my own problems as a founder! 🧵 1/n

Now I understand why @CapitalOne decided to acquire @brexHQ For early-stage VC-backed startups banking and credit cards, the standard tech stack is: 1️⃣ Banking and cards all on Brex OR 2️⃣ Banking with Mercury and cards with Ramp Now everyone is competing for everywhere money is stored or moves @mercury launched their credit cards around 2023 Then @tryramp launched their checking and treasury accounts around 2025 And we have various new fintechs are entering the space 🤔 Will be really interesting to see how this changes going forward Let me know if you want to see data on another part of the tech stack!

paying corporate taxes for the first time in the us is scary af as a foreigner but with @finta and @andywang we did it in 30 minutes. if you are a founder and have no idea how to pay us taxes just go to finta.com amazing experience ❤️

Fundraising is hard. You need momentum. First few checks really matter. But who typically writes the first few checks? We ran some numbers... This one took us a long time to compile, hope it helps! How often these investors appear in first 5 checks: 1. @ycombinator 2. @Soma_Capital 3. @svangel 4. @pioneer_fund 5. @neo 6. @HustleFundVC 7. @pearvc 8. @AforeVC 9. @BoxGroup 10. @firstround Let me know if you want to see same list for angel investors.

Finta website is so dope that it provides its logo on a single click 😁

Identify vendors, ask for W9s, and file Form 1099s. Before the January 31 deadline. All in Finta.

It's the start of a new year, that means you'll have to file taxes soon. Let's forget about taxes... And get back to building!

You can now (finally) personalize your company profile in Finta! 🥕

🔵 what's new? just shipped this on @finta , thanks to @cursor_ai 🥹

<3 @finta

You can now search for any transaction in @finta using ⌘ K

Woke up and saw a huge spike in website traffic... Turns out @ryolu_ from Cursor/Notion/Stripe reviewed the Finta landing page 🩵 Link to the full 5-min review: youtube.com/watch?v=RynySryq…

🌀 new tax filing experience...

We're hiring for a Founding Engineer to join our growing team! We're on a mission to free ambitious builders to work on harder problems -- not accounting or taxes. That's where the magic happens -- we solve the difficult technical challenges behind the scenes so they get less distractions and can focus on what matters. If you're looking to join a high-calibre team that cares about craft, obsesses over users, and focuses long-term, all while still shipping fast, reach out or apply below!

They applied to YC with an idea to help men get six-pack abs. Michael Seible asked if they had it themselves, they said no... But @JoeAverbukh and @stopachka didn't want to pivot just because someone said so. They had to see it through to learn what they wanted to build and how to build it. It ultimately led them to @instant_db. Here's the untold story of how they: 🔹 Took unconventional paths to tech and met over their Georgian roots 🔹 Developed taste through roles across YC and big tech companies 🔹 Built jobsearch.dev to help engineers with interviews 🔹 Applied to YC with the idea to help men get six-pack abs 🔹 Got into YC with Instant -- something they wanted themselves 🔹 Declined strong enterprise interest after a big HN launch 🔹 Always made decisions based on three important principles Read more (or👂): finta.com/founders/instant

Finta is the right solution for startup taxes. It's because Andy has aligned incentives for founders, finance teams, and tax professionals. Finta is the solution I wish I had when I founded a company. Instead, I taught myself and did accounting, tax filings, and compliance myself (pre-LLM era). I don't recommend this! I'm proud to have played a small role in shaping the incorporation → banking → tax journey for thousands of startups and businesses around the world.