everyone @ycombinator is right when they say the friends you make during the batch are friends for life the floatingpoint team are the real homies, some of our friendship highlights: - during the batch, they were building "lumina" which was an ai powered research platform for papers. we stayed up until 3am with them one day ingesting over 1B vectors to power it - later on, when they made their first pivot to chunkr, they actually built the POC as part of a "hackathon" with us at the trieve office. few weeks later they launched it and raised a seed round 💚 - today they are building the data layer for vision. this is a huge problem. i can't think of a better team to solve it if you want to work at a breakout data and research company, there's no better spot join my friends 🥹

In the past days, I have had discussions about the 15-hour life expectancy for Guardsmen. I ran into quite a lot of people who are unaware of this bit of lore or misunderstood it. Making a post about it here for more visibility. For some reason, people believe that it's sourced from a single book and the figure is about a single warzone. This is not true, or no longer true. The figure was codified in GW studio and outhouse/third party sources. Here are the sources: "When the grand armies of the Astra Militarum open fire, it is apocalyptic. Lasguns in their thousands fill the air with searing fury and crew-served heavy weapons spit streams of bolts, tank-busting salvoes of missiles and whistling mortar rounds. Plasma blasts and thermal detonations gouge craters in the opposition's lines, while rockets and shells the size of tanks scream down on the foe, their explosions hurling spumes of bedrock and broken bodies high into the air. Relentless and merciless, the bombardment annihilates even the most resilient of rivals. Enemy assaults are blunted by counterstriking armoured spearheads, or overwhelmed by the expedient of hurling Imperial Guardsmen into the meat grinder. It is a horrific way to make war, an impersonal slaughter that explains why most Astra Militarum soldiers do not expect to live out their first fifteen hours in combat. Yet, it has won countless wars for the lmperium over the millennia, and if Humanity has one strength above all others, it is a near limitless pool of fresh recruits to feed its rapacious war machine. - Warhammer 40K main rulebook 9th edition "Casualty rates amongst the Imperial Guard are beyond horrific; if a freshly recruited soldier survives more than their first fifteen hours in battle, they are considered an accomplished veteran." -Kill Team corebook "Wrath & Glory is a roleplaying game, which means you’ll need a role — or character — to play. This chapter shows you how to make your character from scratch. You’ll be experiencing the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium through your character’s eyes. Your character might survive beyond the Astra Militarum’s estimated life expectancy of 15 hours and rise to the status of a hero, or be summarily executed due to a bureaucratic oversight, but whatever happens, the characters you and your friends play will be the stars of the story." -Wrath and Glory corebook (Third Party RPG system) OVER 15 HOURS "Those on the frontlines are unlikely to live for a single day, let alone long enough to be promoted. The feudal order of the Imperium ensures that climbing the shaky rungs of the social ladder is all but impossible." -Wrath and Glory corebook "The battlefields of the 41st Millennium are dangerous places, and most Imperial Guardsmen are lucky to see the next fifteen hours, let alone the end of the battle." -FFG's Only War corebook (Third party Imperial guardsmen RPG system) "Throne’s sakes, Trieve, give it a rest,’ groaned Verro. ‘I’m already way past my expected fifteen-hour lifespan. As long as the God-Emperor keeps doling out the hours, I’ll keep taking them. I can do a damn sight more to repay Him on this side of the veil!" "Etsul was aware she had enjoyed far more than her fifteen hours, but that only made the thought of being sent to probable death seem crueller. She had no desire to become an Imperial martyr, not now nor ever, and she didn’t wish it for her comrades either. No amount of camaraderie could take the sting out of what would come next." -Excerpts from "Steel Tread" by Andy Clark So it's a widely spread and accepted figure among the guards regardless of the warzone.

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Mintlify just got valued at $500M. For a documentation company. That sounds absurd until you understand what documentation means when AI agents are the primary consumers of your API. Mintlify auto-generates llms.txt files and MCP servers for every customer's docs. That means Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT can all ingest a company's product docs directly, without crawling HTML or burning tokens on noise. When an AI agent tries to integrate with your product and the docs are incomplete, it doesn't file a support ticket. It picks a competitor. Zero signal back to you. Documentation just became your highest-leverage sales surface, and most companies still treat it like a chore nobody wants. The customers tell you everything. Anthropic, Microsoft, Coinbase. Over 20% of recent YC batches run their docs on Mintlify. They acquired Trieve for RAG search and Helicone for LLM observability in the last year. They're assembling the full stack between "agent has a question" and "agent gets the right answer." They even ship agent analytics: which AI agents visited your docs, which pages they read, which queries they ran through MCP. That data didn't exist 18 months ago. Now it's the equivalent of seeing every autonomous system that evaluated your product and what it couldn't find. a16z and Salesforce leading at $500M is the market pricing in a bet that documentation becomes the primary interface between AI agents and every software API on the internet. The boring infrastructure layer always gets repriced last.

Lettie's got some FRIENDS!! Did you see the new @PlayWarframe Voruna Prime trailer?? 😉🖤 THANK YOU @DigitalExtremes for bringing me back to do this badass Lettie scene & always love working alongside Ben, Neil, Amelia, Alpha, Kevin, Trieve everybody!

lol this is an important part of the story! This is where we became friends 😂 Anyways - super excited to work with you Nick and @cdxker and Dens from the trieve team

wanted to say a few more words lol i first met the helicone founders when i myself was a founder @trieveai and mintlify was buying our product (around April 2024). apparently @justinstorre 😒 was trying to convince @hahnbeelee that they could just build a RAG system themselves and didn't need to buy trieve thankfully @handotdev found a bookface post i had made talking about building a search/RAG system and booked a chat with us anyways and then Hahnbee ultimately still decided to buy our product 😝 ultimately i then later met Cole and Justin many more times at myriad other startup events and we got to bond over some mutual appreciation for Rust and startups i'm beyond excited to be working with them full-time now. the world isn't ready for much winning is going to happen at Mintlify 🎉

31 Open Source Projects Every DevOps Engineer MUST Know 1. Coolify: self-host your apps with a Heroku-like experience on your own VPS. github.com/coollabsio/coolif… 2. Nextcloud: private file storage, collaboration, and team productivity stack. github.com/nextcloud/server 3. n8n: automate APIs, alerts, and workflows without writing glue code. github.com/n8n-io/n8n 4. Taubyte: deploy event-driven functions globally at the edge. github.com/taubyte/tau 5. PocketBase: lightweight backend with auth, database, and realtime in one binary. github.com/pocketbase/pocket… 6. Dokku: deploy apps with git push on a single server. github.com/dokku/dokku 7. Appwrite: full backend server with auth, database, storage, and functions. github.com/appwrite/appwrite 8. Supabase: Postgres-based backend with auth and realtime APIs. github.com/supabase/supabase 9. Postiz: AI-powered social media scheduling platform. github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-… 10. Tolgee: developer-friendly localization and translation management. github.com/tolgee/tolgee-pla… 11. MedusaJS: headless commerce engine for custom eCommerce systems. github.com/medusajs/medusa 12. Formbricks: privacy-first in-product surveys and feedback collection. github.com/formbricks/formbr… 13. Hanko: passwordless authentication using WebAuthn and passkeys. github.com/teamhanko/hanko 14. ToolJet: low-code platform for building internal tools fast. github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet 15. Novu: unified notification infrastructure for email, SMS, push, and more. github.com/novuhq/novu 16. Flipt: Git-managed feature flags and gradual rollouts. github.com/flipt-io/flipt 17. PostHog: self-hosted product analytics and experimentation suite. github.com/PostHog/posthog 18. Dub: open-source branded link shortener with analytics. github.com/dubinc/dub 19. Mattermost: secure, self-hosted team messaging platform. github.com/mattermost/matter… 20. Mautic: open-source marketing automation and campaign management. github.com/mautic/mautic 21. Wekan: simple self-hosted Kanban board for task management. github.com/wekan/wekan 22. Cal. com: open-source scheduling and booking platform. github.com/calcom/cal.com 23. Plausible: privacy-focused website analytics without cookies. github.com/plausible/analyti… 24. Fathom (Lite): simple privacy-first web analytics alternative. github.com/usefathom/fathom 25. Trieve: open-source semantic search engine using vector embeddings. github.com/trieveai/trieve 26. Composio: integration layer for connecting third-party APIs easily. github.com/composiohq/compos… 27. LLMWare: framework for building LLM-powered applications. github.com/llmware-ai/llmwar… 28. Airbyte: open-source data integration and ELT platform. github.com/airbytehq/airbyte 29. AppFlowy: local-first open-source workspace alternative to Notion. github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFl… 30. Plane: open-source project and issue management tool. github.com/makeplane/plane 31. NocoDB: turn any SQL database into an Airtable-style interface. github.com/nocodb/nocodb You may not use all of them. But knowing these tools exist can save you months of rebuilding what open source already solved.

shoutout trieve

goated logo. keeping the trieve tradition alive

Technology at its peak, I hope they re,trieve the car from the cul,prit this speaks volume though

Yeah Trieve was written in Rust

Last but not least, Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley), Steffan Rhodri (Gavin & Stacey), Tim McMullan (Shakespeare in Love), and Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge (Rematch).

The conversation where Quincy is shocked that Amir is doing the video game voices is based on a real moment when Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge found out Kevin was the voice of Mario

alright tbf this comes from my experience seeing people build insane n8n workflows for Vapi when they integrated with trieve (my previous startup). it just absolutely blew my mind at the time i'm generally very excited about Gumloop, n8n, and all the other co's in the category. seems like a space where people have lots of interesting problems

🍻🍻Happy new year 🍾🍾 2025 has been my most packed year by far. It feels like i've lived in parallel timelines. This is my favorite one Jan > Went to the NAMM Music conference to outbound customers for the Trieve Shopify App Feb > Trieve partnered with VAPI for search. March > Migrated all of Trieve from GCP to Azure over a week. > Simultaneously worked on Trieve Shopify app. April: > Moved to first solo apartment. > Got super into plants May: > Get Trieve app listed on App store. > Launched n8n nodes for Trieve. > launched uzi - parallel llm code agents. June: > Shopify app flops. > Pivot to multi-sig threshold wallets July: > 🎉 Trieve gets acquired by mintlify. Joined the team. August: > Officially sunset my travelers notebook system. Swapped to pocket binder system September: > Launched Mintlify Agent, first big Project at Mintlify October: > Realized Mintlify had no init command Created `mint new` one weekend November > Shipped the Mintlify Agent on web December > Built out Agent Suggestions. Automated documentation updates based on code edits > Get super interested in Design launched https://rotations [dot] locker (a simpler way of listening to music). I loved working at Trieve and I love working at mintlify now. I'm at a place now where I can grow my leadership, design, and taste skills while still shifting to large scaling issues when they arise.

🍾🍾 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🍾🍾 2025 wrapped jan: > launched trieve mcp server with $2k bounty feb: > trieve partnered with vapi on search mar/apr: > miserably heads down building the trieve shopify app may: > got trieve shopify app listed on the app store > launched uzi - parallel llm codegen june: > announced trieve pivot to multisig crypto custody (nobody wanted the shopify app) > launched jukebox side project on hn (hit frontpage) july: > 🎉 big news: trieve acquired by mintlify - officially joined the team > bought patron . com > blog: i couldn't submit a pr, so i got hired and fixed it myself (hn # 1) august: > launched initial patron . com website and blog > patron waitlist hit 15k signups september: > built similar links on 404 pages for mintlify > blog: "plain markdown responses for astro sites" (# 1 cloudflare and AstroJS reddits) > shipped mintlify slack agent with changelog automation october: > blog: how i use claude code on my phone with termux and tailscale/(best post of the year) > launched mintlify oss program > blog: multi-tenant saas's wildcard tls: an overview of dns-01 challenges november: > shipped major mintlify pagespeed improvements (ttfb reductions via cloudflare edge caching) > technical deep-dive: migrated all mintlify sites to edge-first architecture december: > went to writer's retreat in san diego > posted 12 videos out of a goal of 33 personal kpis: 4.5k commits -> 4.3k commits 1k -> 10.5k twitter followers feeling good about the past year, it's nice to be able to work somewhere and grow my personal skills while shipping software people use.

trieve 🥀

mintlify has got to be the luckiest company I have ever seen in my entire life >ships markdown first docs just as LLMs cause an explosion in developer products >gets into YC, and turns out most of the batch needs docs >wait, other YC companies also need docs >other doc products are built for C-suite and are unusable for scrappy fast-moving developers >other docs products couldn’t grow past a point so there’s not a lot of scrappy competition. the industry looks dead and non-venture scale. >Agents are a thing, and turns out having docs in your codebase is no longer a good-to-have DX thing, but a necessary 10x unlock >searching docs is hard, so Mintlify acquihires the entire Trieve team (that previously built the fastest end-to-end RAG product in Rust. I was thinking about joining Trieve at some point bc I was so impressed by it when I was working at a vector db) >now Mintlify has the best search of any docs product by far >search quickly drives revenue as companies are willing to pay good money to have effective chatbots in their docs >turns out docs have a crazy k-factor, because developers actually see and spend a long time on docs. Mintlify doesn’t even need to parade their logo—their customers are selling their product for them! >refocuses on UI/UX/Latency and now security >but eventually that early bet that let them succeed became a limiting factor. SOMETIMES I WANT A FUKIN EDITOR THAT SYNCS WITH GITHUB >Mintlify builds a world-class editor for docs, and also agents for docs >at this point fast growing AI startups have noticed mintlify and are migrating like crazy >big legacy enterprises carefully eyeing these AI cos start migrating too. mostly INBOUND?????? Yes there’s a lot of truly world-class execution here, but lots of truly lucky bets tbh at ended up going insanely well for them. Mintlify is 2-3 good decisions from being a decacorn. I wouldn’t bet against the Hidden Leaf of YC