Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

hgaddipa001 | 39 points

nice launch!

Do you worry that AI browser agents (comet etc) will eat this market of light integrations? Since the user is already logged in to various services like linkedin/email etc it's easy for tasks to be scripted together - or fully prompted.

also what did you use to make the video? looks better than most looms.

dcsan | 2 hours ago

Anything that gives any sort of system access to sensitive data and lets agents carry out actions on basically unchecked input sounds like a complete security and privacy nightmare by design.

tehsuk | an hour ago

How does the scraper work? e.g. LinkedIn aggressively blocks scraping and you'd need to be logged in to see most things you'd care about. How do you handle that?

mritchie712 | 4 hours ago

> we build own MCP

> we use existing models via their API

> we use existing tools/services/platforms

> ChatGPT/OpenWebUI-like web interface

> mostly uses text, no image, no desktop control (?)

hardly can see what this app brings. also, it is paid and requests are routed to someone else? shouldn't this be free, local, and with bring-your-own–key already with things like ollama/llama.cpp?

nikolayasdf123 | 4 hours ago

Here's a fun launch video we made as well :)

https://x.com/raidingAI/status/1955890345927172359

hgaddipa001 | 3 hours ago

Slashy is great and the founders are so talented. I've been following Pranjali on Twitter for a while -- they've got great weekly videos where they keep releasing new features.

The team ships fast and I'm excited to see where they go

namanyayg | 4 hours ago

> We use a single agent architecture (as we found this reduces hallucinations)

Do you have a benchmark for this? in my experience, hallucinations have nothing to do with what framework you use.

ankit219 | 2 hours ago

I really hate to be the curmudgeon here but won't foundation models end up having their own AI workflows like the GPT store but with MCP?

I could really envision saving an 'AI Workflow' template with integrated MCP clients that will balloon once adoption is reached. Right now adoption is low so its not a priority for them, once it is, they will tack it on.

I really wish this the best of luck its a great concept, but surely you must be thinking ahead to plan for this situation.

digitcatphd | 3 hours ago

How much time do you spend in gmail now? have you continued to track that?

FergusArgyll | 3 hours ago

> scraping LinkedIn profiles

is this legal? last time I checked linkedin.com/robots.txt do not allow scraping, unless explicit approval from linkedin

nikolayasdf123 | 4 hours ago

Looks nice, but little hesitant to give access to emails. What model is being used on backend ?

Jayakumark | 3 hours ago

This is quite useful where has this been all my life

Email drafting is decent since it reads my drive, previous emails, and everything else so it has a good bit of context

HeadphoneJunkie | 3 hours ago

> connects to apps and does tasks

Gosh, I hope it also does things too!

Xevion | 4 hours ago

Honestly, what have HN become? These AI projects are looking more and more like shitcoins and their creators are shitcoin shillers.

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