Vertical AI startups are not sexy anymore?
YC pushes founders toward full-stack AI companies (AI doing ~80% of work). Example: Placy — an AI sales assistant for real estate; platform vs tools debate.
YC pushes founders toward full-stack AI companies (AI doing ~80% of work). Example: Placy — an AI sales assistant for real estate; platform vs tools debate.
Placy announces Meta Tech Provider status to simplify WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook integration for realtors, with APIs, onboarding and Meta's support.
Placy unlocked Level 2 in Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub — access to $150k Azure credits, $7.5k for OpenAI/Azure and $5k GitHub Enterprise; placy.ai provided.
Quick take on how Perplexity and SearchGPT change search economics: data owners get paid, marketplaces add AI, and paid search models emerge.
Founder insight: platforms like OpenAI or Anthropic can both enable growth and wipe out vertical startups; execution and trust matter more.
Reflection on why property portals are stuck in a 2010s mindset and how AI (Simon Baker, Cian.ru reference) could trigger a seismic change.
Founder note on choosing primary B2C platform — LinkedIn is fixed for B2B; user counts for Cyprus+Greece and 2023 growth rates for major networks.
About 400k .ai domains (~$40M ARR) and Anguilla's unexpected revenue; Placy Pro demo open for Cypriot, Greek (and soon British) realtors.
DeepSeek V3.2 and V3.2‑Speciale (685B) match GPT‑5/Gemini in reasoning; open weights and aggressive pricing reshape AI product economics.
Future Unicorns Party at Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov 11, 7pm — speakers Oleg Khusaenov, Michael Bychenok, Eugene Zhiharev; registration: fienta.com/futureunicorns (code UNICORN)
Microsoft's Copilot for Telegram arrives; regional limits for Russian SIMs noted and UX differences vs Placy highlighted (natural vs buttons).
Examples of growth experiments by Airbnb, PayPal, Canva and Facebook/LinkedIn; a quote on learning how to grow a business and a FirstRound link.
AI trends, opportunities and early-adopter challenges at the Cyprus session on May 28; includes Business Meets Tech networking and promo code LMBI10.
One-day AI Forum in Limassol on Nov 24 with speakers from Microsoft, EPAM, HPE and more; promo code Placy20 for 20% off.
Sergey Osipov on how US strengths (chips, cloud, VC) and China’s power capacity (coal, hydro, nuclear) shape AI infrastructure and geopolitics.
Apple focused on local intelligence: unified memory, Neural Engines and clustered Mac Minis as an affordable approach to AI compute.
List of startup accelerators open in January 2026, including Y Combinator, a16z speedrun, OpenAI Converge and many others for founders seeking funding.
Sergey Osipov outlines three UX schools for AI assistants—natural conversation, button-driven UX, and hybrid genUI—and invites input on Placy onboarding.
Footage from the PropTech panel at Elevate Summit with Sergey Osipov — photos from the session; more on Elevate Summit Instagram.
Argues AI-to-AI language is high-dimensional vectors (4,096+), faster and less ambiguous than words; references Villeneuve's Arrival and heptapod ink circles.