Tommy YC co-founded Mindfold and steered the team from an open-source harness directly into building Pat.
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Tommy YC is a co-founder of Mindfold and a core developer behind Trellis, an open-source harness project that reached 15k GitHub stars. After securing a seven-figure investment with their team, Tommy orchestrated a pivot toward developing their core product, :Pat.
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From Open-Source Momentum to Product Focus
Rather than coasting on the traction of a wildly popular GitHub repository, Tommy leveraged the team's engineering velocity and new investment to tackle a new product focus.
In their words🌸 💎 🎈 🌟
Pat is coming @PATPATPATPATYY
03 cofounder of Mindfold
Core developer of an open-source harness on GitHub with 14K stars
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Hello my followers, and anyone who meet this post.
We pivoted after our harness project hit 15k stars.
I’m very fortunate to have crossed paths with you in the early days of my startup. I appreciate it.
I need your help, honestly.
My core product :Pat is currently in https://t.co/avfZP79UmG
Hiii! I’m Tommy, core developer of a 15k-stars open-source harness（Mindfold-ai/trellis）.
Our team: ex-ByteDance Core Engineer, JHU master’s, NTU gap, and a second-time Silicon Valley founder. We recently raised a seven-figure investment.
We built a teammate that learns your
We actually reverse-engineered it a month ago. But we kept quiet🤣🤣. Still, making these outputs public might be a pretty good idea.
Instinct isn't "an answering model." The main agent can't do any work itself — it delegates to task agents. Two tiers: smart and fast. Default https://t.co/oqxtL2YJN2
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