Facebook innovation is their ads algo. They copy existing consumer success (which is incredibly difficult to create), and then execute it incredibly well.
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Making friends with [NYC Founders Club](https://www.nycfounders.club) fixing healthcare as Founder of Wyndly (YC W21) raised millions, helped thousands
Fix your allergies: https://www.wyndly.com/ Watch a doctor explain how it all works https://www.youtube.com/@wyndly/shorts
Personal site: https://www.aakash.io
my entire thesis behind oro, my personal coding harness: https://github.com/mraakashshah/oro
yup! When i did an analysis last month, GitHub is up 89.3% on weekdays and 96.5% on weekends. Incidents touch 62% of weekdays and 11% of weekends. Claude shows the same pattern: 92.5% weekday, 97.8% weekend. Tuesday through Thursday is the danger zone. Sunday is practically a different service.
https://www.aakash.io/tech-chase/github-and-claude-are-down-...
buy off the shelf: https://archil.com/
github is at one nine, basically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428035
yeah, between github and claude they're's an outage 75% of the time: https://www.aakash.io/tech-chase/github-and-claude-are-down-...
I think your best bet is first curing your allergies. That's what I've been working on for 5 years: www.wyndly.com
i do wish i could vibe code payments. stripe is good but LLMs need help.
I totally agree. I actually started Wyndly (https://www.wyndly.com/) because I realized I was poisoning myself with antihistamines every single day for my allergies. I did the research, and antihistamines are know to cause anxiety, depression, weight gain, and brain fog!
I applied for YC. We got in!
And now we're chipping away at this corner of human health: treating the root cause of allergies with protein exposure therapy (allergy immunotherapy) instead of covering up allergy symptoms with ineffective (and, it turns out, dangerous) antihistamines.
this matches our personal experience, too
why is spanish so distributed?
So you were heads-down building for a year!
just for fun (but, of course, pay them for their work).
Doing things for fun isn't in Google's remit
This is called product-channel fit. It's great the writer recognized how to capture the demand from a new acquisition channel.
very cool! What's the biggest thing you learned from Forward that you're applying here?
Wyndly | Physician - Synchronous Telehealth - 1099 / Remote | https://www.wyndly.com
Join Wyndly in revolutionizing allergy care through telemedicine. We're transforming how millions access effective allergy treatment, making it both convenient and affordable. Our physicians find fulfillment in providing life-changing care while maintaining work-life balance.
Role Details: Remote, 1099 contractor position Multi-state licensed physician (ideal states: CA/TX/FL/NY/PA/IL/OH/GA/NC/MI) Preferred specialities (but not required): Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Allergy, ENT, Pulmonology Flexible scheduling with ability to set your own hours (preference for candidates able to provide over 10 hours per week)
Why Wyndly?
Dedicated Clinical Support: Our operations team handles administrative tasks, prescription management, and patient communication, letting you focus solely on patient care
Streamlined Workflow: Purpose-built EMR and protocols designed for allergy care
Practice Focus: Exclusively allergy care using immunotherapy with SLIT drops and FDA-approved tablets
Low-Risk Environment: No controlled substances, no addictive substances, minimal malpractice risk
Physician-Led: Join a company that puts medical expertise first
Equity Opportunity: All current physicians hold equity shares
Full Coverage: Malpractice insurance and tail coverage provided
Backed by Y Combinator and leading healthcare investors
Our physicians appreciate practicing medicine without administrative burden while making a significant impact on patients' quality of life. Join us in bringing innovative allergy care to millions.Apply: https://app.dover.com/apply/Wyndly/7098c610-0e55-4bbb-b14e-b...
I really need a business partner to keep me focused on features people actually want.
Why can't you do this yourself?
So you want a worse floodlight at a higher price because of government protection?
I run a YC-backed tech-superpowered healthcare company, Wyndly [1]. I wanted to cure allergies, but then I realized that permanent allergy relief was already possible with allergy immunotherapy, which is compounded.
A compounded medicine is one which is made to order for the specific patient, versus being packaged in a factory en mass. It's almost like "making your own generic". In allergy, compounding is used to create custom allergy trigger mixes which are then used to build tolerance through allergy shots or under-the-tongue allergy drops. Compounding is also used a ton in skincare.
I've been following the GLP-1 and compounding conversation very closely, as the marketing and the operations have had secondary effects on Wyndly.
This specific action by Eli Lilly is a different tact then before. I suspect it may be more successful, too, because it's focused on protecting patients instead of protecting profits.
Look, Eli Lilly wants to defend their patent. They want to be the only people who can sell the drug they developed, its tirzepatide medications (Mounjaro and Zepbound).
In 2023 [2], EL went after providers who were selling compounded versions of their drugs, by going after deceptive marketing that was misusing their brand name. That's understandable. If a patient thinks they're getting Mounjaro, and they're not, that's fraud.
In 2024 [3], EL started going after the compounding pharmacies by sending hundreds of cease-and-desists. This was in sync with the FDA declaring the tirzepatide shortage over, allowing EL to defend its patent.
Now (2025), we're seeing a new evolution of the strategy. Here, EL is claiming that 4 companies, Mochi Health, Fella & Delilah Health (YC), Willow Health, and Henry Meds, are effectively practicing medicine incorrectly. This is what took down Cerebral [4] and Done ADHD [5].
In short, EL is saying "the businesses, not individual doctors, are changing the medicine, which is means the business is practicing medicine en masse, instead of through personalized provider-patient relationships."
Mochi: EL “switched dosages and prescriptions for patients en masse at least five times—with corporate interests, rather than doctor decisionmaking—driving the changes.”
Fella & Delilah: EL claims that Fella & Delilah Health switched all of its patients from a compounded tirzepatide product with no additives to a version containing untested amino acid additives late last year.
Henry Meds: EL accuses the company of “creating the false impression” that clinical trials have confirmed the effectiveness of its drugs, “materially omitting that no such clinical trial data exists.”
Willow Health: EL alleges false marketing of “custom-prepared” for patients despite being mass-produced.
All in all, this would be a violation Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine, which is a patchwork of laws that basically says: providers practice medicine and make the final calls on patient needs, not businesses.
Interesting stuff, honestly.
[1] https://www.wyndly.com/ [2] https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/lilly-expands-its-clampd... [3] https://www.wired.com/story/crackdown-compounded-glp-1-lilly... [4] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/telehealth-company-cere... [5] https://www.additudemag.com/done-adhd-stimulant-medication-s...
could i use this to create groupchat summaries?
You can just do things
What's OKCupid's incentive?
what are you saying?
can you intro me to your accountant? I've yet to find one who can keep my books clean. aakash at wyndly.com
This one is probably above 99% of investors' payroll
Protected health information (PHI) under U.S. law is any information about health status, provision of health care, or payment for health care that is created or collected by a Covered Entity (or a Business Associate of a Covered Entity), and can be linked to a specific individual. This is interpreted rather broadly and includes any part of a patient's medical record or payment history.
source: i run Wyndly (YC W21 https://www.wyndly.com), which is most easily understood as a telehealth allergist online.
Wyndly | Physician - Synchronous Telehealth - 1099 / Remote | https://www.wyndly.com
Join Wyndly in revolutionizing allergy care through telemedicine. We're transforming how millions access effective allergy treatment, making it both convenient and affordable. Our physicians find fulfillment in providing life-changing care while maintaining work-life balance.
Role Details: Remote, 1099 contractor position Multi-state licensed physician (ideal states: CA/TX/FL/NY/PA/IL/OH/GA/NC/MI) Preferred specialities (but not required): Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Allergy, ENT, Pulmonology Flexible scheduling with ability to set your own hours (preference for candidates able to provide over 10 hours per week)
Why Wyndly?
Dedicated Clinical Support: Our operations team handles administrative tasks, prescription management, and patient communication, letting you focus solely on patient care
Streamlined Workflow: Purpose-built EMR and protocols designed for allergy care
Practice Focus: Exclusively allergy care using immunotherapy with SLIT drops and FDA-approved tablets
Low-Risk Environment: No controlled substances, no addictive substances, minimal malpractice risk
Physician-Led: Join a company that puts medical expertise first
Equity Opportunity: All current physicians hold equity shares
Full Coverage: Malpractice insurance and tail coverage provided
Backed by Y Combinator and leading healthcare investors
Our physicians appreciate practicing medicine without administrative burden while making a significant impact on patients' quality of life. Join us in bringing innovative allergy care to millions.Apply: https://app.dover.com/apply/Wyndly/7098c610-0e55-4bbb-b14e-b...
You claim 18F was a failure. What evidence do you have for this claim?
I am familiar with their direct file work (https://directfile.irs.gov/), which saves tax filers hundreds of dollars, keeps money out of massive rentseekers like TurboTax, and enables the IRS to function more effectively.
How is this a failure?
I'm trying to eliminate all allergies in the world without customers having to ever leave their home.
We're starting with cat, dog, horse, and pollen allergies.
We're close to peanut allergies.
The science is known as allergy immunotherapy. https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy