Building Roma @romaromahq (YC F26), the to-do list for your AI agents. Previously founder at Loom (YC W12 - acquired by Dropbox).
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In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox.
Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents.
Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse…
Until now, none of them could work together.
Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent.
Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context.
Try it here: roma.app
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In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox.
Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents.
Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse…
Until now, none of them could work together.
Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent.
Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context.
Try it here: roma.app
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This is for everyone with ADHD!
In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox.
Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents.
Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse…
Until now, none of them could work together.
Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent.
Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context.
Try it here: roma.app
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But why should you listen to me?
I’ve pretty much struggled with ADHD all my life.
I can’t be in the moment until my head is clear, and the only way to clear it is to write everything down.
So for 10+ years, I’ve run my entire life on to-do lists.
It started during my master’s in Europe.
In 2011, I got into Y Combinator. YC was only about 10 batches old back then. Small, quirky, nobody knew what it would become.
We built cloud storage for your photos and videos before iCloud really existed. We won app of the year awards, had lots of users and real revenue.
Dropbox bought us. Then AI arrived.
Suddenly AI was picking up work everywhere… except my to-do list. It just sat there.
I was copy-pasting tasks into ChatGPT and back all day, like a human clipboard.
My co-founder and I hacked together our own systems. Every “to-do list for agents” we tried fell short.
The to-do list is the original productivity tool, and nobody had reimagined it for AI.
That’s when we decided to rebuild it from first principles.
So I went back to YC. Second time around.
I pitched the idea for Roma and here we are.
Your to-do list shouldn’t just remember your work. It should get it done.
To celebrate the launch:
We’re giving everyone free access until the end of the year: roma.app
I remember doing a case study on @PolestarCars during my postgrad at UCL. Their CEO came in to present when hardly anyone knew the name. Now they design some of the most beautiful cars on the road. Porsche, Audi: worth looking in the mirrors.
REVEALED: Polestar Formula 2030 Concept! 🇸🇪
Polestar has unveiled the stunning Formula 2030 concept car, previewing the brand's bold future design language and upcoming production models!
📐 Dual-blade headlights and single-blade rear lights previewing the next-generation Polestar 2 and Polestar 7! 👀
🖥️ Driver-focused cabin with a steering column-mounted 20-inch curved HyperDIM display!
🕹️ Mechatronic control panel introducing customisable physical switches and dials below the screen!
🚗 Visible Öhlins dampers, sustainable cabin and inflatable sport seats!
🛞 22-inch centre-lock wheels!
🤖 Retractable hidden roof LIDAR!
What do you think of the new design language? 👀
ALT A sleek, futuristic Polestar car is parked on a paved surface with mountains in the background. The car features a glossy white exterior with sharp lines and large wheels.
ALT A sleek, futuristic Polestar car is parked on a road with a scenic mountain landscape in the background. The car has a smooth, streamlined design with a light-colored exterior and distinctive rear lights.
ALT A sleek, silver sports car is parked on a paved surface with mountains in the background. The car features a modern design with large wheels and a smooth, aerodynamic shape. The sky is clear, suggesting a calm, sunset atmosphere.
ALT Futuristic car interior featuring a sleek steering wheel and digital dashboard displaying speed and battery levels. A large touchscreen on the right shows vehicle controls and an image of a car. The design is minimalistic and modern.
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Who did what, why, and when.
Every item and list in Roma now has a log, so you can follow what happened, see a diff of every edit, and restore any earlier version.
Open any item or list and switch to Log.
Full notes at roma.app/changelog/a-log-on-…
A slightly surreal Sunday read when someone describes the future you’ve been heads down building toward.
Having ten agents shouldn’t mean having ten more inboxes.
That’s where we’re taking Roma: one chat to orchestrate your agents, with the work and decisions brought back to you through the familiar interface of a task list.
More on this very soon.
I've changed how I work over the last few weeks.
I now have one lead agent for each area of focus, running all the time, and a chief of staff agent that oversees them. Each lead manages its own sub-agents that write code, test it, chase reviews, and coordinate with team members.
Everything I need to decide or review comes into one prioritized queue, a simple local web app. Each product review includes screenshots and a video demo of the feature. I clear the queue in batches, mostly by voice and keyboard shortcuts. The leads also bring back ideas I hadn't considered.
Working from one queue, instead of switching between dozens of chats, has cut a lot of mental overhead. The system keeps learning my preferences and distilling my judgment into a "Brian brain," so its recommendations and first drafts get better before they reach me. The goal is fewer corrections per change.
Every change still goes through the same human review and security checks. It is eliminating tasks, not human judgment.
What an exciting time to push the frontier of productivity, especially as we build the economy for agents (agentic finance). We should all keep pushing in this direction.
Some things you only notice once they're gone. A week with the iPhone Duo, a screen twice the size, and what I miss the most.
We've noticed how easy it is to capture every conversation. Every meeting is transcribed. Every chat is saved. But where does it all go? Somewhere you said you would do something. It's getting messy.
So we focused on one question: how do we get your tasks into Roma? Even better, how do we it without you typing them?
Roma can build an single task list from all the apps you already use. Connect Granola or Notion and your meeting notes turn into tasks. Connect Gmail and your inbox becomes a board of what needs you. On the Mac, Roma reads Messages and WhatsApp and drafts the replies you owe, and a folder you choose turns every file you drop in into a task.
Full notes: roma.app/changelog/task-list…
Shipping faster is only half the story. Figuring out what will actually bring in customers is the other half.
My YC batchmate Mathew is building Letterpress for that second half. Congrats on the launch!
Today, the @lettercompany is releasing the beta of Letterpress-1, the world’s first coding agent, harness, and IDE purpose-built for growth engineering.
tl;dr: check out the 🧵 to see the product in action.
Growth is re-emerging as an engineering problem, but today’s coding tools weren’t designed for it. Your website isn’t isolated like your app: it reacts to the outside world (e.g. agent behavior, Google rankings, observed human interactions, and competitor activity).
Leading coding agents were built to scale complex codebases, not to autonomously build for outside signals. Letterpress-1 is.
Letterpress-1 is designed to tackle growth problems of every size. It’s also proactive: it suggests the nth next thing to build for growth. It'll issue pull requests for de-anonymization, experimental landing pages, warmed emails, blog automations, agent telemetry, etc.
The Letterpress IDE is also built into your site. Press ⌘+L, authenticate, and edit text directly on your website. Letterpress-1 automatically opens a pull request with the change.
Letterpress-1 ships with readily available infrastructure to stage futuristic growth strategies that win over agents. These include:
=> Proofs: autonomous evidence chains that verify customer success data for agent visitors
=> Simulations: staged mirror applications where agents can safely try solutions before buying
=> Benches: self-hosted, reproducible benchmarks with open-source, independent governance
=> Phantoms: autonomous websites to sandbox growth strategies
Build, automate, and refine your growth process with the Letterpress family of tools. We're proud to count some of the world's most forward-thinking startups as our customers.
Sign up today at letter.dev.
I’ll share a few examples of Letterpress-1 in action in the thread below.
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An agent that can use a computer shouldn’t have to borrow yours.
Love what my YC batchmate Pavitra at Superserve is building: a cloud where every agent gets its own machine. Congrats on the launch!
Today we’re launching Superserve (YC F26).
Every agent needs a computer. We are building the cloud to give each one their own.
Already running over 100,000 machines every week for teams like Lindy and Y Combinator.
Fastest cold and snapshot starts. Beats E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, Vercel, and Google Cloud Run.
curl -fsSL superserve.ai/install | sh
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Moving a task to tomorrow feels productive. Until you’ve done it for two weeks.
You haven’t forgotten. You still want to do it. You just don’t know where to start.
Because you didn’t write it down just to keep track of it. You wanted to get it done.
Voice typing, but your coworkers don’t have to hear your first draft.
My YC batchmates at Subvocal are doing a public service. Love this team.
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
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Just got the new iPhone Duo and quickly realized it might be perfect for @romaromahq. Time to start designing for it. Stay tuned.
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Coding agents have made me much faster at producing things I still need to click through.
My YC batchmates at Composal are working on that second part. Love this product.
Composal (YC F26) sends a swarm of agents through your product to test it the way real users do. Your coding agents build it; ours break it, record the evidence, and hand your agent what it needs to fix and re-verify.
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