Self hostable fleet of virtual desktops to build computer use agents
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How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
We met 2 years ago, connecting over our shared experiences at Rice, and our love of building things. We both ended up living at the same Hacker House in Menlo Park, called Incepto! We started Cyberdesk with the realization that it’s really hard to build a great computer use agent, especially when it comes to setting up and managing a scalable desktop infrastructure that these agents need to do their work. We both lived in a 9×9 Airbnb room with a tiny bed and a single desk (we call it the Cyberdesk lol) and got Cyberdesk off the ground, building the MVP in a 6 days and getting a paid customer the next day through a cold email. We’re still in the early stages, but we’re excited to move toward a future where in a single weekend, a business can go from drowning in repetitive, manual desktop work to having a fleet of 100+ AI employees who automate all of their manual workflows and help them do great work.
How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?
From the moment we started working together, we knew we wanted to go through YC together. It was a little over a month before the deadline for Summer 2025 came out when we started working together, so we got to work! We launched, got paid customers, and built out our infrastructure fast.A month later, we interviewed in person and got the call from Jon Xu the same night that we got in! It was one of the happiest days of our lives.