ceo & co-founder of @LanternAI__, backed by @YCombinator (F26)
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2025
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Thomas Chan retweeted
Collison install #3: onboarded @LanternAI__ (YC F26)
Their AI recruiting platform and hiring agents helped us screen over 1000 candidates and actually hire an engineer!
Really respect this team and what they’re building. If you’re hiring, I highly recommend checking them out 👀
Collision install #2: Simantic (YC F26)!
We visited @shong0504's apartment for their migration off AWS.
Simantic builds simulation tech that lets engineers and AI systems test firmware in virtual environments, long before any physical hardware exists. The team is super young and deeply technical!
They came to InstaCloud because their simulations need compute that spins up fast, stays cheap, and scales automatically.
On EC2, they were managing machine lifecycles by hand, guessing the right instance size (too small and it OOMs, too big and you're wasting money), and pushing every change through a slow deploy pipeline.
Now they deploy in minutes, and their simulation compute autoscales on our infra!
Excited to support their cloud solutions and see their official launch soon! ☁️
Thomas Chan retweeted
anyone who says YC has fallen off or doesn’t attract and produce strong founders is completely out of touch, bitter, and/or threatened
Thomas Chan retweeted
Cognition flew to MIT to recruit a junior who outperformed nearly every full-time candidate they'd ever interviewed.
He wanted to join. But his parents wanted him to graduate first.
This is what Cognition did:
1. Flew to North Carolina and went straight from the airport to his parents' house.
2. Had dinner with the family and brought gifts.
3. Agreed he would work almost full-time and attend only the classes he needed for the diploma.
4. Flew straight back the same day.
He has been on the team for over a year, and Scott says they wouldn't be where they are without him.
Full breakdown here: productmarketfit.tech/p/the-…
Thomas Chan retweeted
right model + right provider + best price is exactly the decision nobody wants to make by hand. congrats on the launch
Thomas Chan retweeted
the "my agent is running on my laptop so i can't close the lid" era can't end soon enough
snapshots for cloning is the underrated feature here
Thomas Chan retweeted
agents filing bug reports is peak 2026
honestly they're probably more specific than half the tickets humans write 😂
Thomas Chan retweeted
lending the bot a computer while its own is broken is the most wholesome customer support i've seen on here
Thomas Chan retweeted
We just raised an $8M seed round to kill AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Introducing instacloud.com, the agent-native serverless cloud.
Your team is shipping code like never before. But you're getting caught up in manual, tedious DevOps work trying to deploy it.
InstaCloud provides the serverless compute that lets your services autoscale, with all the infrastructure managed for you.
Agents branch into complete replica environments when working, keeping prod safe and iteration speed high.
And of course, it all works seamlessly with agents through MCP/CLI.
Get off the traditional, legacy cloud.
Start deploying your services on InstaCloud today.
Thomas Chan retweeted
this is a good example of why we need better market intelligence when hiring.
Say you’re hiring an ai engineer. before opening that role, I wanna know:
- which companies have the best people doing this today?
- what are they paying?
- is my comp range realistic?
you can answer most of these questions yourself. but it's gonna take a lot of research.
we're building the easiest way to do this. before you start recruiting, lantern.md looks at the market for the person you’re trying to hire.
maybe your comp might be too low. maybe you're searching for the wrong title. the person you’re describing might not even exist.
better to find that out before you start recruiting
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Thomas Chan retweeted
If you want to get into YC, don't focus on getting into YC. Focus on building stuff and understanding your users. That's what gets you into YC.
