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Daniel Gauci

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Co-Founder @roarkanalytics (YC W25)

Malta Katılım Şubat 2011
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Daniel Gauci@dan_gauci·
We’re live on Product Hunt today 🚀 Voice AI is exploding, but QA is missing. Roark is changing that - the QA + Observability layer for Voice AI. In the past 6 months we’ve processed over 10M minutes of calls. Check us out & share your thoughts 👉 producthunt.com/products/roark…
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Daniel Gauci@dan_gauci·
Everyone’s building voice agents. Few are making them reliable. At @roark_ai, we’re building the observability layer that helps teams make voice agents production-ready. Great chatting with @smthomas3 about where voice AI is today. Let’s fix the final 20% 🚀
Shane Thomas@smthomas3

The voice AI opportunity is here—but solving the last 20% is where the real challenge lies (with @zammitjames and @dan_gauci from Roark AI) - Voice AI is becoming the new frontier with companies like Roark building "datadog for voice AI" to help developers debug their agents - Popular use cases include lead generation (outbound sales calls) and appointment scheduling for industries like dental clinics and car dealerships - Getting to 80% functionality is easy, but the last 20% is where voice agents struggle significantly - Major issues: 30% of transcriptions are incorrect (some companies hire humans to manually transcribe), conversations deteriorate over time, and tool calling is notoriously inaccurate - Voice agents have trouble recovering when conversations go off-script, leading to hallucinations and poor user experiences

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Daniel Gauci@dan_gauci·
Excited to share what we’ve been building at Roark (YC W25)! Voice AI teams spend too much time manually testing their agents. Roark automates this by turning real production calls into test cases, helping you fix issues faster and iterate with confidence. If you're building voice AI, check us out at roark.ai
Y Combinator@ycombinator

.@RoarkAnalytics helps teams test and debug voice AI agents using real production calls. Replay past conversations, catch failures, and ensure your AI works before it goes live - no more manual testing. ycombinator.com/launches/Mnq-r… Congrats on the launch, @zammitjames + @dan_gauci!

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Daniel Gauci@dan_gauci·
Wrap up: Break the rules, be everywhere, and live for the user. If you believe enough to hot-glue cereal boxes at 2am, you might just build the next Airbnb. Which lesson fired you up the most? Drop a reply.
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Daniel Gauci@dan_gauci·
Just listened to @bchesky (Airbnb CEO) give one of the most eye-opening founder talks ever at @ycombinator. From funding Airbnb with cereal boxes, taking off like a rocket ship, and rebuilding it in “founder mode” years later. Here’s what stuck with me: 🧵
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@bchesky @ycombinator Raise less, not more: A massive round might feel like winning the lottery - but it can kill your scrappiness. Staying cash-constrained forces creative problem-solving.
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@bchesky @ycombinator If you wouldn’t rehire them, fire them: Sounds brutal, but it’s real. Keeping under performers drains the team, slows the mission, and sets a toxic precedent. Hires determine culture - bad hires tend to hire more bad hires. Don’t let that vicious cycle take root.
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@bchesky @ycombinator Keep the team small: “Be Navy SEALs, not the entire Navy.” Every new hire = a tax on communication. Stay lean to stay fast.
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@bchesky @ycombinator Learn from real humans, not just data: When they realized their users were in NYC, the Airbnb team got on a flight, knocked on doors, photographed listings himself, and asked hosts “How can I make this better?” Do things that don’t scale… until they do.
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Founders set the pace: Brian reviews details weekly, stays hands-on, and never apologizes for it. If you’re in charge, own it.
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Obsess over experience: Chesky’s “10-Star” exercise (imagine the wildest-possible version) helps you see what’s really remarkable. Then scale it back to something doable - but still memorable.
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@bchesky @ycombinator A few people who love you > a million who kinda like you: This was Brian's favorite lesson from Paul Graham, and it’s exactly what we’ve felt at YC these past weeks. Focus on a tiny core of people who love your product - they become your engine for growth.
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Start with what you have: They didn’t have beds - so they used air beds. They needed money - so they sold cereal boxes. Great entrepreneurs don’t wait for perfect conditions. They make it work.
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Daniel Gauci@dan_gauci·
Excited to share that @roarkanalytics is in Y Combinator! 🚀 We’re building tools to help businesses monitor & evaluate AI-driven voice interactions. We’ll be spending the next few months in SF - let’s chat if you’re in the area and working voice AI!
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Flutter@FlutterDev·
🥳 The #FlutterForward agenda is LIVE! You won't want to miss the latest updates from the team about the great Flutter content to come on January 25, 2023: 🔴 Keynote ⚙️ Workshops 👥 #AskFlutter Live 💫 Flutter Tips 👀 And more! Register now ➡️ goo.gle/FF_Agenda
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It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
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