Daqstra

Test infrastructure shouldn’t bottleneck great engineering. Today, we’re launching @daqstra with @ycombinator. Daqstra turns complex test infrastructure into an AI-native operating layer. We’re Anchit and Darell, the founders of Daqstra. We first met while testing liquid rocket engines in the Mojave Desert, where we realized much of the friction wasn’t the engines—it was the infrastructure around them.

Clawdbot creator @steipete describes his mind-blown moment: it responded to a voice memo, even though he hadn't set it up for audio or voice. "I sent it a voice message. But there was no support for voice messages. After 10 seconds, [Moltbot] replied as if nothing happened." "I'm like 'How the F did you do that?'" "It replied, 'You sent me a message, but there was only a link to a file with no file ending. So I looked at the file header, I found out it was Opus, and I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to a .wav. Then I wanted to use Whisper, but you didn't have it installed. I looked around and found the OpenAI key in your environment, so I sent it via curl to OpenAI, got the translation back, and then I responded.'"