Alex Antoniv

Building Remly. AI search across everything you've ever made – Drive, Notion, your Mac. Years of files you forgot you had, in one search bar. Launching soon. remly.it

What's a tool you pay for every month and barely use? I'll start: I have three note apps and use none of them properly.

@revnu_app @ycombinator Congrats! Love the framing - “anyone can build, but with Revnu anyone can sell.” That’s the real gap right now. Going to book a demo and see it in action!

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Your desktop is either perfectly organized or 200 files named "Screenshot 2024-11-03." There's no in between

@karrisaarinen @linear This really resonates. At two people the whole thing runs on trust - can't imagine protecting that without being deliberate about who you bring in. Great post.

We never hired for layoffs. We hired with the hope that people would stay, grow alongside us, and build @linear in the long term. The deliberate pace of growth made the culture we have today. Trust, high bar for quality, and low attrition.

@adsbyjosh Agree, audience is everything!

@oleksantoniv Nothing wrong with that if the audience is real and the product is good. Distribution built before launch is the most valuable assets a founder can have.

"Build in public" is mostly building an audience for the next product. The current one is just the excuse.

@lucknite Congrats! Right place, right time. Enjoy SF.

Happy to announce that I'll be in SF all summer for the YC Summer Fellows program working on ZeroLeaks. If you’re in the city and want to chat, let’s grab a coffee

@a16z The wild part: two people can now build what used to take a whole team. AI didn't make teams faster. It made big teams unnecessary.

AI repeals the Mythical Man Month: "Rather than requiring large teams across multiple subsystems that need to coordinate, AI models are developed by smaller teams whose output increases in quality as a function of the data and compute thrown at them." "To wit, now you can throw money at software engineering in order to get more output." @martin_casado and @abhishekn in @FortuneMagazine: fortune.com/2026/05/20/ai-…

@TechCrunch They're blowing up for one reason: Google searches the public web, but nobody's solved searching your own files. The files on your laptop, the docs across your apps - Google will never reach them. That's the gap these startups are running into.

AI search startups are blowing up techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/ai-…

@TimesNow The interesting limit: Google's smart box still only searches the public web. The thing you actually need to find - the doc you wrote, the file you saved, the note from that meeting - it can't see any of it. The search box got smarter. It still can't search you.

Google’s AI Search Upgrade Comes With Real Risks - Explained timesnownews.com/technology-sci…

@KDHungerford @TechCrunch The interesting limit: Google's smart box still only searches the public web. The thing you actually need to find — the doc you wrote, the file you saved, the note from that meeting — it can't see any of it. The search box got smarter. It still can't search you.

Google Search as you know it is over. Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. ilo.im/16d2cw | @techcrunch #DigitalExperience #content

@MilezGrey The interesting limit: Google's smart box still only searches the public web. The thing you actually need to find - the doc you wrote, the file you saved, the note from that meeting - it can't see any of it. The search box got smarter. It still can't search you.

The blue links we've clicked for 25 years are being replaced by a big “smart search box.” Google is making this box the main focus as it goes all-in on AI search. The box will grow bigger for longer questions and give much better suggestions than the usual autocomplete.

@Still_Mark_Rami @mark_k The "wildly incorrect AI search" point is the real one. Most AI search fails because it summarizes the web instead of reading your actual files. Confident answers from sources that were never yours. That's the part that needs fixing.

@mark_k We don’t like calling customer service & getting Ai. We don’t like Ai slop images preying on elderly. We don’t like Ai chatbots/FAQ that are 0% help. We don’t like AI search results that are wildly incorrect. We don’t like Ai showing up everywhere to summarize, take notes.

AI hate is not organic. It is organized, amplified, and politically motivated. ChatGPT alone has around 1B users. That tells you everything. People are not being forced to use AI. They use it because it works. The outrage is manufactured. The adoption is real.

@weekhater Appreciate that. Community's a big part of the plan - actively working on it now. Are you building something in the space?

@oleksantoniv Wow An AI that remembers what you have forgot That is amazing Any plans for community building and growth?

Building Remly. AI search across everything you've ever made – Drive, Notion, your Mac. Years of files you forgot you had, in one search bar. Launching soon. remly.it

The most valuable files you own are the ones you can't find. They're already done. You just lost them.

The next wave of knowledge tools won't be cloud-only. They'll run where the work runs. On the machine, with the apps, across both. Remly is AI search that reads what's inside your files and finds them across cloud and local - by meaning, not filename. remly.it

The trade-off is real. Cloud-only tools ship faster. Single deploy. No OS-level work. Remly has to ship a Mac app, then a Windows one. Harder path. Slower category. But it's the only path that ends with search that actually finds everything.

Most knowledge tools are racing to be your "second brain." None of them can see most of your work. The reason isn't bad design. It's structural. 🧵