Hermes

We moved @tryhermeshq email infrastructure to AWS SES. Not the flashiest feature, but a big product unlock. Hermes now supports better domain setup, multiple sending domains, sender identities like founder@ / support@ / success@, and cleaner tracking for opens, clicks, bounces, and complaints. The goal is simple: Teams should not have to fight email plumbing just to send personalized lifecycle messages. Connect your domain. Pick the right sender. Let Hermes handle the rest. Book a demo at tryhermes.dev and we’ll help you get set up ASAP. @tryhermeshq

@GermainHirwa @finbarr @OpenAI 😆

@finbarr @OpenAI Wanna take mine @finbarr?

Thanks @OpenAI! Shame there wasn't this much capacity for the party, but I appreciate it 😀

We applied to @ycombinator S26 batch with tryhermes.dev Hermes’ growth week by week has been unreal. Since May 1st:
 • 12 businesses onboarded
 • demos booked all week Our team is relentless, technical, and moves faster than anyone in this space. We’re building the future of product communication now. Wish us luck :)

😱 Just this weekend, we onboarded 6 paying businesses on our platform tryhermes.dev. My account went from 36 followers to 350+ in just 2 days and we’re booked for the week One thing is true, when you “build something people want” (said @ycombinator ) traction takes care of it’s self. Thanks to @X community and we’ll keep making our users happy improving their retention and reducing their churn Btw, we ship updates every 2days max (Attached video @knuceles onboarding a client while I’m done with a call on the other side)

Earlier this year, I lost my bike on campus. Public Safety tried to help, but gave me ~48 hours of raw security footage to manually review. That’s when I realized how broken this was. That same weekend, my co-founders, @knuceles , @lincarson_ , and I built something different: Type what you want → it finds it in the video in 5 seconds “Show me when a green bike exited Mary Lyons.” No scrubbing footage. No guessing timestamps. We shipped it in a hackathon, showed it to them (they were hesitant at first lol) and quickly iterated with real constraints from campus staff (privacy, existing systems, workflow friction). A few weeks later, it got acquired. Undisclosed good check :) Quiet deal. No hype, just a very obvious problem solved too simply to ignore. Most people see inefficiency and complain. We saw it and shipped. screenshot of the original email thread below.

Got accepted into YC Startup School. Thank you @ycombinator A bit about me: • Prev SWE intern @Google • SWE intern @Bloomberg (built a 9M+ req/day systems) • Built & sold products in high school used by 100K+ users • $200K acquisition (traffic platform) • 10+ hackathon wins (JP Morgan code for good, hack@brown, YC AI agents hackathon, …) Now building tryhermes.dev If you're a founder or builder, let’s connect.

And lastly, my last (2nd) co-founder @lincarson_ also got into @ycombinator Startup School. Btw, he’s a hackathon addict. The most cracked builder I know A little bit about Carson:
 • Started coding at 14
 • Prev SWE @Google (BigQuery systems at scale)  •Incoming AI engineer @Tesla
 • Prev SWE intern @BAESystemsInc  (improved API latency as highschooler)
 • Prev SWE intern @gnosis_ (built LLM agent infrastructure)  • SAT: 1560  • USACO Platinum Division   • LeetCode Guardian Now we’re building tryhermes.dev together with @knuceles

👀👀 try it out!