platoseedApp that connects two phones and creates a private timeline to share…
TenthBit Inc. was founded in 2012, in sunny California. The founders, having been disconnected from their significant others while being a part of the YC program, found that they were repurposing many other services to talk to their partners. After many frustrating skype calls, and international text messages, they decided to build Couple. The app now has over two million downloads on iOS and Android and has helped couples send over a billion messages to each other.
Couple.me offers an app that lets users create and chat with an AI companion character, marketed as an AI girlfriend/boyfriend with customizable appearance, personality, and interactions. The service emphasizes private chats, personalized responses, and image generation features, with a free tier and paid subscription options.
Users create an AI companion by selecting appearance, personality, and style, then customize interaction tone and scenarios. The AI learns from conversations to provide personalized responses, remembers preferences, and can generate or send images (photos/selfies) as part of interactions. The app supports various chat experiences (romantic, playful, intimate) and offers options to generate AI girlfriend/boyfriend images and other related content. A free version exists with optional subscription for enhanced features.
Who it’s for: Individuals seeking an AI-based romantic or companionship experience, who want highly personalized, memory-enabled chat partners and the ability to generate AI images within the app.
Marketing of a freemium/free features with subscription, presence of multiple features and a global contact address; ongoing product expansion (image generation, diverse character options).
Oleg Kostour is a 2nd time YC founder and Waterloo alum. He founded Pair (YC W12), a messaging app that received 10M installs and reached the top charts in the iOS social networking category. He closed 2 acquisitions - with Dropbox, then Life360 - and ran the Growth team at Life360 from ~3M rMAU through to their IPO (~90M MAU).
Anton Krutiansky is a second-time YC founder, Waterloo alum, and former tech lead at Dropbox. He co-founded Pair (YC W12) and played a key role in its acquisition by Dropbox. At Dropbox, Anton served as a tech lead on growth and mobile teams, building growth and experimentation infrastructure and leading mobile engineering across several product teams.
Founder of Couple (W12), a messaging app for couples. iOS at Dropbox (via acquihire), currently tech lead on the GPT-3 API / Applied AI team at OpenAI
Founder and CEO at Maple (https://www.maplebilling.com) Ex-YC (Couple W12), Employee #1 @Rippling W17. University of Waterloo
Formerly “Pair” · why startups rename →

AI relationship app that keeps couples together

Replika is an AI friend that you can talk to designed to make you…