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Instant Labs builds modern tools to help you find and buy domain…

Winter 2022Founded 20051 peopleVictoria, BC, Canada; Remote

About

Instant Labs started in 2005 by building the fastest domain search engine on the internet: https://instantdomainsearch.com. People have performed over 2.5M searches and purchased 250K domains with our free tool.

Founders · 2

Beau Hartshorne
Beau HartshorneFounder
Meta

Beau, a software developer, started Instant in 2005 to help businesses quickly get online. In 2006, he created Snipshot, an early online image editor. Beau then joined Facebook as an early employee, where he played key roles on the growth, photos, and mobile teams. He's released multiple patents including dynamically cropped images and techniques for handshake-free encrypted communication. Beau also wrote for Smashing Magazine.

Dirkjan Ochtman
Dirkjan OchtmanFounder

Professional Rust open source maintainer. See https://xavamedia.nl/ and/or https://github.com/djc for more context.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Apr 2024
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Strobe is the AI assistant for better creator partnerships

Strobe is an AI tool for growth and marketing teams to find and evaluate influencers who already love their products by connecting first‑party social APIs with LLMs; it currently analyzes Instagram content and will add LinkedIn, YouTube, and other platforms to help identify suitable creators and prior partnerships at scale.

From the original launch (Apr 2024) — may be outdated.

Formerly Instant Domain Search, Inc., Instant Domains, Inc., Instant Domains, Strobe, Instant

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