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Make everyone on your team an engineer

Winter 2026Founded 20251 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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AI Code EditorSaaSNon-technical team members, marketing, productHigh competition
Moat
GitHub integration + team collaboration without Git knowledge; makes non-engineers productive on codebase.
Key risk
Competing against Cursor, Copilot, traditional IDEs; enterprise adoption friction.
Why now
LLM coding capability strong; teams want non-engineers to ship code; AI-assisted dev mainstream.
Competitors
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Lovable, traditional IDEs

About

Sparkles is like Lovable for existing projects, so even Sharon from Marketing can change the button styling on the front page without going back and forth with the dev team. Someone technical connects their GitHub to Sparkles, sets up the repository and environment variables, and then anyone on the team with a @yourcompany.com email can log in on Sparkles and create pull requests without needing to know what Git is.

Founders Β· 1

Ai Daniil Bekirov
Ai Daniil BekirovFounder
OpenAIπŸŽ“ University College

20 | πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ I dropped out of University College London to build Sparkles (W26). Previously worked at Iterate.com (founded by Jonas who was previously the co-founder and CTO of Monzo. Backed by OpenAI, Index etc.) and StructuredAI (F25)

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· Feb 2026
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Make everyone on your team an engineer ✨

Sparkles is a web platform that abstracts local development so non-technical team members (e.g., GTM, design, marketing) can edit frontend changes via a UI and preview, with changes optionally uploaded as GitHub PRs for engineers to review. It targets teams who want to ship updates faster without deep CLI or dev-server knowledge, and plans enterprise PR rules for larger teams.

Formerly β€œLitmus”, β€œFlics”

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