Tony Dang
@dangtony98
26 | Co-founder, Dreamer @Infisical | @ycombinator | @cornell
Excited to announce @infisical's $16M Series A led by @eladgil with participation from @ycombinator , @GradientVC (Google), Dynamic Fund, and some of the world’s best founders including CEOs of Datadog, Samsara, and Valor! Here's what's next 🧵
imagine if your website came to life - we did that. "the vortex comes to life and starts spinning. the camera flies deep into the vortex where it is pitch black until the full screen is black"
Overheard in SF: I’m developing SneezyBot, an AI that says bless you depending on if it likes you and the type of sneeze it hears. We're so in an AI bubble but I love it.
Applications for the YC Fall 2025 batch are now open! Apply by August 4: ycombinator.com/apply
The bar for early-stage enterprise sales is much higher than many founders realize. I often get cold emails from founders asking for help—advice, airline intros etc. I want to help, and I do respond to great cold emails—but I am often disappointed at how little effort has been…
I know so many put-together people who are privately navigating devastating shit. Losing parents. Brutal divorces. Medical emergencies. Give people grace—you never know who’s hanging on.
Greg just described what software engineers know as secrets management. That said, he brings up a better point more to do with accessibility of the tech and making it more seamless especially for vibe coders that aren’t even familiar with the concept of a secret. @karpathy…
startup idea for you 1Password does $318M ARR managing passwords from toronto canada now build "1Password for API keys" with a brand that targets the MILLIONS of new vibe coders developers are scattering credentials across codebases, config files, and environment variables…
New social networks are going to appear that will be LLMs creating a cozy web customized for us and our real friends, and their friends and so on There will be a new social network built on mutual trust, all curated by machines of loving grace Personal Cozyweb is inevitable
infisical: manage secrets like API keys and configs with teams
Launching @RivetKit_org v0.9, a complete re-architecture of ActorCore: A lightweight actor library that integrates in 1 line of code & runs anywhere. → Any router (Hono/Elysia/tRPC) → Any platform (Rivet/CF/Redis) → Any client (JS/Bun/React/Rust) → 2.5 mo of work & 111 PR
Open-Source SaaS is dead. The future is libraries. Today we are introducing @RivetKit_org – backend libraries to replace SaaS.
Now that everyone's coming out with their stories around Soham, I'd also like to mention that he did an interview for Infisical, and I'm glad he didn't make it through our hiring process. TLDR: The storyline wasn't adding up and nor was his submission.
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
A big part of what makes a startup magical is the people involved in it. A hire can make or break that magic. Make the startup magical.
You’re wrong. menugen.app
No one has ever 100% vibe-coded something actually useful Prove me wrong
Complete the sentence: If I really had the courage I would do X… then do X. You can just do things.