Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Facebook/Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars).
We have 2 main products:
1. Puma Browser with built in LLMs & Wallets. Private by design.
Future of the web is agentic – come help us explore best ways to shape it.
2. Puma Network that we're just starting to build out – a way to store and share your memories, context and credentials and provide access to other apps.
If either is exciting to you – please reach out.
We’ve raised a few rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and ai:
Protocol Labs (YC S14), Chris Larsen (Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp W18), Toly (Solana), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (poolside.ai, ex-GitHub CTO), Evil Rabbit (Vercel), John Pham (SF Compute) and other amazing builders.
We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS/MacOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Facebook/Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars).
We believe in bringing more control and privacy to Ai products and are exploring a few directions:
1. Built in Local LLMs in Puma Browser for iOS and Android.
2. Crypto/stablecoin payments for LLM usage / Ai agents.
3. Puma Ai for MacOS – simplified LM Studio native Mac app.
4. Ways to train Ai agents on mobile web games.
If any of the above excites you please reach out.
We’ve raised a few rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai:
Protocol Labs (S14), Chris Larsen (Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp W18), Toly (Solana), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (poolside.ai, ex-GitHub CTO) and more.
We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS/MacOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | Engineering & Growth | $75-150k base & 200k+ equity | https://puma.tech
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars).
Puma Browser is focused on making LLMs easy to use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
We recently shipped an update with local DeepSeek R1 and it’s amazing how fast and capable it is even on iPhone 14 Pro.
Next step is making it do things for you, like a helpful assistant, and we’re excited to explore what the world of agents would look like.
We’ve raised Angel and Pre-Seed Rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (cofounder at poolside.ai, ex-GitHub CTO), Chris Larsen (founder of Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Protocol Labs, SBI, Fenbushi, HashKey and more.
- We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
- Only two recurring weekly meetings to maximize state of flow: Monday all-hands, Friday Demos.
- Careful with growth and never had to do layoffs.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | Engineering & Growth | $75-150k base & 200k+ equity | https://puma.tech
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars) before diving deep into crypto.
Puma Browser is focused on making LLMs easy to use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
We recently shipped an update with local Meta Llama 3.2 1b and it’s amazing how fast and capable it is for chatting.
Next step is making it do things for you, like a helpful assistant, and we’re excited to explore what the world of agents would look like.
We’ve raised Angel and Pre-Seed Rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (cofounder at poolside.ai, ex-GitHub CTO), Chris Larsen (founder of Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Protocol Labs, Shima, SBI, Fenbushi, HashKey and more.
- We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
- Only two recurring weekly meetings to maximize state of flow: Monday all-hands, Friday Demos.
- Careful with growth and never had to do layoffs.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Thanks for highlighting! If anything, based on compare page, it seems that camera setup is closer to previous gen Fold rather than Pixel 9. Barely any changes.
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | Engineering & Growth | $75-150k base & 200k+ equity | https://puma.tech
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars) before diving deep into crypto.
Puma Browser is focused on making LLMs easy to use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
We’ve raised Angel and Pre-Seed Rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (ex-GitHub CTO), Chris Larsen (founder of Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Protocol Labs, Shima, SBI, Fenbushi, HashKey and more.
- We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
- Only two recurring weekly meetings to maximize state of flow: Monday all-hands, Friday Demos.
- Careful with growth and never had to do layoffs.
- Capital efficient with 3+ years of runway.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | Engineering & Growth | $75-150k base & 200k+ equity | https://puma.tech
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars) before diving deep into crypto.
Puma Browser is focused on making LLMs easy to use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
We’ve raised Angel and Pre-Seed Rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (ex-GitHub CTO), Chris Larsen (founder of Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Protocol Labs, Shima, SBI, Fenbushi, HashKey and more.
- We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
- Only two recurring weekly meetings to maximize state of flow: Monday all-hands, Friday Demos.
- Careful with growth and never had to do layoffs.
- Capital efficient with 3+ years of runway.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
My car is old enough to not have adaptive cruise control and lane centering, but that's all I'd love to have for now. Well executed, it's such a joy on a highway or in traffic.
Jeep and others have it but drive like a bowling ball with guardrails up.
Has anyone here successfully retrofitted Audi a4 with ACC? I hear Cruise started like that, would be awesome to get a kit like that.
The car has to have electric power steering that takes forged external commands. ~2005 cars tend to have incompatible hydraulic type units, 2019~ cars tend to have signature enforcement for external steering input.
Gas, brake, steering in cars are controlled by each separate computers with each own firmware - there's no centralized keyboard controller or USB root hub to take over. The computers have to be designed and built to accept driving commands, or replaced by one supporting it, or mechanically actuated. The latter two paths are rarely taken.
Honestly stop and go is where I most want ACC / follow mode.
Regular cruise works fine on highways, and my experience with adaptive is that it makes passing more difficult as it slowed down way too early (though other implementations might be better), plus the focus of smooth / comfortable slowdowns means it can be hard to realise if you’re watching the road and your surroundings, at which point you’re quite a ways below speed for the passing lane and need to accelerate back up.
Also doesn’t deal well with passing trucks for lack of anticipation.
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | Engineering & Growth | $75-150k base & 200k+ equity | https://puma.tech
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars) before diving deep into crypto.
Puma Browser is focused on making LLMs easy to use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
We’ve raised Angel and Pre-Seed Rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (ex-GitHub CTO), Chris Larsen (founder of Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Protocol Labs, Shima, SBI, Fenbushi, HashKey and more.
- We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
- Only two recurring weekly meetings to maximize state of flow: Monday all-hands, Friday Demos.
- Careful with growth and never had to do layoffs.
- Capital efficient with 3+ years of runway.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Head of Memes & Growth; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Its been more than a month that I have sent my take home assignment. I reached out again and said its okay if you reject me just reply with the feedback. Apparently they are not swamped for posting these job requirements except for reviewing and replying.
Puma.tech | Remote-first with PST overlap | Engineering & Growth | $75-150k base & 200k+ equity | https://puma.tech
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars) before diving deep into crypto.
Puma Browser is focused on making LLMs easy to use on your mobile phone. Private by design.
Puma.network is an infrastructure layer focused on creating open LLMs by rewarding contributions of compute, feedback (RLHF) and data.
We’ve raised Angel and Pre-Seed Rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and Ai: Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (ex-GitHub CTO), Chris Larsen (founder of Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp), Protocol Labs, Shima, SBI, Fenbushi, HashKey and more.
- We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
- Only two recurring weekly meetings to maximize state of flow: Monday all-hands, Friday Demos.
- Careful with growth and never had to do layoffs.
- Capital efficient with 3+ years of runway.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Head of Memes & Growth; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Super Kind folk, and Brave too. I once offered to build something for free for them to prove I could build things, but they said there was no need and kindly paid me. I didn't get the gig in the end, but in this cold age of frauds, I really appreciated that.
Hi all, I’m Yuriy, founder of Puma.tech. Previously worked as software engineer & developer advocate at Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM), Meteor (YC S11), Parse (YC S11, Facebook/Meta), and explored Ai/ML (computer vision for self-driving cars).
We have 2 main products:
1. Puma Browser with built in LLMs & Wallets. Private by design. Future of the web is agentic – come help us explore best ways to shape it.
2. Puma Network that we're just starting to build out – a way to store and share your memories, context and credentials and provide access to other apps.
If either is exciting to you – please reach out.
We’ve raised a few rounds from some of the best builders in crypto and ai:
Protocol Labs (YC S14), Chris Larsen (Ripple), Don Ho (Orange DAO, Quantstamp W18), Toly (Solana), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO, Neeva, Greylock), Jason Warner (poolside.ai, ex-GitHub CTO), Evil Rabbit (Vercel), John Pham (SF Compute) and other amazing builders.
We value Optimism, Kindness, Curiosity, Speed and Grit.
Open Roles: Eng (iOS/MacOS, Android, Ai/ML, Browser Extensions), Based Social Media Intern; Internships: Eng, Design, Growth
How to Apply: visit https://puma.tech or email careers+hn [at] puma.tech with your GitHub, a note on what you're most proud of building and what you'd like to build next.
Thank you!