Gojiberry

gojiberry.ai

Hey everyone, I'm Roman, 30, French founder based in Lisbon, currently halfway through the YC P26 batch with my company gojiberry.ai We're building what we call an "AI GTM self-learning brain": AI agents that identify high-intent prospects, contact them automatically, learn from replies, and improve targeting over time based on your offer, your ICP, your conversations and the intent signals you care about. Basically a self-improving outbound system. Quick background before I dump everything: Before this I built and sold a SaaS called CocoAI (7-figure exit) We applied to YC 3 times before getting in We hit ~$1M ARR before being accepted We've done ~2.5x growth in the first 6 weeks of the batch We still haven't received the $500k (more on that later) I'm 30, I have kids, and the average batch is closer to 24 Now that I'm halfway in, I wanted to share the honest version of what YC actually feels like from the inside. Not the Twitter fantasy, not the LinkedIn humblebrag. The real thing. The good. The bad. The exhausting. The overhyped. And the parts that genuinely change you. First thing to understand: YC is not magic People online sometimes act like YC is a cheat code. It's not. YC...