Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral

A demo from Optifye.ai, a member of Y Combinator’s current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials. Optifye says it’s building software to help factory owners know who’s working — and who isn’t — in “real-time” thanks to AI-powered security cameras it places on assembly lines, according to its YC profile. On Monday, YC posted an Optifye demo video on X (and on LinkedIn), according to a snapshot saved by TechCrunch. The video shows Optifye co-founder Kushal Mohta acting as the boss of a garment factory, calling a supervisor — in reality his co-founder Vivaan Baid — about a low-performing worker known only as “Number 17.” “Hey Number 17, what’s going on man? You’re in the red,” Baid asks the worker, who responds that he’s been working all day. “Working all day? You haven’t hit your hourly output even once and you had 11.4% efficiency. This is really bad,” Baid retorts. After checking Optifye’s dashboard, the supervisor looks at the ... Read full article.