Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company
The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things. And, as vibe-coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work in putting products together. So I wasn’t very surprised to hear that Naïve, which offers infrastructure that lets AI agents take on the bulk of the work involved in running a business, had signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch.
- ▪The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things.
- ▪And, as vibe-coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work in putting products together.
- ▪So I wasn’t very surprised to hear that Naïve, which offers infrastructure that lets AI agents take on the bulk of the work involved in running a business, had signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch.
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Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things. And, as vibe-coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work in putting products together. So I wasn’t very surprised to hear that Naïve, which offers infrastructure that lets AI agents take on the bulk of the work involved in running a business, had signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch. Taking vibe-coding a step further, the startup claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business — provided you supply the AI agents and the required token budget, of course.
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