AI Agents that Find Bugs in Your Product
Hey guys!
We're Jesse and Gautham, and we're building Ghostship to help you never ship a bug again. Ghostship spins up AI agents to find bugs in your product by crawling through your interface and simulating users.
Ask: Do you care about shipping a good user experience? You definitely should and if so, email us at founders@tryghostship.dev or book a demo with us.
The Problem
To grow quickly, you probably rush shipping new features, which often introduces bugs and causes customer churn. Current solutions like manual testing is expensive and slow and automated testing is flaky.
Our Solution
Imagine a QA team of 5,000 testers available 24/7 on every new feature you ship. That's Ghostship, but we use AI agents.
Our agents will crawl through your product and interact with it like users would to find the bugs (especially edge cases) that lead to churn—all at a fraction of the cost.
Here’s a demo video of our product:
Our Team
TL;DR: We are competitive programmers that never finished college, so we're all in on Ghostship.
Jesse (CEO, right) - Jesse was a top 1% competitive coder in the US and was the first high schooler to write competitive coding questions. He was a Jane Street intern at 18 before dropping out.
Gautham (CTO, left) - Gautham was a top 5% competitive coder in the US. He also has 3 preprints related to reinforcement learning in the ICML conference and bootstrapped his way to $120K at 16.
Both of us have been developers for more than half our lives, and we've experienced the pain of shipping bugs throughout our lives. We want to solve this problem once and for all, and make developers' lives way easier.
Our Ask
- Follow us on LinkedIn, X, and book a demo with us.
- Share this post! - If you know any startup founders who are having trouble with growth due to technical debt or product people (PMs, QAs, etc.) at larger companies who care about shipping quality, please share this post with them.
- Visit our website for more info.
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
We met in middle school and got closer in high school after doing coding competitions and working on projects together. We’ve been coding for more than half our lives and shipping bugs has been a headache we’ve faced ever since we started coding, and we want to solve this problem once and for all. We came together to build this company because school is not for us and we’d rather work on a problem space we deeply care about.
What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?
We started off with no revenue for half the batch and scaled to 13.2K MRR in one month after we finally launched. Focusing on talking to users and solving customer pain points before building a perfect product was the best advice we took from YC.
What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
Automated testing tools or manual testing either waste time, are expensive, or don’t work, and we saw this as an opportunity to solve a problem that’s been haunting us for years - shipping bugs and facing churn. Everyone is vibe coding these days and it’s only leading to more bugs being shipped, and we saw this as a huge opportunity to ensure teams ship good user experiences and reliable products.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
It might seem unintuitive, but good UX is a genuine moat for teams (think Apple vs Android, ChatGPT vs Gemini, or Hinge vs Tinder). Our vision is to make agents intelligent enough to think like users and ultimately ensure that every product has exceptional UX through not just automating QA but replacing PMs.
