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Y/n

Play your story

4 employees

Other

Seed · $14M

Founded 2025

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About Y/n

Y/n (yn.app) is an interactive fanfiction platform where users play as the 'Y/N' (your name) protagonist inside community-written and AI-assisted text stories, making choices that affect character responses and plotlines. The app features 1M+ community-generated stories, a multiplayer/social layer, and a deep fanfiction-native identity. Operated by legal entity Emittance Inc., the company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and has grown to 100K+ daily active users averaging 3+ hours per day. The company describes its mission as building 'the entertainment machine' — the most engaging consumer entertainment product in the world.

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Company details

Team Size4

IndustryOther

Founded2025

Funding

Total raised

$14M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Eight Capital

Founders

Gabriel Birnbaum

Previously the first product designer at Substack (July 2020–February 2023). Co-founded Can of Soup (an AI photo sharing app) with Eric Meier (April 2023–January 2025). Also researched plasma physics and contributed to open-source scientific computing tools (Plasma.jl, NeuralPDE.jl). Founded Y/n after the pivot from Can of Soup.

Eric Meier

Described as 'a technical genius' who 'trained the first-ever image editing AI in the world.' Co-founded Can of Soup with Gabriel Birnbaum. Previously worked as a Full-Stack Engineer at Liveblocks (collaborative text editors) and at Slite. Also co-founded Barbra (an earlier startup) and worked as a backend developer at Workwise. Based in San Francisco.

Gabriel Birnbaum

Co-founder of Y/n, an interactive stories app launched in 2025 and based in San Francisco.

Eric Meier

Eric Meier is the co-founder of Can of Soup, the AI photo sharing app. Prior to that, Eric worked with collaborative text editors at Slite and Liveblocks. He studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology prior to going into industry.

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