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START pod: Naman Bansal & Shreyans Jain, Cofounders, Manicule: "AI Native Developer Relations"
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Summary
Most companies don't realize they have a documentation problem until everyone already depends on it. Customers use it. New hires use it. Engineers use it. And when documentation falls out of date, the whole system starts working against itself People stop trusting what they're reading Teams lose context And nobody can fix it, because the problem is everywhere at once The longer it goes unfixed, the harder it is to untangle That's the opportunity Manicule saw They're building an AI-native DevRel company for developer tools - owning documentation, technical content, GEO, and distribution across social channels. The premise isn't that AI should replace expertise. It's that expertise should scale. Their AI agents audit and test at scale. Their humans own the architecture, the writing, and the creative direction. Every review improves the system Every project creates more context. Every iteration raises the bar What started as a highly manual business - helping developer companies create better technical content - has become a scalable AI-native operation Today, Manicule works with some of the fastest-growing developer tool companies - including Supermemory, Greptile, and Reducto - has scaled fast over the last few months, and has more demand than it can take on. Not because they publish more content. Because they help developer companies create content developers actually trust. 🎙️ Naman Bansal & Shreyans Jain Co-founders of Manicule (YC P26) on Fondo START 00:57 What Manicule is building 03:43 The Supermemory customer that changed everything 04:47 Building startups together in high school 05:55 Early pivots, recruiting agencies, and first revenue 06:18 Applying to YC as teenagers 07:24 Lessons from being the first engineer at Supermemory 08:49 How DevRel became a grow…