https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#commercial-open-source-companies ### **BETTER ENTERPRISE GLUE** _- [Pete Koomen](https://www.ycombinator.com/people/pete-koomen)_ Most enterprise software requires customers to write a lot of custom code. Large vendors like Oracle, Salesforce, and Netsuite each support multibillion dollar ecosystems of consultants and independent software vendors ("ISVs") who help customize these products and connect them to other software on behalf of their clients. This "glue code" — ETL pipelines, integrations, and custom workflows — is the dark matter of the enterprise software universe. YC has funded successful companies in this space, including [Zapier](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zapier) (S12), [Fivetran](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fivetran) (W13) and [Airbyte](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airbyte) (W20). These products help companies build glue code for common use cases. By generating custom code for _un_common, company-specific use cases, large language models have the potential to eliminate the need for glue code altogether. We would like to see more startups working on solving this problem. ```bash npm i https://stripe.com npm i https://x.com ``` ```ts import x x.("follow 50 ppl that seem angel investors and have more than 10k followers") ``` [[Startup idea api generator for website]] [[idea Railway for UI agents]] headless humans give AI the tools & full autonomy biggest bottlenecks in LLMs: - math - accessing information and executing actions remotely - retrieving external knowledge (even if LLM have huge context window, there is still a need in terms of speed) #business #idea