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Entrepreneur
19-07-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
YC-Backed AI Startup CodeParrot Shuts Down After Struggles With Growth
You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. CodeParrot, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 startup that aimed to simplify frontend development using AI, has officially ceased operations. The India-US based company, co-founded by Vedant Agarwala and Royal Jain in 2022, built tools that turned Figma designs and screenshots into production-ready code using large language models (LLMs). Despite early traction, including a VS Code extension and support for React, Flutter, and HTML, the team faced ongoing challenges in scaling the product. The shutdown was announced by Agarwala on LinkedIn, who reflected on the two-and-a-half-year journey marked by pivots and product iterations. The startup had raised USD 500,000 in seed funding but struggled to achieve sustainable growth, peaking at just USD 1,500 in monthly recurring revenue after its final pivot. Agarwala admitted that the team never managed to raise funds during Y Combinator's Demo Day and found themselves "stuck in pivot hell" in the months that followed. CodeParrot's experience underscores the difficulty many AI startups face in commercialising promising technology in a rapidly evolving market. "We hired and, painfully, had to let go of both the engineers," Agarwala shared, pointing to the tough decisions small teams often have to make. In his note, Agarwala recalled milestones such as being accepted into Y Combinator and generating the first bits of revenue — moments that briefly offered encouragement amid uncertainty. He also stressed a key technical lesson from working with LLMs: the value of strong evaluation systems over pure prompt engineering. "Good prompts get you 90 per cent there, but good evals are what really matter," he noted. Now on a sabbatical, Agarwala expressed continued interest in AI, with plans to assist other YC startups in building AI products and to explore new ideas with potential cofounders. CodeParrot joins a growing list of early-stage AI startups unable to transition from prototype to profitability. Recently, founder Vishnu Ramesh also announced his company's closure, reflecting the broader volatility in the generative AI space, where technical innovation doesn't always guarantee commercial success.
National Post
07-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
CFP Consulting Inc. Launches FRONT-END.AI Worldwide – AI-Powered HTML Generation Tool
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