Office Hours with YC Founder
🎤 Founder office hours with Aryan, co-founder and CEO of Mirrors (YC F26).
📅 Saturday, September 5 · 2:00–3:00 PM EDT 📍LILY 3118
"I'm Aryan, a Purdue sophomore on leave and now the co-founder and CEO of Mirrors (YC F26). We give AI teams a staging environment for their agents, so they can test a change before it hits production."
⚡ What Mirrors does
Every serious software team has a staging environment. You change something, you test it somewhere safe, and only then does it reach real users. AI agents skipped that step. Teams building them are often changing a prompt, a tool, or a model and shipping straight to production, hoping nothing breaks in a way they only find out about from a customer.
Mirrors is that missing layer. It gives AI teams a place to run a change against realistic conditions and see what actually happens before it goes live. More at https://www.runmirrors.com.
🚀 Why now
Aryan is heading into the YC batch shortly, so this is a narrow window. He's sitting down with Purdue builders for short, direct conversations about whatever you're actually stuck on.
💡 Good things to bring:
A product you're building and a real decision you're facing
Questions about getting your first users, or your first ten
What applying to YC as a student actually looks like
Whether the thing you're working on is worth continuing
Not a lecture, not a pitch competition, and there's no judging panel. Just a founder a couple of steps ahead of you, answering questions.
🎫 One hour, limited spots. Registration is subject to approval, and we'll send the location and your time once you're in.
📹 Can't make it in person? We're livestreaming at @boilernet.co.
✅ Come with something specific. "How do I start a startup" gets a worse answer than "here's what I built, here's where I'm stuck."
Hosted by BoilerNet, the founder network for Purdue builders. Jobs at Boilermaker startups and office hours with alumni who've built them. https://boilernet.org
Sponsored by Mirrors.