# Quippy

[Quippy on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/quippy)

Startup · 1 person on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://quippyapp.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/quippy)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/quippyapp)
- [X](https://x.com/therealquippy)

## About

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## YC company profile

Helps build social skills through daily practice

Quippy is a daily practice app for your social life. You run short, realistic practice conversations, like pushing back on a boss or talking during a first date, and get line-by-line feedback on what landed and what backfired. The curriculum adapts to each person's patterns, reshaping itself around their weak spots, ensuring steady improvement in the conversations that matter most.

- **YC batch:** Fall 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 1
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** Consumer
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** AI-Enhanced Learning, Social, Health & Wellness
- **YC partner:** Garry Tan

## Founders

### Jonathan Li — Founder/CEO

Founder of Quippy. Most recently Head of Product at Luvu (a16z-backed), scaling from $0 to $1.5M ARR in 4 months. Previously APM at Duolingo, delivering $50.4M in ARR growth and helped build features including Video Call with Lily and Duolingo's first monolingual English course (280K DAUs in 4 months). Dual degree in CS and Business from the University of Michigan.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/12lijonathan) · [X](https://x.com/12lijonathan)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/quippy) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Jonathan Li](https://hacklab.so/jonathan-li-2) — Founder/CEO (Present)