Speak Easy (Second)

Speak Easy - submitting a query
Speak Easy - query response
Second module selection

Inspiration

My last company was a YC backed no-code company called Uiflow, and I learned that for web application development in an enterprise setting, what people really want is both development speed, and ownership of the source code and data. With the emergence of generative AI, I decided to start this new company, Second, which is also YC backed!

What it does

Second provides a subscription to AI developer agents that can build high quality web application features and perform complex code migrations, and then raise a pull request.

How we built it

We used Second to build Speak Easy, an example app that lets users ingest data, and then have a conversation with the data sources. We built a new data ingest module, and Ryan built a backend using llama-index which can scrape web links and use OpenAI to have a conversation with the data. The frontend code that Second generated is Next.js, and the backend is hand built with Python and Flask.

Challenges we ran into

Lots of small issues with Second itself (resolved), dependency resolution issues (hack for fix), CORS issues (partly resolved), problems deploying our Flash app on Lamdas (we ended up using ngrok to punch a hole in the internet)