Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter.
Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior.
Launched just a few months ago, Human Behaviour is betting that vision AI can do what analytics tools like Mixpanel and PostHog have struggled with: give companies a real understanding of how people use their products, including why they convert or churn.
Instead of relying on manually tagged events or clickstream data, Human Behavior claims its AI watches real user session replays and generates insights, answering product teams’ most pressing questions without hours of instrumenting code.
The four-month-old YC startup closed its $5 million seed round in just two days (which is becoming a norm for current YC companies), with backers including General Catalyst, Paul Graham, Vercel Ventures, and Y Combinator.
“We could’ve done the financial engineering game because we got more offers with higher valuations, but we didn’t want that,” said the CEO.
Chaturvedi met his co-founders, Skyler Ji and Chirag Kawediya, both 22, at a hacker house he organized in 2023 as an excuse to live and build with friends after his freshman year at Stanford.
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Their first startup, Dough, was an e-commerce accounting tool they bootstrapped. Like Chaturvedi, Ji dropped out of college (leaving Berkeley) while Kawediya went on to graduate.
Although YC was initially skeptical about Dough’s market potential, the team was admitted into the accelerator’s spring batch this year on the assumption they would eventually pivot, Chaturvedi says. They did so almost immediately, after speaking with every customer and inquiring about any other problems they faced.
The feedback was consistent: while Dough could show which products were selling or not, the customers wanted to know why. Answering that required analytics powered by behavioral data, not just accounting reports.
With this new direction, the team sold Dough for six figures to Employer.com, the same company that bought Bench, and went all-in on Human Behavior.
Kawediya explains that companies using traditional analytics often need engineers to set up event trackers for every button and click, burning hours, sometimes weeks, of engineering time.
For a fast-moving startup, that’s far from ideal. “Even once you have that data, you’re still stuck with the bigger question of how users actually interact with your product so you can make it better,” he says.
Session replays aren’t new, but until recently, computer vision models weren’t accurate enough to parse them at scale. Now they are, and Human Behaviour is doing so to summarize and segment thousands of hours of footage. “Why spend hours writing code to track clicks when we can just watch the video?” Ji adds.
Today, Human Behaviour’s customers — mostly fast-moving Series A and B startups — get daily summary emails highlighting which features were used, which bugs appeared, and which users churned. Since launching four months ago, Chaturvedi says the company has been growing 20% month-over-month.
The founders call session replays an “untapped goldmine.” Right now, Human Behavior helps teams understand users and squash bugs. Over time, the same dataset could power automated QA and embedded IT support. Their ambition is to make Human Behavior the Datadog of session replay, spinning out dozens of products from the same core data.
Building with new technology from the ground up is how the founders believe they’ll take on more established players like Mixpanel and PostHog. “For some of these companies, it might be difficult to replicate what we have because their architecture can’t support the shift without starting over,” remarked Chaturvedi.
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![‘Project Hail Mary’ Won’t Be Coming to Streaming Any Time Soon
With all the excitement of movies to come this week thanks to CinemaCon, it was almost easy to forget that MGM provided an interesting update on one of our favorite movies of the year that’s already out: Project Hail Mary will head back to IMAX theaters this weekend for an extended theatrical run. But that extension also means one thing: you’ll have to wait to stream it at home for a good while longer. During its presentation at CinemaCon this week MGM confirmed that Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s sci-fi hit would make its return to IMAX screens for a limited-time, one-week run starting this weekend, a move that will likely inch Project Hail Mary ever closer to crossing the $600 million box office mark. But to put a finer point on the news, Miller took to Twitter yesterday to confirm specifically that the extension means you won’t be able to watch the film at home for the forseeable future.
We announced yesterday that MGM is extending the exclusive theatrical window for PROJECT HAIL MARY so it won’t be on streaming anytime soon. This is a movie that needs to be seen on a big screen – and w a full return to IMAX screens for 1 week only starting this weekend, make… https://t.co/suK8NYpgWM — Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) April 16, 2026 “It won’t be on streaming any time soon,” Miller’s tweet reads in part. “This is a movie that needs to be seen on a big screen […] Bring friends and loved ones. It’s an experience to share with others.” Project Hail Mary launched on March 20, so it’s not too surprising that it’s not headed home just yet—it’s just shy of a month into its theatrical window, which has now been extended by at least another week with the return to IMAX. But as studios begin to try realigning towards more theatrical releases with longer exclusivity windows again (one of the lingering aftereffects of covid’s impact on movie theaters), we should probably expect some of the biggest films of the year and beyond to try and hold off of hitting streaming for as long as they can.
At least in Project Hail Mary‘s case, you can still go and see it somewhere, even if it’s not at home. Good things come to those who wait, but for now, you can head to a movie theater to get your fix again. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who. #Project #Hail #Mary #Wont #Coming #Streaming #TimeAmazon MGM,Project Hail Mary,Streaming ‘Project Hail Mary’ Won’t Be Coming to Streaming Any Time Soon
With all the excitement of movies to come this week thanks to CinemaCon, it was almost easy to forget that MGM provided an interesting update on one of our favorite movies of the year that’s already out: Project Hail Mary will head back to IMAX theaters this weekend for an extended theatrical run. But that extension also means one thing: you’ll have to wait to stream it at home for a good while longer. During its presentation at CinemaCon this week MGM confirmed that Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s sci-fi hit would make its return to IMAX screens for a limited-time, one-week run starting this weekend, a move that will likely inch Project Hail Mary ever closer to crossing the $600 million box office mark. But to put a finer point on the news, Miller took to Twitter yesterday to confirm specifically that the extension means you won’t be able to watch the film at home for the forseeable future.
We announced yesterday that MGM is extending the exclusive theatrical window for PROJECT HAIL MARY so it won’t be on streaming anytime soon. This is a movie that needs to be seen on a big screen – and w a full return to IMAX screens for 1 week only starting this weekend, make… https://t.co/suK8NYpgWM — Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) April 16, 2026 “It won’t be on streaming any time soon,” Miller’s tweet reads in part. “This is a movie that needs to be seen on a big screen […] Bring friends and loved ones. It’s an experience to share with others.” Project Hail Mary launched on March 20, so it’s not too surprising that it’s not headed home just yet—it’s just shy of a month into its theatrical window, which has now been extended by at least another week with the return to IMAX. But as studios begin to try realigning towards more theatrical releases with longer exclusivity windows again (one of the lingering aftereffects of covid’s impact on movie theaters), we should probably expect some of the biggest films of the year and beyond to try and hold off of hitting streaming for as long as they can.
At least in Project Hail Mary‘s case, you can still go and see it somewhere, even if it’s not at home. Good things come to those who wait, but for now, you can head to a movie theater to get your fix again. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who. #Project #Hail #Mary #Wont #Coming #Streaming #TimeAmazon MGM,Project Hail Mary,Streaming](https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/project-hail-mary-ryan-gosling-1280x853.jpg)
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