Launch Videos

Today, we're excited to announce that Lance has raised over $5 million to build the future of how hotels operate.

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

120k views

Fewer views than 73% of the library · #439 of 598

Runtime
2:55
Posted
Apr 29, 2026
Pace
170 wpm
Y Combinator on X

Congrats to @TryLance on their $5M seed! Lance builds AI agents that run hotel…

2:55 · Apr 29, 2026

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Launch anatomy

When each beat happens. Beats that weren’t found are left out; the full transcript isn’t published.

Launch anatomy for Y CombinatorRuntime 2:55. First five seconds: Claim or number. Company named at 0s.0–5s hook · Claim or numberCompany named at 0s0s Company named0:000:441:282:112:55
  • First five secondsClaim or number
  • Company named0s

Not detected: product named, demo starts, call to action

Narration pace

170 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 170 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 327k views (n=215). Pace covers the whole runtime, pauses included.

Show the data
PaceMedian viewsVideos (n)
Sparse (0–80)571,51184
Conversational (80–140)346,258185
Brisk (140–180)326,715215
Dense (180–+)670,38071

How it compares

  • 0.4× the median funding announcement launch (303k, n=91)
  • 0.3× the median AI agent launch (377k, n=164)
  • 0.3× the library median (407k, n=598)
Where this launch landsEach dot is one launch. The ringed dot is this one.
  1. All launchesn=598 · median 407k
  2. Funding announcementn=91 · median 303k
  3. AI agentn=164 · median 377k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Funding announcement91302,61799,0731,218,57114,373,501
AI agent164376,795101,5391,583,684138,357,050

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Hook style, category, “why it worked” and the takeaway are AI-assisted labels, not hand-reviewed. Beat timings miss some moments: “not detected” does not mean it never happened.

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