The Open-Source Agent Tool Two YC Founders Gave Away
The open source agent tool two Y Combinator founders gave away, what it actually is today, and how to run it yourself
What this is
Rowboat is an open source project from Rowboat Labs, a Y Combinator S24 company founded by Arjun Maheswaran and Ramnique Singh. It is on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence, which is the permissive one: you can use it commercially, modify it, and ship it inside your own product, as long as you keep the licence and the notices.
Every number and claim in this guide was read from the project's own GitHub repository and from ycombinator.com on 4 August 2026. Where something could not be confirmed from a primary source it is marked as such rather than repeated.
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