Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company events

Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by philipp-gayret on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:01AM (#47153345)

I'm on the technical end but to me this looks like just another ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking.com & flight planner API key. Nothing more. Expedia was on the list of ChatGPT plugin developers in 2023. What's stopping you? What keeps you in business the moment any travel agency decides gets into Gemini, ChatGPT or the like? I'm sure you make a lot of money per commission, but I don't see what is unique about you as company. What stops anyone else from vibecoding what you'e built in an afternoon?

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by vincentalbouy on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:25AM (#47153698)

Fair question.

If we were just a ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking API, we’d be already dead.

Our value isn’t the interface it’s the supply. We have direct relationships with hotels that log in daily to quote, adjust pricing, negotiate, and close deals. That’s not something you get with an API key.

You can vibe-code an Airbnb clone in an afternoon. Without supply, contracts, and operational execution, it’s useless. Marketplace take time to build network effect

LLMs can display data. They can’t negotiate, contract, invoice, manage edge cases, or execute group bookings end-to-end.

We’ll distribute via all major LLMs. But the defensibility is in our network and operations and date, not the UI that everyone could replicate

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by malfist on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:28AM (#47153763)

It's not a human response, it's an AI

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:09PM (#47154329)

Anyone making such a claim should be providing reasons or evidence of their claim about someone else's comments being AI. Not everything is AI just because you don't like someone who uses AI in other areas.

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by vincentalbouy on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:19PM (#47158856)

Agreed. Thank you for the support. There was even grammar issues in my response, what sort of Ai is doing grammar mistakes?

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by malfist on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:24PM (#47169951)

You're exactly right! AI never makes mistakes, we all know that.

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by vincentalbouy on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:27PM (#47170001)

Grammar mistakes is a solved problem yes.

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by vincentalbouy on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:31AM (#47153802)

I am Vincent, TeamOut's CTO, if you want to see my face you can book a call here: https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min

no problem for me!

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by philipp-gayret on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:16PM (#47154434)

Not the person you're replying to but this response uses different quotation marks and capitalisation compared to your shallow ChatGPT output from earlier. I took the time to write out what I thought and I'm not going to reply to LLM output. If you wanted genuine dialogue put in effort to reply yourself.

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Re:Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning compa... by philipwhiuk on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:38AM (#47153930)

The risk isn't "anyone", it's Tripadvisor or Trivago.

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