{"id":87621,"title":"Pickle - AI Body Double for Video Calls","tagline":"Pickle joins Zoom calls on your behalf and makes you look great.","body":"# **tl;dr**\n\nPickle replaces your Zoom camera with a virtual body double that always looks great—even if you're calling in from bed.\n\n# **Why we’re doing this**\n\nDaniel attended 10‑hour Zoom classes daily when he was a medical school student. He experienced extreme Zoom fatigue and discovered that it wasn’t just because he hated listening to boring medicine lectures—it also caused [neurophysiological](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45374-y) problems. We imagined there must be [countless people](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-encryption-idUSKBN22C1T4/) suffering from the same issue, desperate to escape the Zoom prison.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/cCdZX6hxJpI?si=f3RCtpSQiquAbmCs\u003e\n\n# **Who’s using Pickle?**\n\nSince launching Pickle last October, we’ve interviewed over 400 Picklers worldwide. What surprised us was that not only were people experiencing Zoom fatigue from back-to-back meetings, but even those **who wouldn’t turn on their camera** for a single call were using Pickle.\n\nEngineer moms who have to care for their kids, new employees with severe anxiety disorder, and CEOs who want to look professional no matter where they are—all these people found Pickle essential for their daily work. We realized that Pickle isn’t just a vitamin—**it’s a painkiller**.\n\n# **The lowest latency human model**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=87621\u0026key=user_uploads/2376609/95f16234-6efd-417b-880f-b00310ccbdbd)\n\nWe developed an ultra-fast human model that processes voice input and generates output in **under 0.3 seconds**. This enables a user’s Pickle to lip-sync almost simultaneously with what they say. Moreover, as our user base grows, our model rapidly upgrades thanks to the influx of data.\n\n# **Live together \u0026 work 24/7 in Hillsborough**\n\n[Daniel Park](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpkl/) - a medical school dropout who built a $2M/year e-commerce business at age 22 while still in medical school\n\n[Emmett Kim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettpkl/) - a CS dropout and a super-generalist in product, design, and engineering, who is also the star of [our viral demo](https://x.com/getpickleai/status/1859284410136465671)\n\n[Sam Yu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sampkl/) -  our CTO; a summa cum laude CS \u0026 EE dropout who built a self‑driving AI model at just 21, is a believer in reinforcement learning, and met Emmett in high school\n\n[Sanio Jung](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saniopkl/) - a former medical doctor and self-taught engineer who developed an AI model for detecting wrist fractures and met Daniel in college\n\n[Chris Kang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispkl/) - a CS dropout and social media expert who created and managed an account that achieved over 100 million views\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=87621\u0026key=user_uploads/2376609/459c0987-33d6-4621-9329-c3ff18d68f0b)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nGet your own [Pickle](https://getpickle.ai/)!","slug":"MnF-pickle-ai-body-double-for-video-calls","created_at":"2025-02-12T20:59:05.562Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:14:23.931Z","total_vote_count":243,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MnF-pickle-ai-body-double-for-video-calls","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30262,"name":"Pickle","slug":"pickle-2","url":"https://www.pickle.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ad757e8400d1148cc83fb94eb774347a9fe0f4ad.png","batch":"Winter 2025","industry":"Consumer","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Hardware","Augmented Reality","Consumer"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30262"}}