{"id":93147,"title":"Blue: The voice assistant your phone has been missing.","tagline":"Blue uses your apps to finish tasks, hands-free and on the go. ","body":"[heyblue.com](http://heyblue.com)\n\n**TL;DR**\\\nBlue is the only voice assistant on iOS and Android that can control every app on your phone, so you can get work done hands-free.\n\nWhen you’re driving, you can say things like “Catch me up on Slack,” “Pay the power bill from my email,” “Help me order DoorDash”, and anything else you could ask someone in your passenger seat, and Blue will help you do it hands-free.\n\nAt launch, Blue focuses on communications journeys: messages and email across apps.\n\n## **Why We Built Blue**\n\nOur phone assistants peaked at setting timers and checking the weather, but we’ve got a mountain of messages and emails to work through. We built Blue because we actually want to be productive on the way to work – and for the 70% of Americans commuting just like us.\n\n## **How Blue Works**\n\nBlue enables full, hands-free phone control via a voice-first computer-use model. On iPhone, our tiny USB-C plug-in gives Blue the ability to tap and type on your behalf. \n\nBlue doesn't wait for developers to build special integrations. It just uses your apps, all of them, hands-free, so you can tackle your todo list when your hands are busy doing literally anything else.\n\n**See it in action:**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PJV27Nd9eiI\n\n**Team**\n\n* **Omar Abdelaziz**: Led Google Assistant’s transition to LLMs; holds one of the earliest patents in LLM-based computer control.\n* **Peter Krogh**: Decades designing voice-first dialog systems; multiple design patents; most recently design lead at Google DeepMind serving actions on Gemini Live.\n* **Farhan Hossain**: Helped ship Apple Vision Pro; 50+ patents in hardware/systems; led products from prototyping to mass production and global fulfillment.\n\nWe’ve built systems used by billions. Now we’re on to defining the next era of computing.\n\n## **Ask**\n\n* **Try Blue:** Request early access at [heyblue.com](http://heyblue.com)\n* **Reach out**: [founders@heyblue.com](mailto:founders@heyblue.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93147\u0026key=user_uploads/2770643/31255b69-1672-4404-83d4-0db5869d0b5f)\n\n","slug":"OEN-blue-the-voice-assistant-your-phone-has-been-missing","created_at":"2025-08-19T21:45:01.737Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T23:02:26.853Z","total_vote_count":24,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEN-blue-the-voice-assistant-your-phone-has-been-missing","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=93147\u0026key=user_uploads/2770643/31255b69-1672-4404-83d4-0db5869d0b5f","company":{"id":30813,"name":"Blue","slug":"blue","url":"https://heyblue.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90acd1189896151e269eca2dc0a6b15c7042d091.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"Consumer","tags":["Hardware","Productivity","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30813"}}