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A24z

AI Engineering Ops Platform

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Hey HN! I am the founder at a24z.I have been doing software development for over a decade in healthcare, education, and non-profits.I recently started a24z after talking to over 200 engineering leaders about their largest pain points.It originally started off as an Observability tool so that engineering leaders can see adoption, ROI, etc. for their engineering organizations, but as teams started to evolve with the way they utilize AI Coding tools, so did the platform I was building.We are now looking at features that do security scanning, autonomously upgrading your Claude Code with Skills, Plugins, and guardrails to help optimize engineering teams.Think of us as an in-house Platform Engineer.

HN · launched Dec 16, 2025 · 10 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views

Niche: ai software development platforms · 128 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial While basic dashboarding and logging can be vibe-coded, reliably intercepting agent runs, session replay, security scanning, and deep IDE telemetry across diverse tools requires non-trivial systems instrumentation.

What it would actually take: The platform requires building background daemons, proxy servers, or IDE plugins (Cursor, VS Code) to intercept IPC or API traffic from coding agents. The backend must handle high-throughput streaming event ingestion (e.g., Kafka or ClickHouse) and run real-time static analysis / regex scanning pipelines for secrets and PII. Expertise in compiler toolchains, IDE extension APIs, and high-volume observability infrastructure is required.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Security teams won't deploy without proper audit trails and visibility, Lacks visibility into what data is sent to LLMs and MCP tools, No audit trail for agent actions

Feature requests: Comprehensive audit trail for all agent activities, Security visibility and monitoring capabilities, Shift-left approach to problem prevention

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 547 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #268 of 548 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 43 days after the earliest competitor.

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