tl;dr

Pickle replaces your Zoom camera with a virtual body double that always looks great—even if you're calling in from bed.

Why we’re doing this

Daniel 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 problems. We imagined there must be countless people suffering from the same issue, desperate to escape the Zoom prison.

https://youtu.be/cCdZX6hxJpI?si=f3RCtpSQiquAbmCs

Who’s using Pickle?

Since 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.

Engineer 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.

The lowest latency human model

We 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.

Live together & work 24/7 in Hillsborough

Daniel Park - a medical school dropout who built a $2M/year e-commerce business at age 22 while still in medical school

Emmett Kim - a CS dropout and a super-generalist in product, design, and engineering, who is also the star of our viral demo

Sam Yu -  our CTO; a summa cum laude CS & EE dropout who built a self‑driving AI model at just 21, is a believer in reinforcement learning, and met Emmett in high school

Sanio Jung - a former medical doctor and self-taught engineer who developed an AI model for detecting wrist fractures and met Daniel in college

Chris Kang - a CS dropout and social media expert who created and managed an account that achieved over 100 million views

Our Ask

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