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Sonauto

Create hit songs with AI

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveConsumerContent

What they do

Problem

People and creators struggle to quickly produce high-quality, original songs in specific styles without professional music production skills.

Solution

Sonauto is an AI music editor that generates full songs from prompts, lyrics, or melodies in any chosen style.

Who it's for

Content creators and general users who want to make custom songs for personal or creative use.

Founders

Ryan Tremblay
Founder

Studied Computer Science (focus: ML) and History (focus: authoritarian regimes) at Cornell. Previously, I worked on core engineering teams at early and growth stage AI and creator economy startups. My goal is to help people be more creative by making GPUs go brrr.

Hayden Housen
Founder

Currently, building a platform to share AI generated music and researching AI song generation. Previously, a software engineering intern at Vocode (YC W23) and an intern on the Machine Learning Team at Ada.

Open roles 2

ML Engineer/Researcher
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $120K - $230K · 0.25% - 2.00%
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Summer 2026 ML Engineer/Research Intern
San Francisco, CA, US · Internship · $6K - $9K / monthly
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