YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Beknazar Abdikamalov

Founder of Speko, OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model

Company

Beknazar Abdikamalov is listed as a founder of Speko. Speko is a router for voice models: one API key, and your voice agent runs on the speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models we measured as best for your language and use case. The measurements are public at benchmarks.speko.ai: we test new models the day they ship and re-route when the numbers change, so you rewrite nothing. We ran this bake-off by hand for four years at previous company, shipping production voice for Fortune 500s.

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    Key lessons I learned from @paulg yesterday: 1.

    Key lessons I learned from @paulg yesterday: 1. Grow 10 percent a week. If you optimize for growth, growth designs the product. Users tell you what to build next. 2. The growth rate is a decision filter. If code is not the limiting factor, stop writing software and go sell. 3....

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    big news: officially launched https://t.co/EtgOb1ErbN on @ycombinator OpenRouter for Voice.

    big news: officially launched https://t.co/EtgOb1ErbN on @ycombinator OpenRouter for Voice. every week a new stt or tts model drops. nobody re-runs the bake-off, so your stack quietly goes stale. we measure all of them, language by language, and route on the result.

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    my coding agents call me whenever they get stuck or need my input, so i can keep shipping while im outside Shared it with @bcherny from Claude code and he really liked it ("that's really a cool idea")

    my coding agents call me whenever they get stuck or need my input, so i can keep shipping while im outside Shared it with @bcherny from Claude code and he really liked it ("that's really a cool idea")

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    Glad to be one of the 20.

    Glad to be one of the 20. Was filling him the entire night like a tail :) PG’s passion and energy is on another level! https://t.co/gwW0b3UNjn

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    Speko Benchmarks recommends a voice-AI model

    Speko Benchmarks recommends a voice-AI model

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    Big news: we just launched on product hunt and we are in top #5 already: https://t.co/1vtE71xhWK Please do support us, will return the favor

    Big news: we just launched on product hunt and we are in top #5 already: https://t.co/1vtE71xhWK Please do support us, will return the favor

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    just asked codex if i should take $ 2mln deal from OpenAI for YC, it strongly advised me to take it

    just asked codex if i should take $ 2mln deal from OpenAI for YC, it strongly advised me to take it