[aeternum]

Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"

[hoppp]

Just find the proteins involved then manufacture them with yeast. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

[culi]

they're made of rock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethite

[mattas]

"We dropped out of high school to build AI-powered snail teeth."

[hackeraccount]

I dropped out of Kindergarten to make snail teeth powered AI!

[1234letshaveatw]

Do snails scale?

[ArmadilloGang]

They certainly scale the fence my wife put around the garden. Then again, we haven’t done a good job of patching holes in the perimeter. Our DevOps team is too busy playing in the sprinkler to learn to read, let alone automate patching, but it’s on the board for next sprint.

[eunos]

I hate the word democratizing

[WorldPeas]

imagine growing tools out of this stuff instead of forging or casting, that'd be neat.

[Terr_]

There's some overlap here with the dental problem of tooth enamel, another kind of wonderful biomaterial.