Justin Torre (@justinstorre) / X

Justin Torre

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Justin Torre

@justinstorre

Build the context layer for AI agents @mintlify • prev founder of @helicone_ai Y23 (aqc) • builder at heart 🦀🍎

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2022

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Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Mar 3
Hi friends! Big news today: Helicone is joining Mintlify 🚀 3 years ago, we started Helicone out of YC W23 with a simple bet: every hype-cycle has a massive observability market, and we felt like AI was going to be even more prevalent. We knew someone needed to build the
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Dec 4, 2022
My girlfriend's 11 year old brother had an incredible idea for chatgpt brb while i spend the next few hours playing this...
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Jun 26, 2025
We finally hit 500k ARR. Then decided to bet our entire company on a new product. Launching Helicone AI Gateway 🚀 (Public Beta!) 1 API. 100+ models. 100x faster. We believe we’ve built the new standard for LLM routing. In Rust. Fully open-sourced. 1 min to set up.
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Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Oct 10, 2024
I love cursor, but I turned it off today and I am genuinely faster at building w/o it
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Aug 16, 2025
Why is hiring so hard I just want to build a team of kind, smart, high agency folks
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Oct 21, 2024
OpenAI's latency is skyrocketing these days, 3x slower than in August this year. - Azure is down 20% in latency - Anthropic is also up 150% in latency
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Nov 18, 2024
Early this year I got an email from a Waterloo freshman looking for an internship. Fast-forward 2 months into his internship; he is presenting system designs for some of our most complex features at Helicone. We love hiring from @UWaterloo 🙌
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Sep 5, 2025
Literally - fuck evals. We wasted so much time at Helicone building evals because "customers wanted it", but this is a classic example of the mom test, we needed to distinguish the core customer problem with what they are asking for
swyx
@swyx
Sep 4, 2025
Claude Code: no evals [well known code agent company]: no evals [well known code agent company 2]: kinda halfassed evals [leading vibe coding company]: no evals [ceo of company selling you evals]: mmmmm yess all my top customers do evals, you should do evals [vc's in love
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Aug 14, 2024
When I worked at FAANG, I was counting down the minutes until the day ended. Now that I've started my own company, I fight for every minute and wish I had more time in the day.
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Aug 21, 2024
When I applied to YC my interview was around 8 minutes. Here is the #1 piece of advice I got early on that helped us in our interview.
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Aug 30, 2025
At SFO, my flight over booked and they offered $750 to move my flight to a later flight. I took the option and a Google researcher also took it. We then proceeded to talk about AI, startups and life for the 2 hours over food, drinks, and tea. Sf is so back
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
May 18, 2025
World’s largest MCP Hackathon 🤘 We built an MCP server that builds MCP servers
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Jul 25, 2025
I wish I was more confident earlier in my startup journey and said this more: "fuck you, you're just wrong and we are going to be successful". Especially with VCs VCs are constantly negging and say they're trying to be helpful, but they dont know what they are talking about
Justin Torre
@justinstorre
Feb 6, 2023
Better cost metrics for your OpenAI usage. Helicone.ai Comment if you want to try, and we’ll personally help you get onboarded
Helicone
@helicone_ai
Feb 6, 2023
Announcing Helicone, your observability platform for GPT-3 Get detailed metrics for usage, latency, and costs with a single line of code
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