Jos van der Westhuizen (@JosvdWest) / X

Jos van der Westhuizen

1,170 posts

Jos van der Westhuizen

@JosvdWest

Builder at WorldLabs | prev Co-Founder of Coplay, Remio, and Kristalic | AI and Anti-Senescence | PhD in AI @Cambridge

SF via Cape Town

Joined December 2012

Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 17, 2024
Introducing Coplay! ⚡️ The Cursor for Unity. While building games I loathed the repetitive point-and-click tasks you’re forced to do in the Unity editor. Decided to build a copilot to automate and speed up game development by creating a natural language interface for Unity.
00:00
6.6K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Dec 18, 2024
Excited to share that we’ve raised a $1.2M pre-seed round for building Coplay – an AI copilot for game developers! 🚀 When Marcus, Joned and I started brainstorming business ideas for world models, we quickly realized there’s a bigger problem to solve. Over the last 4 years
Coplay raises $1.2M to build AI copilot for game devs
From gamesbeat.com
1.6K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 31, 2024
Tried using Claude Computer Use to automate some tasks in Unity, but it failed with installing Unity Made my own version of Computer Use allowing Claude to control my local Windows machine Hallucination in this case is a breaking bug, but fun to see it nearly get there
00:00
35K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 15, 2024
🙌Congrats @naveedjanmo for being the top S24 YC startup! And while being a solo founder! 💪 Cannot wait to hear more over lunch at @fdotinc
1.8K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 21, 2024
Absolutely Thrilled! 🏎️Won a Bugatti at a Hackathon this weekend! 🏎️ Built a copilot for Unity. While building games I loathed the repetitive point-and-click tasks you’re forced to do in the Unity editor. Coplay lets you control Unity using chat. Posting the download link in
1K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Dec 11, 2024
Tried Windsurf for the first time today after Cursor yielded suboptimal outputs Surprised to see how much better the agentic search approach is compared to pure fast RAG Windsurf seems better for doing multiple small changes across many files @codeiumdev @cursor_ai
00:00
2K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 29, 2024
Coplay now reduces 30min technical art pipelines down to 1 min! While making games, our bottleneck wasn't creating 3D art assets, it was getting them integrated into the game. Coplay can now understand and edit deeply nested prefabs and scriptable objects. More soon!
00:00
755
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 22, 2024
Friends — some news to share: I’ve decided to step down from my role as CEO at @Remiovr. The last 5 years of building have been life-changing. We made products loved by millions, and did it w amazing customers, users, and investors. Everything an immigrant moving to sf to
330
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Dec 5, 2024
📍Tsunami update: Everyone safe here at Coit Tower Met some great Founders here!
00:00
364
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Nov 21, 2022
I'm looking forward to meeting leaders in the enterprise sector #IGSmiami Miami Beach here I come!
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 6, 2023
Excited to announce that we've added 5 new games to Remio in the last 3 months! All are free to play! @Remiovr
00:00
1K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Sep 11, 2024
The top YC team from the previous batch is making around $100K/mo. My 2 friends created a VR game in 6 months and they are making $2M/mo. They’re a team of two 22 year-olds. It's easy to miss creativity when you're blinded by pedigree.
506
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Nov 13, 2024
Replying to @Ian_Fisch and @8teAPi
Yeah I was about to say the same thing. Current games only render what you can and should see. A very critical part of resource constrained devices such as VR headsets
1.6K
Jos van der Westhuizen
@JosvdWest
Oct 12, 2022
Replying to @CixLiv
Our enterprise customers would happily buy it. Sucks a bit for consumers, but @ID_AA_Carmack did emphasize how hard he's pushing for the $250/250g. So there is hope!