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Public story · 2026-08-17 · high
The Tel Aviv startup behind it has raised only about $3M, a fraction of what bigger agent platforms spend on infrastructure.
Why now: The ranking appears in the August 17, 2026 look at new agent-building tools.
Omni took the top spot on Product Hunt by turning a plain-language brief into a scheduled, shareable cloud agent, per Product Hunt.
That puts a $3M startup ahead of agent-runtime vendors with far bigger infrastructure budgets. Behind Omni is xpander.ai, a Tel Aviv company that has raised about $3M from Emerge Ventures, Samsung NEXT and SeedIL.
Users describe what they want, or point Omni at an existing project, and it wires up tools and skills, then tests the result against mock data. The output is a cloud agent that runs on a schedule and can be shared, according to the listing.
After launch, Omni keeps working: it optimizes system prompts, compares models against each other, and debugs failed runs, the listing says. It's free to start at chat.xpander.ai.
The ranking suggests users will reward whoever handles the wiring and testing work most agent platforms treat as an afterthought, funding size aside.
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