Since launching QualGent (YC X25) just two weeks ago, one interesting observation I've made was there is also a huge wave of inbound interest from outside the U.S. :

🌍 From East Asia, India, Middle East, Southeast Asia, LATAM, Australia, and Africa
⏰ With late evenings/early morning meeting times to match local teams
💼 Not just big local B2C mobile apps, but also B2B2C mobile app platforms for huge household brands from the West, serving these functions:
- - ERP & POS
- - Transportation & logistics
- - Banking & fintech
- - Marketplace platforms
- - Field sales and operations

This makes sense because billions of users across Asia, Africa, and LATAM are already living in a mobile-only economy, where mobile apps are the default interface for the internet. Mobile wallets (UPI, Alipay, M-Pesa) are already handling trillions in real-world transactions.

Here's my hot take:
AI came to the web first, but it will thrive on mobile.

Why? Because the web is easier to build for.
But mobile is where the majority of usage - and value - will come from. The next billion users will talk to AI through mobile devices, not keyboards.

We have already heard from several customers that even though their web traffic is higher, they care more about their mobile app quality because mobile users are more engaged, more loyal, and more willing to pay.

As AI coding agents make software easier and faster to build, the question isn't can you ship?
It's: Did you break something important on the way out?

But here's the hard truth:

🔁 Web bugs are easy to patch.
📲 Mobile bugs live on devices - and in app reviews - for weeks.

And when your product is the checkout screen on a 4G phone in Asia, Africa or LATAM,
Mobile QA isn't optional. It's existential.

At QualGent (YC X25), we're building the solution:
AI-powered mobile QA agents that test your product like a real user would - not with brittle scripts, but through context-aware, behavior-driven exploration.
Because as software becomes increasingly fluid, the only quality that matters is the experience the user actually gets.

The next software platform isn't desktop, web or mobile. It's AI-native mobile surfaces.
Companies that prepare for that shift now will win the next decade.

Let us help you scale mobile QA using AI, so that you can focus on winning the next decade 👉 https://qualgent.ai/