Hello, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm an applicant for this YC funding cycle, and would love to get to know some of you guys+girls.<p>I'm curious as to what market your startup/idea is in? If you feel like sharing.<p>Mine is about on-demand software/SaaS.<p>I expect all of us will be sharing more soon. I am missing community feeling on this board, hence this post to generate some introductions.<p>Really look forward to meeting you, these are exciting times.
We want to change the world of politics- web-based CRM. App was for a simple communications tool that would allow you to easily complain to government.<p>Our first product was Fantasy Congress <www.fantasycongress.com>, we made that as a hobby first and then received amazing press coverage on it and should have applied to YC last summer. We made the choice to ditch our post-grad plans and are bootstrapping out of Washington DC (but man do we want to get back to where the tech is). Our second product is an election game which we're working on with a media partner, but the YC application we've submitted is going to be the core of how we're going to help make political communication more effective.
We are making a collaborative business webapp that integrates project and task management using constraint enabled workflows that you can template and interconnect. In a sense, our system establishes workflow as the spine of business networking, allowing businesses internally (staff) and externally (with their customers and vendors) to collaborate on any project. We have been coding since January and are finally launching our private beta next week. (Email us if your're interested in a peek)
<a href="http://StreamFocus.com" rel="nofollow">http://StreamFocus.com</a>
Hi Rob,<p><pre><code> We are building a natural language interface to databases tool. I figure that forms, key-word and hyper-link interfaces have their limitations. Our orientation is mostly scientific/technical, but we figure that if we can deliver a solid, usable solution, there will be many, many uses.
But of course there are significant challenges. :-)
take a gander at our demo clip for VLDB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWio8bHq4wQ
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our idea stemmed from a recent trip to tahoe. we were bummed because we wanted to rent a sailboat, but we couldn't because they were all too expensive. <p>however, when we got there, we noticed that there were about, oh 2000 boats sitting unused in the water. <p>i was an only child for 15 years, so my mom made it a point to emphasize sharing :)