Reading these dozens of one sentence summaries gives me an inkling of what it must feel like to be an investor who is pitched to all the time -- a concept really has to stand out to be noticed.
I was surprised to learn GitLab was part of the group. At my last company we were using GitLab for quite some time, I had no idea they were in a place to take seed money (figured they'd be looking for a higher round). Either way GitLab is pretty cool.
Not involved in the startup scene at all, but isn't "uber for laundry" a punchline at this point? What are cleanly doing (or what aren't they doing) that dozens of failed startups didn't do? This isn't snark, YC are saavy investors and I'm interested to know what they see.<p>This article, for example, is a year old: <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/</a><p>Unrelated, I found it interesting that clean.ly doesn't resolve to Cleanly's website--for that you have to go to getcleanly.com. Do -ly's confer status these days to the point that the URL is unnecessary?
Pigeonly (improved inmate to outside world communication) strikes me as interesting. It's not very sexy but I think it's a somewhat interesting problem domain (and sadly a growth market) where connections/talking to people/understanding the market can give you a pretty hard to immitate advantage.
Doesn't seem very hard technically but pretty hard non-technically.
When I saw this post I thought it'd be a report on the very first Y Combinator Demo Day ever and where they are today.<p>I still think that'd be really interesting.
yhat seems really cool. Saw Greg Lamp at papis.io conference late last year demonstrating a beer recommender they built : <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Yhat/building-a-beer-recommender-with-yhat-papisio-november-2014" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/Yhat/building-a-beer-recommender-w...</a>
> Pomello<p>Fellas, if you are here, - keep in mind the "keming" issue with your name when spelled in lowercase. On the TC website with the body font they are using the name looks and reads like Pornello. Had to re-read it to understand why the brief didn't match the name.
I can't figure out how Kickback gets around the gambling legalities if they are hosted in the US. They also say they use PayPal for withdrawals which is shocking since gambling is against their TOS.
Wow, that's a ton of companies compared to "back in the day".<p>It'd be interesting to have a nice summary of recent batches and where they are to see what kinds of ideas have gotten traction. There are some there that, from the one sentence blurb, don't sound that interesting, but I think the YC folks and the people they invest in are smart, so there's got to be something there.<p>I'm personally interested in seeing what BookTrope is doing, as it's in a similar space to my own LiberWriter.<p>Good luck to all of them!
cindercooks.com looks cool. I love me a good steak, so I would buy one today if it would ship today. Early 2016 though? Not pre-ordering that far in advance.
A group of TechCrunch bloggers posted their favorites for the first day as well. <a href="http://techcrunch.com/gallery/our-10-favorite-companies-from-y-combinator-demo-day-day-1/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/gallery/our-10-favorite-companies-from...</a> I found it interesting because none of the companies I had internally thought of as potential breakout hits made their list.
Hesitate to post an AskHN about this, but which company has the 66 year old (co-)founder? [0] Glad to see this diversity.<p>[0] <a href="http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xlarge_YC-infographic_v4.png" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/xlarge_YC-...</a>
Will somebody please sum up which ones are LO-MO-SO and which ones are MO-SO-LO [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps</a>
"like comments, but they automatically follow your code as it’s moved around in your program"<p>Wait, don't comments do that?<p>(edit: oh, they mean like forum comments, not like source-code comments?)
Happy to see Nomiku on the list - they ran a fantastic Kickstarter campaign, and I hope they get the help they need to scale up into everyone's kitchen.
Have Apple relaxed their restrictions about duplicate functionality in apps produced by the same developer? GroupAhead are cloning their own apps with a seemingly fixed set of features (membership, calendar, forum, links). A friend had his app denied with Apple saying that the new app should be rolled into another app he had already created.