Hi! Want to get some conversations going here. How's your startup doing right now?<p>Any planned launch dates?<p>What's your startup anyway?<p>We're quite busy with ours, we were ready to release a beta, but choose to redesign and refactor things again. What about yours?
I launched <a href="http://openphotovr.org" rel="nofollow">http://openphotovr.org</a> (virtual reality from photos) very quietly yesterday night. A non-profit, my midnight oil hobby project. After two months of development I feel it's time to go online, maybe get some visitors. No rush. Already see glaring mistakes in the UI :-)
We are doing online backup and storage. We have an open source project (<a href="http://allmydata.org" rel="nofollow">http://allmydata.org</a>) that we are building a commercial product (<a href="http://allmydata.com" rel="nofollow">http://allmydata.com</a>) on top of. We have a fair amount of beta users (10K) and have our new architecture beta release due out mid-February. We will then be fixing any major issues, testing usability, and then going full release.<p>We've had good feedback from our users which has helped shape our usability and also which features were important to them (like having ftp access for example).<p>Hope this helps,
Peter
I have been toiling away for what seems like ages on a source code review app, aimed at helping cube dwellers who can code sort out some of the horrible outsourced code they have to review (something I have to do in my cube too often, and was frustrated with the tools out there to do it).<p>Its just a part time thing for me these days (still stuck in my cube), but I hope to get a beta release out there in a month or so. Things that are making me nervous/holding me back:<p>* Can't come up with a decent name for thing!<p>* While I don't think my app is ugly, its certainly not anywhere near as shiny as many of the other web 2.0 apps out there<p>* I keep tweaking and adding features instead of polishing what is there and getting the beta finished.<p>I am pretty pleased with what I have go so far, so at the least I will have learned Rails and created a tool I can use in my current day job.
I'm building a hosted load testing solution at the moment. There's a little more to it, but that's the idea. I'm close to where I thought I'd be--I need about another month to get it really going and a month or so after to tune and iterate.<p><a href="http://testomatix.com" rel="nofollow">http://testomatix.com</a><p>My solution will require no hardware, be based on an open source tool people might already be using and be ridiculously easy to use if I hit my mark. I'd like to make it self service too.
We just launched seekler.com on January 7th. Seekler is a collection of community-built lists that make it really fast and easy to find new stuff like movies, music, etc.<p>We had some good early traffic (from a few great links to one of our lists), but unfortunately things have slowed down a lot in the past few weeks. We think the basic concept is great, but we're wondering if the UI is keeping people from really digging into our content. We're going to probably release a slightly tweaked interface on Monday. And, as always, we're always looking for feedback on how we could make Seekler better.
I've got a startup that brings college bulletin boards online for students to buy and sell their used textbooks. It's eBay meets Craiglist for college textbooks. Check out our alpha project at cocunderground.com (COC is for college of the canyons, the school that this project is directed at). All feedback is welcome!
We launched <a href="http://bug.gd" rel="nofollow">http://bug.gd</a> in late 2007 as a way for everyone to search and capture solutions to error messages. Happily, it was covered on TechCrunch, Digg, Mashable, etc. Exciting stuff. We recently created a full Firefox extension that makes it even more natural. <a href="http://bug.gd/download" rel="nofollow">http://bug.gd/download</a><p>bug.gd plans to drive its revenue through corporate intranet sales of our software and P2P helpdesk solutions. The public-facing error database is expected to always be free and ad-free as a consequence.<p>Interesting primarily to places like YC, we're about to announce our <a href="http://featurelist.org" rel="nofollow">http://featurelist.org</a> which is really just a tool we use for our feature tracking and thought we'd open it up to the world. It's a free little Reddit-inspired site for startups and open source projects to let their community vote on features. Anyone can host a project there and have users visit <a href="http://featurelist.org/MYPROJECT" rel="nofollow">http://featurelist.org/MYPROJECT</a> to request/vote on features. This will probably go public beta in a couple of weeks, but it's really just a gift back to the community more than anything we want to make $$$ with.<p>Very, very busy lately. Back to work. :)
We've just launched our social news site for women, with a focus on fashion, beauty, and celebrity gossip. That means lots of pretty photos!<p>Initial users seem to like it so far :)<p><a href="http://www.prettysocial.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.prettysocial.net/</a>
We have select users now and plan to open up the private beta in about 3 weeks - our deadline as we have a presentation that day. We've been coding for a year now, and we're excited to be on the verge of finally raising the curtain. :) <a href="http://streamfocus.com" rel="nofollow">http://streamfocus.com</a>
I'm working on a web-based MMO. We're about 75% through the game logic, artwork requirements is going out to the art studio in the next week.<p>We should hit our beta milestone at the end of March.
My startup (<a href="http://www.HubSpot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.HubSpot.com</a>) launched its product in November, 2007. It's a web hosted solution for inbound marketing for small businesses.<p>Revenues are growing steadily. The team is 26 people (22 in Cambridge, MA) and we're getting deeper into search engine algorithms, Facebook apps for business and English text analysis.<p>Challenge right now is making sure the system will scale as we continue to grow our customers/usage. High quality problem.
We've been hacking away building the technology for our startup since late last fall. We're finally close to launch time (end Feb hopefully). We're more focused on getting a product launched as quickly as possible and then letting our community have it's say re: what works and doesnt work.<p>Development took longer than I hoped, but we used our blog to really spread the word and get the 'movement' started in the meantime.<p>We're NewsCred, a digital newspaper that brings you news based on credibility from your favorite sources. Unlike Digg, which uses popularity, our primary criterion is quality/credibility. Plus we're an online newspaper, not a social news site. Whats the difference? Hopefully you'll be able to see for yourself soon!<p>Loved reading everyone else's ideas. Let me know what you guys think! <a href="http://www.newscred.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.newscred.com</a>
Interesting to see the things people are doing.<p>A few months ago, 2 of my friends from college and I came up with an idea for allowing people to create polls online and give them tools to look at the results in more detail. Only problem was none of us knew anything about web programming and design. We learnt a lot from reading forums, through w3schools and other websites. After more than 6 months of tinkering and working pretty much on weekends (2 of us work as bankers), we came up with PollBag (www.pollbag.com). Its probably a bit amateur but would love to know what you think. We are always looking to get constructive feedback.
1. its going ok but its just me at the moment and its self funded, I am working 50/50 client work and startup work at the moment.<p>2. first product very soon, just need to do the final tweak and get some beta testing done to make sure its easy to use and hard to break :p<p>3. small simple web apps, I plan to release more than 1 app under my companies brand.<p>4. I just did a redesign of the first app and am happy with the look now. I am also working on tech demos for other products in my portfolio.<p>Next week I should release my first app.
My startup's going fine so far. Tech side's coming along (slower than I'd like of course), but the business side's going crazy.<p>We're aiming for a beta in the spring. I wish I could say what it is, but we're all hush-hush now (can't even say what it's called right now). Maybe in a few months :)<p>On a side-note, I'm looking for a programmer, particularly with for UI and design stuff. Let me know if you or someone you know may be interested.
<a href="http://redsultan.com" rel="nofollow">http://redsultan.com</a><p>Amazon Mechanical Turk competitor in the works (it also happens to be my senior thesis).
I plan on launching an initial version of my site in March. I started full time in December, and gave myself 3 months to have something out the door. Im pretty well on track. I initally cut some things that were in the original design, to make sure 3 months would do it. That was probably the hardest part of the whole thing - determining at the beginning what to leave out.
Mine is Photoree, the collaborative image recommendation system ( <a href="http://www.photoree.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.photoree.com</a> ). Just got reviewed by KillerStartups <a href="http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/Photoreecom---A-Photo-Recommendation-Service/" rel="nofollow">http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/Photoreecom-...</a>
Rolling along with about 25 new users per day. Getting ready to launch the first round of user-requested and pre-planned features. So far it has been a lot of fun! My main problem is I built the site to scratch an itch and now that it exists I use it myself so much I don't work on features enough.
Threw out something as fast possible to credibly sell our product, we've made some sales, and now we're going back and fixing everything / adding infrastructure & features.<p>We also secured a small seed round of funding ---enough to last us a few months.
I actually just started the registration phase of my company. But I already have a few products near beta stage. Right now the company is 100% funded out of my wallet, making living very hard. I might have to take out a loan to pay for the server expenses.
we just launched <a href="http://www.cellspin.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cellspin.net/</a> at the DEMO conference (<a href="http://www.demo.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.demo.com</a>). it is a service that provides easy to use mobile software for you to send your media from your phone to your favorite websites (flickr, facebook, youtube, etc). we also have a website where you can manage the content you have uploaded and keep track of what your friends have been posting. check it out and let me what you think (ian [at] cellspinsoft [dot] com). we're always looking for new sites to add as destinations. please give me any feedback you have! i'd love to hear from you guys.
Slowly whittling away at an online accounting suite for small businesses. Stubbed out the underpinnings, and just did the first major design iteration. Should show it to the first potential users in a month or two.
Built the system, but then we realized we were hitting a common demographic. Went back to the drawing board and begun to rewrite it. We're close to private beta.
Dead.<p>I need someone who knows his way around Photoshop, CSS, and visual design, and I don't have a couple years to drop everything and go learn that.