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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1

132 点作者 zaveri超过 11 年前

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jasonkester超过 11 年前
I remember a time when this very TechCrunch article would come out and I&#x27;d read through it with a sense of dismay at the sheer unadulterated badness of every single idea.<p>Things have changed.<p>An example: <i>Teleborder charges $5,000 per visa application, ... gathering documents, collecting information, and sending information to the government.</i><p>This is one of those ideas where you just stop and wonder why nobody has run with it before. These guys are going to make bank. I rode a dotcom into the ground in the early &#x27;aughts that was tackling a similar problem with 10x the paperwork of a H1B and roughly 0% of the hair-on-fire demand that tech companies with tons of money have for help getting labor into the country.<p>That&#x27;s the kind of company I wish I&#x27;d founded. Nice work.
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prawn超过 11 年前
Liked this comment on the SpoonRocket story:<p>&quot;Reminds me of a tactic used by my father&#x27;s friend, who owned a pizzeria. He noticed that about half the orders were for large pepperoni pizzas. So he had his drivers always carry an additional large pepperoni pizza in the car, and he&#x27;d call them mid-route if an additional order came in. It usually did, so thankfully very few cold pizzas died, and he sold more pizzas per hour than before. Saved on gas, drivers made more tips, and eventually he ended up getting heaters and drivers carrying as many as 10 per trip. Combine that with the deeper large pepperoni price cut he could now afford, it was quickly became the busiest joint in town. Too bad he never expanded.&quot;<p>Makes me imagine a person&#x2F;duo in a van, back filled with a limited range of curries on the go and rice cookers, driving around a particular area getting delivery requests and payment on their phone. Drive the short distance (you&#x27;re already in the van with the product), ladle out servings and walk them to the door. It&#x27;d be hard to beat that sort of delivery time and it might make for a few impulse orders.
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frakkingcylons超过 11 年前
Floobits works really well from my limited experience. I&#x27;ve used it in Sublime while my friend was in vim and it worked flawlessly. Much better than our experience with attempting something similar with Screenhero. We tried Flooty (live terminal-sharing) as well, and it&#x27;s in a mostly-working state. If you&#x27;ve ever tried Nitrous.io&#x27;s shared tmux sessions, it works almost as well. I see Floobits becoming a tool used by many, many developers.<p>I like Toutpost&#x27;s idea, but I&#x27;m not convinced by their approach at the moment. Though I&#x27;m actually in the process of making something pretty similar for a specific audience in Django.<p>If they were in my area already, I would probably try out SpoonRocket immediately. I already prepare and cook all my meals, but I&#x27;m still prone to getting some food near campus once or twice a week. $6 for a delivered &quot;designer&quot; meal is pretty compelling if they manage to maintain that price outside of their current area.
jhuckestein超过 11 年前
There is no way that YC now considers 10% weekly revenue growth low. That&#x27;s 142x a year. I&#x27;m pretty sure any investor would be happy with that kind of traction, especially if the company has their unit economics figured out, like Prim appears to have.
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pisarzp超过 11 年前
Kivo sounds really fantastic. I can remember having 272 versions of the presentation back in the day I worked in the bank.<p>The only obstacle I see is that majority of the potential users are not allowed to install any software themselves, but given that they already signed up some big customers they definitely can cope with that.
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dirtyaura超过 11 年前
Article claims that Prim&#x27;s 10% weekly growth is &quot;low by Y-Combinator standards&quot;, but in &quot;Startup = Growth&quot; pg wrote that 10% weekly growth is great growth pace, and above 5% is good. Has the baseline of YC companies improved that much?
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k-mcgrady超过 11 年前
Prim: interesting and I&#x27;m sure useful for a lot of people. I hope they&#x27;re right that they can eventually lower prices though because that seems very expensive. Also is there a trend towards or away from using laundromats? Where I&#x27;m from it&#x27;s unusual not to have your own washing machine and I wouldn&#x27;t move anywhere that didn&#x27;t have one.<p>RealCrowd: Really interesting startup but with the recent housing crisis they may have trouble convincing people it&#x27;s a worthwhile investment and not a total gamble. I&#x27;m really interested to see where this goes and if it ever moves to include the general public (i.e. non-accredited investors).<p>StatusPage.io - I&#x27;ll be using this immediately. Useful product and it looks like they already have quite a few high profile companies as customers. Hard to have an opinion on the pricing as I&#x27;ve no idea how many users would subscribe to these notifications.
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velik_m超过 11 年前
I think GoComm and Kivo have the best chance of this batch. I think GoComm especially is a good idea and in retrospect so obvious, that i wish i would&#x27;ve though of it. Coordinating people, even in small scale events is painful. I remember when i helped with fencing tournaments our club ran (running computer system) it was a constant trouble tracking down free pistes, referees, making sure other stuff (refreshments, garbage and similar) was ok... we solved this with having a dedicated person on the floor in the hall, keeping an eye out and keeping me in the loop, but that isn&#x27;t very scalable
namwen超过 11 年前
&quot;Today, some $29. 6 billion in smartphone cases are sold every year.&quot;<p>Really? No way. I&#x27;d be amazed if this was a correct figure.
jamesbrennan超过 11 年前
StatusPage.io looks like a very good and needed product but I feel like the fact they are a 100% AWS service this wouldn&#x27;t be ideal for companies who also host their product in AWS. What happens when an AWS-related issue comes up? Your customers may not be able to get to your product as well as your status page.
pla3rhat3r超过 11 年前
I love that every app is labeled &quot;It&#x27;s (insert other app) for (insert what is does).&quot; Example: YAMMER FOR MOBILE WORKFORCE, Mint.com for legal spend, CLICKTALE FOR MOBILE, YELP FOR LATIN AMERICA.<p>UGH!!
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untilHellbanned超过 11 年前
meh. none of these ideas other than Standard Treasury seem particularly compelling,<p>and there goes whats left of my karma...
gadders超过 11 年前
This is all very well, but what would Edward Sno.... Just kidding.<p>Good luck to everyone in all three Techcrunch pages. Entrepreneurs are heroes and I hope you all make it big.
hatu超过 11 年前
How many &quot;X for Y&quot; ideas can you count?
citizenkeys超过 11 年前
all the companies are listed here: <a href="http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycuniverse.com&#x2F;ycombinator-companies</a><p>most of them have already been on techcrunch by the time demo day rolls around.
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diminish超过 11 年前
Please see the HN poll to predict top YC summer 2013 performers. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249141" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6249141</a>
sologoub超过 11 年前
Looks like the screwed up tagline for SpoonRocket - &quot;reviews for everything&quot; looks like a copy&#x2F;paste from Toutpost right above it...
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davedx超过 11 年前
Congratulations to the Apptimize team! Proud to have been a part of it. :)
6thSigma超过 11 年前
I wonder why GraftConcepts didn&#x27;t go the Kickstarter route.
nashequilibrium超过 11 年前
Is there a link to the video presentations?