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Ask HN: What is your favorite startup that you are following right now?

67 points by tech_crawl_ 11y ago

There are so many awesome startups out there... what are some that people are consistently following?

Danilka 11y ago
https://luciding.com https://luciding.com - very simple, but promising technology. The team seems to be smart.
- lappa 11y ago
  Do they have any third party customer reviews? Their video claims 80% success on the first try, but since it isn't sold on eBay or Amazon I can't find any trustworthy reviews.
  - Danilka 11y ago
    It's too early in the process. They just started shipping first units. You can get in touch with founders, though.
- BinaryIdiot 11y ago
  That looks pretty interesting but something sending electricity into my brain scares me just a tiny bit. I'm very curious to see what third party reviewers / researchers think of this.
  - i336_ 11y ago
    FWIW, https://reddit.com/tDCS https://reddit.com/tDCS may be interesting.
danielbnelson 11y ago
Mattermark
subliminalzen 11y ago
Emulate Inc, a biotech startup that designed organs-on-chips, a technology that could potentially stop animal testing.[1] I also follow Beyond Meat. Google's Sergey Brin invested in them.[2] They are working on cruelty-free "cultured meat". [1]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/medical-technology-that-could-eliminate-need-for-animal-testing-wins-design-award-10337887.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/medical-technology... [2]http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/silicon-valley-fake-meat-burger.html http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/silicon-valley-fake-meat-b...
orph 11y ago
Magic
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- j2bax 11y ago
  I don't think the OP was looking for people to pump their startup here, but ones that people were following and found very interesting. That said, I'm sure you follow your startup pretty closely and are very interested in it.
  - aaronmhatch 11y ago
    Ah, ok. I'll delete it.
tedmiston 11y ago
Genius http://genius.com/ http://genius.com/
- cheniel 11y ago
  Genius is great. I enjoy using them for song lyrics and I'm hoping their other categories (esp. web annotations) take off as well.
- joelrunyon 11y ago
  Does anyone else think it's actually difficult to use genius? Also, the white text on black background makes it notoriously difficult to read & seems like a choice made by someone designing a geocities site. Not a great choice for something that's core feature is "readability"
  - i336_ 11y ago
    Yes. I remember reading an article on Genius about Heroku (FWIW, http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated) and hadn't initially bookmarked it. I eventually remembered the "Genius" bit, so went to genius.com to locate the arti-- "...Wait. This is a lyrics sharing site." "Uhh, what?" I had to use my browser history (and my now-dented, slightly-less-certain hunch it was genius.com) to find the article. I like the yellow on black with the hollywood-style hatch-like design, but yeah, it doesn't "have it" just yet.
- j_s 11y ago
  Would you care to share any additional details explaining why you would highlight just this one of your favorite startups? In my mind, Genius = bad press.
  - tedmiston 11y ago
    Sure, two reasons: 1. I believe the web needs an annotation layer, somewhat analogous to the vision of Wikipedia but available globally across all sites. 2. I highlight and annotate aggressively when I read, which is why I care so much about annotation tools. Today I think there are a couple good tools for annotating the web. For drafts or private highlights and annotations I use Instapaper (premium subscription needed). Their is simple and barebones, but functional... it reminds me of Pinboard. However, Genius annotations are public and richer with embedded media, commenting, voting, etc. Another early candidate to watch in annotating the research vertical specifically is Hypothesis (https://hypothes.is https://hypothes.is).
mgalka 11y ago
I only just discovered this one, but it's one of the most interesting startups I've seen in a while. Premonition - http://premonition.ai/ http://premonition.ai/ It helps you choose a lawyer by analyzing legal data - which lawyers usually win before which judges, whether or not they run up the bill, etc. Seems like there could be some ethical issues, but the value proposition is potentially enormous.
- brazzledazzle 11y ago
  It takes guts to get in a space where the people you're evaluating can take it upon themselves to sue you at no cost to themselves. And I sincerely hope they succeed, no one should be untouchable.
  - mgalka 11y ago
    Yes. Along with politicians and police, lawyers and judges are able to operate above the law. People don't talk much about it, but judges get away with some crazy stuff. A little transparency would be great for the whole system. On the other hand, if big business starts using this kind of analysis to always beat the little guy in court, that would be pretty shitty. There is already a big imbalance in legal power, and something like this could make it much worse.
DiabloD3 11y ago
My favorite: Exelion https://exelion.net https://exelion.net We're doing bare metal without the high cost. Disclaimer: I'm the founder. Other disclaimer: Did anyone notice I'm in the top 100 for HN points now? \o/
- leesalminen 11y ago
  I've been debating switching from Rackspace to bare metal a lot lately. Their managed DB product proved rock solid for several years, though the last bit has been less reliable. I always ask myself if I would truly be better at managing a MariaDB cluster than RS. Would you say it makes sense for a one man ops team to run bare metal?
  - old-gregg 11y ago
    Hm... they have both: http://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal http://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal
  - DiabloD3 11y ago
    For many years I was a one man ops team, before I founded Exelion, and yet again a one man ops team for the first two years. I prefer bare metal so I'm assured very specific things, such as data security, overall latency (CPU, disk, etc), and also IO flow between VMs, and ALSO the choice of whatever hypervisor I want on servers I use VMs on. Outsourcing hypervisor management to a third party sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn't. That said, Rackspace DOES have bare metal offerings, but I find them to be far more expensive than they are worth. Exelion does it less expensively with better service quality, but of course, what I say is just a smidgen biased. ;)
- pdq 11y ago
  Pretty cool, this is like virtual colocation. I have a few suggestions: 1. You should put up a performance/benchmark page to compare to both bare metal and virtualized competitors (ala your "value"). For example, here's a page comparing DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-vs-vultr-vs-linode-benchmark-compare.2889/ https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-vs-vul... You could make a nice price/performance matrix to compare against your competition. 2. Also I don't know how feasible it is, but you might want to allow some "trial" method, so an interested party could try your server for a short amount of time (1 hour, 24 hours, etc.) to benchmark their app.
mfkp 11y ago
https://prestodoctor.com/ https://prestodoctor.com/ - online CA mmj recommendations, clean design and solid customer service
- brazzledazzle 11y ago
  I've been following this one as well. But I can't imagine legalization is more than five years away in California.
deftnerd 11y ago
Plex at https://plex.tv https://plex.tv is an amazing startup that has created an ecosystem of media players on multiple devices "Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox (Xbox 360 & Xbox One), Playstation (PS3 & PS4), and other Smart TV platforms (currently Samsung, VIZIO, & Opera TV)" [0] The clients play media you host yourself on your home computer or server. They're self-funded and remarkably successful in the cord-cutting community. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software)
SilasX 11y ago
I guess this is intended for learning of unknown startups, and it's a huge one, so I don't think this is what you're looking for, but... Uber I've been querying for HN/reddit submissions a lot. I'm fascinated by all its accomplishments and the issues it raises: - Viability of work-as-you-want, surge-as-needed supply model - Creating critical mass for carpooling and rides on demand to work (I don't think anyone believed it was possible to convince upper middle class people to carpool with strangers) - Being one of the few major instances of coordinating a shift away from tipping - The spotlight they've shone (yes that shine's past participle) on the taxi industry and the "unseen" improvements we were missing out on - The issues related to the contractor/employee boundary - The general logistics of on-demand infrastructure and things it enables at scale Most of that applies to Lyft too of course, though they're in the news less. (In case I sound like a propagandist, let me note that yes their ethical lapses do bother me and I know some people who would lose respect for me if I ever worked there, so yeah it's not all wine and roses.)
- caseysoftware 11y ago
  I've been thinking along these lines combined with the better information that I (and others) have on myself, including things as simple as when/where I have meetings: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/future-transportation-today http://caseysoftware.com/blog/future-transportation-today
- neptunespear 11y ago
  I wish it came to Vancouver.
  - devbug 11y ago
    They're pushing for it. Have you seen the new email campaign they're running?
    - neptunespear 11y ago
      I have not. Council ruled a few days ago, no new taxi licenses, no Uber. But it's hard to defend the company when they treat their employees like garbage.
neptunespear 11y ago
Grouplend: http://grouplend.ca http://grouplend.ca I like Grouplend for three reasons: 1. It uses cutting edge technology and Big Data. 2. It's bringing B2B lending to Canada; finally, you can get a loan without going through the big banks. 3. Markus Frind invested in the company when he got his $575-million payout after Match.com bought POF. I just wish they paid more. On angel.co, they're offering $50-75K for junior-intermediate engineers and $65K for intermediate-senior engineers at the low end. I would have liked to see them offer at least $75-80K to new grads, at least the well-prepared ones.
- gozo 11y ago
  4. It's doubling the 40 hour work week. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/how-i-get-my-employees-to-work-80-hours-a-week/article27047497/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-busi...
  - neptunespear 11y ago
    So it's replacing MDA as the Canadian version of SpaceX?
tvvocold 11y ago
I don't know my favorite startup , but here are some cool startups you can check: https://www.cloudflare.com https://www.cloudflare.com https://coding.net https://coding.net (It's for Chinese developers but you can try https://ide.coding.net https://ide.coding.net also) https://www.quora.com https://www.quora.com
- jaflo 11y ago
  https://ide.coding.net https://ide.coding.net looks similar to https://www.nitrous.io https://www.nitrous.io.
  - ivan_burazin 11y ago
    And codeanywhere.com as well.
giis 11y ago
www.sysdig.org Because its interesting linux tool.
akbar501 11y ago
AirWare
pdq 11y ago
SoundCloud - http://soundcloud.com http://soundcloud.com This is the YouTube of music, and has been exploding in popularity.
- sfsylvester 11y ago
  YouTube is the YouTube of music. While there is probably room in the music sharing market for SoundCloud to grow (and fall out from YouTube's copyright policy), there is so much around the YouTube to MP3 environment that it's going to be difficult for anyone to take that market lead away from Google. I hope I'm wrong though.
vonnik 11y ago
Orbital Insight http://orbitalinsight.com/ http://orbitalinsight.com/
fscherer 11y ago
Enlitic and magic leap
binaryjohn 11y ago
I'm absolutely enamored with http://imgur.com http://imgur.com - They continually refine the product - They are careful of feature creep - The community they've cultivated seems to feel incredible ownership of the product.
- BorisMelnik 11y ago
  they really are crushing the game, and you are right they give a new meaning to the word(s) "loyal following" and "brand ambassadors" imgur.com users are insane!
nirmal5307 11y ago
http://mobirise.com/ http://mobirise.com/ This is a desktop application that helps anyone make a basic web page for you startup. It' s Free. Made for Mac and Windows.
deftnerd 11y ago
I love what Taiga.io is doing. They're making an Agile/Scrum solution that's a pleasure to work with by focusing on UI first. They're even open-source.
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msutherl 11y ago
I have a list of favorite startups here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/good-startups https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/good-startups Highlights: http://are.na http://are.na (private and collaborative research platform) http://un1verse.co http://un1verse.co (mobile card-based programming) https://www.notion.so https://www.notion.so (powerful collaborative documents) http://mine.nyc http://mine.nyc (z-axis for content on the web) http://ascribe.io http://ascribe.io (registering content ownership in the blockchain) http://urbit.org http://urbit.org (radically simple complete re-write of system and network software/infrastructure) https://artadvisor.io/ https://artadvisor.io/ (artworld intelligence) https://graphcommons.com/ https://graphcommons.com/ (collaborative graph databases)
- miguelrochefort 11y ago
  That's a fantastic list. Universe does sound promising, although they barely say anything. Do you know where I can learn more about them?
  - tech_crawl_ 11y ago
    Agree!
- dplgk 11y ago
  Got an invite for notion?
- frrp 11y ago
  ascribe created a very useful service for artists/creators with some amazing innovative technology and legal work. Blockchain, machine learning, big data and copyright law!
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bradavogel 11y ago
Mixmax is tackling the next generation of email. Many startups claim they're reinventing email, but they're just creating better tools to triage email. Mixmax is actually rethinking the form of email and how communication can be richer with interactive, information dense content.
atroyn 11y ago
I think Zirx - http://zirx.com/ http://zirx.com/ has a lot more to it than meets the eye. At the moment it seems like it's just another part of the on-demand economy, a kind of reverse-uber for people who own cars in the city. But if and when self driving cars appear, Zirx are the company that will know how to run the infrastructure and facilities for autonomous vehicles in and around cities, and other forms of transport.
adamjin 11y ago
https://getfinal.com/ https://getfinal.com/ One card to rule them all.
akg_67 11y ago
My favorite is Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com https://www.digitalocean.com. While Google and Microsoft are trying to take AWS head-on, DO is nibbling away on AWS at the edges. AWS has become complex and as long as DO stays on simpler side, they have good chance to build a decent business.
Chos89 11y ago
https://airtame.com/ https://airtame.com/ Really looking forward to this. Time to get rid of the cables
tech_crawl_ 11y ago
These are all really awesome!
colloqu 11y ago
https://www.stomt.com https://www.stomt.com You can give feedback by just finishing a sentence. Like a mix of Twitter and reddit. Looks promising but seems to be still in Beta.
mn3m 11y ago
https://wake.io/ https://wake.io/ - Design sharing site, process oriented
kitwalker12 11y ago
https://www.tutum.co https://www.tutum.co The community around it is really helpful and amazing
- tech_crawl_ 11y ago
  Solid
janamysc 11y ago
http://www.goguin.com/en http://www.goguin.com/en – relocation for free Great for digital nomads and those who move often. These guys had the most awesome idea to match people in different cities who move, so if you are lucky can save tons of money on renting the apartment and buying/selling the stuff. Will definitely use when I decide to relocate next time.
izolate 11y ago
Half of these aren't even startups. Can you really a call a company a startup after a few years and solid revenue streams?

67 points by tech_crawl_ 11y ago

There are so many awesome startups out there... what are some that people are consistently following?

Danilka 11y ago

https://luciding.com https://luciding.com - very simple, but promising technology. The team seems to be smart.

lappa 11y ago
Do they have any third party customer reviews? Their video claims 80% success on the first try, but since it isn't sold on eBay or Amazon I can't find any trustworthy reviews.
- Danilka 11y ago
  It's too early in the process. They just started shipping first units. You can get in touch with founders, though.
BinaryIdiot 11y ago
That looks pretty interesting but something sending electricity into my brain scares me just a tiny bit. I'm very curious to see what third party reviewers / researchers think of this.
- i336_ 11y ago
  FWIW, https://reddit.com/tDCS https://reddit.com/tDCS may be interesting.

danielbnelson 11y ago

Mattermark

subliminalzen 11y ago

Emulate Inc, a biotech startup that designed organs-on-chips, a technology that could potentially stop animal testing.[1] I also follow Beyond Meat. Google's Sergey Brin invested in them.[2] They are working on cruelty-free "cultured meat". [1]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/medical-technology-that-could-eliminate-need-for-animal-testing-wins-design-award-10337887.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/medical-technology... [2]http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/silicon-valley-fake-meat-burger.html http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/silicon-valley-fake-meat-b...

orph 11y ago

Magic

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j2bax 11y ago
I don't think the OP was looking for people to pump their startup here, but ones that people were following and found very interesting. That said, I'm sure you follow your startup pretty closely and are very interested in it.
- aaronmhatch 11y ago
  Ah, ok. I'll delete it.

tedmiston 11y ago

Genius http://genius.com/ http://genius.com/

cheniel 11y ago
Genius is great. I enjoy using them for song lyrics and I'm hoping their other categories (esp. web annotations) take off as well.
joelrunyon 11y ago
Does anyone else think it's actually difficult to use genius? Also, the white text on black background makes it notoriously difficult to read & seems like a choice made by someone designing a geocities site. Not a great choice for something that's core feature is "readability"
- i336_ 11y ago
  Yes. I remember reading an article on Genius about Heroku (FWIW, http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated http://genius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-annotated) and hadn't initially bookmarked it. I eventually remembered the "Genius" bit, so went to genius.com to locate the arti-- "...Wait. This is a lyrics sharing site." "Uhh, what?" I had to use my browser history (and my now-dented, slightly-less-certain hunch it was genius.com) to find the article. I like the yellow on black with the hollywood-style hatch-like design, but yeah, it doesn't "have it" just yet.
j_s 11y ago
Would you care to share any additional details explaining why you would highlight just this one of your favorite startups? In my mind, Genius = bad press.
- tedmiston 11y ago
  Sure, two reasons: 1. I believe the web needs an annotation layer, somewhat analogous to the vision of Wikipedia but available globally across all sites. 2. I highlight and annotate aggressively when I read, which is why I care so much about annotation tools. Today I think there are a couple good tools for annotating the web. For drafts or private highlights and annotations I use Instapaper (premium subscription needed). Their is simple and barebones, but functional... it reminds me of Pinboard. However, Genius annotations are public and richer with embedded media, commenting, voting, etc. Another early candidate to watch in annotating the research vertical specifically is Hypothesis (https://hypothes.is https://hypothes.is).

mgalka 11y ago

I only just discovered this one, but it's one of the most interesting startups I've seen in a while. Premonition - http://premonition.ai/ http://premonition.ai/ It helps you choose a lawyer by analyzing legal data - which lawyers usually win before which judges, whether or not they run up the bill, etc. Seems like there could be some ethical issues, but the value proposition is potentially enormous.

brazzledazzle 11y ago
It takes guts to get in a space where the people you're evaluating can take it upon themselves to sue you at no cost to themselves. And I sincerely hope they succeed, no one should be untouchable.
- mgalka 11y ago
  Yes. Along with politicians and police, lawyers and judges are able to operate above the law. People don't talk much about it, but judges get away with some crazy stuff. A little transparency would be great for the whole system. On the other hand, if big business starts using this kind of analysis to always beat the little guy in court, that would be pretty shitty. There is already a big imbalance in legal power, and something like this could make it much worse.

DiabloD3 11y ago

My favorite: Exelion https://exelion.net https://exelion.net We're doing bare metal without the high cost. Disclaimer: I'm the founder. Other disclaimer: Did anyone notice I'm in the top 100 for HN points now? \o/

leesalminen 11y ago
I've been debating switching from Rackspace to bare metal a lot lately. Their managed DB product proved rock solid for several years, though the last bit has been less reliable. I always ask myself if I would truly be better at managing a MariaDB cluster than RS. Would you say it makes sense for a one man ops team to run bare metal?
- old-gregg 11y ago
  Hm... they have both: http://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal http://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal
- DiabloD3 11y ago
  For many years I was a one man ops team, before I founded Exelion, and yet again a one man ops team for the first two years. I prefer bare metal so I'm assured very specific things, such as data security, overall latency (CPU, disk, etc), and also IO flow between VMs, and ALSO the choice of whatever hypervisor I want on servers I use VMs on. Outsourcing hypervisor management to a third party sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn't. That said, Rackspace DOES have bare metal offerings, but I find them to be far more expensive than they are worth. Exelion does it less expensively with better service quality, but of course, what I say is just a smidgen biased. ;)
pdq 11y ago
Pretty cool, this is like virtual colocation. I have a few suggestions: 1. You should put up a performance/benchmark page to compare to both bare metal and virtualized competitors (ala your "value"). For example, here's a page comparing DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-vs-vultr-vs-linode-benchmark-compare.2889/ https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-vs-vul... You could make a nice price/performance matrix to compare against your competition. 2. Also I don't know how feasible it is, but you might want to allow some "trial" method, so an interested party could try your server for a short amount of time (1 hour, 24 hours, etc.) to benchmark their app.

mfkp 11y ago

https://prestodoctor.com/ https://prestodoctor.com/ - online CA mmj recommendations, clean design and solid customer service

brazzledazzle 11y ago
I've been following this one as well. But I can't imagine legalization is more than five years away in California.

deftnerd 11y ago

Plex at https://plex.tv https://plex.tv is an amazing startup that has created an ecosystem of media players on multiple devices "Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox (Xbox 360 & Xbox One), Playstation (PS3 & PS4), and other Smart TV platforms (currently Samsung, VIZIO, & Opera TV)" [0] The clients play media you host yourself on your home computer or server. They're self-funded and remarkably successful in the cord-cutting community. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software)

SilasX 11y ago

I guess this is intended for learning of unknown startups, and it's a huge one, so I don't think this is what you're looking for, but... Uber I've been querying for HN/reddit submissions a lot. I'm fascinated by all its accomplishments and the issues it raises: - Viability of work-as-you-want, surge-as-needed supply model - Creating critical mass for carpooling and rides on demand to work (I don't think anyone believed it was possible to convince upper middle class people to carpool with strangers) - Being one of the few major instances of coordinating a shift away from tipping - The spotlight they've shone (yes that shine's past participle) on the taxi industry and the "unseen" improvements we were missing out on - The issues related to the contractor/employee boundary - The general logistics of on-demand infrastructure and things it enables at scale Most of that applies to Lyft too of course, though they're in the news less. (In case I sound like a propagandist, let me note that yes their ethical lapses do bother me and I know some people who would lose respect for me if I ever worked there, so yeah it's not all wine and roses.)

caseysoftware 11y ago
I've been thinking along these lines combined with the better information that I (and others) have on myself, including things as simple as when/where I have meetings: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/future-transportation-today http://caseysoftware.com/blog/future-transportation-today
neptunespear 11y ago
I wish it came to Vancouver.
- devbug 11y ago
  They're pushing for it. Have you seen the new email campaign they're running?
  - neptunespear 11y ago
    I have not. Council ruled a few days ago, no new taxi licenses, no Uber. But it's hard to defend the company when they treat their employees like garbage.

neptunespear 11y ago

Grouplend: http://grouplend.ca http://grouplend.ca I like Grouplend for three reasons: 1. It uses cutting edge technology and Big Data. 2. It's bringing B2B lending to Canada; finally, you can get a loan without going through the big banks. 3. Markus Frind invested in the company when he got his $575-million payout after Match.com bought POF. I just wish they paid more. On angel.co, they're offering $50-75K for junior-intermediate engineers and $65K for intermediate-senior engineers at the low end. I would have liked to see them offer at least $75-80K to new grads, at least the well-prepared ones.

gozo 11y ago
4. It's doubling the 40 hour work week. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/how-i-get-my-employees-to-work-80-hours-a-week/article27047497/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-busi...
- neptunespear 11y ago
  So it's replacing MDA as the Canadian version of SpaceX?

tvvocold 11y ago

I don't know my favorite startup , but here are some cool startups you can check: https://www.cloudflare.com https://www.cloudflare.com https://coding.net https://coding.net (It's for Chinese developers but you can try https://ide.coding.net https://ide.coding.net also) https://www.quora.com https://www.quora.com

jaflo 11y ago
https://ide.coding.net https://ide.coding.net looks similar to https://www.nitrous.io https://www.nitrous.io.
- ivan_burazin 11y ago
  And codeanywhere.com as well.

giis 11y ago

www.sysdig.org Because its interesting linux tool.

akbar501 11y ago

AirWare

pdq 11y ago

SoundCloud - http://soundcloud.com http://soundcloud.com This is the YouTube of music, and has been exploding in popularity.

sfsylvester 11y ago
YouTube is the YouTube of music. While there is probably room in the music sharing market for SoundCloud to grow (and fall out from YouTube's copyright policy), there is so much around the YouTube to MP3 environment that it's going to be difficult for anyone to take that market lead away from Google. I hope I'm wrong though.

vonnik 11y ago

Orbital Insight http://orbitalinsight.com/ http://orbitalinsight.com/

fscherer 11y ago

Enlitic and magic leap

binaryjohn 11y ago

I'm absolutely enamored with http://imgur.com http://imgur.com - They continually refine the product - They are careful of feature creep - The community they've cultivated seems to feel incredible ownership of the product.

BorisMelnik 11y ago
they really are crushing the game, and you are right they give a new meaning to the word(s) "loyal following" and "brand ambassadors" imgur.com users are insane!

nirmal5307 11y ago

http://mobirise.com/ http://mobirise.com/ This is a desktop application that helps anyone make a basic web page for you startup. It' s Free. Made for Mac and Windows.

deftnerd 11y ago

I love what Taiga.io is doing. They're making an Agile/Scrum solution that's a pleasure to work with by focusing on UI first. They're even open-source.

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msutherl 11y ago

I have a list of favorite startups here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/good-startups https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/good-startups Highlights: http://are.na http://are.na (private and collaborative research platform) http://un1verse.co http://un1verse.co (mobile card-based programming) https://www.notion.so https://www.notion.so (powerful collaborative documents) http://mine.nyc http://mine.nyc (z-axis for content on the web) http://ascribe.io http://ascribe.io (registering content ownership in the blockchain) http://urbit.org http://urbit.org (radically simple complete re-write of system and network software/infrastructure) https://artadvisor.io/ https://artadvisor.io/ (artworld intelligence) https://graphcommons.com/ https://graphcommons.com/ (collaborative graph databases)

miguelrochefort 11y ago
That's a fantastic list. Universe does sound promising, although they barely say anything. Do you know where I can learn more about them?
- tech_crawl_ 11y ago
  Agree!
dplgk 11y ago
Got an invite for notion?
frrp 11y ago
ascribe created a very useful service for artists/creators with some amazing innovative technology and legal work. Blockchain, machine learning, big data and copyright law!

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bradavogel 11y ago

Mixmax is tackling the next generation of email. Many startups claim they're reinventing email, but they're just creating better tools to triage email. Mixmax is actually rethinking the form of email and how communication can be richer with interactive, information dense content.

atroyn 11y ago

I think Zirx - http://zirx.com/ http://zirx.com/ has a lot more to it than meets the eye. At the moment it seems like it's just another part of the on-demand economy, a kind of reverse-uber for people who own cars in the city. But if and when self driving cars appear, Zirx are the company that will know how to run the infrastructure and facilities for autonomous vehicles in and around cities, and other forms of transport.

adamjin 11y ago

https://getfinal.com/ https://getfinal.com/ One card to rule them all.

akg_67 11y ago

My favorite is Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com https://www.digitalocean.com. While Google and Microsoft are trying to take AWS head-on, DO is nibbling away on AWS at the edges. AWS has become complex and as long as DO stays on simpler side, they have good chance to build a decent business.

Chos89 11y ago

https://airtame.com/ https://airtame.com/ Really looking forward to this. Time to get rid of the cables

tech_crawl_ 11y ago

These are all really awesome!

colloqu 11y ago

https://www.stomt.com https://www.stomt.com You can give feedback by just finishing a sentence. Like a mix of Twitter and reddit. Looks promising but seems to be still in Beta.

mn3m 11y ago

https://wake.io/ https://wake.io/ - Design sharing site, process oriented

kitwalker12 11y ago

https://www.tutum.co https://www.tutum.co The community around it is really helpful and amazing

tech_crawl_ 11y ago
Solid

janamysc 11y ago

http://www.goguin.com/en http://www.goguin.com/en – relocation for free Great for digital nomads and those who move often. These guys had the most awesome idea to match people in different cities who move, so if you are lucky can save tons of money on renting the apartment and buying/selling the stuff. Will definitely use when I decide to relocate next time.

izolate 11y ago

Half of these aren't even startups. Can you really a call a company a startup after a few years and solid revenue streams?