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Ask YC Poll: Which is your favorite YC startup?
The range of YC startups has become quite broad. I thought it would be interesting to see how their popularity varies within the hacker community. So lets try and design a poll.
Rules: Vote for only one launched YC startup and don't vote for the company you work for.
Mechanism: If your choice is present, vote it up. Otherwise submit it in a new single line comment. If two people end up submitting the same name at the same time, the lower one should delete their comment.
Karma issues: If people feel that the person to submit a new choice first shouldn't be getting all that karma, then the mods could just remove karma for the top choices once the post is no longer active.
Finally, the list of launched startups is at the top here: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Edit: Please use the poll choices for voting only. The place for discussion is at the bottom where a special -1 karma post has been created.
Edit: I don't think you need to be bound by any particular criteria for voting. Design, success potential, personal appeal are all valid. For example, I haven't even used the site I voted for. I was just very very impressed when I visited it recently.
- mercurio 19y agohttp://iminlikewithyou.com/ http://iminlikewithyou.com/
- rms 19y agohttp://www.reddit.com http://www.reddit.com is the only one I use everyday
- amichail 19y agoI use reddit a lot also. But in terms of mind blowing coolness, http://likebetter.com http://likebetter.com.
- smackywentz 19y agoI thought this was the new Reddit. I have come from there.
- damien 19y agoI think they each have their own place, the culture here is still very startup-centric (for obvious reasons) even though pg tried to change it. The programming reddit is still a better place for hacker/coding links (and comments) IMO, just avoid the other reddits. =)
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- ekanes 19y agoTipJoy is very cool. It's one of those "far out" ideas that might not work, but it's New Thinking and we don't have enough of that. I wish them success.
- kajecounterhack 19y agoI love the idea of Tipjoy. If YC had it, I'd tip it.
- breily 19y agohttp://scribd.com/ http://scribd.com/
- edw519 19y agoDoes http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ count? The only one I use every day.
- tx 19y agoXobni is pretty cool, although I'd love to have their services in my gmail instead of Outlook. I am pretty sure they have it in the works.
- dshah 19y agoMy vote goes to Xobni. The founders are both great guys and they're solving an ugly problem that millions of people care about. I'm a GMail user myself now, but it's unlikely Outlook is going anywhere anytime soon. I'm kicking myself for not pushing Adam to let me invest when I met him in Boston.
- dskhatri 19y agohttp://loopt.com/ http://loopt.com/
- falsestprophet 19y agohttp://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/ http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/ paid for all the others. it did pretty well.
- dkokelley 19y agoJustin.tv They pretty much introduced me to YC and got me seriously interested in the startup world.
- cellis 19y agoI gotta say Splashup! ( don't see it in that list ) Thats the only one i've used. ( i did vote for news.y, but that doesn't count )
- paulgb 19y agohttp://www.rescuetime.com/ http://www.rescuetime.com/ Looks pretty cool and original, and seems to fit the "create value" rule more than most of the others. That said, I am under Linux and haven't tried the product.
- brlewis 19y agohttp://snipshot.com/ http://snipshot.com/ Integrating with them just rose to number 2 on my to-do list, and #1 is a prereq for #2.
- mercurio 19y agoDiscussion begins here: (Mods please downmod this comment to -1) people you can carry out discussion threads as children of this comment (just don't upmod it). This way there is a clean separation between the poll and its discussion.
- nextmoveone 19y agoIm tied; I use Xobni daily but I also use RescueTime daily... I think I like RescueTime cause at work, it will make me look like a rockstar once the business edition comes out and I can track employee productivity, pull the data out through an API and show it to the CIO/CEO/C*O for decision making as well as improving the system that is used overall at work.
- mercurio 19y agoHey could you delete your rescuetime entry from the poll, as its a duplicate entry? Instead just upmod paulgb's comment which votes for rescuetime too. Edit: never mind. there are more duplicates already, and they are in turn going to confuse more voters.. so its already a losing battle. Well played Entropy, well played.
- ALee 19y agoReally Xobni and Loopt are probably the most ballsy companies YC has ever funded. They share a lot of characteristics: 1) Seeing something powerful in contextual data surrounding phones and mail (perhaps the two most basic forms of communication ever). 2) Both are part of the Microsoft Accelerator Program- The two of them also use Microsoft technology- .NET and Outlook (C#, I think). For some this may go against them. 3) Both have founders that are very nice guys (but you definitely wouldn't want to compete against them). 4) Both are VC-backed and they never sold out earlier like other YC companies, which just shows their relative tolerance of risk.
- wallflower 19y agoIf Xobni gets acquired by Microsoft, I think it would impact the problem of how to manage thousands of emails for potentially millions of frustrated but complacent Outlook users. Well worth the upgrade to Office 2009
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- nextmoveone 19y agoRescueTime...see discussion below.
- dedalus 19y agohttp://disqus.com/ http://disqus.com/ is the best IMHO
- fireandfury 19y agoHeroku is awesome. Great idea, great vision. Scalable hosting makes so much sense for web applications. If they get it developed and working properly I'd definitely pay to use their service.
- asisproperty 19y agonews.ycombinator.com
- nickb 19y agoI haven't seen Weebly mentioned so my vote goes to them! http://www.weebly.com/ http://www.weebly.com/ Don't know the guys (like their blog though), don't know their business model, but their app is awesome. Intuitive, looks great and anyone can use it.
- yters 19y agoHow many create-a-webpage apps is that now?
- nickb 19y agoIt's like email, it's been around for a very long time and is hard to get right. Same with web page creation. These guys made it dead simple... hence, they did something right.
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- aaroneous 19y agoI'll vouch for the guys. They're all super cool. :]
- prakash 19y agoreddit, xobnia, rescuetime, kiko (when it lived)
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- hwork 19y agoFuzzWich. They've got style.
- edu 19y agohttp://rescuetime.com/ http://rescuetime.com/
- jkush 19y agoI'm not sure if they've publicly launched yet but I'd have to say Qtoro.com! Besides the fact that Altay is a great guy, you can't help but love a startup that's all about trivia!
- thorax 19y agoProbably http://8aweek.com http://8aweek.com given how much time it's already saved me. They probably deserve some equity in my company at this point. ;)
- vikas5678 19y agoI agree from my side, I think 8aweek.com is really a great product which everyone can use.
- dfranke 19y agohttp://octopart.com http://octopart.com
- maxwell 19y agoAdpinion.