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Discussion 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 ago
Im 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 ago
  Hey 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 ago
Really 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 ago
  If 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
bayareaguy 19y ago
Reddit is the only product of a YC startup I actually do use, but I don't like it very much so I didn't vote it up. I would like to vote for http://virtualmin.com http://virtualmin.com because its the only one in the list that I may eventually put to good use in my own work, but since I don't actually use it yet I'm just giving it a shout out for now.

nextmoveone 19y ago

Im 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 ago
Hey 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 ago

Really 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 ago
If 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

bayareaguy 19y ago

Reddit is the only product of a YC startup I actually do use, but I don't like it very much so I didn't vote it up. I would like to vote for http://virtualmin.com http://virtualmin.com because its the only one in the list that I may eventually put to good use in my own work, but since I don't actually use it yet I'm just giving it a shout out for now.