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Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup
Have you applied to S2017 batch to YC ? Tell us about your company and why should be selected to the rest of us.
- chair-law 10y agohttps://appointmesh.com https://appointmesh.com We make it easy to schedule group meetings with up to 10 other people.
- kevinstubbs 10y agoJust curious, why is the limit 10 (and not say 11) and why have a limit at all?
- covercash 10y agoMy guess is to make >10 a paid upgrade in the future.
- scottbcovert 10y agoSorry, has to be done...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
- conjectures 10y agoIf you hadn't, I would have had to.
- merqurio 10y agoI've tried to schedule a meeting but it crashed choosing none at cronofy.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- ChrisPodlaski 10y agoWhy would I use this instead of x.ai?
- xetorthio 10y agohttps://sherloq.io https://sherloq.io We detect and stop online hate speech, harassment and other kinds of cyberbulluying, allowing companies to have toxic free discussions and environments.
- Meekro 10y agoI tried your demo and it worked great! I tried saying similar things to see if it was just word matching, for example: "You should crawl under a rock and die." -> offensive "You should join a rock band, that music is to die for." -> fine My only complaint with the demo is that you keep trying to refresh the result as a I type, and I quickly overwhelm whatever rate limiting you have in place and get a "please wait before trying again" message. If you just gave me a "submit" button rather than refreshing as I type, that would fix it. What I'm curious about is, how do you plan to sell this? Is reddit or HN going to pay for it? Are you going to make a paid vBulletin plugin? Something else I'm not thinking of?
- xetorthio 10y agoThat is good feedback! Thanks! We are still exploring selling ideas. We are currently integrating Sherloq with the coral project, which will allow companies like The Washington Post use our service. We are also exploring online games and integration with big social networks, where we can help the companies moderate content generated on their Facebook page, for example. Also we are trying to contact Clever, that will allow us to offer this service for schools. As I said, lots of possibilities. Currently trying to get as much feedback from as many users as we can.
- karthik248 10y agoDisqus integration would work well for blogs and articles.
- laxk 10y agoYou should crawl under a rock and d-i-e. -> fine.
- LAMike 10y agohttp://www.askscip.com/ http://www.askscip.com/ Priceline for Uber and Lyft. Location and price comparison for your ride within walking distance. Since transportation is usually a top 5 expense for most people, and more people give up their car for ridesharing services, saving 10% on your rides could save you hundreds of dollars every year.
- merqurio 10y agoHow are you checking the prices? Via API ?
- Hydraulix989 10y agoIf so, I'd be concerned about getting banned by Uber/Lyft.
- meagher 10y agoHaven't they (Uber & Lyft) cut people off from their APIs for doing this in the past?
- dankai 10y agohttps://plan.university https://plan.university - plan.uni A free course schedule planner for college students, platform to connect with people within classes and soon the way graduates will find the job they are uniquely qualified for. Write me at kaiser@plan.university if you think your college/university would need plan.uni as well :)
- merqurio 10y agoCalendar + Social network + Job search; why the three ? I always wanted an app that by giving it the amount of hours needed to study each class (at home or library) scheduled the whole semester.
- twitchard 10y agoAs a class project we wrote a Chrome extension that transformed our university's terrible course offering page into something like this (but less ambitious) It was a pretty big hit and continues to be used even 3-4 years later. https://github.com/twitchard/corsola https://github.com/twitchard/corsola
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- dankai 10y agoIf some of our competitors (like the ones who visited us already) read this, reach out to us! It'd probably make sense for us to join forces.
- Grustaf 10y agohttp://kitex.tech http://kitex.tech We're building a new type of wind turbine that generates energy using significantly less material, making it much cheaper to install. We do this using huge fixed wing kites made of carbon fibre, and drone technology.
- merqurio 10y agowow, that's really cool. Why is it cheaper than normal wind turbines ? Maintaining drones that take off and land autonomously sounds expensive I really like the idea of low environmental impact
- Grustaf 10y agoThey are cheaper to build because they require about two orders of magnitude less material for the upper parts, and at least one order of magnitude less foundation (for the same power generation). This saves on both building and setting it up and I would say there is pretty strong consensus on this part. You are correct however that it is less obvious that it makes sense when maintenance is factored in, but we are convinced it does. For perspective, large modern wind turbines are much more sophisticated than one might think.
- searchhn 10y agoThis is cool ! How does it compare in size and power generation to a modern upgright wind turbine ?
- Grustaf 10y agoThanks! The size we're targeting now is a system of two kites on one tether, each with a wing span of 20 m and weighing 1650 kg. This would generate around 1 MW. The largest off-shore wind turbines right now have 80 m blades and generate 8 MW at a weight of 1300 tonnes (excluding foundation), but the main reason they are so large is economies of scale, off-shore wind turbines are expensive. Kite wind turbines do not have to be as large to be economical.
- AldousHaxley 10y agohttps://www.formgraph.com https://www.formgraph.com - collaborative creation platform The goal is to create a social media platform that does for content creation what previous social networks have done for distribution. Create in an open space, collaborate dynamically, and remix any other content on the platform.
- bluker 10y agohttps://www.creatorarcade.com https://www.creatorarcade.com Learn to make Electronic Dance Music alongside the world's most popular Dj's and music producers. Apprenticeship style learning that makes learning to create music fun, easy and accessible. Pre-launch but if anyone wants to beta some of the content let me know. : )
- zach417 10y agoCorinthian Robotics - robots that do housework I'm building an inexpensive, autonomous robot that take cares of your laundry. While you're at work, it will wash your clothes, fold them, and put them away.
- fudged71 10y agoI'm throwing money at the screen but nothing is happening
- ParameterOne 10y agohahahaha!
- forgotmysn 10y agoyou should checkout maidbot
- gfmio 10y agoAutomorph - AI for software development I'm developing a programming language called Morph inspired by LISP, Smalltalk, Eiffel JavaScript, Python (and others). It's extendible, homoiconic and designed to be transpiled to other languages, so that you can build entire projects with multiple applications on separate platforms from one code base. This is then coupled with a symbolic AI engine to generate, build and deploy applications at an increasingly higher level of abstraction.
- Grustaf 10y agoSounds like a very interesting (and ambitious!) project, looking forward to hearing more about it!
- gfmio 10y agoI will post updates here on HN :) Stay tuned!
- merqurio 10y agoWhat is the purpose of the AI? What is it's function ?
- gfmio 10y agoThe code base (and libraries and packages) serve as a knowledge base of definitions (what things are) and procedures (what things exist). The symbolic AI engine can then take information from this (essentially code snippets) and combine them in novel ways. Example: If you know what a RESTful API is (how it is defined), what MongoDB is and which data models you want to deal with, you can generate the source code for an API handling those data models with MongoDB backend from this. Other example: If you know what requests your API supports, what the semantic data types of the objects and fields are and what a UI-based application is, then you can generate a web, mobile or desktop application from this providing a wrapper around this API. The goal here is not to replace programmers entirely, but to alleviate the pain of having to code things up manually, especially boilerplate. Because you can deal with issues at a higher level of abstraction now, this can make programming more approachable to (so far) non-programmers.
- lowglow 10y agoRadBots (http://radbots.com http://radbots.com) We build tools for bots. Monetization, Bot-to-bot communications, Persona temporal key/value store, and more fun stuff coming out. :)
- fudged71 10y agoI'm interested in everyone having their own personal bot, and a professional bot, and they talk with each other behind your back finding opportunities to collaborate without violating privacy or confidentiality as they are all sandboxed.
- lowglow 10y agoMe too! You should come out to our next Hack Day on Sunday if you're in the bay area. We have a ton of hackers into bots, ai/ml, etc. https://www.facebook.com/events/103581416857634/ https://www.facebook.com/events/103581416857634/
- conjectures 10y agoWhat are bots in this context? What is this context? Couldn't figure out from your landing page.
- lowglow 10y agoTechnically any agent, but our focus is on any bot that has some human interface - chat/voice.
- mars4rp 10y agohttps://cowritestory.com https://cowritestory.com CoWriteStory is a platform that let users cooperate to develop a story collectively. Users can start a story with a paragraph or more and other users can continue the story line that they like. Users have the opportunity to expand their favorite branch of story or create a new branch with different story line. Writers can get feedback from users via voting and comment system and get reputation and badges for their contribution to the community.
- ryanx435 10y agoso this is actually a relatively large market for adult themed material based on this idea and there are several different versions out there, each with its own focus. I think the biggest one is http://www.bearchive.com/~addventure/ http://www.bearchive.com/~addventure/ which is a better version of the original addventure http://www.addventure.com/ http://www.addventure.com/ there are other, non-adult, versions as well but they don't see as much traffic. *i just realized i definitely went to that site to check that the link was working on my work computer, so thats going to show up as a flagged site in my history now. great :/
- mars4rp 10y agoit doesn't necessarly need to be adult themed. /r/WritingPrompts/ subreddit has more than 10.5 millions subscribers! * sorry about that, do you want me to write to your boss ?:D
- l33tbro 10y agoWhat's your stock reply when someone asks, "Couldn't that just be a subreddit"?
- mars4rp 10y agoreddit is not build for this, you can't create long stories. following stories with branching is very hard, posts showed on first page are hyped based so a story with potential get buried in couple of hours. when people use comment to submit paragraphs of stories and another person use the same functionality to post an actual comment it is getting nasty very quickly. in general you can't do anything serious on Reddit.
- malux85 10y agohttps://signalbox.ai/ https://signalbox.ai/ An out of the box platform to make deep learning easy. It has a drag and drop interface, connectors for common databases and blueprints for common tasks. SignalBox is being used for: Forex trading, Genome visualizations, customer segmentation, large recommendation systems, fraud detection, realtime anomaly detection, bot detection and geo-dataset market prediction. As well as the general platform I'm getting some much larger customers onboard where we build out their entire data environment - HDP deployments alongside SignalBox instances work great. We are profitable, have some great customers on board, and are growing rapidly - and most importantly making our customers happy! :) Please reach out if you would like to work together!
- ruairidhwm 10y agoThis looks really cool!
- tamkeenlms 10y agoVery very cool. Good luck.
- jkhtaria 10y agohttp://www.poundaweek.ca/ http://www.poundaweek.ca/ A smart calorie counter app with AI - Analyzes the foods you eat, how active you are and the progress you make to automatically set nutrition targets designed for you, every single week. We've helped users lose over 20,000 lbs.
- blizkreeg 10y agohow do you guys do things differently compared to MyFitnessPal? I recently started using MFP and it's been useful in that I know how much I'm eating (whereas previously I was just wrongly guesstimating with some mental math). I love your concept, just curious what sets it apart.
- jkhtaria 10y agoOther Calorie Counters - Set your diet targets once based on a generic formula. Poundaweek - Uses Artificial Intelligence to update your nutrition targets EVERY week. Other Calorie Counters - Don't provide any coaching. If you get stuck before reaching your weight goal you are on your own. Poundaweek - Learns from you and provides personalized weekly reports, so you continue making progress towards your weight goal.
- AznHisoka 10y agoFYI, you will probably hear from 1000+ more people asking the same question: Why not use MyFitnessPal? My advice? Don't compete against them. Everyone, from moms to entrepreneurs to wall street folks use them, know them, and recommends them. They're too big, and you need to be 10X better to go up against them, and even then it might not be enough.
- jkhtaria 10y agoI feel like that is there biggest weakness, they are too big. There is lots of room for advancement in this area and they are far too comfortable. There calorie counter is also critically flawed, when a user plateaus and stops losing weight they are left in the dark, also they may not lose any weight at all based on there estimate and carry on eating the incorrect number of calories for far longer than they should, this happened to me personally before I built Poundaweek. Also the amount of calories the other apps recommend is static, and only adds calories based off of very flawed estimates of calories burned from exercises. Poundaweek learns and adjusts dynamically and specifically for each individual user as well as letting you know why and what you can do to keep on track towards your goal.
- tananaev 10y agohttps://www.traccar.org/ https://www.traccar.org/ The company is based around Traccar open source GPS tracking system. Providing SaaS and professional services to our customers. We develop everything from back-end to mobile apps. Although we don't use any machine learning at the moment, GPS tracking is a great area for it. If we get funding, that can be one of the directions for future development.
- ChrisPodlaski 10y agoOort - the cloud, in space. We are building an orbital communications network and linux based satellite operating system that lets you program your small sat in widely used programming languages, and gives you access to unprecedented, low latency compute and storage on orbit, and enables uninterrupted connectivity to the ground.
- malux85 10y agoGood lord, the Star Trek geek in me loves this idea. I have no idea why yet, but I want to become a customer, where do I sign up?
- pfraze 10y agoThat sounds amazing! Forget the home cloud, try a satellite.
- elastic_church 10y agoyeah you're gonna have to define low latency here what are you doing differently to solve the predictable latency problem? having all the processing happening in the compute cluster so that there isn't enough back and forth to the ground to notice?
- ChrisPodlaski 10y agoYes!
- pfraze 10y agohttps://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/ A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1]. We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we're excited about it. 1 https://datproject.org/ https://datproject.org/
- merqurio 10y agoSound a great alternative the actual centralized model. Any guess if other browsers would be interested in adopting Dat ?
- pfraze 10y agoActually I think there is a good chance of that, if we can demonstrate interest. I know for a fact that Mozilla is looking for decentralization tech.
- dilemma 10y agoThis is exciting. Let people host their own Instagram profile on their phone.
- whostolemyhat 10y agoThat'd be really interesting, splitting social media control out of the existing silos. The problem with that seems to be that when you try to read someone's profile and they're not online, it wouldn't work - what would happen in that case?
- pfraze 10y agoPublic peer services can handle the availability problem
- necrodome 10y ago
- dzenos 10y agohttps://tuiqo.com https://tuiqo.com Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs Tuiqo - Document versioning for humans Tuiqo allows you to work on many versions of your text at the same time, from within one document. It is the easiest way to revise your text and organize document versions.
- Grustaf 10y agoBeautiful and sorely needed! But how do you handle versioning (if at all), as a separate dimension of just like the "Google" vs "Facebook" versions?
- dzenos 10y agoThank you! The current features will be the building blocks for our version control/global revisions. We’re working on it and hope to release it soon.
- firefoxd 10y agohttps://renly.co https://renly.co We connect people who have space with people who want space. For now we started with the service industries such as beauty salons and fitness.
- alehul 10y agoHaul will be a city marketplace of local retailers' stock with on-demand delivery, offering an alternative to shipping. The goal is to offer products more reliably and quickly than Amazon or individual companies' online stores while charging less than the user would've paid for shipping. Each city will have a separate marketplace with immediately deliverable inventory. The model largely prevents against counterfeits, enables delivery within an hour, and more. We also have plans with some retailers to offer an alternative to lugging bags around after shopping in-store, via using "HaulHome" at checkout to have your purchase delivered home within a timeframe you specify. Would love to receive input from the community here!
- mrieck 10y agohttp://www.superanimo.com http://www.superanimo.com HTML5 cartoon and gif editor. It's a little buggy, but I'm trying to clean it up and turn it into a hybrid mobile app. I did not apply to YC this time.
- getnorby 10y agoThis is an awesome thread! Very inspiring. Has anyone that applied received an invite to interview yet?
- ajayk1931 10y agohttps://www.generisk.org https://www.generisk.org We generate a personalized autism genetic profile to drive personalized intervention decisions.
- kbyatnal 10y agohttps://www.60secondseveryday.com https://www.60secondseveryday.com, the fastest way of keeping track of your memories. You get a phone call every night and record your 60-second response to the question "How did your day go?". From there, your response is archived into your private online journal and displayed alongside your photos, twitter posts, check-ins, etc from that day. Soon, you'll start getting Flashback emails (ex. "Here's what you were doing 6 months ago") with all of those cool things so you can reflect on your past. We want to help people stop forgetting 90% of their lives.
- kleer001 10y agoIt seems useful, but I can't really tell how. What problem are you solving and who has it?
- TeeJay942 10y ago"We want to help people stop forgetting 90% of their lives." I also saw this tagline or similar on PH, and I got to say I'm not a fan. If you look at everyday on it's own, for most of us, it's pretty boring stuff. Why would I want a record of that? If something hugely important happens, sure maybe I'll want to be able to access that memory / my thoughts at that time in the future. But 10 years (let alone 50) from now, I might not even know what year big events happened. And so I'll be digging through maybe 100s of hours of recordings/text if I'm looking for a specific event. There's definitely some product in this space that could be great, but I don't think 60 second recordings is it, especially without some way to filter through the boring crap. I imagine looking through my old calendar would be more helpful than my 60 seconds of nightly drivel.
- Grustaf 10y agoOf course most of it will be "drivel", but it's _your_ drivel, the drivel that your life is made up of. For most people that _will_ be interesting, or at least emotional, as they look back on life later on. For starters this group includes everyone with children. Just think of all the "pointless" photos we take of our children, they mean so much to us. But apart from this, very soon (if not already) it will be possible to transcribe these messages and extract some useful metadata from it, even put together a kind of biography. That will be interesting even to sceptics like you! Also consider journaling, many people, that live relatively uneventful lives, do that. This sounds like an alternative for them.
- tmatthewj 10y agohttps://typito.com/create https://typito.com/create - Help creators produce videos for web fast and easy. Provide them with simplified online work-flows to publish videos that give better ROI on online platforms like YouTube and Facebook. You can check out the demo - https://typito.com/demo https://typito.com/demo. The tool currently helps with one use-case - adding good-looking motion titles, images and text animations on your video before publishing on YouTube with a few clicks. Adding these elements, we have seen, improve the watch time and engagement on YouTube videos and hence give better ROI. We went live 5 weeks back and have 15 active users (who publish more than 4 videos / month via Typito), mostly YouTube creators - the market we are looking at.
- ruairidhwm 10y agohttps://brandfox.io https://brandfox.io A way for Instagram users to sell their photos to brands who want authentic stock photos. We're also building an influencer search/compare/booking engine.
- tamkeenlms 10y agoI love this idea. Makes a lot of sense. Good luck.
- 918pitman 10y agoSnapCycle is a modular personal transport vehicle. Can be reconfigured into an ebike, self balancing board, skateboard, and multiple variations of each. All existing electric personal transporters utilize the same tech and components but have only one possible configuration. Our modular system allows one to ride a bike to work and a skateboard home.
- ParameterOne 10y agoParameterOne/Drop# We are going to send out a "one time use" Sim Card sticker to registered voters that you can stick on your regular sim card and Vote in the next election from your phone. Great for absentee ballots, disabled community, lazy people :-)
- kleer001 10y agois it recyclable?
- ParameterOne 10y agoThat is a great question. It is plastic, so I would assume it is but I will confirm as well as find out if they are made from recycled material. Thanks for the comment!
- ParameterOne 10y agoJust a quick update, I have not heard back from the manufacturer yet, will keep you posted.
- brunock222 10y agoCool thread, very inspiring! No one else? :-)
- ParameterOne 10y agoMine ended up in the middle instead of at the end of the thread....why does it do that?
- TeeJay942 10y agoIt's probably an algorithm to get you some decent % of views early on to see what % of upvotes you get so it can move your post up or down accordingly.
- arielcamus 10y agoMicroverse. We are launching a tuition-free and remote software engineering program based on ccollaborative and project-based learning. Our mission is to train 1 million software engineers by 2030. Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of dollars or was born in the right place to get access to a college degree. On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching videos online for 8 hours a day during a year. We use Collaborative Learning (e.g. Pair programming between students) to create a learning experience that is as supportive (e.g. Mutual accountability) as a traditional learning experience (e.g. College or bootcamp) and as scalable and affordable as online learning platforms (e.g. Coursera, Udacity).
- android521 10y agogreat. Let's turn programming into a blue collar job. Increase supply so that we all get paid 7$ per hour.
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoThat's short-sighted. Eventually, things that are highly skilled become less so, and eventually integrated into the baseline running of society. At some point in history, the fact that you can read and write would be a big fucking deal, but it isn't today. At some point in the future, making the machines do things will be in everyone's skillset to some degree. This just seems like a step in that direction. To use an example, this sort of thing has about as much impact to data engineering as someone coming to the table with Excel skills does - they both generate some lines of code to work with data, but we're not working on the same level of issues. Doesn't mean I don't want to raise the floor, though, that has value to the whole organization. EDIT: To be clear, I'd never heard of Microverse until 10 minutes ago. I have nothing to do with them, but I think it's a cool idea.
- Grustaf 10y agoWell, to the extent that a programme such as this will increase supply, you could argue that it's currently kept artificially low because of the costs of education in some countries. I don't think that is quite the situation we are in though. Computer programming is an unusually easy industry to enter. I didn't study computer science, only started working as a developer much later and my experience is that potential employers and definitely clients if you're freelancing care very little about _how_ you learned it, they just want to know _what_ you can do. A portfolio is much more important than a diploma. This is why i really take issue with this statement: "On the other hand, most people don't have the superhuman willpower to learn alone from home watching videos online for 8 hours a day during a year." If learning programming entails you watching videos 8 hours a day for a year, I submit you are have chosen the wrong profession. You will be competing for jobs with people who love coding, people that it would require a "superhuman" effort to _keep_ from programming. Anyone with a real interest and access to a computer with internet, can _easily_ learn to program. Not so much by watching videos full-time, but by a combination of actually programming, reading tutorials and yes, watching some videos. Then there are people who are not passionate about programming, people who are not naturals but just want a decent job. I suspect this programme is aimed at them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that of course, but it's unlikely that they will be competing for the $200k jobs in Valley startups.
- sumedhras 10y agoSuper inspiring thread! has anyone else received an email asking to schedule a video interview? Is this a good or bad thing??
- haribabug 10y agohttps://serverlessly.io/ https://serverlessly.io/ Self Hosted Serverless computing platform for Organizations