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My startup was one of the ones selected. We've just got a temporary website up here: http://myster.io http://myster.io We're a group of three nomads making so
by nirvana 15y ago
My startup was one of the ones selected. We've just got a temporary website up here: http://myster.io http://myster.io
We're a group of three nomads making software from around the word. In addition to the $40k grant, one of the big benefits for us of Startup Chile is a guaranteed 1 year visa to live in Chile! (The biggest challenge to working while traveling is having to change countries every 90 days or so.)
We're building something we're calling a "discovery engine". Its like a search engine, and like search engines it tries to find good quality results to queries, but instead of indexing web pages we are indexing the App Store.
- troymc 15y agoCongrats on getting selected! One tip: you may want to consider a tagline other than "discovery engine". It's already overloaded. For example, Microsoft originally marketed Bing as a 'discovery engine' and see also: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/discovery-engine http://www.crunchbase.com/company/discovery-engine http://www.intelligenx.com/local-search/discovery-engine http://www.intelligenx.com/local-search/discovery-engine
- nirvana 15y agoGood point. The sad thing is, we were pretty happy to stumble into that phrase. Didn't' realize Microsoft had used it. We don't want to use the term "search engine" because that implies textual queries and text matching. Whenever you're doing something new, you need a new way to describe it, and we're going to have to figure out the right positioning and right way of describing it. Hopefully without confusing people.