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YC Demo Day Session 4: Shoptiques, Pair, Daily Muse, Per Vices, iCracked
- newhouseb 15y agoPer Vices is every geeks dream but how on are they going to get past FCC regulations?
- rdl 15y agoSoftware Defined Radios have been sold for a while -- just not so cheaply, and as easy to use. (I think the Ettus USRPs have been around for a while; first as kits and now as assembled devices; SDR itself has been built into a lot of shipping products). The FCC actually came out with revised regulations in 2005 and 2007 to make SDR easier to approve, and to allow open source software for them. I think there are different regimes for test equipment vs. type-approved consumer devices.
- newhouseb 15y agoI see, I was under the impression they could only be used for non-commercial purposes, i.e. not sold. My impression was that this was partly why people weren't selling GNURadio's but rather the kits.
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- kyenneti 15y agoI am so impressed with icracked and their 2 awesome business models. Onsite Technicians and repair yourself tool kits. This is a real business. Hope they succeed big time.
- psycho 15y agoAnd what's so cool about AnyVivo?
- rdl 15y agoPeople buy a lot of pets, Amazon won't touch them (one of the few legal areas of commerce which Amazon can't dominate; guns are another...). They've been making a lot of money (and 50-60% margin) in the past few weeks selling jellyfish, which I didn't realize was even possible to keep as a pet. Presumably as they move into other more interesting pets, they will make more money.
- psycho 15y agoI guess, it's good business but I never noticed YC backing such "trivial" kind of business.
- rdl 15y agoYou're right that they don't solve any open problem in computer science or mathematics, but neither did Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google (I think), etc., and they seem to have done ok. :)
- frisco 15y agoNot to take away from your main point, but Google did need to solve a fundamental computer science problem: how to compute eigenvector centrality efficiently. It would have been impossible to calculate PageRank at web scale without the Power Method (and applying EC to the link structure of the web in the first place involves lots of nontrivial math).
- gibybo 15y agoWhat makes selling live animals trivial?
- hackinthebochs 15y agoI think he means the "change the world" vibe we get from a lot of startups. I think its great YC is broadening its scope into more traditional businesses.
- zzzmarcus 15y agoWow. With Pair ze frank's vision from years ago (2007) of a social network for two has become reality. http://www.zefrank.com/social_network/ http://www.zefrank.com/social_network/ http://www.trypair.com/ http://www.trypair.com/
- defen 15y agoIn case the Per Vices people are reading - I tried to go to the "Buy It" link but I'm getting a PHP error.
- wollesen 15y agoThanks - The Per Vices people are reading, and the link is fixed.
- rachelbythebay 15y agoYou're also using file URIs in some of your web pages. Check out the community_form.html where it handles shortcut icons.
- Alex3917 15y agoI am curious about Pair's user acquisition strategy, as the concept is (by definition) almost as anti-viral as possible. It seems like it would be much easier to create something similar for cliques, make it support up to 8 people, and market it to middle- and high school kids. And then enable anonymous inter-group (as opposed to intra-group) messaging, so that way there is a vector of virality. Obviously a smaller market though.
- karamazov 15y agoIt's not anti-viral; I tried it out with my significant other to see how it worked, and I'll recommend it to people who travel frequently or are in long-distance relationships. Obviously, I won't be using it with them, but that's different.
- panthera 15y agoRe: pair, what if you have more than one chick?