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Top 35 Startups In Tech that TechCrunch missed out on – August 2012
- yesimahuman 14y agoReally happy to see my product Jetstrap on there. Thanks for the mention!
- rmason 14y agoJust a tip fwiw. I like the idea of what you're doing with Jetstrap. But asking me to sign in with Twitter, gMail etc without screen shots or a short video isn't a good idea. Guessing if you had a short video your signup rate could soar.
- yesimahuman 14y agoThanks, that's a great point.
- njx 14y agothanks for the mention of infocaptor
- chehoebunj 14y agowow, actually some pretty sweet startups here!
- mcormier 14y ago"feelzr connects you with all the people around the world born on the same day as you." How is this a Top Startup? This seems like a very novel idea to me. Some of these companies sound interesting but I think this list needs a little editing.
- wtvanhest 14y agoMy favorite part of the description: "Believe it or not it’s hundreds, and they all live around the planet in different timezones." Its actually 20m. ~Also, to the person who made this app, I may install it for fun, so I'm not bashing the idea, just the funny math. Its another way to build a more random network.
- jaredsohn 14y agoIt seems that a big part of the value prop is that 1) it assumes there is some connection in terms of feelings experienced among people born on the same day (essentially a higher-fidelity astrology) and 2) that if you live in a later time zone, you can find out what is coming next by viewing the feelings of those in an earlier time zone. If one assumes that #1 has some truth to it, one has to wonder what will cause people in earlier time zones to use the app, since they don't get to take advantage of #2.
- piperos 14y agojaredsohn, very well and clearly put! about what you say that one needs to wonder... the answer could be something like this... the world is round, so where one starts counting timezones, or even where the day starts is kind of relative and a simple man made assumption this means that there's always earlier as well as later timezones wherever you are in the world... i think its quite clearly explained at blog.feelzr.com
- jameswilsterman 14y agoOpscotch.com is launching this week. Check us out if you have a chance. We are a new kind of online debate platform.
- pawelwentpawel 14y agoI remember using designers.mx when their content was focusing on music. It's really nice to see that they scaled. Also, the UI is really nice.
- markmm 14y agoAre any of these actually making money? Or is just they have pretty names and websites?
- markmm 14y agoWhere my inailedthat.com startup? A website that allowed people to post pictures of the people they have slept with?
- edtechdev 14y agoGot this chrome alert when visiting badgety: "www.badgety.com contains content from deqbyyq.ru, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site."
- markmm 14y agoHaha, probably a good reason some of these were given a wide bearth by techcrunch
- marknutter 14y agoOff topic, but if I get one more modal popup on a website I'm going to scream. Are javascript modals the new popup?
- indiecore 14y ago>Drynk.me is the easiest way to catalog, share, and discover alcoholic beverages. From beer, cosmos to ‘on the rocks’, see what friends and followers are experiencing and saying about their drinks. The platform will allow users to post pictures and/or videos with a geo-location tag of the drink they are enjoying and add their thoughts about with the option to push it through to other social spheres. Good lord, does EVERYTHING have to be a geotagged social experience?
- brackin 14y agoThe ratio of social companies to success must be crazy. So many more people building Foursquare for X instead of building the next Kickstarter, Square, Skype or Spotify. Kickstarter isn't that crazy of an idea or even to build but people are instead building niche mobile social apps.
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 14y agoYea, but I bet the ratio of original ideas vs screaming at a large market and picking up the scrapes is lower on the success-o-meter.
- markmm 14y agoI can understand why people are going after the location based social thing, as foursquare is lame and there is nothing much better. But to tie it into such a specific area is insane.
- brackin 14y agoTechCrunch tends to only cover startups for a reason. They won't just say "This startup exists". They'll say you reach a certain number of users, raise money or do a deal with a major partner. Why should they cover that a new social app or dashboard has launched? TheNextWeb does a little more of this but still this is how journalism works.
- kstenerud 14y agoSome of those look pretty neat, but I have to constantly fight the urge to think "fly-by-night" whenever I see a name ending with "ly" or "me" or "zr" or replacing an i with a y.
- isalmon 14y agoWhat about http://vooza.com/ http://vooza.com/ ?
- chicceo 14y agoGreat article!
- bersius 14y agoHmm, is this a problem with techcrunch or these startups PR departments?
- bartsitek 14y agoAwesome list, thanks for adding Instatrip up!
- redm 14y agoHow is #29, AwesomeShare (not even launched) a top 35-missed startup? Its an idea that’s been done over and over and over again. It doesn’t even look well done.
- goldeneye 14y agoHow come all the startups mentioned here are websites? I have nothing against them, but I would imagine that there are some startups out there that are less of a hit-or-miss and more about the product that has some engineering novelty to it.
- dokem 14y agoThe term 'startup' has become a buzzword used to define websites providing social or media services. Not that these sites aren't necessarily providing anything of use, but when I hear someone use the term 'startup' I don't know if they're talking about a company or just a product.
- Lost_BiomedE 14y agoThis is why I like browsing the diversity of kickstarter.
- mc_ 14y ago2600Hz is building a communications platform and happens to have a website.
- ohadfrankfurt 14y agoThanks for mentioning http://getsummer.com http://getsummer.com - I would love to hear everyone's feedback about the product :)
- espree 14y agoSweet! This is great. Almost like betali.st
- cobbsfriedman 14y agoThanks for featuring http://Diggsy.com http://Diggsy.com - we really appreciate it. If anyone has any questions or looking for information on what we are working on, hit us up.
- vmatouch 14y agoWe're launching http://www.billberries.com http://www.billberries.com soon. With Billberries, you will actually enjoy managing your bills!