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Top Startups That TechCrunch Missed - Nov

50 points by morefranco 14y ago

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scottannan 14y ago
This is a fantastic list - keep it up!
tezaster 14y ago
Awesome list! Love that Captivate is featured.
chehoebunj 14y ago
Hypegram.... Take my money already.
- victorantos 14y ago
  what?!
jaysonlane 14y ago
Awesome list, great job Franco!
nancyliang 14y ago
Awesome list! ... though, there goes my morning, going to be trying out these products.
noinput 14y ago
Going to need another cup of coffee now, thanks franco!
tylercopeland 14y ago
Great list of some amazing startups!
josteink 14y ago
I would have clicked this list had Techcrunch not been the benchmark it was measured against. Techcrunch and Arrington is a hole of drama and self-obsession and best ignored.
huhtenberg 14y ago
So I take this is just a dump of a month worth of Betalist with TC features excluded? And what's up with all this astroturfing in the comments? Have some decency not hype your own startups, gentlemen.
muratmutlu 14y ago
Half of these are coming soon pages, the author of the article doesn't sound like he's tried any of the services in private beta, he's just made a list of what might be cool. Also is the eye-drop app a startup or a side-project?
yakshay 14y ago
Nice to see Auctionful on it!
Jabbles 14y ago
I propose an experiment to return to this page at various points in the future and comment on the status of these startups/websites. I realise that I may be adding to the background noise, but this is ridiculous: http://imgur.com/F7wkO http://imgur.com/F7wkO
- potatolicious 14y ago
  It's weird that HN is now a thing to be gamed (in this case, poorly). I remember when this was just a forum for people to post links and talk about stuff, and wasn't nearly influential enough to be worth astroturfing and manipulating. It's not just this post either - I've seen first-hand other startups try to manipulate HN. It can be as mild as getting your colleagues to upvote a story, and it can be pretty loathsome like astroturfed comments. Re: the list though, I see a lot of FNACs here (Feature, Not A Company). I love a useful product as much as the next person, but are products that have no visible revenue potential really startups?
debacle 14y ago
Some of these start-ups look like actual start-ups with roads to profitability. Some of them look like side-projects. Either way, regardless of the value of these start-ups it's nice to pierce the YC bubble, if even a little bit.
- blackdanube 14y ago
  Which ones do you think have potential? I'm asking because I'm on the list and would like to know what you think.
Dirlewanger 14y ago
Let's be honest, people: a lot of these are junk and aren't going to be around in 6 months? Another Twitter client??? An application that finds me resorts??? Haven't seen that idea before! The start-up bubble continues to cometh.
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raldi 14y ago
Is it me, or is this site completely unreadable on an iPhone?
- richardjordan 14y ago
  Android too. Garbage. I get people not working to optimize for mobile but at least be readable on mobile surely.
ebellity 14y ago
Even though we're in this list (HeyCrowd), I don't get why everyone gets so angry when seeing a list of startups and calling them "junk". It's just a lazy thought process to do that. It's true that most of them will probably fail anyway, so what's the point in destroying them when they're trying their best to bring a vision to life ? Personally, I have discovered a bunch of interesting products there.
- dmbaggett 14y ago
  Get used to it. It takes an incredible amount of work to build a "crappy" startup, but less than zero to post a snarky comment to HN that makes one feel superior.
  - srameshc 14y ago
    Very true. I hope everyone who is trying to build something and want to show it to HN realize this very fact and keep working regardless of the kind of comments.
- blackdanube 14y ago
  I'm on the list, too, and I could understand downvotes (if people don't like the links), but vicious comments... I don't get why people do that. I think most people don't realize how much work goes into making any of these "junk" or "side project" projects.
demosten 14y ago
Guys sorry about not joining the monthly haters' meeting here but to me it looks like a nice list. I agree it's too much Betalist in style thought.
RandallBrown 14y ago
I wish more of these were actually launched instead of just coming soon. As an iPhone/Mac developer, Objective-Cloud is very interesting to me. A few of the other apps, (I wouldn't call most of them startups) look pretty nice as well.

50 points by morefranco 14y ago

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scottannan 14y ago

This is a fantastic list - keep it up!

tezaster 14y ago

Awesome list! Love that Captivate is featured.

chehoebunj 14y ago

Hypegram.... Take my money already.

victorantos 14y ago
what?!

jaysonlane 14y ago

Awesome list, great job Franco!

nancyliang 14y ago

Awesome list! ... though, there goes my morning, going to be trying out these products.

noinput 14y ago

Going to need another cup of coffee now, thanks franco!

tylercopeland 14y ago

Great list of some amazing startups!

josteink 14y ago

I would have clicked this list had Techcrunch not been the benchmark it was measured against. Techcrunch and Arrington is a hole of drama and self-obsession and best ignored.

huhtenberg 14y ago

So I take this is just a dump of a month worth of Betalist with TC features excluded? And what's up with all this astroturfing in the comments? Have some decency not hype your own startups, gentlemen.

muratmutlu 14y ago

Half of these are coming soon pages, the author of the article doesn't sound like he's tried any of the services in private beta, he's just made a list of what might be cool. Also is the eye-drop app a startup or a side-project?

yakshay 14y ago

Nice to see Auctionful on it!

Jabbles 14y ago

I propose an experiment to return to this page at various points in the future and comment on the status of these startups/websites. I realise that I may be adding to the background noise, but this is ridiculous: http://imgur.com/F7wkO http://imgur.com/F7wkO

potatolicious 14y ago
It's weird that HN is now a thing to be gamed (in this case, poorly). I remember when this was just a forum for people to post links and talk about stuff, and wasn't nearly influential enough to be worth astroturfing and manipulating. It's not just this post either - I've seen first-hand other startups try to manipulate HN. It can be as mild as getting your colleagues to upvote a story, and it can be pretty loathsome like astroturfed comments. Re: the list though, I see a lot of FNACs here (Feature, Not A Company). I love a useful product as much as the next person, but are products that have no visible revenue potential really startups?

debacle 14y ago

Some of these start-ups look like actual start-ups with roads to profitability. Some of them look like side-projects. Either way, regardless of the value of these start-ups it's nice to pierce the YC bubble, if even a little bit.

blackdanube 14y ago
Which ones do you think have potential? I'm asking because I'm on the list and would like to know what you think.

Dirlewanger 14y ago

Let's be honest, people: a lot of these are junk and aren't going to be around in 6 months? Another Twitter client??? An application that finds me resorts??? Haven't seen that idea before! The start-up bubble continues to cometh.

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raldi 14y ago

Is it me, or is this site completely unreadable on an iPhone?

richardjordan 14y ago
Android too. Garbage. I get people not working to optimize for mobile but at least be readable on mobile surely.

ebellity 14y ago

Even though we're in this list (HeyCrowd), I don't get why everyone gets so angry when seeing a list of startups and calling them "junk". It's just a lazy thought process to do that. It's true that most of them will probably fail anyway, so what's the point in destroying them when they're trying their best to bring a vision to life ? Personally, I have discovered a bunch of interesting products there.

dmbaggett 14y ago
Get used to it. It takes an incredible amount of work to build a "crappy" startup, but less than zero to post a snarky comment to HN that makes one feel superior.
- srameshc 14y ago
  Very true. I hope everyone who is trying to build something and want to show it to HN realize this very fact and keep working regardless of the kind of comments.
blackdanube 14y ago
I'm on the list, too, and I could understand downvotes (if people don't like the links), but vicious comments... I don't get why people do that. I think most people don't realize how much work goes into making any of these "junk" or "side project" projects.

demosten 14y ago

Guys sorry about not joining the monthly haters' meeting here but to me it looks like a nice list. I agree it's too much Betalist in style thought.

RandallBrown 14y ago

I wish more of these were actually launched instead of just coming soon. As an iPhone/Mac developer, Objective-Cloud is very interesting to me. A few of the other apps, (I wouldn't call most of them startups) look pretty nice as well.