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Ask HN: Most interesting startups you follow?

13 points by rblion 14y ago

Most of the tech press I know of covers the same handful of startups and investors. I'm curious to know what interesting startups you keep up with?

timtamboy63 14y ago
Interviewed with the guys at Plaid a few weeks ago. They're doing awesome stuff, and the founders are some of the easiest guys to talk with. Definitely worth following. http://plaid.io http://plaid.io Augur is also really neat - they're a startup based in Atlanta, GA doing machine learning as a service (kinda). They basically grab data about your users from all around the internet, use that with data you supply to them, and then make that a service so you can feed in data, and get results back personalized to each of your users. It's a little hard to explain, but the founders are ridiculously talented. They've literally been funding the startup by going around the country and winning hackathons. http://augur.io/ http://augur.io/
- brackin 14y ago
  What is it with the "io" domain names? Seems overkill now.
  - jaredsohn 14y ago
    I imagine people often use io domains because it is hard to get a good domain name as a .com. I don't think it is being done for reasons that could be considered as "overkill".
    - brackin 14y ago
      Why not buy the .com too? Plaidio.com isn't taken, if a startup takes off 'io' doesn't work well anymore. I understand the io trend but I don't think that 'money.io' is ever going to be able to afford money.com.
yolesaber 14y ago
I've been talking to the fellows at Delve (http://www.delvenews.com/ http://www.delvenews.com/) and they are all smart, talented folks. Their product is really cool and I've found it to be excellent at curating content and the email digest they send out makes for great, personalized reading.
ibudiallo 14y ago
What qualifies as startup? Funding ? If you have a personal project, one man show, does it qualify ad start up?
- rblion 14y ago
  Anything goes.
jcr 14y ago
I've really been enjoying Rescale: http://www.rescale.com http://www.rescale.com What they're doing is just fascinating. It's essentially on-demand compute power with integration of well known/used tools, including proprietary tools, and workflow organization/management. They relieve multiple pain points for multiple industries. I don't qualify as a "potential customer" for them, and I know compute time is expensive, so I was reluctant to sign up for their free demo. I contacted them anyhow, mainly to let the know about a possible market segment for potential/eventual expansion, and in spite of me not being a potential customer, they still encouraged me to give their demo a try. Good People! Since I know that free demo they gave me will cost them something, I've done my best to return the favor by providing comprehensive feedback.

13 points by rblion 14y ago

Most of the tech press I know of covers the same handful of startups and investors. I'm curious to know what interesting startups you keep up with?

timtamboy63 14y ago

Interviewed with the guys at Plaid a few weeks ago. They're doing awesome stuff, and the founders are some of the easiest guys to talk with. Definitely worth following. http://plaid.io http://plaid.io Augur is also really neat - they're a startup based in Atlanta, GA doing machine learning as a service (kinda). They basically grab data about your users from all around the internet, use that with data you supply to them, and then make that a service so you can feed in data, and get results back personalized to each of your users. It's a little hard to explain, but the founders are ridiculously talented. They've literally been funding the startup by going around the country and winning hackathons. http://augur.io/ http://augur.io/

brackin 14y ago
What is it with the "io" domain names? Seems overkill now.
- jaredsohn 14y ago
  I imagine people often use io domains because it is hard to get a good domain name as a .com. I don't think it is being done for reasons that could be considered as "overkill".
  - brackin 14y ago
    Why not buy the .com too? Plaidio.com isn't taken, if a startup takes off 'io' doesn't work well anymore. I understand the io trend but I don't think that 'money.io' is ever going to be able to afford money.com.

yolesaber 14y ago

I've been talking to the fellows at Delve (http://www.delvenews.com/ http://www.delvenews.com/) and they are all smart, talented folks. Their product is really cool and I've found it to be excellent at curating content and the email digest they send out makes for great, personalized reading.

ibudiallo 14y ago

What qualifies as startup? Funding ? If you have a personal project, one man show, does it qualify ad start up?

rblion 14y ago
Anything goes.

jcr 14y ago

I've really been enjoying Rescale: http://www.rescale.com http://www.rescale.com What they're doing is just fascinating. It's essentially on-demand compute power with integration of well known/used tools, including proprietary tools, and workflow organization/management. They relieve multiple pain points for multiple industries. I don't qualify as a "potential customer" for them, and I know compute time is expensive, so I was reluctant to sign up for their free demo. I contacted them anyhow, mainly to let the know about a possible market segment for potential/eventual expansion, and in spite of me not being a potential customer, they still encouraged me to give their demo a try. Good People! Since I know that free demo they gave me will cost them something, I've done my best to return the favor by providing comprehensive feedback.