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Ask HN: Which startup is crushing it
Remember Dropbox four years ago? AirBnb after their second launch? I even remember turning down Pinterest to pitch at my meetup in 2009!
So which startup is crushing it this year? And equally importantly, how can you tell?
- alain94040 14y agoIn no particular order, and with no guarantees: CloudFlare, Uber, Lyft? A criteria I use is whether non-techies use it. If the buzz is only among Silicon Valley insiders for too long, something is wrong. That's why I'm still not sure if Twitter will take off: I don't know anyone normal who uses it :-)
- cdub50 14y agocloudpassage for their cloud security agent halo. plus their mascot is Don the daemon.
- ritchiea 14y agoStill not sure if Twitter will take off? Are you kidding? What about the way the media has embraced Twitter? Not only does virtually every journalist use Twitter, but it's been widely incorporated into MSM broadcasts. It may not be a medium everyone uses in the way that nearly everyone posts Facebook statuses, but it's a medium that everyone pays attention to.
- alain94040 14y agoAre you kidding Did you notice my use of the smiley? That might be a hint that yes, I was kidding.
- ritchiea 14y agohahaha my window size pushed the smiley to the next line and I missed it
- AznHisoka 14y agoDataSift is killing it, as is HootSuite, though I wouldn't consider them a startup now.
- Mankhool 14y agoHootSuite is killing it in a different way altogether: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/hootsuite-to-review-unpaid-intern-policy-after-barrage-of-criticism/article10839746/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/hootsui...
- soneca 14y agoWhatsApp. I don't know about the acquisition rumour, but the topic about it here on HN showed that its use is dominating the markets all over the globe.
- staunch 14y agoStripe is the most recent YC AirBnb/Dropbox IMHO.