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Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately
What's some of your favorite innovative startups lately?
I like the approach that RethinkDB is taking with their SSD DB technology.
* = Doesn't have to be YC
- pclark 17y agodropbox. still.
- gaia-forming 17y agoI agree, Dropbox is a really nice startup; really polished.
- mtrichardson 17y agoDropbox takes up all of my CPU these days. It's very depressing how little I use it now.
- raptrex 17y agoThe CPU usage is kinda high, thats why I only run it when I need it
- dotcoma 17y agodropbox and spotify.
- jackchristopher 17y agoDropbox helps gets things done but stays out of the way. It's so subtle I forget I even use it. That's exactly what I like in a program.
- blender 17y agocloudkick, I think those guys did a great job. Delivered something of value, freemium business model that I believe will work extraordinarily well for them. My hat is off to them! Just wish I would've thought of it first.
- gaia-forming 17y agoI guess it's about execution every time, and yeah, they execute well.
- hynek 17y agoDropbox
- behe101 17y agoSpotify. I tend to listen to it while working, and it's great I can listen to my music even when I don't have access to my library.
- mrduncan 17y ago280 North for re-inventing how web apps can be developed.
- bdmac97 17y agoHeroku... After that I'm a bit partial to launchly but that's probably because it's mine. :-)
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- gaia-forming 17y agoThe heroku guys do a really solid job. What's launchy?
- bretthoerner 17y agohttp://www.launchly.com/ http://www.launchly.com/
- bdmac97 17y agoThanks for the link... and yes, launchly is run on Heroku and yes they rock! :-)
- Readmore 17y agoYeah Heroku is awesome, I'm really enjoying their new deployment platform.
- christonog 17y agoI'm really finding Evernote a great tool for syncing my daily to-do lists.
- paul9290 17y agoIs Evernote a YC company? I can find any info to this regards. Here is a list of YC companies http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator, though not sure if it's a comprehensive one?
- christonog 17y agoNo, but I realize how the title might be misleading. I realize now this question was maybe geared toward those who started YC companies, which I haven't.
- gaia-forming 17y agoDoesn't have to be a YC company. I was only asking YC.
- zaveri 17y agoPrefer ShoveBox, however only available for OS X... http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/ http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/
- nick007 17y agothat's 2 votes for shovebox. great organizational tool for the mac! also with an iphone client now that is super useful on the go.
- richardh 17y agohttp://www.hotindianstartups.com http://www.hotindianstartups.com
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoFavorite Startups of 2009 vark.com listia.com saynow.com
- PStamatiou 17y agoI like Etherpad, but I'm not sure why. I'm a big G Docs user, or at least was in college, and use both for the same features (don't do too much heavy collab). But I use Etherpad Pro to consolidate all the random text files I have lying around usually. I think I like it because it's simple, non-nosense and logging into google docs is a pain. I have it on google apps and i never remember the URL so i have to log into mail, click the icon, etc. Granted I could setup a CNAME but I digress.. Maybe I like em more than gDocs b/c they're also a startup..
- alexsolo 17y agoI agree completely. Etherpad is a lot better than Google Docs. The big reason for me is that it provides instant collaboration. When I type something in, the other people editing the doc can see my changes instantly. For Goog Docs, it takes a few seconds to see someone's changes. It's great for solo editing, but very annoying for collaborative work.
- PStamatiou 17y ago> but very annoying for collaborative work. tell me about it. i wrote a 33 page group paper in Google Docs once.. PITA.
- amerk 17y agoFor fun visit, http://www.pickuppundit.com http://www.pickuppundit.com
- jseeba 17y agoPosterous. It just works.
- rokhayakebe 17y agoYCombinator.
- mrlebowski 17y agoCloudera! Their tutorials kick-ass :)
- kalvin 17y agoAardvark for potentially kicking off a new way to search (and even if not, for having awesome diction) Kickstarter for being beautiful and the first crowdfunding site that looks like it has a chance to explode.
- paulgb 17y agoGitHub really impresses me.
- icco 17y agoI agree. I really like their release cycle and transparency. They produce a solid product, they understand their market, and they are innovative. The only thing I don't know is how profitable they are.
- pjhyett 17y agoWe're doing well and will be around for a long time.
- calvin 17y agoGitHub has found its way into my workflow for web development work. Plus, the sheer number of useful projects and source code available from other developers keeps brings me back to the site frequently.
- eel 17y agothesixtyone, probably. It's replaced Pandora for me. It's a little too social networky (I just want to listen to music!) but it works.
- adamhowell 17y ago+1 thesixtyone. The idea of giving users quests to reward them for exploring a site/app more is inspiring.
- gehant 17y agobig fan of thesixtyone - has one of the best streaming music players on the web...quality product. Plus, huge kudos to them for not relying on RIAA as is true with most other online music services.
- tripngroove 17y agoahh, the sixtyone is great. stellar way to find new music. also, they make it super easy to buy music that you like. i just wish more artists on the site had stuff for sale!
- clistctrl 17y agoI never heard of it before, but I love it! My girlfriend is going crazy about it too :)
- prakash 17y agoAngstro
- revertts 17y agoSpideroak impressed me. It's a service similar to Dropbox, but with more emphasis on privacy. I found their devs really accessible and interesting to talk to.
- turtle4 17y agoNice. New to me.
- pg 17y agoPicwing (http://picwing.com http://picwing.com) is probably the one that has improved our life the most lately. It is the perfect thing for people with new babies. Your relatives get a regular stream of new prints with near zero effort.
- zaveri 17y agoSry downvoted by mistake, on iPhone...
- ivankirigin 17y agoDo they no longer make hardware?
- pg 17y agoFor now, no. It turns out that a lot of the photo frame market actually prefers prints.
- ivankirigin 17y agoThey should incorporate the print ordering in the hardware: one click to put it in the next batch.
- dfranke 17y agoTarsnap is unique among the startups that get play here in getting me to open my wallet to the tune of more than the price of a T-shirt.
- plinkplonk 17y agoTarsnap! Solo Founder, great product, great payment terms. What's not to like?
- cperciva 17y agoThanks for the vote of confidence! :-)
- alexsolo 17y agoChatterous. I have it hooked up to my IM, and I use it for group chat all the time.
- alexsolo 17y agoBillmonk, for splitting restaurant bills with friends.
- htsh 17y agogrooveshark, still wonky interface but its as close to spotify I can find on our shores. ..of course I still use dropbox .. who doesn't? I stopped using evernote as I got tired of having to use Wine to run it..
- nwjsmith 17y agoGithub takes the cake for me. It makes reading and finding code a breeze, and for the relatively unexperienced (like me), it has dramatically lowered the barrier to entry for OSS. A Facebook for hackers, I love it.
- agotterer 17y agoMakerbot is pretty awesome
- mhb 17y agoShapeways
- icco 17y agoRightscale. They put out such a solid product and make using ec2 so easy, it's not even funny.
- slvrspoon 17y agonot to denigrate the smart people and great work done here, but i think this is a pretty depressing list when looked at from on high. this is the creme of the crop of all the yc hacker intelligentsia? suprisingly banal imhop.
- bkudria 17y ago"yc hacker intelligentsia"? Sounds like your expectations are way over-inflated. Consider reconsidering your concept of "intelligent".
- mahmud 17y agoTwilio. Top notch.
- dshah 17y agoI like the following (may not as cool as some of those listed, but they're great startups and driving real revenue): 1. ZenDesk 2. Freshbooks 3. 99designs