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>> Gemnote, which just launched from Y Combinator, gives companies an alternative with items carefully selected to make sure they don’t end up in a junk drawer
by carterehsmith 11y ago
>> Gemnote, which just launched from Y Combinator, gives companies an alternative with items carefully selected to make sure they don’t end up in a junk drawer or snuck into Secret Santa gift exchanges.
Wow, what a fantastic idea. The key to Gemnote's success is that their items are "carefully selected". Surely nobody ever thought of "carefully selecting" their wares, before Gemnote.
Anyways, bottom line, the publicity piece for Gemnote was weak. Maybe they should re-evaluate their marketing.
- dang 11y agoIt's fine to criticize substantively, but this is the kind of acerbic dismissal we need less of on HN. You've cherry-picked one phrase, interpreted it uncharitably, and acted like it's the whole of the article when it's not. A fair summary might be: it's a huge market, existing solutions suck, and things that this startup is doing differently include gift selection, personalization, and more sophisticated logistics via software. I found the article interesting because it reminded me of the "good business that no one wants to be in" category that Peter Thiel talks about. I'd never have expected corporate gift packages to be that kind of market... which is kind of the point, these things are not obvious until they are.
- ild 11y agoRelax, this is another disrupting Techcrunch business. At least it is profitable.