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Re: Ask HN: What's your startup or product?

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Post by adam-_- »

jjets718 wrote: post #32
adam-_- wrote: post #21

I'm still assessing the viability of a new social media analytics and monitoring solution - http://twitcherhq.com

Thanks for your comment! This looks interesting, but I think the market you're trying to enter is fairly crowded.

It is but my hypothesis is that most products are aimed for large businesses and not easy to use/buy for smaller companies (I could still be wrong - we'll see).

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Post by tdorrance »

http://neufit.com We are launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF next month. NeuFit is a social fitness entertainment platform. We are looking to solve the issues of chronic diseases caused by obesity and a sedentary lifestyle by delivering a platform that lets users encourage and motivate each other to get and stay active. We've partnered with device manufacturers and mobile app companies to integrate their products as well. For instance if you are a RunKeeper user or have a Fitbit we automatically pull in your actvity data. We translate your real-world activity into fun game mechanics that allow you complete quests, challenge and motivate others and earn real world rewards.

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Post by sprobertson »

jjets718 wrote: post #48
sprobertson wrote: post #19

A meta-startup, rapid web application development for early stage entrepreneurs. Prontotype - http://prontotype.us/

Thanks for sharing! What do you mean by rapid web application development? Does Prontotype have a drag-and-drop interface or does it involve programming?

Well Prontotype isn't a product, it's a service -- we do the web development (rapidly) for clients.

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Post by ReKognition »

jjets718 wrote: post #55
ReKognition wrote: post #5

We just launched our ReKognition API - best Face.com alternative. (Face Detection/Recognition, plus Gender)& Scene Understanding. And, will launch our 1st App by the end of this Month. http://rekognition.com/

It's great to see a service like ReKognition offering a Face Recognition API in the wake of Face.com closure. Keep on doing what you're doing!

It's really encouraging to hear you saying so! Also, we will launch age detection and FB training API soon. Your feedback is always welcome.

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Post by ReKognition »

tsumnia wrote: post #8
ReKognition wrote: post #5

We just launched our ReKognition API - best Face.com alternative. (Face Detection/Recognition, plus Gender)& Scene Understanding. And, will launch our 1st App by the end of this Month. http://rekognition.com/

I was playing with your demo page and was curious, how do you handle gender classification? Follow-up would be what are you results in broad ethnicity recognition (based on what I've seen, I can tell you at least tried it). Any attempts into age?

Thanks for testing our api.

We have trained our system so that it knows typical/common female and male facial features.

Our machine learning algorithm will generate a score from 0.0 to1.0 representing gender.

We are still tuning our age and emotion recognition. We will release (most likely in just a couple of weeks) it when we feel it's good and reliable enough for public use.

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Post by pjnewton »

tnorthcutt wrote: post #29
pjnewton wrote: post #6

I'm working on creating a "School of Crossfit" http://wodacademy.com to bring functional fitness and nutrition to those who don't have the time or the funds to pay for high quality personal training.

Interesting. I'd suggest focusing more on benefits (get in shape, feel better, whatever) that "learn about the WOD" on your splash page.

Yeah I agree... I'm still working through the concept and I've landed on the Coadcademy for Fitness and Nutrition.

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Post by fezzl »

wallawe wrote: post #37
fezzl wrote: post #22

We are a daily deal platform. We host Groupon clones: http://www.zuupy.com .

Since most of the people who are going to be your customers will likely not be in the business long (let's be realistic), why not charge a large up front fee for them to purchase the software as opposed to letting them pay a monthly subscription? The daily deal business is extremely difficult (I work at livingsocial) and most of those clones won't last more than a couple months.

Because that's not in our interest long term. If we charge upfront a large amount (and inevitable disincentivize ourselves from providing great support and upgrade to them thereafter -- which are crucial since it's an "extremely difficult" business), we will get negative word of mouth that will not be great for our sales and marketing.
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