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TBH none of these look like unicorns in the making, so the only meaningful choice is really Pinboardy McPinboardface.
India already has multiple billion dollar unicorns in this space. OyoRooms (Lightspeed, Sequoia, Softbank) is the biggest example.
I would personally invest in Siris if I could.
Personally, I think Pinboard should definitely do YC but not via this channel. He can easily get in if he applies. Let the space be given to those who need it more.
> by the time we've succeeded (which I call the transition date), GD will have supplanted USD as the primary currency that people use. If we succeed, the investors won't care about USD anymore. If we fail, as with any investment, investors will lose their money anyway.
Supplanting the USD - the world's premier reserve currency - with a private currency is just not going to happen. So the whole scheme amounts to providing basic income via continuing bilking of VC investors.
Voting for Pinboard feels like a protest vote. Naturally, I voted for Pinboard.
This is why we can't have nice things. Protest votes are fun, but they also undermine the system. "If people don't take voting seriously, then what's the point of voting in the first place?", people in power will ask themselves. So yeah, it's cool to vote for Donald Trump or Boaty McBoatface or whatever other silly thing. But the protest itself isn't accomplishing anything. Choosing the silliest option available does…
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I understand your concerns and they are legitimate. Full fledged browser based CAD systems already exist in things like Onshape. Our algorithms will run partially on the server and mostly in the browser. However, CADWOLF isn't really about CAD in the browser but rather altering the way engineering is done. Instead of doing design, CAD, FE, and documentation separately, everything is done together. This drastically al…
with all due respect - I understand what you are claiming. I am having doubts on how you are claiming you will do it. Unless you have a demo already - which would be awesome. The github analogy is not very accurate because github was built on git and ruby-git bindings. Its a product play that was clearly understood. What I'm not able to understand is how you are planning to execute your product. Please understand why…
edit: And there are apparently a few standardized, lower-level ASCII formats including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format).
Of course OP probably still has their work cut out for them as far as building something useful on top of these goes.
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I think the difference is that you've stated explicitly that you'd rather be King than Rich, while Maciej's response when asked that was "I feel like after seven years, I have a pretty good sense of what bookmarking/archiving needs people have, but am at the limits of what I can personally build. If the votes swing my way, I'd be happy to have a good-faith conversation with you", i.e. as long as YC didn't try to turn…
Tarsnap is definitely not suited for YC Core. I applied for YC Fellowship -- and only YC Fellowship -- because I wasn't sure if Tarsnap was suitable or not: I don't know what YC is trying to do with YC Fellowship. (For that matter, it's far from clear that YC knows what YC is trying to do with YC Fellowship.)
Gresham Dollar seems to be wishful-thinking-as-a-service: > by the time we've succeeded (which I call the transition date), GD will have supplanted USD as the primary currency that people use. If we succeed, the investors won't care about USD anymore. If we fail, as with any investment, investors will lose their money anyway. Supplanting the USD - the world's premier reserve currency - with a private currency is just…
The plan isn't just to supplant the USD, but to cannibalize it from within. Any currency in which no basic income is provided is vulnerable to disruption by one in which a basic income is provided.
So the whole scheme amounts to providing basic income via continuing bilking of VC investors.
Yes. If we fail, that's pretty much exactly what it's going to look like. But also keep in mind that the currency's USD reserves are crowd funded, so it would be continued "bilking" of everyone, not just the VCs.
Did you read the whitepaper I linked in another comment here?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2jhCMrrxoeONVNQTVd6NG5pNz...
I like the Author Investments idea but the sparse OP and reading the discussion doesn't have me convinced that the person who entered it has the skills/true desire to actually make it happen. It's more of a "I wish I could have this now" (which is not a bad start) but I can't see the path towards the product happening.
There was one entry that seemed interesting but the hostile interaction lead to me not voting for that (can't see that character translating well to a successful startup).
I voted for AutoMicroFarm because I want to have one. It seems like that should be my strongest vote but I was actually somewhat hesitant because crowdfunding might be a better approach.
The trusted skill certification is a decent enough disruptive shot and I got the feeling it's possible the OP could pull it of. I'm thinking about working on the same problem from a very different angle so I kind of want to see how this angle works out :)
I like JuryBoard because I can immediately envision it being useful and bought + have a net positive impact on society. Despite that it was a borderline vote for me.