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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by l33tbro »

mars4rp wrote: post #33

https://cowritestory.com CoWriteStory is a platform that let users cooperate to develop a story collectively. Users can start a story with a paragraph or more and other users can continue the story line that they like. Users have the opportunity to expand their favorite branch of story or create a new branch with different story line. Writers can get feedback from users via voting and comment system and get reputatio…

What's your stock reply when someone asks, "Couldn't that just be a subreddit"?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by mars4rp »

l33tbro wrote: post #71
mars4rp wrote: post #33

https://cowritestory.com CoWriteStory is a platform that let users cooperate to develop a story collectively. Users can start a story with a paragraph or more and other users can continue the story line that they like. Users have the opportunity to expand their favorite branch of story or create a new branch with different story line. Writers can get feedback from users via voting and comment system and get reputatio…

What's your stock reply when someone asks, "Couldn't that just be a subreddit"?

reddit is not build for this, you can't create long stories. following stories with branching is very hard, posts showed on first page are hyped based so a story with potential get buried in couple of hours. when people use comment to submit paragraphs of stories and another person use the same functionality to post an actual comment it is getting nasty very quickly. in general you can't do anything serious on Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by meagher »

LAMike wrote: post #6

http://www.askscip.com/ Priceline for Uber and Lyft. Location and price comparison for your ride within walking distance. Since transportation is usually a top 5 expense for most people, and more people give up their car for ridesharing services, saving 10% on your rides could save you hundreds of dollars every year.

Haven't they (Uber & Lyft) cut people off from their APIs for doing this in the past?

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Post by AznHisoka »

jkhtaria wrote: post #54
blizkreeg wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how do you guys do things differently compared to MyFitnessPal? I recently started using MFP and it's been useful in that I know how much I'm eating (whereas previously I was just wrongly guesstimating with some mental math). I love your concept, just curious what sets it apart.

Other Calorie Counters - Set your diet targets once based on a generic formula. Poundaweek - Uses Artificial Intelligence to update your nutrition targets EVERY week. Other Calorie Counters - Don't provide any coaching. If you get stuck before reaching your weight goal you are on your own. Poundaweek - Learns from you and provides personalized weekly reports, so you continue making progress towards your weight goal.

FYI, you will probably hear from 1000+ more people asking the same question: Why not use MyFitnessPal? My advice? Don't compete against them. Everyone, from moms to entrepreneurs to wall street folks use them, know them, and recommends them. They're too big, and you need to be 10X better to go up against them, and even then it might not be enough.

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Post by kbyatnal »

https://www.60secondseveryday.com, the fastest way of keeping track of your memories.

You get a phone call every night and record your 60-second response to the question "How did your day go?". From there, your response is archived into your private online journal and displayed alongside your photos, twitter posts, check-ins, etc from that day.

Soon, you'll start getting Flashback emails (ex. "Here's what you were doing 6 months ago") with all of those cool things so you can reflect on your past.

We want to help people stop forgetting 90% of their lives.

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Post by tmatthewj »

https://typito.com/create - Help creators produce videos for web fast and easy. Provide them with simplified online work-flows to publish videos that give better ROI on online platforms like YouTube and Facebook.

You can check out the demo - https://typito.com/demo. The tool currently helps with one use-case - adding good-looking motion titles, images and text animations on your video before publishing on YouTube with a few clicks. Adding these elements, we have seen, improve the watch time and engagement on YouTube videos and hence give better ROI.

We went live 5 weeks back and have 15 active users (who publish more than 4 videos / month via Typito), mostly YouTube creators - the market we are looking at.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

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Post by necrodome »

pfraze wrote: post #44

https://beakerbrowser.com/ A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1]. We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we'r…

Opera tried that in 2009: http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/en/unite.html

Also, there is zeronet these days. https://zeronet.io/ How are you differentiating yourself?

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