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All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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#21
Totemic is interesting to me, since one of my close relatives spent five hours on the floor of their house after falling, as she could never remember to carry her cellphone (hard habit to acquire at 90 years old...). And of course, she could have lost consciousness, which would render the cellphone useless.

That said, I wonder how can they have a single device for the whole house, and how it works for harder floors, like ceramic tile, which doesn't make much of a sound. Seems to me that something so sensitive would be triggered by way too many false positives.

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Wish we had a list of what they are all using on the front and back ends.

Although I think that might be interesting, would it actually be valuable? Serious question honestly, what would that do for us? How would we use that data?

It would certainly increase the awareness of it.

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#23
Relationship Hero is hilarious to me. We're going to solve the unpredictability of human relationships with a "light-weight" solution. Oh and we assume no responsibility for the advice given or the actions you take.

Luckily no one reads the ToS and it's a huge market - everyone has relationship problems.

So they'll make millions because most of the population isn't rational enough to understand that at a base-level that none of us know shit about all the intricacies of human relationships. Life coaches and psychiatrists included.

Kudos to them on their traction. I'm talking shit but preying on people's insecurities in relationships is an endless market. Can't wait to see their FB ads pop-up right after a Tai Lopez infomercial.

Directly quoted from their TOS:

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#24
I'm surprised about the stem cell company. Stem cell storage companies are notorious scams. I remember doing research into these when my first child was born.

There's only a small subset of diseases it can actually help, and until you can actually grow organs, it's generally useless, for a lot of money. Also you can generate stem cells from adult blood cells or bone marrow anyway.

What the YC company appears to offer doesn't seem much more than a Silicon Valley Blood Boy, the unproven promise of youth from young blood.

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Sunu looks really cool - I did a project a while ago where we embedded distance sensors and vibrators in shoes to help the visually impaired navigate objects that were close to the ground (e.g. curbs, stairs) - glad to see someone else doing work in that space.

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post #26

They say Pyka already built a plane, so why do they only show renderings? Seems weird to waste that credibility advantage.

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/pyka.jp... Second image on Techcrunch article.

Thanks! I clicked to their site, didn't occur to me to check the TC article.

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Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

Founder of PullRequest here: To be clear: $136,000, not $136mm. Typo on article.

lol. I was going to say, PullRequest preparing to IPO soon...
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