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

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

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Post by travisjungroth »

sysdyne wrote: post #56
travisjungroth wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean 0.9 cents or 0.9 dollars (90 cents)? One is equivalent to a tenth of a Netflix subscription, the other a thousandth. If you're talking about the higher amount, I misunderstood you. But why doesn't it "just work"? Why isn't the internet more simple? It comes down to two things: this way is more profitable, and stuff is hard. I don't believe that these companies have a personal data fetish. They have a mone…

Meant 0.90 cents. "Why isn't the internet more simple?" I guess it's the same reason why we don't use modularity in operating systems and applications. We have gotten used to how things have been done until now. Recommend reading this article since this ideas have been in my head for some time. https://joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay Disclaimer: this isn't my article. Doesn't mean that this things can't be…

You still didn't clarify. Did you mean:

A) Most of a penny

B) Ninety pennies

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

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Post by giarc »

austenallred wrote: post #133
icebraining wrote: post #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,…

It doesn't listen for sound, it uses wireless signals and sensor fusion to monitor movements.

>Totemic Labs is building a device that resembles an Amazon Echo that uses sound to identify and respond to falls automatically.

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

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Post by giarc »

icebraining wrote: post #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,…

It would be interesting to see their technology. As I understand, many falls aren't what we think of in the general sense of "fall". Many are slow fall to the ground, for example struggle to get out of a chair and go down on one knee, then to the floor.

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

boyce wrote: post #69
contingencies wrote: post #48

Feather seems very solid. If you guys want a China partner let me know. It's Ikea's fastest growing market.

Do you think? There are already plenty of companies in the UK at least that rent furniture and home electrical goods to people who can't afford it Are they bringing anything new to the party?

There are already plenty of companies in the UK at least that rent furniture and home electrical goods to people who can't afford it

We have those in the states too. The interesting thing is that their business model isn't renting furniture and appliances, their business model is providing credit. They are more like banks than they are rental stores.

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Post by sumoboy »

rudimental wrote: post #63

Flock seems like it could help solve some crimes, but at a huge cost - privacy. You can't opt out, unless you live nearby and register with the company. "Residents of monitored neighbourhoods can opt-out of being tracked - but visitors, or people passing through, cannot." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41008141 Do people like law enforcement collecting license plates and keeping them in databases indefinitely? Ho…

Alot of cities have camera's at intersections which could potentially do the same thing before a stolen car reached my neighborhood. The police dept. in my city is asking now people to register there webcams with police so they can ask for video I guess when crimes occur, but I can see scenarios where that could wrong. Even with home webcams, criminals have no issues just walking and stealing UPS boxes right off the porch and there face clearly identifiable. HOA's are pretty stingy about increased neighborhood costs, I'd tend to think this be targeted to cities and justify it less police manpower needed. The smarter criminal will figure out ways around a camera anyways.

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Post by Danihan »

kuschku wrote: post #126
alexro wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can all the people passing before the camera to opt in?

Exactly. That’s why you don’t put up cameras in the first place.

So only the government can record what's happening, and if private citizens or companies do so they are shamed and jailed?

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

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Post by pj_mukh »

jelliclesfarm wrote: post #64

Modular Science - Outdoor farm robot. They pivoted from lab automation to outdoor farm bots? How? I applied to YC twice(unsuccefully) with the same idea. And I am a farmer. Just not a PhD from MIT. I would love to know they came up with that number. Really. Would love love love to know how..

People are chiding you for your bitterness, but apart from an idea and technical prowess, there is a third (very important) pillar that you have to offer. Sales. Can you gather 50 other farmers that have the same need for automation, cheques in hand? Most other non-technical founders have said the same.

If you can you'll have (good) technical talent lining up around the block and subsequently interest from YC.

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

zolthrowaway wrote: post #86
jelliclesfarm wrote: post #74

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Of course. Most likely. What else can it be.. Colour me bitter..but my biggest weakness is that I am not 'technical' enough...but why is someone who has never tilled a field or known the rhythms of growing food in the natural world and knows the diff between dirt and soil be better qualified to make what we need? And keep us suckling on the giant teat(or whatever) of tech? Like Monsanto does..like John Deere and dmca…

Did you really expect them to fund you with just an idea and some domain knowledge? Not to sound rude, but that's pretty naive. How many people are out there who have a "million dollar idea" who just need someone to build it? The answer is a ton and a boatload of them apply to YC every year. Good ideas are abundant. Proof of concepts and prototypes are not. Getting into YC does not mean that Modular Science is going…

Your words are encouraging but unfortunately I don't think you understand how many diff techs converge to create a farm bot.

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

matt4077 wrote: post #76
jelliclesfarm wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course. Most likely. What else can it be.. Colour me bitter..but my biggest weakness is that I am not 'technical' enough...but why is someone who has never tilled a field or known the rhythms of growing food in the natural world and knows the diff between dirt and soil be better qualified to make what we need? And keep us suckling on the giant teat(or whatever) of tech? Like Monsanto does..like John Deere and dmca…

Chill... They're actually not replacing the farmer, but the hired hand that picks the tomatoes. That's manual labour requiring a 10-minute introduction ("This one is ripe, this one is not"). Such robots could potentially improve soil and food quality: they could manually remove weeds, making chemicals unnecessary, and they could possibly also replace the current, heavy machinery that requires large monocultures for e…

Automation of 99% of vegetable production process for $2000/acre.

I am not worried at all that they will replace the farmer. I just have a dim view of certain things and people that were shiny earlier.

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