All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by nshgraph » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 7:05 PM UTC

lancewiggs wrote: post #78

hyperpallium wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's curious there's no video, since they're already crop-dusting. Even searching on the internet didn't turn up anything. BTW "piker" is slang for giving up, not the best startup connotation! (though mightn't be widespread)

Parse that again - I'm not sure that they are actually cropdusting in New Zealand. I have not heard of anything here in NZ (where we don't call it cropdusting anyway), but who knows.

Hi lance, they really are. Not sure how much of the plan is public yet but they provided detail in person.

PS: we do call it cropdusting

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

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Post by nealk » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 7:18 PM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #151

giarc wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm in the current batch. That's wrong.

Cofounder of Totemic here! Austen is right! We use a variety of wireless sensors to monitor people's movements. We can do much more than detection of falls at a singular moment in time this way and we actually will be using a singular device for small apartments and multiple for larger houses (think like Eero).

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

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Post by Lordarminius » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 7:39 PM UTC

lesiva wrote: post #6

Do the video recordings of these demos get posted online?

Your comment gives me an idea: perhaps YC should make all the video pitches public when their companies get funded. It would be both entertaining an educative

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

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Post by FiatLuxDave » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 7:43 PM UTC

hyperpallium wrote: post #65

elmar wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a video of the plane taking off and flying would be a nice addon.

It's curious there's no video, since they're already crop-dusting. Even searching on the internet didn't turn up anything. BTW "piker" is slang for giving up, not the best startup connotation! (though mightn't be widespread)

Not to mention that Pica is an eating disorder where you eat dirt and other assorted things.

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

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Post by dyarosla » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 7:44 PM UTC

nullandvoid wrote: post #70

Anyone got more information on gamelynx? The information given there is extremely vague and the site doesn't offer any clarification either

Waterlooo based startup. Maybe you can find an older pitch online searching for Velocity fund. I think it's a major from their first direction though :/

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

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Post by Lordarminius » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 7:50 PM UTC

Helium seems like a decent idea and I'm proud to see a Nigerian startup represented.

However, to my mind and from my experience, the major issue in the medical records space is how the data obtained from caregiver/patient interaction gets captured in the first instance. Health workers have not embraced typing in any form (and they most likely will not)and traditional way of recording by hand does not digitize readily .

How are you solving this problem ?

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

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Post by nealk » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 8:27 PM UTC

giarc wrote: post #143

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.

Totemic cofounder here. We actually don't just detect "falls" as a moment in time, but also use patterns to figure out things along the line of someone being on the floor in a place they usually aren't and they're not able to get up.

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

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Post by Balgair » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

garrettlangley wrote: post #175

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…

Hey rudimental, Garrett (co-founder of Flock), we built this product because there wasnt a better way to solve crime in our neighborhoods. Police are only able to solve 13% of cases due to lack of evidence. We are simply trying to provide the police with the evidence they need to do their job. We believe this type of technology is inevitable (look at our highways and major city roads already). We believe the data sho…

> We believe the data should be owned by the community and not the government.

> ... sell to neighborhoods ...

> ... allow residents to opt-out ...

(emphasis mine)

I'm not a linguist or a political scientist, but I don't think you have a very clear understanding of the word 'own' or what a government really is.

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

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Post by nealk » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 9:27 PM UTC

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,…

Cofounder of Totemic here. Just to add detail, it should be corrected in the article now but we don't use sound. Just as you say, we believe one major advantage of our system is not requiring behavior change on the part of seniors when that can be really difficult even if they want to because of memory and other issues.

We'll likely use one device for small apartments and have to scale up to 2-3+ for larger houses much like Eero does.

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

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Post by oscargrouch » Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 9:30 PM UTC

FiatLuxDave wrote: post #184

hyperpallium wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's curious there's no video, since they're already crop-dusting. Even searching on the internet didn't turn up anything. BTW "piker" is slang for giving up, not the best startup connotation! (though mightn't be widespread)

Not to mention that Pica is an eating disorder where you eat dirt and other assorted things.

And also "pica" (also sounding the same way) its a slang in Brazil for dick.

Can you guess the laughing when people say:

"Oh no, my Pyka is going down"

or

"You can touch my Pyka if you want"

They can have REAL sale problems if they eventually decide to sell in the Brazilian market.