Ask HN: Heard of any good startups? • Hacker News Board

paul9290 wrote: post #37

We're launching this week (Sleep.fm) an updated site ( http://sleep.fm/coming-soon/ ) to announce our iphone app. We just learned & became skilled at Objective-C; stoked to finally be releasing a product outside of web browser. Appreciate any/all feedback on new site UI/UX.

The "Stop" button, used when testing, needs to be more... conservative.

Until I click "Set Alarm" I have no idea what those icons at the bottom do. Title them so that I can also click them. It will save users a bunch of time.

I know I shouldn't, but if I type www.sleep.fm/[special_char] I get a 503 page. Make that fancy or forward it with htaccess.

I really like the voice, as well as, it telling me my flight, weather ect. All of that is awesome.

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

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Post by pramit » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 6:50 AM UTC

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Post by coryl » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 6:57 AM UTC

atomical wrote: post #24

majhonger wrote: post #11

CareCloud http://www.carecloud.com

It sounds a bit risky to put your medical records in the cloud.

Our credit info is online, our home addresses, our banking info, our friends and family photos, what we buy, what we search for, where we go, where we are. What's so risky? :D

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Post by tomh » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:01 AM UTC

I'll put my workplace out there: Akaza Research http://www.akazaresearch.com/ http://www.openclinica.org/

We create open-source solutions for the clinical research field.

Also of note: http://opower.com/ - tracks energy efficiency with solar power + software. Something like that.

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

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Post by markchristian » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:02 AM UTC

sabredata wrote: post #12

Well, im from midwest...Chicago to be exact...i started TuneCloud.fm (though we are not live yet). But some other midwest music startups im cool with are merge.fm, g2.fm, and bln.kr. Check em out. By the way, I read and subscribe to VenturePimp...sweet. Keep it up

Thanks :) I covered bln.kr last week: http://venturepimp.com/post/802527796/bln-kr

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Post by markchristian » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:03 AM UTC

Thanks for all your suggestions, folks — this has been a great turn out. I'll check each and very one of them out.

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Post by markchristian » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 7:03 AM UTC

PStamatiou wrote: post #41

Notifo - Mobile Push Notifications platform http://notifo.com

Got it already :) http://venturepimp.com/post/526176519/notifo