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Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

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Post by spokey »

Hi Mark.

You've already covered my startup, a bike reference for cyclists (VenturePimp writeup at at http://venturepimp.com/post/673622703/brightspoke; my site lives at http://brightspoke.com/) but I'd like to thank your for your kind writeup.

For what it's worth, your post sent a few hundred visitors my way, and they seemed more engaged than those from some other blog links we've had.

Thanks for your blog, it's great to have a feed of new stuff people are working on, especially when presented in such a clean and straightforward way.

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#82

Post by spokey »

richardhenry wrote: post #79
kordless wrote: post #16

Loggly - http://loggly.com/ is a cloud-based log management service funded by True and Trinity. Logs are normally a real PITA, especially on something like EC2, but we make dealing with them fun and easy. Basically you point your logs at our servers where we catch them and store them safely away. We apply a fulltext index to the logs to make them searchable. Results can be processed with custom scripts you write and…

Just a quick point: Your beta signup form ( http://www.loggly.com/signup/ ) requires far too much thinking in order to complete. After almost a minute of figuring out how I can fit what I want to say into your pre-structured dialog, I gave up.

I'll second this feedback, and add one other minor point: I wouldn't use the acronym (or is that an abbreviation since it is not pronounceable?) "IaaS" as part of that signup form. I do a lot of work with SaaS and it took me a minute to figure out what you were talking about. (It didn't help that in your chosen font upper case I and lower case L look quite similar. At first a thought you mean "logging as a service" which seemed like a strangely narrow expression.)

For what it is worth, I would either spell that out, or even better, change it to something a little less jargony, such as "cloud based services" or something like that (which is still a little jargony).

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#83

Post by markchristian »

spokey wrote: post #81

Hi Mark. You've already covered my startup, a bike reference for cyclists (VenturePimp writeup at at http://venturepimp.com/post/673622703/brightspoke ; my site lives at http://brightspoke.com/ ) but I'd like to thank your for your kind writeup. For what it's worth, your post sent a few hundred visitors my way, and they seemed more engaged than those from some other blog links we've had. Thanks for your blog, it's gr…

Thanks — that's great to hear. :)

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#84

Post by markchristian »

rupurt wrote: post #58

http://www.nearmap.com Based in sunny Perth, Australia :) We have high-res PhotoMaps of the major Australian cities and allow you to see change over time by flicking through the dates of places we have captured. http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-31.959417,115.859435&z=17&#3...

Very cool.

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#86

Post by markchristian »

markchristian wrote: post #48
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

Alright, mergefm is today's pimped venture: http://venturepimp.com/post/832618806/mergefm — thanks, sabredata. :)

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#87

Post by woodall »

paul9290 wrote: post #54
woodall wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Hi thanks so much for the feedback. Re: icons at bottom yeah they are just static - they add color to our dark design. Though I have heard this comment before, so I'll c how it looks without & a bigger clock window. Re: [special_char] ... when it goes live will get our alarm links working as they do on live site ( http://Sleep.fm/7am , http://sleep.fm/8am , etc). Maybe that' what u meant? Not sure what you meant by "…

A fellow Raider! I'm doing my final semester of Criminal Justice, along the way I learned how to program and I'm too lazy/far in to change majors.

Here is a rough idea of what I had in mind: http://imgur.com/5HHOQ.png . The Rooster is active so the "Test" link appears under it. When you click "Weather Alarm" a test link will appear under that and disappear from the under the Rooster. You can arrange the icons any way, but I think labeling them would help the user know what they do.

I wasn't aware you weren't fully live yet, it looks nice so far. I would recommend creating a nice 404 page so that users who go to http://sleep.fm/; or http://sleep.fm/7 are either directed back to the homepage or to a pretty 404 page telling them they messed up.

>Not sure what you meant by "Stop," button. Is it too big?

Yes :). A simple stop would be more than enough, although the big button did work- i.e. I knew how to stop the test alarm.

I see potential here. The name is awesome, there are some nice design aspects. Give it a few more features- tweet the alarm time, intergrate pandora/last.fm/grooveshark- and I think you have a nice piece of work.

Good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#88

Post by paul9290 »

woodall wrote: post #87
paul9290 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi thanks so much for the feedback. Re: icons at bottom yeah they are just static - they add color to our dark design. Though I have heard this comment before, so I'll c how it looks without & a bigger clock window. Re: [special_char] ... when it goes live will get our alarm links working as they do on live site ( http://Sleep.fm/7am , http://sleep.fm/8am , etc). Maybe that' what u meant? Not sure what you meant by "…

A fellow Raider! I'm doing my final semester of Criminal Justice, along the way I learned how to program and I'm too lazy/far in to change majors. Here is a rough idea of what I had in mind: http://imgur.com/5HHOQ.png . The Rooster is active so the "Test" link appears under it. When you click "Weather Alarm" a test link will appear under that and disappear from the under the Rooster. You can arrange the icons any way…

Thanks for all the helpful feedback.

So what languages are you skilled in? Feel free to say hi im ryan@sleep.fm or ryanspahn on Twitter.

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#90

Post by joshschiffman »

Hi Mark,

Xtify - http://www.xtify.com - We're bringing the supposed "holy grail of marketing" to a smartphone near you - efficiently (and judiciously) delivering a notification to a consumer based on that person's location.

Xtify provides application developers (publishers, marketers) with a platform for creating and managing mobile push notification campaigns across multiple smartphone platforms - and offers the ability to trigger those messages based on rules including user preference and location.

We are based in NYC and backed by Acadia Woods and Seventy-Six Ventures. Many great businesses live and coming live soon (real estate, retail, web publishing).

Thanks! Josh

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