Matt, You're still planning on moving out to Mountain View (based on your Twitter feed), right? When are you planning on doing that?
We move in 8 Days.
How We Got Rejected from YC and Moved into the SpeakerCave
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#12I would love to be able to use this for TekPub - being able to have people quote our videos and share it would be awesome marketing.
We've got a major product overhaul coming soon that will be super-friendly for you. I'll ping you via email.
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#13Is there a technical reason preventing the big guys (youtube/yahoo /vimeo etc.) from developing this kind of thing? I always thought running voice recognition on user submitted videos would require massive infrastructure. How are you guys planning to solve that? Congrats & best of luck with the rest!
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#14Is there a technical reason preventing the big guys (youtube/yahoo /vimeo etc.) from developing this kind of thing? I always thought running voice recognition on user submitted videos would require massive infrastructure. How are you guys planning to solve that? Congrats & best of luck with the rest!
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#15With my alumni discount, I had setup a booth at the Columbia Engineering Job Fair, looking for fresh talent.
Good idea. Has anyone else here ever recruited for a startup or a small company at a university job fair? How did it go?
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#16Is there a technical reason preventing the big guys (youtube/yahoo /vimeo etc.) from developing this kind of thing? I always thought running voice recognition on user submitted videos would require massive infrastructure. How are you guys planning to solve that? Congrats & best of luck with the rest!
We're doing machine-augmented crowdsourcing, not straight voice recognition. It's different, and allows us to provide consistent high quality at low cost.
Essentially, we've built a crowdsourcing QA system a la Crowdflower, expect better and more suited to the specific task of video-to-text, and augmented it with speech recognition.
It's pretty fucking cool, if you ask me, but also very different from how people have traditionally approached this problem.
Also, the current site and product will be completely replaced in 8 days with something MUCH much better. So keep you eyes peeled.
-Matt
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#17>“Your team hasn’t know each other long enough,” he told us––or something like that. But they’d be happy to talk to us again, later, in the fall, assuming we hadn’t self-destructed already.
Oh man had that been me, I would properly double my efforts to get the startup to be the next facebook, just to mail PG and tell him he missed the boat...
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#18I didn't see a link in the post to http://speakertext.com/ . I checked it out, and it looks like a really useful app! Best of luck to these guys!
At first I was thinking that youtube's recent sub title mod must of been a bit of a hit to their idea, but then I saw the functionality of quoting and sharing hyper linked quotes. That's quite a cool feature and could be handy for stopping 'mis quoting' / 'quoting out of context' being used in many media's.
And it would eliminate the need to say "skip ahead to 4:25 to hear where he talks about such and such"
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#19what is the speakercave?
SpeakerCave is the rawest form of a startup pad. Four dudes, no ac, shirtless half the time, coding like fiends and having a blast!
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#20>“Your team hasn’t know each other long enough,” he told us––or something like that. But they’d be happy to talk to us again, later, in the fall, assuming we hadn’t self-destructed already. Oh man had that been me, I would properly double my efforts to get the startup to be the next facebook, just to mail PG and tell him he missed the boat...
Even though I was also rejected by YC without an interview - Not "ready" or "prepared", and no co-founder, were the likely reasons, I can accept being rejected.
I still believe that PG's opinion counts for a lot. I doubt many seed programs have partners that loose sleep over missed opportunities.