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Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by gibsonf1 »

bigboote wrote: post #8
gibsonf1 wrote: post #6

We help you get your work done in half the time with better quality. Our application helps you identify the critical path to getting your work done, and focuses you on the top priority tasks that need to be done now with all the information you need to do them.

OK, but what does it actually do? So many things could fit that description that it's hardly a description at all.

We integrate project, workflow, and action management into one application. Changing the dependency links for the critical path of the project immediately changes the action to do list. Rather than seeing countless tasks that need to be done, you only see those that must be worked on now.

Our system also expands the idea of a Project. Rather than an isolated silo of work that you have to do, a Project integrates all of the people involved together with our collaboration system, from customers to vendors to subcontractors. The goal of a project is the complete value being created for the customer or for yourself.

The system allows you to create workflow templates and capture process knowledge of commonly recurring sets of task steps so that you can assign many tasks with a single click. The system also automatically tracks all of your time and associates the work you do with what you've worked on.

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by Alex3917 »

A service that allows you to geotag things for your municipal government to fix: pot holes, poison ivy, graffiti, car accidents, dangerous trees, etc. This automatically creates a to-do list online for everyone to see, and lets people with an @town.state.gov email address check items off as they get done. Things like downed power wires would be submitted the same way and then automatically routed to the relevant authority.

I'm working on another project already, but if someone else wants to make this then I'll be your first user.

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by cperciva »

Six word pitch for tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com): Online backups for the truly paranoid.

Longer version: Security is hard. Governments and organized crime are getting increasingly involved in identity theft and corporate espionage. Tarsnap is a backup system designed from the ground up to keep your data out of the hands of the US government (and anyone else who might want to steal it).

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by justindz »

gm wrote: post #7
justindz wrote: post #3

Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content. Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-) Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.

For some reason the word "collaborate" stopped me cold... it made the whole thing sound like some dilbert.com - generated mission statement. If I re-read your statement and use "work together" instead of collaborate then it sounded much better to me. For some reason... strange.

I'm in Marketing, and I think it crept in. Sorry about that. One of the things that I think holds "internet" poets back is that they don't get together in groups and critique each other. Work together is a better condensation of that, so I'll take it :-)

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by justindz »

dgabriel wrote: post #5
justindz wrote: post #3

Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content. Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-) Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.

Untrue! I give several tosses! I'm working on an integrated touring tool for spoken word poets. It will allow them to rate venues, add tour dates & locations, map their trip, easily find bus or plane tickets between destinations (here's a place where I could work in Wondrbar...), and publish their schedules to various social networking apps. I also want to add a booking mechanism for the people who run poetry venues,…

We're way off topic, so how's about you send me a link or something by email. I'm not very knowledgeable about spoken word, but if it's good for poetry I'm at least interested in seeing what you're planning/doing.

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by wanorris »

cperciva wrote: post #14

Six word pitch for tarsnap ( http://www.tarsnap.com ): Online backups for the truly paranoid. Longer version: Security is hard. Governments and organized crime are getting increasingly involved in identity theft and corporate espionage. Tarsnap is a backup system designed from the ground up to keep your data out of the hands of the US government (and anyone else who might want to steal it).

Just to let you know, this pitch totally worked for me. As soon as I finished reading your pitch I totally clicked the link to find out more. I hope you release soon. :-)

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by ashmaurya »

We all have tons of photos, movies, and music on our desktops that we'd like to share, but don't have the time or patience to upload them all to an online sharing site.

We built CloudFire for people that want to share ALL their media...FAST...right from their desktop.

Don't waste your time free time UPLOADING.

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by cperciva »

wanorris wrote: post #17
cperciva wrote: post #14

Six word pitch for tarsnap ( http://www.tarsnap.com ): Online backups for the truly paranoid. Longer version: Security is hard. Governments and organized crime are getting increasingly involved in identity theft and corporate espionage. Tarsnap is a backup system designed from the ground up to keep your data out of the hands of the US government (and anyone else who might want to steal it).

Just to let you know, this pitch totally worked for me. As soon as I finished reading your pitch I totally clicked the link to find out more. I hope you release soon. :-)

Are you interested in beta testing? :-)

Re: Ask YC: Give Us Your Best Elevator Pitch

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Post by sabat »

cperciva wrote: post #14

Six word pitch for tarsnap ( http://www.tarsnap.com ): Online backups for the truly paranoid. Longer version: Security is hard. Governments and organized crime are getting increasingly involved in identity theft and corporate espionage. Tarsnap is a backup system designed from the ground up to keep your data out of the hands of the US government (and anyone else who might want to steal it).

Yeah, I agree -- good pitch. Makes me want to know more. Inspires me to come up with a better pitch, myself. :-)
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