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Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch

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Re: Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch

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Post by anoncoward111 »

greglindahl wrote: post #9
chiefofgxbxl wrote: post #6

Cool batch, particularly LemonBox which provides personalized vitamin packs to buyers in China. There's a huge user base right there, and I imagine the U.S. market is largely saturated / competitive already. I must respectfully express my concern over: "Grabb-it Inc. turns rideshare cars into digital billboards." There's probably a market for it as online advertisers face an uncertain future with possible regulation,…

All we need is a YC-backed AR startup that removes ads from your personal visual space. Although it might be difficult to get that tech safe enough to be used while driving.

hahahahahahah.... classic mafia extortion techniques. Create a problem, then demand people pay you to remove it.

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Post by necubi »

chiefofgxbxl wrote: post #6

Cool batch, particularly LemonBox which provides personalized vitamin packs to buyers in China. There's a huge user base right there, and I imagine the U.S. market is largely saturated / competitive already. I must respectfully express my concern over: "Grabb-it Inc. turns rideshare cars into digital billboards." There's probably a market for it as online advertisers face an uncertain future with possible regulation,…

Even worse, according to the techcrunch article [0] the projection screen is mostly opaque, so passengers won't be able to see out the window.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/15/grabb-it-wants-to-turn-you...

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Post by reikonomusha »

phkahler wrote: post #4

Personalize testimonials to the person reading them? Did I read that correctly? Fake reviews taylored to the reader?

I take it as: “See the reviews which will skew your perception positively.” Doesn’t sound enticing as a consumer. I just want the facts.

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Post by Jemaclus »

The CSPA thing is interesting to me because the founder/CEO was formerly the head of engineering at Crunchyroll, and interviewing at Crunchyroll was one of the worst interviewing experiences I've ever had.

Let's just say I'm skeptical. I hope it works out, but...

MacD looks interesting... but I'm kinda surprised YC would invest. A Mac n Cheese company? Very strange.

I'm very excited about the biotech space, so looking forward to seeing how that shakes out.

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Post by appdrag »

jboggan wrote: post #17

Has anyone used Optic yet? I'm not a Javascript developer but I'm interested in the concept.

It's seems very interesting, but to be honest after watching the demo video, most of the thing "automated" (I don't see any AI here) are related to poor practices... Some other features seems interesting, let's see how the product evolve.

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Post by phkahler »

jadk157 wrote: post #5
phkahler wrote: post #4

Personalize testimonials to the person reading them? Did I read that correctly? Fake reviews taylored to the reader?

They're not doing fake reviews. They're choosing which user reviews to show depending on the audience (e.g if the person visiting the website is from a company in the hotel industry, the website might show testimonials from other hotel companies like Hilton as opposed to software startups)

Ok, so not changing them. Hopefully ordering and not actually filtering.
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