Is my first post. Yes at the moment I am working on 2 different business plans.
One has to do with recycling ink cartridges. I have found by the research I have done that there is quite an interesting and virgin market for that here in Spain.
The second is a company which has been working for 2 years but I am remodeling the system of production. This one is about Selling school planners.
Is anyone working on something that is not a website?
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Re: Is anyone working on something that is not a website?
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Don't forget threadless and moo as two other great examples of using the web to rework real world products.
Great examples. I think the most successful web businesses will be those that enhance one's "real" life.
the most successful web businesses will be those that enhance one's "real" life.
This is why I think mobile has such great potential. A platform that the user carries around with her all day that has rich sensors such as camera, microphone and NFC. It's perfect! (apart from the small screen but thats a small price to pay for such access to an user)
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"I've done both desktop/server software and web software, and IMHO good web software is harder." I can only ask what kind of software have you developed, sir? If web software was harder, you wouldn't see "products" created over a weekend shaping up into companies a week later. And don't get me started on "millions of users on dozen boxes". The primitiveness of web application development is mainly the reason why so m…
Everything you mention is true, and a huge pain when developing desktop applications. One of the projects I've worked on was to serve as the release engineer for a desktop app that involved a Winsock layered service provider, a background Windows service, a system tray icon, and a Java control application, plus a large server-side component. My job basically consisted of making a tweak to the InstallShield scripts, p…
You two should join forces.
Re: Is anyone working on something that is not a website?
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#35Our product is not a website, but it is web-based (it is installable web-based system administration tools). I dunno if that qualifies by your definition. So we have all of the pain of developing a web-based application (browser incompatibilities, limitations of the medium, etc.) with all of the negatives of installed applications (high barrier to adoption, lower volume, etc.). But it does give us a business model th…
If your making your clients install software, why not just make your clients install a specific broswer ?
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#36Yeah I make orthodontic software and just finished a prototype 3d scanner (structured light style thing for those in the know). That sort of my day job, although I own a 1/3 of the business. I really want to do some web2.0 ideas I've got on the side - which is really the main reason I come to news.yc
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Great examples. I think the most successful web businesses will be those that enhance one's "real" life.
the most successful web businesses will be those that enhance one's "real" life. This is why I think mobile has such great potential. A platform that the user carries around with her all day that has rich sensors such as camera, microphone and NFC. It's perfect! (apart from the small screen but thats a small price to pay for such access to an user)
Well, perfect except for the handset manufacturers and carriers you have to deal with.
Re: Is anyone working on something that is not a website?
#38There are plenty of startups that make cool software. Trolltech, Sleepycat (now Oracle), VMWare, Coverity are just a few that come to mind. I think the main difference between software startups compared to web startups is that there is a lot more depth to them. I don't think an average kid out of college is capable of something like this. I am working on software development tools: http://www.codesynthesis.com
"I don't think an average kid out of college is capable of something like this." I've done both desktop/server software and web software, and IMHO good web software is harder. With web software, you have to explicitly think about many things that just aren't an issue with conventional software, like how to distribute the load of a million users over dozens of boxes. It helps that user expectations for UI responsivene…
I'm not really sure why you think that web development is the only form of software development that writes distributed software. This seems like a bogus assumption.
I've worked on two large projects that are distributed and not web based.
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#39OpenGL + Python + Cached Streaming Data
web - handhend - desktop - web
jobs@churchillnavigation.com
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#40We just got an angel round for a destop sw startup. It is a visualization tool that is OpenGL heavy and I'm not sure how I'd deliver that over the interwebs. www.uuorld.com We're using trolltech's Qt and releasing on Win32, OS X, and Linux. If anyone knows of any mature packages for interactive 3d over the web, I'm all ears.
Torque, Torque Advance, and now apparently Torque X.
http://www.garagegames.com
"Mature packages for interactive 3D over the web"
They are general purpose game building frameworks. I am currently working with it in MMO form, all implementation code in Python. It is a mature package for interactive 3D over the web if I ever saw one.
Hmm.. there may be something to that.... hey thanks! :)