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Re: Ask HN: What are ten HN startups I can give a free table to LAUNCH?

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Rhino Accounting ( http://www.rhinoaccounting.com ) - Free web based accounting for small businesses that integrates with Google Apps.

I've been looking for a web based accounting solution ... but I can't tell from your site what features you actually have. Do you support multiple currencies, budgets?

How do you intend to monetize it with an 'always free' model?

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That's awesome! I've been daydreaming about building something like this for a while now :). Is it free? Is there a paid version where a real live person reads my message to me? In fact, now I think I might hack this up to run as an timer on my laptop. Where can I buy zazu?

There's a free version of the app on the Android Marketplace that uses a TTS engine but we're about to bust some magic up in that bitch so it doesn't sound like an 80-year-old smoker ('scuse my french). There might be a paid version coming up soon, depending on how some stuff tests. iPhone app is in the works (timeframe in the magnitude of weeks), so is blackberry. We're trying to hit every platform -- so we do want…

Well be sure to post when you finish the iPhone version, I'll be first in line to buy it :).

Out of curiosity, will you be able to activate the alarm even if I don't have the app "open"?

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It's pretty interesting. Do you handle Android and TV broadcast in separation? We build a hypervisor for android on omap processors ( http://b-labs.com ). It might be interesting to build a prototype demo for this platform.

We have an ATSC tuner on board, and the transport stream output from that goes straight into the TI processor. We have our own input switcher and media player in Android that processes the video. However, you have me very intrigued - I think there are ways we could use the hypervisor. Very cool. I'll drop you an email, thanks.

Sure, please do. It would be helpful to exchange ideas.

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I think a lot of us may have that "problem" as one of the requirements to submit to LAUNCH was to ensure that you did not have a web presence or public launch/description out there. Not sure if that is the same for the tables, but I think a number of us are playing it safe, just in case same rules apply. But your point is totally fair, in some cases (including mine) it's hard to know what is what.

in the "LAuNCH PAD" area (the trade show area) the startups can be launched. we sell those for $1,500 with everything (3 tickets, internet, electricity, etc). just thought i'd give 10 away here to help fellow startups out. the conference should break even and I won't lose more than $100,000 putting it on. heck, it probably will break even if things keep growing like they have! if it does make a profit i'm going to pu…

...or in DEMO terms, you can buy a table every year for the next 12 years at LAUNCH (if you don't win one on HN).

Or you can go to DEMO this year. :->

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DeskMetrics http://deskmetrics.com/ is an analytics for desktop software which provides real-time information about how software is being used. With DeskMetrics, companies and developers can obtain information about the users’ locations, where they are clicking, which features are most used and so on.

Nice looking app. Do you consider yourself competitive with/similar to Chartbeat, or looking for a different segment/concept? Idea seems very nice, will try it out for our startup.

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Check this out -

Volly: Texting is great, but it's more fun when you can do it in groups. And if you have a smart phone, texting should be smart too. So we built Volly, a smart group messaging application that runs on your iPhone (and of course uses text if you don't have an iPhone).

http://vol.ly

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#98
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SyncPad - online collaborative whiteboard for consumers & enterprise http://mysyncpad.com

I'm a fan and happy customer. SyncPad would demo extremely well at a conference.

Glad you like it. Coming up with a bunch of new improvements very soon.

Re: Ask HN: What are ten HN startups I can give a free table to LAUNCH?

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I'd love to get a table at LAUNCH. We are doing PR as a service to help startups be able to do pr effectively so that they can focus on building their core product. The site is http://socmetrics.com

socmetrics helps you find bloggers to target when preparing your campaigns. It takes time to read all their posts and figure out what's relevant to personalize each email. On the blogger side, they hate getting pitches that's not relevant or impersonal. We want to help both sides get what they want:more buzz and more targeted product pitches they might actually want to write about.
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