Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

#1

Post by dang » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

This is the inaugural "Meet the Batch" post that we discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280. There are 8 startups in this thread. I've attempted to squeeze a reference to each in the title above. The initial order is random.

Direct links to each startup:

Portão 3 (YC S21) - Corporate travel for Latin America - https://portao3.com.br/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930563

Sitenna (YC S21) - A marketplace for wireless cell sites - https://sitenna.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930564

ContainIQ (YC S21) - Kubernetes observability based on eBPF - https://www.containiq.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930569

Appollo (YC S21) - A single API for launching to eCommerce platforms - https://www.tryappollo.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930570

Beau (YC S21) - Automate repetitive client-facing tasks - https://beau.to/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930568

Telm.ai (YC S21) - Real-time data quality monitoring - https://www.telm.ai/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930566

Filadd (YC S21) - Online courses for LatAm university - https://courses.filadd.com/, entrance exams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930567

Shimmer (YC S21) - Online video support groups for mental health - https://shimmer.care, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930565

You are invited to share your questions, thoughts, feedback, and experiences in any of these spaces! Simply reply to the founder's post you want to discuss.

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#2

Post by fnfilho » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Hi HN, we're Bianca and Fernando, founders of Portão 3 (https://portao3.com.br/). We help companies in LATAM (Latin America) with their corporate travel, expenses and payments. We traveled a lot to visit clients in our previous companies, and realized that the corporate travel market had a lot to evolve technologically. Latin America didn’t have a startup helping companies and work travelers with a real all-in-one experience. Our software includes features like a timeline that recaps the entire trip and a BI for 100% control at the end. We make it easy to understand expenses and manage them. B2B companies in LATAM like CredPago and Junco are using Portão 3 and reducing costs significantly (as in 30%). We founded Portão 3 in 2020 and are currently growing at 40% MoM (month over month).

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#3

Post by DanielCampion » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Hey HN! We’re Daniel and Brian from Sitenna (https://sitenna.com/). Sitenna is a marketplace connecting wireless carriers, tower providers and real estate owners. Think booking.com for telecom cell sites. Currently, it takes wireless telecom carriers up to 24 months to deploy a site because the process is based on screenshots, maps, emails, PDFs and spreadsheets. This is a particular issue with the advent of 5G which requires x6-10 (depending on which analyst you believe!) more cell sites in the network.

We use maps and workflow tools to reduce the time it takes to deploy a new site by up to 75%, saving tens of thousands of dollars. Wireless carrier radio planners can easily search, identify and acquire sites for deploying antennae whilst the tower providers and real estate owners can market and monetise their assets to the telecom market.

I (Daniel) have worked in telecoms my whole career and worked in more than 30 countries. The same issue exists in every market so there is a rather big opportunity ($40B is spend on wireless infrastructure globally per year!) if we can get some solid product market fit. We’d love to speak to any of you that are curious about what we’re doing or if you have any ideas/challenges for us.

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#4

Post by jonxwang » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Shimmer (https://shimmer.care) offers guided video support groups for people struggling with their mental health. Shimmer matches members with shared identities and experiences and places them in small groups that meet for weekly support sessions along with a qualified peer coach. During the rest of the week, members have access to our Community Platform (a mobile app and web app) to leverage resources like community events, mood tracking, and gratitude journaling.

79% of young adults with mental health issues do not have access to care; the most common alternative, teletherapy, is expensive ($150/session), has significant churn (40% drop off after first visit), and lacks diverse representation (average age of 51 and 80% white). We've developed a curriculum incorporating material from expert group therapists at UCSF. This has led to a number of great outcomes including: providing care at a fraction of the cost of therapy ($50/month or $12/session), an 80% 4-month retention rate, and a diverse set of highly experienced facilitators that members can relate better to. If you're interested in trying Shimmer, you can sign up for a consultation call or a wellness workshop (both for free) directly on our website. Shimmer is led by three founders with extensive experience across healthcare and engineering. Having seen firsthand the severe effect that mental health issues have had on loved ones, we left previous roles (graduate programs at Berkeley MBA/MPH, UCSF MD and Salesforce SWE) to dedicate ourselves to improving the accessibility and affordability of mental health care.

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#5

Post by mona_rakibe » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Telmai (https://www.telm.ai/) is a real-time data quality monitoring platform that can automatically detect and investigate data quality issues as data is getting ingested. Our tool uses a statistical and ML engine that helps data product owners understand data anomalies and intuitively define correct versus incorrect data. These definitions are then used to proactively monitor and alert on data quality problems.

We have decades of experience with enterprise data and find that this approach towards data quality addresses a huge gap in data platforms. Detecting and investigating data quality issues is extremely tedious, time-consuming and expensive. Using Telmai, companies like Dun & Bradstreet and Myers-Holum are able to find and resolve such issues across millions of records in minutes. Ask us anything!

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#6

Post by joaquinolmedo » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Hi HN, we're the founders of Filadd (https://courses.filadd.com/). 80% of students in LatAm (Latin America) need private tutoring classes to prepare for university admission exams. The system is centralized and extremely high-stakes: exams only happen once a year and based on your score on the exam you can basically choose your university. If you don’t get the desired score, go home and come back the next year. So there is a huge market of private coaching for these admissions, and lots of academies that give face-to-face classes like a school. We offer online courses that include one-on-one tutoring to students who are preparing these exams. We have a revenue share business model with the teachers who work with the students—not a common model in the region. We also use Data Science to identify how well students are performing and we offer them the exact content they need to study.

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#7

Post by kyrilku » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Beau (https://beau.to/) is a no-code tool that helps businesses automate customer interactions and onboarding. Customers use our software to collect documents, manage payments, send messages and more. For example, tax advisors use Beau to collect documents and send reminders, and immigration consultants use us to automate repetitive client-facing processes. Currently, businesses use a mix of form builders, website builders and CRMs to build this kind of thing. We launched Beau to make it easy for non-technical people to use just one tool to automate their onboarding workflows. We are a small team of 3 founders with an art, design and engineering background. We needed something like Beau when we were onboarding clients to a design agency, and realized we had to build it ourselves.

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#8

Post by NWMatherson » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

We are building ContainIQ (https://www.containiq.com/)! We provide Kubernetes native monitoring instantly with pre-built dashboards and easy to create monitors. A one-line install that takes 5 minutes to set up and it just works. By using eBPF we’re able to correlate kernel-level metrics with Kubernetes objects. Our current users are using our product to track and get alerted on things like p95/p99 latencies, Kubernetes jobs failing, pod evictions, among other things.

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#9

Post by Robrechtlr » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo (https://www.tryappollo.com/). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Square, Wix, SquareSpace, Etsy, etc. Before Appollo, we were working on a live stream application for eCommerce stores, which was how we were confronted with this problem. Looking forward to your feedback!

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#10

Post by rsstack » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

Robrechtlr wrote: post #9

Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo ( https://www.tryappollo.com/ ). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommer…

I love this. Now that you have a working version, what's next on your road map?