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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by dinkleberg »

martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #5

GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…

I’m not in your target audience, but I love the idea and the backstory. This seems like a real strong niche that was due for some innovation. Best of luck!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by edgyquant »

kkajla wrote: post #10

We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…

I think this is interesting but I’m missing something. To me at least this doesn’t sound simpler than just using oauth to authenticate and then having a roles table etc on the backend to authorize. What would you say is the killer feature that would change my mind about this?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by lamroger »

martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #5

GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…

V cool. Is there a way to publicly verify a transaction went through? Or they send a screenshot?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by brap »

kkajla wrote: post #10

We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…

This is neat, and I've given this idea some thought in the past. Glad to see it!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by jsumrall »

anta81 wrote: post #7

We are Anta and Karthik of Inai ( https://www.inai.io/ ), a platform for setting up and operating your payment stack. We let you offer local payment methods, support multiple business models (e-commerce, subscriptions , platforms) and localise the checkout experience by region of operation. Setting up and maintaining a payment stack, especially if you operate in multiple regions, takes months of developer time. Most…

Hi, very interesting segment of the market!

How do you compare yourself to Spreedly? How would you compete with their offering?

I think these solutions are really neat, but I wonder how you can handle some edge cases which I think are really difficult. For example, let's say I want to use credit cards with Adyen. Now after a year of this, I have a lot of customers with their credit cards connected to my business via Inai so recurring payments go smoothly. Now, Stripe comes knocking and will give me a much better price on credit cards. Can I just switch the backend to start routing card payments to Stripe? Will all the customers need to re-enroll their credit cards when trying to pay now? If not, then I guess you're managing the card data on you side?

I think this and Spreedly are interesting, but I can imagine that for large companies, you want more control over your payments flow even than what's provided here, which is why when compared to Spreedly, we personally went with VGS and do the PSP routing in our own system.

IF my assumption about that is true, then that leaves you with the smaller merchant market. Of those users, I think just sticking with one of the reliable PSPs with global coverage (Stripe/Adyen) might be simpler.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by m12k »

jheinvirta wrote: post #4

We are Jan and Anahi of Perfekto ( https://www.perfekto.mx/ ). We offer imperfect produce in Latin America, helping to reduce food waste as otherwise the food would be thrown away. We offer a subscription box, delivered to your doorstep. We started with fruits and veggies as 54% of them are wasted in Latin America, mainly due to two reasons: strict industry standards around aesthetics (too ugly, too small, too big, b…

First off, congrats for tackling a problem like this!

I'm wondering if there isn't also a big opportunity in selling this imperfect produce to food factories? Consumers have to be on board with big/small/misshapen veggies, but if I'm buying a strawberry jam, where the strawberries were chopped up in a factory, then it really doesn't matter what shape they had originally. Frankly, I'm kinda surprised if an obvious optimization like that isn't already in place - let those who care about the shape pay more for the pretty ones, and let those who don't save by buying the rest. But I'm guessing the existing supply chains that you are bypassing just isn't very conducive to that sort of thing?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by jsmithfl »

Felipe_Urzua wrote: post #9

Hello HN! We are Antonio, Felipe, Joaquin and Francois, founders of Chipax ( https://www.chipax.com/ ). We are helping SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) in Latin America handle their finances. Chipax is self-serve online software that works with real-time data collection from the IRS and banks. We all know how painful and time consuming it is to manage finances and keep payables and receivables up to date. So we are…

Very cool!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by philippz »

brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

Jestor looks great! I hope you guys don't wait for ages until you put a heavy focus on product performance. Notion waited way too long with this and it was a great turn off to adopt the product. I've just tried out your project management template and it already feels slow. Please think early about query optimizations and caching on client & server-side. It a major competitor advantage from UX perspective.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by karimf »

ongtektjan wrote: post #2

We are building Titipku ( https://titipku.com/ ) which is "Instacart" for local markets in Indonesia, where we help households to buy daily groceries from nearby local markets in their residence areas. The Covid 19 has made people unable to buy their daily needs from local markets, meanwhile merchants in local markets are also suffering and need help to sell their goods. We solved this by helping to on board all merc…

This is amazing. I just forward it to my SO and we probably will try it.

We've been shopping weekly at a supermarket groceries store, think like Giant, Hypermart, or Lulu Hypermarket. We realized even though the experience is fine, this is not ideal. There are million small merchants that rely on daily income to be able to feed their family, so my purchases could be significant for them.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by pacoWebConsult »

lamroger wrote: post #13
martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #5

GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…

V cool. Is there a way to publicly verify a transaction went through? Or they send a screenshot?

I assume this is where the integration with Steam comes into play. Checking the seller's inventory and the buyer's inventory
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