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Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by rdl »

hartror wrote: post #15
[deleted] wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Edit: deleted comment I replied to was saying two of the judges were investors in the company. Wow really? If that is the case how can they not have received favorable treatment? Even with the best of intentions those judges must be intimate with every aspect of the business and would be unable to separate that knowledge from what the other judges are basing their decisions on. I know the TC bias bashing is a bit of…

Those two investors were investors in many of the entrants and finalists.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by jcampbell1 »

Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mistakes.

Compared to YC companies, they are way ahead on SEO and other web marketing strategy. YC demo day companies tend to suck at SEO in obvious ways.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by tptacek »

nodesocket wrote: post #14
qq66 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The quality of the pitch is only marginally related to the two most important questions about the company: Is it a good market? And will this company be a leader in this market?

Agree, maybe I am just being a curmudgeon today, but the kind of companies that TechCrunch chooses for Disrupt as a general rule of thumb, don't excite me. It is a good idea though, peer-to-peer anything is the new hotness.

Peer-to-what-now? People in YourMechanic's market used to have to comb through useless Yelp ratings to find a place to take their cars to and leave them for a day or 3 to have basic repairs done. Now they can type some things into their Googles and have their cars fixed at home.

As a card carrying member of the "160k miles, last 20k with the check-engine light on" club, this is the best thing ever and I can't wait for them to get it to Chicago.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by sk5t »

jcampbell1 wrote: post #23

Congrats to the team. I thoroughly checked out the site, and this is clearly backed by a smart team. I see dozens of subtle smart decisions, and no obvious mistakes. Compared to YC companies, they are way ahead on SEO and other web marketing strategy. YC demo day companies tend to suck at SEO in obvious ways.

I would downvote this comment for extreme, petulant vagueness if I had the karma to do so.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by Danieru »

nodesocket wrote: post #18
shortlived wrote: post #16

I need serious repairs requiring a lift. How do they do this "on site"?

http://goo.gl/WT7YZ Sorry had too. :)

I know there is a sunk-cost aspect to writing a comment, realizing it is "sup-optimal", yet posting it anyway. I implore you need to resist letting this fallacy get the better of you. Some of my best contributions to HN are when I close the tab before posting a bad comment.
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