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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 newman314 »

staunch wrote: post #34
newman314 wrote: post #33

Some config issues? curl -I https://www.yourmechanic.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Server: nginx/1.2.2 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:05:23 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 168 Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding

$ curl -I -A Mozilla https://www.yourmechanic.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.2.2 ...snip... They're "blocking" curl for whatever reason.

Interesting.

I wonder how this is configured in nginx.

Edit: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-appleosx-bsd-nginx-b...

On a different note, I think it's rather odd they find the time to block user agents but do not have HSTS set.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by wamatt »

sinak wrote: post #22

For reference, the other finalists were: Lit Motors (runner up): http://litmotors.com/ Expect Labs: http://www.expectlabs.com/ Gyft: http://www.gyft.com/ Prior Knowledge: https://www.priorknowledge.com/ Saya: http://www.saya.im/ Zumper: http://zumper.com

Interested if anyone had any thoughts on Prior Knowledge's predictive DB, Veritable.

https://www.priorknowledge.com/

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by alexchamberlain »

staunch wrote: post #34
newman314 wrote: post #33

Some config issues? curl -I https://www.yourmechanic.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Server: nginx/1.2.2 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:05:23 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 168 Connection: keep-alive Vary: Accept-Encoding

$ curl -I -A Mozilla https://www.yourmechanic.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.2.2 ...snip... They're "blocking" curl for whatever reason.

That is broken still. I doubt they can justify UA sniffing for the homepage.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by capkutay »

wamatt wrote: post #42
sinak wrote: post #22

For reference, the other finalists were: Lit Motors (runner up): http://litmotors.com/ Expect Labs: http://www.expectlabs.com/ Gyft: http://www.gyft.com/ Prior Knowledge: https://www.priorknowledge.com/ Saya: http://www.saya.im/ Zumper: http://zumper.com

Interested if anyone had any thoughts on Prior Knowledge's predictive DB, Veritable. https://www.priorknowledge.com/

Could it serve as a replacement to running mapreduce on large sets of data?

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by artag »

newman314 wrote: post #32
sk5t wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Agreed. If we are going to "pump" up the SEO factor, things like https://www.yourmechanic.com/book/#/addj=10021 for "Car is not starting" would not be in place. Instead, maybe something like https://www.yourmechanic.com/fix/10021/car-is-not-starting So yeah, I wouldn't necessarily hold this site up as heavily SEO optimized. Nothing against the company as they are a young company just not a good example IMO.

we are getting there :). more like yourmechanic.com/problem/car-is-not-starting - some place where you can all the common reasons etc. There are a lot of things we need to improve.

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by fchollet »

wamatt wrote: post #42
sinak wrote: post #22

For reference, the other finalists were: Lit Motors (runner up): http://litmotors.com/ Expect Labs: http://www.expectlabs.com/ Gyft: http://www.gyft.com/ Prior Knowledge: https://www.priorknowledge.com/ Saya: http://www.saya.im/ Zumper: http://zumper.com

Interested if anyone had any thoughts on Prior Knowledge's predictive DB, Veritable. https://www.priorknowledge.com/

My personal opinion is that it might be too early for this kind of product to find a real market. The value proposition will seem unclear to almost every potential user.

They're not the only players in the field, by the way: https://www.numenta.com/index.html

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by goggles99 »

noonespecial wrote: post #35

I'm just wondering here: Might it be hard to find a mechanic like this in February in Minneapolis?

This is the same thought that came to my head. Weather conditions would certainly cause a problem. Heat, rain, snow. How could a mechanic come to your office and do work on your car 2/3 of the year? the conditions won't permit it.

I suppose if everyone lived in San Diego, CA things would work out great though.

I suppose that the mechanic could come pick up your car at work and drive it to their garage/shelter - then drive it back (why don't auto shops do this now for a small fee?).

Re: Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt

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Post by cwilson »

goggles99 wrote: post #48

Just checked Your Mechanic. $40 for an oil change? no thanks. Not worth the convenience. It will fail at these prices.

Have you ever taken an Uber? People are paying double the cost of a regular cab and Uber is doing extremely well. People will pay for convenience. Personally, I've gone way over the time in which I should have changed my oil dozens of times simply because it's inconvenient and I have better things to do.

I'm also not even sure what an average oil change costs? Without that knowledge, because I haven't done it often enough to know, $40 actually seems perfectly reasonable.

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