Should I be concerned that the person behind the "wingman app" is looking for a co-founder? I don't know whether that's a positive or a negative...
YC W13 Applicants
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#84Has any other applicant class done this??? Don't get me wrong but if it wasn't done before I dont know if we should do it now...
I guess we shouldn't ever do anything that nobody else has done before.
haha true but I was thinking more in the line that it would back fire on the idea of not blurting out who some of the possible selected groups are... I thought they were supposed to be unknown until Demo Day...
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#85I saw one that said "A hyperlocal social photo bookmarking site for mobile" and immediately thought of http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta... . Definitely use a less douchey description in your actual YC app. Or at least name your company Devil's Deuce Interactive.
I'm pretty sure you just got trolled - their website is a 404.
Oh, well in that case, kudos to whoever did it!
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Probably a better strategy. If you take a look at Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School ( http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/ ) she notes that YC gets nervous about hardware--but nerds (like me) on Kickstarter love it. That's how the pebble watch came to grow successfully. Kickstarter is once of the few places you can find and fund really innovative hardware products. Best of luck
Thanks for the link. I figured YC knew the risk if PG asked for more hardware people to apply. It's true that it's very hard to have the same type of growth in a hardware startup as software, but someone has to make the gadgets. Additionally, while Kickstarter gives you funding, they don't provide the same type of mentorship that YC may offer.
Yes, the general fear of hardware in the valley was cured over the past year. There are still issues specific to hardware companies, but it is no longer that big a problem.
Things which are hardware plus service are even more popular.
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I looked at the site as well. I'm curious how you plan to differentiate from say Nest or Android@Home.
The initial mobius.io device has 16 general purpose I/O lines, several serial ports, and analog in, so it is much more flexible than Nest. As for Android@Home, mobius also has its own cloud service, so you don't need to worry about infrastructure. What we would like to do is to have the same functionality of something like NI USB-6009 ( http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201987 ) without the computer. And…
This is kind of cool. I'd love to see a demo. I'm in Palo Alto.
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I'm pretty sure you just got trolled - their website is a 404.
Now there's a Webvan one. I kind of don't get it. It seems like YC is one of the least deserving targets if you're going to mock the Valley hype machine.
And now it's filling up with garbage data and more shitty attempts at humor. I genuinely had no idea that if you removed the possibility of a down vote there would be that many dicks on HN.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The initial mobius.io device has 16 general purpose I/O lines, several serial ports, and analog in, so it is much more flexible than Nest. As for Android@Home, mobius also has its own cloud service, so you don't need to worry about infrastructure. What we would like to do is to have the same functionality of something like NI USB-6009 ( http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201987 ) without the computer. And…
This is kind of cool. I'd love to see a demo. I'm in Palo Alto.
I don't see any contact info in your profile, send me an email (contact in profile) and I can set something up.
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#90YC W13: "The X for Y class"
haha... well said!