This is awesome! I'd love to work in France, it just seems there are a dearth of tech companies there.
French Startups to Look Out For
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#12It would be nice to have a per-country map of recent startups/initiatives like these.
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#13Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train has a minimalistic design, fast search and has niceties like .ics to remind you of what you bought. (I'm in no way affiliated to Capitaine Train)
I like the SNCF site, but not the prices.
In the end I find it easier to EasyJet or LyinAir out of SW France.
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#14Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train has a minimalistic design, fast search and has niceties like .ics to remind you of what you bought. (I'm in no way affiliated to Capitaine Train)
Yeah, I always wondered how this could be. Capitaine Train is making money just selling train tickets, without any kind of ad at any point of the process, and that's their only revenue. On the other hand, we have the official SNCF website, which doesn't even have to be financially successful itself (since SNCF already makes money on the ticket itself), but is littered with ads, slow, ugly and unhelpful. And even PDF…
You're assuming voyages-sncf == SNCF which is not the case. It's a travel agency whose shareholders are SNCF and Expedia. So they are a private company that have a preferential treatment for which they been condemned once IIRC (not that it changed anything ...).
Re: French Startups to Look Out For
#15Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train has a minimalistic design, fast search and has niceties like .ics to remind you of what you bought. (I'm in no way affiliated to Capitaine Train)
I used capitaine train recently, I love how fast the site is (and how it saves my credentials). No mobile site though (voyages-sncf has a great mobile site, in that it's the bare minimum).
Someone was telling me that capitaine train was having a hard time getting real traction though, hope that things turn out better for them.
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#16Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train has a minimalistic design, fast search and has niceties like .ics to remind you of what you bought. (I'm in no way affiliated to Capitaine Train)
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#17I feel like youmood.me (lets you comment on any webpage) has been tried and failed 100 times already. Am I just not remembering things?
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#18Dunno if French guys based in New York count, but Placemeter are awesome. So many things they could do with the technology.
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#19Capitaine Train is super useful. The official SNCF (French State owned railways company) site is unusable and tries to upsell you everything but the actual tickets. Capitaine Train has a minimalistic design, fast search and has niceties like .ics to remind you of what you bought. (I'm in no way affiliated to Capitaine Train)
Capitaine Train just released last week an iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id599502670) - wondering what % of their sales mobile now represents
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#20Should probably include zengularity.com, the creators of the Play! framework.
Not sure if they qualify as a startup; at a minimum they're a highly successful French development team, perhaps the most successful in France (LinkedIn just contracted with them on a major project, for example).
Lot of bright cats on their team based on what I saw at scala.io conference in Paris.