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Rejected as well; http://pivotal.ws
Facebook does it, Dropbox does it, Google does it, Apple does it. There's nothing you can really do to usurp such entrenched and cohesive services who offer it as a part of their broader platform.
It's essentially a solved annoyance.
Your forgot a link, I'm guessing this from your profile? https://www.cameralends.com/
Rejected as well; http://pivotal.ws
I think the problem with that is that everyone under the sun offers that same exact service. Facebook does it, Dropbox does it, Google does it, Apple does it. There's nothing you can really do to usurp such entrenched and cohesive services who offer it as a part of their broader platform. It's essentially a solved annoyance.
This is where I wish there was some, even a few words or a sentence, feedback.
We had 8 different alums look over the application and only one raised the competition issues (I think our system differences were clearer when you read the application). Consistently we heard about weakness of my co-founder experience wise and questioning of our 70/30 equity split.
Was it the idea? The team? Possibly the fact that YC has already funded a company very similar to us (Snapjoy) and another recently (Loom)?
Well here's our project that didn't get accepted: http://pplrep.com
Well here's our project that didn't get accepted: http://pplrep.com
Best of luck to you and your project.
Well here's our project that didn't get accepted: http://pplrep.com
HN, we're an open source nonprofit, and we'd like to collaborate with other developers. Check out our code here: https://github.com/empirical-org/quill
And if you'd like to contribute, we've got a few interesting projects in the works, including building a free writing section with NLP! You can reach me at peter (at) quill (dot) org
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I think the problem with that is that everyone under the sun offers that same exact service. Facebook does it, Dropbox does it, Google does it, Apple does it. There's nothing you can really do to usurp such entrenched and cohesive services who offer it as a part of their broader platform. It's essentially a solved annoyance.
I agree from a utility perspective, our differentiation is our ability to determine context about the photos, knowing for example that you were tailgating at a 49ers game rather than simply saying you were at a certain lat/lon on a given date. Once we know that we can supplement the UX with that context. This is where I wish there was some, even a few words or a sentence, feedback. We had 8 different alums look over…