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Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What's your startup?

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Post by juu4 » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 8:42 AM UTC

samelawrence wrote: post #17

We had ambitious, though perhaps misguided plans to revolutionize recipe publishing across the web (and also didn't have the idea for long before applying). Since applying, and talking a few other folks, we've realized that what we really want to do is pick up the torch of the early work on RecipeML and make an open format for the web to encode recipe data in. Ideally, we'd like to see companies like Epicurious and A…

What's in it for Epicurious and Allrecipes, considering they currently own the data and competing just on features probably means they lose market power?

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What's your startup?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 9:36 AM UTC

vgrichina wrote: post #16

My startup is visual programming system ala Spreadsheets + Zapier, here is my YC application – http://spreadsheets-on-steroids.tumblr.com/post/82903500034/... Would like some feedback on my application.

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Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What's your startup?

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Post by dgarrett » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 10:15 AM UTC

m0dE wrote: post #18

http://www.innGrid.net 4 months old. 100 sign-ups. 10 paying customers.

Fyi, the smooth scrolling JS you use on your homepage is very awkward with a Macbook trackpad (in Chrome). It kind of accelerates erratically.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What's your startup?

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Post by omnisci » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:23 PM UTC

Hi all, 4th attempt w/ recommendations from YC founders and no interview this time. I think I know why (single founder, little traction).

My company, Stirplate.io, is an app for scientists to store, share and analyze their data in the cloud.

Science needs help managing it's data, so my company helps with that process. We also automate data analysis for scientists, making hours of excel work take about 15seconds.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What's your startup?

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Post by samelawrence » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

juu4 wrote: post #21

samelawrence wrote: post #17

We had ambitious, though perhaps misguided plans to revolutionize recipe publishing across the web (and also didn't have the idea for long before applying). Since applying, and talking a few other folks, we've realized that what we really want to do is pick up the torch of the early work on RecipeML and make an open format for the web to encode recipe data in. Ideally, we'd like to see companies like Epicurious and A…

What's in it for Epicurious and Allrecipes, considering they currently own the data and competing just on features probably means they lose market power?

Well, one of them would have to race to have market dominance, but imagine being the publisher / host for every recipe on the web. You could really only achieve that by opening in your platform / format to 3rd party devs and other services, to allow other tie-ins.

So... Instagram didn't invent JPEG... they just made it really simple and easy for everyone to share images, and the 3rd party services that have sprung up around it have strengthened their ecosystem. That's a bad example... but... you get what I'm saying I hope.