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Building "Stackoverflow.com" for education to help out K-12 and college admission tests with Q&A platform that is student & teacher friendly. Any feedback will help. http://test.studyboard.com/studyboard/app/#/questions

Why not build atop something like https://github.com/ASKBOT for this?

my version is more student/teacher friendly with improved editor for Q/A posting, whiteboard, responsiveness etc.

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If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

The infrastructure and initial apps for a decentralized communication platform to eventually compete with the internet. Starting with a modest messaging app. gounplugged.co

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Got rejected. We are working on an Answering (Analytics) system that works with Natural Language and voice. http://numahub.com. Our product is cool and we are very positively moving ahead. YC acceptance would have been great but not being accepted motivates us to push harder.

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If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

I'm working on Storytella[0] which is a writing app aimed at self-publishing authors. I'm trying to bring more developer-like tools to authors in a simple way, so there's an entity system (think, database) and entities can be inserted into body text using an IDE-style context menu.

[0] https://storytel.la/

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The network of people there matters. If they were investing 10k in my company I'd comply. Your network is your net worth.

The network is freely available. You could email sama with an honest question as a startup founder and you'll probably get a reply. He genuinely loves helping people. I don't know what "Your network is your net worth" means, but it sounds like a worldview in which the people you know matter more than what you can do. That's sometimes true, but none of the major startups started off by networking. It didn't matter who…

It's depends where are you. We are in Latin America (invited), we are so far away to have any chance to create a great network from here, and moving to SF (or any place in USA) first without a network is almost impossible and very expensive for us.

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As expected. Single non-coding founder. Why do i bother? For a few weeks after the rejection I find myself very highly motivated.

Learn how to code. It's not impossible. You need to understand how to code if you want to run a IT company. Regards!

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http://cubic.fm connects different music sources in a single player and helps users build a globally accessible online music library. Launched the public beta a week ago. we want users to be able to -Create an online music library, independent of the source providing the content. -Build it further by collecting any track discovered anywhere on the web. -Access and interact with other users' libraries, no matter which…

Hey, I tried this out. There are some solid playlists in there. A couple things I found confusing: - I don't have flash installed in Safari (comes packaged in Chrome) and there was no explanation as to why music didn't play back when I was in Safari - initially Rdio playback was limited to 30s samples even though I had my Rdio account linked. I think I fixed this by logging into Rdio in the same browser session, but…

Thank you for your feedback! This is unexpected, I'm checking it right now. I'll let you know when it is solved.

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http://cubic.fm connects different music sources in a single player and helps users build a globally accessible online music library. Launched the public beta a week ago. we want users to be able to -Create an online music library, independent of the source providing the content. -Build it further by collecting any track discovered anywhere on the web. -Access and interact with other users' libraries, no matter which…

I love music startups (doing one myself). Is it similar to what Bop.fm are trying to do, but more around having a entire library of music (like a cloud-based iTunes)? Drop me an email (in my profile) if you're keen to chat.

Exactly!

The majority of companies in the music industry are aware of the problems driven by the fragmented setup. Some react by offering additional features for user retention. Others continue to drive the fragmentation further. New companies emerge, focusing on eliminating this setup. (bop.fm is one of them. check : tomahawk, wyhd and kollekt.fm)

This fragmentation though, is more the user’s problem than the industry’s. We start by accepting that music consumption, discovery and sharing has to be fragmented. Our competitors misperceive this problem and conclude that ‘sharing’ is broken in music. Taking a step backward, we know that the core problem is that ‘music consumption’ is broken.

On-demand services, download services, discovery services, terrestrial radio.. They are all complementary products from and end user perspective. This is why we accept that a user needs access to all these services and fulfil different consumption habits. This should not prevent a user to create a music library; accessible from anywhere and anyone. The users need an online Winamp!

Email is in your inbox! Thanks!

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