17. I think Square (http://www.squareup.com) qualifies.
19. Heroku counts
23. Powerset
30. Builditwith.me (http://www.builditwith.me)
Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#12While I'm probably a bit biased since I work for one of their competitors (shopwiki), I'm not sure if TheFind counts as an answer to 20. As far as I can tell they don't have any shopping guides, or at the very least not ones which are being made obvious to a user who is trying to find out what they want. I'm not going to remove them since I have a conflict of interest, but I'm going to add Kaboodle which seems to be doing the most interesting work in the shopping space.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#13#3: New news
I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures.
My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job of finding and highlighting interesting and new content (Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, Metafilter, etc..) But, I don't think that anyone has really done a good job of offering great news recommendations yet. The solutions we've seen so far are generally human editor (newspapers), moderators (slashdot), or collaborative filtering (reddit, digg, HN).
My goal is to build a community of people interested in great financial and economic news and analysis, and then try to build a great personalized news recommendation engine for them.
There are other sites working on the news recommendation systems. Twitter sort of fills that bill, MeHive has been trying a heavy indexing/algorithmic approach, but I haven't really been happy with what the recommendations they've been able to offer me yet.
Also, if any body else is doing news recommendations, ping me. I'd be really interested in talking.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#1416. A form of search that depends on design.
The Android app, Google Goggles is really worth checking out. It really is a phenomenal idea. I hope they work hard at refining it.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#1510. Auctions: http://gunbroker.com/, which was started immediately after eBay wimped out on auctions having anything to do with firearms. I've bought stuff on both and sold stuff on GunBroker.com and the latter is much better and has several ideas worth using on most any online auction site.
One thing that might be hard to replicate: firearms, ammo, etc. are serious things, e.g. you can't transfer a firearm across state lines without going through a licensed dealer and getting a background check. In the cultural sense reputation on GunBroker.com is treated very seriously; I'm not sure how this could be replicated in other areas, including ones where prices of items are lower.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#16#3: New news I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures. My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job…
Ok, so how is Newsley currently different from, say, /r/worldnews for example? Newsley is using collaborative filtering as well. I see a bunch of links voted by the community, which I'm assuming contribute to their ranks on the frontpage.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#17I think aol is positioned well for #3. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/one-vision-for-the-new-...
They are very well positioned and have the funds. Somehow though they will need to connect all these 'Toyota' brands. I don't think they have as yet managed to do this.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#181. Avatar, or other movies that can't be fully experienced without 3D or other tech that is only available in theaters. For music additional offerings like I Am T-Pain.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#191. Avatar, or other movies that can't be fully experienced without 3D or other tech that is only available in theaters. For music additional offerings like I Am T-Pain.
You mean a $5 pair of red and green glasses? 3D movies for home consumption have been available for a while http://www.amazon.com/Coraline-Blu-ray-Combo-Digital-Copy/dp... and 3D HDTV is expected to start in late 2010.