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> "Tress – A social community for black women’s hairstyles" I wonder what would black women say if there was an app "Social community for white women's hairstyles", would not it be considered racist?
Out of all of these the only one that really interests me is Fibo. https://www.fiboapp.com/ I was in line for the Nintendo Switch and I got to talking with a contractor who deals with and hires carpenters, tile guys, plumbers, etc - and you wouldn't believe the shit this guy had to put up with to finish a project. His workflow was all over the place out of necessity and he paid around $500/month on software alone, no…
I personally know the team trying to build the first production electric plane. One of the team members is an ex-engineer from NASA who was fired after trying to resuscitate one of the former kan-jis . Kudos to them !
I was just about to ask about them. I'm curious how YC works with companies like them and Boom Supersonic. They get in, and are given $120k in seed funding. Then what? You can't build aircraft with $120k. Im interested in hearing some insight on this.
- 3 months of intense focus on product and growth with feedback
- access to and advice from YC partners
- community of other founders in the batch who are going through similar issues
- access to other YC founders (partnerships, advice, etc.)
- social proof to investors, press, customers of having done YC
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I was just about to ask about them. I'm curious how YC works with companies like them and Boom Supersonic. They get in, and are given $120k in seed funding. Then what? You can't build aircraft with $120k. Im interested in hearing some insight on this.
For most teams, YC's financial investment is the least valuable part of the program. Much more valuable: - 3 months of intense focus on product and growth with feedback - access to and advice from YC partners - community of other founders in the batch who are going through similar issues - access to other YC founders (partnerships, advice, etc.) - social proof to investors, press, customers of having done YC
> "Tress – A social community for black women’s hairstyles" I wonder what would black women say if there was an app "Social community for white women's hairstyles", would not it be considered racist?
> "Tress – A social community for black women’s hairstyles" I wonder what would black women say if there was an app "Social community for white women's hairstyles", would not it be considered racist?
He tried to bring kan-jis back.
> "Tress – A social community for black women’s hairstyles" I wonder what would black women say if there was an app "Social community for white women's hairstyles", would not it be considered racist?
This breaks the HN guideline against bringing up same-old flamewars. Please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
PS. I also didn't know such market exists
> "Tress – A social community for black women’s hairstyles" I wonder what would black women say if there was an app "Social community for white women's hairstyles", would not it be considered racist?
"African hair" is unique relative to the hair from other parts of the globe. "European hair" isn't as meaningfully different from other (non-African) ethnicities.
random commentary below:
* FloydHub – Heroku for deep learning *
It's unlikely in my eyes that a company with enough data worth doing deep learning for is going to outsource the actual model building. I'd be interested to hear counter examples.
* Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings *
I think this is worthless. Meetings important enough to warrant for "paid notes" will have people taking notes, on their own (company) dime anyway. Not to mention taking notes will improve your engagement in the meeting. Not to mention the privacy implications.
* Collectly – Stripe for medical debt collection *
Pretty interesting. Hard to comment without knowing what the success rate is for an average debt collector. I fear there's some selection bias in the stats techcrunch shared.
* Indigo Fair – Amazon for local retailers*
Unfortunately I think local retailers are slowly dying. I do think this is an interesting niche that could be successful.
* Lively – Modern healthcare savings account (HSA)*
This too could be successful. Most people who'd do this probably have an HSA that's offered by their employer, unless they're trying to replace that.
* KidPass – One pass for “amazing activities for kids”*
I'm surprised at the success this is seeing. I do think parents are a good group to exploit though. Overworked parents want the logistics of spending time with their kids to be outsourced these days. Plenty of rich parents in NYC too.
* Upcall – Outbound calls as a service*
Not a huge fan of spamming services.
* Niles – Conversational wiki for business *
It's cheap enough, I guess.
* Sycamore – Onboarding drivers for on-demand jobs *
Looks interesting, but don't see how it'll address the drivers making so little part techcrunch mentioned.