Maybe convore? I am not sure, they sure got a interesting community
Convore was fantastic during pycon
Which Y Combinator company would you fund?
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Re: Which Y Combinator company would you fund?
#12All of them. Yuri Milner style. Diversifying your investments in YC's portfolio would be better than an index fund, I guess.
Re: Which Y Combinator company would you fund?
#13Grubwith.us is really appealing to me. I've wished for something like that for some time now. If I could make it, I'd be grubbing with them today..
I also think the concept is very appealing to restaurants as well. Adding value for everyone seems like a sure win to me.
Re: Which Y Combinator company would you fund?
#14AppHarbor. I can't wait till I've got some spare time to go play with what they're doing. I suspect they're going to be ridiculously big even if .NET isn't very popular in these parts.
What is the reason to use them vs. Microsoft Azure? (I know very little about .Net, Azure, or AppHarbor, but Microsoft seems to position Azure as the .Net hosting solution). I agree that if that isn't the case, they're the top of this YC batch; otherwise idk.
There's hardly any configuration with AppHarbor. I've launched several projects on it already and it is as easy as Heroku. On the other hand, Azure requires a lot of application customization and configuration. So you can think of AppHarbor as "Azure done right."
Re: Which Y Combinator company would you fund?
#15AppHarbor. I can't wait till I've got some spare time to go play with what they're doing. I suspect they're going to be ridiculously big even if .NET isn't very popular in these parts.
What is the reason to use them vs. Microsoft Azure? (I know very little about .Net, Azure, or AppHarbor, but Microsoft seems to position Azure as the .Net hosting solution). I agree that if that isn't the case, they're the top of this YC batch; otherwise idk.
So today I actually did go and play with AppHarbor, I managed to deploy a bunch of sites with almost no changes at all to code/config. That's not going to happen on Azure.
There are some things I don't like, I'm used to dedicated servers and I miss things like scanning the eventlog looking for where my stuff screwed up (could handle it on the front end but meh, the eventlog's so convenient!), but overall it's quite awesome.
I really hope they manage to package their stuff up so it can be installed on other servers.