Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator • Hacker News Board

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by jjmanton » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 9:54 PM UTC

notliketherest wrote: post #17

This website design makes me feel queasy.

I am not liking this new trend where everything must animate as you scroll.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by sotojuan » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 9:57 PM UTC

give me tap! looks perfect for me. Guess I'm getting myself a small gift.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by janus24 » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 9:58 PM UTC

In France we almost have the same thing, it's call Noël de la French Tech [1] (Christmas of the French Tech). It's been three years now and it's wonderful to find Made In France christmas gift !

[1] http://noeldelafrenchtech.fr

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by cheniel » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 9:59 PM UTC

caskance wrote: post #13

Reading the description of Memebox after it caught my eye while scrolling was by far the largest disappointment I've had today.

Why?

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by praveenster » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:00 PM UTC

L better not a beta product.

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Post by ethbro » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

jl wrote: post #15

bdegman wrote: post #10

Wish this was posted a week ago :)

I know! Next year we'll be more planful.

If only there were a startup that provided a Christmas gift reminder service... ;)

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by ethbro » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:02 PM UTC

cfcef wrote: post #20

bdegman wrote: post #10

Wish this was posted a week ago :)

I was thinking about Instapainting, but then I realized - way too late for Christmas.

That was one of the tabs I opened. I was kind of hoping they offered gift certificates. My use case is probably letting the recipient choose the photo.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by bduerst » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:03 PM UTC

Can you print the Spark Gift out at all?

This is perfect for a gift exchange.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by compumike » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:06 PM UTC

abuehrle wrote: post #18

Oh man, Pantelligent is the perfect gift for one of my family members, but it's backordered until next year! Such a bummer. Wish I knew about it sooner.

(Pantelligent co-founder here.) Sorry about that! We got some amazing reviews / press coverage [see TIME Magazine, Macworld, a few others] in November and all our inventory got sold super fast. We're building more as fast as we can right now.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by chrischen » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 10:14 PM UTC

ethbro wrote: post #27

cfcef wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking about Instapainting, but then I realized - way too late for Christmas.

That was one of the tabs I opened. I was kind of hoping they offered gift certificates. My use case is probably letting the recipient choose the photo.

We discontinued gift certificates while we develop something unique.

But you can place an order without uploading a photo and we create a project page after the order.

You can send this page and it lets the recipient upload their photo and talk with the artist.