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Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Double Recall looks like one of the very few startups that would make the world a worse place if they succeed :(
Keep in mind that Double Recall works with news publishers. The number one thing that publishers need is more money to pay for content production. Most publishers are toying with a paywall model right now. I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall. So, here's the alternative. If the Doubl…
"I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall."
Well, that depends on the price of the paywall, the quality of the content and how much you value your time, right?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Double Recall looks like one of the very few startups that would make the world a worse place if they succeed :(
Keep in mind that Double Recall works with news publishers. The number one thing that publishers need is more money to pay for content production. Most publishers are toying with a paywall model right now. I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall. So, here's the alternative. If the Doubl…
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#25VidYard isn't really much of an innovation, in fact, Bits on the Run has been doing this - better - for quiet some time. VidYard is caught in between trying to emulate YouTube and being a streaming hosting provider without convincing me of either strengths.
BOTR offers an elegant API, skin-able players, pay-as-you-go usage, statistics and, as an option, a totally configurable ad platform plugin for the player that works with more than one ad platform. FWIW, I know VidYard does a lot of this, too, but what's the YouTube angle doing for them? Other than having a chart comparing them to community-based video platforms?
EDIT: Down-vote if you want, but provide a reason. Otherwise, I'll assume: "he said something about my startup, get him!"
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#26My Picks for: - Most likely to succeed in a big way: Parse - Most interesting/clever (want it to succeed): Verbling - Most scary (wary of it succeeding): Double Recall
Double Recall looks like one of the very few startups that would make the world a worse place if they succeed :(
Depends on how you look at it I guess.
We're trying to relieve people of paying for small things, like reading articles or in-app purchasing new swords :)
You'll always have two options at least: - input the DoubleRecall - pay for the content
If you'll hate to type in, you'll be free to lash out your card.
People are willing to do to tremendous lengths just to get something for for free, especially in the case of in-app purchases in games and alike.
Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keep in mind that Double Recall works with news publishers. The number one thing that publishers need is more money to pay for content production. Most publishers are toying with a paywall model right now. I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall. So, here's the alternative. If the Doubl…
"I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall." Well, that depends on the price of the paywall, the quality of the content and how much you value your time, right?
Well, what people value more depends on each individual. Some people have more time than money, so DoubleRecall is perfect for them, while others have money and no time.
What DoubleRecall does, is give a chance to everyone to view the article. If you take a look at a DoubleRecall client Finance, where people can still choose to pay monthly fees to get the content without DoubleRecall. Other people, like myself, can now still view the premium content without having to pay anything. I may still later decide to but a subscription and have uninterrupted access, but I probably wont, when someone else might.
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#28MarketBrief sounds like a home run to me. If the product works as described it's a tremendous value proposition.
It's basically search engine spam generated from SEC docs. Adds needless verbosity to when people want the info in a concise format. When looking for actionable financial info I hate having to read through sentences when a table or graph will do. Consider why audio podcasts never really caught on for non-entertainment.
I don't know how to read an S1, which is why I go to places like CNBC and the sort in the first place. Granted, I'm not a financial services kind of guy, but it's useful to have that info generated in a digestible format. I don't think the podcast analog works quite right... it's more like taking a blog post from tech crunch, and automagically repurposing it for usa today by adding relevant context programmatically. There's definitely value in that, but I don't think it's "Bloomberg" money.
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#29Bushido sounds really interesting. I've always liked the Add-Ons for Heroku, and a platform-independent version of that would be a huge help.
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#30No one mentioned Mixrank in the comments, I like the idea. Maybe someday it will be one of those essential marketing tools like SEOmoz. I for one, am lazy and would prefer just mimic my competitors ads instead of making 10 different ads and A/B testing them.
Coverage seems quite narrow at least for .fi domains. They probably need to get some ad-crawler servers with IP addresses(according to GeoIP) from Finland or any other country they want to have coverage in.
http://www.mixrank.com/a/groupon.com lol @ "90% off"