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All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Post by jelliclesfarm »

neuromancer2701 wrote: post #103
jelliclesfarm wrote: post #64

Modular Science - Outdoor farm robot. They pivoted from lab automation to outdoor farm bots? How? I applied to YC twice(unsuccefully) with the same idea. And I am a farmer. Just not a PhD from MIT. I would love to know they came up with that number. Really. Would love love love to know how..

email me, I am working on a outdoor rover. Hopefully for beyond organic farm products. http://openrover.com/ haven't finished updating the site from this summers project.

Hi! Email please? Couldn't locate it!

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Post by redlollipop »

pfarnsworth wrote: post #24

I'm surprised about the stem cell company. Stem cell storage companies are notorious scams. I remember doing research into these when my first child was born. There's only a small subset of diseases it can actually help, and until you can actually grow organs, it's generally useless, for a lot of money. Also you can generate stem cells from adult blood cells or bone marrow anyway. What the YC company appears to offer…

YC is not very good at evaluating medical companies. Its track record is not great.

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Post by rygeko »

CJefferson wrote: post #42
eps wrote: post #30

Gopher is a poorly chosen name for a platform - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) Dropleaf (Netflix for indie games) - at $10/mo for a 50-game bundle I can't see how this can attract any of the quality games and devs.

Games sales, like movie sales, are mostly made in the first month. I can imagine like Netflix, lots of people with good 18 month old games might be happy to put them on this service. Further, I might seriously consider using it if they ban in-app purchases (or at least psy-to-win in app purchases), because they are increasingly hard to avoid.

I have very strong feelings against in-app purchases. Also micro transactions, I think for the most part actively hurt the games industry.

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Post by JoblessWonder »

t0mbstone wrote: post #14

I find it interesting that "Honeydue" is in the list, when there are multiple free apps already in existence such as Buxfer and Splitwise that have already been available for years. Both Buxfer and Splitwise serve the exact same functions as Honeydue (splitting bills/expenses with room mates and/or partners), and both of them are free to use. Sadly, neither app has found a way to be all that profitable after all thes…

HoneyDue seems to be more like "Mint for couples" than a straight up splitting service. The goal is transparency.
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