Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #7

Post by samstave » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:29 PM UTC

brazzledazzle wrote: post #24

brunovcosta wrote: post #6

I'm Bruno, founder of Abstra ( https://abstra.app/ ). Abstra is a no-code tool that allows designers to build web apps. Imagine Figma, but we export a functional web application. Here's a timelapsed demo showing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fObVcHcd_w . As opposed to most famous no-code tools, we don't do any nested-based editing (e.g. tree structure like Webflow - which is an amazing tool, but is b…

This looks pretty neat. Just wanted to give you a heads up that the word "regulamentation" might be a typo in your docs here: https://docs.abstra.app/#security-by-default Even outside of that word the paragraph itself reads kind of weird: "The Abstra team makes all the necessary effort to make your project secure and compliant with all the actual rules, good practices, and regulamentation." I took a stab at changing…

Post by eldaisfish » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:36 PM UTC

anadalakra wrote: post #3

We’re Anada and Ilya, the co-founders of BoldVoice ( https://www.boldvoice.com/ ). BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native speakers learn and practice the standard American accent. As immigrants to the US, we’ve personally experienced that having a foreign accent can affect your confidence and job opportunities (by as much as 20%, according to studies). So we built this app to help non-native Englis…

Post by samstave » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

gotostatement wrote: post #10

karinaderbez wrote: post #9

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Employers or users can pay the withdrawal fee, that's up to the company. We encourage companies to offer it as financial benefit. Regardless, users love our product and see a lot of value in getting the flexibility to decide when to get paid. In contrast to other options in the market there are no interest payments or hidden costs.

I can see how in the short term it's a positive service - they can now keep their lights on, their water running, etc. But as a long-term proposition, a permanent adjustment to the status quo, it just feeds into an exploitative system in the same way that loan sharks do. You're filling a gap that should be filled with higher wages, and reducing wages from the most-vulnerable to do so.

Post by samstave » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

alexvilhena wrote: post #5

Hi - we’re Alex, Thiago, and Marcel, founders of Plug ( https://www.plugpagamentos.com/ ). We are live in Brazil, and currently onboarding our first beta customers in the US and LatAm. Plug is an API to manage multiple payments providers. Through a single integration, businesses can connect to multiple providers and route transactions between them. It’s hard to know who the right payments provider for your business i…

Post by mattzito » Tue, Aug 17, 2021, 3:48 PM UTC

geofft wrote: post #30

mattzito wrote: post #23

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Pure GAE/SAE is fairly arch and stilted - I assume you are chilling out on some of the more arcane aspects like liquid Us in "reduce" and "student" and "forehead" as "fahred"? Most dialect coaches default to something looser when teaching an american accent because SAE sounds almost british if you're strictly adhering to it.

If by "liquid U" you mean pronouncing /ju/, then no, GAE pronounces it "redooce" and "stoodent", not "redyooce" and "styoodent." From the article: > yod-dropping after alveolar consonants (with new pronounced /nu/, not /nju/)