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Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

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Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

#31

making online dating reasonable @ flowmingle.com. the balance of structure and expression is a challenge, but a fun one.

is anyone aware of any non-dating sites that do a good job of helping you meet other like-minded people?

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Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

#33
Great question :)

Mostly working on Stitcho.com (http://stitcho.com)

Stitcho is a desktop notification widget for your website, with support for Windows and Mac. Add desktop alerts to your web app in less than 30 minutes.

Also, trying to build an Erlang community in the DC area (search for Erlang on meetup.com)

Finally, putting together a presentation for BarCampDC this Saturday.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

#34
I'm also at the concept stage for a site providing some tools to help UK residents manage their finances with emphasis on debts.

I have considered this idea a few times over the past couple of years as I work for an organisation that gives me a great deal of exposure to people in debt and the methodology typically used to assist them to address those debts.

In the past I have ignored the idea as I considered it technically uninteresting but I have now found myself in the position where I am (a) wanting to jump into the startup game, (b) have relevant industry experience, and (c) it's the right time (credit crunch).

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

#36
I have a web application that manages agile/scrum projects for large organizations. I've beta-tested it at a large corp, but they're not going to be able to use it for a while due to legal reasons.

So right now I'm finishing up version 1 this week and deciding whether to 1) start marketing version 1, 2) start on version 2 and then market, 3) wait for large corp to come around so I can continue usability testing and making the product better (it's clunky now), 4) Look for a partner and do any of 1-3

I'm not sure which way to go, to be honest. Anybody got any ideas?

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

#38

making online dating reasonable @ flowmingle.com. the balance of structure and expression is a challenge, but a fun one.

is anyone aware of any non-dating sites that do a good job of helping you meet other like-minded people?

tumblr.com - it's slow going finding cool people, but they are out there. use the explore page.

other blogging sites with location services might be helpful as well.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?

#39
post #18

A LAMP & AJAX driven framework to assist small businesses who want put their data online. It is also good at giving startups backend functionality to their databases so that they can concentrate on the client front end.

Sounds cool. How will you sell/market it?
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