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Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by redkoala »

dang wrote: post #29
icyc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I click on the launch threads because they're part of the current batch: a clear indication that they're part of the current batch (rather than just a generic "launch HN" announcement) is much more valuable to me than the reference to the type of business. The "Launch HN" title is used by non-YC people, meaning these threads come across as non-YC threads than YC threads. I think on balance you're probably…

I changed it to say "Launch YC" instead of "Launch HN" this time round, for reasons related to what you're saying. Doesn't seem to have landed though :) Another thought I had was "Meet S21". Better? It would free up a char! "Meet YC S21" is too long. "YC S21" would be the shortest. That is, something like "YC S21: Foo, Bar, Baz" with a word or phrase for each startup. But I'm not sure if that would convey that it's a…

How about "YC S21 Launch"?

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by nash27 »

daemonk wrote: post #39
satyascispotcpo wrote: post #2

Hey HN! I am Satya from Scispot.io ( https://www.scispot.io/ ). Scispot is a no-code workflow automation platform for life science. Think of us as an Airtable for Life science. Life science companies often have no choice but to rely on a laundry list of tools to stay up and running. Electronic lab notebooks, LIMS (Lab Information Management Systems), Google Docs, Asana, Notion, and Airtable are just some of the tools…

Is this product geared towards academic labs that deal with maybe hundreds/thousands of samples/reagents? Or is it geared towards industry processing labs where there are easily thousands of new samples that go through workflows every week or month?

Yes we do! We serve life science labs from industry and academia including diagnostics, biotherapeutics and CROs.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by jvalencia »

anaskar wrote: post #5

Hey HN! We’re Daniel and Arjun, founders of StandardCode ( http://www.standardcode.io/ ). We make it easy for companies to comply with child data privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR by providing APIs for collecting parental consent and ID verification of minors. COPPA regulation makes it difficult for companies to cater to children under 13 without building in safeguards to collect and manage parental consent and to…

Honestly, this is great. So many applications do this poorly if at all and COVID has not helped the situation. I do wonder about compliance across state/national lines.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by ctoth »

benjaminha14 wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ ( https://muse.place/ ). We help anyone build immersive 3D websites. Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of building the same old static websites that we have been contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first on…

Hi, cool project!

Have you considered how you intend to provide accessibility on top of this model of interaction? I have some thoughts for possibilities involving HRTF audio for blind users, but the deafblind experience is going to be ... tricky. Of course you'll need to do similar work to expose the semantics of one of these experiences to search engines, so for once I am not just begging for accessibility merely for us poor blind folk.

I'm curious as to how you internally represent the scenes, and what sorts of research you've done into precursor technologies such as VRML.

If you have questions or would like some ideas of where to get started with accessibility, feel free to reach out! My email is in my profile.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by nash27 »

patel011393 wrote: post #33
satyascispotcpo wrote: post #2

Hey HN! I am Satya from Scispot.io ( https://www.scispot.io/ ). Scispot is a no-code workflow automation platform for life science. Think of us as an Airtable for Life science. Life science companies often have no choice but to rely on a laundry list of tools to stay up and running. Electronic lab notebooks, LIMS (Lab Information Management Systems), Google Docs, Asana, Notion, and Airtable are just some of the tools…

I love this; I'm in HCI, but will keep an eye out for this. It'd be good to add more HR type functionality to this and help manage people + finances for academic research labs. What's the roadmap/vision?

Thanks for the support! We're currently focusing on building cool features for our customers that are geared towards digitizing certain nuances within their existing workflows.

HR type functionality, Employee management and financial management are operations that are currently well covered by many of the ERP solutions out there in the market. We don't immediately have any plans to build these features right away, however, we never say never ;)

If a lot of our customers would deem these feature sets necessary, we might devote our engineering efforts towards either building them ourselves or integrating with a major ERP solutions providers down the road

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by 8jy89hui »

ChrisMischler wrote: post #7

Hi HN, we're Christian (ChrisMischler) and Raphael (raphco) of Deskimo ( https://www.deskimo.com/ ). We provide on-demand access to professional workspaces, where users rent desks by the minute. We've started with Singapore and Hong Kong as our initial markets, with the intention to expand into other markets soon. Raphael and I have been working remotely for most of the past 10 years. During the pandemic, all of our…

Many of your workspaces look like fairly standard hotel / restaurant lounges. This is in contrast to WeWork that builds more conventional office spaces.

Do you plan to build/rent more traditional/conventional offices?

I personally cannot imagine a room packed with professionals at different companies on lounge-chairs and sitting around tiny tables. However, I might not be have a good understanding of Singapore/HK culture.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by ChrisMischler »

8jy89hui wrote: post #46
ChrisMischler wrote: post #7

Hi HN, we're Christian (ChrisMischler) and Raphael (raphco) of Deskimo ( https://www.deskimo.com/ ). We provide on-demand access to professional workspaces, where users rent desks by the minute. We've started with Singapore and Hong Kong as our initial markets, with the intention to expand into other markets soon. Raphael and I have been working remotely for most of the past 10 years. During the pandemic, all of our…

Many of your workspaces look like fairly standard hotel / restaurant lounges. This is in contrast to WeWork that builds more conventional office spaces. Do you plan to build/rent more traditional/conventional offices? I personally cannot imagine a room packed with professionals at different companies on lounge-chairs and sitting around tiny tables. However, I might not be have a good understanding of Singapore/HK cul…

We actually work only with professionally managed workspaces, meaning offices like WeWork (resp. their competitors). We have added 2-3 spaces which we call "alternative workspaces" that are close to residential areas to have a better coverage. There is for example the Furama Hotel in Singapore, which has converted a part of their event space into a co-working space. This space is open 24/7h (as it's a hotel), co-working spaces tend to close at 8 or 9pm and many of them are not accessible on Sundays, which is not ideal.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by santmaldonado »

notsureaboutpg wrote: post #35
santmaldonado wrote: post #6

Hey HN! I’m Santiago Maldonado, CEO and Founder of Lernit ( https://www.lernit.mx/ ). Our platform makes it easy for companies in Latin America (Latam) to train their workforce, even when they are remote. According to studies, 74% of CEOs worldwide are concerned that a lack of essential skills in their employees is threatening the future of their organization. With the increase of remote work comes the challenge of k…

There are a lot of tools like this out there: SuccessFactors, Bridge, etc. And there's always room for more, imo. What are you going to do differently? How are you going to gamify this in a way others don't? I've worked in lots of places and interacted with many software portals that try to do this right. A lot of them falter by not keeping up with the actual current state of information within an organization (espec…

Great question!

Currently there’s no solution in LATAM for medium sized companies, and with more companies working remotely the need for tools that will help keep teams aligned and focused on priorities while filling learning gaps is growing as well.

The friction needed to create courses for specific skills or roles is the whole reason why Lernit is now a reality, we want to make upskilling available for every role and level, and thanks to our authoring tool that enables companies to create courses in minutes, our marketplace with up to 6 new courses per week and our strategic alliances with great universities that gives our users access to learning programs is that we are able to keep up with a fast evolving market and organizational needs.

Re: Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental

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Post by santmaldonado »

notsureaboutpg wrote: post #35
santmaldonado wrote: post #6

Hey HN! I’m Santiago Maldonado, CEO and Founder of Lernit ( https://www.lernit.mx/ ). Our platform makes it easy for companies in Latin America (Latam) to train their workforce, even when they are remote. According to studies, 74% of CEOs worldwide are concerned that a lack of essential skills in their employees is threatening the future of their organization. With the increase of remote work comes the challenge of k…

There are a lot of tools like this out there: SuccessFactors, Bridge, etc. And there's always room for more, imo. What are you going to do differently? How are you going to gamify this in a way others don't? I've worked in lots of places and interacted with many software portals that try to do this right. A lot of them falter by not keeping up with the actual current state of information within an organization (espec…

The best part, everything is included through licensing at an affordable price.

Please let us know if you have any additional feedback or questions, we will be happy to hear back from you.

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