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Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by alexsolo » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 5:41 PM UTC

Billmonk, for splitting restaurant bills with friends.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by gehant » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 5:52 PM UTC

eel wrote: post #31

thesixtyone, probably. It's replaced Pandora for me. It's a little too social networky (I just want to listen to music!) but it works.

big fan of thesixtyone - has one of the best streaming music players on the web...quality product.

Plus, huge kudos to them for not relying on RIAA as is true with most other online music services.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by zaveri » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:00 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #36

Picwing ( http://picwing.com ) is probably the one that has improved our life the most lately. It is the perfect thing for people with new babies. Your relatives get a regular stream of new prints with near zero effort.

Sry downvoted by mistake, on iPhone...

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by tripngroove » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:03 PM UTC

eel wrote: post #31

thesixtyone, probably. It's replaced Pandora for me. It's a little too social networky (I just want to listen to music!) but it works.

ahh, the sixtyone is great. stellar way to find new music.

also, they make it super easy to buy music that you like. i just wish more artists on the site had stuff for sale!

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by htsh » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:05 PM UTC

grooveshark, still wonky interface but its as close to spotify I can find on our shores.

..of course I still use dropbox .. who doesn't? I stopped using evernote as I got tired of having to use Wine to run it..

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by icey » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:07 PM UTC

plinkplonk wrote: post #40

dfranke wrote: post #38

Tarsnap is unique among the startups that get play here in getting me to open my wallet to the tune of more than the price of a T-shirt.

Tarsnap! Solo Founder, great product, great payment terms. What's not to like?

Does anyone know if Colin has anyone working with him on Tarsnap yet? Or is he still the only person working on it?

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by zaveri » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:09 PM UTC

jseeba wrote: post #24

Posterous. It just works.

Amazing how they continue to crank out feature after feature. They are wicked fast..

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by nwjsmith » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:17 PM UTC

Github takes the cake for me. It makes reading and finding code a breeze, and for the relatively unexperienced (like me), it has dramatically lowered the barrier to entry for OSS.

A Facebook for hackers, I love it.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by dotcoma » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:34 PM UTC

pclark wrote: post #2

dropbox. still.

dropbox and spotify.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by jmonegro » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:40 PM UTC

zaveri wrote: post #47

jseeba wrote: post #24

Posterous. It just works.

Amazing how they continue to crank out feature after feature. They are wicked fast..

You don't know anything yet! Too bad I can't talk about it. :(