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Non-web startups, anyone is doing these?

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Re: Non-web startups, anyone is doing these?

#41
My startup's a Wide-Area Bonjour service (DNS with client updates, long lived queries and a convention for service discovery) which squares it in the client/server camp although it does have a web interface. The next thing I want to do isn't a (strict) web offering either.

Re: Non-web startups, anyone is doing these?

#42
I am working on a service for game developers that lets them add multiuser activities to end-user apps (say, an iPhone game). The difference from other services is that we host referees server side to watch over or officiate activities. The referees are created by the developers themselves, and since they run server side, deployment, cheat prevention, and client app creation are greatly simplified. Client apps become semi-dumb terminals. None of this is web based.
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