Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by agotterer » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 6:43 PM UTC

Makerbot is pretty awesome

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by turtle4 » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 7:38 PM UTC

revertts wrote: post #34

Spideroak impressed me. It's a service similar to Dropbox, but with more emphasis on privacy. I found their devs really accessible and interesting to talk to.

Nice. New to me.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by mhb » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 8:07 PM UTC

Shapeways

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by clistctrl » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 8:10 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.

I never heard of it before, but I love it! My girlfriend is going crazy about it too :)

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by bdmac97 » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 8:24 PM UTC

bretthoerner wrote: post #33

gaia-forming wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The heroku guys do a really solid job. What's launchy?

http://www.launchly.com/

Thanks for the link... and yes, launchly is run on Heroku and yes they rock! :-)

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by ivankirigin » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 8:49 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.

Do they no longer make hardware?

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by jackchristopher » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

pclark wrote: post #2

dropbox. still.

Dropbox helps gets things done but stays out of the way. It's so subtle I forget I even use it. That's exactly what I like in a program.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by icco » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

paulgb wrote: post #30

GitHub really impresses me.

I agree. I really like their release cycle and transparency. They produce a solid product, they understand their market, and they are innovative. The only thing I don't know is how profitable they are.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by icco » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

Rightscale. They put out such a solid product and make using ec2 so easy, it's not even funny.

Re: Ask YC: Your favorite startups lately

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Post by slvrspoon » Fri, Aug 07, 2009, 9:14 PM UTC

not to denigrate the smart people and great work done here, but i think this is a pretty depressing list when looked at from on high. this is the creme of the crop of all the yc hacker intelligentsia? suprisingly banal imhop.