Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
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Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
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Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#2Looks like the screwed up tagline for SpoonRocket - "reviews for everything" looks like a copy/paste from Toutpost right above it...
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#3Prim: interesting and I'm sure useful for a lot of people. I hope they're right that they can eventually lower prices though because that seems very expensive. Also is there a trend towards or away from using laundromats? Where I'm from it's unusual not to have your own washing machine and I wouldn't move anywhere that didn't have one.
RealCrowd: Really interesting startup but with the recent housing crisis they may have trouble convincing people it's a worthwhile investment and not a total gamble. I'm really interested to see where this goes and if it ever moves to include the general public (i.e. non-accredited investors).
StatusPage.io - I'll be using this immediately. Useful product and it looks like they already have quite a few high profile companies as customers. Hard to have an opinion on the pricing as I've no idea how many users would subscribe to these notifications.
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#4Looks like the screwed up tagline for SpoonRocket - "reviews for everything" looks like a copy/paste from Toutpost right above it...
Yeah there's another error in the Floobits section. The bit about earlier coverage was mistakenly copy-pasted from the section about Standard Treasury.
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#5Article claims that Prim's 10% weekly growth is "low by Y-Combinator standards", but in "Startup = Growth" pg wrote that 10% weekly growth is great growth pace, and above 5% is good. Has the baseline of YC companies improved that much?
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#6There is no way that YC now considers 10% weekly revenue growth low. That's 142x a year. I'm pretty sure any investor would be happy with that kind of traction, especially if the company has their unit economics figured out, like Prim appears to have.
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#7all the companies are listed here: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies
most of them have already been on techcrunch by the time demo day rolls around.
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#8Floobits works really well from my limited experience. I've used it in Sublime while my friend was in vim and it worked flawlessly. Much better than our experience with attempting something similar with Screenhero. We tried Flooty (live terminal-sharing) as well, and it's in a mostly-working state. If you've ever tried Nitrous.io's shared tmux sessions, it works almost as well. I see Floobits becoming a tool used by many, many developers.
I like Toutpost's idea, but I'm not convinced by their approach at the moment. Though I'm actually in the process of making something pretty similar for a specific audience in Django.
If they were in my area already, I would probably try out SpoonRocket immediately. I already prepare and cook all my meals, but I'm still prone to getting some food near campus once or twice a week. $6 for a delivered "designer" meal is pretty compelling if they manage to maintain that price outside of their current area.
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#9I wonder why GraftConcepts didn't go the Kickstarter route.
Re: Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1
#10There is no way that YC now considers 10% weekly revenue growth low. That's 142x a year. I'm pretty sure any investor would be happy with that kind of traction, especially if the company has their unit economics figured out, like Prim appears to have.
> A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well. If you can only manage 1%, it's a sign you haven't yet figured out what you're doing.