7 Best Startups: From Y-Combinator’s summer demo days
By VisionwizTeam at August 24, 2011 | 3:44 pm | Print
Y -Combinator’s summer demo days events:
Here are few startups that we feel have good potential to make big.
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Paperlinks is the platform for generating QR codes for businesses.Paperlinks aims for context-sensitive marketing by generating QR barcodes that can point your customers to information that they host for you on the internet.
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Aisle50 is for daily deals on groceries. It aims to save you lot of money on groceries shopping by providing daily deal offers just like groupon.
Aisle50 deals tend to be better than deals or coupons offered anywhere else, they are not stackable with other coupons or offers.
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Interviewstreet helps companies screen programmers using custom programming tests. They have built a codechecker that checks candidates’ code for correctness and optimality helping companies identify good programmers from the lot.
Interviewstreet helps you to create your own online test (programming, multiple-choice, subjective answer questions) and their codechecker helps in assessing the best developers amongst the applied candidates.
Using interviewstreet, you could start your interviews almost instantly after the test, saving a ton of time.
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DoubleRecall, an advertising platform that increases consumers’ recall of brand attributes while also giving media and game publishers a way to make money and increase conversions without a paywall or registration process.
DoubleRecall provides the same straightforward user experience on both web and mobile: if you want to level up in a game, or access premium content without a paywall, simply read a short message from an advertiser, then type in a phrase or keywords highlighted in the message. From there, you can choose to interact with the brand’s social tools. Even without the added social component, the DoubleRecall platform showed an 11x increase in user recall and up to a 90% engagement rate.
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This site aims to work as finance counselor for you.It would talk to your creditors and negotiate reasonable payments that you can afford every month.
They would provide you the tools and resources to negotiate with your creditors and help you get out of debt.They would help you figure out your options for paying back what’s past due and getting back on track.
This could mean reducing your interest, reducing monthly payments, or even reducing how much you owe, and save you big bucks over time.
Depending on your financial situation, they’ll help you create a budget to get out of debt under 5 years.
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Ever wish to make your own motion-controlled app? Then check out this new startups(Zigfu) from Y-combinator.
Zigfu would help you to make your own motion-controlled apps.All you have to do is just install its apps.It’s apps will let you set up your entire development environment in one click. It bundles together OpenNI, NITE, and SensorKinect and configures them automatically.
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Verbling is the instant way to practice and learn a language through videos.This site would help you to connect with native speakers around the world through live videos where you can interact and learn any languages live(one-to-one).
