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Ask YC Poll: Which is your favorite YC startup?

27 pointsmercurio39 comments

The range of YC startups has become quite broad. I thought it would be interesting to see how their popularity varies within the hacker community. So lets try and design a poll.

Rules: Vote for only one launched YC startup and don't vote for the company you work for.

Mechanism: If your choice is present, vote it up. Otherwise submit it in a new single line comment. If two people end up submitting the same name at the same time, the lower one should delete their comment.

Karma issues: If people feel that the person to submit a new choice first shouldn't be getting all that karma, then the mods could just remove karma for the top choices once the post is no longer active.

Finally, the list of launched startups is at the top here: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

Edit: Please use the poll choices for voting only. The place for discussion is at the bottom where a special -1 karma post has been created.

Edit: I don't think you need to be bound by any particular criteria for voting. Design, success potential, personal appeal are all valid. For example, I haven't even used the site I voted for. I was just very very impressed when I visited it recently.

Does http://news.ycombinator.com/ count?

The only one I use every day.

http://www.reddit.com is the only one I use everyday

I use reddit a lot also. But in terms of mind blowing coolness, http://likebetter.com.

I thought this was the new Reddit. I have come from there.

I think they each have their own place, the culture here is still very startup-centric (for obvious reasons) even though pg tried to change it. The programming reddit is still a better place for hacker/coding links (and comments) IMO, just avoid the other reddits. =)

http://www.rescuetime.com/

Looks pretty cool and original, and seems to fit the "create value" rule more than most of the others. That said, I am under Linux and haven't tried the product.

Xobni is pretty cool, although I'd love to have their services in my gmail instead of Outlook. I am pretty sure they have it in the works.

My vote goes to Xobni.

The founders are both great guys and they're solving an ugly problem that millions of people care about. I'm a GMail user myself now, but it's unlikely Outlook is going anywhere anytime soon.

I'm kicking myself for not pushing Adam to let me invest when I met him in Boston.

I haven't seen Weebly mentioned so my vote goes to them!

http://www.weebly.com/

Don't know the guys (like their blog though), don't know their business model, but their app is awesome. Intuitive, looks great and anyone can use it.

How many create-a-webpage apps is that now?

It's like email, it's been around for a very long time and is hard to get right. Same with web page creation. These guys made it dead simple... hence, they did something right.

I'll vouch for the guys. They're all super cool. :]

http://disqus.com/ is the best IMHO

http://scribd.com/

TipJoy is very cool. It's one of those "far out" ideas that might not work, but it's New Thinking and we don't have enough of that. I wish them success.

I love the idea of Tipjoy. If YC had it, I'd tip it.

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/

paid for all the others. it did pretty well.

Heroku is awesome. Great idea, great vision. Scalable hosting makes so much sense for web applications. If they get it developed and working properly I'd definitely pay to use their service.

http://octopart.com

Justin.tv

They pretty much introduced me to YC and got me seriously interested in the startup world.

Probably http://8aweek.com given how much time it's already saved me. They probably deserve some equity in my company at this point. ;)

I agree from my side, I think 8aweek.com is really a great product which everyone can use.

http://snipshot.com/

Integrating with them just rose to number 2 on my to-do list, and #1 is a prereq for #2.

http://loopt.com/

FuzzWich. They've got style.

I gotta say Splashup! ( don't see it in that list )

Thats the only one i've used.

( i did vote for news.y, but that doesn't count )

I'm not sure if they've publicly launched yet but I'd have to say Qtoro.com!

Besides the fact that Altay is a great guy, you can't help but love a startup that's all about trivia!

http://iminlikewithyou.com/

http://rescuetime.com/

RescueTime...see discussion below.

Adpinion.

reddit, xobnia, rescuetime, kiko (when it lived)

news.ycombinator.com

Discussion begins here: (Mods please downmod this comment to -1)

people you can carry out discussion threads as children of this comment (just don't upmod it).

This way there is a clean separation between the poll and its discussion.

Im tied; I use Xobni daily but I also use RescueTime daily...

I think I like RescueTime cause at work, it will make me look like a rockstar once the business edition comes out and I can track employee productivity, pull the data out through an API and show it to the CIO/CEO/C*O for decision making as well as improving the system that is used overall at work.

Hey could you delete your rescuetime entry from the poll, as its a duplicate entry? Instead just upmod paulgb's comment which votes for rescuetime too.

Edit: never mind. there are more duplicates already, and they are in turn going to confuse more voters.. so its already a losing battle. Well played Entropy, well played.

Really Xobni and Loopt are probably the most ballsy companies YC has ever funded. They share a lot of characteristics:

1) Seeing something powerful in contextual data surrounding phones and mail (perhaps the two most basic forms of communication ever). 2) Both are part of the Microsoft Accelerator Program- The two of them also use Microsoft technology- .NET and Outlook (C#, I think). For some this may go against them. 3) Both have founders that are very nice guys (but you definitely wouldn't want to compete against them). 4) Both are VC-backed and they never sold out earlier like other YC companies, which just shows their relative tolerance of risk.

If Xobni gets acquired by Microsoft, I think it would impact the problem of how to manage thousands of emails for potentially millions of frustrated but complacent Outlook users. Well worth the upgrade to Office 2009

Reddit is the only product of a YC startup I actually do use, but I don't like it very much so I didn't vote it up.

I would like to vote for http://virtualmin.com because its the only one in the list that I may eventually put to good use in my own work, but since I don't actually use it yet I'm just giving it a shout out for now.

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