Us: Customizable visual search. YC: Wait, what? Why customizable?

You need a little animated video. Or at least pictures of what it does. Although I read the FAQ and all the pages on your blog, I'm having difficulty understanding if this is an add-on to a mapping application, or something like that Color app that was famous for 15 minutes a few weeks ago, or...well, I'm just confused about exactly what it does, and not curious enough to spend time trying to figure it out. I'm guessing PG and others at YC didn't reject you as such, they just weren't able to work out what it's for.

I hope that doesn't come off as harsh. It's a common problem on landing pages, in FAQs, and in documentation; people forget to begin with short, clear statements that answer the questions: what is this for? why does that matter? How do I do something cool with it?

I remember spending most of an afternoon many years ago trying to wrap my head around TeX, and eventually losing interest because Microsoft Word's equation editor seemed an awful lot easier for anyone short of a typesetting professional. The documentation seemed to say 'go away and leave me alone.'

So basically: 1. A content creator takes photos of objects and tags them (links, texts whatever) 2. I take photos of those places and linkapic shows me what the content creator tagged those photos (objects) with.

Right?

I think that a twist to your idea might be interesting. Say Content Crator tags objects/photos. The way you have it now I have to take a photo of the same object to see the tag. Instead how about that if I am walking around you can show me nearby tagged images based on GPS.

There would be more discovery for me and less work. Taking photos of things and then waiting to see the notes sounds like work. But walking down the street and seeing interesting things that other people have taken photos of in the vicinity and tagged becomes interesting.

And it can be a tour because one tag can have directions to the next object etc.

--- A side note: The discussion in your blog is meandering in my opinion (SEO/democracy etc) and the point is not well made. It would be best to just stick to the basic use case w/o pitching/marketing as pg likes to say.

Here is a part story of what we learned from our YC interview, and how (thankfully) PG and team made us think hard about our assumptions. The rest of the post is about what came out.