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Top Startups That TechCrunch Missed - Nov

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I propose an experiment to return to this page at various points in the future and comment on the status of these startups/websites.

I realise that I may be adding to the background noise, but this is ridiculous: http://imgur.com/F7wkO

It's weird that HN is now a thing to be gamed (in this case, poorly). I remember when this was just a forum for people to post links and talk about stuff, and wasn't nearly influential enough to be worth astroturfing and manipulating.

It's not just this post either - I've seen first-hand other startups try to manipulate HN. It can be as mild as getting your colleagues to upvote a story, and it can be pretty loathsome like astroturfed comments.

Re: the list though, I see a lot of FNACs here (Feature, Not A Company). I love a useful product as much as the next person, but are products that have no visible revenue potential really startups?

Even though we're in this list (HeyCrowd), I don't get why everyone gets so angry when seeing a list of startups and calling them "junk". It's just a lazy thought process to do that. It's true that most of them will probably fail anyway, so what's the point in destroying them when they're trying their best to bring a vision to life ? Personally, I have discovered a bunch of interesting products there.

Get used to it. It takes an incredible amount of work to build a "crappy" startup, but less than zero to post a snarky comment to HN that makes one feel superior.

Very true. I hope everyone who is trying to build something and want to show it to HN realize this very fact and keep working regardless of the kind of comments.

I'm on the list, too, and I could understand downvotes (if people don't like the links), but vicious comments... I don't get why people do that.

I think most people don't realize how much work goes into making any of these "junk" or "side project" projects.

Some of these start-ups look like actual start-ups with roads to profitability.

Some of them look like side-projects.

Either way, regardless of the value of these start-ups it's nice to pierce the YC bubble, if even a little bit.

Which ones do you think have potential? I'm asking because I'm on the list and would like to know what you think.

Let's be honest, people: a lot of these are junk and aren't going to be around in 6 months? Another Twitter client??? An application that finds me resorts??? Haven't seen that idea before!

The start-up bubble continues to cometh.

So I take this is just a dump of a month worth of Betalist with TC features excluded?

And what's up with all this astroturfing in the comments? Have some decency not hype your own startups, gentlemen.

I would have clicked this list had Techcrunch not been the benchmark it was measured against.

Techcrunch and Arrington is a hole of drama and self-obsession and best ignored.

Half of these are coming soon pages, the author of the article doesn't sound like he's tried any of the services in private beta, he's just made a list of what might be cool.

Also is the eye-drop app a startup or a side-project?

Guys sorry about not joining the monthly haters' meeting here but to me it looks like a nice list. I agree it's too much Betalist in style thought.

This is a fantastic list - keep it up!

I wish more of these were actually launched instead of just coming soon.

As an iPhone/Mac developer, Objective-Cloud is very interesting to me.

A few of the other apps, (I wouldn't call most of them startups) look pretty nice as well.

Going to need another cup of coffee now, thanks franco!

Awesome list! ... though, there goes my morning, going to be trying out these products.

Awesome list, great job Franco!

Is it me, or is this site completely unreadable on an iPhone?

Android too. Garbage. I get people not working to optimize for mobile but at least be readable on mobile surely.

Great list of some amazing startups!

Hypegram.... Take my money already.

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