Promising B2B/SaaS startups from YC demo day
insights.credii.com
insights.credii.com
Both huge untapped markets. Unbable especially with providing translation services for customer support to allow earlier entry into European and Asian markets for american startups.
Abacus because expenses are a real pain and make employees unhappy.
If I could short algolia I would. Just seems to be generating buzz as it sounds developer cool, but is not a practical solution. Perhaps I misunderstand it.
1. Keeping all your data in constant sync with a third party 2. You'd obviously have to do a sanity check now and then, even more code 3. Search isn't that important on most sites, 2.5% of visitors use ours 4. Trusting what is some of your most business critical information to a third party 5. Extra point of failure
We have an autocomplete (with all the 'reinvented' features you list), but it sorely needs some TLC to handle mis-spellings. I like the idea of that kind of easy to use auto-complete.
But on my server.
As I say, perhaps I'm not the target market.