RobbieStats

Hello, Developer of Startomatic here (Automated Insights previously). I know Stripe Atlas is popular with the HN crowd, but we think they didn't go far enough. Our goal is to include EVERYTHING you need to get a company launched, not just legal formation. Right now we include name suggestions, domain name registration, logo creation, legal formation, email/calendar set up, a "coming soon" website, SEO set up, and social media account creation. And all within 48 hours. We've got more coming soon. I'd love your feedback.

Thanks! Robbie Allen (robbie@startomatic.com)

Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to be posting a more complete overview of the service soon. I'll check out firma.de....

Hello, Developer of Startomatic here (Automated Insights previously). I know Stripe Atlas is popular with the HN crowd, but we think they didn't go far enough. Our goal is to include EVERYTHING you need to get a company launched, not just legal formation. Right now we include name suggestions, domain name registration, logo creation, legal formation, email/calendar set up, a "coming soon" website, SEO set up, and social media account creation. And all within 48 hours. We've got more coming soon. I'd love your feedback.

Thanks! Robbie Allen (robbie@startomatic.com)

Am I missing any?

I'd love to get feedback on this approach.

Actually only twice today. But what's your point? There are over a thousand articles posted to HN every day. Posting a couple times at different hours of the day gives a better chance of it being seen by different people.

First mover advantage ;)

Interesting thought, but there isn't enough ML code on Quora to do something like that even on a lark.

You can waste a good Friday afternoon on this post!

Good one. I'll add it.

Ohhhh, that's a good one. I'll add it!

I left an amazing job at a high tech company to start my own company. We had a successful exit five years later, but I've always said that if the company went belly up after 2 or 3 years it would have been WELL worth it. I don't associate being a successful entrepreneur or having success with a big exit. The point is to learn and try new things.

Of course I'd help my kid get the company off the ground in whatever capacity they'd like. I help a half dozen companies now in an advisory role and I'd do the same for them.

I take it you didn't read the article. The whole point is to provide more options than the single track path that has dominated the post high school mindset, not to say they have to go one way or another.

Plenty of great entrepreneurs start their company with little to no experience. Having done both, I think you can learn a lot more starting a company than you can at college.

Just leave a comment here :)

I'm curious. Why does it matter if you have a Medium vs a Github account?

You certainly can, but you'll spend hours like I did sifting through the good and the bad. Mine is a curated list that can hopefully save others time.

The technology is significantly more complicated than simple search and replace a bunch of variables. Trust me, if we did millions of stories by swapping out the same sentence every time it wouldn't work.

Also, the part of the value of what we do is describe "insights" not just spit back raw numbers (which again wouldn't be very valuable).

There are still many cases where there is too much data to digest. What Automated Insights does is take data and turn it into interesting and hopefully insightful bits of digestible content.

Here is a good write-up with examples of what the recaps look like if you aren't in a Yahoo league: http://www.fantasycube.com/nfl/robots-write-fantasy-football...

I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand I don't want to be hooked up to a ventilator or go through extreme suffering to prolong life. On the other hand, my grandmother (who recently passed away) went through late stage breast cancer in her mid-50s, lung cancer in her 60s, had a severe heart attack in her 70s and died in her 80s. It was so bad one time the doctors told us she would die in a matter of days. After she recuperated, she lived another 8 years. She was a tough bird.

How many times have we all heard: "The doctors gave him 6 months to live and that was 5 years ago". So if I knew I could go through 3-6 months of severe pain and get another 5-10 years of high quality life with my family, I'd probably do it. The problem is you may go through 3-6 months of severe pain and then die in month 7.

Right now being in my mid-30s and with a young daughter I enjoy, I'd take on the fight. If I was in my 80s, probably not.

There was a similar type of NYT article written about StatSheet last November that had the right amount of skepticism and optimism: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28digi.html

Automating long-form narrative content is a relatively new concept. It's not perfect (yet) so I appreciate the skeptics.

Still a long way to go, but the content is getting better. Here is a recent article from StatSheet: http://bosoxball.com/boston-red-sox/game-recap/red-sox-defea...

RTP, NC - StatSheet

* Ruby Developer * Designer

Must love sports

Email robbie@statsheet

I've been using iScroll (http://cubiq.org/iscroll) and it works quite well. Works on the desktop too unlike Scrollability.

I'm an active entrepreneur and I completely agree with the author of the post. While the economics of the last bubble are drastically different than what's going on now, seeing this kind of exuberance for a company that has a flashy but poorly thought through idea reminds me of 1999.

Demand Media is going to be a big IPO and is scheduled for Jan/Feb.

What do you bet Twitter at least got approval from those 31 providers? StatSheet is listed as one of Embedly's "supported" providers but they never asked us if we were ok with it. It's not like they are even using an API from us...just scraping.

Of course we still have to market our apps, but you completely failed to see my point. But that's ok.

Waste of what space?? It's not like more apps take up a scarce resource. They need a better search interface (or you need better searching skills) if you see a bunch of results that aren't relevant.

Imagine if Google took this approach?

Yes, we compute a bunch of advanced stats for statsheet.com. I've intentionally shied away from doing too much "advanced" stuff on the individual sites because i want them to be consumable by the average fan. Some feedback we get about statsheet.com is that it can be overwhelming.

That said, we'll be adding more unique stuff over time. We started doing a "Fan Satisfaction" chart: http://carolinaupdate.com/north-carolina-basketball/fan_sati... that attempts to objectively measure the subjective notion of "fan satisfaction".

Two of those three have been fixed now. The first (around expectations) requires a larger tweak which we are making.

The point to keep in mind is that we are at the infant stage of automated content. Unlike most writers, our content will get significantly better over time.