YC startup Auctomatic looking to hire

http://blog.auctomatic.com/?p=4

by pc • 19 years ago

19 25 19 years ago

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far33d2• 19 years ago

brilliant.

far33d2• 19 years ago

well my point was that I believe this is a joke on valleywag's bashing of scribd for their overly optimistic job posting. hence this ironic understated job posting.

Sam_Odio• 19 years ago

Sounds moderately interesting.

vlad2• 19 years ago

Haha! I think auctomatic could be moderately great! It will depend on the execution.

jason133• 19 years ago

I don't get it..I do not see how auctomatic can defend their company from eBay just redoing some of it's UI.

yubrew• 19 years ago

i think the idea is that they will innovate and add features much faster than e-bay or other competitors will.

from a user's perspective, i would much rather use the tools and software provided by a capable team that caters to my needs. that said, you don't really need a brilliant team, just one that does the job better than other current competitors. this is a great opportunity that aligns well with the strengths of the founders.

rjb3• 19 years ago

eBay seems to do everything in their power to prevent usability. Auctomatic hopefully will capitalize on this.

create_account• 19 years ago

What happens if ebay decides they don't like what they're doing, and shuts them out or makes it hard to connect?

jason133• 19 years ago

I guess it would be to eBays benefit to let people use Auctomatic. And I guess it be easier for eBay to buy Auctomatic then to copy eBay.

jason133• 19 years ago

I guess it would be to eBays benefit to let people use Auctomatic. And I guess it be easier for eBay to buy Auctomatic then to copy eBay.

nickb• 19 years ago

Huh? Have you seen this?

http://www.projectsandimas.com/

Good luck beating this... it's a dream app. I've seen it demoed and power sellers were all drooling.

byrneseyeview• 19 years ago

Read Paypal Wars if you want to know how that's done. They spent their entire existence about a week ahead of being crushed by eBay. The trick is to start with brilliant people, hire more brilliant people, and give them all stock options. Or something. They might have just had a longer outlook: if competing with eBay was a zero-sum game and eBay was worried about a bad quarter, Paypal could come out ahead by accepting bad quarters in exchange for good years. I think that's essentially what they did: eBay could (for example) lose 10% of their customers by completely locking out Paypal, or they could try to winnow that down to 5% or 1% or so by coming up with Paypal-like features.

vlad2• 19 years ago

They aren't competing against eBay.

mynameishere• 19 years ago

Seems like misplaced irony.

kmt2• 19 years ago

How do pronounce 'auctomatic'? [okshomatik]? [oktomatik]?

aston• 19 years ago

oktomatic

kmt2• 19 years ago

Why did I get downvoted? Because of the the missing 'you' between 'do' and 'pronounce'?

eposts2• 19 years ago

Whats up with the colors on auctomatic homepage? Makes my head hurt... is it just me?

Harj• 19 years ago

A lesson in why you should check colors on different monitor screens. The green looked cool on our screens but not so much on others we tested on.

Fixed now. Hopefully less headaching inducing.

run4yourlives• 19 years ago

I think they get points for being the only startup since 1988 to require a working knowledge of COBOL.

eposts2• 19 years ago

I haven't used auctomatic, but how is it different from Andale? They have been making tools for ebay for years now...

YC startup Auctomatic looking to hire

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