Y Combinator's Demo Day Gets Supersized

http://allthingsd.com/20120327/y-combinators-demo-day-gets-super-sized/

by il • 14 years ago

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ashbrahma• 14 years ago

Some of the companies presenting are listed here: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/27/y-combinator-demo-day-marc...

rdl3• 14 years ago

After getting cut off (and testing my brakes; they work nicely) this morning by two idiots on cellphones at the same time, I wish everyone would use sonalight (the voice SMS thing). It probably has te highest external benefit of a large group of startups, even bigger than the personal beefit to a user.

hpvic03• 14 years ago

Are they coming out with an iPhone version anytime soon? This seems useful.

mlinsey2• 14 years ago

Hopefully they figure out something that works on the iPhone. It can't work exactly like Sonalight on Android works, because the iPhone doesn't yet support launching a third party app based on just a voice command. (Even Siri, a native app, requires you to hold down a button to activate). Sonalight works just by having you just start talking even if the phone is in your pocket.

idan2• 14 years ago

What you want is called wavedeck, and it's awesome, and live in the AppStore now.

rdl3• 14 years ago

If I wanted voice, I'd just call. The reason I like SMS on the receive side is I can read it while in a meeting without disrupting people, or when in an open-plan office.

What I really want is a system which takes incoming voice, text, email, etc., and filters/transmogrifies based on rules I set into voice, text, email, etc., which might change based on context. While driving, I input voice; while in a meeting, I receive text. Keep the initial/canonical input in case there is an error, but let me try my preferred format first.

I use Google Voice for this now, but as with all non-core Google products, it's badly maintained and kind of crap.

idan2• 14 years ago

Sorry, link: http://www.wavedeck.com/

toddnessa• 14 years ago

After looking at the venturebeat.com list, I am always excited whenever I gain a new awareness of some of the innovative ideas of other upstarts. As for the All Things Digital article, the opportunities coming together for the Y Combinator groups of the future are growing. It's nice to know that there is a real hunger out there among investors to invest in the advancement of innovation.

As demo day grows, it no doubt provides evidence that Y Combinator is giving investors comfort in knowing that those individuals in which they are investing have been first selected and then have taken them through the process of mentoring them for several months in a tech company "graduate school" type of training. I am sure that an added benefit to investors is also knowing that those in which they invest will also receive an ongoing mentorship support that can only serve to aid stability and growth. That's a win-win for everyone involved.

Y Combinator's Demo Day Gets Supersized

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