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Actually they are very well known. They are one of the largest adult companies on the web.

AEBN was and might still be the largest VOD service online and they run Windows or at least they did while I was there.

I am a patient. Being a patient is why I am so passionate about products in this space. So the thought of someone scraping the web to find information that I might apply to managing my medical condition is scary. I have worked at CPA companies that ran things like Molocure scams, Cure diabetes now sites etc... Perhaps your technology is so advanced that it can tell the difference between valid news and scams and perhaps you will manually review everything and verify the source of the information; but im not willing to bet my health on it.

As someone working in the same space, I am going to give you honest feedback that might seem harsh.

1. There are other sites doing this better and they have far more than just a landing page.

2. Are you holding user data? If so what about hippa compliance?

3. Your differentiating factor: "We scrape medical forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, etc (all the social media avenues) and add a layer of intelligent semantic analysis to bring you the best information relevant to what you have (or just the hottest news if you don't have anything)."

Simply put, I dont believe that you have one single bit of this.

4. Why would I use this and not patients like me or crohnology.com where I can find out about new things and also have them vetted by my friends that have similar conditions.

5. I dont think your newsletter could ever be better than condition specific newsletters like the ones from the CCFA or ADA? How will you deal with that?

I disagree; you do not have to be a negative person to point these things out. IMHO the author was simply trying to help anyone developing a web app avoid what he sees as a bad tool

Good job, I am working on a similar tool. There are lots of free great recipe managers on the web. What is the main differentiating factor that makes this worth 10 a month?

I have been rejected 4 times and each time I learned things.

socialadmanager.com - 2x it was that my product lacked focus and the value it created was as obvious as I thought it was.

spotted.at - 1x I learned that even if I had been funded I would have failed because the product was simply not something that people would pay for.

i.crowdfunded.it - 1x I learned that I did not understand the customer / market etc... enough to complete the YC App.

The biggest lesson is that I (a single founder) have tunnel vision. If I had a co-founder it would have been easier to see all of these problems because I would have had another perspective.

I am applying this cycle and even though I won't get in I don't see it as a rejection. Instead I see it as a way to ask some of the smartest people around if they would/would not use my product and if I am articulating my value prop in a clear and concise manner.

The product I am applying with this cycle has paying users and is complete VS previous years where I just had working prototypes so the thing I am really looking forward to this time is hearing what they think of my product. I have stopped caring if I get in or not.

One of the things that I have noticed about all of your examples is that they are all tools for developers. Do you have any examples of companies that solve real problems for the general consumer?

One of the reasons that I like stripe more is that they give you much more granular control ove the user experience. Users on your site never need to know that you are using stripe to process payments. Things just work. Also: PayPal customer service is a joke, they will freeze your account etc... etc...

I was diagnosed w/ crohns when I was 16. I struggled with it my whole life; in and out of hospitals and on/off different meds. At 19 I learned about the Macrobiotic Diet and my life was never the same. It was hard to stay on the diet and make it stick so I created a tool that helps me track and balance my diet. Because I like building things I also added 450 or so other diets and it has become by permanent side project. Right now only me and a few friends are using it (web version) and the app will be in the app store in a few weeks then I am thinking about opening it up to the public to see if its something that anyone else would want to use. All of the diets I have seen mentioned on this thread are supported so if anyone would like access let me know email/city and I will try and get things up and running for you.

Not to be a troll but this really irritates me and its hapening more and more in the "start up" community. This is not a startup. Its a landing page. There is no such thing as a 4 hour startup. This is a side project.

check out: https://www.mealr.net or foodonthetable.com

Its a good data set. I have been running it against the USDA food data for a new project I am working on. Let me know what they say and I might be able to provide it to you in a more workable format.

Arrogant how? I have no college education and I am currently developing a health application so I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to take these courses. There is nothing arrogant about this and not only do I applaud them for being the first school to do this but I hope that other schools ie: MIT etc... follow suit.

"It's important. It's not enough to just be a bunch of dudes hacking away at stuff."

I Disagree. This is the most productive environment for me. The issue is that people set out to start a company and not solve a problem. A bunch of dudes siting around hacking to start a company might not be the best idea but a bunch of dudes sitting around trying to solve a problem is the best way to start.

This is really sad. My condolences to his friends and family.

LMAO, do you think this is bad in all situations? If I am working for a client I use whatever their preferred methodology is. I really only do this when I am doing things for fun on my own.

You should rename it to dumbestontheweb

I know this is really stupid and the initial quality of some of the code i write is really low but when I am just making things for fun its kind of like freestyle rap to me so 0% planning 100% coding.

http://i.crowdfunded.it is an example of this.

This entire issue is crap.

I am a black programmer...

I have no college education, came from single family home blah blah womp womp.

I have launched 10+ projects for clients this year alone. I have 1 failed contract where I left because it just didn't work out.

When I had success it was not because I was black and when I failed it was not because I was black. Both when I have succeeded and when I have failed was never been treated like anything but an equal by my peers.

I personally thing that the NewMe accelerator is total crap and should not exit. What strategic advantage comes from going to a "black" incubator? I dont have a black startup because I dont have all black customers. The one thing this has managed to accomplish is to distract people from finding and solving huge problems and instead focus on some BS issue that has no value.

My only advice to "black" and other entrepreneurs is shut up, go code and make something awesome. The rest will take care of itself.

This entire issue is being exploited to get attention for Angela Benton and her new accelerator. I dont think its fair to cast a shadow over the awesome people I have had the opportunity to work with over the last 12 years in this field simply because someone wants to get some press at the expense of others.

... now back to coding ...

stripe

I just looked at that and its definitely the way to go...

--thx, going to make that change now

Stripe has an API for PHP and Python.

https://stripe.com/api

HAHA man.. was that you guys or me? Either way it all seems to be working now. BTW: Great job on Stripe.

fixed

I just integrated stripe on http://i.crowdfunded.it last week. Super awesome and easy to use.

I cant believe I missed that. Thats a very good idea.

Nope, I take 0%. The only way I make money is by being an affiliate; thats why I am only using amazon right now.

I made this one: http://i.crowdfunded.it

I just put up a homepage and I am putting up a screen cast / how it works right now. Let me know if this helps.