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A startup that allows users to rent their homes or apartments via a service similar to Airbnb.
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A startup that helps people find local people with similar interests. It has about 25,000 users, and has been a part of several YC startups.
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5 years ago
A tool meant to help store managers and their employees deal with peak seasons. The tool works in a similar way to Southwest Airlines' Rapid Rewards program, connecting the store manager to the employees who help them at the store. The idea is that with the company's software, the store manager and employees can find out what rewards are best for the store and plan accordingly.
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A startup that wants to make it easier for companies to manage data and systems, similar to Zenoss. They’re looking to build a platform for teams to monitor and manage their servers in a single platform.
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A platform for homes where homeowners can share tools and services, and get paid for doing so, similar to AirBnB.
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In May, the startup launched its first version, a $300 PC that it said could run as much as 40% faster than similarly priced machines. The company’s second version is a $1,000 PC that it says is twice as fast as its first version.
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A “Facebook for Real Estate” that combines a platform for real estate agents and sellers to find buyers and sellers with a native advertising platform (similar to Rent.com) that lets companies manage their presence on the site.
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A dating app that matches people based on similar musical preferences.
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3 years ago
The idea here is to build a platform similar to UberPool, where users can choose to share rides with strangers instead of getting a taxi. It’s meant to be a sort of last-mile transportation.
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4 years ago
A startup that helps small businesses connect with local merchants in a similar way that Zumper and other real estate startups connect landlords. It counts a pair of YC startups among clients.
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4 years ago
A mobile app to help tourists book trips in real time, in a way that’s similar to using a mobile app to book a ride-share or a hotel. The company has a large following of users, and a potential to build a global brand from the ground up.
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4 years ago
A platform that brings businesses together with other companies in similar industries for collaboration and support.
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4 years ago
A community marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods. It is very similar in kind to the popular site OfferUp, but with a community-focused twist
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An AI-powered video platform that helps users find and share videos with similar themes and content. The startup has integrated with Vimeo and YouTube.
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4 years ago
A new way to communicate with customers that helps stores create an experience similar to that of an in-person visit.
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A sorting system for online shops, similar to Amazon’s Wish list.
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This startup is building a “cloud” of data centers around the world, so that the data center closest to the user is the most reliable. It’s similar to Amazon Web Services, but more localized.
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4 years ago
A platform that connects people looking to buy and sell goods and services for a commission. It’s similar to Groupon, but focused on more niche products and services.
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4 years ago
A California-based startup that makes a low-cost, low-power, solar powered charger for phones and other devices. It’s a rival to the crowd-funded Fission, which offers a similar product.
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4 years ago
A startup that’s building a chat-based platform for small businesses. Its platform is similar to Facebook Messenger, with the ability to chat with employees and customers.
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a service where people can find a random person with similar hobbies to do a project with
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4 years ago
This is a service for the social media influencer market. It lets influencers promote brands without the need for retailers to ship products to them or pay for advertising. It’s similar to Influential, though it appears to have fewer influencers on its platform.
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A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have a phone call with someone who has been through something similar in their life
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3 years ago
A company that lets you build and sell e-books similar to Amazon or Create Space.
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Building a subscription service for hosting websites, similar to Windows’ own hosting service but without the cost.
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4 years ago
A company that is building a platform for app developers to build a more active community around their apps. The company hopes to build a platform that brings together developers who have similar apps and allows them to build a community around them.
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5 years ago
If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.
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4 years ago
This startup is building an app to help people find the best prices on healthcare. It’s similar to Groupon, but it’s geared for hospitals and insurance companies to use to provide discounts to their clients.
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4 years ago
A tool for naming and tagging software logs. It’s similar to the tool that Jenkins uses.
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5 years ago
This startup is building a tool to make building custom software easier for non-coders. It's similar to tools like Kaleidoscope or CodeRunner.
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5 years ago
A startup that makes it easier for hotel guests to use their credit card on property. The company’s founders came up with the idea at a conference where the hotel they were staying at had a similar feature, and thought there was a better way to do it.
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5 years ago
Similar to Airbnb, this company aims to connect homeowners with travelers looking for places to stay.
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4 years ago
A startup that’s building a standalone smart lock with a built-in camera, motion sensor, and speaker. It’s similar to an August smart lock, but they don’t yet have a product, but they’re looking for $1 million to build it.
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4 years ago
A startup prototyping a platform for helping companies recruit non-employees without having to pay to recruit a job applicant, which would be a win for the applicant and the company. (This is similar to the above Idea.)
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A B2B SaaS startup that provides businesses with a single platform that helps them create and manage their customer communities (similar to Slack, but for customer service)
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A company that manages “affinity communities”, or groups of like-minded people who share a similar interest.
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A real estate company that helps buyers find homes in the best neighborhoods, comparing homes to similar homes in the past.
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4 years ago
A clever way of connecting e-commerce orders to the physical goods they are for by using a “touch and pay” system. The startup’s system is built for vending machines, and it works in a similar way to Square or PayPal. The startup says it has closed $5 million in funding.
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A startup that makes it easier for consumers to find quality products for their homes. Its app is similar to Amazon’s Dash, but for finding products in a physical store.
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A multi-level marketing tool for online courses, which allows users to create courses, and then sell access to them — similar to sites like Udemy.
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5 years ago
A travel concierge platform that serves travelers who want to visit the same places. It is designed to connect travelers with similar interests and save money by helping them make a booking at the same time.
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2 years ago
A platform for managing and sharing knowledge. It’s similar to LinkedIn in that it focuses on business professionals, but different in that it doesn’t focus on skills.
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5 years ago
A startup that wants to make it easier for people to take a quiz to see which of their tastes and preferences are similar to which of their friends’.
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3 years ago
A business development platform helping small businesses scale up their sales. It’s built on a similar model to Alteryx, which operates as a team of analysts and data scientists who work directly with the client to bring their data to bear.
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5 years ago
A platform that connects people to travel agents, booking flights, hotels, and car rentals. It’s building a tour-planning tool that’s similar to Google’s Allo.
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5 years ago
This startup’s tagline is “the first real-time CRM.” It works similarly to any other CRM, but with one key difference: it’s real-time and works a lot like a chat. It’s also very simple.
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5 years ago
An AI-powered chatbot that will guide buyers through the home buying process, with an interface that is designed to make the experience very similar to that of a real agent. The startup believes that this will lead to a significant increase in home sales.
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5 years ago
A platform for small businesses to manage inventory through a mobile app, similar to Square.
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A startup is building a way to help people track their fitness activity, allowing people to connect with people and challenges with similar fitness goals.
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5 years ago
A startup that helps you organize your life and write to-do lists (similar to Wunderlist, but aimed at parents).
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4 years ago
A digital escrow service for Bitcoin that built upon a similar service for fiat currencies. The startup says they’ve already signed up 15,000 customers and are working on launching around the world.
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An online platform that helps people find and connect with others with similar interests (i.e. a Google search for people who like to ride bikes in San Francisco).
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A tool to help people buy and sell homes in different cities, in a way that’s similar to e-commerce. It’s currently in private beta.
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The company operates in a similar fashion to Uber, but instead of driving people around, it takes shoppers to retailers. Shoppers use the app to locate stores and their location, then use the app to walk into shops and purchase items.
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Something similar to Apple Music for Spotify, but for podcasts.
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A social network for people who work from home. The startup is built for those who want to bring more community into their lives, helping them to connect with others who have similar jobs.
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4 years ago
A startup that helps hospitals manage their supply chains with a similar model to the one offered by Node.
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5 years ago
A startup that helps you find your friends in real-time on your phone, and groups them with similar interests.
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A mobile application that lets you trade money via peer-to-peer, similar to Venmo and other P2P apps. The startup is currently in development, with plans to launch in Q1 2019.
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5 years ago
A company looking to do something similar for movies, using machine learning to identify patterns in images.
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5 years ago
A global payments platform, SendFriend is a virtual bank account and payments platform that allows users to purchase goods and services without a bank account. It’s similar to TransferWise but with a focus on emerging markets.
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A startup that is building an app that lets you upload an image to search for similar-looking content, so you can find more like-looking photos.
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4 years ago
A company that wants to bring a similar set of products and services to the overseas market like Aflac.
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5 years ago
This startup is building an AI-driven platform for finding freelance contractors, similar to Upwork or Freelancer. The startup has raised $4 million and is based in the UK.
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A digital-first finance company with a trading platform that lets investors share portfolios across accounts and invest using multiple currencies. The startup wants to compete with traditional brokerages by using a similar toolset.
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A tool for people to create bespoke retail experiences for their customers. The startup is looking to bring a similar experience to brick and mortar stores as opposed to startups that have to build their own stores.
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In mid-July, the startup said it has already raised $1.5 million from investors including Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures. It’s working on a similar product to Facebook’s Onavo.
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An online shopping platform that can help retailers find customers who are buying similar products.
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A startup that wants to bring a similar UI to the world of online banking, except that instead of generic banks, the startup offers a wide array of financial products.
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A platform for selling and buying things on your phone, similar to eBay and Craigslist, but with more personalization and a focus on local finds. In beta as of July, the company is not yet profitable, but has already signed up over 500 beta testers.
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A librarian’s assistant for libraries. It’s similar to a virtual assistant but for a library. It’s meant to make life easier for librarians by helping them keep track of where their patrons are in the library and what books they’re reading.
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A tool to help connect students with secondary education with students in a similar grade at a university. The startup helps with translation and registration, and says it has successfully helped one student find a roommate for her roommate’s apartment.
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Similar to the standard credit card processing business, but with a more tailored product. The startup has a subscription model, and aims to break down the barriers to entry for smaller businesses.
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A startup with a similar idea to Fancy, with stores that focus on seasonal goods.
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An AI assistant that can take pictures of the things you’re looking at so you can save them to the AI assistant, which you can use to find other images that share similar subject matter.
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4 years ago
A startup for selling and buying used cars. The startup plans to build a national network of used car dealers to help consumers meet sellers of similar cars. The startup will take a moderate percentage of the sale.
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4 years ago
A tool for planning events with a group of people in mind, similar to a calendar but for smaller groups. The startup is looking to partner with Indian companies that organize team events.
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3 years ago
A startup that allows people to buy and sell their cars with other people who have similar cars in their area.
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a service for renting servers, using a model similar to Airbnb Users can rent a server by the hour, day, week, or month They rent out their unused servers, which helps keep them up to date, and clients get cheap hosting
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5 years ago
A startup that’s looking to help people in South America get vacation packages. It’s similar to the service SkipTheDishes does for the US.
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A company building a kit to help you create your own “smart” home — for a fraction of the cost of similar systems.
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5 years ago
Company is building a platform to help people find and get along with friends, and help people find people with similar interests.
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3 years ago
A company that wants to let people share the stories of their travels in a way that’s similar to Instagram.
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5 years ago
A startup that helps people create and share stories in a way that’s similar to a message board, but not as time-consuming.
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A new platform that allows big companies to help their employees get better at sales by offering real-time feedback on their pitches, and to see how they compare to others who are similar in their industry.
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A startup that wants to help people make better decisions with their money, using a similar model to the one that Spotify uses to recommend music to you.
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A startup that’s building a C++ library that allows hardware designs to be shared on GitHub. The company’s CEO says that the concept is similar to the Arduino open source hardware platform.
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As a company, they offer a laundry service, but their platform itself is an online marketplace where anyone can sell and buy cleaning products, offering a function similar to that of eBay or Amazon (but for cleaning products.)
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A company that’s building a platform for scheduling livestreams, similar to Twitch but focused on short-form content. They have a library of over 10,000 videos on their platform.
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3 years ago
This app basically allows you to order food from your favorite restaurants. It’s a way to cut out restaurants and make the entire process of ordering food a lot more simple, similar to Grubhub.
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A startup that provides a platform for people to collaborate on projects. It’s similar to platforms like Basecamp and Wrike. They charge $20 per month per user.
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A visual search engine that curates images for people, similar to Pinterest
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A platform that helps local governments make decisions about vacant properties. It's similar to other services like Airbnb, but for rentals.
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2 years ago
The startup helps people keep track of their stock portfolio and financial goals. It would be similar to tools like Personal Capital or Google Finance, but for the individual.
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A product for helping people create a daily habit of exercising. The startup helps people work through a workout routine on their phone, with the goal of helping them build a habit. It’s meant to be a replacement for people who have used apps like ChoreMonster or other similar products before.
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A startup for people to sell stuff, and a way to help the buyers and sellers find each other. A similar marketplace exists today called eCohort, which launched in March of 2019.
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UnionX is a platform that can be used to organize a union or similar group for a group of employees. The startup has seen interest from unions in private companies, like Uber, and recently secured $1 million in seed funding.
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The startup wants to make it easier for investors to invest in early stage companies. It wants to make it easier for angel investors to back startups and give them information about startups they’re interested in. The startup wants to put money into startups in a way that’s similar to how a hedge fund would, but also make it possible for retail investors to put money into startups like they would an IPO.
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A platform for people to rent their personal vehicles to strangers using a mobile app, similar to a ride-sharing service but for personal vehicles.
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A “cloud-based” HR/recruiting. The startup will probably take a similar structure to what companies like Hubspot have done with customer service, and sell it to HR and recruiting companies.
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A startup that wants to use a similar process to build a marketplace for music rights, letting creators sell their rights to their songs to the highest bidder.
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A platform for artists and creatives to sell their products, using a very similar model to Etsy. Artist can make money by selling physical or digital products of their original artwork.
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2 years ago
A company that helps people in the creative industry track and manage their time in real-time. It’s similar to time-tracking apps like Asana, but it’s designed for creatives.
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4 years ago
A company that uses algorithms to direct automated phone calls to businesses to help them reach out to prospective customers who have similar interests. The startup offers a “campaign” for as low as $400 for up to two calls per day.
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3 years ago
A startup that allows users to build their own personalized content by feeding in their own data. It’s similar to the way people build their own websites on Wordpress.com
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5 years ago
A platform that uses AI to predict the outcome of games, similar to a sportsbook and Vegas odds.
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A simple, secure online payment tool, similar to Paypal. The app allows users to send money to friends and businesses in their area.
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A similar service to Slack for teams working from home
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A tool that helps teams manage their Slack threads using a shared document. It’s similar to tools such as Zoho Docs and Google Docs.
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3 years ago
A shopping-cart service for household goods. It would connect stores with customers who have bought similar items in the past to help people find better prices.
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4 years ago
A platform to help people understand the costs of their health insurance, very similar to the OpenHealth platform.
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A company that’s building a next-generation email list for software startups, based on the idea that most startups have similar problems in the user experience of their product.
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A startup creating a new patent system for the fashion industry, similar to how patents work on music. It wants to prevent knock-offs, but also be used by brands for protection of their business models.
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A startup that’s building a new and more user-friendly way to create and manage group texts, similar to GroupMe.
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4 years ago
A B2B company that allows banks to choose between an AI/ML-driven platform and a human-driven platform for OCR, fraud detection, and other similar tasks.
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A company that’s building a product that lets people share their ideas with people who work in similar fields, with a goal of making it easier for people to find new jobs.
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2 years ago
A startup building an open source platform to help people plan their trips with an experience similar to that of the popular TripIt app.
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5 years ago
This is an on-demand dog walker business, with an app that allows users to request a walker with an ease of use similar to Uber.
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A startup that helps people find and schedule massage therapists in San Francisco. It is merged with a Y Combinator company which offers a similar service.
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A startup that matches up doctors with patients with similar needs, and lets them book appointments.
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A company that wants to help consumers build and grow their own personal brands by selling them on merchandise and experiences, similar to what Amazon does with Amazon Prime.
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A tool for nonprofits and non-profits to make more money by charging their supporters a monthly fee, similar to Patreon.
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3 years ago
A daily deals site, similar to Groupon, but with a focus on smaller, local deals.
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2 years ago
A software startup that wants to combine a podcast with an interactive show, similar to a popular game show style.
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5 years ago
A startup that provides on-demand access to a local barista. The concept is similar to Uber Eats, except these “district kitchens” are meant to be in neighborhoods that don’t have their own cafes. The service is currently only available in one city, but plans to expand to others in the near future.
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4 years ago
A startup that helps you find a doctor in your area in seconds. It’s similar to Yelp, but it’s more focused on finding primary care physicians.
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3 years ago
A startup that offers a way to review and rate the quality of restaurants before you dine there, to help diners decide where to eat. It’s a similar concept to Yelp, but for food.
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5 years ago
The startup is building a platform that allows users to share their favorite stories in a space that’s similar to Instagram but for the automotive industry.
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A platform that lets businesses sell directly to their customers – similar to services like Shopify or Stripe.
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4 years ago
A “social commerce” app that helps you connect with people who make products similar to yours.
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4 years ago
A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.
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3 years ago
A platform that helps users find the right people and businesses to work with. A concept similar to LinkedIn, but instead of connecting people, it connects companies with freelancers, consultants, and talents.
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4 years ago
The startup is building an iOS app that makes it easy to stream content from various sites, including YouTube. Similar to Viki, but for YouTube.
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This is a tool for finding and buying deals on car insurance, similar to GEICO.
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4 years ago
Similar to the idea of saving money on your electric bill, but for water. This service connects people who live in the same building and have the same water account in the same city.
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3 years ago
A company that wants to create a cryptocurrency that can be used to pay for things like transportation and food at the grocery store, similar to how Bitcoin can be used.
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5 years ago
A travel service that leverages machine intelligence to anticipate your needs better. It takes into account past similar trips and predicts your next trip in real-time.
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4 years ago
A company that makes a computer with a touchscreen for people who have difficulty with a mouse. The touchscreen operates in a similar way to a touchscreen phone, with a stylus for more precise input.
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A storage management system for businesses, similar to Box.com or Dropbox but built for businesses that have to comply with data security regulations.
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4 years ago
A startup that connects medical workers in a way similar to Uber, allowing them to find patients and make deliveries. The company wants to use the data it records to help make hospitals and doctors more efficient.
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4 years ago
Postmates is a food-delivery service similar to UberEats. But Postmates focuses on delivering food from local restaurants rather than order-in restaurants.
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4 years ago
The startup wants to bring on-demand personal chef services to the home. The company is looking to use a similar model to that utilized by Uber, with the chef being independent contractors who deliver food to the customer.
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2 years ago
This startup wants to turn self-driving cars into a service, allowing users to book a ride in advance so they can go home from the airport, or just get a ride to a nearby restaurant. Uber has a similar service in a few cities.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that helps you to search for nearby events, and also provides a link to the ticketing page. It’s similar to Eventbrite, but focuses on local events.
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Similar to One Click Shop, but for affiliate referral marketing.
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A new way to pay for books that works similarly to how Amazon works for ebooks.
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3 years ago
A startup that hopes to help people build better online dating profiles. It’s building a service that will do the work for you and make your profile personalized, similar to how Groupon, LivingSocial and other startups have done for offline events.
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A recommendation engine that helps you find what you like and suggest similar products to you.
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A digital storefront for physical objects, similar to Etsy but focused on travel and experiences.
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A visual search engine for images, using computer vision technology to scan and match image content, similar to Google Image Search.
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A tool that helps people find and schedule jobs, similar to LinkedIn.
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3 years ago
A platform for women called “the hub” that allows women to share their stories and connect with others with similar experiences.
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5 years ago
A company that aims to help companies make smart decisions about the people and projects they hire. Talent teams can use the company’s SaaS tool to find people with similar backgrounds, track their progress, and see what needs to be done to help them work effectively.
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Idea : A tool for managing relationships between people with similar interests. The company is building a platform to help people share interests with others, and it’s using data science to help people actually find each other.
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A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.
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This is a tool for tracking and managing sales leads, similar to Salesforce.
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A “human-powered” platform that connects users with other people in their niche-of-interest. The idea is that each user has an “agent” who will help them find other people in the same area or have similar interests.
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4 years ago
A startup that’s building a “buddy system” for children with autism, which connects them to other kids with similar developmental needs.
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A company that sets up a meeting with a group of people who might have similar interests, similar values and similar goals, to help them find common ground.
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This is an app that helps people plan trips based on similar stats to Yelp.
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A startup that allows users to get a readout of their fellow travelers’ histories at a glance. The startup also has a feature that helps people find other people who have similar interests.
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It’s similar to an Instagram filter app, but instead of changing your appearance, it changes the tone of your photos.
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4 years ago
A community building platform that allows communities to create events and provide a calendar interface for their users. It’s similar to events.io in that it helps communities organize events rather than building them from scratch.
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4 years ago
A messaging platform to facilitate in-person meetings between people who never actually met before. It’s designed to streamline the matchmaking process by connecting people with similar interests, and to make it more efficient for those who like meeting in-person.
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4 years ago
A startup that wants to create a secure messaging app that’s based on blockchain. The app works in a similar manner to Telegram and iMessage, but with a twist: users can easily send encrypted messages to anyone without having to download the app.
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A startup that connects consumers with products they’re interested in buying with individuals who have a similar taste in products.
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A virtual assistant built on the JVM, to compete with similar startups like Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Apple Siri.
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A real-time article curation tool for people who work remotely. The startup, which launched in May, allows people to find similar stories and add a brief summary of their own, or to simply read and learn from others.
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A startup that helps people in developing countries buy products from Amazon. The app is similar to the wildly successful service from India’s Flipkart, but for those in developing countries.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people connect and collaborate via a group chat app, similar to Slack or Facebook Groups.
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3 years ago
This startup is building an app that generates personalized content recommendations for TV shows, movies, podcasts, and more. The app can suggest content based on what a person has watched or listened to in the past, and then recommend similar content in the future.
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A tool for people buying homes that allows the buyer to see the price of a house in relation to rent and other similar properties within a couple miles. It’s built on the premise that anyone buying a home should be able to see how much rent it would take to pay off the mortgage.
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4 years ago
A game of strategy that’s similar to the popular board game of the same name, but with all of the complex rules of video games. Players will compete to collect the most points by trading, farming, and battling each other.
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4 years ago
A company that’s looking to build a platform that will allow employees to book and bookend meetings remotely. Similar to a service like GoToMeeting or Cisco’s WebEx, but for video meetings.
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4 years ago
A product that helps match different people with similar jobs.
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A startup that helps companies bring in new talent, by matching them with employees in similar roles and locations. The company has been operating since 2017, and claims to have hired over 1,000 people to date.
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4 years ago
A “health arm” for companies. The company has the potential to help employers pool information about their employees and their health in the same way that LinkedIn does for companies and their employees. The startup’s medical director has been working with insurance companies to build out a platform that would work similarly to the one for employers.
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This is a startup that wants to build a platform for conditional access to digital content. The startup, which was founded in January, is looking to use the blockchain to allow content providers to set rules for access to their content, similar to how a content creator can set rules for podcast subscriptions.
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4 years ago
A startup for hiring cabin cleaners and maids, similar to TaskRabbit. The company's founders say that with the average cleaning job taking about 45 minutes, a service like theirs would be a huge boon to busy modern families.
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4 years ago
A way for people to easily share their photos, music and videos with people who have a similar taste.
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3 years ago
LendUp is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace where people can lend money to their friends, family, or other people they know. It’s similar to sites like Lending Club and Prosper, but the startup is taking a different approach to the funding. It’s aiming to let people lend money to their friends and family, and the loans aren’t paid back until the borrower has used them to buy something.
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2 years ago
This is a company that wants to make it easier for businesses to sell technical products to consumers. Using a similar model, they offer a way to securely sell things like electronics, software, and data.
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4 years ago
A group of designers and developers building a basic platform to help people create and share drawings and designs, similar to how Shapes is used to share images. It is currently in private beta, with a public launch scheduled in Q1 2015.
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4 years ago
A startup that lets people transfer money between their bank accounts and a friend’s account. It’s similar to TransferWise and other peer-to-peer cash exchanges.
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3 years ago
An iPhone app that connects people with the same job-seeker’s information, in order to find people who share a similar background and career trajectory.
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2 years ago
A device that connects to a user’s phone to help them sleep. It’s similar to a Fitbit, with a few more features.
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4 years ago
A startup for meeting new people and finding friends. The app is designed to make it easier for people to make new friends, and to find people with similar interests.
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4 years ago
If you’re a company that helps people hire employees, this is a tool meant to help you find and vet candidates. It’s a bit like a dating app for the time-strapped, with a few similarities to Recruiter.com.
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4 years ago
A tool for customers to pay for products and services on their phones, with built-in barcode scanning. Today the company has over 400,000 users and has seen similar traction to Square, though older.
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3 years ago
A secure mobile platform for managing end-to-end enterprise operations, especially for small businesses. It’s similar to Slack for enterprise.
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3 years ago
A platform that connects diverse groups of people with similar interests
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A startup similar to Airbnb but for hosting companies
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A startup that wants to use a combination of machine learning and AI to help you better manage your health data. The startup is looking to take a similar approach to a product they previously released, the AmpedSense wearable device.
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4 years ago
Similar to DoorDash, but focused on delivering food to college campuses.
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4 years ago
Prim is a content management system for people who want to manage their own, personal website. It’s similar to WordPress and Squarespace, but offers more options for branding, like colors and fonts. The startup has 20K users, but it’s not yet making any revenue.
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3 years ago
A company that helps users track and manage their cryptocurrency assets, in a manner similar to their competitor Coinbase. The company is funded by the founders of Bibox, a Chinese exchange that has been involved in controversy before and has had expensive legal battles against the IRS.
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3 years ago
A crowdfunding platform for small businesses that’s similar to Kickstarter, but for local businesses rather than global ones.
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3 years ago
A startup for sellers of physical goods, similar to eBay.
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2 years ago
A platform that allows businesses to manage their customers’ credit scores and other credit-related information. It’s similar to Stripe, but it allows businesses to manage their customers’ credit scores and other credit-related information.
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4 years ago
A tool to help people navigate the ins and outs of the law, similar to an attorney but more accessible for regular people.
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4 years ago
A data conversion app that brings the search experience of Google to Facebook (similar to how Twitter brought the search experience to Facebook.)
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4 years ago
This is an app that helps tech-savvy people build their first website with ease. It’s very similar to Squarespace, with more customization options.
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4 years ago
A startup that allows users to request rides from others nearby, for a nominal fee. The company uses a model similar to Uber, charging users a fee for a ride request, and charging the driver a fee for accepting the ride.
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3 years ago
A subscription based service for restaurant accounts, similar to a tool like Loom.
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3 years ago
A startup that promises to “save you time” and “deliver better results” by sourcing and delivering services in a similar way to Amazon Prime.
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4 years ago
Not only does this startup make a cheap, disposable pen that works like a ballpoint, its CEO is also a pen manufacturer. The startup sells its pens for $5, and are made in China similar to Apple products.
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4 years ago
A platform for B2B customers to find outsourcers and outsource work, with a similar model to the startup TaskRabbit
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4 years ago
An enterprise phone system that allows companies to change their phones to a different number and have it ring as many times as they need. It’s similar to RingCentral’s business model where you can get a phone number on the side of your business.
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4 years ago
A startup that connects people who have similar goals and passions. The company has received $1.8 million in funding from a range of investors including Greylock, Greylock-backed Founder Collective, and Y Combinator.
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3 years ago
A tool to use social media to help patients find the best doctors for their health conditions. It’s similar to the health insurance comparison website The Doctors or the insurance comparison website Health Grades.
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3 years ago
A startup to help freelancers find clients by connecting them to people with similar skills who might be hiring.
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3 years ago
A P2P storage marketplace that helps people manage their data in a very similar way to DropBox.
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4 years ago
Vital is a digital health platform for employers to give employees health benefits. It’s a bit like Mint, with similar functionality, but it’s aimed at employers.
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4 years ago
A tool that helps developers test their websites and apps with real users rather than using simulated user data. It’s a concept similar to the way that Netflix uses its own data to test which titles are most popular.
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3 years ago
A startup that provides a platform for businesses to build custom, curated content for their customers. It’s similar to a few other content curation businesses, but it’s a bit different because it allows companies to connect with customers in their own custom way.
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4 years ago
A tool for building and scaling events for schools, sporting events and similar. It’s built on top of the same chat and to-do list features of Slack, but is designed to be more scalable.
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4 years ago
A tool for online learning, similar to LinkedIn Learning or Udacity. The startup helps you integrate, manage, and track your educational programs.
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2 years ago
A startup aiming to build a decentralized marketplace for labor, similar to the gig economy.
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4 years ago
A startup helping people sign up for their tuition. Similar to the popular site, College Ave. helps users manage their college applications by automating the application process.
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3 years ago
The company aims to change the way people shop, by giving them a way to scan items and get product recommendations based on their preferences, similar to the way Amazon recommends products to you.
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3 years ago
A chat app to help people find a ride, similar to how Uber works. The app works on iOS and Android.
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3 years ago
A platform for connecting consumers with businesses to buy and sell items, similar to Facebook Marketplace.
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3 years ago
A piece of software that will allow users to connect their phone to their laptop and use the phone to take high-quality photos and videos. The startup is trying to compete with Instacam and other similar products.
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3 years ago
A startup that is building a digital assistant for the health market. The company is also working on a similar product for the enterprise that is building on a similar platform.
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3 years ago
A web-based marketing platform for e-commerce sites, with an API for other companies to create similar marketing platforms on their own.
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3 years ago
An engineering tool for companies with lots of devices, with a focus on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. That means the tool is used to control devices that are connected in a very similar way. It’s a type of IoT technology that allows devices to work together.
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3 years ago
A motion-sensor that tracks how often someone uses their smartphone, similar to the FitBit.
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4 years ago
A new way to organize and share knowledge across the world, connecting people who have similar interests and experiences.
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4 years ago
A technology that allows you to receive a text message with a code that lets you know when your package has arrived. It’s similar to the Amazon Prime Now service, but for local stores.
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3 years ago
An online marketplace, similar to Etsy.
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3 years ago
A note-taking app that supports Markdown. It’s very similar to Notational Velocity, but for storing notes in your phone.
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3 years ago
An AI-enabled messaging app that helps users track who they’re communicating with, and to whom they’re sending messages. The startup is unusual in that it’s a messaging app, not a social network. It is also similar in some ways to the messaging app Telegram.
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3 years ago
A startup that allows people to pay for goods in exchange for a percentage of the goods sold. It’s similar to the concept of a reward card and is an alternative to services like Swagbucks and other similar programs.
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3 years ago
A B2B platform for buying and selling goods, similar to TradeGecko but more intuitive.
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A chat program for businesses, similar to Slack.
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3 years ago
A platform that helps employees stay organized by organizing their work and personal lives. It also connects them with other people with similar work-life challenges.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a tool that allows you to prioritize content in a way similar to how you prioritize friends and family on Facebook. It’s a unique way to manage your media consumption, but it’s also a way to manage your media consumption that’s competitive with Facebook.
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2 years ago
A machine learning platform for the finance industry to predict suspicious transactions. The company claims to help banks cut down on fraud, but its pitch is a bit more vague. It aims to make machine learning data available to other startups to use to build a similar service.
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4 years ago
A startup that’s building a “social marketing” system, allowing brands to find people who are similar to their customers and get them to become fans.
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3 years ago
This app is designed to help high school students organize their free time to find things to do, meet friends and plan their after-school activities. It’s B2B, with a small school setting where it tries to help teachers create a network of students with similar interests to help them plan their after-school schedules.
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4 years ago
Siri is a personal assistant that learns your needs, and notifies you when it needs additional information. The startup is building a social network in which you can connect with other users that are a similar level of expertise to you. The team was also behind the now defunct
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A facial recognition startup working on a social network that uses facial recognition to help people find friends, family, and other people with a similar interest.
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This startup is building an app that lets people create their own unique events, which they can then invite their friends to, similar to how it works on Facebook.
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3 years ago
A similar to Genius Bar, but with focus on older cars.
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Helping U.S. companies manage their risk, similar to how Schwab fills this role for traditional financial services firms.
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3 years ago
A video platform that allows you to group together people of similar backgrounds and interests and other users who want to join their group. It’s similar to other social networks like Meetup, but different because it’s built for groups of specific interests, like comedy or hiking.
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3 years ago
This is a real-time marketplace for barbers, similar to services such as Uber and Lyft. The startup wants to make getting a haircut as easy as ordering a ride, but with the added benefit of being able to share photos of the finished product.
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2 years ago
A startup that wants to build a better way to manage and organize documents. The company wants to build a system for managing documents and files similar to Dropbox, but for documents instead of pictures.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people find and manage their local food pantries, soup kitchens, food shelves, shelters, and other similar community organizations.
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A startup that plans to build a platform that allows businesses to create and sell their own “masterpieces”, with a focus on high-end jewelry and similar items.
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3 years ago
A startup that aims to help insurance companies manage risk. This is a similar model to the startup’s previous venture, Ava, which helps employers manage workers’ compensation claims for their employees.
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2 years ago
A group of friends who met through an online dating site have created a version of a “Fitness-First” dating app, designed to help people find someone with similar body types and goals.
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A payment platform for shared bicycles. The bike sharing startup is focused on supporting bike-sharing startups, helping them with everything from pricing to marketing to customer service. It’s described as similar to the software they create for Uber, allowing bike-sharing companies to have a single dashboard to manage everything.
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A platform that lets you save photos and videos, both online and on your phone, in a single place. The startup is currently working with other startups to build out a similar, but more robust, app.
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3 years ago
The startup is building out an online auction marketplace, similar to eBay, but with a higher ticket price point for its auction listings.
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3 years ago
This is a way to get your own personal assistant and manage your scheduling and calendar. The founders say they’re building a new company that will help other startups build a similar offering.
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3 years ago
A startup that provides a way to manage a person’s finances in one place. It offers a seamless experience that’s similar to Mint, but with a few different bells and whistles including a budgeting tool and a means to split out purchases from different vendors.
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A software product that helps online retailers manage and report their inventory. It’s designed to be the next generation of an increasingly successful product from a similar business.
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3 years ago
A “smart ring” for the elderly, built on a similar model to the Fitbit. They’re not yet available.
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3 years ago
A platform for cloud service providers to provide private cloud services to their customers, similar to the relationship between SaaS providers and their customers.
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2 years ago
A company that manages and manages the data of big data projects, with clients including Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, Facebook, Google, and the US government. It’s working on getting a similar deal with the US Postal Service.
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3 years ago
The startup is building a product that helps users experience their music in a way that’s more similar to how music is experienced in real life. It’s a 360-degree surround sound speaker for headphones that connects to a phone via Bluetooth.
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3 years ago
A "social entertainment network" – basically a streaming video network, similar to Netflix and Hulu, where users can pay a monthly subscription to access a library of movies and TV shows.
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3 years ago
WeChat is a messaging app popular in China that’s being developed by a company that’s not even based in China, instead choosing to base itself in Hong Kong. The app is similar to Whatsapp, but with a focus on shopping and gaming.
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A tool for creating websites and landing pages. The startup’s founders had built a similar tool for their own business, but realized that the majority of their work was spent on the “unfun” tasks of putting together a page.
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3 years ago
A startup looking to reduce costs and increase reliability for appliance manufacturers. The company is in the process of building a platform for manufacturers to automatically test their products for failures, and then automatically repair the failures when they happen. It’s an idea similar to the AirWatch platform that Apple uses to manage its software updates.
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A tool for hiring software developers, using a similar model to marketplaces like AngelList.
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3 years ago
This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.
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3 years ago
A consumer-facing platform for discovering and booking live music. It’s similar to Songkick.
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3 years ago
This startup is working on a social network for group-living. It’s similar to AirBnB for housing, with a focus on making it easy for families to share living space.
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3 years ago
This company helps people in low-income countries purchase a monthly cycle of pills for their family members. The startup will also implement a new payment system for the public, that can be used by the public to purchase cycles and pay for them in a similar way to how they pay their phone bill.
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A digital marketplace for small businesses and independent contractors to connect with customers and get access to resources. It's similar to existing marketplace-like startups like Thumbtack, but with a focus on independent contractors.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people with autism and similar conditions find roommates and support.
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A distributed computing network that’s built to create and share machine learning models. It’s similar to a public cloud in that it’s meant to be shared among all the people who need to use it, but it provides free access to most of its resources.
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The startup is building a tool similar to Slack, except it deals in a very different way with teams.
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A platform that allows users to share their skills and convert them into paid work. It’s similar to sites like Upwork, but is geared toward companies that want to outsource their inhouse development needs.
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Idea: An AI-powered marketing platform for small companies. The startup plans to launch a tool that can help companies like physical therapists and yoga teachers market themselves to nearby customers who are looking for similar services. The startup claims that their AI-driven marketing campaigns have a double or triple digit ROI.
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4 years ago
A tool for determining your emotional state, with a UI that’s very similar to the one used by Google Now.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a social network for people who want to be in the know about how their city is behaving. It’s a B2B app that operates similarly to Foursquare, giving people the ability to check in and post on their local environment.
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A tool that helps to manage an employee’s schedule and tasks. The B2B company takes a similar approach to Slack or Asana and wants to be a centralized hub for tasks and projects.
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2 years ago
This is a mobile app that keep track of your to-do list. It’s similar to Wunderlist in that you can add tasks, notes or lists and share with other users. The app is built for iOS and Android, and integrates with your email, calendar, contacts, and other apps.
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A startup that connects your Netflix queue to your Amazon Prime video Prime video and Netflix are becoming more similar by the moment, and this Internet TV startup wants to streamline the process of getting both of them in one place. It’s a tool that lets you see what’s coming to Netflix and what’s coming to Amazon Prime Video.
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2 years ago
A product that can be used to track and manage work on a contract project, similar to Uber, but for larger teams.
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Idea: A startup that aims to be “the Uber for trucking”, claiming that the transportation industry is a $7 trillion sector ripe for disruption. It has a similar pitch to Uber Freight, which focuses on helping smaller trucking companies compete with big shippers.
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A mobile-first, cloud-based system for managing patient records and care. They built on the backend of a similar system for doctors, and are now in a pilot with the Veterans Affairs Office of Patient Centered Care and Outcomes, and the Department of Defense to help improve the quality of patient care.
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2 years ago
A “refund anticipation” insurance plan that works similarly to a credit card or debit card by filing a claim and getting a refund if your expenses don’t get paid.
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2 years ago
Ambient is a digital assistant that offers suggestions on products similar to ones a user is shopping for. The startup is working with brands to drive sales.
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3 years ago
A tool for cleaning up your photos, with a focus on removing many of the imperfections that make modern photos look similar to each other. The startup says it has already had 5 million downloads and 4 million photos deleted.
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3 years ago
A web-based platform that helps people keep track of their spending, similar to Mint.com or Personal Capital.
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2 years ago
This is a web-based calendar, similar to Google Calendar, that allows users to integrate their social media accounts into their calendar events.
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2 years ago
A tool for organizing and sharing your ideas and files across devices and platforms. It’s similar to popular project management apps like Trello and Asana, but was started by a former Pivotal Labs employee.
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3 years ago
A tool that helps people create products that can be purchased through their site. It’s like a marketplace but instead of buying products, you’re offering them to people as a service. It’s a model similar to TaskRabbit or Uber.
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A startup that helps employers with hiring, training, and onboarding. It’s similar to a software as a service provider, but it’s focused on the last mile of onboarding.
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A personal assistant for enterprise users, similar to Slack, but for enterprises.
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A digital assistant, similar to Alexa and Cortana but with a focus on security, both to alert users when they’re leaving the house and to keep them safe.
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2 years ago
A travel arranging service that’s similar to Expedia or Hotels.com. The company is currently in a closed beta, looking to raise money to expand to a public beta.
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A platform to help nonprofits raise more funds, with a model similar to Kickstarter
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2 years ago
A mobile, on-demand laundry service that brings in customer-to-laundry ratios similar to Zipcar.
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2 years ago
This startup is building an online employment marketplace for non-profits, with some features similar to those of LinkedIn.
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Kunvi is a service that helps people discover and communicate with other similar people. The startup is a spinoff of YC’s Summer 2011 batch, and is headquartered in San Francisco is hiring full-time engineers.
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Instead of a “Google for writers”, the startup instead wants to build a platform that allows writers to get paid for writing on any topic. It’s a platform that lets people get paid for their writing, similar to Blogger.com or OpenIDEO.
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A chat bot that’s designed to help people with their mental health. The startup claims to be the first to provide a mental health chatbot that’s designed to operate in a similar way to a messaging app like WhatsApp. Instead of opening an app, people can text the bot with their symptoms and get a response.
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A startup that’s creating a platform for remote workers. The startup wants to help companies find work-from-home positions and offers a “pay-per-hour” model, similar to TaskRabbit. It also has a platform where employers can build the type of jobs that they want to fill, including remote work.
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Right now, you can build your own website and sell it on Etsy or a similar site, but not much else. What if you can sell products that you actually make, like soaps or jewelry, and use the money to fund your startup
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A startup that helps people to find out what their friends are doing, similar to Snapchat’s “Find Friends” feature.
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A free platform for people to share advice for specific personal situations. The idea is that it could be used in a similar vein to the subreddit AskReddit.
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The app helps employees to create and manage their workflows for tasks that need to be done. It’s currently available as a Chrome extension and is based on a similar tool called Todoist.
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A private social network for small businesses and other professionals to build a network, create a profile, get expert advice and connect with the people who are similar to you.
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2 years ago
Instead of building a home, the founders say, this company lets people rent out their homes and instead make a profit on the hosting fee. It’s similar to Airbnb for personal use.
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A job-search company that allows people to access their resume online from anywhere, with a feature similar to LinkedIn called "Credentials" that lets you highlight skills you’re particularly proud of.
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A company that helps people find and buy homes in the United States. It’s a similar idea to Trulia but is looking to figure out how to make it cheaper by avoiding the middlemen in the real estate industry.
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A wireless data device that translates between human and machine language, in a similar way to the company’s previous product, the Speakit. The founders say they’ve sold $1.4m of the devices.
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A tool for making short videos that’s similar to a YouTube channel, but for Instagram. Users can use the tool to create a custom lookbook that can be put on their Instagram profile, and also sell it to other users.
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A startup that allows you to take a picture of your restaurant receipt and upload it to the web for a listing on TripAdvisor, Yelp, and similar listings.
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Idea: A startup that helps companies reach out to job candidates with targeted content based on how they perform during an interview. The business model is similar to that of HireVue, which was acquired for $200 million by Glassdoor last year.
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A free personal assistant app that helps co-workers coordinate and manage their work schedules. Singularity is similar to Slack but with an emphasis on arranging and managing meetings, time off, and travel.
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2 years ago
A patent-pending system that ensures the patients are getting the right medicine at the right dose, regardless of who is dispensing it. It's similar to the way Uber dispenses rides.
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2 years ago
A company that wants to help save the world by making more efficient use of water. It’s taking a similar approach to companies like Nest by offering up a system that’s able to sense when your faucet has been left on for too long and automatically turns it off.
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This startup says it’s the first company to “build a serverless, peer-to-peer, high-performance, low-cost, distributed marketplace for data”. That’s a mouthful, but it means the startup is building a marketplace that’s built on open-source protocols that allow it to operate in a way similar to BitTorrent.
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2 years ago
A startup that helps people buy and sell carpool rides with other people who drive. It’s similar to Uber but only focuses on carpools, potentially lowering insurance costs.
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2 years ago
A tool that helps you learn from the mistakes of others, by aggregating the best comments from other people in a similar position.
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A platform to securely manage and track the public cloud infrastructure. It’s similar to what Amazon does, but for the private sector.
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A platform that connects customers with service providers, like Uber or Lyft. The company is building a platform that will allow customers to maintain their own records and pay service providers directly, similar to a Square or Stripe credit card.
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An analytics platform for small businesses, similar to Google Analytics but focused exclusively on the product and services industry.
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Similar to the startup's US competitor, the startup wants to help people save money on their mobile phone bill by bundling their data plan. Users can choose what they want to bundle and pay for their bill on a monthly basis.
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Similar to the original product, but for kids ages 12–18.
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A startup that makes it easier for consumers to buy and sell used tires. Called Restyle, this is a model that’s similar to eBay. The startup is using the champion of online shopping, Amazon, to help it get off the ground.
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A global real-time payment system that connects sellers with buyers. It’s similar to PayPal but with lower fees and a more transparent back-end. Tarshar and his team are currently in talks with a few banks to get the company off the ground.
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A company that offers a “personalized” recruitment process, by drilling down into candidates’ social profiles to find similar people or companies they might work with, and then uses that information to find the person best fit for them.
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A platform that provides a way for companies to “preserve, protect and secure” their data, with some similar functionality to DropBox and Google Drive.
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A startup that connects people in their 20s to people in their 30s with similar interests, tastes, and values.
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2 years ago
A company that makes travel data, such as airfares and flight durations, more actionable for businesses. The startup is using its data to power travel apps and is looking to expand to other markets with similar data.
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This startup promises to revolutionize the way we do feedback to our coworkers. The video feedback platform is similar to a video chat, with the added benefit of taking a digital snapshot of the employee at the moment they need some feedback. The software is meant to be used in a group setting for multiple people to give feedback and have it be easily sent to the person in question.
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A startup that helps homeowners choose replacements for common household items like roofing tiles, kitchen appliances, flooring, and lighting. It’s an easy way to shop for similar products online, and then see them in person at a local store.
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A real estate startup aiming to compete with platforms like Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin. The startup is taking an approach similar to HomeAway, where it helps homeowners and landlords sell their homes. Built with the help of $50 million from Institutional Venture Partners.
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A platform that lets people connect with other people with similar interests to learn more about the subject.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup for finding designers/developers/analysts/etc for long term projects. It’s meant to be similar to Upwork, but less saturated and more curated.
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Idea: A platform for booking medical appointments, similar to OpenTable or Uber. Users can book with a doctor inside or outside of the platform, and it will handle the
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Idea: A platform for creating and running your own podcast, similar to Patreon or Kickstarter
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Idea: A startup that makes a lightweight, mobile-friendly way to trade options for retail investors, promising a user experience similar to Robinhood.
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Idea: A startup that helps SMBs in the UK manage their payments. The startup wants to go beyond Stripe and Paypal into something more similar to Xero for SMBs.
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Idea: Idea: A social network that allows people to network with others who have similar interests
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A startup that gives people the ability to store their personal photos and videos online and find friends who share similar interests
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