Ask YC Poll: Which is your favorite YC startup?
Rules: Vote for only one launched YC startup and don't vote for the company you work for.
Mechanism: If your choice is present, vote it up. Otherwise submit it in a new single line comment. If two people end up submitting the same name at the same time, the lower one should delete their comment.
Karma issues: If people feel that the person to submit a new choice first shouldn't be getting all that karma, then the mods could just remove karma for the top choices once the post is no longer active.
Finally, the list of launched startups is at the top here: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Edit: Please use the poll choices for voting only. The place for discussion is at the bottom where a special -1 karma post has been created.
Edit: I don't think you need to be bound by any particular criteria for voting. Design, success potential, personal appeal are all valid. For example, I haven't even used the site I voted for. I was just very very impressed when I visited it recently.
Looks pretty cool and original, and seems to fit the "create value" rule more than most of the others. That said, I am under Linux and haven't tried the product.
http://www.weebly.com/
Don't know the guys (like their blog though), don't know their business model, but their app is awesome. Intuitive, looks great and anyone can use it.
The founders are both great guys and they're solving an ugly problem that millions of people care about. I'm a GMail user myself now, but it's unlikely Outlook is going anywhere anytime soon.
I'm kicking myself for not pushing Adam to let me invest when I met him in Boston.
The only one I use every day.
paid for all the others. it did pretty well.
They pretty much introduced me to YC and got me seriously interested in the startup world.
Integrating with them just rose to number 2 on my to-do list, and #1 is a prereq for #2.
Thats the only one i've used.
( i did vote for news.y, but that doesn't count )
Besides the fact that Altay is a great guy, you can't help but love a startup that's all about trivia!
people you can carry out discussion threads as children of this comment (just don't upmod it).
This way there is a clean separation between the poll and its discussion.
1) Seeing something powerful in contextual data surrounding phones and mail (perhaps the two most basic forms of communication ever). 2) Both are part of the Microsoft Accelerator Program- The two of them also use Microsoft technology- .NET and Outlook (C#, I think). For some this may go against them. 3) Both have founders that are very nice guys (but you definitely wouldn't want to compete against them). 4) Both are VC-backed and they never sold out earlier like other YC companies, which just shows their relative tolerance of risk.
I would like to vote for http://virtualmin.com because its the only one in the list that I may eventually put to good use in my own work, but since I don't actually use it yet I'm just giving it a shout out for now.
I think I like RescueTime cause at work, it will make me look like a rockstar once the business edition comes out and I can track employee productivity, pull the data out through an API and show it to the CIO/CEO/C*O for decision making as well as improving the system that is used overall at work.
Edit: never mind. there are more duplicates already, and they are in turn going to confuse more voters.. so its already a losing battle. Well played Entropy, well played.