Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2

Re:Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by toomanybeersies on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:23AM (#17817195)

I'm not in SV, and very much outside the startup community in the rest of the world these days, especially since I no longer work in a coworking space.

I have to say, some of these legitimately look like parodies, like something out of the Silicon Valley TV show. Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding. It just can't.

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Re:Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by onion2k on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:31AM (#17817228)

Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding.

There's a very clear exit route to selling to a phone manufacturer that wants to add more "fun" functionality to its camera app..

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Re:Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by roadbeats on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:11AM (#17817378)

I honestly wish to have the skills of people who pitched and found investment for Emojer.

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Re:Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by bobmarley1 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:30PM (#17821322)

Must be fun spending years in academia getting your Phd in Machine Learning and Computer Vision only to create an Emoji app. How much talent is being wasted on worthless trash like this??

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Re:Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by soneca on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:45AM (#17817519)

It seems like you made an effort to find those companies to mock.

On my first reading I was very impressed by how many health care startups are in the list, solving hard and important problems of society.

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Re:Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by apabepa on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:10AM (#17817374)

These kind of apps seemed popular a few years ago in China and mig still be. Saw this type of gifs in wechat frequently back then. Maybe animated gifs and stuffs in chats are more popular there but it might work to make some money from this.

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