Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta testing in SF Bay Area?

Posted by YoNeighbors on Friday August 23, 2013 @05:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi. Was excited this morning to see 'Uber for Everything' post on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6264847)

We're Silicon Valley-based startup and have been working on this idea for several months already. Feel free to join our closed testing that we've recently started: http://yoneibs.com/ or just shoot an email at [email protected] ([email protected]).

Location based social discovery platform with social commerce features. YoNeibs (Yo Neighbors) helps to discover cool people around you or in any neighborhood wherever you are. You can easily ask your neighbors for help, borrow their stuff and just make good friends.

Thanks for your attention. Feel free to give some feedback.

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Re:Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta ... by revorad on Saturday August 24, 2013 @04:39AM (#6268112)

If you really want to be Uber for everything, you need to just focus on that bit and drop all the other "meet cool neighbours" stuff.

Either way, you need to change your pitch to sound less like a random sampling of buzzwords from Techrunch and PandoDaily and more like how your users actually talk.

"Location based social discovery platform with social commerce features" means nothing.

Good luck!

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Re:Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta ... by YoNeighbors on Saturday August 24, 2013 @05:04PM (#6269785)

Thanks a lot for your feedback. But can't make that 'Uber for everything' without being neighborhoods-oriented. You won't drive far to get a drill)

But yeah, we need to change our pitch a bit, you're right.

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Re:Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta ... by itsybaev on Friday August 23, 2013 @05:23PM (#6266329)

As Paul Graham tweeted: "Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?" https://twitter.com/paulg/status/323875236225363968

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Re:Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta ... by michaelhealy on Friday August 23, 2013 @08:34PM (#6267044)

Interesting idea and concept!

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Re:Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta ... by YoNeighbors on Saturday August 24, 2013 @05:06PM (#6269788)

Thanks. Always great to hear words of support.

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