Ask HN: What is your favorite YC startup?

9 points·sahillavingia··5 comments

Based on any factor(s) you want. :)

Dropbox. They have an awesome product and it generates a lot of revenue. I believe they will be the first mega exit for YC. At least $100M and probably closer to The Big B.

I'll throw in my vote for Dropbox. I use it every day and still remember seeing the first post about it:

Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I watched the video and immediately got what it was about, knew I needed it, and knew it would be a hit.

I still remember that day too, except I saw the story on Digg's front page. It had about 12K digs and the video was pretty Epic.

I, too, had that feeling that wow...this is gonna be a MAJOR game changer.

Just tried to find it but was unsuccessful. If anyone has it, please pass it along - would be good to take a stroll down memory lane :)

Sorry, I have to choose multiple for various reasons:

AirBnB, because it appears to be immensely profitable and those guys worked hard in some very creative, unorthodox ways to get it going.

Justin.TV, because the founders have always been nice, helpful, and approachable with me whenever I've needed advice/help/insights.

Directed Edge, because wheels is wheels.

From exit and revenue generation perspective, my vote goes to -

- Dropbox: Great product. Awesome team. Good market with revenue possibilities.

- Hipmunk: User experience in flight travel search has sucked for a very long time. But, users are now getting spoilt by ridiculously awesome user experience provided by companies in a lot of different areas. So they will start expecting the same for travel search too. Hipmunk could totally revolutionize travel search and make it exceedingly simple and pleasant experience - their team has potential to make it happen. And, travel search is a huge opportunity from revenue perspective.

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