Ask HN: Most interesting startups you follow?
Most of the tech press I know of covers the same handful of startups and investors. I'm curious to know what interesting startups you keep up with?
What they're doing is just fascinating. It's essentially on-demand compute power with integration of well known/used tools, including proprietary tools, and workflow organization/management. They relieve multiple pain points for multiple industries.
I don't qualify as a "potential customer" for them, and I know compute time is expensive, so I was reluctant to sign up for their free demo. I contacted them anyhow, mainly to let the know about a possible market segment for potential/eventual expansion, and in spite of me not being a potential customer, they still encouraged me to give their demo a try. Good People!
Since I know that free demo they gave me will cost them something, I've done my best to return the favor by providing comprehensive feedback.
Augur is also really neat - they're a startup based in Atlanta, GA doing machine learning as a service (kinda). They basically grab data about your users from all around the internet, use that with data you supply to them, and then make that a service so you can feed in data, and get results back personalized to each of your users. It's a little hard to explain, but the founders are ridiculously talented. They've literally been funding the startup by going around the country and winning hackathons. http://augur.io/