My Top Picks for the Y-Combinator Demo Day
The Y-Combinator demo day is March 18, and TechCrunch described the 19 companies delivering presentations. Out of the list, here are my top picks:
- Tipjoy
- Easy micropayments for giving tips to web site owners and content producers. All the video upload sites on the net sorely need this feature, and I’m glad someone is finally seriously focusing on this problem.
- Baseshield
- Virtualization, something I’m always interested in.
- insoshi
- Open source social network. I’m curious what an open source approach can do for social networks.
- deluux
- Destributed, decentralized social networking. I like the idea of not having a single entity control all my social data and keeping it in my hand instead.
- YumDots
- Mobile application to help you find restaurants on the go. Interesting, and somewhat overlapping with a small piece of what my startup wants to accomplish.