YC class W08
Winter 2008
21 companies in this class
| Icon | Name | URL | Class | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 280 North | http://280north.com | W08 | Acquired | 280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It's modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL. 280 North's first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable. | |
| A Thinking Ape | http://athinkingape.com | W08 | Acquired | We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games | |
| BitSample | W08 | Inactive | |||
| Deluux | W08 | Inactive | Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people's online identities to their websites, which exist outside of any one social network. The service will facilitate the distribution of personalized content around the web and help drive traffic to websites. It has yet to launch. | ||
| FathomDB | W08 | Inactive | FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues. | ||
| Heroku | http://heroku.com | W08 | Acquired | Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud. | |
| Insoshi | W08 | Inactive | |||
| Joberator | W08 | Inactive | Joberator was formed to tackle head-on the growing challenges and connection-gap issues in the STEM employment and recruitment marketplace. Our goal is to help the right talent and right employers connect together through accelerated, streamlined and STEM-specialized search / matching tools and features. With a Centralized end-to-end platform where Graduates and Professionals can showcase their skills, plus access a unique connection-pipeline that empowers job seekers at all levels and in every Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields - to 'Pinpoint' the right businesses who have the highest STEM employment and hiring demand for their skills, thus creating improved and increased hiring opportunities. Employers can post jobs with fully integrated social recruitment features plus extended reach job distribution channels, and search profiles of top-tier talent members, connect privately, arrange interviews and hire directly on the Joberator platform. Both Job seekers and Employers can create a Free account. | ||
| Kirkland North | W08 | Inactive | Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard. | ||
| Machine Zone | https://www.mz.com | W08 | Acquired | Pioneers of mobile social gaming. | |
| MightyQuiz | W08 | Inactive | MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget. | ||
| Mixwit | W08 | Inactive | Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part… | ||
| Ninite | http://ninite.com | W08 | Active | Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows. | |
| Omnisio | http://omnisio.com | W08 | Acquired | Edit and enhance online video. Acquired by Google in July 2008. | |
| RescueTime | http://rescuetime.com | W08 | Active | Take Back Control of your Time | |
| Snaptalent | W08 | Inactive | Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings. Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the service's participating websites. A unique feature about the network is that it will detect the IP addresses of website visitors and attempt to identify whether they work for a particular company or attend a particular university. It will then serve up targeted ads that have been designated for, say, employees of Google or students of Carnegie Mellon. | ||
| Socialbrowse | W08 | Inactive | SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links". | ||
| Tipjoy | W08 | Inactive | social micropayments | ||
| Trigger | W08 | Inactive | Better PhoneGap. | ||
| Wundrbar | W08 | Inactive | Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar strives to appeal to a larger audience and to incorporate functionality that helps people manage their personal online accounts in addition to searching the web. | ||
| YumDots | W08 | Inactive | YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information about local restaurants makes it more efficient than other mobile review services like Yelp's. The service is launching soon. |