Top 10 Companies at the Y Combinator Bottom Demo

Hey. The most famous incubator in full swing presents its chicks, I offer you an overview of the best according to TechCrunch.

65 startups were demonstrated on the traditional demo day Y Combinator, we got acquainted with 39 offers and are ready to tell you our impressions. After getting acquainted with the teams and technical features, TechCrunch is ready to choose TOP-10. Commerce-changing principles that help us communicate and much for your phone .

If you want to get acquainted with others, read our reviews: first , second , third , fourth and finally fifth perhaps you choose the best otherwise. What we do not doubt - these companies will change our future or at least earn a lot of money.
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Carsabi : Search engine to search for advertisements for the sale of used cars. The service aggregates information from most of the bulletin boards and now contains more offers than the leader of the AutoTrader field, which means two trumps in their sleeve: the opportunity to find at the cheapest price and a huge selection. There are social features, for example, you can ask your friends for advice about a particular car, this technique works very well and messages are quickly distributed among the participants of social networks. If we talk about the market and turnover, then last year the structure of sales of supported cars - $ 650 billion of them spent $ 3.8 billion on sales announcements.

Pair : Social network for one-on-one communication), we wrote about them at the start. It allows two participants to create a private message history, inside of which they can exchange photos, videos, statuses and so on. The iPhone application launched just 4 days ago already has ~ 50,000 registered users and 1 million sent messages. Pair received an investment from SV Angel and Path founder Dave Maureen, his words: “Facebook has created 'cities', while Pair will help build 'houses' or even 'bedrooms'”.

Priceonomics : A price guide for anything. Write what you want to buy, we will tell you how much it should cost. Priceonomics analyzes millions of offers to sell / purchase, taking into account both stores and messages from individuals. In March, 250,000 page views. Make money planning on targeted advertising. The guys got money from SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund and other business angels.

Your Mechanic : Aimed at becoming Airbnb in auto repair. The purpose of the site is to connect you with the best auto mechanic in the area. The commission is taken for the arrival of a mechanic to your home and car repairs. On average, it is cheaper by 30% than in the showroom. As a result of the closed beta test, mechanics earned $ 90,000, and users saved ~ $ 200 per transaction.

Sonalight : Calling themselves “Siri on steroids”. For example, to send a text message in the process of controlling the machine by dictating the message with a voice. The application works even when your phone is in your pocket. Over 500,000 messages sent (50,000 messages per week) since they debuted in October. Plans to bring voice control to other devices, such as thermostats.

42Floors : The goal is to become Trulia for commercial real estate, 42floors have built a service to search for office space, in addition the site has a catalog of offers from interior designers and furniture vendors, they will help you if you want to upgrade or enter an empty office. 42floors has already attracted investments from SV Angel and Startfund.

Exec : Each of us wants to have a personal assistant, right?) With Exec, you can call yourself this, within 10 minutes he will be at your disposal for $ 25 per hour. Variants of use weight: small physical work, cleaning, polls, shifting papers, etc. 99% of customers responded that the work was completed on time and efficiently, 29% used the application more than once, and companies have already spent $ 32,000 during the beta test (from the beginning of this year). You can read our thoughts on Exec here and here .

Midnox : The company has authored an iPhone app called Luma , with which you can turn on real-time video stabilization. Or maybe you are interested in using high-quality filters / effects during shooting. That's not all, their action is reversible and changeable in the post-process, similar non-destructive processing is used in Adobe Lightroom. For the post-process video shot with Lumia, the company also released an application.

Crowdtilt : Easy way to raise money for anything. While the well-known KickStarter is aimed at global startups, big companies and great goals. Crowdtilt is focused on small groups of friends. Over the six weeks of the service, $ 400,000 has been collected. On average, the amount of collected money increases by 21% every week, and 34% of users return to open another fundraising company. Imagine how great it would be to raise money this way, for example, on a trip with friends (or alone, and friends help you with this).

iCracked : If you are the owner of an iPhone, iPod or iPad, then you most likely met screen chips, scratches or maybe flooded with water. iCracked built the largest network to repair these problems. According to iCracked, they are the largest national network for repairing iOs devices, the company has 500 employees worldwide that can come and fix your device in half an hour, half the cost of competitors. Since January, over 10,000 customers have contacted the company, expanding their staff by 10 people (iTech position) per week. Future plans, go beyond the iOs, build a vehicle insurance system and build a device reseller network.