Kirkland North Alternatives and Competitors Compared in Consumer Apps

Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.

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280 North

Consumer Apps

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.

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Wundrbar

Consumer Apps

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.

SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links".

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Mixwit

Consumer Apps

Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skreamr.

Tipjoy was a simple, social payments engine that allowed merchants to sell digital content and features, charities to raise money for causes, and individuals to give money to one another. Tipjoy was a Winter '08 Y Combinator participant.

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.

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.

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Snaptalent

Consumer Apps

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.

Insoshi is a SaaS solution for businesses. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Insoshi offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

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.

BitSample is a SaaS solution for businesses. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, BitSample offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Songkick is the great live music startup. Since 2007, we’ve set about making it as easy, fun and fair as possible for you to see your favorite artists live. Right now, more than 15 million music fans across the globe use Songkick to track their favorite artists, discover awesome concerts and never ever miss out. With over 6 million event listings, we’re the biggest concert service on the planet. Across web, iPhone, Android, and through rich partnerships with Spotify, Pandora, Facebook and more, Songkick is the definitive and trusted home for live music online. We’ve always put fans first. We’re a small, fast-moving team packed to the brim with digital expertise, committed to solving real problems for our users. Live music is for everyone, and we work hard to empower our community, add meaningful value and cut out the BS along the way. We do our best work when we’re happy, respectful and relaxed. Our values and work ethic have got us far, and as we grow we’ll never shake that small startup feel. Earlier this year we became part of the Warner Music Group family, opening up epic new realms of opportunities to bring fans and artists closer together. We're hiring: head over to https://www.songkick.com/jobs to see our open roles

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Blue Frog Gaming

Consumer Apps

Blue Frog Gaming is a SaaS solution for businesses. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Blue Frog Gaming offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

We love the internet, and the colorful characters and interesting conversations that make up its diverse communities. Disqus exists to make better communities and an even better web. Today, our product ecosystem includes our established comment network (over 4 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable), a growing advertising network, and our owned and operated platform. Originally founded in 2007 by CEO Daniel Ha and CTO Jason Yan, we’re changing the way people get into discussions about the things they love -- or are just curious about.

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Bountii

Consumer Apps

Bountii is a price search startup that has built a search engine capable of finding shoppers lower and more accurate prices than any existing price comparison service. Currently supplying consumers with pricing information on electronics and appliances, Bountii aims to expand its service to make buying any product online at the best price an effortless experience. Bountii was founded in the Summer of 2007 by Samir Meghani and John Puskarich. Initial investment was provided by Y Combinator, a venture firm that specializes in funding early stage startups.

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Hello Chair

Consumer Apps

Hello, Chair Inc. was founded in 2006 by Luke Iannini, Mike Jacobs and Kevin Corcoran to explore opportunities in applied machine learning and internet advertising. After receiving funding from Y-Combinator in 2007, we produced Adpinion, one of the first advertising networks to utilize user feedback to drive personalized targeting. Our core technology, the recommendation engine called SparseReduce, has since proved infinitely adaptable in such diverse problem domains as Amazon product recommendation, eBay auction discovery, image and language comprehension, and Twitter stream exploration. The latest application of SparseReduce is Appsaurus, an app discovery platform which was released on the eve of 2010 to overwhelming critical acclaim. We're backed by some pretty incredible investors: Harrison Metal, Mitch Kapor, Chris Sacca, Y-Combinator and David Parker to name a few. We're also proud to have Alexis Ohanian as an advisor.

iJigg is a social music site that lets users vote on submitted singles using Digg-like voting. The site's home page shows what popular or recent singles the iJigg community is "jigging." Users can rate songs, embed songs on MySpace or find similar music fans. Competitors include Contrastream. Social music competitors include FineTune, Last.fm, Pandora and iLike.

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Splashup

Consumer Apps

Splashup, formerly known as fauxto, is an online image editing service that provides some advanced tools and is unique for its incorporation of image editing layer effects. The site is still in beta, and so does not offer full editing capabilities yet.

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ContestMachine

Consumer Apps

ContestMachine is a web service that makes running promotions from any website easy. The service allows clients to run a contest or giveaway from their blog or website and handles the rest of the details, like collecting submissions and contacting winners. The service also allows clients varied options, like choosing entry requirements, start and end times, and the addition of prizes.

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ZumoDrive

Consumer Apps

ZumoDrive is a SaaS solution focused on Media. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, ZumoDrive offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

SocialPicks is a SaaS solution focused on Investing, Stocks. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, SocialPicks offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Clickpass provides single-sign-on services to enter into various websites by using a single password. Clickpass is headquartered in San Francisco, California

Y Combinator funded AppJet is an online programming tool for building simple web apps. Founded by former MIT students, AppJet intends to simplify the process of writing web applications. The applications are programmed on a web based text editor in the simple but powerful JavaScript programming language. JavaScript is used on both the server and client side. They've included several bundles of code libraries for databases and more importantly interfacing with the Facebook API. In order to efficiently host users' applications, AppJet has developed their own application virtualization system. The system allocates processor time to active applications and cuts off greedy ones after running an alloted number of compiled lines of code to prevent abuse. AppJet as a dev platform seems no longer to be active. There are some legacy downloads available, however.