Recurious Alternatives and Competitors Compared in Consumer Apps

CarWoo! is the stress-free, organized way to shop multiple dealers to get a great deal on your new car. CarWoo! was founded in 2008 by Tommy McClung and Erik Landerholm and has helped hundreds of thousands of customers buy their new car from dealerships who love making customers happy.

Newcope 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, Newcope offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Skysheet is a web-based spreadsheet, in stealth mode as of March 2009.

DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

Bump was acquired by Google in 2013. The Bump and Flock apps were shut down, but our unreleased Photoroll app went on to become the basis for Google Photos, which we led from inception to more than 1B users. Bump let you exchange contact info and photos by bumping phones together. Bump was one of the all-time top mobile apps, amassing more than 150M installs by 2013. Flock was a semi-automated photo sharing app that figured out which photos you took with which friends and created private shared albums. Bump was co-founded in 2009 and received funding from Y Combinator, Sequoia, and Andreessen-Horowitz. We were based in Mountain View, CA.

Founded in 2009, HighlightCam is a YC-alum & 500Startups-funded company bent on taking over the world, one movie at a time. HighlightCam is revolutionizing how users create (and share) movies with a powerful mobile and desktop video-editing platform that takes your favorite videos & pictures & produces professional-quality movies. Now, your most important memories can be automatically transformed into meaningful video snapshots. HighlightCam is based out of Mountain View, CA.

Zenedy Zenedy was started as a means to showcase information about obscure topics from around the web.

Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that helps people make the most of their day. Cue intelligently ties together and surfaces useful information at the right time from the accounts they use most, including email, contacts, and calendar. People can see their entire day at a glance or simultaneously search across all of their accounts with Cue.

LaunchHear is a way for bloggers to get early review copies of new products.

Nowmov is an endless stream of videos recommended to users based on their interests, friends and what's trending around the world.

Embedly provides a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple. Embedly helps publishers and consumers manage embed codes from more than 100 Websites and APIs, including YouTube, Flickr, Ustream, Picassa, Hulu, Twitpic, Quantcast, and CrunchBase. It automatically convert links from these sources into embedded media on the fly.

Fithub 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, Fithub offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Apigy is the developer of Lockitron, a device which can lock and unlock deadbolt locks via remote control or a mobile device.

Tuxebo is a SaaS solution focused on Marketplace, Construction. 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, Tuxebo offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

FanChatter fuels your fans so they can promote you better than any ad ever could. Our customers are big guys (NBC Universal, Clear Channel, Gannett) and little guys (bloggers all over the world) who pay us to source and showcase the most abundant yet least leveraged marketing material on the planet... Pure, voluntary social chatter about your interest. FanChatter offers you the tools to find it, refine it, and make it multiply. And that is the future of advertising.

Plurchase is an online social shopping site. From it, you can visit online shopping sites like Zappos with the additional of a social toolbar on the right hand side of the page. You can chat with other friends online and see what they are looking at on other shopping sites as well.

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GraffitiGeo

Consumer Apps

At its core GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down", it's like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a "Digg for the world". These reviews and votes can be cast from the site's iPhone app or from the service's homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There's also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town. The gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare, but doesn't really let you do anything with them. With GraffitiGeo, you earn points for every action you take, be it voting on a restaurant or leaving a brief comment. Once you've reached a certain point threshold, you can use those points to start a "mob", which you can invite your friends to join. Mobs allow friends to pool their points, which can then be used to acquire territory, which corresponds to actual city blocks. Whenever someone votes on one of the restaurants on the block, the mob gets some street cred too. It's definitely going to be confusing at first, but it also brings a team element to gameplay.

FlightCaster predicts flight delays. FlightCaster can predict your probability of delay hours before the airline or any other app notifies you. FlightCaster uses a patent-pending algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight for the past 10-years and matches it to real-time conditions.

RentHop (www.renthop.com) helps renters find great apartments. We use sophisticated data analysis to rank apartment listings based on their "freshness"​, their accuracy and completeness and the responsiveness of the manager who listed the apartment on our site. As a renter, you can use list-based or map-based search tools to browse listings and comprehensive search filters to narrow our 100,000+ listings to just the ones you want. It’s easy and fast to reach out to brokers and property managers to schedule viewings and to manage responses. You can also use our innovative "Appointments on Demand"​ feature, a map showing the real-time locations of brokers and property managers available to show apartments, to reach out and schedule viewings on the fly! For brokers and property managers, RentHop provides a cost-effective, easy-to-use tool to promote your listings, get qualified leads and schedule viewings. You can also post and repost listings on the go using RentHop Manager, our mobile app for brokers and property managers, currently available in the iOS App Store. (You can download the mobile app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/renthop-manager/id695651355.) Your commitment to give good service will make you stand out on RentHop - our algorithm will credit you for your responsiveness and help give your listings the boost they need to get seen - and rented - by qualified renters. Look for our mobile app for consumers, due out soon! And please let us know any questions, thoughts or comments you may have - we'll look forward to hearing from you! You can reach us at [email protected]. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter (@RentHop), Google+ and Pinterest.

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RoboHR

Consumer Apps

RoboHR 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, RoboHR offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

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AdThrow

Consumer Apps

AdThrow 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, AdThrow offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Stackq 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, Stackq offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

WakeMate makes personalized alarm clocks that sync with both a user's body and their cell phone, enabling the iPhone alarm system to sound at the end of a REM cycle. The application/ wristband system also provides a full sleep analysis on their Analytics Platform. The WakeMate uses a science called actigraphy to analyze your sleep. Actigraphy uses an actigraph (the WakeMate unit) placed on a subject’s wrist to monitor the motion. The motion data is then analyzed to determine sleep patterns and circadian rhythms of the subject. WakeMate was funded by the startup incubator Y Combinator.

InstantQ is an online platform that enables restaurants to distribute JIT promotions to its customers. It was launched in 2009 by Dana Levine and is based in California.