Teevox Alternatives and Competitors Compared in Consumer Apps

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Hyperink

Consumer Apps

Hyperink, the San Francisco based self-publishing platform, wants to unlock and sell that untapped information by giving every citizen the ability to publish a book.

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Ridejoy

Consumer Apps

Ridejoy is a community-driven marketplace for sharing rides. Ridejoy making it easy to share rides with friendly people. If you're going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car, and if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride, using their service.

Draft is a streamlined online word processor with version control. Draft offers clean saves of drafts instead of the usual autosave jumble, clear version control between multiple users, easy importing from popular file services like Dropbox and Evernote, and something pretty unique — an editing service. Built by one-man Y Combinator team Nathan Kontny (previously the cofounder of Inkling and Cityposh), the web app puts solo writing first. Its interface makes a point of looking nice, with the words you write appearing in large, plain-text font on a light-gray background.

Our Mission: To empower drivers with knowledge about themselves and their cars so they can be safer and drive smarter. We believe you shouldn’t have to buy a new car to have a better driving experience, and that the phone in your pocket can bring the future of driving to today’s automobiles. Who We Are: Automatic is based in San Francisco, but our team comes from every corner of the world. We obsess about creating beautiful and well-engineered products that make a real difference in people’s lives. We’re big on ideas, low on ego, and love working together.

Hungry Labs 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, Hungry Labs offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Inporia's current product is Kaleidoscope - a inspiration ecommerce app and widget. Kaleidoscope launched on Android in Feburary 2011 and was made available for the iPhone in April 2011. It’s the first in what promises to be a series of ecommerce-driven apps from parent company Inporia. The four-person company was started by Ryan Junee, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Omnisio (acquired by Google in 2008) and serves as a mentor to 500 Startups and StartMate, and Max Skibinsky. Sarah Kunst and Simon Ratner complete the 4 person team. It raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Ron Conway’s SV Angel and 500 Startups, NEA, Start Fund and Y-Combinator among others.

[FitFu is now closed. Here's the original description. It was one of the first gamified fitness apps] * Track your motion Using the accelerometer on your iPhone or iPod Touch, FitFu gives you feedback to help you keep going and reach your goals. * Celebrate progress with friends Friends are the key to sticking to your goals, so we've made FitFu social; whether you want to cheer them on, thank them for help or just compare your progress. * Discover a new way to stay motivated The more you and your friends are active, the higher your level and the higher your points. Unlock new content as you progress. * Stay active wherever, whenever No more being tied to a games console or a gym, now you can stay active wherever you are - be that your bedroom, your office, a hotel room or in the cabin of your Mississippi boat.

AppHarbor is a .NET Platform-as-a-Service. Developers push code to AppHarbor using either Git or Mercurial. AppHarbor then builds the code and runs any unit tests. If everything checks out, the code is deployed to AppHarbor's scalable cloud platform. AppHarbor lets developers spend their time coming up with ideas and developing applications, not patching servers, worrying about deployment, messing with configuration files, or scaling. At AppHarbor, we believe that developing and deploying .NET application should be simple and fun. AppHarbor has been designed to tie in with developers day-to-day workflows. Deploying a new version to AppHarbor is as simple as checking in code when a new feature is ready. AppHarbor will run most ASP.NET applications without modification. Moving an application to our platform requires no AppHarbor-specific code modifications nor installation of plugins or other custom software. We believe developers should be able to move applications and data to different cloud-vendors with as little friction as possible. AppHarbor believes in giving developers access to an open ecosystem of addons and 3rd party services, not just the ones we decide to provide ourselves.

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

Instapainting turns any photo (from your phone, Facebook, Instagram, DSLR, the internet) into a hand-painted oil painting on real canvas, for $45 (for 10"x10"), and delivered in less than two weeks. The company is backed by Y Combinator and Start Fund (SV Angel and Yuri Milner). Customers include founder and CEO of Pebble Technology, Eric Migicovsky, and founder and CEO of Apportable, Inc., Collin Jackson.

Moki.TV is a directory of all paid and free content included on Amazon's streaming service, Netlfix, Hulu, iTunes, and others.

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Pebble

Consumer Apps

Pebble Technology builds smart watches. We're the team behind the Pebble smartwatch from Kickstarter (http://kck.st/HumIV5). Pebble is a customizable watch. Download new watchfaces, watchapps, use sports and fitness apps, get notifications from your phone.

Glassmap was acquired by Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) in January 2013. Glassmap is a simple, beautiful way to show your friends where you are and what you are up to! Use it to coordinate meetings and hangouts, keep up with loved ones, and serendipitously discover who and what is around you. Available for iOS and Android phones. Our mission is to make a clearer world and help people find life via Glassmap! Glassmap is backed by YCombinator and other top investors.

Apportable allows developers to cross-compile Objective-C apps to Android, without maintaining a separate code base in Java. It is used by many top-rated iOS games like Kingdom Rush and Osmos to deploy to Android stores using their existing Objective-C or C++ code.

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Lanyrd

Consumer Apps

Get more out of conferences with http://lanyrd.com/ - the social conference directory. Find conferences that your Twitter friends are going to, build up a speaker portfolio of talks you have given, and catch up on what happened at conferences you missed or what's going on at conferences right now

OrderAhead is a mobile ordering and payments company that enables millions of users to order pickup from thousands of local merchants.

Zerocater builds revolutionary corporate catering and cafeteria solutions employees love while saving companies millions of dollars as they transition to the hybrid workplace. With its Cloud Cafe, Hybrid Cafe, Managed Cafe, and Event Cafe products; Zerocater has built corporate cafeteria and office catering programs for companies of all sizes from growing startups to the Fortune 500. Thousands of companies choose Zerocater for the customized, consistent, and diverse meal experiences its products offer, while also reducing costs by giving companies the flexibility to only pay for the employees who come into the office. Zerocater currently offers its corporate cafeteria and office catering products in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Since completing YCombinator in Winter 2011, Zerocater has raised $38.5M from leading investors including Cleveland Avenue, Remus Capital, Romulus Capital, Struck Capital, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, Yuri Milner, Paul Buchheit, and Justin Kan. For more information visit zerocater.com and follow @Zerocater on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Hipmunk is making travel planning simple and delightful. The site and mobile apps save you time by comparing top travel sites so you don't have to. The unique display makes it easy to visually compare results and choose what's best for you. Hipmunk brings in travel options ranging from commercial flights to trains to charter flights and accommodations ranging from large hotels to home and apartments rentals through Airbnb and Homeaway. Users can find less agonizing flights with the innovative flight search “Agony” sort, as well as the best hotels and home rentals with the hotel search “Ecstasy” sort. Hipmunk is one of TIME Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites,” TIME Magazine’s “50 Best Smartphone Apps,” Travel + Leisure’s “Best Websites of 2012,” Budget Travel’s “Top 10 Most Useful Websites,” and Inc.’s “Best Booking Website.” Co-founders Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman were named to Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s “Top Tech Entrepreneurs,” Forbes “30 Under 30” and Inc.’s “30 Under 30” lists. The company launched in 2010, is based in San Francisco, and has funding from IVP, Ignition Partners, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Webb Investment Network, Quest Hospitality Ventures, and several angel investors.

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Rapportive

Consumer Apps

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn. Imagine relationship management built into your email. For free.

Simperium is a Y Combinator-funded company that builds a platform for syncing content among people and their devices. They released Simplenote as a showcase of this platform.

Chirply is a community of artists and design lovers that want to make better stuff through better design! The community collectively decides what the best submitted designs are, and then those designs are made into things we use everyday like greeting cards, notebooks, and wrapping paper

Habit Labs is a social health software startup formed in 2011 via a merger of Contagion Health (founded by Jen McCabe) and Health Month (founded by Buster Benson). Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Habit Labs is building a behavior change platform called Budge.

PadMapper is a location-based apartment rental search engine with real-time filtering. PadMapper's entire browsing interface is taken up by a full-screen map, and listings are loaded as the user moves around the map. Zooming into the map loads more listings in that area, zooming out broadens the search. Listings are filtered out or allowed back into the results as filter sliders are moved. Apartment listings from hundreds of sites are included, including Craigslist, Apartments.com, ForRent.com, and Oodle.

DemandSphere enables ecommerce and programmatic SEO teams, both in-house and agency, to drive more traffic from organic search. Our DemandMetrics platform is our core monitoring platform that turns massive amounts of SERP and market data into prioritized insights for growth. Our SERP Intelligence data warehouse accelerates our customer's ability to detect and respond to changes in the search landscape.