[HN Gopher] Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnanc...
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Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life
science; Desk rental
Here's the third "Meet the Batch" thread - previous one was
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996057. This time I've
tweaked the title slightly in the hope of doing better re
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996536. Here are 6 startups
for you to read about and engage with where interested. The initial
order is random. Lernit (YC S21) - Corporate training program for
Latin America - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049505
StandardCode (YC S21) - APIs to easily comply with child privacy
laws - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049504 Scispot (YC
S21) - Workflow automation for life science -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049501 Muse (YC S21) -
Allow anyone to build 3D websites -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049502 Ruth Health (YC S21)
- Digital, at-home post-pregnancy care -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049503 Deskimo (YC S21) -
Book workspace by the minute in Singapore and Hong Kong -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049507
Author : dang
Score : 60 points
Date : 2021-08-03 14:19 UTC (8 hours ago)
| satyascispotcpo wrote:
| Hey HN! I am Satya from Scispot.io (https://www.scispot.io/).
| Scispot is a no-code workflow automation platform for life
| science. Think of us as an Airtable for Life science.
|
| Life science companies often have no choice but to rely on a
| laundry list of tools to stay up and running. Electronic lab
| notebooks, LIMS (Lab Information Management Systems), Google
| Docs, Asana, Notion, and Airtable are just some of the tools that
| are used out of necessity. As a result, most of the
| biotherapeutics, diagnostics companies, contract research
| organizations, and labs struggle to stitch together disparate
| data. They end up scattering their sample, inventory, project,
| and protocol data in various systems. The disparate data
| adversely impacts the experiment's failure rate. Not being able
| to connect data also impacts the data integrity and regulatory
| compliance for fast-growing bio companies.
|
| We let you personalize your workflows using an orchestration
| layer. A lab can track and manage its samples and inventory, plan
| and prepare experiments at the desk, and execute experiments at
| the bench using Scispot. We have project management features to
| easily visualize research and operational activities in a
| calendar and a kanban view. We also have APIs for developers and
| data engineers to plug in existing systems. For instance,
| customers can integrate their batch runs and inventory to their
| legacy systems using Scispot's API. Scispot maintains a thorough
| audit trail (eligible for CFR part 11 compliance).
|
| Customers are using Scispot to connect their inventory and
| chemical library with experiment execution. Customers also use
| Scispot's template library to create protocols in bulk and
| connect the protocols with the inventory.
|
| Scispot is founded by three founders, Guru (a molecular biologist
| and a life science tech veteran), Nash (automation expert), and
| me (the product guy who loves building workflows). We'd love to
| speak to any of you that are curious about what we're doing or if
| you have any ideas/challenges for us!
| patel011393 wrote:
| I love this; I'm in HCI, but will keep an eye out for this.
| It'd be good to add more HR type functionality to this and help
| manage people + finances for academic research labs. What's the
| roadmap/vision?
| nash27 wrote:
| Thanks for the support! We're currently focusing on building
| cool features for our customers that are geared towards
| digitizing certain nuances within their existing workflows.
|
| HR type functionality, Employee management and financial
| management are operations that are currently well covered by
| many of the ERP solutions out there in the market. We don't
| immediately have any plans to build these features right
| away, however, we never say never ;)
|
| If a lot of our customers would deem these feature sets
| necessary, we might devote our engineering efforts towards
| either building them ourselves or integrating with a major
| ERP solutions providers down the road
| daemonk wrote:
| Is this product geared towards academic labs that deal with
| maybe hundreds/thousands of samples/reagents? Or is it geared
| towards industry processing labs where there are easily
| thousands of new samples that go through workflows every week
| or month?
| nash27 wrote:
| Yes we do! We serve life science labs from industry and
| academia including diagnostics, biotherapeutics and CROs.
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| Hi HN, we're Ben and Alex, founders of Muse HQ
| (https://muse.place/). We help anyone build immersive 3D
| websites.
|
| Alex and I started building 3D websites because we were bored of
| building the same old static websites that we have been
| contracted to do for the past 6 years since high school. Building
| websites sucked and was boring. Fortunately, Alex discovered the
| power of three.js. Between us, Alex was the first one to start
| building websites in 3D and frankly, I was jealous because I saw
| that the code for 3D websites was far too complicated for me to
| grasp quickly and I felt left behind. This is why Alex and I
| started Muse, to make the 3D internet accessible to everyone and
| easy to use so we don't have to keep building static websites.
|
| The way we solved this problem was by first building an open-
| source framework called SpacesVR that made it very easy for React
| developers to start building 3D websites. Several months later,
| we built a no-code editor that works similar to Squarespace and
| Wix built around this framework. Using our framework, our team
| has built over 200 3D websites by hand. Since launching our no-
| code editor, we have seen over 40 websites published. Also, a
| crazy thing happened the other day when Alex was scrolling
| through Twitter. He stumbled upon a 3D website that used very
| similar control mechanisms to our websites. With a little bit of
| investigating, we found out that Mintbase started using our
| framework to build virtual NFT galleries for all of their users!
|
| It has been exciting to see our no-code editor and open-source
| framework grow. I encourage everyone here to build a 3D website,
| try it out, you may enjoy it! You can check out our open-source
| framework at https://www.npmjs.com/package/spacesvr or go to
| https://muse.place/ to build a 3D website with no code. Have fun
| building!
| podric wrote:
| Cool stuff! What are some great use cases that you'd like to
| see for 3D websites? Do the long load times of 3D websites
| relative to 2D ones affect search ranking?
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| Because most of the site are not built with html, it is
| difficult for Google and search engines to crawl. That would
| affect search rankings the most. An idea to fix this is to
| automatically auto generate tags created by html that
| describe the 3D models and decorations/components added to
| the room.
| udia wrote:
| This is really cool but there are a few usability issues. I
| suggest to overly html DOM ontop of the canvas rather than
| having users enter form details within the experience as the
| only method of signing up. Other users who are trying to stand
| up can stand between my camera and the form itself, making it
| such that I can't see what the form is trying to ask me or what
| I am typing.
| fourseventy wrote:
| Just add strafe jumping and a rocket launcher
| mkl wrote:
| Your instructions initially say to use WASD to move, which is
| inconvenient for those of us with our pointing device on the
| left. But it turns out the arrow keys work as well, and the in-
| site instructions say so (when you manage to click the
| instructions button, which is quite hard with a trapped
| pointer).
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| what browser were you on? Your mouse pointer should be
| replaced by our cursor if there were no bugs.
| mkl wrote:
| This was Chrome on Linux. I had a crosshair cursor in the
| centre of the screen, and the mouse was just doing looking,
| so I had to look in a direction that made the button move
| under the cursor (or something like that - I'm now
| elsewhere so can't check).
| sirianth wrote:
| How can we find out more about y'all? Do you have a company
| website with the background? I just popped into the discord. I
| basically build babylonjs/threejs full stack worlds every
| day... I'd like to learn more.
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| I'd check out our Instagram:
| https://www.instagram.com/musehq/
|
| I am working on building a company website right now with bg
| info which should come out later this week. Being built using
| builder tools!!!
| fillskills wrote:
| Some feedback: - Its not clear how to get the mouse to be free.
| I was expecting to hold a key (ctrl/alt etc) to free the mouse
| and press it again to give control back. Now I see that 'esc'
| is the key to pause the program. Just needs to be highlighted
| more. - The calendly link seems to be broken:
| https://calendly.com/muse-3muse/muse-demo-call - Some sites
| require microphone access without telling why
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| thanks for shouting that out - will fix that and got your
| notes on our pause menu!
|
| My Calendly subscription ran out :) Here is our updated link:
| https://calendly.com/ben-792/userinterview
| sirianth wrote:
| How do we learn more about y'all? Do you have a company website
| with some background, blog posts, etc.? I just hopped in your
| discord. I basically build full stack vr worlds in
| babylonjs/threejs every day. Curious to learn more about your
| company and your team. You can take a look at my work here:
| https://delta.center/ and here: https://delta.center/gevurah
| markdeloura wrote:
| Great work! I'm a big fan of this idea, and as others have
| mentioned, it's a little reminiscent of the promise of VRML
| back in the day. Or even of PlayStation Home or Second Life,
| but more accessible, since it's right there in your browser.
|
| I've seen some comments about the performance, and I just
| wanted to comment that I just tried the site out on an old
| Chromebook Acer R11 (Celeron N3150) and while the perf on the
| opening environment is a little bit hitchy, the Balloonski room
| for example ran perfectly well. Little machines are capable of
| a whole heck of a lot these days! Even in the browser!
|
| Nice work!
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| Thank you!
| d--b wrote:
| I know I only have a $300 laptop, but this is _slow_
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| would love to get more info on this, were tryna optimize for
| speed, if you could email info@muse.place with your device
| that will be very helpful for us
| arkitaip wrote:
| At least for now, you should consider a persistent overlay that
| explains that Esc breaks out of view mode and releases control
| over the mouse. Not being able to use the mouse as you usually
| do is _very_ unpleasant.
|
| I really like these fun alternatives to ordinary web sites even
| though the UX designer in me is having a heart attack because
| of the countless usability and accessability issues
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| Our goal is to get there though. Thats the biggest tech
| problem we face, accessibility and usability and everyday
| that is what our team RNDs
| tarr11 wrote:
| Glad that I could navigate this on my phone!
|
| Reminds me of VRML.
| chaostheory wrote:
| Works well with an iPhone 11 Pro. Can't wait to try it with an
| Oculus Quest 2
| alexshortt wrote:
| not fully optimized for the quest just a heads up. best sites
| to try might be www.muse.place/balloonski and https://muse-
| place-2qc57fsgs-musehq.vercel.app/alto. we're not targeting
| quest users fully yet, but on my free time i'm slowly adding
| improvements :)
| harrisreynolds wrote:
| I hate to complain but visiting this site made me feel
| completely trapped. I literally could not do anything and could
| not escape to even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked).
| I had to CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site.
|
| Surely there is some UX technique you guys can come up with to
| free the mouse and improve this.
|
| Question for you... what is the best 3D website on the
| Internet? How do they solve this?
|
| All the best to you guys!
| Fission wrote:
| A tip for the Muse team: based on my experience with first-
| person 3D, a substantial portion of users don't understand
| pointerlock, and the built-in notification that browsers give
| usually are insufficient. It might be a good idea to put a
| persistent indicator that ESC can be used to get out of
| pointerlock.
| alexshortt wrote:
| yeah this isn't a bad idea. or maybe forcing the user to do
| the onboarding first?
| pionar wrote:
| Firefox at least tells you to use ESC to get the pointer
| back.
| a1369209993 wrote:
| > I literally could not do anything and could not escape to
| even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked). I had to
| CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site.
|
| To be scrupulously fair, the fact that a site _can_ do this,
| even on purpose, is both a browser bug and a operating system
| bug (denial-of-service security vulnerability in both).
| alexshortt wrote:
| browsers are pretty limiting on this functionality as is -
| pretty long timeouts, and firefox/safari have very big
| indicators explaining how to disable it
| jlund-molfese wrote:
| Which browser do you use? Most seem to support pressing Esc
| to exit from this site, videos etc. I feel like that's more
| of a browser issue.
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| Gotta be honest here, we only really build for Chrome right
| now on the laptop/desktop. Safari is pretty buggy on
| desktop but what's pretty funny is that we optimized for
| Safari for mobile devices.
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| Thanks for the tip, we know we need to optimize for
| accessibility first. We have spent a lot of time optimizing
| our renderer for speed. To be honest, this is the first I am
| hearing about this bug so I would like to be able to learn
| more about your set up offline perhaps in an email. If you
| could email info@muse.place with your computer and browser
| setup that would be very helpful.
|
| Also, one of our favorite websites have been
| https://nurtu.re/
|
| It is built by Active Theory for Porter Robinson. I believe
| this could be the future. I guess they get away with it
| because they are in third person.
| Fission wrote:
| It seems like there are some major accessibility issues that
| are a result of embedding text/inputs/etc. within threejs
| itself. Have you considered using an HTML element and
| dynamically positioning it with CSS transforms (i.e. update
| style per useFrame call)? It's a little more work, but it
| should solve a large class of accessibility issues, and is
| performant to boot.
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| interesting, we'll take a closer look into this
| yunusabd wrote:
| This caught my interest because I've been dabbling with 3D
| graphics for the web lately. Some feedback: If your product is
| a no-code editor, why not make that the focus of your website?
| Squarespace for example doesn't take you to a generic website
| and asks you to sign up from there, they take you to their
| editor to start building your own site immediately. You could
| add examples somewhere else on the site.
|
| Generally an interesting field to work in, lots of uncharted
| territory in terms of UI best practices and user expectations.
| Good luck!
| mkl wrote:
| I don't agree in this case. I don't want to start editing, I
| want to know what the heck a "3D website" is. Now I know, and
| it turns out it's not something I want to spend any time
| using.
| handrous wrote:
| I'm getting _strong_ vibes of the work of indie game
| developer thecatamites from the site.
|
| Not quite sure what sort of site, on which I was attempting
| to actually _accomplish_ something, I 'd be _happy_ to find
| something like this on, but there 's probably some use I'm
| not thinking of.
| mpeg wrote:
| I agree with this, when I look at the site I want to know how
| the editor works and what the pricing model is.
|
| You can include a link to a demo and the showcase sites
| elsewhere.
|
| It also feels what you're trying to sell is full 3D website
| templates, when in reality it would probably be more viable
| as an embed or a section of a bigger site.
|
| An example of a successful site that is built on similar tech
| is decentraland
| benjaminha14 wrote:
| agree, i have taken a shot and built a landing page here:
| https://muse.place/muse
| cdata wrote:
| This is neat. I love that you are fostering a publishing
| mindset, and not just showcasing a glitzy 3D magazine for folks
| to gawk at.
|
| There is a steep hill to climb before a 3D web really lands in
| a way that fosters an ecosystem of content creators. I suspect
| that it will take a different breed of web browser to truly
| realize an XR web, one with built-in, high-level APIs for
| composing 3D content. Ultimately, you need many of the built-in
| features of the 2D web, and approximating those things via a
| canvas is tantamount to rebuilding a fair chunk of the browser.
| alexshortt wrote:
| Yeah a new browser is inevitable. Main bottleneck is
| currently getting the full power of the CPU, especially when
| there is no GPU present, as browsers have pretty high
| overhead that bottlenecks the application.
| ctoth wrote:
| Hi, cool project!
|
| Have you considered how you intend to provide accessibility on
| top of this model of interaction? I have some thoughts for
| possibilities involving HRTF audio for blind users, but the
| deafblind experience is going to be ... tricky. Of course
| you'll need to do similar work to expose the semantics of one
| of these experiences to search engines, so for once I am not
| just begging for accessibility merely for us poor blind folk.
|
| I'm curious as to how you internally represent the scenes, and
| what sorts of research you've done into precursor technologies
| such as VRML.
|
| If you have questions or would like some ideas of where to get
| started with accessibility, feel free to reach out! My email is
| in my profile.
| onion2k wrote:
| Very cool indeed. react-three-fiber is a game-changer for how
| easy it makes building 3D websites. It's awesome to see a
| startup using it.
| alexshortt wrote:
| yeah it's especially useful for maintaining a large scale
| codebase! gotta love it
| alis0nlaura wrote:
| We're Alison and Audrey, cofounders of Ruth Health
| (https://www.ruthhealth.com), a digital + at-home clinic for
| pregnant people :]
|
| We deliver 30-minute, online physical therapy video sessions to
| help the 83% of postpartum womxn with moderate-to-severe Pelvic
| Floor Prolapse--in other words, who pee in their pants after
| pregnancy. Birthing people deserve a life without postpartum pain
| and incontinence.
|
| With our personalized, 1:1 telehealth Pelvic Training + Recovery
| Sessions, moms worldwide can get back to work, sex, and normal
| life 5x faster--all from home.
|
| From SF to NYC to Singapore, patients simply share health
| information, get scheduled, and then log on for our video
| sessions during this $10-145/session sliding-scale Pelvic Pilot
| program. By taking our Training + Recovery Sessions 30 min/week
| from home for 2-6 months, womxn see an increase in strength,
| reduction in pain, and greater bladder control--versus spending
| often double the price and 3+ hours door-to-door on each Pelvic
| Floor Physical Therapy appointment in-person. Onboard here to get
| scheduled (https://bit.ly/RuthHealthOnboarding) for your first
| session!
| throwawaydad2 wrote:
| This is timely for us as my wife is expecting (2nd trimester),
| and we're both very active people outdoors. Post-partum
| recovery has been a frequent topic of conversation. Am I
| reading your website correctly that you're doing online
| telehealth, but limited to SF/NYC/Singapore?
| dang wrote:
| I'm pretty sure they just mentioned those places as examples
| and are available everywhere. Hopefully the founders will
| show up to confirm!
| anaskar wrote:
| Hey HN! We're Daniel and Arjun, founders of StandardCode
| (http://www.standardcode.io/). We make it easy for companies to
| comply with child data privacy laws such as COPPA and GDPR by
| providing APIs for collecting parental consent and ID
| verification of minors.
|
| COPPA regulation makes it difficult for companies to cater to
| children under 13 without building in safeguards to collect and
| manage parental consent and to block third-party sharing of data
| without transparency. As a result most companies just prohibit
| users under 13 from signing up for their services, either as a
| policy or by having an age gate that prevents an under-13 child
| from signing up.
|
| However, with a record number of under-13 users on the internet
| due to the pandemic, behavior is permanently shifting and many
| companies now want to cater to all audiences. By providing APIs
| to manage the collection of consent, we allow companies to safely
| acquire underage users while minimizing friction in the sign-up
| flow.
|
| Our customer-facing REST API presents a few high-level resources
| that are needed for collecting parental consent and ID
| verification for children. Customers typically make 1 API call to
| create a profile for a child, and then 2-3 more calls to collect
| parental consent or verify age and ID if necessary. Afterwards,
| we push data to a webhook endpoint to notify the customer when
| consent has been collected or an ID has been verified.
|
| Our business model is based on usage -- we charge a small fee per
| user for whom we need to collect parental consent or verify age
| and ID.
|
| We'd love to hear from you, especially if you have experience
| with products catering to children!
| bartman wrote:
| Great to see innovation in this space. How does your service
| compare to offerings like those from PRIVO? Something we get a
| lot of value out of is their review of whether our practices
| are compliant (and if not, how to achieve it - all done in the
| design phase of new features etc) on top of offering a widget
| for verifiable parental consent. Is this something you also
| offer?
| anaskar wrote:
| thanks! so far the companies we've talked to are delaying
| full-blown reviews as long as possible because of the stage
| of company they're in.
|
| We certainly do work very closely with each company to work
| through their product and integrate as seamlessly as
| possible. whereas we don't offer an official security review
| as of now, it is something we're considering for the future.
| would love to chat, DMing you now!
| pierre wrote:
| Nice work!
|
| You mention COPPA and GDPR but which country regulation do you
| cover (and in which language?). How do you ensure that the
| Parents giving consent are the parent of the child (and that
| you are not getting spoof?). How do you keep up with the
| changing regulations, with some country having multiple layers
| (Union, Federal, State, City, ...).
|
| I like the focus on Childs, but you could also extend it to do
| KYC for financial institutions, the market may need a cheap and
| reliable solution.
| anaskar wrote:
| thank you! We're starting out of the gate with COPPA and will
| fast-follow with GDPR so we currently cover the United States
| (in English).
|
| re: spoofing. this is a tough problem to solve and no
| existing solution guarantees this. we would be able to see
| suspicious behavior though like multiple verification
| attempts, time between submission and verification, etc.
|
| Changing regulations is tough. We work with a privacy lawyer
| to keep us abreast of changing policy and have researchers
| maintain a database of applicable state, federal, and
| international laws as well as recent lawsuits.
|
| Financial KYC is interesting for sure. Right now we're
| focused on child privacy and very much believe there's a lot
| of work to be done there still.
| jvalencia wrote:
| Honestly, this is great. So many applications do this poorly if
| at all and COVID has not helped the situation. I do wonder
| about compliance across state/national lines.
| anaskar wrote:
| thanks! the laws do change across country lines. while we're
| focused on the U.S. right now, we're actively researching
| applicable laws in other jurisdictions.
| santmaldonado wrote:
| Hey HN! I'm Santiago Maldonado, CEO and Founder of Lernit
| (https://www.lernit.mx/). Our platform makes it easy for
| companies in Latin America (Latam) to train their workforce, even
| when they are remote.
|
| According to studies, 74% of CEOs worldwide are concerned that a
| lack of essential skills in their employees is threatening the
| future of their organization. With the increase of remote work
| comes the challenge of keeping teams aligned and pushing in the
| same direction.
|
| When I graduated from college, the biggest learning platforms
| were Coursera and Udemy, and it hit me that there is an immense
| gap between what you learn in an on-demand course and what you do
| at your job. Usually, these courses were outdated and had no
| relevance to what employers wanted their employees to learn. So I
| saw a huge opportunity to create Lernit, where companies could
| ensure that their employees were learning valuable skills that
| could be used at their job.
|
| We allow companies to develop online courses on the specific
| skills their employees require for accomplishing organizational
| goals and personal growth while staying focused on priorities.
| These priorities are easily visualized and aligned to the
| company's main objectives through OKRs (Objectives and Key
| Results for a specific period). Each individual can check in and
| track progress while receiving feedback and mentoring in a
| collaborative environment.
|
| We offer an all-in-one solution for HR teams where companies can
| set, align and track goals, evaluate performance, train and
| develop their workforce and build culture without the trouble of
| managing different tools at expensive prices.
|
| We are eager to help companies reach growth and more than happy
| to answer any questions you may have about our talent platform,
| so if you have any or are just curious please leave a comment!
| GuillermoLM wrote:
| Great!!! It is a fact Lernit comes to change the way employees
| develop their own skills and achieve their goals at the
| company. Really proud to be part of this family!
| notsureaboutpg wrote:
| There are a lot of tools like this out there: SuccessFactors,
| Bridge, etc. And there's always room for more, imo.
|
| What are you going to do differently? How are you going to
| gamify this in a way others don't?
|
| I've worked in lots of places and interacted with many software
| portals that try to do this right. A lot of them falter by not
| keeping up with the actual current state of information within
| an organization (especially a rapidly growing one). Many of the
| courses end up outdated and they're really only useful for
| onboarding.
|
| It's probably because of the time it takes and the friction
| needed to create a course or update a course. Because of that
| friction and because it's easier to just post to a Wiki / Slack
| channel / internal blog / etc. the small updates and changes,
| these courses sometimes languish.
|
| Just questions that come to mind. And congrats on the launch.
| Wish the best for you!
| santmaldonado wrote:
| Great question!
|
| Currently there's no solution in LATAM for medium sized
| companies, and with more companies working remotely the need
| for tools that will help keep teams aligned and focused on
| priorities while filling learning gaps is growing as well.
|
| The friction needed to create courses for specific skills or
| roles is the whole reason why Lernit is now a reality, we
| want to make upskilling available for every role and level,
| and thanks to our authoring tool that enables companies to
| create courses in minutes, our marketplace with up to 6 new
| courses per week and our strategic alliances with great
| universities that gives our users access to learning programs
| is that we are able to keep up with a fast evolving market
| and organizational needs.
| santmaldonado wrote:
| The best part, everything is included through licensing at an
| affordable price.
|
| Please let us know if you have any additional feedback or
| questions, we will be happy to hear back from you.
| lucyrubio wrote:
| Congrats on the launch! I know first hand how aligment and
| visibility helps on keeping teams focused, I love using Lernit
| on a daily basis. Keep it up.
| santmaldonado wrote:
| Thanks a lot Lucy, happy to hear this !
| ChrisMischler wrote:
| Hi HN, we're Christian (ChrisMischler) and Raphael (raphco) of
| Deskimo (https://www.deskimo.com/). We provide on-demand access
| to professional workspaces, where users rent desks by the minute.
| We've started with Singapore and Hong Kong as our initial
| markets, with the intention to expand into other markets soon.
|
| Raphael and I have been working remotely for most of the past 10
| years. During the pandemic, all of our friends suddenly saw
| themselves thrown into a similar position and we've observed how
| they adapted. Many don't have a suitable home-office setup and
| while for most the pros of remote/hybrid work clearly outweigh
| the cons, having access to near-home desk space would solve the
| downsides of working from home for most.
|
| We give users access to a wide range of professionally run
| workspaces in central business districts as well as in
| residential neighbourhoods. By giving users access to near-home
| workspaces, we give them an opportunity to work for a few hours
| and not waste precious time on commuting. We also have locations
| close to schools, shopping centers, and other places where our
| users need to go throughout the week.
|
| There is no need for a membership, upfront payments, or long-term
| commitments. Access works similar to ride hailing: location-based
| and instant. A user scans the QR code of the app at the reception
| to start the session and scans the code again to check out. We
| charge at checkout for the duration of the work session; the
| maximum charge per day is capped at the rate of a day pass at the
| specific location. Our customers consist of companies who provide
| Deskimo accounts for employees, and individual users who prefer
| our flexibility over the cost and commitment of a coworking
| membership.
| carlobadini wrote:
| Amazing work guys!!! You should expand to Europe next!
| 8jy89hui wrote:
| Many of your workspaces look like fairly standard hotel /
| restaurant lounges. This is in contrast to WeWork that builds
| more conventional office spaces.
|
| Do you plan to build/rent more traditional/conventional
| offices?
|
| I personally cannot imagine a room packed with professionals at
| different companies on lounge-chairs and sitting around tiny
| tables. However, I might not be have a good understanding of
| Singapore/HK culture.
| ChrisMischler wrote:
| We actually work only with professionally managed workspaces,
| meaning offices like WeWork (resp. their competitors). We
| have added 2-3 spaces which we call "alternative workspaces"
| that are close to residential areas to have a better
| coverage. There is for example the Furama Hotel in Singapore,
| which has converted a part of their event space into a co-
| working space. This space is open 24/7h (as it's a hotel),
| co-working spaces tend to close at 8 or 9pm and many of them
| are not accessible on Sundays, which is not ideal.
| Hexcles wrote:
| As someone living in Canada, the name stood out to me as
| insensitive.
| https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit_or_eskimo.php
| biztos wrote:
| I don't live in the great frozen North and I had the same
| reaction, FWIW.
|
| The name is super witty and probably nobody in SG/HK cares,
| but I don't think the people generally called Eskimos like
| being called that.
|
| Then again, Volkswagen doesn't get flak for selling Tuaregs
| as far as I can tell.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people
| kirubakaran wrote:
| Though I read the earlier post about batching launches, I'll
| admit that I was scratching my head trying to figure out what
| kind of startup would try to cater to pregnancy and desk rentals.
| Pregnancy + Child Privacy makes sense. Perhaps Life Sciences
| plays into it somehow too. But why throw in desk rentals as well?
| Can't blame my slowness on caffeine deprivation either. Anyway it
| was briefly amusing.
| mottosso wrote:
| On first reading the title, my immediate thought was "Oh snap
| that is one diverse company!"
|
| Maybe something along the lines of "Launch YC x 6: 3D Web;
| Training; etc.." could make it more clear how many launches are
| in a thread?
| NickNaraghi wrote:
| The title of these threads needs work!
|
| Possible to group by theme or something?
|
| Or just leave out the specifics. The 2-word pitch is cutting too
| much to be any sort of useful.
| dang wrote:
| It's true that the generic nouns don't say much, but the
| company names would say even less.
|
| Since examples are the best way to learn, I would be interested
| if anyone could come up with a better title for this thread.
| It's not obvious how to do this!
| icyc wrote:
| As a start, matching the individual thread name format would
| be great, e.g: Launch YC (S21): 3D Web; Training... :-)
| dang wrote:
| If I understand your suggestion correctly, that would
| consume an extra 6 characters in the title, which is 8% of
| the 80-char limit. That would make it much harder to give
| each startup a place in the title, and I don't like the
| idea of leaving any of them out.
| icyc wrote:
| Personally, I click on the launch threads because they're
| part of the current batch: a clear indication that
| they're part of the current batch (rather than just a
| generic "launch HN" announcement) is much more valuable
| to me than the reference to the type of business. The
| "Launch HN" title is used by non-YC people, meaning these
| threads come across as non-YC threads than YC threads.
|
| I think on balance you're probably right that excluding a
| startup from the title is a problem though -- so yeah, in
| hindsight, I think you made the right choice.
| dang wrote:
| I changed it to say "Launch YC" instead of "Launch HN"
| this time round, for reasons related to what you're
| saying. Doesn't seem to have landed though :)
|
| Another thought I had was "Meet S21". Better? It would
| free up a char! "Meet YC S21" is too long.
|
| "YC S21" would be the shortest. That is, something like
| "YC S21: Foo, Bar, Baz" with a word or phrase for each
| startup. But I'm not sure if that would convey that it's
| a launch thread.
|
| Another possibility: "YC Launch" instead of "Launch YC".
|
| Our original idea was "Meet the Batch" but that's way too
| long.
| redkoala wrote:
| How about "YC S21 Launch"?
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