Most online retailers — the Amazons, Neweggs, and Best Buys of the world — have price guarantees, promising to give you the difference if something ends up being cheaper within a few weeks. Most buyers just don’t keep track. Paribus does it for you. If they get you a reimbursement, they take 25%.
Why we like it:
It’s the best kind of business model: they only make money if they save you money, and their processes are largely automated. These guys should make a mountain of money.”
ScopeAR uses augmented reality to beam an expert to you, who can draw on and annotate your view of the world. Your notes/drawings stay pinned to the real-world location where you drew them. They pitch it as “Facetime meets augmented reality”.
Why we like it:
Lots of big companies — think car, aviation, or oil companies — employ experts who have a wealth of rare knowledge specific to their verticals. Alas, these experts often have to spend tons of time traveling from location to location; ScopeAR helps them look over your shoulder from the comfort of their office.”
They take hours of footage from your GoPro or Drone camera and edit it down to the highlights in seconds.
Why we like it:
I have 2 GoPro cameras, and they’re both sitting in my closet with roughly 6 hours of footage that I’m pretty sure I’ll never, ever edit. This is a problem that someone needs to solve, and something that I’d imagine GoPro is quite intent on seeing fixed.”
They building an easy to roll out multiplayer backend for game developers to use in their games, providing the chat/social/leaderboard logic that so many developers spend time endlessly reinventing..
Why we like it:
There’s no real need for developers to rebuild this stuff over and over again. It’s hard, time consuming, and small mistakes lead to your game’s leaderboards getting hacked.”
Monitor your servers for vulnerable software, alerts you as soon as a new exploit pops up in any software you use.
Why we like it:
In many cases, hackers aren’t looking for bugs unique to your site’s code — they’re looking for bugs in the software that gets used across many sites. AppCanary constantly looks for new vulnerabilities, and lets you know as soon as it spots an issue in something you’re running.”
Makes you a will, for free, no lawyers required. It helps you set your beneficiaries, medical treatment decisions, and final arrangements. They make money by connecting you with relevant services to help you plan arrangements.
Why we like it:
No one likes to think about death, but everyone needs a will. You might want to replace the will that Willing generates with something more tailored to your needs in time — but the will they can make in 10 minutes is considerably better than having <em>nothing</em>.”
Think Uber for moving heavy stuff. Need a couch moved from point a to point b? Open the app, snap a picture of the couch, and a truck/movers are on the way.
Why we like it:
Moving heavy stuff sucks, particularly if you drive a small car. Even if you run to Home Depot and rent one of their $20-an-hour trucks, you’re stuck hassling your friends who will probably throw their backs out trying to help. Lugg takes the pain out of occasionally moving heavy stuff, and does it with next to zero customer acquisition cost — turns out, companies like Costco and Ikea are already firing customers their way.”
Mint.com-style money management for restaurant owners. Take a photo of your invoice, and it’ll provide data on how to streamline operations. It can provide realtime pricing data on every dish on your menu.
Why we like it:
Operating a restaurant is tough. When you’ve got customers to keep happy and employees to pay, food cost data is the last thing most restaurant owners care to think about.”
