At NY Tech Meetup’s event (#nytm) at NYU’s Kimmel Center this week, several companies presented to a crowd of over 700 people. One startup that presented was Honestly Now, a funny and useful service that helps people poll their friends for their anonymous votes on what they should do while local pros weigh in with their advice. Tereza Nemessany, founder and CEO, demonstrated the service by pulling up the site where a friend had posted a photo of himself in a layered outfit. The question was, “Should a 40-something be wearing a sweater vest?’ One answer was “It’s OK but a little stiff.”
The startup Proust.com also has a site where users can ask questions, but this one was for family and friends to share and preserve stories. Its general manager, Tom Cortese, showed how it worked by pulling up the site and seeing a question from a cousin who asked, “who in our family do you most admire?” He answered that it was his brother, and then proceeded to go to Facebook and pull past photos of his hero and to add dates along with places and video in order to create his own digital memory chest.
At the Tiny Pass presentation, CEO Robert Millis presented his startup publicly for the very first time. His service enables publishers to safely and easily monetize premium content on the web with one-click transactions. He used Daily Feast as an example of a publication that wanted to make its exclusive content more readily available. He clicked on its title and a page came up that included a description and logo along with a price (5 cents).
Teaspiller called itself the “H&R Block killer.” It was unique in that it enabled consumers to find quality licensed accountants online and work with them online, at their own convenience. “We have 20,000 licensed accountants compared to H&R block which has approximately 12,000 retail stores and only one or two licensed accountants in each,” said founder Amit Vemuri.
Other startups presenting at the Meetup included FancyHands, a provider of personal assistants as a subscription service; YouAreTV, the web’s “first fully interactive game show where users can watch their friends while chatting and playing live games from their webcam;” and DontEat.At, an instant text messaging service that lets a diner know, before he walks into a restaurant, just how it’s rated and if it’s at risk of being closed for health violations.
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