Startups Carnival - Scouta takes it out
The Startups carnival has finished with Scouta taking the line honours. Second went to GoodBarry and third to SuburbView. Well done to all three, and Vishal of course for putting the whole show on.
Interesting though is the complete lack of discussion around all these different businesses. 31 different startups, and I’ve counted a total of 16 comments. Thats pretty poor. I’m no better than anyone else, because I haven’t added to the discussion either (although I did post but it somehow got lost between the captcha, preview and final ok). Not sure why this is (although I’ve never liked blogger for commenting). Is it that we are just antisocial in the Aussie startup space?
Of the top 3, gotta say I really like GoodBarry. The site looks great and I like the business model. If I ever advise a small business in getting online, I’ll be looking more closely at GoodBarry. Scouta looks to have potential, but I can’t get into it because I don’t get into recommendation engines. I’ve never found one that works for me. My feedreeder is chocka with hand picked feeds and I don’t get time to read them all anyway. Finding more content would leave me never doing any work (but I’ll keep tabs on Recommendation Ventures to see how they go). I like SuburbView for it’s simplicity, but agree with the judges in that it needs a tart up.
All in all though, good to see startup activity and people following a vision. I would like to have seen a submission from RebBubble because they look like they’re taking off.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Hi Simon,
Thanks for this. Yee we are making efforts to have Peter Styles from Redbubble to give some insights. More in coming days on that
You are right when youmentioned only 16 comments.. it is just bizzare that we have covered so much now it should be enought to start a discussion
Anyway we will continue what we can do and help others and in the process help ourselves
March 19th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Hi Simon
Thanks for the mention!
I agree that it would be great to see more discussion around the startups. As you no doubt are aware, being bootstrapped yourself, it’s awesome to get as much feedback as possible. It’d also be great to build up a sense of community around the startup space. Anyway, enough ranting from me :).
As for the recommendations, DVD rentals are actually prime for recommendation engines ;). So lemme know if you want to chat about adding one to Applebox :). Anyway, enough pitching from me.
Cheers
Rich
March 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hi Vishal .. yep keep it coming! You’re in my reader so I’ll always be keeping tabs, and once again well done for getting the carnival under way.
Hi Rich, g’day! Congrats on taking out the carnival, well done. And yep, I’m keen to add recommendations into APPLEBOX, and I’m definitely not keen to reinvent the wheel :-). So would be good to talk at some point. Will give you a shout.