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Swipe – Shop street smart

July 13th, 2010

What it does:
Swipe is an easy way to tell your friends what you want to buy and find what they are buying. Swipe helps you shop street smart by giving you access to prices and product reviews recommended by your friends and other people whom you trust. You can share the inside scoop on countless everyday purchases such as food, clothes, gadgets, furniture, books, tickets, gyms, cars, holiday packages, games etc ,etc. Swipe starts social conversations around purchases and helps you discover prices, deals, opinions, locations, stores, products and shoppers - all this in a fun and competitive game environment.

Real time local shopping information helps you get an insight into others shopping habits and saves you time and money, by instantly discovering what others are buying around you. Currently real time local shopping information is not available and is walled in and contained between the shopper and a few close friends.

Swipe disrupts this structure by providing free, completely transparent, up to date shopping information in your area from people you trust. Swipe provides a fun medium through which you can easily share and access valuable real time local shopping information regarding stores, products, prices, deals and reviews.

How it beats the competition:
Competitors: Blippy (http://blippy.com/) and Swipely(http://beta.swipely.com/)

We have spoken to hundreds of users and 100% of them say:
1. They would never give their credit card information (like in Blippy and Swipely) just to share with others what they bought – too big a hurdle for not much in return. 100% of them said they will be willing to type in the same information – Swipe lets users type in their purchases.
2. They have no use of feedback and conversations after they have bought a product (like in Blippy and Swipely). They would rather get the feedback and conversations before buying something – Swipe lets users tell others “what they want to buy”.
3. Their shopping related pain points are for offline shopping not online shopping - Swipe focuses on offline local shopping. 80% of the purchases on Blippy are stuff people buy online – mostly app store purchases.

Site:
http://www.didyouswipe.com

Rating: 4.0/10 (2 votes cast)

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Remotetweet.com – Twitter Scripts and Web applications

July 12th, 2010

What it does:
Remotetweet.com offers simple and secure scripts to build niche twitter portals and web applications. We have scripts on deleting direct messages, finding twitter score, retweet train, twitter train, finding user info and username availability and many more for you to develop twitter apps.

How it beats the competition:
Everyone wish to have their own twitter apps and portals to build community. We help them to do so.

URL
http://www.remotetweet.com

Rating: 9.5/10 (4 votes cast)

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GivinGetting – Marketplace of free stuff for give away or get for reuse

May 11th, 2010

What it does:
GIVINGETTING is where to donate or give away free stuff for reuse. It is the way of how to give free. GIVINGETTING allow people to give and get stuff they no longer need or to get what they need and don´t have, donating or getting it for reuse, achieving longer product cycle and also keeping useful stuff out of landfills. Our goal is to convert GIVINGETTING in the greatest social network donation for reuse.

How it beats the competition:
Everything is free and for help each other.
The free things you donate belong to you, so you decide whom to donate them.
Giving and Getting stuff to be reused is very easy to do in GIVINGETTING.

Site: http://www.givingetting.com

Rating: 6.2/10 (5 votes cast)

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Freally – Receive free things, give away unwanted items, make this world a happier place!

May 10th, 2010

What it does:
At Freally, we are concerned about our earth and we want to do our part by promoting recycling and reuse.

We achieve this by allowing our members to give away their unwanted items to others who may need them.

In return, you can also receive and ask for free items from others.

Through this, we encourage people to reduce the amount of rubbish, make others happy and also make this earth happier.

And let’s face it, who doesn’t want to receive free things?

How it beats the competition:
Our primary competitor is Freecycle network. Freecycle network is, however, an outdated, yahoo-group based system, which is extremely hard to use. Moreover, the whole process of giving and receiving items is complex.

On the other hand, Freally has streamlined and simplified the entire process of giving and receiving, so that there is literally no learning curve in using our website.

Lastly, with a help of the latest technology tools such as Google map and social media tools (Facebook connect, Twitter connect), we are providing our users a much better experience!

Site: http://www.freally.com

Rating: 7.4/10 (5 votes cast)

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BagsyIt – Reusable Bags

April 26th, 2010

What it does:
Bagsy It are a UK based stockist of reusable shopping bags from top names such as Envirosax and Flip and Tumble.

How it beats the competition:
BagsyIt have a great range of bags, many of which no other UK companies stock.

Site: http://www.bagsyit.com/

Rating: 6.7/10 (3 votes cast)

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Rent Jungle – The Apartment Supersite

March 19th, 2010

What it does:
When it comes to apartment hunting, it’s a jungle out there. You need a good guide to avoid the snakes and track down the perfect den. Rentjungle.com works much like Google in that it scours the Internet and pulls together apartment listings from a variety of sites. It one ups Google by focusing solely on apartment searches and displaying results either on a simple, interactive map or as a listing with links to Google street views. So you can get an idea of what awaits outside your front window without having to physically visit the place.

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about locating, leasing, moving and decorating your new place you’ll also find for free on rentjungle.com. It’s the ultimate apartment resource featuring both the most complete and user-friendly listing of vacancies on the web as well as articles on everything from down payments to self-adhesive shelf liners. (Unfortunately, you will have to install those yourself.) You can even use Rentjungle.com’s new apartment comparison tool to see if you are paying too much for rent.

How it beats the competition:
It’s the only site out there that lets users find their next place, check market trends, compare rent and get decorating tips all in the same place.

Site: http://www.rentjungle.com

Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

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Mixero.com – Muting The Noise On The Social Web

March 8th, 2010

Today’s information streams are characterized by an amount of noise that can be more than noticeable sometimes. This startup aims to do something about it and reduce that interference, lowering it all the way to zero whenever that is possible.

The fact remains that people on Twitter (one of the main “live” channels along with the emerging Buzz) do not unfollow others as often as they should, many times out of politeness and not wanting to offend friends. A system like Mixero is the right way to deal with these lists which are oversaturated with followers, and that are brimming with information generated by people we are frankly far from connected with. What Mixero does is to refine both Twitter and Facebook streams as much as possible, and it does so by way of many filters and the option of grouping individuals together to keep them out of the way.

Both a desktop version of Mixero and an iPhone app are already available and procurable through the site. It is interesting to stress that the iPhone version can be synced with the desktop app for ease of use.

Site: http://www.mixero.com/

[Via KillerStartups]

Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast)

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