Slidebox (http://slidebox.co) -- effective photo manager for your phone / 2 developer founders / 15k+ users from MVP

Just applied for Winter 2016! We're looking for some tough questions to answer! What do you guys think? Do we have a shot?

Firstly, maybe you should remove the (YC W2016) from the title. It is kind of confusing and led me to assume you were already a YC backed company. It's kind of unnecessary too, IMO, but I may be 100% wrong on this.

But about the app itself —

Love the simple design! You could add the "Available on App Store" button which looks more neat. But the app, and the website looks cool.

I think there is insufficient data for most people to tell you if you have a shot at YC. This is only ONE side of the whole story, which is PRODUCT. We may need to know about user stats, and so many other things. There may be some very experienced folks here who can help, though.

Best of luck, and I hope you get in! Kudos, my friend!

Thanks for the input. Yeah, I can see how product is just one side of the story; I just didn't think much about the rest. We do have some traction (15k+ users since this summer we launched the MVP). What other things do you think are relevant?

I think you are right about YC W2016 title. I'm actually going to delete this thread and start a general YC W2016 candidates forum -- I think that works better.

Yes, we took that out. It implies that the company was funded by YC.

Are you working on any new business dev for DuckDuckGo? I feel that no-tracking is a soft value add and I imagine keyword-based targeted ads is limiting when competing with large search engines that tracks more information about the users. Which direction are you taking DuckDuckGo that further differentiates your product?

Our long-term product vision is community-driven instant answers for most searches: DuckDuckHack - http://duckduckhack.com/

We think partnering with thousands of the best sites on the Web with great answers in all niche categories (lego parts, municipal bonds, anything) is a win-win-win for everyone (us, partners, users). Right now anyone can suggest an instant answer source, and anyone can develop it. The answers themselves and the entire platform is open source.

I really think Heroku nailed the deployment model. I just push my code, and then the code is deployed. It would be nice to have staging baked in.

Shameless plug here. Chrome extension to email yourself the current page with a single click: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/email-this-page/dk...

More in the line of "save it now, maybe i'll get to it later" :)

Clarification: It actually sends an email with a single click (not just open up email compose window)

doesn't it just open up compose window instead of actually sending it with a single click?

Very cool! I know code mirror had vim mode but this. This is something way more awesome.

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lol :(