DiscoveringStartups -Tech Startup Reviews

Featurestage enables collaboration with any number of projects, from any number of organizations, with a single account. This issue tracking service combines the ability to search, view, and communicate with all projects from a single view. Storage limits have been eliminated, granting freedom to provide all the information needed for even the most complex projects.

* Collaborate with any number of projects, from any number of organizations, with a single account.

* Search, view, and communicate from a single view.

* No storage limits

The service becomes more and more useful with scale (% of projects any given individual collaborates with on Featurestage should climb).

Role-based concurrent Producer license, with the option for an unlimited Consumer license.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: https://featurestage.com

I have a network of former colleagues, college admission professionals, who help me read and review college admission essays. We do so in the same manner it’s done in college admission offices across the country. And we do so at a cost we think is realistic and fair, $25.

We undercut private college admission consults, many of whom lack experience and charge hundreds of dollars for a similar service. Basically, we’re committed to putting students, not profits, first.

We maintain the largest repository of real college admission essays on the internet. More and more colleges are starting to worry about fraud in the college admission process. Where can they turn if they believe a college admission essay has been plagiarized? ReadEssay.com! They can search our database…for a fee, of course!

Review service fees, re-review service fees, advertising, college and university contracts

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.readyessay.com

Teamly has developed a productivity and people management SaaS web app for SMBs. For business owners and managers it solves the problem of how to make sure your staff are productive and effective, and how to keep on top of their commitments to you, without micro-managing them.

It makes users think about what is really important in their companies, commit to these priorities and then share these for review by their manager and team-mates. It combines priority and goal setting for the individual with real-time information on staff for managers. The key premise of Teamly is that by focusing on less things, you will achieve more, and that explains our strapline which is “Get The Right Work Done”.

The leading SaaS player in the performance management category is SuccessFactors, with projected revenue this year of $200M. Their product is enterprise focused. There is nothing equivalent for SMBs, and awareness of this category is growing. The market itself is growing at 20% per annum.

Currently we are still in beta and have no revenue. Teamly will remain free for single users, but in the new year we will start charging businesses for team access. This will be a typical SaaS product with a low per user subscription fee, and first month free.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://teamly.com

SpankinCheap is a massive online marketplace that Let’s users Buy Event Tickets & Book travel online. SpankinCheap provides a huge selection of quality tickets for events, and also give the fans the option of booking Flights, Hotels, and Car Rentals direct from our site. We have dedicated professionals on our staff working hard to make sure that customers have the most up-to-date information about Event Tickets & Travel Bookings. Customers will have access to one of the largest Event Tickets inventory & Travel Booking engines on the web. In addition to providing real time access to inventory, We guarantee customers can shop safely

Spankin Cheap is your one-stop, secure online shop for all your ticketing needs, from concerts to different sporting leagues. Spankin Cheap also offers flight, hotel and car rental bookings.

SpankinCheap is a one of a kind company that allows user’s to shop for all of their ticketing needs and also offers flight, hotel and car rental bookings to fans with out having them leave the site

With SpankinCheap already saving consumer’s money promo code’s for discounts will be available for customers to use when they shop online for tickets or book travel there will be decided to

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.spankincheap.com

Fetch A Bid helps users find service providers that can help them with a project. Users can receive bids online from service providers without the hassle of searching through the phone book or internet looking for a particular type of service provider.

Users receive bids online. They submit their service request details and the rest is left up to bidding service providers. Service providers also bid against one another, which helps users get the lowest price for what they are needing.

Everyone has a project or work they need done that they cannot do themselves. We make it easier and less of a hassle finding the right service provider to handle the job.

We charge a small fee for users to submit service request, along will charging service providers for an optional “Star” membership that gives them a few more privileges that non-star providers don’t have.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.fetchabid.com

FindtheBoutiques.com provides a directory of boutiques nationwide for boutique shoppers to discover, explore and shop while also providing a low cost method of advertising for boutique owners to increase boutique awareness and their customer base.

There is no other website that covers boutiques on a national level.

Everyone loves to have unique clothes/decor/etc which is why boutique shopping is so popular, but knowing where to find and shop at boutiques is difficult. FindtheBoutiques.com allows easy access for boutique shoppers and boutique owners to find each other to create lasting shopping relationships and support local small businesses.

Boutique’s basic information will be listed for FREE so boutique shoppers can start their boutique hunting right away. Boutique Owners have several levels of listing options to increase their boutique’s marketing on FindtheBoutiques.com. Some of the options include: store front photo, featured merchandise, store tour video, boutique biography, sales/coupon section and so much more.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.FindtheBoutiques.com

PointDebate is an online communication platform meant to stir up, engage and give voice to most diverse opinions. It is particularly suitable for leading debates on topical subjects, especially debates with two clearly distinguished opposing sides. Users create debates, providing the debate title and the two possible debate options. Other users can make points in the debates and to bias their points to one of the two possible options.

PointDebate is a unique mixture of social networking, Q&A site, discussion board and a poll site. You can use it for its main purpose – create debates and participate in debates, but it also offers other features. You can follow other debaters to keep track of their activities just like you do on Twitter and ask questions like you do on Yahoo! answers or Mahalo. You can also use it as a regular discussion board.

PointDebate could be big because it is not a clone site but provides new experience on the web. People like to debate and argue on different topics.

Through PPC advertising and promoted debates.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://pointdebate.net

In some ways, using Drrop is similar to throwing a message in a bottle to the ocean. When you use drrop, you can post messages called “drrop,” while you can see drrops from people around the world.

However, there are some differences we would like to explain here.

1. A drrop (message) only shows up one by one
When you log into Drrop, automatically you will see one drrop from someone in the world. There is a “wipe” button below the drrop. If you click “wipe,” then you will see the next drrop.

2. Once you wipe it, never again
As a rain drop hits you only once in its life time, a drrop can be encountered only once.

3. 24hours, not forever
At this time, a drrop will be invisible in 24 hours after it is posted. After 24 hours, people will not be able to see your drrop, unless they have saved or replied to the drrop. In this way, we keep the drrops always fresh and up-to-date.
*Note: This function is disabled for now. Once we finishes the first phase of testing, we will start running this function.

Drrop introduces an easier way to say “hi.”

With Drrop, you can say “hi” to people before getting to know them.

We communicate online. We often use social networking websites to communicate with friends in our networks. We, the Drrop development team, thought it seems similar to go to school / workplace and chat with classmates / co-workers.

However, in our real life, you also meet people on the way to go to school / workplace and enjoy random conversations. You may say “hi” to people passing by, or talk about the weather at a fruit stand while talking about the perfect balance of coffee & milk at a donut shop.

With Drrop, you can do just the same on the internet.

Drrop is a new way to getting to know people out of your community. It can be used before communicating with people on currently-existing social networking websites.

At this moment, we would rather leave this uncertain.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://drrop.com

Agent Anything is the eBay of services:

People can post any service (“Mission”) they need accomplished (errands, tasks, research, anything) onto the website. They can then decide the price they are willing to pay, or they can elect to accept offers from Agents.

Students (“Agents”), using their university ID, can run these Missions in their free time and get paid the full amount offered.

- The Customer has full control over how much they pay.
- Only verified college Students can run Missions, so Customers are helping out Students by helping themselves
- Students can get verified in seconds, so they can start running Missions immediately
- Customers only pay AFTER their Mission has been completed to their satisfaction
- The cost of having someone run a Mission is extremely low

How many people do you know that have plenty of time to do all the little things they have to do in a day?

Pretty much everybody has more on their plate than they can handle on a daily basis. This is a huge problem in our society, not just in terms of productivity and efficiency, but also in terms of stress and well-being. Until now, this problem has never really had an adequate, affordable solution.

With Agent Anything though, people can get help with all of their little tasks: walking the dog, picking-up groceries, moving, finding a vacation condo…Anything!

This isn’t some concierge service that charges $40-50 per hour with a minimum of 18 units of 2 hours each and a 24-hour advanced reservation policy. Agent Anything connects you directly with college students, and with college employment levels lower than they’ve been in years, there are sure to be plenty of students who are available right now and would be happy to take $10-15 to run an errand.

Agent Anything charges a fee for successfully connecting Clients with Agents. It’s not much (e.g. $2.50 for a $10 Mission, $3.50 for a $20 Mission), and again, the Client is only charged AFTER the Mission has been confirmed as successfully accomplished.

This would be like ordering-in dinner. Eating all of it. And then only paying for the food if you liked the meal.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.agentanything.com

Kroobe.com is an online classified listing utility that integrates social networking. The aim of the site to provide a safe, more modern and easier alternative to existing online classified sites.

Kroobe provides a social networking angle to online classifieds. It also filters listings to minimize duplicates and reposting in order to ensure a better user experience. Kroobe users can reviews each other and flag listings as well. They can also filter listings in a much more efficient way in order to find precisely what they need. They can also setup alerts , bookmark listings and contact each other without having to share their real email address with the public.

In short, craigslist draws 60 million visitors a month. In its height, myspace was a giant that dwarfed a little unknown startup called Facebook, which simply offered better option. Similarly, Kroobe offers many advantages over craigslist.

Kroobe is a free service to the end user, which means the company would be adopting a similar business model to Google or Facebook.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.kroobe.com