ActivTrak Overlooker

The standard 8-hour working day for office professions is called “working” rather conditionally. Employees go out to smoke, talk at the coffee table, hang out on social networks, or just meditate in front of the monitor. And companies pay for all these.

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 30, 2020

Real Estate Acquisition Alternative From ZeroDown

While supporters of rent and mortgages fruitlessly argue over what is better, American #startupoftheday ZeroDown invented an intermediate scheme. A potential buyer comes to the site and gets scored first — the startup makes sure of his…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 30, 2020

Let Skiplino Stand In Line For You

Bahrain is a small island country, situated between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Its total area is 300 square miles, the same as New York. The population is 1.5 million people, like in Philadelphia. Thanks to oil, Bahrain’s GDP per capita is $50,000; in the ratings it sits…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 29, 2020

Ergonomic Buildings From Spacemaker

In the 15th or even 20th century, one could simply draw a plan and build a house on a free plot of land. Now it’s impossible; people are spoiled; apart from square footage, they demand quality.

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 29, 2020

Gympass: Choose A Gym Of Your Dream

Brazilian #startupoftheday Gympass sells a universal pass to thousands of fitness centers. A client buys a subscription and, while it is valid, attends any sports club available by the tariff plan. The only limitation of the service is that you can’t go twice a day…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 29, 2020

RapidAPI: All In One Basket

Today’s #startupoftheday RapidAPI is an example of how a technical feature affects a business model. Some time ago, I wrote about Manifold, a directory of PaaS services that competed with AWS and Azure marketplaces. Their slogan is ‘we give you freedom from the cloud provider.’…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 28, 2020

Make And Win Your Game on Roblox

Roblox is a platform for creating and playing children’s games. It’s a kind of a cross between Lego and Minecraft where users create levels. Through the built-in editor, even a teenager can create a new game. The best games, of course, are made by professionals. The…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 28, 2020

Nitty-gritty Reports Of Concentric

Canadian #startupoftheday Concentric produces soil fertilizers. In short, their public pitch states: “It has been long known that there are beneficial bacteria that need to be spread on the soil to produce a better crop. We first guessed spreading not one bacterium…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 28, 2020

An Ideal AI Processor From Graphcore

The most difficult computing operation of the 1990s was computer graphics. To draw a realistic shadow of a three-dimensional object 25 times per second was an incredibly difficult task, let alone calculating a country’s budget or modeling a nuclear reaction. To…

Alexander Gornyi

Apr 15, 2020

EGenesis: Is Body-organ-creation Anyhow Near?

Organ transplantation has long been a routine, not a fantasy. And its main problem also is a routine one — organ deficiency. People rarely die so accurately that the heart remains healthy and can be preserved for transplantation. In the United…