Own Your Video Distribution with VidCaster

WHAT: Create branded video content environment under your own domain with VidCaster. 

LAUNCHERS: Kieran Farr, CEO, [ @kfarr , LinkedIn ], Steve Cochrane, Designer, [ @stevecochrane , LinkedIn ], Ray Pawulich,VP Marketing, [ @raypaw , LinkedIn ], Jiang Li, Developer, [ LinkedIn ].

INSPIRATION: "We created VidCaster as a solution to our own problems...

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AppGrooves is the 'Hot or Not' Decision Engine for Apps

WHAT: An average of 23K new apps debut each month, along with an additional 44K updates, in order to navigate the best content AppGrooves [ @appgrooves ] allows users to vote the best apps up and down 'Hot or Not' style. 

LAUNCHERS: Naoki Shibata, co-founder [ LinkedIn ] , Mark Tsuchida, [ LinkedIn ]

 
GROWTH: 80,000 downloads in past 6 days...

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Singboard: 'Where Youtube Meets Karaoke'

WHAT: Singboard couples the latest music videos with lyrics and makes online karaoke a social experience. "It's where Youtube meets karaoke," Ray Chan said at 500 Startups. 

LAUNCHERS: Founders Ray Chan, Chris Chan and Marco Fung. From Hong Kong, now in Mountain View, California. 

INSPIRATION: We started a few projects (e.g. 9GAG, Startup Quote) for fun...

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Attention Developers: Tag and Prioritize Bugs in under 10 Seconds with BugHerd

WHAT: An embeddable visual bug and issue tracker for websites. BugHerd [ @bugherd ] allows developers to tag, describe, assign and prioritize issues in under 10 seconds.

LAUNCHERS: Alan Downie [ LinkedIn ]. Matt Milosavljevic [ LinkedIn ]. Vincent Brendel, Developer [ LinkedIn ].

INSPIRATION: "Alan and I have worked together as web developers for years and we found that we were spending more and more time emailing clients trying to figure out what changes they were asking for and

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LaunchRock Makes Viral Launch Pages Easy

WHAT: Gets people to sign up for a startup's service before it launches and share via Facebook and Twitter. Also has embeddable widget and an API for integrating LaunchRock [ @getlaunchrock ] into an existing sign-up process. Provides data on traffic and demographics. "Discovery network" for launching startups coming soon.

LAUNCHERS: Jameson Detweiler, CEO. [ @jaymstr ] Thomas Knoll, Hustler [ @thomasknoll ]. Zachary Melamed. David Drager [ @ddrager ].

BACKSTORY: LaunchRock came out of Startup Weekend Philadelphia...

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