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- Hackathon Winner Docracy Is A GitHub For Legal Documents
- Shortform Video Platform VYou Reels In $3M
- Dispatch.io, Hackathon Runner-Up, Tames The Cloud
- Meet This 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker
| Hackathon Winner Docracy Is A GitHub For Legal Documents | Top |
| One of the winners at today’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is Docracy, an open source site where users can share and sign legal documents, similar to what GitHub provides for code. The site is the brainchild of mobile app developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson, who are the founders of app development startup Larva Labs. Docracy is an online, opensource hub for quality legal documents like contracts, NDAs, wills, trusts and more. So startups or individuals can take their legal documents and compare them against these trusted, documents on Docracy and see what terms differ. Hall and Watkinson were recently were signing an NDA with a client and wasn’t sure if there were any terms in the NDA that should be flagged, or that were out of the ordinary. But they found that the issue didn’t warrant spending money on a lawyer. Small business and individuals have to sign legal documents all the time but often don’t have the resources to hire a lawyer to review these documents. It’s a great idea and certainly one that many bootstrapped startups, freelancers or individuals can use in a pinch. While Docracy’s site isn’t up yet, we’re told it will be publicly released this week. | |
| Shortform Video Platform VYou Reels In $3M | Top |
| Q&A platform for video VYou is announcing today $3 million in Series A funding, lead by RRE Ventures and Highland Capital Partners and followed on by High Peaks Ventures , Broadway Video Ventures, Kevin Wall , David Tish and Rick Web. Gunning for a media play, the New York-based VYou recently partnered up with Hearst Newspapers, MTV/VH1, Simon and Schuster and the Newark Peace Summit in order to help these brands better connect with their audiences. In the daunting shadow of YouTube VYou, which allows users to converse through brief snippets of video, will have to be nimbler and more niche in order to gain a competitive foothold in the user generated online video space. Since its November launch VYou has accumulated over 20 million views and 30K user sign ups. Founder Steve Spurgat tells me that he doesn't liken the company to a Quora or Formspring for video, but in fact chose the video element because it was simply the fastest way to achieve his ultimate goal of advancing how people communicate online, "My initial approach to this company was to create more intimacy in how people communicate, video was just the by-product." Spurgat plans on using the new financing to focus on rolling out key product features and building out the tech team, "We're very lucky that VYou is an incredibly easy sell. The key is for us is to build a great product and let it sell itself." CrunchBase Information VYou Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Dispatch.io, Hackathon Runner-Up, Tames The Cloud | Top |
| Three friends, including a 17-year-old high schooler, who met at New Work City , a co-working space, built Dispach.io to solve the problem of disperse information. The product, as it exists currently, is a Chrome extension that allows you to grab Word files and PDFs and automatically place them into Google Docs or Dropbox. Future iterations, probably available in the next month, should support more filetypes and more organizational systems. The 17-year-old is Alex Godin and the two other fellows started Airdropper . Together they created Dispatch.io to solve problems with file sharing. Watch this space for more from this cold-soup-sounding start-up but the guys are pretty excited about the product and from what I saw – dead simple file grabs from web pages using a smooth and simple interface – this looks to be an interesting product. Here’s their Hackathon presentation. Product Page | |
| Meet This 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker | Top |
| In case you missed it, hackers were busy building new ideas and products at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon in New York last night. Fueled by RedBull, coffee, and massive quantities of junk food, hackers burned the midnight oil last night , preparing to show off their designs to the judges, who included VC Jeff Clavier and Canv.as founder Christopher Poole, and Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz. We had a chance to sit down with the event’s youngest hacker; fourteen-year-old Jake Essman. Essman, a New York native, teamed up with fellow engineers Jesse Leone, William Li, and Feliks Beygel to create buyby, a shopping search engine. BuyBy is fairly simple—you use the site to find where a product is located at a store. So you could search for a ‘white t-shirt’ and the search engine will not only show you a list of online stores that have that product, but it will also show you stores that sell the product nearby your location. Essman, who has been coding since he was ten, says that he decided to come to the Hackathon at the urging of his Mom. A student at the United Nations School, Essman says that coding is a hobby, and this isn’t the first site he’s created. RantingOutLoud, a forum where anyone can can complain about anything, is a also Jake Essman project. What’s more, he essentially taught himself how to code. But for Essman, coding is still just a hobby and at this point, his career aspirations lie in the field of medicine as his goal is to become a doctor. Awww. Here’s their Hackathon presentation. Photo Credit /Daniel Raffel | |
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