Something happened to social media recently. I don’t know exactly when things changed, but almost overnight, randomly scrolling through feeds became a lot less enjoyable. Flame-wars, bad news, fake news, worse news and anxiety-fueling comment sections meant that social media is no longer the escapism it once was. Along comes Binky counter all of that, creating the ultimate anti-social… Read More Meet Binky, the anti-social media simulatorThis entry was posted in Apps Social TC on June 10, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs. Airbnb is making hotels palpitate in their pants. If TRVL has its way, it’s the travel agencies’ turn to tremble. Armed with 2.7 million freshly minted dollars from a conglomerate of angel investors, the company is hoping to augment services like Booking.com, Hotels.com and Tripadvisor by adding a soupçon of… Read More Peer-to-peer travel agency TRVL raises $2.7m to crowd-ify travel planningThis entry was posted in Apps Europe Fundings & Exits Social Startups TC on May 30, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs. Airbnb is making hotels palpitate in their pants. If TRVL has its way, it’s the travel agencies’ turn to tremble. Armed with 2.7 million freshly minted dollars from a conglomerate of angel investors, the company is hoping to augment services like Booking.com, Hotels.com and Tripadvisor by adding a soupçon of… Read More Peer-to-peer travel agency TRVL raises $2.7m to crowd-ify travel planningThis entry was posted in Apps Europe Fundings & Exits Social Startups TC on May 30, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
Trust Apple to be courageous enough to strip away all the old-fashioned USB ports. And trust the rest of us to realize that 90 percent of our peripherals still run on the old standard. Apple’s retort is to sell you a one-way ticket to dongle hell. Then Homey comes along with its Indiegogo campaign to show the fruit giant how it’s done. Read More Homey’s PowerUp is the MacBook charger Apple should have madeThis entry was posted in Crowdfunding Gadgets indiegogo Startups TC on May 2, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
If Black Mirror is anything to go by, rating everyone around you isn’t always a great idea, but Completed wants to make it easier to rate and rank the business professionals around you. It’s kind of like Yelp, but instead of rating companies, you’re rating the people within the businesses. The San Francisco-based company wants to use these ratings to shake up both hiring… Read More Completed wants to take on LinkedIn with a Yelp-style rating ...This entry was posted in Fundings & Exits LinkedIn Microsoft Social TC on April 20, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
PicoBrew has been making beer brewing easy for a while. The company’s current Kickstarter campaign has been running for a couple of weeks. Today, the company announced a surprise upgrade option to its campaign – a whole new appliance. The PicoStill is a small still to make hard liquor from the beer you made with the PicoBrew C. I’m not sure these type of surprises are a… Read More PicoBrew blindsides Kickstarter backers with surprise stretch goalThis entry was posted in Crowdfunding Gadgets Kickstarter Startups TC on April 17, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
When it comes to video, the audio is pretty damn important. Hell, they even give out some sort of award for them on occasion. Moodelizer wants to put the power of suitable soundtracks in the hands of amateur filmmakers, by letting you add a delig... Moodelizer helps add epic soundtracks to your video effortsThis entry was posted in Mobile Startups TC on March 31, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
You can hack your IKEA furniture to be more awesome. You can hack video games to make your fellow gamers hate your guts. And with the help of Macchina — now on Kickstarter — you can teach your car a few new tricks, too. What could possibly go wrong? Read More Wanna hack your car? Macchina is a plug-and-vroom solutionThis entry was posted in Crowdfunding Gadgets hacking Kickstarter Open source hardware Startups TC on March 21, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
Formlabs’ Form 1 Kickstarter project was the first stereo lithography printer that ended up on peoples’ radars. Its successor, the Form 1+, looked identical but had upgraded internals for increased speed and reliability. Following Formlabs’ $35 million raise last year, the company has focused its attention on its more professional-grade Form 2 printer instead. Read More Formlabs retires the Form 1+ printerThis entry was posted in 3d printing formlabs Gadgets hardware TC on March 20, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps
Like all good games, Kendama is easy-ish to learn and frustrating as all ever-loving £%&*@£^% to master. What’s a poor entrepreneur to do when a game hasn’t changed for 400 years? Rename it Dendama, add a boat-load of electronics, invent a slew of multiplayer games and launch a Kickstarter campaign, of course. Read More Japanese Kendama game gets a digital upgrade and a Kickstarter ...This entry was posted in Gadgets Gaming Kickstarter Startups TC on March 20, 2017 by Haje Jan Kamps