This is the first time I’ve posted here. I understand (doing some research) that HN is wary of “Ask HN: Review my startup” posts from new accounts without any/much activity. For that reason, this post is aimed primarily to generate interest and attendees to check out our talk tomorrow (11/8 at 6pm) in Sunnyvale. We’ll be speaking about how we’ve used MongoDB and Node JS at LookupLink. Please come if it sounds interesting! Below is a link and a description to the event details:
http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-MongoDB-User-Group/events/36531032/
“LookupLink provides a platform for individuals to easily access digital content through short tags and QR codes. We hope that one day people wont have to pass up on a car they are interested in buying, an event they'd like to attend, or a person they'd like to contact because they didn't have a convenient way to reference that information.
Our stack runs NodeJS and MongoDB and lives on Dotcloud (our awesome PaaS). We are very enthusiastic about the technologies that we use! MongoDB helps us stay agile, by not locking us into a schema, which helps us stay highly available while we continue to develop our product. We are a small team, so remaining flexible is essential to staying afloat. One of our challenges was finding a compromise between being completely schema less, and incorporating some structure. We managed to do so using some Node JS frameworks and our stack has never been happier, speaking only Javascript. Not to mention our developers too.”
Again, we know that this is being posted from a new account, but if you’d like to check out our startup and have any feedback, we would be very grateful to hear it.
www.lookuplink.com
Essentially yes, we are a QR code provider, but what differentiates us primarily is 1) the convenience of printing formatted flyers with your QR code and short tag (aimed at individuals and small groups wanting to post flyers linking to their content), and 2) our short tags. Short tags are convenient references to more info, something you could easily remember and verbally share with someone (e.g. “Lookup ‘A12’ on LookupLink for more info”). Anticipating a large amount of links being created, our free links provide users with a random short tag which expires after a few weeks (convenient for a craigslist ad, an upcoming event, or your contact info for networking at a convention).
Thank you for your time!! Steven & Andrew