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2 years ago

A hub for artists, musicians, and other creatives to get paid while they work.

288

5 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their money, including budgeting and paying bills. The company wants to become a finance hub for consumers.

253

5 years ago

A platform for managing connected devices in the home, that connects devices to a single hub.

248

4 years ago

A new startup that wants to make the world’s smallest USB hub, allowing users to plug in multiple USB devices (keyboards, monitors, etc) into a single port

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4 years ago 1 views

This is a global health platform that helps people in developing countries get health care. The company hopes to work with governments to set up “medical hubs” that combine healthcare data to make it easier for people to find doctors and make better decisions.

194

4 years ago

A platform for businesses to create their own private marketplaces, that can be a hub for suppliers and buyers.

192

5 years ago

A platform that allows people to monitor and control their home environment. Their central product is an IoT hub that collects data from things like lights, thermostat, and leak detectors, then sends it to a smartphone app.

186

5 years ago

Fetch is a platform for food delivery. Unlike Grubhub, Fetch offers more than just food delivery. The startup is using the same data it collects on its deliveries to help restaurants build better menus and make food-ordering easier.

186

5 years ago

A tool for distribution of food and groceries to people in need, in the form of a vehicle equipped with a fridge, a microwave, and a coffee machine, and that can travel down the street from a central hub. The startup’s founders are veterans of the American military.

184

5 years ago

A platform for food delivery that wants to compete with GrubHub and Uber Eats.

182

4 years ago

This company is building a dynamic, social network for creators. The company’s users are known as “creators”, and they’re able to join the platform via social channels like Facebook and Twitter. The company’s blog is meant to be a “creators” hub, where they’re able to share their work, and tips and tricks.

182

5 years ago

A delivery app that uses Uber, GrubHub and Postmates to dispatch delivery orders from a restaurant menu. This is a B2B app for restaurants to manage their delivery operations

171

4 years ago

A startup that wants to create a hub for job seekers to improve their chances of landing a job, allowing companies to focus on hiring.

166

4 years ago

An API that can be used to integrate web and mobile applications with the API and create a single platform. The API is designed to help enterprise and developers build applications with a central hub that can be accessed from multiple devices.

166

4 years ago

A startup that aims to help employees manage their work from home workflows on Slack, Github, and other services.

163

3 years ago

A startup for the homeless, letting them order food via text message and pick it up at a central hub.

159

5 years ago

A software company that helps small businesses create a single integration hub with tools that can handle all the administrative tasks involved in setting up a business.

158

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for organizations to manage and streamline their workflows, building a “digital hub” for teams.

157

5 years ago

A tool for creating and editing charts from Python or MATLAB. Charts is a Python library for creating and editing charts, with an API for creating and editing charts in MATLAB. Charts is available on the Python Package Index and on GitHub.

155

5 years ago

The company’s first product is a suite of LED bulbs that can be controlled via a smartphone app. The bulbs are built with a Wi-Fi enabled hub and have a built-in motion sensor allowing the user to turn the light on and off, dim, or change its color.

155

2 years ago

A startup that lets users buy and sell tickets to concerts, sporting events, or theater performances. It works like StubHub and Ticketmaster, but the startup is trying to build a better experience for the consumer.

155

5 years ago

A tool for creating tools. The startup’s founders say they’re building a tool that allows users to distribute GitHub tools, like their own GitHub for Excel, by other users.

153

5 years ago

The startup behind Pachube has expanded into the market for connected devices that allow users to collect and share data. The company has launched two other products since the acquisition: the Pachube Watch, which is a customizable wristband that can be paired with smart devices to collect fitness data and share data with other devices, and the Pachube Photo, which is a way for users to capture and share their photos with other users.

153

5 years ago

The Startup is building out a free, open-source toolset for managing your GitHub project.

153

5 years ago

A mobile app for small businesses to find the best deals for their products. The goal is to get people to comparison shop within the app itself, rather than using Yelp, CVS, or the Amazon Alexa hub.

152

5 years ago

A collaborative platform (like GitHub or Trello) for hosting and sharing software code.

152

5 years ago

A startup that wants to grow in the middle east and eventually offer a hub for those looking to find a doctor, dentist, or other healthcare professional in their area.

148

5 years ago

A company that brings internet of things-style technology to the previously non-internet-connected, like home appliances. It’s a home monitoring hub that allows you to control things like your lights and heating from your smartphone.

147

4 years ago

Voice-activated light switches that don’t require a hub or hub-controlled switches.

142

5 years ago

A startup in the heart of one of the biggest tech hubs in the world that wants to help startups find genius.

139

5 years ago

Founders: Marta, Ryan. The two want to build a tech hub for the Latin American startup community. They want to give startups discounted office space, mentorship, and access to capital.

136

5 years ago

A hub for sharing the locations of all the world’s bike-share bikes

136

5 years ago

A platform for companies to build their own custom versions of Uber, Lyft, or GrubHub.

132

5 years ago

A “boutique” version of GitHub, built for enterprise customers.

132

5 years ago

This startup is building a system that helps companies recruit and retain high quality talent. With a $100,000 investment from Andreessen Horowitz, the company is working with companies like Hubspot, Zendesk, and The New York Times to do so.

129

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a C++ library that allows hardware designs to be shared on GitHub. The company’s CEO says that the concept is similar to the Arduino open source hardware platform.

129

5 years ago

A startup that offers to integrate employee feedback into a centralized hub to improve workflows.

127

3 years ago

This app basically allows you to order food from your favorite restaurants. It’s a way to cut out restaurants and make the entire process of ordering food a lot more simple, similar to Grubhub.

127

3 years ago

This startup is building an intelligent assistant that helps you stay on top of your home's energy usage. The product is a hub that connects to a variety of energy sources and can tell you when to run your dishwasher or change your lights.

126

2 years ago

a “platform for developers to build and launch their own open-source projects”. They provide the backend to allow users to create and manage projects on GitHub, the frontend to allow users to manage their projects on GitHub, and the ability to help developers make their projects on GitHub better.

125

5 years ago

A “cloud-based” HR/recruiting. The startup will probably take a similar structure to what companies like Hubspot have done with customer service, and sell it to HR and recruiting companies.

116

5 years ago

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered bot for streamlining the process of buying and selling tickets on secondary markets like Stubhub. The startup is also building a mobile app that helps users make these transactions more easily.

116

3 years ago

This startup is trying to take the hassle out of finding a flight for an upcoming vacation. Rather than waiting for multiple websites to return the results, FlightHub finds the cheapest flight for a given route, then books it for you automatically.

116

5 years ago

A technology company that creates “smart” thermostats for home and business use, allowing homeowners to control their thermostats via their smartphone. The company is led by CEO and founder Rajat Pahuja, who previously built a business in India called Shubh Loans that went “very profitable,” according to Pahuja.

113

5 years ago

A digital assistant for checking your credit and bank accounts, aiming to be “the financial hub of your life”.

112

5 years ago

A company that makes a service that turns any connected device into a smart home hub, enabling users to control various smart home devices with their smartphone.

112

5 years ago

An online hub for people who are visually-impaired and hard of hearing. The site’s founders say that they’re currently in talks with hearing suppliers to help them build a suite of apps for users.

110

5 years ago

This startup is building a way to collaborate on a schedule that combines current project management concepts like Trello with the concept of a “workflow”, a name that describes a way to organize work in a way that’s both intuitive and structured. The company’s first project was building a lightweight but robust version of GitHub’s Jira.

109

5 years ago

This company is pitching a “collaboration hub for teams”, with tools to help teams track what they’re working on, manage their work schedules, and review their progress. The company currently has 3 contracts.

106

4 years ago

A startup that helps bring startup culture to India. They want to help India’s startups grow by providing a hub for community and events. They’re planning to have a physical location in India.

100

3 years ago

A startup that lets people upload their apps to GitHub and get a review from a software engineer.

100

4 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform that allows companies to send automated payments to contractors, freelancers and consultants. Work Hub is designed to help B2B companies with the complexity of payment processing.

99

4 years ago

The startup is building an online platform that helps B2B companies pull data from their sales and marketing teams to help them better allocate resources. Their service pulls data from tools like Salesforce, Marketo, and Hubspot.

98

5 years ago

This startup wants to reduce the cost of purchasing and transporting food, building a hub to connect farmers to buyers via the internet through the use of smart contracts.

95

4 years ago

A food delivery startup that wants to be like Grubhub for food-related products

95

4 years ago

A product that helps freelancers manage their taxes and finances with one central hub, and set up their contract remotely.

92

5 years ago

A GitHub competitor looking to gather all your projects into one place.

90

4 years ago

A tool to help small businesses get an edge on their competitors. It’s a toolset built to help small businesses onboard and manage clients. It’s a more advanced version of a service like HubSpot’s existing “Crowd Sourced Marketing” program.

90

3 years ago

A startup to help big businesses manage their legal contracts from anywhere in the world. Hubdoc takes legal contracts, translates them into natural language, and then translates them back into legal language for the user. Hubdoc says it has $1.6 million in funding.

90

4 years ago

A startup that helps loan officers manage loan applications and serves as a hub

89

4 years ago

This idea is a tool that allows anyone to run their own private code review on Github.

88

4 years ago

A low-cost, high-speed, high-capacity network for manufacturing. Each hub is designed to be small, modular, and scalable.

88

4 years ago

This startup is building a connection between developers and local governments to help them build projects faster. They’ve had a great response so far, and the city of San Francisco is using them to build projects like the “people’s hub” on Market Street.

84

4 years ago

A startup that wants to be the Uber for bike rentals: a service where you can pick up a bike and drop it off at a central hub and then pay a flat fee to use it.

83

3 years ago

A social service that helps families coordinate their care. The idea is to give parents a hub that allows them to connect with family members around the country, who can in turn request care for their loved ones.

83

3 years ago

A platform for women called “the hub” that allows women to share their stories and connect with others with similar experiences.

81

4 years ago

This startup makes software for a company that makes custom parts for cars. CNC Solutions creates parts for specific cars, like a wheel hub for an Audi R8. The startup claims that if a company has a client they can't make a part for, they'll be able to turn around an order in six hours.

80

4 years ago

A grocery delivery service that aims to combine the best of Amazon Prime, Instacart, and GrubHub. It’s a business that makes sense in a city that has no grocery store within a half mile of most homebuyers.

80

4 years ago

A SaaS business that supports small businesses with a “hub and spoke” model, where a local business acts as a coordinator for a group of smaller businesses.

79

4 years ago

A startup focused on the energy sector, where energy is managed from a central hub to yield more energy from a smaller area.

78

3 years ago

A cloud-based accounting solution for small business owners. The company’s SaaS platform will connect millions of small businesses to their accounts and provide a “hub” for their financial data.

76

4 years ago

An automated software service for managing Github accounts.

75

4 years ago

A hub to connect doctors with patients who need surgeons, allowing the doctor to offer the surgeons a patient pool

74

3 years ago

A company trying to build a hardware hub that allows companies to track their hardware inventory, monitor it, and automate the process of sending it to customers.

73

4 years ago

Hubspot wants to help companies build the right sales pipeline.

71

4 years ago

This app helps you find your way to the nearest Venue, which is a building that’s designed to be a hub for startups.

71

4 years ago

A platform that allows you to order a pizza through voice commands. The startup is hoping to compete with the likes of GrubHub and UberEATS with a $5 price tag.

70

5 years ago

A team of former HubSpot and Google employees have created a new startup called Binder that makes it easy for sales and marketing teams to collaborate with one another.

69

3 years ago

A startup that is building an IoT-based smart home system, with an inbuilt app that you can use to control your home. The idea is that the startup itself is a hardware hub, connecting hardware from different vendors with a single app. The company is backed by Y Combinator.

68

5 years ago

Idea: A web-based Hub for all your IoT devices

66

3 years ago

A platform that lets people buy their food online and have it delivered to their homes. The startup aims to replace delivery services like Uber Eats, Grubhub and others with a centralized platform that consolidates all of food delivery operations.

66

3 years ago

A startup that delivers a suite of services for small businesses. The business is built on a service called Hubsmash that automatically connects remote workers with employers via Slack.

66

4 years ago

A new video platform for streamers, offering a hub for video content that includes personalized recommendations from the platform’s community of users.

65

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies create and manage their own internal community platforms. It’s meant to be a hub for employees to share ideas and collaborate, but it’s designed to also be a repository for company culture.

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3 years ago 1 views

A GitHub alternative that will allow developers to host their code outside of GitHub's walled garden.

65

3 years ago

A new way of organizing the world’s data, with a decentralized set of data hubs.

65

3 years ago

A startup that makes a smart home product called the “Tilt,” a hub that can connect to other smart home devices, such as the Nest thermostat, to make them work together to save energy and set schedules.

65

3 years ago

A platform that helps users build and publish their own web-based apps. The startup is aiming to offer tools for experienced web developers to build apps that are more easily accessible than the average Github project.

64

2 years ago

An online marketplace where people can buy tickets to events, concerts, and other things they can’t get normally. Think StubHub but for events that aren’t sold out.

64

4 years ago

A startup that builds a hub that connects multiple companies’ point-of-sale systems in one location for faster payment processing. It’s available to companies with less than 5 employees

63

3 years ago

Smartphone-based food ordering app that aims to rival Grubhub and other competitors.

63

3 years ago

A food delivery service that uses Ubers to compete with Grubhub

63

2 years ago

A platform that can serve as a hub for online exam prep.

63

4 years ago

A “Clearbit for GitHub,” which helps GitHub users find and connect with people who are using their software.

62

3 years ago

A startup that brings models from China to the US by way of a global talent hub.

62

3 years ago

A food delivery app for restaurants in the US that’s trying to match Uber Eats and Grubhub with guaranteed delivery times.

61

4 years ago

This is what happens when the team behind Meetup, the platform for organizing local events, turns their attention towards the more consumer-focused side of the world. It’s a platform that helps merchants sell directly to their customers and serves as a hub for sales, marketing, and support.

60

3 years ago

This startup is building a hardware hub that can turn any old computer into a hotspot, allowing users to connect to faster Wi-Fi and mobile networks.

60

3 years ago

A platform for managing employees in the $250 billion food delivery industry. The startup is building the backend of an on-demand delivery app, and is working with the likes of Seamless, GrubHub, and DoorDash.

58

3 years ago

This is a startup that’s helping companies organize and protect their intellectual property, pitching it as “GitHub for intellectual property”.

57

3 years ago

A startup that makes your house a smart home hub

57

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to use the Amazon Echo and Alexa. They’re building a hub that allows users to control their lights, thermostat, pool pump and more with voice commands, without needing to install separate hardware.

56

3 years ago

A company that sells a cheap smartphone that connects to a Wi-Fi router in the home and turns it into a smart home hub.

56

3 years ago

Feedback Hub is a web-based email management tool for companies.

56

3 years ago

A decentralized network of micro-distribution hubs that works with existing delivery apps to help those apps grow beyond their current geographic footprint. It’s meant to be a “one-stop shop” for delivery companies to start using.

55

3 years ago

This is a service for selling cheap tickets to events, it’s a cheaper alternative to Stubhub.

55

3 years ago

A company that’s building a platform to make it easier for people to manage their home security, with a hub that’s meant to support additional hardware over time.

53

4 years ago

A startup that aims to make it easy to share a meal without needing to learn how to cook or give a recipe. It’s a bit like Grubhub, but for the home.

52

3 years ago

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2 years ago

A startup focused on the smart home market in China. The company has a team of 25 engineers and is building a smart hub that connects everything in the home to the internet. They’re aiming to be the Amazon of the smart home in China.

47

3 years ago

A company that makes a “Github” for companies, linking them to suppliers and letting them manage their entire supply chain from a single place.

45

3 years ago

The startup is building a cloud based “data hub” specifically for social impact companies. It aims to “make it easier for social enterprises and nonprofits to integrate their data with the rest of the world, and for those people to access it.” The startup’s first customers are a group of nonprofits in the Bay Area.

43

3 years ago

A tool that helps to manage an employee’s schedule and tasks. The B2B company takes a similar approach to Slack or Asana and wants to be a centralized hub for tasks and projects.

43

3 years ago

A hyper-local delivery service for groceries in New York City. The startup is building a network of delivery hubs, with prices determined by demand.

41

3 years ago

A virtual assistant for the Amazon Echo that enables the smart speaker to control Samsung Smart TVs via the SmartThings hub.

40

2 years ago

A tool to simplify the migration of existing email systems. The team has built partnerships with a few tech hubs and firms to help their customers shift to Mailchimp.

40

2 years ago

The team behind GrubHub says they’ve managed to get $20,000 worth of orders placed from customers in just the first week of their beta launch.

39

5 years ago

Idea: A Salesforce alternative that offers easy integrations with Github, Bitbucket, and Slack

38

3 years ago

A platform that serves as a digital hub for all of a person’s insurance policies and allows them to choose the one that works for them.

37

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform for companies to manage their supply chains. The startup does this by connecting companies with manufacturers and brokers in China. The company also uses its own facilities as a “hub” to make parts and assemble them into finished products.

36

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to build communities, which they describe as platforms that act as a hub where users can share content and other people can discover and engage with it. Built on the same infrastructure as Airbnb, they can connect to other platforms like Zazzle, Vimeo and Etsy.

33

3 years ago

With high unemployment and a low workforce participation rate, the US needs to expand its workforce by 1.5 million workers per year — but there just aren’t enough people with the right skills to fill these positions. Hubstaff aims to help companies find and retain these employees.

33

2 years ago

ShareRing is building a decentralized network of wireless communication hubs for sharing rides, renting out rooms, and more. It’s meant to be more environmentally friendly and cost-efficient than ride-sharing apps like Uber, and is already in talks with the government of Australia.

33

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that’s building a central hub for access to all the websites and services people use at work It’s a modern take on intranet portals

32

2 years ago

A hardware company that wants to build an integrated hardware hub that can turn any piece of hardware into a smart device.

30

2 years ago

A way for HR systems to consult and track employee development by combining data from LinkedIn, GitHub and other platforms.

29

2 years ago

A personal digital assistant that integrates with your current smart home system to control them all. The startup is building a wireless Zigbee hub that adds a new layer of control to the existing smart home.

29

2 years ago

A research hub that pulls all the scientific research and makes it available to all on a private blockchain.

27

2 years ago

A company that empowers large teams to collaborate on projects using Slack and GitHub.

22

2 years ago

Hubbub is a site that makes it easy for companies to share their job postings.

21

2 years ago

A central hub for all of your social media data, aimed at users who have a lot of social media profiles. The startup uses AI to analyze all of your social media data to determine which platforms you use the most, what you post the most and the most important comments and followers. They are currently a Y Combinator company.

20

2 years ago

This startup is working on a hardware hub that allows home builders to easily build custom home theater setups in less than three days.

17

2 years ago

A cheap, open source, and hackable version of Google’s Nest thermostat, which serves as a control hub for the internet of things in a home.

17

2 years ago

A platform that lets companies easily find and hire remote software engineers. The company is working with Fortune 500 companies like Accenture and GrubHub and has a $1 million seed round.

16

2 years ago

A social network for the younger generations that serves as a community hub, with tools for news, music, and video, a way to connect with family and friends, and a place to learn new skills.

14

2 years ago

HubHaus is building a mobility marketplace to help businesses and individuals find a ride.

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5 years ago 1 views

Idea: The startup has developed a way for people to share live video with each other while also seeing what others are seeing in real-time. It’s an app where viewers can see what’s happening, but the creator of the video is in control of what they see. It’s modeled a bit like Instagram Stories, but the app wants to become a hub for live video streaming.

11

2 years ago

A company that builds and operates mobile hubs for money transfers.

10

5 years ago

Idea: A way for developers and designers to collaborate on design projects, the way they used to, with the added ability to generate a GitHub-ready invoice at the end.

8

9 days ago 2 views

A platform that turns idle electric vehicles into neighborhood charging hubs, letting owners rent out their home chargers to EV drivers via an app with automated billing and insurance.

1

5 years ago

A startup that creates a marketplace for “micro-hubs”, meant for places where people can go to learn about new technology, get help with

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5 years ago

Idea: A new tool for GitHub pull requests

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5 years ago

Idea: A centralized hub for information and resources for businesses

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5 years ago

Idea: A platform for real-time chat software for businesses, with a focus on making it easy to build bots and integrate with other tools (like Google Calendar, Salesforce, and HubSpot)

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes a lightweight, packable USB hub with a built-in battery.

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5 years ago

A tool for automatically converting your app idea into a Github pages.

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5 years ago

A tool for finding and building mobile apps. The startup wants to be a hub for developers to build apps across multiple platforms.

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12 days ago

A B2B service turning idle office printers into on-demand 3D printing hubs for rapid prototyping, connected via a shared network app.

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8 days ago

A startup that turns idle electric vehicles into peer-to-peer car-sharing hubs during charging stops, with automated unlocking via geofencing and insurance APIs.

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3 days ago

A platform for gig economy workers to instantly match with short-term shifts in warehouses and delivery hubs, using AI to predict demand spikes.

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12 days ago

A platform that turns idle parking spaces in urban apartments into peer-to-peer car-sharing hubs, with automated access via app and insurance baked in, targeting dense cities like NYC and San Francisco.

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4 days ago

A platform that turns idle office printers into on-demand 3D printing hubs for local makers and small businesses, handling scheduling and material sourcing.

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8 days ago

A platform that turns idle electric vehicle batteries into neighborhood energy storage hubs, allowing owners to rent out capacity for grid stabilization while earning passive income.

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25 days ago 4 views

A startup turning idle electric vehicle batteries into neighborhood energy storage hubs, renting power back to homes during peak hours.

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