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5 years ago

A mobile app that helps a person use a credit card that does not have a magnetic stripe. Instead, it uses a special card reader that reads the information on the card, and sends it to the app.

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4 years ago 1 views

A universal barcode reader for all industries, including retail, healthcare, and manufacturing. The startup wants to develop a barcode reader that can read the same barcode across all industries.

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2 years ago

A new startup focused on helping readers access the best content in their area. The company offers a monthly subscription of a curated list of articles that interest a person. They want to launch in early 2020 to allow people to take a break from their phones.

194

5 years ago

If you’re a food blogger, you need to know how to cook. The startup helps you do just that with a workflow that allows you to take photos of food you’re cooking and then create a recipe card that you can share with your readers.

192

4 years ago

This app enables consumers to access over 50,000 books by reading on their mobile device. It’s meant to be a library of all the books a reader has ever read, and all the books they'd like to read.

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4 years ago

A “social news site,” built for Indian readers.

172

5 years ago

The company’s first product is a credit card reader that plugs into a mobile device. It’s meant to work with a smartphone’s wireless charging capabilities.

166

3 years ago

A startup that aims to build an e-book ecosystem for Indian readers.

144

5 years ago

A platform for professional book authors who want to sell their books through Amazon. The startup’s founders say they’re working on integrations with other retailers like iTunes and Google Play and are making it easier for authors to sell their books to readers.

139

5 years ago

A startup that is building a new kind of e-reader that uses a 3-D lens to let users see books as if they were 3-D movies.

136

5 years ago

A social network for bloggers, publishers, and readers to keep in touch and share content.

121

5 years ago

A digital point-of-sale system for restaurants that minimizes friction and drives more sales. The platform uses a credit card reader and is simply hooked up to an existing Wi-Fi network.

101

4 years ago

A tool for reading faster, with an algorithm built to read 300 words per minute for average readers. It’s currently being used by the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn .

92

3 years ago

Keeping an eye on the most relevant news, articles, and blogs for their readers and giving them a way to better organize and read them.

92

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a book publishing platform that supports writers, publishers, and readers by giving them a way to store and give access to their documents online.

84

4 years ago

A company that builds a personal and professional portable credit score for people who have an unsecured credit card (UCC) and don’t have the equipment to install a credit card reader. For the most unsecured credit card holders, commonly known as under-banked, the company will build a simple and secure online credit application.

79

4 years ago

A startup that makes a visual proofreader to help users read plain text and check their grammar.

77

4 years ago

A team of people that builds software for and with the help of the general public (readers, writers and other types of creators). Its first product was a book, "", which won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Best Nonfiction.

76

4 years ago

A platform for connecting readers to products and creators. The company says it’s currently in talks with publishers, and has letters of intent from five publishers to launch the product in the next few weeks.

74

4 years ago

This is a book publisher that helps authors make money from their work, by selling digital and physical copies to readers, then compensating authors with royalty payments on each sale.

73

3 years ago

A digital comic book reader. The startup is building a digital comic book reader to help people experience the art form without the hassle of owning physical copies.

71

4 years ago 1 views

A library for books on Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader.

70

4 years ago

A startup that brings in-app payments to merchants with no credit card reader.

70

2 years ago 1 views

A daily news digest for high-schoolers that lets them mix and match a set of curated stories, and get it delivered to their cell phones every day. What’s unique about this startup is that it’s developed a way to let readers select which stories they want to read from the curated selection.

70

3 years ago

A company that makes a mobile reading app that’ll help you read faster, even if you’re a slower reader.

66

3 years ago

The startup is a “social network for books”, which it says is currently being used by over 1,000 libraries and over 100,000 readers. It’s built around a system that “enables people to discover, share, and discover again”.

65

5 years ago

Idea: A hardware product that seamlessly integrates with your existing credit card reader so that you can accept credit card payments in person.

63

4 years ago

A free, ad-free, and un-nudged newsreader for iOS.

56

3 years ago

A tool for web developers to get an in-depth understanding of how readers are viewing their websites, and how to improve them.

56

2 years ago

A platform that allows businesses to build their own credit card reader for accepting credit cards and bitcoin. It will be a combination of hardware and software.

54

3 years ago

A tool that helps people track the performance of their e-readers, analyzing which ones are best for them.

51

3 years ago

A platform for people to write about their careers and books and share their writing with others. Self-published authors get paid for their work, and readers gain access to the work of other writers.

49

3 years ago

The startup is building a platform that allows writers to create a book with a digital version of the book for readers to read for free.

48

3 years ago

A startup that makes mobile payments simple, letting businesses accept payments with a phone or a card reader.

44

2 years ago

An “intelligent” credit card reader

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3 years ago

A software product that helps hospitals track patient data. It’s first product is a credit card reader for doctors and nurses to take credit cards on-site at the hospital, and can also be used for hospital payments and for medication tracking.

39

3 years ago

A facial recognition app for iPhone that’s meant to be used in the background and is touted as a replacement for mobile fingerprint readers. The startup is still in stealth mode, and a company rep says that it’s just a few months away from launch.

38

2 years ago

A startup allowing people to pay for their transit fare using their phone, paying a small fee. The company is building a physical reader that works with a phone to read a QR code on the back of the card, and then charges the account.

35

3 years ago

Building on their card readers that allow people to charge their mobile phones with a wireless charger, the company is developing an app that allows users to recharge their cell phones using a wireless charger.

33

2 years ago

The startup is building a way to manage your credit card payments and payments at retailers. It’s first product, a card reader, was used by the Boston Mayor’s office, and the startup was acquired by Stripe in 2014.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses build their own branded credit card readers by leveraging off the popularity of the card readers they offer.

31

2 years ago

A company that makes a product that helps publishers gather data on their readership, using tools like Google Analytics and Facebook Insights to analyze sales.

26

2 years ago

A digital assistant for book publishers that is designed to “engage readers as they read”. This is a big goal for the startup, which has been trying to build a platform for readers to interact with books and books to interact with readers.

25

2 years ago

A startup that wants to provide a toolset that allows websites to use AI to improve the experience of their readers.

22

2 years ago

A platform for journalists to create, schedule and publish their own newsletters and newsletters to their readership. The company says the app is for "digital publishers who want to reach their audiences, not just with text but with imagery and video to tell their stories."

22

2 years ago

A platform for building a personal narrative in the form of a book that Dr. Lovell wrote to help people better understand the world around them. The book provides the reader with the details behind the science, the history, and the impact of science.

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5 years ago

Idea: Rollup is building a cloud-based solution for authors to publish and sell interactive books. It allows authors to create games, quizzes, and other interactive elements that let readers take a deeper dive into the stories.

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2 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for merchants to build their own credit-card reader, which they say is a $1 billion market.

16

5 years ago

xtractor is a platform for helping publishers convert their subscriptions into recurring revenue, which is often more profitable. xtractor’s pitch is hyperfocused on their customers’ business needs, like improving reader retention and increasing subscription and recurring revenue.

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2 years ago

A way to help users with a disability to use the web. One of the services is for building a “written” search engine using the web, and another is for creating a “screen reader” for the web, both of which would allow the user to read search results and web pages aloud and write in the text as well.

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8 hours ago

A platform for freelance writers to collaborate on interactive e-books, embedding quizzes, videos, and live updates, with revenue sharing from reader subscriptions starting at $9/month per project.

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