Mindful Meal Makes Meal Planning Fast and Easy
Online services such as Blue Apron and HelloFresh have offered people the ability to cook better meals at home with less hassle. Mindful Meal offers an alternative for those who do need food items shipped to them, but are willing to do their own shopping while maintaining the ability to do so more easily, cheaply, and healthy-consciously. It is a website that offers what its developers claim to be unlimited recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists from a personal dashboard. Users can utilize a monthly, six month, or yearly subscription at a low cost in order to save time and cost while making healthier meal choices for their families. A few aspects that make it different from services like Blue Apron include family profiles and more personalized meal planning. Read more »
Traditionally, there has been little technological innovation in sheet music; the greatest innovation in hundreds of years, it would seem, is the ability to view music tabs to play along to online. This is no longer the case thanks to an app called Chromatik. With Chromatik, players any instrument of any skill level can upload, make notes on, and share sheet music, and it can even help make practicing an instrument more fun and organized for kids. There is also a social component to both the site and the app with strong privacy protections that allow kids to connect with fellow students, family members, and trusted teachers. With Chromatik, users can not only practice anytime, no matter where they are, but they can also discuss music, share recordings, get feedback, and more. 
According to the best retail industry research, the number of people who shop online will soon top 1.5 billion worldwide. That creates a huge market that, while many companies have sought to take advantage of, leaves room for plenty more. WePower Shopping is an online marketplace, essentially a web store, that utilizes social elements to create a relevant shopping experience and guarantees the lowest prices online. It organizes and displays products based on consumer interests and rewards users for engagement. Using analytics easily gathered from consumer networking and “shares” on its site, it can identify trending products and secure deals directly with vendors and manufacturers to cut out the cost of middle men. This means savings for its customers and a greater ability to provide more people with the things they truly want. 
Stock photos are an easy and free means of finding an appropriate photo online to attach to a blog, Facebook post, or webpage, among a wide range of uses. Unfortunately, these stock photos are easy to identify as such, very obviously staged, and may only vaguely convey what you are communicating. Twenty20 is a startup that looks to change this through crowdsourcing. It offers what its creators call “the world’s largest crowdsourced image catalog.” Along with solving the stock image issue for users, it provides an opportunity for anyone to upload photos and potentially make money on them. It provides the added benefit that the photos people can find on the Twenty20 website are much more creative and interesting than the ones typically found on similar websites or through a random image search. People who are seeking photos that they can legally add to their blogs can get a subscription at Twenty20 to purchase some at a lower cost than hiring a photographer, while photographers can display their smartphone photos to big brands and marketing agencies. 
Much of the technological innovation that makes life easier does so through its application to retail and improving the connection between buyers and sellers. Utilized in a number of different ways, technology has completely changed the way people do business. CloudTags is a new startup that looks to take advantage of tech in retail and improve upon it in a unique way.
Someone has taken advantage of the latest tech and applied it to just about every sport and hobby imaginable, and bowling is no exception. While it may have taken some time compared to bigger money-makers, more televised, and more generally popular sports, an app called Action Bowling from tech startup Rolltech is making a way for users to get the most from their bowling. There is both a competitive and social aspect to the app, and the many things it lets you do include letting you track your scores and stats, challenge a community of global bowlers, and connect with friends. You can use it to work toward improving your own game as well as connecting with others about your shared hobby. 
Most people who have questions browsing a website attempt to find the answer through trial and error, resorting to searching the Internet when they cannot find it. The FAQ section on most websites is rarely helpful, and the map on how to navigate the site is usually isolated from the site itself. It is often difficult to find what you want to know where it would make sense to be, and this is a dilemma a startup called AnswerDash hopes to resolve. Essentially, it has produced a question-and-answer technology that a company can embed within its website, allowing users to find answers more easily, while clients gain insights into their users’ behaviors and can adapt customer support accordingly. 
Newsletters and flyers have long been a trusted and widely used method of getting news out locally, and it is even more effective through use of the Internet. People can now put together an engaging, eye-catching notice in a way that gathers much more of an audience than canvassing neighborhoods instantly, particularly through social media. Smore is a startup that works to make the creation and online distribution of flyers and newsletters easier while ensuring a larger audience. Its developers tout it as a means of taking promotional material to the next level with built-in tools that make spreading your message fast and effective. It also boasts a simple, user-friendly format that enables anyone to create something that looks professional with little to no design experience. 
Presentation is a key aspect of marketing, one of the most important elements in keeping a company relevant and increasing public interest in it. Content marketing, a marketing strategy that focuses on creating and distributing effective, relevant, and consistent content to attract potential customers, has always been a major focus in drawing them, and this is where a startup called Visual.ly aims to help. Not only is content marketing more important than ever to help companies stand out among innumerable competition, especially in the online marketplace, but it has also been growing very rapidly over the last decade in particular. Visual.ly helps by, in its creators’ words, simplifying the production and distribution of visual content.