Find Your Style with StyleSeek
E-commerce is a huge market in just about every field and industry. Any large retailer has an online presence as well as most small businesses. One of the biggest industries employing e-commerce either directly from a company’s website or secondhand through an online marketplace featuring many different companies is fashion. Along with the ability to purchase clothing online, there are also many blogs, recommendation services, and style magazines on the Internet. StyleSeek is a startup that combines e-commerce and analytics in a unique way, focusing on getting to know an individual’s style in order to make the best recommendations. It does this in a way that engages users without relying on trends or social media feeds, allowing each one to develop his or her own style. It is a service its creators call “Pandora for e-commerce products,” one that offers a distinctly different experience than the many other online fashion marketplaces. Read more »
Booking a flight can be simple for some, but it can be a long and arduous process for those seeking the best price. Choosing between numerous airlines while prices rise and fall unpredictably can be quite stressful. Many end up regretting that they did not either book sooner or have the patience to wait until prices dropped. For these people there is Hopper, an app that can help them find the best time to fly and the best time to buy. The app analyzes billions of flight prices daily to predict how prices will change, which is not a new concept, but Hopper has been developing its own price prediction technology in order to focus on helping users get the best flight deals with better speed and precision. 
Food is not only a necessity, but a passion that many people share. Whether searching for the perfect recipe, understanding how to be a better cook, or finding ways to adhere to a particular diet, there are innumerable websites dedicated to it in one way or another. For those who love cooking, the Internet offers an invaluable database of recipes from chefs of all levels of experience and knowledge to share with each other. Feastie is one such website with one major distinction: it collects recipes exclusively from food blogs. Updated daily, it now has nearly 200,000 recipes from thousands of blogs, and its creators claim that this makes it the largest food blogger recipe catalog online. Its front page offers a visual search with recipes listed when a user clicks on a particular photo, making it easier to choose recipes that appeal to you. A few additional features and tools set Feastie apart as well. 
Groups looking to throw a fundraiser need a place to do so, and a restaurant is often a good option. A launch party or even simple information meeting at a restaurant can help to bring in business during its slower business hours. An arrangement between a restaurant and a group, particularly one hoping to bring in a large group of people, can take a long time and a lot of work. This is where GroupRaise comes in, helping them find each other more efficiently than traditional methods. Its creators tout it as local community networking for groups and restaurants. Its site will let restaurants post available time slots that groups can request online, and the group earns a percentage of the sales for its cause while restaurants can give back to the community. The restaurant does not need to offer discounts or coupons, but can give a cause some of its profit that is essentially extra by reaping the benefit of having more customers who would not normally be there at that time. 
Competition can drive people to do better, and the workplace is no exception. An employee incentive program that combines performance recognition with the current trend to gamify competition even in the most professional settings could be an excellent means of engaging people to work harder. This is the concept behind DueProps, which offers employee motivation via a peer recognition game for workplaces. It is an app that gamifies employee appreciation so that employers can recognize work effort to reward those who perform well. Its developers created it based upon the premise that people who feel appreciated are happier, more engaged, and more productive at their jobs. 
The problem of growing waste and a lack of space for it is a pressing one. Many governments are issuing stricter environmental standards, and many companies have made efforts to combat this problem through recycling and other initiatives. Cocoa is a startup focused on organic food production and waste management through clean technology. The service it provides is to transform organic waste into compost and compost-based fertilizers. By doing so, it offer a unique solution for farmers that benefits them as well as the problem of dwindling landfill space. To do so, Cocoa uses its own patent-pending technology to transform organic waste into a safe and sustainable fertilizer that the company then sells to farms. 
Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way to gain funds as well as support for many individuals and companies. People use it as a method to achieve all sorts of goals and to gain enough money to open any kind of company. Typically, would-be producers utilize crowdsourcing to fund the creation of a company, a project, or a line of products, but a startup called Gustin looks to employ it as a means of backing the creation of individual products. In the same way that crowdfunding brings together creators and potential consumers on a more personal level and gets individuals involved, Gustin does so for particular items. Its niche is menswear, and its creators intend it to change the way men buy clothes by creating a fully crowdfunded model for determining which jeans it makes. Gustin’s focus is exclusively on high quality clothing, and its model cuts out a lot of the cost to make it more affordable. 
Ordering food for a large group of people is never an easy thing because many people have very particular orders, and orders for large groups can take a great deal of time and effort to complete. Not only that, but the more a list includes, the more likely it is that something will be made incorrectly. People can choose only one restaurant or, alternatively, send someone out to several different restaurants to fulfill an order. This can be more costly than necessary, particularly for a business. Fortunately, there is Foodjunky, a web based food-ordering platform that handles online ordering for groups of people. It helps large groups make orders from restaurants, simplifying the error-prone process of one person relaying many food orders to another over a phone line. Unlike other services that help groups order food, Foodjunky allows users to choose from restaurants, delivery options, cuisine type, and more. 
Improving your health does not need to be difficult or involve major, life-altering changes. There are many small lifestyle changes that can help you better your health in any number of ways, and the simple step of eating better is one of them. Organic Diet Buddy is an app from Saagara, a health-focused startup that enables people to lead healthier lives online or through mobile platforms. It is a mobile app that allows you to make lifestyle changes that you can easily implement in your daily life and let you see the possibilities for change in other areas. In essence, it provides a color-coded guide to fruit and vegetables so you can know which you should buy organic and which are safe to buy non organic, with a few other helpful features included. 
Almost everyone stores passwords for everything from their email, business and personal banking, social media, and other extremely sensitive information on their computers. Unfortunately, not even Mac users are as safe from attacks from malicious programs online as they once thought they were. A new report released by a team of researchers from Indiana University has found that Apple, one of the most reliable computer manufacturers in the world, has developed a flaw in its software that could allow hackers to steal user passwords from Macs.