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Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 6
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| Jun 24, 2009 | Posterous Acquires DIY Digg Site Slinkset | Posterous co-founder Gary Tan just announced that they’ve acquired fellow Y-Combinator company Slinkset – a Digg / Reddit-style news site with voting capabilities. Says Tan in his blog post, “Slinkset will remain online, and we’ll be workin... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset | Posterous, the dead-simple service that makes it super easy to share your blog posts and media across the web, has acquired Slinkset, a startup that allows users to quickly build social news sites similar to Reddit and Digg. Slinkset.com wi... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009 Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment fund, announced this week that it raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital, and angel investors. The fund, which has invested in 40 startups per... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff | Incubator Y Combinator just wrapped the first of its two West Coast demo days for its latest batch of startups. As usual, their concepts were all over the place, from ticket sales to retail polls to job listings. The startups gave demos on ... |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Y Combinator's Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses | Three years ago, Paul Graham and his Y Combinator incubator funded Reddit, a social news site that has grown to over 2.5 million unique visitors a month. Reddit has never been able to match the success of Digg, its closest competitor, but i... |
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FAQ about Slinkset
What has the press written about Slinkset?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning Slinkset, among them “Posterous Acquires DIY Digg Site Slinkset” (Jun 24, 2009) and “Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset” (Jun 23, 2009).
Is Slinkset still active?
Yes, Slinkset is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.