Killer Startups Designs

1800BusinessCards is a Web 2.0 printing startup based out of New York. The recently released Design Studio v3.0 with Hi-Res Instant Proof option makes designing a simple or highly creative business card effortless. In addition, the site gives you direct access to over 17 Million stock photos from the Fotolia library. Other cool features are direct access to your Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa photos, and share your design on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. Services like international shipping, same/next-day turnaround, various card stocks, and best of all free proofing for aesthetic or content errors can hardly be ignored.

Parse, a mobile app platform that is creating a world  for developers so they never have to develop, deploy, or maintain their own server-side stack. Parse handles data, push notifications, social integrations, user management and etc.

About Globial

Imagine you’re a small business with international aspirations. It’s hard for you to trade with businesses in other countries because information is hard to find and communication is difficult. It isn’t easy to trust a company you’ve never heard of located in a city 3000 miles away. We want to change that.

Globial is all about making global trade easy and increasing trust in international business. We imagine a world where business opportunities come to you. We are to businesses what Facebook is to people. We connect the world's businesses, yet we also make it easier than ever to buy and sell. 

We're the first business to business social network and marketplace. Globial is reshaping global business by fundamentally changing the way businesses communicate, buy, and sell with each other. By focusing on facilitating the creation of relationships between businesses, we're creating a community of trust and engagement between businesses. You would want to do business with people you have a relationship with--we make it easy.

We already have 20,000+ businesses trading on Globial in only a few months, including big names like DHL, Chevron, 3M, Reliance, Huawei, and more. Yet, the majority of our members are small or medium sized businesses that use Globial to reach a global market.

UI designer: Sunny Mui

Have you ever thought of watching Instagram pics in Pinterest fashion. A joke turned into a weekend project by Pek Pongpaet and Brandon Leonardo ended up becoming a cool startup project called Pinstagram. It allows you to combine the best of two worlds, Pinterest and Instagram. Join Pinstagram today and have fun.

About The Startup

At first Asana might seem like another task manager web app, but the real powerful feature is it's simplicity. A lot of task managers or organizers start with a mission to make it easy for users to create tasks and manage but many times you are forced to go back to a simple text editor. There are a lot of hopes from Asana to keep up to the promise of keeping it simple, as it is developed by an awesome team including notable figures in tech industry such as Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook Co-founder)and Justin Rosenstein (Former Engineering Technical Lead at Facebook.com).

About The Startup

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to make your photos talk. Yes, now you can add voice to your pictures using SPOKEnPHOTO app. Which makes sharing photos with your family and friends more exciting as they can hear your thoughts. You can also request your family or friends to add their voice to a picture. Available on the iPhone app store.

About The Startup

Lua makes collaboration easy for team work involved in an event. Send blast messages and distribute documents securely to your employees by creating separate contact list for specific group.

About The Design

Lua website design is big and bold. Using bigger fonts and bright red color works very well with the Lua's business concept.

Main Fonts: GothamHTFMedium, Helvetica.

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Main Color: Red (#B72A20), Grey (#27292D)

About The Startup: Did you ever wonder what time to tweet to reach you to maximum audience to increase the chances of retweets. We have a good news for you, now you can schedule tweets timely with Timey.is for maximum impact.

About The Design: A minimalistic approach towards Timey.is website design is really impressive. Clean typography and subtle colors really brings together the design in harmony.

Let the music play. Whether you are Relaxing or Throwing a party, leave it up to Songza. They know it all. Recently launch iPad app and surpassed 1 Million iOS Downloads in just 10 Days. The killer designer behind Songza UI/UX is Aza Raskin (also see MassiveHealth).

Fonts Used: Arial, Helvetica Neue

Did you know there is marketplace for people with good taste. Whether you like to treat your stomach or friends, whether you like to sell artisan food, Join the Tasting Club at Foodzie, an online marketplace for specialty food.

Fonts Uses: Georgia, Lucida Grande, GothamMedium

FutureAdvisor makes quality financial advice easily accessible to everyone. It was featured on major web publication including TechCrunch. Check out the awesome team behind FutureAdvisor.

Fonts Used: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica and Arial

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Try the new way of sending a gift card to a business through GiftRocket. You can suggest a business for spending the gift card or let them decide to redeem as cash. There is no card to carry so no worries of ever losing it, check out how it works in details. Also combined with a very user friendly interface for web and mobile by the awesome designer Mike Kus (also see KickSend).  He talks more about the site design in the following GiftRocket launch article.

Fonts Used MuseoSans, Helvetica Neue and VAGRoundedBT-Regular

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Needle is set to change the customer service experience by bringing together your product fans to become the best customer service team for you. A chat system that offers the equivalent of having a personal shopper giving real-time recommendations to your customers based on personal experience.

YCombinator graduate Kicksend makes sending large batches of photos, videos and files to your family & friends easy and effortless. Backed by awesome team including Designer Founder Wells Riley from StartupsThisIsHowDesignWorks and UK Designer Mike Kus who is behind Kicksend's awesome web app design. Try out Kicksend today by downloading it for your iPhone or Android phone.

Infogr.am helps you create interactive infographics in few minutes. Pick a pre-designed template and all the spicy data you collected (import option available) and let infogr.am do it's magic. Once your infographic is ready simply publish and share it on your social network.