<story><title>Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-backed-leaky-is-hipmunk-for-car-insurance/#yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelmichael</author><text>There is actually another company that has this concept: CoverHound. I&apos;m one of the co-founders. We started a few months before Leaky.&lt;p&gt;We went through the AngelPad incubator during the Winter 2011 class. TechCrunch covered us in a little blurb at the time. Since then we&apos;ve received VC funding and have built out our team a little bit.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s no publicly available pricing API for insurance carriers yet, so I&apos;m curious as to how Leaky comes up with their numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>I don&apos;t think it&apos;s really the same concept. On Leaky, you type in your information once, and then they show you insurance quotes. Whereas CoverHound just gives me links to insurance companies&apos; websites, and then I have to fill out my information on each of those websites. If I were you guys, I would switch to the Leaky model, because it seems a lot easier for the user to only type in their information once.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-backed-leaky-is-hipmunk-for-car-insurance/#yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelmichael</author><text>There is actually another company that has this concept: CoverHound. I&apos;m one of the co-founders. We started a few months before Leaky.&lt;p&gt;We went through the AngelPad incubator during the Winter 2011 class. TechCrunch covered us in a little blurb at the time. Since then we&apos;ve received VC funding and have built out our team a little bit.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s no publicly available pricing API for insurance carriers yet, so I&apos;m curious as to how Leaky comes up with their numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerrya</author><text>I greatly appreciate you will help me find insurance that protects my car from alien abduction.  Does that cover me, my passengers, and cow, or is it just for the vehicle itself? :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/B9zdt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/B9zdt.png&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://coverhound.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://coverhound.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>