Launch Hackaton
Before I realized that the Hackaton was conflicting with some long term ski vacation we had planned I signed up and was excited to have a more active part at the Launch Conference. By meeting tonight some of the participants I don't know if I could have programmed several days in a row with little sleep like many did. Great job 'guys'!
The winner of the Hackaton will get a $75k investment or $30k in cash.
They where 123 projects…here are the top 12 select tonight in no specific order:
1. watchtower
watch a website
click on areas of the page you want to track.
build a website portfolio of your competitor website
track it's changes
questions: what else are you tracking.
answer: how the look and feel changes
2. reQwip
Dan Driscle, Jon rosenberg
From Texas
"Most of us have a garage full of gear. Wouldn't it be great that we could give that gear to someone who uses it who cannot afford it".
A grad student is looking to buy a bike cheap.
Peer to peer mobile app to buy outdoor gear
Hyper local.
10% fee
questions: how different from what's out there.
answer: first we login with Facebook and authenticate with Twillio api. We make sure you are a real human being.
We geo locate items.
3. genpad
use your iPhone to design faster. Utilise iPhone screen to draw shortcuts.
Start IDE
or Photoshop shortcut keys
4. ERorNot
Avoid patient unnecessary trip to the ER.
Only 12% stay hospitalized.
5. samplerround
Merchant give out free sample. Increase customers
Try something new at no cost
Touch sample and you see a survey
Real time A/B testing
No charges to use the platform, but depersonalize analytics and sell aggregated data
6. Clinq
iPhone
Collect interrests and intents through Facebook and linked in.
Use the NewAer platform (~150 feet) to detect interest.
Find group you are interested in.
Find bouncers group.
Runs in the background.
Do you have time to Clinq? Notification.
7. wizzywig.io
Content management service as a service.
Add a snippet of code to your page. Then you can start editing.
Then the new page is updated instantly.
You get a whole dashboard of pages you are working on.
A list of revisions on a page.
Visual diff
question: how will you charge for it?
answer: not really sure yet.
8. wick
(pretty sure I got the name wrong)
machup twitters broadcast and snapchat videos
we have a global firehose
Node backend that is performant
upload to global feed.
content evaporates after 24 hours
question: what is the primary use case?
answer: real value when you get to twitter broadcast, and you know nobody.
9. discosync
Silent disco…Prototype of the silent disco app
Tracking listeners
Update on the fly
10. Setonia
An instant product search engine api.
Couldn't see/here. Sorry.
11. bridge
Technology to transfer data with the light of your iPhone.
Receiver cost 20 cents.
With the camera they get 30 samples seconds
With hardware it's 20000 more.
12. sechcode
Toon of tools to help you to learn how to product. What is lacking is one on one advise.
Can find experts online.
Shared code editor
Top 5
And the top 5 are (again in no specific order):
- wizzywig.io
- genpad
- samplerround
- watchtower
- discosync