The season of consuming too much turkey has finally come to an end, and so we finally present to you the final post from Startup Weekend Bay Are at the Hacker Dojo. And what an event it was! With over 150 registrations and 40+ pitches, once again the Bay Area demonstrated just how much innovation and raw enthusiasm it has to offer.
After the pitches on Friday night, thirteen groups formed and started turning their ideas into reality. Some 48 hours later, they were back to show what they had done. Here, Niten Luthra provides a great overview of the pitch night:
Launching at Startup Weekend:
Using the Twilio API, DialSocial allows you to create and host your own “party line” (remember those?!) for free. Business or pleasure, chat with like minded people from around the world.
Verdant Event created the scheduling system used for the Sunday night Startup Weekend presentations! Their primary focus is around green events, and enabling the communities that search for them.
Caduces aims to help maintain your entire family’s health, wellness, and fitness information all in one place by providing a “virtual safety deposit box” which contains your ”family health genealogy”.
Tweet Leaders seeks to identify who are the most influential people on twitter for any given topic, effortlessly providing the top ten for any search term based on conversations and mentions in the both the public and private domain. Still looking for a video of this great presentation!
FooTraffic provides a means to monetize location based networks such as FourSquare by providing a self-service couponing system for local businesses.
Better talking allows you to hone your interview skills through sharing your responses to an automated stock interview with your friends, and gathering their feedback. See it action here:
We hate getting parking tickets as much as the next guy, which is why this system for automatically reminding you to fill the meter using twitter is so awesome. In their own words:
GIRLSWHOLIKE.US
Looking for fun? For stimulating conversation? Socially awkward and need tech to help you score? This mobile platform with fun social games could help you then!
INTELLIMED
Intellimed uses Twilio to contact patients and remind them to take their pills.
Stacy Please is an automated assistant which can remind you of important actions at a time of your choosing.
Dress Me Sue allows to catalogue your outfits and save your favorite combinations to use again. Perfect for the stylish beau about town!
Chorely brings together geolocation and reminders to ensure that you never again forget to pick up the dry cleaning whilst you’re in the neighborhood! See their presentation here:
Handoff Me provides a DNS based means to balance between two separate service providers for your web app:
And The Winners Are…
It was a tough decision, but our crack team of tried and tested entrepreneurs were able to choose four winners.
The winners were:
4th PLACE – Dress Me Sue
3rd PLACE – FooTraffic
2nd PLACE – Better Talking
1st PLACE – Tweet Leaders
Congratulations go out to both the winners and all who participated. Most of the companies launched created dedicated twitter accounts for their projects, which we have add to a list here. Go follow it!
Look forward to seeing you all at the next event!
Startup Weekend Crew
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