Community Building and Project Pitches at Startup Weekend Seattle 2009
Table of Contents
- Activities: Friday, February 6, 2009
- 6:45PM - Introduction
- 7:15PM - Speed pitches
- iPhone personality test
- Onevite: Social network consolidation of invitations
- Sustainable product
- Hiking resources
- Ingredients lookup
- Recipes
- TODO Twitter add consolidator
- SMS coupon notification for restaurants slow period
- In vehicle mileage tracking
- JamLab
- TODO Commuting competition
- Raising John Stamos
- Seattle Rocks
- Share your stuff
- Vacation planning
- Flannel factor
- Ingenesis project
- Wish filling
- Get me stuff
- Alarm Clock 2.0
- Game: Clean your room
- Recommendation engine by location
- Receipt upload, categorization for IRS
- Tweet reporter
- Startup theme game
- Placebook
- Find my pictured product
- Filtering RSS
- Universal backup service
- Consolidation of service calls
- Baseball score historical activities
- Government feedback
- Newspapers
- Fashion designer
- Take iPhone photo
- Tracking of flight or package information
- Time tracking
- Integrated transit planning system that is aware of buses
- Start-up funding process
- Connecting artists
- S3 for your own host
- TODO Shared view of a meeting
- iSparta to iMeme
- Community supported agriculture
- 8:40PM - Reduce the ideas and form teams
- Activities: Saturday, February 7, 2009
- Activities: Sunday, February 8, 2009
- Overview
- Ideas
- Outcomes
Activities: Friday, February 6, 2009
6:45PM - Introduction
Primary goal is building community rather than applications.
Everything is open; all communication can be shared.
What the group does on Monday will be decided by the organization.
7:15PM - Speed pitches
iPhone personality test
Decided lack of skills with iPhone development.
Engineering
UX experimental room.
Onevite: Social network consolidation of invitations
What is the mapping procedure between
Sustainable product
Overall toxicity of product to the sustainability of the planet.
"toxicity indexes" implies higher score would change behavior.
Hiking resources
Distance calculations; GPS integration.
Build a community that is a Yelp for hikers.
Includes weather information, current status
Ingredients lookup
This duplicates other applications that already exist: find the original site.
Recipes
Specialty marketing based.
Restaurant promotions.
allrecipes.com
TODO Twitter add consolidator
Consolidation of who's following
Digesting email of who you should follow back.
Picture, last 5 post, followers, followers in common. isReal status.
Provides a simplified interface.
SMS coupon notification for restaurants slow period
Geolocated deals.
In vehicle mileage tracking
Interface offers choices for type of trip and if the trip is done.
Add-in to GPS or iPhone for starting and stopping trips.
JamLab
Slideshare on steroids.
TODO Commuting competition
Should be a relatively simple, has some integration.
myridesucks.com.
Raising John Stamos
Sell online personalities.
Seattle Rocks
Crowd-sourced content update with comments voted up and down.
Goal: how to find the best elements about Seattle for promoting other businesses.
Share your stuff
Things you haven't used recently; if they have something you want
Is this a derivative
Also provides notice.
Vacation planning
- Look at airfare
- Look for hotels
- Determine if the place is actually reasonable
Crowd-sourced itineraries
Based on budget, people, and type of travel, what are my options.
Flannel factor
Log to determine what people generally wear in a location by pulling in photos from Flickr.
Ingenesis project
Three applications to change to provide a way to get rid of
Wish filling
"Pay it forward"
Get me stuff
Based on GPS location, notification provided that you want a particular item
Story: While waiting for bus, person has time to get a product at Rack, compensation provided.
Alarm Clock 2.0
Wake up to information.
Game: Clean your room
Games make mundane activities fun.
Clean your room collaboration.
- Initial state of room
- Final state of room
Compare the state of the room based on time scores.
Could be trended.
Recommendation engine by location
Crowd-sourced gathering of people.
Receipt upload, categorization for IRS
Would likely require iPhone background.
Tweet reporter
Publishers can keep up with twitter given the activity and lack of profitability.
iReporter.
Localized portal: Authentication Location Monetized
Startup theme game
Collaborative game place accessible across.
"Fantasy Start-up Live"
Placebook
Blag based on tacks, track-back on specific locations.
Living document of notable events in a specific location.
Would likely need to be an iPhone application.
Find my pictured product
Geo-location of pictures of products.
Filtering RSS
Problem: Information overload from RSS feeds; should be able to have advanced filters on content.
Delicious for RSS. Only flag the most interesting articles from Techcrunch.
Use delays to determine the most valuable items. Mashup RSS and delicious.com.
Universal backup service
Save data…
Consolidation of service calls
Problem: Small businesses estimation of service calls in rural areas with long duration times. View active service calls and consolidate activities.
Baseball score historical activities
Government feedback
Yelp for public service.
Newspapers
Newspapers are viable. Community driven newspapers.
Fashion designer
Take iPhone photo
Turn a business card into a vcard.
Tracking of flight or package information
Time tracking
Log the activity and determine if it would work. Connecting people.
Integrated transit planning system that is aware of buses
Tells you if you can still make the bus based on location and distance.
Start-up funding process
Connecting people.
Connecting artists
S3 for your own host
TODO Shared view of a meeting
lessmeetingssuck.com
Essentially a OSS Yammer client with divisions into date activities.
Could include the service as a attendee.
View of the feed could be provided.
Monetize through advertising. Determine how this could be approached.
iSparta to iMeme
Track any of the new memes that approach and create a new Facebook and iPhone application that would
Community supported agriculture
8:40PM - Reduce the ideas and form teams
Activities: Saturday, February 7, 2009
9:00AM - Breakfast and discussion
10:00AM - Projects
knarlyvote.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
Problem: Multiple choices prevent users from polling application how do you ensure all voices are heard when the choice isn't mutually exclusive?
Standards:
- Truth of the choice for a user
- Ranked pairs yield more truth
Personal preferences
Scenario:
- Movies of 2009
- Top Startup Weekend
How to people vote for people split their vote:
- Five votes
- Caucus system
Develop a list of choices
As options are narrowed
- Generate a list of options
- Not possible to understand all of the options
- Chunk the possible options
Problem
- Choices: 1
- Choices: 2
- Choices: 3
- Choices: 4+
Examples
Stack Overflow Ice cream flavors Startup weekend admin
Scenarios
Create topic for conference Provides URL System delivers rankidea.com/topic/12345676
How to people vote for people split their vote:
- Five votes
- Caucus system
Develop a list of choices
As options are narrowed
- Generate a list of options
- Not possible to understand all of the options
- Chunk the possible options
How do you determine if you have good decision making process.
Alternatives include rotten tomatores and games reviews. how do you tell if you're in line with other people who
Project Management / Blogging of status
http://seattle2.startupweekend.com/wp-admin/
10:30AM: Discussion progress through the site
Communication: IM through Gmail
11:00AM: Define the core work load 1:30PM: At Goldies defining containers
Core technology
Rails Prototype Subversion MySQL
Core infrastructure
http://twitter.polldaddy.com/ twitter.polldaddy.com Facebook Myspace
Activities: Sunday, February 8, 2009
Overview
Ideas
Defect tracking for government
Provide a name. Issue a problem statement. Define your audience. Define core features.
Examples of similar activities.
Scope of problem:
King county multiple sources of government. Allow King county employees to monitor Provide initial community Admins can change user status No write access to public systems Standard API allows future growth
Is there something that exists like this for Bugzilla.
Summary: Bugzilla for Government
Show any status change for the time.
APL tracking for happiness
Summary: Time tracking shows if you're completing tasks. It doesn't indicate if you're happy.
''''''''''''''''''''''' There was a recent Economist feature on the same subject. Requires a subscription though. =( http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_RQDTNGJ
It seems like another domain that is ripe for consulting. Perhaps APL could be extended to include a unified productivity/happiness theory. '''''''''''''''''''''''
Track your great ideas
People generate poorly considered ideas. How to create and vet a wide variety of ideas with cases / scenarios / outcomes. mygreatidea.com
Outcomes
Consider how to move projects forward by providing the correct one minute summary. Should be able to pitch an idea that you work on individually. Vetting by a larger audience shouldn't block. More about time use that anything else.
What is the review process available at CMO that would be improved?
Tighter integration between Development and Marketing.
People who are loud sound better. Lack of confidence is hard to listen to.
Voting on projects that seem viable. Look at the options for people to pitch ideas and vote if they would work on it. Selected projects based on the availability to complete it with core skills. Process should not require full development of an idea.
iPhone applications are popular but don't have the skills to complete the work.
Should develop an application to track the ideas that are generated by Andersen and format into reasonable systems.