Startup Essentials Redmond: Tools, Projects, and Discussions
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Background
- Schedule
- Tools
- Discussions
- Projects
- TwitPay
- Location based need request system
- Share service from a core page
- Get rid of phrase books
- Automated life-stream
- RFID promote responsible drinking
- Social media spam is annoying to new users
- Consolidation of stream information for corporations
- Backseat drivers for directors
- If running late system provides notification
- Create a Twitter avatar generator for t-shirt
- Donate to charity social network
- Small tasks completion via Turk for evaluation of candidates
- New location and need to rank schools
- How to weed out designers
- Fighting Robots game
- Use public shaming to change personal behavior
- Smart browser plug-in to detect coupons for prime cards
- Client rating
- Blog support for novels
- Calendar notification between systems
- Calendar and location merge
- BI for measuring tweet impact
- Map-based dating site with implicit data
- Viral Bluetooth transmission of data
- Remove unnecessary page information
- Query optimizer
- Knowledge Transfer process
Overview
#swredmond
Sponsors are Cooly and Sun Start-up Essentials
Background
Schedule
Introduction
Attempted competition with the sf startup.
Windows Azure, Silverlight, Expression Engine demos
Crashing product demo for Silverlight.
This was a fairly long introduction to the products
Azure might be interesting but not particularly compelling. Look at it as a possible deployment option given that Amazon now supports Windows.
Guides for Entrepreneurs
Ensure that small, stair-step approaches are used to promote growth and get larer clients.
Reasonable information on shopping the idea around to larger groups of people.
Tools
The following were some tools referenced in the initial discussions.
Django
Cherry Pie
TurboGears
Rails
Look at the abstractions required for developing the application.
Discussions
Azure
Product has been active for close to a year.
HyperV is the core stack with deployments providing security.
.NET with
Projects
Pitch the problem.
Note the kind of people you would need.
What is with the open initial questions.
http://startupweekend.uservoice.com/pages/27288-redmond-voting/filter/recent?days=14
Audience participation dies out fairly quickly.
Not too much information about the actual interests of the audience.
TwitPay
as an example.
Location based need request system
outside stadium.
look at ar system for showing the need.
indicate severity of the need .
Share service from a core page
This should already be implemented. dar
hackernews
Get rid of phrase books
Phone application ; compare the #2
Automated life-stream
Recording of life stream activity based on
Camera from a bluetooth headset.
Look at the bag device associated with the Yahoo Dev days
RFID promote responsible drinking
Bars should be able to notify
Social media spam is annoying to new users
Determine how effective .
Look at bayesian analysis of users.
This may have already been developed.
Consolidation of stream information for corporations
Use heuristics for determining if a message is about
Payment is for a structured report
Backseat drivers for directors
Issue was the casting of Tom Hanks as the lead character in the Davinci Code.
Studio pays for report.
If running late system provides notification
Create a Twitter avatar generator for t-shirt
Make t-shirts from Twitter contacts.
Donate to charity social network
Some general core team features.
Small tasks completion via Turk for evaluation of candidates
Use Turk to eval the efficacy of users.
New location and need to rank schools
How are the schools ranked
This is like walk score
is education important
How to weed out designers
What is the issue with the number of designers in the world. no way to diff talent.
No HTML skills
Simple copy
Fighting Robots game
Use public shaming to change personal behavior
Smart browser plug-in to detect coupons for prime cards
Designers
Client rating
Determine if clients are compatible ; Dating for work
Blog support for novels
Calendar notification between systems
Calendar and location merge
BI for measuring tweet impact
Map-based dating site with implicit data
- Shows music information
- Show locations and activities