Startup Weekend Glasgow: The Teams

Blog post by Michael Hayes on the RookieOven blog about Startup Weekend Glasgow: The Teams. Read about Scottish startups and the tech community from founders.

Michael Hayes | Saturday May 26th 2012

From the awesome pitches at Startup Weekend Glasgow we settled on 12 teams (in no particular order):

  • Gifty: your friends, the perfect gifts. The best way of taking guess work out of buying gifts for your close ones: Gifty lets you organise and collaborate on gift buying by making use of your friends’ Amazon Wishlist information and their Facebook likes.
  • Tasteomatic: good local food! Your online market for local and artisan foods.
  • Project Chutney: Your personal postbox at the airport. Helping you send home the goods you can’t take on the plane.
  • BetMate: customised tablet PC which enables users to place realtime bets at sporting events along with sports live streaming.
  • Veg Pin: Helping vegans find quality food. Helpful app providing a clear concise way for vegans to find quality food.
  • TeamFunded.com: Build a team, get funded. Joining the community, forming teams not just based on skill but personality as well then get them funded.
  • SaveMeNet: creating a safer community. Voice recognition mobile app which sends your location to contacts and law enforcement when you scream for help.
  • Appurchase: the m-commerce solution for retailers. Brings the simplicity of e-commerce into the store by enabling the consumers mobile device to be the point of sale.
  • Fabricbook: the fabric search engine. Fabricbook is the ultimate resource for fabrics online.  Find the fabric you’ve been looking for and order a sample.
  • X-Tribe: Right here, right now, find your tribe. Ever needed a last minute sports-buddy? X-tribe is an online platform that matches adventurous people through their sport, location and skills.
  • Sport Hack: Bring hacking to sports, competition to hacking. SportHack is an national event for sports related hardware and software hacks to compete against each other at a live final.

There is also a lot of great content being generated on the Startup Weekend Glasgow Flicker Group.

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