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.