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Startup Weekend Chicago Pitch Ideas

April 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

So we are through pitches and teams are getting rollings. Here’s a list of what was pitched:

  • Startup Weekend Survivor Kit - everything you could need.
  • Recipe Sharing and forking/versioning application
  • Recreational Sports Teams team management/reminder/messaging application with targeted advertising integration
  • Non-profit Project Management Application
  • Localization of Crafts and Artisans application
  • Highest pay-out affiliate plugin/community
  • Political Social Network - but do it right.
  • Integration of Recipe Application with PeaPod and similar services + deconstruction of recipe into ingredients.
  • You Owe Me - collection software that harasses the debtor digitally via multiple mediums
  • Contact information consolidation application
  • Twitter Application that gives real-time sentiment regarding a product or company as consumer is reviewing
  • Eventr - Consolidate and document consumer generated media revolving around event. Interface for organizations/companies.
  • Keep it Simple Stupid cooking - video resource for simple cooking by real people
  • Window Ads in big cities - software that analyzes desity/traffic/etc and facilitates the purchase of advertising space in windows in urban areas
  • Centralized/consolidated social networking search
  • Application creating verticals around a travel distination - resources dialog and assets for trip planning and experiences
  • Live-stream up-and-coming bands into homes (people spending less in this economy). Promote venue, band and sponsors
  • Anonymous manager feedback and response mechanism
  • Rent-a-pet
  • Teacher content platform (subject-agnostic) and aggregation for student consumption
  • Online lessor Forum for teachers - integrated metrics - best teachers get jobs and best salaries.
  • Database and data visualization for non-technical users (without running queries) point-and-click
  • Anonymous donation mechanism to help friends
  • Eharmony for travel/trips
  • Pocket Patterns - iPhone application for designers. Material/pattern swatch database
  • Chatter monitoring across platforms to predict popularity of site/media <– anticipation for load balancing, CDNs and advertising
  • Perpetuation of 1-time-sale <– sell a second one
  • Automated Site Architecutre reporting for Small Businesses <– analyze for SEO purposes (are style sheets and JS files external? meta data present? etc)
  • Web-template design marketplace
  • Knowledge resource/ BI management for large corporates

(if i missed anyone im sorry!)

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