Startup Weekend Chicago

Startup Weekend Chicago (1) is in the books. Worry not - there is already talk of a SWchi2. To connect with people who attended this past weekend adn some who want to plan the next one, be sure to join the LinkedIn Group.

Thanks again to everyone who came out and participated and especially to the sponsors (Coleman Center at DePaul, ITA, TechCocktail) and to Startup Weekend, LLC).

The attendees worked hard this past weekend. Ideas evolved, changed and were flushed out. In the end, we had 6 ideas/companies present Sunday night:

TweepUp - Allows you to enter what, where, when - converts common language and connects people doing interesting things, everywhere. Built on the Twitter API

BigHugeWindow - Creates and facilitates the marketplace for window advertising.

Fork Chop  (still in dev but they had a LOT of functionality together) - this app allows for the creation and forking/verisoning of recipes. Additionally, they group worked on some powerful parsers which deconstruct the recipes into ingredients - grocery lists.

Eventr - Collects and aggregates user-generated-media surrounding an event. UI that allows anyone to create event.

Conference Survival Kit - nuff said

Merit Badges - This app was dev’d locally but revolved around controlled vetting of information resources and structured learning sequences coupled with certification of competency achievement.

There were a few other ideas that which groups worked on throughout the weekend, though they didn’t present.

Thanks again!