Atlanta Startup Weekend 2

Saturday night is coming to a close and the groups are making great progress. Some are further ahead than others, but everyone seems to be having fun and hard at work trying to turn their ideas into products. Here are the ideas that currently have a website.

Twitpay.me let’s you send payments via Twitter.

Closebuy.me a location-based inventory search engine. Want a specific camera? CloseBuy.me will tell you who has it in stock and how close they are to you.

GivingTi.me enables entrepreneurs to help each other one hour at a time.

Jumbis.com generates single product sales websites that turns buyers into evangelists. Automatically.

Seed Stage Records invests in young musicians and helps them secure deals with bigger record labels.

Reepli.com is a targeted social marketing effort focused on twitter and blog integration to allow companies to engage conversations.

Tonight we are walking across Fifth Street and going to Tin Drum for dinner.  We may go anytime between 6 - 9 pm.

I have Gift Certificates for everyone to use.  The stated amount is $7.50 but the deal is you get one entree and a fountain drink.  If you want another type of beverage you will need to pay for it yourself.   And while a modest tip has been provided to the staff they will be much more happy if you drop them something in the tip jar.

When you want your dinner coupons come see me.  I am working with the TwitPay team in room 340.  If I am not there you can track me down at @lance or 404 808 7219.

Not sure exactly how many projects made it through the final cut last night. I think eight, will get an update later. All I do know is that at least two, and maybe three are no longer functioning. Including mine.

Seems like one or two of the team members were not really committed to the StopWhere concept. Why they voted for it is beyond me. Thought the iPhone platform was niche. Pitched their own concept. Wanted us to all go home and think about and decide this morning. Called a vote at midnight. StopWhere won. But the Cocoa dev was no longer committed. Boom! Going to dress in “Don’t Pitch Me Bro” VC Wear today.

At least 20 people no longer have a company to work on. A bunch of them are taking their balls and going home today. Unfortunately I brought the court.

Lesson of the night, make sure your team members are committed.

3rd round of voting - looks like we’re getting close to people choosing the “company” they’re going to work for over the weekend

We’re getting close to wrapping up round 2 of voting. People are starting to get a bit anxious. The snarkiness level is rising on Twitter.

Who knew Shiner Bock would be so popular? And yes, plenty of Pabst Blue Ribbon for everybody!

The following ideas made it past the first cut:

Giving Time - individuals helping each other an hour at a time

Payments via Twitter - give people money over twitter

StopWhere - an integrated web/iphone app that enables travelers to plan their stops when taking longer range trips

Mark’s Horrible Idea - something that “talks good” about your company (automated evangelist)

Qik Reply Social Dashboard - aggregate profiles and allow read/write to them from on eplace - can search all content

OpenID4Kids - Open ID 4 kids - manage COPPA concerns for sites and parents

Fee Mail - People you don’t know pay for the privilege of emailing you

Get Me a Date - Reviews for dating profiles farmed out to Amazon Mechanical Turk - hot or not for social profile

Turn key - single product sales platform (like woot)

Seed Stage Records - Label that invests in and makes $$ on up/coming artists by building online presence for them and providing a way for artist to sell their music

Assassin - Mobile phone app — u hunt ppl and take a picture to “assassinate” them

Greatest App Never Built - Take email and other things & organize based on important/relevance instead of date/time

NomadCandy - Nomad card - digital business card that you could send to others/customize via uploaded graphics. Creates ent. space for artists (who would sell uploaded artwork) for iPhone

Location Based Product Search - Search local inventories for a given product and allow local companies to sell back to you.

BLive.tv - Live video blogging

Finding Jane - Locate people on your cell phone

Twitter Bot for Events Like this - Give it a list of ppl to follow (or ppl can dm it) and it would display the feed

If you like sipping from a firehose, check out Twitter for the unofficial backchannel of Atlanta StartupWeekend 2. Go to my profile and look at whom I follow for a good starting point. It’s also a good place to keep informed of what’s going on in the tech / entrepreneur scene in Atlanta.

Let’s have a big round of applause for our sponsors - sorry I couldn’t get ‘em all.

BTW, Purewire is hiring.

Apparently we have live stream from Loren Norman - http://lorennorman.com/live/