Ideas pitched on Garage48 Riga 2011
March 25, 2011
Garage48 Riga event is live in SSE Riga and people are pitching ideas on the stage. This is a live list of ideas pitched. Later on every participant will choose their favorite idea and start building the project.
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Ideas pitched on the stage
1. SMS Auto - order a free "pirate" taxi/car in your area by sms.
Regular people can provide car / driver server service :)
2. Call Smart - 3 Latvian mobile operators have 50 price plans, difficult to choose.
Wants to build mobile app to show call costs after call and choose best package/plan
3. QR-organizer - simple "warehouse" system for everyone. Store stuff, put it away and find it again later
4. Moteevator - service that helps you to keep promises with social contacts/friends
5. Social Crime Map - like foursquare for crime. Website and mobile app to add crimes on google maps. People can see if the area is safe or not
6. Mooovi.es - instapaper for video, bookmarking and sharing video playlists.
Unified video playlist editor, that supports multiple video sites (youtube, vimeo, ...)
7. Guess Person Game - one persons gives hints about somebody and others should guess the person
Mobile app, could have text based or graphic interface
8. Mobile To-Do Application - geotagged todo-tasks, phone reminds person when current location is related to some of his/her tasks
Foursquare can be a base, but could add additional layers. This will be a paid mobile Application.
9. Social Ticketing Service - in case of popular concerts, only the "fast and lucky" person gets the tickets. An idea is to build a service that allows event organizers to shell popular tickets in auction like manner.
10. Count Your Taxes - visualize and follow how much you pay for your personal taxes
If people know more, they would get more involved in politics and demand for their taxes
11. Extended Insights - integration of Facebook fan page statistics and Google Analytics to show
better information about web traffic, visitors, links etc.
12. Live blogging App - mashup of blogs, twitter fall and other channels.
After the event the system will reverse the timeline so it would make sense and would be easy to read
13. Facebook for Universities - targeting universities and students. Universities sign-up, put up their programs and events, people can search universities and programs based on their interests, follow and communicate with universities.
14. Fun of Travelling - a different travel website. Put up your travel routes with comments, others can follow.
15. Virtual Poster Room - social network for people to collect posters, share with friends and groups, create challenges to get more posters, different focus groups for children, adults etc. Virtual goods make really lot of money, so there are ways to monetize.
16. Drinks Around - find a decent and affordable bar or lounge to have some drinks (in new city). List different drinks, build drinking "to-do list" and social groups. Website and mobile application.
17. Fish2tank.com - there are many fish that do not fit together to one tank. We create freshwater fish compatibility calculator for home users :)
18. LinkedOut - platform to put up ideas (business, band, project, charity...) and find interested persons to join the project.
19. Support Service Aggregator - one stop agency for all required services that startup or freelancer would need.
20. QR Based Internet Database "Shoot and know" - add service/page to database, print out stickers, put up stickers around the city and see what happens. Curious people will probably look at QR codes and find your information.
21. Facebook game - Tank Battle. A real time multi-player game in Facebook in HTML5.
22. Fly Food - find food home delivery services near you (fast food, restaurants etc). Target markets: Baltics + Russia + Eastern-Europe.
23. Geanbase.com is like Facebook for sperm. Define requirements for kids, find suitable "donors" and get a deal with them. Matchmaking for egg and sperm donors. This market is huge, really.
24. Life UML. People use lots of UML, but those charts often gets "outdated".
25. Lifestyle Productivity - highly personalized calendar with monitoring and personal advice. The application has gaming elements, works on mobile and website, user can build scenarios or use pre-defined scenarios (how to get drivers license etc). Synchronized with regular calendar.
26. Chat for Drivers. You can send SMS to a car number. People should probably sign-up for this service and it's difficult to get data Revenue model is premium SMS.
27. Radio Twitter. Twitter is fastest news source, but it takes your time. Busy twitter fans can turn their Twitter feed into radio / voice stream. Business model via audio ads and paid accounts.
28. Transparent - create application to see how Governments spends money.
29. ReShip - People would like to order goods from big websites - Amazon, eBay etc. But many countries are not on the delivery list. Provide a delivery service and tracking system for countries with limited delivery opportunities.
30. 369.lt - social media search engine that finds keywords, trends going on in specific place and time.
31. Future Banners - more interactive, starts small and become bigger. Provide better statistics.
32. Eat Me - something around trend setting in food, related to social networks, geo-location?
33. Cemetery of Profiles. Provide local and physical place to store collected social network profiles.
34. For the ladies - there are lots of clothes in the stores that should be matched up with "dress me up" games. Shops can put up their clothes to the portal, people can fit cloths to models, others can rate the designs.
35. Group Mobile Travel Planning App. Plan the trip before, add different place to go (Churches, Museums, Restaurants). App gets automatically all information about this house/place from various sources (Wikipedia, Foursquare, etc) and stores the information in the Mobile so you don't need to download the data during the travel (roaming costs). The service could have pre-defined trips by people who know local places well (Food in Tokyo, Wines in California etc) and visitors could buy those guides.
36. EasyProve.com - It's hard to find the latest revision documents that needs approval in your mailbox@smartphone. Targeted for management and other people working with word documents.
The list is closed now, 36 ideas and full-stop.
Ideas written down by Martin Villig
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Comments: 5
#11 (Insights+Analytics) — if executed well, it could be an important marketing tool/plugin.
Paljud on vist olemas jah aga on ka huvitavaid sees....:) Jõudu Teile, Martin! :)
Geanbase.com is great idea (and huge market, I agree)
Mooovi.es has since renamed themselves as Vidling.com.
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