List of projects built over the weekend in Garage48 Helsinki
January 15, 2011
Garage48 is about building your idea into working service in just 48 hours. There were 31 different ideas pitched on Friday night and 16 of those ideas were able to form a working team. Here is a final list of all projects and winners.
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Members of the Garage48 Helsinki winning team - LapLab
OVERALL WINNER of Garage48 Helsinki- LapLab - Website | Twitter | Facebook
Web based application to measure and improve lap times for "non-professional" racing car drivers. All racing cars has GPS enabled data logging device on board. They get lots of log files and they would like to improve lap times via improving and changing their car's technical setup. The idea was to build a web-service to visualise lap times, compare different car setups and so find a best combination to improve lap times. Targeting a global niche market, which includes about 5 million racing drivers. Team: Sven Tiirusson, Daniil Harik, Kaspars Driķis, Kert Valbet, Silver Sepp, Boriss Gubaidulin, Helen Kokk
Winner of PUBLIC VOTE and Nokia special prize
- Montroller (ex Mii). Website | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube
Turn your mobile device into a 3D controller of various devices. The team build mobile controllers for Lego robot kit on several different devices like Nokia N8, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, Macbook and iPad.
Team: Annika Toit, Anton Narusberg, Asko Seeba, Jaen Saul, Pearu Orusalu, Sander Saar
Winner of Microsoft Azure Challenge
Other special prizes and runner-ups
- Ordimo - Table Ordering Service: Website | Twitter | Facebook
Making an order at bar or restaurant via mobile phone. When restaurant staff is overbooked or very busy because of big crowd, you can order a refill or meal via your mobile phone. Usually people leave the bar when they can't get their drinks on time, this service will help to solve this issue and make more money for bar/restaurant owners and improve customer services. The order goes straight to the bar or kitchen and you will get your order delivered soon enough.
Team: Dmitri Zutskov, Joni Pitkäranta, Jüri Kaljundi, Māris Zinbergs, Valdis Pornieks, Veli-Johan Veromann, Jaak Sarv
- Blow 'em - Website | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube
Mobile game. Imagine gold miner going to a planet? Find nuggets, covered with layer of dust. Use power of your lungs to blow off the dust (via microphone of mobile phone). More interesting features might come (too fast, too slow). Lets figure out the mechanics, it's going to be a fun game.
Team: Evija Zauere, Vladimir Grigor, Kalev Külaase, Jaak Laineste, Hannu Leinonen, Liis Peetermann, Ilze Petersone - AidBook48 - Website | Facebook | Twitter
A website to make sense of the development assistance. Support organisations don’t know what others are doing - make a transparent marketplace for sharing information & knowledge.
Team: llona Mäkinen, Ahti Heinla, Antti Sonninen, Tuuti Piippo, Ella-Roosa Tenhunen, Markus Koljonen, Matti Ilmanen, Samuel Hailemariam, Taavi Raidma, Tuuli Utriainen, Ville Sundberg, Aleksi Niemelä - Let’s Meet Here! - Website | Twitter
Send meeting requests to friends from widget on venue (museum, restaurant, club etc) website to meet at that venue.
Team: Carl-Johan Sveningsson, Enn Metsar, Sjoerd Handgraaf, Tanel Kärp, Leho Kraav, Mihkel Karu
Other great teams:
With SportsTradr you can
bet on your favorite teams in sports, win money and share the information with
your friends easily. Team: Nikita Grigoriev, Olli Gunst, Perttu Ojansuu, Rudi Skogman, Santeri Everi, Ali Baloi
TranSpotr / Riga Reach
Mark a sport (your hotel, house, office) and get closes public transportation spots and event/venues where you could go with public transportation from the market spot.
Team: Ciprian Manea, Diana ben-Aaron, Ernests Stals, Ieva Treija, Kārlis Baltpurviņš
WeHearVoices (ex WTF) - Website
Really simple feedback tool for websites, integration in 1 minute. unlike GetSatisfaction or other complicated products.
Team: Jori Lallo, Jukka Välimaa, Mikito Takada, Jens Kasemets
Team: Jori Lallo, Jukka Välimaa, Mikito Takada, Jens Kasemets
nTaxi (ex iTaxi)
Call a Taxi from mobile, using location based service. Team: Anis Ben Othman, Cuneyt Sina Koca, Dipesh Yadav, Jenni Alasuutari, Margus Pala, Mesut Paksoy, Armanis Liseks, Roshan Lamichhane
"Social instapaper" for Kindle. App for finding & reading content for Kindle: web articles, links people share etc.
Team: Jaanus Sakkis, Sander Saar, Helen Kokk, Antti Vilpponen, Dan Rowden, Juhan Aasaru, Martn Grüner
Bookstrap - Website | Facebook | Twitter
Bookstrap - Website | Facebook | Twitter
Simple & easy to use accounting software for startups. Basic invoicing & debit/credit to get started.
Team: Alfonso Ortiz Palma Junco, Artjom Lind, Kristian Paljasma, Lauri Hynynen, Murad Kamalov
Servibce for communities to find co-founders, match with other startup people, solve problems, create virtual teams fast. Like an online version of Garage48 events. Team: Henri Laupmaa, Maria Kulse, Markus Nuotto, Otto Laulajainen, Antti Ylimutka
CrapWall (ex DirtyWall) - Website | Twitter
Location based messagewall. Post fun photos, links, comments for a venue. No more messing the toilet walls. 4chan on Foursquare. Team: Kaspar Lemmo Palgi-Unt, Martin Paljak, Meelis Kuldala, Paavo Leinonen, Jüri Kaljundi
Location based messagewall. Post fun photos, links, comments for a venue. No more messing the toilet walls. 4chan on Foursquare. Team: Kaspar Lemmo Palgi-Unt, Martin Paljak, Meelis Kuldala, Paavo Leinonen, Jüri Kaljundi
Mobile app that sends your location data in background in real time and notifies about your friends sips, postings & locations. Team: Kimmo Kauhanen, Mihkel Karu, Rijubrata Bhaumik, André Andrade
Organizers and Sponsors
Garage48 Helsinki was organized by:
- Martin, Ragnar and Jüri from Garage48 Foundation and
- Ville, Mikko, Kristo and Natalie from AaltoES and Aalto Venture Garage
Some blog posts after Garage48 Helsinki
- Ramine Darabiha on ReadWriteWeb - 5 lessons from the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon
- Antti Vilpponen on ArcticStartup - Last weekends experience called Garage48
- Nokia Developer Blog
- Microsoft Blog - Impressions from Garage48
- Aalto ES blog - conclusions from Garage48
- Photos from Garage48 Helsinki by IThouse.lv
Sponsors for Garage48 Helsinki
 Platinum sponsor |  Premium sponsor | |||
Sponsors: |  |  |  InvestInEstonia.com |  |
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Comments: 13
Is a list of team members on the way? Been done on previous events. Could really use one already.
We are updating the page on the fly, stay tuned. Please send us updates and we put new stuff up the here!
good list this time around - my votes go for IdeaHub, Readlish, FloFlo, AidBook48, Montroller, Blow the dust - in that order
Great work guys! Looking forward to participate in next events... very inspiring stuff!
Wow, some teams have done really well. This must have been a challenge.
I was following the event via Twitter and I must say the coverage was very active. I could feel the energy of the teams working 48h straight
Can I just mention that LetsMeetHere won the beer prize? :D
Aidbook description is lacking team members Ville Sundberg & Aleksi Niemelä! If you could add them it would be great =)
Ville and Aleksi added to Aidbook. Did you guys really had 12 people in your team?
Could you add TurnStartup FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/TurnStartup/134866059909026
@Martin: The best ideas draw the most people ;)
simple...
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