Live From Garage48 Or How To Prototype Your Idea in 48 Hours

By Dmitri Sarle, October 26, 2012, Leave a Comment

Garage48 is at it again, creating the next batch of exciting prototypes in just 48 hours. Over the course of two years they have gone through 600 ideas, 200 working prototypes and already three teams secured funding from SeedCamp: Campalyst, Mightyfingers and Qminder. There are about 100 developers, marketers, entrepreneurs and designers here in Riga who are going to form about 10 teams that will bring an idea into a prototype by Sunday.

(P.S. Let you in on a secret, they are also organizing one on the 19-21 of November in Helsinki, which you can sign up for here.)

This time around we decided to provide some Live Coverage to the event, in the hopes to catch the next Facebook in the making. @DSarle is going to be in Riga, bringing you the newest updates from the event:

18:00 The teams have started pitching, there are going to be about 20 or so ideas, before the teams will be formed. Here is a short list of the pitches so far:

Ideas Part 1

20:15 Pitching goes on after the break. Riga seems like a family time, at least half the pitchers state how many kids they have...

Ideas Part 2

21:49 Wow, now that was a lot of typing and listening to ideas. It would not be possible to share the atmosphere with you as there were jokes about sofa's and Nicholas Cage, playing with your problems, it's called BETA because it's "Better than Nothing", using any app for dating, and many more. In fact I am not sure if this is a hackathon or a comedy show. Let's see which ideas will be chosen.

22:02 Pitching is complete! Its now up to the participants to choose their favorite idea. There was a total of 35 ideas pitched and my fingers hurt from typing. So without further ado, let the voting commence.

23:00 After a lot of networking, haggling, bribing and hard-core negotiations, the teams have been selected and accepted. They are going to head off to their respective working spaces and start the 48 hour hackathon to showcase amazing prototypes during the final event on Sunday at 17:30. Updates will be provided in the morning (Hope that it will be about the prototypes and not crazy parties). The teams are:

MyWorstCustomer.com
LoyalWall
Maecenas.me
MuzViz
DoTogether
Save Print Media
Math
Make Ordered List
House App
Media Hint
Music Mix
FortaNota
Interactive Dialogue Authoring
Partynoia

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Ideas pitched during the first day:

Healthy Lifestyle - Become healthy by choosing activities or get punished.

LoyalWall - Getting rid of loyalty cards with QR codes.

Save Print Media - Trying to save the print media?

DoTogether - Daily traveling arrangement/sharing with family and friends. (By car)

Audio Photo Albums - Something to do with photo albums and tagging. (Same guy as Healthy Lifestyle)

Recipes Roulette - App to choose your dinner. (Same guy as Audio Photo Albums, I wonder how many ideas he has got?)

Driver's App - Find the cheapest gas in town.

MonsterRoom - Training games for kids by shooting monsters.

House App - Manage your house with an app.

Interactive Dialogue Authoring - Virtual customer service training.

Tvaik - No more grocery shopping. Get them all with an app.

Make Ordered List - Task list decision making.

Math - Visualized math educational app to play with your problems (Copyright Mari Suviste)

Swipe Left - App to start any app by swiping left. Seriously.

App Watcher - App usage statistics and automatic homescreen selection.

Product Review App - Exactly what it says.

PartyRace - Races. QR codes. Competition.

ForeStream - Increase your upload speed anywhere. Magic?

SPenMusic - Create music with the S-Pen on Samsung.

Maecenas.me - First crowdfunding platform in Latvia.

Gints Turlajs - 4 ideas on the slide. Erm?

Music Notation in HTML5 - Music Notation in HTML5. Wait, did I already write this? Renamed to FortaNota

Partynoia> - No more party paranoia.

Collray - Local interest based information sharing. If you can rephrase that, tweet me.

Case Emotion - Emotions displayed on your phone case through NFC.

MuzVIz - Swipe your ipad to create music and visualizations.

MyWorstCustomer.com - Share your worst customer experiences.

Media Hint - Make Netflix, Spotify (And others) available anywhere. Probably illegal, but it never stopped Napster?

Audio-Comics - Crowdsourced audio comics.

Custom Design Covers - Custom Design Covers for Furniture.

Menulet - Digitize all restaurant menu's with tablets.

Ideas without slides - 1. App for collecting mushrooms (Not sure which kind). 2. Get rid of stuff you do not need. 3. Your playlist at the club 4. Draw something (Kid game)

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Source: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/10/26/live-from-garage48-or-how-to-prototype-your-idea-in-48-hours

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