“In the span of 6 short hours, people can try on (and discard) product ideas, business partners, and specific roles within a team. Interactions like this are how almost all great startups are born– and Six Hour Startup
has bottled it up and delivers it in a fun package. There’s nothing else like it in Seattle.” Tony Wright, founder Rescuetime.com
Six Hour Startup is a bi-monthly event where we try to build a new product in the course of Six Hours. We also have an annual conference which focuses on the fundamentals of building a company. Check out our Frequently Asked Question page for more details. link
Our next event is going to be in March and its focus is going to be on finding co-founders for a new company.
On October 19th Six Hour Startup is embarking on our first .NET project and we need your help. As you may or may not know, Six Hour Startup is the frequent event where we attempt to build a potentially commercial project in a fun hands-on environment. You don’t have to be an expert, just willing to have fun and try something new.
We have a number of ideas for the Oct 19th project, but want to hear yours as well.
Please submit your ideas to http://sixhourstartup.ideascale.com/. The projects should be fun, engaging and within the ability of a team to complete within six hours. Previous projects have been TimeLope, a
Facebook Application, a lunch site, etc. The ideas for the projects come from you, and its up to you to vote on a project that you think would be fun to do.
Feel free to join the Six Hour Startup mailing list to follow our projects and get involved.
http://groups.google.com/group/six-hour-startup
Microsoft has generously offered to host the next Six Hour Startup, so rather than it being held at Giraffe Labs it is going to be held on the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington. The event will be held in their Platform Adoption Center (Which is building 20 on this map).
http://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/locations/images/campus_map.jpg
Microsoft’s Page for the building is located here, includes a different map and driving directions.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/bb286912.aspx
The event will be from 4:00PM - 10:00PM on October 19th.
We are building a Facebook Application using Ruby on Rails that is THE OPPOSITE of a popular Facebook application like the FunWall or “Top Friends”. Think “BoringWall” or “Worst Friends”.
on Sunday June 8th.
Come one, Come All, Six Hour Startup is free, Fun, educational and a great way to meet people!
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We are looking for new projects and ideas for the upcoming Six Hour Startups! Post your ideas at our Ideascale and we will vote on them!
Name: Project SiteFinder
When: Skill building session for Drupal on April 6 at 1:00
Site creation and setup on April 12 at 12:00
Where: At Saturday House -
What: SiteFinder provides a collection point for properties ( land/ rentals) which are presented by one group of people, and searched for by others. The goal is to create a site that exceeds the functionality of http://www.oregonprospector.com
The foundation for the site will be built in Drupal 5.7, with a collection of existing modules to provide the core services. CCK + Views + panels as the core of the service.
Clear your calendars the next Six Hour Startup Project is happening March 8th and 9th at the SODO Saturday House!
We are building a firefox extension that tracks which webpages are visited, and sends the URLS to a tracking service built using Seaside. This will enable people to surf each others histories, and perhaps will allow co-surfing of webpages.
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