48 hours to launch a startup

This looks like some serious fun: http://startupweekend.com/

What a great idea! Get a bunch of interesting folks in the room, come up with an idea and build it over a weekend. The idea they came up with sounds really cool - a widget based polling service. I can definitely think of use cases where that would be very useful.

An interesting aspect for me as I follow along are the choices being made on the dev side. EC2 for compute power - no brainer. S3 for backup - yup. Facebook is the obvious choice for the first extension. Spring and Flex though? I would of thought they would of gone with RoR for sure.

The revenue model will be ad based, by the looks of the latest (Sat. night) mockups at least.

Comments

[Adam Brucker]

"I would of thought they would of gone with RoR for sure." All about playing to the strengths of the people on the team and getting this thing done in less than 3 days. "Embrace the constraints and make the best application that we can" was the prevailing attitude. Thanks for the post.