The Final Fifteen: Projects From Startup Weekend Des Moines

The df chat team, hard at work on their project.

The fourth Startup Weekend Des Moines kicked off on Friday night at Startup City Des Moines and by Saturday all work had been focused on fifteen projects. Meet the teams behind them here:

1. NoMoMeeting
Who: Matt Heying, project leader; Beau Lyddon, developer; Nick Joyce, developer.
What: NoMoMeeting helps developers stay in the zone by eliminating daily status meetings. By aggregating a team’s activities into one group chat, NoMoMeeting lets you see what your team members are doing throughout the day. NoMoMeeting also supports file sharing and searchable tags, so you can stay organized and easily navigate through the system.

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2. Yooooga
Who: Ryan Hanks, developer; Chuck Hoffman, developer
What: A schedule of yoga classes in your area for the upcoming week. If you want to do yoga on a particular day but don’t know what the schedule is, Yooooga allows you to see all yoga classes in your area into one place. Yooooga is targeted at casual local yogis, travelers and yogis new to an area.

3. MyKitchenGenie
Who: Royce Haynes, visionary; Vish G, developer; Sunil Bulusu, developer; Nandhini Ramaswamy, developer; Maijid Moujaled, developer; Kristy Knapp, designer; Amanda Thonen, business; Suzanne Hull, marketing; JoAnn Stone, blogs Becky Mollenkamp, business; Scott Herren, finance; Dhruv Karfinance.
What: An iPhone app and website that matches food in your pantry and fridge with recipes you can make tonight.

4. df chat
Who: Jeff Diaz, designer; Josh Davis,developer; Miguel Carrasquillo, graphic designer; Andrew Sykes, developer; Hannah Dotseth, front-end developer; Nathan Robertson, business.
What: A website modeled after Chatroulette, but where you can choose the chat topic. Pick an interest and the system pairs you with people who want to have a meaningful conversation about the same thing.

5. Roadrageo.us
Who: Brad Dwyer, project leader; Dylan Hamilton, marketing/product development; Dan Arthur, paradigm engineer; Rob Lourens, developer; Tom Siegel, field agent; Julie Cahill, market research; Eric Riedinger, market research; Max Farrell, business development and market research.
What: A virtual tire-slashing for idiot drivers. When someone is being a jerk on the road, you can send them a message simply by knowing their license plate number. Look up license plate and leave an anonymous message or subscribe to your own license plates to see notes for you.

6. Dance VS
Who: Naipong Vang, CEO; Kenneth Manderson, lead developer; Mark Kirschenman, lead designer; Alex Andrade, lead business.
What: An online community for dancers and dance teams to battle in a spirit of improvement and innovation. “It’s really grassroots,” says Naipong Vang, CEO. “We’re trying to get people connected and see what can happen in the world of dance.” People can register as individuals or crews and they represent different areas. They can call others to compete via online video and online spectators decide the winner.

7. eventurist
Who: Steven Lischer, CEO; William Riley, UX; JR Richardson, developer; Ben Choi, designer; Ryan Lilly, business.
What: A system that helps people create successful events by asking what you’re bringing to the party. “You create this social contract when someone RSVPs — you’re saying I’m binging this, and if you break that contract, you have to owe up to the other people,” says Steven Lischer, CEO.

8. doodle cloud
Who: Matthew Smith project leader; Emma Peterson, marketing/project management; Jon Thompson, BizDev/Technical;* Brett Neese, cloud technician; Jennifer Bowersox, designer; Josh Larson, developer; Yas Kuraishi, developer.
What: An app that allows children and parents to imagine shapes and clouds and then draw on the clouds themselves. If your child is playing outside and sees a cloud, they can take a picture on an iPhone or iPad and trace the shape they see. Then they can decorate it and share with friends and family.

9. Kindalike.me
Who: Dan Buettner, developer; Brandon Carlson, bullshitter; Luke Amdor, developer; Dustin Thostenson, project leader; Tom Henricksen, developer.
What: Micro-event sponsorship for trusted friends meeting like-minded people. Use it to connect with like-minded people and find deals from sponsors. i.e. You can meet up with a group of bikers and enjoy a social deal at the High Life Lounge.

10. Go Traffx
Who: Roman Serbryakov, CEO; Sateesh Kadiyala, developer; Nicholas Gaskill, marketing; Jie Luo developing/marketing
What: A service that pairs businesses with local drivers who display advertisements on their vehicles. The ads are one- or two-color decals about the size of a car door, and businesses pay a monthly rate to the driver who advertises on his or her car.

11. Rxminder
Who: Ashley Hunter, shareholder; Darrin Dowell, shareholder; Brent Honnold, shareholder.
What: An iOS app that helps you manage your prescriptions from multiple sources, reminding you what you take and when. Also included is info about the meds, and features like notifications.

12. embarkus.com
Who: Paul Trieu, visionary; Rebecca vanDeCasteele, branding/marketing/design; Chris Casties, designer/social media wizard; Cory McAboy, developer; Ryan Oeltjenbruns, developer; Tom Murrane, developer.
What: A social network that bridges the gap between online and offline activity. A user can get ideas or recommendations on what they can do — and a reason to go out and do it. “We want to help people find people and places and things to do, says Paul Trieu, visionary. “We want this to be an enabler and a catalyst to have real life experiences.”

13. cram5sports
Who: Shane Reiser, business guy; Tim Marquard, developer; Lyndsay Clark, designer; Robert Hidajat, business/marketing; Micah Honeycutt, developer; Andrew Kirpalani, developer.
What: An app for people who know nothing about sports but have friends that do. At a glance, it shows you the top five recent headlines about a given sport by pulling data from RSS feeds. Tagline: “Don’t get embarrassed by your utter lack of sports knowledge.”

14. Storling
Who: Morgan Janes, developer; Kalli McCleary, design/marketing; Matthew Czarnek, developer; Mike Naughton, software.
What: A virtual mall where you can compile businesses and shop, purchase and pay for your products in one location. You can also socially interact with others on the website.

15. Clipist.com [working title]
Who: Levi Rosol, coding; Rob Jensen, business/marketing
What: A Pinterest for Coupons, where users and businesses can upload coupons to a website. Using a phone app, users can scan barcodes for items at the grocery store and find applicable coupons. Show at checkout and save money.