Six Hour Startup: July 13th @ Collins Pub

[Justin Martenstein]

The problem: 1) You're on your third lunch with a prospective client
this week, and, as delicious as the sandwiches at Grand Central Bakery
are, you could do with a little bit of variety, or 2) You've set up
you're lunch meeting on Noonhat [1], now how do you decide where to
eat with a bunch of strangers?

The solution: Restaurant Roulette, an ultra-simple random lunch
suggester, with no bells, whistles or blinking text. Just enter your
location and out shoots a potential lunch spot. Not in the mood for
chinese food? Reload the page and get a new choice (disclaimer: name
"Restaurant Roulette" subject to change on account of general
crappiness).

This is the next proposed project for Six Hour Startup [2], the group
that has already brought you Timelope.com, Tagmindr.com, PoorMikes.org
and others! This time, however, we're mixing things up a bit. Rather
than doing the project in the usual office spot, we're branching out a
bit to Collins Pub, the epicenter of the local lunchtime dealmaking
scene. We're getting started on Sunday, July 13th at about 5pm [3],
and we expect to have the site up and running around 11 (or we'll keep
working until they kick us out)!

Folks of all skill levels are encouraged to come and participate in
the excitement and reverie of building a startup in one evening (suck
it, Ryan Carson [4]). If you do show up, however, you will be expected
to participate, either in coding, specs, drinking, design or testing.
Django / Python programmers are particularly needed. We'll be trying
to organize a prep session in conjunction with Saturday House the day
before - more details on that to come later. Please register on the
upcoming page, or reply directly to me if you're coming, just so we
can get a general headcount.

What: Six Hour Startup Project - Restuarant Roulette
When: Sunday, July 13th - 5pm to 11pm
Where: Collins Pub (526 2nd Ave., on the edge of Pioneer Square)
Who: anyone, though Python programmers in particular are encouraged to come
Register:

[1] http://www.noonhat.com
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlM04QBH97Q
[3] http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/868700/
[4] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/03/how-to-build-a-web-app-in-four-days-for-10000-say-hello-to-matt/

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Justin Martenstein
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[Tony Wright]

Have you seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQwUZe5Ms08

(UrbanSpoon is a local startup, of course)

Might inspire some ideas.


-Tony Wright

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[Justin Martenstein]

> Anyway, I've always wanted to do something similar web-wide, perhaps
> there's a fit here? Submit your email address, zip code, desired
> frequency of invites, and restaurant roulette does the matchmaking.

Colin -

Check out Noonhat.com, which was developed by Brian Dorsey, as a sort
of proto-six-hour-startup.

For this upcoming project, we are going to try and keep it as simple
as possible. There's only so much we can get done in six hours, and
best to keep the scope as limited as we can. =)

[Colin M. Saunders]

In a former life I wrote something that would send an invite out to a
random foursome on the company LDAP, Mixer Mondays we called it.

Anyway, I've always wanted to do something similar web-wide, perhaps
there's a fit here? Submit your email address, zip code, desired
frequency of invites, and restaurant roulette does the matchmaking.

On second thought perhaps this is a different 6HSU. These kinds of
things usually work better if the site does one and only one thing.

- Colin

[Colin M. Saunders]

In a former life I wrote something that would send an invite out to a
random foursome on the company LDAP, Mixer Mondays we called it.

Anyway, I've always wanted to do something similar web-wide, perhaps
there's a fit here? Submit your email address, zip code, desired
frequency of invites, and restaurant roulette does the matchmaking.

On second thought perhaps this is a different 6HSU. These kinds of
things usually work better if the site does one and only one thing.

- Colin

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Tony Wright <webw...@gmail.com> wrote: