Amazingly enough this demo night finished on time and even a little bit early. Thanks to Julia Shalet for keeping things running smoothly on the night and Jo Rabin too for the varied selection of demos — lots of great ideas.
Pictures and more commentary on the Mobile Monday Blog.
5 Tiles
Previous demo night success
- Christian Lindholm now an advisor & investor
- available on Android Wear (Samsung Gear)
- soon available on iOS
Grabyo
Benjamin Bourdin, http://grabyo.com
- realtime video sharing
- get any IP feed, apply title, edit
- save & share using twitter, facebook, ooyala, brightcove etc
- monetize through in-stream ads
- initial customers are broadcasters
- done deals with ITV & Sky Sports
- also did wimbledon & big brother
- also have a consumer platform: if a broadcaster wants to get people involved in sharing content
Good Food Talks
Matt Wadsworth, http://goodfoodtalks.com
- web app to let visually impaired people read restaurant menus
- a very few menus offer braille but only 1% of visually impaired people can read braille
- surveyed 5000 people — main complaint was difficult navigation
- web app has simple navigation
- search/near me > restaurant name > menu
- free for users
- various ways of getting data in
- restaurants pay for input
- API ingest, full service, etc
- commercial for just over a year
- 400 venues
- biggest so far is Carluccio’s, then Pret
Swytch
Chris Michael, CEO, http://www.swytch.com/
- additional mobile numbers on your phone
- just closing alpha tester list
- free credits to alpha testers
- only service that allows you to have multiple UK mobile numbers on your phone
- aiming for worldwide too
QuizTix
Ian Masters & Albert Marshall, http://quiztix.co/
- mobile quiz games
- opt-in adverts for rewards
- all four versions are available on iOS, Google & Amazon
- movies, pop, world football, video games
- targeting around existing passions
- also want to target venues with seats
Mylo
Martin Sandstrom & Mark Lee, http://mylo-app.com/
- split your bill when you live in a house share
- direct connection to various providers
- energy, TV, phone, etc
- push notifications to other housemates
- settle bill with paypal (peer to peer is free)
- no business model at moment
- aiming for future paid features
- aiming to attract lots of users first…
- app available for iOS and Android
Viewmaker
Douglas Robb, http://www.scramboo.com/
- location-enabled augmented reality
- Android & iOS apps, CMS for template-based content
- content discovery & engagement
- can control timing of content as well
- also support image-recognition-based AR
- first commercial partner is Jockey Club
- prototype app for Sandown Race Course
- involving novice race-goers in the racing
- planning to roll out to other Jockey Club venues
Pronto
James Roy Poulter, https://www.prontoapp.it/
- food to wherever you are
- don’t need an address
- only get a choice of four options (different each day)
- authenticate through nexmo API by voice call
- credit card payments only
- launched 100 days ago in Trento, Italy
- initially iOS only, then Android, + Windows coming next week
- launching next week in London (now available in the City)
- won an accelerator in Italy
- worked with restaurants in Italy, but difficult for food in 10 minutes
- aiming to get own centralized kitchen as margins are incredible
- also get drivers — performance based pay
- but made easier with centralized kitchen with limited delivery range
Adsy
Frederick Tubiermont, http://www.adsy.me/
- create mobile web apps on mobile for mobile
- can now create apps on desktop too
- web apps are square shaped
- magic touch swipe to choose link destination
- includes email, telephone
- can embed videos, twitter feeds, etc
- can embed adsy apps in web pages or just view on mobile
- use case:
- kids & teens making a web app about a concert during a concert
- then sharing the evolving content
- meant to create snackable content
- will announce a product based on the platform in 2-3 weeks
IFS
Matthew Bridge, http://www.ifsworld.com/en/
- business critical messages to smart watches
- useful feature: view on device — opens up more detail on the phone through quick selection on watch
- driven from enterprise resource planning
- staff can subscribe to specific notifications
OpenTRV
Mark Hill and Damon Hart-Davis, http://opentrv.org.uk/
- 60% of your energy and 20% of UK emissions flow through TRVs
- 50% of that energy is wasted
- one thermostat usually controls whole house
- target price £10 per radiator: save £300 in the first year
- production samples coming mid-November
- hotels losing £50 per room per year on heating bills
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