Coworking spaces are hotbeds of creative activity. As one might expect, this naturally results in new projects and companies spawned by members in the middle of an inspirational kick.
This page exists to track some of the projects that were conceived in coworking spaces.
Date | Space | Project Name | Description | Founders/Creators | Link |
5/19/08 | IndyHall | iSepta | User-centric mobile interface for Philadelphia's Reigional Rail system. Received a good deal of regional acclaim. | Randy Schmidt, Jason Tremblay, Chris Conley | http://www.isepta.org |
6/27/08 | IndyHall | RipIt | Simple DVD ripping for Mac. Reports DVD fingerprints back to DiscIdent, a service like Gracenote CDDB for tracking DVD metadata. | Jason Allum, Johnny Bilotta, David Martorana, Jason Tremblay, David Speers | http://ripitapp.com/ |
3/19/08 | IndyHall | Two Guys On Beer | Two guys, reviewing beer they love. No bullsh*t. Good fun. Go enjoy some beer. | Johnny Bilotta, David Martorana | http://www.twoguysonbeer.com |
2/22/08 | IndyHall | MultiFirefox | Run multiple versions/profiles of firefox on a single Mac. Awarded Apple downloads "staff pick" and Download.com front page placement. | David Martorana | http://codecontortionist.com/software/mac-osx-software/multifirefox/ |
7/3/08 | IndyHall | OMGPlzBFree | mobile domain search, with all the glitter of a middle school girls' birthday party. 2nd generation may include streamlined registration | Randy Schmidt, Jason Tremblay, Chris Conley | http://omgplzbfree.com/ |
7/26/08 | IndyHall | FailCamp | An event, based on the BarCamp model, where individuals and entrepreneurs are encouraged to embrace their Fail. | Alex Hillman & Amy Hoy with inspiration by Tara Hunt's "losercamp" | http://www.failcamp.org |
03/07 | P'unk Ave/IndyHall | Junto | Based on Ben Franklin's Junto, early rumblings of the IndyHall community formed with the guidance of the team from P'unk Avenue, a design firm in Philadelphia. This event has contuned to grow into it's own community of creative collaborative mutual improvment, on a once-a-month-ish basis. | Alex Gilbert, Geoff DiMasi, Rick Banister | http://www.junto.org |
10/07 | Jelly (NYC) | CommandShift3 | CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not, but for web sites. You are presented with the screenshots of two websites side by side. If you click the screenshot of the site you think looks best, the page reloads and you start all over again. It never ends. | Dan Lurie, Lee Semel, Erin Sparling, Darrell Silver, Adam Varga and Amit Gupta | http://commandshift3.com/ |
9/11/2008 | IndyHall | DiscIdent | Think CDDB/Gracenote, but for DVD's. Built into RipItApp and the upcoming Mezzanine app, | Jason Allum | http://discident.com/ |
December 11, 2008 | Station C, Montreal | Artefatica | Open publishing project. | Christine Prefontaine, with help from Patrick Tanguay, Daniel Mireault, and Antoine Girard | http://www.artefati.ca |