The 90 Startups from TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012’s Hackathon
Three days ago none of these projects existed, they were all created during the TechCrunch Disrupt Weekend Hackathon in New York. Some may continue on to become the next GroupMe, or some may already be in the deadpool.
As sponsors of this year’s event, my own company MetaLayer awarded two of them our prize for best-in-show for using our APIs.
- yug.io - Duel Online - lets users play the Yugio card game online
- Around Mi - (City Grid and Mobli) visualize things around you
- HashOut - video Q&A, tag question with relevant skills, users with those skills get notified and can answer
- StreamPic - live streaming slideshow using tagged media (mainly hashtags) or location
- CheapestATM - find ATMs near you and their transaction fees
- Tipsters - social Q&A (uses the metaLayer API)
- Kickli.st - mailing list that’s invite only (two strikes you’re off, inviting blocked users is struke), no web ui.
- Four Free - shows Four Square coupons as if they were verified (hacks a bug in FourSquares system)
- EchoChamber - pick songs, play a social ‘name that tune’ game
- Oh My Klout! - asteroids like game using the Klout API, shoot influencers
- Pickle - Image Q&A and polling service. It’s like hot or not for any two images.
- EveryPlat - Follow people on multiple platforms at once
- MiracleTicket - last minute ticket sales, geolocated buy and sell
- You Mixer - Social Jukebox mashing up YouTube + Facebook
- PollDance - mobile social network for location based polls
- WizCafe - Meet experts for buying decisions
- Dedic8d - Sentiment streams about anything you care about
- Friend Ptz - Do favors, get rewarded using a social currency using #Dwoalla
- Bucketlist.at - Find the best travel experiences based on crowd sourced voting and curation
- Ikea Iphone - iPhone app and 3D visual instructions for IKEA furniture
- Project Stalker - social network for matching developers, designers, investors and business people. ”keep the hackathon going”
- Happy Bucket - desktop app solving clutter around your PC, set up smart folders to sync with cloud services
- CityGrid Offer Redemption - data application for local merchants
- Sportify - curate grammatically correct sentences about sports. It’s like an automated sports reporter.
- Tweet2Tracks - search twitter for beautiful images + sentiment
- Rapunzl.to - helps find hair salons and offers using (instagram, yelp, foursquare)
- Message to the Future - Send a video or audio recording to yourself in the future
- Poachbase - Hard to find talent. Predicts when startups will fail so that companies can poach their talent.
- CU App - ported app to iOS and Android
- Beat Sherpa - draw and visualize a journey, then it selects music that matches the journey
- thingscription - Subscription to any thing and get them delivered at home
- Nameless - helps you name products, startups, blogs or websites
- PlanIt - large events with too much to do and too little time. Collaborative scheduling tool. Looks like Hipmunk but for specific days or events.
- Sentimental Diary - views how mood changes throughout the day
- Fistpump.jit.su - use your phone to fist pump, and the accelerometer gives cues to the DJ
- 1855SayName - Add your contacts to the cloud, then call them using your voice
- SingleSlide - instantly create a Prezi from streaming content
- Whisper You - Lets you send audio messages to yourself later or immediately
- 9to5 - an achievements type social game that you have to complete between the hours of 9 to 5
- Replyo - Video comments for social photo streams
- Acro - android multi-player game for Acrophobia (make words and sentences out of the letters)
- Vip Appeal - hot or not for going to events. Like Klout for events
- AlfredFilk - extension for Alfred app that allows users to write strings
- HapStream - find geolocated video and photos from clubs and events
- BrainDrain - pattern matching memory game
- Ask the King - helps makes decision based on sentiment (goasktheking.com)
- Fantasy Buzzer - helps to improve your fantasy sports playing by sending reminders and notifications
- SMS Mark Cuban - AI generated advice for ideas
- Wine-oh! - helps people make decisions about drinking wine, and gives list prices
- Spoonhub - github for geeks who cook (recipe feeds and fork recipes) and makes restaurant recommendations
- StalkBook - not a friend, not a problem. Lets you see people photos on Facebook using other people’s credentials
- City Vibes - geolocation based music playlists
- Straphangers - shows media and content geolocated to public transportation
- Jamsters - online jamming sessions using virtual instruments
- Crystal Ball - lets you see who’s at a place or who’s been at a place, and how popular a place is
- What’s Up With - social Q and A platform using images
- Whatthefuckshould.Idotonight.com - tells you where you should go, cheekily
- Covengers - find hackers, discover great projects. “AirBnB for Hackers”
- What’s Around - figure out what to do in your neighborhood based on tweets
- nuMail - self organizes email
- YourQ - filters questions and answers using your social graph and friends
- Context - second screen app for making tv better and social
- ApIgnite - build an API for yourself in 60 seconds by scanning your codebase!!
- WatchAt - share photos with your friends
- Ad City - service that allows you to publish relevant ads
- Kover - figure out what you need based on your personality
- meThinks - automatic curation of your Facebook streams like Pinterest
- Fortune Teller - gives random predefined answers to questions
- Practikhan - teachers can create customized classes and quizzes on Khan Academy
- Serendipity/Fourplay - matches foursquare to missed connections on Craigslist
- Mobli on Windows - a port to Windows
- Livras - online library where you have educational videos and books
- Contagion - helps tag photos using mobli
- Food Roulette - adaptive system for automating the ordering of food randomly
- Oomate - Proactive personal assistant
- WhatNow - Real-time Hunch for events. Makes personal recommendations based on foursquare checkins. Events and activities.
- HireSquare - find jobs based on location and interests
- Sidewinder - Cliffsnotes for the web, iPad App
- Interest U - shows you what your friends are interested in
- AbusedIphone - lets your phone reacts to your dropping it, socially
- Checkout - feedback and reccomednations based on location features
- SPAR - Social Passport Augmented Reality - AR deal finding
- SlackerShare - helps with interest
- TestFlip.com - emergency button for your phone
- Unfriendly - shows you who to unfriend on Facebook
- Gbber - a marriage between twitter and irc
- BrowseHog - auto-indexes the stuff you visit in your browser
- Connect 4 for Google Hangouts - play Connect 4 while in a Google Hangout
I may have missed a few as there were officially 92 and above I only list 88.




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