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"If you missed it, the\u00A0\uFB01rst ever Scottish Startup Weekend just took place in Glasgow, expanding the event's footprint in the UK and of course highlighting talent north of the border.\r\n\r\nAs ever with a Startup Weekend, the pressure is on as the challenge is for entrepreneurs, designers and developers to build and\u00A0launch a tech startup in just 54 hours.\r\n\r\nStarting on the Friday evening, 24 people pitched their ideas and after frantic\u00A0voting, 11 were selected for the weekend's work. All of the attendees then formed teams to get the projects going.\u00A0Kudos to all involved who ignored the rarely seen Scottish sunny\u00A0weather to get developing.\r\n\r\nThe chosen teams covered a great many topics and applications. Here's who they are and what they do:\r\n\r\nGifty is a way to work out how to buy the best gifts for your friends. The idea is to take the guess work out\u00A0of buying presents for your nearest and dearest.\r\n\r\nTasteomatic helps you find good local food. It's an online market for local and artisan bites. Once users find something they like the look of they can then have the food delivered or as it is local, go and collect it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPostPod\u00A0is a\u00A0personal postbox at the airport. The service hopes to help people send home the items you can\u2019t take on a plane.\r\n\r\nBetMate\u00A0is a\u00A0customised tablet PC which enables users to place realtime bets\u00A0at sporting events along with sports live streaming. The devices are aimed at hospitality at events to enhance an experience. Think of a day at the races - without the need for binoculars.\r\n\r\nVegPin\u00A0is a service for helping vegans \uFB01nd quality food. It's not easy going for a meal when most restaurants do not cater to vegan requirements. This app should make the process of finding a place to eat much easier.\r\n\r\nTeamFunded\u00A0is a service that helps users build a team and get funded (as it says in the name). By joining the community teams are formed not just by finding people with the right skills but also by looking at personalities.\r\n\r\nSaveMeNet is designed to create a safer community. It's a voice recognition mobile app\u00A0which sends your location to contacts and law enforcement when you\u00A0scream for help, providing you're in a situation where you can use an app of course.\r\n\r\nAppurchase is an mCommerce solution for retailers. It was created to bring the simplicity of\u00A0eCommerce into shops by enabling the consumers mobile device to be\u00A0the point of sale.\r\n\r\nFabricbook\u00A0is a\u00A0fabric search engine and is aiming to be the ultimate resource\u00A0for fabrics online. To make a purchase or take a closer look at materials, users can easily find and order a\u00A0sample.\r\n\r\nX-Tribe\u00A0is an online platform for matching adventurous and sporty people. \u00A0For anyone who has ever needed\u00A0a last minute\u00A0sports-buddy, X-tribe can pair active folk through their sport, location and skills.\r\n\r\nSportHack. Sport and hacking might not seem to be an obvious union, but this service is determined to bring hacking to sports and competition to hacking. SportHack is a\u00A0national event for sports related hardware and software hacks to compete\u00A0against each other at a live \uFB01nal.\r\n\r\nAll of these teams worked hard over the weekend to get their product into a fit state for presentation. At the end the winners were announced and they are: VegPin, SportHack, X-Tribe, Appurchase,\u00A0Gifty and PostPod with the main prize going to the PostPod team as the business\u00A0\u2018Most likely to make a million\u2019.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOrganiser Michael Hayes of RookieOven, having corralled the inspired but\u00A0exhausted teams to Glasgow West brewery on Sunday evening summarised the\u00A0weekend, \u201CSo many brilliant ideas and great how the teams of strangers gelled\u00A0together to work long hours and build something from nothing. Huge\u00A0congratulations to everyone.\u201D\r\n\r\nThat's the thing about hack events like Startup Weekend. With some dedication and hard work, amazing ideas can be realised, attendees can be satisfied with their work and no doubt after a hard weekend together, most are likely to have made some good friends along the way."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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