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Apps
Shower With Friends Wins The Disrupt SF 2014 Hackathon Grand Prize, Blitz And Interactive Markdown Are Runners Up
Over the weekend, 132 teams worked tirelessly at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 hackathon to come up with their ingenious hacks and creations. At the end of a… Read More
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Apps
Experiment 8 – Guess It, The Hack That Wants You To Play “The Price Is Right” For Discounts When You Shop
The team behind Experiment 8 – Guess It has a terrible name and a simple idea: Guess the price of any product on its website correctly and get a deep… Read More
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Startups
TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Developers Learn To Simplify Under Pressure
Under the pressure that is the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, one team found itself stuck. The product was too complex to complete on time. The team members were… Read More
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Startups
Git Bounty Wants To Help Open-Source Programmers Get Paid For Bug Fixes
If you’re using open-source software, you’ve probably come across a bug that you want to fix but don’t have the expertise to do it yourself… Read More
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Apps
Blitz Lets You Create Shortcuts To Your Favorite iOS Apps
Presenting on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco hackathon this afternoon was the team from an iOS app called Blitz, which aims to offer Notification… Read More
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Apps
Persona’s Machine-Learning App Lets People Follow Different Sides Of Your Twitter Identity
Our identities are prismatic. We’re not the same person to everyone. Yet when you follow someone on Twitter, your feed overflows with a combination of… Read More
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Finance
Fantasy Bit League Wants You To Bet Bitcoin On Football
On stage this morning at the Disrupt SF 2014 hackathon, Fantasy Bit League pitched its creation: A way to wager bitcoin in your fantasy football league. As it… Read More
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Apps
FitLine Monitors Your App Usage Like A Fitness Tracker
FitLine is an app that collects your web and app usage and presents that data like the fitness tracking apps from Nike or Fitbit. It only collects how much time… Read More
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An Energy-Saving Air Vent In The Cloud Designed By A 13-Year-Old
Father and daughter team Gabi and Shani Zuniga put their heads together with neighbor and long-time friend Danny Eizips to create Ventix, a home heating and… Read More
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Education
StudySpots Helps Students Escape The Campus Bubble
I wish StudySpots had been around when I was a college student. I’d spend hours hunched over books and my laptop in my dorm room or the same cubicle at… Read More