How are Garage48 projects doing 10 months later?

Garage48 is a series of events targeted towards creating technology startups in 48 hours. This far, four events have happened, two in 2010 and two in 2011. It seems to me that it is still too early to say anything about the success or survival of the projects of the three last events, but the long-running results of the first development weekend held in April 2010 have pretty well settled by now. I thought it would be interesting to go through those projects and analyze their current status.

I present my findings in the list below, where I describe the projects, their last recorded activities, some comments and my verdict, whether the project can be considered live, dead or something in between. It is not always very easy to say, whether a project is dead, if the website is still up and the original content is still accessible. Since almost all the projects are also represented on Facebook and Twitter, I mostly took the decision about liveness based on recent activity on these sites.

So here it comes.

Garage48, Tallinn, April 2010

1. Kratid.com. The last Facebook entry comes from October 17, 2010, the last Twitter entry from February 10, 2011, but its message is "We are hibernating" and the last entry before that one was on August 30, 2010. My verdict: almost dead.
2. Wannalunch.com. Last activity on site December 31, 2010, last activity on Facebook October 10, 2010, last activity on Twitter November 7, 2010. My verdict: dead.
3. Coctailroulette.com. Last activity on Facebook July 6, 2010, last activity on Twitter April 22, 2010. My verdict: dead.
4. Iseehitaja.ee. The forum has 0 posts, last blog entry April 27, 2010, last activity on Facebook November 6, 2010, last activity on Twitter April 27, 2010. My verdict: dead.
5. Localvortex.net. Last activity on site February 21, 2011, last activity on Facebook February 24, 2011. My verdict: alive.
6. Talepath.com. The website redirects to http://crapwall.com/, last activity on Facebook April 19, 2010, last activity on Twitter April 18, 2010. My verdict: dead.
7. Namefy.com. Last activity on Facebook August 7, 2010, last activity on Twitter April 28, 2010. My verdict: dead.
8. Prygikast.ee. Last activity on Facebook February 25, 2011, last activity on Twitter February 25, 2011. My verdict: alive.
9. Keepatouch.com. The weabsite is dead, last activity on Facebook October 10, 2010, last activity on Twitter June 22, 2010. My verdict: dead.
10. Mysocial.name. Last activity on Facebook June 5, 2010, last activity on Twitter June 5, 2010. My verdict: dead.
11. Poliitik.eu. The website is contentless, last activity on Twitter April 18th, 2010. My verdict: dead.
12. Seenele. Last activity on Facebook September 21, 2010, last activity on Twitter September 21, 2010. My verdict: dead.
13. Subtuutor.eu. Last activity on Twitter April 18th, 2010. My verdict: dead.
14. Off The Couch. It is a Facebook app without a Facebook or Twitter page. It looks running but no-one seems using it. My verdict: practically dead.
15. TwistList. Website is not responding, last activity on Twitter May 13, 2010. My verdict: dead.
16. MyShopping. The website promises a soon-to-come service called LetsMeetHere, no further information about MyShopping. My verdict: dead.

We can see that the only two surviving projects are map-based applications for finding some services. Is there a pattern here? I think I will wait for a few months and analyze the outcome of the second Garage48 event as well. Stand by.

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Eks see ole midagi, mida me kõik kusagil kuklasagaras salaja juba natuke aega teame. Nüüd siis ka ametliku teadustulemusena: kasu, mida Facebookis sidemete ülalhoidmisega saavutada võib, jääb palju väiksemaks kahjust, mida pidev vajadus Facebooki lahti klõpisda meie närvisüsteemile põhjustab.