These are the teams that presented at Startup Weekend Wellington in November 2011:

Auti (honourable mention)
The interactive toy for autistic children.

Autism can be isolating and socially hard for kids. They struggle to understand other peoples social cues, and learning about these things can be hard and frustrating for them.

Auti is an intelligent toy that teaches positive play characterics and rewards the child with a programmed response, while shutting off if negative behaviours (like hitting or yelling) are detected.

Budgie Smugglers (honourable mention)
The BudgieSmuggler makes the man!

Socks and undies are trivial things that men don’t have time to buy. Now men can buy trivial goods like undies and socks without sacrificing time.

BudgieSmugglers is an online site where men can set themselves up to get a pair of undies and a pair of socks delivered every 3 months for $49. They get to choose their preferences, then set and forget about their socks and undies and focus on other important man things.

Classie
Easy online admin for dance classes.

Dance teachers are often in the dark ages when it comes to admin. They use excel spreadsheets to enroll their students and send invoices via snail mail. Consequently dance studios have a high ratio of admin staff to dance teachers.

Classie solves this problem by provide a web-based service with 3 key features:

• Enrol- single online database to managed enrollment
• Manage- taking attendance, record progress, payment
• Comminicate- send out info to parents

This product enrolls students in seconds, tracks attendance, integrates with Xero at the backend and reduces paperwork for the dance studio.

Conscious Consumer (2nd place)
The ultimate tool for the Conscious Consumer.

If you are a committed vegan or vegetarian, it’s very important to know about the products you buy, and it’s very hard to get this information at the point of sale.

Conscious Consumer is a Mobile app that enables the user to scan the product, and get confirmation that a product either meets or doesn’t meet your value criteria. For example, the App will confirm that a product is genuinely vegetarian.

Groundfacts.com
Better crisis information powered by smart crowd-sourcing.

Crises are underpinned by insecurity and uncertainty- for example:

• How do I get across town?
• What petrol stations are open?
• When will the power be back on?

Groundfacts provides a solution by crowd-sourcing information from social media, then filtering and clustering it and providing the end result to those in need.

The product works by automatically filtering of most messages, then using

Key people to refine and collate the resulting information.

I Dream of Space
The online competition for space travel flight.

So many people like the idea of going into space, but don’t have $200k for the opportunity. Imagine instead, buying a chance to go into space for just $10.

I Dream of Space is very simply a competition for a chance to win a ticket into space. If you’ve ever dreamed of going into space, or know someone who does, that dream can come true.

Mobile Kombat
The battle for mobile supremacy

Mobile Kombat is an online gaming platform that detects what kind of user you are (e.g iphone, Android) and pitches you against a competitor of your choice from another platform.

A variety of games will be available on the platform for free, and you will be able to battle it out with players around the world to prove that your device is the ultimate.

MorePork
Stay in your happy place by avoiding the supermarket.

Most people feel that grocery shopping and the associated queues and chaos is a chore they would rather avoid. MorePork solves this problem by enabling customers to shop for groceries anywhere, anytime via a mobile app.

MorePork is a mobile app that enables a customer to scan products, create lists, and order directly from their chosen supermarket. Groceries are delivered, and wobbly shopping trolleys are a thing of the past.

Rate My Flat
The rating service for finding the right flat.

Tenants have to make decisions on what flat to choose, but they are left in the dark in knowing the pitfalls and issues of specific flats- like the shower doesn’t work and it ‘s really damp in winter.

Rate My Flat provides a user driven platform enabling users to reduce their risk by checking out the ratings from people that have lived in that flat or house before.

Consumers are familiar with rating hotels and restaurants, now is the time for rating flats!

StarStock
StarStock is a web based tool for measuring organizational culture in real time.

A key problem HR departments in larger organisations face is that while factors like culture, values and engagement drive performance, it is very difficult to measure and monitor these things in real time.

StarStock is simple web based tool to gift stars to fellow employees to show your appreciation. These stars are linked to the company values, are limited and anonymous.

By monitoring the gifting flow, HR departments can monitor “goodwill” flowing across employees in the business, giving them a wealth of insight into how the business culture is performing.

SimpleTrust
The simple way to manage and administer your Trust.

1 in 18 New Zealanders have a Trust, but over 75% of these Trusts are at risk due to trustee mismanagement.

SimpleTrust solves this issue by providing an online service that proactively administers the Trust for you, reducing the compliance risk. The online service includes unique features such as minute taking, and is accessible any time, any where

USnap.US (1st place)
Guest-sourced wedding photo aggregation.

Wedding parties are faced with 2 issues on their wedding day:

1. Photographers cant be everywhere at once
2. Some people cant make the event

USnap.US solves these problems through a simple and innovation solution where, guests upload an app to their smartphones, take photos during the event and upload them. These photos are instantly collated and available in a livesteam.

For $200, the bride and groom can run a steaming slideshow of the photos at the wedding, and have a single site that has aggregated all the guests photos.

WeCreate Maker Gym
Think Les Mills with tools.

WeCreate is a creative workshop space, where you can use tools you want without buying them, have skilled people at hand to help.

For $39 per month, you will have access to woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing and other workshop essentials, to create anything you like.

The great kiwi shed is coming back, and it’s here for everybody.

Well Done (3rd place)
The new app for parents and kids to achieve things together

Many parents struggle to help their motivate and reward their children to learn new skills like toilet training. Well Done is a Smartphone app to reward and motivate pre schoolers to toilet train.

For $4.99, parents can download an App that rewards their child for achieving small steps to bigger milestones, through some instant gratification on the app, and a longer term incentive once they meet the toilet training milestone.