On: RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

[Hates_]

For convenience:

#1 LowDown - http://mcp.r09.railsrumble.com

#2 Hi, I'm - http://hi.im

#3 Omnominator - http://omnominator.com

#4 Thingivore - http://thingivore.com

#5 Neighborhood Watch - http://neighborhoodwat.ch

#6 Techmeets - http://techmeets.com

#7 Straightlist - http://husohuso.r09.railsrumble.com

#8 SmackSale - http://smacksale.com

#9 Nybbl - http://nybblme.r09.railsrumble.com

#10 Last Percent - http://lastpercent.com

#11 Table Surfing - http://tablesurfing.com

Some awesomely ridiculous apps that deserve mention:

http://www.lazeroids.com (online massively multiplayer asteroids). Seriously.

http://www.stomachly.com (restaurant ratings based on bowels)

http://www.celebritypassage.com (tribute site to dead celebs)

[jskopek → Hates_]

These are all remarkable, but the one that really gets my imagination going is #7 - Straightlist. If they can implement embeddable widgets that can be put into blogs and forums I can see the site picking up a lot of steam, and once they start keeping track of hits on each page the site has the potential to become a reddit for guides

[railsjedi → jskopek]

Oops, they actually already do have the integration widget via an iframe link. Missed that around the first time.

[cousin_it → Hates_]

LowDown, Straightlist, SmackSale and CelebrityPassage sound like names of porn sites.

[Heff → Hates_]

The quality was much higher this year. I think teams are really learning how to compete, and it's getting a lot harder to win.

[railsjedi → Hates_]

ah, much cleaner list :-)

[IvanAcostaRubio → Hates_]

movenig.ht for netflix heads!