#SWAlex Startups
After I published my own list of #SWAlex winners, many of you has asked for descriptions of all the startups that I mentioned, so I went back to my tweets (so many of them!) and compiled the below.
Here’s the startups descriptions (in the order they were presented in):
- StoreMate: web-based POS system that saves small businesses the cost of buying POS systems and instead they can use the PCs they have. StoreMate can work offline when there’s no connection and then syncs with the server later on to push updates.
- Real-Life Like: allow brands and business to incoporate Facebook’s Like button for real-life objects, it uses a hardware platform and RFID cards carried by users and connected to their accounts.
- 7ad Nazel Min Barra: enables users to request products from each other when they’re coming from other countries: US, Europe, etc. The udea answers a big need for people in Egypt and the region to get access to new products quickly and not wait for local releases.
- 1001inventions: 3D educational game that aims to educate users about historical inventions through an engaging gameplay, with characters, dialogue and action.
- bYae3 b El3arabya: a Startup that aims to reduce reckless driving, by installing a device in the car that sends alerts whenever the observed G-force exceeds certain limits, which happens in cases of careless driving. Could be used by parents or car rental companies.
- Korashrab: a game that builds on the popular street game in Egypt with the same name, the game is basically an Arabic fantasy football done the Egyptian way.
- Farafeero.com: a daily deals aggregator.
- QRasher: a QR code generation and tracking service, as part of their services they’re releasing a “QR Magazine” that brands and retailers can buy space in, and they will have QR t-shirts as well.
- Khasesny: a community with a local twist to help people lose weight by tracking and sharing their progress with friends.
- astweeted: aims to help you save all tweets under a certain hashtag, since twitter doesn’t show data more than 3 days old, and the site offers include graphs and reports.
- Wall Market: a QR code based ordering menu and iPhone app, where buyers can scan items printed on a poster to place their order and get them delivered.
- Q-hat: a Android-based loyalty program, that doesn’t require businesses and retailers to install any software or hardware.
- Faselty: a place to connect people that need blood donations with willing blood donors.
- Carpool: an iPhone app to help people offer and find car rides quickly and easily.
- SLOW “social layer over the world”: mobile app that enables mobile tagging of real-world objects and uses Augmented reality to show those information.
- Baddel.net: a bartering site for Egyptian users.
- Ma7fazty: (wallet in Arabic) a mobile app to record and track personal expenses, enables users to have different users feed into one record, to keep track of families expenses.
- Easy Charge: a mobile app to quickly and easily recharge the balance of your lines by taking photos of the recharge cards, capturing the number and processing it with the telcos.
- Sweet Heaven: a site for parents and kids, where parents can grant points to their kids, which can be redeemed in gifts that kids can choose. Aims to incentivize kids to listen to parents by connecting achievements with gifts in ways they can understand.
- Welad El Balad: aims to help tourists in Egypt by connecting them with the locals to ask them for help about anything, using their deep local knowledge and expertise.
- OTM: an iPhone app to help you locate the nearest ATM to you, allows to filter ATMs by card types and banks.
- Club7: a community to connect people that wake up at 7AM, to support and encourage each other and plan activities together.
- You-Pik: a mobile/web service for photo-sharing, customization, printing, framing and gifting. It aims to be the place for photographers so sell their work, and for enthusiasts to buy great and cheap photos, printed and framed! They built a prototype iPad app that uses AR to help you try photographs that you like on the walls of your home, and change the framing and size before you can order.
