Attendees

Tate, Ben, Jason, Dima, Kip, Dean, Jose, Wolf, Rizwan, Ruby, Kris, Mike, Acacia, Cimarron - hosting, Michael - notes

Intro

Attendees quickly introduce the idea they want to talk about.

Tate

  • Whiskey taster jars

Jason

  • Volunteer community business

Jose

  • Launching an incubator for greater Vancouver neighbourhoods

Dima

  • No idea
  • Worked with startups, here to help

Dean

  • Cafe, bar, vintage clothing retail (Fashion) focusing on SEO

Kip

  • Music AI software

Rizwan

  • No idea
  • Plays music BCMP

Michael

  • No idea

Ruby

  • No idea, here to learn

Kris

  • Cold brew coffee popsicles
  • Grant list

Cimarron

  • Garden optimization data optimized business

Wolf

  • AR framework for DJ mixing deck

Ben

  • No idea
  • Ruby on Rails programmer / Elixir

Acacia

  • Coparenting app

Idea development

Jose

  • Off the record: Incubator

Wolf

  • Alternative reality for DJing
  • Building viable product: a DJ game for kids
  • Platform based on cameras and object identifying
  • Framework is platform agnostic, Unity
  • Working with various DJs to come up with features
  • Adapting product to kids
  • Focusing on the educational part for children
  • Riz: Why only kids?
  • Less expectations from kids
  • Kris: Is a demo available? -> bring it to the Social Hack Night
  • It’s demo ready!
  • Riz: Teaching on the platform?
  • Currently focusing on the basics
  • Tate: Provide it for free to kids, charge parents
  • That is a planned feature
  • Dima: Product for kids requires high engagement
  • Process also complicated for kids
  • Ben: Kids like repeating media
  • Ben: Licence music?
  • Open source music
  • Ana: Working with children under 8 year olds. Centers are interested in having presentation. -> Conact provided
  • Riz: Friend who teaches kids to DJ
  • Need to interface with new AR platforms
  • Kris: Focus on product market fit to focus on demand

Dean

  • Cafe, bar, vintage clothing retail (Fashion) focusing on SEO
  • Revenue streams
  • Membership system
    • Client membership box: 10-50 CAD / month
    • Artist membership: offering services
  • Events organizing as customer acquisition
  • Riz: Ideas meeting group may not be target market
  • Riz: Vintage fashion contact thefrench75.ca
  • Ruby: Is there an online service attached to the cafe?
  • Ben: Use Shopify as e-commerce platform
  • Kris: Space lab : nerd cafe + antique store
  • Tate: You can introduce time limits on items to drive traffic
  • Riz: Value proposition: What value are you providing in exchange for the subscription?
  • Kris: Might work for complements like tie / shirt sharing
  • Jose: Boxes with art and clothes -> receive box and buy what they like and return the rest
  • Tate: People don’t like returning art
  • Membership and you can take whatever you like (Parks and Recreation)
  • Riz: Focus on key aspects and core model
  • Cimarron: Tools to help on business planning: Business Model Canvas
  • Kris: Try to make the first sales
  • Riz: Do things that don’t scale
  • Cimarron: Evaluate memberships to estimate revenue
  • Tate: West Pender and Hamilton
  • Ben: Freemium membership. Get emails from landing page.

Ruby

  • Website like meetup.com to connect people in Real Life
  • Meetup focuses on events
  • Michael: Similar to Jason’s idea
  • Quality of people: skill level or interest
  • Exchange skills and knowledge
  • Riz: hates meetup.com -> ready for substitute
  • Looking for programmer
  • Wolf: How general is the concept to be: can get complete like understanding natural language
  • Kris: Need for additional commitment on top of FB events
  • Cimarron: Skills or event base?
  • Focused on collaborating on crazy things.
  • Kris: Build something to try -> Social hack night

Ben

  • Astronomy: Virtual planetarium on laptop
  • NASA, Google, University of Toronto collected sky photos and built a system to locate them in the sky
  • Used by amateurs to build planetariums
  • 20M market cap for competitors
  • Older population market
  • Riz: Open sky as name
  • Riz: VR planatarium
  • Kids and seniors
  • Jose: Kids and seniors like everything
  • Riz: Limited market, not general population -> Astronomy is complex
  • Interesting for astrophotography
  • Competitor: Stellarium
  • Riz: Talk to universities and researchers
  • Jose: Do crowdfunding, landing page or launch MVP to get feel of the market -> get traction
  • Keeping the app free to have
  • Cimarron: How does it work?
  • Map groupings of stars to identify position in sky as comparison to index (40GB)
  • Machine learned process -> high volume would require subscription
  • Jason: How big of a telescope?
  • Any size
  • Jason: Events for astrology. Kitsilano has an open access to the telescope on Saturday 8 to 12
  • Kris: Flikr pictures as source to build index or content
  • Jose: Forums and Facebook pages in which to share idea
  • Jason: Talk to observatories
  • Riz: Publication journals have different policies on data sets
  • Jose: Focus on kids and seniors as an activity to do together
  • Riz: VR for space is more appealing
  • Kris: RASC
  • Jose: First scholarship award for the idea!
  • Important to keep aesthetic
  • Kip: Previous work on mars
  • Kris: Heavens above Identify intense stars. Map it out in app

Tate

  • Whiskey tasting business
  • Kris: Cocktail scene: 3-4 tiers of whiskey pubs. Some have waiting list.
  • Michael: Start a club
  • Kris: Intoxicate Vancouver
  • Jason: Whiskey tasting club
  • Kris: Pay what you like club. Talk to D.

Jason

  • Community for volunteers
  • Kris: difficult to monetize
  • Trisha: Attribute system for casual labour and monitize through premium businesses or build used items market within with user review system
  • Kris: Challenging space as comp taskrabbit.com, iamexec.com, magicnow.com
  • Kris: Accio in Victoria trying to compete
  • Trisha: Vouch system a la Couchsurfing
  • Trisha: Shared economy community
  • Ruby: Rewards to incentivize
  • Trisha: Selfies on Instagram potential
  • Riz: most impactful ideas as choice
  • Trisha: Protect against unpaid resource for internships
  • Kip: Hootsuite had an issue unpaid interns
  • Kris: Groups of people I know on something fun or place with expertise missing
  • Trisha: connect it to Facebook to have a larger perceived community
  • Ben: Schools as client
  • Riz: Inside global education
  • Kris: Gamification and effective altruism has an effective marker
  • Riz: NAC: skilled based certification system, AMP, HIVE

Acacia

  • Coparenting finding app (non-romantic)
  • Based on user input to match similar people
  • When kids more time to find right partner
  • Churn from successful users expected
  • Pay to play model
  • Psychometrics testing to match candidates
  • Kris: entry level starting points?
  • Testing gender preference and personality
  • Jason: Matchmaking rather than dating. Just for lunch
  • Need for matchmaking is covered
  • Kris: Tests like 36 questions
  • Riz: Facebook quizes