Tonight was the April edition of New York Tech Meetup, hosted by friend Nate Westheimer. A few notes from the presentations. Also, if you couldn’t make it to the Skirball Center down at NYU, there are simulcasts right now:
- Make better decisions with your money
- SImple personal finance tracker – delivers to users via email, providing already-there platform.
- “Manage your spending with one 30 second email per day”
- Reply to email with typed out list of daily expenses, all expenses are inputted into your Birdy leger
- JD – What about financial institution API Integration? Woudn’t that be easier? Answer: Yes, financial institution integration works, but only for reliable electronic transactions. In many places, transactions are cash based.
- Company is currently working on mobile apps and text messaging integration
- Seamless Restaurant Reservations Through Foursquare”
- Restaurant reservations through Foursquare
- Sync foursquare account to Reserve My City
- When a user bookmarks a place in Foursquare, the Reserve My City backend pickus on the user activity, and immediately emails the user with a link to make reservations at the restaurant immediately.
- iOS App allows on the go reservations
- Never drop off your clothes again
- Find your neighborhood dry cleaner and schedule a pickup and delivery online.
- Individual cleaners delivery/pickup range, services, prices list clearly aggrigated by the site, and pickup is scheduled on the site, with payment integration.
- Same exact pricing as if you dropped it off by yourself. – Edge over TaskRabbit
- Expertly curated streaming playlists
- Great background music to make you look really cool for your parties.
- Helps find great music quickly and easily
- Pick from a list of playlists all made my music experts – expertly curated playlists
- Anticipates songs a user might need – Music concierge finds music for busy people based on multiple factors – phone, daypart, location, day of the week, season.
- On DMCA compliant non-interactive license
- Who are music experts?
- Download Songza on iTunes
- Lets you text with a fake girlfriend
- Buy a phone number for your new fake girlfriend
- Text a number you own, and get a response from your list of fake girlfriend responses.
