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Question Party Players answer questions about their friends or ask their own. Question Party grew from just a few hundred users to almost 5 million users in a few months, all via viral growth. Total ad spend was < $1k. My role: CTO of GroupPulse Inc. I built the team & technology. Angel round. See video of game play!
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RocketPolls Players create fun, graphical polls, and compete to predict poll outcomes to win prizes — everything from virtual coins to movie tickets to iPads. Also with GroupPulse Inc.
Game play video here!
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Minted.com is an e-commerce play that applies crowd-sourcing to the world of holiday photo cards and high-end stationery products. Popular products created by pro and semi-pro designers are submitted and contest-winners go on sale. All products are extensively customizable: there are no stock products. VP/Eng: I architected, built, and launched the service + team. Angel/VC funded. Screenshots
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BuzzLogic Corp finds influencers on the Web. VP/Eng: I designed the core influence algorithm and managed the build-out of an index of hundreds of millions of social media pages. The key is the "conversation", a dialog between "influencers" and their content consumers. This dialog can have a huge impact on the life or death of commercial products. VC-funded. Screenshots
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Wishes For Me was an early "web 2.0" social wishlist application for Facebook. Features drag'n'drop between your wishlist and your friends', automatic amazon searches, commenting, ratings, notifications, and more. Co-founder: I built all front-end and much of the back-end. Angel funded. Screenshots
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ParentsTrust.com is a free marketplace where parents can buy, sell, and exchange kids' stuff. It's safe, can automatically connect buyers to sellers, and most important, it's easy to use (even with a kid on your lap!) Self-funded, Founder. Try it out!
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ABCFree.com Created to help schools: People get stuff free... keep junk out of landfills... and help their local schools, simultaneously Features high-speed searching, content auto-categorization, and customizable email alerts on saved searches. Co-founder, Angel-funded.
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FreecyleFinder.com I built the search engine site for this community of 3M+ users, on top of codebase used for Parentstrust And abcfree.com. |
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Digital Stories (Sony Music Corp), VP Eng: I developed the technology behind Vegas, Baby!, an interactive e-book that broke new ground in the electronic-book industry. Corporate funding as part of Sony Music Incubator. Screenshots and more
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IDG.net International Data Group's portal and search engine of over 250 websites worldwide. I managed its initial launch, which included product channels, and then presided over the site's relaunch, with new channel and story designs. Underneath IDG.net, we built the V2 publishing system. Corporate funding. Screenshots here.
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