Startup Weekend Honolulu was a blast. Over a 54 hour period we designed, developed and launched a (mostly) working website! I worked on HeartMyCity, we help people submit reports about their city, such as potholes, grafiti, and trash so that the city or other community members can fix it. It was a blast working with my team members Burt Lum (@bytemarks) and Patrick Kelly (@phlatphrog) and I’m proud to report that we actually came in 2nd place! Over the weekend Patrick and I developed a functioning Android App and website while Burt worked on the business side of things.

"Startup weekend was a blast! 54-hours of startup goodness."

Two other HI Capacity members also participated, Austen Ito (@austenito) and James Wang (@synthes1s) helped to build the website justkudos.com which helps you find the best dish at a restaurant. Just Kudos is nice because it is really simple and was built using the Foursquare.com API so nearly all Hawaii restaurants are already in the list.

Startup weekend is a non-profit that helps run events focused on launching a startup over an intense weekend. Startup weekend brings together developers, business people, designers, marketers, and other startup enthusiasts to build the core of a business over the weekend.

I also wanted to give a quick shout-out to some of my other favorite teams: Ohana Mala who are giving socially-concious consumers a simple and fast way to find fresh local food and Great Health Options who are helping uninsured americans find the best prices on medical care.

Check out Startup Weekend Honolulu for the full list of teams! We also need to thank Daniel Sherman (@SocialWahines) and Dave Pascua (@808Dave) for helping organize and run the event. They’re looking for other people to help organize the next event if you’re interested.