Bart Jellema

daterate.com.au gives honest, constructive, anonymous feedback from the people you date. A team of five Aussie Gen-Y entrepreneurs who want to improve their dating have banded together to create a better dating experience for millions of Australians, by letting them read each other’s minds.

“Ever had a date you thought went well, only not to get a call back? Not knowing what you’re doing “wrong” can be a frustrating experience, because it feels so unmanageable,” said Helen H, 22, Chief Dating Office with daterate.com.au.

Simple and quick to use, daterate allows you to provide your dates with with short links to your profile, through which they can then
rate you according to different criteria. The whole process takes your date 1-2 minutes and they are then compensated through choices of cool and fun promotions offered by our partners.

daterate compiles aggregate data which is randomized to protect the identity of dates, while allowing daters to harness the power of
social analytics following a set number of dates.

A Sydney start-up will help solve the information overload experienced by modern businesses by monitoring online content, and paring the results back to the most important findings. This comes at a time when information overload is more of a problem than ever, particularly for firms who use traditional naive keyword tracking tools.

Trendinglimit.com, the ambitious project examining live web-content to identify emerging trends and sentiments within focused topic areas, was released earlier today. The team at Trending Limit have developed a unique filtering process which allows the examination of only the most relevant material for a given topic. This solution involves consultations with experts in each field, which ensures quality and removes problems associated with crowdsourcing.

“Plenty of other applications examine every bit of information available on the net, which includes plenty of sites that just aren’t informative” remarks Ben, the leading software architect behind the project. “We realised, why not just look at the really high quality sites, so that we get the most meaningful and relevant results possible?”

This simple value proposition is one that has resonated strongly with potential clients. “Rather than overwhelming users with copious amounts of data, we focus on delivering quality results to our users” says Matt, the customer service manager at the firm. “Our unique processes give us the chance to provide some really interesting and targeted brand intelligence to our customers, which is a win for all involved.”

Ever wanted fantastic apps that are currently non-existent? iapps4.me
launches today allowing users to ?voice their needs to create demand,
get it developed and in your hands?. A simple platform that empowers
iphone application users to collectively incentivise the development
of their app ideas.

Popularity and proven demand for an app can be gauged by looking at
the amount of people who like the idea. This gives developers not only
an idea but a market of consumers with the intent to use what they
develop therefore taking care of R&D and marketing.

With zero budget, a lot of enthusiasm and a lack of sleep, a team of
five talented individuals powered through the late night to create a
platform for idea generation and leads for commercialization. Their
site illustrates the new trend within the young entrepreneurial
community in Sydney that emphasizes more doing and less talking. As
part of the Sydney Startup Camp teams were given the weekend to create
something functional that could add value to society.

?When you talk about things more than three times, you should start
doing it and not just talk about it.? Startup Camp Chief Instigator
Bart Jellema.

In the last 24 hours the ipps4.me team have demonstrated how combined
ideas can lead to great solutions. Their hard work will be revealed to
the world, as their site (www.iapps4.me) goes public at 9:00pm on the
9th of October 2010

As technology continues to develop rapidly, apps allow many users to
keep up with the fast pace of our modern society. This will be another
stepping stone to bridge the gap between ideas and realisation.
Encouraging the public to dream and think creatively and feel great
when their idea comes to life.

New Australian application GradeGa.me allows students to upload and rank their transcripts against their peers.

GradeGa.me, an Australian application that has just been released, allows students to upload their academic transcripts, post their marks and rankings online and thus compete with classmates and friends. The whole project was created over a single weekend at Sydney Start-up Camp, run by Bart Jellema from Start-up Australia, and Patrick Driessen from Seed Accelerator. 10 teams competed over the weekend, forgoing sleep and living on a diet of coffee, to build new web applications and pitch them to a panel of judges. GradeGa.me is available now to UTS students on initial release, and will be available to other universities shortly.

The five young founders of GradeGa.me aim to show that by harnessing the competitive nature of students, students will be encouraged to push for additional marks. One of the founders, Sean Marshall says “A student who is already achieving at a high level has very little incentive to push themselves for additional marks under the current system. By showing them that by scoring 2 additional marks they can improve their ranking within the course, students have that reason to try a little bit harder”.

The team behind GradeGa.me want to continue to extend the functionality of the system to allow students to earn badges and awards, view leader boards and build a profile of their academic and non academic achievements while at university. The profiles students create will then be used to create a recruitment portfolio for their resumes, and to qualify students to tutor their peers in subjects in which they have received high marks.

Game mechanics like these are being implemented in online applications as diverse as mobile check-ins (Foursquare), personal finance (Mint) and locating the nearest pub that stocks your favourite beer (Beerby). As Seth Priebatsch said in his TEDx Boston “School is a game, It’s just not a terribly well designed game”.

“The commitment and energy of these young people is truly amazing. They worked through the night and were still excited and working in the morning”. Bart Jellema also helps organise an online email group for technology start-ups called Silicon Beach, and a related weekly networking event.

You’re all invited to the launch tonight!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136699453044333

A little video update:

Checking into foursquare can be cumbersome. QRmeHere allows you to simply scan a QR code at the venue and you’re checked in. Down the track it will also allow for automated tweets and Facebook Places check-in, etc. Here’s a preview:

DateRate allows people that go on a date to ask for honest feedback after the date, anonymously.

TrendingLimit lets you see what people are talking about in a specific industry. A sneak preview:

PolyCloset allows you to upload your wardrobe to share with your friends and get fashion advice. Give it a go at http://polycloset.com/

Gradega.me allows you to upload your transcript and see how you rank amongst your peers. A sneak preview: