Startup and Technology Projects

Smarterer provides people a simple, fun, and authentic way to show what they know. Smarterer is a platform designed to score individuals on any and every digital, social, and technical skill under the sun. Using crowdsourced test design and a scoring mechanism similar to the one developed to rank chess masters, Smarterer rapidly determines your ability level and the ability level of your peers, colleagues and friends.

Smarterer was co-founded in October 2010 by Dave Balter @davebalter, myself @mikepk, and Jennifer Fremont-Smith @jfremontsmith.

TenZeroLab is an effort to create more startups in the Boston area. A pre-seed accelerator, TenZeroLab is helping people turn their ideas into projects. TenZeroLab brings motivated people together, provides mentorship, and a space to work. Working with local area seed accelerators, TenZeroLab tries to get projects ready for participating in those programs.

Share your contact information in a snap. SnapMyInfo is a project utilizing QRcodes to try to make the process of sharing contact information easier. This project also includes elements of computer vision algorithms, some limited augmented reality, as well as a higher throughput contact sharing mechanism for conferences and networking events.

Partly as a learning exercise, and partly as an excuse to roll a custom python web framework, PyBald is a relatively straight-forward, no-frills, approach to building Python web applications. Pybald is open source and released under the MIT license. The goal of PyBald is to provide a “learning framework” to help people become familiar with the basic building blocks of a web framework. If you’re interested in learning more, contact support at tenzerolab.com.

E.M.E.R.A.Q.

EMERAQ is a twitter robot designed just for fun. A simple test of Twitter’s API, it looks for people quoting from particular movies, then responds with relevant or linked quotes.

Motini

Motini came out of Startup Weekend Boston (Dec ’09) and is Nate Aune’s project to simplify the themeing of content using Deliverance. I’ve contributed code, specifically web interfaces and WSGI middleware connections to make Motini more of a web application.