{"id":246,"date":"2012-06-21T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybusiness.co.uk\/life-is-a-pitch\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:10:27","slug":"life-is-a-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybusiness.co.uk\/about-us\/tech\/2012\/06\/life-is-a-pitch","title":{"rendered":"Life\u2019s a pitch."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And we’re off! Everyone’s gathered into the big meeting room, ready to either give or vote on those daring to put forward their pitch for the hack day next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11:33am – Arvi is pitching his idea for a tool to regain control of the data that other people hold about you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11:40am – Next up we have Petra, pitching a means to access your insurance policy details via mobile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11:43am – Now up we have Martin Sadler, pitching a web application which displays a neat summary of what’s happening across our GitHub repositories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11:46am – Martin goes on to pitch ‘Simply Addictive’<\/strong> – a game where we can captivate people’s attention!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11:49am – Joanna Salter introduces us to Frantick<\/strong>: a way for people to prove that they’re a fan of a band before they can buy tickets to see them perform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11:53am – A collaborative pitch now from Arti Mathanda and Shiyamala Selvaratnam putting forward their pitch for ‘Simply Service’ (The love child of Yelp, Yell, RatedPeople and SimplyBusiness.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11:56am – Ben Ashford tells us that ‘Recruiters detract from the sum of human experiences’ and proposes an automated and smart way of tracking down suitable developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

12:00pm – THE PIZZAS ARRIVE! INTERLUDE AS CHOMPING OCCURS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12:12pm – Bellies full and smiles all round, everyone sits down to see Ali Douglas pitching ‘Project Buffy!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:16pm – Martin Golder pitches a way that we could incorporate Pennies<\/a> a charitable giving service into our website.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:20pm – Tom Layfield speaks of his first world problem ‘gifts always seem to end up going to charity or in the bin’. His solution is ‘CadOoh!’<\/strong> a system which automatically reminds you of friends birthdays via Facebook, and suggests gifts that they’re likely to actually want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:25pm – Jason Stockwood introduces us to You can’t hug every cat<\/a> and shows off the new YEmotiv<\/a><\/strong> mind control device we have in the office inspiring the vast number of good things that could be done with it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:30pm – Lukas Oberhuber piches Predator vs Predator<\/strong>, allowing a self-learning facial tracking mechanism to track multiple faces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:37pm – Julian Watson suggests that we could find a way of donating professional time rather than money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:41pm – Erica Barbato suggests a way of a self-learning mechanism which automatically gives advice to customers on our website based on what other customers are doing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:45pm – Fei Phoon introduces us to Wantful<\/a> a way of automatically reminding you of birthdays and suggesting a gi… hang on a minute!….. On a serious note, she talks of how we could extend the concept into a ‘wizard’ for buying insurance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:50pm – Carl puts forward an internal Simply Business program for tracking staff exercise within the company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:54pm  – Jennie Stone proposes ‘Park My Ride’ a mobile application for car parking allowing you to automatically find the nearest car parks along with their prices and facilites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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12:58pm – And that concludes the pitches! Arti Mathanda gives us a quick summary of the pitches we’ve just seen before the ‘join the team of your favorite pitch’ segment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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