Archives of £5 App Meet

fivepoundapp.com live

fivepoundapp.com is now a live and running site. Currently it is just a static page linking to the recent talks, soon John will Djangoify it. We’re open to ideas, first off we’d like to let people submit links to their own write-ups and flickr photos. What else do we need?
17 years ago

Dan’s talk – mp3 available

Dan Glegg’s talk from the last £5 App is now available as an mp3, see his blog entry. Hi talk is clear, slides are available too. John hopes to get a fivepoundapp website up and running soon and then we can have links to all the resources in the one place.
18 years ago

3rd £5 App – Dan Glegg and The Pitches

John and I held another great £5 App meet last night (previous event). Even though we had to limit numbers on Upcoming we still had our regular 20-or-so turn-out. John made more Ginger Cake and I bought some better beer for this event. First half – the talk: Dan Glegg (angryamoeba) gave another great talk […]
18 years ago

Danny proposes a possible £5 App discussion

Danny (of HoboInternet) has just posted about a idea he’s proposing for the intriguingly-named stripme.org [no site yet] service. The idea is simple – a RESTful site which can strip comments out of CSS, so you don’t have to serve comment-heavy CSS in day-to-day operations but you can preserve comments for development. Perhaps the idea […]
18 years ago

£5 App – Job Board

John and I announced our ‘Job Board’ idea at the second £5 App meet. We want to make the board useful for Jobs, Requests and Announces for geeks in Brighton. If you want something added, just post a comment on this post. To get in the picture you’ll need to attend and stick something on […]
18 years ago

Second £5 App Write-up – Social Start-ups

Tuesday night saw another very successful £5 App meet where Alan Newman and Raj Anand spoke on their startups (html-slides below). Alan discussed the rocky road to building a stable development company (SensibleDevelopment.com) and his effeffelle.com social footy site. Raj gave a very interesting talk on ‘how to start a start-up’, a subject he blogs […]
18 years ago

£5 App on Social Start-ups – 2nd event Tuesday May 8th

[Edit – see ‘Second £5 App Write-up – Social Start-ups‘ for the write-up of this second event] John and I have organised our second £5 App, this one takes place on Tuesday May 8th (details: Upcoming). Please mark your attendance over at Upcoming and un-attend if you can’t make it as we’ll be guessing how […]
18 years ago

£5 App write-ups

[Edit – this follows on from the announce post here: Great Inaugral Night post] Both Simon (Geek dinners) and Jane have write-ups from our first evening and Jane very kindly took photos for us. Here are John and myself: and there are more here and here. “Inspirational Entrepreneurial Geekiness”: “Having been to the excellent first […]
18 years ago

£5 App – Great Inaugral night :-)

Great stuff! Our first £5 App night ran smoothly, we had 22 people listening to our two £5 App talks. We’ve been planning this for exactly a month now and it was great to see it run so well. It seems that the free beer was a hit and the building itself lent itself beautifully […]
18 years ago

£5 App Meet – March 27th Brighton

We have a date for the event, now listed in Upcoming for Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 13 Brunswick Square (thanks Danny!). The first speakers will be John on his Chrss and myself on ShowMeDo. I plan to cover something like the following: How we started How, in a year, we grew to 1,000 visitors […]
18 years ago