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I wish I had time to participate! Have any viable businesses came out of previous rumbles?

• imbriaco 16y ago
  Off the top of my head, Zencoder was originally built during a Rails Rumble. I know there are others as well, but that one sprang to mind.
  • larrywright 16y ago
    Yubnub.com came out of one of the first Rails days. It's still around, but I have no idea whether it's a profitable or not.
• rabble 16y ago
  I'm not sure the idea is to build a viable business. Rather to build out an application, and practice creating. We did the original rails day, the precursor to rails rumble, at Odeo. Then a while later we got the idea of doing that within the whole company, during the day. That lead to a series of hackdays, which created twitter. Seems like, despite it's detractors, to have evolved in to a viable business.
• cglee 16y ago
  We built the initial version of Active Interview during last year's rails rumble.