About FastFeud.com
Description
This or That: it is an age old question that pertains to people, ideas, sports teams, and so on. FastFeud.com allows users to quickly create match ups that can then be shared virally through Facebook (using Facebook Connect) and Twitter. The experience is visual, exciting and fast-paced - allowing users to rapidly interact with numerous feuds.
Each match up includes a question, two contestants and images. Users are then encouraged to vote on the match up - on FastFeud.com, Facebook and Twitter. Votes are collected and winners are presented.
When shared via Facebook, users are able to post the match up and images of the two contestants directly into their Facebook feeds. When shared via Twitter, users are able to promote their match up and voting preference to their Twitter following.
Developed for the Rails Rumble 2009 contest in 48 hours by the Browseology Team and friends from Lijit and Egg Haus with the support of Dog Patch Labs' own Ryan Spoon.
The Team
Joe Pestro (@joepestro) - Developer for Yardbarker.com and Co-Founder of Browseology, LLC
Art Chang (@kineticac) - Developer for Yardbarker.com and Co-Founder of Browseology, LLC
Kevin Olsen (@kevinrolsen) - Developer for Lijit.com (flew in from Colorado to the SF Bay Area to work on this)
Rob Abbott (@abbott) - Founder and CEO of Egg Haus
Ryan Spoon, senior associate of Polaris Venture Partners, invited the Browseology team to take part in the Rails Rumble 2009 contents. He was extremely helpful by offering us the ammeneties of working at Dog Patch Labs over at Pier 38 in San Francisco, CA (Townsend and Embarcadero). The Browseology team then recruited Kevin Olsen of Lijit and long time friend from Yardbarker.com to join in the development team for the contest. Ryan connected us with Rob Abbott who became our designer for this project. We started work at 7am Saturday morning, 14 hours after the official start of the competition, and finished with a handful of minutes left.
Thanks
Rails Rumble
Big thanks go out to the Rails Rumble organizers who put this amazing competition together, as well as all the sponsors for the prize donations and all the support. njero, zapnap, SuttoL, to name a few of the organizers who really stepped in and helped us out.
Rails Rumble Contestants
There was definitely no shortage of community support in the #railsrumble irc chatroom. I always saw people helping each regardless of time constraints. Really showed the brightest side of such events!
Dog Patch Labs
Big thanks to Ryan Spoon for getting us into the competition so late in the signup process, as well as coming back really late to help us lock up the labs, or waking up really early with us to open up the labs at 6am! Also to all the other tenants that put up with our furious coding, cursing, and random entry and exit into their awesome working space.
Kevin Olsen's Family
To Kevin's wife Julia, baby Willa, and parents for letting us borrow Kevin for 3 days!
