Images from shotgun & proto.in

Well for those who dont follow me on twitter (www.twitter.com/gsunil), I along with a couple of friends from work took part in a competition called shotgun startups. The challenge was to come up with a winning idea and build a working prototype all under 48 hours. We came 2nd and I really do think the team that came 1st deserved it. Here are the pics and links from both shotgun startup and the talks at proto.in.

Just a few points I wanted to mention rather than write a big post
1. Great experience participating, even greater experience winning, but I do believe everyone deserved to win for their work. Marketing/Presentation is where we won I guess.
2. Organization could have been quite a lot better for the shotgun item.
3. Met amazing pple and worth all the effort.


Working our asses off, I'm not kidding, our asses were all tired n asleep quite soon.


The bean bags that could have saved our asses.


Me presenting, with Rohan & Pradeep hiding (hidden) behind the podium.


Rohan and Pradeep doing their part, the actual demo which got us the 2nd place.


Tool to compute the cloud computing cost based on your requirements.


The winning team explaining their design of this really innovative lamp. Deserved to be on top.


Blackberry like service for a normal mobile. Alerts you when you get a mail.


Audience vote.


View from stage.


Leaving our foot print behind.

Fog blankets bangalore

Early to bed, very early to rise and caught a wonderful sight




Above: View from my balcony
Below: Caught while walking my dog











The view really makes me miss ooty & kodai, places I used to visit very often as a kid. A visit is overdue I guess.

This is a treat after 2 hard days spent working on shotgun.proto.in where team phoenix (my team) were 2nd. Slept quite early (before 11, don remember when I last did that.......high school may be) as we havent been sleeping much during the event.

These pics were taken around 6:30 AM on 25th, January 09