Best startups of December

2008 for Runet is exactly the year of startups. The heyday of this culture in Russia. And while the bubble has not burst yet publish the December ranking of the best startups of the month. Under Habrakat 10 best startups in December with the comments of the developers and as a bonus, seven more startups that came out in December and deserve your attention.

10 place

startupweek.ru
Startupweek - this is a reality show in the style of "Startup for the week." Perhaps the first such reality show of such magnitude in Russia. And maybe that's why the guys are not everything turns out. They managed to loudly declare themselves, but their chosen idea, and changing conditions along the way, had a negative impact on the project’s reputation. However, they are the first, and I think they are great.

Vitaly Akimov (Developer): “In general, with the help of the project“ Startup for a week, ”I want for the shortest time, at the lowest cost, to roll out the project for a viability test. In contrast to the heavy sluggish startups that are made for millions of rubles / dollars, over the years, most of which never get started with the most remarkable and polished idea, multi-volume TZ, etc.
And pah-pah, as long as everything goes according to plan (albeit with a slight lag), and most importantly, we receive the most important feedback from the target audience. ”
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9th place

axion-rti.ru/projects/vizitator
Visitor is a project that will allow you to find out what your users are interested in immediately after they visit your site. This project collects user data based on CSS.
“JS inserts link arrays on the page and analyzes their color, creating two different styles for normal and: visited links in advance. Since the browser applies colors when the link appears on the page - it is possible to immediately determine whether the user was at this address or not. ”

Riz (Developer): “We are useful, for example, online stores and social networks - you can show new users the title page (or any other) pages tailored specifically for their interests.
Banner networks - you can make ads relevant to the interests of users (and not just the content of the pages, although I suspect that they already use similar technologies)
Any sites with recommendation services.
PR - service may allow to monitor visits to individual links on any sites »

8th place

www.askfor.info
Askfor.Info is a project where you can get paid advice from an expert from the field to which your question relates. You will immediately see a list of experts in the desired area and their rates for one answer. You just have to choose an expert, ask a question and make money.

Sergey Kamenev (Developer): “For marketing purposes, we have made an affiliate program with an unlimited number of levels. 50% of service profit is allocated for partnership payments. Any questioner or guru can also become a partner. If someone started to get acquainted with the site from the page of the guru partner, then the corresponding partner will receive his share of the service commission from the operations of this user. It turns out that the partner guru is doubly profitable to advertise his page - he not only advertises his services, but also receives affiliate deductions ”

7th place

urban3p.ru
Guide to the abandoned industrial buildings of major cities. Abandoned hospital in Moscow, an unfinished boiler house in Mogilyov, an abandoned feed mill in the Penza region and so on. This project is a haven of real romantics of the stone jungle. I had the feeling that I was in the Stalker universe.

Developers: “There was an idea and a few people interested in urban exploration (urban research), then a designer joined them and contributed ideas to the portal. We started a long and hard work.
The site was made for people, and only for them, no commercial component was invested in the project and we are not going to make urban3p commercial. December 1, the path of development has begun, wish us good luck! ”

6th place

www.getreview.ru
GetReview.ru is a search engine for reviews of the most diverse technology. According to the creators of the site, the main problem when choosing a purchase is the lack of quality information about it. The project collects from specialized sites all kinds of reviews, tests and selections, with the help of which it will be easier for the user to make his choice.

zam (Developer): “The idea of ​​thematic search engines is not new, however, we saw that in this niche you can make an interesting and very useful project, which are not in this niche now. It is also an opportunity for us to practice and improve our level in search technologies. Another job in this niche allows you to look differently at the options for search results, to solve specialized tasks in the field of searching and analyzing textual information that the search engines of the general direction will not and will not solve. ”

5th place

tyndr.ru
Social networks today are trying to move as far as possible in a niche direction, more and more often there are similar networks of interest. Tyndr.ru is a social network for connoisseurs of alcohol in all its manifestations. Here, people exchange their impressions of certain alcoholic beverages, talk about the peculiarities of pubs and share information about where three beers are being dispensed for the price of one today.

valerait (Developer): “The idea of ​​creating a vital in the air and it flew to me just over a year ago. The fact is that I have a rather positive attitude towards alcohol myself and wanted to do something at least for my own use - alcohol accounting. Just to know how much money I have spent on this business, and then the “creative” got involved and went and went: the forecast of consumption for any date in the future, the method of associations (the money I spent are laid out for possible other purchases) and, of course, it stuck "Communication" - blogs, clubs, gifts, ratings, video section, a call to the site, etc. "

4th place

youdo.ru
YouDo is the first project in the world where you can formulate tasks that millions of Internet users can try to solve. This is exactly how resource developers position themselves. You can set any task and name your price that you are willing to pay for it, for example, “Go around the globe on a bicycle - pay $ 10,000”. And if a person does this and attaches the necessary evidence, then he gets this amount.

Developers: “YouDo - the system of implementation of ideas! Do you have an idea? Tell about her here and she will earn! You can also earn money - take part in the implementation of someone's ideas and get money! Not interested in money? Then set a record and become famous on the Internet! "

3rd place

respectiva.ru
Respect is a new project from the creators of Habr. It is intended to affect all aspects of the cultural and entertainment life of the capital and other major cities. Respect provides tools for announcements of events, the formation of their photo albums and their discussion.

2nd place

www.pokupator.ru
The buyer is an innovative project that claims to fundamentally change the established business processes. If before people were shopping in search of cheaper goods. But now the stores will fight for the buyer, bribing him with an increasingly lower price.

The head of customer service: “This is the platform where visitors come to buy something, and where the seller comes to offer something. Sellers here are fighting for the order of the buyer. Our main goal is to eliminate the possibility of fraud in sales. In this regard, our main problem is the attempt of some online stores to work with us on the principles of “cunning marketing”. It is solved by the fact that we encourage the consumer to report all cases of fraud using all available communication channels. We believe that the market is ready for service. And especially this contributes to the crisis. Now the competition for the buyer will increase more and more, and the stores will start fighting for the customer. ”

1 place

mg.ru
My cities are a social network of Russian cities. The new project opens up a lot of opportunities, most of which, however, have already been implemented in other projects. Want to find out the news of your city, or get information about places and people nearby? "My cities" will help you with this.

Andrei Skurov (General Director): “The history of the project“ My Cities ”began in the summer of 2007, when I had to go to another city — then I tried to find a local city portal. Of course, I found what I was looking for, but was a little surprised by its appearance and the amount of advertising. Then, a month later, I began to study other city portals, but 80% of them made the same impression on me as the first, although in some large cities, of course, there were also good resources ”

Seven other startups December:

Discount Guide - www.skidkam.net
Online consultant - www.liveexpert.ru
Youth Social Network - www.vmixe.ru
Map of interesting places - youterra.ru
Mail for spam - mailforspam.com
Work on the recommendation - ongezo.ru
Lists of favorite things - www.yagoodza.ru