Category — DemoBar

As one of the most promient media technology companies coming out of Ireland, Intruders.tv can be found all over the country covering events dealing with technology. At the recent DemoBar in Dublin, they took the time out to have a chat with Dave and myself. You can catch the video here, to see us in our early days when we were still wet behind the ears, maybe we still are, who knows. Tune into it as Conn O Muineachain tours all the other Irish Web Startups on his site.

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JustRoutes.com mashes bus and rail timetables with Google maps, and the location of every single bus-stop on the routes covered. The result is one of the most useful web applications imaginable for anyone who wants to get from A to B.

Last Summer, Vincent Glennon and Dave Rooney had the idea for a website that would help them to get around Dublin. 6 weeks later they launched the first version at the Web2Ireland Demobar / FOWA Roadtrip event in Dublin, where this interview was recorded for Intruders.TV.

Since then, they’ve added another 2000 Dublin Bus stops and started work on the national bus routes. They now have all Dublin inbound routes covered and all expressway routes as well. Altogether, half of the national routes are covered.

They’ve been named as one of the top 10 new startups in Europe and they exhibited at FOWA in London. Blognation’s Ewan Spence recorded a podcast with them there.

JustRoutes.com is great story of entrepreneurship, which illustrates beautifully what can be done with the current state of technology. Dave and Vinny have had no outside investment or help. All they had was a great idea, and the Web 2.0 ecosystem provided all the tools and resources they needed to build it into a working, useful application. This is one to watch!

We are pleased to announce that we have been selected to exhibit at the Future Of Web Applications (FOWA) conference next week in London. Ryan Carson (who you may remember as the Justin Timberlake lookalike from the Dublin DemoBar), after traveling across Europe, has shortlisted JustRoutes along with ten other startups from across the continent to come to the big smoke and show their wares next to such more established luminaries as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. This is a great opportunity for us to meet some of the top programmers and developers in the world and show them what we are all about. We will be flying out on Tuesday, keep an eye on the blog for updates from our world tour of London.

Till next time….

Dave

Hi again,

We are delighted to have been picked to present at Ireland’s DemoBar which was held in the lovely if packed surrounding of ELY HQ on Hanover Quay. Over 200 people attended the event, with Ryan Carson being the invited guest.

It seems the majority of companies involved in startups on the Internet were present here in form or another. A large pity that a number of the larger established companies in the Irish Scene like daft.ie, etc could not turn up for the event to share their experiences. But with great food and drink supplied by the reliables like Microsoft and Hosting365, the night went off without a hitch. Many thanks to Web2Ireland for always pushing Irish Technology to the fore front and hopefully the Irish Media will give the group the exposure it desires.

DemoBar proved to be excellent for us, as it gave us a very exact deadline to get the Demo version of our site: justroutes.com out onto the internet and working for everyone. Many thanks also to the people who let me sleep on the couches and beds all around Dublin as we tapped out the code for the site:)

The Other companies demoing at the DemoBar were as follows;

mySay

Pixenate

Glowday

Nubiq

Loudervoice

PutPlace

Lukulu

TouristR

Polldaddy

Ken Mcgurie has done a nice article on all the companies here