[dangayle]

This seems like a very low ceiling ($$$) business, which I always find "meh" at Startup Weekend. At Startup Weekend Missoula, a lady was selling compost bins with worms. Another team worked the whole time on a project that would at best make $70,000 a year. Both of those are great individual businesses, as is selling beef jerky, but they're not the next Facebook.

[untog]

Both of those are great individual businesses, as is selling beef jerky, but they're not the next Facebook.

Who's to say that Startup Weekend is only for the "next Facebook"?

[dangayle]

It should at the minimum strive to create a business that could potentially support the team working on it? $1000 profit from 8~ people working 2.5 days isn't scalable to even the size of their team, let alone anything bigger.

[clogish]

This comment leads me to conclude that you don't actually understand what Startup Weekend is about.

[dangayle]

From (http://startupweekend.org/about/): "Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable."

I'm not denying that it was a great exercise, but not a great exercise in building a business. It's not a hackathon, you're supposed to be learning how to build the framework for a sustainable business.