On Tuesday night, after months of hard work, we demonstrated the Twegather service at DemoCamp Ottawa 12. Three members of the team walked a crowd of over 80 through the process of creating a “twegathering”. We received a very positive response and great feedback. Afterwards I talked to many people who shared my view of how lucky we are to live in a city which such a supportive start-up community.

It’s hard to believe that only 1-year ago I was sitting beside Ian at The Code Factory giving him a demo of a wish list application I’d built. Before I knew it, on Ian’s prompting,  I was giving a nervous demo to the crowd at DemoCamp Ottawa 10.

Out of that night TeamCamp was born:  a series of events aimed at forming like-minded individuals into teams for the purpose of turning smart ideas into startups.

Twegather is the first project born completely out of TeamCamp: from concept, to prototype to a fully functioning application. It’s been a wild ride but one I wouldn’t give up for anything. You can read more about it here.

If you would like to pitch your idea at TeamCamp then come on out to one of our TeamCamp twegatherings.  Maybe it’ll be you and your team giving a demo at the next DemoCamp!

What is Twegather?

Twegather is a Twitter-based event creation and management tool for people in a hurry – it literally takes 3 mouse clicks to create and start promoting your gathering. You create a “twegathering” by sending tweet to @whowantstogo specifying a description of the event, the time and location.
In seconds the mysterious “Twegather-bot” lets you know it’s ready and you can tweet the details to your followers.

It’s just as easy for people to let you know whether they can make it to your gathering: send a reply to @twegather with the hashcode and short url provided in the event tweet and a confirmation (yes, no or maybe).  Twegather does the rest – keeping track of who’s coming, who can’t make it and who’s thinking about it.

If you’re interested in being one of our early testers you can sign up for Twegather here. Twegather is a new concept in event planning and we’d love to see how people use it.