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I’ve been working together with Oliver Moser and Christian Reinheimer, on a social web application for amateur and hobby athletes since February. I know both of them from the Stuttgart Media University, the collage we all graduated/will graduate from. To our benefit Hendrik Mächler and Jan Schulz-Hofen joined the team a bit later and brought in some qualifications we desperately needed to make the project really really attractive. Now our team members overall have different academic degrees, such as Media Economics, Media Author, Geography, Software Engineering and Media Computer Science.

After a long phase of conceptional designing, implementation and the typical beginning struggles of a startup, we created a web application that launched a few days ago. Yep, Champagne bottles were opened!!

We originaly wanted to launch with a different name, but two days after we received an award as most innovative project (BWeb2.0 Challenge) in the Bundesland (similar to an American State) of Baden-Württemberg someone registered our name as a trademark. That was one day before we wanted to do that ourselves. Through this issue we had to change our name and lost around two weeks of time to actually work on the project. Thank you Mr. X (the name was modified)!!!

Anyway, we got a lot of attention through this case and acted quickly by deciding on a new name and redesigning the whole application to match the new name in two days. Some wordings needed to be changed and logos and A LOT of the small crap.
But with our amazing enthusiastic team we still managed to launch extremely quickly after this issue.

We launched recently and already have some hundred users who mostly know us from mouth to mouth propaganda. We still have to do more marketing and things are looking good to have success.
Two days ago we had a photo shooting for the city magazine in Stuttgart, Germany called “LIFT” and a nice article was in the news paper “Mittelbayerische” around Kelheim, the area in Germany where I come from.

To our benefit we are in contact with investors, who hopefully will understand what we are up to and will see that we are taking this really seriously. Our team is excellent and our ideas amazing. We’ll see what will happens.
At the moment we are ranked 4th place on startup barometer on deutsch-startups.de, an official page on German start-ups.

So if you speak German, take a look at it and sign up!