On September 8th and 9th, over 100 teams of between 1 and 4 programmers and designers got together to compete in a 48 hour programming competition called the Rails Rumble. The idea was to create the best web application possible in just 48 hours, start to finish….

The Winners

• First place - TastyPlanner - A rather simple recipe sharing site.
• Second place - Checkbook - An online checking account management app. I thought this one might win.
• Third place - Admiteer - Event management and ticket sales. Something like Eventbrite.

Rails Rumble also had a number of category winners.

• Appearance - Elf List - Online gift list registry.
• Most Useful - Conduit - Broadcast messages via multiple methods and let subscribers choose how they want to receive them.
• Most Complete - Invent-A-Story - Collaborative story writing, one sentence at a time.
• Innovation - SoundBadge - Automatically created, unique 5 second sound signature.
• Best Solo Project - Irksome - Online IRC client.

Check out the full list of winners, including honorable mentions, and browse through all 92 web apps.

Disclosure: My site, Rails Forum, was a sponsor of Rails Rumble.

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