Startup Weekend Hanoi’s Top 3 Winners Put Vietnam On The Map Again

Startup Weekend Hanoi just rocked it for the first time over the weekend. 250 people poured into the event to build new products with new teams and pitch to judges on Sunday night. A total of 11 teams participated, and three teams made it to the top. Here they are:

1. Shoppie

Here’s one for the shoppers and advertisers out there. Shoppie is an app that lets a customer get coupons and vouchers for certain brands at any shop or store. It can be used in fashion, food, entertainment, and healthcare sectors.

2. Mintown

This is a new play at an Etsy model in Vietnam. This startup already has a background in handmade goods, so Mintown was looking at the Startup Weekend Hanoi as an opportunity to launch and hack away at a new e-commerce model that they’ll be fully releasing in September. They’ve already been building their offline community for seven months with significant traction (and have consquently built up over 56,000 likes on Facebook).

3. Seconds

You may remember these guys as they competed in our Startup Arena contest in Singapore recently. The concept is simple; if my friends and I are both on the Seconds app, everytime I take a picture, the photo will immediately show up, within seconds, on my friends’ phones.

The other participants included everything from an Airbnb for foreigners to learn Vietnamese where teachers can post classes for prospective students to a social media platform for tennis players to find each other and play. For its first ever Startup Weekend, I’d say it was a resounding success for Hanoi. By the end of this year, the organizers plan to do yet another one, so keep your eyes peeled because Hanoi is heating up.