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Sneakerplay is a “sneaker-based social network which has been in private beta for the past few months” and just opened up. According to Mashable.com it’s “an incredibly simple network that lets you create a profile, add pictures of sneakers and put two pics head to head using the “battle” feature.” Better still, they managed to get a promotional deal with Nike Air.

Things that are funny about this to me:

1. We built practically the same thing with Sneakology.
2. We built it in 24 hours, as part of the RailsDay2006 competition (which, by the way, still hasn’t announced winners).
3. We didn’t get a deal with Nike.

Anyway, props to Robleh, Mohamed and Rob (the developers) for executing on a nice idea and getting the promotional buy in from a major player.  When we developed Sneakology, it was  mostly for fun, and  we didn’t imagine it had much business potential. I’m glad to see we may have been mistaken.

Last Modified : September 19th, 2006
Filed under : Ruby on Rails, Entrepreneurship
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