In February 14, 2023 «Love Start-up» contest, which was conducted by Ukrainian organizers of the Regional Internet Forum finished. Within a matter of the competition 74 startups’ authors with a family audience or romantic subjects competed. The authors sent a description of their project ideas, and in the final 14 contestants, having passed initial screening, presented startup. Even two startups from Adult sphere were sent as part of the contest, and the jury made a decision to consider them on a par with the rest of competitors.
The winner become Ivan Gabzey from Krasnoyarsk who offered an idea of wedding pictures generator, a cloud service using uploaded pictures of a groom and a bride (their faces) to generate a collection of 10 classic wedding pictures. The generator composite function allows adjusting shapes of a groom and a bride and to choose a photo session style.
Author of the winning startup received a prize, $10 000 for the project development.
The special prize from the jury in the amount of $3000 and an offer of employment went to Vyacheslav Burkin, author of ‘Zapiska’ (‘Note’) startup which allows compiling love notes from phrases taken from famous literary works. The application forms a collage from five different love texts and displays it in the form of a note which can be sent as a message via any messenger service or social network.
All the contestants were invited as special guests to URIF 2014.
The contest was judged by super-competent judges, a powerful team of professionals from different areas of Internet marketing with experience of bringing over 20 startups to market.
Nikolay Yevdokimov, founder of SeoPult which needs no intro, head of AppInTop, service for mobile application promotion, author of several tens f successful startups brought to international markets, expert and ideologist of modern Internet marketing.
Sergey Romanenko, founder of the largest Russian payment system, Qiwi. Expert in the sphere f Internet and mobile banking, mentor for numerous successful businessmen in the sphere of e-commerce.
Pavel Korenevych, head of WebArtex leading article exchange, expert in the sphere of content promotion and ingoing marketing, independent advisor for content campaigns.
Artem Gerashchenkov, URIF organizer, head of Gekos Advertising Agency, founder of several automated services for promotion and monetization of Web sites and mobile applications. Expert in the sphere of promotion automation, prototyping and startup generation.