Nerd Stalker

As a hobbyist, when does the passion turn into a business? Well, the perfect storm of events have pushed these two former hobbyists into the entrepreneurship game. Meet Timothy Reuter and TJ Johnson , co-founders of AirDroids. The young AirDroids company has a Kickstarter campaign introducing their first product - The Pocket Drone and is hot. The Pocket Drone is Go-Pro toting, personal air robot. We talk with Tim and TJ on their successful Kickstarter campaign and some of the trials and tribulations of running their own Kickstarter campaign. Check out the video!

Photo by Marie Domingo Check out the SF New Tech Post Show with #ThatTechGirl Liberty Madison and our Nerd Stalker writer Greg Viloria . SF New Tech is one of the oldest pitch events in San Francisco. Our duo talk about their favorites and not-so-favorites of the 2.19 SF New Tech Event with  MotionPortrait ,  Orbeus ,  Sortly ,  Whobert's Path , Fiverun , Reverb and Floqq with the winner going to " 6 About to Break " at the 2014 MacWorld/iWorld.

This is a great story. How many times do you put your phone on silent and miss an important call of your life? It happened to Shary Nassimi - so he created an app. Urgent Call is an app that will make sure that call makes the connection. We talk with Shary Nassimi , founder and inventor of Urgent Call, to talk about his motivation for creating the Urgent Call app. Check it out.

listen to ‘Get Your Recipes on Yummly #appsworld’ on Audioboo Nerd Stalker interview with Shelby Hollister of Yummly . In short Yummly is a recipe aggregator with powerful filtering such as holiday, cuisine, taste, diet, nutrition, allergy, cook time, technique, and more. The recommendation engine is quite good and learns by your taste, Yums (a liking feature) and searches oh and it's free. The only glaring omission is that there is no Paleo filter option, when I brought this up I was told there was a gluten free filter option, not ideal. The iOS app and it's companion web site are beautiful but honestly for any recipe solution to be a player today that is an expected commodity. Yummly is a no brainer addition to your recipe hunting solutions.

listen to ‘Shop via TV with tvbay #appsworld’ on Audioboo Nerd Stalker interviews Slovakia based tvbay at AppsWorld in San Francisco. tvbay is revisiting that old promise of buying products as you see them on television. The demo I saw allowed me to purchase an item when the commercial of a given product(s) would air between the show your watching. We were able to add the item in the commercial to a shopping cart then purchase the item. The only hurdle I see for this would be the cable companies integrating this feature with their boxes and or ad partnerships. The unit and remote looked nice as did the ui but one wonders if the masses want to interact with their tv as opposed to abstracting that shopping experience out with a mobile device instead. Either way tvbay will be one to watch in this space.

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We start a new segment on the entrepreneurs and dreamers who are on Kickstarter. Kickstarter, which is known as the " Lab for Daring Prototypes and Ingenious Products", recently won the best overall startup at this year's Crunchies. But, data recently has been exposed only 1 in 3 Kickstarter games actually deliver on the promise . Nevertheless, we interview the entrepreneurs and their stories on their Kickstarter campaign. In this episode, we interview Zach Vorhies and Murat Ozkan, founder and co-founder of Zackees the maker of the turn-signal glove about the mysteries of Kickstarter and their desire to be on the " Shark Tank " TV show.