Helping Local Startups in a Meaningful Way

Startups that rely on a good UX experience can have a hard time getting enough employees, beta users and friends to really put their website and/or software through its paces.

At these “Whackathons,” users are invited to go from table to table, finding bugs and providing invaluable user feedback to founders.

These events are held quarterly in the Leonardo Room (our large event space) where up to a max of 8 startups will each have their table of up to 6 testers at a time. Before the testing begins, each company will get up on stage and give a short presentation (~5 mins) about what their website does and where they need the most user feedback, so that testers will have some idea of what personas they'll be simulating when they get to the table.

Testers are asked to please bring their own laptops. We're looking for all types, from relatively non-technical "typical" users to experienced UI/UX testers.

Members of our in-kind sponsor Innovate QA are all welcome to this event!

This event is free for participating testers. Parking is free. Pizza and refreshments will be provided at lunchtime.

Schedule:

10:00am Event begins with each startup taking 5 minutes on stage to describe their application and where they need the most feedback

10:45am - 2:00pm Testing ensues

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How to Apply:

Do you want a table for your startup ($99 to help cover costs)? Apply here.

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