Excited about this!

Looks great, would love to join

Very cool, I love the idea!

I was attending Tuesday Demo Night, we had our office in Cisco incubator that was located at Wilson Street. I registered, very curious about this event :)

Nice! Hope we can live up to your expectations :)

I am in Manchester, is this for people in the London "bubble" only?

Open attendance :)

Everybody welcome - from anywhere :)

Looks great :)

Love it. Great for there to be something for people who want to pitch but aren't looking for investment.

outside $$ can be a bad influence on passion projects. Stuff that might make a buck or two, yea okay but man can they kill a passion project and angood engineers idea.

Just signed up! Might hit you up to present sometime if you plan to keep doing this every month.

Nice. Yeah, please do. Would be great to have your demo next time!

After reading your post halfway I was ready to book a ticket to London just to attend this event and meet other entrepreneurs trying to get feedback on their product. Sadly enough I continued to read that it does not exist anymore. I hope that at some point it gets replaced by another offline event, be it in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin or anywhere else in Europe.

Up until that moment (or up until you decide to do an offline event too :-)) I am joining. Just signed up! :)

Yeah - it's hard to beat a good offline event. Hoping to do an offline version soon too :)

Hard to beat Web Summit in this regard. In my opinion people in the UK had always a weird arrogance towards startups. Everyone you talked to thought you are stupid not to be in real estate or finance like everyone else.

Metabase is free if self hosted, you charge per query.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Neat looking product.

Metabase is free if self hosted, while you guys charge per query. The functionality you would have to offer to overcome that pricing inertia is pretty vast for many managers making this decision. Otherwise it’s just another SAAS monthly spend and they add up.

Is the plan to do this in regular intervals? If so, would be great if we could get a recurring entry for the calendar.

Good point! Will see what we can do

I love the idea of a place where a global reach of entrepreneurs can pitch directly to the London investor community, via a virtual event open to anyone. That it itself is a worthy startup.

The London investor community is/was basically non-existant unless you already have significant traction. Idea-level funding doesn't happen, ever. There are much better opportunities elsewhere.

Love the idea! This could turn into a regular event! I may even sign up to demo as well :)

Please do ;)

I'd love to attend an in person version of this in London. I've long felt we that we need more events like this in the city.

Totally agree

Interesting! Just signed up :)

Great Idea! : )

Aside on TechHub London:

Unfortunately, their descent started well before COVID. We were a tenant in our last company before TechHub moved location in 2019. It was a terrible building - an order of magnitude worse than the competition. The community started to leave from Q2 of that year and COVID was just the final blow.

Real shame too, as the community had some character missing in most office spaces. Best of luck cultivating something like that again, virtually!

Thanks for the inside scoop yaseer. And yeah, fingers crossed places like TechHub will thrive again.

Awesome! Registered.

Will you record and put on YouTube async as well just in case family stuff pops up and I have to miss?

Nice!

We may do for future events ... but we really want this event to have a community feel, so being there in person is what it's all about :D

> in person

But didn't you say virtual?

I really think YC has nailed demo days with their latest iteration. Short 15 minutes update from the leaders, then you watched the 60 second pitches from their companies at your leisure online.

Perhaps in-person was the wrong word. "Present" is perhaps closer to what I meant. We want our presenters to have an audience. We want audience participation / questions / feedback. We want to create a buzz. ;)

Not saying that YC's format doesn't achieve that. It's just different.

But either way - totally see your point on posting it online afterwards.

> We want audience participation / questions / feedback

Gotcha. Breakout rooms I assume? This makes sense with breakout rooms where you shard the audience into small groups of ~4 or so. Then you get (N/4)^2 interactions

Otherwise it's a waste of time as you only get 1*N interactions.

Exactly. :)

Excellent idea! Will sign up! Hope for these offline events to come back to London and other eu places. Even the offline demo events I used to be in the jury of are still not back or just went out of business.

Excellent, just signed up!

How do you select the speakers?

Great question!

We have been blown away by the amount of interest, today alone, in presenting at next month's event.

We think that the most important things should be:

- they've actually built something (not just an idea on a slide deck)

- they can demo it (we want to see behind the curtain)

- what they're doing is uniquely interesting (not just another ride sharing app)

- the problem they're solving is also understandable by a non-technical audience

- and, of course: their team are passionately bursting with excitement for what they're building :)

Apart from that, we'd ideally like to find a way for anybody to speak.

An amazing idea! Applied as a speaker.

Nice! We've had a lot of interested speakers, which is awesome.

Are the tickets still available? When I click on "Register", I see one option of "Free" with the text "Closed".

And if the tickets are no longer available, will there be more?

Same here, i wanted to register. But it says closed.

Same here. Additionally - will you be running more in future? I'm travelling to Lisbon for Solana Hacker House on Nov 1.

The capacity has been expanded so you should be able to get in now! And there will be more events. If you sign up to the event page, we'll let everyone know about future events :)

The event capacity has been expanded now - if you want to join it should be possible from the event page :)

We had something like this in Boulder, CO, USA for years. It was called the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup (BDNT). First place I ever presented (my presentation was on Google Web Toolkit). It was magical, lots of great questions, a mix of entrepreneurs, technologists and community members. BDNT was partially sponsored by the university. I remember going to one in the late 2000s and thinking "feels like the go-go days of the late 1990s are back" as the beer and apps flowed and the schmoozing happened.

Here's an interview from 2013 with the BDNT founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb4HJQCtRYQ

As I recall, it wasn't sustainable. The organizers tried so many different ways of getting it to monetary sustainability (charging, sponsors, events, ads) and they just couldn't do it. So once the labor of love became just labor, it petered out. I think it had a run of over a decade, though.

Here's my blog with reports from the BDNT (I took detailed notes a few times): https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/category/new-tech...

I think someone else restarted it recently, but haven't attended: https://www.meetup.com/bdnewtech/

I used to work near Old Street Station and sadly, I missed these events after moving back to the US.

Love the idea. Just signed up.

I love Trevor!

I would really like to join a physical gathering in london. Having been working remotely for 3 yrs, I'm longing for some human interaction. Kudos to you, Good start!