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A meet-up for programmers, web developers and designers to discuss and showcase their “£5 apps” - lightweight software created by one or two people who take a simple idea and run with it.

The discussion will range from technical (what tools/languages were used during development) to business (building communities, spreading the word, costs and rewards).

For us the £5 App has been the best regular event in digital Brighton. It provides an environment which balances wonderfully the worlds of hardcore technology development and inspiring stories of entrepreneurship.

The £5 App has inspired us to build things that we can share with the community in Brighton, having the deadline of a £5 App to present at was a driving force pushing us to release the now popular HowSociable.com

Jon Markwell, Founder of Inuda.com

I love the sense of buzz in the £5 App meetings. Everyone there is either doing something - building a business or making an application - or there to learn how to start doing it themselves. It's got the best intersection of bright, motivated and helpful people of any event in Sussex.

Paul Silver, founder of brightonfarm.com

£5 apps is a fantastic expression of the DIY Digital Community: real people talking candidly about their experiences launching products and businesses. Whether I've been speaking or attending, it's always been great fun and I've never left one of the evenings without something interesting to think about :)

Tom Hume, founder of futureplatforms.com
£5 app on flickr >>

Meetup: Darren Fell on Crunch

Thu 11th Jun 2009 at 8 p.m.
The Skiff, 49 Cheltenham Place, Brighton

Darren Fell will be talking about founding Pure and his new venture Crunch, which is a web service that offers:

"Ridiculously Easy Accounting for Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants"

As well as Darren, Andrew Gill will also be along to talk about ChatBadge:

"... a new web-based chat service purpose-built to help convert website visitors into customers and support existing customers better"

Richard Dallaway will be talking about Taykt, a web site that let's you use SMS short codes for...well, whatever you like, really. He'll explain what it is, why it was built, and what they've discovered from building a product for themselves, rather than a client.

Plus Ben Sauer will be talking about a technique for learning a new language in two minutes a day.

All of this will be hosted at the Skiff.

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