ShoutNow allows you to rapidly share messages with one phone call to unlimited people in your personal and professional networks. All you need is an internet connection and a phone (cell or land-line) and you are ready to ShoutNow! Create your personalized contact database and deliver your voice messages wherever and whenever they need to be heard.

 

 

 

Startup Weekend - Indianapolis

One Weekend. One Startup.
Over the course of one very bitter cold and snowy weekend, ShoutNow was formed in the basement of Purdue’s Engineering & Technology building located in downtown Indianapolis. The eight founding members of ShoutNow were brought together by the Indianapolis Startup Weekend, an intense 54 hour event specifically intended to launch at least one startup by Sunday night. This particular weekend launched four.

The Idea

The seed for ShoutNow was first planted in Dan Melton’s head 3 weeks before the group came together when he was reading TechCrunch’s review of Twilio, an open source cloud API voice communication tool. Twilio’s super-simple developer platform has made it possible to create voice services that are bound only by the imagination. Fortunately for ShoutNow, Dan and his co-horts, Darby Frey and David Snodgrass had a long and boring eight hour drive from Kansas City to Indianapolis.

A lot of creative brainstorming took place and at some point along I-70 between St. Louis and Terre Haute the idea came into focus. Gone are the days when startups are formed in garages- this one was born in a Scion Xb. With the developer team based in Kansas City and Biz Dev, Design and Marketing located in Indianapolis, there could be more road time in the future for this Silicorn Valley startup!