This is my personal list of web startups and projects based in Portugal. I recommend these web startups (small companies working with web technology) and projects because they are either very interesting concepts, have a good technology or show good potential.
Texts are mine except when quoted. This list is ongoing and more projects and startups can be added or removed at any time.
Adegga
Adegga is a social wine discovery service that lets you track the wines you are drinking and share your wine opinions with the community. (disclaimer: I’m a co-founder at Adegga)
Blog.com
Blog.com is a free blog hosting company and one of the first web startups in Portugal.
Bookworms (Think Orange)
Think Orange is the company behind the brand new Bookworms. Book Worms is Portuguese social book discovery site where you can organize your book collection and share your recommendations with other readers (mainly in Portuguese).
Destakes
Destakes is a Portuguese news aggregator that sources news from a great number of Portuguese online media.
Evolui.com
Evolui.com, one of the oldest startups in Portugal, is a profitable Portuguese e-learning site.
GoPlan (WeBreakStuff)
Webreakstuff is the company behind GoPlan, an online project management and collaboration tool. WeBreakStuff is a team of designers, developers and strategists that also develops Web projects for other companies.
Gimmestock
Gimmestock is a photo stock site where people can find high quality stock for only $1 on a Royalty Free basis.
Guestcentric
Guestcentric develops an online platform for hospitality applications that helps independent hotels integrate next-generation online marketing and a booking platform.
Handivi (7syntax)
7syntax is the company behind Handivi. Handivi is a mobile application that allows people to share messages, photos and videos with their friends from anywhere.
Jobtide
Jobtide is a job search engine that aggregates data from hundreds of job sites. It’s available in Portugal and Denmark.
MyTVShows
MyTvShows is a service that helps people manage their daily fix of TV Shows.
Postcrossing
Postcrossing is a project that allows anyone to exchange postcards (real ones, not electronic) from random places in the world.
Survs
EnoughPepper is the company behind Survs. Survs is a cool collaborative tool to create simple and elegant online surveys.
Stream19
Stream19 is a social network for action sports’ fans with some interesting technology supporting it.
Tarpipe
Tarpipe makes it easy to share content across different social media applications. (disclaimer: I’m an advisor at the company)
TheStarTracker
The Star Tracker is an social network that focuses on building an online network of Portuguese talented people. Members share the same interests and affinities to promote networking and help each other attain success.
TubaraoEsquilo
TubaraoEsquilo is the biggest Portuguese blogging network.
QuestionForm
Questionform is a web application for creating, publishing and analysing online surveys and forms.
Wizi
Wizi is a location sharing and free traffic network.
Other interesting projects: mobifeeds, whit.me, FaceInHole.com, Amiguinhos, maisgasolina.com
Updates: Added Gimmestock, Guestcentric, Wizi and a new paragraph for Other interesting projects.
Note: I don’t (obviously) know all the startups in Portugal and although this is my personal ‘interesting startups’ list, if there’s a project that you think I should know about, please link it up in the comments.
Hi Andre,
I really think you should add http://wizi.com from the timebi crew on the map. It’s really good…
Cheers,
Guillaume
@Guillaume: Wizi is an interesting project. I added it to the list.
Great showcase.
I’ve personally worked in one of the above and already knew a couple more, but most of these are news for me.
It’s always good to know what Portuguese companies are achieving on web projects nowadays.
Hopefully we’ll be joining this list in a few weeks
Best of lucks to all!
You forgot Planetuga.
Great list.
FACEinHOLE (faceinhole.com) is getting far and fast.
Did you took a look at http://pt.bloguite.com to see if there is anything missing that list?
Pergunta: Uma startup não tem de ser necessáriamente uma empresa ou ter um Business Model?
@Nuno: para mim existem 2 coisas distintas. Uma startup está normalmente associada a uma empresa e pode ou não ter um business model (na web nem sempre isso se verifica). Um projecto não tem necessariamente esses atributos mas pode ter grande potencial de evoluir para startup.
Por isso, é que esta lista é sobre “web startups … and projects”.
@Rui Costa: faceinhole.com is in fact an interesting project, specially for the traction that is getting.
I did check your site for reference to see what other interesting projects were out there that I didn’t know.
http://www.recortes.pt/ da metatheke
….. Does http://tubaraoesquilo.pt/ have a company/business model behind ??
@An0n: Why do you ask ?
Apesar de ser suspeito eu acrescentaria a “BySide.com”. Temos uma particularidade interessante: somos uma Startup com modelo de negócio e resultados vísiveis (pelo menos a avaliar pela lista de clientes). Passando a publicidade, deixo a descrição do que somos (não, não somos só uma empresa de Click2Call):
BySide.com main focus is on-site behavioral targeting and integrated interactive campaign management, leveraging the online channel awareness and resulting in a more effective lead generation and management.
Ok… o nosso site não espelha o que fazemos. É um problema antigo…
Boa recolha!
Algumas sugestões: palcoprincipal.com, zerozero.pt e vivapets.com
really cool work, inspirador!
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Really useful list / post. It’s great to find out about all these great Portuguese projects / startups (some of which I had heard about / visited before, unaware they had the Portuguese touch).
http://evolui.com/...
Dude, tá no ar desde 2000 ou 2001 (nem me lembro), e tem rentabilidade. 2 pessoas full time mais um developer half-time.
Inté,
Hmm.. o que pensas do http://mainada.net/comicssketch ?
Está um pouco desactualizado, mas com uma nova versão a ser desenvolvida.
Há projectos porreiros em pt.
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Looking Forward to see The Usability Page – http://www.theusabilitypage.com coming soon to this list.
=)
I hope so! Let me know when it’s ready.
Viva, André,
Nem acredito que a muchBeta não está nesta lista!!
Dá uma olhada:
Empresa:
http://www.muchbeta.com
Produtos:
http://www.teepin.com
http://www.lawrd.com
Andre,
You have some great reads on here. I am writing an article on web startups in Lisbon and would be very interested in asking you a few questions. My email is geoffsg87@gmail.com. Hope to hear from you soon!
Thanks,
Geoff Gornall
Hello Andre,
When you have time check out Widetail, it’s a company based in Porto and the main product is called Vendder. It’s an e-commerce platform for the creation of online stores.
Best Regards,
Filipe
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