Demo Day
Anything new has to start somewhere.
Early on in our company, it became apparent that we had assembled a team of creative builders. Lunch conversations quickly turned into window whiteboarding sessions of product and technology ideas.
While these times were fun, we all felt we weren’t living up to our true spirit. Talking about stuff is great. Building is better. To put some structure around this, we established “Demo Day” - a half-day, internal pow-wow to show off some cool things we had all built. We had our doubts. When we would find the time to do this extra work to build something? What should I make? Will I embarrass myself with my idea?
Pushing on through, the first demo day arrived, and all those concerns quickly fell by the wayside. Each person showcased their creativity and passion in building an idea to a supportive team. We never attacked an idea or a person. The only concern on people’s minds was...what’s next for your idea?
Demo Day continues to evolve and always will. It’s been a collection of individual projects and team projects. It’s a been full of simple hack ideas and robust product ideas. On that day though, all ideas are created equal. Each and every one is an expression of creative passion to take an idea and make it real.
See a glimpse of our history below.
November 14, 2014
Demo Day I
On our first demo day, team members each found an itch they wanted to scratch.
Recipe App
Designs for app to store your recipes
Monique Marchwiany
Child
Out having a kid
Tom Cullen
Check in App
Automatically check in to Southwest flights w/in 24 hrs
Ryan Francis
Todo List
Meteor based to-do list app
Brendan Hennessy
Open Gym
Manage open court bball
Dave Corwin
Secret Santa
Group secret santa app
Katie Astrauskas
Jekyll/Prose Blog
Building a blog with a full CMS
Doorbell App
Open office door through Slack
Scott Weisman
May 21, 2015
Demo Day II
From music videos to sports, each team member explored a passion.
Fantasy Golf App
Display golf stats
Ryan Francis
LPL.sexy
A URL shortener with an amazing name : LPL.sexy
Tom Cullen
Ionic Demo
Preview of the Ionic framework
Scott Weisman
Whiskey Blog
Use Locomotive CMS to create a blog about whiskey
Katie Astrauskas
Open Gym 2.0
Re-factoring of Open Gym from previous demo day
Dave Corwin
Pong
App to score office ping pong
Brendan Hennessy
Book Wish List
Design for app to track reading list
Monique Marchwiany
Screenprinting Tutorial Video
Video of process for creating LPL posters
Monique Marchwiany
Times Tracker
Newspaper can track editing errors
Music Video Appearance
Death Cab - Summer Skin : https://vimeo.com/24969781
Jack Miller
October 8, 2015
Demo Day III
Strength in numbers. Our first ever demo day teams were formed.
Moist Robot
PM tool for digital agencies
Scott Weisman
Playoff Fantasy Football
Special FF game just for playoffs
Paul Gonzalez
Pong 2.0
Save scores to ping pong games, Built in React/Meteor
Dave Corwin, Brendan Hennessy
Bounded Wishes
Create a meaningful photobook for someone you care about...with the people they care about
Ryan Francis, Tom Cullen, Monique Marchwiany, Wade Novak
RocketPaddle
A fun way to score ping pong games for the table in our office
Dave Corwin, Brendan Hennessy
SlackTwitter App
A Slack Integration that let's you send tweets from Slack.
Paul Gonzalez
February 18, 2016
Demo Day IV
IoT. Gems. And video production. We even explored SPACE a bit.
IoT Light
Remotely controlling our office light via an HTTP request
Brendan Hennessy
SPACE Promo Video
A launch video promoting our new SPACE program
Morgan Sanders
Recipeasy
We design and create e-books for food bloggers
Paul Gonzalez, Monique Marchwiany
What To Do
Make the best, most relevant decisions that are right for you.
Victoria Palacios
Decanter
Decanter is a Rails gem that makes it easy to transform incoming data before it hits the model
Ryan Francis, Dave Corwin
April 21, 2016
Demo Day V
The intersection of should and must. API Integrations. #100DayProject.
Funk Crusaders
A new design for a band site including an awesome song name scroll
Wade Novak
Component Reference
A quick reference for design components backed by HTML and CSS
Monique Marchwiany
Shoestring
A concept for a project management tool focused on scope and SOWs
Morgan Sanders
Rocket Paddle 3.0
A new version of our favorite ping pong scoring app using Phoenix + React
Dave Corwin
100 Days Project
A celebration of process that encourages everyone to participate in 100 days of making
Victoria Palacios
Rover | 4C504C
An API rover to explore our solar system and beyond...
Brendan Hennessy
July 21, 2016
Demo Day VI
Connected Devices. Process Improvement. Art + Stuff. Recipeasy.
IoT Keg - "Flo" Rida
A connected system to measure volumes of our beer and coffee kegs
Dave Corwin, Brendan Hennessy
October 25, 2016
Demo Day VII
For this demo day we tried out a theme "Once Upon a Time"....here is what our team shared.
RAFL
50/50 raffles for non-profit organizations
Scott Weisman, Monique Marchwiany, Wade Novak, Rachel Killackey
Rex Timer
A natural language HIIT timer
Paul Gonzalez, Rachel Killackey, Monique Marchwiany
Team Illustrations
Cartoon versions of everyone on the LaunchPad Lab team
Monique Marchwiany
Bamboo
A lightweight desktop spreadsheet app
Dave Corwin
Carlton Hits the Books
Textbook exchange for students of Carlton University
David Pickart
Sofar Sounds Site Redesign
Used Keynote to prototype a new site design
Victoria Palacios
Wedding Website
Built website for upcoming wedding
Morgan Sanders
Power Over Everything
An RPG game based upon the logic of 101-hand rock paper scissors
Brendan Hennessy
Book Blog
A way to keep track of a reading list and write about them
Monique Marchwiany, Monique Marchwiany
January 26, 2017
Demo Day VIII
For this demo day, our theme was "Show Me the Money"....here is what our team shared.
FotoFluent
A Chrome Extension to help you stay fresh and immersed in the language you want to learn.
Morgan Sanders, Rachel Killackey, Diana Camacho, Victoria Palacios
TokenMaster
Simple and minimal user management with tokens
Ifat Ribon, Dave Corwin
ecobyte
Fun text bots and design to help you save the environment with simple tips
Morgan Sanders, Wade Novak, Brendan Hennessy
New Billings
A "thought" experiment comparing hourly v. fixed billings for web development
Brendan Hennessy, Ryan Francis
April 26, 2017
Demo Day IX
A Picture is Worth 1000 Words
Deal with It
A SMS-based scavenger hunt using Polarized glasses
Brendan Hennessy
FAF
Free Aint Free - Data Ownership TED Talk
Dave Corwin
Donutz
Get real-time updates on 🍩 availability in the Chi
Diana Camacho
Rebrand!
A re-design of apartment searching
Victoria Palacios
OpEx Badges
Status badges on our OpEx Repos
David Pickart
Notification Engine
Notification Engine - A Ruby on Rails Gem
Ryan Francis
Doorman - Hardware POC
How to tell when our bathroom is occuppied
Wade Novak, Brendan Hennessy
tells1kwords
Going from Zero to One in Photography
Paul Gonzalez, Victoria Palacios
August 30, 2017
Demo Day X
Ten!
Village
Affording Experiences for you Kids
Paul Gonzalez, Monique Marchwiany
Moonlighter
An app designed to help wannabe entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground
Ryan Francis, Victoria Palacios
Daydream
Start up idea generator
Victoria Palacios, Ryan Francis
Doorman - Redux
How to Refactor Hardware - "Bathroom light"
Wade Novak, Brendan Hennessy
January 24, 2018
Demo Day XI
Is it 11 or 12?
Care Pack
Care packages for the homeless
Victoria Palacios, Waseem Karim, Brendan Hennessy
versionator.io
Progressive web app research and dashboard build
David Pickart, Rachel Killackey, Nathan Jones
Kudos
Productize the LPL'r of the Week
Paul Gonzalez, Monique Marchwiany, Scott Weisman, Diana Camacho
Kafka Demo
Learn about real-time capabilities for Salesforce clients
Ifat Ribon, Tom Cullen, Wade Novak, Ryan Francis
May 2, 2018
Demo Day XII
jobwriter.io
Use NLP to generate job postings
Ryan Francis, Rachel Killackey, Paul Gonzalez
PayValet "Sunset"
Move LPL to Forte from PayValet
Scott Weisman, Diana Camacho, Nathan Jones
WarRoom Updates
Fix the Warroom demo and landing page
Scott Weisman, Waseem Karim, Monique Marchwiany, David Pickart
Lwala Data Visualization (Mighty Ally)
A data visualization of the annual impact report for reducing maternal and child mortality in Kenya
Brendan Hennessy, Ifat Ribon, Victoria Palacios
February 5, 2019
Demo Day XIII
Dusting the gloves off with a "lite" format over Lunch
Poker Game
Training for the Casinos
Waseem Karim
Might Ally - Lwala - Marketing Site
Rebuild a modern marketing site for the Lwala Community Alliance
Brendan Hennessy, Victoria Palacios, Ifat Ribon
Marathon Trainer
Team-based way to train for the 2018 Chicago Marathon
Ifat Ribon
Event Bingo
Find a meet up or event to attend with your Bingo Card
Conor Hawes
React - Page Loading
Progress bar for page loading similar to Turbolinks in Rails
David Pickart
LP Serializable
Improving serialization performance based upon the FastJSON API from Netflix
Nathan Jones
May 22, 2019
Demo Day XIV
CAPCOM Debut!
Map My Run Gem
Ruby Wrapper around Map My Run API
Ifat Ribon
Blueprinting Working Group
Refactoring our Blueprinting process
Stephen Stavrides, Nida Rashid, Danny Parnella
Strong Arms
A nested parameters friendly alternative to strong_parameters found in Rails
Nathan Jones
Stickers and Logos
Inspirational sticks
Analisa Bernardi
NBA Player Combine Comp
Practicing some React with NBA Stats
Anthony Lower
C(E)TA (slack CTA command)
Where's my CTA train!?!?!
Conor Hawes
React Canvas
Rendering some bouncy balls
David Pickart
Music Venue App
An app to discuss concerts by Music Venue
Katelynn Weingart
Web Bluetooth API
Using the Web Bluetooth API to control the BB8 robot
Brendan Hennessy
Kudos Slack Integration Research
Slack reminders and commands to give Kudos
Diana Camacho
Sketch templates and SEO Audit
For the LPL Site
Monique Marchwiany
August 15, 2019
Demo Day XV
Design for Dummies
Exploring the design lifecycle and how professional designers do their thing
Stephen Stavrides, Analisa Bernardi
Chewie
ElasticSearch Query builder DSL
Nathan Jones
Design Systems
Developing a design system at LPL
Monique Marchwiany
Design Thinking Playbook
A TED talk on Design Thinking principles and how to apply them to LPL projects
Nida Rashid
ActiveStorage in Production
Yea or Nay on ActiveStorage for image uploads
Anthony Lower
Sales Strategies
TED style talk led by Kelly
Kelly Keefer
LPL Client Onboarding App
An app to teach you how to build front-ends at LPL
Conor Hawes
myOpener - The One with the Plan
Building out the product plan for a music venue discovery app
Katelynn Weingart
Kudos - Multiple Votes
Functionality for multiple votes
Diana Camacho
MadeBy
Direct-to-Consumer Brand discovery product + designs
Paul Gonzalez, Analisa Bernardi
Catch of the Day
Completing the Wes Bos tutorial
Danny Parnella
Rotaluclac
A 39A product idea for dynamic lead capture forms
Brendan Hennessy, Stephen Stavrides
FLAB - Rebuild
Rolling my own CMS + React on Rails
Ryan Francis
November 21, 2019
Demo Day XVI
Metric Reports
Auto-generated project health reports from Asana
Paul Gonzalez
LPL Add-on
A build accelerator on the Heroku Add-On Ecosystem
Ryan Francis, Kelly Keefer
kudos design updates
Updates to a demo day classic - Kudos App!
Monique Marchwiany
slime volleyball
A remake of a classic game - gotta beat my brother!
David Pickart
myOpener
A music venue discovery app
Katelynn Weingart, Danny Parnella
Slack stand
A new process for async team stands
Stephen Stavrides
Ladder app
UI to publicize our growth ladders at LPL
Brendan Hennessy, Ifat Ribon, Diana Camacho
Refactored CSV Importer
TDD of CSV importer for Artlook
Anthony Lower
PWA
A quick proof-of-concept for a PWA for the GuildRow web app
Conor Hawes
February 20, 2020
Demo Day XVII
FLAB - Content Marketing
Michael gives a lesson on Content Marketing and SEO/SEM optimization
Ryan Francis
react client updates
More updates to the NBA combine app
Anthony Lower
movie data importer
Importing and building a recommendation engine from the IMDB data
Dan Gutt
Prosci Health Report update
More automation for our project health reports
Paul Gonzalez
Artlook accessibility
Making the new Artlook map UI accessible
Conor Hawes
Polargraph
Converting digital images to polargraphs
Monique Marchwiany
Slammed
Fun app to track Slammin' online
David Pickart
Benefits wiki
Generating a wiki with YNAW for our HR docs
Shannon Mason
Baby Bets
Collecting $ for gifts for the new baby
Katelynn Weingart
HS Deck
Blueprint findings for Human Synergistics
Stephen Stavrides, Analisa Bernardi
jaam
A music collaboration application that lets multiple musicians make music together
Mike Wislek
LPL Hub
PWA to display real-time updates on the code pushes and deployments at LPL
Brendan Hennessy
August 26, 2020
Demo Day XVIII
Our First fully remote Demo Day!
Dynamic Email Content
Exploring live-updating email content on Kudos voting using AMP Technology
Paul Gonzalez, Diana Camacho, Danny Parnella
Asana Celebrations
Custom Asana Celebrations when completing a task via a Chrome Extension
Ifat Ribon, Shannon Mason, Scott Weisman
MadeBy - Business Pitch
A business and product plan for building a marketplace for interior designers
Ryan Francis, Analisa Bernardi, Kelly Keefer
StarFox Process
Best practices on deployments and releases for Artlook using templated checklists
Stephen Stavrides, Anthony Lower
jammin'
Rebuilding the SPACE site using the JAM Stack, GraphQL, Headless Wordpress, and GatsbyJS
Brendan Hennessy, Mike Wislek, Conor Hawes, Monique Marchwiany
November 18, 2020
Demo Day XIX
Welcoming a lot of new team members and continuing our remote format
Communication
Async Video Process to avoid Right-But-Different interpretations and increase our "shanding"
Paul Gonzalez
"The Village People" - Shared Contact List App
PWA Address Book for Misericordia
Conor Hawes, Monique Marchwiany
Heroku Add-On Enhancements
Autogenerated UX Tier for API layer linked into Heroku Connect
Ryan Francis
I.O.T. Blob Buddy
Raspberry Pi enabled dancing Blob LED sequence upon Asana task completion
Brett Hileman
0 A.D.
Open source "Age of Empires" clone mod - post-game charting and statistics
David Pickart
jammin' (encore)
Re-design of the SPACE site and performance optimizations with Gatsby
Monique Marchwiany, Mike Wislek, Brendan Hennessy, John Koht
Workable Email Automation
Ensure responses to candidates as part of our recruiting pipeline using AWS tools
Scott Weisman, Conor Hawes, Katelynn Weingart
Asana Celebrations 🎉
Customizing Asana celebrations upon task completion
Ifat Ribon, Shannon Mason
asteroids game
Web-based multiplayer game based upon the classic Asteroids arcade using Phaser.js and socket.io
Danny Parnella, Dan Gutt, Anthony Lower, Angel Medina
d3 Data Visualization
A primer on d3.js integrating with React and server-side rendering with S&P 500 data and iPhone productivity metrics
Alex Jin, Ji Park, Chika Umeadi, Brendan Hennessy
January 1, 2014
Demo Day Zero
A grouping of missions that pre-date our formal demo days
Formfor
Form endpoints for easy things
Paul Gonzalez, Victoria Palacios
Fuel
Simple, Open-Source Blogging Engine For Rails Apps
Ryan Francis
Brewer's Barrel
A better way to create and share the best brewing recipes
Brendan Hennessy
Slackmailer
A Slack integration that generates a MailChimp newsletter
Wade Novak
eCarCrash
Way to settle your car accident insurance claim without a lawyer
Scott Weisman, Brendan Hennessy
WarRoom
An easy way for lawyers to manage deposition transcripts during litigation
Scott Weisman, Tom Cullen, Brendan Hennessy
PayValet
Accept check and credit card payments from customers on your PayValet webpage.
Scott Weisman, Brendan Hennessy
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