Yet to be officially registered startup Defolio, built over a weekend and developing a collaborative design tool for freelancers and small creative agencies, was the winner of Garage48 event in Tartu.

A group of eight people, among them Ahti Heinla – a founding engineer of Skype, Siim Teller – a well-known blogger and Tõnu Runnel – a famous startupper and Founder of Edicy, came to together for 48 hours (12 hours of sleep – two nights – included) and built a rocking tool for designers, that already has over 234 users worldwide.

The idea came from Tõnu Runnel and Priit Haamer from Edicy. But four days ago they had only one page description of it. User interface, design, coding – everything was done over a weekend.

Runnel and Haamer wanted to solve the problem they had – designers have hundreds of ideas and many of them in sketchbooks. Why not storing them, letting others to collaborate, work on them in an interactive way, play around with them? This is what Defolio tries to do. It’s like a design library, but very sexy one, and one of the best parts of it is that you can upload files simply by dragging them to the site uploader.

Siim Teller told me that Defolio has already received a „marridge proposal“ from an Estonian creative agency, but as far as I understood the team of Defolio is eager to develop it further independently (not from angel investors, of course) and the features we are currently seeing – this is just the beginning. Thumbs up!