Last Sunday afternoon a group of Founders Institute graduates and entrepreneurs took a break from running companies such as CouplesSpark.com, BittyGames.com, Hegati, and Itch to meet at Panera and run a Startup Boot Camp in support of our team at Giv.to.

Events like these are becoming an increasingly common part of the DC tech scene, where there is an explosive rise in the number of local tech startups with some tremendous talent.

We spent the afternoon debating various aspects of our site, picking apart the user experience and usability of some of our features bit by bit:

We’re all very thankful for their time and expertise, and truly blown away by how, well, cool they all are. At the end of the day, we left with 10 pages of notes on technical and usability improvements to implement, which we’re just about to wrap up development on.

So keep an eye out, and check out these guys’ projects.